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<h1 class="entry-title">25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIFICATION CHURCH</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="2018-06-19T14:39:41+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/25th-anniversary-of-the-unification-church.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:39:41+01:00">June 19, 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">May 1, 1979<br />
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<p>This morning is the first day of May, and it also happens to be the Labor Day commemorated by the communist countries.</p>
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<p>Although the Unification Church was founded in Korea, it was not begun for a local purpose, but with a religious meaning for the worldwide dispensation. A drop of water can originate deep in the mountains and trickle down the hillside, gathering with others and becoming a brook, then a river, and finally join the ocean, and in that way travel around the world. Yet when we look at water we don’t speculate about which nation it belongs to or came from; it is a part of the world. Though water may land in Korea. it can go anywhere in the world. The same is true of the air, which also circulates and moves around.</p>
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<p>Aren’t people like that as well? We know that though water may become dirty at some point, it is purified again as it moves from place to place and can unite with other water. The same thing can he said for human life. Men mingle and mix culturally, and out of this can come something good which will advance and elevate all people. This also happens in religious development. At first a few people gather, like drops of water from different mountains. Then more will come together and a river will form, then the ocean, all the time enhancing man’s standard.</p>
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<p>When we think back on human history, we can clearly see that man’s history has been one of war. Has human civilization advanced or regressed as a result? We can roughly say that it has developed. The religious and non-religious person also clash. Both of them are determined to win, and as a result of the conflict all their rough places will be rounded off and the undesirable aspects perish’ leaving the desirable things to rise to the surface. Russia and America may seem to be at peace for the time being, but no one can deny that internally they have great conflict with each other. Wars are fought on every level. between individuals, between families, societies, and nations. War has now reached the world scale, such that if war started today almost no one would be left out.</p>
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<p>If there are two boxers fighting in a ring but there is no referee and no one is paying attention, they feel miserable. When will their fighting end? It will just go on and on. When both are tired after a long fight, they will get together to negotiate their own rules. Under those circumstances, once they finish the fight and a winner is declared, the loser will have no deep grudge or complaint. If the loser complains after having lost according to the rules, he is the one to be blamed, not the victorious fighter who didn’t complain.</p>
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<p>If the world is going to get caught up in fighting, will it be with or without a referee? Who will the referee be? Whenever children fight, they always come to their parents to ask them to be the judge. If children fight in the classroom, they go to their teacher. On every level this is so. Even in a small village there is always someone to be the judge or referee of a fight, and in national affairs it is the same. If the world were caught up in fighting and there were no one to be the judge, it would be very difficult to continue living.</p>
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<p>If brothers and sisters in the Unification Church have a conflict then eventually they have to come to me for a solution. We can say that the law is not intended to adjust evil things but to adjust good things, and if we can find nothing to mediate conflicts on the world scale, we must create one somehow. The person who says he will never compromise his stand has obviously never fought in a war. If someone feels he cannot compromise on which school he will attend but then he is refused admission to that particular school, he will have a difficult time adjusting. The only way to be admitted is to meet the requirements, so you must study them if you want to get in. When the time comes you must take examinations and follow the rules; you cannot insist on using your book if it is not allowed. The universe follows specific rules, without exception.</p>
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<p>Are you consciously aware of breathing all the time? Have you ever counted how many times you bat your eyelashes? If there is even a small particle in your nose or eye, however, you notice immediately and take action. You know it is abnormal and take steps to remedy it. If something tickles one of the little hairs on your arm, your nervous system is immediately alerted and your respond. If everyone on earth knew about a world war in progress, wouldn’t God know as well?</p>
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<p>Once people are involved in a conflict they want their side to win, but after the battle begins they have to fight in accordance with the agreed-upon rules. Even after war starts some citizens, even the president, may not want to fight at all, but once it is proclaimed then no one can decide he is exempt and not participate. If no one will tight then their side will lose and be overrun, leaving the enemy country to dictate what should be done to them. If you refuse to fight until the enemy soldiers march into your living room then you have no more choice about what happens to you. In war time there is little mercy and the enemy will run you out.</p>
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<p>Human history has witnessed two great world wars. In 1945, one bomb, dropped on one city, killed 250,000 people instantly and there was not even time to feel pain; it was instant death. God certainly knows when such a war is being fought, so which side would God take in such a war, the side which fought the war according to regulations or without? It is likely that both sides will ignore the rules to some extent, but the question is who fought in the most lawless, inhuman way. Does it appear today that the communists are violating more laws, or the democratic nations?</p>
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<p>How did the second World War begin? Did people agree to fight each other, or was there one group which arranged or instigated the fighting? In World War 11 it was obvious who fought in the least decent way; Hitler purposely killed many non-military people during that war-among them 6,000,000 Jews-and the Japanese mercilessly killed civilians in the Pacific during World War II. These are elements which God considers.</p>
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<p>When God compares the communist world and democratic world, He will side with the realm which is less guilty of inhuman deeds. We can assume that in a world war God will support the fairer side and afterward raise it up to be the leader of the world. Korea and Israel both won their independence after World War 11, and they share a similar history of suffering.</p>
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<p>The victorious side is usually the more just of the two, but now thirty years after World War II we see that without exception these victorious countries are declining. Why? Naturally God continued to observe them after the war ended, and if there is more to blame than to be praised then He leave those countries and not give them His assistance any more. There is always a reason for a country’s decline, but citizens hardly ever realize the reason for what is happening. I have an explanation for why England and America are declining today, even though they won World War II: They failed to promote goodness after the war. God has turned away from America to support people who show a higher standard of goodness than this country.</p>
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<p>Even to a layman’s point of view, President Carter always seems to do that which benefits the communists. The public notices this and will support him less and less. It is not hard to imagine that God and Satan will arrange the sides like teams, with the tree world and communist world confronting each other. Is the tree world dominant today, or the communist world? Shall the free world acknowledge its decline and give up, or brace itself up and stop drug usage and immorality in order to win over the threat of communism?</p>
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<p>We can reason that when the two sides fight, something good will remain and something undesirable be weeded out. If that is always a result of war then we can apply this principle to situations today. God’s purpose in all of this is for mankind to create better and better unity, and from out of all that confusion one champion can be selected on the worldwide scale who can demonstrate his ability to the maximum.</p>
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<p>It stands to reason that God will choose one champion to represent all levels, and events will be driven in his direction. If that champion represents both man’s world and the spirit world, would he tend to be religious or not? It is logical that God would choose a religious person in this role who is capable of influencing even non-religious people to change. This is what God had to do after World War II; He had to find someone who could move the world in the direction of religious unity. It is a new phenomenon since World War II to see such a group emerging.</p>
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<p>The world atmosphere after World War II was such that a strong religious movement was likely to happen. The time had come for this, like a cosmic season in the trend of history, and the Unification Church appeared in Korea to begin this task. God’s chosen individual was supposed to do something which no one in history had ever achieved, and no matter how great the odds against him might be, that person had to fight for justice. By winning, this person would be in a position to judge what is right and wrong on the world scale and no one will be exempt from that judgment.</p>
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<p>These events will encompass all of the earth and spirit world, without exception. If everyone had accepted that standard of goodness earlier then God would never have allowed Korea to be divided, nor Germany. There would have been no reason for conflict to continue there, nor even between the communist and democratic worlds as a whole. Human history would have been consummated at that time. Then all creation would only struggle over love until one standard of love was agreed upon. If God erred in the standard of love, then all mankind and creation would point it out to Him and even God would have to admit it.</p>
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<p>All creation can be regulated only by the law of love, and once it is established every problem will be solved, without exception. What kind of war has the Unification Church been fighting? It has been fighting according to the criterion of love; we fight for justice which conforms with the law of love on every level. Even on the national and world scale, we insist that nations and races must not fight each other, no matter what. Our Japanese, British and German members are coming to America and saying, “I love you,” but Americans are skeptical that this is possible. Nevertheless, our members do impossible things and come from all angles to reach a person in love, changing him into a loving instead of a hating person.</p>
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<p>Does the Unification Church fight? What is your weapon? How long do we have to tight? We have to fight to the end, to such an extent that God can say we are like Him. Eventually even our enemies must say, “Yes, you have won,” and beg us to stop. We have to go on fighting until our enemy recognizes that we are victorious. They will be thankful we have won because once they understand love they will see that even though they seem to have lost they too have actually won.</p>
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<p>I am fighting to promote love, even though everyone is against me. Why should people hate me? I have started the greatest war imaginable, coming to fill the world with love. We can deduce one principle here: God will certainly notice and take steps to inhibit the person who tries to block such a movement of love. It is only a matter of time until he inevitably declines, and so will any country in the same position. What if Christians around the world oppose I such a movement of love? Do you agree that the – opponent of a person fighting the war of love has to I be defeated?</p>
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<p>What about people who lived 1,000 years ago, how would they feel? What about people 1,000 years from now, will they have the same opinion? How would God feel, who has existed for all time and will exist billions of years from now? It is easy to understand logically that God will write His constitution to protect love; love itself may be the constitution and He will personally work to preserve it. Is your home church work a war too? A war of what? It is a struggle over who will love the most, a war in which you will win over evil or evil will win over you.</p>
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<p>There are children who love their parents very much, but if you have more love than the parents do, then you will gradually bring the children out into the heavenly circle. A husband and wife may love each other very much, but the love which comes from God will be even stronger, and gradually the husband or wife will be drawn away from the other to come to God’s side. You have to have love of such absolute power. A spectator might think that I am saying this because I belong to the Unification Church. My reply is that I wonder if this is possible for you, even within the Unification Church; what do you think?</p>
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<p>Are you going to get blessing first or get love first? As long as you have love you don’t have to worry about the blessing because it will just come to you. On the other hand, no matter how much blessing you have now, without love it will all dissipate. So don’t worry about blessing until you have worried about love.</p>
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<p>What are you doing, you people who come here early Sunday after Sunday? You are now being trained to tight the fiercest war so you can be champions who can take beating after beating and still win. There will be no greater war in the future than the one being fought now, and I am fighting for that cause. What would happen if I said to God that I was going to call off the fight and give up the love He has been promoting? Would God give His approval, or would He go berserk and not know what to do?</p>
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<p>God is quite dependent on me, and to make sure I won’t leave, God would give me an even bigger bundle of blessing. Are you applauding now because what I said was true, or because it would mean the Unification Church, and therefore you, would also prosper? Are you applauding absolute love itself, or calculating as the Unification Church gets bigger you will go higher? If you applauded for love itself, then you passed the examination.</p>
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<p>With this understanding the conclusion is very simple. No matter how long a person has prospered, he will plummet down if he opposes God’s champion in the war of love. If the rich nation of America opposes that champion then it will tumble, in even less than ten years. There is no other alternative in God’s dispensation. If the communists oppose the Unification Church movement, they will decline also. Since God has utmost wisdom, He knows the best way to carry out the dispensation.</p>
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<p>When a country or a person perishes this way, what happens to his blessing? It will be given to the Unification Church instead. You now know a valuable secret here of how to get blessing by the dozen-let people persecute you but overcome it all. The more you are persecuted, the more blessing will come, so you can be eager to be opposed. That is our deepest pride. Those who agree, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>In the future will you continue to work for what you believe in and be persecuted? If the free world had recognized the Unification Church when it was first founded then there would be no reason for the free world to be in the chaos it is now. If the Korean people and government had welcomed me in 1945 then North and South Korea would not have been divided, nor would Germany have been divided; neither would the Christianity that God nurtured tor 2,000 years have declined. People still do not know why the Christianity that was so painfully built on a foundation of blood and sacrifice has recently declined so much in such a short time.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, the Unification Church has been struck hard but has grown and grown, day after day, like bamboo after the rain. The spirit world yearns for true love to be established and so does God, so whoever opposes this love could not possibly have a chance to survive. In that respect are you grateful to be a member of the Unification Church? Now that I have explained all this to you, you become strong and confident but were you as confident yesterday as you are now?</p>
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<p>Yesterday concluded the sixth year since I had been granted permanent residency in this country, and today marks the anniversary of the day the Unification Church was founded. What is the significance of the number seven? It marks the realization of the ideal of love. Why didn’t I give you such a grand message as this a long time ago? Today is the appropriate day because this starts my seventh year here. From this moment you will inherit this war of love and you will take over for me.</p>
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<p>Who among you is glad to inherit that responsibility from me? If you really mean it then I am off the hook now, and I can travel around the world to care for other nations. I have persevered through impossible persecution to see this moment; I have been waiting to see members of all five colors of skin gather here and be happy to inherit this historic blessing.</p>
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<p>I am not even American so you should love this nation more than me, and I trust that eventually you will. Would you lose an ear for America? Half your nose? Would you become an invalid for the sake of this loved If you are willing to die for the sake of love then you will have no regrets. It may end your physical life, but you will never die.</p>
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<p>Jesus did not fulfill any part of this, yet the thought he left on earth enabled Christianity to prosper for 2,000 years. If you carry this out now, how many times more than Christianity will this movement prosper in the future? You should be able to feel this most realistically, even though you are sitting on a cold concrete floor. If your legs are hurting then you can realize it is the pain of love. It is not make-believe.</p>
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<p>This is preparation for love to travel in any direction; that is what you are doing now, preparing for the worldwide scale. When you violate the most basic law you have no chance of surviving. There are many examples of this in history. My first wife wanted me to be an ordinary husband and father and could not see the magnitude of what I was doing. Many families that opposed me have since split up. Even the nation of Korea, which refused to recognize me, was divided into two parts, with no hope of being reunited soon.</p>
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<p>By the end of the second World War the world was essentially united and communism was not very strong. The United States was practically almighty, but now today it has plummeted. Here in America it is hard to know the reality in other parts of the world, but if you travel abroad you will frequently find a common hope for America to perish, even while those same people still cling to some small hope that America will stand up for righteousness.</p>
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<p>There is little hope for the many people who lure addicted to drugs, and the immorality in America is staggering, but the communists everywhere are applauding this. No American has cared enough to do something drastic about this problem, but I came all the way from Korea to help. single-handed. In a short time I have raised you to that same standard. I have brought hard-won money to America to spend here, even though this nation is so trig that it is like dumping a bucket of water into a lake. Many hard-won people have come here from Korea and Japan to help. Certainly I did not do this for myself or the Unification Church, yet the response has been accusation that I am trying to brainwash the young people and dominate this country.</p>
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<p>Probably at some point you felt the same way. didn’t you? You may deny it, but didn’t you have some reservation inside” You have no complaint whatever about what I say to you? Then if you go full steam ahead America may have hope yet and ten years from now things will be different.</p>
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<p>You don’t want to see just Americans embracing each other, but to see the whites embracing the blacks and all the unfortunate people of the world, loving those people as they love themselves. All the social problems of this country could be solved over-night if all the whites who live in nice houses would willingly trade with people living in the poorest, houses, no questions asked. If people do it willingly I will God say they are foolish? In no time at all such people would find themselves living in better home</p>
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<p>Since, for obvious reasons, it is not an immediate practical solution. what are the alternatives? That is for you to introduce God’s thought into American homes. If so, then some day people will volunteer to live that way. Fashion is unpredictable. you know, so it’s not impossible that some day a white person would go to a plastic surgeon to trade noses with a black person. Or to have one black ear and one white ear. I am not saying that <i>should </i>happen, but that some day it just might happen!</p>
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<p>No one can evade having to lay the individual foundation in this war and gradually extend the foundation of God. The first seven years of my mission were a fight to secure the individual level, but since that time the biggest war on earth has been underway. Now there are many people around me, but there was a time when no one, not the government or the churches or even my first wife, was not persecuting me. Satan was almost all-powerful, and he mobilized everything to stop me, knowing that his world would crumble if I were successful.</p>
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<p>The height of persecution came in 1955, one year after the Unification Church was founded. The government was determined to eliminate me so they probed and probed, looking for something I had violated, checking our money and all our affairs. They even tried to accuse me of being a communist to justify keeping me in prison. They called me a dictator worse than Hitler, but what had I ever done? Nothing. I just stood firm and endured all of that. After putting me in prison without evidence they had to support their allegations so they investigated every possible thing, but they found nothing wrong, so on October 4 they released me. The first thing I did was to grow stronger. I just prayed for the forgiveness of those who had opposed me and continued working.</p>
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<p>In 1960 the foundation of my family was established and the next year there was a blessing of 36 couples, then later 72, 124, 430, 777 and 1800. The year I blessed 430 couples was the year 4,300 in Korean history, paralleling the 430 years the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt; it was also the year that the world-level dispensation was launched. The exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt was paralleled by the beginning of the world-level mission. The worldwide exodus centering on the Unification Church began in that year, at the close of the national-level dispensation.</p>
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<p>In 1965 I blessed 120 holy grounds in 40 nations; as part of that I blessed holy grounds in each state here, as though each was one country. My actual dispensation in America began in that year, for I knew that when America had won in this cosmic war that the whole world would benefit eventually. On this foundation the world could come into blessing on the world level and so in 1970 the 777 couples were blessed, with couples of all races included. Here the earth as well as men had met the condition for world-level blessing.</p>
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<p>I launched the worldwide dispensation after earth and men were secured. Consequently, our economic work in the Unification Church only began after 1970. Before that I never paid attention to economic things. Now you know the famous rumor that we have endless money and resources! In nine short years we have achieved that much. Keep in mind that the more persecution we get, the more riches we will get.</p>
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<p>It is difficult to witness to even one person because one person is infinitely precious. Money is coming to the Unification Church, and after that hundreds of thousands of people will follow. If we paid people to come tor three weeks’ training, who would refuse ? After the training, more than likely the person would give the money back again so that someone else could be trained. You will invite many people who are leaders and opinion-makers to be in that class.</p>
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<p>I will invite only leaders, and then other people will criticize me tor not inviting them with a salary too. However, you can tell the people you witnessed to in the past that they had their chance but refused it. You will really feel happy when that day comes, won’t you?</p>
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<p>Those of you who haven’t yet passed the fund raising course, raise your hands. Sooner or later you will go to do that. Everyone will go. Would you volunteer to go, or need some push? Am I fund raising now or not? When the departments are out of money they always come to me; when I look at them and ask, “Money?” they reply, “Yes!” <i>The News World</i> is typical.</p>
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<p>How would you like it if I blessed 3,000 couples this year? I already have almost 3,000 couples engaged now. I am thinking whether I should do it now or wait a couple more years. What do you think? Are you confident that you can be a better warrior in the war of love than the person you marry ? Once you are married you will start a competition and see which one will outdo the other in three years. If the wife wins the race then maybe we will have her stand on the right side at the wedding! That is the equality American women have been fighting tor, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>Would you men feel that you could never submit to r that, even if you lost? I have seen that usually women are more religious, however.</p>
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<p>I don’t want you to go just two hours to your – home church but to pay constant attention to it, going back and forth sixteen times a day if necessary. If the men go twelve times, the women will go fourteen times. Later you will just stay there, not sleeping, but even just standing there. Neither male nor female will l budge for fear of being outdone. You can go on seven-day fasts together. Don’t you think the home church people will come to stare and see what is happening? You won’t have to visit them because they will visit you first! When they come to find out what is going on you can give a speech or cry or anything. Are you fully determined to do even that?</p>
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<p>Why should I perform your marriage ceremony-is there any difference in me or anyone else doing it? Why not be light and free American-style, and go pick your own mate? Why not? You have tried that already and it didn’t work, did it? You have a simple explanation-it is because no one can see an individual like I can. I can tell you a thousand different things about a person, whereas even after observing him for a long time you may be all wrong. I am thinking of having up to 4,000 couples matched by this year.</p>
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<p>Do you men miss women so much that you want to get blessed? Are men so vitally necessary to you women? Always in your mind you must think that the blessing is good preparation for the war of love. You are not marrying just anyone. You have to be sure that your spouse is quite ready to tackle this war of love; once you are sure he is, then you are ready to marry. When people get married in the usual way they first go on a honeymoon, but we are ready for “honeywar.” Then when you get married and can travel together, that is “honey-sun.” You have heard that soon we will have Deli Suns, which will be family-style fund raising.</p>
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<p>Definitely we will have a 4,000 couple blessing before the third seven-year course is over, and all the recent engagements are in preparation for that. After the third seven-year course I won’t continue giving blessing in this way. By that time my own children and the blessed children will be of marrying age and I will concentrate on their marriages. During the time of restoration I have been giving blessings to everyone, but after the 21-year course I will not because the Principle won’t allow that. According to Principle I have been giving blessings first to those in the external position and then later will concentrate more internally; that is the pattern.</p>
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<p>When I can give blessing to my own children, every blessed couple will rejoice as much as if they were really getting blessed this time. At that ceremony only blessed couples will he able to attend; single members will not be qualified.. This is not just a logical decision, but one made according to strictest heavenly law. Certainly by that time the day of persecution will be over.</p>
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<p>On this foundation I proclaimed the new era on February 23, 1977. In that new era there will he nothing for me to envy, either spiritual or physical– no power, wealth or society-because l will be more prominent than all of them. God will never he able to give up the Unification Church; He may give up the world, but not the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>The coming of that age will he like turning the world upside down. So far even the best religious people have always been the underdogs, but now centering on the Unification Church we are almost equal, and as it keeps revolving we will he on top Then no area of government will have any excuse to investigate or persecute us. They have persisted in investigating for five years and found nothing. The day is coming when Congress will be blamed for doing injustice to us while not doing justice for America. This is why l told Col. Pak to file suits against various departments in government. We have the best lawyers working for us and there is much talk about these suits in legal circles. Some really righteous lawyers who have defended us in the past when they saw we had done nothing wrong and who received so much pounding themselves are now really excited about our legal actions.</p>
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<p>As I have told you many times before, we will now buy many jumbo jets. Once the world really understands the injustice that has been done to me, won’t presidents come to apologize to me when I go to other countries? You will be my escort and I will take you with me on the jumbo jets. Imagine how they will receive us when the world finds out what we have had to go through.</p>
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<p>We have been persecuted incredibly, yet the Church grew and you grew individually as well. If there had been no persecution, how much faster would the Church have grown? There will be alumni meetings for all the different blessings, and the couples will gather from all over the world. When the American government hears of it the Immigration people will come to bow and welcome them and urge them to stay as long as they wish. By then Unification Church members won’t need any visas to travel. They will be the champions in the war of love and there will be no one who can stand up against them. Citizens young and old will come out to applaud and respond.</p>
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<p>Don’t you think this boom is inevitable one day? You have nothing to be ashamed of because you have already been persecuted, but what about the people who persecuted you? They will feel ashamed and want to hide. Is there any argument or force that can dissuade you from this coarse? Will you do more than you have been doing already? You can measure out units of thread according to how much you are persecuted, and eventually you will have as much as the hair in a horse’s tail. By the time you have gone through much tribulation the world will be coming into unity all around you. Why does everyone like me regardless of their sex or age or religion? It is because I have fought every single war of love and I have a big assortment of fixtures so everyone can be hooked onto me.</p>
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<p>If I go tuna fishing this summer, who will volunteer to go with me? What about the women? I have only one boat and there is a limit to how many can get on it, so I will have more boats built for all of you to get on and we’ll have an armada. We will have women as captains. Then you women would like your future husbands to be captains too, right? Does that mean you want to marry fishermen?</p>
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<p>Jesus told Peter he would be a fisherman: being a fisherman is not bad at all. Often American women are somewhat stronger than men, so I think the 200 mile limit was reserved by God for American women. I don’t believe that, I know it! When you have a full boatload of fish I will recognize and accept you. Did you know we recently got a new property for our shipbuilding industry?</p>
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<p>What would you do to become rich? Fishermen in this nation are some of the poorest-paid professionals, so we will give the best schools and best living to fishermen. Now people visit the seashore for fun, but someday soon they will come to the sea to work and go to the mountains for recreation. If that trend doesn’t appear automatically then I will create it. I will bring one woman and one man at a time to come fishing with me and the fish will come. Do you agree? Thank you.</p>
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<p>If I were to tell you all the small things that happened to me along this way, one month would never be enough to cover everything. Yet I have to finish my speech this morning in only a few hours. In 25 years the Unification Church has expanded so quickly that now there is no one who has not heard of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, especially in America. Is there anyone who does not know? You think I am tops, but in the world I am thought to be the worst.</p>
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<p>Is the member who is coming from behind going to be on top, while the person already here sinks even lower? If someone who joins after you works much harder, he have to be elevated. This is why I am training you in how to witness to many people before that happens. Then you can go up and down as you like. Instead of needing someone to push you up, when you know there is a difficult task you will want to go and do it yourself in my place. If someone joins later then they will want to volunteer to do it for you, just as you do for me. But first you have to have the foundation which comes from witnessing to many people.</p>
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<p>We know that human history is the chronicle of restoration. What is the ultimate point of restoration? Of course it is home church. As home church becomes successful you go from level to level, and finally to the world; ultimately you take off’ and even gravity won’t hold you down. You may not know it yet, but this course is the miracle of miracles. The fact that I could announce the providence of home church within 25 years is a miracle; compare ] that to the little that Christians have achieved in I 2,000 years. God sent Jesus to earth for certain reasons, and ultimately Jesus died for that purpose. All of these events are culminated in home church, the center of the dispensation.</p>
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<p>Jesus left the key to heaven with Peter because everything had to be done on earth. To achieve this I gave everything I have, much more than you can ever imagine. You are to inherit that, both those who know its full value and those who don’t know. this is where we are now. You won’t have to break your back for 25 years to build this; from now on you will pick up the position of glory and harvest blessing equal to your hard work. God’s intention is to let you inherit everything I have worked for; I will not get the glory directly. Your glory may reflect on me, but you will receive it directly.</p>
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<p>Imagine how the world climate has changed since I began. When I was fighting to make this foundation it was a bloody war, but your situation is one of welcome and the people will soon respond, even in a few days. From now on it will expand year after year. You are beginning to get the knack of home church now, aren’t you? If you have 10,000 active home church members then all of New York respond and help you. Once New York responds, all of America will respond. This is no exaggeration; when America responds to God then the whole world will respond as well. I have already proclaimed New York as the front line.</p>
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<p>One of our brothers, Tom Ludwig, has been conductor of the New York Symphony and been guest conductor of famous orchestras, but he has put himself on the lowest level and now is scraping walls. I saw him yesterday helping with restoration and I felt good to see him working that way. It closely fits the description of the king of love.</p>
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<p>If I take off my tie and white shirt, I am a first-class worker. Recently I went to Barrytown, and even though the water was cold I waded in to catch fish and didn’t feel it. Mother felt cold just watching me. Each one of us needs to be versatile like that. I know how to stir up a fight too; when two people are fighting I sometimes agitate to make them fight more. First I will determine whether the small one was right and then I will tell him he is entitled to fight. If the small man doesn’t have the guts to fight then I will tell him to step out and fight in his place.</p>
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<p>If you see something wrong, you cannot just sit aside. If you are wrong then you should feel shame, but if you are right then you should never be defeated by any big guy. We should never compromise in the name of righteousness. Sometimes women are too quick to react and don’t think so deeply, but there is much to learn by seeing how they react when someone prods them.</p>
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<p>Love has many forms. It is not love to leave a person alone if he does wrong things endlessly. If he is doing bad things then it is love to give him a big whack. This is why we are training in karate to have fists of love. If you see someone doing something wrong yet no one is taking action then you will go and confront him, and if you have trained yourself you can win. Love is not indifferent or mediocre. When you are right, you have to speak out.</p>
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<p>If you want, you can fight a duel and settle differences that way. I want you to know how to deal with violence too. If you don’t, then your love will never be alive and vivid; you will just be cowardly. Don’t strike first and then love later. First you love, and if the person doesn’t respond then you strike him. That is allowed. You must know for sure how this works and how to combat with love. Then you will be refined in love.</p>
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<p>Now you know the situation and why you have to work hard in home church. Once you have laid the necessary foundation you should confront people and ask what wrong you have done and you can demand to know why they do not respond. Because you can rightfully protest, the power of righteousness work and they begin to help you. They will have to wonder about what wrong you have done, and then conclude they must help you. You must have many reasons to protest in case they do not respond, really trying hard by putting in long hours and doing impossible things, and then if they don’t listen you can confront them with your record.</p>
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<p>The ways the government has persecuted us have all been recorded, and later on when you confront officials with the facts they will not be able to deny it. When the truth is revealed it will work to restore them by helping lead them to repentance. We I never remember all of that just to punish them later, I but to hasten their restoration. If they have to have a reason to repent then it will help them, so we are collecting reasons. Then they will live just as you have. Once you reach a certain standard then after three and a half years you can profoundly influence these people. That’s how long it took me to collect basic information about Americans-what they like and how they live and so forth.</p>
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<p>Finally, after 25 years, there is no area in which I have not done everything I should have. I have pretty much done everything necessary. Some of you are more advanced than others, but basically you are r all just beginning: after you finish training you will carry on what you have learned. On this 25th anniversary, if you resolve to look ahead to the future and make today the beginning of your 25-year course, then this will be a very meaningful morning for you. If you deeply invest yourself in home church for 25 years knowing what you know now, what will you be like at the end? You will be like God to your people. That is what God and Jesus intend.</p>
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<p>By doing that you will be recognized before heaven and earth as having all of my value. Regardless of how difficult it is, you are still destined to participate in my glory. Every person has to do it, and if you know this and yet don’t do it, what kind of person are you? When I had difficulties in those 25 years, God came to console me many times. When you follow my path then I will appear in dreams and visions to help show you the way. You won’t even have to close your eyes to see such visions.</p>
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<p>Your home church members will see visions of me and of you also. When they are open like that then they will live eternally in the same spirit world, and realize they are to live as the same family. Love will open their eyes. You link that to your home church and they will link it to another home church, and yet another, and it will be an unbreakable chain of love which no one, not even God, can cut. This link will be directly sustained by the spirit world.</p>
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<p>Are we going to fight this war of love now? You don’t have to take my word about this. You have your own faculties for testing whether this is true or not. How do you test it? Go beyond the things and people you were close to; if one of your home church members dies and you feel more sorrow than if your own parent had died, then see whether your people won’t see visions. When you cry daily for their sake, see if they don’t respond. You should have such deep feeling for them that you sometimes don’t sleep at night for thinking about your home church people. If because you are thinking about them so much you don’t even remember how long it was since you last ate, see whether what I have told you is wrong. Any standard less than that is inadequate. Without that kind of heart you can offer them the Divine Principle but they will not listen.</p>
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<p>There is strong love in the everyday world, but it is going in the wrong direction. You have to be able to love people more strongly before you can expect them to cut their old ties of love and come to you. Start loving them and start loving God. Certainly there is a barrier because of the fall and it is difficult to penetrate. You will never do it with a sharp object, but only with love.</p>
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<p>There are barriers on the individual, family and national level. You have to have love great enough to break the national level barrier? and even more for the world. You have to think constantly what you are going to do with America and the world, even talking to yourself like a crazy person. There have been many American patriots, but you have to go beyond their standard, always going higher and higher. After you pass their standard then things will become easier.</p>
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<p>There is a very concrete practical reason why we do this. If you are Abel then you need Cain, and only together with Cain can you come to God You cannot go to God alone, no matter how wonderful you are.</p>
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<p>Let this be the start of your future for the next 25 years. Think of nothing but home church and then you will accomplish God’s dispensation. Then in 25 years America will be entirely restored, a big stake driven into the world as an anchor for God.</p>
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<p>As I have established all these invisible conditions the communist regimes have become divided and weakened. You are seeing signs now of internal communist division; China and Russia are hostile because certain conditions have been established. Who in America could really know that though? In the meantime I am gathering the godly nation, race and tribe, like a big river coursing along as many sources come together. In summary, I have been establishing the tradition of love. When this is established, liberation follows. For the first time America will be a free nation, and so will the world. Free from what? From wrong love.</p>
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<p>I want this to be the strong start of your new career; by visualizing the next 25 years ahead of you, let this be the very significant start for each of you. I want to let you march forward in the war of love with full commitment. A-man! God bless you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">ABEL’S RIGHT PATH FROM THE PROVIDENTIAL POINT OF VIEW</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="2018-06-19T15:03:50+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/abels-right-path-from-the-providential-point-of-view.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T15:03:50+01:00">June 19, 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/2018/06/19/abels-right-path-from-the-providential-point-of-view.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">December 30, 1979<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>For the Unification Church the 1970’s were years of difficulties and regrets because of all the problems we faced from the world. In one more day it will be over. Let us hope that the 1980’s will be clear of all that and that this new year will be one of hope and prosperity.</p>
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<p>The title of my sermon is <i>Abels’ Right Path from the Providential Point of View</i>, meaning the right way of conduct and of feeling as Abels.</p>
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<p>As soon as a person comes into the Unification Church, he experiences the problem of Cain and Abel. We have all experienced this. Generally people decide that the earliest members are the Abels, but this is questionable. In fact, this is the wrong way of thinking. The Principle teaches us that there are three steps in the dispensation: the formation stage, the growth stage, and the perfection stage. For instance, the Unification Church itself develops in orderly stages. Abels must also go through these three different stages and be consistently victorious. As Abels we really have to hold on to that awareness, never forgetting it for even one moment, and each one of us should be confident that we will win no matter what.</p>
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<p>Why do we have to go through these three stages? Because of the fall. If the fall had not taken place then we would naturally be victorious and there would be no defeat, but because of the fall Abel has the responsibility of going successfully through that path. If the fall hadn’t taken place then Adam would only have to wait until he was 21 years of age and then he would automatically be perfected. From this point, in unity with the circumstances of God and heaven, he would continue to grow.</p>
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<p>As soon as Adam is successful and reaches perfection, the family era begins. After the family base is formed, the tribal base is made and then the national base. Tradition becomes necessary as soon as we find ourselves on the family level, and the tradition of the tribal base is built upon that. The tradition of the family base and the tribal base develops along the same lines as eras of the grandfather, father and grandson. After the family starts, the generations following become the tribe, and then the tribe expands onto a larger scale: Thus, the nation is nothing but an expansion of the family. Ultimately, when the family expands even farther it will compose the world.</p>
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<p>If this took place beginning with Adam then a God-centered country would result. The realm of Adam culture or Adam civilization would form the base of the tradition of Adam, starting the cultural and historical age of Adam.</p>
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<p>What is culture? Actually it is the collection of the customs of daily life. Then what is history? The development of one tradition after another will constitute history. The two basic ingredients here which we must remember are daily life, which forms a culture, and then tradition, which is history. This will be consistent, whether it is the Age of Adam, or ten thousand years later. It is all one sphere.</p>
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<p>Tradition must be built around a central thought. What is this central thought which is the basis of tradition? The real essence of tradition and history is the true heart based on God’s love. When we try to find some essence or central important point in tradition, it becomes clear that heart based on God’s love is the center of God’s tradition. Once we establish that on earth on the world level, it will be carried on in the spirit world. At first it is an earthly matter, and then as soon as we leave this world for the spirit world we repeat the same stages in the eternal world. We have to accomplish it first here on earth and then up in the spirit world.</p>
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<p>If spiritual growth to the perfection stage had been accomplished then of course the fall wouldn’t have taken place. Adam and Eve in perfect unity would have produced offspring who down through the years would eventually form the world. In the path of fallen human history, however, no one has gone anywhere above the growth stage, the point where mankind is struggling now. Let us look closely at the result of the fall: First, faithlessness on the part of Eve; secondly, the lack of heart; thirdly, the lack of concern about heaven. These three things have never been realized. To describe this a little more completely, Eve came to have three undesirable traits. She tends to be faithless and heartless much of the time, and she has nothing to do with heaven.</p>
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<p>In relation to God, Eve lacked trust, failed to resemble the love of God, and had no central thought. She had no precise idea of the path she was going to take and no desire to follow it unswervingly. She looked around for something that agreed with her. In other words, she was not God-centered but self centered. She had a vague feeling and inclination to think about herself before trusting and believing in God.</p>
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<p>We have a definite goal of making heaven, but Eve didn’t think that way. Through the fall she developed the attitude, “Let us be happy today and worry about heaven later.” Not only did she become this way herself, but she involved Adam as well, inducing him into the same situation. Now, without exception, men have all become faithless people who lack God’s love and have nothing to do with heaven.</p>
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<p>History began on that foundation, and those qualities were multiplied through the family, tribe and nation, until today all over the world we find the same characteristics. The world today has no faith and no love of God, and the world today has nothing to do with heaven. The world has inherited a culture and tradition of self-centeredness. Instead of caring about God or even wanting to know God, people want to think about themselves. In the English language the pronoun “1” is like a big gate. All other words use small letters, but “1” is a capital letter, emphasizing self-centeredness.</p>
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<p>As history nears its completion, the Western world seems to embody this tendency to center around oneself and the representative nation of this culture happens to be America. Americans today don’t worry about the future or about history. They are satisfied when everything goes well today, and that seems to be all they are interested in. Am I trying to belittle America, or is this a concrete description of the way things are?</p>
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<p>We know that history grew from the seed of illicit love. That seed has grown to be a big tree, and now at the end of the world that original sin is being repeated over and over. Boys and girls fall into illicit love and do all kinds of things; today that tree is bearing its fruit. Adam and Eve had the decency to cover themselves with fig leaves, but today there is not even any sense of shame. People today try to be neutral and helpful about such things, but when the fall took place God did not permit Adam and Eve to stay in the garden but chased them right out. In the same way, the fruit of that seed is worthy of being chased out of the world. This country is facing disintegration. The whole world is shaking, especially the democratic world.</p>
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<p>We can see clearly what has been taking place and why. If we leave the world alone, it will collapse into hell and misery. The only way it can be helped is for us to let people know why it is happening so they can correct the whole situation. This is where the concept of judgment comes in. Someone has to say, “That is absolutely wrong, and this is the way it ought to be instead.” Who will do that? Abels have to do that. Abel’s culture is responsible for undertaking this task.</p>
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<p>After the fall God launched His dispensation of salvation, following a very simple path. Because Adam and Eve, and thus all mankind, lost faith, God tried to set up a person of faith and heart better than any others in history. Since mankind was satisfied to keep living in hell, God had to send people who cared about heaven, such as the prophets. The prophets had to have all three qualities of faith, heart and a sense of heaven. The prophets were sent to confront all the thousands of people who had formed families and tribes since the fall and tell them they must turn around and live differently in order to find life before it was too late.</p>
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<p>When the prophets spoke out, thousands of people would say angrily, “That man is not one of us. Who is he and where is he from?” They would push the prophets aside with ridicule and persecution, and usually cast them out from society. At first a prophet might speak out strongly with God’s voice to the leaders, but after many bitter experiences with them he might be discouraged and turn away. As he was rejected by the higher-level people he would turn to the less prominent people, and finally to the lowest level of society, the prostitutes and beggars. He would tell them of his mission as a prophet and explain that because the rest of society rejected him he ended up there.</p>
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<p>Because of his experience he could tell the people not to be discouraged, that the people who live in castles are no better than the beggars. He could tell them that this temporal world is an evil place, but there is a good world ahead and they are eligible for it. The beggars and poor people would naturally listen more closely than the rich people, but because all their lives they had known only discouragement, they would be slow to take action.</p>
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<p>The average, “normal” person in today’s world wants to enjoy this earthly life and isn’t worried about whether he will wind up in heaven’s wastebasket. The people whom society usually labels “unhealthy” are slightly better, however, because they wonder whether there isn’t a better world somewhere than the one they live in now. You can see this in today’s society. Those young people who come from wealthy homes or have nice parents are busy living their lives, while the children of unhappy families feel they have no home and are looking for religion. Religion is all-important, but it is the people who are unhappy or deprived in some way who look for religion. They listen when the prophet speaks and decide to follow.</p>
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<h3 align="center">When do you become an Abel?</h3>
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<p>All prophets are Abels. A prophet is an Abel in the midst of millions of people living a wrong way of life, but can he proclaim, “I am here as Abel and you have to respect me”? What does an Abel living in the faithless world do? All of us as Abel have to gather our faith and offer it to them. Since love is not to be found in this hellish world, we as Abels have to gather what love we have and try to give it to the people. Since the people don’t care about heaven or the future, we have to teach them the heavenly thought and by being good examples help them gradually change their lives.</p>
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<p>In your years in the Church have you become a person of complete faith? Have you become a person of heart and someone who is filled with heavenly thought and a sense of heaven? Have you gained the confidence that you will change the world to a new direction, even if you are the last one doing it? Or do you find yourself shamed by the standard of Abel’s tradition?</p>
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<p>When God’s voice first reached the prophets, they were excited, feeling they had been shown the way to live. Even when they were persecuted they thought that soon the people would understand and follow, but as years went by and that did not happen they got discouraged and felt they couldn’t even trust God and wondered where they themselves were going. Should a prophet feel this way? What the prophets thought the heavenly path would be and what it actually turned out to be were completely different.</p>
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<p>We have to serve the people even though we are persecuted. When you spend your own money for them yet they call you names, you still have to keep going. All prophets and all Abels will find themselves in that situation if they are going to do Abel’s job successfully. Abel finds that he is not able to serve kings or wealthy people, but only the servants of servants. When we compare who led the more miserable life-the servant’s servant or the Abel on the heavenly side-we see that Abel can boast of living in more misery than even the servants of this world.</p>
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<p>In spirit world one of those servants will say to Abel, “I thought I had a lowly life in the world, but when you came to teach me I was surprised to find that you had lived a worse life. Yet it was you who came to give me hope!” Abel can reply, “I know we both had bad situations, but when you were low you had no hope, whereas I at least had hope. That is what I tried to give you as well.” That person cannot help but say, “Actually I don’t own anything and I have nothing to offer you, but since you have come down this low and tried to love me, even sacrificing your own life, I cannot help but love you. I will give up everything and follow you, no matter what.”</p>
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<p>When someone feels he wants to love you more than anyone else, you become Abel at that moment. Abel can only be Abel when there is a Cain. That Cain is your elder brother, not your younger brother. Abel may be breaking his back trying to teach Cain for years and years, and then one day Cain confesses, ” You have already done your share. You sit down and I will do the work in the way you showed me.” When Cain decides to go out on the front line to work, then Abel is truly an Abel. After many years that person has been so moved through his experience with Abel that he knows clearly it is the only way to live. Then he approaches Abel and says, “It is not fair that you do everything. Let me work for the world.” When Cain volunteers like that, then you find that you are Abel. This is exactly the reverse of what happened in Adam’s family.</p>
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<p>God began the work of dispensation in Adam’s family through Cain and Abel. Being the eldest, Cain had responsibility for his younger brother, but did Cain protect him? No, he killed him, and thus the work of restoration was prolonged. Likewise, today Cain must protect Abel. But does it make sense for Abel to say, “This is the boundary of heaven, and since I was here first I ought to be Abel!” No. If a person doesn’t show a good example or work harder with more heart than anyone else, especially younger people, then it does not stand to reason that he can automatically be an Abel.</p>
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<p>Originally the eldest should be first when everyone goes to stand before God. But because of fallen history it is the Abels who should be first. Cain will say, “Abel is better than me and therefore he ought to go first. I will follow after him and then meet God.” It is Cain who will point out Abel. Abel cannot say, “This person is my Cain.” It is not Abel who decides the situation, but Cain.</p>
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<p>Any staff members or people in so-called higher position who are not working hard are swindlers and false leaders. How many people in the Unification Church feel they are the Abel-in the truest sense? Those who feel they are more Abel than Cain, raise your hands. If you feel like Cain, who is your Abel? Is there a Cain who does not have an Abel? If you are a brother then there must be someone else you are related to.</p>
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<p>If you say you feel like Cain but you don’t have an Abel then you are neither Cain nor Abel. You have to work out among yourselves who is Cain and who is Abel. The relationship between Cain and Abel should be so close that their faith and love are immovable. No matter what bad things happen or what the world thinks, that relationship should be so strong that it is unaffected.</p>
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<p>Why is it necessary to have an Abel and Cain? Being Abel is difficult and being Cain is also difficult, so why can’t we all just become the same? If all you want to do is go to heaven, why can’t Cain go by himself and Abel go by himself? Why can’t things be simpler? When you come to the Unification Church and start looking for an Abel, you might say, “That Abel worked too hard and now he is old and wrinkled. I want an easier Abel who looks better.” But seriously, think about the person who saves you, your messiah. Cain is saved by Abel and Abel is also saved by Cain. We have to understand this relationship.</p>
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<p>Why does mankind have to go through the history of restoration? If the fall hadn’t taken place, Cain and Abel would not be in conflict, and no matter how many brothers there were they would all be in an equal position. But the fall destined each brother to go in a different direction. The second-born follows the path of the first-born; in other words, the civilizations of the fallen world are following the path begun by Cain, the eldest son. As the first-born, Cain inherits whatever his father has worked for and earned. Abel doesn’t own anything, but is just allowed to share the family shelter and sustain himself.</p>
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<p>This is the pattern followed in the satanic world, i.e., the eldest receives the inheritance, so it is not easy for Abel to get a better position than Cain. In today’s world the evil side owns everything, and the Abel who is responsible for bringing it to the good side owns almost nothing. Thus, Abel cannot subdue Cain by force, but must motivate him in such a way that Cain will voluntarily give up whatever he has in order to try following Abel’s way.</p>
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<p>The fall was multiplied when Cain did not love Abel but killed him. To be restored this time, Cain must not kill Abel but be willing to die for him. When Jesus came he had to fulfill this basic principle. Jesus came to start the Abel tribe and nation. If the Jews, who formed the Cain side, had protected Abel, would Jesus have been crucified on the cross? Cain shouldn’t have let Abel die, even if Cain himself had to be killed. This explains logically how we can say that Jesus did not come to die. Jesus had to live in order to do his mission successfully because Cain could not be saved nor history restored if Abel was killed again. Because the Jews, in the position of Cain, did not protect their brother Jesus, they had to pay the most miserable indemnity for 2,000 years and millions of people were sacrificed.</p>
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<p>Cain and Abel should naturally work together, and because Eve initiated the fall she should help them to cooperate as restitution. This is the basis for mother-son cooperation in the providence. In the Bible, Jacob was in the position of inner characteristics and Esau in the position of outer characteristics, or Abel and Cain. Rebecca, their mother, was in Eve’s position. Since Eve bore Cain and Abel as the fruit of the fall, Rebecca was in a position to restore that by assisting Jacob to restore his heavenly position.</p>
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<p>Eve deceived two people in the fail-Adam, her husband, and God, her Father-who were in the position of father and son. Therefore, in restoration.</p>
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<p>Rebecca helped Jacob to restore the right of inheritance to the Abel side by deceiving his father. The Bible records how Rebecca helped Jacob deceive Isaac, his father, and Esau, his brother.</p>
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<p>It has always seemed strange that a mother would deceive her husband and eldest son and side with her younger son. Why would God allow that? Jacob knew what he had to do and was serious enough about God’s work that he tried to win the inheritance, but Esau was so casual about his birthright that he let Jacob have it for a bowl of food. Esau worried about himself first. By assisting Jacob to do something which Isaac wouldn’t have agreed to, Rebecca clearly was taking responsibility in the providence as well. The fact that Jacob came to Rebecca and told her that Esau had agreed to sell him the birthright was a reversal, with the son persuading the mother instead of the mother dominating the son.</p>
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<p>Isaac unknowingly gave his blessing to Jacob, who was pretending to be Esau. When Esau came to Isaac to receive the blessing and discovered what his brother had done, Esau was so angry that he tried to kill Jacob. But Jacob escaped, and worked hard for 21 years in Haran. Even though he had inherited his father’s blessing he couldn’t come back home, and once he did return home he couldn’t automatically claim to be Abel because he didn’t know how Esau would respond. If Esau had rejected him then Jacob would have had no place to go. In restoration, Esau had to accept the fact that Isaac had given his blessing to Jacob and to add his own blessing as well. Cain has to approve Abel becoming Abel.</p>
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<p>When Jacob returned after 21 years in a foreign country, he had prospered and was a wealthy man. Esau and Jacob weren’t completely isolated during those 21 years but were very conscious of each other. The reason that Jacob worked hard to earn his wives and property was so that he would have enough power to overcome Esau’s power. Jacob didn’t work hard for his own sake but for the dispensation. Thus, he sent all his servants and possessions to his brother, trying to win his heart. Jacob asked only that Esau accept him and give his kiss of approval. In this case material things served perfectly as a sacrifice for Cain in the dispensation.</p>
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<p>Esau had sent people to try to kill Jacob but as he received many gifts from Jacob he came to feel that he was wrong to think light of God’s birthright and sell it so cheaply. He could understand that God loved Jacob more, and since he didn’t want to rebel against God he came to love his brother.</p>
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<p>This story has confused many people, but now it makes sense, and we can see that it is most important for our own relationships. This formula applies to every situation and every age.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Foundation for a nation</h3>
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<p>In the three orderly stages we have to have a family and tribe, a nation and the world. Jacob was victorious at the tribal level, and in order for the dispensation to move on to the next level his whole race had to move into Egypt. Because Egyptian civilization had started earlier and was bigger, it represented the Cain-side civilization. When Jacob’s tribe went to Egypt it was much smaller, and again the smaller had to overcome the bigger.</p>
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<p>In Egypt Jacob’s tribe began the providence of forming a foundation for the nation. Egypt did not have faith or heart and was not centered around heaven. The Israelites should have taught the Egyptians to have faith and care about heaven, even at the cost of being persecuted and martyred. Only the lower-level Egyptians embraced the faith brought by Jacob’s tribe, however, while the wealthy people mocked them, just as has always happened in history.</p>
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<p>While they were working hard and being persecuted, however, the tribe of Israelites grew and grew. As more and more Egyptians responded to this heaven-sent culture, the Pharaohs naturally were alarmed at the growing power of the Israelites, thinking that they were there to plunder the birthright held by Egypt in the position of elder brother. In the same way, when you go to the houses in your area, people know deep down inside that you have come to win the birthright.</p>
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<p>Esau was Cain on the family level, whereas Egypt was Cain on the national level. The mind of Cain is always the same, and Egypt tried to wipe out the Israelites. It all started on the individual level when Cain tried to kill Abel, and now even on the national level Cain wanted to kill Abel. Many of the Israelites and their families actually were killed, but for 400 years the Israelites persevered in Egypt, having to show faith, heart and concern for heaven even while they lived at the bottom of society.</p>
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<p>Jesus said, “Love thy enemy,” which derives from this principle. But the time does come when we should conquer our enemy and bring him victoriously to God’s side. By loving the brother we are actually loving the father; we cannot just love the father without loving the son. Unless brothers are harmonious the father cannot establish any order and the family is disrupted, and then loving the father has no meaning. Without that love there is no order in the family.</p>
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<p>This is seen clearly on the national level in the relationship between Egypt and the Israelites. You can study this in more detail later. But for now I will say that the Cain-Abel relationship was carried out by Jacob and Esau on a small level, and then by Israel and Egypt on a medium level. When the Jews returned to Canaan after 400 years did they find peace? No, they endured a turbulent history, and eventually were confronted by the much greater Cain-type Roman Empire. If the Israelites had been successful in winning Egypt’s approval then they would not have had to face the Roman Empire later. As it was, they had to restore the same position but on a broader scale.</p>
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<p>If people are raised with certain views and then others come along saying that those views must be changed, people usually respond by persecuting those who insist change is necessary. What purpose did the Jews have in trying to promote the godly objective? They were waiting for the Messiah and building the foundation for him to come. They refused to accept the ruler of the Roman Empire as their ruler, insisting that God was their king. They should have taught the Roman Empire about love and faith, and grown and grown while waiting for the messiah. They had waited for 2,000 years for the messiah since the days in Egypt, and if they had united with him then all the people in the area which now constitutes the Arab countries would have been united into one under God.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The spread of Christianity</h3>
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<p>It would have been simple for the true faith to spread into the area of India and the areas which Rome had conquered as far west as what is now Holland. If the Jews had united with Jesus then they could have spread the truth throughout the world, including China and all the Orient. The Romans were hated by the many peoples they had conquered, and the Jews and Jesus together could have easily competed with Rome for the loyalty of the world. If the Jews had been loyal to Jesus yet Rome overpowered them, then Jesus might have moved with his people toward the Orient. China and lndia are religious by nature, whereas the Roman Empire was very materialistic and uninterested in spiritual things, so such a move would have been logical.</p>
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<p>If Jesus had been accepted on earth, Christianity would have spread toward the East instead of the West because Orientals would have been more receptive. Then later the West could have been converted. It happened, however, that Christianity initially moved to the West.</p>
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<p>Christianity was not accepted by Rome so Christians were chased out of their land of origin. But their numbers grew, and Christianity began the dispensation on the world level. Because Jesus did not win over the Roman Empire, that time of national confrontation was lost and the providence continued on a bigger scale on the worldwide level.</p>
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<p>Christianity has spread around the world, but still has not been victorious on the global level, so the battle against Cain remains to be finished. God promised Christians a glorious future, yet what they received was life on the very bottom of society. They had to meet in secret, often in caves. Nevertheless, they witnessed to faith and love and heavenly heart. Christianity began from scratch, initially winning people from the lower levels of society. Today it is not Roman thought but Christian thought that rules the world.</p>
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<p>Had Jesus succeeded while he was alive, the Roman Empire would have disappeared and the whole world been saved. If the Roman Empire had welcomed Jesus and his tribe and nation then the world would have come into instant blessing. If Jesus could have conferred with and won the Roman emperor then many millions of people could have been saved and lifted from misery. Because this never occurred, Christians suffered miserably under the Roman Empire for 400 years.</p>
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<p>You must know clearly that if Jesus had lived. Christianity would have moved first to the East, not the West. After Jesus’ crucifixion, however, Christianity moved to Europe and America first and then last of all to the East. Christianity is a spiritual culture, not a material one. Jesus taught spiritual things, not technology. Why then should Christianity be introduced first into the materialistic West instead of more spiritual countries like China and India? It was because Jesus and his tribe were not accepted.</p>
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<p>Materialistic peoples need to be guided by spiritual truth, of course, but today the opposite is true; society is being led by the old materialistic values. Why? Satan is trying to divert America from its true way. The young people are using drugs and indulging in free sex, which God does not encourage. The older generation accepted certain moral standards, but the coming generation does not support any standard except a self-centered one. People with a materialistic point of view feel there is nothing more vague and pointless than religion, and dismiss the value of the family by thinking that any lifestyle is all right as long as they are happy. They have no sense of country or patriotism, or any concern about the future.</p>
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<p>People who think only of themselves are not concerned with what happens after death or with God. Their thinking is that if their family doesn’t serve them, it can disintegrate. If the country doesn’t take care of them then they disregard the nation. These are today’s prevalent attitudes. The average American cannot understand God’s ideal of one husband and wife uniting for eternity because the influence of Satan’s thought is so strong today. Some young people even plan to have relationships with Orientals, blacks and caucasians, thinking they will find out about the world this way and planning to be involved with twelve people altogether. It is unfashionable not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend, like wearing the wrong kind of clothes. Women think nothing of marrying several times and having children by several men. They are proud of themselves, but this is satanic pride. People try to be fashionable by wearing clothes that uncover as much of themselves as possible.</p>
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<p>Women are more of a problem in this area than men. Is it true that women are more susceptible to evil? Women are enticed by wealth and power, not so much by thought and love. Let me ask you American women a question-isn’t this reality today? If it is true then American women are about to perish. If this tendency is not corrected then we can predict that American women not be accepted to the future and they will never find stable families. No one will want to marry an American girl. If in a few years there are many more American women living singly, with or without children, then the end of American women is in sight. Then “Yankee Go Home” will be heard more and more around the world.</p>
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<p>This is not what I as an individual say, but is what God’s dispensation shows us. It is the logical outcome if today’s trends continue. It all started with Eve, who spread it to Adam. This Cain-Abel relationship is the key to the propagation of the satanic culture</p>
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<h3 align="center">Christian responsibility</h3>
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<p>America has had close ties to many nations, but one by one she has abandoned responsibility for them. She has tried to disassociate from Korea, but she cannot do so because some powerful force will not permit it. The whole direction of history is set by God, not by man. Though Christianity started in the less desirable direction, going West instead of East, it is destined to reach the East eventually. This is why America cannot abandon Korea.</p>
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<p>No one is willing to do anything about America except one Korean who came to this country to battle evil single-handedly. Millions of Americans don’t care about this nation’s problems, but I do and I came to heal the next generation of Americans. It is my responsibility to help people restore their own Abelistic responsibility and go in the right direction. All the problems of nations and the world started with Cain and Abel. Since the pattern is the same on every level, one man can shift the world’s direction to the right or wrong side.</p>
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<p>If the Cain-Abel problem is not solved on the individual level then it will be prolonged onto the family level. If the problem is not solved there then it will be manifested on bigger and bigger scales until it is solved. Just as the Jews should have embraced and protected Jesus or else faced severe consequences, so Christianity is in the same Cain position to the Lord of the Second Advent. If the Jews had accepted Jesus as their Abel, acknowledging that he was the fulfillment of their faith, then the Cain-Abel problem would have been solved on the national level, and Israel as Abel could have converted the Roman Empire. Then it would have been easy to spread Christianity to the rest of the Cain-side religions in the world. Then there would have been peace on earth for the first time.</p>
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<p>Later in the providence when England was the central country representing Christianity, its influence extended to India and the Far East. Geographically speaking, a peninsular country like India is in the position of son to an island country like England. The main focus of Christianity shifted from Rome to England, and finally to America. A materialistic masculine-type nation like America is looking for a spiritual Eve, which is Japan, and will eventually find its way to Korea. In a reversal of the fall, in which a woman led man in the wrong direction, a spiritual woman will entice the man and lead him to the side of goodness. The man will not go wrong if he follows the spiritual woman. America should follow Japan so it can be saved automatically.</p>
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<p>Japan’s Premier, in spite of himself, is telling Russia and China to leave Korea alone. The original conflict in the dispensation has not been solved and is encapsulated in Korea. One half of Korea is dominated by the worst communist, Kim 11 Sung, who makes the people call him “father”. In the south is the Unification Church, where the members call me Father. The two fathers are fighting each other.</p>
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<p>If South Korean Christianity had followed the pattern of Cain-Abel correctly and supported me then communism would have ceased to exist. If Korean Christians had united with me then American Christians would have united as well, since many Korean churches were started by American missionaries. But the staggering fact is that Christianity, which spread throughout the world inch by inch over the last 2,000 years, has fallen in shambles in only twenty years. We no longer find Christian spirit and zeal and sense of mission.</p>
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<p>Why has Christianity declined so tar in only twenty years? Because Christians did not receive Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. On the other hand, in a mere twenty years the Unification Church has risen as high as Christianity, bringing a greater spirituality yet also constructing a heavenly material domain. What I have done in the 21-year course could have been done in seven years if I had been accepted twenty years ago. Now within seven days, and sometimes within seven hours a person’s thought and life course can be completely changed. It took thousands of years to come to this point, but now within such a short time a person can be completely changed to God’s side.</p>
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<p>Even though everyone says I am bad, you come here and in seven hours you change your direction. What could have happened if twenty years ago Korean Christianity had at least said that I should not be persecuted? If it takes you seven hours when there is terrible persecution, without persecution it would take seven minutes. Then would I have been labeled as good or bad when I came to America? Japan and America would have petitioned me to go to those nations.</p>
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<p>If I could have advised the American President about the Korean War, it would have been won, not terminated in a stalemate. There would have been many less problems today. The only reason I met with President Nixon after that was to indemnify what Eisenhower failed to do and to get America on the right course. But who failed? Christians failed. I was going to solve that problem as valid indemnity to restore the Cain-type realm on the world level.</p>
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<p>There is no reason why all of this shouldn’t have been done in seven years in Jesus’ time if everything had happened ideally, so we have to learn the historical lesson. I came to America to solve exactly the same problem that Jesus faced on the Cain side. I will have been working in America seven years in 1981, and during that time I want to restore America, representing the world. I have worked day and night, especially teaching American leaders about the dispensation, the meaning of Christianity and the Will of God. If America’s leaders had listened then they would have found that no problem would remain unsolved, but they are still not acting on what they have been told.</p>
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<p>It is incredible that members drop out of the Unification Church and say they are leaving because their Abel is too tough to follow. We have to remember this relationship in the Unification Church; when people are wavering, wondering whether they should leave but realizing that they have to hang on, then be assured that at the same moment America is deciding whether or not it listens to me. As soon as America listens to me it will find all its problems solved. If not then this nation will have no way to survive. The time come when America demand to know why people persecute me and the Unification Church. If America doesn’t do this then other nations will. Spanish people do it, black people will do it, yellow people will do it. Whoever does so will take up the lead in the dispensation. If America fails then it should be the target of accusation from all over the world.</p>
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<p>When South America invites me to come, saying I am exactly the kind of leader they need, will you go with me? What will you do? You will go through exactly the same pattern as in America. We will be persecuted and called names, but we let them do as they like. When America opposed me, the black and Spanish people could not understand why. Little by little the word will spread that Moonies live an incredible life of faith and love and concern for heaven. As the years go by people will understand this more and more.</p>
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<p>Unless America understands me by 1981, her next seven-year course will be extended until the year 2,000, or twenty years more. If America does not accept me then preparation be made in other countries. If America does not turn around then the work in Moscow may have to wait, but if America does turn then I can do it myself.</p>
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<p>This is why I push myself and push you as well. Who receives the most beatings? The staff members, older members and people with responsibility get all the beatings. Eventually you get beatings too, to pay indemnity for America and the democratic world. I am the farthest out in front in fighting Satan and communism; you don’t want to do it so I do it instead. Don’t you miss the old days when you had sweethearts? You used to be able to do anything you wanted, like study or date, but now it is different and I’m sure you look back on the past with longing.</p>
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<p>Americans hate you because you are Moonies, don’t they? Many individuals hate me and wish I were dead. The State Department wants me out of the country. I want to dominate the communist world, democratic world and Christian world so everyone hates me! The democratic world hates me. The Christian world hates me. The communist world hates me.</p>
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<h3 align="center">You cannot continue in your old ways</h3>
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<p>The Cain-Abel formula applies to everyone without exception. Every Abel must go this path. This even applies to those people who oppose me. The satanic world cannot accept the godly way of thinking overnight. We have to spend much time working hard before they can accept it. I never looked forward to being accepted but came forward to challenge the individual Cain; then I prepared to overcome a bigger Cain after that first level was finished. I knew that the family Cain, tribal Cain, national Cain and world Cain would all come against me trying to kill me. That is the dispensational formula. If that was my course and is the course of every Abel, can you find some reason to be exempt from it?</p>
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<p>We are not going to sow a Korean culture here but Adam’s culture. It is not an Oriental culture but God’s culture. This is not an Oriental tradition but God’s tradition. I am here to introduce this culture and tradition in the Unification Church and throughout America.</p>
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<p>Do you understand clearly? You American people, I cannot believe you! I wanted very much to trust Americans, but I could not. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>You have to believe in me. When I came to America I expected to receive opposition from the whole nation, and this took the form of investigation by the American Congress. I prayed that their attack would successfully pass and that Abel’s path be kept intact. This was successfully gone over. Now I expect the same situation to be repeated, only on a bigger level, with communism.</p>
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<p>Now I am heating you in the fire and pounding you again and again, partly to train you to endure through that time when all of communism comes against us. The persecution will not come as we know it now. If I sent you to Russia today you wouldn’t speak the language, or have any money, or friends to give assistance, but still you would have to go on. If you can be a successful fund raiser now then perhaps you could survive in Russia. At no time in the dispensation has anyone helped us; we have to take care of ourselves. Without speaking about it you have to be preparing yourselves all the time, little by little. Should you or shouldn’t you go through this Abel’s path?</p>
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<p>The Cambodians and Vietnamese are fighting for their lives now against the communists. We must be thinking deeply about how to solve his situation, and even situations like the revolution in Iran. These emergencies are not some fire tar in the distance, but are burning right in front of us. If this country would listen to me today then these problems could still be solved, but once the opportunity is past and it is too late this country will be wiped out by communism.</p>
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<p>I understand what kind of life Americans have lived for 200 years, enjoying uncontested superiority. No one ever defeated America. Americans had security and everything they wanted; they were even considered to be fairly just, but if they keep going the way they are now will this country be able to survive? If not, they should give up this kind of life. In one hour they should forget the past and prepare for the future.</p>
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<p>If we commit ourselves totally then God will help us. If not, then God won’t help. If we give up everything to take responsibility for this country then we are guaranteed that in the future God will advise and assist us, but we can’t go back and forth between this life and the old culture. It won’t work. If I have suffered and been persecuted then will you suffer also? Will you follow what I have done, or will you say that Cain should do all the work? Do you want to follow along behind me, or go ahead and do the work instead of me? Do I have Cain in front of me all the time or not? Should I?</p>
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<p>Do you have your Abel? Do you feel that I took everything from you when you came to the Unification Church, even degrading your dignity? Do you feel that at least I should give you some recognition since you gave up everything? Do you feel that I love the Koreans more and give them higher positions, loving the Japanese next and the last of all the Americans? The Principle teaches the other way. I gave up Korea to love America, and give the Korean Church only minor things. If I liked Japan more then I would spend more time there, but instead I have poured everything I have into America. The Korean and Japanese members have joined me in doing so. It is all for the sake of introducing the new tradition and culture to this country. Logically then you can say that I love America most of all.</p>
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<p>I am only one person so I can only be in one place at a time and can’t meet with everyone. For that reason I brought over the Koreans and Japanese, who understand and love the tradition better than Americans and have more experience. Americans are like babies in the wilderness, so I intended that Americans learn from them. As you agreed, America has no tradition that is close to Adam’s culture and could be accepted by God.</p>
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<p>Do you think the Americans would do better if the Koreans and Japanese just left them alone? To reach maturity you will observe the things that belong to the formation stage, the growth stage, and then the perfection stage. Likewise, you Americans should be busy learning everything that the Koreans and Japanese can teach, and then when you add your own portion you can be perfect. Where else can you inherit the necessary ingredients if they are not to be found in America.?</p>
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<p>The Koreans have experienced more difficulty than the Americans. In addition, the Orientals experience much difficulty in trying to fulfill their mission here, with language and cultural differences, and so forth. We all try to communicate in English, which is a limited language. There is no particular reason why the Orientals should learn English; why don’t the Americans learn Korean and Japanese? You must realize that the language problem is a limitation.</p>
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<p>Just as I make an effort to learn English and I have learned Japanese, so the Americans must meet the Oriental members half-way and try to learn their language as well. Never think that they ought to speak English. Korean will be more important in the future, so you should make an effort to learn it, just as much as I am trying to learn English. When I bring Japanese and American members to Korea they feel isolated because they can’t understand what is being said when I am talking seriously or laughing with the Korean members. But I speak only simple things in English because it is such a limited language and inadequate for speaking more deeply. For expressing deep spiritual concepts I naturally use Korean.</p>
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<p>When I first came to America I could only understand Yes and No, although I could understand more written English. Now I understand spoken English better, and I can tell how often my words are translated incorrectly. It is your responsibility to learn Korean so that no translator will be needed at all.</p>
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<p>We talk about the world of heart, but it is a long way off, so I feel that my suffering with language may serve as indemnity to bring it closer. You are younger and at least as intelligent as the average American, so you should learn Korean. When I was younger, even in my thirties, after I read a book I could even remember where specific words were on the page. But today, especially when reading just before bed or after getting up, I struggle to remember certain English words even three hours later. Now that I speak English to a fair degree I feel more pain in listening to my speeches being translated because I understand how many errors are being made. This is just one example of how difficult it is to live and work in a foreign country.</p>
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<p>If you were Korean working here but you only had the patience of an American, you would want to run away! I know you have difficulties, but when you compare your difficulties with mine, should I sympathize with you or you sympathize with me? You can justly say, “Father, if I were in your position I would be dead.” We have heaven right behind us and this path of heart is the way we fight.</p>
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<p>Do you have Abel now? Who is he? If you are Cain then are you Cain on the satanic or heavenly side? According to Principle, should you let the persecution reach me or should you make it stop with you? I know you work your best, for many hours, so should l console you? Or should you feel that no matter how hard you have worked it is still not enough because so much more is needed? You have experienced persecution only in the later stages of my course, but there is greater persecution yet to come. Can you even think that it is too much for you? Now that you know what is coming, it makes sense that you should prepare to take it all before it reaches me.</p>
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<p>Do you sincerely mean that I am your Abel? Are you Cain to me on the individual level, family level, national level or universal level? If you say you are Cain on the universal level it means that you must bear all the problems of the cosmos on your shoulders. Are you willing to bear them? Should you feel, “Well, I’m engaged but not blessed so I’m not even on the family level yet,” or, “Before I’m married I’ll get persecuted on every level and then start my family in a peaceful way after I get the victory?” The problem is not solved when you have your family.</p>
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<p>If an Abel-type family has gone through much tribulation, should a Cain-type family want to let that Abel family take even more burden and responsibility? If my family is at home in East Garden, should Cain’s family feel that Abel’s family has no business staying at home while Cain’s family is divided up by different missions? I have gone through every stage and now I have gathered my family together and live at East Garden. There are enough strong Cain families to protect my family from accusation by people who don’t know the real situation. Even though you suffer on different levels of difficulty, you can still anticipate receiving more difficulty at yet a higher level without complaint, thinking ahead of time about the right way of doing things. There is only one right way, which means going through every stage, and that is what I have done. When I look at the blessed families I understand their situation because I have been through it.</p>
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<p>I started on the individual level and went clear to the universal level, then came back and settled down and started the family. For whom? For you. By the time we are ready to fight communism on the bigger scale then America had better be ready; if America is indecisive at that time it will be too late. We have to have a fence around us in the wilderness so that we are protected. The reason that you can start a family even though you have hardly done anything is because I have put up a fence on the world level.</p>
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<p>The beginning point, purpose and process is abstract thought. Yet it is not abstract alone, but is carried out in daily life. There must be a plan before a building can be erected, and in the same way we must have an ideal before we can live daily life correctly. That thought becomes the tradition that is manifested in daily life.</p>
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<p>The fact that I am persecuted to the highest degree automatically means that I am responsible for the way of the highest Abel of the world. Do the black people persecute me significantly? They did in the beginning because everyone did, but not as strongly and not as long. I sent our missionaries around the world specificalIy to meet persecution. An American, Japanese and German missionary were sent to each country, representing Europe, Asia and America. These are the three strongest nations economically, and they also were enemies in the past.</p>
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<p>It is imperative that the missionaries make unity, but do you think it is easy? Any person who walks into a country and states that he is the Abel and everyone else should follow his pattern is the one to blame. The three missionaries have to consciously look for one person among them who has a better idea and deeper understanding, and decide that he should be Abel. Until many new people join and they can decide, that is how the three should work it out among themselves. If the three are in conflict from the very beginning, their mission will never succeed</p>
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<h3 align="center">Who is qualified to be Abel?</h3>
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<p>Does Abel sit down first to eat and take all he wants? The person who wants others to eat and sleep before he does is certainly Abel. If your Cain urges you to go to bed, saying that he will stay up a few more hours to finish the work and then go to bed himself, then you can retire, but not until. It is not reasonable to say that you are Abel simply because you joined the Church first. According to that logic the oldest member should be president. In the sight of God, the person who is an example of more love and deeper thought is more qualified to be Abel than anyone who joined before he did.</p>
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<p>No matter how long you have been in the Church, if you have never loved a Cain more than yourself then you have not been Abel. In the position of Adam and Eve you have to give birth to children, but unless you can make Cain and Abel harmonious, you are not qualified to get blessed. God, Adam, and his offspring are three generations. According to the Principle you have to establish three generations as well, in the four position foundation. First you make the external four position foundation, and then the internal four positions. When you have children you will have to support them and later bless them. Now you are experiencing fund raising so that some day when your spiritual sons and daughters are blessed you can support them. Once you give your spiritual children security, then you can provide for your own family. I am no exception to this.</p>
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<p>If this could have been done easily then why should I suffer so much? Because the same principle applies to me. The American couples ask me to solve all kinds of problems. Without thinking of the reasons behind what I do, they see that I live in a comfortable home and ask why they can’t have a home as well. But no one helped me buy that house; I lived there only after completing my life work. If you are just beginning, how can you live the same way I do? If you work hard enough then 21 years from now we will see if you still feel the same way.</p>
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<p>According to my experience, no one will become your Cain unless you take care of him as though you were his own physical parent. He leaves his parents behind to come to the Church, and as his spiritual parent you should take better care of him than his parents. You have to do much more for him before he will decide you are his Abel. Only after that can you have your own heavenly family. Then tell your spiritual children that they must do the same for other people as you did for them. That’s the only way to educate them.</p>
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<p>When you go to another place your spiritual children should feel so close to you that they can’t help but follow. If they don’t care about following, then you were mistaken to think you were their Abel. If you ask why they come, they will reply, “Because we have to return what you have done for us by giving to your own children. We will take care of your children for you after they are married.” Cain should want to give more than you have given him. Only after doing this are you eligible to love your own children.</p>
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<p>Today the blessed couples know hardly anything about this. Often the early blessed couples didn’t know how they would feed their children, but now if some couples lack something they think they will come to get it from me. That is not right. This is not just my thinking, but is derived from the Principle.</p>
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<p>Abel is not looking for his own happiness, but only wants to establish the Abel tradition. It cannot be established by Cain, or by your parents or anyone else. This formula applies to everyone in the Unification Church, without exception, and to anyone who comes to join.</p>
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<p>First you are a servant of other servants in the satanic world, not even in the godly world. That realm on the satanic side is the very bottom, where there is not even any Principle. People somehow know that you are there to get their blessing and they don’t like you. Again, this is why the Bible says that the Lord will come as a thief in the night. Who is the king of the satanic world? Satan. Then God’s person is a thief. That is why people on Satan’s side persecute you, even though they have no justification.</p>
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<p>will wonder why they persecuted you, and then they will be ashamed because they can find nothing wrong in you. Then the servant will surrender to Abel, and even his own family will be ashamed of him. The family, tribe, nation and world will all come to Abel and obey. When the people who persecuted you are ashamed of themselves then they will surrender to you and you will be freed from the position of servant of servants. Have you ever been in that position of lowest person? You may have already heard about this, but you have to put this into practice. If you seriously subjected yourself to the demands of Principle then no American member would stay in the Church.</p>
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<p>As a servant of a servants you are used by another servant for his own purposes, not even for the master. He will work you to the maximum and people will say he is a harsh man who profits out of the hard work of his servant. The people will accuse him and he will feel shamed into giving that servant part of his wealth. He is the one who will promote that servant. Then as soon as you have won something from him to make an offering with, you become eligible to be an adopted son. As soon as the servant has earned property with which to make a pure offering to God, he qualifies as adopted son.</p>
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<p>What is this position of adopted son? He is not a servant because he has already gone though that position. Even though the adopted son may acquire property, however, it is never for his own sake or for his family. He earns it in preparation for the one who is to come, to be used as that person sees fit. Unless the adopted son feels that way, he will not maintain his position nor go to heaven.</p>
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<p>This is not just an idea, but is precisely the path you have to go. After being serious and succeeding in this course, the son who is adopted into the heavenly lineage becomes a servant of heaven. As servant he is in the archangel position and the archangel person is in Cain’s position to Abel. How about you? It is important that you understand this at the end of the 1970’s so that you can begin the 1980’s correctly.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Abel and the family</h3>
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<p>Are you in the position of heavenly servant or satanic servant? You will win the reputation for being so persecuted that people will wonder why this happens to you, since you are not a bad person. When you hear people say that Reverend Moon is not bad and neither are you, then you will be freed from the servant of servant position. We all have to go through that stage, and if you don’t have that experience then you are still a servant of servants. What if you don’t go through that position yet have your own family? Then your family is your cross and your children will be your burden instead of your joy. That is why the Bible says, “Woe to those who are with child in the last days.”</p>
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<p>Until you meet the Lord and go through this course you have nothing you can claim as your own, not even your family. This is why the higher religions came to regard celibacy as the best way to be truly religious. They knew that having a family would only be burdensome. In the sight of God everyone is expected to stay single until they meet the Bridegroom, who will adopt them. How painful it would be to have a wife and children before you are elevated to the adopted son’s position.</p>
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<p>I knew that for the average person to go this course on his own would be virtually impossible, so I wanted to provide a shortcut to the adopted son’s position for everyone. I did that and got approval from both God and Satan. My path was not vague, but was carried out step by step on every level, and each time both Satan and God acknowledged that it was completed. Without Satan’s recognition God’s side could not be established in a certain position.</p>
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<p>After thousands of years of history leading up to this point, I fulfilled all these levels in a mere 20 years, setting the path up so that everyone could enter the gate. None of the billions of people who lived on earth knew about these things. What a gigantic blessing it is to know these facts. How staggering it is merely to know these things! It is not enough just to think about these things, however; you must each carry them out or else you won’t amount to anything. I struggled to find all of this.</p>
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<p>From the very beginning I was determined never to appear faithless to anyone, and in the lowest position or difficulty I demonstrated faith and love. Even when the worst persecution came I had to sustain the idea of heaven. In the worst positions I have been desperately doing this, restoring the position of servant of servant, adopted son, son and parent.</p>
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<p>After I had done all this then I married Mother, and demanded absolute obedience from her to restore the original position, telling her, “Woman, you have nothing to say except to obey your husband.” When the time came I sent out the American blessed couples to separate missions and their families were divided. in America this is an intolerable thing to do, and though it is perhaps a little more understood in the Orient, even there it was a shocking thing to most people.</p>
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<p>Since Eve wrongfully denied the son and the Father, she had to make the condition of being obedient to them. Thus, Eve had to be ordered to give up her family and go out. Eve has to go to the most difficult place, and that is why the wives were sent onto the CARP mobile team. Because of Eve, Jesus died, and millions of people suffered, and I suffered my whole life. The older staff members especially should know for sure the principle that everyone is in Eve’s position in this respect.</p>
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<p>I am not responsible just for local events, but for the tradition which is to last millions of years. If you were me, would you worry about individual matters case by case, or be concerned with the eternal tradition? I must adhere strictly to the matter of tradition and principle. You may be worried about America and the world today, but I also have responsibility for all the billions of people who lived in chaos on earth without any hope of ever meeting the Messiah. I am concerned not only with earthly unity but with unity of the whole spirit world, which is much more complicated.</p>
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<p>The fall is the origin of all these problems, so the matter of the original fall has to be liquidated, starting with the spirit world. Before God could give me His approval I had to receive the endorsement of the spirit world. Only after that could I start my earthly mission. Then all the barriers could begin to break down that separate people from faith and love and the idea of heaven. All the regretful entanglements which began on earth must be undone.</p>
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<p>The whole problem started in the family with the fall. Thus, disentanglement should be started in the family. A husband and wife should have absolute trust in one another. After blessing, there should be no doubt between them. Neither Satan nor even God should be able to separate them, nor any national power. They should have love of that strength centered on God and True Parents. The wife follows her husband. No matter how good an idea she has, she should not dominate her husband to make him follow. Instead, even with tears she should say, “You should not follow me; I should follow you.” If she finds it difficult to do something when asked, then ask her husband to bring her. The husband will bring the wife with him.</p>
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<p>Who started to untangle the family problem? I started this process, not just locally, but historically. No matter how complex this situation is, it must be clarified because it is the origin of all problems. The basic solution is not complicated at all, however. If you love me more than your husband or wife, and want your mate to love me more than yourself, then there is no problem. By doing that you can inherit the complete love of God. Even if your husband does not give you love, if you love God most of all then He will give you the love you never received from your husband. If you do not complain to your husband then God will add His own love, father’s love and husband’s love and give them to you. Thus, you get everything. If you insist that your husband love you, though, you won’t get God’s love or father’s love, so your husband’s love will have less meaning.</p>
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<p>In this tradition you can tell your mate that he can forsake you, but you will never permit him to leave his parents or God. If each of you has that determination then this course of life is not difficult. Do you understand? In a business sense this is very profitable, for you receive a great deal for a small investment.</p>
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<p>When you are married do you want your husband to love you more than God or me? Won’t you feel left out and miserable? Do you understand the logic I am teaching you? I have lived this life literally in every way. I left my wife and child to follow God’s will when it was necessary. Whatever God’s will required of me, I never gave it a second thought but just went ahead. Thus, God could give me unlimited support, and wherever I go, it is not only the older people who love me but the children and grandchildren as well. This is unprecedented in the satanic world. Never in history was anyone liked by all three generations at the same time.</p>
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<p>When you see the reason and logic in this concept then it is easy to follow and remember. Then you know exactly what you are supposed to do and the job is less difficult. My main task in this nation, whose culture is so distant from the heavenly standard, is to teach the people and mercilessly drive them out so that they can inherit many things which I have not even told you about. Unless you are prepared to accept this, there is no way God can have some connection with you.</p>
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<p>The failure of Eve caused many, many walls to come between the three generations of God, Adam and Eve, and their sons. Now for the first time, that which was never united has become united. The tradition that we are going to establish is that of having loved God better than anyone else-more than our own children, more than our husband or wife. Once we have done that, we can shoot upward like a rocket because no power, not even Satan’s, can hold us back any longer.</p>
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<p>If people observe a Unification Church couple and say that the husband loves his wife more than God or True Parents, then what they actually mean is that he is still on Satan’s side, not God’s side. There are sentries who will meet you when you go to spirit world and ask whom you have loved most, and if you say that you loved your husband or wife most, they will stop you right there. Jesus said that whoever loved others more than Jesus was not worthy of him. Was that a true statement?</p>
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<p>Christians are familiar with that statement but don’t know what it means. Christians today have no idea what culture and tradition we should follow, what purpose we have, and why they should love Jesus above all else. When did this knowledge become known to the world? Because of who? Because of Reverend Moon. The world certainly does not know, but how about all of you? According to this standard have you been high-level or low-level Unification Church members? Do you still belong to the satanic world, or to God’s world, or are you in between. Do you understand, or aren’t you clear?</p>
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<p>As time passes, there are more important things I will talk about. The position of the American President is worthless in comparison. You can sleep at any other time of your life, but not at this moment. If you do not heed what I am saying now, all your ancestry, which is focused upon you, will be adversely affected the same way you are. Certainly it is difficult to receive some new knowledge, but imagine how hard I worked to gather this, universalize it and carry it out so you could inherit it. I am the one who should doze off! Should I stop here? l am hungry too, and my feet ache.</p>
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<h3 align="center">What do you know about me?</h3>
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<p>We are living for the sake of the coming sons and daughters of God. The President is a different person every four or eight years, and the odds are small of being the children of a President. But how much smaller are the odds of meeting the son of God? It is the most difficult thing in all of history. Is there any place where you can dig up these ageless secrets on your own? Are there any encyclopedias or dictionaries where you could look them up? You can never imagine finding all of this, no matter how hard you try. Could you find this out if you shot hundreds of atomic missiles at God’s heart at one time?</p>
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<p>How did I find all these facts? Did God just hand them to me? Could any of today’s fun-loving people find God’s words? Perhaps those people who are spiritually guided could understand what I am saying, but today’s pragmatic, materialistic Americans would have a very difficult time. No one in spirit world, no matter how learned or religious-not even Jesus-knew as much as I do about this. That’s why the entire spirit world has bowed down to me, but not only for my knowledge; even Jesus said that his heart did not reach as far as mine.</p>
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<p>What do you know about me? Even though you see me once a week, and the blessed couples think they know me, you are far from knowing all of what I am. You might think the farther I go, the more persecution you will have to endure. Mother loves me more than anyone’ but our relationship is not that of ordinary man and wife. Our relationship is a loving, yet most serious one because even a small mistake has great significance; it is not a relaxed and casual marriage.</p>
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<p>Certainly the son of God should be cherished and glorified, but he had to go through staggering things that ordinary men and women never experience. I wanted qualified Christians to do this work because I felt they could do better, but no one was willing to come forward so I did it myself. When I tell you about the position of servant of servants, I am describing my own experience. When I tell you about being a faithful servant I am telling you about myself, no one else. I also told you about myself when I was telling about the adopted son. Since I have been those things, I can go the way I am going now. The only thing that matters is what God needs. I know God’s heart of struggling and struggling for thousands of years to save the world and that is why I am doing these things.</p>
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<p>I decided I would forget about my own life and would devote myself to carrying this out, and if I was successful, then fine. I told God that whether I became His son didn’t make any difference; I wanted to do His work, no matter how my life ended up. With that heart, even Satan could not accuse me of dishonesty. Then I began my course as servant of servants. No one instructed me to do it. It really didn’t matter to me whether I reached the position of God’s son, and that’s why Satan couldn’t say anything to me.</p>
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<p>I told God that He could trust me, that I was different from Jesus. I said I would never, never pray as Jesus did in Gethsemane, “Father, let this cup pass from me.” If I had to die in the position of servant of servants still I would not complain or feel sorry. I would be most happy to die on the path I was supposed to go.</p>
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<p>Since I went that way, Unification Church members should not hang back from suffering, but should feel that this work must be done no matter how difficult things are. This is the tradition I am handing down to you. You should not want to be concerned whether you are miserable or happy, and should tell God not to be concerned. This is the kind of member I want in the Unification Church. After God promised me a glorious life I found myself in the worst dungeon of hell, in prison. I was surprised, but I did not complain. I never even thought about complaining, and nothing after that surprised me.</p>
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<p>If I feel hungry, l just notice it in passing. In the past I felt very tired many times, but just noticed it offhandedly. I knew that God was watching, expecting that hungry, tired person who was exhausted to do His work. Then how could I tell God I felt tired or weak? Without me God’s work would remain undone. If I lived that way but God didn’t care, then God doesn’t exist, so it never bothered me. But in reality I found that heaven was constantly preparing situations ahead of time for me when I kept on going, even though I never mentioned those things in my prayer. When the situation looked hopeless and I was tired and hungry, then suddenly someone would appear to feed me and give assistance, and then I felt doubly grateful because I knew this was God’s assistance.</p>
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<p>Then I bowed down to God, telling Him that I felt sorry that He was caring for me even before I finished my responsibility. I told Him to treat me any way He wanted and I would not rebel, that He should not worry about me. I have been living this way all my life. You may have to work incredibly hard, but how many years have you been doing that? If the job is not done correctly, this course may last for thousands of years. How can we even think of our difficulties?</p>
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<p>This is the last Sunday in 1979. We are leaving behind a decade of regret and sorrow, and are about to start a new decade full of hope, the glorious 1980’s. I want to get rid of every undesirable thing this year, and I am expecting the 1980’s to be good years. Everyone in the free world has heard of Reverend Moon, and even in the communist countries where communication is censored many people know of me. Those people who don’t care about the world and ignore the news haven’t heard about me, but that doesn’t matter.</p>
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<p>Since I am still going strong despite all the persecution, people should be concerned to find out who I am. No one in the future will be able to say they haven’t heard about me. This is why, even though you are tired and your feet are swollen, I drive you out to tell the people where you are from and what you represent. When people complain that I didn’t give them a chance to hear about me and be an early participant in heaven, they will be told it is their own fault because I have done everything to let them know.</p>
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<p>You will tell them that you were in their town and were persecuted by the people and officials there. You will be the living evidence. You go door-to-door fund raising and witnessing to let people know what blessing this will bring to everyone. In heaven’s sight, the person who gives even a glass of water to a person who is rejected will receive something more precious than gold. The person who insists on justice being done and stands up for me in the midst of persecution will never be forgotten by God. You who have been working on the grass roots level know that it is not the rich people but the blacks and Spanish people who can only live from day to day who support our activities. Regardless of who supports us’ we will keep growing.</p>
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<h3 align="center">I expect you to do the things I have done</h3>
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<p>When the time comes, everything we have gathered for this work will be left to the world and we will return to God with gratitude. Many people think I am a millionaire. Whatever money I have belongs to the world and God, not to me. I own nothing. I am very frugal, even stingy, in spending money for myself. Most of what I have has been given to me. If someone gives me a necktie then I use it, even though I may not like it, instead of buying one myself. I have only been to one or two excellent restaurants in New York; when I eat out I usually go to McDonald’s. It is interesting to see people react when they see me there, because they think I would never go to such a place. When I go on trips to investigate certain places and businesses, people stare and say I look very much like Reverend Moon, but then they think it couldn’t be me. At a show I saw in Las Vegas, most of the women dancers were almost naked, and people in the audience who noticed me couldn’t believe I was really there.</p>
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<p>I am concerned about how to save the people in places of corruption, like the casinos in Las Vegas and the movie industry in Hollywood. I don’t care how people criticize me now because the damage is already done. Whatever I do brings much criticism.</p>
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<p>There should be no area of life that we are unconcerned about. If we are going to do something about the world, we need to know about what happens in real life.</p>
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<p>When I was young I went to visit different prostitutes. I would poke one of them in the side and demand, “Don’t you remember me?” The lady would be surprised and answer, “No.” Then very seriously I would say, “I am your brother’s friend. Don’t you remember?” and slap her on the back. Then I would say, “How did you wind up here? Tell me all about your history.” Then even at our first meeting the prostitute would tearfully tell me all about herself. I learned much about the world by talking to these women.</p>
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<p>I feel there is nothing I do not know about what goes on in the world. I know about organized crime, how the Mafia works, how gambling is organized, who participates and who benefits. All of these significant evil phenomena must be understood. Even though my title is Reverend and I have a certain position, there is nothing artificial about me; I am completely natural. When I go to the mountains I am a good mountaineer. When I go to a fishing village, no one there would doubt I had spent a lifetime fishing. At each Science Conference I give a speech such as the scientists have not heard before.</p>
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<p>There is nothing I have not done. I have even lived among beggars. When I slept in the beggars’ hovel, I would sing to myself that God’s son is sleeping with beggars, and it sounded very poetic. I used to write down my experiences, but when the communists were prosecuting me I burned my diaries so they couldn’t be used against me.</p>
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<p>If you only want to hear about my experiences and don’t want to have such experiences yourself, then I would prefer not to tell you about them. If I know that you can’t do such things then should I talk about them? This is why I won’t tell you certain things, even if you beg me to. When I go to meet with members in the underground church in communist countries, I will share all my experiences from the early days with them because they will be able to understand and appreciate them. They will treasure the slightest bit of advice from my experience and put it into action themselves. You must understand how much distance there is between you and me.</p>
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<p>I expect you to do the things I have done, but how can you do them? The principle is rather simple: you have to be willing to give up your life for God. Because I have already done everything that I talk about, there is no comparison between your understanding which comes from your own suffering and my level of understanding. How could anyone else understand me if they have not had the same experience?</p>
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<p>Much of the reason I push you so hard is to train you so that one day I can share many things with you that you can’t imagine now. Certainly the American members don’t have the same level of heart as the Japanese members. There is some distance there. You Westerners should close that gap in the shortest possible time. The Korean members might tell you about some things I did in Korea, but until you go through certain experiences I will not share certain things with you.</p>
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<p>If I tell you to do something and you don’t do it, then you are burdened with indemnity for that. You might be excused if you had not been told, but then you could never become perfect. First you become a servant of servants on the satanic side, then servant, then adopted son, who is a holy servant on the heavenly side, then true son and finally parent, which is the most difficult. You can understand this when you reach that level.</p>
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<p>To be a heavenly son you have to know both heaven and earth inside and out so you can be a link between them. The world did not listen to me so I had to climb down to the lowest place to find out everything and work on their behalf. I asked God, “Please give them more time because I am sure they will start moving any moment; if they don’t then I will work ten times harder so that I can see the day when they start to move.” This is how I have been speaking to God.</p>
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<p>I feel that if things become any more difficult then perhaps everyone here will pack up and drop out. Even if everyone leaves and my family abandons me, I will find a few good people and reach the final goal. That is the view Abel must have of history. Thus, my topic is about the right path Abel must take, in view of the dispensation. Will you pledge to become victorious? Even when it is not a glorious or easy way, but a difficult one? Even if it is so difficult that you cry? If you can’t help crying then at least don’t utter one word. That has been my experience also.</p>
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<p>You can hardly call this a hard life when my job to lay the foundation was hundreds of times harder. It is very difficult to meet the standard at Harvard, but you are in the school to become God’s sons and daughters and that is much more difficult. You had better make good marks, even if you can’t take time to sleep or eat in order to do it. You may yearn to have times of enjoyment, but my feeling is that if some day of enjoyment comes that is fine, but I am only interested in pursuing God’s dispensational way.</p>
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<p>If I had concentrated on anything else, such as becoming a president of Korea. I would have accomplished it a long time ago. If I had been born an American I would have become President a long time ago. But I found my goal was to be a son of God, and it has brought me nothing but a hard life. No one has imagined that the path of Abel could be like this.</p>
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<p>Look at the well-known religious leaders of today; their wishful thinking is that they only have to believe in Jesus and when they go to spirit world, presto, they will be in heaven. Measured in miles, there are millions of miles difference between their teaching and mine, so they call me a heretic. There is nothing rosy in sight as long as you follow me, but would you still go? Should we live a traditional way of life, or a haphazard one?</p>
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<p>Michael Warder had many responsibilities, but he did not understand this as well as you do and wasn’t so serious about going this way. He flunked the course. If it was so difficult for him, what makes you think it will be any easier for you? I loved Michael and had many plans for training him and seeing him become famous. Would you drop out, even though I don’t show you as much love or have as many plans for you?</p>
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<p>Do you think the courses get easier each succeeding year in college? What about those members who want to do something easier after several years, or to have a change of mission-are they successful graduates? If you take the easy way maybe it will take ten years to finish only the freshman and sophomore years. Would you rather graduate as quickly as possible, or spend your entire life going the easy way? One way of thinking is always to be looking for the most difficult thing; you could even think, “When is Reverend Moon going to ask me to die?” You can’t ask any harder question than that.</p>
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<p>Instead of thinking you have to be especially careful of your health, it is better to entrust your life to God and just run day in and day out. If you don’t take it easy in witnessing or fund raising but go all out and then drop dead, several hours later you will find yourself alive and able to start again. This is why the Bible says those who are willing to die will live.</p>
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<p>When you die, the village people will notice this Moonie who worked himself to death. The spirit world will send people to your assistance and twelve people will surround you to pray desperately. Then you will come back to life. Even if you don’t recover, there will be dozens of people who will take up your unfinished work and do much better than you would do. Spiritually this makes sense. As it says in the Bible, those who are willing to die for heaven will live, but those who would live will die. It is only because you lack desire that you have been unsuccessful</p>
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<p>Don’t ever think home church is tough. You have to resolve to try it out with confidence, no matter how hard it looks. Find out whether the black or white people are more nasty and then go there. If the people don’t pay any attention to you, then ring a bell or play a trumpet all around your area so people will come out and take notice. Then the curious people will step forward to talk to you.</p>
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<p>When you meet the children you can ask to meet their parents, and they will tell their parents about the interesting person they met. If the children insist, then the parents will meet you. If you sing well, then you can sing a beautiful song about America, even with tears rolling down your face, and the people will surely come to look. Their hearts will be softened and they will pay attention to you. If there is another garbage strike in New York then you can borrow a car or van and pick up the garbage for your people. If you do it for free you will have no competition. Certainly they will pay attention to you then.</p>
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<p>They will invite you out to eat and ask all about you. You can tell them that you have no set place to sleep, that you stay with whoever invites you. Do you think this is impossible? You can do anything. Then you can talk with them, and discuss something you know about, in any area, even poetry and literature. There are unlimited things to do; it is only because you lack desire and will that you have been unsuccessful. There is no one right way, no requirement for preaching like a minister with a Bible in your hand.</p>
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<p>When you meet an elderly woman you can tell her you feel as close to her as to your own grandmother. You can tell her that you used to drop in on your grandmother for lunch without notice, and ask the lady for lunch. Tell her it doesn’t have to be a nice meal, just crackers or bread, things which anyone has. Take cake or something nice to her next time, telling her you thought about her after she received you so warmly, and you might say, “When I prayed about you I felt you were a good, spiritually enlightened lady, so I wanted to come speak further with you.” Then cut the cake up to share with her, and even feed it to her. It is quite acceptable for a grandchild to do that. What kind of scrooge would reject that kind of gesture? If you find that her kitchen is a little dirty and unorganized, just walk right in and clean it for her. Tell her that you do this all the time.</p>
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<p>If you visit certain people who treat you badly and chase you away again and again with a broomstick, people will ask what is the matter. Next time, go early in the morning to the house of an especially nasty man before he gets up. Bang on his door and tell him that you are back again. When he comes to the door to get rid of you, grab him and demand to know why he is an enemy of the Moonies. “What’s wrong with them anyway? You only live for yourself and do nothing for the community, but we Moonies are giving everything for the sake of America. If we don’t do something soon, America will have even worse problems.”</p>
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<p>Before you go, plead with God that you need to get even with this person and that he can’t push you around in your area. Then God will say, “Go ahead,” and when you go He will support you. Don’t do this foolishly, but dramatically. Then the neighbors will agree with you and wonder why that person is so antagonistic toward the nice Moonie. At some point he will ask what you are up to anyway, and you can say, “I was hoping you would ask that. Please come with me and listen.”</p>
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<p>Don’t worry about how you are treated. If someone mistreats you seven times then he is probably a person who does the same to his own family. His relatives will say you are courageous to be nice to him, that you are the only one to stand up to him. When you get even with him then everyone else will follow you instead of him. There is no way you can lose.</p>
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<p>Plan ahead and practice what you will say when you bang on the door: “What’s wrong with what I am doing? It’s better than what your son does, who is always getting arrested. I only try to guide him in the right way. What’s wrong with that? The Moonies are living for the community and America.” You can anticipate what he will say back again and plan how you will reply. When everything follows your scenario then you can have confidence and joy. Then when you dance for joy it will be much more fun than disco dancing.</p>
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<p>You can wear a Santa Claus suit to your area and draw a crowd of children and announce what you have brought, and then when your Santa Claus work is done take off your suit and talk to the people. The spiritually guided people will readily recognize who you are and what kind of high spirit world you are linked with. They will be able to judge who is right and who is wrong, who is the prophet and who is the wicked man. There is no limitation on how you can reach the people to save them, so why not use every way to do so? When you can give a speech and refer to the different people in your area, it will leave a deep impression. Certainly they will remember you. If 360 homes have recorded something about you, it will remain as your treasure.</p>
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<p>If the parents in one house keep on persecuting you, their sons and daughters will eventually come to your side. You don’t have to worry if the old people reject you because they won’t live forever; by the time you are in your thirties or forties they will be in spirit world. You will become close to their sons and daughters and they will invite you to come when they are head of the house.</p>
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<p>Why should we shrink if people oppose us? So far you have been scared if people spoke with a strong voice against you, but why should you be? How can you be a prophet if you are scared when a dog barks? Am I a strong enough prophet? 1 have spoken out about what Carter should and shouldn’t do, and said that I came here as a doctor to cure America’s ills. If I hadn’t said these things then the government wouldn’t have hated me. Do you think I didn’t know what their reaction would be? I expected their response, but I had to speak straightforwardly because of love.</p>
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<p>If a man whom everyone knows is bad-tempered begins to oppose you, people will think you must be a good person. Many people have come to the Unification Church for that very reason. It gives the people an opportunity to find out who is good and who is bad. The children of parents who scoff at you will want to come see for themselves. Those people who oppose you for no good reason will be revealed for what they are. There will always be some benefit as long as you go and really speak out, even if people don’t listen to you at first. If they listen, so much the better, and even if they are indifferent they still have to listen eventually. If they persecute you then someone else will come to take your side. You have nothing to lose when you honestly do your work.</p>
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<p>It is a good thing if problems start happening right away because people will start thinking that much sooner about who is right or wrong. Your suffering will trigger that. If you continue over a long period of time then your voice will definitely be heard. Even if you move far away, after awhile people will remember and come looking for you. Then you can talk with them and they will have the opportunity to repent. History is made in that way.</p>
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<p>One day on an airplane one of my East Garden staff met a person who said he used to persecute the Unification Church very much because he thought it was really bad, but later he found he was mistaken so he repented. It could have been any one of you who helped him understand.</p>
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<p>Do you have your Cain area? Are you Cain or Abel to your home church area? The fact that I have entrusted you with home church means I have approved you as an Abel. It’s up to you to work hard and pray. How nice it is when you can consult with one of your people when something needs to be done and see it through to the finish. After one or two years they will understand you much better and try to do this work with you. You never know when the result will come; as long as you work hard now then the result will definitely come. How beautiful it will be when the result comes unexpectedly. A millionaire who watches what you do over the years will conclude that you are far better than he is. Don’t you think he will feel that? Once he feels that way, he is bound to express it to other people.</p>
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<p>You are the kind of flexible people who can go to Alaska or Africa at the drop of a hat. The major headache in business today is personnel management. Everyone wants a good salary and short hours but no one wants to do the company’s work. When businessmen see how responsive all of you are, they think that with such employees they could do a billion-dollar business. They envy me. When they find out why you are doing this, they feel it is something they always wanted to do, and start seriously considering giving up their successful business to join.</p>
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<p>I give orders, but not for myself-it is for the sake of the world and God. When they understand this then smart people can understand that even though I may have only one lifetime, all the ideals I have introduced will continue eternally. When people oppose me they are actually opposing the ideal, which will remain long after this generation passes away. Actually such a person is staining history. When he realizes that what he is doing will remain historically and affect his sons and daughters, he will take heed and stop his unjust actions. Persecution comes to all of us, but many good things are starting now, the fruits of which won’t be seen for a long time.</p>
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<p>When you like the work you have to do then you are successful, but if you don’t like it then no matter whether you do it for ten or twenty years you won’t be successful. There is a certain correct way to be an Abel, so you might as well enjoy doing it. If it includes being spanked, then don’t be satisfied being spanked ten times a day but try to be spanked all day, all week and all month. Then all the spanking coming to you will be finished. If there is work to be done then we might as well do it day in and day out until we finish it and enjoy life after that.</p>
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<p>I have spoken to you many times about the three seven-year courses. During this time part of my work was to receive persecution. I wanted persecution to come so that restoration for the last 2,000 years could be finished quickly. I never avoided or tried to stop persecution, but even sought it out within the 21 years. I never minded the persecution or hard work.</p>
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<p>Many people have criticized and called me names, but in the years to come they will realize there was no reason for them to do so. What will happen then? They will repent and bow down and ask what they can do. That’s the only thing they could feel. If all 2.5 billion people in the world persecute me then they will all owe some debt to me and want to do something in return. People will say, “Reverend Moon, I was wrong and I apologize.”</p>
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<p>These 21 years have been preparation for the free world to launch a more meaningful movement for the sake of goodness. The Christian world, communist world and democratic world will all apologize to me. Later people will repent for what they did to you.</p>
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<h3 align="center">I want to make you a person<br />
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whom God will greet with tears</h3>
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<p>Being persecuted is the sure way for Abel to win over evil. Even if this doesn’t happen in our lifetime, still nothing is lost or wasted. Certainly the result will come about in spirit world, and finally at some time on the earthly world. Repentance on earth takes only a short time, but it takes thousands of times longer in spirit world. Abel will win if he exposes himself to persecution in the beginning. He never thinks about next year or the decades ahead when he will be old, but only in terms of eternity. As long as God is alive, everything the Unification Church does which goes unrewarded will be returned eventually. Nothing will be lost or wasted because goodness always emerges, even if it happens unexpectedly in the future. This is what Abel must be confident of. He cannot retreat or think that the job is too hard. As Abel you have to enjoy your work, and on the day you think you will surely drop dead you will find a member.</p>
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<p>Worldly people look at you and think you must be miserable, but in the future the spot where you die will have a monument recording your deeds, and people will come to honor the person who gave his life doing God’s will. God will see that everything Abel does be recorded. When I speak like this it is recorded for eternity. Millions of people in thousands of years to come will read what I did on this day of December 30, 1979. This is true of everything Abel does for the sake of God and the world; nothing will be lost but will prosper many times over. What we do in the 1970’s and 1980’s will have to be remembered.</p>
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<p>We are not looking for immediate glory or honor even in five or ten years, but only want to do the historical mission successfully. The problem is whether we are on the right path of Abel. The solution lies in whether we take up the cross of the whole world; then we are on the right course. This is what Jesus said: “Take up your cross and follow me.” He didn’t say he would bear our crosses if we followed him.</p>
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<p>Not just anyone can become Abel. God selects those who are willing to bear the cross of the world. Those are the only ones who are entitled to become Abel. Abel doesn’t speculate about what better position he will have in ten or fifteen years. He doesn’t care what will become of him but just does whatever needs doing and leaves the rest up to God.</p>
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<p>Regardless of whether you are faithful workers or not, eventually you will go to spirit world and meet God. Will you be the kind of person God will run out to meet with tears, even forgetting to put His shoes on in expectation of meeting you? Or will you be the kind of Abel whom God only casually notices, or the kind of person God will say, ” Oh, yes, I remember he is one of the Church members and he often did good things.” Which category do you want to be in? Naturally you want to be the kind of person God greets with tears.</p>
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<p>When God sheds tears, all the spirit world weep with Him in gratitude for what we did here. When you work hard for America and die here, you will be received in spirit world as a hero, and in years ahead the same honor will be repeated on earth. Will you be the kind of person no one notices when you go to spirit world, or will the spirit world welcome you for what you did on earth? I am determined that you will become the kind of people spirit world will be grateful to. When you come to spirit world I want to see the people there welcome you with tears. Do you think I have an easy job?</p>
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<p>All the tears we shed here, plus the tears shed by God and spirit world will make a big river and an ocean. When God feels tremendous joy, He will immediately turn around and say that His joy is your joy, sharing with us all as one family. This is what I am anxious to see you become qualified for I want you to be ready for that when you go to spirit world.</p>
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<p>If you become qualified to be on the same level of heart as God, then everything is possible. If there are millions of such people in spirit world then when someone suggests that everyone wear the most fashionable and beautiful uniform, it will happen instantly. When a bigger, more beautiful banquet table and room are needed, with special chairs, gold decorations, silver, diamonds and pearls and heavenly music, it can happen. When people are drunk in the love of God then these things can happen. People will be dancing for thousands of years and never tire of it if they have God’s level of heart. We have many ideals we want to see on earth and all of them can be realized right away in spirit world.</p>
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<p>If you really knew about spirit world, you wouldn’t desire a lot of what you want to have today. By comparison with spirit world, everything here is small and shabby. Don’t you want to go there with me? It is not easy. Because I know the reality of spirit world I am more serious than you, who may believe in it but don’t really know about it. All the spirit men are my followers; there is no spirit man who is dumb enough to oppose me because all of them know what I am doing. I must teach you in truth and logic, not just spirit, because what you understand in logic can become yours. Here on earth verbalizing your thoughts is tedious because it requires thinking about vocabulary and grammar and technique, but in spirit world you would understand what I wanted to say before I actually said it.</p>
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<p>If you want to become an opera singer there, you can become a most wonderful opera singer. If you want to be a poet or writer, you can express your thought in a most beautiful and moving way. As long as you are in the same realm of heart as God, you can do anything. Nothing is impossible. This is the world in which we are going to live eternally.</p>
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<p>will you do in spirit world if you fail to reach that level of heart on earth? It will be thousands of times more difficult if you have to come back and nurture yourselves through people on earth to reach God’s level of heart. Everyone has to cultivate this Abel’s path, regardless of nationality, age or position, and everyone has an equal chance, whether beggar or king. This is my greatest finding and I know it is right, no matter what people think. I could give you millions of examples about spirit world, but I just don’t have time here. You might even find many of them to be unbelievable, but the most important reason I don’t elaborate is that they won’t really help you over the long run.</p>
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<p>Whether you know it or not, that is real life and you will find out soon enough. But the point is, how will you be prepared for spirit world before you do find out? That’s why I tell you time and again to be faithful and proud of being a Moonie and not fear persecution. Even though you don’t know very much now, what you do know is reason enough for you to plunge ahead 100 % I have explained the principles behind everything I did and about the spirit world, and I did so in order to bring you to the place I will go in spirit world. This is why you witness and fund raise and confront persecution with righteousness. You can be audacious because you aren’t afraid of evil.</p>
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<p>A person who lives this way intensely and dies young will go to a better part of spirit world than someone who lived a long life on earth but didn’t give his whole heart. Your day-to-day life in Unification Church isn’t really that important; what matters is whether you accomplish your Abel mission.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Heavenly heart is the center of spirit world</h3>
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<p>Here is a diagram of spirit world, and this dot is the center. The individual, compared to the spirit world, is but one speck. That individual’s heart is but a minute dot within that speck, yet it is the center. Because the heart is the center, it is an equal distance from everything else. Satan will try to tell you that it is better for you to move away from that central point because you can encompass a wider area somewhere else. “It is even better if the center is a little off because it gives you greater flexibility to enjoy more.” Then he will assure you, “I will make sure you have a greater sphere of activity. What’s the good of trying to stick with that one dot? If you move around you will have more enjoyment and things to do in my domain.” He will do everything to discourage you from staying put; “What can you accomplish? No one else is doing it and they all oppose you.”</p>
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<p>But when Satan makes his overtures and everyone bothers you for wanting to stay put at the center, you can say that you don’t care if you die, as long as you are still connected with heaven. “I don’t need any of what you are offering as long as I stay with the heart of God. You cannot kill me, and even if you did I would go right to God.”</p>
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<p>Satan knows he has nothing to do with the heavenly heart, but if he thinks you don’t know that then he will try to trick you. If you know you have a heavenly heart and keep it intact, then heaven will chop Satan off when he tries to attack you. It is like this in daily life. If you are not confident of having a heavenly heart then Satan will try to lead you in his direction and discourage you. But if you are confident then he won’t be able to touch you. If the impossible should happen and Satan could kill you, then you would go directly to the highest realm; God could use the condition that Satan violated to raise you up. God wants to bring everyone to that realm, and we are fighting Satan because he is trying to prevent us from going.</p>
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<p>The heavenly heart, the center of spirit world, is in a subject-object relationship with all of us. If you can harmonize on earth by experiencing many things, loving many people, and sacrificing yourself, then there is no place in spirit world you cannot go.</p>
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<p>According to the Bible, heaven has twelve pearl gates. If you achieve heartistic harmony on earth then no passport is required to get in, but if you don’t have it then the gatekeepers there will keep you out. The twelve major gates are further divided into twelve each, making a total of 144. Because there are 144 directions from which you can enter, there is no reason you cannot find some way in. If you are in consonance with God’s heart, there is no place you cannot go. When you go to spirit world millions of spirit men will cheer you and shout Welcome! Mansei! They will tag along wherever you go simply because they want to be with you, just like you want to be with me.</p>
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<p>Whatever you want to do will immediately happen in spirit world, as long as you are in the same heart level with God-whether you want to eat, sleep, have hundreds of servants, whatever. You cannot go there now; you have to work hard to make the condition! The man with the wildest dreams could never imagine anything that would be beyond the realm of possibility of the spirit world. The most idealistic, fantastic dreamer shares that quality with God.</p>
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<p>Twenty years ago I told the members I wouldn’t speak to them about spirit world because they would want to go there. I never talked about it with Mother either. The easiest thing for her to think would be that I don’t have to explain all those things because she is going anywhere I go, regardless, whether to hell or heaven. If she thinks that way then it isn’t necessary to tell her all about it.</p>
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<p>Do you think you will follow Mother and me wherever we go? If I am in Florida, everyone wants to be there, and if I am in Korea, they want to be there; you not only have the feeling you want to fly there, but to shoot there. I am like the sun in the world of love, so when I don’t shine you feel suffocated, but when you are close by or thinking about me you are happy. You have been sitting here for seven hours on the concrete floor, but you have already given up counting hours and feel that it doesn’t matter as long as you can become close to me in heart. These are precious hours.</p>
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<p>Even your stomach will say, “I give up too. I’m OK as long as you’re OK and as long as I become one with the Parents.” Here you are contented and full, and want nothing else except to be close to the True Parents so you can be on the same level of God’s heart. If I leave, however, then this place has an entirely different feeling.</p>
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<p>At first you have to make effort to keep thinking about me, but over the years it becomes second nature, like breathing. Then you naturally wonder what I’m doing and if I’m having as difficult a time as you are. If you become like that over the years then spiritually there is no distance between us, even though we are far apart. Then you are close to Mother and me every moment of the day and everything you want to do is connected with True Parents.</p>
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<p>When you want to go to a party you can think, “That means I want to go to East Garden.” Or if you want to meet your sweetheart your mind says, “Actually I am missing my Parents.” If you can switch your thinking like this then you are blessed. Then you want to experience what I am experiencing and even if I am suffering you want to suffer with me. You want to do whatever I am doing because you love me. That closeness matters most of all’ and other things have less value.</p>
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<p>If you have that invisible bond with True Parents, Satan is absolutely powerless. This is the connection you must secure with heaven. Compared to the value of this bond, the value of all the diamonds in the world is minimal. Do you think this would be reward enough for you?</p>
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<p>We all have a native land and home town, but spirit world is our real origin and we all want to go back there. If your father is wealthy and has a country estate, you can pick up anything growing there because it belongs to your father. The same is true in spirit world. Once you go there everything automatically belongs to you because it belongs to our Father. That’s also what God promised me. I am making every effort to make you qualified for that.</p>
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<p>In the 1980’s you are going to jump into that role. For seven years you have to try and do that, and if you can’t do it in seven it will be extended another 21 years. Until 1987, all of you present here are needed to go full speed ahead, holding nothing back. I am predicting that in the next seven years America will experience incredible decline and degradation, even more today. Today the churches are irresponsible; the young people are going in the wrong direction but no one can do anything about it; communism is rampant everywhere. Every taxpayer knows that the government is unable to do anything about America’s problems.</p>
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<p>When all these things happen people will begin to understand that only the Moonies can do anything about this, and then they will think they should have listened to me earlier. That day the real downfall of communism will begin. Then we will have to go to Russia and Moscow to help the Russian people free themselves, but even now we should be there to start preparing the ground. That day will surely come. There is a timetable. How do you know this is right? All of these events are only seven years away, so my prediction will easily be verified. All my predictions have come true so far. According to the Principle these events are bound to happen.</p>
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<p>When America realizes that this ideology is the only solution to America’s problems, what will happen? By then I will already be gone to other countries and back to Korea, and you who stay here will get the glory for what I have built now. Why will I be in Korea? Because the dispensation requires unity between South and North Korea. Then the true father will subjugate the false father in North Korea. Who will do that? Naturally the Unification Church.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Home church is the line of defense against communism</h3>
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<p>China and Russia hate each other, but both of them are interested in Korea and are always looking for a chance to conquer that territory, as they tried in the Korean War. But America, South Korea and Japan defended South Korea and pushed them back. At that time people from 16 nations representing the world came and died defending Korea, but today those nations have forgotten why they fought there. It is my responsibility to give those deaths meaning. No one cares about those men who died in Korea so we have to give their sacrifice proper value. Those in spirit world who struggled and died in suffering have a bad feeling now because no one cares, so we have to liberate them. American Unification Church members especially must do that for the many Americans who died miserable deaths in the Korean War.</p>
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<p>American youth should be in the forefront to understand the situation of history and the world and God, and carry on to save the Americans in spirit world as well as on earth. If we do that swiftly then we won’t have to give our lives. This is why I am pushing you so hard. But if this is dragged out for five to ten years then some may have to shed blood and be sacrificed. We don’t want that.</p>
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<p>What will happen if American young people don’t do that? Then numerous lives will be sacrificed in other parts of the world. Millions of Americans will be massacred by communists. This is sure to come if the mission isn’t done here. Cuba and Mexico will make strong jabs at America. Canada is also unstable now and the communists will work from that base as well. American policymakers now think they can contain communism by pulling out of commitments to other nations. Absolutely not. America’s pullout from Vietnam only increased world tension and international ill-will toward America. The American people don’t understand how quickly and savagely the communists will move in.</p>
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<p>We don’t have many, many years to waste. His tory will not wait. It’s up to us to act swiftly. As soon as Americans see that there is no good reason why they should not support Rev. Moon and they change their attitude, the Koreans as well will change their view. America, Japan and Korea together have the necessary power to push all the communists out of North Korea. As long as North and South Korea remain divided, there will never be reconciliation between the communist and free world, but as soon as unification begins there then worldwide unification will begin.</p>
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<p>You know the historical timetable and you can explain about the mission of Christianity, but Americans are ignorant. Your mission is to inform the American people and warn them of what is coming. “God is going in a certain direction and so is Rev. Moon. What makes you so sure you are right? We should change immediately and realize the threat of communism.” If we hesitate to speak, millions will be killed. We cannot afford to let America be destroyed just because we didn’t do our job right.</p>
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<p>If America sinks, it is the same as the entire free world collapsing. Communism will run rampant and at least half the population will be killed. Race war will break out, not just war between nations. Russia spends millions of dollars planning for that. This is their plan for wiping out America. America thinks that events in Iran are just the result of random historical forces, but absolutely not. Those events reflect massive determined activity by communists. The religious fervor of Islam is being manipulated by Russia to denounce Christianity as the enemy, represented by America. Therefore, they focus their hatred on America, and especially white people. When masses of people are successfully agitated by communism in that way, who will counter it? Is there any white leader capable enough?</p>
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<p>I emphasize international marriage because it is called for by the Principle, but it is also the best way to ease interracial tension. The races will have no reason to fight if they have parents of different color. Naturally the communists feel threatened by Unification Church because they can’t deal with religions, but America is a religious country fundamentally. Americans have room to understand and act quickly. We cannot just interpret events only according to the perspective of our own lifetime; I know the timetable of all history and we cannot dismiss these happenings lightly. We have to fight hard in the next few years, or by 1987 the communists will have maneuvered America into a hopeless position. I am spending all my effort and money to warn the American people.</p>
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<p>I have to worry about the heavenly family and heavenly tradition. How are we to accommodate all the millions of people who will come to the Unification Church? If the current tradition is established then naturally people will go to the right direction. I am very serious about the lives of the blessed couples and the course of fund raising, witnessing and training that every member must go through. It may seem difficult today, but if you do it correctly now then the many people who will soon come won’t have to wander aimlessly; they will just do what you did.</p>
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<p>Let’s say America has 70 million families now. Divided by 360, that’s 200,000. If we have 200,000 active members then home church will touch all 70 million American homes and teach them. Then communism can be stopped.</p>
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<p>You should know everything about your home area-who is a good Christian, who has what job, what sympathies people have. Government agencies cannot stop communism. It can be done only through person-to-person contact. This way we can protect American homes from satanic invasion and discourage young people from using drugs and from bad practices of every kind. We can stop the collapse of the Christian spirit. If you are successful in home church and the neighborhood churches are empty because people find nothing there, you can preach in those buildings to a jam-packed congregation.</p>
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<p>Our objective is to teach Americans and to repent for not understanding heaven before now. Don’t you think that America and the world should do that as well as Unification Church members? We are doing home church to protect what is left of the family. We should not let American families slide farther into chaos, but protect them and bring them into harmony to rescue the young people from decadence so that America can survive as a nation. We can expose the communists and their activities and bring community disapproval down on them.</p>
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<p>Nothing very complicated need happen. If Christians are willing to realize that their doctrines are incomplete and will simply open their minds to new knowledge then it may only take seven days or even seven hours for them to change. Home church is the line of defense against communism; once we are organized in this way, the communists will find it difficult to move around secretly in America, which they do easily now. Do you think the State or Defense Departments can physically stop communist infiltration? Or could the President revive the sliding Christian spirit? People still listen to evangelists like Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, but every average Unification Church member knows much more than they do. Why then are you silent? Why don’t you speak out with what you know? Perhaps it is because you think there is no immediate danger, but if you knew for sure what was happening in America today, you would certainly move faster than you are.</p>
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<p>Certainly it is difficult to convince Christians that they need to know more. But I have done it and set the example. Taking care of the young people, reviving Christianity and solving the problem of communism are the three main crises America faces as a nation, and it is difficult even for God. No condition has been made to enable God to stop communism; there must be someone in the position of offering to enable Him to do that. These problems look separated from one another but they are actually one. If the Christian spirit could be strengthened then the young people would be revived. Abel must take responsibility for this task of God’s, and each of us is in that position.</p>
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<p>Whether we are treated nicely or persecuted doesn’t matter. Our objective is to take care of these three problems on behalf of the American government. Just as Jacob fought the angel at Jabbok, we will probably have to fight the communists with more than just ideology. What if they use force? Then we have to repel them by force. God’s dispensation must be protected.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The final all-out war will be fought<br />
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in the next seven years</h3>
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<p>You are in the position of Abel in your home church and your people in the position of Cain, or archangel. They will not want to let you in, but tell them, “No, you need me. I am good.” If you win in your area then you are safe and they are safe. But if you lose and are chased away then they will perish as well. Since you are Abel, God is right behind you and the possibility of victory is there for you. If you are educated and really understand what they need to know, then you will win each war you fight and the communists will never be able to affect you; you will be superior in knowledge, spirit, thought and in practical ability.</p>
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<p>Your muscle power and ability to raise funds is your insurance and you have no way to lose. Eventually you won’t need to fight the communists physically but will debate with the communist students and argue with them. We have introduced the ideology of God so now they have to come up with a better idea. That victory has already been set in Japan; because our CARP movement there is so successful, the communists have issued a directive telling their student members not to try to argue with Unification Church members; the communists know those students will only lose the argument and get discouraged. That directive came straight from Communist Party headquarters in Japan. The communists have never done anything like that before.</p>
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<p>Next we will bring this topic of God and Christianity into the arena of the Science Conferences, setting up open debate for scholars.</p>
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<p>Your home church people are your Cains and you have to win them. Home church will be like tanks when communism moves against us. The government can’t stop communism because no one is dedicated enough. They think they should only sit tight. Do you think the government could win public cooperation and enthusiasm by spending billions of dollars for programs? I have been working on this problem all along, and from any point of view our solution is what America needs. It is likely that the FBI and CIA have sent people to find out what goes on in the Unification Church, but could they find anything bad about what we are doing? We are only trying to protect America; if we don’t then the communists will catch this nation. It’s as simple as that. Don’t you think home church is necessary?</p>
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<p>Once you complete home church successfully, God will recognize you as having completed the necessary course of Abel. God wants to give you credit, and once you qualify He can use you anywhere He wants to. You have to win the hearts of 360 people; without going through home church success</p>
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<p>I fully you cannot go to heaven. Belief in the Messiah won’t be enough to bring you to heaven. You have to believe and then act before you can be saved.</p>
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<p>America is made of immigrants from every nation, so being persecuted by America means we are being persecuted by the whole world. If you persevere then it serves as a world-level condition. By doing your mission with total commitment, you win the qualification of having completed the individual, family, tribal, national and world levels of indemnity.</p>
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<p>God tried to raise Adam and Eve to perfection, but they fell instead, so God tried to carry out the providence through Cain and Abel. But it took 4,000 years of painstaking work to indemnify and reindemnify the foundation of that providence. In the meantime the population grew and grew and God had to expand His work onto higher and higher levels. God worked for 4,000 years through Judaism to prepare a foundation for Jesus, but it fell apart. For 2,000 extra years God struggled to prepare for the Second Coming, working through a providence which had no physical foundation. But because the Christians were of no help, I had to do the work of 1,000 ordinary people to indemnify the 2,000 years of Christian failure. Then I could give it to you to finish in seven years. Now you can do it. I give it to you, but do you really understand what it means?</p>
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<p>If you really do your best then God give you the same credit that He gave me for what I did in twenty years to indemnify the past 2,000 years. Those 2,000 were indemnity for the previous 4,000 years of Judaism, and the tens of thousands of years of preparation before that. All of that was done for this final stage of the dispensation, the 1970’s and 1980’s. You are intelligent people and you know these things; can you say this life is too tough? You must have the confidence that if I have done this much singlehandedly then singlehandedly you can make the indemnity condition for America at least. If America is too big for you, how about for your tribe? “Father, you did it for the world, so I can at least do it for my family, tribe and city.”</p>
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<p>Once you have an outer home church in your area, you will also have an inner home church, which is your family. When you go back to your home town after your home church victory, the people will automatically come and listen to you. When I go back to Korea after being in America, which is my Cain nation, I am received and welcomed by my Abel nation. The Koreans don’t have to study Principle to accept me; if I am welcomed by Americans then Koreans will accept me also.</p>
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<p>You must realize the world situation. Why should I leave Korea and Asia, where language is no problem, to come to America, where people are not as religiously inclined as they are in the East? Why should I do things the hard way? Because there is no alternative in the dispensation. America is not just one nation; it represents the entire world. If America accepts me then it means the world has accepted me. Christians in Europe are in the Cain position to American Christianity; Christians here were originally expelled from their native land and had to establish a new foundation in America. Therefore, in the sight of God there was no way I could avoid coming to America, the Abel nation.</p>
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<p>In turn, American Christians are in the Cain position to Unification Church, which is the Abel part of Christianity. Unification Church is the younger brother. Who will explain to Christians that we are brothers? We have to serve them and let them approve the Unification Church as their brother; Christians must say that Unification Church is the true Abel. This situation can be compared to Jacob wrestling with the angel.</p>
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<p>If the Unification Church wins then we will see the remaining barriers begin to fall and the world’s people can come much, much closer. This is the last major battle. If Abel wins then the historical war will be finished. In the seven years after 1980 we will launch an all-out war, not just guerrilla fighting. It will be a war of thought, not guns. If we win that war then we can stem the tide of decline and turn America in the right direction, guaranteeing America immense prosperity.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to wait until 1981 to start, however. If you decide that you are ready now then this is the best time to start. Then you will be ahead of schedule in 1981 and you can be the winner. Even though seven years is allotted you, you don’t have to take that long. If Americans work efficiently then three years is enough. If a few people like me got together to do it, I honestly think that three or four months would fulfill the major dispensation.</p>
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<p>I have been teaching you all along and pushing you to make your decision, but because 1 have already given you a Cain area you should get to the point where you are independent. Imagine how much the spirit world will expect of you and support you once you make your decision to go ahead. Imagine how happy and grateful to you Jesus will be to find the real Christianity that he died for 2,000 years ago. The Unification Church will revive the Christian spirit once more and bring hope. Is it clear to you now what the Unification Church must do as Abel, and what every Abel must do?</p>
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<p>You must know to whom you are Abel and to whom you are Cain. Once you can discern that then you are independent and you can go ahead and act without waiting for instruction. Then I can approve and acknowledge you even more.</p>
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<p>If white people can succeed then it will be better for both white and black people, but if they fail and black people become Abel, it will be much more difficult for both sides due to lack of ability and reason for each to respect the other. We can be grateful to the black people because in large part they are the ones who physically built up this country. White people used the blacks to do the actual work and their contribution must be recognized. What are the odds that black people will be more and more desperate and one day turn against white people? This is a very real possibility in the world.</p>
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<p>What about the Indians? They are the original owners of this country. The Indians are said to have come originally from the Orient, so I am their cousin. They have no reason to hate me. I am helping Americans to value the Indians. I have come to explain to blacks, whites and all races that because God’s dispensation is going in a particular direction they must harmonize with each other to do Abel’s work. Americans have difficulty going over the racial barrier. If I were white then they would listen to me.</p>
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<p>The Indians have deep resentment toward whites, and whites wouldn’t accept a black man as President, so it is easiest for an Oriental man to come and work out the situation. If an Oriental man tells the Indians that he has suffered under white people just as they have and yet still says that we have to forgive the whites then the Indians can listen and forgive. If I go to blacks and can tell them I know how much they have suffered in white America because I suffered as well, then the black people can listen to me and come to forgive the white people as well. When people know that Abel suffers as a matter of course, they can understand that when they are Abel their mission is to forgive Cain.</p>
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<p>More and more blacks are coming into the limelight as athletic champions. I am confident that I can educate a good black man more easily then a top-grade white scholar. I want to send him to the best school and the best teachers. I want to give black people confidence that there is no reason for blacks to have any feelings of inferiority; as long as God is on their side they can be superior. I am doing that.</p>
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<p>What would happen if certain areas of the United States declared their independence? The communists could agitate in an area like Nevada, which has only 300,000 citizens, and start the people thinking that they pay too much in taxes to the federal government and that they would be better off being separate. If this happens in three or more states is there any guarantee the United States would remain intact? If 6,000,000 people in Iran turn against America and cause chaos, America can do nothing about it. If agitators supply money and weapons to promote racial conflict in America, how could this country survive? Guns are everywhere to be found if you have the money.</p>
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<p>Today we know the outlook. We are making plans, knowing that the different races must live harmoniously. If they start fighting then it will be almost impossible to stop. We can indemnify the generations of racial injustice in America by feeling the same toward all races</p>
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<h3 align="center">Abel must remember that he is a tradition-setter</h3>
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<p>No one can force anyone else to make an offering; the moment he resists, it ceases to be a pure offering. If Isaac had resisted when his father prepared to sacrifice him then the condition could not have been fulfilled and blessing would not have come to him. Offering has to be voluntary, not compulsory. Because we are voluntarily paying indemnity for America, God can use it. This is the Cain-Abel relationship.</p>
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<p>So far your thinking has been too narrow. You weren’t concerned about what happens in the spirit world when you get there but only about immediate day-to-day things. How sorry you would be before True Parents and heaven when you found this out. Do you understand now about the position of America? Clearly America is in danger, and do you know what we are going to do about it? The basic element is home church, and when that is done in meaningful numbers then even if the communists sweep this country they can be stopped. If they come before that happens, however, it will be too late.</p>
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<p>If there had been 30,000 core members in America by 1978 then even if I were to leave, America would be secure. After being educated for three years those members could be strong enough to take care of America’s problems. If they were educated well enough and could witness to ten new members each over the next three years, then those 300,000 people would be enough to do home church throughout the entire United States. This was my original plan. Don’t you see that our schedule is very tight? Can you say you have to rest and take care of other things first?</p>
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<p>Up until 1977 I let American leaders take responsibility for CARP, but they just weren’t moving fast enough and weren’t inspired enough. So I appointed a Korean to do it and he is really moving the program forward. I encouraged CARP to visit people in every area, to find the communists and push them out. They were told to visit the ministers who oppose the Unification Church and protest their activity, to go to the newspapers who print unjust things about Unification Church and protest. The American leaders haven’t been doing that, however. Students are in a better position to speak out in that way because people will more freely excuse them; if an ordinary citizen did that then there would only be confrontation. The primary work of the students is to speak out for justice and truth, and to fight the communists through debating them.</p>
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<p>Some of you are doing well in home church and I am now comparing that with the CARP activity. Right now CARP is doing better, but some day soon home church and CARP will compete.</p>
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<p>That kind of battle is a typical path for Abels. As Abel, we don’t fight for ourselves but against evil. The only reason we fight is to protect the Christian churches before they collapse entirely, not to make Unification Church strong and privileged. The only privilege we enjoy is suffering. Abel does his work for everyone, both Cain and Abel. What would I gain by staying in America where I am persecuted? People should think about that. Do I want big cars, or land, or some glory? If that is what I wanted I could go to any small country and have it without enduring persecution. But I am not here for that; I am here to fulfill Abel’s mission for the sake of the world. I founded the Unification Church to indemnify all history, not for anything else. Restoration through indemnity is Abel’s course. Now you understand that in God’s sight this is the correct path of Abel.</p>
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<p>You cannot do this with the idea that as a result you will be qualified in three years to be blessed. A true Abel does it no matter how long it takes. It doesn’t matter to him whether blessing comes sooner or later. Abel is only concerned with getting his work done. The Abel who bears the burden of this responsibility cannot make any demands or requests for himself. If he did, he would feel ashamed of not having done more, regardless of how much he had done. When there is difficulty, don’t cry because it is hard. Cry only in repentance for not having done enough. You cannot cry for your sake or because your job is difficult. I want you to cry for America, and the world and God.</p>
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<p>If you are angry at being treated unfairly, never express it to other people but try instead to console God. “God, You must have been treated even worse than I am, so what I am experiencing now doesn’t matter.” If you have to cry, do so in that way. Never, never cry because of yourself. Cry on behalf of God and mankind, telling God you will cry for Him. That is the kind of tears we should shed. We have absolutely no way to complain.</p>
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<p>If you want to complain, then complain that people don’t understand what is just and true. Maybe in the name of humanity you can complain. When I speak about what President Carter is doing wrong it is not because I have anything personal against him; in the name of justice I complain about some of the things Carter has done. That is permissible in the sight of God. I understand that you have sad moments, but you have to connect that to the sadness of God, saying “I know You have gone through much</p>
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<p>deeper sadness than I, so You must feel sadder than I do.” No matter what happens, don’t cry over your problems. That is part of Abel’s right course.</p>
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<p>When Jesus died oh the cross he pleaded with God, but not for his own sake. He asked God not to punish the people, but told Him that they didn’t know what they were doing. Jesus died for their forgiveness. Don’t you think Jesus cried when he said that? He complained too, but not for himself. He knew that if he died hundreds of thousands of Christians would also have to die and be persecuted.</p>
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<p>If you want to complain in the name of the world that very little work is being done in this country then that’s fine, but don’t ever complain for your own sake. If you can say, “If I were Father I could do better than that” and carry it out then it’s all right to complain about me. If you fight someone, don’t do it for your own sake but only because you represent justice and this person is opposing you. In the name of God and humanity you can fight him, but not just for personal revenge.</p>
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<p>David didn’t fight Goliath to show his capability. He felt that although he was weak he had to fight for God and his country. It would have been a sin for David to fight for himself and then God would not have taken his side.</p>
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<p>I don’t live in East Garden while you are working hard just because I have suffered in the past; the only reason I live in such a place and have good cars is to enhance the dignity of the Unification Church. People would belittle this movement if we didn’t uphold its dignity. If the President lived in a shabby apartment then it would reflect on the whole nation. Diplomats and important guests would complain if that were the kind of place the President received them in. The same is true for us.</p>
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<p>The Abel in the family is the one who fights for the sake of his parents and brothers and sisters to protect them when necessary. That person will be the center of the family. The same holds true in the Unification Church. Abel is a tradition-setter and he must always be aware of that. Do you understand that you have to be concerned with this as Abel? If the world is ignited by the truth and you pack up and go live in the mountains, people will come to bring you back, pleading, “You started all this so you have to stay with us and show us more.”</p>
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<p>I have worked hard and spent much money, but it was never for my sake. Everything was made in the name of the Church, not for one individual. I don’t own anything. I don’t wear nice clothes to make myself feel good; people expect me to wear good clothes when I appear in public and meet distinguished people.</p>
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<p>All the staff at East Garden should be thinking that it is the Abel house. The security guards should not think they are there to protect me, but to protect the place which is the center of the heavenly sacred mission. Since it is impossible for all the millions of people who will want to do so to come and do that, the guards are there on behalf of all those people.</p>
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<p>When anyone on the staff makes a mistake, I think that I am responsible for that. I look at everything with that viewpoint. When I go some place enjoyable, like the movies, I never go by myself or just with Mother, but always take at least three people who are in the Cain position. Because the security guards are always there, they often are taken in that position. I always take at least five people with me wherever I go. I know that is part of Abel’s tradition.</p>
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<p>I buy gifts for my children only after I have given an equivalent thing to other people first. If I do that, how can you take any easier way? Since I am doing all this for God and mankind, all Unification Church members want to help me personally, and God as well. This is a matter of Principle. So no one is justified in complaining against me. I feel that I will never move around spirit world alone but will always have people with me wherever I go. Is that a wrong expectation?</p>
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<p>All by myself I can win followers who will want to be with me everywhere, through life and death. If I didn’t establish this tradition then whatever result Abel gained would be scattered among Cains and never noticed.</p>
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<p>All the saints were ill-treated when they were alive, but now they are honored and people cherish the memory of their lives. People have questioned why evil doers always prosper while good people are always sacrificing. It seems that there is no justice if that is always the case; But now you understand for the first time that Abel’s tradition is preserved as a result, and guaranteed to be manifested later. God will ensure that Abel is recognized later for his efforts.</p>
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<p>I did not return to South Korea after escaping from prison just because it was safer. I would gladly have stayed in North Korea, but for the sake of the free world and the continuation of God’s dispensation I had to go to the south.</p>
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<p>The last time I visited Korea I actually had made no plan to go, but simply found that my mind was drawn more and more to that country. Thus, it was not out of my personal desire but because of the demand of God that I went. I just felt that I had to go there, and two days later President Park was killed. I was very glad that President Carter acted quickly to warn North Korea not to take any undue action during that situation, saying that America would retaliate. I prayed very deeply that Korea be protected because I knew that without Korea the dispensation could not continue. I was there to take care of Korea, and because of that condition God could give President Carter a push to make the right decision. This kind of thing has not happened to me just once or twice, but at every crucial point.</p>
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<p>I knew that if I stayed very long in Korea Satan would try to prevent me from returning to America, so I left on the day of President Park’s funeral. All the dignitaries and officials were at the funeral so no one questioned me at the airport.</p>
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<p>I begged God to protect Korea in this event. I prayed with tears for the sake of humanity, and especially for Korea and America. I felt deeply that if Kim II Sung was going to invade South Korea that he had better have stronger love for South Korea than I do; only under those circumstances would I retreat before him. Because America acted correctly, South Korea was protected. On the airplane coming back I felt very lighthearted and relieved, and knew why I felt I had to be in Korea. All this happened in less than a week.</p>
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<p>I told the Korean staff members that in a few months a crucial period would begin and spiritually everyone would have to be on full alert until April 1981. Two days later the assassination took place. The Korean situation now is very delicate and we don’t know when the tide till turn or how.</p>
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<p>I had no personal reason to meet President Nixon. It was only in the name of God and America, for the dignity of the American presidency and the entire world that I met him. What did I say to him? I asked to pray with him and talked about America’s role in the world. I badly wanted to meet Nixon for the sake of God and the dignity of the dispensation. I had nothing else to talk about with him. I warned the American people not to persecute Nixon but to forgive and love him. They didn’t do that and we know now how this big nation has lost respect in the world after being an international leader for so long.</p>
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<p>America is not great for herself; this is a nation especially founded by God. This must not be forgotten. When I speak harshly about America it is not just my personal opinion, but is exactly what God wants this nation to hear. You should be the first to know this. It is the right attitude of Abel to be working for God’s dispensation, not your own gain. If you act rightly then it is up to God to give you blessings. That is Abel’s goal.</p>
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<p>We can speak on behalf of the free world, but not the Unification Church. When I command you to fight I have no intention of having the Unification Church benefit by it. I only tell you to do it in the name of God and the dispensation because I know that if you don’t fight now then the difficulties will be greatly compounded in the future. We do nothing for my sake or for the Unification Church.</p>
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<h3 align="center">I have set the Abel tradition for the movie industry</h3>
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<p>The location-shooting for the movie we are making about MacArthur is all done now. Only a few of you knew about this. $30 million has been spent, and that is more money than all the Unification Church property in Korea, Japan and America is worth. It is not unusual to borrow money to make a movie, but no one has ever financed a movie with all the money coming straight out of their bank account. If we were making this movie for the purpose of profit then we wouldn’t be spending that much money. All that money was spent in three months. Where is there another such crazy person in the world? If I weren’t crazy, would I do that for my own sake?</p>
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<p>Did I use a regular movie company with much expertise to make the movie? America has much expertise in movie-making, but I had a Japanese member who has no movie experience produce that movie. He can’t even spell movie in English, much less speak English. The only English he knows is “thank you,” and he pronounces it “sank you.”</p>
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<p>He had to meet with a top director, the heads of the studio and camera crew, the actors and actresses, the advertisers, doing it all by himself with no deputy to stand in for him. In the beginning people wondered who in the world he was and what this strange person was up to. But he showed the right path of Abel in the movie field. He had a hard time meeting the top people because he had no one to introduce him. He not only struggled with them, but almost had to beg to justify every bit of money he asked me for. He would tell me he hated to see the money spent, but he was convinced that for the dispensation it was worth it.</p>
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<p>In Korea the support crews and extra people like drivers and assistants knew that a Japanese backed by money from America was making the movie and figured they would make the most of it, since he probably wouldn’t know if he spent an extra million or two unnecessarily. All those people tried to exploit him. On top of that, the performers all were getting salaries of more than $1 million each, and the crews came from eight countries. He had no experience yet he was coordinating all of them. None of the crews spoke Japanese, the only language he knows, but he was the boss and gave direction to everyone. You can imagine what an impossible situation he faced. Even now he wonders how he did it. Even after the movie is finished his problems aren’t over. He has to advertise and distribute it to the sixteen different nations which participated in the Korean War.</p>
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<p>If I were interested in making money would I ever have made that movie? Would I have ever used such a person if money was the goal? I encouraged him to persevere, telling him he was doing it for God and the future of the free world, and that it would be a priceless production if he was successful. I told him that I would never hesitate to spend any money he needed for a movie that would be approved by the movie industry as well done. This movie will be priceless for the future so that the free world can rightly follow that path for the love of God. Do you think the Cain-side tradition of movie-making, which didn’t cooperate with this production, was defeated by it?</p>
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<p>Las Vegas is a place of interest for many people and I went there to decide how I would treat it for the sake of the free world and God. If ever you go to Las Vegas it had better be with the heart of Abel. That’s how I feel and God agrees.</p>
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<p>No matter where I am, I am pursuing this work, sleeping only three or four hours. In Las Vegas, at the beach, Disneyworld-wherever I go I am the first to arrive and the last to leave. When people hear that I live in a mansion and go to the beach and to Las Vegas they think I am enjoying myself. But as a result of these travels I know the American style of life inside and out-how the cities are run, how people enjoy themselves and what they are interested in, how gambling is conducted, who makes the decisions. I feel that once I know what is needed for heaven I will somehow see that all the money is provided. Who else has ever thought of creating money for God’s work?</p>
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<p>The New Yorker is located on 8th Avenue, which is famous for prostitution, and when I go there I think that those people may prevail now, but when the right time comes things will be different. We have to open up Abel’s path and tradition and clean up every part of life. It is not enough just to hear about this; you have to think about it and carry it out and it is extremely difficult.</p>
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<p>With the money I have spent on the movie I could easily have bought wonderful buildings to house our centers in each state, or bought great businesses. Don’t you think I thought deeply about this before spending all that money? I am certainly spending much money but it is not for myself; it is for the sake of God and the entire world that I decided to make the MacArthur movie. I will never be accused by Unification Church members for having spent all that money on the movie.</p>
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<p>Everyone knows that movie-making is a gamble, but I have no regrets, even if no money comes back from the movie. My first purpose was to set the right standard and tradition in Hollywood, and even when I am long gone that tradition of God-centered movies will remain for the future. The movie industry is very influential in shaping young people’s lives and now it is totally immoral, so I am challenging it to see if it can continue that way once the Abel purpose of movie-making is established. but my conscience never bothers me because I know it is the best way for you. I am making sure you follow this tradition so that you have established it yourself. Is that wrong?</p>
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<p>I have always insisted that the only language which will persuade the communists is strength of arms. The free world should never fall behind in the arms race because once they do the communists will attack. America should not arm herself for her own sake but for the sake of the free world and God; for that reason she must be much stronger than the communist countries. I am sure this is the Abel direction in the dispensation. America should be stronger, but she should never be the first to use force. If America is attacked by Russia, however, then she should retaliate.</p>
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<p>A child could foresee the Russian strategy when America initiated arms limitation talks; the outcome is that America is falling alarmingly behind the communist countries in military strength. President Carter recently approved an increase in defense spending, even though it is very late. Why wasn’t this done a long time ago?</p>
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<h3 align="center">America should pay her debts to Asia and Africa</h3>
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<p>Many Indians were killed when they opposed the settlers who founded America. Americans should recognize that the lives of those Indians were an offering so that this nation could establish religion here for the sake of the world and God’s will. Because the Indians are of Asiatic origin and were sacrificed for the founding of America, this nation had to indemnify that by shedding blood for the sake of Orientals. Long before the Korean War was fought I felt this had to be true. Many American soldiers were killed in Korea, as well as soldiers from around the free world.</p>
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<p>When I was in prison it was the troops of the free world who liberated me and saved South Korea. To repay that debt I came to America, working for the free world and God even though I was persecuted. I always feel that I have reason to be grateful to the free world because I am still alive. Because I have given service to America, American young people will go to Korea in gratitude to me for freeing America from its road to ruin, and for reviving Christianity and the young people. There they will help Korea to reestablish itself. American soldiers fought in Korea on a physical level, but the spiritual service you will give will be much more valuable. Whatever we do, we pour our hearts into it without reserve. When we have money we give that wholeheartedly too.</p>
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<p>Today American men and women want to marry Orientals, especially Koreans. Before now they never thought about it. This is a heavenly trend, not individual choice. In that way America can indemnify the fact that it has not gotten along with Orientals before. That only makes sense, doesn’t it?</p>
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<p>Historians never viewed history the way I do, and thus they never had any solutions or explanations. The fact that Africans came to this country hundreds of years ago was preparation for this one day, even though they were brought as slaves. Orientals sacrificed for this country by shedding their blood, and black people came and gave their bodies completely for this country. How then could black people deny the whites and forsake America? Now America should look for ways to help Africa. Since Africans gave their bodies completely for this country, sending material assistance to Africa is token compensation. Sending material to Africa is one way to start indemnifying the sacrifice made by black people here.</p>
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<p>If American young people go to the Orient to protect those countries, it will indemnify the fact that many Indians were killed for the sake of the entire free world dispensation. Then America will have paid her debt, and the sacrifice made by those many people will be justified.</p>
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<p>The fact that Americans sent soldiers to fight in Asia can only be explained by this understanding. It was an important part of dispensational history that America pay her historical debt. It is only logical that a country where thousands of Americans went to give their lives must have importance in the dispensation. Where there is a result there is always a cause; this cause-result relationship is the basis of Oriental thought. Korea suffered as a nation of offering in the name of God and the name of the entire free world. South Koreans may still not understand why so many Koreans and Americans were sacrificed, but it had to happen for the sake of the world and God. Therefore, whenever any country of dispensational importance turns away from Korea, God will give up that nation. Korea shed blood for the world and for God; if</p>
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<p>America gives Korea up it means America is no longer connected to that nation and the indemnity it paid. Thus, America would have to pay indemnity separately and more American young people would have to shed their blood.</p>
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<p>If Americans ignore this reality, the communists will attack. Americans may wonder what benefit there is in defending Korea; the reward that returns to them by fighting to defend Korea comes in the form of the tradition of fighting against communism which they will inherit. American young men fought and died in Korea, preserving it for the purpose of the world, but in Korea entire families died defending that country for the world and God. Koreans sacrificed much more. By supporting Korea, America inherits that tradition and will be preserved from communist attack. God will see to it.</p>
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<p>America is eligible to inherit the Abel tradition of fighting communism which Korea established, but not if this nation is indifferent to this inheritance. I came to America to teach Americans the reality of communism and how the communists have worked historically, so that Americans will take heed and act before it is too late. That tradition is well-established in Korea and Japan and must be established here. Americans still don’t understand why they should be concerned, so I am teaching you.</p>
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<p>Americans must excel in muscle-power and military power as well as in thought. Otherwise, evil will never surrender to goodness. There is a reason why the Unification Church, a religious body, encourages America to sustain its physical strength: it is to protect against violence. Karate is a formidable technique of self-defense. I encourage you to learn it because I know that when communists run out of other strategies they will certainly attack us with force. We do not prepare ourselves that way only for our individual defense, but in order to act effectively as soldiers of heaven.</p>
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<p>Now for the first time we can see consistency in history. When Africa is in need, as when Russia sends troops there, Americans should volunteer and not need anyone to tell them to go. If they will go there to fight for the sake of the world and God then they will be a true offering, which will enable God to multiply the benefits of their actions. Would I discourage them from going and suffering, or approve their going in the tradition of Abel?</p>
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<p>The only meaningful way to turn the world aside from its present course is to do these things voluntarily. If a policeman refuses to interfere with a crime because he fears for his life, he should be punished. But if he joins the police force primarily to protect America in the name of God and not only for the salary, then heaven will remember his intention if he is killed in the line of duty. When Unification Church members are correctly educated and practice this God-centered way of life, we will remain firm and volunteer for dangerous missions even when the CIA or FBI run away. Am I too political or violent in my thinking? In order to leave the Abel tradition we will certainly be the first to volunteer so that hundreds of millions of people will benefit.</p>
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<p>When I met Senators and Congressmen in Washington D.C., my only criterion in evaluating them was whether they ran for office for the sake of the nation and world and God. No one passed this test. I concluded that America’s situation is hopeless because no one cares about this nation. If the American people don’t demand a stricter standard in their public officials then I decided I would spend my own money to educate Americans to this standard. That is not for myself or for the Unification Church, and if people think it is bad then they can come and investigate. In the future the heads of the FBI and CIA will come to me and confess that they have looked into our work and are ashamed that I am doing their job better then they are. It is unthinkable that they try to get rid of me. I am not taking advantage of America; it is America which needs me because I am setting the Abel tradition.</p>
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<p>Is my reasoning incorrect? If anyone can find fault in this logic then they should speak up. If you have any love whatever for your family and country then you should stand up on your own before I tell you to. You should act on your own initiative and not just look to me, wondering what to do next. You should figure out on your own what to do and get started.</p>
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<p>Why am I talking all day like this to you about the dispensation? Is it because I hate you, or because I want to see you suffer? You have to earn your own assets; no one else can do anything for you in this regard. You have to shed tears with me for the sake of God and the world. Even though you often met me on</p>
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<p>Sunday mornings and heard me speak, you never knew I was this dead serious. No one dared to say what I say, even though they may have thought it was right.</p>
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<p>Ten hours a day television stations will broadcast my speech warning that this time in history will determine whether America perishes or prospers again some day. If my words this morning were broadcast to the nation, this country would be ignited and its spirit would live once more. That is the only way it can happen now. College presidents are not warning the people, nor businessmen, nor even the President. Not even the religious leaders are speaking out; only I am speaking out, and for that I am being called a heretic. How ironic it is.</p>
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<p>When you really know the meaning of this, how can you relax or slack off? You have to be on the go every minute without any hesitation. If America follows my advice but perishes regardless, then I will take eternal responsibility for that in the spirit world. If you are chosen to be Abel but you wobble from side to side, what value do you have? Do you know what you are? Do you understand now what I have been doing and what you will start to do?</p>
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<p>So far everyone has been leading a life which has nothing to do with God, but now through what I have said, you can understand. I went that way, and if you do the same even when people don’t understand and ridicule you, then you never decline. I am a living example. I not only thought this through, but lived through all of it myself. American parents ought to encourage their children to come and learn as much as they can from me and then return home to teach their parents. But instead they try to force their children back home, and the parents sit by when their children live a life of drugs and free sex. What kind of parents are these people?</p>
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<p>If the parents are not intelligent enough then their children ought to be. The second generation usually responds better than their parents. The people of your parents’ generation were nationalistic and didn’t think much about the world. Their children, on the other hand, don’t have much patriotism yet they do think of the world. You are that fortunate second generation, and thus you are in the Abel position to your parents. We can say that while their pragmatism is too deep seated, you young people are more flexible. When the young people use their own minds to find the God-centered way of life on the world scale, not just the national level, then they are on the Abel side.</p>
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<p>The older generation may think in terms of Americanism, but you don’t have that limitation. You think in terms of worldism. This is something new that has sprung up in history; no wonder it has never been seen before! No one understands that Abel’s tradition is being made now, but once Abel is gone everyone will see it and repent over their persecution, wishing he would stay longer. But time doesn’t come and go at will. Perhaps I will never return to America.</p>
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<p>How can you not be serious? This is not your life alone, but your ancestors’ and descendants’, and they all envy your position. We have to establish and cherish Abel’s tradition, even trading our lives for it. By cultivating it we are beginning a new civilization, Adam’s civilization. Who is that culture for? Not for me or you, but for God and all humanity. Then God will applaud, and all mankind and spirit world as well. They actually are begging you to win the victory for their sake.</p>
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<p>I am almost sixty, and throughout my youth and middle age there was not one day I dedicated for my own sake. I want to bring out all my past suffering and agony and displeasure and end it in 1979. In 1980 we will welcome a new year and decade of hope. Everything I have predicted will indeed happen. No one should have to remind you. When you wake up you should know you are here for Abel’s tradition. No one has to remind me; I am constantly thinking about Abel’s course and tradition. You have to be like that.</p>
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<p>When you wipe out all your doubts and uncertainty and think like that then heaven will help you tremendously. Then you will erupt like a volcano and this nation will catch on fire spiritually. Should we all plunge into the new year 1980 with this new life and tradition?</p>
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<p>I have been speaking for over ten hours, but what is ten hours compared to eternity, or even your lifetime? You have heard some of the most important things of your entire life this morning.</p>
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<p>When I look at you I don’t see whether your hair is black or red. I only see how close you are to the Abel tradition. When you tell me how many years you have been in the Unification Church, I compute how long it will take you to go the Abel path based on how far you have already come. That is the only standard I use when I look at you.</p>
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<p>If I used any other criterion do you think it would have enough power to bring unity out of this chaotic world? If you think this is true, then how much more would God think so, who understands me much more than you do? Think about how many years you have been in Unification Church and what you have learned and how deeply you understand me. Compared to the standard you have to meet, how long will it take? You really should not be satisfied with yourselves. Now you have a better idea of where you stand.</p>
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<p>Now you know why home church is important to you, to God and all humanity. You know this will be the last war which you or anyone will have to fight. You need to have a renewed outlook and determination in the 1980’s. I feel I should establish the standard and tradition in America, and with that prototype the whole world can benefit. I want you to pay serious attention to this speech. This is no ordinary speech. At this time next year I want you to be able to say that you were benefited 100 hours’ worth by this talk. If you can say that then I will think nothing of having spent eleven hours speaking to you.</p>
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<p>It is less than two days until 1980. In thirty hours or so it will be the 80’s, years which will be completely different from the 70’s or 60’s. My immediate responsibility for this nation will be over by that time. You ought to be able to take care of yourself. Do you feel you can manage yourself if I am gone? So far I have had no freedom to move around, but now I do. I feel that perhaps after going over sixty years of age my life can start anew. God will not tell me that I still have some task left undone.</p>
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<p>You may know that America is a very special country; it is very capable, and if it finds itself on the right course then America can do ten times as much as any Oriental nation. I feel that when I can transplant my tradition and love to your pure minds then I won’t have to bother you any longer because you will know what has to be done and you will do it.</p>
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<p>I need never repeat this as long as you know who you are and who I am. Everyone makes a new start at some time in his life and this is the perfect time. Let us put away all the hesitations and indecisiveness of 1979 and in the next two days concentrate on preparation for a new take-off on God’s Day 1980. Those who will pledge to do that, raise your hands. Thank you very much.</p>
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<p>There have been many religious organizations in history, and in today’s world, but there are few which celebrate days like God’s Day, Parents’ Day and Children’s Day. In the secular world there are days like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, but the philosophy behind those days is entirely different from our reasons for celebrating the four heavenly holidays. Their reasons are horizontal or national in scope, but we have vertical reasons and historical significance behind what we do. We do not talk about tradition in a horizontal way, but centering upon God. We always put the word “True” in front of the names of these days, meaning that they are God-centered.</p>
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<p>In considering the significance of these days we have to go all the way back before the fall and before the creation of Adam and Eve. Since the fall there has been no way for any man to celebrate True Parents’ Day or Day of All Things because the true God centered parents, children and all things could only exist before the fall of man. Since the fall, nothing could be called “true” in the sight of God, and thus, these days could not be celebrated. That must wait until mankind is restored to Adam and Eve’s position before the fall.</p>
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<p>Where do all mankind stand then? Ever since the fall they have belonged to the satanic side and God could not claim them. As long as men remain on the satanic side, there is no one God can claim as being entirely His. The satanic world develops in the same sequence as the heavenly side, beginning with the individual, family, tribe, and so forth. All of these are interconnected and all together belong to one house of faith. Ever since the fall God’s actions have centered on restoring lost mankind. He cannot force them to return to His side. How can God restore them all? God cannot claim lost mankind as His own until a certain condition has been fulfilled by which Satan cannot accuse them any more.</p>
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<p>has led a self-centered, individualistic way of life. Satan’s existence is based on the idea that everything exists for himself, and, therefore, he exploits the whole world for himself. Evil people are those who regard everything as existing for themselves. Satan lives a life of indulgence for his pleasure and he regards everything as prey to satisfy his mouth and stomach. Satanic love is sensual love for selfish pleasure. People who seek such love also want to exploit everything for their own sake, including freedom. Such people don’t acknowledge that any moral imperatives or discipline bind them.</p>
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<p>Does today’s America reflect the heavenly side or satanic side? America’s way of life today is incredible. Today’s disco dancers are like people in a madhouse. Those who pursue God’s way of life must deny this way of life, and turn around to go in an entirely different direction.</p>
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<p>If a person wants to pursue the ideal man, family and nation, what way of life does he follow? It has to be entirely different from the satanic way of life. If the satanic quality is self-centeredness, the heavenly quality is public-mindedness. God is the center of that kind of personality because He is the most public-minded of all. If Satan is pursuing self-centeredness then God must be pursuing public-mindedness. In this kind of conflict the only way one camp will decline is when its members desert to the other side. Therefore, God’s way of life in world restoration has called for people to live exactly opposite the way of the world. One thing religions have always had in common is the teaching of self-denial and unselfishness so the best of all religions always proclaims the most publicminded way of life.</p>
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<p>If a husband and wife decide they should be public-minded, should the husband serve the world and also spend a lot of time with his wife? The wife should encourage her husband to serve humanity even if he has to sacrifice their relationship and neglect her totally. Do you women have the courage to tell your husbands that? Because of the Divine Principle you know the answer is yes, but before you knew the truth you would have said, “That’s ridiculous.” If you look back on your life you will see what a distance you have traveled toward the unselfish point of view since you joined the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>That attitude applies to religions as well as individuals. In evaluating religions you must look for the one that is most public-minded. Some people believe in God because they think it will bring some blessing to their family, or perhaps their society or nation. Others might try to be God-centered because they want to serve humanity, or perhaps the universe and spirit world, but the religion which is most public-minded will be the one which God upholds and which will survive in the last days.</p>
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<p>What about going one step further, and wanting to work not only for the salvation of mankind but the salvation of God? Would God be mad at such a person? God will be astonished by someone with such a big mind! This person would not want to liberate only God, but want to dwell in His heart all the time so God wouldn’t be lonely. He would want to occupy God’s love so he could stimulate and communicate with God. God would have to follow such a person because without him God would be very lonely. The nation, world and all the races of mankind would also follow that person because the entire world needs the love of God. Our goal in the Unification Church is the highest one-the liberation of God. Not only that, we want to be occupants of the love of God and spread it throughout the world.</p>
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<p>Would you rather marry someone who is superior or inferior to yourself? Where did you get the idea you want someone superior to you? That quality comes from God. Would you want to love an ordinary, simple person, or if at all possible would you want the greatest person in all the universe? If you could, would you want to propose to the greatest possible person in the universe? Of course you would. God is the greatest of all, so it is the natural instinct of all men to want to possess Him and occupy His love. That’s the Unification Church tradition. We are not necessarily handsome or beautiful, but we have the biggest and most noble minds in the world. We look for the very best.</p>
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<p>If God were available to be proposed to, I know all American women would go to Him. Because it is so easy in this country to get rid of a husband you don’t want, I know American women would be the first to reach God! In that race Oriental women are at a disadvantage because they are too shy and reserved. But Westerners are very straightforward; they see the goal and just go for it.</p>
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<p>The problem is how God would react. Would He just embrace you immediately, or would He hold you off and ask, “Who are you and why did you come?” If you told Him you had come to monopolize His love, He would ask for whom you did that. When you replied it was for yourself, would God say that was a good answer? He would refuse to give you His love. Then He would shoot a question at you: “Did you ever think of occupying my love for the sake of your neighbor or the nation or world? Or for my sake?” If the answer came back, “I thought you existed for me,” would that person pass or flunk? When that person returned home all discouraged, his whole family would be gone. Where could he go then? There is nowhere left for him to go except hell.</p>
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<p>If you tell God you need His love for the sake of the world, what do you think He will do? He will say, “In spite of your deficiencies, your mind is so noble and pure that I love you.” God works in that fashion. God is always the center of unselfishness and publicmindedness. Naturally He wants to be monopolized by sons and daughters who are public-minded. He wants to be prisoner of people who are as publicminded as He is in thinking of mankind.</p>
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<p>If you move in that direction, what will your way of life be like? The basic pattern would be one of sacrifice. There can be two people working hard, one who is selfish and one who is public-minded. The selfish person doesn’t want to sacrifice himself and if he gets hungry he will complain and want to stop. If he doesn’t get time for lunch he will grumble. In the same situation the God-centered person thinks differently. If lunchtime comes and goes, he will hope that his lunch is being given to someone who needs it more. He will feel that if spirit world could spread the benefit of that lunch around the world then He doesn’t need to eat lunch tomorrow or even next week. He is willing to suffer. Naturally that person will be hungry, but he will tell God, “If that lunch can serve someone who is hungrier, then thank you for the opportunity to serve in two ways.”</p>
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<p>Even though you are limited physically, your mind can still travel freely and be linked to the world and universe. How wonderful your life is when you can breathe the universe. A man who lives like that has no limit; he can communicate freely with the universe and even spirit world, just as though he could launch satellites to all those places. He is creating bridges with all kinds of objects in the universe.</p>
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<p>Your mind has no limitation, so when you need God, there is a bridge He can cross over to you. You can call anyone and communicate with him. You can make yourself a dictionary or encyclopedia of love and know every aspect of love. When you own the unselfish love of God, you can go anywhere and embrace any circumstance-clockwork, mining, farming, anything. You feel at home everywhere.</p>
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<p>At night you normally lie on a flat bed to rest, but when you realize that the definition of what is normal only depends on your attitude, you think that in order to love God it would be normal to sleep standing up. Then it feels natural. If God knows you are sleeping standing up, then when He goes to lie down to sleep would He remember and bring you inside to lie down also, or would He let you keep standing and just go to sleep? If God knew His child was standing up and loving God, He would go out to get him and put him in God’s own bed. God would embrace him all night long.</p>
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<p>If God has a long beard and in His sleep it spreads over the son’s face, wouldn’t tears run down that son’s face at being near his Father? It’s a very different, but dramatic and extraordinary life. For that man, what the world says about him is unimportant. Even if the world puts him in jail, he is still absolutely crazy about the love of God. Even if a village dog barks and bites him, it won’t bother him. If the dogs belonging to all races of people bark, it wouldn’t matter. Even if the owners start barking at him along with their dogs, it wouldn’t matter. You may look miserable, but once you taste the love of God nothing can stop you. You hardly even recognize that the dogs are barking because you are intoxicated in God’s love.</p>
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<p>One person may travel to his destination and be greeted with applause and acclaim at every stop. Another may be greeted with ridicule and persecution instead, but who will be greeted with more sympathy when he arrives? If their father is waiting at the destination, he will listen most closely to the son who suffered on the way, for that person has earned his father’s sympathy. That formula works not only in our society, but in God’s way of life also.</p>
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<p>I know how God acts, so in loving God and humanity I am not asking for an easy way. I ask for the worst tribulation, for a path which no one has ever walked before. I want to go where no one has been before. Did I choose this way because I was dumb? I see the destination ahead in the future and I know what will happen. Knowing that glory is waiting ahead, I volunteered for suffering that no one else could bear so that in the end I could be the victor.</p>
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<p>I wear an invisible record of how much persecution I have received. The first line says I received the worst possible suffering from Korea; the next line says I received 100% persecution from Japan, the third line 100% from America, and the fourth line 100% from the communist world. The final line says I received 100% from Satan. Ultimately even God must acknowledge that I received the worst possible suffering. Is the person who received the worst suffering a miserable person in the end?</p>
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<p>If under even those circumstances I do not give in, but move all the way to the end, then I will see God surrender to me. Behind Him Satan will be surrendering, then the communists and every nation on earth. Is it conceivable that any man could go that far? Maybe there is someone among you who regrets that he wasn’t born fifty years ago so he could outdo me, but he is too late and now has lost his chance. Does anyone have the guts to challenge me that way?</p>
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<p>If any religious person emerges with that unbending, persevering spirit, eventually the entire world has to come under him. Are you interested in knowing a man with that kind of boldness and conviction? Would you like to meet him when his fight is over and he is in glory, or would you want to fight with him on that same path? Would you women like to marry him? The wise woman would want to meet him at the end when he is being honored, wouldn’t she? Would you want to suffer together with him? It’s easy to say, but would you last long traveling with that man? It would be easier to cut your own nose or leg off and meet him at the other end.</p>
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<p>Some of you were excited to see me for the first time, but now after one hour don’t you feel uncomfortable? Or are you excited? Does your answer mean you are volunteering for incredible suffering? When you remember that you would have to sacrifice the only youth you will ever have, would your answer still be yes?</p>
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<p>In Korean and in the original Jewish language “Jesus” is pronounced Ye-su, so when you say yes it sounds like you are saying “Jesus.” Jesus was a man who died to fulfill his mission. He taught that whoever would gain his life would lose it, but he who would lose his life for Jesus’ sake would live. What I am saying is very logical and you are inspired to say you will do it, but in reality it is very hard to live up to.</p>
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<p>If you go to a famous doctor to cure your fatal disease, his treatment will usually not be easy to endure. But the patient who wants to swallow it has a chance to recover. He would be so willing to take it that he would even lick up any medicine that spilled on the floor. If you want to study under a man of great reputation, he will give you a hard time as his student and disciple. These situations are nothing in comparison with gaining the love of God. It is unique in the universe, so how can you expect to obtain it easily?</p>
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<p>We are gathered to celebrate Children’s Day, but what has that to do with my sermon this morning? It is not good enough just to listen to what I say. You have to live it. America is bigger than Korea, so is the white race superior to the yellow race? Did you ever think that you would follow a Korean leader someday? Are you following me or are you going to follow me? You see me here, but do you really know what direction my path is going? You are like children who have just started school, while I have graduated with experience that is like a Ph.D. Who should follow whom? You are the ones who should make the effort to understand this life and tradition.</p>
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<p>Someone may have regrets and think that he should leave and come back in ten years because it will be easier then. If you are hearing me for the first time, do you feel shocked in your heart? If just listening gives you a shock, when I put you into action would you be knocked out or just go forward? Would you keep going? When you know what 1 have done, you know that the path we follow is truly a difficult one. Even I felt it was impossibly difficult to persevere at times, but the persecutions and accusations just spurred me on and I couldn’t stop.</p>
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<p>Am I a thief? I am the worst liar under the sun, am I not? Am I trying to exploit American young people? Many people portray me as a hypnotist who manipulates young people. I have an expensive suit on this morning, and a tie pin with a little diamond in the center. The tie is hand made. What about you? Maybe your underwear hasn’t been washed for a week. You should know that I have had that experience also. I have graduated from that path myself.</p>
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<p>Have you ever experienced being so dirty that lice infested your whole body? They hide in the seams of your clothing and suck your blood. It’s very dramatic to rip open the seam of your trousers and see fifty lice hiding there. Looking back on those days I could write beautiful poetry about that. My life has been one of suffering and incredible action. Even when I see movies with dramatic action, I don’t get excited because it is dull compared to what I have experienced. Sometimes Mother and I go to see a movie which someone has told us was very exciting, but in a few minutes I fall asleep. Mother might be getting excited, but I just snore through it.</p>
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<p>I have graduated from everything you are doing now-I created fund raising, home church, and I have done dock labor, mining, farming and fishing. I worked in a prison camp. There is nothing about life that we must conform to, such as sleeping at a certain time or place. I can sleep very well sitting up, or in a plane or car.</p>
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<p>I have barely finished the introduction to my sermon this morning! To get back to the mainstream, goal is a public-minded way of life. Our way of life has to be one of sacrifice. Jesus died once and was resurrected, but have you ever wondered what would have happened if Jesus died twice or three times? Have you ever asked Jesus in prayer why he settled for only one crucifixion and resurrection instead of dying many times until the Kingdom of Heaven was finished on earth?</p>
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<p>Why didn’t God give Jesus one hundred chances to die so the will of God could be done? That pattern would be too difficult for anyone else to follow. In planning how to restore mankind, God is always thinking how the path can be made easier so everyone can follow it. Normally God will pick one person to make extraordinary sacrifices, and then through him everyone can benefit. Why then have many people been willing to die for God? It is because they know God is willing to die for His own children. But no one wants to die for Satan.</p>
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<p>If Adam and Eve had loved God enough to be willing to die for Him, would they ever have fallen? Our goal today is to prove to the world that we are better than Adam and Eve were before their fall. In order to meet God you must go beyond the cross, being willing to give your life for God. Then you will truly meet God. When Jesus was crucified did he say he was dying so he could go to heaven? No, he died for the sake of humanity and God.</p>
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<p>Jesus died for the liberation of God and mankind, not his own salvation. If today’s Christians are thinking people, should they believe in Jesus and God for their own salvation, or for mankind and the liberation of Jesus and God? Many prayers offered today by Christians are self-centered, full of requests for money and health and comfort. Compared to Jesus’ tradition, these people have the mind of a thief or robber; they don’t think at all about giving but only about taking.</p>
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<p>There is no way for such people to avoid declining. If Jesus, knowing he had to die on the cross, had tried to get out of it, would he have been a messiah? Would he have been fulfilling his part of the mission courageously? He have been a betrayer of God, and when he eventually died it would have been a dishonorable death. If that had ever happened it would have been the greatest tragedy, for mankind would have had to pay the indemnity for it. There would have been no Christianity then.</p>
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<p>The road of dispensation always involves going beyond death. Jesus truly proved he was a son of God because he willingly accepted the role of death honorably. He died in such a way that Satan had to surrender to him. Satan could make no accusation that Jesus did not deserve to be called a son of God. Satan had to bow down and say that Jesus loved God more than Satan could ever do. Jesus became a sacrifice on the altar like a lamb so that others could live.</p>
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<p>Each culture has its own fables, and there is always at least one in which someone dies honorably so that others may live. Unless you give yourself for others you are not worthy in the sight of God; that is a fundamental heavenly principle. What should Unification Church life be like then? Jesus died, but a portion of his mission was left undone. In that case we must not only be willing to die for God, but we must fulfill the total mission.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church started out humbly in Korea and now is a worldwide movement, but I never think I will be a world leader who will receive acclamation from people of many lands. I am already completely choked with the mission at hand. There is no guarantee of tomorrow. I have no room to think about how I will live in the future. The only one who can guarantee my life tomorrow is God-not me, nor you, nor America nor Korea. Honestly speaking, I do not rely too much on you. Every day is a full one for me, and it takes a desperate effort to meet the requirements of that one day. Where does the path lead after that? You will live in the Unification Church the same way I do today.</p>
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<p>When I look at a world map I see Korea, where the movement started, and then looking at the rest of the globe I wonder where I might possibly make a mistake or fail. I feel there is no piece of land where I have stood that I have failed. I cannot permit that ever to happen. If there is possibly such a place, I would rather go there and overcome that potentiality before it ever happens.</p>
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<p>Even though I am only one small man, I will fight any unjust actions by America, and fight against communism, the enemy of God. Would that be such an easy task that I could enjoy sleep and good food? It is a life-or-death struggle every moment of the day. This task involves pain in heart and body and it all comes together in one person.</p>
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<p>I cannot pray to God without tears. I tell God, “My Father, there is no one in the world who is more alone and misunderstood than You and me. I know Your pain.” God is even more pained because He cannot give me comfort. Instead, God must add more to my task, making my road more and more difficult. I know God has to do it because He needs some person who can bear the burden willingly and be triumphant. Knowing that I will always go, God is adding more pressure. I never thought that if I could just go on for several more years that one day I could enjoy married life and happiness.</p>
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<p>I knew that for the dispensation I would marry, and I asked to be given any woman who could understand my mission and would support me. God answered by giving me our wonderful Mother. When she was pregnant, I never prayed for wonderful children. I always said that if I had done anything wrong in God’s sight that I deserved a child who would bring me pain and tribulation. Then in one child after another I see how God responded to me. And amazingly enough, each child is better than the ones before him. Because each one is more brilliant, I want to have more and more children.</p>
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<p>We now have eleven children, plus fourteen staff members living at East Garden, so the main house is not big enough. We are planning a new building to be a garage plus more living space. The township gave approval to our blueprints and now construction is under way.</p>
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<p>I know very well what kind of suffering you have gone through and how much struggle I am bringing you. Why do I let you go that path? Remember how a parent sees his children. If there is one child who volunteers to suffer to serve the parents, they will want to give most of what they have to that one child. If each child has his own savings but one in particular has carefully saved the most, the parents will select that child to manage the household later on.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is working in the same fashion. Each of you has a savings account of suffering and service and sacrificial duty. In the end, whoever has accumulated the most will be instructed by me to manage the entire kingdom. God works precisely the same way. I made it a rule that I would never spend money for myself. Whatever nice clothes I have always came from someone as a gift. If members ask me to come to a men’s store to be measured for a suit, I refuse. But then they buy me one anyway! That has happened in Japan, Korea, Europe and America. There are many clothes prepared for me in each country.</p>
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<p>Why do people think that way? Because they know I am absolutely pursuing the public-minded way of life and they want to do something for me, making a gift to the higher goal. Is that right or wrong? Even ordinary people who are not members would say that is correct. Each person should pursue that public, sacrificial life. The ultimate goal is the love of God.</p>
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<p>When most of the people cannot love God, I want to love Him, and the best place to love God is the place of incredible suffering. Usually people in difficulty will curse God, but it is in suffering that you can best demonstrate your love for God. When you look around and see whom you should surpass, it is not enough to want to beat the American youth or even Korean youth. You should want to be better than Christians and any people of faith.</p>
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<p>What is God’s will all about? His concern is the salvation of the world and salvation of the spirit world, and by doing it we can liberate God. What a dramatic and noble goal that is. Is this task easy or difficult? How difficult? Proof of how difficult it is can be seen in the fact that Almighty God has been laboring for thousands of years and still it has not been accomplished.</p>
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<p>Why has God not been able to fulfill it? Because in all history He has not found His champion who could carry the challenge through to the end. Many people were willing to take up the task, but no one was able to finish it through the incredible difficulties they faced. God has been looking all over the world, all through history for that champion. Finally God has found one candidate-Reverend Moon and the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>The most important characteristic God needs to find in a champion is trustworthiness. Anyone likes to be welcomed and applauded, but as soon as persecution and difficult times come most people fold up. If a champion takes up God’s cause and fights hard with Satan, and then comes to God asking for comfort but God kicks him out with chastising words, what would happen to that champion? If a child is hit by a bigger child and he runs home crying to his mother, he is looking for comfort from her. Initially the mother might spank the child instead of comforting him, but if the child persists, tagging after her in tears, eventually she will embrace him. No matter how he is chastised, the child will never give up his mother. Ultimately he will win her heart.</p>
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<p>Do you love me? You say you love me, and then I tell you to go out and work hard, and in doing so you receive persecution. When you are tired and weary you come to me looking for comfort and warmth, but then I push you out again. When you go back out you are hit again. Maybe you are gotten up at four in the morning and sent out without breakfast or a bath. Even if you say you love me, inside you feel a certain antagonism and wonder what kind of parental love this is! Your lip will be sticking out and your eyes will glare. Then you are making a showdown with me instead of with the satanic world. Then I am your problem instead of Satan.</p>
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<p>When you are hit by the world you come to me to receive love and comfort, not to give me love. I know you are hit by the world, but actually I am bearing a much greater burden than you are and am persecuted many times more than you are. On the MFT you start out with a team cheer in the morning and go out fresh, but by evening you are tired and limping, and you hope your leader will give you comforting words and say you have done well. But if no one does that, how will you feel? Maybe your captain will say, “Is that all you did? Why couldn’t you make your goal?” Instead of smiling, you complain inside about what kind of leader this is.</p>
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<p>This is a very deep point to understand. You must win two battles with Satan-one is the external battle with the world, and the other is inside, with your leaders and me. You should come back with added vitality, in a situation to comfort your leader or your Parents. You should demonstrate more energy and vitality than your leader or me. That’s the way you can inherit the Kingdom.</p>
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<p>Doris Orme is sitting here in the front row. She is a very strong, stubborn woman who doesn’t tolerate anything which she disagrees with. There are many in the English family who have a grudge against her, even though they won’t say anything against her. There is one way for her to survive, however; if she loves God and True Parents more than anyone and suffers more and works harder than anyone else, then no one can complain. If she is not doing so, but some follower is shedding more tears and working harder yet saying nothing, this person will gradually take her blessing and authority away. Then the English family will be drawn more and more to that person and the blessing will be shifted to him.</p>
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<p>Whether you are a newcomer or oldtimer in the Unification Church doesn’t make any difference. Everyone is your competitor and can potentially take your position and God’s blessing from you unless you keep it intact. If anyone received unwarranted mistreatment yet perseveres and does even better, within three years new responsibility and leadership will be shifted to that person. Parents are not people who command their children, but people who will demonstrate a good example. Good leaders will set an example, not just give commands to their followers.</p>
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<p>Suppose you think you have a tough, coldhearted Abel, but feel that even under him you can persevere and demonstrate your fidelity and love for him. You will be the winner eventually. The tougher the leaders you have, the higher the grade you can get. That is your best chance to gain. Your pattern of growth should be one of needing every ounce of energy to get over one hurdle, then taking care of an easier task, then having to gather all your will and energy again to cross another obstacle, then reaching another plateau, then crossing over an even higher barrier.</p>
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<p>How great is the racial problem in this country? It is very big. When I see the profile of some black people, their mouths stick out as though they were always angry. I think that they must have had so few good days that it is now second nature for them to have that kind of appearance. Black people can find heaven in the Unification Church through a new way of life in which we love white people instead of hating them. The law of indemnity says that you must love them three times as much as you have hated them. What kind of path is that? If you are a beauty queen among blacks, you can demonstrate love of white people by marrying a feeble, miserable white husband and serving him like a king.</p>
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<p>If you, as a white person, have hated blacks, you must love them three times as much. Unlike blacks, a white woman may have a mouth that pulls in. Your nose and chin may stick out, but your mouth is pulled in. That kind of white woman can demonstrate her love by marrying an incredibly ugly black man and loving him three times as much as she had neglected black people in the past. How would you women like that? Your faces are showing a very funny reaction!</p>
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<p>In the end, God will call all His sons and daughters to Him and there will be a ceremony of confirmation for you to go through. In that final situation how can you prove you are God’s sons and daughters? You have to do the opposite of what Adam did in the garden of Eden. First, he distrusted God. Second, he gave his physical body away. Third, Adam gave his love away.</p>
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<p>How can you prove you have absolute faith? You will heed the good words coming from God’s mouth and ignore Satan’s words. When God tells you not to commit a particular act, you must trust Him and obey absolutely. That means you could go beyond your life if necessary. Adam gave his physical body, character and personality to Satan. You have to change your personality, being God-centered where Adam was Satan-centered. Because Adam could not love God most, you cannot love anyone else more than God. These are the three criteria to meet to prove we love God: absolute faith and obedience, absolute action, and absolute sacrificial love.</p>
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<p>In the Old Testament era these tests were met symbolically, through faith. In the New Testament era they were passed through physical action, which included martyrdom. In the Completed Testament era they must be passed through love and heart. In the last days the Unification Church should be able to demonstrate three absolute criteria: First, absolute faith. Second, demonstrating the way of life of God by confronting the satanic world in action. Ultimately we demonstrate love of the universe and mankind.</p>
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<p>If you want to be a child of God you have to have absolute faith, so the Divine Principle talks about making a foundation of faith. Nothing else should be able to shake your faith. In the Old Testament, offerings were made to show faith, while in the New Testament era Christians gave their own bodies as sacrifices. In the Completed Testament era we give wholehearted love. You must become a person who is immersed in these three powerful characteristics. Unification Church members should possess absolute faith, plus a plan of action for subjugating Satan, and you must have complete love of mankind as your motivation. God Himself is the subject of such a man. Where can we find an example of this? God has been an example of all three things. God possesses infinite faith, and He is always there in action to subjugate Satan. God always loves mankind more than they love Him.</p>
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<p>Dennis and Doris Orme are here together. They are the leaders of the British church, and they are in a position to sacrifice for the sake of Great Britain. In order to show their love of England and be a sacrifice on the altar of God, they must sacrifice themselves before asking the British members to do so. If they are willing to do that then the members will become one with them.</p>
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<p>I recently sent Reverend Won Pil Kim to lead the European crusade, and his quality of leadership is entirely different from the Ormes’. Reverend Kim used the correct method, which is that of serving, coming underneath and supporting the members. When I assigned Reverend Kim to England I instructed him to study how he could be the most serving Abel to the British and European families. l told him to live in their circumstances, sleep with them, eat with them, and shed tears and sweat together.</p>
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<p>The Ormes cannot change leaders at random. You have to pray, discuss, plan and recommend to me, and then when I give the blessing, go ahead. Not only in England, but all the European leaders are leading in a way that is not really heavenly. That’s why I sent Reverend Kim to set the tradition in Europe.</p>
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<p>Young members are like new babies. A baby is helpless, so how can you burden him? You have to love the new members, care for them, give them milk, change their diapers and bring them up to become parents themselves. When they ask for responsibility, then slowly give it to them. The process of leadership is always one of education. First you educate members and then give them responsibility. This is my pattern. From this time on, when new members come in they must have seventy days of workshop within six months: 2-day, 7-day, 21-day, and 40-day. That is the education process any new member is entitled to. That kind of training will help form strong people who can walk and work like God’s champions. If workshops are not available then leaders should bring new members around with them and give them on-the job training. I have walked that very same path.</p>
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<p>I always demonstrate the three major characteristics: absolute faith, absolute action in subjugating Satan, and absolute love for mankind. I have loved the members in the Cain position more than my own children and wife. You must become crazy about Cain, and in the process sacrifice your own family. That is proper. After doing that then you can come back to love your own children and wife. Even now at East Garden it is rare for Mother and me to eat together with all the children because most of the time I am meeting with the Church leaders at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even now I still live that way of life.</p>
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<p>At East Garden I seldom give direction to the individual staff members, but they still know I am in charge. Even though I don’t deal with them personally, they feel a certain respect and humility when they see me. In a way they are afraid of me because I don’t speak to them! They sense something of authority and dignity in me.</p>
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<p>To be a leader is certainly not easy. Even in the satanic world it is difficult to be a leader; how much more so it is in the heavenly world. I am still in the process of educating Mother, telling her what she and what she should accomplish. Even though we have a loving relationship as husband and wife, still we discuss heavenly principle and law with seriousness.</p>
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<p>As my children mature and think about my past and my mission, they will truly come to love and understand me. Even after I go to spirit world, the remaining leaders and 36 couples will love them as much as I loved those people, or even more. That is the best inheritance I could leave them. That is how I am opening the door for all mankind and all history to love them.</p>
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<p>You must remember the three qualities: absolute faith, absolute responsible action in subjugating Satan, and absolute love of humanity. This is the way of Principle life in the Unification Church. Recently in New York I said that we are creating a new race-the love race-in which all five colors of skin come together as brothers and sisters. The tradition is centered upon this teaching.</p>
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<p>Wherever you go, in whichever center you joined, there is always a Cain and Abel struggle. There is no place without it. When someone is loving and caring about you, you don’t have to worry about them, but there will always be someone trying to disturb and hate you. That person is your target, but instead of fighting back you must melt him with love and win him. That’s your duty. If you are successful in subjugating your own Cain with love then you are already reaching the pinnacle of the mountain. Sometimes you may find that your own leader is the worst Cain. He may despise you and give you a hard time, but still there is a way to melt his heart; there is nothing impossible or hopeless. You will not win with your fists or confrontation, but by love.</p>
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<p>Encircle your opponent-in this case your Cain-with a net of love and then wrap him up. Once a bug is caught in the spider’s web, the spider dashes over and wraps him up completely. When you are wrapped up in a net of love you don’t resist it; you love it! Because the chains that bind you are of love, you enjoy being a prisoner. Once you resolve a difficult relationship, that person will come to you for help whenever he has difficulty. Your worst enemy can become your best friend.</p>
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<p>I have practiced all these qualities. No one has ever had faith as firm as mine. and I have loved mankind more than anyone else. That is the highest standard, so that example can be applied anywhere in the universe. All humanity have to hear and live this standard and teaching. The spirit world is already on my side. Sometimes you are weak and have doubts and are on the verge of leaving, but then your ancestors will be mobilized to warn you to stay.</p>
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<p>I am just one individual, but I am universal. At the same time I am the world’s greatest riddle. Many people think I have millions of dollars, and I do supervise much money, but my pocket is always empty. What kind of rich man is that? My pockets are always empty and my checks are overdrawn. As our movement gets bigger, my burdens get heavier and I worry 24 hours a day. All the problems of the Church come to me for solution, while the leaders enjoy the good situations. I forgive them because they do not know, but it shouldn’t be that way. They should solve the difficulty and bring the glory to the True Parents.</p>
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<p>There is so much restitution to be made- individual, family, tribe, nation, world, universe- that if you tried to pay it all back step by step you would never make it because you wouldn’t live long enough. But I have paid it all. I am a triumphant victor, and now I am ready to give you that inheritance. This is my position. I worked my whole life to win that historical battle, but now you can win it in seven years. It took me sixty years to pay the debt of history, but now you can get it free after making seven years’ condition.</p>
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<p>What is Children’s Day? It centers around God’s own children. In order to be God’s true child you must be superior to all the qualities demonstrated by people throughout history-better than Adam and Eve, better than any saint or historical person, better than Jesus. Are you better than Jesus? How can you become so? We are better in the sense that Jesus was all alone, and even his own family would not cooperate with him. But you have brothers and sisters on all six continents of the world, of all colors of skin. You are never alone.</p>
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<p>We have our own family wherever we go on earth, and we have a church and organization that Jesus did not have. We are given the opportunity to fulfill completely God’s mission within our lifetime, which Jesus left undone at his death. Are you like Judas, in a position to betray me? Every day you prove you are not like Judas. When Judas became greedy he sold his own master for thirty pieces of silver. But every day you receive many dollars which you give entirely to the Church without hesitation, leaving yourself with hardly a penny. Could such men and women sell me for money? No matter how difficult it may be to do what I say, even when you are not given any explanation you keep trying to the end.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ followers remained celibate. Also, at that time they were concerned mostly with the nation of Israel. Today we don’t talk about Korea or even America, but about the world and even the universe. Furthermore, you have the possibility of marrying someone from any of five races. Not only that, you can marry someone who is in spirit world. There is a grandmother here who is blessed with a spirit man. Have you ever heard of that?</p>
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<p>You don’t eat only Western food, but rice, kimchi and hot sauce. We don’t worry about housing because we can build a house overnight, anywhere. In other words, we have no limitations to bind us. We can find a home anywhere, and go seven days without food. Each member learns the discipline of a seven-day fast. Furthermore, in your area you have 360 homes to live in. That is your home, clan and tribe. When you move into your home church area, God moves in with you, and Jesus dwells there with you, as well as the spirit world. The 360 homes represent all races, 360 nations, and 360 of your closest ancestors. Thus, you have the entire world and spirit world open to you without any boundaries.</p>
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<p>Did Jesus have a master or teacher to guide him? Do you? You have a teacher who can instruct you precisely in God’s ideology. You are learning exactly what Jesus was unable to do, precisely how God has been leading the dispensation. Is your ideology bigger than Jesus? Your goal is the liberation of God, and the liberation of the physical and spiritual worlds. Furthermore, though you come from the sinful world, you have hope to bear sinless children. How could any man harbor the hope you have? Are you like Mary then, who gave birth to a sinless child?</p>
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<p>Did Jesus have married life? But you marry in the name of God and flue Parents. Did Jesus have True Parents? He was to become the True Parent himself. When you think of your position compared to 2,000 years ago, how much more potential you have today. Our goal is to work to make all mankind happy. How can we do that? By multiplying Unification Church members. If one person becomes two, then four, and multiplies more and more then ultimately he can free the entire world.</p>
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<p>If God had a treasure chest, wouldn’t He want to open it now? This is the right time. Wherever I go, a treasure chest is waiting to be opened. God will bless me abundantly with material things because He knows that building His kingdom requires money. If I have money, who would follow me most closely? I think that the people who like money the most are the politicians. Knowing that I have money they would pay attention to me. Businessmen will follow me to profit from me.</p>
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<p>I can do everything well. I have built a top-class factory. I can see into the future twenty years and I prepare for that time now. I can see where the world will be in twenty years so I am planning for that time. Other people may work very hard, but without knowing the future they end up nowhere. I will be at the goal already. Don’t you want to inherit that capability?</p>
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<p>Some day I will go to spirit world, but I will not take any of what the Unification Church has and you will inherit it. Who wants to inherit the kingdom? Do you want to smile and receive it, or cry and receive it? If you receive it in an easy way without being qualified then the people who shed tears will accuse you. If the people who only shed tears receive it, the people who had to die will accuse you. There are many Unification Church members already in spirit world. This is why Jesus said, “He who would gain his life will lose it, but he who would lose his life will find it.” In order to receive that inheritance we have to dare to go the path of death without fear.</p>
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<p>To receive such an inheritance you must become a man of absolute faith. Can you do it? Would you believe me if I told you not to trust any man? If I told you not to date, would you do it? If you were told not to keep associating with your old lovers, what would you say? To attain citizenship in the heavenly kingdom you must be able to follow an incredible path, even if it means giving up your nationality to attain the heavenly one.</p>
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<p>The very moment you have absolute faith, everything that belongs to you belongs to God. You must be ready to take positive action to subjugate Satan. In that case, if I told you to go to Africa you could do it immediately. You are ready for action. Even if you have to give up your own wife and children to follow, your answer must be yes. I myself obeyed that very commandment from God.</p>
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<p>In order to deserve to celebrate Children’s Day today you have to be restored to the stage of Adam and Eve before the fall. To do that you must have absolute faith, absolute action and absolute love.</p>
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<p>When you have that kind of absolute attitude toward the satanic world and Satan sees your absolute faith, absolute action and absolute love, he will have to confess that indeed you are a son of God. When Satan can endorse you as a child of God, at that moment God will say, “Indeed you are my child. Amen.” Can you do it?</p>
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<p>Some people have been on the MFT three years, and perhaps they are groaning that they can’t take Unification Church life any more. People may be concerned about taking care of their own education or their family. Everyone has excuses to make if they are inclined to, but if they do then no one can truly come to that position. To celebrate Children’s Day you have to become fulfilled sons and daughters of God, not fallen or imperfect children, but perfected children. Then you can truly celebrate.</p>
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<p>You must follow the tradition of Jesus, who gave his life willingly out of love for humanity and God. My tradition is to give everything for God’s sake; I have nothing to spare for the sake of the dispensation. That has to be our tradition. You must feel that I am your competitor, that you will believe more, work harder and love more than I do. Will I resent you for challenging me? Not at all. Any parent wants his children to be better than himself, and then that family will prosper.</p>
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<p>After the Washington Monument Rally I declared that our next target is Moscow. We are moving seriously toward that target now. If that day does not come in my lifetime, then through you and my children that day should come. To have that victorious day come you should be able to bear burdens even more difficult than the free world can give, such as trials and hardships imposed by communism. If the Unification Church shies away from this responsibility for the communist world, it will decline. If I had declared victory and glory in Korea, then it would only be a Korean victory, not a worldwide one. I am not contented by a victory in Korea, but told the leaders that our goal is not just Korea but all of Asia. As much as they love their country they should love Asia and give their lives for the mission.</p>
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<p>If only Asia came to be influenced by this teaching then it would only be an Asiatic religion, not a worldwide one. Then I would say that the goal is world salvation and we must give our lives to bring world salvation. In that case who shall suffer most? The Koreans who started first and suffered most still must suffer more in the wider dispensation. Victory in the free world would not be enough either. I must go on to the communist world, so that the Moscow rally shall become reality, no matter how difficult.</p>
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<p>When I see how much more work remains before us and I see how some European leaders want to settle down and have their own homes, I think they must be out of their minds. I look at the American leaders the same way. If they could be called the true leaders of the Unification Church, then there is no hope for the future of the Unification Church. As soon as the free world welcomes our movement they may want to settle down and relax, but that will be the end of the Unification Church. Instead we have a further goal to meet and must give even more vitality to accomplish it.</p>
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<p>If we have a victory over communism in Red Square in Moscow then would you say, “Hallelujah. Our job is over”? Not at all. Then we will move on to liberate the spirit world. Ultimately we must go even further and liberate hell. When the job is done on earth then we must communicate with spirit world to do the job there. Finally we must liberate God Himself.</p>
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<p>I see how far I have come, and I see there is much farther to go, yet I never feel tired or as though I have finished. Recently I returned to Korea, and the leaders were afraid of what I would ask them to do. They have their families and occupations and they didn’t want to be disturbed. I asked some of them to become worldwide itinerant workers to visit members around the world and give them encouragement and vitality. They didn’t volunteer at all, but tried to say they were too old. Some of them wanted to be assigned to factory administration, with a nice salary to take care of their family.</p>
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<p>There is much further to go. God wants you to live the tradition of Children’s Day. It started in Korea, spread through Asia, now America and all of the free world. Then it will go to the communist world, then liberate the spirit world and liberate God Himself. That work has not been completed yet. If we are not willing to do this task then who will take it up? Would you want to leave this task to your children and grandchildren?</p>
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<p>Your great privilege today is to live at the same time 1 do, breathing the same air and hearing the word of God from me directly. This is the most incredible blessing because you can be recharged immediately with power. This time in history will never be repeated again in all eternity. When you know this, how can you get tired and feel old? Does the spirit world get tired, or does God get tired? Who shall be responsible for this task? I asked God to let me take up the responsibility. That’s how I feel right now and how I act right now.</p>
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<p>Lots of money is needed right now, plus many people to do the job. Therefore, I am commanding the CARP movement throughout the country. In tears you must go that path. Look at American youth today, how corrupted by drugs and immorality they are. They are the living dead and we must resurrect them. Many of you were like that but God resurrected you, not for your own sake but so you could resurrect others. It is your responsibility to save your contemporaries and your families. I know God and His anguished situation, His tears and sweat, so I cannot go a mediocre way. I must go all the way, without compromise. It is only justice that we proclaim a war and fight with all our heart and soul and might.</p>
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<p>World War 11 ended thirty-five years ago. The years just after that war were the best years for America because it had spirit, vitality, patriotism and courage. Christianity was still alive in those days. The 25-year-olds of those years are now in their sixties, but in the next five to eight years those people who won the war will vanish. Now is their best time; they are mature enough to exercise financial power and influence over the country. There are many among them who are willing to sacrifice what they have for America’s salvation.</p>
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<p>are crucial ones, and we must create a movement that will turn the nation and awaken it to realize this great era. I am not an American; what does this Korean have to do with the American people? If it weren’t for God I would have no reason to come here. Why should I work hard and spend money and endure criticism here? It is only because of God. I cannot let this nation go. God told me clearly that without this ideology and movement there is no way America can survive. Therefore, to rescue this nation I have to give everything possible.</p>
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<p>How many of you are seeing me for the first time? Why did you become Moonies? You are not here to make your cubbyhole in heaven. If you are truly a Unification Church member you have learned today that even if you must become a sacrifice you should want to let America live. When you see injustice and corruption outside, you must feel you are responsible, and though you cannot change it at this moment, some day you will come back to fix it. You think, “Father, give me time and I will change it around.”</p>
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<p>Look at me. I was born in a humble village in the Korean mountains. No one recognized me, but living this conviction has thrust me onto the world stage, and thousands of people of all races now want to invest their lives for this cause. There is no such thing as saving face for me; I would do anything to save this country. You should think more about America’s dignity than your own. America is losing heart and its dignity around the world has been shattered. Look at the situation in Iran and what the Carter Administration is doing.</p>
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<p>We must be bold and strong and burning with justice and fire. There is no such thing as waiting two more years to be ready; you must be ready now and go. That’s the kind of spirit I am planting in the CARP movement in this country. They are action people, showing up everywhere in the nation, working, fighting, crying and praying together.</p>
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<p>The task before you is this: you have met me, who brought this ideology and challenge. You can go one of two ways-you can be a betrayer or a coworker. An answer is easy, but action is difficult. Unto our lives we must go on with this task.</p>
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<p>When I came to America I was utterly serious about putting my life on the front line. That is the only way my conscience can be clear before God. If you have met me for the first time, God bless you. Wherever you go and tackle the mission, do not forget this message. Inherit my tradition by taking up the task with life-giving seriousness like mine. Feel anguished because I was mistreated. But more than you and I have been mistreated, God has been mistreated. You have been angry at many things, but you should be so angry that you will never let this world go on mistreating God and the True Parents any more.</p>
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<p>CARP members know how corrupted American campuses are, and how vulnerable they are to the communists. I am now touching the American campuses. In Japan I touched the campuses and chased out the communist forces. Corruption is our worst enemy and we will clean it up.</p>
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<p>Those who feel today, “Father, I understand my mission, and in order to tackle it I will give my life in your tradition and fight to the last to win the victory,” 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="2018-06-19T14:42:33+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/day-of-all-things.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:42:33+01:00">June 19, 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>The literal translation of the title of today’s message would be “Day of 10,000 Things,” or Day of All Things.</p>
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<p>Those who were matched in the last engagement ceremony, raise your hands please. How do all of you feel? All along you have been single, but now you have someone else to worry about. I think you feel not just great, but wonderful great! Now you realize how important it is that you have your counterpart- a woman for man, and man for woman. This is true not only in the human world, but for all things in God’s creation. Even iron ore exists in the pair system. Everything exists in pairs, whether minerals, vegetables or animals, and according to their special characteristics everything is matched plus with minus, male with female.</p>
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<p>When subject and object are united in soul, mind and body, they form the ideal together. Man and woman each have spirit, mind and body; together these total six, but they form a new entity, or number seven. The most important rapport to be established is eye to eye. Especially in the Orient men and women don’t look at anything else except the eyes; the eyes must be right. When there is rapport on this level, then everything else falls into place. Your eyes are the windows through which you project yourself and they reveal much about you.</p>
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<p>Do you smile first and then look at a person, or look first and then smile? Do you hear first and then smile, or smile and then hear? Are you smiling while you talk, or do you talk and then smile? Do you smile first and then touch, or touch and then smile? I am trying to emphasize the importance of having your object or partner, because without your object you have no one to talk with or hear from, touch or see. Joy and smiling necessitate having someone who has rapport with you.</p>
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<p>What is the difference between cultured people and primitive people? A cultured society has a balanced environment in the sense that everywhere you turn you have give and take with the same level of culture. In this room, for example, there is a cultured atmosphere created by the chandelier and flowers, carpets and furniture. When the women dress up everything has to be right, not just a few things. Their dresses and accessories must fit together in the same level of culture. Every object used is present to stimulate a sense of beauty. Why do we decorate a room with special paint and wallpaper? Because we want to create an environment that fits our cultural level and allows us to be always stimulated by a sense of beauty.</p>
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<p>Why do we seek this balance in our culture? Ultimately men and women are seeking to find their culture embodied in one object or subject so they can establish a reciprocal relationship which will be a constant source of stimulation. Looking at you I saw that the women who have always been solemn began to smile as soon as they were engaged because they felt light and happy inside. You Unification Church women have not been trained in the use of makeup, but as soon as you are engaged you start looking in the mirror more frequently and care more about your dress and overall appearance. When you were single you had complete freedom, but now you worry about many things, such as whether your figure is right or perhaps too big for your fiancee. You think from the point of view of your subject now, not just yourself.</p>
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<p>You are like a flower blossoming and you want to add fragrance to it. You want to be in action, demonstrating your joy in movement instead of just standing still. Now you concentrate on widening your horizons, vertically and horizontally, trying to make a bigger projection of yourself so you can please your mate. It is natural and good that your mate is now the focal point of your concern.</p>
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<p>Do you know your own face? Could you portray yourself without seeing your face? If someone asked if you could remember your face you might think that was a ridiculous question, but after thinking about it you realize that none of you have memorized your own face. Why is that? Your features change according to your state of mind, and you don’t have one concrete image in your mind. Sometimes you feel happy and think you are good-looking, but other days you have no confidence and you think your appearance has certain weaknesses. Your state of mind is the subject factor here and your external self is an expression of your state of mind. Since that is changing from one mood to another, your external appearance is always changing.</p>
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<p>You are too close to yourself to evaluate yourself clearly; when you look at a painting too closely, for instance, you cannot evaluate it. If you bring a little object close to your eye, thinking you can see it better, you cannot really distinguish what it is. The husband and wife relationship is the same. When your right hand holds your left hand you don’t feel a sensation, but if someone else holds your hand you feel something. A husband may think he knows his wife and have one concrete image of her in his mind, but in that case he is not really appreciating her and doesn’t know her completely.</p>
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<p>Just as you cannot really know how you look, you cannot really know your husband or wife’s face too well because it has many aspects. Sometimes you are strongly impressed by the laughing face of your mate, and you cannot forget how he or she beams from ear to ear, for instance. A wife might be impressed with the dignified appearance of her husband, or she might notice some little habit, such as how he shows his tongue when he laughs. If something about your mate makes a strong impression in your mind, you might not want to see other sides of that person. He might snore a lot or have a very ugly side, but you won’t remember that.</p>
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<p>This shows the infinite variety of expressions of love between men and women. There should not be a fixed relationship there. If a man is always serious then no woman could stand him, but there is always a variety of expression, with joy or anger suddenly bursting forth, and it is there that the beauty of relationship between man and woman is found.</p>
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<p>Would you women like to have a different dress every day? You have an urge to look different each day, and it shows that your internal person also wants to be fresh and new every day. Do you want to wear a beautiful dress to go to the store, or to see your loved one? Your desire to be beautiful reflects an interior motive to please your loved one. If you dress up beautifully but your mood is serious and solemn, does your internal person match your external beauty? Your lovely dress would protest and urge you to change your expression. No matter how beautiful your dress might be, if you are sad and sick at heart, your dress sighs. But if you are happy and joyful in God’s love, even a humble dress will rejoice to be there with you for then it is an ornament of your love. Have you ever seen anyone wear a large, sparkling diamond directly on his finger? Usually a ring is made to set off a diamond, and a plain gold or platinum ring wants an ornament to wear on top of it.</p>
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<p>Everything in creation exists for some certain purpose. Do you think they would feel good just being a commodity on the market, even if they were expensive, valuable commodities? Would they feel happy if many men came to watch and observe them? Do these flowers here on stage exist to glorify themselves? Just as you do not see your own face, the petals of these flowers do not see themselves; they exist to serve something besides their own purpose. The flowers impart their fragrance to please someone else who comes to appreciate them.</p>
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<p>The flowers are beautiful in order to invite the attention of butterflies and bees, and the fragrance serves like a beacon to guide them directly to the flowers. The same principle applies to women; you want to be dressed up and wear perfume in order to be attractive, not for your own enjoyment. Many women are meticulous about their makeup, spending hours in front of their mirrors every morning recreating themselves. Would such a woman say that her purpose for living is to beautify herself in the morning? Would you say your goal in life was to eat or sleep or play? What would that mean?</p>
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<p>When you wake up from a good night’s sleep does your mind think ahead to school or your job? Your mind travels to your loved one, the place where love is. American-style loving today is often an unhappy situation; I have heard that in California over <i>70% </i>of the marriages are breaking up. What kind of love is that?</p>
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<p>A thing that is truly precious has an unchanging quality. Diamonds and gold are held to be valuable because of their unchanging quality. The most expensive things under the sun must be gold and pearls, right? No? True love? Where is true love; show me. True love means unchanging love that never tarnishes.</p>
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<p>Sometimes American young people run away from home because they are longing for unchanging parental love and they aren’t receiving it from their parents. True love never changes, so any parent who cares for his children always loves them, no matter what tragedy overwhelms their home. Even if the father dies, the mother has a strong urge to live in order to keep loving her children. Any woman who just wants to re-marry and doesn’t care about how her children feel will have nothing left, either love of her children or her husband. Children in that situation feel left out and cold when they are at home, and they usually go their own way. But children whose mother is still devoted and loving them more than ever, even after the father dies, will be completely devoted to her and never betray her expectations.</p>
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<p>Even though her husband is dead, that woman is not losing anything. More than ever her children will reciprocate the love she is giving them. The more she devotes herself to her children, the more they will return love that is even greater than their father’s when they grow up, knowing she dedicated her life to them. Then the vertical love between a mother and son is more beautiful than the love between the husband and wife. The same is true for man. If the mother dies then the father can find tremendous beauty and value in loving his children.</p>
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<p>Man is created to live in true love, and when he pursues that true love both vertically and horizontally he finds true fulfillment in life. When a man and woman unite completely in unchanging true love then they are each other’s pride; a wife and husband want to be proud of each other. Instead of asking the other person to serve you, you want to serve that other person genuinely, feeling that he is the best. When each person feels that way, their relationship is truly something to behold.</p>
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<p>Love has a certain sound when it is in motion, like an electric gadget at work. When another expert in love hears that sound he echoes it, so all over the place echoes of that love begin to join with that love. When two sounds of love meet, would that have greater impact than thunder and lightning? How great an impact would that have? The meeting of those sounds of love is so thunderous that anyone who is sleeping, even for 1,000 years, has to wake up. Even eternally sleeping people will wake up and be galvanized into motion and dance. No one forces or asks them to; it will just happen automatically.</p>
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<p>Do you enjoy a halting, uncertain kind of dance by someone trying to follow the rules? No. In that sense disco dancing is real dancing because there are no rules; it is just a free expression of happiness. When man and woman come closer and the sound of love starts up, what will happen?</p>
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<p>All of these explanations lead to one conclusion-that all things exist to rejoice over true love. All things are searching to be united with true love. Is there anyone who has a different idea? Why do you women want to look as beautiful as Miss America? For true love. Is there any better answer? You might wonder why you look so unattractive, and the cause of your concern is still true love. There have been many ugly people in history who could not receive love because of their appearance. Now I am here, an ugly person, but as a possessor of true love I will indemnify the pain of all the unattractive people of the past. Even if you look ugly to everyone else, for the person who loves you, you are the most attractive person in the world. Your spouse will feel that because of all the odd contours of your face he has much more to react to than if it were smooth and lovely.</p>
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<p>Love transcends appearance. Therefore, your own being cannot conquer love; love conquers your being. A husband might look like a chopstick and the wife might look like a potato, so that you wonder how they can continue together, but they are close because love blinds and harmonizes them. That’s why love is almighty.</p>
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<p>Why am I talking about love so much on the Day of All Things? In the world of men we feel that love is the ultimate goal of life, and it must be clear that all things live under the same rule. Would a gold nugget want to be independent and have no one bother it? Or would it want to be surrounded by other material? Do you think it matters to the nugget at all? What actually surrounds the nugget is unimportant; what is important is the nugget itself and whether it is true gold or false gold. No matter how lovely the setting, if the gold itself is impure, it is no good. Whether the nugget is found in a ditch or lake is immaterial; as long as it is pure gold its value and quality will not change.</p>
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<p>The important thing is you yourself, not the kind of people who surround you. The key is whether you are a holder of true love, regardless of whether you are surrounded by black, white or yellow people. Think of how beautifully harmonized creation is; why should the world of men alone be in conflict? In the world of animals there is no segregation according to color. White puppies don’t play with only white puppies. If a sparrow comes from Africa, would American sparrows tell it to go back to Africa? Did God draw a line between nations somewhere?</p>
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<p>Why are there so many dominions here on earth? There is a national sovereignty in America, as well as people who are masters of their own land. There are many man-made divisions and boundaries. In the world of love will there be many compartments? I have not seen this in person, but I have heard that American husbands and wives often have separate savings accounts; there is a distinct boundary in money even if they think there is not one in love. How artificial that is! They keep certain areas to themselves and forbid intrusion. Will you tell your mate he must have an appointment to see you and insist he be on time? When children go to see their parents should they phone ahead for a time slot? That’s the American habit, though.</p>
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<p>Does this show that love in America is weaker than money and job commitments? Would you like that kind of love? If not then you should get rid of it. There is no time boundary in love; it comes in the morning, afternoon, and midnight. Is there a rule in the universe about what time lightning can strike? The visitation of love is like the lightning of the universe; it can come any time through the front, back door, side door, anywhere. It may even come in a fistfight. The important thing is the quality of love.</p>
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<p>In front of the supreme power of love, everything else is subdued. Women are born to be conquered by the love of men. The motion of love is faster than an arrow or a bullet; it can travel from the North to the South pole in no time. Each one exists for the purpose of love. Does that make you feel good or bad? When you are a temple of that true love you are more precious than a diamond the size of your whole body. Even if that diamond were bigger than the universe, you would still be more precious.</p>
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<p>Man is supreme in all the creation because we can be kings and queens of love, giving and imparting love. No other creation has that capacity. Now you are princes and princesses of love, advancing every day toward perfection. Do you want it? Even God has not been able to fulfill that true love and certainly no man in history has fulfilled it. Now we are the first group of volunteers who want to pioneer that true love. All the things of creation are like the honor guard waiting for the day when God will walk down the path of fulfillment of that true love. They are waiting to glorify that day, waiting to see men, their masters, walk down the path as well.</p>
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<p>When God walks down that path He will not go alone. Who will be His companions? In the garden of Eden it was to have been Adam and Eve. The greatest march God anticipated was the march of true love, walking from the king’s throne down the path of love. Adam and Eve would follow God and invite all the things of creation to accompany them. When God sat on His throne Adam and Eve would stand before Him, and surrounding them would be all things of creation like the best man and maid of honor.</p>
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<p>When God embraces His children in true, eternal love, all things of creation would be intoxicated in that love. What would you imagine would be the day God would first start to love Adam and Eve? Would that be spring, fall, summer or winter? Why spring? Because spring is the season for rejoicing, for blossoming and harmonizing in beauty and fragrance. If God could sit on His throne and embrace His children Adam and Eve in true love, then the entire universe would sing the glory of God in praise, rejoicing over the sound of love. Before the throne of God Adam and Eve would be installed as husband and wife and give the first heavenly kiss between man and woman. Can you imagine how beautiful that would be? Have God and mankind and creation seen that particular momentous day?</p>
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<p>When God embraced Adam and Eve in love, then the creation surrounding them would clothe them, become the ornaments and form the wedding hall. If you were to ask all things what their history has been, all creation would be able to say they had fulfilled the purpose of their existence because they would have seen the day of the fulfillment of God’s love, the day God embraced His children. They could say that on that day they ornamented and clothed Adam and Eve. Ever since, all the creation that witnessed that day would remain as a museum piece.</p>
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<p>Their greatest honor would be to witness that wedding ceremony in the garden of Eden. A blade of grass by the path Adam and Eve walked would be historical, an important ingredient of that heavenly museum. An oak tree would be proud that it saw the fulfillment of the love of God in Adam and Eve; oak trees today would be proud of how their direct ancestors were present to see that cosmic event. Their family history began in witnessing the love of God, and that would be their tradition. They would look for the people who fulfill that true love and want to rejoice with them, just as their ancestors did.</p>
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<p>Would the Unification Church have been needed in the garden of Eden? That momentous day of the fulfillment of God’s love in the garden of Eden never took place, and all that God prepared became broken and ragged. Now once again we are trying to unite all things and recreate the day of that wedding, the day of the fulfillment of love. Our clothes should have been bright and fragrant with love, but instead they are stained with tears and sweat and blood. Now the tuxedos we wear are soaked by sweat and tears, and they have a totally different kind of value. In order to restore the lost garden of Eden we work hard in tribulation, and it is so hard to restore just this one time we cannot think of repeating any more the fallen garden of Eden.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is here to restore the day of joy of love, and we are piecing it together from this fallen, satanic world. Some day we will have a completed wedding dress and tuxedo to wear to restore that lost day of God. We know the sad, tragic history in which nations and peoples crumbled and had to sacrifice. Now all the hopes and fragments here and there are being pieced together to make one restoration of unification.</p>
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<p>Everything which should have existed solely to glorify God now exists solely to destroy you and destroy any attempt to restore godly things. Unless we are truly alert and cautious every day, we may be struck down by the dangers of this world. Human history has been one of misery and suffering, so how much more have the things of creation been in pain? The things of creation have been subjugated by a false master and abused. Now God has chosen one champion to come and be the friend of all things, asking them to follow him, guiding them step by step. It is like going through an endless maze, trying to find the other end and bring new hope for the fulfillment of love.</p>
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<p>I started as one lone individual, but I gathered the foundation for the family, tribe, nation and world, pulling the godly pieces together. This incredible</p>
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<p>march of the princes and princesses of love began decades ago, and now has come to the worldwide level. For the first time, Satan has met an adamant enemy and so has made an unending attempt to destroy him and his work. But I have overcome all these obstacles one after another and reached the peak of success, the 1976 Washington Monument Rally. God’s blessing to me is increasing because I have laid the foundation all the way to the worldwide level, and now the blessing is not just one of men coming, but also of material benefit.</p>
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<p>What are you Unification Church members and why are you here? You are searchers for true love, but true love is not contained in the Unification Church; it has been stolen by Satan. We must go out to the satanic world, plant the seeds of true love in the soil and harvest it. That is our mission. In home church you are actually creating a tribe, and once you obtain it you can go all the way to heaven. What you have in home church is a microcosm of the world, and by practicing there what I have done on the worldwide scale you are entitled to receive what I have inherited from God.</p>
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<p>You are small Reverend Moons. I am a tree of many branches and they have been grafted on to you, and ultimately you will blossom as full-grown trees yourselves. What kind of tree do I mean? Truly the ideal tree of love. What the Bible calls the Tree of Life is actually the tree of true love. Such a tree also knows the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and both need each other. That way of life is not one of receiving love but of sharing and imparting love. That love is strong and absolute, unlike the fragile love relationships in today’s world. Where that love is breaking down, our love is firm and hard like rock.</p>
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<p>American marriages today are fragile and breaking down so that the new love can be planted. This situation is not completely tragic; when Americans see the right direction they can still have hope. Who is the master of all things in America? They don’t automatically belong to the sovereignty, but to the one who loves them most.</p>
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<p>The other day I heard about one of our brothers, Richard Cohen. He is from a Jewish family which has always been skeptical about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, but Richard has persevered and been patient with them. Some time after his engagement he went home with a movie of the 1800 blessing and told them more about his own matching to a Korean girl. They questioned him hard, but since Richard was calm in himself about his situation, he won their hearts. Finally his father confessed that out of all his children Richard was the best one. Richard’s fiancee had written a letter from Korea and sent a picture, and Richard’s father had been carrying them in his wallet and showing them to all his friends. Richard’s brother has been married and divorced twice but Richard’s father knows now that because Richard has found this way of life and the principle for a God-centered home that Richard will succeed in marriage. Mr. Cohen said that he would like to meet me and wished I knew better English so that we could talk together.</p>
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<p>Why are we becoming such respected attention-getters? We are living in a new dimension of love. Suppose that a parent of one Moonie has many other children but their relationships are all superficial and sensual. If this one child who is a Moonie can establish true, enduring love, it is a sign that we are giving true salvation. There the new tradition of inheritance will be set up. The parents will want to give everything-love and honor and property-to that one child.</p>
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<p>If even numbed parents in the fallen world can react so sensitively to true love, how much more so would God be sensitive to true love? When you show that true love it makes God incredibly happy. When God sees that a person truly loves the universe and feels responsible for all things of creation, wanting to be a parent to them, don’t you think God would want to give everything to that son who is representing Him so well?</p>
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<p>In this principle there is no exception, whether in the past, present or future, no matter what race you may be. Even if you ask a grandfather from thousands of years ago, that rule would still be in effect. God knew this was the only way. This explains why He is going this way, and why I follow it as well and ask you to follow it. Why do you go? Along this way you will receive the inheritance of God, the True Parents and all things of creation, plus each other. Then you are the king and queen of love, intoxicated and harmonized in love.</p>
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<p>This is the way of life of the Unification Church, being intoxicated in this true love. We make a grand circle by giving and receiving this love, growing larger and larger like a snowball. Eventually we can make the entire universe intoxicated by this love. There are many people who don’t want to see this true love succeed so they stab and try to shatter it, but even though you falter momentarily, you still come back together even stronger and bigger than before.</p>
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<p>Our members know the taste of that love; it is the one thing we are permitted to be addicted to. Nothing is too much to give for this love. No matter how hard you work or how much you suffer, you insist on having that love. Even death won’t stop you because the taste of that love is so irresistible. Now you inherit God and the True Parents’ tradition and are carrying it on yourself.</p>
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<p>You are going to restore the dignity of love and conquer death, tears of sorrow and any amount of hardship. Nothing can be stronger than true love. If you only care about true love and nothing can stop your march forward, when you turn around you will find all of a sudden that the entire world and all things are following you. We do MFT and witnessing now, but soon you will find that money and people will chase you, not vice versa.</p>
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<p>Right now we are in the final battle and the entire world are like spectators, watching the conquest of the final hill which no one has ever been able to cross over. Now finally the Moonies have volunteered to try and people are giving opinions. “They’re 80% of the way but they don’t really have a chance.” At this point they are watching, saying, “Wait! They’re almost there!” Once we go over the hill the spectators will be pushing each other aside to follow us up that hill. The people most ready to run up that hill will be the Americans. In other countries people have many strings attached and tugging at them, but here there is much individualism and “freedom” so if a person wants to go up the hill neither his parents nor society will pull him back. Then when that person comes back ten years later as a king or queen of true love, all the Americans will come out to welcome him as their hero.</p>
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<p>Today is the Day of All Things. What is the deep sorrow of all things? It lies in not having seen the day of the true love of God and man, the true love of God, parents, couples and sons and daughters. Nothing has seen that day of fulfillment. All these years creation has sighed for not having seen true gladness centered upon God in families of grandparents, parents and children rejoicing together in love.</p>
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<p>Your matching and engagement is the important and beautiful beginning of a heavenly home in which you can truly be united in love and become the glory of all things of creation. God would like to have the universe be a museum of this historic moment and have us be important elements there, so He can be proud of His children who ultimately fulfilled. If someone wanted to put a price tag on you then God would say there was nothing to be written down because you were without price.</p>
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<p>Great artists like Michelangelo and da Vinci painted masterpieces worth millions of dollars now, but you are a living masterpiece of God. If one Michelangelo costs a million dollars, you as a living masterpiece are priceless. Even the little blade of grass which witnessed the love of God is this precious. All things of creation are waiting for their day of redemption and vindication, the day when they can see their true masters appear. In understanding God with true love you shall become their true masters, appreciating them and guiding them with the hand of God. That’s your should hand this down to your children and grandchildren, taking pride in the tradition you are setting today and allowing them to feel proud. They will need to be educated about how to be thrifty with creation, not wasteful.</p>
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<p>If the grandparents use the first few pieces of tissue in a box and then hand it down to their children, who use a few pieces and then hand it down to the grandchildren, generation to generation, how much history could be accumulated in that one box of tissue? In even more of an extreme, the grandparents could take one piece of bread from a loaf, then each generation take another piece. If one loaf was handed down ten generations and only a little bit was left, you would want to preserve it for another ten or twenty generations, breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces. That is like the tradition of love flowing down. No matter how humble your clothes are, if they are handed down in this tradition of love you will been prouder of them than of any more expensive garments.</p>
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<p>When things of creation have a true master loving them and enjoying them in a conscientious, thrifty way, how would they feel? They would feel they finally were living in the ideal world. Each creature would feel happy for the first time. On this Day of All Things we should think how we can reciprocate our gratitude to all things by saving them and loving them. This is today’s important agenda.</p>
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<p>How much would you pay in a department store for a handkerchief like this one here? $1 ? There is one brother in the Unification Church who received a plain white handkerchief from me ten years ago and has been carrying it with him ever since. After all that time it looks all bedraggled, but that handkerchief has no price. That brother cherishes it because I gave it to him and it represents an inheritance of love.</p>
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<p>There is a Korean diplomat who became a member, and some years ago he and his wife were to be sent overseas on diplomatic duty. He approached me, humbly asking for the honor to invite Mother and me for lunch. Their invitation was so heartfelt that I accepted and we went to a humble Chinese restaurant. They tried very much to make us happy that day. Later when he got a small receipt after paying for the meal he wrote down the date and hour, and carried that receipt with him all during his diplomatic tours. That happened about fifteen years ago and even now he carries it with him, even though no words can be read on it. Even though that receipt is hardly more than dust now, its value remains and all of spirit world recognizes it, rejoicing over that deed because it centered around true love.</p>
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<p>Material value itself is not the consideration here. The priceless implication of those small bits of material comes from love. If even a simple handkerchief can become that precious, how much more precious will you and your husband become when you really personify the love of God? A little receipt and handkerchief can have priceless value, but when you become the manifestation of God’s love and love the world, all things will become priceless because you will give value to them.</p>
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<p>That is our tradition and way of life; our discipline is to live in that one central goal. We want to search for and fulfill that true love. I want you to become a lover of all things centering upon the true love of God.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">DAY OF THE VICTORY 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="2018-06-19T14:53:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/day-of-the-victory-of-heaven.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:53:15+01:00">June 19, 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">October 4, 1979<br />
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<p>When you hear “Day of the Victory of Heaven”, the meaning of it might not be very clear in your heart. Therefore, this morning we are going to make the meaning clear.</p>
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<p>To make a long story short, the fall of man meant the defeat of God. How? God was unable to possess the position in which He could govern the entire world and have true dominion. Consequently, God has not truly controlled all things of creation nor man. Finally, God has not had dominion over love.</p>
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<p>Among these three things, what would be the central point? Love is the key and central factor to have dominion over men and all things. Once you possess love, you can actually possess all things and man because love encompasses everything. God’s history after the fall of man has been one of struggle to regain the position where He could have dominion over love. There is no doubt that the ruler of this fallen world is Satan because he has dominated all three precious things of this creation.</p>
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<p>As a result, history has developed as a course of restoration of the lost dominion. In order to re-establish God’s dominion, God’s side must demonstrate a quality that is superior to any on the satanic side. Thus, a movement must inevitably appear which will show the way toward the restoration of God’s position. To accomplish this end the people in that movement will deny their families and world, and even their own lives to serve God.</p>
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<p>With what weapon and strategy will God defeat Satan? God’s tool in history has been religion. What is the essence and depth of religion? God’s prime purpose in establishing religion is simply to bring men to a level where they love God more than anything else under the sun. In order to possess God’s love you must become a man of God first. There are many religions in this world, but how many people are really striving to become men and women of God? What about Christians today? Many religious people believe in a certain faith in order to receive some benefit, such as a place in heaven. That is not how God intended to fulfill His purpose for religion, however. The essential intention of religious people must be to restore men and women who will do their utmost to serve God above all else. This is the standard which must be established.</p>
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<p>If love is the key factor in religion, what will be the standard and who will set it up? Should men or women set the standard? Let’s broaden the question-should individuals set the standard, or a nation, or religion, or what? In order for God to establish the domain of love, more than a nation or society is needed-one individual is the key. Who is going to bring that standard, a man or woman?</p>
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<p>Restoration follows a process which is reverse that of the fall. Who brought the fall by initiating the fallen action? Women initiated the action by which God lost His love, so who will God use first in restoration? I will ask you a difficult question to help you answer: did men or women give birth to Jacob and Jesus? Women initiated the fall, so women are in a position to initiate restoration. This is why women were ordained by God to take action to bring these men to this world. If Jacob, for example, had not had cooperation from his mother, the history of Israel could not have taken place.</p>
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<p>What did Jacob’s mother do? In order to fulfill the will of God, she went to the extreme of deceiving her own husband and her eldest son, allowing Jacob to be in a position where he could fulfill his mission from God. Have you ever heard of someone trying to buy the birthright from his elder brother? From a secular point of view, Jacob’s mother was a liar and Jacob himself was a swindler. The Bible records these things very clearly, as well as the fact that God glorified and blessed them, and this has been a puzzle for Bible students.</p>
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<p>Satan is the master of this world, so this satanic world is in the elder brother’s position of holding sovereignty. If you confront Satan and inform him you have come to take over his world, will he just drop it and leave it to you? Instead, you say that you will take back the world in the same way that Satan first stole it. It is only logical-Satan took the world without God’s permission, so you don’t need Satan’s permission to take it back to God.</p>
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<p>How did Satan take the world? First, he lied to his own Father and to Adam, deceiving father and son. Furthermore, through Eve Satan deceived the husband. In the process of the fall, God and His daughter were separated when she became a betrayer. In restoration the reverse way is necessary, so God and His daughter must be united; in other words, women should be united with God. Satan and women united in the fall and took Adam and all things of creation away from God. In restoration God and women unite to take the husband and all things of creation back to God.</p>
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<p>That was the position of Jacob and his mother, Rebecca. Here mother and son united with God to cut the fallen tie, which in this case was to the husband and son on the satanic side. Now you understand why that process was acceptable in the sight of God. Their first task was restoration of the birthright of the eldest son. Why was this necessary? The elder son’s position is always that of master or dominator, which was the right and authority bestowed on the eldest son. In biblical history the family heritage always passed from elder son to elder son. Since the elder son’s position was stolen by Satan, God used Jacob to restore that position by taking it back.</p>
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<p>By restoring the elder son’s position Jacob could restore dominion over all things and over men. Since Jacob totally united with God, once he could take the position of elder son he completed God’s sovereignty, ending the satanic rule. By Jacob’s cutting off the satanic line, restoring the elder son’s position to God and creating a tribe and people, God finally had a territory and people He could claim. This is why God gave Jacob the name Israel, which means victor.</p>
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<p>Because of the failure of men, God was always in a position of failure. Now for the first time God won a victory, through Jacob, and set up a foundation on earth. Through Jacob God expanded His territory further and further, and ultimately that family grew into a tribe, a people and a nation.</p>
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<p>Because restoration between Esau and Jacob was completed when both were in their forties, or middle age, Satan could still claim that God had not changed the foundation. Because Jacob and Esau grew up in the satanic world for forty years, Satan still had some claim. This period from birth to the age of forty remained in Satan’s hands, even though the birthright was restored after that age. Therefore, another step of restoration had to be taken, beginning with the mother’s womb.</p>
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<p>God’s representative was not born in the elder son’s position. Jacob assumed that position only after he was forty, as another battle remained which had to be won in the mother’s womb. This dispensation was conducted through Jacob’s son Judah and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, and the whole course had to be accomplished in a period of three generations. Tamar was destined to be responsible for an unusual dispensation specifically asked for by God.</p>
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<p>Tamar’s story has always been incomprehensible to scholars. According to Jewish custom, when the elder son died the second son would marry the widow. When Tamar’s husband died, however, Judah’s second son refused to marry her. The third son was too young to take the role of her husband. Knowing that she must bear a child, Tamar thought of a scheme to have a child by her father-in-law and thus continue the lineage. This put her in a position to deceive both her father-in-law and his sons. Tamar disguised herself as a prostitute and enticed her father-in-law to have a relationship, out of which she became pregnant.</p>
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<p>According to Jewish custom at that time, a woman caught in adultery, such as a widow who conceived a child, was supposed to be stoned to death. Tamar already knew what would happen to her if she had a child, so she wisely took the precaution of asking for Judah’s ring and staff, which would prove later that she was not just acting as a prostitute, and thus save her life so she could fulfill God’s dispensation. When Judah learned that he was responsible for her pregnancy, he protected her and saved her life. This was not a joyful act for Tamar, but an act of risking her life. She performed such a dangerous duty simply to fulfill the destiny given her by God.</p>
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<p>Centering upon God’s situation, Tamar won the heart of her father-in-law, who was in a position of potential enemy who could have her killed. Yet Judah protected her, uniting with the mission of father. Therefore, the children in Tamar’s womb could stand on God’s side. Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, and out of the tribe of his descendants Jesus was born. In Jewish history Judah’s tribe traditionally carried the tabernacle. They held this sacred position because God bestowed it on them, but most important of all, Jesus was born into this lineage.</p>
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<p>Jacob and Esau were twin brothers, and Tamar conceived twins who stood in the same position. The closest kind of relationship among brothers and sisters is found between twins. Even in the mother’s womb twins truly exchange feelings; if one cries then other feels some sorrow, the other feels some sorrow.</p>
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<p>Two brothers, Perez and Zerah, were struggling inside Tamar’s womb. At the time of delivery the brother who was later named Zerah reached his hand out of his mother’s womb. In order to clearly mark who was first born, the midwife tied a red thread around his wrist. This was representative of Cain, and ultimately foreshadowed the satanic force of the Last Days, which would eventually emerge as communism; before Jesus’ birth the Roman Empire held that position. After the red thread was tied on, however, a great struggle took place in Tamar’s womb, in which Perez fiercely pulled Zerah back in and was born first himself! Thus, the name Perez means “he who pushed aside.”</p>
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<p>You can see that at that time the victory won by Jacob over Esau was consummated in the mother’s womb through Perez and Zerah. Now restoration was complete in that lineage and there was no room for Satan to exert any claim, even from the time of conception in the womb. That family tree continued uninterrupted for 2,000 years down through the birth of Jesus. As you can see, God prepared a foundation which was totally cleansed from the root, so that at an opportune time God could have a sinless son out of that lineage, over whom Satan could have no claim.</p>
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<p>The restoration of the birthright was first carried out on the family level, and that particular family expanded to the national level. Years after Jacob won over Esau, Jacob and his family had to flee to Egypt, where over the generations they developed into a great tribe. Why were Jacob and his family sent to Egypt, which was enemy territory? Since that family was given the blessing of being called Israel, all the various elements of that family had to be totally united, but that had not been done. There was still room for Satan to accuse them of not being united. This was manifested in the fact that Jacob loved his eleventh son, Joseph, very much and the ten older brothers were jealous. Instead of thinking of Jacob’s happiness or mission, they were envious of Joseph and tried to kill him, eventually selling him into slavery in Egypt. Even though he was first a slave, Joseph became respected and loved by the Pharaoh and eventually became prime minister. When a seven-year famine struck Canaan, Jacob’s family was saved by Joseph when he gave them assistance in Egypt.</p>
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<p>When Jacob struggled with Esau he had to flee to Haran, and returned 21 years later to be reunited. In Egypt they grew in prosperity into twelve tribes of 600,000 people. During this period God allowed the Pharaoh to be very cruel, forcing the Hebrews to unite totally with each other. No one totally knows why the Pharaoh could be allowed to be so cruel to God’s chosen people. Because the Pharaoh was so cruel, however, the Hebrews became united under the leadership of Moses and were ready to obey God’s order through Moses.</p>
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<p>When the Hebrews came out of Egypt they took as many of the riches of the Egyptians as they could. This was one of the few dispensational moments that God allowed His people to strike a blow at the satanic side. This very rarely happens. At the conclusion of the Exodus the Hebrews entered Canaan, but again there was more division and lack of unity. Because they did not realize their mission and remained divided, God again used external forces to torment them and force them to awaken. I cannot clarify everything today, but eventually God used even the Roman Empire to chastise them just before Jesus’ arrival.</p>
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<p>The Romans worshipped many gods, but the Jews and Christians worshipped only one, and the two ideologies inevitably clashed. God made the Roman Empire strong to achieve one goal-the unity of the Jews, and a fierce determination to free their people from oppression. God always uses that strategy, so that by allowing an enemy to become strong His people are forced to unite. In the development of Christianity the early believers suffered terrible persecution. I visited the underground labyrinth of rooms in Rome known as the catacombs, where the Christians gathered secretly in the early days. They were deeply united because opposition was so strong.</p>
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<p>God used the Roman Empire to unite the Jews before Jesus came, and after the crucifixion God used the Roman Empire to make the Christians unite. Under those adverse conditions God’s people had to give up everything for the sake of God, so that there was no other reason for them to exist. Then they could have total oneness with God and with each other. In this way God’s dominion over all things, over man and over love could be restored. When God’s people were totally united, they would all move as one under His direction for wholesome restoration. All this is historical fact, but this perspective on history has not been known till now.</p>
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<p>After 4,000 years of biblical history since the fall of Adam and Eve, the time finally arrived for the birth of the Messiah. This means that for the first time in history God could finally send His true son in His lineage, sinless in the mother’s womb. Because that lineage had already been cleansed, Satan could have no claim on that sinless baby boy, and on this level Satan was defeated. This event was the first of its kind in history, and any people who united with this messianic child could also be made sinless and elevated into heaven. By uniting with the true child of God they would be linked to God, and dominion over all things, men and love could be restored directly.</p>
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<p>The Roman Empire ruled the nation of Israel externally, but the Messiah was to rule it internally once the Jews united totally with him. God wanted the Jews, whom He had trained for 2,000 years, to unite with Jesus so they would be as one. Jesus came to fulfill all of that. Jesus was already destined at his conception to be the son of God. Upon his birth God expected the whole nation to bow down to him.</p>
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<p>At one time I was buying clothes at a New York store which was run by a Jew. He asked me if I was Reverend Moon, and then wanted to ask me a question. He asked, “If the Jews are the chosen people whom God loves the most, why did God allow so much suffering to fall upon them? Can you answer me?” I replied, “The answer is rather simple, but explaining it fully would require one hour. Could you give up one hour of your business time to listen?” He said he couldn’t possibly do that, so I told him maybe we would talk another time.</p>
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<p>I want you to know that it is God’s will that all religions be united into one. You know restoration takes place according to the law of indemnity, and that God’s purpose is the restoration of all mankind. Some people, like Jesus, are in the position to sacrifice for the sake of the world. The Jews as well are in a position to help God restore billions of people around the world. Their sacrifices must not remain in vain; they served an important purpose in the history of God for the sake of restoring all the multitudes of people in history.</p>
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<p>Among the religions of the world, the Jews have suffered the most because God’s loved ones are always in a position to be a sacrifice. Because God allowed such suffering to come to the Jews, God expected them to be the strongest, most understanding and most united religious people. Who shall play the central role in uniting all religions? God handpicked the Jews and trained them for that role. This is my explanation of the suffering of the Jews from the dispensational point of view; their oppression was not a punishment from God, but was the same glorious sacrificial role that Jesus was given in order to complete the restoration of mankind.</p>
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<p>After World War II the Jews had a great opportunity because they suffered the most. They should have become flag bearers and champions of God, calling for unity of all religions, including Christianity, under God’s banner. If those two had united then the unity of all other religions would only have been a matter of time. The problem has been that Jewish thinking was always nationalistic, while God’s thinking was universal. The Jews should embrace all people of the world for their salvation, and in that case they would have won a true victory for God after World War II. But as long as they have narrow thinking they will face more and more problems. Once they liberate themselves to see from God’s perspective, their whole situation will become different. If they think self-centeredly then God will leave and look for some other champions elsewhere.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that because of this failure of religions to unite, communism could rise after World War II. In the event that they take over the free world, the first group of people to be annihilated will be the Christians. The worst bloodshed, never seen in history, will take place and touch all people of the world. The genocide of the Jews in World War 11 will seem small in comparison as millions and millions of people will die in that bloodletting. God will require the toughest kind of unity to be forged under those circumstances.</p>
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<p>Pope John Paul II visited New York recently and received a wholehearted welcome, but do you think he could have been given such a welcome under worldwide communist rule? No, the Pope and all Catholics, Protestants and Jews together would have been killed at the outset. What about the Unification Church? We would be the first to go. In that respect all religious people face a common destiny. My proclamation is that we must unite and go beyond the level of denomination and the boundaries of religions. I established a movement to unite religions, but instead of being united, Christians are uniting with communists to accuse and oppose us. What seems to be unanimous opposition to me, however, is being split by you who crossed over the line to unite with me. You are the people who saw the will of God and want to give your lives to it and fight for this goal.</p>
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<p>All of this has been a tangent because I thought about that Jewish merchant. so let’s get back to the main topic. Yet it is necessary that you know this common sense truth.</p>
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<p>The nucleus of God’s dispensation is given to the chosen people through the Messiah, who brings the true meaning of restoration to the world. Should the Messiah be born of a man? Of course not. “Man” is a short, simple word, but “woman” is a bigger word; that “wo” means Wow or wonderful, so women are “wonder people”!</p>
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<p>Who was chosen to fulfill that most extraordinary dispensation in the sight of God at the time of the Messiah 2,000 years ago? Her name was Mary. “Mary” and “marriage” sound quite alike. In God’s sight the first woman in the position of bride was Mary. She was a culmination of all God’s work through 4,000 biblical years of history, the pinnacle of this dispensation, and her responsibility as this chosen woman was to pass through a course representing all of history.</p>
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<p>In the process of the fall three deceptions took place. Eve deceived God, her Father, as well as Adam, her husband and God’s son. When God summoned Mary to take up her great responsibility, she was already engaged to be married. This was significant because the fall took place during the period of Adam and Eve’s engagement. Mary conceived Jesus without having any relationship with Joseph, so there was deception of her husband-to-be involved When the angel came to Mary, he told her she would conceive a son whose name would be Emmanuel. How did she react upon learning of this incredible mission? She could have refused, saying she was already engaged and that her fiancee would be angry, that she would be stoned if she conceived a child. The mission presented to her was a life risking one.</p>
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<p>Her husband-to-be was involved, as well as her own and her husband’s family, and the Jewish people. She was given a mission to conceive a child out of wedlock and faced condemnation and death. But did she refuse? She answered the angel, “I am the hand maid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” She knew people would revile her, so her determination was that she would willingly die, but not until after she had borne this son. She was clever and thought that the best way to protect herself would be to win Joseph’s heart. But could she go to him and claim that she was carrying the Messiah in her womb? She faced incredible difficulties, but I don’t want to take the time to go into detail.</p>
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<p>Ultimately, because Mary made up her mind to giver her life for the mission of God, God cooperated to help her. An angel appeared to Joseph in a dream, telling him not to fear taking Mary as his wife. Joseph was also a man of God, and where another man might have dismissed this as but a funny dream, he took it seriously. He turned his back on the external appearance of the situation and accepted it as God’s will. He took Mary as his wife, knowing that she was carrying a child that was not his.</p>
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<p>Do you think that naturally he would ask her whose baby it was, since after all he had saved her life? Could she reply that she conceived through the Holy Spirit and expect Joseph to accept it? If the Pope was in Joseph’s position would he believe her? Would Billy Graham believe his wife if she told him that? That kind of conversation between Joseph and Mary could have led only to a great argument, with Joseph accusing that even though he saved Mary’s life she still was not being honest with him. Though this is not exactly what took place, do you think there was no tension in that family when Jesus was finally born? At first the community would think he was Joseph’s son, but it was impossible to keep secrets. Any conversation between Mary and Joseph must have been overheard, even by the birds or insects, and I’m sure rumors spread quickly that Jesus was an illegitimate child.</p>
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<p>More children were born to Mary and Joseph, and they all knew that somehow Jesus was different. The Bible does not speak directly about this, but the fact is that when Jesus was a boy there was a great deal of tension, and even Mary was distant with him at times because she was a victim of the everyday situation. Jesus was lonely as a child and often left the house to be alone. Once his parents even left him behind in Jerusalem for three days, only coming back to look for him later. How could parents leave a young boy behind that way? There were not many happy days in that family.</p>
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<p>I’m sure many of you have grown up with a stepparent, and even in an open society like America’s today there is tension between a stepparent and stepchildren, so imagine how much more difficult it was 2,000 years ago. In this sense Americans are in a position to be sympathetic with Jesus’ position; many young people are experiencing the same kind of suffering Jesus went through.</p>
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<p>Satan took Eve away through deceit of father, husband and son. Mary, in the reverse position, willingly faced difficulty and misunderstanding in order to do the will of God. In spite of her mistakes, she was a great woman for she accepted the call and strove to fulfill it.</p>
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<p>This is the background of the circumstances under which Jesus was born. He was destined before his birth to be the Messiah, but he was not accepted by the people. He was rejected and crucified. God worked unspeakably hard to bring this one son of His to the world, guiding a course of incredible history. After all His effort, do you think His Messiah came only do die on a cross at the age of 33? Was that God’s will? The Messiah was born as the elder son of the universe on God’s side, having sovereignty over all things. Jesus was sent to the world as the representative of God’s personality, God’s love and God’s entire creation.</p>
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<p>After 4,000 long years of struggle, one person, Jesus, could be born as the representative of God in totality. Christians today must repent for not knowing that the crucifixion was not the will of God. The path of the cross was not God’s primary will, and the cross is not a pleasing symbol to God at all. Because this is what I teach, people call me a heretic, but let them go ahead. This is the hidden history that only God can reveal, and until now it has not been known to anyone on earth. If men continue in this ignorance, they are destined to be destroyed, but instead God has chosen me to reveal the truth for the first time in history.</p>
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<p>If I am truly a God-sent champion to reveal truth God has never disclosed in all history, then any religious leader or believer who opposes this work shall inevitably decline. Look at how Christianity, which has prospered for 2,000 years and spread throughout the entire world, is faltering and crumbling in the thirty short years since World War II. It cannot be a coincidence.</p>
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<p>What happened after Jesus’ crucifixion? God’s dispensation was divided, with one side a physical dispensation and the other a spiritual dispensation. Jesus remained the parent on the spiritual side. The Trinity of God and Adam and Eve, or male and female spirits, are represented by God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Hence, Jesus fulfilled the position of parent of mankind spiritually. His body was killed, so he was in a position to be a husband spiritually. The Holy Spirit is in the bride’s position, but has never had physical form as Jesus once did. In the end, however, the Holy Spirit will take physical form as one woman, who together with a physical man will become True Parents to mankind. Together they shall be the channel by which mankind can return to God.</p>
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<p>Only with the installation of True Parents who are both physical and spiritual can the Kingdom of Heaven on earth be formed which can finally be lifted into heaven. Therefore, the Bible and the Divine Principle teach that the Kingdom must come first on earth and then be opened in heaven: “Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”</p>
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<p>God created both man and woman, not just one or the other. Could Jesus be the parents of mankind all alone? The inevitable question is whether Jesus should have taken a bride. Then he would have had children, right? If his lineage had continued from generation to generation, would such a system as the papacy have been needed? Of course not. Jesus’ descendants would have been the center of the living kingdom on earth. If Jesus had left heirs on earth would there have been unity or not? Nothing like that happened, so the natural conclusion is that Jesus must come again. In order to fulfill this mission could he come as a celestial body on the clouds?</p>
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<p>Based on Jesus spiritual heritage the entity we know today as the free world was formed. What is its purpose? It exists as a foundation for the coming of thee Lord of the Second Advent. The center of that free world today is America, a nation which contain the essence of the Christian world in Europe. People <i>of </i>all denominations who lacked freedom of worship in Europe came to America, and the founding spirit of this nation is “In God We Trust.” When the Pilgrirn fathers came here. they came to make a better world centered upon God. They were outcasts in Europe and because their consciences could not accept the government oppression there they wanted to make a better world somewhere else God opened a new horizon to them in their search. and led them to America. They fled from Europe, determined to make a better country.</p>
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<p>Did they have a joyful, lighthearted departure from England? No, they were outcasts fleeing their own country. The Mayflower was a tiny, rickety ship and they sailed without any assurance of what their destiny would be, realizing that they could very likely all die at sea. That was the strength of their determination when they set sail.</p>
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<p>The Mayflower is a symbol of men who value their faith above life, men who don’t mind risking their lives to find freedom of worship. Because of the strength of their faith, America rose to incredible prosperity in the short time of 200 years. The people in this nation were determined to make a better nation than any in Europe, and believers and immigrants of all kinds came from abroad, creating a melting pot of faith, races and nationalities in this one nation. America is a movement of unification under God.</p>
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<p>There were many thousands of Indians in this country when the Europeans came, yet God sided with the white people and allowed them to push the Indians back and settle this country. Indian opposition to the settlers was quite necessary, however. If the Europeans had found this beautiful land all free and idle for them to use, selfishness and division would have been more extensive among all the different groups and they would have more easily forgotten God. God allowed the Indians to attack so that the white minority would have to unite. In the end, however, the white people made a great blunder. They should not have massacred the Indians but should have had the same unity with the Indians that they had among themselves.</p>
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<p>The law of cause and effect cannot be avoided in history. America is an extension of Great Britain which means that Satan is more interested in America’s fate. Thus, America is in a position to indemnify what Britain did wrong in history. The British had done great evil over the centuries particularly m Asia and India. They aggressively developed the Opium trade in the Orient in order to bring out ton after ton of gold for themselves Official policy gave no consideration to the well-being of the Asians and was totally unconcerned that whole groups of people became addicts. just as long as the British could keep petting gold. Someone today has to pay for that sin. America is paying that historical debt, and young people here are plagued by drugs White people crippled the lives of Asians through the effects of opium, and now the same evil is plaguing America.</p>
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<p>No other race in the world trusts the word of white people when they say they bring salvation because, especially in recent history, their actions have always brought greater evil and distress to other peoples. Look, for instance, at the plight of the boat people since America’s blunders in Vietnam. If Asians, however, come forward to say there is hope in the world, other people will listen to them. There is an unbridgeable gap between white and black people today, so a mediator must come and that can only be yellow people. It is historically sound to say that God will bring hope to the world from Asia.</p>
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<p>Do you hear any Orientals proclaiming hope for all mankind today? No Filipinos, Vietnamese, Chinese or Japanese have come forward. The only voice crying in the wilderness is Reverend Moon, and I am proclaiming the solution to the problem of the world. But I am not just shouting like a crazy man; this message is logical and truthful. America needs that voice and should listen, but instead of accepting me this nation is trying to suppress this movement. That is the reality.</p>
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<p>Someone might be skeptical and want to know why, if I am destined to save this world, I didn’t come to America sooner instead of waiting until I was fifty. The answer is that a foundation was necessary on the national level. Since Jesus lost his physical body and the national sovereignty of Israel was subsequently destroyed, that position must be indemnified and restored. Both spiritual and physical things must be restored on a national basis. Until then the world dispensation could not be started.</p>
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<p>Unity between spirit and body must start from one individual, then be expanded to one family, one tribe and one nation, then to the world. It is impossible to jump to the world level without following each of those steps. Before coming to America and the world stage I had to liquidate the debt of history. All the sins committed by men and women of history had to be solved before I could come.</p>
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<p>Jesus was opposed by his family, tribe, nation and world. And before I came to the worldwide level I received the same persecution. In order to indemnify the past I had to receive the same persecution, yet win. I came as the world champion of goodness, yet I was treated the worst possible way, as was Jesus. From Satan’s point of view the Messiah is the worst person in the world and he never wanted to look at Jesus, but from the heavenly standard the Messiah is the best. Satan doesn’t care how much the Mafia grows or how much drug addiction spreads, but he can’t stand to see my work growing in America and the world.</p>
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<p>If Satan is to survive he cannot allow me to prosper, so he began an all-out attack against me, mobilizing even the communists. He was even successful in getting religious people and well-established public figures to unite against me. No matter how righteous religious people may have been, if they oppose the central figure on God’s side they automatically put themselves on the satanic side. The ultimate showdown, however, must be done on the worldwide level. My work in Korea, Japan and Asia was only preparation. To make the final showdown I had to come to America, and you know the history of what I did after that.</p>
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<p>I arrived on December 18, 1971, but the real battle and offensive began on April 30, 1973, the day I was granted permanent residency in this country. On that day I was given legal permission to stay here, which meant I was allowed to begin the battle. It was all culminated roughly 3½ years later on September 18, 1976 at the Washington Monument Rally. That was a gigantic heavenly offensive on the worldwide level. During those years I created a God-centered nation on the worldwide level and God-centered people on the worldwide level; everything I did in those years was on the worldwide level.</p>
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<p>The ultimate goal is that centered upon the love of God you restore dominion over all things of creation and all people. In every respect the standard of God’s people must be superior to any satanic standard. How can we prove that we have set that standard? If you have a great chunk of gold, will you put it in your pocket, or rejoice that it will serve the purpose of the Kingdom of God? When miners found gold during the 1849 gold rush they killed each other to keep that gold for themselves. But in the heavenly standard we rejoice that it can be used for Kingdom building, not for ourselves.</p>
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<p>The purpose of MFT is training to prove to the secular world that our standard is higher. If we earn $100, we want to give $101; that’s the way we think. Then that money shall come under God’s dominion, without restriction. Adam and Eve lost that standard, so men and women, you and I, should restore it. Some people might say they like the Unification Church and the Divine Principle, but they don’t like to fund raise. Is it right for people just to want to enjoy some benefit for themselves? Unless you set a standard higher than Satan’s side, you have no way to represent God’s dominion over all things and all people.</p>
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<p>When you join the Unification Church, the first thing you do is fund raising. You must liberate yourself from the old selfish way of thinking about money, giving up the concept that money is for your benefit. On MFT you might think you are tired and want to use the money you earned for a big meal at a nice restaurant, or for a taxi instead of walking, giving the leftovers for God’s mission. That is not the right way to think. Adam and Eve never had a car, so we walk too. The excuse that you need vans for fund raising is not acceptable. Unless you keep the highest possible standard in fund raising here in America, how can you win on the worldwide level?</p>
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<p>This way of thinking is rather fearful, but it is not my thinking-it is God’s thinking. If you live this absolute standard, Satan is the one who will be trampled and have to bow down to you. This is the victory God wants to gain. If there is anyone who has the right to complain, I am surely the first one. Have you suffered as much as I have? There is absolutely no suffering that I have not gone through.</p>
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<p>Satan has mobilized every technique to oppose heaven’s forces and there is no method he hasn’t tried on me. When he opens his big gun against me, I squat down and hunch over and just take the beating. The enemy encircles me, but since I am down so low their fire ultimately hits each other instead of me. The government and religious leaders thought they were firing at me, but they have discovered they are firing at each other instead. I take their fire calmly, but they are fighting among themselves over me. That’s God’s strategy, and no one can outwit God, right?</p>
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<p>It is inevitable that a controversial giant shall emerge around whom all four billion people in the world shall gather and start barking at each other. In the end they will conclude either that he is the most precious visitor sent by heaven, or the worst criminal. I cannot be halfway or mediocre: I must be either completely good or completely evil. The world is divided over this, saying both that I am the best and the worst. Where do I stand? You recognize that I am a controversial figure in the world. In one thing I have unquestionably won the championship: I am the King of Controversy! That is one thing no one can dispute, young or old. Mother and my children also believe that.</p>
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<p>Either I am extremely evil or extremely good, but which side am I on? You are just saying I am on the side of good, right? When the entire world hits you, will you divide or unite? You are not so dumb that you will divide? Are you united? I see all kinds here, white and black skins, and all colors of hair. Are you united? Will God say He cannot forgive me because I took His love and all the young people, or will He be excited and encourage me to do more?</p>
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<p>What a wonderful goal we have! For the first time in history we want to create one race of mankind we call the love race or Adam raise all colors of skin as brothers and sisters and no national boundaries. If I were living in the remote countryside of Cuba and called all the Moonies of the world to come see me, would you come? Even if your parents and all your relatives opposed you? Even if the U.S. Government refused to let you go? Would you swim across? Sharks might get you! The one principle of life or credo which would bring you is what is in the Bible: “Those who would lose their life for my sake will find it.”</p>
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<p>Do you think there will be years of greater controversy to come in the future? No. The year of most heated worldwide controversy was 1976. Everyone was watching the Washington Monument Rally, including nations and U.S. Government agencies, hoping Reverend Moon would sink down. Only one group of young people was insisting that I would go up instead. The problem is which side God stands on. He stood on my side and because of that support we won the victory. This hectic battle will continue until 1980, but a culminating point must come and it will all be finished.</p>
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<p>Without the help of God would it be possible that one man coming from a mountain village in Korea, not understanding the language or the culture, could go to a foreign land and stir up the entire world in 3½ years? Is that an ordinary or an extraordinary thing? Furthermore, that battle was not fought in an obscure place, but in front of the U.S. Congress. It was a modern-day confrontation between David and Goliath. I predicted in those days that we would prevail, but when I spoke like that in 1976, 1977 and 1978, did you believe me 100 %? Only a few of you said yes. Most of you were not sure.</p>
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<p>After all these victories were won, God declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven. All the 6,000 years of biblical history were won at that point. On the foundation of that victory I proclaimed the year one in the history of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, on February 23, 1977. From that point on the defensive battle was finished and now everything we do shall become a monument to that victory.</p>
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<p>The battlefield since that day is home church, where we are deeply moving into society. In home church we are winning on the level of family, people, nation and world, and the home church victory represents all victories. Home church is your divine altar to offer yourself as a living sacrifice for God. When you make a righteous offering there you are inheriting all of heaven. Your 360 home area is your world, your place of love, service, worship and prayer. There you care for the people and teach them, awakening them from darkness to light. Ultimately you shall be recognized as their tribal messiah. You shall be a master in three ways: master of love, master of all things, master of people. It all comes together in home church.</p>
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<p>If you are united into one then our opposition shall cease, slowly but surely. As long as there is division, however, there will continuously be enemies coming against us. The communists will continue to pressure the free world until it awakens and becomes one.</p>
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<p>Now you can clearly understand the meaning of the Day of the Victory of Heaven. This is the historical day which marks my victory over Satan and payment of all the debts of the world, just as Jacob struggled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok and finally won. I have restored the name Israel, which means victor, on the worldwide and universal scale. That is the meaning of this day.</p>
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<p>We have laid a firm foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Even if all of us except one person were to die, leaving that one person to carry the banner, he would succeed in building the Kingdom of Heaven. But we will not die; we shall win and the Kingdom of Heaven shall be a reality, not a dream. Since the Day of the Victory of Heaven, unity between God, Adam and Eve, and the archangel has taken place. In the garden of Eden they were all divided, but here they are united and restored.</p>
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<p>Adam and Eve represent the physical kingdom of God on earth, while the archangel represents the spirit world, or Kingdom of Heaven in Heaven. All three united together create the unity of the Kingdom of Heaven both on earth and in spirit world. Now that the foundation is laid on earth, all the spiritual power that had been confined to heaven can freely work and intervene on earth as well. This is why you can act boldly and strongly-the entire spirit world and angelic world is behind you. There is no way you can be alone and weak.</p>
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<p>Unless you have a bold and dynamic trust in God and True Parents and demonstrate your faith by your achievement here on earth, you will not be respected when you go to spirit world. I want you to understand the true meaning of this day. Before this day was declared, the spirit world was in the subject role and here on earth we were in the passive role. But the establishment of the Day of the Victory of Heaven reversed these roles and now people on earth are the masters over the spirit world. We are in command, not the spirit world.</p>
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<p>From now on, those who join the Unification Church shall be fierce fighters who will do more work than the old timers. I want you to understand this very clearly because unless you do very well you shall be in the position of Cain, not Abel. Who is Cain? He is the one who doesn’t want to go to the front line. That is why I push out all the Abel forces to the front line, as in CARP. If you just want to sit relaxed and idle, your foundation will be lost and you will find no position in the Kingdom. This is why the Bible clearly predicted that those who were first will become last, and the last become first. This is why I had my first disciples from several decades ago in Korea come to America and sent them to the front line. That’s the only way they could survive. The front line is the place of survival.</p>
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<p>What is the gift which the Day of Victory of Heaven brought to you? What will home church bring to you? God’s providence has prevailed in heaven and it shall prevail on earth; the priority has been reversed from spirit world to physical world. A new age has dawned. Why do we proclaim this new age? The old history has been terminated and the new age has begun. The direction of God’s work has been changed from heaven to earth, and God will dominate directly. The highest of the satanic positions has been taken over by the heavenly side.</p>
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<p>We should work with the spirit of going 24 hours a day plus one more hour. Since it is physically impossible to have 25 hours, you have to run faster. There is no time to sit down and eat in relaxation. There is no time to take all your clothes off and relax in bed; just lean against your bed standing up and sleep a little bit. That is the kind of tradition you must build. You will become pioneers of the new age if you live this way, in the ultimate age which is dawning in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
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<p>Rebecca, Tamar, Mary and others really gave up their lives to serve God. Do you think I did that too? Would you inherit that tradition too? From this time on God is with you. Home church is your life-giving duty, and unto your life you should do home church. In home church you will indemnify everything that was lost in history-all the things of creation, all the love and heart which was lost, all of God’s personality which was lost.</p>
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<p>Shall we renew ourselves on this anniversary and make a new beginning? Those who feel, “Today we must make a pledge never to shame the Day of the Victory of Heaven” raise your hands. Now the emphasis has shifted from heaven to earth. God’s spirit is coming down and the emphasis of spirit world has</p>
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<p>shifted to earth. We shall not get behind those in spirit world but lead them. That should also be your pledge on this day. Raise your hands and show me if you determine never to shame the Day of the Victory of Heaven but to lead the spirit world and angelic world and win the victory.</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="2018-06-19T15:00:04+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/do-not-be-discouraged.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T15:00:04+01:00">June 19, 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/2018/06/19/do-not-be-discouraged.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">November 11, 1979<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>In the long course of a man’s life there are always ups and downs. When a man feels successful and like he is conquering the hills in his life, he feels joy; but when he feels unsuccessful and overwhelmed, he feels discouraged. Our physical bodies, but most important, our spirit men, both feel that emotion. Our minds should always be dwelling on how to achieve a higher goal and hope. When the mind is strong, the body always has strength as well. If the mind has a great vision and hope, the body always reacts by wanting to live up to it.</p>
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<p>What do you think God’s situation is? God is just like man in that respect. God is not always joyful or laughing. If you recognize that God and man’s relationships are one, then you know that God also experiences ups and downs when man does. If the children in a home are suffering some stress and their morale is low, it will affect their parents. Good parents like to see their children enthusiastic and with uplifted minds.</p>
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<p>God in heaven is our Parent also. and He must react to this like human parents do. The same principle functions in a nation. People who are concerned about their nation always want to see national spirit running high. The leadership of the nation is always sensitive to the spirit of the people. When the people move forward with vitality, the leaders do the same. When the leaders see that the morale of the people is low, however, they are in a position to lift up the vision and hope of the people.</p>
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<p>Parents try to inspire their children so that they have healthy minds and great vision. When they feel low, the parents try to devise a way to uplift them. If the parents are really a tower of strength to their children then there is peace in that home. This principle works the same on every level of the home, society, nation, world and universe.</p>
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<p>There is a presidential campaign underway here in America. What kind of leaders does America want to have? The nation needs a President who has hope and vision, plus ideas for implementing them. The communist world has a goal and ambition, so the free world should have a greater hope and vision, as well as men of stronger will to actualize them. The leader of this nation should not be timid or fearful; he must have an iron will to implement his ideals, and the wisdom to make clear judgments.</p>
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<p>What kind of parents would you respect as a tower of strength? People who have a vision and hope, and the guts to live them. The same thing can be said about God. He must be a source of hope and strength and will. Finally, God must have wisdom. Whom can we trust as individuals? God is a little too far away; those nearest to us are our parents, so we should trust in them. We want to have parents we can be proud of in front of the nation. Can America be proud of your parents? In many cases you are not sure and feel some discouragement over this point.</p>
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<p>As a nation whom can we trust? Can we trust President Carter wholeheartedly? You are not even sure if you can trust your brothers and sisters either. It is discouraging to feel there is no place we can put our trust. Our mind always desires happiness at home, but in many cases people reluctantly return to their homes in the evening, and plan how to leave again quickly.</p>
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<p>America is supposed to be a good nation. In what respect can we find goodness in America? Wherever we look in today’s society, we find despair instead of pride. Can you find hope for America in your church or a school, or in a disco place? America’s reputation in the world is very low today, and in many places America is a target of hatred. There is not hope but despair in this country.</p>
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<p>What is the worst thing that could discourage us today? The home is the foundation of a society, but America’s homes are breaking down. Parents should govern their family with love, but there is unrest instead because often the parents cannot communicate with each other and are in despair. When the father and mother cannot become one, how could we expect the children to be at peace with each other? Who would want to come home and look at his parents’ faces in that case? It is only natural that young people try to leave such a home. Is it heaven to be wandering around the streets with your sleeping bag on your back?</p>
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<p>Nevertheless, the original mind of each person harbors hope for the ideal family. Everyone wants a home, some cubbyhole where they can have peace, freedom and privacy. They want to build a fence around such a home so they would not be disturbed.</p>
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<p>The second source of discouragement in America is the standard of the churches. People think that at least in church they should feel comfort and peace, even though their home is breaking down. But once you get involved with the churches you feel discouraged again because there is not much love, heavenly spirit or unselfishness there. There are usually selfish interests at work, with human elements instead of godly elements governing the church. Yet it is unrealistic to ignore this reality and try to concentrate on heaven by yourself and have only an individual life of faith.</p>
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<p>The churches have no reasonable explanation for why anyone should have confidence enough in heaven to ignore reality on earth. After a person finds despair at home and looks for hope at church, he is discouraged again at what he finds there. The more he gets to know the church leaders, the more discouraged he feels. The longer you stay in a church, the more you see how petty things upset people there and they lack the love to overcome disagreements peacefully. Even in churches there are power politics and struggles.</p>
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<p>We are discouraged when we look at America’s situation. This nation has been called the leading nation on earth, and the people of underdeveloped nations around the world think of America as heaven. But where is America heading today? Do you think it is moving forward or backward? This nation claims that democracy is the best form of government, but today it provides a haven for communist activity. The infiltration of disciplined communists cannot be stopped by this form of government.</p>
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<p>However evil the communists may be, they at least have a plan of action for conquering the world and they have some energy to keep going. But what is America’s goal? What is democracy headed for? While communism is systematically taking over the world, what should democracy do? As things are, there is only ruin ahead for democratic nations. During the Carter administration America’s world influence has shrunk, and this nation has been acting ideally for communist purposes.</p>
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<p>Do Americans have hope that the next president will be any different, that he will be able to stand up with a goal and program to stop the expansion of communism? Even if a president might wish to do so, where could he get the conviction and power to do so? We don’t see much hope for the present or the future, so Americans face despair on every front.</p>
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<p>If God has a certain direction, will and discipline, and democracy is on God’s side, why are the families, churches and the whole nation crumbling like this? Why did God allow this to happen? We can conclude that things happened this way simply because the family is living contrary to God’s will. The churches are declining because they are not moving in God’s direction. The nation is in despair because it is not fulfilling God’s will. If they could flourish under these circumstances then you would have to conclude that God did not exist. Let’s talk about God then.</p>
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<p>It God desires the ideal family, church and nation, there must be some formula to accomplish them. If we can find it and live up to it, then God has to jump on our backs! If we can create families and churches that do God’s will then they would have to flourish If we could turn everything around like that then there would be hope and excitement instead of despair and discouragement.</p>
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<p>How can we turn families into God-centered families? That kind of family must be focused on God’s morals. Churches must be rebuilt to be governed by a God-centered spirit. National policy should be intently focused on a victory over communism because it is God’s worst enemy. What are we here for in the Unification Church? To build the ideal family, church and nation. The key word is unification. There are a lot of other churches out there already, so does unification mean that our church becomes the most important one, or that it builds reciprocal relationships with everyone? The Korean word tong il, which means unification, has the meaning of governing or leading. Thus, Unification Church means we will lead people into one, into unity.</p>
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<p>The church is like a bridge between the family and the nation, representing both. It is in the tribal position, linking the two. Thus, the church is a workshop for future ideal family members and future ideal citizens of the nation. It brings all kinds of people and molds them into ideal family members and ideal citizens.</p>
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<p>The church gives direction to the family, and also gives guidance to the nation. This is why you see the prophets of history, who stood in the position of churches, telling their kings or queens what God wanted them to do. The church is God’s agent, through which He instructs the family and nation.</p>
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<p>What kind of citizens does God desire? He wants ideal citizens who are centered on Himself. God already has His ideal for the family and nation, and the church should create the citizens who can live up to those ideals. No one has ever seen this citizenship, however. The ideal has not existed yet. The families and churches and nations of the past have failed, so God is giving a mandate to one group of people to create the ideal family and nation; that group is known today as the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Maybe you think I am saying this just because I founded the Church. How could you prove I am not Lying? The best way is to see whether you can find the ideal family by living this way. If you can create an ideal home, tribe, nation and world this way, then you know it is true. Whatever level you are on, God is always behind you, holding on. He cannot separate Himself from you. The key question is whether our direction and teaching is designed to make you such a person.</p>
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<p>Should God’s ideal kingdom be better than anything existing here on earth? If God is prejudiced in favor of only whites living with whites, or blacks with blacks, then He is either a white or black God. If He favors only Judaism then He is a Jewish God. But to the Unification Church He is a universal God. The Unification God looks at blacks and whites with the same eyes, wanting to bring them together in one love. God wants to see white, black and yellow live in one home, eating, sleeping, working and having fun together. He wants to create three brothers out of white, black and yellow.</p>
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<p>I don’t know what kind of God other churches worship, but that is the God I know. Therefore, the Unification Church is here to do unusual, extraordinary things. We marry differently because we emphasize mingling all the races. We do things like marriage and mission from the historical point of view. We sit on the floor, not on chairs like other Western churchgoers. We are not fixed in our habits; we can sleep standing up, walking and sitting as well as Icing down on a bed. You are used to bread and butter, but now you like rice and kimchi as well. Who says we have to do things a certain way? If you can’t find a bedroom you might sleep in a barn with the animals. Who says you can’t have a dog for a roommate?</p>
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<p>Normally you don’t pay much attention to cats, but what if they were your creation? You love the cat and hold it close to you. If the cow in the smelly barn was your creation, her smell would be perfume, and you would pat her and want to be near her. When you imagine that you are God who created the world then everything would be lovely to you, even if other people criticized it. What a dramatic life that is! You will never be ruined by thinking like that; because you are on God’s side you are bound to prosper.</p>
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<p>You used to look down as you walked, but now you hold your head up and look around. We even walk differently. You are used to thinking of 10 p.m. as bedtime, but to us midnight is the middle of the day. Who said you have to eat breakfast at seven in the morning? Why not eat lunch in the morning and breakfast at night? We actually have complete freedom.</p>
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<p>What are we trying to accomplish by being this way? Usually if people are mistreated they are in despair and think about suicide, but we don’t care. If someone knocks us down, we just get up again and keep going in the right direction, even if there are tears rolling down. Who has more hope-the person who is crying in despair, or the person who is crying in pain yet still has a direction to go in? You are the bunch who aren’t disturbed by anything. You just keep going.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t matter what the Justice Department or the <i>New York Times, </i>or even the Congress does; I just keep going in one direction and never stop. Nothing disturbs me, so certainly nothing could stop me. Even if I received persecution at the family level I would still move on to the tribal level, knowing that if I succeed on the tribal level the family will automatically come. When they find me ahead of them they will bow down and wonder how I managed to get there. Even if the tribe opposes me, I go on to the national level and wait for the tribe to find me ahead of them. Then they will bow down.</p>
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<p>Now the entire democratic and communist worlds are coming against me, but I will be ahead of them on the level of the unified world, waiting for them. If God denied me then you might be stopped in despair, but that would never disturb me. I would keep on going inside the heart of God’s love, and wait until God came in to find me. The unification ideal is truly dramatic!</p>
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<p>If we have God’s love, we can control Him and make Him helpless. And if we have the power to make God helpless and melt His heart, how much more could you melt the five races into one heart? With that love you could govern all people. As soon as people touch the net of God’s love they are activated, like being jolted by an electric current. Once a person is intoxicated by the love of God, he thinks of nothing else. That love has an absolute, unique and unchanging direction, not many, and so everyone coming in that one direction has to be united.</p>
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<p>No matter how people try to upset you and turn you around, you would turn them around to go in your direction instead. Would you have much agony in your heart as a result? No, by practicing this you will feel the entire universe breathing with you. You feel that you breathe in the air of God, and when you exhale it, it is distributed to the American people. Some people might be disgusted at the thought of breathing the air you gave them, but since you have already inhaled all the universal air, it must be the case.</p>
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<p>I am just one small man compared to the physical universe, but as soon as I step forward, the entire universe is marching with me. I know that in my bones. Not only you but the entire spirit world is trying to march to my rhythm. How could you be a son of God if the entire universe didn’t respond? Even without food you would feel the entire universe was marching with you. Even if you had no clothes you would not feel shame. In reality, compared to the beauty of the universe, whatever you wear is shabby. Isn’t this a dramatic life?</p>
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<p>It is our pride that we get up at 3 a. m. to be here for 6 a.m. service on Sunday. You come without breakfast in order to worship God first. Other people sleep late and eat a big breakfast and then go to church, but we are different. It is normal that you feel pain from sitting on a concrete floor, but that is your pride as well. Later on we may not even sit, but stand and worship. Later on we may hang on to ropes from the ceiling-that would be even more dramatic!</p>
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<p>We can go to any extreme, but at the same time we can make it as good as possible. We have that much room to maneuver. On the other hand, instead of sitting to worship, we might lie down on the ground. Then you would be looking at God directly, and you could tell God you are His little baby, with diapers that get wet, who has to worship Iying down.</p>
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<p>Would any parent complain that his child has wet diapers all the time? The love of God liberates everything. When you look at something with a loving eye and heart, nothing will bother you. When you get up in the morning you take a deep breath and exhale, and you feel good. Give and take of air makes you feel good. Our way of life is inhaling all the way to one extreme, and exhaling to the other extreme.</p>
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<p>Do you think I am a very unfortunate or a happy person? Do you know how much suffering 1 have been through? If I told you my whole story, none of you could sit still because you would be shaking with tears. No one understands-not one parent or teacher understood me. I am one lonely man. You are lucky because you can rely on my guidance and I help take care of you. But I have no one like that. I had to shed blood, sweat and tears to produce everything, step by step.</p>
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<p>I have never cared what anyone else thought nor asked their sympathy. 1 only cared how God would see me. If God loves me and wants to bless me, why didn’t He give me an easy way? If He had done that then I would have had no special distinction. God wanted some special person which only He could claim, so He pushed me down the worst kind of road. Even if a million candidates started down that road, the suffering along the way would be so great that they would all drop out. I would be the only person still going strong, so what would God say?</p>
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<p>Initially Satan was my companion because he was trying to knock me down, but I was so tough that he finally had to say good-bye. God was the only one left who was still following me. When He declared I was the winner, He told me to start building the family, nation and world, and He would be with me. In that process I came to America, and even if the entire world comes against me it doesn’t matter.</p>
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<p>There were many people who were intoxicated initially by the Divine Principle, but who then felt they did not want to live this way of life. I’m sure many of you think of retreating because this is so difficult. I am the remnant who is still going strong, and God knows I will go all the way. No other religious leader has received more suffering, or gone a more incredible path. Do you believe that? What are we trying to accomplish by doing this? We will be entitled to God’s love, which no one else ever came close to deserving. Once we possess God’s love there is nothing else for us to envy or desire.</p>
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<p>I can do anything I want to, have anything I want. If it were necessary to build one hundred East Gardens, that is possible. People gossip about where I live, but I do not envy even the richest or most powerful person in the world. I have a better kingdom. We have a heavenly kingdom made of all five colors of skin as one family of man. Does any king or queen have this?</p>
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<p>If you are determined to unite with me. I am determined to give you incredible hard work and suffering. I would like to see you make a new history and record for your lineage of doing the most hard work. By doing so you would be entitled to receive the love your ancestors never knew. If you win the race, you are entitled to some reward. I want each of you to be kings and queens of God’s love in your family line, so that no one else can compete with you. When you go to spirit world, all the people in your lineage will proudly line up behind you as their commander. That’s how I think about you.</p>
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<p>You might shiver at the thought of what you will have to go through! I can see there are some new members here this morning, and maybe they are getting a shock treatment, but they can pack up and go any time. If they are able to be real Moonies. however, they will realize what a wonderful faith they have found.</p>
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<p>The entire spirit world is united, so it unanimously supports what I do. Can you take that? Go ahead and find out if I am telling you the truth. There are many mediums and spiritual people, so ask them about me. I am the only person who can make unreserved statements like this. If Senator Kennedy became President, could he say, “Go ahead and ask spirit world. They will testify to me and tell you to follow my leadership”? Does spirit world follow the American President? But when the seemingly insignificant Reverend Moon, who has no title on earth, speaks out, the spirit world jumps. If it is the truth, then some amazing thing is happening now.</p>
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<p>Do you think this happened by chance? Not at all; I made it so. The spirit world has no other choice. How much do you understand what kind of father you have? You have hardly scratched the surface. I am the subject of much research, but even before you look very far you sit down with weariness.</p>
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<p>I returned to Korea recently. The first people to greet me there were some Buddhist monks who had received spiritually exactly what time I would arrive. They prepared some gift and came to greet me. Are you on the same level as these people who communicate with spirit world? The founders of the major religions are focused on me and I am an important topic of discussion among them. I don’t think you have ever heard anyone speaking like this. How much of an honor it is for you to meet such a person. when you never even thought he would exist. And even more than just knowing such a person, it is your pride to receive commands from him.</p>
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<p>We have a multi-color church, and each race feels good here. If all of you were unmarried, the best way to find your mate would be to put on blindfolds and take the first person you touch. If I said that was true, would you want to do it? Because you say yes, people say you are brainwashed!</p>
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<p>American families, churches and the nation are in despair. The communist world is in despair. But when you come to the Unification Church are you in despair? If you say “no” then you “know” the answer. When you remember your past life and compare it to what you are now, you see that now you have purpose and discipline in your life, and you strive to live up to God’s morals. Are you proud in front of all America? Wherever you go you have no shame, but can present yourself with pride.</p>
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<p>America today is practically an animal house, but now you young people who were living in that house have become proud sons and daughters of God who are striving to live up to His ideal. How proud you can be! Your mouths, which have kissed strangers for physical pleasure, are speaking the truth now. You women have used your bosoms to entice men, but now they are God’s temples and shall be used only for His purpose. Your bodies are preparing to bear a prince or princess of God.</p>
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<p>You are divine men and women and there is no way you will allow yourself to be cheapened. Do you men have that kind of body? Your body is being prepared to welcome God’s daughter. Are you really living up to this? Are you ready to take off straight up in the air, or are you wishy-washy and ambling about?</p>
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<p>If I have nothing else of accomplishment, yet the young people of America are here responding to me, is it good or bad? It is so good that the wealth of the world is nothing in comparison. I have no shame in front of the world or God.</p>
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<p>When you enter your own home you are welcomed by your wife and children and have no shame. In that family there is no night, but only bright sunshine. If you have that kind of proud, honest, God-centered family, would you swap it for the entire nation, no matter how rich?</p>
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<p>If America is one giant apple, but worms are eating their way in from all sides so it is honeycombed with their tunnels, would you rather have that apple or a small one that is whole and perfect’! That apple may be small now, but it is growing. Even when it is small you cannot swap the value of that little apple for the entire universe. One man, Reverend Moon, started as a small apple, but has grown into a big one. Do you think it will keep growing? Even if you insist you shouldn’t grow, you will anyway. We are destined to grow.</p>
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<p>I know precisely how that apple will grow. That is the reason why we have hope and know this is the only way. When you become a parent your children call you father, but when you lead a church, the people call you father also. At East Garden Mother and I are Mommy and Daddy, and in the Unification Church we are Mother and Father. Later on when the world comes under God we will still be known as Mother and Father. That is only natural because parents are the closest people to their children.</p>
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<p>Is God only the God of the family? He is also the Church God, and God of the nation, plus the world. Would you rather see your father become head of the nation instead of your uncle? Of course. God is your Father in your home, your nation and the world, and He cannot be happy without you. God is the representative of the home, tribe, nation and world. Since your Father represents them all, you as His son represent them all as well. If I am a father, I must educate sons and daughters who can represent the family, tribe, nation and world.</p>
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<p>You should not look at your family as only a family, but as the center of the world. You belong to a tribe, and it should be the center of the world. Your nation should be the center of the world. Until now, to be universal you had to give up your family, tribe and nation to serve the world, but unification does not teach that. We teach that you can win the world by serving the world, by carrying out everything you do as service to the world and thus becoming the center of the world. It doesn’t matter what culture or nation you belong to-anyone can live up to this ideal.</p>
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<p>When you serve your parents you are serving the world because all people are extensions of your parents or brothers and sisters. Our family is a microcosm of the world, and when it is expanded it becomes the world. Everything you do is linked to the family; what your family does is linked to the tribe; what the tribe does is linked to the nation, the nation to the world, and in God it all becomes one. Just as each grade in school forms a foundation for subsequent grades, you make a foundation as an individual to serve the family, as a family to serve the tribe, and so forth.</p>
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<p>So far there has been no linkage between the segments of the world and individualism has separated everyone. Because everything is broken into pieces, bridges need to be built, but you cannot do that yourself. I have created one continuous line linking everything for the first time, and now it is far easier for everyone else to go. Would you go with tears or laughter? With discouragement or hope? Voluntarily, or only when pushed” The important thing is whether you have courage.</p>
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<p>Don’t you get sick and tired of fund raising and witnessing and feel you have had enough? Don’t you think it is too much to sell the <i>News World? </i>We have totally revolutionized our lives in every way; even your eyes, ears, nose and mouth are revolutionized, and every part of you is new. You are not a tiny, insignificant person, but a man or woman who can command the universe.</p>
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<p>There are no fixed habits in the Unification Church. Whether you have a Ph.D. does not make you important automatically. Some of you joined because your girlfriend or boyfriend joined and you couldn’t bear to be separated, but once you knew the greater reality, those things became very cheap. You feel that you have become royalty of God now. Every bus or train posts its destination; what kind of destination do you have? We are bound to a different destination. You have your own label-“Heaven-bound husband” or “Heaven-bound wife”. Behind you is the “Heavenbound tribe,” Heaven-bound nation” and “Heavenbound universe.” Our everyday activities don’t look very different from what the rest of the world does, yet our destination is different. Our goal and our label is different. Are you heaven-bound?</p>
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<p>You always say yes, but you have lied to me a lot in the past! I know it is not a lie. When you say yes you intend to do it, but sometimes you keep postponing it!</p>
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<p>If I passed away would you pack and leave the next day? Nothing would be different; you would still have the mission to save America and change the world so you should keep marching on. Whether I live here on earth or not would not change the direction one iota.</p>
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<p>I know that when I speak at Belvedere everyone comes, but if you know I will be away then not as many come. Why is that? How can I trust you? I would prefer that the opposite was the case. When I am away, more people should be here because you have to take charge. If you practice this while I am on earth, then when I go to spirit world there will be no problem. If I die, would you not come to Belvedere any more? Isn’t it true that you feel more energy to come when you know I am going to speak? Even if I pass away I will never disappear. Spiritually I will be here many times more strongly than I was here physically.</p>
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<p>You should discipline yourselves to be able to do both. Of course you want to come see me, but when I am not here you should want to live up to my expectations. That is how you will become different men and women who can be trusted by God. Next time you will be different, right?</p>
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<p>If I were personally guiding you in home church I’m sure each of you would succeed, but even without that personal attention will you be successful? Your yes sounds very funny, not very willing.</p>
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<p>We have many stages to go through, like traveling on a local train with many stops. Wouldn’t you rather take an express or fly to the destination? You may not have done too well on the lower levels, but if you bring great success on the world level then everything is automatically taken care of. You may not win the 100-meter race, but if you win the marathon you are a great hero. You may not have done too well on the family level, but you should think you will be a champion on the nation and world levels.</p>
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<p>You can think that working in America is all right, but working in another nation is better. Working in the free world is fine, but working underground in a communist country is better. We make it our habit never to be discouraged. Sometimes our physical body needs rest, but instead of getting discouraged and thinking you are no good, get some rest with the attitude that you rest today so that tomorrow you can do better. If because you rested you can go even higher than before, then your rest is justified.</p>
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<p>Sometimes a small thing might not go well and you get discouraged. But look at it as preparation to take off even higher. You know that you have betrayed God at times, but God will never betray you. For that reason you cannot be discouraged. You may kick yourself away from God, but God will never kick you away Himself. Sometimes you disappoint Him; it is true that many people have disappointed Him. But then take off and do something greater. God dwells on your success, not your failure.</p>
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<p>You may think you are not good in individual witnessing because you don’t have many spiritual children, and feel you are worthless. But instead, think that you may perhaps do better in group witnessing. If your record as a fund raiser is not good, you may be good in a business and earn a great deal of money for God’s kingdom that way. That can be your hope. Always have hope and persevere.</p>
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<p>You may have only small hope and no energy, and that’s why you need prayer. You have to plug into God’s power. You have to pray with the same intensity and urgency that you look for food when you are hungry. Have you prayed seriously like that? If you do then God will always come to your aid. I want you to know that I will never give you up or betray you. I have been betrayed over and over by my followers. Even after my long prison term in North Korea, most of the members had run away, but I knocked on the door of each one to embrace them again.</p>
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<p>will never betray you. I will never betray you. How can you betray God then? The Unification Church ideology is based on the four position foundation, which is built on three generations: God, True Parents, and you. You are included in the three generations of God. You are an insignificant person, a sinner, yet you are brought back to God in these three generations. As the second generation, I am forming a link with God for you and you are like God’s grandchildren. Since we cannot see God, He gave an object for mankind to serve and love: the True Parents you can relate to physically. This is the tradition of the heavenly family which God set up. You inherit the tradition from me. You love the world and God as I did.</p>
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<p>Do you think God is discouraged, or I am discouraged? Never. That is another tradition you must inherit. Whenever you are really, God and True Parents are ready to respond. Therefore, today’s topic is “Never Be Discouraged.” If you are discouraged, harbor new hope, add new vitality and take off again. You must have boldness and courage, but also wisdom and the ability to judge clearly what is right and wrong.</p>
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<p>You will be a husband or wife some day and have children. Instead of needing advice from your spouse, you should be a person he or she can praise. What can a wife praise about her husband, or a husband praise about his wife? The fact that you are loyally living up to God’s tradition is the most praiseworthy attribute you can have. Then you will not be shamed in front of your children because you will have something for them to inherit. You must be a living example, or else you have nothing to be proud of which you can leave them. These things are your task, not the Unification Church task, and they are for your benefit.</p>
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<p>Be a proud husband, proud wife, proud family, proud tribe, proud nation. But you have to earn that pride, and that is your job, not the Church’s. God and True Parents are your supporters, and whenever you are in need they will supply energy, experience, and a new spiritual dimension. For whom are you working then? You serve God, the world, and the nation, but it all boils down to the fact that you are working for yourself, for your own perfection. Who would you complain against then? You can only complaint about yourself. Everything is all ready to go, but you must act upon it.</p>
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<p>are always trying to blame others-the Church, your leader, me. But there is no way you can be discouraged. I don’t have to come here on Sunday morning to push you. 1 have already fulfilled, and no one can take away my position in heaven and earth Why do I keep coming on Sunday to push you again and again? Is it for my benefit? No, it is for your benefit.</p>
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<p>A teacher puts his heart and soul into giving a profound lecture for the sake of the students. Is it good that he gives homework? Students certainly don’t like it, but do they have an obligation to do it? Does anyone like tests” The teacher hates tests because they are a tedious chore to grade, but testing helps the students improve.</p>
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<p>I know there are certain things you hate to do, but I keep asking you to do them because 1 know that by doing so you can make yourself better. ln ten years you will harvest the fruits of it and you will be grateful that I spanked you this way every Sunday morning.</p>
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<p>I have already done my share. Now I want you to do your share so that you can be proud of yourself and your family, and be a proud citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. Because you are persecuted to a great degree, you will receive great blessing later on, but then no one can accuse that you don’t deserve it. Everyone will recognize that you have gone through suffering and persecution. Thus, you will have no enemies. No one will oppose you when you are elevated to a glorious position; instead they will assist you, including your former enemies. God has picked this route. I have taken that route, and you must also. You want to do this, don’t you?</p>
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<p>If you follow my teaching 100% and still don’t reach the goal, you can chop off my head because that will be proof that there is no God. 1 would be the worst swindler on earth in that case. You must not be discouraged.</p>
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<p>Even if you don’t have energy to act at the moment, don’t be discouraged. Tomorrow is waiting, calling you. After Washington Monument I proclaimed the grand rally we must hold in Moscow. You don’t know what preparations I am already making.</p>
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<p>There are many things happening in the communist nations. If I called you suddenly to give you a command, would you accept it? Working in Moscow would be entirely different than the witnessing and fund raising you do here. All you could do would be to hide there, but that wouldn’t be any fun, would it? Would God ask why you didn’t speak out openly? Maybe those people who don’t do well witnessing and fund raising here would do better in Moscow!</p>
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<p>There are all kinds of missions to be done. When you pursue a mission of greater scope, even though you don’t entirely accomplish it, it will be regarded as having greater value in God’s sight. If you make long-range plans and have confidence and enthusiasm that you can do them, even though people bother you now you just keep reaching, and in ten years you have a big victory. That is better than the person who does a little bit here and there and never amounts to very much.</p>
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<p>Some members work hard fund raising, but at the same time I give other members money to study for a Ph.D. Why? Because I am preparing for a greater victory in the years ahead. If I work in Korea, I work just as hard as I do here. Wherever I go I work as hard as I do here.</p>
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<p>Would it be better for me to stay in Korea, or to come out to the world? Always think of your smallerscale mission as training, but always think ahead to a gigantic mission. The normal way is to improve yourself step by step.</p>
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<p>There are fifty to eighty million young people out of a total of 220 million altogether in America. If we have a tug of war with the young people, who would win? In the short term you would lose, but in the long term you would win. Our advantage is that there is no limit to how far we can expand, so in the long run we are bound to win. Because they have greater numbers, initially they will pull us to their side. If they pull for one week without food they will think they are winning and then drop out. But we can go without food for another week and month after that, and by that time we can easily pull them to our side.</p>
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<p>I am very tough. I may look defeated, but in the end I will bring everything to my side. What range is your strategy-ten years, twenty years? I plan ahead for three generations, not even just one lifetime. If there are forty years in one generation, that makes a tug-of-war lasting 120 years. So far I have fought for one generation, forty years. Have I lost or won? My children, the second generation, will have an easier time. You are also the second generation, and your forty years will be easier than mine.</p>
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<p>Those forty years’ worth can be done in seven years. Three times seven is 21, so we can do 120 years’ worth in 21 years, and each seven years will become serious as time goes on. In time Americans will come to repent the hardship they gave me when I came to save this nation for God. If I have gathered this many people even under opposition, how many will come when conditions are favorable? Seven will be too long.</p>
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<p>If I had the opportunity to give Americans a seven-day workshop, all day long on television, would the nation change? It wouldn’t be that difficult to do. There is no way you can be discouraged. The <i>New York Times </i>and <i>Washington Post </i>think they are very formidable, but they can be changed. The other day our eight members who are studying at Harvard were interviewed by the <i>New York Times, </i>and the article was very positive. Even <i>the News </i>World couldn’t have done as well. Would the world believe that they are brainwashed? One article would dispel that myth of brainwashing.</p>
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<p>The fundamentalist denominations are afraid that if they send their students to Harvard Divinity School those students will be brainwashed by Harvard and leave their faith. But I push our students to Harvard, and they will brainwash Harvard instead! How different I am.</p>
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<p>Did you do well to come to the Unification Church? God and upright things never come cheaply; you have to earn them. Go ahead and overcome. You have come to a school that is better than Harvard, and when you live up to my expectation you shall each receive a heavenly Ph.D. and become princes and princesses of God. This is the way of life of hope. It has come to you and you are here to live up to that hope every day.</p>
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<p>In American football the ball-carrier is tackled and pummeled. Sometimes his leg or arm is broken, but he keeps on going. That is the kind of spirit I love. Would you be discouraged? Will you be marching on with hope? Those who say yes, 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="2018-06-19T14:55:12+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/god-of-lamentation.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:55:12+01:00">June 19, 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>It is common knowledge that people cry when something tragic occurs. We always want to live our lives in smiles and laughter’ but sometimes we have to face tragedy and heart-breaking situations. Everyone wants to smile and laugh because it is an expression of their happiness. If there are people who smile and laugh every day then we might ask if they are really happy. The person who is laughing will say. “Yes. I am:’ However, who can guarantee happiness? At the very moment they are laughing and expressing their happiness something may happen to turn their happiness into tragedy. Such events frequently happen in life.</p>
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<p>When we see a person crying, we might ask if he is sad or unhappy. That person would say he is. But how long can his sadness last? Is it permanent? No. While that person is crying something may happen that can turn his sorrow into happiness. Situations frequently change from one extreme to the other, within a day, a week or a month. No one can say that feelings of happiness or joy will last eternally.</p>
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<p>Is there anyone who would purposely turn his happiness into tragedy or sadness? There is no one, yet sometimes without notice a tragic situation develops. It is human life. Think, for example, of a person who becomes President of the United States. He will be very proud and ecstatic because today this nation is the greatest nation on earth. But who can guarantee that this situation will be the same the next century, or in two or three centuries? Can any individual, no matter what education he has, guarantee that he can make this nation prosper without interruption for the next four centuries or thousand years?</p>
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<p>Imagine a man who declares that he can do anything he wants. He can do certain things, but always within a specific boundary. That person may shout at the sun, “Mr. Sun, I stayed up late last night and this morning I want to start out slow? so don’t come up too early. Wait four or five hours more and then come out.” Will that work? The sun will laugh, “Aren’t you crazy!” Someone may proclaim, ‘I need to make a trip to the West coast so I don’t want any rain, snow, high winds or cloudy days. I don’t care what the forecast is. It must be clear for my trip.” We laugh at those things because we realize that there’s little we can do to control our surroundings. We cannot change the seasons. We cannot shorten the hours of the day in accordance with our own wishes.</p>
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<p>You have to breathe at a certain rate, but could you say to your nose, “You overwork yourself, so reduce your workload by one third”? Your eyes are blinking all the time and there is a certain reason for this. Could you tell your eyes to reduce their activity by one tenth? Can you say to your own hair, “Why do you grow so fast? We Moonies are too busy to go to the barbershop. You must grow slowly so that we go to the barbershop only once a year.” Will the hair listen? You cannot even command one hair on your head. You cannot control anything in your own body because it moves according to its own rules.</p>
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<p>How much more so with the universe? How little we can control. The wise man who has a goal to pursue will try to take advantage of the rules of the universe instead of trying to control nature. One person tries to overcome nature, but the smart man tries to utilize it. Should we always try to parallel a situation, or try to find the medium point, sometimes overcoming to a certain degree, sometimes following to a certain degree? When you say we should do both, that means you are applying two different rules.</p>
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<p>Sometimes you walk slowly, sometimes quickly. Is it easy to do things double time? Sometimes nature dictates that you must close your eyes and sleep. But often our situation requires that we don’t. Can we order our eyes to stay open 24 hours? The mouth needs three meals a day, but sometimes we are in a situation where we don’t have time to put our food into our mouths so we do without. If there is a person who can do that, is he happy or unhappy? The attempt to overcome all natural requirements makes life miserable, but we do it because there is a guarantee of happiness ahead. At the very moment you are trying to overcome, you are not that happy.</p>
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<p>This morning I spoke to Ye Jin, who is planning to get a Ph.D. Normally this takes eight years, but I told her that if she was determined to do it in four years that it was possible. In order to achieve that goal she has to be willing to stay up all night quite often. Do you think that is an easy task? It’s tough, but she will do it. We all do such chores sometimes, knowing that our will power and drive ultimately will bring happiness. We can draw a conclusion: the person who wants to go the easy way and avoid difficulties has nothing in the end. However, the person who has a goal and purpose and applies himself to the chore always has shining hope in the end.</p>
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<p>You may want to sleep longer, go disco dancing, travel around the world, and these things may seem to make you happy. Will that guarantee tomorrow, however? If you live this way for a whole year. will you have shining hope in the end? There are always two kinds of laughter and two kinds of tears. There is the superficial smile and the smile of true inner happiness. In some cases a person may cry because he is truly in despair, but if a person has a goal and purpose and cries in order to overcome his situation for the sake of that goal and purpose, his tears are different</p>
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<p>When you live an easy life you may feel good for the present; when you go the hard way you may not feel easy at the present time, but there is something waiting for you in the future. Would you choose to take it easy while you are young and start working harder when you get old? Or would you choose to work hard at a young age? You have come to the conclusion that it is better to exert every ounce of energy while you are still young. Would you like me to leave you alone to take it easy and do anything you want, or would you like me to push you out and achieve some goal?</p>
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<p>This is true for one family and it is also true for an organization. If that group is going to endure and prosper, that system should have all people, particularly the young, get up early and work hard all day long. If you don’t want a system that lets everyone go their own way and do things at whim then that means you want to work hard. You are saying that the best organization under the sun would be that which pushes the young people out to the utmost degree. Where do the Moonies belong then? Which organization has more young people than any other? We do. Then we work hard and are going to set a new world record knowing that there’s a bright future shining and that there is hope. Is that the right thing to do? Some parents are stern disciplinarians who push their children and spank them. But in the end their children turn out to be leaders. Is that good or bad?</p>
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<p>When I heard people in America say “Jesus Christ”, I always thought they meant it in a good way. But that has become a curse word in America. Imagine the very best word has become a curse word in this country! When something wrong happens, Americans say, “Jesus Christ!” When some tragic event occurs -4- say “Oh my God !” America will crumble because of Jesus Christ and because of God if you don’t believe in the right way. If you associate bad things with good things then America is heading for hell. I really feel that American Christianity has not been living up to its responsibility because they allowed these most sacred words to become curse words.</p>
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<p>After listening to my sermon you should create a rebirth in America. Since we are working so hard it is a joy to meet God, and when you meet Jesus Christ that should be for salvation. If everyone is suffering then Jesus Christ should signify salvation instead of being a curse word. We must pass from one extreme to the other in this nation.</p>
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<p>We can define wise men as being those who set a goal, and are willing to suffer in the present time to reach it. A foolish man has no goal except to have fun at the present time. There is an Aesop fable about the grasshopper and the ant. Of the two, which would you like to be? Today, American women go on diets to make their waists smaller and smaller, but that is foolish. Do the ants go on diets? NO, but they work hard and that’s why they’re so slim. Why don’t you learn from the ants? All fables have a philosophical teaching that comes from historical experience.</p>
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<p>When I was young I lived in a small village, and when I spoke about living for the sake of the world and the entire universe could the people understand? At that time, people would laugh and say that Korea didn’t even have national sovereignty, but even though they said I was crazy, I didn’t compromise. When I was a teenager, I realized that America was declining and decided to save this nation with my own hands. Do you think people listened? Many people thought my brain was working in reverse. In those days they didn’t pay attention because they thought I was crazy, but at the same time I was thinking they were crazy. I knew I was right, and therefore, I couldn’t compromise. Only one person will determine who was crazy- God. I have confidence in what His decision will be.</p>
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<p>When I first came to this country I had to stop in Canada. At that time I didn’t even have a visa and there was no guarantee whether I could enter this country. But still I told the Canadian family, “You’ll see. In the next 3 years America will tremble. and every corner of the American land will hear my name. I’ll speak to everyone and I shall stir up controversy for God.” And everyone said, “We thought Father was reasonable, but he is crazy!” No one in the Canadian family believed me. Some months ago I went to Nova Scotia for a fishing expedition, and the Canadian family joined me there. One of them had heard me in 1971 and he said, “Father, I confess. Please forgive me. I didn’t believe what you said in 1971, but today I know that every word you said has been fulfilled. I will trust now.” That person repented because what he heard at that time sounded impossible and he didn’t think that would happen. When he asked what I would do in the next 3 years, I replied, “Use your imagination now. I don’t have to tell you.”</p>
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<p>I know without doubt that there will be millions of young people coming in the days to come. I will not be sympathetic with them but will give them hard tasks, knowing that the Principle will work for them as it worked for me. That Principle will work, but our goal is not a selfish one. We want a greater justice for the sake of the nation, the sake of mankind and the sake of the world. This is very easy to say and it sounds good, but doing it is not easy. There is a lot of tears and agony. If you want to pursue this way of life, it’s not going to be easy.</p>
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<p>I’m sure some of you come in the morning wondering what kind of peculiar church you belong to! Normally on Sundays people have a late, lazy breakfast in bed, read the paper, and still have time to go to Church and hear the sermon. But in the Unification Church you have to get up at least at 4 a. m. in order to come to Belvedere and some of you are even here at 3:30 in the morning. And we don’t even provide chairs for the congregation.</p>
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<p>We could buy thousands of chairs in a moment, so it’s not because of money that we sit like this. This is our tradition of training and discipline so it is your privilege. Every time your legs ache you have to think that we are different from ordinary Americans. The rest of the country is really crumbling, corrupted by drugs, free sex and selfishness. Do you want to be the same? We don’t want to be just a little bit different; we want to be the other extreme. If they are black, we want to be white. If they are white, we want to be black.</p>
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<p>When we wrestle with the rest of American youth, who should win? How would you win? We must be realistic. In numbers they are bigger, but with our persistence, endurance and commitment we will win. You must think that we are all in a championship match. There are millions of other people, but no matter how good they are, they can only get to the semi-finals. We are fewer in numbers, but each one of you is a jewel and we will always end up in the finals. Unification Church are a different kind of people. Even though our life may be miserable, we have a vision and goal and purpose in life. We are disciplined in steering ourselves to that goal, and we will reach it some day in the near future. That is our shining hope.</p>
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<p>When you work hard and get thin and pale, God is very sympathetic. He says to you, “Let me help you fulfill your work. You take it easy.” Would you accept His help, or say to Him, “What are You talking about! You stay here and let me finish. You need my help; I don’t need Your help.” How dramatic that is. If God has a daughter or son and He needs a son-in-law and daughter-in-law, that is the kind of man and woman God wants to get. Where does that kind of thinking come from? If we are in the image of God then God must be working in that fashion. Did you just make a resolution to live like that, or did you always have that resolution?</p>
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<p>Chapter one of this sermon is over now. We know now that tough taskmasters and parents who discipline their children are not necessarily bad. Those teachers and professors who want to be very popular among the students are not good teachers. The real good teacher is mean. The corporation president who never leaves you alone is a real good boss and he will produce results.</p>
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<p>National leadership works on the same principle. The President of a nation carries the destiny of that nation upon his shoulders and wants to make that nation prosper. In order to do that he always works hard and makes every citizen really stand up for the sake of the country and the world even if he risks being called a dictator. That kind of leader will produce. Who is a dictator, after all? The bad dictators are trying to sacrifice the nation and world for their own greediness. But the man who pushes the people hard, including himself, for the sake of the country and the entire world is a saint, not a dictator.</p>
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<p>I endured the reputation of being a dictator. Sometimes I think that if I have to put up with that kind of reputation then I want to be Number One.</p>
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<p>Why do you applaud? Hitler and Stalin are known as the worst dictators because their goal was to make themselves head of their own people and make their nation the most powerful. They didn’t mind killing millions of people in order to keep their own power. Tactically I may be tougher than those people, but I work hardest myself first, and I do it for the sake of God, not for myself. This is a sacrificial, unselfish cause.</p>
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<p>When parents are trying to push the children to study, it’s actually for the sake of the children, not the parents themselves. Every Sunday morning I come to Belvedere and tell you to do more. This is not for my sake or even for the Unification Church, but for your sake and the sake of the world. Why do I say that God’s heart is broken? We expounded the principle that we suffer today for the sake of tomorrow, so what about God? From the outset of human history God has not had even one good day. He has been suffering and is in agony. His heart has been broken over and over. When do you think God has hope? When will there be fulfillment for God? How old do you think God is? Of course, God exists beyond human reach and beyond the control of the universal environment, so He is outside the limit of time. We can say that God has no age. Many Christians today take the words of the Bible literally and they think that God created the entire universe instantaneously.</p>
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<p>Is a masterpiece of art created in a few minutes? If God manufactured this world in that fashion, is it His masterpiece? There must be something that God is still working on, still tinkering with in order to make it a masterpiece. Is God painting a beautiful woman sitting quietly thinking? Is it a picture of a man looking East and a woman looking West? Or are they facing each other? Is God trying to paint people who look ugly and mean, or who are smiling and happy? The woman says to the man, “I was created by God and am solely here to serve you. You are my life, my love, my everything.” The man says, “No, no. I am created to serve you, so you are my life, my love and my everything.” If they go out picnicking then they both want the other to go first. It’s a different kind of battle. Don’t you think God would enjoy that discussion?</p>
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<p>We can draw the conclusion that not all fighting is bad. Can we imagine that kind of fight between the nations? If there was ever such a war, what would you call it? World history has always centered on conflict, but finally that war is turning into a battle to serve the most. In the end, we would have to draw the conclusion that even war is good. America and the Soviet Union are in a global conflict now, but imagine the result if they were engaged in the battle of service.</p>
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<p>There is currently a great uproar over the Soviet brigades stationed in Cuba. What if those Russians told America, “We are not here to invade your country but to clean up your streets. We want to capture all the criminals and make the country happy. We are here to serve you.” An entirely different kind of battle would start, with the Soviet Army marching toward Washington to clean it up, not conquer it. If that ever happened then a painting depicting that scene would be a masterpiece for sure.</p>
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<p>I am making a different kind of army. God sent me many young people, and you are soldiers. Yet you are not soldiers of destruction but builders and healers. We know how we can turn evil into goodness.</p>
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<p>A world of peace can only be made when people and nations exist solely to serve each other unselfishly. Even if it means in some cases having to confront negative forces before serving them. If the door is locked but you break it down in order to get in to serve, should you be jailed as an intruder? No, service is a virtue and the highest degree of goodness. If someone resists your efforts to serve him, just knock him down and do it!</p>
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<p>What will people say? When that person regains consciousness would he say that you won or he won? If we use this method in every direction then people will be blocked into goodness.</p>
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<p>When you women marry do you go to your husband’s home to give love or to receive love? For how many years? When you die your will can say that you came to serve, but you have not done your most perfect best; your request is that those remaining behind teach your children to love in the same way so that they can finish your task of love. Would that be a noble ending or an unhappy one?</p>
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<p>If this were the attitude of married people would there be any divorce? If young people are educated in this spirit of giving then would there be much rebellion against parents? Would there be confrontation and strikes at schools if teachers and students had this attitude? Selfishness is the worst enemy of the American way of life today.</p>
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<p>Without hesitation I am telling the President and American government that they must change. America does not exist for her own benefit; God created this nation and made it wealthy and powerful for the sake of the world. Every resource and ounce of energy should be used for all mankind. God is heartbroken because the very things I have been saying are His ideology but no one has ever understood that. People have been only too glad to receive God’s blessing and then use it selfishly. The first thing I promised God was that I would not become that kind of person. I don’t care about property or comfort. I have done everything for your sake; I have been a beggar, a laborer, a dock worker, and never did it for myself.</p>
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<p>When I am living at Belvedere or East Garden, God doesn’t come to comfort me. But when I was in prison at the communist labor camp God came every night to comfort me. Would you rather be with God and suffer, or be without God and be comfortable? Many people think that I am enjoying the fruits of my fame because I live at East Garden, but those things mean nothing to me. My thinking always goes back to the time when I dwelled every minute with God in those unbelievable conditions.</p>
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<p>Now our movement is established worldwide and many important people come to see me. If I lived in a shack, where should you live? For the sake of the dignity of our movement certain things are necessary, and that’s the reason we own property such as East Garden and Belvedere. On top of that, none of the property in America was bought with American money. Furthermore, I have bought houses and apartments for our members. It is only reasonable that members donate some money to prepare a house for me, yet I refuse to take it. I would rather they did something for the sake of the world. I will take care of myself and ask the members to work instead for the sake of the world.</p>
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<p>The time is coming when I will buy more houses-for white people, black people, brown people-all five colors of skin. I would like to buy a group of houses and assign families to them, making up a multi-colored neighborhood. I want the races to serve each other instead of fighting, to love each other instead of hating each other. I want to reverse the present trend. In the end we are all one family. I have never been afraid of anything or had a moment of hesitation, but there was one moment I was caught completely by surprise: that was when a great many white members raised their hands and said that they wanted to be matched to black members.</p>
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<p>When we look deeply into the way of life and philosophy of God, who shall inherit sainthood and be elevated to the Kingdom of Heaven? The person who for his entire life thinks of mankind and God and practices that life on earth shall be a king or queen in spirit world. Is there anyone in spirit world who could complain about him? Would you push such a person aside so you could be king or queen? If you tried that then God would ask what kind of life you led on earth and what you did for humanity. If you could show that you did as much as that person then God would ask who received more persecution in the process. Is this right or wrong thinking?</p>
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<p>Who in the Unification Church has received the most persecution? There have been many religious leaders on earth, but I feel that in one lifetime there is no one who has received more persecution than I have. Have I deserved that persecution because of the evil I have done? I have tried to save the young people who are hooked by drugs and a promiscuous life, but their parents oppose me. Have I committed a crime?</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church you don’t write love letters freely, or even hold hands. In what church would you find all the men sitting on one side of the room and the women on the other? Am I trying to make you miserable or happy? Am I looking for people who are always complaining? To most people this is a mysterious Church, but for us it seems natural to be here very early on Sunday morning. When I give you a direction you pour out all your energy in doing it, but I never tell you that you have done a great job. Instead I demand to know why you didn’t do more.</p>
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<p>Right now in spirit world the entire human race is asking to be reorganized, and everyone will have a place somewhere in the family tree of mankind. Will the people at the top be those who have nice clothes and handsome appearance? No, it will be exactly the opposite. The kind of people who want to keep fundraising and teaching the word of God for the sake of the world, even when they are scorned and persecuted, will be at the top of the ladder. Is this true. or do you think I’m just trying to make you feel good? I am Living proof of this. I have lived that way, and in every nation I visit there are people willing to die for this cause. That is because I have done this first.</p>
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<p>People normally come to America to get rich or to find opportunity. They come to take advantage of America, but I brought all the money I have and poured it out to reverse the tide of decline in America and save the people. I am doing all this so that you will be inspired to give everything you have and go out to other nations and do what I have done here. Would you keep your promise to do this even after I have died, or after I am gone would you think that promise is no longer binding? Would you even bequeath that promise to your children ?</p>
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<p>If we truly live up to that ideal then there will be true peace, and even if there is a war it will be a competition of service. There are pickpockets in every country of the world, but I have thought, “Why not put money into that person’s pocket instead of taking his money out?” I have practiced that kind of heavenly pocket-picking many times, putting money into someone else’s pocket. Do you think I felt good or bad about it? I felt great joy, even though my pocket became empty and the other person’s became full.</p>
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<p>I have lived my entire life that way, yet everywhere I go people reject me. But the amazing thing is that wherever I go there are some people who follow- women, laborers, and people with all their worldly possessions on their backs, bringing their cow or ox. Even dogs follow me instead of barking. Housewives usually cook breakfast for their husbands, but once they heard the truth they even forgot to cook the meals. They just wanted to come to the Church and hear me speak, pleading with me to speak just one more hour.</p>
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<p>In the early days of our Church I would speak every night until two or three in the morning, and then the members would sleep two hours and get up to listen again. In the meantime the world was going on as usual, and the husbands and wives back home wanted to know where their spouses were! Inevitably many people decided I had to be eliminated because they could not stand for this disruption of their family life. Rumors and character assassination began in those days. Would you be in that same group and try to persuade me? Or would you want to get some taste of persecution in home church ?</p>
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<p>Many people will tell you not to come to their house, insisting they don’t want your service and demanding that you never knock on their door again. But the next day you are back again, and the day after that also. You not only knock on their door, but you bring a broom to sweep their floor and you empty their trash. Even when people tell you to leave them alone you come back to serve them. I want you to know that even if those people keep rejecting you, the neighbors and the town will turn around and ask them why they don’t appreciate such a person as you. This kind of thing will happen in home church.</p>
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<p>You are only human, so when you are persecuted you want to get revenge. Now you know through your own experience the kind of path I have walked for many years. Don’t you feel inside that you want to vindicate me? If someone succeeded in killing me would it stop the Unification Church? That will never happen.</p>
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<p>We know what kind of cause we are committed to, but the question is how long you can persevere. You claim you will persevere your entire life, but that is still less than 100 years. How many years has God been suffering mistreatment? The actual history of God is far greater than the symbolic biblical number of 6,000 years. God has been doing it for eternity, and even if it takes eternity I will still be doing it.</p>
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<p>You are lucky to know the truth while you are on earth. This is the only Principle that will work in spirit world, and if you only come to realize it there, it will be too late. You have the opportunity to live it on earth, and that is your greatest fortune. Unless you do so you will suffocate in spirit world because there you breathe love. Therefore, you have to learn how to love here on earth first. It is hell when you try to breathe but there is no air to inhale or exhale. If you want to taste hell then hold your nose and stop breathing. The moment when you start to panic is your taste of hell. In hell that condition lasts forever. It would be far better not even to exist than to live in hell, but no one can end their spiritual existence. No one can get relief by disappearing altogether.</p>
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<p>Because you know the Principle you know there is hope for unity of the world. Because this principle works throughout the entire universe, there is hope for unity once the tide of evil is reversed. It is our practice to discipline and train ourselves on a small level first by living for the family and tribal level. Then the tribe lives for the nation and the nation for the world. Our life on earth is a training program, preparing us for eternity.</p>
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<p>In the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven you will also attend a workshop, but the lectures there will talk about the very things you have already been practicing on earth. In every class you go to in spirit world you will be a master, having already lived it on earth. Your classmates will treat you like an eminent scholar. Would you feel good? The impact of our life here will not be limited to earth, but will shake the spirit world.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is like a gigantic container that has always been empty, but when my teaching is disseminated there it will flood and overflow. When you go to spirit world and you know that everything I said was true, you will shout out your thanks that you could live it here on earth. During this brief time on earth you feel anguished and want vindication, but what about God? He has been feeling that way all these centuries.</p>
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<p>Present day Christians don’t know that Adam was God’s physical body; he was the visible form of God. God is invisible and dwells within Adam. You have a mind, but where is it? Even though it is invisible, the mind is not controlled by your visible body. Your body wants comfort and pleasure, but your mind pushes your body to do differently. This shows that your mind and body are not alike. The Almighty God did not create man like that to begin with, however. The body is out of order, so religion is the treatment for making the mind and body one. We are trying to become people who obey their minds, not their bodies.</p>
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<p>Why should the mind direct the body? Even in spirit world God is invisible and has no form. He is the origin of energy, and thus He needs an instrument which has physical form so that He can have dominion over the physical world. If Adam had lived in complete obedience to his mind, which was God, reached perfection and entered the Kingdom of Heaven, the spiritual Adam and God would be one. Then when Adam laughed, God would be laughing and the entire universe would be laughing as well.</p>
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<p>The process of creation is the projection of the invisible God into a visible form. There are two aspects of God, external and internal, so God wanted to have a visible God, Adam, to harmonize with Him. Their give and take would create a circuit. Through their give and take of love the internal would become external and the external would become internal, back and forth, in circular motion.</p>
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<p>Why do people like love? Yesterday I spoke to the seminarians at Barrytown, and I told them that “love” is the abbreviation of two separate words- long and very. So love is very long. Love can create and excite and make two into one. So when you become a teenager and begin to understand love, everything will be in motion and every part of your body will jump and move. Adam and Eve are actually God-man and God-woman, and they should unite in love to feel the ultimate ecstatic joy which was the purpose of creation. The fall meant that God lost His wife, in other words.</p>
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<p>Once you truly recognize the power of love and come to know God, you want to possess Him and become one with Him. You want to take His love because then you will have everything and need nothing else.</p>
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<p>Ambition is not necessarily a bad thing; God gave us ambition so that we would want to possess Him. If Eve had not fallen then she would have been God’s wife, the queen of the universe. We are to inherit that kingship of the universe. Thus, we can truly say that God is our Father. If there had been no fall then everyone would have been princes and princesses of God. No matter how ugly you are, you would still be a prince or princess of God.</p>
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<p>What is the Unification Church here for? Mankind has been disregarding God altogether, but we want to restore God to glory as our Father, and restore our position as His royal children. We are actually doing God’s job instead of wanting Him to do favors for us. When God hears someone tell Him that. He might say externally “You rascal!” But inside He is tickled to death that He finally has children He has looked for. This is why I never pray to God for assistance. Even when the whole American government came against me I never knelt down to ask Him to come to protect me just one time. I told Him I would take care of it and He should just sit back and watch.</p>
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<p>You must be able to be a recipient of the love and tradition of God. You must act as God and feel that God is living in your home. Look at the world as God looks at it. That’s how you make yourself a prince of God. That is the kind of men and women God is looking for. God has much blessing in His bosom and He is looking for such people to give it to.</p>
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<p>If this is the philosophy that I am living then no matter what the world says I will win and have dominion over the creation. As long as this is how I live, money and influence will be no problem. People will come as well and there will be nothing I cannot do. If that is how I am living, then even if I kick all of you out you will come sneaking back in the back door. There is no way we could be separated.</p>
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<p>Don’t you feel happy when you see me? I am not that handsome, so why would you want to see me? I am only one man, but Belvedere seems to be empty when I am away, and when I am here it seems full. In a few days I will visit Korea, but when I leave you feel that the whole of America is empty and your longing reaches out beyond the Pacific. I think God likes me pretty well.</p>
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<p>Do you think God’s role is easy? God is lonely and miserable because He is there all by Himself, and all day long He is bored to death. But now He has an exciting companion who is always stirring up controversy, so God has to follow everywhere I go.</p>
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<p>When you pass a bakery you smell the aroma of cooking, and when you come to see me you smell the aroma of love. Do you agree with this because you are brainwashed? If brainwashing could intoxicate you in the love of God then there would be nothing better. God has been waiting a long time for someone to brainwash Him that way!</p>
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<p>Women are waiting to be brainwashed by men with love. You say A-a-a-men to that. When you are surprised you say “ah!”, so Amen means “surprising men.” We have to create a new dictionary of English!</p>
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<p>God has been patient for millions of years, but at most you give thirty or forty years of your life. Could you come to that suffering God and complain that your tribulation is too great? Would He be sympathetic with children who couldn’t bear even a few years of hardship compared to His experience? God wants to hear His child say, “I will take care of it, and no storm will stop me.” My Father has been responsible for all history and still is suffering, so if I am His son how could I say I could not shoulder His burden? Such a person would be a thief. Christians have been like thieves, wanting to have the Kingdom of Heaven for nothing, constantly asking God for help and blessing. God hates to hear such prayers. If you were in God’s position would you prefer my theory or the Christian theory?</p>
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<p>Before you came to the Unification Church you shed tears over your own misery, but now you shed tears for God and mankind. Can you complain? No one has faced the tribulation I have borne, yet I have never spoken one word of complaint to God. I always told God He should let me go this course. Many of you sisters are worried about getting old and not yet having your family, but you should be proud of doing something that no one else is doing. You can be proud of asking God for His burden instead of His blessing. This is the life I have lived. I always feel I am different from the rest of the world and this is why God likes me.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t matter how ugly or handsome I look, as long as my heart and mind never change from this attitude. If I were single, I know there would be many proposals from women all over the world-fat, ugly, beautiful, and of every skin color. I have much sensitivity and I know how to be a good husband to Mother and make her happy.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I would rather not be sensitive to anything, but spirit world is always bringing matters to my attention, so I cannot be idle. I am just one short man, but still I can breathe the universe and feel it every day. If you really want to see me you can pray hard and I will appear in your dreams. It is quite possible to in our world. I may seem mysterious, but all I am doing is living God’s way of life. When you do so, this mystery will surround you also.</p>
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<p>God’s heart has been broken, and you can feel you want to liberate Him with your own hands. We know precisely what our goal is, and once and for all we want to liberate God from His sadness. The task I have undertaken is to drive God’s enemies from His throne. God should have been enjoying a history of glory, but instead He has been scoffed at and ridiculed by the enemy. God is alive, yet people have said He was dead. The earth is supposed to be God’s kingdom, but His very throne has been taken over by the enemy, Satan.</p>
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<p>God created the earth as a gift of love for His children, but instead it was stolen by Satan. My heart has always wanted to restore this gift of love, to take it from Satan’s bosom and give it to God’s children. America has been specifically chosen for a mission by God, yet its young people have been corrupted by the worst crime-free sex. The garden of Eden crumbled because of that sin, and America is now crumbling for the same reason.</p>
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<p>When God’s beloved children committed the sin of adultery God threw them out of the garden and they fell into hell. Do you think God will allow America to prosper if America persists in this way? God has been hoping this nation would be His champion, but it is fast becoming the champion of Satan. God’s wrath is about to come upon America in judgment, but I have asked Him to let me take care of America and give me a few more years to clean it up. You people are God’s hope, and if there are more and more people like you don’t you think there is hope to clean up America?</p>
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<p>I always pray to God, saying that I will do something about America in the next decade. When you know this can you try to avoid the hard task? If we do avoid the hard work then the Unification Church will be the first to be judged by God. Anyone looking for the easy way is destroying God’s will and will be my enemy. Let’s get down to work with all our might and give everything. Do you think America will prosper or dwindle if we don’t do anything?</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="2018-06-19T14:32:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/heaven-and-us.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:32:15+01:00">June 19, 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>In Oriental philosophy, the word “heaven” connotes huge and noble things, while “earth” connotes small, lowly things. However, this distinction came to exist because of the fall of man; if there had been no fall there would be no such difference between heaven and earth.</p>
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<p>When we speak of heaven, we speak of God; when we say earth, we speak of human beings. If God is all alone, He cannot be fulfilled, so He needs to come together with human beings. The purpose of creation can be fulfilled only when love is fulfilled, and love cannot be fulfilled by one alone; there must be two, in the relationship of subject and object.</p>
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<p>When love is fulfilled, both the upper and lower areas are fulfilled equally. Because of the fall, love could not be completed, so there are many different barriers which separate heaven and earth.</p>
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<p>When the highest point comes down and the lowest point comes up, they can meet in the middle. Man fell, not God, and God cannot go down to the point of the fall. Thus man must be able to bring himself up, uniting mind and body. The most important thing for man, then, is to know God and to conquer his ignorance of his situation. Thus God has been working to bring people out of darkness so they can know God’s true nature.</p>
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<p>Two major efforts to advance mankind have been made. They are science on the external level and religion on the internal level. What is the destiny of science and religion? They meet at the point of the fulfillment of love. Here we are not talking about human love but the love of God. All efforts to discover God will ultimately reach the one point of the true love of God.</p>
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<p>In each entity there are two aspects-an internal and an external. They must meet at one point. To truly become one they must know each other, so mind and body should share knowledge of each other. In order for science and religion to unite, they must understand each other. Each person has his mind and body in horizontal alignment, side by side. God’s mind and body are in the same position. Here on earth man should have unity between his mind and body, and in spirit world God also should have such unity. Man’s mind and body meet horizontally, while God’s unity of mind and body is vertical. Thus we are going to reach God not only through religion but also through science.</p>
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<p>What does God need to realize joy in His mind and body? The same answer will apply also to people. What makes you joyful and happy? When your plans or ideals are realized, you are happy. The realization itself is not enough, however; it is the coming into oneness with a subject or abject in reciprocal give and take that creates happiness. Then what makes God happy and what is the work of God? His work is the perfection of human beings; that would be God’s goal and masterpiece. That is the point of ultimate joy and goodness, at which both God and man will say, “That is the best there can be” That is the point of love-not secular, carnal love but the original, pure love of God.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that unless your mind and body are united, your are not eligible to meet God. We have two eyes but they have one focus and they produce one image, not two. That focus is always between the two eyes, not in front of one or the other. Sound waves enter both ears, but the nervous system coordinates those impulses into one sound.</p>
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<p>When a person’s mind and body are totally united, their focus is upon God. When God’s mind and body are united into one, what is their focus? It is people. When these focal points meet, they discover that they are alike. When they discover their likeness, they can stimulate each other in give and take and fellowship.</p>
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<p>What is the common goal that excites them both? It is love. Therefore, unless God finds love, He cannot find completion; and unless man finds his ultimate goal, which is the true love of God, he cannot achieve completion either. When God focuses upon man and man focuses upon God, and the two are united, the entire universe is united. In human love, the nervous system focuses to transfer sensation to the whole system. If the mind is willing to live this way but the body is lethargic and doesn’t obey, then the mind-body alignment is askew. Then the person is crippled, just as if he were missing an arm.</p>
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<p>It is most important that we focus our life. You should understand that the focus of the entire spirit world is God and that of the physical world is man. Can you imagine that God would arrange His creation in a sloppy manner? I know that God organized it to focus upon one point both on earth and in spirit world.</p>
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<p>There are two aspects to everything in the physical world: positive and negative. Within those positive and negative aspects there are also internal and external elements, or mind and body. Once positive and negative electrical charges meet, you can’t tell which is which. Likewise, you can’t tell where positive starts and negative ends in a magnetic field. But there is action in the magnetic field and energy is created.</p>
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<p>By the same token, men and women are different, but they are not enemies. Instead, each focuses on the other and how to win his or her love. Every nerve and all five senses focus on love. In the secular world today, many people don’t look beyond the fact that men and women can meet and love each other. But that is only the beginning point, like flipping the switch.</p>
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<p>Once an electrical switch is flipped, energy from the power plant can start to work wonders. In the same way, men and women together start to work wonders when they tap God’s power plant. When you know this, living really becomes a joy. Electricity can light ups a palace. but also a smelly countryside bathroom. Would the electricity refuse to light up such a place? Electricity works universally, once it is hooked up.</p>
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<p>Would nerves refuse to provide sensation for dirty, smelly feet, or the blood refuse to circulate through arteries and veins there? Would ocean water say it has no connection with the polluted water in New York harbor? The oceans all over the world are part of one body of water. In the same way, once love is activated it can go anywhere in the universe.</p>
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<p>Most young people would like to travel the entire world with their husband or wife, and then later with their own children. Wouldn’t a king like to see the beauties of the world accompanied by all his subjects? We envy the freedom of the birds who can take off for other parts of the world without needing passports. The barriers in our world such as immigration restrictions and nationality are manmade, so once we can get rid of those barriers, we will live in one world with as much freedom as the birds.</p>
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<p>Would ducks from the north discriminate against ducks from the south? Would they refuse to marry each other? It doesn’t matter where they are from, as long as they are ducks!</p>
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<p>I am constantly telling you that you have to serve others and focus on other people, because by doing so you create unity. If 1,000 people are focused together, they generate great energy and power. A good athlete has to focus his energy and distribute it perfectly in the pursuit of his sport. The pushing force and the pulling force must be harmonized to create tremendous power. The greater the power of give and take, the greater the wonder it can create. Is God great or tiny? God can stretch His arms from pole to pole, embracing the entire universe in give and take. We know God is a great God, so logically His creation-man-is supposed to be great, also.</p>
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<p>My eyes focus at one point, yet my vision carries across the entire world. Your line of focus can be extended as much as you want. Your ears “focus” within your brain, but actually you want to hear universal sounds. You inhale and exhale air through your lungs but that air can travel all around the world, linking you to it. In daily life we are dealing with one universe, one air, one water, one sunlight and one land.</p>
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<p>Do you want to focus upon your husband or wife without being interested in your society, nation and world? A man and woman who attain unity should try to focus on the larger entities, such as society, nation and world. The greater your vision and the greater the distance you focus on together, the greater your life becomes.</p>
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<p>Has anyone before thought like we Moonies? We say that as individuals we represent the entire universe. Furthermore, you even think God looks like you, not that YOU look like Him! This short brother here thinks he is big enough to embrace all of America and the world. This would be impossible to achieve through physical means, but through love he can do it. There is no nationality in the world of love because love travels all over, like air. Can love reach all the way to God? Love will penetrate God’s system and reach His heart.</p>
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<p>If God’s love were locked up in a vault with many locks your love could even penetrate that vault. That means your love is the greatest secret key of all. Everyone is focused upon love and even God hangs onto it. All things of creation cling to it as well.</p>
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<p>Everyone, whether Eastern or Western, young or old, likes to possess beautiful things. When we consider what is the most precious treasure in the universe, we conclude that it is love. Even the spirit world would concur.</p>
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<p>If you use true love as the key, every door can be opened. Do you think this is true in spirit world as well? If there was no such thing as true love then there would be no way to unite God and mankind for eternity. Since the human fall, the heart of God has been sealed shut. Would offering Him money or lovely jewels open His heart? If you offered Him the largest diamond, He could point to a mountain of diamonds that He already owns.</p>
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<p>Many people think knowledge is almighty, but will that open the door of God’s heart? God will say, “Is that all you know? I made it all” If you have great worldly power, can you command God to open His heart? What does God yearn to have? Not money, knowledge or power, but only true love. Love has an almighty, uniting quality which can govern and be governed. It is absolutely flexible.</p>
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<p>If you know someone is pinching you because he truly loves you, you want him to pinch you harder! Love can digest both extremes of happy and painful things. The one thing that can dominate the entire creation is true love. Do you agree?</p>
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<p>Love is communicated even without language. A puppy knows whether you love him or not. Likewise, a bird can feel love; even the trees and grass can feel love. If you love a deadly poisonous snake, it too can feel your love. Love is supreme. If you had a little chunk of love, would you hoard it in a pocket close to your heart, or would you sprinkle it around the world so that it would multiply and make you a millionaire of love? In order to become a millionaire of love, you might have to shed gallons of sweat and tears. Would it be worth doing even then?</p>
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<p>You can reach God only with love. He is the center of the universe, so whoever possesses more of Him will be the richest person. Then no matter how much sacrifice is needed to obtain Him, you can do it. Without sacrificial love you cannot make God your prisoner. God is like a gigantic fish and love is your bait. God loves love so He will swallow as much bait as you offer Him. When you sow true love, you will harvest love and God is bound to be close by.</p>
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<p>Unification Church members are fishing for God so we sprinkle our bait everywhere. God is a gourmet of love so He knows its exact taste, whether sour, sweet or flat. God knows a hook is hidden inside that love but it doesn’t matter to Him because He is confident He can digest that hook too.</p>
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<p>You enjoy certain tastes, and in the same way God prefers a certain taste of love. I want God to say that Moonies’ love is the best love He has tasted in 6,000 years. You cannot make tasty love out of small, individualistic love; that is bitter love. But when you have love that wants to save the world and serve others, God will savor it. God may be gigantic and awesome-looking, but once He tastes that love, He will melt and be like a child. Then He will want to go wherever you go.</p>
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<p>Why were you born? Furthermore, why were some of you born as men and others as women? Was it to eat meals? The lowliest statement a person can make is that he lives to eat. Some people seem to think they were born to study, but what a narrow life that is. It is beautiful, eternal and good to say we are born to love. Every life here on earth today is the fruit of love. You can say you participated in the love of your parents, your grandparents and so forth. You were born at the place of love and the motivation for your life was love. After you were born, you received the love of your parents.</p>
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<p>Why do your parents love you? Why do all the animals love their offspring? It is because children are the witness to their parents’ love. Cause and effect both spring from love; because of this most awesome truth, parents have to love their children, not only in the human world but also in the animal world. Children who live in the love of their parents are very happy children.</p>
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<p>Today in America there is something called a generation gap, with parents and children thinking they will live their own separate lives. This means they have lost the home base of love and they have nothing to return to. God designed the family to expand its pure love to the society, spreading one color of love all over the country, then to the entire world.</p>
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<p>The children who are born and live in love at home can become patriots in their nation and even saints in the world. The same principle works on these different levels. Just as water in New York is the same color as water in Norway, the makeup of the whole human world is the same. When you fulfill the criteria of love in your home, you can live the same criteria of love in the nation and the world. People should be born in love, grow and mature in love, and then die in love. We continue to live eternally in that love with God in spirit world.</p>
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<p>This world is a training center where you learn by stages how to love the world. You graduate from this school when you go to spirit world and there you can experience love for eternity. Perfected love can be compared to a perfectly round bowling ball that knocks down all the pins. But the love of those who fail in the workshop of love is like a square-shaped or lumpy ball that doesn’t roll properly. True love is perfectly round and can go anywhere and can find its way in any situation. Even if that ball travels in an erratic pattern, it will always hit the final target. If I can think of all this, don’t you suppose God has thought about this even more?</p>
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<p>Love is round, shining, beautiful and tender. The more you touch it, the more you like it. Therefore, love is good. Naturally you want to receive love from your parents, and you must receive the same amount of love from your society, nation and world. Would you like your love to be confined to only your parents or to expand to the whole world? Will you receive love if you just tell people to love you?</p>
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<p>The origin of love is God, who is always taking the initiative to give love to the world. You are in a position to take the initiative also. God is thrusting love downward, and you are thrusting love upward; the idea is always that each takes the initiative. Without question, love is good but to make your love truly good, you have to have the power to encompass difficult and bitter things. You should be able to embrace both extremes, loving not only America but also the enemies of America.</p>
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<p>Would you lose anything with that kind of love? No, by practicing this love you come to resemble God. It is natural to like the people who also like us, and if there had been no fall then that is all anyone would need to do. But because of the fall, that kind of love is not good enough; now we must have the power to embrace the people who hate us.</p>
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<p>What is the difference between Satan and God? Satan moves only in one direction but God moves in all four directions and embraces everything. Thus we must have the capacity to love evil people as well as good ones. That was the teaching of Jesus.</p>
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<p>A healthy person can digest anything he eats, even dried corn. If some kinds of food make your stomach ache, then you don’t have enough digestive power. You Moonies should have the capacity to digest everything. To develop such capacity, you should look for the things and people whom you hate and who hate you the most and learn to embrace them. Once you have digested the worst, then everything else is no problem. If you are a logical person, this is an obvious conclusion.</p>
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<p>The jobs that no one else wants to tackle are the things you should willingly take up and come to enjoy. Then when God sees that you just keep loving these things, He will say, “You have been there too long. Come on up here,’ end you will rise up higher and higher. If you are going to love the world, should you first have fun and take lots of vacations, and then love the world in your spare time? Imagine a woman beautiful enough to be Miss America yet who forgets herself and works all the time for the sake of the world. Such a beautiful woman might receive marriage proposals from many distinguished men, but she would say she didn’t have time for that now.</p>
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<p>You are intelligent men and women, so which route would you take in order to win the love of God-unselfish or selfish love? If you totally practice unselfish love for ten years, I guarantee that people will think you are truly the image of God. You will have the key to solving every problem people have. You may think this sounds very colorful and dramatic but when you try to put it into practice, it is very difficult. Anything may seem easier than loving the impossible people of this world.</p>
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<p>If I know how difficult this is, why have I dedicated thirty years of my life to it and why am I still pursuing it, after having been persecuted and criticized everywhere? The goal is to have love that will penetrate the entire universe and you know that cannot be easy to win. We are talking about love that can shatter the bonds of earth and go straight to the throne of God. Will God just smile quietly when that love hits, or will He be knocked out? When God is hit by that love He will tumble over and over; nothing could be compared with the expression of His joy.</p>
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<p>Was my decision to go this route the right one? Now that I am almost 60, do you think I have regrets about my youth being wasted on something worthless? You have the freedom to go to movies and such, but when I was your age I didn’t have any freedom.</p>
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<p>On the foundation I have laid, you can be grafted to me so no matter how imperfect you are, you are like a limb of the tree. I have won the ultimate battle so by being grafted to me and following my standard, you know you are protected from going wrong. You are the bud which will blossom. Can my buds belong to you? No. Since you are branching out from me, you must produce your own buds and blossoms. You cannot claim that my flowers are good enough and that you only have to reap the benefit of my blossoms. You must fulfill perfection as branches and produce blossoms yourselves.</p>
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<p>When you create many blossoms, you draw energy to that area and then you will send out new branches. If some branches are exceptionally energetic, the tree will grow in their direction, but when everyone works with equal power the branches will be balanced and the tree will grow straight. This is why I want each of you to do equally well. Thus you can’t shirk your responsibility when everyone else is fulfilling theirs.</p>
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<p>If one main branch dies and falls off, the tree starts to lean to the other side where there is still activity in the healthy branches. In the human body, healthy blood is welcomed wherever it circulates, but when it is unclean, it is just a burden. The best thing for a tree is for someone to chop off the dead branches and graft on healthy little branches.</p>
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<p>One branch of our tree is Korean, another is Japanese, another American and so forth. I am observing which branch is more energetic and powerful. If one branch is not doing too well, I will graft another little branch there to strengthen it.</p>
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<p>Who is better able to endure hardship-cultured people or primitive people? Most cultured people have almost zero endurance, while primitive people have 100 percent endurance but no culture. God is very fair in not distributing culture and endurance together! When I came to lead the American movement, I had a tough time because the Americans had their own yardsticks to evaluate me with. Cultured people think the night is for sleeping, for instance, so they thought my way wasn’t right for them. Some people insisted they needed eight hours of sleep and three meals a day on time. But these criteria become obstacles when we are fighting the revolution of true love.</p>
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<p>In the midst of war, you can’t have beautifully laid tables and grand food. But when you finally gain true love, it is the most cultured thing you have ever seen. I brought many Japanese and Germans to this country to show Americans how to endure; people in these nations suffered much during and after World War 11. When I told them to compete with the American members, the Americans thought it wouldn’t work because these people didn’t know the American ture. But when the result came in, the Japanese and Germans were the winners and the Americans realized they had to change their outlook.</p>
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<p>I pointed out to the Americans how the Japanese did the best even though they didn’t know English. The Americans didn’t like to hear that so they would sometimes say, “l wish those Japanese weren’t here!” Even now, that process of education is still going on. If you Americans are the leading citizens of the world and very cultured people, I want you to be the winners in endurance also, so that is how I am training you.</p>
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<p>Is it easier to give culture to people of great endurance or to train cultured people to endure? Once the cultured people are awakened and make up their minds, they can quickly develop endurance. But to raise up uncultured people takes a long time. That is why I came to work with Americans. In the process people accused me of brainwashing, but it doesn’t matter.</p>
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<p>I want you cultured Americans to dig down and endure 100 percent and then rise up to change the cultured world. Then America can be the hope of the world. America has grave problems, even though it thinks it has the greatest society in the world. American culture today is moving backward toward primitiveness, with people like the hippies leading the way. Someone should teach them the proper way of gaining the endurance of primitive peoples, and then they can learn to create a new heavenly society. I came in the nick of time to do that.</p>
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<p>American youth has no clear direction to follow at this time, but when they look for a place to drop anchor they are attracted by the Moonie ideology. They recognize that a nation based on it has to prosper and then they can have hope. But even though they see it is good, they sometimes decide not to follow it because it requires too much sacrifice; they want everything to come easily. Some say that if they could only do what they liked, then this would be the perfect ideology for the world. But if we ever compromise our basic way of life, then everything will disappear. There is no way we can become like the world and still be the light of salvation.</p>
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<p>People may hear the Divine Principle and think it is fine, but wish Chapter Two wasn’t part of it, or they wish that the Second Advent was still on the clouds. I could make some people happy by altering the Principle. Do you think God should give up the difficult parts of this ideology? If God were willing to do that, then we could too, but God will Just go His own way instead of compromising. If people can’t adjust then there is no solution for them. Even if all of you say you cannot go this way, I will still go my own way. If America totally rejects me and refuses to live that way of life, will say farewell and go to the primitive people who know how to endure. What would happen to America then? This nation would crumble far below the level of primitive people. It is our destiny to accept and live this ideology.</p>
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<p>I don’t want you to become like primitive people, but to learn their quality of endurance and use it to lead the world. You must decide that you will go on with iron will for seven years, and then everything will be over. Don’t crave the American standard but live for seven years in the lowliest places. This thinking is like a diamond wrapped in dirty rags-you don’t have to worry about anyone trying to steal it because no one will ever suspect what you have. Is this more real to you than eating when you are hungry or sleeping when you are tired?</p>
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<p>If you could only lose by living this way then no one would join, but you know that no matter how much you suffer, you will not only win in the end but will recoup many times more than you invested. This is the secret of winning people’s hearts without fighting physically and shedding blood. The more you live this life, the more you will become the central person in society.</p>
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<p>The most dazzling example of this is Jesus Christ. He was a miserable, suffering, persecuted young man who died when he was only 33. Today one can travel around Israel in just a few hours; it was in that tiny country that Jesus taught. Furthermore, he was executed as a treasonous criminal. The fact that one man died in such a tiny country 2,000 years ago would seem about as important now as one little insect breaking its leg in this country; yet that one “insignificant” life was the root of an entirely new world culture. No other individual has had such impact on the world.</p>
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<p>Is our tradition and teaching the same thing that traditional Christianity is teaching today? Is the distance between the New Testament and the Old Testament greater than the distance between the New Testament and the Divine Principle? In my own lifetime, I have had impact on the entire world. I came to this country to warn America that it would crumble if it did not return to God. This would be parallel to Jesus going to the Roman Empire and warning of its doom unless they accepted God. I am doing more drastic things now than Jesus was able to do in his time.</p>
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<p>Jesus had only a few disciples, but today many young people of all different races follow the Principle and are working to build the Kingdom. The world has even tried to kill me but am I a man of failure or success? Even now after 2,000 years there is a great rift between Judaism and Christianity, but today in my lifetime, Christians of all denominations are accepting me as a prophet and supporting my cause. It is an amazing thing.</p>
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<p>Koreans gave me the worst persecution and the established Christians were the fiercest. But when I last visited Korea, many people were saying that there had never been such a hero as Reverend Moon in the 5,000 years of Korean history. Imagine how much the dispensation has advanced when the Christians who persecuted me are now convening to declare their support. It is true that Korea has one of the most vibrant Christian communities in the world. Also, Korea is a buffer zone between the communist world and the free world. While the whole free world economy is shaking, that one tiny nation is growing faster than any other.</p>
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<p>At one time many Japanese hated me fanatically but now Japan’s leaders see that Unification Thought alone provides hope for their country. Now Korean and Japanese scholars are gathering to declare that the Unification teaching provides the only hope for Asia. You are in your twenties and thirties. Imagine how America will change by the time you are in your forties. If you continue the pace of your work today for another ten or twenty years, you know you will cover many miles and really have an impact on this nation.</p>
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<p>With CARP we have created a heavenly tornado on the East and West coasts; one campus after another is in turmoil now. Change never comes unless you shake people up. Every campus has its own communist organizations which always try to stop our meetings. The professors’ organizations divide into Cain and Abel factions over us. War is being waged.</p>
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<p>Today many Americans are focused on the Unification Church and some ask if there is any way to get Reverend Moon out of this country. They think that then all the Moonies will go back home. Are they right? Today I am declaring that until the world becomes one, this focus upon the Unification Church will only keep growing.</p>
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<p>Not only America focuses upon me but in each nation, every small thing I do becomes news. Did I cause such an extraordinary thing, or did God’! Together we did it. By doing this, will I survive or falter? Will I be victorious? If I won’t take responsibility, will you? If I ever became a communist, I would be the worst one, but luckily I am a champion of God, promoting the love of God in the world.</p>
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<p>Today’s topic is Heaven and Us. What is this “us” all about? We are the focal point. When we start businesses, we are the focal point of the business world. When we start a school, we are the focus of academia. In home church, we are making history. Whatever we do, we become the focus. People have never heard of anything like us, because this is the first such religious group in history. But God loves it, spirit world loves it and people of the present and future will also love it.</p>
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<p>How do you know the spirit world focuses on us? There are many phenomena today that testify to that. You are not alone when you fundraise because the spirit world is working with you. Did you know that Confucius and Buddha and Mohammed are our MFT members? Not only that, but God joined our MFT!</p>
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<p>How many focal points would you like to have? If your focal point is the love of God, then actually you are focused on everything, 24 hours a day.</p>
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<p>I recently sent Bo Hi Pak to Korea to get government approval so that we can start the Sun Myung Moon University there. He told them that people will come there from 120 nations and that there are Nobel prize winners already on the planning board. When they heard my plans those officials were astonished. Do you think it can be done?</p>
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<p>One asset you have is that you are young. If you work just like I worked, there is no limit to what you can do. What is our overall focus? It is God. Every Sunday morning I emphasize one thing-true love. Everything in the universe focuses upon true love; that is the source of life. In the spirit world the love of God is the rising sun.</p>
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<p>Once you possess the true love of God, you will be the focus of the world wherever you go. I am intently pushing you out so that you can quickly become the focus of the world. You will experience how much God has suffered in restoring mankind. I want you to understand how much God endured. If you had the power of almighty God, I’m sure you would have crushed the world a long time ago. Now you know you have to be patient, no matter how long it takes. Our weapon is education, so instead of destroying people we will raise them up.</p>
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<p>God saw and heard much wickedness over these thousands of years, yet He has been patient. By the same token, you have to be able to endure the criticism of the world. We must win the love of God; only that one thing matters. God has been the king of patience in history and so we must be princes and princesses of endurance. God gave His only begotten Son and saw the world kill him, but still God was patient. That is the endurance of God. Do you want it? You must have infinite patience and endurance if you want to gain true love.</p>
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<p>I have received overwhelming criticism but I don’t want to remember any of it. I want to forget within 30 minutes any accusation that comes. God has been forgetting the evil things and remembering the good news. I can always be grateful and thank God for the opportunity to participate in His hardship and learn His endurance. With that power alone can we understand God and become like Him.</p>
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<p>How much has God trusted people? In all biblical history man has failed God and has been untrustworthy, but still God trusted. Without trust there is no way God could continue the work of restoration. How could man continue to try if God did not trust him? Thus when we learn from God, we must learn how to trust other people even though they may fail us a thousand times. Even though they lie to you, still trust them. Even though they cause you pain, still trust them.</p>
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<p>Thank God that you can participate with Him in trusting unconditionally since you yourself have been untrustworthy. When you meet someone who is difficult to trust, you can thank God for the opportunity to practice His trust. God wants so much to love man that He gives everything unconditionally. By imitating the God who is infinitely loving and trusting, we can learn that wonderful way of love. When God sees someone who is trying to practice this way of life even while he is living in hard circumstances, God wants to show great mercy to him. You can win His heart and He will shower His mercy and grace on you.</p>
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<p>In home church you are persecuted many times. Your roster will be your record of persecution but God comfort you and be right there with you. Persecution is a necessary ingredient. In many cases when your people are rude and curse you, you come back to the center feeling depressed. But instead you should be jubilant over what they have given you that day.</p>
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<p>By enduring their hostility you will become a universal person who can go to both hot and cold places, high and low places and be welcomed there. In that way, you will become a central point. You love to see me because I am such a central point. I am almost 60, so wouldn’t you ask me to sleep late and let a younger person give the sermon on Sunday? No? How cruel you are! When I leave New York to go abroad, you feel America is empty because the focus of love is temporarily away. I am always trying to be the focus of your love and I always focus my love upon you. This is why I am generous with you and forgive you all the time, giving you another chance and trusting you.</p>
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<p>The twelve months comprise one circle of seasons. There is always balance there, with six months up and six months down, six months left and six months right. One place is hot and the other cold. Each season reaches a peak and then changes. You cannot say you want only spring or only enjoy hot weather. Most people don’t like winter but you have to live through it. Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, and at least three disciples collaborated with him; their betrayal was equivalent to the three months of winter. You must pass through winter to welcome spring. Winter is essential because without it nothing can be prepared for the spring.</p>
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<p>When water freezes it expands and through that process the hard shell of a seed bursts and is ready for spring. God is truly a great scientist. When you see isolated aspects of the creation, you don’t understand the greatness of the whole picture; but when you see the whole picture, you can see the wisdom of having a season like winter. In the Unification Church now we are completing our winter and getting ready to welcome spring. Then we will go on to blossom fully in the summer and bring the harvest in autumn. When the seeds are harvested, we will enter winter again and be ready to be tested again. Then the cold will beat fiercely on us but the life in the seed will remain intact, waiting for the spring and summer. New life will come.</p>
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<p>You are persecuted and ill-treated but the life within you has been activated, hasn’t it? Are you ready to come out in the spring? Americans think that their nation will always prosper, but that is not so. While Americans are enjoying spring, summer and autumn, you are building up the power to survive the coming winter.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is full of hope. We will not be a great movement unless we are hardened and tested, but then we will be strong and able to prosper anywhere in the world. In order to be a healthy person, you must be able to live in and enjoy all of the seasons. In the same way, you should be able to serve all four different categories of people-like spring, summer, autumn and winter. You can say that you need all four kinds of people, just as you need all four seasons.</p>
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<p>That is why Jesus selected twelve disciples, all of them very different. Jesus focused his love upon each person and then they became one united group. You should be able to serve and focus on twelve different people in harmony.</p>
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<p>In one day we can see signs of the four seasons: morning is like spring; daytime is like summer; evening is like autumn and night time is like winter. In order to make a full circle, your movement must be both up and down. You cannot go just one way. We should know how to go both up and down because God does both. Satan, however, only knows how to go up; ultimately he will fall all the way down. When you encounter tribulation and suffering, don’t think that you are destroyed. As much as you must go down, you can come up again that much higher. That is the method God wants to teach you.</p>
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<p>Together with the spirit world we are going to focus on the eternal love of God. As Moonies we have a tremendous capacity: we can focus ourselves no matter where we are because we have the true love of God. People see us now in a bad light but as soon as they see that their focus is wrong, they will change.</p>
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<p>If you totally serve and sacrifice for others, you will become a central figure wherever you go. If you live like that, you will be elevated into heaven as a central figure. Your eyes should search for the places where people are in misery; your thinking should be focused on how to liberate hell; your ears should want to change the sad sounds of hell; and your mouth should speak the glad words of salvation.</p>
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<p>Look at the world through God’s parental eyes and speak words of salvation. If you live like that, you will be a victorious person; you will be approved as God’s son or daughter. This is a task more urgent than anything else. You should get to the point where you forget the calendar, forget night and day. The place where we must do this is home church.</p>
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<p>Therefore, be proud of being persecuted. When you are walking on a windy, rainy day, soaking wet, be proud of it. When your shoes are broken and you have to stuff them with cardboard, be proud of it. When someone curses you, be proud of it. My only worry was that America might ignore me, but it hasn’t. Since you are like God and like me, your worst worry is that people will ignore you.</p>
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<p>If you can say that you will go this way without failure, raise your hands, please. Thank you. God bless you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DISPENSATION</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="2018-06-19T14:51:27+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/historical-view-of-the-dispensation.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:51:27+01:00">June 19, 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">September 18, 1979<br />
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<p>I’m sure all of you realize the meaning of the day and the significance of September 18. Today I want to deliver a message entitled “Historical View of the Dispensation” since you should know the historical background. There are many religions today, but there are few which really understand the dispensational view of God. There are many religions and faiths, but normally they cannot easily separate themselves from their cultural background and local roots. God’s dispensation is always started in one local area, but with a universal concept which is directed at bringing these into one culminating universal dispensation.</p>
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<p>Although a religion may seem to be shaped by the context of its local background, each good religion has the same central theme of the basic dispensational picture of Gad. Our conclusion is that God is always working toward one central theme of dispensation. Therefore. the completion of the will of God will not be realized in the process of its development, but in the end’ at the culmination. Human history started in the fallen world. When restoration from that point up to the original world is completed, all the goals of religion will be accomplished, including the level of family, society and nation, when the entire world is restored back to God.</p>
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<p>History is always moving toward one central line of fulfillment, in a process similar to the development of a central government; instead of doing it all at once God starts out by organizing a family, tribe, village, town, then country, state and finally the federal government With this kind of picture you can explain God’s view of dispensation.</p>
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<p>There are basically two aspects in today’s world-the East and West. Of course, in each of those aspects all four directions exist. A variety of cultures have emerged in East and West’ but God is always working in one central culture’ with one central theme of dispensation. Even though a certain religion represents the central theme of God’ it probably doesn’t look so different from other religions. Whether you are standing in the center or to the side of the main dispensation doesn’t make any difference because there is only one direction-upward-and the fulfillment of each religion will always bring it upward toward the central goal. Each religion was born for a purpose, and once it has fulfilled within its limited sphere, it has finished its mission. A village government is under the authority of the national government; in the same way, when a higher religion appears the lower religion will be absorbed. Thus, until the central religion fulfills God’s will completely, it will not stop or become dormant but will endure until the culminating day.</p>
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<p>When will all these religions become one? In the Last Days the purpose of each religion will be completed, and when we reach that day of consummation there will be one final movement of unity among religions. The central religion always focuses on that one day when all religions will be united’ and it will have many prophecies about the great day of unification to come. That is how the central religion has been upholding hope.</p>
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<p>Christianity is a world religion. How could it come to be such a formidable religion today? It is because Christianity was created by God to take the central role. and as long as God’s will is still moving forward Christianity must keep pace. When the Last Days come, however, it will come to an end along with all other religions. In that day of consummation the one unifying force which is being predicted is, in religious terms, the concept of the Messiah. The Messiah is the central theme of Christianity’ and each religion has a messianic concept in some form. Each good religion in the world today has some variation of this idea.</p>
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<p>At the same time religions are moving internally toward that one unifying point, the external world is also moving toward unity. Today the world has been consolidated into two aspects-the democratic and communist worlds. When the day of consummation comes, these two worlds will confront each other and both of them will be ended. Why is that? It is because God’s purpose of dispensation is for the whole world, and when it is culminated both of those worlds must end in order for one world of God to be formed.</p>
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<p>Where are we today? Again, we can say that the time for the end of the free world is near. The United States is proud to be a democratic country, but that particular philosophy is becoming outdated. Today’s philosophy of democracy will not work in the future world. When we talk about the end of the democratic world it implies the end of the Christian world. This also applies to the communist world. Until 1978 the communists were confident they could conquer the world, but since then they have realized that because of their own internal divisions they could not do it They became aware that communist power is not almighty.</p>
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<p>The time has come when a new vision is needed, a new religious philosophy and ideology which will help the present world consummate the ultimate goal of God’s purpose. Who will bring this new concept and vision of the future? What would he teach and where would he lead mankind? God’s promised Messiah will give new vision not only to the religious world but to the secular world as well. First of all, he would come as true man, bringing the truth which will enable him to unite all religions. Furthermore, he will have a realistic solution for the world’s problems and he will be able to lead the way to a solution of hope.</p>
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<p>A solution is needed on all levels-individual, family, nation and world. Realistic problems are there and realistic solutions are needed. When the Messiah comes as a man will he do it all by himself? He must first demonstrate a family that is building a block of the Kingdom of Heaven. That will be the family in which all religions could feel at home and find the fulfillment of their ideals. Even non-religious people will feel that the Messiah’s family is the ideal family that everyone needs. That family will be a universal one, not based on any one particular culture or denomination, but one which can provide the universal model for all cultures. Can you think of any exception to this?</p>
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<p>If one religion is preaching white supremacy, does it have the qualification to provide worldwide fulfillment? Christianity embraces the concept of being God’s chosen people, but if Christians are making themselves a privileged class which disregards others they will not be acceptable to God. If they try to perpetuate that concept will they continue to prosper? If God’s chosen people have some prejudice or arrogance then God will definitely raise up another group as His chosen ones instead. If Christianity has developed primarily into a culture of white people with racial prejudice, or if the Jews have some arrogance as the chosen people then they are not understanding God’s mind and He will definitely raise up another race as the chosen ones. This is not just my opinion, but a proven fact of history.</p>
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<p>When I came to the Western world to preach the most logical and natural revelation of God, Christians were shocked and the white culture refused to accept it; the Jewish people also felt I had to be stopped. The interesting thing is that when established religious leaders oppose me, often their wives and children start taking the side of the newcomer! If a husband is adamantly opposed, in many cases God will chose his wife or child to give support instead. That doesn’t happen by the effort of any one religious leader but through God’s direct intervention. God has prepared many individuals who are ready to receive the messianic ideal, like seeds which will sprout in the final day of consummation.</p>
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<p>How will we know when the Last Days are here? The sign will be a movement of people predicting the time of the Last Days and urging people to prepare. If their particular predictions are not fulfilled then at least there will be people who are trying to prepare themselves. The one movement which is preparing for the day of consummation is the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>I am very glad to have been born a Korean because Koreans don’t have any worldly status or respect to be proud of. For instance, Japanese people generally are proud of themselves and think they are better than Koreans and other peoples because they are usually in the lead in any race. But there is no rule that every champion must be Japanese. In boxing, for example, a small Japanese can’t defeat a giant Westerner. Boxing was begun by whites, but now supremacy usually belongs to blacks in that sport. White people cannot disqualify blacks from participating simply because white people originated the sport of boxing; international law would not allow it.</p>
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<p>When the Japanese realized the Divine Principle was the supreme truth they felt the Japanese should play the main role and some businessmen approached me about buying the Divine Principle. Should we respond and negotiate with them? Money talks in many arenas and sometimes sports results are rigged, for instance, but it is illegal nevertheless. I refused the Japanese businessmen, and later the Japanese press tried to smear my reputation so they could take the Divine Principle by force. These leading citizens felt they could not afford to allow me to prosper in Japan, but then their own children and many brilliant university students spoke up to challenge them!</p>
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<p>Here in America, however, another situation has developed. Here Christians think Jesus belongs to the West, and when a Korean preacher appeared Western theologians reacted by thinking that they certainly knew more than he did. Initially they adamantly rejected Unification Church and Divine Principle. My response was that the two should compete in the world arena and have open public discussion, so I issued invitations to famous theologians and philosophers. Most of them refused to attend. That retreat actually represents their own defeat, showing they haven’t the courage to stand up.</p>
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<p>Then the dirty-tricks began with various people trying to cut me down in various ways, through bad publicity, character assassination and government investigation. When I started my work here in 1972 many people thought that I wouldn’t last past 1973 and then they could get rid of me. Instead the Unification Church defeated even the United States Congress.</p>
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<p>The problem faced by people who want to prevent the Unification Church from prospering is that the movement here is made up primarily of Americans, not Koreans. If I am deported from America would you also pack and leave? If I leave, there will be many people left behind who will cry and feel they cannot forgive the nation for that act. Their heartbreak will not be healed by any white people coming to comfort them. They would only be comforted by some Koreans promising to convey their heart and love to me and urging them to get down to work in the meantime. Not even government weapons or threats can change a man’s heart, so what will happen ultimately? If many Americans are upset that Reverend Moon is not in this country then a democratic government would have to respond by issuing an invitation to Reverend Moon to come back so that the citizens would be placated.</p>
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<p>What should I do then? Should I immediately fly back, or refuse to come again? If I refuse to come back then millions of Americans will apply to emigrate to Korea. The world will see that these emigrants are not the trash of society, but distinguished and motivated young people. Will that be Korea’s problem, my problem, or America’s problem?</p>
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<p>Even though this is a Church gathering. I know that there is some government recording being made of every word I say. For their benefit I say that if America continues on in its present course it will inevitably decline: we must do something drastic now. The Unification Church has no wish to see America decline, but if it mistreats this God-given movement then God will take action and decline will be unavoidable. It would be much better for God to begin all over again than to continue struggling with a country that does not parallel His direction. Such a nation cannot survive.</p>
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<p>This World Mission Center is located on Eighth Avenue, which is famous for prostitution. Here our members are gathering by the thousands, pursuing one direction in life, while people on the street pursue another. Who will influence whom? Will you be swallowed by them, or refuse to be influenced but just sit and wait, or will you do something about it? I have seen that in the last five years New York is sinking and becoming unthinkably dirty. You can see it just by looking across the street. What is the government doing about it? In most cases the government doesn’t care.</p>
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<p>There are many denominations in America, but what are they doing about it? The situation is getting worse, yet what solution are they offering? Even though they despise me, they will have to acknowledge that I am offering a solution. The evidence is you: many of you were victims of that society but you have been reborn into citizens who are building the kingdom. Immoral and discouraged young people who come here are being changed into godly men and women of vision. You are working harder than anyone else in fund raising and witnessing. Many people accuse me of brainwashing, but that kind of cheap criticism will not stand up under honest investigation.</p>
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<p>No power can prevent America from entering the Last Days, and no citizen can be aloof or reject being part of the situation. If Americans refuse to embrace God’s dispensation. this country will tall apart. God needs a champion who can advance the dispensation by leaps and bounds. Who are the people who can live up to His expectation? At this extraordinary time in history God sees the opportunity for leaping ahead, and if the government or established religions oppose His instrument, God will allow unusual things to happen to them. God is allowing the Unification Church to leap ahead and giving us great opportunities by suppressing the power of governments and dispensations Himself. That is God’s mandate.</p>
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<p>Are you the kind of people who can rebound from pressure like a rubber ball, or will you be shattered by it? We need people who are not only elastic but tough and who can endure. American religion is like a ship caught in a hurricane and the government as well is helpless and has no anchor. When the water is rough and the wind is strong and your ship is pitching and rocking out of control, what will happen? That is the kind of perilous situation we are living in today.</p>
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<p>Do we in the Unification Church have an anchor? God is our anchor and I am the rope. That means all you have to do to survive is hold onto the rope; you don’t even have to grip the anchor directly. The anchor is always deep in the water so what you have to do is grab the rope and hang on. Other churches may be offering people a beautiful rope of gold, but there is no anchor at the bottom. The Unification Church rope is plain nylon, but there is an anchor down below. Those people who advertise their beautiful rope criticize ours; even the government boasts how big its rope is and how fishysmelling the Unification Church is. But the difference is that we have an anchor and they don’t.</p>
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<p>Who will be the controlling factor or central person in the midst of this global catastrophe? Even the President himself will not be adequate because today’s problems go beyond human comprehension; no human power will suffice. Do you just believe this or know it as a fact? Only a solution based on a message from God can work.</p>
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<p>Can you think of any other religious leader in history who has raised as much controversy as I have, stirring up hurricanes on every continent I visit? The media have given me many unsolicited titles, such as Korean businessman, Korean evangelist, Korean prophet. All of those titles are correct, which means that I am not just a small religious leader taking care of one church; I am interested and involved in every sphere of life. Another recent criticism is the prediction that I will dominate the oceans and America’s ports through our fishing industry. I definitely feel that some great fishing captains will emerge from among our Unification Church women. That will be our pride because usually American women stay home and command their husbands.</p>
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<p>I have concluded that the day of consummation is here. What we need is vision to see our direction and guide human life in an orderly fashion and create the future world. At this turning point we need a central theme which comes from God’s direct involvement in the form of the Messiah. Would you like to change your church to one that is more convenient? I’m sure some of you were atheists before joining, but now could you revert to that conviction and way of life? Wouldn’t you get tired of looking at me sooner or later? I keep pushing you out, saying you must live for the sake of the world, but aren’t you discouraged because you haven’t even seen the world yet? If you don’t move then I will push you out.</p>
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<p>Would you rather push yourself or be pushed by me? How about being pushed by God? It is better not to have me or have God pushing you because then you carry a burden and face judgment if you fail, but when you push yourself there is always another chance. What route would you smart Americans take? If your eyes are drooping with sleep you have to command them to stay open. If your hands don’t obey, you have to warn them they can’t behave that way after meeting me. Tell your legs they have the wrong owner if they can’t work harder. If you sisters have a bosom and hips that are so big they slow you down then you have to chastise them and shape up. Command your mouth to go without eating if it demands good food too much. Men are always greedy to get something for free, but now you can tell your brain it is time to give something free for others. Your mental processes have to change like that.</p>
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<p>Will Orientals or Westerners see further into the distance? If a camera lens is opened wide then it only focuses nearby objects clearly, but when it is closed more than it can also focus objects far away. Westerners’ eyes are always wide open so they focus on things closer at hand, so naturally they have created a great material civilization. Orientals’ eyes are narrower. Even for an Oriental I have small eyes, so small that sometimes you wonder whether my eyes are closed or open. I have the vision to see far, far into the distance.</p>
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<p>I have seen a great distance, enough to penetrate the heart of God, and because I know what lies ahead I can command my body and discipline my eating, sleeping and love life. When God sees this self-control He feels He can absolutely trust everything about me-my legs, arms, mouth, and so forth. Can you Unification Church women control the desires of your body? If a handsome man is near don’t you wish he would touch your body? You men are not any better! I sometimes hear very honest reports about members who act crazy because they cannot control their sexual desires. Do you have total self-discipline to control your love life?</p>
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<p>We must either prepare the day of culmination or fulfill the day. Would you like to be those who prepare or be the central performers on that day? The Messiah is the culmination of God’s work through history and he is needed by everyone, whether man or woman, American or Oriental, or even a communist. We have to pinpoint what the central religion is. First Judaism and then Christianity held that position historically. The central religion always starts out from God and will continue until the fulfillment of its purpose at the close of the Last Days. God said that He is the alpha and omega, and this is reflected in the course of His central religion.</p>
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<p>The first part of God’s history was the Old Testament era, then the New Testament era, and now we are moving into the Completed Testament era. That era is the time for the completion or culmination of both Old Testament and New Testament history. Judaism cannot be consummated by itself; there must be an ultimate truth which will liberate it and lift it up to be completed, and Christianity as well. The Unification Church is functioning as a mediator to bring unity so that all religions can move toward culmination together. That is why you will find Unification members who come from every aspect of religious life-Jews, Christians, Buddhists and so forth.</p>
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<p>I can see that until now human history has been a failing venture. Who will take up the responsibility to mend the history of failure? Those who were responsible for history’s failures are now in spirit world and they need to be liberated. That will come to them only when someone here on earth physically reverses their failure. This is why you cannot solve the problems of the present unless past failures are resolved. There must be some combined solution for problems of the democratic and communist worlds, to untangle both the past and present. Without that solution there is no hope for the future.</p>
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<p>Christians and Jews don’t think in that fashion, but believe they will continue as they are for eternity. They can’t even imagine the need for a day of consummation when they can be liberated. In the day of consummation, the past, present and future will be unfolded horizontally at the same time in different layers. If the Unification Church is the central faith in this period then we must have the solution for the past and present. You might see yourself as one insignificant individual, but you are the fruit of the past, you are the present and the extension of you will be the future.</p>
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<p>All of you come into the era of consummation from all kinds of backgrounds, but you are united by the central theme of God. That’s what your role is. Unless you discover the central theme and direction you cannot project yourself to the future in the direction of God, which is one vertical line straight up. You must find it, join it, and move with it to reach the spirit world and God. If your angle is even slightly different then you will eventually go an entirely different direction.</p>
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<p>If Christianity had united with the Unification Church when it was born there would not have been a great spread of communism or catastrophic turmoil which we see now in the world. Christianity is like a field prepared by God for the Kingdom of Heaven, and all that was needed was the birth of the new ideology which would take hold in the central position and expand this Christian territory. That is what God hoped would happen. This is why God planted the Unification Church on the worldwide foundation of Christianity. The first thing that should have happened was acceptance of the Unification ideal by the Christian community of one nation. Then it would have expanded to the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>When Jesus came to the world, God had already prepared for 4,000 years so that the Messiah could win his own people first of all. Then the worldwide dispensation should have begun. Jews have strong national identity, but the Messiah did not come for Jewish supremacy; he came for the worldwide purpose, although he started on the national level. Why couldn’t the Jews accept Jesus? Because they saw he was different. But naturally he was different because they were only on the national level and Jesus was living for the international level. How could he be the same?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is here with the universal ideology and it cannot be fit into any particular nation or part of the world. Existing religions see that we are different and don’t listen to them, but naturally we are different and they should listen to us. We have a God-approved direction and philosophy and the guts to spread it around the world. If the Korean Christians in particular had wholeheartedly accepted the Unification Church many decades ago, would the Christian community of the world have been affected? If worldwide Christianity had been affected then the democratic world would not be as helpless as it is today. God had to allow the expansion of the enemies of the free world because nothing else would wake it up. Communism is threatening its very existence, but the democratic world is still asleep. Is the free world or the communist world expanding its territory faster today?</p>
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<p>God’s greatest need is to raise up one ideology that will not be overwhelmed but will win over the communist ideology and expand throughout the world. This is certainly a most logical strategy. The messianic ideal will therefore start out with the individual, tribe, nation and so forth, expanding to the world. But this ideology will not be just the product of one local culture; it will be a universal culture.</p>
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<p>Because the 2,000-year old Christian community opposed the Unification Church, God is leaving the churches today. The Bible says that in the Last Days your own family members will be your enemy; now families are becoming enemies because of Satan’s work. From the very beginning my concept was of a worldwide base. I started in the national environment of Korea because the movement had to begin from some local point, but I went beyond that boundary to reach out to the world. Because the great Christian foundation was broken, I had to erect the foundation step-by-step myself so that I could reach out to the world. That work began on the family level, then moved to the tribe and nation, and then I could leap beyond the nation. By 1972 the national foundation was laid.</p>
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<p>After that I could move the worldwide crusade and I went from Korea to America, the central nation which represents the entire world. I came and prepared for one year and from 1973 on began a most extraordinary crusade. How can the opposition of Korean Christianity be indemnified? Yes, here in America. Up through the Madison Square Garden rally in 1974 America gave me an open-armed welcome in the first Day of Hope Crusade. A great number of citations, proclamations and letters of honorary citizenship were received. The Korean Christian community had rejected me, but initially the American Christian community welcomed me, and thus restitution was made for the Korean failure.</p>
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<p>Based on that victory I organized the IOWC in 1974 and moved the crusade to Japan and Korea at the end of that year. Even though I had erected the national foundation in Korea, it was only spiritual and internal in content. Based on the victory in the Western world in 1974 I could go back to Korea for the external victory.</p>
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<p>In those days the Korean government was boxed in by Korean Christianity, which took an anti-government position. Furthermore, North Korea’s warmongering attitude was so frantic in those days that there was actual danger to national security. In order to subjugate Korean Christianity, a patriotic theme was absolutely necessary. Once we won victory on the international level I knew we were bound to win on the national level. This was the significance of bringing the International One World Crusade to campaign in Korea. You remember the heavenly collision between the Unification Church and Korean Christians during my 1975 crusade there. We began in Pusan and won gigantic victories over an outpouring of opposition in every city as we moved up the peninsula, all the way to Seoul. The internal foundation was laid in Korea but the external victory was brought from America, another Christian nation. We imported that victory to become victorious in Korea externally as well and at that time the Korean people fully realized that the Unification Church was not just a Korean movement but that it had gone far beyond and become international. In 1975 I sent out missionaries to every corner of the earth.</p>
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<p>In order to make restitution for the failure of Korean Christians I laid the spiritual foundation in Korea, came out and won the international victory externally and brought it back to Korea to make Korea’s victory whole, internally and externally. This was culminated in the World Rally for Korean Freedom on Yoido Island on June 7. At this rally the Unification Church demonstrated with sixty nations represented and I proclaimed our commitment to fight against communism on the worldwide level.</p>
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<p>If the same thing had happened 2,000 years ago it would have equaled Jesus’ victory in the Jewish nation coupled with an external victory in the Roman Empire, united into one culminating victory. Jesus could not win that victory in his lifetime however, and both the Jews and the Roman Empire opposed and crucified him. This remained to be indemnified, and it was done by our victory in Korea and America. We have paid the indemnity for this.</p>
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<p>With the completion of this internal and external victory in Korea, I came back out of Korea to America with a heightened dispensation. Now I had to export that whole victory out of Korea and make it a worldwide victory. The American victory was only external so it had to be make internal. A more substantial movement had to be erected in America, and that was the spiritual battle I began upon my return, starting the Yankee Stadium and ultimately Washington Monument campaigns.</p>
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<p>From this point on American government and worldwide attention was alerted and opposition began, and the U.S. Congress in particular became a seat of opposition. The Roman Empire represented the world, and the failure of Rome in Jesus’ time must be restored by America. Until that is done there is no way history can fully come alive. The entire world was united in opposition to the Unification Church- the Christian community, democratic nations, and even communists were agitating. I was confident that victory would be ours because we had already won the initial victory externally in America. Even though people who had initially welcomed me now turned to opposition, I knew the victory could be won. Every ounce of our movement’s energy was mobilized to confront this opposition, and it culminated with the battle against the Fraser Committee in the U.S. Congress.</p>
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<p>I am no enemy of America or Congress, but certain people were trying to cover me with this image. This paralleled the agitation of the Jews of the Roman Empire to kill Jesus. Jesus was a victim because he had no physical movement to mobilize to oppose that, but our situation was different. In the days of that confrontation even many of our American leaders expressed dismay at the situation and were skeptical of winning. I was the one person who truly believed in victory and l knew there was no way to go on without victory. When I instructed Col. Pak to go before the committee I told him to go fight and not hesitate or give excuses, but to go there like David before Goliath. I told him that in the name of God and True Parents he would win.</p>
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<p>When you show your absolute oneness with God and His spirit, God always takes your side and a miracle will happen. This was an exception. This was a most giant, historical battle and I knew a miracle was needed. History is living, past, present and future, so the consequences of the past must be unwound today. Only I knew the historical meaning of that confrontation, so only I could plan precisely how it should be won.</p>
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<p>Today we are celebrating a most important day in the history of our Church. The Washington Monument Rally was God’s demonstration of power, organization and determination, and through that Rally the entire world learned about us. It was our supreme battle, our declaration of war against the entire world, not just the United States. September 18, 1976 was truly an historical day for the world, not just our movement. It was a life-or-death showdown, the culminating battle in Unification Church history, and I won the victory. I knew that God was with us in that victory, and afterwards I ordered all echelons of our leadership to be bold and strong whenever faced with opposition from our enemies.</p>
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<p>Two most important events took place after the Washington Monument victory: on October 4, 1976 I declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven, and in the following year on February 23, True Parents’ birthday, I declared the day one in the year one of the Kingdom of Heaven. That was the culmination of my mission. I was liberated at that time and now I can go anywhere at any time. Also at that time I declared that now we would proceed with the legal battle and not tolerate any longer the unconstitutional treatment we had been given. We have to demonstrate legally our righteousness and it should be proven that the American Constitution is on our side.</p>
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<p>Many victories have been won in that battle, and this will be completed by the middle of 1981. We have been pursued by many government investigations, but one by one we have won. The courts are on our side and our constitutional rights have been upheld. The IRS has been looking for years to find something wrong in our finances, but they have found nothing so far. The historical universal program has been fulfilled and the past failures of history have been restored; no historical figure can point a finger at me.</p>
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<p>Congressman Fraser represented a far left political viewpoint and supported the anti-war movement during the Vietnam years, and such liberals were the victorious heroes in recent years. But Fraser’s defeat represented the fall of liberalism on the far left, and now more conservative, patriotic Congressmen are emerging on the scene. From now on the presidential candidates will be younger men in their 40’s, not older politicians. Younger men like Jerry Brown, Edward Kennedy and Philip Crane have emerged as candidates.</p>
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<p>A refreshing new tide of revived Christianity will occur soon in this country. A longing for a new Christian revival will emerge in America, and I want you to be flag bearers when that time comes. The same old evangelism of established religious leaders will not suffice when that time comes; a new outlet is needed and you can be the heroes in that time. This is why I am enhancing the CARP movement in this country. When a new spirit is generated I will reappear in the public eye.</p>
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<p>I see that a major victory is needed in the area of the media now, as well as acceptance of the Unification ideology by the academic community, particularly by theologians and philosophers. I have already gone a long way in this direction. I want you to understand that a day of hope is coming, and in order to meet that day I have been pushing you and demanding that you do incredible things. We need to educate the leadership of this nation so we need well-trained intellectual members who will not be dominated by the present intellectual climate but will be champions and leaders. This is why I am sending our graduate students to graduate schools all over America. They are entering the major universities of America, inviting major professors and teaching them Unification principles.</p>
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<p>Theory is important in the academic world, and in that area academicians have already surrendered to Unification theology. Now they see that we are not just people of theory but are doers, and they see they cannot compete with us here either. In that way our victory over them is complete. Now these academicians are realizing that to be well-off in the future they will have to be experts on the Unification Church so they are writing books on us, on me, and on our social impact; they know that these books will sell and bring them money. They love to get some kind of cooperation from us for these projects, but later, instead of just giving endorsement I will reappear in public. This is not just a dream or plan, but is already going on.</p>
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<p>Once America has exhausted all means of opposing the Unification Church, the rest of the world will also be helpless to say anything against us. Many research papers will be publicized about us and widely read by the public, particularly by the leadership. If they truly understand the meaning of our Church, that will be end of their opposition. I want you to teach this ideology to the leaders in America, not just the students. All the failures of Israel and the Roman Empire as well as Korea shall be restored here in America; this is the final battleground.</p>
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<p>On the foundation of all these victories I have explained I could conduct a special ceremony for the liberation of the spirit world. As long as spirit world was not liberated it was divided into compartments with many, many boundaries, but on November 2, 1978 at Chung Pyung Lake I conducted a special ceremony to break down all those barriers.</p>
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<p>There is no national boundary in the Unification Church. Once the Unification Church moves to a new nation, we meet many national patriots and patriots of the Kingdom of God on earth. In each nation we raise up people who are more patriotic than anyone else in the history of that nation. Because they want to serve humanity and the rest of the world, how can anyone say those people are wrong?</p>
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<p>All the religions of history had a central goal and moved toward the center, and the Unification Church throughout the world is following the same pattern.</p>
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<p>When you become faithful men and women and create faithful families, you have to create a faithful nation before you can love the world. With this ideology each person becomes a messiah; could you hate the people then? No, you would love them.</p>
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<p>Why am I pushing the home church providence so much? It is your way to become messiahs. I have done so much to win my victory and I want you to be qualified to inherit this glorious foundation. Home church is that qualification. Your 360 homes are your own world, both internal and external. You begin with the internal dispensation but ultimately will win them externally too. The spirit world will be linked with your work and spiritual phenomena will happen there. Home church is where you will win your victory, and then you will move into the national and world levels and be liberated. If you try to bypass home church you cannot be a world citizen of the Kingdom of God. You are creating 360 homes of your own in your area.</p>
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<p>People will reject you initially, of course, just like the Messiah was rejected. Would you welcome True Parents if they came to visit your home? Your home church should be the place where you are welcomed as true parents. You can never reach this goal by attacking the people; only by overcoming the persecution and opposition of the people can you do this mission. Through home church you will be united with spirit world and your ancestors will come to assist you. Furthermore, you are becoming one with the physical world because your 360 homes represent the world. You are in the position of completed, perfected Adam and Eve, so where is your garden of Eden? That is your home church. Your area is Cain’s territory, spiritually and physically. By creating your own garden of Eden in this home church area you are consummating your internal and external dispensation, spiritual as well as physical.</p>
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<p>The unity between God, Adam and Eve, and the angelic world should have brought the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, but division came in the form of the fall. Now in restoration, by doing home church, you and God are united, like God and Adam and Eve. You and home church are united, like Adam and Eve and the angel. That restores unity of all three worlds. This is why spiritual help is bound to come when you do church work</p>
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<p>In order to bring down help from spirit world you must do one thing: demonstrate a spirit of service and more loyalty and piety than anyone else in history. Then your ancestors will come down to your home church area and join with the people there, wanting them to bow down to you. That is how these two worlds will be united and how you can set the condition of having subjugated the entire spirit world and physical world. There is no other way you can gain this condition. You should be very grateful for this home church providence for this is where you can unite with the entire spirit world and physical world and become perfected Adam and Eve.</p>
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<p>Home church is the great finale of God’s providence. I started out in the individual dispensation, then moved to the family, tribe, nation and world, fighting all these years for the global victory. After that I liberated the entire spirit world. Now I want to give all that to you as your inheritance. Home church is the final chapter of the dispensational history of God. The ultimate victory celebration will be held, not at the New Yorker or Manhattan Center, but when you can invite Mother and myself to be with you in your home church.</p>
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<p>Three generations will be linked in love-True Parents, you, and your home church people. When I come to your home church area I want to say, “It is very good,” and hear your people say, “It is very, very good.” Then you can say, “Yes, thank you, True Parents and home church. I feel very, very, very good.” Home church will be the base on which a society, nation and Kingdom of Heaven on earth shall be erected.</p>
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<p>You can be deeply grateful that upon the Washington Monument victory came the victory of heaven, which led to the new history of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, which ultimately comes to you when you make a small condition to inherit all of that. It is an amazing fact. Since the spirit world is now one, all the religious figures of the past can come down, guiding people to learn Divine Principle. Many Buddhists, for instance, will be guided by Buddha to find out about the Unification Church because Divine Principle is the culmination of Buddhism. Until now the entire world has been in blackest darkness, but now everything is lighting up. The spirit world sees the Unification Church as the fulfilment of messianic accomplishment, so people of all religions in spirit world see their religious goals fulfilled and want to unite the world with that goal.</p>
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<p>What was the messianic role? The messiah is perfected Adam, the head of the family and of his own tribe, the father of mankind. At the same time he is the king of all people in parental heart. He is coming with dual purpose-to become the parent of mankind and also the king of all people. You don’t use the term king in referring to your own family, but only when you are talking about many other unrelated people. In home church, therefore, you are becoming a parent to your people; since your area represents the world it includes all races and peoples. You will love them as a parent but govern them as a king, teaching them the truth and teaching them the heavenly moral standard.</p>
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<p>A society and nation are but an expanded family, so one family is only a model, and once it is formed a society can be formed by expanding that foundation. No one questions that they have some relationship with their parents. At the same time you recognize that they are more than parents; you recognize them as king and queen who govern. In the Kingdom of Heaven those children who are not recognized by their own parents as filial children shall not be recognized anywhere else. In home church you shall be recognized by parents first. So far l have been describing Cain-type home church, but the Abel-type home church of your own relatives must also be developed. There your parents must be the first people to recognize you, before you are recognized by the society.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is how to become a true parent and king of true people. When home church is completed and perfected, no sovereign nationhood will be needed. No matter how people criticize, this will be done because it is God’s will. Home church is the altar where you and your family go to pray and present yourself as a living sacrifice; that will be the most beautiful thing to behold in the future. Again, there will be three generations offering that prayer-God, you and your children-united in one prayer. Horizontally, True Parents, you and your children are three generations.</p>
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<p>Through the True Parents you are educated about how to love parents; from the vertical parent, God, you receive the dove of true dominion and justice. The love of God is a most disciplined love. Ultimately your goal is to be loved by God in heaven and True Parents on earth. To receive recognition of the True Parents you must be loved by the Unification Church; to receive the love of God you must be loved by the spirit world.</p>
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<p>You accomplish all that in home church; that is your area to fulfill these ideals. If you have some sad thing to cry out about, go to home church and cry. If you have ecstatic joy to express, go to home church and laugh. If you feel like dancing, go there and dance. Whatever life you have led so far, you should lead a more exciting one in home church. I am the one who has paid all the indemnity for the sake of the individual, family, nation, world and spirit world. Now I want to share all these assets with you. Even if it takes seven years, you must determine to fulfill the home church providence. If you cannot, it will be extended 21 years. In my case, because of opposition from Korean Christians my seven-year course was extended to 21 years.</p>
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<p>Those who cannot do home church well cannot become national or world leaders because you will always be faced with Satan’s accusation that you are unqualified. No matter how much education you have, until you fulfill this one condition you cannot be accepted anywhere else. Eventually you will do home church because each year it is getting easier as the Unification Church and Reverend Moon are more widely accepted. The actual order of things is that first you do home church and then receive the blessing. The only reason you can have a blessed family before then is because True Parents and God regard you as a branch of True Parents, who are that trunk and root. When True Parents bear fruit, then you bear fruit because you are a branch. The significance of the fruit you bear is up to you, however. This is where your test is.</p>
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<p>I have explained God’s view of historical dispensation. When the world is more enlightened about this then people will come and I will travel from nation to nation without any visa. That day must surely come and it will be hastened because of our missionaries in many nations. They are not only missionaries teaching the Principle but patriots of those nations and will be respected as such. American, Japanese and German citizens went to those nations but loved them more than the native people; how could they not be respected in those nations?</p>
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<p>When you see the whole view of dispensation, no one can claim to be ignorant of the present time. Now you know where we are, how many more years are left in the third seven-year course and what will happen in 1980 and 1981. The time will come when I will not say anything more, but people will have to push themselves because they already know the dispensation. People will even ask me to push them and I will refuse. This opportunity to hear me speak for hours at a time will be rare in the future because I will not have the time.</p>
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<p>When the third seven-year course is over I will be traveling and not be here much. I will be going to many famous places and doing many things. Even the American people will take it for granted that I deserve to have many wonderful homes in different parts of the world. Who will accompany me when I travel? It is most natural that the home church champions among you will come with me. We will all be able to travel freely because no passports will be needed. When Harvard Ph.D.s join the Unification Church they will do home church. If they want to come to my home, they will have to come through even a small member who is a home church champion.</p>
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<p>When I go to visit distinguished people I am thinking inside that they will some day complain that I didn’t tell them about home church earlier. I will answer that I talked about home church at Belvedere service at 6 a.m. and ask why they weren’t there even once to hear me.</p>
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<p>Who can come freely to hear me? You are those people. People so far have not known that the culmination of the dispensation of God is home church; religious leaders and saints never knew the final destination. I searched throughout the spirit world, knocking on every door and found the solution: otherwise, you would never know it. The greatest thing is that I have found the realistic way to find all the ideals described in the Old, New and Completed Testament. We can either be governed by or govern the spirit world; that era is coming.</p>
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<p>Shall we hasten to fulfill home church? This September 18, 1979 is a most memorable day to commemorate the True Parents’ victory. Will you pledge that you will complete home church successfully? The conclusion is that the goal of God’s dispensation shall be fulfilled by completion of home church. Let us pray.</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="2018-06-19T15:01:16+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/house-of-providence.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T15:01:16+01:00">June 19, 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/2018/06/19/house-of-providence.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">December 9, 1979<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>Since God’s ideal of creation has not been fulfilled, the word restoration came into being. If there had been no fall, the house of the ideal would have been erected, but because of the fall a house that needs to be restored came into being instead. If there had been no fall, God intended Adam and Eve to be the parents of mankind. They would have been united with God, and the angelic world united with them. What would have been the central theme of such unity?</p>
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<p>All human life is governed by principle; that principle is the central theme of the universe, and it governs all systems and forms of life. Where does that principle begin? lt comes out of God’s Principle of Creation. This created world resembles God’s own qualities. All things of the universe have dual essentialities, and there is always subject and object. Everything exists in reciprocal relationships of subject and object, up and down, and left and right. The purpose of creation is the realization of love.</p>
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<p>If someone asked what was the fulfillment of the ideal of creation, you would reply that it is the heavenly four position foundation, which is the true unity of love centered upon parents. When parents and children are united in love, that unity is permanent and everlasting. The origin of that love is permanent The family is the base and the dwelling place of such perfected love. In a family and society where love is perfect, trust is also perfect. Then the relationships among the members of such families would be perfect. Since any infiltration of evil into such a family would mean its destruction, evil could not be allowed A man could go out and fight to the death to defend such a family. The worst imaginable thing in the universe would be the corruption or destruction of such perfection of love.</p>
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<p>Such a family centered on perfected love would be a central point to multiply such love. Adam’s family should have been that nucleus. Then his children’s families would have been the expansion of that family As each generation formed the four position foundation, they would be connected to each other. Those foundations would contain both vertical and horizontal, at precisely ninety degrees to each other. The vertical can only meet the horizontal at ninety degrees, and that shall be the center of the universe. These families would definitely multiply and expand, but they would be connected to the central one. not isolated from each other. In other words, all these building blocks of the heavenly kingdom would be interrelated.</p>
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<p>Where would we find a manual or instruction book of love? Adam’s family was supposed to be that manual. Adam and Eve were supposed to be the visual aids for teaching love to the universe, for in them would be seen an example of the perfection of love. The love of men would be like Adam’s, and the love of women like Eve’s. Children would look to the children of Adam and Eve as their examples.</p>
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<p>Adam was in a position to be proud of his wife and children, and Eve was in a position to be proud of her husband and children. The children were in a position to be proud of their parents and each other. Adam’s assets would be his wife and children.</p>
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<p>In American society we frequently see individuals trying to be proud of themselves. After the Science Conference last month we had some informal discussion with Family members, and the differences between Western and Eastern culture were talked about. The Western culture is always based on “I”, or oneself. “I” is always most important. The evidence comes from English: wherever oneself is referred to, it is with i as a capital letter. “I” is number one.</p>
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<p>You have much more to have pride in before you are proud of yourself. Adam is proud of his wife and sons and daughters. That’s how God prepared man’s innate nature to be in perfection. If during a family gathering each child and each parent is trying to promote himself, it is not much fun. But what if each one is proud of the other instead of himself? Furthermore, how would God, who is presiding over the meeting, feel about it? Instead of being proud of Himself, God would be proud of Adam and Eve. If Adam is disregarding everyone else then God wouldn’t feel so good about him. In effect, Adam would be strutting in front of God, saying how wonderful he was.</p>
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<p>God is wiser than to write the cosmic law in that fashion. According to the universal principle, each one should be proud of the other. The father is proud of the mother, and the mother proud of the father in front of their children. The children are proud of their parents. When each is proud of the other then there is unity and harmony, and thus beauty. How would the children react if the father asked, “Don’t you think I’m better than your mother?” It’s not very beautiful.</p>
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<p>Suppose the father has a Ph.D. but the mother has only a little education. Would it be right for the father to boast about how much more education he has than the mother? What matters in a family is not how much knowledge you have, but how much love you have. Money, knowledge and power have no significance in the family. True love is what matters. If true love is God’s love then what is God’s love? What kind of love does God like most? He would like the unselfish love that wants to serve other people.</p>
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<p>The opposite of true love is evil love, which is self-centered. Here in America money seems very important; is that your goal? Why isn’t knowledge your highest priority? If you have a great quantity of money, power and knowledge, you might be able to influence the world, but you would not find love there. First of all, love cannot be packaged because it cannot be seen. Don’t people pay more attention to something they can readily use and identify? Or do they pay more attention to invisible love? If you have a powerful tool or machine would you want to trade it for an invisible package of love? It sounds like a losing game, doesn’t it?</p>
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<p>When you American women are engaged do you wonder how much money your fiancé has, or how much power or influence he has? Do American women today really evaluate their husbands this way? Would you want to dress nicely or poorly to extend your love to someone? Would it look better to see people in love in nice clothes, or in shabby, smelly clothes? As far as love is concerned, what you wear doesn’t affect its value.</p>
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<p>Is love only suitable in a palace among royal finery? Doesn’t it also exist in the poor cottages of fishermen and farmers? Which is better? It is a matter of intensity and quality of love. Even though you are living in a palace, if your love is self-centered it will be poorer than the unselfish love of humble people. Love can go in one of two directions: unselfish love is always directed toward the heavenly road, and selfish love is always bound toward the satanic road. Why couldn’t we enjoy selfish love and still go to heaven? It sounds like a good deal.</p>
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<p>We know that the universe is made from energy. Where does it come from? Does energy come first, or interaction? This is an important issue. If there is no reciprocal relationship in the universe then there is no way energy can be produced. The Principle says that subject and object always interact. You can’t force molecules or atoms to interact with each other. If they have an innate subject-object relationship then automatically they will interact, but not because the scientist desires it. It happens if there is a fundamental subject-object relationship between them. Their give and take produces energy. Before energy there was interaction, and before interaction there was subject and object.</p>
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<p>Universal law states that a subject and object will not interact unless there will be some mutual benefit. When you say something is good or bad then you are recognizing that you do or do not want to participate in something. If something is bad then you want to separate from it. No one will mingle with certain people or activities if he knows he will be harmed by the experience; right away he would leave. We are made in such a way that we interact, but only when there is some benefit to be gained.</p>
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<p>God made man in such a way that he needs woman, and woman that she needs man. What woman would say that she is complete unto herself and doesn’t need man? Saying that she was self-sufficient would be denying the basic tenet of the universe. Do you want to scatter any benefit you receive, or gather it close to you? Benefit is derived in a specific way, not at random. When plus and minus interact to gather benefit around them, do they rejoice, or stand still, or hate each other? What is the central theme that plus and minus and subject and object can enjoy together? Between men and women the central theme is love. Does that love have some central purpose and direction? Can it be linked to a greater love and purpose? That greater love can also be linked to a higher purpose, and on and on.</p>
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<p>You belong to the Unification Church, and then where? To America, and then to the world, and the world belongs to God. You belong to many things, but there must be some central theme that is common to everything. Will American dollars talk loud and clear to everything? How about influence, or knowledge?</p>
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<p>You are right in saying that love is the common theme, but would people in the past answer differently? What about 1,000 years from now? How can you guarantee that society’s value system won’t change in a thousand years? It’s a crazy world. The past, present and future must have some common road. That common factor must be acceptable in all ages and cultures.</p>
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<p>What kind of love is that? What is true love? It is love that God approves of. It is love of which He is master, not men. Because God approves that love, the entire universe must follow that way. That love is the center of the individual, family, society, nation, world and cosmos. The key common factor is the heavenly four position foundation. The love that consummates that four position foundation will work on every level of life. This is the number one heavenly law in the universe.</p>
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<p>Any person who can be accepted by this heavenly law can be accepted everywhere, on any level, and be approved by God. Two people can be as ugly as Idaho potatoes, yet their love together can be sweet like honey. Would that husband regret that he had to look at his wife’s ugly face for the rest of his life? Would this husband want a more beautiful wife? If he had true love would he have such unhealthy thoughts? With true love that husband would think that even though his wife is not Miss America, it would be beautiful for him to love her, and God would appreciate this unity of extremes. If this husband has such love, through that couple God will send beautiful children who are truly like Him.</p>
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<p>God would praise that couple, and their children would praise those parents because of their unselfish love. When God and the children can approve those parents, the universe would bow down to them as well. It is true love which can cause that.</p>
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<p>No matter how beautiful men and women are, as long as they are selfish and vain their own children will withdraw from them, the neighbors will criticize, and they will be miserable themselves. In the end they have lost everything, and they won’t even love themselves. But when you have a fervent love for others and demonstrate your unselfishness, you bring things together.</p>
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<p>We find the four position foundation in the family, with father and mother, and son and daughter. This structure is the same in any social organization, such as an organization with a president and employees. The Unification Church is no different. In the nation the father and mother’s role is carried out by the President and First Lady. If the world was united then the only difference between the nation and the world would be one of scale; the content would be the same. This would apply also to all of heaven and earth.</p>
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<p>So far we have talked about the common factor in the universe. Where can we be trained in this? The workshop of love is the family. The father represents one half of heaven, as well as the world, the nation and the tribe. That one person represents all of these. The mother represents the other side of all that background. She was sent to your home as the representative of the feminine side. Why should a father and mother be united in marriage? By their being united in the home, all the background they represent is also united, like strands of rope twining together into one. When you move forward, actually the whole universe is following you.</p>
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<p>Love is like a net pulled by a fishing trawler- with it you can catch the nation and the world and even God. With that kind of universal representation there is no gate you cannot pass through. When the father and mother are united then the entire universe is becoming one and smiling at them. In that situation there is nothing just for the individual; everything is a public representation of the universe, so when they have joy then the entire universe has joy.</p>
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<p>What kind of fun is there in modern dances where one person wriggles around all by himself? If you have someone to hold and turn with together then you have more joy because that togetherness represents the universal formula. The worst enemy is he who tries to sever these things from you. Selfishness is our worst enemy because it isolates everyone from everything else.</p>
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<p>If God is love then why can’t He forgive and love Satan? Jesus taught that we should love our enemies, so doesn’t he mean we should love Satan? No, he means you should love the person who has become a victim of Satan. In order to love Satan you have to exterminate him. Satan is nothing more than the personification of selfishness, the nature that wants others to serve “me”. Selfishness will fragment the universe and cause disorder.</p>
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<p>From the beginning of history God’s way has always been a sacrificial one, a tradition of self-denial to serve others. Why is this the key? Because it is the only way to counteract selfishness. The great religious leaders in history never had one good day while they were on earth because they went the way of suffering. What does Unification mean? It means unity of all religions. We are proclaiming that we are going to unite all the religious roads into one and pay all their debts so that liberation can come for all. Does that mean the Unification Church is the easiest one to believe in? No, it means we are undertaking the toughest of all possible roads of religion.</p>
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<p>If you want to believe in the ideal of unification then you have to commit yourself to the degree that you could sacrifice your own wife, children, Church and nation, and of course yourself. If I sincerely want to bring unification to the world’s faiths then I must be ready to sacrifice the Unification Church itself. Why are you so quiet? Do you have confidence you can meet this criterion?</p>
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<p>If you were a blessed husband and your wife said to you, “We have two children and a third on the way, but in order to live up to this Unification life they have to go to the nursery and I have to go on the CARP team. What kind of Church is this! I can’t do it any more,” how would you reply? Would you agree with her? You should say, “Get behind me Satan! You are bringing destruction to our family, to our nation and to heaven. I love you but I cannot love Satan.”</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that God always sacrifices His loved ones. God sacrifices Himself first, and no one can take more of a beating than God, but then He uses the principle of the universe by sacrificing His loved ones to save mankind. The providence of restoration is such that He will apply His law until Satan can no longer oppose Him. No religion here on earth truly represents God’s sacrificial standard, however; not Christianity, Buddhism, nor any other. But the Unification Church is a religion which, for the first time in all history, is determined to be truly in the likeness of God and act like Him.</p>
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<p>I am using precisely the same formula. There was a time when my family became an obstacle to heaven’s dispensation, and I had to cut it off. When I had opposition from my own parents I had to give them up, and cut myself off from society and the nation so that I would have no obstacle to the heavenly way. Some people think my policies are the Korean or Oriental way, but I tell you that it is not so. Why would I be opposed by Orientals if it were the Oriental way?</p>
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<p>If I did everything the American way, there would be no reason for Americans to oppose me. My way of life is certainly not the American way, but not the Oriental way either. It is the way of the heavenly kingdom. God came to the human world, going forward step by step in such a way that He loved everyone, without exception. How am I different compared to other religions leaders? After knowing God’s way of life I determined to walk every inch of the path myself.</p>
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<p>In Korea I loved the members more than my own wife and children. Why did my first family oppose me so much? It was because I loved the members more. There was no other reason. That’s how I covered every inch, like God did. That’s how I loved the society, nation and world more than anything that belonged to me.</p>
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<p>Do you think I love America? I love this nation by giving my heart and soul to it; that is the degree of love I have. You Americans are indebted to me. Do you know that? How would you repay it? With dollars, with praise, with public announcements? You are indebted to me in love, and love is the only way you can repay it. That is why you love me, and you extend that to other Koreans and Orientals as well. Then when blessing time comes you ask me for Korean wives or husbands. Why are Koreans special to you? It is a manifestation of the fact that you know you are indebted in love and you want to repay it.</p>
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<p>Korea and America are two extremes, and I came here to make the two into one. When the gulf between them shrinks until they meet in the center, they will be one family. I came to bring them together with one net of love. This is not something that human power alone could accomplish, however. When spring comes then the trees and bushes begin to bud and show signs of life. When the cosmic spring dawns then the love of the universe smiles upon us and signs of eternal life appear.</p>
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<p>What is God’s plan and design? He is thinking of one home. Would He be thinking of a small house or a big house? How does He want to build that big house? It is simple: He will start out with a small house in the center and make it bigger and bigger and bigger. The blessing is the uniqueness of the Unification Church. To be restored to get the blessing, you should get out of the fallen world and come back to the true center to receive the blessing. During this process you will get Satan off your back so that he gives up on you. Then you are qualified for blessing. Have you knocked Satan away?</p>
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<p>The person who is qualified to live in the house of providence is the person who has absolute, unchanging and everlasting love. How much do you trust such a person? Absolutely. What qualities did unfallen Adam have to demonstrate? Absolute faith and belief in God, and then absolute faith in Eve. Do you have that? American society today does not have that. American culture is always changing and fluid, floating anchorless.</p>
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<p>You like hamburgers, don’t you? That is an eating habit you have. Sleeping late in the morning can also become a habit. A person can have his mind set according to certain prejudices and resist the Unification Church way because it is strange.</p>
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<p>Is there room for God’s providence to adopt your way? What about my way? God sees that His way is my way. This is the key question. In the eyes of heaven nothing that you have become accustomed to has any value except love. We must base our lives on that and develop it into greater value.</p>
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<p>Would American knowledge have any value in the house of providence? America’s power and money would not serve that house. Instead, it would all be an obstacle to love because with power and money people think they already know the right way. Most people feel that their way of life has some value, but all those customary things become their enemy when they find God’s way. Then they have to deny all those old ways and separate from them. Those things would not help them find true, unselfish love.</p>
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<p>God wears eyeglasses of love. With those glasses He can see immediately who has selfish love. Adam was supposed to have absolute faith, plus absolute character and personality, such that he could not be tempted in any way by Satan. Do you have that kind of personality?</p>
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<p>Any person who whispers some information to you, saying, “Only you know this. You should keep this a secret,” is Satan. And the person who hears and keeps it to himself instead of reporting to the proper central figure is an accomplice or co-worker of Satan. In the garden of Eden Satan whispered to Eve that God didn’t want her to know that if she ate the fruit of good and evil her eyes would be opened and she would see everything as God did. Satan said not to tell anyone, that it was for her ears alone. The first thing Eve should have done was speak to God about it, asking what He thought. Simply because Eve hid that information and was persuaded by it, she was swayed to Satan’s side. You have to let God know and let the proper channel know if someone tells you such a secret for your ears alone. You may think you are betraying a confidence, but not at all; that is how you can help save that person. Then there is still a chance that the person can be restored.</p>
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<p>Suppose Satan came to tell me he had a good deal to offer which I shouldn’t tell God about. If I kept it to myself would I be a good friend of God? This point is very important. If any members come to tell Col. Pak some information, then he tells it to me immediately. Leaders always want to report the good things to me, but if they hide the bad things then that is satanic also. If some wound or cancer is there, it should be reported to the physician so a cure can be given. Who will cut off the cancer? If you try to do surgery on your own then you stand a good chance of making a blunder; only a skilled surgeon should attempt it.</p>
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<p>Unless you know this rule very clearly then Satan can easily infiltrate through communists to destroy the heavenly system. There is a reporting system set up already through the leaders, so any information that someone says you should keep secret should be reported. Satan always acts clandestinely, while God operates publicly. This is a practical application of Principle in daily life.</p>
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<p>Sometimes even members in good standing receive some information that makes them shake and waver; they do not have the absolute personality of God. But no matter how many thousands of people join, become leaders and then drop out, it never changes me in any respect. I could never have come this far without God. God is alive. The amazing thing is that if someone of high caliber drops away, God always brings in a better person. That is an absolute rule. As long as I am fulfilling my central responsibility then God will always replenish a loss with something better. God is not in a losing game.</p>
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<p>The third element that Adam should possess is absolute love. No matter what tribulation comes, even if I am dying in prison, only one thing will occupy my mind-the love of God. My faith in God is absolute. Once 1 promise God something, that is absolute. Once instructions come from God, it is absolute and there is no room for change. Even if it involves hardship I never think about that. During my life in the North Korean concentration camp I could really prove what kind of son of filial piety I was. I never longed to be somewhere else during that time.</p>
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<p>I prayed many times, but never once in prison did I ask God for help to ease my suffering. I always told God not to worry about me, that I would assume responsibility to clean up communism. Even there I thought how I would conquer the communist way of life and march to Moscow. Nothing has changed my commitment to that at all, and this is why God trusts me absolutely. No matter what difficulties come to me, God knows I will go straight ahead; never will I vacillate back and forth.</p>
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<p>If the world opposes me, I will keep marching forward with absolute love, faith and personality. That is the qualification to be unfallen Adam. That quality was also to be Eve’s position and property. With these properties the entire universe can be conquered. I do not have money in my pocket or any worldly power, yet there is nothing that bothers me. I concentrate on these three elements, and I know that then God will mobilize whatever resources are necessary.</p>
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<p>You must be bold enough to stand before God and tell Him to test you, that Satan can never bother you. Are you such people? You should be able to tell God that your character is absolute and you will never be swayed by Satan’s enticements. How can you prove that? By showing that you love God more than anything under the sun, including your own family, your children or wife, and even yourself. When you demonstrate that one quality then you can pass.</p>
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<p>In order to prove that I love God most, I am willing to sacrifice even the Unification Church. If I use your efforts for the sacrificial purpose then God’s love will be added to you and you will never have to die on the altar. You will become historical people and future history will honor you. I tell you to sacrifice yourself for the sake of your nation and the world. That’s how I live. Especially since coming to America I committed everything I have for the sake of the nation. I am actually making the Korean and Japanese members suffer for the sake of this nation.</p>
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<p>Would you rather let everyone else suffer while you live an easy life? If so then you will be destroyed. Since I am asking everyone else to suffer for America, I want you Americans to suffer more than they do. That’s the only way you can receive the true love of God. Is this wrong? I want each of you to love America more than I do. That’s what all America and the spirit world yearns for as well. If white people cannot follow this tradition, I know black people will follow it. If they cannot, then someone else will. God will raise up someone who can. If no one in this hemisphere will set that tradition, God will even bring Asians to uphold it.</p>
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<p>With the money and energy I have already spent in this country I could easily mobilize Asians or Africans, but so far I have given more tribulation to the Asian members. My words today shall be fulfilled. I came to America and I loved white and black people completely, unloading every ounce of my energy for their sake. Does anyone think I have done something wrong?</p>
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<p>You should not be wavering, but your eyes should be watching straight ahead. Even if whispers come to your ears from other people, they should not make you shaky; no one should be able to divert you. How much do you believe in the Unification Church? As much as I do? If so then I have succeeded. An absolute character can totally withstand any temptation, particularly lustful temptation. I know that in some cases you lived like animals in years past. Since joining the Unification Church have you ever remembered those days with happiness? If not then you are straight in your mind and firm as a rock.</p>
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<p>If you are shaky but you receive the blessing then you have a terrible problem to deal with. Therefore, even after getting the blessing there is a period of three years to demonstrate that your fidelity is so strong that no unhealthy thinking comes even in your dreams.</p>
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<p>There is no way the four position foundation can be erected without the three qualifications of absolute faith, personality and love for God, True Parents, and your spouse. Could someone with a persuasive tongue convince you that your natural parents are not your parents? Nothing can change that. Your relationship with God should be absolute also. as well as your marriage. You cannot deny your own parents, so you cannot deny your wife or husband. If parents are united in that fashion then their relationship with their children will be absolute as well. That is the tradition we must build.</p>
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<p>How real and undeniable have the True Parents become in your life? Why do we need True Parents to begin with? After receiving the Principle, you pay indemnity first by cutting your ties with the old world. Then you must be accepted by God, who will bestow the title Israel, or “Victor.”</p>
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<p>We are not talking about only life on earth, but spirit world as well. Someone has to pioneer the path to God in spirit world, and then open the road to the earth. Recognition must be received in spirit world before it is received on earth. The True Parents must receive license from the spirit world to unite that realm. What is the qualification for the position of absolute Adam? Absolute faith, character and love. With this credential, he then comes to initiate the dispensation on earth. That is the role of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>Once he has erected a foothold here on earth, he must expand heaven’s territory, with the individual, family, tribe, nation and so forth. Every individual here on earth needs salvation, and so theoretically everyone should go through this ordeal and pay this indemnity. Do you think anyone else is capable of doing it? No. That is why God selects a representative of all mankind to undergo these ordeals once and for all. Whenever there is a big obstacle to go over, the four position foundation is always at stake. It was lost in the garden of Eden, so it is at stake in every battle here on earth.</p>
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<p>First True Parents are installed here on earth, and then all mankind is linked to their family. A new race is being created here, which is the true Adam’s race. My qualification was received in spirit world, and I came to consummate it here on earth. My credential is the Divine Principle, of which the central theme is the four position foundation. Jacob had twelve sons, and his family multiplied to 72. Moses had twelve tribes and 72 disciples. Jesus had twelve apostles and 72 disciples. The flue Parents have three levels of twelve families, plus 72 families.</p>
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<p>For each of you to follow my pattern you each need twelve disciples plus 72 disciples, or 84. We want to consummate this restoration in seven years, which works out to one person a month. By doing so you become a universal man who can go anywhere. For this reason the True Parents will have twelve children within twenty years. Mother has only one more to go! Through three generations that will become a family of 72. There is no room to compromise in the providence. God knows it is not easy to have one baby after another and that Mother is very fatigued. Do you think whether you bring babies to the world is totally up to you alone? It is a heavenly gift and blessing.</p>
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<p>My family is the Abel family, and each of you is in a position to create a Cain family centered upon it. The couples of the various blessings all form a fence around my family, all linked together in the four position foundation as one family of man.</p>
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<p>Some Americans complain that the Korean leaders I bring to this country don’t know anything about American culture, but that statement is not understandable. There are many white and black families coming in and they all form layers around the center. Who knows my history better than the older Korean members? Then you are in a position to learn. It would be best if I taught you directly, but I don’t have the time for that. If I am here for three years then the English members will complain that I should stay in England for three years; the Japanese, South Americans, Africans, and so forth will all say the same thing. But that is impossible. We are unfortunately bound by physical limitations on earth, so I send a representative to each continent and nation in my place.</p>
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<p>The Korean leaders did not come on their own, but because I asked them to, and I want them to teach you the tradition; they are not here to make a power base for themselves or anyone else. They go by the rules, without compromise. That’s the fastest way. If you are seasoned under such leadership then you will grow faster.</p>
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<p>The house of providence is being built step-bystep according to the Principle, and in order to do this I received incredible persecution and opposition. But it doesn’t matter, because I will go on no matter what. My individual path is no longer an individual one; when I suffer, Mother also receives persecution, and our children are affected as well. When my children go to school they are not left in peace. The other students whisper behind their backs, testing them and ridiculing them. Ye Jin is now in college and she told me that being the daughter of a famous man is not easy. Even the most normal things she does still become the topic of gossip. Since you are connected with me, you also will become the talk of the town. People tell each other how you are brainwashed.</p>
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<p>Now that President Park has died, people no longer say we are agents of the KCIA. Now our missionaries around the world are accused of being agents of the American CIA! People say that no one else could fund such a big operation. Everyone thinks that I am friendly with some kind of CIA or other!</p>
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<p>The conclusion is that you need True Parents. They pioneer the way, and all you have to do is hang on. If a horse is galloping along, all you have to do is ride him and you will get to the finish line the same time he does. I am your horse. Would you rather I were a white man? The black people would be upset if I were white. There has been a great historical battle between blacks and whites, so a mediator is needed to stop the fighting. Should that person be white or black? He should be some other color so he could be the same distance from each of them.</p>
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<p>I am linking the races into one family of man, and I am also linking the two cultures of East and West. Only the Unification Church can do this. I am sure before joining the Unification Church some white members would avoid sitting next to a black person, but now they want black husbands and wives! Who convinced you that international marriage was good? We will become the love race and we will live in the house of providence. Our movement is the one which will finish the dispensation for the house of providence. That means we have to liquidate the entire debt of history. I have been doing this step by step.</p>
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<p>The house of providence will start out small, but then get bigger and bigger, embracing the nation and world, until finally the dwelling of God can be with men. Then the four position foundation is fulfilled. In the Unification Church, the True Parents and you men and women are already a four position foundation. Do you love me? I don’t believe you! What is the foremost anxiety and desire of the True Parents? That you love each other as much as you love me. The True Parents are the examples, and by practicing loving them you will know how you should love each other. That love is the key.</p>
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<p>In the ultimate Kingdom of Heaven, Adam is the head of the family, tribe and nation, and Adam and Eve are head of the world. It is innate in human nature for children to want their father and mother to be the king and queen. It makes sense, for as long as God is our Father He is our King. Then naturally your father is to be your king as well as your father.</p>
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<p>If there had been no fall then God would have dwelled in Adam’s house. Love is created in the four position foundation when the male and female essentialities come into oneness. Love is sacred, but Satan twisted it around, and made the most sacred thing a dirty thing. Children are participants in their parents’ love. You are the participants of your parents’ love; that means you are one body with them centering upon love. Then when love is pulled, everyone follows as one unit.</p>
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<p>Why do parents and children love each other? It is natural because they originated from one point. The source of love is invisible, but it takes visible form in children. When I look at my child I am looking at Mother, at God, at myself. A child is a mysterious being. How then could you separate yourself from your parents? They are you.</p>
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<p>Today American homes are breaking down, which indicates they are going against heavenly principles. Brothers and sisters are comrades in love, so how could they fight? When you lift your right arm, you are lifting your father’s arm; when you lift your left arm you are lifting your mother’s arm. Sun Jin said that her right leg was given her by Daddy, and her left leg by Mommy. That’s a correct answer because she is a participant in her parents’ love.</p>
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<p>You are given rebirth through True Parents, but you don’t yet contain a seed of love. By loving True Parents you come into that position. In that love you want to stay with them all the time and bring them joy. Why is that? By uniting in love and really longing to be with them you are creating a seed of love in yourself. You love Father first, then Mother, then the children. By doing so you are resurrecting yourself. This is what you are doing in everyday life. That is why spiritually you become very close to heaven, and the spirit world will tell you much about that relationship.</p>
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<p>How many of you have seen me at least once in prayers or visions? This is how True Parents become real to you. When you really long for me so much that you forget to eat or sleep, then you are connected to spirit world. That is the privilege I give to you. With that spiritual relationship you will be guided precisely about where to go and what to do to fulfill the mission. In that way you are serving your Parents in a living personal relationship.</p>
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<p>If someone really experiences this kind of spiritual relationship, how could he be swayed by someone else? Impossible. That’s how you develop absolute character, but you still have a long way to go. When you are really hungry or exhausted, but still longing most of all for True Parents, then spirit world opens up to you. That is a privileged relationship between you and me, a unique Unification Church treasure. One way or another each of you must reach that point.</p>
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<p>If you do that then you will be instructed and guided wherever you go. When you go to the ocean, you know how to catch fish. When you go the mountains, certain signs will guide you to the right place. With the love of God and True Parents you can embrace everything else because there is nothing that does not come under such love. Because God and True Parents already cover the entire universe, you can go anywhere. That’s how we can become one world.</p>
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<p>The unity of one family of man shall come through this parental, God-centered love. In your lifetime you should be in a position to love and serve 84 people. That road begins on the servant of servant level, where you become the servant of the enemy’s servant, not the heavenly servant. That is the starting point. Then you step up to be a servant. First you serve the enemy’s servant, then serve the enemy. Then you become the adopted son, and finally the sons and daughters of God.</p>
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<p>You can never be adopted by God until Satan will state that you have nothing to do with Satan any more. That is your credential. Then through True Parents you become direct sons and daughters of God. Until you truly give yourself unto your life, you cannot be promoted to the true son’s position. When Jesus was crucified, all his disciples ran away, so they were not in a position to become true sons and daughters. Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. Even the son of God started in the servant’s position.</p>
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<p>When you serve twelve different people, they become one centering on you. They become the nucleus, and unite with the 72. When you come that far then you are automatically involved in the tribe and nation. This principle is always the same. Therefore, Principle teaches that the ideal of creation is the fulfillment of the four position foundation. The ultimate result of completing it would be the creation of the house of providence. That house will be your home, nation, kingdom and world. In that house all five colors of skin mingle together, and all nationalities are present there which used to be enemies in the past. In the house of providence there will be only the feeling of being brothers. When you serve people who were your enemies, they will melt and could never separate themselves from you.</p>
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<p>Where is our house? Right here in America. America shall be made the house of providence. Your mission field is your house of providence. No matter how severe the winter, when the spring comes all the ice and snow are melted into water. If an American girl marries a Japanese man and moves to his home, she will find a house of providence there because there will be a father and mother and their family. Imagine a blue-eyed Western girl bowing in the Japanese way to Japanese in-laws, enjoying Japanese food with them, sitting in the Japanese way. If you Americans marry African husbands and wives, the African parents shall be your parents and you will treat them as such.</p>
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<p>We have many sets of parents. Who provides the elements of your body? The physical world is your first parent. Your natural parents brought you into this world, and they are your second parents. But God gave you eternal life, so He is the third parent. That is your parental line, and through it you are linked to everything else.</p>
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<p>You practice love of God with your parents, and wherever you go and practice that way of life of love you will find heaven. Then when you are elevated to spirit world, you bring all your heavens together. One common law works everywhere.</p>
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<p>You American women don’t want to serve parents-in-law, or grandparents-in-law, do you? Who is the oldest grandfather in the universe? God. If you hate your grandparents then actually you are hating God because He is the oldest grandparent. You must respect your grandparents as you respect God because they are relatives of His. When you bow to your grandparents and ask for their blessing, when they put their hands on your head then it is actually God giving you His blessing through them.</p>
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<p>Did Esau and Jacob get Isaac’s blessing when he was old or young? He was practically in the grave and he couldn’t even see who he was blessing, but his blessing was fulfilled nevertheless. As an old man Isaac performed God’s duty. You must receive blessing from three generations-grandparents, parents, plus your husband or wife and your children. The husband and wife ask for the blessing of the other. When a husband or wife dies, his final words should be some blessing for his spouse, and that blessing shall be fulfilled. They are blessing each other into eternity, as candidates to receive eternal blessing.</p>
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<p>Three generations are important in biblical history. The Jews speak of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We speak of the God of our grandparents, parents, and wife or husband.</p>
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<p>Those who have failed to serve their grandparents on earth are crippled in spirit world. If you don’t have grandparents-in-law then you should borrow some old people from an old folks home and bring them to your own home to serve them. Would any grandparents want to live in an institution, or with their grandchildren? Would God want to stay by Himself in an institution, or with mankind?</p>
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<p>You should be able to serve everyone, including the older generation, and people of all colors of skin. You should practice love from every different angle. When you love freely on earth then in spirit world you have freedom to love everyone. This world also welcomes such a universal man. That’s the only way we can make the entire world a house of providence. As you move closer in that direction, the spirit world will get closer and open up to you.</p>
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<p>Imagine what would happen if you brought two black grandparents out of a senior citizens home to live with you, and served them as much as you loved God. They would completely open up, and that love would shine like gold. If you can love them as you do God, you are a saint, and you have a pass everywhere. It is not easy, of course, but when you bring yourself down to the humblest place and are victorious then you are making yourself a holy man.</p>
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<p>How can you love birds and animals until you love your fellow man? God’s teaching is that you must know how to love your fellow man. Then by using that experience you can move from one aspect to another. Un Jin has a puppy and she really loves it, but I told her she shouldn’t love that dog until she had loved her fellow man. There are many pets and a great pet industry here in America and people pay a great deal of attention to them, but they neglect their fellow man. If this nation continues in that direction then it cannot flourish. Why couldn’t they adopt a black child from an orphanage and love him as much as they love their own child?</p>
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<p>Until you love other people you are not in a position to love your pets. When you love your husband, parents, children, then you can have a pet in your home, raise a garden and ride horses. It is your privilege to love your parents, and after that you have the privilege of loving your dog. That’s how God sees the universe; this is His concept of love. isn’t it dramatic?</p>
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<p>Do you want to live singly now? If you only want to live with your husband and not have to take care of anyone else, you won’t have to worry about the house of providence because you won’t have it! Could I come to your home any time? Maybe the first day, or one year later would you welcome me? How about if I were an invalid who needed care day and night? If I didn’t come myself but sent one person to your home for you to take care of would you accept him? I would be the hero of the senior citizens’ homes because I would find loving families for them all. ln order to have a true home you need three generations living under one roof. If the grandparents who come to your home feel they can’t bless you because you didn’t love them then God can’t work through you.</p>
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<p>There are all kinds of people living at my home -Japanese, Europeans, Americans, black, white, yellow-and all sizes. East Garden is a real melting pot but that brings many headaches with it, so I made it my rule not to look at their faces; then I would not feel critical but could just love them. I am practicing this myself, and so should you in your own home.</p>
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<p>My mind is full of all the problems and worries people bring to me, but because I have absolute character I have never thought I could not go on. Compared to my burden, what you worry about is have hardly begun. You only have to worry about yourself, but when I move the entire world is affected. That is a heavy burden. You are in a position to want to lighten my burden and be sympathetic.</p>
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<p>When the companies and organizations of our movement run out of money, the leaders come to me to solve the problem. Maybe they think that I have a vault of gold somewhere to dip into. They are running a company and dealing with personnel and financial problems, but I am responsible for the entire universe. Where should I go when I run out of money? I don’t want to hear our opposition gloat that we have run out of money and have nowhere to turn.</p>
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<p>Whenever a problem comes I am determined to solve it, not for myself, but for the sake of the world. When the world knows this, everyone will bow down as they realize their indebtedness. Before they worry about themselves, I am concerned. The people of the world have not made one gesture of appreciation, but still I worry about them. Why should I be concerned about communism in America, or about the moral degradation of its young people? I cannot help being concerned because I am responsible for the world. Do you want to be like me and accept the responsibility?</p>
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<p>I am the champion fund raiser and the champion witnesser. I have suffered more than anyone else. Can you complain about me? If I had enslaved you but did nothing for you in return then perhaps you could complain, but that is not the case. Not one person has ever outdone me.</p>
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<p>The person bearing the greatest burden for the house of providence shall be most blessed. Parents naturally pay more attention to the child who bears the greatest burden of the house. Sometimes you think you have done a great job, but instead of praising you I may ignore you, or even criticize you. Inside you feel hurt, but wait for three generations: if I have not paid appropriate attention then God will do so many times over. That law will never change.</p>
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<p>I received persecution from the existing Christian churches, from America, and from communists, but while they oppose me they are forfeiting their blessing to me. People who persecute you are actually saying, “Here’s my blessing. Take it.” All you have to say is, “Thank you very much.” The more America opposes us, the greater the blessings that will come upon us.</p>
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<p>Eventually America will have to surrender. If that were not the case then I would have been destroyed a long time ago, but because I know that law, I can win. When I went to England there was a Rolls Royce waiting for me. The German members all begged me to come to their nation, saying they had a house and Mercedes waiting for me. Why do people pay so much attention to me and want me to visit their nation? They know they have received more than what they could give in return.</p>
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<p>Do you think East Garden is too big a house for me? You have received much, so you want to reciprocate and this is why you feel the way you do. Actually I pay no attention to the kind of house I live in or the clothes I wear. I hate to wear ties and white shirts, and would rather be more casual, but Mother tells me, “You can’t go out like that!” Why should men wear such a useless item as a tie? If we gathered all the ties in America and sold them, we could take care of all the Cambodians and then that might be a reason to buy a tie. Am I a low character if I don’t wear a tie, and an important person when I do? You don’t compute my value that way.</p>
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<p>If half the population of America became Moonies, I would tell them to fast three days every month, and the money from the uneaten food would be given on a rotating basis to the fifty poorest nations in the world. Knowing that America was fasting to help poor people, would the recipients of that aid be happy to go on a three-day fast themselves?</p>
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<p>Once the dispensation comes to a certain level, world restoration is not that difficult. If we gave all the MFT result away to the poor nations of the world, don’t you suppose foreign ministers would line up at East Garden to ask for their share? While they are waiting we could give them a Divine Principle workshop. Do you think they would listen or not?</p>
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<p>Today we are laying a foundation for such events. Whether the American government likes this or not is irrelevant. What matters is whether we can save the world. If the government doesn’t do it then we should. Do you welcome or avoid MFT duty? We need 100,000 people on M FT. Who is going to win those members? Certainly you can do it.</p>
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<p>American young people have tried everything to find happiness in life-drugs, sex, streaking-but there is nowhere left to turn except Divine Principle.</p>
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<p>When they taste it they will pour in like an avalanche, but right now they don’t know what kind of truth we have. Were you problem children and troublemakers before you joined? You are troublemakers who somehow drifted into the Unification Church. Now are you problem children? Now you are heavenly children.</p>
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<p>Problem children can turn into heavenly children. More problem children are out there; they are basically good people, but they are ignorant of anything worthwhile going on. Once the message reaches them they will change. That means we need television broadcasting, and should buy our own station. If people could hear me on TV for fifteen days would they listen? Some would listen because they want to learn about Divine Principle, others because they want to oppose me and criticize, but they will listen. In the meantime their hostility will be disarmed and they will be melted. Do you think I have that capability ?</p>
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<p>I could be a one-man show and no one could compete with me. I could be a storyteller, write novels, read poetry. When I smiled, people would smile; when I laughed, they would laugh; when I cried, they would cry. When I say, “Let’s save America,’ all 220 million Americans will say it with me. We are seriously thinking about buying a TV station. We will buy the <i>New York Times </i>and <i>Washington Post </i>as well. I’m sure they will all hear about this, but let them hear-that is my honest intention. We lay our cards on the table. We are already setting up a budget for that. Even if you are criticized, stand up and live like real men and women. The <i>New York Times </i>will become <i>“Our Times.” </i>and <i>Washington Post </i>will be <i>“Our Post.”</i></p>
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<p>When I came to New York in 1972 and 1973 1 saw several buildings I thought we should buy, and by 1979 we had them all. At that point American young people thought I was really crazy. Think of the changes that happened between 1973 and 1979, and then think of what the next ten years will bring. Will I be standing still? Never! Another version of home church is house of providence. We will do that. The showdown will be made within ten years.</p>
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<p>Are there any CARP members here? Are you ready to be locomotives? Are you a*aid of the communists? Why do we need a strong CARP movement? To fight communism in this country. The Japanese communists will crumble before me, and already they hate me because I am a powerful fighter. If you don’t have time to go to the barbershop, this is one time it’s all right to let your hair grow! It’s OK if your blue jeans wear out and get ragged, wearing away from the bottom up so they get shorter and shorter.</p>
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<p>What do we gain by doing this? We are creating our home, our village, nation and world. How many of you would like to visit Korea? Since I can’t afford to send you to Korea, I brought several Korean leaders here instead. Do you hate them? Really no? I brought European leaders here first, then the Japanese so that you could learn from their way of life. The Japanese naturally sit on the floor, and by following their pattern it becomes natural. Where do you find any American congregation sitting on the floor for so long? If we are united on this ground floor, which is the hardest thing, then everything else unites naturally.</p>
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<p>In Korea, if you stick your legs out in front of you when you sit on the ground, it is very bad manners. It would be taken as a sign that you would kick your grandparents! What could educate American young people in these things except religious principles? Is there any other power that could overcome your native culture? Could music or dancing persuade you? Only a religious leader and a religious truth could tame these wild young people.</p>
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<p>At the Science Conference the scientists agreed that only a stronger religious influence could bring hope to the world. Actually they learned that from us. If the Rockefeller Foundation paid millions of dollars, could they train young people this way? Only a religious leader could do this.</p>
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<p>If I had been welcomed by Americans, what would have happened in this nation by now? What would happen in America if college presidents urged me to come to their campus to train their students? Actually that is your job, and it still remains to be done.</p>
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<p>You should be capable of dealing with every aspect of American life-whether culture, business, labor unions-everything. I am involved with everything, so we have cultural groups, businesses, media. I want to be involved in every facet of American life. How could I save someone if I didn’t know them? You too should be men for all seasons.</p>
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<p>Don’t you want to have a better position in the future? Then you must submit to training. That will include martial arts as well. Even women should learn martial arts so they can handle any man. This is necessary because our ultimate enemy is the communist ideology. We are talking about a rally in Moscow. When I proclaimed that we would have such a rally it was not ideal talk; I am now preparing for that goal step by step. America is not the only problem. We will raise the house of providence even on communist territory. I do not mean we will destroy them with violence. Our way is to cultivate them with truth and love, but until then we must be able to defend ourselves. This is our duty and responsibility, and each one should do his utmost.</p>
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<p>Your target should be to bring in 84 members in seven years, and then you shall be a tribal messiah. After that you will easily become a national, world and universal messiah. The more the free world and communist worlds fight against us, the more they will decline because that is the heavenly dispensation. The Unification Church seems to be the underdog, yet it will grow, and the only place the world will find hope is here.</p>
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<p>I told the Korean brides-to-be to go to CARP, and I will push them the hardest and let them suffer more. Would you American women just stand by when you see them working hard? You are bigger in every way so why couldn’t you defeat them?</p>
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<p>Wherever we go we have the one goal of the house of providence. The time has come when I will rotate the American members to other nations around the world. If I select you to go to another nation, I will tell the Church in that nation to let you use my car and my house. The men should chauffeur the women I send, and the women chauffeur the men. Both the guests and members of the host country should learn about each other, representing the pride and prestige of their nations. Our goal is to find the one house of providence wherever we go.</p>
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<p>1979 is just about over. Do you feel the need to take a rest and start 1980 slowly? Do you want to take leave from the Unification Church over Christmas? Do you want to go ahead with your mission, even up north where it is shivery cold? Do you think I deserve some vacation on a warm beach somewhere? But my pockets are totally empty, so who will buy the airplane ticket?</p>
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<p>The money I spend in America comes mostly from abroad. You are the ones who always empty my pockets! I know your situation very well, how you feel and where you are, what suffering and anguish you go through. That is because I experienced all those things before you did. When you face certain difficulties, God always compares what you do with how I handled that kind of situation. God’s criterion is based on what I did. God will notice if your record is as good as mine, and God is even thinking that after three generations He will match the descendants of such a person with Reverend Moon’s descendants.</p>
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<p>So you see that today we have no complaint. You have the consolation that no matter what difficulty you have, I have gone through far more. Because I won over it, why can’t you? Have you ever thought that you might die for the dispensation? Many times I thought I had reached my final moment and would die for God. Each difficulty you overcome builds a new layer on your tower of achievement. Everyone is building his own tower, and you must feel that you will never stop building it until you die.</p>
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<p>When you go to spirit world God will ask you certain questions, and one of them will be what you have thought about during your life on earth: Did you think about your own situation or something greater than yourself? His next question will be what you did during your life. You want to be able to answer that you loved mankind your whole life long.</p>
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<p>The third question will be, “What did you leave behind for the sake of the past, present and future?” Your answer should be, “I left the heavenly family, heavenly society, heavenly nation and heavenly world behind, but the most important thing I left was their education in the tradition of love.” That is exactly what I am doing. When you go to spirit world you can say you learned the tradition of love from me. That’s why education and study of Divine Principle is very important in our way of life. Every moment counts, so let’s build the house of love.</p>
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<p>Will you complain? How about tomorrow? Next year? The rest of your life? If not, it means I have fulfilled everything and nothing else remains to be done.</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="2018-06-19T14:55:44+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/ideal-home.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:55:44+01:00">June 19, 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">November 4, 1979<br />
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<p>I have just returned from a ten-day trip to Korea. I’m sure you have learned through the media of the shocking situation there, but I returned with confidence that the situation would be settled. I feel this will be a turning point for the better in Asia.</p>
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<p>No one dislikes hearing about the “ideal.” When we talk about the ideal home, it must be the home in which we want to dwell. Let us look at our present situation-is it an ideal place or ideal house? Is America the ideal country? Is the world we live in the ideal world? As religious people we know that we dwell in more than one world; there is a spirit world beyond this physical world which is a bigger house than ordinary people imagine. It is an ideal universe which encompasses nations and all peoples and elements of life.</p>
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<p>Do we find harmony or disharmony in this giant house? The “ideal” connotes harmony. Does a world of real harmony exist? Is it even possible? Would the ideal house be lit by only one color of light, such as yellow? Or would it be lit by all the living colors of the world? That big house includes all nature-trees, and flowers-in all their glorious variety. Though there are a variety of elements, each is contributing something to the overall existence.</p>
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<p>Even the insignificant-looking grass contributes its part to the whole. The courageous tiger is admired by everyone, but the tiny insects and smelly skunks also contribute. We humans dislike the skunk’s smell, but some element of the universe might like it. Perhaps that substance would have medicinal value for some animals. No one really likes poisonous snakes, but their poisons have great value for certain medicines.</p>
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<p>Would the little blades of grass and pieces of gravel feel they have but a tiny supporting role in the universe, or that they are important enough that the rest of the universe must harmonize with them? Do most members think that they are unimportant in the Unification Church, or does everyone think they are indispensable in God’s dispensation? If you think you are indispensable then how do you think the rest of creation views themselves?</p>
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<p>My eye may realize that it is small, but feel that if it were blind and staring blankly then Reverend Moon would look unattractive. For that reason my eye feels it is important, and I have to agree. If you ask one hair on my head whether it belongs to me or I belong to it, that hair will definitely respond that I belong to it! Everything considers its existence to be important for the rest of the universe, and if we ever took that concept away then we couldn’t talk about the ideal.</p>
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<p>Out of all the thousands of churches in America, there is probably only one congregation sitting on a concrete floor, but even so we think we are the center of the universe, don’t we? That is the ideal, and it is very dramatic. If you think we really have a horrible life because we sit on a concrete floor, you can make your life miserable. Even though people scornfully oppose me, I still think that without me this nation would be lost, and that I am important to the rest of the universe. This attitude is where the ideal lies. The more you can make yourself available for the harmony of the rest of the universe, the closer you are to the ideal. Do you believe that? Now we know how the ideal will work in our present life.</p>
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<p>What is the ideal way to accomplish your daily chores? The important thing is not the kind of work you do, but the motivation you feel inside. If you feel you do this chore for the sake of mankind and the universe, joyfully and willingly participating, then what you do has value. Who is the happy person-the one who is lazy and does nothing, or the one who is busy? Why is the busy person the happy one? Because the more work you perform, the more you are related to the variety of the world and the more opportunity you have to harmonize with your neighbors. You can work at your leisure and goof off, so why do we always try to do our best? By doing so we can become more central to the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>Is it ideal to play or work in that case? Is it better to work in a mediocre way, or with your whole heart and soul? You can half-listen to me, or concentrate 100% on hearing what I say. You can feel that among those listening you will be the champion in carrying out the words. You have to be convinced that what I say is possible, however. The ideal is connected to all practical elements. A good performance is not always praised or recognized, and sometimes instead of being rewarded you are chastised. Which is the ideal? Why do you say it is ideal to be rewarded for a good job? I think it is better to be criticized after doing a good job. No one can subtract from what you did, so by receiving criticism you create a situation where the critic has to surrender to you, and those who praise you can defend the values of what you did. In other words, you can conquer both elements by receiving criticism.</p>
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<p>The saints did great work, yet were never accepted in their own time. Because they had the capacity to digest the criticism people dumped on them, history recognizes them and they have a higher reward. When you do the right thing yet the entire world comes against you, it will be your asset because you will acquire the capacity to contain all the elements of the world. I am one example. I am working hard to do the right thing, but because America doesn’t understand this it has opposed me. 1 will digest that criticism, and by doing so I am creating room for all of America to bow down eventually.</p>
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<p>What is the ideal kind of work then? It is to do the right thing yet receive criticism instead of praise. When you reason in this fashion, you conclude that you actually have no real adversary in the world. People usually think it is bad to be cursed, but I have found that two kinds of people receive curse words: There is the person who deserves to be criticized, and the person who does good things yet receives abuse from people.</p>
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<p>When can we say something is bad? Evil sacrifices others for itself without any righteous purpose, while goodness is self-giving for the public purpose. What is the ideal way of life? In accordance with our definition, we conclude that the ideal way of life consists of giving oneself for the sake of others, even when we are criticized in doing so.</p>
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<p>There are even two ways of serving others. One is to do something good yet be criticized. The other is to be totally committed to serving others, even risking one’s life. Which is more ideal? Jesus’ teaching touches this ideal level because he was serious about giving his life for the sake of others. His credo was, “He who would gain his life would lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake will find it.” We conclude that it is ideal to give one’s life.</p>
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<p>When Jesus said he was the way, the truth and the life, did he mean he was a small mountain trail, or a superhighway to the Kingdom of Heaven? What kind of truth was he referring to? He meant the truth which the entire universe would embrace. When he said he was the life, did he envision a shivering, miserable life, or a bright, shining life? From what position and authority did he speak this way? In his way of life he lowered himself to serve others. He knew that whoever lowered himself would be lifted up, but whoever tried to elevate himself would be lowered.</p>
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<p>When you kick a ball way up in the air, it comes down with great force and rebounds back up high. Is that more ideal, or should it be kicked so high that when it comes down it doesn’t rebound but just disappears into the ground? We can’t imagine such a situation! If you were a ball that was kicked that hard, you would ache all over as you flew into the air, and you would shiver in fear as you plummeted toward the earth again. Hearing this you might think it was the ideal, but the ball would think it was very dangerous! So what is the ideal? The ball is born for that mission, so if he wants to be the number-one ball he has to be kicked hard into the air and rebound back up high again. He will have to last the longest and go the farthest.</p>
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<p>Do American young people just want to dance and eat and fritter time away? If so then they only want to have fun for themselves. Does it make any sense to ask, “Why shouldn’t they do those things for themselves? There’s no law which says they have to live for the sake of the world”? Does it make sense to say you are jumping up and down at the disco for the sake of the world?</p>
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<p>When you go out fund raising people spit at you, but you wipe their spit away and say to yourself, “I am doing this for the sake of the world.” You make money, but not for yourself; your motivation is to benefit the world. That’s what distinguishes your activity from everyone else’s.</p>
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<p>What is the opposite of the ideal? Do we judge whether someone is happy by seeing how rich he is? Can we say that the people who don’t own anything and who have to work hard every day are unhappy? How can we define happiness and unhappiness? No matter how elegant the palace you dwell in, if you live there for yourself and sacrifice others for your benefit then you are sitting in hell. But even if you don’t have a dwelling of your own and you look poor, as long as you are motivated by trying to serve other people you have heaven. Let us examine whether that is true. There are many people who live in luxury, but at night they are anguished over their lives and can’t sleep. In his heart a rich man feels pressure from his society and nation and he feels guilty. It is a kind of self-torture. He has a fight between his conscience, which says he shouldn’t live like that, and his desire to keep his things for himself. There are many rich people who struggle internally each night. Even the walls and ceiling and fine rugs chime in, saying he deserves that anguish. The fine furniture would be saying, “I am not here to please you but to accuse you.”</p>
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<p>If you sleep under a bridge in a sleeping bag, what would you see when you open your eyes? The beautiful blue sky and sunshine. The green grass and flowers would make the prettiest hotel room. Even the breeze would be jumping around you. When your conscience is clear you feel that the entire universe is embracing you. In our way of life we don’t feel anguish as we lie in bed at night, but just fall asleep immediately! Who is happier, the anguished rich man, or the person sleeping under the bridge?</p>
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<p>During the recent upheaval in Korea most people were uncertain and afraid, but I was always serene and at peace. Even if death is approaching, I am at peace. Who is the happiest then? I was not in Korea out of selfish motivation; I went there for a public purpose. Whatever the mission, I am at peace because I do it with all my effort.</p>
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<p>The person who deserves to live in the ideal house is the ideal man or woman. Do you need the ideal house or ideal men and women? We have to concentrate on being ideal men and women, but in many cases you forget to focus on what you should become and worry about what you don’t have. That’s the basic problem. The main cause lies within yourself, yet often you try to blame your environment and circumstances.</p>
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<p>In many cases people who join Unification Church think that no one cares about them because everyone else is so busy doing their mission. Then they criticize the Church and say it is manipulating them. If you are a good Moonie then you have no time to eat or sleep or do anything else except your public mission. A crumbling nation and world are at stake, so we don’t have much time to spend on some individual who is uncertain about why he is here. I don’t mean that we shouldn’t care about brothers and sisters, but when you cannot do everything, the priority is to follow the bigger cause first. If a person is totally dedicated to the public cause then he is living the ideal life.</p>
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<p>There are many people who say the Unification Church will perish because it doesn’t care about them, but it is the people who make that judgment who will decline. That is because the Church is dedicated to the public purpose, the fundamentally unselfish cause. We teach that we should sacrifice for the public cause, but the person who wants others to sacrifice to take care of him does not understand that. Before you complain, step forward and be a front line soldier who does more than other members and then your constructive criticism might be worthwhile. This is vital for new members to know.</p>
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<p>There are many demands on your time. Your have newspapers to deliver, and new spiritual children to take care of, but you have to be out there for the mission. If someone wants you to take time for fellowship, is it ideal or not to tell him that you have to be busy doing your job? The person who is truly dedicated to the public cause will eventually win.</p>
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<p>As a tree grows it extends it branches farther and farther. Is this growth the ideal way of life? What if the tree bears no fruit or flowers? A tree normally bears a multitude of flowers, but for whom does it bear them? Would the flowers say they blossom for the tree, or for the sake of harmonizing the universe? Would there be any reason the flowers have to be a certain color for the tree’s sake? The color is necessary to invite the bees and insects, so it is necessary in order to communicate with the rest of the world. In addition the flowers have fragrance. Does the tree need that fragrance to survive? It is there in order to harmonize and communicate with others.</p>
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<p>When you see the flowers you impart your happiness and enjoyment of them. In reality the flowers possess their color and fragrance for your joy. When you see beautiful flowers in the garden you want to touch and smell them. That would please the flowers because they want to be touched and appreciated by others. It is this communication and fellowship which makes life more beautiful.</p>
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<p>Have you ever seen a plant with green flowers as well as green leaves? Would it make sense? I have always admired how sensible plants are in having flowers of various colors, not just green like their leaves. Some people would just say, “Oh, that’s natural,” but if the leaves are green, why aren’t the flowers green? Imagine all of spring’s flowers being green. Would that be exciting? Perhaps God slipped up and there may be a plant somewhere that has green flowers, but even there you will find some accent of white or red, for instance, that sets it apart.</p>
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<p>Flowers impart beauty and fragrance for the sake of others, for the sake of harmony with the universe. In that harmony a fuller life is generated. What color flowers are we in the Unification Church? We want to be a stimulating color, so what color should that be? We also have a Moonie smell. What color and fragrance would God like most? Certainly He would like the Moonie color and fragrance. No matter what other people think, at least one person would come to enjoy our color and fragrance-that is God.</p>
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<p>That color and fragrance never change, even in the bathroom, so God would even go there to enjoy it. If you go to hell, God would go there also. Wherever you go, you carry the fragrance and color which attract God. Thus, activity and life is generated wherever you go. That is the purpose of harmony and give and take. Another characteristic of Moonie flowers is that they always blossom at 6 a.m. on Sunday. Where? On the cold concrete floor where you sit down! It is not necessarily bad if your surroundings are drab, because then you will look more vivid. Other people think this is hell but we think it is heaven. The dark circumstances of hell will make you stand out better.</p>
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<p>The Chinese character for “ideal” actually depicts a king and a village, so it literally means “king’s village,” or the village where the king dwells. Is a king responsible only for the good of his country, or for both the good and bad? A good king thinks he will let other people take care of the good things while he takes care of the bad situations. God is the King of kings because He thinks He will be responsible for the evil of the world. Because He takes responsibility for the bad things, He is the supremely good king, and all the kings on earth have to bow down to Him.</p>
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<p>This particular Chinese character is actually formed of three letters which mean tree, eye and mind. A tree has eyes, which are the buds, and whether located on low or high branches they are all the same. In this case it shows how the mind is thinking of the harmony of the whole tree. The king is concerned for the well-being of everyone in the village. That is the ideal.</p>
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<p>What does the ideal mean? God is the subject in this explanation, so God is central to the ideal. The Unification Church goal is to create the ideal house. This should be the ideal of the nation, not just the Unification Church. God’s goal is the creation of the ideal house of the universe. The Unification Church teaches that the Messiah will come to the family, which is the building block of the universe.</p>
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<p>Do you have a house or place to live? Your home began with your parents. A husband and wife are there, plus children. Is that all? Does the happiness in a home come merely from having parents and brothers and sisters? Happiness comes when you have harmony in relationships, when there is loving give and take.</p>
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<p>A happy home provides an environment where you can express yourself in love. If something joyful happens to you, would you celebrate by yourself or look for someone to share it with? You would look for your loved one to rejoice with; a husband wants to rejoice with his wife, parents with children, children with parents. Is it the ideal situation for children to fight with their parents? Isn’t it more natural for them to want to be with their parents?</p>
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<p>A husband and wife are not together for their own happiness, but solely for their children. The relationships of the four position foundation can cover the entire earth; children become parents who have their own children, who in turn become parents, and so forth.</p>
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<p>Would any children say it was bad for their parents to call the village and town together to celebrate with them when they are happy? Would they want their parents to share it only with the children instead? My eleven children could conceivably complain in their hearts that their parents spend hours and hours with the Church members instead of having fellowship with the children. If they think so, are they good children? I know that they don’t complain because they realize how hard Mother and I labor to pour out love for the sake of the world. For that reason they appreciate us.</p>
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<p>What is the happiness of my children? They are happy because they know that eventually that love will come to them. The people who received the True Parents’ love will eventually pour out their love to the children. If ten people are benefited by me, those people will want to reciprocate by loving my children. If Mother and I spent our time with our children instead of with the members then the members could justifiably complain that I loved only my own family. That is not the way the Unification Church was born. Of course we love our children, but more than our children we love the society, nation and world, and eventually that love will come back to our children. Is my way of thinking true or false? This principle will not change with time, nor its value diminish.</p>
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<p>When you love the universe more, you are entitled to receive more and ultimately it will benefit your own children. Ideal parents will expand their love universally. If parents bring great benefit and love to Britain, when the children go there they will be received with love and respect. If the parents love the world, then anywhere the children go they will be welcomed. When people receive much, they always want to reciprocate. When children know that their parents are loving the world, they should not feel neglected, but harbor that realization as their hope.</p>
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<p>Suppose a wife wants her husband to pay attention only to her, or a husband wants his wife to ignore their families and pay attention only to him. Such a person deserves hell. I have heard that many American women are that way, and they even look for a man with no family so that he will pay more attention to his wife. A husband or wife is usually jealous if the spouse pays much attention to the rest of the family, resenting the love that person gives to someone else. If the world is like that then is it a hellish or heavenly place?</p>
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<p>Women should realize that the ideal husband is he who loves his wife, but loves his parents, brothers and sisters and neighbors as much as he does her. He is not just wasting time with others, but inviting their love for his wife. It is only natural that the love he gives them will come back to her. If you become a daughter-in-law in your husband’s family, you can become a central figure in that home because of the love you give. You can become a queen of love in that house. Any home that violates this principle shall be judged and shall decline. Is this true or false?</p>
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<p>Unification Church women are not necessarily pretty, but they are ideal because they have this concept of ideal womanhood, ideal family and ideal love. What kind of husband would you like-the one who has no relatives to burden you, or who has parents and grandparents and great-grandparents? A big family would be an exciting place to go because then you have more objects to love and have fellowship with. By doing so you can receive more love.</p>
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<p>This is a very simple principle, but American young people are blind to it. When they are awakened to it, however, a revolution will occur in American homes. Now you know how to be an ideal husband and wife. Suppose your husband disappeared on the first night of your honeymoon, and when you looked for him you found he was having fellowship with his father-in-law, and the next night with his mother-in-law. If you didn’t see him during the entire honeymoon because he was spending so much time with your family, would you complain?</p>
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<p>Each night you know where your husband is, but would you feel happy each morning and embrace each person as much as your husband does? If so then truly you are developing an ideal home and everyone will win the position of king and queen of love. Any wife who demonstrates such harmony and unselfish love in her husband’s home will become the queen of that house because everyone will practically worship her.</p>
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<p>Is this a universal principle I’m teaching, or just my opinion? Anyone who violates this principle will crumble, not the person who lives by it. The ideal house is a house where the most loving person becomes the central figure. He will create a palace of love.</p>
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<p>Why did God prepare the relationships of parents and children, and husband and wife? Because they are miniatures of the universe, in which each person can practice how to love the whole universe. If you become a perfect member of your family, all you have to do is expand your love and the whole universe will be your home. The home is the fundamental unit to practice loving the universe. When you graduate in family love you can build a universal home.</p>
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<p>With this outlook a man sees a beautiful young lady as his sister instead of thinking dirty thoughts. It is good if they have pure fellowship all night in that case. With this realization a husband and wife can trust each other deeply, and there will be no misunderstanding whenever one of them meets someone else. The family is a unit that serves as an instructional manual to teach you how to love the universe. If you meet the family’s criteria then you have met the universe’s criteria.</p>
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<p>The Kingdom of Heaven in heaven is the place where men and women will live who served all mankind as their brothers and sisters and who made a home where true love was practiced. It is a satanic act for men and women to try to limit or regulate the flow of love. Anyone who violates this principle shall be judged in accordance with it. The family God gives you is your workshop for loving the rest of the world. If you practice that then you have the qualification to enter heaven.</p>
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<p>If your husband has unselfish love for humanity, then when you love him you are loving the world; then you are not receiving just one man’s love but a much greater love. This is precisely Mother’s position. I am in a position to be loved by many women from all parts of the world. When Mother sees that and rejoices over it, her own position is increased. Then she can receive my love more and the love of the people will flow to her as well. In that case she is -becoming a greater woman who is entitled to receive the love of the entire world.</p>
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<p>When you apply the principle I am describing this morning and expand your love through loving your family, you are loving all mankind and the world. It works both ways. The home is a workshop of love. By knowing how to love your grandparents, you know how to love all the old people of the world. By loving your brothers and sisters you know how to love all the young people of the world. When you love your husband, that is how you can love all the men of the world.</p>
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<p>In the miniature world of your home there are all kinds of personalities. Some of them may be sharp and critical, but if you know how to love them then you can love all people like that in the world. You might complain that you have to live with such stingy, pushy brothers and sisters, but by having that opportunity you will know better how to love the negative people of the world. The home is a training ground of love.</p>
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<p>Eventually you can conquer not just the world but the entire spirit world and God Himself. When you throw out many fishing lines baited with love, you can catch the whole world on your hooks. The greatest catch will be God. You will reel in one line some day, and discover God on the other end! When you reel Him in He will embrace you and cry out, “My child!” The ideal house is the fishing hole where you can catch all kinds of fish, including spirit world and God. Normally you catch fish with a hook, which hurts the fish, but when you catch someone with a hook of love he won’t feel pain but joy, even if you hook him in the eye.</p>
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<p>Those who dwell in the ideal home are ideal men and women because they have this unselfish principle of love. When you enter an ideal house, the woman’s eyes are filled with love; her nose is a lump of love and even her hair is full of love. On every side you perceive love. Do you want that? Is it easy or difficult to practice? Even though it is difficult, when you know the preciousness of love you have energy to do it. Shall we start practicing that love today?</p>
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<p>Love unites a separated husband and wife, and heals separations between children, between the nation and the world and the universe. Love has such power. Shall we live that way of life? Wouldn’t you protest that it is too difficult to do? Even though you have an urge to complain, knowing that love will come as the fruit of practicing this you will not have one moment to complain because you will be filled with great joy and enthusiasm.</p>
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<p>When I came to America many people misunderstood me and criticized, yet I made no complaint. Did any of you join the Unification Church because you wanted to help me, or did you come out of curiosity? Many people came to see how they could hinder me because they thought I was meddling with the American way of life. Even though they had unhealthy motivation, once they came they were hooked by the love. That love was so tasty that they hung on to the hook!</p>
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<p>Now you are Moonies, but when you are persecuted you smile. Are we the enemy or hope of America? How much hope? It is gigantic. There is so much hope here that eventually all Americans will swallow that hook. Once you know this dramatic way of life, in the morning you feel gigantic power and excitement. Without it you feel dead. If you have it then you are the hope of America.</p>
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<p>I just returned from Korea, where the President was just assassinated and the entire country is trembling. Because I am a symbol of hope for many people around the world, they were more concerned about my well-being than about events in Korea. Were you concerned? Why? Because you were worried that the hook of love might be taken away from you. When I go to Korea, your heart goes to Korea. When I go to Britain, your heart goes there. That is because everything that depends on sunlight turns in the direction of the sun. You don’t have to be taught; plants don’t have to be taught. They automatically turn to the sunlight.</p>
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<p>You have never heard of a minister giving a ten-hour, or even two or three-hour sermon because no one would stay that long. But when I talk for hours you wonder where the time went and keep asking for more. Why? You are hooked with love. All five races are joined here in the exciting task of building the ideal home. That is not my home or your home but God’s home, in which all are entitled to dwell. We are joined together here for tomorrow’s victory in the fulfillment of the ideal home. A new ideology has come which will bring a heightened hope and civilization.</p>
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<p>We want to create God’s ideal home. Would you make it the kind of place God goes only reluctantly, or the place where He is excited to go? A place where God is uncomfortable and sits in a corner watching everyone, or where He moves around everywhere with complete freedom?</p>
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<p>When you are persecuted and struck, think that you must be able to withstand it so you can make a home where God has complete freedom. Then it is not painful but exciting to receive persecution. When other people curse you then remember that you should be able to embrace even these men and women and tame them so God’s home will be more exciting. Then persecution tastes exciting. Then you are a public person.</p>
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<p>We want to make a home so exciting that if you tell God He has to go back He will beg you to be able to stay. Those who would make that house, raise your hands. Would you complain? Would you get discouraged? Who can say they will live up to this new expectation?</p>
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<p>My topic this morning is our internal situation: Let Us Analyze Ourselves. If you assemble a large crowd, among them you will find young people and old, men and women, and people of five races. You will find people of different circumstances: happy and sad, healthy and sick, excited and discouraged. In a gathering of a thousand people, there would be a thousand different situations.</p>
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<p>Here at Belvedere this morning there are about a thousand people; each of you has slightly different motivations and situations. When you step outside the gates and head out in a continuous line, you will find a totally different society in Tarrytown, in Westchester county, in New York state, in the United States, in the entire world, and in the spirit world.</p>
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<p>Every person or circumstance you encounter will have a different internal situation. Suppose one person, a supervisor or whatever, was told to find answers or solutions to all these different circumstances. What would you think about such a responsibility? Would anyone here volunteer for that job? All people who have ever lived have encountered circumstances that they want an explanation for. All these historical expectations have been accumulating until today.</p>
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<p>There are basically two types of people: one kind seeks to advertise their circumstances and explain things, while the other type is more reserved and silent, thinking that explanations are not needed. Of these two types of people, which is more respected? The second type, because those who speak up and advertise themselves normally want to get out of their situation and finish things up quickly, while the others will persevere, confident that they can overcome circumstances on their own.</p>
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<p>Those who speak out and try to advertise their difficulties may cause others to be unhappy. They may cause their parents to cry or their brothers and sisters to worry about them. Those who persevere do not make that kind of impact on their neighbors and their surroundings. Those who advertise for help in face of small difficulties are somewhat shallow; those with an internal sustaining power will persevere without letting small things bother them.</p>
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<p>Who generally make more effort to justify themselves, men or women? It has been proven historically that women have more of a tendency to explain their situations. You women may not want to accept that statement, but just close your eyes and say, “Yes, Father”! Men who have a depth which they don’t easily reveal are more attractive; they can sit down with dignity and make wise observations.</p>
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<p>Men and women present contrasting images. Women have smooth, soft skin, while men are bearded. Women tend to explain things, using beautiful adjectives to compose poems and write romantic letters. Men, on the other hand, with their tough looks and closed lips, sit with weight and dignity. In contrast with feminine qualities, these masculine qualities are more trustworthy.</p>
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<p>Those who tend to speak too readily-in most cases women-reveal things quickly and their listeners soon get bored. But those who don’t expose themselves quickly are more attractive, and people are more inclined to listen. They wonder what is on their mind. Those who give quick explanations soon disappear from sight, but people with hidden depth hold others’ attention out of curiosity.</p>
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<p>Now, I want to ask you women to raise your hands if you really like those feminine qualities and don’t long for something opposite to what you have. Women are always moving around, changing from one position to another; you need an anchor line to keep you from floating away! Do you realize that? The role of the man is like an anchor, holding onto the woman. On the other hand, you tough-looking men, instead of mingling with others like yourselves, go after those charming, talkative women. Men are impressed by women’s smiling faces, those gracefully-moving lips, those sweet utterances. Men, who were born to be tough and strong, lack such qualities. Without those feminine qualities, you men can’t charm others!</p>
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<p>Generally speaking, the talkative people lose the battle and fade away. That is usually the case in history. On the other hand, reticent people maintain their strength and persevere. Well, do you realize that this is a fact, or do you consider it just my theory? In history, what kind of person generally governs? It is the thinkers, the people of few words. They don’t have time to talk much because they are busy thinking and dreaming. The men and women who made gigantic contributions to history have generally been this type of person. The people who are busy talking, looking around, having fun, and getting involved in this and that are generally shallow. The people who sit on rocks and meditate for hours on end have depth and sustaining energy. Then which type of person is wiser? The second.</p>
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<p>In comparing religious and non-religious people, the truly religious people are generally people of few words; they tend to pray and meditate more. Non-religious people seek to excuse and justify their actions. The Bible encourages people to persevere, be patient, and endure; those are prime virtues taught in the Bible. The Bible doesn’t urge people to go out and fight to prove their worth. Even if there is an enemy, the religious people commit the enemy into God’s hands and let God ultimately dispose of the adversary position. The first virtue the Bible teaches is to forget the other person’s shortcomings and wrongdoings. Furthermore, the Bible instructs us to love our enemy. It is not easy to love one’s enemy. Nobody is truly perfect in loving the enemy. Therefore, since you cannot really live up to that credo, you should be silent instead of trying to justify yourself; in such a situation, it is best not to talk too much.</p>
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<p>The adversary’s side has every freedom to criticize and accuse, but your position is to love them, even though they are your enemy. Therefore, if you don’t live up to the Bible’s standard, you don’t have much to say. If you habitually talk back to your enemy, pursue them and try to justify yourself, people will tend to abandon you instead of supporting you; they may even join the other side. This is the reality of the world.</p>
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<p>Consider the United States. If America is to have a vision for the coming days and hope for the future, it needs leaders who are thinkers, people of few words with the capacity to persevere and move forward. Then this land will have hope. The kind of leader who can embrace the entire nation and have room for more will eventually embrace and control the future of the nation. Leaders who get upset at any small situation and instantly react to it reveal themselves as shallow thinkers. Suppose a crisis develops and all 240 million Americans shout and complain about it and ask their leader what he thinks. If he doesn’t say much but looks at them wisely, the people will be attentive to him; he will have a certain charm and attractiveness. Such a deep-thinking, patient leader would not respond to his people with hate, but with love. How do you think the people would react to such an expression of love? They would love such an answer! This is precisely why the Bible says to love your enemy; this is love in action.</p>
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<p>To review, there are basically two types of people: those who are talkative and those who are reticent. Within each group, there are two kinds: one loquacious person who speaks for egotistical reasons and the other for unselfish reasons. One reticent person keeps silent out of unselfishness and love for the enemy, and the other keeps silent for self-centered reasons.</p>
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<p>In handling a great deal of criticism from the public, how should a loving leader respond? How can someone in authority really convey a loving heart to others? The best way for a leader to show care for the people is to demonstrate affection quietly. When people see that their leader is truly concerned about them and the future of their nation, they will recognize the leader to be a dedicated, unselfish person who deserves their respect. The citizens of the nation will support such a public-minded person, and history will give its approval.</p>
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<p>Instead of pushing forward greedily, a reticent person gives priority to the public purpose and unselfishly serves the nation, conveying a spirit of hope. Such a person definitely makes an important contribution to history, and history shall record that person’s deeds. Such a person will have an international following; not only Americans but British, Koreans, Japanese and citizens of all nations want to see such a leader emerge. Since such a person has a broad public support, the popular sentiment that develops represents God’s sentiment. That means that God also likes and follows such a person. Isn’t that true? You agree. Even if God were to come out and say, “No, you are wrong; I’m convinced I’m right,” you could defeat God, for God cannot win over the principle, since the principle is God. Do you agree with my conclusion?</p>
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<p>So look up at God and ask Him what kind of God He is. Ask Him about His characteristics. The principal characteristic of God we learn from history is that He is reticent. God would answer, “Well, if I open my mouth, there are millions and billions of things to explain. I could talk about how much I suffer, how heartbroken I am, and how much people mistreat me. I am the most mistreated being in the entire universe, but I still maintain hope; I have great hope for humanity, and I keep persevering, with few words, seeking to restore all people.”</p>
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<p>God is a public being, the center of public consciousness. God is God because He is the most public-minded being under the sun. That is His nature because He has no selfish motivation. In doing so, however, He keeps the greatest silence. God never loses sight of the ideal; He never loses hone for tomorrow.</p>
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<p>God saw Satan come and subjugate His son and daughter, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, destroying the entire blueprint for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Yet God remained silent. When God sent His son Jesus Christ to the world and the people misunderstood him and crucified him, God still remained silent. Today God loves me and has sent me out to the world to accomplish revolutionary changes in it; yet He remains silent in spite of so many upheavals. If God were like American women and tried to explain it all and get everything off His chest, none of you would be able to bear it; none of you would remain.</p>
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<p>Unification Church members are the masters of history; you are the hosts and hostesses of providence. Those who play a central role in history are those who most resemble God; those who speak little but think and act for the sake of the public good shall be the central people of our church. Why? Because that is how God is. Because that is the kind of person God loves. Because that is the kind of person who will endure and prosper. Anyone who disagrees with this conclusion please raise your hand. Anyone who agrees with me that God loves those who resemble Him please raise your hand. You raised your hands to the second proposition, but they didn’t go up very fast. You responded slowly because you realize that it isn’t easy to be like God, isn’t that so?</p>
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<p>To try to learn sophisticated techniques and proper methods to reach God will not work. I want to teach you the simplest way to achieve the goal. The simplest way to become like God is to live with a sacrificial spirit. You should silently seek to sacrifice for the sake of others, for the sake of the public good.</p>
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<p>When you read the Bible you find mention of all kinds of offerings and sacrifices made on the altar to God. Today we are talking about a living sacrifice. When you become a sacrifice, you don’t make any excuse; you don’t go from one village to the next proclaiming that you are a sacrifice that will be placed on the altar the next morning. A sacrifice is always silent, always obedient. The cow, lamb and pigeons cut in two for the sake of history are silent even at the final moment of offering. That is the way it goes. Somebody else will speak up for you; eventually the public will recognize you.</p>
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<p>This is how history operates. The people who make incredible contributions to history are little known in their own time’ but history bears witness to them. Suppose the members of the Unification Church were the worst, most unforgivable kind of religious people-we would have a lot of explanations to make. We wouldn’t want to be silent. Yet the Unification Church basically remains silent. People will see Unification Church members working quietly, without losing their temper. When you go fundraising you are mistreated in incredible ways. If you were to explode about the injustice, you could do it several times a day. People give you dirty looks, spit at you, hit you, and may even stab you. You experience all kinds of persecution. But instead of trying to explain yourself, you keep busy with your positive mission; instead of confronting the negativity, you keep busy with the positive work of constructing the Kingdom of Heaven. You have no time to fool around with people.</p>
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<p>If you remain silent, maintain your composure and hold your peace, people will wonder about you. They will say, “What kind of crazy people are these? Even when we criticize them severely, they remain silent. They must be really dumb!” If the entire village comes against you and criticizes you, keep your composure and your smile. Those who are as reserved and composed as you will marvel, “He is an amazing person; he is just like me!” Normally, the people who see your true value and recognize your unselfishness will be high-quality, influential people. They and their children will discover your worth. They are the thinkers; thinkers search for the essence. On seeing your young, noble face, such people will wish for a husband or wife like you. “I have never seen a person of such rare quality,” they will exclaim. These things have actually happened.</p>
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<p>Do you love me? Why? Even though you know that I have been so badly misunderstood, attacked and persecuted? Even though people say all kinds of things about me? At least one thing is for sure: I have set the record for getting a bad reputation. I have first prize in that category. No one has been so harshly criticized in his own lifetime as I have been. Not only one class of people has opposed me, but people of all classes, all races and all continents. There is no nationality of people who have not said bad things about me. Are they testifying to the truth? Am I evil? Here you see the same principle at work: everybody says I am evil and wrong, but you disagree. Likewise, when you go to a village, 99 percent of the people may misunderstand you, but at least some will recognize your true value. People around the world have misunderstood me, but you comprehend my worth.</p>
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<p>So whoever wishes for a good husband wants someone like me, right? I’m sorry Mother isn’t here. Mother is very tired, since she is expecting a baby in the next couple of weeks, and she has to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes or so. Since that is a biological need, I cannot ask her to stay here for two and a half hours, or however long the sermon lasts. The biological need must be met; she is going to the bathroom for a public purpose. Normally you would not walk out of the room during my speech, but if your leaving is for a public purpose it is forgiven.</p>
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<p>Many people criticize me for taking American youth away, like a Pied Piper. However, you are participating in a cause far greater than anything they can conceive including staying home and serving your parents. Therefore, your devotion is beautiful in God’s sight, and it shall be respected and praised in history. Your parents misunderstand your reasons for joining the Unification Church because they are ignorant about our church and its true cause. Once they understand they will be the first to urge you to go forth. They will say, “I respect you, my child, and am proud of you; please go and serve the public purpose.”</p>
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<p>I came to the United States and indeed made an impact. Has that impact been good or bad? You are a small minority, compared to the entire 240 million people in this land. You call the impact good, but the rest of the world does not call it good.</p>
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<p>When you say good, you are using a gigantic word. Look how it is written: the four letters are formed by four circles. A circle represents at the same time zero and infinity. Thus a circle is a symbol of infinite value, infinite quality. It seems to be nothing; therefore, it is everything. You can make the circle as big as you want and have it contain as much as you want; that is the nature of a circle.</p>
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<p>Now where does this gigantic word good start: from a gigantic big place or from a small place? Let’s look at the beginning, God. God never spoke the word good when He was by Himself. He only uttered the word good when He began creating. He only pronounced, “It is very good,” when He first saw Adam and Eve. He created heaven and earth in six days, but they were just good. However, when God saw Adam and Eve, for the first time He said, “Behold, it is very good.” What is so very good? Before Adam and Eve, even though so much had been created, nothing actually existed for God’s sake. When Adam and Eve were created,</p>
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<p>God saw the possibility of give and take of love, the fulfillment of love, an object whom He could love. God wants to enter into that fulfillment of love.</p>
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<p>Which is bigger: God or love? Love is so all-inclusive that it can wrap up even God and float Him away! Enclosed in a love-bag tied with a cord, God doesn’t even say, “Ouch!” Instead, God will beg that the pressure of love be increased. God longs for the excitement of love. Therefore, we could say that God exists solely for the sake of love, and that love is everything.</p>
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<p>Have you ever seen love? Can you carry it in the palm of your hand? Where is it? Love is not activated until you see an object with whom to have give and take. No matter how beautiful a woman you may be, looking at your face a hundred times in a mirror doesn’t excite you too much. But when a tough, stern, ugly man shows up, something inside you starts to warm up, and instead of looking at your own face although it may be lovely enough to grace a Miss America-you find it much more interesting to look at the ugly face of a man. Because the most beautiful woman can find true beauty and excitement in the face of the most ugly man, God pronounced human beings very good.</p>
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<p>Actually when a beautiful woman and a handsome man love each other, it is good; but when a beautiful woman loves an ugly man, that is really very good. Is the Unification Church a good group or a bad group? In order to become a very good group, black, yellow and white people should all mingle together, right? When people of all races and all degrees of attractiveness come together, it is very good.</p>
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<p>God’s nature encompasses both day and night, not just day, not just night. God can rejoice during the day and at night. There may be some situations in which only white people laugh, other situations in which only black people or yellow people laugh. But when black, white and yellow people can laugh together with the same happiness, that joy is universal. God envisioned such universal enjoyment when He pronounced mankind very good.</p>
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<p>Today I’m talking about our tradition, our circumstances. Our first conclusion is that selfish situations have no value and should not even be the subject of discussion. Do you American women accept my conclusion? You might want to reply, “That sounds very good, but I want to give a little explanation about myself.”</p>
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<p>When I started out on this course, I came to the conclusion that the winning way of life is the unselfish one. I decided that the guiding principle of the Unification Church shall be the unselfish way of life; the Unification Church shall not consider any explanation based on selfish reasons.</p>
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<p>Upon undertaking this course I resolved to live 100 percent for the public purpose. When I came to the United States, I devoted myself to teaching that way of life to the American people, in whom individualism is strong and selfish motivations prevail. Of course this nation does not eagerly accept this notion. This is like a shock treatment. People react, “Oh, no, Reverend Moon. That is not my way of life. Don’t talk about such a thing to Americans. You may live like that, but I’m an American and I won’t.”</p>
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<p>Protests come from all directions: the cats complain, “Meow, meow”; the dogs bark, “Woof, woof”; the tigers roar, “Go away.” Everybody reacts so violently to the principle of unselfishness. Let the cats cry and the dogs bark I will remain in peace and quiet. I am engaged in building the kingdom, and I’m building it my way. I have been so busy building that the cats and dogs who close their eyes in violent rejection will suddenly open them and wonder where everybody is. They will find themselves all alone.</p>
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<p>How different we are from the cat and dog types of people. Who really loves America? Who is truly concerned about America’s future? Who has caught the vision of this great nation? Should people stay in the cat and dog groups, or join our group?</p>
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<p>When you came to our group you weren’t always treated so kindly; you may not even get eggs for breakfast. In contrast, when you go home your parents may fix you eggs and even serve you breakfast in bed! They may give you whatever you want.</p>
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<p>To follow Reverend Moon is not easy; the path is filled with hardship, suffering and tribulation. If you seek a relaxed, easy way of life, go live in a comfortable place. Here you work all day long and the next morning you can’t even sit down to enjoy your breakfast. You eat standing up and go out and work all day again. I never praise you, just chase you out again. If you are chastised and challenged over and over, will you still like it?</p>
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<p>When will all this be finished? When the world is restored to God’s world. When that task is done I will say, “Go and sleep 24 hours, sleep 48 hours, and you will find a whole steak-or even a whole cow-coming and standing on your plate. Then your clothes will be decorated with diamonds. ”</p>
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<p>I tell my own children to study hard, do their math homework, etc. When they go to high school I increase the pressure, and in college even more. My children might protest, “What kind of father are you to keep pushing me? I’m always obedient. I always try my best. I always get A’s.” But children cannot complain like that, because they know that the motivation comes from parental love and that their parents want them to succeed.</p>
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<p>The same holds true in the Unification Church. You are children of God. I am not going to stop and praise you; you must keep pushing and challenging yourself, because my goal and expectation for you are so great. This pushing comes from pure parental love. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>It’s hard for children to study every day; but when they are pushed to do the toughest job and accomplish it, the end result is joy and happiness. Even after their parents have died, children recognize that whatever they have accomplished-in serving mankind, becoming a leader, making some contribution to history-they owe to their parents. They realized that their parents pushed them towards such success.</p>
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<p>So when I push Unification Church members it is not out of exploitation but simply because the goal is so high and the task so great and I want you to succeed in these tasks. The children who understand the true motivation of their parents and appreciate them shall become great children- and eventually great men and women.</p>
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<p>When you joined the Unification Church you frequently heard about a three-year course. But consider the value of three years of schooling. After the three-year course there is a seven-year course, and after that three consecutive seven-year courses! How long a course do you want to enroll in: the shortest or the longest? Would you like to enroll in that triple seven-year course? Twenty years is a long time in relation to the human lifespan; a lot of things can happen in 20 years. To stick to the vision and goal for 20 years, rain or shine, is not easy; but once you reach it you know you have accomplished something truly great.</p>
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<p>How did people view me 30 years ago? Pretty small. How much did I grow in the meantime? Am I still small? What is the difference between the Reverend Moon of 30 years ago and today? Are they two entirely different persons? The only difference is that 30 years ago there was a small circle, and now there is a gigantic circle. What made me great? Three consecutive seven-year courses. I always persevere and push myself forward in a straight line. Each year I have focused on traveling forward in a straight line, but at the same time God has been expanding my territory, using the length of that line as the diameter of a circle. Thus the circle has been getting bigger and bigger all the time.</p>
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<p>You may sometimes question what kind of God we have, because the course He has given us seems too much to bear and you wonder why we need to continue. I too had those feelings, but then I would turn around and look at the territory I had covered, and every time I would be amazed and flabbergasted at what great blessings God has bestowed on me. One by one, the people who had seemed so powerful have become smaller and smaller as I look back. They have become so apologetic, so appreciative of my work, so filled with love and respect. This is God’s strategy.</p>
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<p>I am just one small Korean. Here there are people whose bodies are bigger or taller than mine. There are many great Americans. So why has my stature grown to the point where people consider me a giant? Because I keep pushing myself toward the public, unselfish way of life. Many people had predicted that the Unification Church would be a passing phenomenon and would not last beyond a few years. Instead of fading away, however, the Unification Church is growing and growing. Why has the Unification Church not been destroyed? Simply because we are living God’s way of life, and God cannot afford to be destroyed.</p>
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<p>You may become so tired and frustrated within the church that you decide to leave; but when you look back in from the outside, you will realize what a precious life is contained in the church and how noble the members are. You will recognize that I am truly following God’s way.</p>
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<p>Such phenomena have not been occurring in the United States yet, but they happen all the time in Korea. There were many early followers who became so tired and disillusioned that they left. Now, however, when I return to Korea these people cannot lift their faces to me; tears trickle down their cheeks, and from the bottom of their hearts they seek to show me respect and love. They are saying, “Father, you have won our respect. You broke through such adverse conditions. No one can stand in front of you.” They realize that if I were a person like them, there would be no Unification Church; God would have nothing to hold onto. That would be a poor and miserable day for world history. But now these early members say, “Father, I’m glad you did it. You won.” Sometimes I felt so deeply that I had to succeed, if for no other reason than to show the critics that God is alive. I determined to win because I could not afford to lose.</p>
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<p>After listening to all this, would you try to explain your circumstances to me? No, you would shake your head and say, “Father, don’t worry about me. Don’t worry about my petty situation. I don’t have anything to explain.” I’m sure that after two long, thirsty months without me you must have been thinking, “When Father returns, I must discuss something with him. My leader doesn’t understand my situation, so I will explain it to Father. My Abel figure never listened to me, so I must go directly to Father.” Can you do this? No? Thank you very much.</p>
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<p>On my part, I too can speak to you only about public matters, not petty, selfish things. There are many public issues to speak about, for the sake of this nation, the world, the destiny of our mission, and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. You should go out and proudly repeat these things. You can shout them out, knowing that you are speaking for a public cause.</p>
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<p>Even without rich food to eat or milk to drink, you can persevere on the public path and nobody will be able to criticize you even one iota. You can tell yourself that the milk and cheese you are foregoing will be saved for the rest of the world. Instead of wearing the best clothes yourself, you can think that you are saving them for the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>You may have had a hard day fundraising, but you don’t come back and announce how great you are afterwards. You may have gained good results and you feel like stopping at a nice restaurant and enjoying a juicy steak; even with the money in your pocket and knowing that nobody will stop you, if you choose to go to McDonald’s instead God will look down upon you with tears trickling down His cheeks. I too look at you and want to give you not just a piece of juicy steak but a whole cow and more. This is how parents feel. This is the link in the chain linking God, True Parents and you. No one-not even God, myself or Satan-can cut that chain.</p>
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<p>Last night I spoke to many members who are pursuing a doctorate degree. They feel that so many things remain to be achieved. However, these intelligent people were amazed at the gigantic things I have been accomplishing so quietly that they didn’t even notice. Totally surprised, they asked when I did them.</p>
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<p>I have a tremendous plan for a future university. According to the master plan presented at a briefing the other day, about $250 million will be needed to build it and $250 million to sustain it. That means $500 million. Do we have the money? The people asked me to call on God to make it work, but I am not in that kind of position. I myself must find a way to make it work.</p>
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<p>God Himself looks down and says, “Father, why don’t you rest a little bit? Just go slow and easy. It’s too much money; just wait.” Mr. Kamiyama might feel like protesting, “Father, you are funding so many projects I simply cannot keep up with you.” Even though he might think this, he won’t say it. It’s not easy to make my wishes a reality. We have been working so painstakingly, but look around now and see how much has been accomplished: missionary work all over the world, the top-level Little Angels school, the motion picture “Inchon” filmed on location in Korea, the fishing industry and my vision for the sea. Feeling that what I am doing is so big, have you ever wondered how your efforts can help?</p>
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<p>Returning to our situation, do you have more to say to me, or do I have more to say to you? The entire world is watching us. There are a lot of “Moon watchers” around, standing with mouths agape wondering what I will do next. People’s mouths are opening wider and wider all the time. You get tired just thinking about this, but still you can renew your energy and walk out with pride to the world.</p>
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<p>If each of you follows my prescription precisely, you are bound to be a success. Do you believe this just because it sounds good, or because you know it is a fact? Now, when I say something you believe it, but it used to be that when I talked of so many crucial things you just couldn’t believe. It isn’t easy to believe. It takes time. Faith and trust must be earned, and I have earned them. Now when I announce something, you can accept it and believe it.</p>
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<p>Many years ago I talked about international marriages as the basis for the ideal. I stated that the various combinations of blacks marrying whites, whites marrying Orientals, and Orientals marrying blacks make up the beauty of the human race. It sounded good and logical, but people felt it was naive and irrational to propose such a thing because it could not become a reality. Now what happened this year? At the matching you volunteered for international marriages; even in some cases when I didn’t recommend an international marriage you still insisted. It was so amazing and so beautiful. What I used to speak of is no longer just an ideal but it has become a reality.</p>
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<p>As you know, the movie industry is a very powerful force but also very immoral. It needs a revolution; a new heavenly spirit must enter it. Those Hollywood considers superstars have great influence among young people, but their impact is often ungodly. The government cannot alter this; only a spiritual revolution can transform the situation. Sometimes I go to Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, and so forth, to observe what is going on in the world of gambling. I must get first-hand information. Cancer is brewing in such places; there are many cancerous threats to civilization growing in Hollywood, Las Vegas and New York. Eighth Avenue in New York, where the World Mission Center is located, is a hub of immorality, and I have a strong desire to clean it up.</p>
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<p>The time has come for America to give us due recognition. We must let- the world know. CARP is our task force, heralding the message on the campuses and to the intellectual communities. The seminary graduates joined CARP for active duty as front-line soldiers. They are attending a workshop on the West Coast, and in a couple of days they will be coming to East Garden to listen to me.</p>
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<p>Whoever envies my position, let him volunteer to take up my role. Would you like to carry out my task here? After three hours you would probably give up and run away. That is the kind of pressure under which I have been operating.</p>
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<p>Do you really want to know about my situation? I have been fishing for tuna off the coast of Massachusetts, and tuna fishing is truly a battle. People go out in luxury yachts looking for the “New Hope” and trying to find out if I am on board. They are curious about my appearance and my actions. They don’t imagine that I would go out every day, because serious tuna fishing is a tough job. They assume that I go out just once in a while for enjoyment. I’m out there every day, humbly dressed, working all the time; and looking through their binoculars in our direction they assume I am not there. They think that I haven’t even shown up this summer. They don’t even consider that the ordinary-looking fisherman they see wearing humble clothes and humble hat could be me. They envision me seated on some throne atop the “New Hope.”</p>
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<p>Every time I catch a tuna we take it to the pier for processing. People pass by me and notice my fishy smell, but they never consider it might be me. When they see some of the Moonie supporters they tell them, “Please tell Reverend Moon that I missed him. Please tell him hello from me.”</p>
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<p>Even in tuna fishing there is a need for a lot of creative thinking. I speak few words; mostly I experiment. For three consecutive years the “New Hope” has been setting new records. As you know, people have been fishing for tuna for many centuries, and until now, professional fishermen with 10 or 20 years experience have always held the record for the greatest number of tuna caught. But three years ago they lost the record; they can no longer keep pace with me. Each year that I have set a new record in Gloucester, those proud professional fishermen say, “How can we be defeated by the Moonies? We can’t afford to do that.” So they go out at 3:00 am, and I go out at 2:00. Then they resolve to leave at 1:00, and I leave even earlier. They cannot sustain this pace more than a day or two, but I do it every day. That is the difference.</p>
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<p>No one used to be on the boats at 3:00 am, but now there are as many as 20 boats in operation at that hour. All the boats used to return to harbor at 3:30 in the afternoon, but since I stay out until 7:00 others routinely stay out until dark too.</p>
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<p>It isn’t necessary to say a lot of words to people; just be disciplined, and they will demonstrate their respect by wanting to follow your pattern. There was a great deal of hostility in Gloucester the first year I set a new record. Now the fishermen have resigned themselves to defeat, and rather than fighting us they join us. Wherever the “New Hope” goes people follow closely, watching every move. They try to imitate my pattern because they too want to catch tuna.</p>
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<p>Three years ago I invented a new method of tuna fishing. Until then all the fishermen used a pole and nylon lines. When I stopped doing that three years ago, the professionals thought I was doing something strange. Now, all tuna fishing in Gloucester is done by my method.</p>
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<p>Gloucester is the most famous tuna fishing port in the world; people come there from all over the world. So whenever the “New Hope” goes to New Jersey, Los Angeles or Alabama people recognize it and want to honor it.</p>
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<p>Three years ago when I first started. tuna at dockside was worth only ten cents a pound. Now, it’s $1.75 per pound, and eventually it will rise to $5.00 per pound. My intention is that as prices rise, a 700 to 1000 pound tuna will be worth $3,500 to $5,000. That will provide a good income for anybody. So everybody wants to get into the great gold-rush.</p>
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<p>I want to assemble all kinds of boats for tuna fishing. As is common at many fishing ports, the economy of Gloucester has been depressed, but the people of that small fishing village who have been so unkind to me and mistreated me so badly will see their whole town come alive because of my presence. Gloucester will boom and prosper economically. The people of Gloucester will owe me so much, and I’m sure they will come and bow down. So which boat will be most welcome in Gloucester? The “New Hope.” The “New Hope” will always bring new hope to Gloucester.</p>
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<p>This year I invited all the elder leaders to Gloucester for tuna fishing-the toughest kind of workshop. Next year we will assemble both small and large vessels, about 50 altogether. Can you imagine how much controversy it will create when 50 Moonie boats are launched each morning?</p>
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<p>Why am I so interested in tuna? Because solving the challenge of freezing tuna and preserving its freshness will bring a technical revolution to American fishing industry. The Japanese are consuming a lot of fresh tuna now because they love sashimi, the very popular dish made with raw fish. To ship tuna from here to Japan takes much time, and in many cases the tuna do not arrive fresh. However, I invented a certain method for optimum preservation of tuna, and this year the Japanese importers sent telegram after telegram to their suppliers asking them to process tuna like the Moonies do. The Japanese instruct their suppliers: “The Moonies’ tuna is always fresh, but yours is no good. What happened? Go and learn how the Moonies process tuna.”</p>
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<p>I have been going to sea for six years. Would you like to do the same? Let me see the hands of those who say no. Let me see the hands of those who say yes. It is not easy to take care of even one boat; a lot of work is involved. To organize an entire fleet is even harder, and more difficult still to organize an entire fishing industry. We work hard, and we accomplish things step by step. We go the tough way every day. Ten years from now we can turn around and be astonished at how much territory we have covered.</p>
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<p>I would like to see the headquarters building of each mission be larger than the city hall. After all, it is God’s house. Isn’t that a good idea? Some may answer that the idea is good, but it’s so tough to accomplish. Well, that’s why we do it. It should have been done a long time ago.</p>
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<p>Let the world’s people do the easy things; the Moonies will do the tough things. And let them take ten years to do it, while we do it instantly. That is what I would prefer. Do you agree with me? Even if you don’t like it, still you will go on. Wherever the course may take you, you will not regret it; you will not be disappointed. Instead, you will rejoice at the results.</p>
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<p>Is home church an easy job? To do home church means to become the historical number one servant to 360 homes. You start out as a servant and rise from that position to become ultimately the number one master. In home church you construct a ladder which you can climb from the bottom of hell all the way to the top of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Who will make this ladder? You may be a pale, weak-looking woman with small slanted eyes and thin lips, but you are a Moonie and you commit yourself to do it.</p>
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<p>When will you do it? Today? Ten years from now? Most people work only eight hours a day and the remainder of the time they rest, eat, or sleep. But we can work 24 hours without eating or sleeping very much.</p>
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<p>People will observe you and estimate that you will last no more than six months; but they will be amazed at how you persevere step by step for one, two, or three years. Initially, people in home church will mistreat you. The normal pattern will be for them to mistreat you, spit at you, criticize you, chase you out, do all kinds of things. But you shouldn’t care, because eventually, after one, two, three or ten years, you will be like their king and queen. When you leave your area they will shed tears for you. In this fashion you will become the host and hostess of history.</p>
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<p>I have many historical episodes stored inside me which I have not spoken about. I am a champion, but not like the wrestlers who boast of their prowess. I am the kind of champion who pleases God, one who is silent.</p>
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<p>Regardless of your past, I am interested in only one thing: that you become a champion of history. Sometimes I will agonize for a week before I decide what mission to give a certain leader; during that time I consider that person’s various qualities. If someone is not cooperative, it might seem easy to give up and decide I need another person for that position. But when I chastise a leader and move that person to another place, there are historical consequences; the person’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are affected, so how can I not be serious about such decisions?</p>
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<p>Normally I don’t give many commands. My practice is first to do something myself and then let others observe it and follow. Do you understand? Each of you has individual circumstances and goes through internal struggles. I know that. I understand your situation better than anyone else. However, if you work silently, always moving forward toward the goal, and after 10 or 20 years you still see no results, then you have something to speak to me about. But without even beginning on the journey, if you complain about various things, making all kinds of noises like an empty drum, your objections are not acceptable to me; they don’t fit into God’s principle.</p>
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<p>This is now the month of September. We are in the latter part of 1979. I know you have been doing your best so far, but not to the degree that is pleasing to me or to God. We need a rejuvenation, a revitalization, a new beginning. This is the month to do it.</p>
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<p>There are two kinds of motion: disintegration and reconstruction. If decay proceeds more rapidly than rebuilding we will eventually lose the battle. We need to gain speed and apply the brake to America’s decline. Do you take exception to this statement?</p>
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<p>In summary: be silent, set a high standard and goal, and keep moving forward.</p>
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<p>You are entering the arena of the final battle. You are like champions walking into that arena. Would you like to participate in that final battle?</p>
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<p>When you look into the mirror in the morning and see your face clouded with unhappiness and discouragement, ask that person in the mirror: “What are you doing? Why are you so discouraged? Get up and go! Go! Go!” Evaluate yourself. Such negative attitudes can destroy the entire dispensation, block Heavenly Father’s cause, and frustrate history. Tell that person in the mirror, “I cannot afford to let you become a rascal!”</p>
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<p>How many of you became engaged this year? Every day you have been thinking of your fiancé, right? Every night you have been wondering why you didn’t get a letter, right? You feel that you have given up everything and you need at least a letter. I understand that feeling. But what does your fiancé expect you to do: abandon all other duties to sit down and write a long letter, or go forward and win the victory that day, even though it means you cannot write that letter? Which attitude characterizes the more public fiancé? When the latter type of couple eventually meets, even though not too many letters were exchanged they will experience tremendous understanding and love. When a public man and a public woman are in love, their cause is a public cause.</p>
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<p>I am not saying you should not be in love, because I really support intense love. But you are like students facing an exam. Your prime duty is to pass the test of being a public person.</p>
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<p>After hearing me speak this morning at Belvedere, please write a short letter to your fiancé today stating, “If I don’t write to you for the next six months, I want you to understand that I am perfecting my public character.” What kind of spouse do you prefer: someone who forgets the mission out of love for you, or someone whom God recognizes as a public person? What kind of husband would you want? What kind of wife would you want? You are greedy; I know what you want. What I am teaching you today is very correct. Do you agree with it? Some of you didn’t answer; you need to decide whether this is right or wrong.</p>
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<p>If I were to explain fully Heavenly Father’s circumstances, you would be so ashamed you would have no place to hide. If you knew my circumstances and God’s circumstances, you would have no room to complain about your situation.</p>
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<p>God is God, even when He is sleeping. In other words, God is number one in whatever He wishes to do, even sleeping. If sleeping were the course that would win the race, God would win. On the other hand, God is also the champion at playing. So you wonder how God decides what to do, don’t you?</p>
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<p>God is always my guide in decisions. I always follow the public purpose. God has already determined what the public purpose is: pursuing His cause, even if it means sacrificing sleep. Therefore, God doesn’t sleep at all; there is no night for God. God can play, but He doesn’t; as a public being, God has no time to fool around. All the difficult things God wants to bear; all the easy things He wants mankind to do.</p>
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<p>God’s position is not easy, yet He utters no word of complaint. God will let accomplishments speak for themselves; until then God remains silent. That is the way you too must go. Don’t explain yourself away, but let your deeds and results speak for themselves. Until then, your will should be as unshakable as a rock; keep going forward with an iron will. Then you and I shall certainly end up together in God’s heaven and rejoice over the same quality of joy there. You will meet God and me in heaven. That is what God is anxiously awaiting to happen.</p>
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<p>Your eyes must work for the public purpose, not for selfish reasons. Look at other people as public persons as well. Don’t think of one woman as prettier than the other, or one man as friendlier than the other. Those are not qualities by which to evaluate people; you should consider the degree to which they are working toward the public purpose, the degree to which they are advancing God’s cause.</p>
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<p>Put your conviction into action and let the world see your achievements. Then you won’t even have to ask for anything, because the entire world will bow down to you. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>In conclusion, there are two sides to every situation: the external and the internal. One side is always trying to move you toward a selfish purpose and the other side is always trying to move you toward an unselfish, public purpose. You must evaluate each situation, determine which is the unselfish purpose, and then advance toward it. This is the wisest, most successful way of life. Always pursue the greater cause rather than the smaller cause.</p>
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<p>At least dedicate yourself for the national cause; when a person speaks for the sake of the nation, it is not out of selfish purpose.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, the world is a more public concern than the nation. When a person is concerned about world events, national considerations become small and selfish.</p>
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<p>Beyond that, the spirit world is much more public than this earthly plane; so for the sake of the spirit world a person must learn how to sacrifice our world.</p>
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<p>Ultimately, God is the most public being of all, the supreme public; therefore, for the sake of God’s public purpose, a person can abandon everything else.</p>
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<p>All the saints of the past walked this way of life. Jesus lived this way. I am living this way. And so should you. You call me Father, and in that name we gather together. If you are that kind of person,</p>
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<p>you should follow my way. When you speak, do so not for your own situation but for your public purpose. Instead of doing silly things that get your body tired and make you feel knocked out, open your mouth even 24 hours a day to speak for the public purpose. Use every ounce of your energy for the public purpose, until you fall down with exhaustion. This is the sacred way of life.</p>
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<p>Now you realize how God works and what His principle entails. Now you know how to become sons and daughters of God. Now you understand how to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let’s persevere until the final victory is won. Until God declares the final victory, we shall go on. Are you glad I said this?</p>
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<p>Today, September 16, those who will fulfill without making any mistakes, raise your hand as a pledge to me. Thank 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="2018-06-19T14:52:37+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/let-us-know-ourselves.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:52:37+01:00">June 19, 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>Knowing ourselves is probably one of the most important things in our lives. When you say “us” or “I”, you have a certain identity in mind. For instance, there are around 240 million people in America who would say, “I am an American.” However, one could be either the lowest possible American, a very noble American, or in between. How do you think of yourselves?</p>
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<p>Apart from being American citizens, what else are you? You are children of your parents. In this country your parents might be descended from many combinations of nationalities, and when you investigate your family tree there may be many variations. Your lineage may be a proud one or a humble one and your ancestors honorable or dishonorable. Your parents’ lineages might even have conflicted with each other at some time. As members of the Unification Church we can ask, “Who are we?” Again, there are basically two types. One person might be part of the backbone of the Church, while to another person it might not make much difference whether he is here or not. You may have come to some realization about whether or not you are a person of importance here.</p>
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<p>It is always true that each person thinks from the point of view that he is the center of each situation because each person thinks that he has some value or importance. Everyone also has some ambition or aspiration, and there is no limit to what man can desire. Do you feel that you are important, and do you have some aspiration in life? In this regard are there differences between races, or between people of the past, present, and future? No, each person is the same here. You can conclude that you want to be important and to be recognized, and that you want to better yourself every day. This is a common human aspiration.</p>
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<p>Let us determine whether we are good men or bad men. In the category of good men there are many different classifications or levels. It is important to know who determines whether one is a good or bad man; will you do it, or someone else? Is that the individual right of a person, or will the majority opinion decide good or evil? Goodness must be determined from the public point of view, and whether a person is good will be decided by his contribution to the overall well-being. Someone may pride himself on his good looks, but if he is missing one finger can we say his appearance is perfect? From the overall point of view, a part is missing. Value is derived from the entire point of view, or point of view of wholeness or perfection.</p>
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<p>A good person is one whom the whole can recognize as being good. Suppose I think I am the best in my family. My parents might think I am good, but if my little sister thinks I am terrible then something is lacking. Who determines whether you are the best in your family? It is the consensus of family opinion that decides. How can you be admired by all your family? When you serve them unselfishly and make them important to you then they will respect you.</p>
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<p>What is the basic formula for being recognized by public opinion? Two key elements must be there: sacrifice and service. Will you become a good person if you expect others to serve and sacrifice for you? You have to be the center of sacrifice and service. Will some of you protest this?</p>
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<p>This is an important congregation because it is a miniature of the world, with all nationalities and races represented here. If this representative group can agree that this is the principle for determining who are good men and women then this must be the principle that will work for the entire world. One category of people will agree that service and sacrifice are good and they will try it; others think they will mull over the issue, while yet others will agree that this has always been their way of life. Which group do you belong in?</p>
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<p>If you feel you have been practicing this way of life, are you in a position to be recognized as a man of goodness by the entire world? Do you practice service and sacrifice by expecting service from 240 million Americans, or by thinking that you must serve 240 million Americans? Obviously you must do it. Now that we have agreed on the definition of a good man, would you want to become the best man within the limited scope of America, or on the worldwide level? America is a microcosm of the world; do you love all the races and nationalities here? Could a man of racial prejudice be described as a good man? If he dislikes black people then would only blacks think he was guilty of prejudice, or would people of his own race also criticize his attitude? Is this a racial judgment or a universal one?</p>
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<p>We must recognize that there is a universal principle involved, regardless of what race you are. You can see that the universe has certain fundamental laws, and anyone who violates them will be judged accordingly, regardless of his race or stature. What is the spirit of that constitution of the universe? It aims to preserve or uphold the men and women who try to live for others. It would also try to eliminate people who try to take advantage of others and benefit only themselves. This is why we can say that good people are those who exist for the sake of others, and good deeds are those actions which benefit others.</p>
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<p>If a person is brought to trial and convicted of violating the constitutional law, would he feel good? Often a convicted defendant reacts strongly to the judgment of the court, demanding to know what is wrong with him when there is so much wrong with society. Normally a court will not reverse its decision just because the defendant objects. If even a human court won’t do that, will the universal court reverse its decisions?</p>
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<p>There is always room for mercy in a righteous legal system, but in order to be entitled to receive it a person must show his sincere repentance. Repentance is the key word. This is why Jesus’ pronouncement was, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” What should we repent for? Very simply, we must repent for all those actions which violated the rule that says we should live in sacrifice and service for others. This was Jesus’ first teaching.</p>
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<p>The essence of Christianity is to seek repentance for the sin of greediness and selfishness. Sin can be defined as violation of the universal law of service to others. Even stealing a dress from a big department store chain is wrong. That dress has value which comes from the person who prepared it, and the person who steals it nullifies that public value. That is the sin. Another person might realize that he tells lies all the time, but his conscience doesn’t hurt him. The motivation for lying always involves hiding something to take advantage of others: otherwise, there would be no reason to lie.</p>
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<p>Everything is embraced by this universal principle and every deed can be judged accordingly. Imagine a person who sees an ugly woman on the street and knocks her down, thinking that he can’t stand to see her, and that he is also doing a service to other Americans who wouldn’t like to see her. If that is his motivation then is his deed a sin? That individual might try to justify his deed but the universal law will not. Universal law would decree that no matter how ugly that person might be, she is just as valuable as everyone else because she is made by the Creator. Therefore, no one has a right to knock her down.</p>
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<p>Everything about this principle is consummated in two key words: sacrifice and service. In our human courts today is there any judge who would uphold a conviction that a person did not live his life in service and sacrifice to others? What law judges deeds of sacrificial service? Such deeds are not governed by the law of the nation but are upheld by public recognition. If a person gives sacrificial service to his nation then his country will honor him with a medal and national acclaim.</p>
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<p>Perhaps someone will complain that this universal law about service doesn’t fit him and want to know why he can’t be given a citation and still enjoy his life. Would the society which honored selfish, greedy people endure very long? If that way of life prevailed then no unity and harmony would be possible. If the creator enforced selfishness as the universal law that law would apply not only to all humans but also to the whole material world. Then each tiny cell could claim that everything in the universe exists solely for him and that no other cell has any rights. That kind of attitude would bring nothing but division and destruction.</p>
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<p>Universal law doesn’t work like that, however. No one denies that the cells of the eye are important, but those cells exist for the benefit of the entire body. The purpose of the whole precedes the existence of the eye, so the eye must obey the universal law of the entire body. That eye should obey simply because the universe upholds this point of view and that way of life is the one which will flourish.</p>
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<p>You eat breakfast every morning, don’t you? Where do the animals and plants come from that comprise your meals? In order to have food you have to ruthlessly cut down different plants, then chew them up with your teeth and swallow them. The vegetables in your salad bowl won’t protest, however, because they know the universal law and think that they are there to serve a greater purpose. With that attitude they can thank you for eating them so that you can serve the public purpose.</p>
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<p>There is a harmony of purpose here. The food on your plate has a certain appreciation of what you live for and is willing to serve your body. That’s the only way there can be harmony between you and your food. Otherwise, your food would hate you for eating it and resent hearing you laugh. The key point is that your food accepts you only because it knows you are living for the public purpose. Food will resent the laughter of a greedy person who wants to eat it.</p>
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<p>If you are not living for a public purpose then sometimes your food will stage a demonstration against you in your stomach. Then you get sick, or even die in some cases. Under the universal law goodness should flourish and evil should decline. Now you know precisely that the direction of goodness includes service and sacrifice, but until now that definition has been hazy in history, lacking a focal point.</p>
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<p>Let us examine whether that definition is right or wrong. Everything in this world exists in one of two classifications, and even the tears trickling from your eyes can be either good or evil. Your ears and eyes could serve in two ways. If your eyes want to look at the world to find a person in need so that you can go and serve him, then your eyes are serving a good function. On the other hand, if your eyes are trying to spot someone’s weakness so you can exploit him, they are serving an evil function.</p>
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<p>There are all kinds of music in America, but who is it played for? Disco and rock music in themselves are not good or evil, so what purpose they serve is the main consideration. If they serve the public purpose then they are good. If music and dance are used only for personal physical pleasure or for getting money from others then they are serving an evil purpose. Is it likely that disco music is played for an unselfish, public purpose today? That’s the reason I would not favor going to discos. If dancing and listening to that music will help resurrect people from darkness to light then go right ahead, all 365 days a year. Do you have that confidence? Would it be correct to think that this is just my idea, and that once I disappear it will no longer apply because it is not universal?</p>
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<p>There are two great examples of how this universal law is unchanging through the past, present and future. Jesus Christ lived a most miserable life on earth, but on the cross he could forgive his own enemies. When he died he looked like a defeated person in the secular sense. But his ideology has practically conquered the world in the last 2,000 years, and history is counted from the year of his birth. On the other hand, the Hitlers and Napoleons who thought they could conquer the world with military might have appeared successful temporarily, but have their accomplishments remained? No, because they too are under the dominion of the universal constitution and that activity is unacceptable.</p>
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<p>The saints in history are those who lived up to this principle and completely practiced this way of life of goodness. The saints are those who belong to God and at the same time to mankind, the people who are living on the universal level. People are proud of any connection they may have with a saint, whether they are relatives, or come from the same nation, and so forth. Why do they want to be proud? Because the saints exemplify the most basic principle of the universe.</p>
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<p>The topic today is <i>Let Us Know Ourselves</i>. What kind of people are you? You have some guidelines for evaluating your own deeds now. Perhaps you have a hand that wants other people to work for you. Perhaps your body doesn’t want to work at all for others but wants the rest of the world to work for it. Normally you have a rebellious attitude if someone gives you commands, but in the heavenly world you can think instead that you are linked to the universe through that person.</p>
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<p>In that respect do you like me? Why? Because you know I am a mediator through whom you can leap forward to greater well-being. What kind of man am I? Some people describe me in the worst terms, saying that evil people like Hitler and Stalin paid their own people to work, but Reverend Moon is the worst because he doesn’t pay anyone and yet he still makes them work hard. They say I am the worst because instead of giving you money I send you out tuna raising! If I am as evil as they say, why don’t you leave? Am I evil or not?</p>
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<p>I can accept the charge that I am ready to push you harder than any dictator in history, but the issue centers around what my purpose is. My purpose is to let you work for something greater than yourself and greater than your nation; it is for the world and for God. Mine is a totally unselfish motivation. While you work hard to raise funds I am working harder than you to raise even more funds, and then when they are pooled together it is spent for the public purpose. Each of my actions is within this principle of living in sacrifice and service for others.</p>
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<p>I am not only doing this myself, but am pushing others to live for the public purpose as well. Does that make me an evil or good man? Parents sometimes seem very cruel when they push their children to study, but their motive is not to benefit themselves but to strengthen their children. These parents want their children to be future leaders and have a good impact on the world. Are those parents good or evil? Another kind of parent would let his child do whatever he wanted. Though that may sound wonderful to the child, it is better for a parent to be firm and push his child to mold his character in a God-centered way. The leniency that seems wonderful on the surface actually reflects the fact that the parent doesn’t care about the public purpose.</p>
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<p>Teachers can also be classified in two ways. Students as a rule just don’t like to study and they want the teachers to leave them alone. There are two kinds of wives as well. One kind nags her husband about where he has been and how much money he spent and why he doesn’t spend more time with his children. The other kind decides she will just have fun on her own while her husband is away. In this case the nagging wife is serving the public purpose.</p>
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<p>Some husbands are strict with their wives about not going out without first getting permission, and about caring for the children and the house. Another kind is lenient and feels that each of them should do as they please. Should the first kind of husband be criticized in this case?</p>
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<p>Which person is more likely to be on the side of good, the person who has ten supervisors or the person who has none? Supervision can seem like a burden, but the discipline and demands of the supervision can push you to accomplish more. My policy is that Unification Church members can’t afford to do only one thing at one time. That is only average. I want you to tackle hundreds of things at one time. Sometimes I give so many instructions at one time that the American members are immobilized and don’t know where to move. But even the smallest Oriental members will run like ants, jumping from mission to mission, and somehow bring the result.</p>
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<p>You know how to evaluate good and evil now. What kind of person is God? God is the master and center of the public law of the universe. One thing can be said: God exists solely for the sake of others. He is the supreme public person in the universe. God is the creator and the originator of the two basic principles of service and sacrifice. Let us call these distinct characteristics A-type blood. If both your parents have A-type blood, most likely you will too. In the same way, if we are created by God then His principles must become ours as well.</p>
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<p>Since God is proclaiming that way of life, everything should come under that way of life as well. That’s the way God designed the universe, and anything that goes against that principle will receive pain. When we establish give and take with God by living that way, it brings harmony and energy to life. Whoever is linked to that kind of give and take shall enjoy eternal life because there is no end to it. Why do we have to live the life of sacrifice and service? Ultimately it is in order to have give and take with God and plug into His energy.</p>
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<p>Why should we become one with God? By doing so you will enjoy eternal life. He is the source of power; God is the highest, so by uniting with Him you become highest as well. God is absolute. By uniting with Him you also become absolute and in that unity you will be protected because no one else will have the power to harm you. In unity with God, His power and energy become your power and energy and you become a child in His image. There are all kinds of love, but none better than the love of God, which shines like the sun. You then become the recipient of that love.</p>
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<p>The sun radiates warmth and light, and when you are part of the sun of God’s love you also become a life-giving element which can bring harmony and life wherever you go. Such a person always brings life and energy and melts ungodly things. Many of you first came to the Unification Church to discredit the doctrine. You were like a cold chunk of ice, but when you heard the Divine Principle you began to melt into water. Is that true or not? If this is true then this is an historical event.</p>
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<p>What technique do I use to inspire you this way? Am I a hypnotist or magician? There is no magic here, only universal law at work. All I have to do is teach this law. Sometimes I seem very cruel when I ask you to go out and work for the universal cause, but is it for the sake of good or evil? It is for goodness so big that it is the size of God.</p>
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<p>I don’t have any assets of my own except this universal law. Furthermore, I aspire to work harder and suffer more than anyone else for this cause. God knows very well what principle I am living under. If Satan complains to God that I have been permitted to acquire too much success and prosperity and he wants me to demonstrate what I have done to deserve it. would God hesitate to let Satan test me? It is because Satan is trying to deter me that I have faced incredible persecution and torture in communist prison camps. But did I change even when I had to go through all that?</p>
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<p>Is it true that the entire world has persecuted me? Hasn’t America welcomed me with red-carpet treatment? Don’t many heads of state want to welcome me to their countries? Christians and Jews are supposed to be our friends, but are they? Do the communists call me their friend? I think that in all of history there has never been one individual who was persecuted by the whole world or who has suffered more opposition than I have. Have I crumbled into many pieces because of this opposition, or am I getting stronger than ever? Even outside people should come to the conclusion that I am not lukewarm or mediocre; either I am really evil or really good.</p>
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<p>I am Oriental, but even white people are telling me I am good. It is a puzzle to the world and they can’t figure it out. Do you really believe I am good? That is why people think I have brainwashed you-it is too incredible for them to believe. Is that what I did? All you have done is link yourself up to the universal principle, but even you yourselves don’t realize when you changed. You used to be just like people in the secular world, but as you followed this way of life you covered a great distance and changed a great deal.</p>
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<p>These days each faith has its pride. The Pope is visiting many nations and millions of people gather to see him. Are their cheers for the Catholic church, or for the salvation of the world? If that sound is for the sake of the Catholic church, it is not good enough. But if that gathering is intended to help God and man together to save mankind, then it is good. If they gather to strengthen their resolve to sacrifice themselves more for the public good then such gatherings are good.</p>
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<p>Are Unification Church members a good group of people? What is good about us? We don’t gather for the sake of the Unification Church, but for the liberation of God and mankind. What we do is for the supreme good. If we only gather to receive God’s blessing and privilege then we are not good people. We gather to give ourselves for the liberation of mankind and God, so we are a God-centered church. In that case the leader who founded it must be good as well. The more ardently we pursue the goal, the more success and prosperity is bound to come. My philosophy and ideal is to live for the liberation of God, not just mankind or spirit world. No one ever spoke of that goal before.</p>
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<p>Are these empty words or am I really doing it? There is no night or day for me because I am always working for that goal. Were you lucky or unfortunate to meet me? Indeed I am ambitious and greedy and ruthless, but I am applying all these characteristics for making each of you a God-centered leader. That means I will push you out to untold hardship and difficulty with an iron will to let you be a winner, not be defeated. Even if someone threatens to poke your eyes out unless you renounce this Church, you can reply, “Even if you destroy my eyes I will not change. They are being sacrificial for the sake of goodness.” After you feel this way, then you can say ouch. Then God will receive that pain as well.</p>
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<p>When you are ridiculed and mistreated you naturally feel pain. But if you are serving the absolute goal of the liberation of God, then everything that you bear shall be borne by God as well; your own death will be felt by God as well. He will acknowledge that you died for Him and for mankind. Then God and mankind will bow down to you because you made your sacrifice on the most divine altar.</p>
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<p>Those who are here for the first time, raise your hands. Do you think I am speaking truth or not? Did you come just to watch, or do you want to be a part of it? This universal principle must be taught to American youth who are in darkness and confusion today. Is the light we bring necessary for America? Night or day, the answer is still yes. If I don’t fulfill this duty then God must find someone else who will. This is the only course left to America and someone must do it. Otherwise, there is no hope.</p>
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<p>The person who tries to fulfill the will of God every day is not going to be glorified by Congress but will be persecuted and ridiculed by the people instead. His duty must be fulfilled in that position. Sacrifice and service must be the credo of our life. Would a beautiful woman be willing to give up her attractiveness for the law of God? Imagine the most handsome white man and the most ugly black woman being blessed together in marriage, giving themselves to God at the altar. That is the most dramatic thing you can imagine. They will probably be the happiest and most attractive couple under the sun. They will open the door to historical heaven and God will be liberated by their marriage. God is truly life and love, and He is looking for this kind of dramatic marriage.</p>
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<p>When I look at your eyes I feel a certain vibration, and it is not yet 100 per cent pure. If the bestlooking man has the confidence that he can accept the worst possible wife from among the women and still be the happiest man, then this gap will be closed. When the two extremes can unite and be happy, everything in between will be overcome and all people encompassed by those extremes can become happy couples. When a couple representing two extremes reaches heaven they will enjoy total freedom to go anywhere and meet anyone they want.</p>
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<p>That is the Unification Church spirit, the spirit of the founding nation for the Kingdom of God on earth. Before the entire world comes against you, I will play Satan’s role and be vicious and cruel and ruthless. Will you accept it? Not only that, but God will be harder on you than I am. Why can you accept that ? It is because you know that by passing the worst test you can inherit the deepest love of God. To receive that unique love you feel you can bear any burden.</p>
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<p>Will the people of this conviction look gloomy and unhappy, or will they be the most exuberant, rain. or shine? Why do we have to take up this duty and go through the narrow gate of this life I am describing? God created all things and made them with His dual characteristics. Not only are they connected to Him vertically, but to each other horizontally. God is spirit and the created world is material; the material world is horizontal, while God and the spiritual world are vertical. God’s invisible dual essentialities were manifested in visible form, so everything is made in the image of God. Where do you belong here?</p>
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<p>Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied all the ingredients that make your body, which means that the universe made you by donating itself. If nature demanded that you refund everything that nature loaned you, would there be anything left of you ? You can feel that the universe gave you birth and made you, so nature is your first parent. Do you feel good that you are a microcosm of the universe? All the universal formats or formulas can be found in you. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe who can move, whereas the universe is stationary. Because you can move and act you can govern the universe. The universe would want you to exercise dominion over it, so your first duty would be to love nature. Then wherever you are you can love the creation and appreciate it.</p>
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<p>Since you feel such an urge to love the grass, trees and flowers, the birds and running water, how can you not love your fellow man? When you lie on the beach you can feel that you are lying in the bosom of your parent, or that when leaning against a tree you are leaning against your own brother. Would nature protest, or feel that you truly love and know it? All things exist for you, so you can appreciate them for that reason. As a man you are the only begotten son of the universe, and as a woman you are the only begotten daughter of the universe. Then how much love would be possible between the two?</p>
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<p>Have you ever had a conversation with the sun, saying that you love it and singing a song of love for it? Many of the people who think of themselves as poets don’t even appreciate the depth of this truth, and their poetry is superficial and shallow. Am I telling the truth, or only seeming to?</p>
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<p>Your second parents are your own father and mother. They represent the universe and labored to bring your life into being. Men and women can feel that they are the center of the universe because their parents, representatives of the universe, brought their physical life to this earth. Your parents represent not only father and mother but all mankind-teachers, neighbors and relatives. When you serve your parents you are actually serving mankind, not just two particular people. By doing so you will be loved by all mankind. This is the historical background out of which we can say that our virtue as sons and daughters is to serve our parents with filial piety. Your immediate family and neighbors represent a microcosm of mankind; your sisters represent all women and your brothers represent all men. Therefore, your family is a microcosm of mankind.</p>
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<p>The true men are those who look at all people as one family of man. If you are a true man or woman, when you see a senior citizen you look at him as your own parent or grandparent. Other young men and women are your own brothers and sisters. If you are a true man then you love not only your own family but also all mankind. It is against the Principle to care only for your family and not the rest of the world. If you happen to be white, then it is a most exciting adventure to find your black family, and to find senior citizens and young men and women whom you love as much as your own grandparents and brothers and sisters.</p>
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<p>If you see someone in dire need then you want to fill their need because they are not just your fellow man, but your brother or sister. Here in America, when parents become old and can’t take care of themselves, do they go to their children’s homes or to senior citizens homes? Which is the ideal? Aren’t you just like all other Americans who think old people should go to senior citizens’ homes? Would a grandmother be happier to visit her grandchildren or to visit in senior citizens homes?</p>
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<p>Are you willing to accept your grandmother into your home? Would you do it in reality, or are you only saying yes because you are here? As a new wife would you rather go to live with your husband’s family of many in-laws, or to live only with him? If you want to live up to the public law of the universe then you want to go to live with his family.</p>
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<p>You have your own physical parents, but ultimately you have one most important parent who created you-God. Your parents were the tools God used to create you. The journey in search of the True Parents begins by loving nature, which is the first parent, then loving your physical parents, and then to the ultimate parent, God, who is our Creator. God is the ultimate destination, our eternal parent. The moment of death, which everyone now fears. is actually the moment of fulfillment. If you live your life in the right way here on earth then your life leads ultimately to the one common parent. Then the moment of death actually liberates you to live with that parent for eternity. He is the true parent to us all who has true love with no end. Life with Him is what we call the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.</p>
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<p>The principle atmosphere of that world is supreme love. That love is not selfish. but is based on sacrifice and service. Because it is based on that universal law, that supreme love flourishes. The Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world is our ultimate destination, and our physical life here on earth is only a workshop. No matter how long you live, it all nurtures you to enter eternal life in heaven. When I discovered the core truth of the universe, this is what I found. Earthly life is merely preparation for eternal life and it is here that we pass or fail. With that realization I then prayed to know the basic principle Of the universe, and the answer came-the father-son relationship is the backbone of the universe. That is the relationship you have with the creation, with your parents, and with God. The central theme of that relationship is love.</p>
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<p>While we are here on earth we are attending the most important workshop of all, learning this principle so that we can ultimately reach our destination in heaven and enjoy our father-son relationship with God for eternity. This is why the Unification Church exists and why I am leading you. MFT life is training to make a relationship with God for eternity. Any money we raise comes out of nature and we value it accordingly. You can tell the money that after it has longed to be used for God’s purpose it has finally come to the right place because you will connect it to the True Parents and God.</p>
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<p>Wherever you go in the world you face certain difficulties and persecution, out of which you gain greater value for your work. If everything came easily then it would have little value. You desire to link whatever money you have, whether large or small, to True Parents so that it will have true value. All things have been fervently waiting for this relationship and you are the mediator who will make it happen. No matter how old and distinguished and socially accomplished you are, you still need to make this link with nature and restore material for the sake of God.</p>
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<p>Another important part of our mission is restoration of men. When you see other people, you can think; that they have been waiting a long time to be restored to God. Now you can go to them because you know the way and purpose of life. You can he the mediator to bring them to God. By reaching out to people you are actually serving your parents as well and having you as their children they shall be glorified and saved. By finding the strayed sons and daughters ot America, you are serving your own parents in addition to loving them, and together you can come to the True Parents.</p>
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<p>When you truly live this noble life there are no parents who will not welcome you. As much as you practice loving the people of the world you can certainly love your own parents and brothers and sisters to that degree. You love them as representatives of the True Parents and as someone who was commissioned by God. They have that value. No family would reject such a child, but would bow down.</p>
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<p>There is one more training course left-the training of the spirit world. You have to know how to deal with and serve the spirit world and liberate it. You should be in a position to love the spirit world, and no one can make you realize this except the Messiah. That is the most important training remaining before you can love God.</p>
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<p>The Messiah comes as director of training, setting: the example of how to love people, the world and spirit world. Then you can pass the ultimate test. Before the coming of the Messiah the spirit world was divided. with no harmony or cooperation anywhere in the midst of all that complexity. When the Messiah comes he will create unity and barriers will go down. It is one of his qualifications that he fulfill this while he is on earth. He is the one man on earth who has the power to control the spirit world.</p>
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<p>The True Parents are those who represent not only this physical world but also the spirit world and God, under whom you practice love. If you go to spirit world without knowing the Messiah, it might take several million years to learn to love people there. But when you accept the Messiah while on earth you can accomplish many millions of years of work in a short time. By obeying the True Parents here on earth you are entitled to receive recognition for loving all spirit world and obeying all its rules. The True Parents represent not only this physical world but also spirit world and God, and by obeying God’s representative you demonstrate your obedience to God. By loving them you can pass every level. Now you know why unity with True Parents is necessary. They represent the heart of God so that by loving them you have already loved God and the spirit world. That is the culmination of loving all parents-nature, your physical parents and God.</p>
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<p>Until True Parenthood was installed, all love was divided and there was no harmony. Now by loving the True Parents you are in a position to love them all. If you fail on other levels but in the end you accept the True Parents, you have demonstrated your loyalty and love to indemnify all the past. Everything culminates in that supreme accomplishment. If you are given a paper signed by the President of the United States, it has power everywhere in the land. In the same way, if you pass this final level of loving True Parents, you pass every other level as well. That is why it is an absolute necessity to have True Parents.</p>
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<p>By fund raising you inherit the material wealth of the universe. By witnessing to the people of the world you inherit the condition of loving your own physical parents. When you love True Parents you are inheriting the world of God and His love. We can conclude that by practicing loving the True Parents, God’s representatives on earth, you can practice loving everything you need to do on earth. Here you can finish all the qualifications you need to be entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. You have that center here in the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>The people of the world just scoff or ridicule you, but in front of them we are proud of being Moonies. Your voice of pride shall be stronger than the voice of negativity, both here and all over the world. If anyone is reluctant to speak up as a Moonie, I will not speak up for him in front of Heaven. Tomorrow is the first of October. These nine months of 1979 have been months of indemnity for everything so far, and it is culminated with the birth of the new baby, Hyung Jin.</p>
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<p>We know ourselves-we are Moonies and proud of it. We rejoice over what we are, so when we deal with the world we shall be strong and bold. Don’t be intimidated by the world, but be proud and quietly say, “You just wait and see. In a few years you will find the truth. The time will come when you will understand, and in the meantime we are proud.” As long as the people misunderstand us we will just tighten our belts and work harder to bring the victory. If you move forward and I am pushing behind you, there is no way you can fail.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is pushing behind us. You know that the intervention of spirit world is becoming stronger. Is there anything to be afraid of? How proud we are to have found the truth and be children of the True Parents. In the morning when you stand in front of the mirror, greet yourself and say, “You haven’t been too proud of yourself. Now you are proud of being a Moonie.”</p>
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<p>Those who pledge today as a new beginning to walk proudly on the streets of New York and be central people to bring this city back to God, raise your hands. Thank you very much. Let us pray.</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="2018-06-19T14:40:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/let-us-think.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:40:15+01:00">June 19, 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">May 6, 1979<br />
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<p>What are you thinking, sitting here early in the morning on a hard concrete floor? Are you happy to see me? How can you be happy to see such a dark face with slanted eyes? Walking by a grove of trees have you ever thought that they may have stood there for hundreds of years and wondered what they have been thinking? Do they think that their branches will cover the earth and their crowns touch the sky? Perhaps they are proud of being the tallest and oldest trees. If a tree’s goal is so big that it wants to cover the earth and reach the sky then it must be thinking about how tall it is now, even if it is already a thousand years old. With such a great goal yet to be fulfilled, can it boast of being the greatest? If a tree has the power to reason and think then we can say it is truly the greatest tree.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought about which bird flies highest in the sky? The crane flies highest. A crane is always looking up, never bowing down; our image of a crane never includes one whose neck is drooping down as it flies, but only looking up and ahead. A big bird like a crane never just leaps into the air and starts flying. A jumbo jet must rev its engines and gather speed down the runway and then take off, and a crane also starts slowly, aims high and gradually flies higher and farther.</p>
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<p>You have seen sparrows hopping about, but cranes walk entirely differently, with long, stately strides. Can you imagine how ungainly a crane would look if it hopped like a sparrow? A crane thinks ahead about slowly but surely crossing long distances over the continents and ocean. With that kind of vision and goal, its whole body is necessarily geared to that kind of task.</p>
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<p>A crane always wears a red hat and has a black tail. We usually say that red represents communism and black represents Satan, so what is good about this crane? The bird itself is white and leaps out to cross and conquer the ocean, and because the red and black harmonize in this purpose they are like restored red and black.</p>
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<p>Are you thinkers? Do you think about how to dig into the ground, or about how to leap into the sky? The best way to reach the sky is to sit down and doze, right? I’m sure you have to get up very early to get here on time, so it must feel like a long time before you can go back to sleep. Does the bird think the night is long or short? Is he eager to see the dawn come or not? You hear birds singing in the early morning and the cock crowing at sunrise; do you think they wish the morning wouldn’t come so early?</p>
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<p>For the birds the night is unbearably long so they rejoice over the dawn in their morning singing. Are you like the birds? Do you wait impatiently all week for Sunday so you can come to Belvedere and then jump up with happiness when that morning comes?</p>
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<p>When you say “let us think” does that mean that you are already thinking or getting ready to think? Which of the creations is a thinking animal besides man? Different animals think in different degrees, but in my opinion the most thinking one of all is the ox. During the day it sits in the meadow chewing and thinking.</p>
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<p>What kind of thinking do you: suppose the ox is doing? Is its goal higher and nobler than man’s? If so then there would be many oxen saints. Perhaps the oxen think about the suits they should wear, and if so then they would have more colorful clothes because they have four legs instead of two If they actually were thinking, they would create an oxen cultural sphere because thinking always precedes culture. What kind of toilet would they have, and what kind of bathtub? Thinking makes things happen.</p>
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<p>If oxen think about God more than man does, what would happen? God would be confused, because men and women were to’ be His sons and daughters, but the oxen are thinking more about Him. God notices which of His creations is thinking more of Him and which is most proud of Him. Would oxen be number one, or something else? There are two kinds of men, one thinking of divine and spiritual things, and another preoccupied with cheap, everyday earthly things. What kind of man would you become? It is the quality of a person’s thinking that describes his nobility or lack of nobility.</p>
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<p>If a person is thinking nobly, his thoughts must inevitably lead him into a noble life. What is the content of noble thinking? Is it on the side of goodness or evil? One aspect of goodness is that everyone likes it, both God and man, old and young, even the most devilish grandmother. Even the most wicked, purposeless young people like goodness. Nobility has universality.</p>
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<p>Where do we belong in all this; are we thinking people? When you work hard don’t you think about where you can get some food and take a nap? You may be fed up with sitting on the hard concrete floor here at Belvedere, without even chairs to sit on. In the American way of life you sit on chairs and cross your legs comfortably, and now you are far from that way of life. You’ve been thinking how painful that is, right? At one time you have probably wondered why, if my name is Sun, we don’t have worship when the sun is up and you can get up later! I really like it this way, but do you like it or hate it? If you hate it and it makes you upset enough to work hard, you will go to heaven and I will go to hell, right? Your logic is correct in that case if you really are working harder than me and you want to be here at six instead of ten in the morning. I takes will power and desire to get up in the morning, and come here.</p>
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<p>Why should you do it? You’ve been thinking about how to deserve sonship and daughtership of God more than others, how to be something that others cannot be. If the Jews gather at 3 a.m. to worship in their synagogue then when shall we gather? If Jews see a competition between Moonies and themselves and decide to get up even earlier, what would you do? We would have to have a morning service at 8 p.m. Then others might hear about it and gather at 2 in the afternoon, but we would have to declare that we would work 24 hours a day. Average will power would not be adequate in such hardheaded competition.</p>
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<p>If you make up your mind that you will win then you have to plan your tactics and think how to go about it. What would be gained by beating the Jews and other religious people? God raised up all these religions to have them compete among themselves to see which one really loved Him the most. If you think more about how you can be number one and you turn out to love Him the most, you can claim God. You can tell God that you might not be handsome or pretty but that He belongs to you anyway. How can He answer? If He refused, what would you do? Then you can look Him squarely in the eye and say, “You are I Satan, God!” Then He has to reply, “My son, indeed I have to listen to you. I belong to you.”</p>
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<p>What I am saying is that God can be made a prisoner by the people who love Him the most. You can bind God but you don’t need rope to make God helpless. If you have made God your prisoner and then ask Him whether He can stand it if you love Him more, He will think about it and say that you are already doing enough. Once God tells you are already doing enough for Him, you can take a nap or go disco dancing for 24 hours a day. Then you can think like an ox or a pig and it will be all right because you will have that freedom..</p>
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<p>God gave us the ability to think and each person has a thought bag which goes everywhere with him. If you think a great deal then your thought bag will get bigger; a balloon pops after a certain point, but your thought bag will constantly get bigger, even after it covers the entire earth. It will become so big and light that it will even lift you up in the air and carry you around. If you looked in your thought bag right now would you find a ragged mixture of different items, or genuine gold and beautiful crystal? Which kind do you have?</p>
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<p>In New York you commonly encounter garbage trucks; how does your thought bag compare with the contents of those trucks? Is there some resemblance, or none at all? Is your bag full of fragrance and color? If you sprinkle garbage on the streets the entire city is made unhealthy, but if your thought bag is healthy and fragrant then if you sprinkle its contents around the world the entire globe will be perfumed. What kind of thought bag do you have? This is a morning to think about it. If God wanted to inspect the bags of everyone here, would anyone clamor to have God look at his or hers first? Would you be at the beginning or the end of the line?</p>
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<p>I had many sisters in my family and as they entered their late teens and started thinking about getting married they made or bought special things to save for their wedding and new home. They would always hide them away in a safe place and I had a great interest to investigate what they had hidden. You women like to hide special things in a safe place, don’t you? Where does this trait come from? You can say that God resembles you in this. If God comes to look and see what the women have hidden in their bags, what kind of bag would He be interested in finding? Would He be interested in finding money, or knowing what kind of books you read or what medals of honor and decorations you received?</p>
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<p>God is interested in your thought bag. When you open up your thought bag you are really confessing what you are thinking, and God will remark either at how noble you are or how filthy and smelly you are. Would you rather have God embrace you with happiness or push you away in disgust? Are you free of shame, with nothing to hide, or can’t you be absolutely open? Are you ready for God’s inspection? Could God pass you in all areas?</p>
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<p>You know whether God will be happy or unhappy with your thoughts. You are Iying if you say you are not sure whether you would pass God’s inspection. You can’t claim that you aren’t clever enough to know God’s criteria. You don’t even belong to the human race if you really don’t know! Even in the Unification Church your mind wanders, wondering whether you are in the right place or not, and in the meantime one year passes, two years, then three years. Look into your thoughts right now. Could you rate yourself at 100%, or 50% or 0 capability before God? How many of you have confidence God would give you 100 points? If you raised your hand, you have something wrong with your head!</p>
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<p>Any student who thinks he knows all there is to know and can pass every test with A plus has something wrong somewhere. You know you are not perfect and that you have frailties; therefore, it takes effort to elevate yourself. Can you say that after three years in the Unification Church you rate 50 points and you have earned enough credits to be ready for blessing? Can you ask the principal for a citation with that kind of average? Or are you thinking that you are not even worthy of the blessing? Externally your physical body may be ready for marriage, but when you look into your conscience and thoughts, maybe you aren’t really ready.</p>
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<p>If you sincerely feel you aren’t ready and you just obey when God pushes in one direction or another, then you have done what was required of you and you can get blessed. Which one would you like? If you have a 50 point average and think you are deserving then God will be reluctant to bless you but if you are humble and really think you are not worthy then God will feel better about giving it to you. If a person with a lower average is always trying to be considerate and meek, even brothers and sisters with more points cannot say that person doesn’t deserve the blessing. It is not your will but God’s will that pulls you up to receive the blessing. Are you living with that attitude?</p>
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<p>There is one thing I want to teach you-to be meek and humble. Would God prefer the teaching which encourages boastfulness or humility? Although you have not earned full marks, when you are humble from the bottom of your heart there is a chance for you to participate in grace.</p>
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<p>Who is the general of the Unification Church? You Moonies say you think I am a good father, but what about people in general? Looking down, what would God say? Would He say I am the most handsome man under the sun and that’s why I am a good father? Or that I am qualified because I speak well? Do I have some special power to attract people?</p>
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<p>God will tell me to show Him my thought bag and there’s the real showdown. The public may think it is an incredibly awful, smelly bag, but God may think it is the most fragrant, delightful bag He has ever seen. God would be intoxicated and unable to put it down. He will think I am truly a wonderful person. Have you seen my thoughts? Maybe I am only thinking about how to exploit you. No? Who said so? The important thing is what is inside your thought bag.</p>
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<p>I look over at the VIP section here and see Dr. Pyun, but even for this dignified Ph.D. the most important thing is the content of his thoughts. Your evaluation by the everyday world is as important as what is truly inside you. If you have a right thought bag then you are seeking right things, and if you are thinking right things, you are acting on right things. Right thinking must be expressed in words and actions.</p>
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<p>In the beginning God had thought, or the Word, and God created by the Word. When supported by logic your thought becomes philosophy. If your thought is totally concerned with God and you express that thought, you will become a great minister. Before there was ever a Reverend Moon in the world, there was an ideal, invisible Reverend Moon. When thoughts were translated into words and they were acted upon, the invisible Reverend Moon became the reality the world sees today.</p>
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<p>Were you empty of thought when you came here this morning? Perhaps you were anticipating hearing some good message this morning, so did you come for the purpose of bringing a clean, bright thought bag to receive some new thought today? When some people come they are wondering why they have to go through this again for another Sunday and they watch the clock to see whether I will speak more than two hours. What kind of thoughts do you have at this moment? Are they bright as gold and hard as diamonds? Are you numb of sensation? I see all types here.</p>
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<p>You might be thinking you will meet God here this morning and in that case you can tell the trees you are straighter than they are this morning. Are you? I hear a confident yes and a doubtful yes; which one are you? Some of you don’t want to say yes, but you just close your eyes and plunge ahead. Is that a false yes or a genuine one?</p>
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<p>If you women have eyeglasses with heavy frames, you have a convenient disguise; then if you get sleepy you just move them down your nose a little and no one will ever see that your eyes are closed. You might think you are successful, but can you deceive God, or the walls or the air? Can you lie to yourself? Instead of trying to hide it from God, who knows anyway, it’s much better to say to God, “I am so sleepy. Please forgive me,” and just lie down and sleep. God has to smile on such a person for having such guts.</p>
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<p>If one Sunday everyone at Belvedere does that, then when I come there will be no one awake to speak to. Then I will tell God, “Since everyone else is sleeping, let me sleep too.” It’s much better than trying to be sneaky. Anyone who is trying to hide behind something, like glasses, is not forthright and open, is not a true Moonie.</p>
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<p>Deep down inside do you like to be called a Moonie? When I ask, you say yes, but how about when people outside our Church ask you? If you try to live a sneaky life as a Moonie, you will end up in hell. It’s much better to be open about your frailties and be yourself. Such a person can go to heaven. I have no shame and nothing to hide, no matter where I am. I am the super-general of the Unification Church army, but in this country everything is called super, so that is too cheap a name.</p>
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<p>There are two kinds of thinking-the kind that has to do with the family. nation and God, or nothing to do with the family, nation and God. There are the thoughts God likes and the thoughts Satan likes, the thoughts of a good man or an evil man, and you must make a choice between them.</p>
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<p>Have you black members carried some kind of hidden grudge against white people? Black people can have two thoughts-one, that some day they will get revenge for injustice done them, or two, that they want to win the respect of white people by serving them and becoming one with them in love. For hundreds of years black people have been oppressed and enslaved, but can you forgive and forget that, and tell God you want to serve others regardless? Do you think you are superior or inferior to whites? You are not different; you have two eyes and a nose and two ears, and so do white people. The two races are just a different shade of color, one happening to be darker than the other.</p>
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<p>A high mountaintop is always white and covered with snow, but in the valley the soil is always dark and fertile. Do animals always live on the top of the snow-capped mountain, or do they live in the fertile valleys instead? Is there more food to be found on the peak or in the valley? Black is a very rich color which has depth and absorbs all light. It is a very attractive and charming color. On the other hand, white is always easily stained and hard to keep clean. It would be simple to cover the world with black, but much more difficult to make everything white.</p>
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<p>Are there any schoolrooms where the teacher writes in black chalk on a white board? It would be crazy to use a white board. It would be impossible if you blacks were trying to be white, even after a millennium, no matter who you prayed to. So instead of trying to be something else, take what you have and be proud of it. Whites, be proud. Blacks, be proud. Orientals, be proud. The precious metals of the earth don’t lie on the surface of the mountain, but deep within the dark earth, and you also have your dignity as black men and women. It is far better to see a healthy, vigorous black horse than a run-down, sickly white horse. If both of them are in poor shape, which one still looks better? The black color helps cover up shortcomings, while the white color clearly reveals all deficiencies.</p>
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<p>Polar bears are white to give better camouflage in white snow and ice. White people belong to the North Pole because they can hide better there. The culture of white people emerged from hunting societies which killed animals for food, but black people have always lived in the warmer areas of the earth where there was always much food around. Be proud of what you are. If your hope is that the entire world can be embraced in your arms then you have the right idea.</p>
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<p>Why did God give blue eyes to white people? Because He knew that a plain white face would soon be tiresome to look at, He added the variety of blue dots to give contrast Blue is a very comforting color, like the blue of the sky and ocean. God is comforted when he looks at blue eyes. It sounds logical when I explain it, doesn’t it? The faces of black people have a dramatic kind of beauty because when they smile their white teeth are a vivid and surprising contrast to their black skin. When black people are standing in broad sunlight, their skin is a beautiful color to behold, much more than white skin.</p>
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<p>Would you white people like to wear only white shoes, not black or brown? If you only like white people then you must always wear white and no colors on your clothes, right? If a food is pure white, it is not tasty; dark sugar has much more flavor than white sugar. Which is real coffee, black or white? A white person riding on a white horse doesn’t look intriguing, but a white rider on a black horse is absolutely dazzling. We also see that the earth is dark and the heavens are bright.</p>
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<p>Do the great masterpieces of art have light or dark backgrounds? They frequently have dark backgrounds because a dark background provides more contrast and produces a more vivid effect of depth.</p>
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<p>Without black, there can be no depth of feeling Your eye is recessed a little in your face, creating shadows, and then you have a black dot in the center which is surrounded by the white eyeball. Imagine an eyeball that had no white but was only blue or black or brown. How devilish that would look! Westerners have deep-set eyes compared to Orientals, so Westerners would look especially devilish if they had solid blue eyes.</p>
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<p>The most dramatic combination I can imagine in a Western world would be white skin, black hair and eyebrows, blue eyes and white eyeballs. White people alone can never produce that combination; to get it you would have to mix the right combination of the white, black or yellow races. This understanding is why I am the world champion at creating international marriages.</p>
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<p>I haven’t even gotten to my main subject, but now it is almost time to close! Have you forgotten time or are you conscious of how much time has gone by this morning?</p>
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<p>There are always two kinds of thinking and you said you want to be on the good side. What is the definition of good thoughts? Is it good to think every day about how you can become President of America? Good thoughts are universally liked by people of the present, past and future. Black, white and yellow people can all agree that they like it. Starving people and people who have food like good thoughts. Everyone can agree.</p>
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<p>Would it be good for Americans to think they should love only America? Do you like America? The name sounds like “a merry car,” which must mean that Americans are car-loving people. Do you only love America then? Would it be good for you to think of other nations, even a small country like Korea? How about forgetting the rest of the world and thinking only of one other small nation like Korea, would that be good? Would it be good to want to help that nation only to prepare some refuge for yourself if all of Asia becomes communist? President Carter recently announced he would visit Korea in June, but it would be far more valuable for Carter to be strong against communism than for him to make a visit. If he does his job well then even if he doesn’t go to Korea that nation will be liberated.</p>
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<p>Because I speak out whenever I see the free world doing wrong, some people think I am not only against communism but against America as well. But I have a clear evaluation of the difference between the two. In the communist world there is no individual way of life available; people are told at gunpoint what they have to do. The communist state dictates the individual’s life, but that doesn’t happen in the democratic countries. If Russia were in America’s position of power but still followed the same totalitarian system, would it forcibly communize the entire world or not? When communists take over, the people are made into robots, but when America liberates a country it does not force a new way of life on the people.</p>
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<p>Who has the power to decide whether a government is good or bad? It is not the United Nations or governmental law which decides, but the one who exists from alpha to omega throughout history, and we call him God. God is the ultimate judge of good and evil. What is the ultimate criterion of good and evil? Those who think as God thinks are good, and those who oppose what God thinks are evil. It is logical that in a school those who obey school policy and the principal are considered good students, but those who violate the law are called troublemakers.</p>
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<p>In a home the children who try to follow the parents’ way of life are good and those who are rebellious and disobedient are bad from the point of view of the family. Company workers who follow company policy are considered good employees, while those who violate it are thought of as undesirable employees. In the Unification Church those who think and try to live in the way I am trying to teach are considered good Moonies while those who disregard that teaching are not felt to be real Moonies.</p>
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<p>According to this logic in the ultimate sense, the person who thinks as God thinks and tries to live up to what God wants is a good man, while those who go against it are evil. How old is God? He is so old that you cannot count His age, so the only way to express God’s age is to say that He is the alpha and omega. God has more knowledge than anyone else simply because He has been around longer than anyone else.</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t you want to have the freedom to have your eyes anywhere you want them ? There is a certain law and rule involved here, however. God gave much thought to how He should best formulate man’s body. The mouth should be where it is in the face so it can be watched over by the two eyes, for instance, and the two hands are conveniently placed to put food in your mouth. There is a reason why things are placed as they are.</p>
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<p>If your mouth bites your finger your eyes will see it, but if your eyes were on the bottom of your foot they wouldn’t see this happen and you would lose one finger! It has to be admitted that God is the master scientist, and can be understood in seeing the many details of our lives. Everyone has little valleys on either side of their mouths so that when they perspire the sweat won’t run into their mouths. If the mouth were set deeper into the face instead then when you sweat you would constantly have to blow it away, but you don’t have to do that because God already prepared better contours for your face.</p>
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<p>How inconvenient it would be if your nose were upside down and what a mess it would be on a rainy day! The contours of your face and the fact that there is hair inside your nose all make sense; everything has a certain role to fill. The universe exists through order, and law exists in order to maintain order. Is God’s thinking all mixed up and random? No, God follows a standard and has order and logic.</p>
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<p>Does God look at all people the same way, or does He see them in different categories and levels? Equality in the true sense does not mean that everyone is the same. Does God think everyone is on the same level? A poor-thinking man can be nourished with noble thoughts and this is why we need schools and universities. No matter how much you study here on earth, however, can you follow the level of God’s thinking? We are pursuing the highest education in the way that God thinks. God’s thinking is exactly the opposite of Satan’s thinking.</p>
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<p>Then what is Satan and what is evil? They are fake; they can shine like a spark of light but they have no foundation, no root, and so they are basically untrue. True and good things exist forever, but the others pass away. True value is unchangeable- people love diamonds because their quality remains for many years; gold possesses a harmonized color that never tarnishes, and the lustre of a pearl is truly harmonized.</p>
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<p>If something glitters or looks important for a moment but then vanishes, it is evil or fake. Are you fake or genuine? When you put gold in a blazing furnace will it change? If you have the qualities of genuine gold then if you are put in the furnace you will not change. Gold melts at high temperatures, but when it cools down it remains the same. Good and evil can be classified in this fashion. Did God think one way in ancient times, but now in a different way? It He did then He is not the true God. Is 24 carat gold from America different from 24 carat gold from Korea? Are they interchangeable or can’t one be taken to other countries? Your location will never change the qualities of genuine gold.</p>
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<p>After a big meal would God declare that He is the king of the universe and all mankind are His slaves? No, God will tell all the creation that it is an integral part of Him and without it He could not exist. all the creation be joyful to hear it is needed by God? I When you are ecstatic with that joy of being needed. shouting and laughing, will God tell you to be quiet? No, He will come to embrace you. If you can’t contain your joy and you laugh with a piercing laugh, will God tell you are a disgrace, or will He join with you? God knows how to harmonize, every time, everywhere.</p>
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<p>God does not declare that you must exist for Him; He will say that He exists for His creation. If you were evaluating God, would you give Him the highest mark if He lived for the creation, or if He wanted the creation to live for Him? Will real parents want their children to live for them, or want to live for their children? Would teachers tell their students they come to class only to earn their salaries? When a teacher looks at his pupil there is no concept of money. Instead, a true teacher would love his pupils, and even sell his own suit jacket to get money for a student’s tuition if necessary. Would people then criticize him for not wearing a proper jacket?</p>
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<p>God’s qualification to be God is not only to have created everything; it is having the heart to exist solely for what He created. When you belong to a certain home, you live for the sake of the home. When you belong to a certain nation, you live for the sake of the nation; when you belong to the world, you live for the sake of the world and for the sake of God. This is the only philosophy God accepts. There are two ways of fighting-one is for your own selfish benefit, and the other is to fight for the sake of God’s way of life and truth. I have declared that good war already.</p>
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<p>The communist ideology should be eliminated and the people enslaved by it should be liberated as well. I have declared that war already, and naturally the communists don’t like me at all. We are teaching the Victory Over Communism ideology all over Korea and Japan and I am advancing the global showdown between communism and democracy because God is behind it. The communists work clandestinely, having all their important meetings late at night and working through front groups. They are always hidden like bats in caves. ln America politicians are expected to convince people to vote for them and reveal all their finances and activities, and justice in the courts must also be handed down in broad daylight. But evil always hides under the cover of darkness. Do crooks and gangsters advertise what they will do for everyone to see?</p>
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<p>It is God’s way to act in broad daylight and so all our activities are in the open. I created the Unification Seminary and hired professors of all faiths. We hold conferences there for all kinds of religious people. If they won’t come, we go after them through home church. We don’t do this for our benefit but for their benefit. Are the Moonies bad or good? I push you and push you to serve other people and even sometimes rap you on the head at Sunday service.</p>
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<p>Am I a strange minister because I don’t wear a special robe and give a short sermon behind a pulpit? If people want to criticize me, they can find a thousand reasons just this morning. Other services are so dull compared to this one! A reporter could write how I hit people on the head and pushed my translator around, and the whole thing could sound very strange, but do you enjoy it? That is why people say you are crazy.</p>
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<p>We know God is an absolute necessity for us, and that we are an absolute necessity for God. God is working for the liberation of hell and of the past and present, so that is my concern and that is your concern. We must be totally immunized to evil so that no matter how much people ridicule us and tempt us we won’t be affected. Is God so strong in you that nothing can affect you? Then you can say A-man. If you really understand God that well then you can say that you are God’s representative on earth and God will not be ashamed to follow you.</p>
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<p>I know God and I am living that philosophy, and as a result there are people of five colors of skin here joined in one family. Wherever I walk, day or night, God follows. You feel something different here, even though you may not have a clear understanding of it. When I am not here at Belvedere, it feels empty when you come. When 1 go to Korea your spiritual radio is always tuned to Korea and when I go to England your antenna is aimed at England.</p>
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<p>You have learned a Korean word this morning; we call Jesus “Ye su” in Korean, and when you say yes it sounds like “Ye su.” Actually Jesus is a yesman in front of God, so Jesus is my competitor and I want to shout out a louder yes. But don’t be defeated by me; you can go ahead of me to God.</p>
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<p>Who can pledge, “Yes, the world shall be liberated by me with God”? Let us move into action then. A-man! God bless you. Let us pray.</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="2018-06-19T14:38:34+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/mankind-and-the-ideal-world.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:38:34+01:00">June 19, 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>What is the ideal world? In the Unification Church we teach that the ideal world equals the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Therefore, I set this year’s slogan as Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. Even though mankind may not have some vital focus in their lives, everyone looks forward to having some ideal world. What is the definition of that ideal world? People say that the ideal world is the place where we can find freedom and peace, where all mankind can be united in harmony. There is no focus or clarity to their concept, but when we in the Unification Church talk about the ideal world, we have complete focus.</p>
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<p>If we are talking about freedom, peace and unity, which should come first? You say unity should take precedence, but others would say freedom, while others would say peace. Without how could there be peace? Without unity how could there be freedom? In the Unification Church we accept the values of all those great words, but most important of all, we have a central theme which is prerequisite to all of them-that is love. Peace centering upon love is true peace; freedom centering upon love is true freedom, and unification centering upon love makes sense.</p>
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<p>Without this central principle of love there can be no unified discipline. For instance, what the free world and what the communist world mean by freedom are two different things. They also talk about peace in an entirely different way. Communists talk about unity, but not according to our definition. Even if those words are defined differently yet the central theme is love, there still can be harmony and interchange and peace. Basically the love that all people yearn for is the same, but we are talking about a love whose backbone is formed by the central theme of cause and effect, beginning and end. With alpha and omega there can be no change or tarnish from start to finish.</p>
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<p>Today, we in the free world see many kinds of love, and the problem we have is finding a true discipline or standard of love. Commonly people think that when men and women have a good time together, that is love. In many cases that enjoyment is an expression of carnal desire and there is no real beginning or end, just a phenomenon with no direction. That kind of love could not form the dation of peace and freedom and unity. People talk about love today, but tomorrow they could become strangers or even mortal enemies. There is no guarantee of happiness there, only chaos and setbacks.</p>
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<p>That kind of love causes destruction and does not possess what we call the central theme of true love. I want you to understand that Satan mobilized the force of such love to destroy our world. Using this kind of love as bait, Satan is taking true freedom, true peace and true unity away from us. We know about Satan, but there is also a God, the opposite of Satan. God is talking about love but of an entirely different kind, one which has a beginning and end, with some background and tradition. From this standpoint, the satanic expression of love is truly His adversary.</p>
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<p>The word sin refers to violation of the law of the love of God. God abhors sin, and misuse of love is the crime God abhors the most. It is the Principle that ultimately the law and love of God will prevail. Therefore, whoever indulges in unprincipled love can only perish. In Italy the lustful and immoral city Pompeii was destroyed by instant calamity. Sodom and Gomorrah perished under the same law. The Roman Empire once prevailed in the world with unparalleled power, but it collapsed when it violated the will of God. America today is no exception, so it must not violate the law of the love of God or it too will be destroyed.</p>
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<p>People commonly say there is much freedom in America, but is there true freedom here? Here in America people talk about peace and freedom and unity, but there is no real peace and freedom here. Unless you as individuals live up to the law of the love of God, your destiny will be the same. No one can violate that law and still flourish.</p>
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<p>Today the Unification Church, more than anyone else, is anxiously working for the ideal world, or Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are pursuing true peace, freedom and unity more than anyone else. We conclude that there must be one principle of true love obtained before that can happen. within this true love we must rediscover ourselves. True love is Godlike. It has been the goal of saints through thousands of years and is the ultimate goal pursued by all religious people on earth today.</p>
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<p>What are we going to leave our descendants? Not money or the corrupted traditions of the tree world that seem to be flourishing today; the tradition that will flourish in the sight of God is the tradition of true love, not of power or knowledge. Your social standing, appearance or distinguished manner will not remain. If you truly love your children and want to give them a lasting gift, hand down the tradition of true love. Once you give them that, you have already given them freedom. We in the Unification Church are the people who have already committed ourselves to the cause of true love and determined that this is going to be our way of life. We are here to discipline ourselves and fulfill the tradition of true love.</p>
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<p>That is the very thing which God and all the saints in history have been hoping to achieve. All mankind is waiting tor the day of this fulfillment of true love. Wherever you go, it you are armed with true love you are the locomotive pulling everything behind you. God will follow, the saints and all mankind and your descendants will follow you. Do you know of any exceptions to this? This is a universal law, so whether you come from East or West doesn’t make any difference. Would there be different laws for the spirit world and this physical world, or do they both come under one God?</p>
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<p>How much do you love this way of life and how much are you pursuing it? How many of you want to get married? What is the qualification? Maybe you think it is enough to be a man or woman to get married. Perhaps you feel that because people think you are beautiful or handsome is qualification enough.</p>
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<p>If there is a man with one eye who possesses true love, and another, more handsome man who does not possess true love, whom would you sisters choose? How much would you be willing to tolerate in that man of true love? What would you young men say about such a woman? Even if she had gray hair? Even if you have a social reputation or a degree from the most famous university, a man or woman without true love is still human trash. Worldly honors and social prestige are always secondary.</p>
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<p>The qualification by which heaven judges whether you are entitled to eternal heaven is not knowledge, power or prestige; they would do no good because they are not even considered when you talk about the Kingdom of Heaven. I’m sure some of your parents achieved some high social standard, but that alone cannot command respect. In many cases such people lose respect because eventually people realize that they lack God-centered love. If your parents have no social standing but they truly love each other and center on unselfish love, then they command the respect not only of their children but of the town they live in.</p>
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<p>We constantly talk about the Kingdom of Heaven, but what is it? We mean the world in which absolute love is the center around which everyone is united. That love is what we call the purpose of creation. In order to head toward our purpose, we need a direction to go in.</p>
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<p>If I were going to Korea I would go to Kennedy Airport and board a plane. How could I be sure that particular plane would take off and find its way to Korea? What would lead that plane in the right direction? In most cases the passengers do not worry because they believe in the capability of modern navigation, but what would happen if the navigator ignored his instruments in order to take an extra nap, or decided he wanted a little variety in his route? If he decides he wants liberation from the prescribed course, would you be happy? Why not? Because that kind of freedom invites disaster.</p>
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<p>If the compass decides he wants fellowship with the other instruments and he leaves his place to visit them, he might think he is promoting peace and unity, but is leaving his proper position really going to bring peace? The most important element of peace and harmony is the necessity for each being to keep his proper position. Every instrument in the cockpit is placed to fulfill its particular mission so that the whole plane can reach its goal. Those instruments never sleep, but concentrate on the one goal of getting the plane to its destination.</p>
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<p>The commanding will is the will of the captain, which commands the instruments toward the one goal. The wings and flaps don’t go in their individual directions, but follow the directives of the compass. Anything trying to avoid that discipline and exercise its free will would head that plane into disaster. Abuse of free will is random will, and never produces good result. The important thing is that all components are set to cooperate with that central goal, even though they do so involuntarily.</p>
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<p>Our human world works like one plane, with one navigator directing mankind toward one ultimate goal. What is directing us? A captain of a plane can do anything he wants, but even he does not have absolute freedom. In the same way, God is the ultimate authority in the universe, yet even He does not have absolute freedom to do as He chooses at random. There must be some universal compass which leads the entire creation, including Almighty God, bringing it into one common direction. What is that? Isn’t it money? Chunks of gold? Surely it must be power? Isn’t it power when the President of the United States can sacrifice the good of one tiny island nation like Taiwan in order to start a relationship with a giant like Red China?</p>
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<p>Whether small or big, any nation can be the object of a political goal. Some day even America will become the prey of someone’s ambition. If President Carter can abandon the small nation of Taiwan, certainly God with His power is capable of doing the same to America, right? Would you welcome seeing God using His power at random, or would you protest, even to Almighty God’.’</p>
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<p>Criticizing President Carter’s foreign policy in this way will never benefit me, but I will say nevertheless that injustice has been done and it must be judged. Even if the American government tries to restrain or inhibit me, perhaps even evict me from America, I will not be stopped. If I am truly speaking with God’s authority, there should he nothing for me to be afraid of saying. I must pass the judgment of history, which otherwise will accuse me of failing my mission to proclaim God’s truth. I’m sure my words disturb some Americans, and even some of our members might request that I he more diplomatic and say something nice about the President.</p>
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<p>American women are always a target for my words. Americans are famous for picketing and demonstrating, so why don’t you form a picket line one Sunday in protest? If you women don’t like to hear me say certain things then you can leave and I will work with the men. If I give the word then they won’t marry that kind of woman, so what will happen to you? Would you enjoy your life alone? That’s your weak point; you need men. The last thing the poorest diplomat would do is criticize American women. But I do it; however, I do it with a loving heart. The President of the United States must say nice things about women in order to get their votes, and American husbands must be careful with their opinions because otherwise they will have their allowance cut off. But I have to speak out. I have been told many times by different people that it is bad diplomacy to say critical things about American women, but that only inspires me to speak more!</p>
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<p>What is the universal navigator that everyone likes, including God, all creation, and every kind of person? True love. That is easy to say, but have you tasted true love? Do you know it? You may not quite understand true love, but somehow you know logically it must be central. True love alone has the universal qualification. What makes people lonely? Lack of love. In America there are many senior citizens who may have achieved fame and wealth and security in their lives, but who now weep all day because they are lonely. No one cares for them unselfishly or comforts them. This is a tragedy.</p>
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<p>Millions of American young people have grown up in this affluent society and could easily lead prosperous lives, but many of them run away from home because of loneliness and lack of love. The Unification Church is here to pioneer true love so that no one is without love. We want to create that kind of world. We have one navigator leading our world to that goal. to the Kingdom of Heaven. What is that compass? That is true love. True love navigates even God.</p>
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<p>Do you think God feels He does not need true love because He already has total authority? Since God is almighty and absolute, God needs love more than anyone else in the universe. Do you think God can fulfill love all alone? Does He laugh and dance all by Himself? Love needs an object to complete a circuit, and even God cannot violate this law. He needs someone to love and be loved by. Are men or women in a position to love God? Men and women together or separately? If men and women must love God together, what is the sequence or order? Who will be in the forefront of that love crusade? Will love hit two people at the same time or one at a time?</p>
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<p>Do you women love your mother and husband with the same intensity, or one more than the other? Would you kiss them at the same time? You can embrace your mother and then love your husband, but it’s impossible to go in two different directions at the same time so there is an order. We said that men and women are equal, but there should be a certain order or discipline between them. Equality is one thing and fairness is another; blind equality does not necessarily represent fairness. There is always a certain sequence or priority to be followed. God definitely loves both men and women as His children on an equal level, but there is a priority or sequence.</p>
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<p>Which one comes first to God? Why do you women say men come first? In everything there is a double layer, one internal and one external. When you make a circular motion based on this external layer, it goes in all different directions and ultimately is self-destructing. Lasting, peaceful circular motion is always set up around an axis. If you use that central line then no matter how fast or how long you turn there will be no destruction. In everything we need this central axis, which is formed by the person who can take and fulfill the responsibility. The more responsibility that person bears, the farther he advances toward the central position.</p>
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<p>Who is designed with a greater capacity for responsibility, men or women? That central responsible subject is man. In biblical tradition the blessing is always given to men because men are ultimately responsible. Blessing always accompanies responsibility. Mankind has traditionally lived like that, with women leaving their homes to marry their husbands and take their names. During war and all the dangerous, pioneering times in history the women were always behind the men, assisting. Men are in the subject role and women in the object role.</p>
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<p>Do you prefer feminine men or strong, masculine men? Do you women know why you prefer rugged masculine men? Because that is the quality you don’t have. That’s because God created men and women in complementary relationship. Women are made for conquest of love by men; when genuine, unselfish love conquers you, you are intoxicated by it instead of repulsed by it. You know that at a certain point you will become a prisoner of love but you want to remain and give everything you have for the sake of your man. That’s the way God designed woman.</p>
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<p>The more you are conquered by love, the more you want to give. That’s the spirit of love. I am a tough and rugged man who cannot stand any injustice, but even though I have a fiery temper I was conquered by the love of God and became totally helpless. In that love I was made a lamb. If I weren’t caught up in the love of God then I could not stand all the criticism that has come to me, but because of the love of God, the more people criticize the more I like it. In the name of God I can be persecuted and tortured.</p>
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<p>God deliberately tests me sometimes by hitting me and allowing more persecution to come, but when I overcome because I am truly intoxicated by the heart of His love, He will recognize me as His son, the proof of His love. God gives me more tribulation so He has a condition to give me more love. If I can absorb and even welcome whatever persecution I meet, then in the love of God there is nothing I cannot do. Love is the central theme. Out of love God is allowing persecution, and I am enduring it because of love. Would you like that kind of love?</p>
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<p>Equality is good, but not with blinders. Because you are not losing anything you don’t take exception to this, do you? If a woman has to go out at night, she naturally often asks a man to go with her. You women are built as object, not subject. Even if your brother is much younger than you, he goes out at night all by himself without asking one of his sisters to go with him. That’s the complementary order of the subject and object relationship which God established.</p>
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<p>God created Adam first to be next to Him, and then Eve to be next to Adam. The East Garden family has that order too. The first-born is a daughter so she is next to me, and then Hyo Jin next to her. Even the son cannot just assume that position. He does not complain when his elder sister is given first treatment. Why? There is order in love, a sequence of love, flowing to first fruits, then second fruits. God created one at a time in order, not two at once, so there is a certain flow and timing which remains as the universal order. Who received the first love of God then? Adam. I’m sure no one can complain about this because it is God’s universal order, established in subject and object relationship.</p>
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<p>If we look at the entire creation as a Boeing 747, then true love is the compass and navigator which guides the whole plane with all its passengers in the correct direction. I have been called all kinds of things, such as a dictator worse than Hitler. Do you think I have the power to do everything at random according to my will? Am I without principles and law? What is guiding me? True love. I am more obedient than anyone else to the law of true love because I am upholding that law and giving my life for it. Here are people of all five colors of skin in one room. Why did you come here to follow me? Because we have one common goal. Is true love colored white, yellow or black? It is all colors. We arc not just talking about it; we are building it. A good example is our service here where we have all colors and races under one fatherhood and hound by true love.</p>
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<p>Is this the result of my dictatorship? No. The Moonies’ life is not an easy one. You witness and fund raise very intensely and often you ache all over. On the surface it looks like a very miserable life, but underneath is a burning desire to be a central man of true love. You give meaning to your hard work; you are not doing it because someone forces you to but because your own desire is burning and you have peace within you. That is true love. When you are activated by true rove’ everything you do shall have beauty and glory. If you are communicating with God then you cannot leave Him.</p>
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<p>We may receive persecution from the entire world, but the true love of God is upholding us. This love is invincible because this true love is what mankind needs. Because they have to receive that love through you they have to come. Once you reach total oneness with God in His true love then you can enjoy absolute freedom and do anything with God. Then no deed is ungodly and even when you do things that might seem nasty, they will bring you closer to God. No deed done in true love is ugly.</p>
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<p>Suppose God is mad about something, hut His little three-year-old grandson comes toddling over to say, “Grandpa.” He cannot help but smile because that one word came out of the child’s pure love. Perhaps God is making a life-or-death decision about the universe, but even at that moment that one word of true love can melt His heart.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we are pursuing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and our central theme is true love. That is our navigator. Are we doing the right thing or not? When you think about that at night or during the day your answer is still yes. What if you are kidnapped and you think about it; will your answer still be yes? If you are truly intoxicated by the love of God then no power under the sun could make you a prisoner. A thousand deprogrammers would be powerless.</p>
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<p>I was born as an obscure Korean, but then my march started, first throughout Korea and national persecution, then to Japan and more persecution. Now I have come to America and the entire world is paying attention, but still I am marching on. What is the power behind me? Many formidable adversaries have confronted me, but I never get tired and am still going strong while those opponents have all stepped out, one by one. Are you tired? What power enables you to continue? I know that honestly speaking you don’t quite grasp love yet but you know something nice is coming. You want to touch it and come close to it. There must be such a power because otherwise the Unification Church could not go on.</p>
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<p>Would you men like to have me as your elder brother? Why? How about you sisters? I have some quality, some flavor. Even though you lose America or even the whole planet earth, once you grasp true love all of that and even God will come back to you. True love encompasses everything. Once you grab the top, everything else will follow. Do you agree? If that is the case, what worry do you have?</p>
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<p>Without pure motivation, everything you do becomes a burden. You may like to come to Sunday service and you may like Divine Principle’ but without love you won’t want to fund raise or do home church. When you are motivated by true love, the greater the tribulation that comes, the greater the value and ecstasy of your joy. I pray to God that if people don’t love Him then He should let them oppose me. Then under persecution I will truly exemplify God’s love to them. I want those people to know God through me so I asked God for that opportunity.</p>
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<p>To be honest, most new members first became involved, not because they loved the Unification Church. but because they were curious and came to investigate. Then they were caught by the net of true love. When they are hooked by true love it is a life or death matter and they cannot take it lightly. When a fish is hooked it tries desperately to get away and in the process it gets hurt. The same analogy works in the Unification Church. If the hook is true love, don’t try to thrash and kick but taste it and enjoy it. If you know the taste of true love then the problem of being hooked is all solved.</p>
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<p>Sooner or later the world has to agree with my conclusion that the true compass to the ideal world is true love. No one can deny it and even our boldest adversary needs to be benefited by it. Our march is in the direction of love.</p>
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<p>You must realize your own position. If you are in the middle of the Pacific but you think you are arriving in Tokyo and try to land, you face absolute disaster. You are a passenger on that plane of love over the middle of the ocean, but in a way you are trying to land right now. By trying to gain unearned fruit without working, you are courting disaster. No matter how much you desire to land, if you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean you cannot do SO. You have to cover the whole distance to reach land.</p>
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<p>Usually the flight to Korea is 18 hours long, but recently it has been getting shorter and now it is 16 hours. If the trip takes 16 hours, the wise man does not get all anxious to arrive there in 13 or 14 hours. Instead he will think that to reach the destination takes 36 hours and he prepares accordingly. He takes plenty of food and things to do and is ready in his mind to fly for 36 hours. Then when he lands after 16 hours, the extra hours are like a bonus. If you are deeply asleep when the plane lands because you didn’t expect to arrive so early, someone will have to wake you up and chase you out of the plane. When you arrive that way you always feel that you earned 20 hours so you have more time to work. Then you can use that time.</p>
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<p>Our ultimate destination is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. There are seven different stages to go through to reach it; one is individual heaven, next the family, tribe, race, society, nation, world, and then Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Do you know which stage you are in? Are you still waiting on the ground, or have you taken off? Do you have enough fuel)? Did you double check all your flight instruments? Are you sure your compass is working.? Can you have confidence there will be no accidents en route? What if a head wind comes and pushes you back; will that deter you? Are you prepared for a long, long journey?</p>
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<p>Is your yes from your mouth or from your heart? Do you want me to test your readiness with some hard work and tribulation?</p>
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<p>A plane always has a specific capacity for passengers and the airline always wants the plane to be filled before it takes off; otherwise, they lose money on the flight On this plane you can take your family and entire home church, which is your tribe. Should it include only white people? Of course you want it to include all races. The tribe will go to the nation, the nation to the world and the world to the cosmos. If our thrust is strong enough, we can go not only to the world but beyond to embrace the spirit world and whole universe. When you finish after covering the entire world, you won’t need a plane any more because from the world level you will be launched to the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>The interesting thing about a moon launch is that the moon may be up in the sky in one direction, but the rocket actually is launched in the opposite direction. The spectators may not be able to see any sense in it. In the same way many people say we are crazy because they think we are going in the wrong direction to the Kingdom of Heaven, but we have a compass with clear direction, a spiritual compass leading ultimately to heaven. If that compass leading your heart is true love then you are bound to reach heaven. The rocket may seem to be going through unnecessary maneuvers, but if the compass of true love is working it will definitely take you right into heaven.</p>
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<p>When that rocket lands in God’s love, that love will explode and rock the entire universe. God will be activated in true love and begin to dance. When God is dancing, will the entire world dance with Him? When God starts dancing, His entire creation will harmonize with Him and begin to dance also. He might even step on someone’s head in His excitement, but would you chase Him away or ask for more? You can grab His foot and keep Him from going away.</p>
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<p>The contest of giving true love is the ultimate competition between husband and wife. When you can say without any hesitation that you have loved your partner in the true love of God, then no matter how handsome or beautiful he or she is, he has to bow down. True love is the ultimate gauge of value, not appearance or social standing. A wife can ask her husband if he has given true love to his family, and if he is defeated in the competition of true love, he has to bow down to her. If a subject is defeated in true love then he must humbly come under his object.</p>
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<p>This question works on every level, as between a head of state and the people. If you ask the President if he has loved the people as much as his parents loved him and his answer is yes, then he is a great President. If not, he is a failure. What is the expression of that true love? Unselfish giving in everyday life is the true expression of that love. That’s the way parents live for their children and that’s the way God has been living for mankind. Any subject demonstrating unselfish love toward his object is living true love. Where there is a man in the center with that true love, the Kingdom of Heaven shall be there. That love will go beyond every power here on earth and win over it and then the power of unity will bind everything together into oneness like glue.</p>
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<p>Our goal is the ideal world and our direction is true love. The manifestation of that true love in our daily life is unselfish giving every day. Also’ you will always remember your position. When you get closer and closer to the goal, many burdens and responsibilities come upon you because the time of fulfillment is near at hand.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that you mustn’t think that every day is a holiday once we reach the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, for the closer we come to the goal, the greater are the responsibilities. You shall be preparing the entire world to lift off to the ultimate heaven and you must be ready with all the necessary equipment. A spaceman has many limitations on his movement with all his equipment. Your great responsibilities will also limit you, but you must welcome it because it prepares you for a great launching.</p>
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<p>You may think MFT work is difficult and witnessing is difficult, but I want you to be prepared for even greater responsibilities. You must be willing to tackle them. Inside the Unification Church we are going to bear the greatest of all burdens because we are trying to help prepare the rest of the world for take-off. We have so much responsibility that sometimes we don’t see too much love. It seems there is nothing but work every day, but I want you to understand that the great moment of launching is like an emergency and we must be ready.</p>
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<p>We easily talk about unifying the world, but is actually doing it an easy task? We are the objects of scorn today. There is more persecution and more misunderstanding coming, but we must persevere and go on to the goal. Do you want to retreat? You know this principle is the truth and we are tackling it. We need wisdom to know the truth and our true position and our direction. We have one unity of spirit in the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>When I go to Korea your spiritual antenna is automatically focused there because you don’t want to live your own way, but God’s way. You raise your antenna high so you can receive heavenly signals and then your body and mind are at peace. If you try to go your own way you feel restless and upset in your heart. God’s spirit works like a magnet to link opposites like the North and South poles. There is a magnetic field between us, and if you try to deviate you feel disturbance inside. You must go in the right direction of true love.</p>
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<p>The month of May will soon be here and you single members are waiting for news of the matching, aren’t you? You should ask yourselves if you are people of true love. What is your answer? No matter how you look, unless you possess true love you are not qualified to be matched in heavenly blessing. If you want to get married, go ahead and do so. Why not? Your antenna tells you that just getting married is contrary to your true direction. You know it in your heart.</p>
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<p>We need a goal, direction and everyday practice, and with that we can definitely reach the goal and live the unselfish way of life. This is the central teaching of God throughout history and the central revelation brought by Jesus. This is what I have talked about this morning. Our job is to perfect these four pillars of heavenly life with a humble heart. Our job is to perfect ourselves so our two eyes will never see anything wicked, so our brains will never think anything evil and our mouths will never speak anything ungodly. This is what we have set out to do and we work with sweat and labor to fulfill it. If you become one with this, then you can proudly say A-man.</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="2018-06-19T14:52:00+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/men-of-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:52:00+01:00">June 19, 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">September 23, 1979<br />
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<p>“God” in Korean is Hananim, and the literal translation is “one master”, or “only host.” When you spell God backwards, what word do you get? Dog. One is heaven, one is hell. On one side men of God, on the other side men of dog. You don’t think of dogs as being very lowly and disgusting in American culture. You love dogs as pets, but in the Oriental concept a dog is a rather foolish and lowly animal. A dog symbolizes ungodliness.</p>
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<p>The Bible speaks very much about cleansing oneself, particularly before holy days. Dog meat and pig meat are never used, and not even fish which have no scales. If a Korean is describing the worst of anything, a dog is always included somewhere in his description. Don’t ever call anyone the son of a dog in Korea; you’ll be knocked down in the street! That is the worst way to curse a Korean. Do you know why? I will not explain; that is your homework.</p>
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<p>What kind of people are we who gather together in the darkness of early morning at Belvedere-are we dog people? There is a boundary in between the realm of God and the dog-like realm. They are basically and fundamentally different. A person who would go from the dog’s realm to God’s realm must start out by denying himself and all his circumstances and all possessions. He can only hold on to the one line of life. What is that one line of life? You have no use for anything else in the other world because God wants you to become perfect in love. Also, if there is no more life then nothing else can be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>There are two things to hang onto and nurture-one is life and the other love. The only thing which God wants to remain is life centered upon love. The life and love of men shall ultimately be connected to the life and love of God, becoming one and the same. People of the dog-type culture represent satanic culture. What is a dog like? A dog does not have a standard of discipline in life. Also, he symbolizes self-centeredness because if a dog feels mistreated he might even bite his own master. When you pat a dog he wags his tail and shows contentment, but if he feels mistreated he reacts violently. A dog serves his master, yet does not totally give himself up. A dog has no discipline or regulation in its love but just goes anywhere. Any people who live that kind of life are far from noble. A dog represents the opposite of noble human characteristics.</p>
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<p>What kind of people are gathered here? If I rap you on the head do you feel good or do you feel like biting me? There are some people here with a dog’s characteristics: if they feel mistreated they want to fight it immediately. A snake always has an angry look on its face, particularly poisonous snakes, and it is always ready to bite. You never see a snake smile. A snake is naturally a symbol of Satan. Are there any dog-like or serpent-like people here?</p>
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<p>Of course there is no such thing as moral principle in the animal world, but dogs are the most promiscuous in the whole animal kingdom. They have no hesitation about mating between brothers and sisters, or even parents and children. Do God’s people have moral discipline? Is America becoming more and more disciplined morally? What will happen to satanic people? They will be so corrupted that inevitably they will destroy themselves. Have you completely cleansed yourself, made a totally new beginning and left your past behind? Maybe you have cleaned away most of it, but probably some small portion remains.</p>
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<p>If America keeps going in its present direction, the time will come when the rest of the world will abhor America. A man with any conscience could never tolerate what America is doing today. What is the so-called glamorous life being led by Hollywood stars? They are basically self-centered. Are their love affairs pure and upright? If any nation or community lives a dog-like life, it is bound to decline because God’s principles are uncompromising.</p>
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<p>In the Bible it is recorded that Sodom and Gomorrah were judged by brimstone and fire because dog-like people lived there. They were totally immersed in a sensual life and interested only in satisfying their physical appetites. God could not tolerate such people who were totally destroying their love. Some of you may have visited Pompeii in Italy, which was destroyed by a volcano. Archeologists have uncovered evidence by which they can reconstruct life at the moment the volcano erupted and covered the city, and it was truly dirty and lustful, totally morally corrupt.</p>
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<p>The Roman Empire was once mighty, yet it collapsed, not from outside force but from within. From the emperors down to the everyday people, everyone was pursuing a sensual life. Sometimes the most representative element of such a life is dance because it reveals the values and heart of a culture.</p>
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<p>Certain songs and Iyrics emphasize the sensual side of human desire, evoking those sensations in listeners. Such dancing and music always presage the coming of doom for that culture.</p>
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<p>You know that dance styles and music in America center on physical desire and sex. The latest dance fad is disco. There are many signs of the last days in American culture today. What kind of people could survive this and bring hope to America? Who will rise above all this with strength and discipline for the sake of the future? Unless such a movement emerges, we can say that America is already doomed and it is only a matter of time before it totally collapses.</p>
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<p>Family life and the home have been weakened. America’s dignity as a nation and the spirit of patriotism are fast disappearing. People look for nothing else but fun and self-satisfaction, and they are blind to anything else. They are like dogs. Can you see some hope and dream for America’s future in the eyes of such people? Someone has to step forward and clean this mess up. No human could do such a task. The satanic phenomena in the world are not totally of man’s making, but Satan’s. The American public, particularly the young people, have become Satan’s victims. He has been so cunning and persisted so long that man’s wisdom alone could not find the solution.</p>
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<p>God must intervene in a religious, spiritual way. Is there any religion in America which represents God’s will and is trying to clean up the mess? America’s churches today are also Satan’s victims. Churches advertise things like disco dances and bingo games. Are those churches working for God or Satan? They are hastening doomsday in the name of Christianity, making their own destruction inevitable. Am I just criticizing because I dislike America? No, this represents Satan’s culture, a dog culture.</p>
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<p>Before you knew the Divine Principle you lived in that culture without too much trouble. When parents see that their teenagers don’t have girlfriends or boyfriends they get worried and tell them to go out with several people and pick one they like. Is such education advocated in the Bible? Would any righteous religion teach such a principle? That kind of habit is part of a doomsday culture and it deserves judgment. America is totally blinded and becoming more aimless every day. Because it has no goal or anchor, it is becoming more and more dumb every day.</p>
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<p>In order to turn the tide, a new religious movement is needed which really represents God’s direction. That is the only hope for America. But even if such a movement exists, the whole nation will try to crush it instead of welcoming it. If America did so, it would become the enemy of all mankind because such a movement is not only good for America but necessary for world salvation. If America persists the way it is, the time will come when nations will mobilize to expel America.</p>
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<p>Do you think a movement which had the strength to revolutionize America’s way of life could originate in the midst of America’s present culture, or would it have to come from elsewhere? Someone else must come and turn the tables. Where will this movement come from? America’s trends today originate in the Western culture, which has its roots in materialism. Therefore, the solution must come from the opposite kind of culture, which is the Eastern culture. Where in the Orient could it come from? It should be a Christian nation because unless it can understand the Christian heritage it could not do any good by coming to the West.</p>
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<p>India is known as a country of mysticism and spiritualism, but it is not a Christian country. Buddhism prevails there. China has been the center of the Orient for thousands of years, but it has become a communist, atheist nation. Nothing can be expected from there. Japan is a religious nation, but traditionally the Japanese worship many gods. Korea is one nation that stands out in this respect and meets all the criteria. It is a Christian nation which preserves the Oriental traditions. Christianity has been perfected in Korea. It is significant that Christianity in every nation of the world is declining except in Korea, where it is thriving. Korea is also America’s last bastion of power and influence in Asia.</p>
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<p>When Jimmy Carter was campaigning for election he stated that as President he would withdraw America’s armed forces from Korea. He openly said he intended to dissociate from Korea, but when he got into office he couldn’t do it. Later he said it was a mistake and that America would not withdraw. Some force in heaven would not allow it. The relationship between America and Korea is more than a horizontal one. People today have to feel there is something vertical there. Even though policy makers and liberal politicians want America to disengage from Korea, somehow they can’t do it and the link between the two nations is still strong.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is one spiritual force which consistently advocates American involvement in Korea. During the Koreagate crisis everything Korean was suspect in this country, and at that time not one politician spoke out for Korea. Only one man-Reverend Moon-and his followers were unafraid to speak up and advocate relations between the two countries.</p>
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<p>I confronted the Congress of this powerful nation, even when people told me I was foolish and would be shattered. People laughed at me. At one time America was so sure of its power that everyone was sure the Unification Church would be crushed. But my ally was God. It was exactly like the confrontation between David and Goliath in the Old Testament. There is no question that we had some gloomy days, and the investigators were sure they could clobber us. Even some of our members and leaders were worried and expressed their doubts whether we could survive. When the Fraser committee tried to strike the Unification Church, it seemed to people that he had won 98% of a victory. But when Mr. Fraser was running for election to the Senate he thought he had won and declared victory on election night. He went to bed happy, but in the next few hours a miracle was in the making, and when he got up in the morning he had been defeated by a slim margin.</p>
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<p>Now people look at me differently. They think I must have some mysterious power somewhere. I look normal, but they think I must have a hook-up to some special guidance.</p>
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<p>This morning I gave Mother permission to come for just half an hour and then leave because she is expecting our baby any day now.</p>
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<p>What are these people in the Unification Church? Your parents and society want to kidnap you and try to persuade you that they have a better world. But it is a dog world out there. We are a formidable entity that is a threat to that way of life. Everywhere in American life I am a phenomenon. If the issue of Reverend Moon comes up at the most dull dinner table, the barking begins on both sides, pro and con. People are starting to think that without me America will be a dull place to live. If that happens when they just talk about me, what would happen if I showed up in person?</p>
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<p>I have heard that when a child is crying, an American mother might try to quiet him by saying, “Stop! Stop! A Chinese is coming!” Soon they will be saying, “Stop! Stop! Reverend Moon is coming!” I don’t mind. People may misunderstand me, but I have had an impact on the American scene and we will make the truth known. Then they shall be saved by it.</p>
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<p>Are you Americans? Are you dog people or not? If I rapped the average American on the head like this he would certainly start barking! People outside could never understand such a scene in our Church, and they only know to explain it by calling it brainwashing. There is no other way they could describe it. Suppose an American preacher came down to the pews and slapped one of the church elders; what would happen? The elder would yell, “What kind of minister are you?!” and a fight would start.</p>
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<p>What are we here for? For disco dancing? Rock music? What kind of culture is this where we sit on a concrete floor, gathering early in the morning even without breakfast? Normally this place would be empty after two weeks, but instead more and more people try to get in, coming all the way from New York. Will we receive great honor by being here? You certainly don’t have rich, expensive food. Many of you are engaged, but you are so busy that you hardly see your fiancees. What kind of life is this? You say this is a great life, but I say it is a grave life! Which is it?</p>
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<p>What makes us great? We represent the only hope for America. We represent God’s kingdom and some special godly power that no other power can compete with. When we are united together we are like a rock and nothing can disturb us.- We have the power of life which is connected to the ultimate power source, which cannot be disrupted by any means. We have the power of life and love centered upon God.</p>
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<p>Why do I represent a source of strength, but also a source of fear when you do ungodly things? Because I am a channel of the power of life and love that comes from God. Whether you are white, black or yellow, once you clearly know my secret and what I really stand for, you cannot help but follow me. When I leave New York and go to Boston, as far as Unification Church member are concerned the sun of hope rises in Boston. When I go to England, the sun of hope rises in England. Do you agree because you are afraid of me? I am thinking it might be true, but if you believe it then you are greater than me. Because there is power coming from our give and take, when I go away you lose some strength and feel anchorites. You are my witnesses to that.</p>
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<p>What are we trying to accomplish and where are we going? Would you mind if I made you captain of a boat that would be going out in high seas? How about you women, are you ready to be captains? When you go out to sea a shark will swim by and laugh at you, sneering, “What kind of captain are you?” Are you the kind of captain who will shout back, “I am your captain and I’m going to catch you”? Could you harpoon him right in the eye and catch him?</p>
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<p>Why are we, as religious people, catching the living things of the sea? Whatever we catch from the sea becomes a sacrifice on the altar. We offer our catch to God and ask God to forgive mankind. Whatever we do is a sacrifice on the altar. Jesus told Simon Peter he would make Peter a fisher of men. Peter had been a catcher of fish, but Jesus was going to make him a catcher who could bring men to God. We go to sea and catch real fish as the representation of God’s kingdom and offer them on God’s altar. If God wants us to stop fishing then He must save the rest of the world first. We are doing it for the salvation of the world.</p>
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<p>Twenty-four hours a day we catch fish and make them a sacrificial offering. Of course we need money for building God’s kingdom, but so far none of the money from fishing has gone for that; it has been re-invested. More money has gone into the sea than has come back out. I have no intention of spending one penny from the sea for my own personal or family use.</p>
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<p>This year I caught many tuna weighing over 1,000 pounds, and every time the fish was drawn in near the boat I was the one who speared it. Its blood gushed out and the water became crimson. Why? If America were to pay for all its sins, many people would have to be killed. The criminal reality of today’s American culture deserves the bloodshed of many people, but by killing the fish I am thinking that somehow one more life is saved and one more death is prevented. That is my fervent desire. I look at the fish as a sacrificial offering, just as Abraham cut the offering in two without mercy. I am not sympathetic to the fish at that moment as I make it an offering for the world, but every time I offer a prayer that the killing of one fish may prevent the death of many sinful Americans.</p>
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<p>Those who have met me for the first time since I returned from Boston, raise your hands please. Why did you come to the Unification Church? Do you think this morning that you made a wrong decision? I am merciless in pushing you out as a sacrificial offering for the sake of mankind. Will you accept that? Look at Jesus-what was his mission? He made himself a sacrificial offering for the sake of mankind. He did it on his own, not at the command of God. He voluntarily accepted his destiny. God is not commanding me to do certain things every day; I am telling Him to rest assured that everything shall be taken care of, that I will do it willingly.</p>
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<p>There is no time for rest. Most people who sleep one hour extra feel good when they wake up. But if I rest one hour extra, when I get up I feel I must repent. I push myself that way. When I travel I seldom go to expensive restaurants. Usually I go to a McDonald’s because I know the MFT and mobile teams frequently go there, and when I am there I think of them. I don’t want to buy expensive clothes for myself. This suit I am wearing is one of the best suits I have; the slacks cost just a few dollars and they come from Poland. London has several excellent department stores, where one good suit normally costs at least $300. But I went to a cheap wholesale place and paid $90; then I saw on the label that it was made in Poland. Actually I went there to get Dr. Durst a suit when he came from America, but he said he wouldn’t get one unless I did too. So I bought one.</p>
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<p>My shoes cost $12, and just like MFT shoes they are all worn out. They are plastic, and so in the summer they are sweaty and smelly. But that’s the way the MFT lives. When <i>People </i>magazine did an article on me a couple of years ago they came to one speech I made at a celebration in the Catskills. They described me as being expensively dressed, with leather shoes from London, a custom-made cashmere suit, and so on. They assumed that was the case and did not ask questions, but that is not true. I am stingy with myself, but for the sake of the members I spend much money. I am extravagant when I buy them clothes, food and houses.</p>
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<p>What does the world think of me though? They think I am so money-hungry that I would take your eyeball and sell it for money. They think I would take your gold dental fillings and sell them. What a gap there is between the truth and their opinion! I am amused sometimes by the unfounded criticisms people make because eventually that will make a great story. My road in life leads in the humble direction, but people who bark at me are rushing in the other direction looking for me. Soon they will be so far away that I can’t hear them barking any more. When those people can’t find me they will eventually encircle the earth in their search, and they will be so tired that they need someone to help them. At that moment they will meet me. That is how I think.</p>
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<p>I have received much criticism, but to me it just sounds like barking dogs. I feel that the children and grandchildren of these people will understand me, however. No matter what people say today, what I am telling you this morning will become reality. God is building a true force here-that’s you. Even if people don’t want to have anything to do with me, you will go after them one by one, and all of a sudden you will have touched everyone. Twenty-four hours a day you are thinking about it. Are you paid to do it? But somehow your heart and mind just cannot be idle, and the more you do the more fulfilled you feel. When you don’t do anything you feel uncertain and nervous.</p>
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<p>Those who volunteer for the dog world, raise your hands. Don’t you like the dog world? You have every kind of freedom there to do whatever you like and no one will bother you, but as soon as you enter God’s world there is discipline and you aren’t allowed to abuse yourself. I don’t think you like that, do you? In God’s world you must walk straight, with your chin up, and when you sit down you sit very straight. When you sit cross-legged American style you are unstable, and if someone pulled the chair out you would fall over. But when you are anchored with two feet, sitting on the floor in the heavenly way, there is no way people can pull your chair out.</p>
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<p>You can tell American chairs that because you will sit on the floor you will give them a vacation from being sat on and enduring smelling things. They will be thankful that someone thinks of liberating them. There is humor, literature and beautiful poetry in sitting on the floor. Do you feel good sitting on the floor? Sitting close together on the floor like this you cannot move away if two people you don’t like sit or either side. Then when you change positions to relieve your legs you have to lean close to one of those people. Then you have some beautiful fellowship with the neighbor you hate. You can feel what a wonderful life it is here because you have suet fellowship and you have to work together.</p>
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<p>You don’t mind if we change the dog world? We need a rope to get to God’s world, and that is the rope of life and love. When you cross the boundary you enter a completely new world. In order to get there religious people have emphasized celibacy as a way of life. The gate to heaven is rather narrow and only wide enough for one person at a time, so men and women cannot enter together side by side. One has to be in front. American women are unlikely to get to heaven because they would rather stand side by side instead of walking in back. Thus, there is no room for them!</p>
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<p>Is the Messiah coming as a man? Inside you might be asking why God couldn’t make the Messiah a woman. Religion starts out with the individual and because the gate is narrow it’s best if you go into God’s realm as an individual; so throughout history religions have emphasized celibacy. Who can come and go freely on earth without visas? That is the Messiah. You need a pass with the Messiah’s name on it in big letters and yours in small letters in order to move freely. You can’t say your name should be in big letters instead.</p>
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<p>I think that soon American women will demonstrate against me for women’s rights and want to get rid of me. You say no, but don’t you have a little grudge inside?</p>
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<p>There should be one single file to enter this gate; either men or women will have to go first, and it is unlikely women will go first. Men have to go in front. Someone will insist that I say this because I am a man, but that is not true. Woman is truly the one who caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. By man listening to a woman, everything in the garden of Eden became fallen, so if in restoration men let women lead them in the wrong direction the nation and world will crumble. That is true! The bridge to heaven is a single-file bridge, with no room for passing. One person should be up front leading everyone to the goal. That should be a man.</p>
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<p>Why can’t you have more freedom and flexibility? Because there is only room enough for one line marching forward. Therefore, each step is critically important. If you make one mistake then the whole path will crumble.</p>
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<p>Have you ever seen one bride and two bridegrooms get married? Love is single-minded and goes in one direction. Do you have more than one life? Everything except life and love is unnecessary and you should cut if off. This is why religion always teaches self-denial. Higher religions even teach people to deny their family and society and to go away for meditation to awaken into a greater truth. Your goal is to become united with God, to be a man of God.</p>
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<p>What is the basic difference between a dog-like man and a man of God? First, the lineage or origin is different. Second, their words are different. Third, their actions, and fourth, their love is different. What are God’s characteristics? God will never compromise His lineage or position at all, but insists that it must be completely pure. Next, He emphasizes words of truth, and He always acts on His own words. There are no lies or deception in God’s world. Finally, His love is genuine and pure. God wants to have His own lineage, and He exists for the sake of His own lineage and there is room for nothing else. When He makes a pronouncement, action follows in exact fulfillment. Ultimately it is all consummated in love.</p>
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<p>Ultimately the goal of God’s entire dispensation is love. Love starts from its own lineage and tradition. Then the word will blossom in His own actions. That is how love is consummated. Let us examine how this works. Are you in the image of God? If you resemble God then there are four principles to follow. God certainly maintains His own subjective role with its dignity and authority. In the same way each of you has his own dignity, and no one wants anyone to offend that. When you say something do you live up to it? It is not good to make a pronouncement and not live up to it yourself. When you say it you should live up to it, and then expect others to live up to it. Why should it be like that? You need someone else who can live up to your expectations because that is how you have an object of love. You need someone to love.</p>
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<p>Men and women need someone for give and take of love. If there is some word to be spoken then there must be two parties-one to speak and the other to listen. When you speak would you want men and women in action together, or only one or the other? If they are together then you can have a channel for give and take of love; together you can find a subject and object so give and take is possible. We want to mingle and be together because we aspire to fulfill love, and love cannot be fulfilled by oneself.</p>
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<p>When you are stimulated by love, particularly first love, it is an overwhelming experience. When you are in love you talk all night and still are not bored. You are temporarily blinded and can’t think of anything else. For the sake of that love you would willingly sacrifice yourself. That is noble love. But today’s Americans don’t even think about finding a true love for which they could sacrifice. If they want to find out whether the other person truly loves them or not, they face a dilemma. Men and women come together just for convenience or fun, and there is no true love there, so even after several years a person cannot really know if the other person really loves him.</p>
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<p>Divorce has become a business in this country and good-looking young women go into a marriage for some strategic purpose. They find a rich man, marry him, and then get divorced. Or they marry a rich old man for a few years and then divorce him, but both ways they get lots of money. Increasingly the custody of a husband and wife’s money is a secret they keep from each other. If they revealed everything then the other person might want a divorce to get part of it!</p>
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<p>But the world of God is different. What kind of lineage would you have? God is alpha and omega, first and last. Love is unchanging from beginning to end. Life is also alpha and omega, and no one can hide or lie about life. You want eternal life, don’t you? That is because life continues eternally, without end. That is circular motion. Motion in a straight line always ends some time, and only circular motion is unending. Why is the earth round? Because it represents eternity. Atoms also move in circular motion. There is no square shape with sharp corners in the human body; your eyes face, head, limbs-everything is round.</p>
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<p>What in our world should remain for eternity? What quality shall be preserved for eternity? You would like to keep love and life for eternity. Which comes first? For God, life comes first because first He existed and then He expressed love. But for man, love comes first. Love was the origin of man. Everyone’s life was initiated in love of their parents, and they have value because they participated in that love. Your life was conceived in honest, true love. That is why your relationship with your parents is inseparable. Could you divorce your parents? No matter how much you insist you are independent and have no relationship, you cannot deny them.</p>
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<p>The privilege of children is to be participants in their parents’ love. The true desire of children, therefore, is not to be wealthy or honored by the world but to grow up in the love of their parents, then consummate and gloriously return that love. Therefore, God provides each child with a husband or wife and children of their own. Your husband and sons are representatives of your father. Your wife and daughters represent your mother. No matter how big and strong a husband may be, when he comes home he may become like a child with his wife, Lying on her lap, and even sometimes drinking the mother’s milk. Sometimes a child will suck on his mother’s finger, and sometimes the husband does it also. You can accept it in the future.</p>
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<p>Some person might want to revolutionize everything and start a whole new order. Go ahead and change everything, but can you alter your relationship to your parents? You can say you won’t be their child, but will it work? Husbands and wives get divorced, so why not parents and children? Men and women may separate, but not parents and children. There is a heavenly tie binding them eternally. Your parents are alpha, and when you marry you become omega. Then alpha and omega are one and the same. One is up, the other down; one is right and the other left, and they interact.</p>
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<p>Are there any children who like to see their parents get divorced? Does anyone get married with the knowledge that he will get a divorce in the near future? Why does divorce come unexpectedly and against their will? In many cases divorce comes because of another love affair. Because there was no concrete love in the first place, the foundation of love easily breaks apart. Is there any wife who would like to see her husband dancing with another beautiful, charming woman? No husband wants to see his wife dancing with another man. Maybe if the other man is uglier or inferior to the husband then he will have confidence she will come back to him.</p>
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<p>There are all kinds of formalities in social dancing, but no matter what, this particular principle persists in human affairs. If a husband knows his wife is having a good time and snuggling close with another handsome man, could he really enjoy himself? Would anyone welcome that? God provided a man and woman with each other and husband and wife are meant to be a pair, so if they go disco with each other then that’s all right. Once a covenant is made between husband and wife, it becomes a tradition and lineage, a foundation which none can touch. It must be preserved for eternity.</p>
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<p>On that foundation the words you speak become truth and have value, but if you stand on an improper foundation of lineage, the words you say will have no power. If you want to speak, you must live your words in action first. Why do my words have power? Because I have lived everything before I ever speak. There is nothing I say which I have not fulfilled. You think you are the master MFT members, but actually I am. I know best how to make a business and how to witness. No one has brought in more people to the family than I have. Therefore, when I speak my words have authority and power. When you don’t live something yourself, your words are meaningless.</p>
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<p>Many times when your parents tell you to do something you resist and say you can’t do it, but it causes you no pain. But when I tell you to do something and you don’t live up to it, you feel pain and misery. It is because what I am teaching you is meant to help you achieve the world of love, and when you don’t live it, you don’t get to the world of love. I push you out so you can fulfill it, and when you don’t live it you feel pain and your conscience hurts. When you violate the heavenly principles I teach you, you feel pain and discouragement. Nothing you do brings you comfort.</p>
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<p>Perhaps one time I tell you to do something that seems impossible. When you have the courage to live it you feel full of power and life because it has brought you out to the world of love. Then you have hope to fulfill love even more in the future. I am known as a man of strength and conviction because I have a fervent desire to love the people of the world. When you devote your will to deeds of love for mankind, love will return to you. That’s why your energy increases. Look at what is happening right here-people of all five races have come to follow my way of life. When you live it you feel comforted and satisfied.</p>
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<p>What are the True Parents? They are the alpha initiated by God, and wherever they go they are alpha seeking for an omega. If I left for Africa tomorrow, the same thing would happen there-alpha will attract omega. Why are you Unification Church members here? You want to receive alpha so you can receive the power of love and life. By receiving the energy of life and love you can rejoice together with God. Then you can be parallel with God’s position. This power and authority I have is a privilege given by God, and I am meant to give that authority to you. When you receive life and love through True Parents it becomes your life and love which is parallel with God’s.</p>
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<p>It is my duty to bequeath that to you. If you receive and live up to that inheritance then you shall become a true father or mother of mankind as well. There is one Father and one Mother, one truth and one tradition. The Unification Church has come to begin that tradition in this promiscuous world. If the world does not respond but persecutes the Unification Church instead, the tradition of God shall go on regardless. Could you men become women tomorrow? Could you women become men? No one can change your manhood or womanhood, and no one can revolutionize the parent-child relationship either. Do you welcome that?</p>
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<p>Here we have True Parents installed by God, and no one can change your spiritual sonship and daughtership centered on them. Are America’s families probably destined for hell or heaven? No one likes to hear about doomsday and the world tries to shut me up. Even though I may be more persecuted for criticizing President Carter, I am not swayed. If I can see the death and decline of American society and do not say anything because I want to be popular, history will judge me severely. Even if the world judges me today, let them go ahead. I would rather be approved by history.</p>
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<p>I was persecuted by Koreans because I spoke the frank, honest truth about that nation, and it persecuted me. When I spoke the truth in Japan, the nation didn’t want to hear it and I was persecuted there. When I came to America and spoke the truth without fear, this nation persecuted me as well. Sometimes I chastise you when you do wrong and it is bitter to hear. A satanic person tries to hide his flaws and failures, but a heavenly man wants to expose them and repent. That is the best solution in every case.</p>
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<p>It is the Unification Church tradition to confess when something wrong is done. I never volunteer to listen, but I hear many confessions from members, either in person or in letters. You want to unload all the iniquities in your heart. When I hear them and forgive you and tell you not to do them again, you feel liberated. That’s why many people want to speak to me and unburden their hearts. Everyone has personal secrets, and though I never ask to hear them, people volunteer anyway. You hardly want to tell even your teachers or parents, but here in the Unification Church you want to unload your secrets to me. Why is that? By using me as a foundation you can reach out for a greater horizon of love.</p>
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<p>Those who need love, raise your hands. What kind of love do you need? How is true love different from illicit love? Satanic love is always self-centered. Parental love is pure because it is unselfish. Why do we all crave the love of God? Because it is parental love, pure, genuine love. Every man and woman craves such love. A husband and wife desire pure, unselfish love that is unconditional. Sometimes in an airport I might see an elderly husband pushing his wife in a wheelchair, taking care of her and getting her on the plane. That is a beautiful scene. In my mind I wonder whether they married when they were young or middle-aged, or when they were old. I feel that if they started their pure love when they were young and kept it alive over the years then God must bless them. I pray momentarily for God’s blessing on that couple.</p>
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<p>That’s the kind of world we want to build. God is very idealistic. In a pure, truthful, unselfish world you want to become husband and wife and parents, as well as leaders of the nation. That is truly heaven. If 220 million Americans crave only selfish love then there will be 220 million fights a day. But you want to feel love for 220 million Americans, whether they return that love or not. God’s tradition is one of unconditional love; He doesn’t want to receive love first and then give love. Parental love is unconditional, even towards sinners.</p>
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<p>Therefore, you want to practice God’s tradition, and whether people love you or not, you will love them first. Then your love is pure and genuine.</p>
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<p>If your parents love you to degree ten, you love them to degree twenty. You should want never to be indebted to your parents, but to become a creditor of love. That is my tradition. That is the Unification Church tradition because it is God’s tradition. Let others be indebted in love to you. When other people try to do you favors, always bring more blessing to them to clear away that indebtedness. When you live a self-centered life it will never reach out beyond your own boundary and become eternal. But when you go beyond your boundary and center upon God, there is no limit and you can travel all the way to God and embrace the whole universe.</p>
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<p>When you want to live in unselfish love and have ambitions for the sake of the world, God knows that you need people and material resources to build the Kingdom and all these things will come to you. A low-pressure realm always attracts a high-pressure system to it. That is what causes storms. The give and take of love and high pressure systems can create a hurricane. Are we a destructive or constructive hurricane? Centered on the greediness of Reverend Moon? The greediness of all mankind? What is the craving and ambition of mankind? Unity of the world. Power, money and knowledge will all fail to bring unity.</p>
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<p>I crave the oneness of the world also, but I will do it with the power of love. This is one area I cannot be surpassed in. It will be done with true, God centered love. How can you achieve this? The simplest way is to follow me. Taste persecution for the sake of mankind and God. God has been ridiculed and misunderstood, and now you should want to be in that position in the name of God and the world. If you want to avoid persecution then your love is only conditional. Many members try to live Unification life conditionally; they say they love True Parents, Divine Principle and the Church, but they can’t stand being persecuted.</p>
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<p>Engagement comes before-the wedding. An engagement is a covenant made between two people who promise to become one. You must go through this engagement period to prepare for complete oneness because later when children come there will be stormy weather and unexpected difficulties. In order to overcome all these with love you must practice with each other, learned to rely on and trust one another. When rainy days come in the future you will be able to handle them. It is beautiful, but not easy. When you finish, however, there is true value which commands the respect of the people..</p>
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<p>Why are you persecuted? If you bother no one and just earn money to support yourself, why should anyone bother you? That’s not how you will save America though you must do something extraordinary, including fundraising where you can earn more than your own share, and witnessing, where you bother some people and bring them to be members. The secular world thinks eight hours is good enough for one day, but we consider 24 hours a day to be adequate.</p>
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<p>What do you do with the money you earn fund raising? Two thirds of the income should be devoted to the sake of others, and one third for your own needs. But you shouldmake a conscientious effort to reduce your needs, so you require only one tenth or one twentieth of the income and you can give more for others. Then more value can be created. That shall be recorded in the annals of the Unification Church. The MFT spirit is to strive to use 100% of their earnings for the public purpose. Always you feel you are not doing enough when you give everything you earn; you even take money out of your savings account to add to the result. That is my spirit and tradition.</p>
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<p>I never feel indebted to you; instead you are indebted to me. America is indebted to me. When you are indebted to others you cannot be a leader or have dominion. I am, indebted in word or action or in love, and you must be like that because God is like that. You are Americans because you belong to American he American tradition. The Unification church has no particular nation. Our country is the planet earth. The earth is our hometown and family. Let’s claim our home and build our nation.</p>
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<p>You must feel that any place you go is your hometown, where many blessed people live because they want to make their nation. When you ask such people what is their aspiration, they will reply it is to have one world and one family, a free world where no war is warranted. The Unification Church is creating the new lineage and origin. We are speaking new words which never existed before, doing new actions and giving new love. These new things didn’t come from me but from God. What is the ultimate goal? To make everyone here on earth men of God.</p>
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<p>When you speak, do so on behalf of God. When you act, do so as God’s representative. We worship God as our Parent. No one can remove you from the Unification Church any more than they can deny that you are an American citizen or have American parents. In the same way, no one can separate you from your heavenly citizenship. No one can deny and change your destiny; it is already sealed. Even if someone cuts my head off, it doesn’t change anything. Just as a patriot shouts, “Long live my country, ” at the moment of his death, so will I cry out at my death, “Long live my eternal Parent and nation here on earth, the Kingdom of God.”</p>
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<p>We live in a world of evil and the quickest way for us to unite completely is to suffer persecution together. That will only harden and toughen our unity. Many white people oppose you, but there are black people very close to your heart. When white people persecute us, it brings white and black and yellow closer together here. We have a multi-color blessing because all five colors of skin are married together here. This is a historical event.</p>
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<p>This started with alpha and it will circle all the way around to omega. No one can stop it. What does Divine Principle mean? Actually the literal translation means “original principle.” Since it originated from God and God is divine, we call it the Divine Principle, however. We are talking about principles of the original way of life, the original way to form a family, society, nation, world and cosmos.</p>
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<p>Would you speak without action? You act by earning money to spend for others; you bring people so they can learn the original way of life. These are the most brilliant acts in the sight of God. First do these things and then speak. You show your action through MFT, witnessing, and many other things. After that you demonstrate how to truly love your neighbors and family, and people will see in you an example which they want to follow</p>
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<p>If it happens that you marry a nasty husband then you should compare his nastiness to the worst persecution you faced when fund raising. Then you can say, “My husband, you are still better than those nasty people on the street and I still love you.” I saw many horrible husbands in Korea who would burn their wife’s face with cigarettes, or beat her. But those wives would pray to God that they had already forgiven their enemies and now they wanted to pass this test of their unselfish love by loving their husbands. Through such an extraordinary demonstration of love, God can give someone the title of special heroine or patriot. When husband and wife live together normally in love and peace there is no historical event taking place. History is made under abnormal conditions. When you face such an emergency you can always feel it is your God-given opportunity to do historical things. Are you ready to be historical persons?</p>
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<p>Many people asked to marry a black husband or Oriental wife, and now some of them are thinking that maybe they did the wrong thing, yet they don’t want to speak up. I am telling them now that they should look for an extraordinary situation so they can become historical people.</p>
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<p>The black member of an interracial couple should give his or her mate the worst time because so far the white people have discriminated against black people. Now white people must have the opportunity to be heroic in the same way black people had to do. Thus, the white husband or wife have an opportunity to be recorded in history. All history will honor such couples, and flowers will be left on their tombs every day. Do you white people welcome it? Wouldn’t you rather be ordinary, everyday people? White people will welcome it because you want to demonstrate that white people can love all mankind, from extreme to extreme.</p>
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<p>My ambition and desire is to create historical, tradition-setting families which will be remembered. Would you like that? I will not forgive those who oppose this!</p>
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<p>Would you complain? Before you complain, exercise obedience and loyalty. In order to practice love of mankind on the family level you must forgive, be loyal and be obedient. Our lineage should be different. You have many different colors of eyes, but you are of the same lineage. No one can alter or disrupt this, not even God. This is the king’s lineage directly from God and you are born for it. If you deserve that lineage then you will speak like a heavenly man and live up to it in action. Ultimately all these will be fulfilled in God-centered love.</p>
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<p>I persevered for decades through all kinds of agony and persecution just to live up to this position and fulfill it so I could bequeath it to you. There is a new world coming, something brilliant and exciting which is bringing hope for the world. Our pride is that we are marching forward to reach the final day when God’s will is fulfilled on earth. Amen! The most important thing is to become men of God. We are harboring the hope of the future. Amen. Those who will fulfill that goal unto their lives, raise your hands. God bless 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="2018-06-19T14:15:05+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/our-one-life.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:15:05+01:00">June 19, 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/2018/06/19/our-one-life.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">March 4, 1979<br />
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<p>Man always thinks centering on himself, and so leads his life centering on himself. Where does that tendency to value himself most of all come from? It comes from God Himself. As man finds himself’ elevated he is happy, and he hates to find things the other way around. Each person always has a past, present and future; in addition he is surrounded by his family, clan and social environment. Farther away is the rest of the world and spirit world.</p>
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<p>Just as we want to elevate ourselves individually we also want to elevate our families. This extends to other levels, such that an individual would like to see his society elevated; an American would like to see America become more developed than any other country, for instance. All those in spirit world would like to see their world improved and respected by others. That is quite understandable, for certainly God is much like this.</p>
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<p>When you examine yourself closely you see that you are part of everything else around you and it is part of you; you live in a common realm of existence. How can both you and your family be elevated at the same time? This is an important matter when you seriously consider it. Actually it is rather simple-if an individual is completely united with his family then he will cherish the family and think highly of its other members. In addition, if all the family members want to live for something higher than themselves then we can say they are not only united, but are being constantly elevated. This is not just logical reasoning but is the way our mind naturally moves. If a clan is united then they discover that they are looking upward and desiring to live for a higher cause; in living that way they discover over time that they are gradually being elevated, in the sense of developing or improving.</p>
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<p>If you desire to be elevated but not to see others elevated in relationship to you, you will always be in conflict. The other person will never give in but will fight back. You will not only find yourself to be ineffective, but actually declining as well. According to the principle of development two people can advance by uniting for a higher purpose. Who among men would be the center in each step along the way? We can generalize and say that it is the one whom God loves most. What is the standard tor finding such a person? Yes, it is the person who always wants to himself, but we have to determine how God wants an individual to elevate himself.</p>
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<p>We want to elevate ourselves, not by asking other people to do it for us, but by coming under them instead. How does this actually work? If a person places himself in that position then the very environment will lift him up, even though he himself may not want to go higher. We have all experienced dislike for the person who only wants to elevate himself, regardless of whether he has the potential to be higher. This has been true in the past and present, and is a typical problem everywhere.</p>
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<p>This formula is always present, working on every level. If this element is removed from man’s life then no one would get anywhere, for no matter how high a person advanced, it would have no meaning. God took notice of this element and taught people through religion to be humble and to sacrifice themselves. If God is really God then this is likely to be His advice. When a person is like this then he is welcome wherever he goes, in his family, society, nation and in spirit world, and even God will like him very much. Is this understandable?</p>
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<p>In Unification Church terminology this means to live for the sake of others. Many people can’t understand why they shouldn’t live only for themselves, but there is the difference of heaven and earth between living for others and for oneself. By living for ourselves we are sure to destroy any possibility of elevating ourselves, while living for others is the surest way of elevating ourselves. What is the significance of living for others? It has the meaning of recreating something. In living for others we must make a commitment and make something out of nothing by adding on. Because of you something will come to exist where there was nothing before.</p>
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<p>If a person tries to live for others then he has left many works behind him on earth and his achievements are accumulated there to benefit everyone. There are a great variety of ways of living for others-some will do so by giving money, teaching, or doing medical or military work. What is the primary way, however? By giving love. There are many kinds of love and many steps in love. We are not just thinking about the smaller-scale love in a single family between a man and woman, but the largest possible love of God as an infinite subject loving His object.</p>
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<p>Even in love we find an order; not all love is the same. Love for God would be the highest plane ot love; love of the world would be next, and so on down to love of the family. We find this concept of order in the categories of love: Love of God is the greatest; next to it is love of the nation, society, clan, family and then the individual. Of course, we love ourselves, but if we love the family more then our love remains in greater form. You may sacrifice in loving the family but you are losing nothing by forgetting yourself; the remainder of the family cherish you in your place. That is much better than trying to cherish yourself.</p>
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<p>By loving ten other people, you have found ten other places to live centering on love. Then you remain in ever greater form in the minds of those ten other people. Wherever such a person goes, those ten people will follow him. Why would they follow him instead of going their own ways ? The explanation is not difficult to understand. When subject and object become one in give and take’ God joins them there and relates to them both. When God visits there and decides to stay, it means that the family becomes perfect; then it will never perish but remain eternally.</p>
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<p>If a nation chooses to sacrifice itself for the sake of the world, the world will cherish it and make it the central nation. If the spirit world decides to sacrifice itself for the sake ot God then the degree of love there will become even greater. We have an innate element which pushes us to want to become bigger and bigger and have more and more value. Even after uniting with people of higher value than himself, a person wants to go still higher until he reaches God. We always want to elevate ourselves. Without that desire we would not go ever higher until we reached God.</p>
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<p>This cannot be accomplished without love. Love is the only way to elevate oneself to God and fulfill the pattern of constantly uniting with a higher value. As we do that we will increasingly resemble God. No one can complain about this; the only complaint could concern a person who doesn’t become greater and greater-“You are crazy not to become greater!” If we have this love then even though we want to remain mediocre we will be lifted up by others, even turned upside down! Can you really imagine that?</p>
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<p>Why is a person born to begin with? One person might feel he was born to study and be a scholar, while another might feel he is here to make money. Another might think he is born to be a U.S. Senator, while a person of lesser ambition would think he is born to do whatever he wants to do. This question of “Why am I born?” is a serious one. Individuals have always answered in their own way and gotten away with it.</p>
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<p>What answer would everyone agree with? Everyone’s eyes pop open at the thought of money, and their ears open at the thought of knowledge, but somehow that is not the ultimate answer. What is the answer that sounds more and more right the more you think about it? Generally love sounds like the right answer. Why is love so good? There is much to be gained in love so for this reason people find it very attractive, but also it can lead you from place to place.</p>
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<p>If a woman is sleeping will she doze more deeply as love approaches, or suddenly wake up when it touches her? Will she snap, “Go away!” or will she suddenly wake up? Why is love so invigorating? What happens when love touches a supersensitive person who always has trouble sleeping? He will gradually be melted into sound sleep. Love works in many directions or even opposite directions. If you have been suffering all your life and can find no hope anywhere around you, love will melt you as if you were snow and you will forget all your suffering. Love is a yeast of harmony. English doesn’t have adequate words for this concept. Without love, blacks and whites don’t want to touch each other even back to back, but in love they will turn around and embrace face to face, forehead to forehead and even nose to nose.</p>
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<p>As you know, love can be clean, or expressed in a dirty way also. A baby may even lick at his mother’s runny nose because he is full of love. 1 saw one mother who loved her baby so much that there was nothing she didn’t touch; once her baby had a dirty diaper and she tasted it to see whether it was acid and how warm or cold it was. Sometimes a man and woman in love will lick each other’s mouth or nose or even their toes. Love can be expressed in a clean or dirty way.</p>
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<p>Love is the greatest of all because it brings equality to the lowest and highest. Equality and discrimination are much-discussed topics today, but it is ridiculous to even talk about them without love. With love you could walk sideways, backwards or upside down and not mind. There is nowhere you cannot go if you have love and there is nothing that cannot be done with love. Would it be extremely noteworthy or insignificant if a person lived that way? Would you alone describe it as holy, or would people in the past feel that way as well? What about people in the future? I am the same in this. What about babies and children? God Himself? Now you know the answer because you know how love works.</p>
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<p>Would you prefer to have sleep, money, knowledge or love? If you already have love would you just sit idle? Would you give it to us one person a day, or one hundred a day, or one hundred an hour? Isn’t love so precious that you have to economize and save it? No, with love you have to give as much as possible; otherwise, it will be wasted. You should do this even if you are tired, or so sick that you have to force yourself to keep going.</p>
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<p>If you are really distributing love in the right way, do you get more and more tired? When you give love you want to give still more, and you can also see hope for gaining more and more by doing so. When a piston starts moving it gains momentum and goes up and down faster and faster. Where is such a love in this world? The Bible says that God gave His only begotten son, and whosoever believes in him will never perish but have everlasting life. The capacity to be everlasting could only come from love, from give and take which will give more power and continue without becoming exhausted. This is what that statement means.</p>
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<p>Love is accompanied by endless power. Even though we live a life of sacrifice and difficulty and seem to be sinking lower and lower, the power of love is always lifting us up and eventually we will find ourselves in the highest heaven. The more we work and the lower we go the higher it lifts us up, without tail. We can be elevated without limit because love goes round and round without end; if it went in only one direction then it would be finite, but love is the only power which enables us to go in all directions.</p>
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<p>The only way for man, who is in the lowest position, to be elevated and join God, who is in the highest position, is through love. Love is what makes everything equal and what can elevate us. God does not look at anything without the glasses of love; He will never extend His hand without a glove of love, and when He appears it is in the clothing of love. This is why the whole universe will follow Him.</p>
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<p>When you sacrifice yourself for your family then wherever you go that family will move in that direction. God is subject over the whole universe and when He moves everything will go in His direction. If President Carter loves America more than any other president, when he moves the attention of all the citizens will follow him wherever he goes, right? Do you feel that way toward President Carter? If he didn’t love America or if he was uninterested in his mission then everyone would be indifferent to what he did. When Jesus moves in a certain direction then all Christians would follow. When Billy Graham goes in a certain direction will all Christians follow him?</p>
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<p>When the central person goes somewhere everything else will pay attention with all its content and heart. Is that understandable? If I observe these principles then will you want to do so as weld? Wouldn’t even God dream of everyone following me in order to inherit that pattern?</p>
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<p>We have been talking much about living in the Unification Church, but what is the Unification Church? In order to unify the whole movement must we have more or less love than the whole Unification Church? Do you have more love in you than the Unification Church itself? Who has love? When you act, would you like to do so with more or less love than the Unification Church? More? Great! Those who think they have that love, raise your hands. Not so many! Those who want to be like that, raise your hands then. Are you just deciding that now, or have you always been like that? If you have always been like that, why haven’t you been successful? Have I failed to supervise you successfully? Should I drive you out to do that or should I sit back and hope you are successful some day?</p>
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<p>Do you like it or not when I instruct you to do something? Do you rejoice, or pause to consider it with reservations? Should I come knock on all your doors at the World Mission Center to get you up in the morning, or perhaps push one button to ring bells on every floor at the same time? Would you jump up and wash quickly and dash out to meet me, or grumble about how sleepy you are? Maybe you would take your time and come late to the dining room for breakfast complaining about how the bell is never out ot order.</p>
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<p>Is it more precious to wake up a few minutes early and wait for the bell to ring, or wait thirty more minutes after it rings to get up? You could think that the sound of the bell is more inspiring than eating or sleeping. Have you ever felt that a bell could inspire you that way? You may never have felt that way because you never knew what was connected with that bell; you never knew God was watching over you as it rang and that’s why you could be so`, indifferent Just as love wakes up a sleepy person, that bell should wake us up instead of sending us back to sleep. It is a messenger of love.</p>
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<p>When I ask Unification Church members why you were born, you say you were born for home church. When you leave the building to do home church are you depressed by whether it is raining or snowing, or do you feel very hopeful and loving like the rising sun? I really feel that those members who grumble and drag their feet while walking to their home church area should be persecuted; if they aren’t persecuted by the community then something is wrong! If you go out with love then even dogs will wag their tails at you; it dogs are this sensitive then how much more aware will men be to whether you have come to share love or not?</p>
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<p>If people are persecuting you when you go out to your area with joy and love then they are violating God’s law and Principle, and God will never let it go by. God will do something to them according to the law of love. You can be confident that they should have known this already. New York has been called a jungle, but you can visualize it as a desert to which you are bringing an oasis; you are bringing the water of life to the city where love is totally lacking. Once people understand what you are doing there will be an avalanche of people coming to drink.</p>
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<p>Then why are we born? For what love? God’s love. If you toss a pebble into quiet water then the ripples will spread; likewise, when you make a big noise ot love the ripples will spread throughout the entire world. You are doing that now in daily life. The only question is whether you are throwing a grain of sand in the water or a big rock which you can hardly carry.</p>
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<p>Home church is unprecedented in history, like a big rock that will part the water with a loud smack. Should your home church work be a small pebble or a huge rock? Will it be easy to do or very difficult? YOU don’t mind the difficulty? We like difficulty because underneath it all lies the greatest love.</p>
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<p>The topic today is Our One Life. Do we live to keep eating every day? Communist doctrine states that man lives for his bread, but such a life has no value and can only be scorned. Do you live for bread? Would we live for the sake of love even if we starved? Would we say that if necessary we wouldn’t sleep for the sake of love? We are undergoing all kinds of persecution for the sake of love, and one day that love will touch us and make us forget it all. Would it be right to live that way?</p>
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<p>If you women are 34 years old, can you think that for the sake of love you don’t mind being old maids and will find your mate when you are 43? If you can think like that then could you even say that tor the sake of love you will never marry? No one answered that question very quickly!</p>
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<p>Which is better, to live only a short but intense life and then seize a big love, or to live a long, uneventful life and gradually embrace a great love? A person may live only a short time yet be able to grab a great love, whereas another person may live an extended but unexciting life and have great love at the end To live an intense but short life and have that love is better than to have an extended life with the same amount of love. Would you like to be crazy in love or not? The answer is always the same throughout the ages. All people say yes and God says yes.</p>
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<p>Now we know we are living for God’s love. You may have shed tears, but if they were for yourself then they have only limited meaning. If you shed tears for the sake of the country and world then you receive passing grade, but if you shed tears for yourself first then you are a failure.</p>
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<p>Your ears must feel they like to hear encouragement to live for other people. Your ears come earl, every Sunday morning to Belvedere, and perhaps they feel, “Oh, Father is telling us again to live for other people; it’s the same old story.” Would your leg say it is tired of living that way? Would your fact worry that once people thought you were very pretty but now after working such long hours under all conditions you are getting wrinkles? Do you couples think, “I waited practically for eternity and finally got married but now I have to wait another three years to be with my mate”? Would you feel your figure is pitiful and your hair a mess? But tell your body that it is worth waiting for the sake ot a greater love that is really good and everything will be opened up!</p>
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<p>I promised Mother that I would speak only two hours this morning. But I have an excuse that always works-if I speak with love then even if it lasts for seventeen hours I know I can be excused from my promise. Now you know for sure why you were born.</p>
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<p>How could this thinking of mine live and spread throughout the world, especially in America, since I only came here by myself? Is it easy for one person to come into contact with me, much less be inspired to live for other people and tor God? But I live every day for other people and this is what makes it possible. Why do I live that way? Do I always come here because I enjoy watching all your sleepy faces every Sunday morning? Some of you fool; very strange! Maybe the best thing I could do would be to let you sleep an extra thirty minutes right now, hut instead I am joking and making faces to stimulate you and wake you up. Morning after morning I do this. Is that a good or bad profession to be in? What’s so good about it?</p>
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<p>If there was no love here it would be miserable, but because love is here then even if life feels like misery it will one day be elevated to greatness; that is why we can call this the great way of life. There are many big churches with comfortable chairs where you are greeted and escorted to your seat. Here no one greets you and you don’t even have a chair to sit on. But since there is such sweet love here this discomfort is not miserable.</p>
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<p>Even though we go to hell I, if we bring love there then it is heaven. Do you really know this now, or aren’t you sure yet? Do you think you have to wait and see it this really works, or can you tell whether this is the true way by using your own judgment. Is it as real to you as sleepiness when you are tired” If you are really sure then there is not much more to teach you. You are already well-prepared and the only thing let’s to do is act on it and keep on going. Will you do that? Even if both God and I tell you not to do it? Will you still do it even if no one is watching or supervising. If this is true then I am a successful man.</p>
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<p>If you were conceived in love, born in love and living in love then inevitably you are grateful for being born and for living now. The very fact that you, are able to leave a great love behind on earth when you go to spirit world is a great thing.</p>
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<p>You must realize that you are a participant of your parents’ love. Have you ever seen people tight when they were in love? You are born of the love of your parents, who also were participants in their parents’ love. You are the living manifestation of your parents’ love. You are a result of their love, so you must live your life waving with love like a flag in the wind. When you see your parents and your brothers and sisters you have to wave your flag by showing love to other people. Did you do that in the past’.’</p>
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<p>You must become dedicated sons and daughters ot filial piety. What are such children? Are they the ones who help their parents rest when they are sleepy, or who can help their parents sleep comfortably even when they feel uneasy and restless? With what could you do that? With love. More than bringing food when your parent is hungry, being able to make him happy when he is poor is a higher act of filial piety. With what? With love.</p>
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<p>When parents are old and close to dying, you have to treat them better and love them more than if they were little and very young. When they were young they may not have needed that care, but now they do. Bringing laughter to very old parents as though they were in their teens is more important. It is even better if you can make them dance and rejoice. If your parent was dancing and then had a heart attack as a result, then his was a happy death. Though someone may accuse you of killing him by making him dance, he has no grounds for saying so.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought of how to make your own parents happy in this way? What a great ambition it is to make your parents happy when it has been a long time since they laughed. When God looks down at the genuine effort you are making for your own parents will He tell you not to bother wasting your love on them? Or will He shed tears at the beauty of that scene? Your parents will cherish you for that. Your parents will sincerely say before God that you are a son or daughter of filial piety and acknowledge you to Him. God will really remember such children.</p>
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<p>Many times people are excited when their parents bequeath land or much money to them in their will, but that is nothing compared to the inheritance ot the heavenly task or work. That is the greatest inheritance a parent can give to a child of filial piety. If a person has a filial mind and cares tor his brothers and sisters and society, then everyone will remember him. If he encounters God with that mind then he will be the most loved one.</p>
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<p>Did Jesus have parents like this. or such brothers and sisters? Was Jesus able to do anything for the sake of his country? Jesus never had a country he Could] work for with that heart, and when he comes again he will indeed do so. The Unification Church is doing exactly that. Since this thought has never been known to the world, we are teaching, the concept of true family and parents, and therefore true brothers and sisters. When we apply this everywhere in the world, it will be none other than heaven.</p>
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<p>Is it the right attitude to listen to me but no one else? It is the kindergarten level to listen to me, but when someone else speaks to you with love like mine you must listen to him as well. Love is everywhere and unchangeable, so you have to listen to that love wherever you find it. It goes beyond time and place. If you listen only to me and not to someone else who has the same love then if I go away or to spirit world it would mean the Unification Church could no longer exist. That, of course, could never be true.</p>
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<p>We must have a tradition, not just loyalty to one person, and that tradition must be respected as much as you respect me now. The True Parents’ own love is part of that tradition; therefore, we cherish that tradition and must listen to the person who stands in behalf of it. In that tradition you have to be able to treat people all over the world with the same heart, not just your close relatives. Whether or not you can do that will determine what kind of heaven you can make.</p>
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<p>If you were riding on the subway and saw old people standing while young people took the seats, would you ignore the old people and sit as well? isn’t this a free country? You are free, but freedom comes only on the foundation of the cosmic principle; nothing which lives contrary to that principle can have freedom The order of the universe is determined according to this principle. If a person feels he should work harder because he is getting paid more than others, his is not really the highest thinking. The employee who works for the company with genuine heart, being completely conscientious no matter how much he is paid, is the only one who is worthy of being paid, and is worthy of receiving special notice by the president.</p>
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<p>We must think deeply about this because you know that even after joining the Unification Church you have hurt other people, right? You must change that. Some American women get married and divorced for the sake of alimony, don’t they? Do you think that way? Did you join the Unification Church to marry a good person, or because you wanted to have greater love? Although you may be inferior to some high-level people in the world, still you are able to give greater love than they can.</p>
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<p>If you were me, would you sympathize more with American men or women? After I came to America and studied American culture I became more convinced that in a subtle way American women had more to do with the cause of evil, while the men were rather obedient to their initiatives, just like servants. Often they are easily deceived by their wives’ explanation, of what they did during the day, or in financial matters.</p>
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<p>As a rule in entertainment on television or in the movies the women arouse the most hostile feelings. Do you think men are more hell-raising than the women? Answer me clearly! Naturally 1 sympathize more with the men, and when it came time to distribute indemnity I thought of how the women should take a greater portion. This is reality, in addition to the fact that Eve was the one who initiated the fall. 1 am confident of this understanding. Would any of you say I am not fair? Is this thinking good if it means the women can receive more love as a result? Do you welcome that or not?</p>
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<p>I chased all the women out, even those who were heavy with pregnancy and tired all the time. Looking back, they think that even their husbands couldn’t have persuaded them to do this and then they are genuinely grateful to me. Because of that gratitude their whole family will receive blessing. “1 am having this one baby, but spiritually 1 will have millions of babies, embracing this world with the greatest love.” When you feel that then you are on the right track.</p>
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<p>The one great principle we have been talking about this morning is how the individual can sacrifice for his family, and then it is not sacrifice at all but will elevate him. For the clan, the family can be sacrificed, and for the world the nation can be sacrificed; for the sake of God, everything can be sacrificed. That is good because then everything can be elevated to the level of God. As a result the Unification Church can bring up everyone who is in hell on earth to heaven and God. We are doing this with great love.</p>
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<p>We go to other countries to love the people there, and when we go to spirit world and become one with people there we will bring them up to God. In doing so you are like a ladder for them to climb up. They will cherish you for that because without you they could never have climbed up. You can rejoice at serving your purpose. Now you know that you use me as your ladder to climb up to God. Not only that, you can freely use all the highways 1 have paved on earth.</p>
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<p>Will you stop with what you have grasped now, or go on and on for the rest of your life? Since love is eternal you must determine that you will continue in this for eternity, not that you will go just one certain distance. Will you be exhausted by living this way in love? Would old couples feel that they have already gone through love and that now just young people will do it, or will they go this way forever too I? You have had a great opportunity to be here with me, so now do you feel free to go your own way, or will you live eternally with me?</p>
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<p>It you have genuine love and honestly want to live with me then I will approve it. But if you have your own objective in mind then 1 will not welcome your wanting to live with me. Must I like you since you like me? Or since I like you will you like me even more? The second answer? Great!</p>
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<p>It you are confident to live your life according to this principle then your one life will be perfected in every way. This is not an easy way, but if you are determined to do so regardless, raise your hands. This is a very, very, very, very, long way which continues forever, but do you choose it so you can grow perfectly? Great!</p>
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<p>The topic this morning refers to our present position in relationship with God. People in general have a yearning to possess a high place and wide influence. When you go to such places as the Himalaya mountains or the vast Pacific Ocean, you enjoy their greatness. It is not easy to occupy a high place or have wide influence, however, because you have to get there first.</p>
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<p>Personalities of people in the world are something like the zigzag of the mountains, with high and low positions and all kinds of ups and downs. There is great variation. Nations are the same. Some are high, others low, some are narrow, and others wide and open. Some countries have broad, monotonous plains, and others have jagged heights. National characters can be described accordingly. A person’s character can reach a medium height, or go all the way to the pinnacle. Which is better? This is not an easy question to answer. It is possible to have a pinnacle so sharp that there is no room for anyone to stand on top, or a pinnacle with just enough room for one person. It is not easy to decide which of these is preferable.</p>
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<p>The best choice would be flexibility-to be wide when we want to be wide, and to be high when that is best. The question is whether we have that kind of potential for flexibility. I am limited to a space of less than six feet, but in that limited area there is some intangible quality flexible enough to be wide and tall. What is it? In your mind you can go as high and wide as you like.</p>
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<p>We can talk about a small mind and a large mind, but there is no yardstick to measure them. However, a narrow-minded person thinks of small things, and you can certainly recognize a broad-minded person. Levels of thought can be as big or small as you want. A mind can be so small that there is no room for even one person there. On the other hand, you can make your mind so wide that God can fit into it with room left over. People have that kind of capability.</p>
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<p>Although we may be limited to a physical space, we do have that capability of being as big or small, as high or low as it wants. If we have wide, broad minds, what kind of things would we want to fill them with? With material things? What about filling them with life? Next, fill them with love. There is nothing more wonderful than thoughts filled with life and love.</p>
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<p>Who else in this universe is in a position comparable to that of human beings? God has a mind and His thought are probably the biggest. What kind of mind and thought does God have? They are filled with life and love. Of course, all religions strive to receive God’s spirit, but what is the point of receiving it? All that effort is directed toward gaining a God-like mind and thought so that people can be filled with life and love.</p>
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<p>Suppose we draw a circle representing God’s mind, and it contains thoughts about man. Do you think it would have a wavy pattern, or flow in a straight line? If we say that God’s thinking is wavy, or up and down, does that mean He likes certain people more than others one day, or likes one race more than others? When you love a person don’t you sometimes love one eye more than another, or one arm more than the other? Is each part in an equal position?</p>
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<p>When your mouth laughs loudly is the rest of your body weeping? No, when your mouth laughs the rest of your body responds together and rejoices. Now do you think God’s thought about man would be up and down or a straight line? Now you all say it would be a straight line.</p>
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<p>Are all people good, or are there sometimes bad apples in the barrel? God can always love a good person, but does God love even evil people? Does that mean they are both the same? Doesn’t God’s thinking about good and evil people go up and down? As the leader of the Unification Church do I blindly value everyone the same? Sometimes bad apples have to be spanked and good apples praised, treating each according to its value. Where does that characteristic come from? It comes from our ancestors, meaning that God works the same.</p>
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<p>We can conclude that God works in a straight line as far as justice and public equality are concerned. God intended all people to be good, so there is no difference, but only a straight line. But our world is not equal. World affairs go up and down, and there are all kinds of upheavals and convolutions. There is a central line running down the middle, and above that line God can intervene, while below that line is an area God cannot touch. One area belongs to the good side and the other area to the evil side. Thus, there are two realms in our present world.</p>
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<p>Human society and also spirit world work just the same. Therefore, in spirit world there is a Kingdom of Heaven and at the same time there is a kingdom of hell. God is all-good and He recognizes that there are bad things in the world, but He is determined to transform all evil into goodness. Thus, He has always remained good and He is needed by everyone, even the people in the dungeons of hell.</p>
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<p>What is a good person in our world? Can we say a good person is one who lives with a God-like mind? There are many “beautiful people” among the movie stars in Hollywood. Are they more inclined toward good or evil? Why? They have fame and wealth, so why are they disposed toward evil? Why don’t we have high respect for them? Maybe many people there spend money for good causes, but generally speaking God-centered morality is absent in Hollywood. The incredible movie scenes reflect the promiscuous nature of their lives. People can get divorced as easily as they throw out an old pair of shoes.</p>
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<p>Maybe “kissco” dancing is a better name for disco dancing. Is it most likely on the good or bad side? What’s wrong with it? In many cases the dancers have fun, but don’t think of anything else-not their parents, or town, or nation. Most likely they are not on God’s side.</p>
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<p>What are good people? Imagine I went disco dancing. When I started dancing would God criticize, or want to join me? We can resolve that the criteria of good and evil depend not on external appearance, but on internal motivation, on the reason why people do certain things.</p>
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<p>Music, dancing, and drink are not inherently bad. If your internal character is totally centered on God every day, and you are serving a great purpose, then every action stemming from that motivation is good. As I already said, God takes responsibility for evil people as well as good people. In some cases maybe wine or dancing would be needed to help get them out of hell. You need bait to catch a fish.</p>
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<p>Is saving souls a good purpose? Does that mean we can turn our church centers into disco halls? An important question facing us is how to deal with our present society. Would God just draw a line and say that activities like dancing automatically sentence a person to hell? In order to win disco people into heaven, God might have a heavenly disco place. Would it be good or evil for us to have a disco hall then? We could show that dance is not inherently good or evil, but can help enhance man’s understanding of God. It doesn’t have to lead to lustfulness and promiscuity. Once people taste heavenly dancing, they won’t enjoy their old disco again.</p>
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<p>Good and evil can look just the same. I am known as a religious leader, but suppose I were to organize a nationwide martial arts network that fought against street gang activity. Would it be considered evil for a religious leader to do that? Suppose God heard me making a plan to combat gangsters and organized crime this way. Would He protest that this was not a dignified activity for a holy man? Does a holy man have wings to fly around with? A holy man has the ability to convert evil people into good people.</p>
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<p>You may know that Japanese communists are among the most belligerent and violent activists anywhere. To help contain their activity I had some of our members open gun shops around Japan. We demonstrated our determination and ability to deter them. The communists were scared by this, so they started accusing me of not being a religious man but a gang leader.</p>
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<p>I investigated the modern martial arts and found they had certain deficiencies, so I researched a traditional martial art known as chung do su, or Art of Righteousness. I trained some of our young people in Japan, and with that method they were able to defeat black belts in karate after six months of training. Whenever we have Victory Over Communism rallies, the communists try to break them up. At one time they succeeded, but now that our young people know chung do su, they don’t dare interfere.</p>
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<p>If you have power and capability but you are restrained and persevering, then people respect you. People don’t follow me because of my short temper and my hatred of unrighteousness, but because I can restrain my temper and do good things. God needs good people to be His tools to restore evil people into goodness. He needs representatives here on earth to carry out His work.</p>
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<p>As you know, Soviet Russia is conducting an enormous espionage campaign, and the American CIA spies on them in turn. What is the difference between the two organizations? The Russians work for Russia’s benefit, while the Americans work to benefit America. There are also spies who infiltrate to listen to me, but their goal is not to help us build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Their goal is to find a way to stop me.</p>
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<p>My purpose this morning is to show our present position in relationship to good and evil. The understanding about what is good and what is evil is hazy in today’s world, so we need to know which side we are on. We should be able to distinguish good and evil in our world. A good man can go to the dungeons of hell for God’s purpose, but his quality and value will not be changed by doing so. The important thing is whether he goes down there to bring the people up. He may look the same as people in the evil world, but his motivation is to influence the world of evil to come back to God.</p>
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<p>The Bible says that after the Crucifixion, Jesus spent three days in hell before he ascended into Heaven. Was he still the savior during those three days? Did he go there because he was attracted by life there? He went there to bring hell into his realm, which is Heaven.</p>
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<p>Has America welcomed me? Not only was I not welcomed, but the government has tried to get rid of me. Is it good or evil that in spite of their plans I organized young people here? From the viewpoint of evil I am a bad person. Your parents dislike me the most because they think I took you away from them. Do you love me? Are you cleaning up your lives because of what I have taught you? But your parents think you are not normal because you don’t go out on dates. Which direction is easier to fulfill? Why didn’t you follow the easier instruction and get boyfriends and girl friends?</p>
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<p>How do you know I am a good man? You cannot explain it, but you feel good to be here, even though it is so early in the morning. When you don’t live up to my expectations, you feel depressed and weighed down, but when you follow them you feel light-hearted and free. If you live three years this way and then look back at your old life, you realize how much you have changed. You can think about the whole world now and mankind, not dwelling on trivial things. You have noble thinking now, and your mind has widened. You white people have changed so much that now you want to have a black husband or wife, whereas before you would hardly have considered such a thing.</p>
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<p>Is your thinking centered on gaining benefit from other people, or how to give them some benefit? It is not easy to think about how to give to other people. Why is it so good? Why doesn’t God give us something easy to do, instead of always asking hard things of us? God’s thinking is public-minded, and the other way is selfish, private-minded. When you stand on the public side you are on the good side. This has always been true-whether in the past, present or future.</p>
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<p>When you say you have good parents do you mean that they exploit you? Or do they give unconditionally to you and expect nothing back? Do good friends take advantage of you, or try to help you?</p>
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<p>That principle is illustrated here in this room. You are cramped by sitting so close together and your legs are tired by now. If you didn’t care about the other people around you, you would stretch out and lean on others so you could feel more comfortable. But instead you realize that your neighbors’ legs may be even more tired than yours, so you invite them to lean on you. Which is better-the person who stretches out and hears 100% of my speech because he is comfortable, or the cramped person who only hears 50%? The second is best because he is already living up to my words. The other person may have heard every word, but is not living it. God knows that though such a person is hearing, he is not really listening.</p>
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<p>Without clear criteria, it is difficult to judge whether some action is good or evil. There is much confusion in the world on this point. Suppose I went every day for a week to study disco dancers in order to understand them, and someone spotted me and called the newspapers. The next day it would be in the headlines. People would criticize me for making you work hard while I go enjoy myself at the disco. How would you feel upon reading such an article would you leave? Maybe you wouldn’t leave, but you would start going to discos yourself</p>
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<p>In many cases people don’t understand why I do certain things. If I make a movie, people just wonder why a religious leader spends so much money. Their viewpoint and mine are entirely different. I see that a clean-up job is needed in Hollywood and a moral revolution needs to be kindled among the youth, so if a movie will serve that purpose then it is God’s tool. I have paid much attention to Las Vegas, the gambling capital of America, because some day that has to be cleaned up too. If religious people run away from evil, who will take responsibility for cleaning it up? Who will build the Kingdom of Heaven in the evil world if they run away? Someone must face it.</p>
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<p>Many people advised me not to buy the New Yorker Hotel because it is on Eighth Avenue, but I decided to get it so we could start cleaning up that area. Do you applaud me because you feel good about this? Our beautiful sisters can learn martial arts and line up on Eighth Avenue. As soon as a man approaches to solicit them, they can put their karate into action. In this manner, Eighth Avenue would be cleaned up very quickly!</p>
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<p>I am convinced that the martial arts need to be organized in this country. In Japan there are many martial arts organizations but they fight among themselves, so I am mediating to make them a force of goodness. I did that long ago in Korea. Sometimes my reputation suffered and people insisted I was a gangster, but I accept that title on the condition that I be called a heavenly gangster. We have created a karate studio at Barrytown and Belvedere. You never heard of a seminary offering karate so that the students could combat evil. I know that our men must be ready to use their strength to protect goodness in case of emergency.</p>
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<p>I prepared myself to do any sport, and even now I am perfectly fit. Because you are Moonies you feel glad that I am pushing America, but the rest of the American people don’t like it. Whether we have a good life or not, we are going to stop America from crumbling and revive it on God’s side.</p>
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<p>What is our present position? Is the Unification Church only religious, or is it involved in everyday life? Are we still the Unification Church even when we are in the bottom of hell? We do not deal with just good people. I send you out to the worst places where people will persecute you and where evil is really working. That is our real stage. You go to worldly places for witnessing and fundraising, but actually you are spying on that world so that in a few years you will know how to save them. I am working with you to learn the reality of evil so we can have a working strategy to win.</p>
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<p>We have intelligence and experience. We get to know the evil society, and then we create a ladder for it. We must witness to people from all walks of life. You might go to Hollywood and witness to movie stars, gamblers, drinkers, for they are also part of humanity. The mere fact that we are in Las Vegas does not mean we are gamblers. Why would we go to a place of prostitution? Only to save the people there. That’s how the Unification Church thinks.</p>
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<p>Our present position is to be everywhere. First, we must be strong, arming ourselves with truth and commitment. Then we shall be champions of God who are ready to go anywhere. Suppose such a champion goes gambling and wins $100,000 every night. Many gamblers ruin their families by their compulsive gambling, so the first place all that money should be spent is to restore those people and help mend their homes. When that gambler appears before God, would he be sent to hell because he gambled? What would God’s verdict be?</p>
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<p>God’s way of thinking is revolutionary and entirely different from that of most religious people. Unless God thought in an extraordinary way, how could He dream of saving the entire world? He’s not interested in having a small heaven and a big hell. He is planning to turn the whole world around.</p>
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<p>I would like to see you becoming fabulous actors. I am also interested in creating a school to teach the best form of dancing. I am planning to create the best acting college in Hollywood, where our members can become the best film stars. They will be great movie stars, but God-centered men and women who are not swayed by temptation. You can imagine that I am thinking about many things. Many other projects that are already being fulfilled as well. In five or ten years when you see the result you will wonder when I started all that. You are simply going ahead with your responsibility now, and during that time I am doing everything.</p>
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<p>Now you realize that I am not interested in just spiritual work, but that I am creating a solution in all the smelly, crumbling areas. I am creating a solution. I am doing work which no head of state of this world can duplicate. Even in martial arts we don’t want to take second place, so we are creating our own champions. I am also planning to create sports teams, but only the best. A Moonie soccer champion will still be kicking the ball even if his leg is broken!</p>
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<p>It is my standard to excel and be number one in every area. We are interested in catching a lot of fish, and we have received criticism even for that. Last summer I set a new record in catching tuna and also for catching the biggest tuna on the East Coast. It was a huge battle to catch every tuna and bring it aboard. When the tuna was finally drawn near the boat, I was the one to harpoon it. Many people question how a religious leader could do such a thing. But I see the tuna’s blood a sacrifice to save Americans who are destined to die because of their sin. The fish will die in their place.</p>
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<p>In the Old Testament era the animals which were offered on the altar were killed by the chief priest. I offer the tuna for the sake of humanity, to help pay the debt of sin. I never, ever think I am catching tuna to help feed my family, or to earn money for them, or for sport. Whatever I am involved in, I have 100% unity with God, with total vertical harmony. If that is my attitude, then what kind of men and women do I want you to become? I want you to become central figures in all walks of life, but always God-centered people.</p>
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<p>Who is the best member on a 10-person fundraising team? It is the person who gives more service in the most sacrificial way, and who strives to make unity. The person who is always giving orders is less likely to be in that position than the person who strives to carry them out. What about the person who complains about having to do the work?</p>
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<p>When you look at yourself in the mirror, demand that your eyes repent for giving any dirty looks to people, and that your mouth repent for any harsh words it said, and your ears for wanting only to hear good things. Ask your brain if it is thinking of itself, or for God and others. A selfish mind is narrow, but a broad mind thinks for others and for the mission.</p>
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<p>What is the place of the Unification Church? We are here to take responsibility for all the bad things in America. We want to change them for the better. If we can turn the dirty, smelly places into heaven, people will have to respect us. When we bought Belvedere and East Garden, there was much criticism in the community, and people felt the town was losing its beautiful landmarks. But now they see that we are doing a beautiful job of taking care of these properties. Our philosophy is to get a piece of property and make it better.</p>
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<p>America is crumbling because most people think they will take responsibility only for good things. No one is interested in improving the bad areas. If God is truly determined to save the world then will He deal only with good people, or will He go to the worst possible place as well? It is a simple philosophy: if the worst place can be changed into heaven, then everything else is taken care of.</p>
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<p>When I came to America I said I would help all the people who were struggling with problems, whether free sex, drugs, family problems, whatever. In 1975 Barrytown was a training center for members from all over the country. Whenever I visited the leaders they would wail about how many low-standard people were smoking marijuana and stealing, worrying that this was not how a training center should be run. But I told them if America didn’t have so many such people, then I wouldn’t be here. I came to America to help save those people.</p>
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<p>Many of you were in trouble in the past, like human trash, with no goal in life. Today you are revolutionaries, completely turned around. You will receive more and more assistance as spirit world intervenes to help people overcome temptation. There is a story about one chain smoker who heard Principle and decided to join. But he just couldn’t overcome his desire for smoking, and would sneak out for cigarettes. One day he sneaked out and put a cigarette in his mouth and then his whole chest throbbed with pain. He exclaimed to himself, “I never knew smoking was that painful!” And then he could quit.</p>
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<p>One person wanted to be a member and follow God’s way, but had a hard time overcoming his drinking habit. One day he had a drink secretly and then hiccupped all day long, advertising that he had been drinking. The Unification Church is a mysterious place where things like this happen. Without knowing about spirit world, people think there is brainwashing going on here because they hear about things like this. They can’t understand how such drastically good changes in people’s lives can happen otherwise.</p>
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<p>Another mysterious thing is that even if you leave the Unification Church you cannot extract the Principle from your mind, and you will see it working everywhere. Then you have to come back. We are really turned around. There are couples who were living fallen lives in the world, but then they realized God was working in the Unification Church and joined. Then for seven years until they were blessed they had no physical relationship with each other, even though some of them still shared the same bed. Was I spying on them to make sure they did that?</p>
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<p>This is why we can confidently say that we can change the world. Our job is to be responsible for the worst situation. When you get a mission in a terrible place, would you say that even though you love me, you simply can’t do such a mission? Is your love conditional? If you really feel that the Unification Church is created for saving this world, you will ask what is the most troubling, difficult mission and then volunteer to go there.</p>
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<p>What is the worst problem in the world today? Why is it communism? God is the living Father of mankind. If someone tells your children that you don’t even exist, and your children deny you are their parent, how do you feel? When you realize that that person is telling your children to deny you simply so he can destroy them, then that person is truly your enemy.</p>
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<p>This analogy applies to communism. It says that there is no such thing as God, so communism will be the master and ruler of mankind. God is our Father, but communism is trying to throw Him out the window. Therefore, communism is the greatest evil in the world. The Unification Church has declared a war against communism in the name of God, and saying, “We know God.” I have truly won the reputation of being the greatest enemy of communism, and the communists know this better than anyone.</p>
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<p>We are making a movie about General MacArthur, and so far there has been no publicity about it in the free world. But the communist press has already accused it of distorting history. Kim Il Sung even sponsored a week of rallies against the movie. The State Department and Pentagon are very naive and never think what the communist motive might be in trying to stop that film; instead they tiptoe around, trying to be careful. The communists know very well who their most threatening challenger is, and they know the impact this film can have on them.</p>
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<p>The Japanese communists thought they could deceive the world, but they fear the Unification Church and Reverend Moon because they know we cannot be deceived. We created a committee in Japan for the study of communism. Thinking we were promoting communism, they came to listen to us, but then they found out exactly how wrong they were and since then they have opposed us. We have mastered communist theory. Communists have studied the Principle so they can rebut it, but they are confused by our emphasis on spiritual values and spirit world. They cannot master the Principle!</p>
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<p>A letter was received in one of our Japanese centers from someone who had been a prominent member and had left. He confessed he had been sent by the communist party to study the Principle and develop a complete rebuttal. But he said he realized Divine Principle was the truth, and his conscience wouldn’t permit him to stay and spy any longer. So he wished good luck to the church, and finally left. What can the communists do if their spies are converted by us?</p>
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<p>Without question the worst problem faced by the world today is communism. How can we win against it-with fists? No, only with the word of God, and the heart of love. The communists believe that the end justifies the means, and that if a lie is repeated enough it will become the truth. We must teach them that truth is always truth and a lie is a lie. We have become the most formidable organization working against communism. Our International Federation for Victory Over Communism is working in Asia, Europe, and America and will weaken international communism.</p>
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<p>This summer our CARP members were working at the University of Southern California. A communist youth group staged a rally with about 500 people to demonstrate against Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. Only 80 of our members were there, led by Tiger Park. He told the members to stand back and watch him. He strode up to that opposition rally and challenged the leader to come out for a showdown. The group fought among themselves over whether the leader should go out or not. Tiger Park grabbed one of the organizers in front and held up his clenched fist and asked him, “Do you see my fist?” In the face of this determined confrontation the rally melted away. We are winning a fearsome reputation among communist youth in the world.</p>
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<p>The second worst crisis for God in the world today is the weakening of Christianity. It should have been God’s main force but in the last two decades it has rapidly declined, so it needs to be revived. Today Christian churches are mostly recreation halls with bingo and dances.</p>
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<p>We not only teach our own members at the Unification Theological Seminary, but we also invite eminent theologians from all over the country to visit. We offer them an open invitation to study Unification Theology and question it and criticize it. Many theologians thought the Unification Church had no theory, and thought they would teach us about theology, but everyone who comes to Barrytown is amazed that we have such a deep teaching.</p>
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<p>We are qualified for accreditation to offer a Masters degree, but because of government harassment we have not received it from the State of New York. But so many visiting scholars have seen the quality of our school that our students are accepted by many leading universities into their Ph.D. programs-this includes Harvard, Yale, Drew, University of Chicago, and so forth. The students and some of the faculty at these universities are shocked that Moonies are enrolling there, and they are very curious. But after a while our students win their respect, and now are demonstrating their leadership abilities.</p>
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<p>Our students are making their professors study again. If they don’t come to class prepared, our students challenge them with sharp questions. If they don’t want to be embarrassed, the professors have to study ahead of time! Now we have conducted Unification theology seminars for leading theologians at 18 different universities, with our students presiding over the visiting professors. This is unheard of at those schools. These famous professors are the heads of the intellectual communities in their areas. We are attempting to turn the heads of the academic world so the body will also turn.</p>
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<p>Without really knowing what is going on, some ministers warn people not to mingle with the Unification Church, but we are confident that we have the commitment to revive the established churches. The louder the ministers shout against us, the more young people drift away because those ministers have no power. Do you have confidence you can revive Christianity?</p>
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<p>Now our seminars are being offered to the legal profession. Soon I want to organize a judicial federation as an arm to crack down on communism when it violates basic human rights. In a few years we will have our own Ph.D.’s. They are graduating from seminaries of many denominations, and because they are well grounded in these theologies as well as the Divine Principle, no one will be able to compete with them. Established Christian churches have always tried to destroy the Unification Church, but we have never attacked. We are only trying to revive them.</p>
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<p>The third greatest problem of the world is the moral decline, particularly among youth. Who will clear it up? Do you have confidence we can do it? This problem has been Satan’s best weapon so far in stopping the realization of the heavenly kingdom, but all three of these problems operate in conjunction with each other. The communists work to corrupt the youth, promoting drug traffic and encouraging immorality by proclaiming it as a “right.” The Unification Church has a confident answer for all this, and we are not just talking about it, but acting on it.</p>
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<p>So far we have proven we can prevail over communism and revive Christianity, and now we are tackling the moral problem. Unification theory is being taught in all walks of life in Japan. I have been misunderstood and hated by the powers of the world, but this lonely man has proven that God’s solution works. We must work harder than the communists. We should be burning with greater zeal than Christian leaders, and living with God-centered morals. If we are no better than the people we are trying to change, how can we say we will save them?</p>
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<p>My strategy is to reach young people under 30 and teach them heavenly discipline, training them to tackle these problems of the world and win. We can travel from one side of the world to another. If our Japanese Church hears that we need 100 members here, they will arrive the next day. If I ask you to leave for Europe or Africa tomorrow, you will. We cover the entire world, but we are one movement, one family. Our stage is the entire universe, but our minds are even bigger. We will solve all these three problem areas, liberating America, the world, and ultimately liberating God. Have you ever thought we would liberate God, instead of God liberating us?</p>
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<p>We will take over God’s mission so He will have nothing to do except watch. You may be sitting here on a cold concrete floor, but you have the confidence that when you move, America and the world will move. I come from humble origins in the Korean countryside, but I am telling America that I will move this nation. When I go to Britain, it doesn’t even take six months for the whole country to begin talking about me. The government knew that nationwide controversy would start with my arrival, so they tried to keep me away. They didn’t know, however, that there are many small Reverend Moon there who will also stir up heavenly trouble!</p>
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<p>Whether I am here at East Garden or away in the mountains, if I give a direction would you act on it at once? If I told 1,000 of you to surround the White House, fasting and praying for 40 days, would you do it? My way is not the communist way, but God’s way. We have the power to do anything, but disciplined by God’s spirit, so our way cannot go wrong. We will tackle each task fearlessly and boldly, and we will flourish.</p>
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<p>If you have a black husband or wife, you feel you can be a savior to Africa, a true father or mother to that continent. If you have an inter-racial marriage you can be greater than me because that is one thing I haven’t done. I want you to have that credential, and be proud for that.</p>
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<p>You can tell God to watch you liberate Him. Unless you make noise, how will God know you are doing anything? You have to tell America what you are up to, or it will not pay attention. Why has America reacted so strongly to me? It is because I have such a fervent interest in this country. This nation can’t help but respond.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t matter whether I live for many more years or die now, as long as you become junior Reverend Moons. You can have the confidence to turn this nation upside down for God. Can you do it? A little sister on the front line must have confidence that even though she is unknown, when she stands up, America will also stand up and be saved. Make your minds big like God’s mind and fill them with life and love. Wherever you go, life and love will overflow. Moonies are powerhouses, intense and hot, and when our circuits are hooked up the world has to jump.</p>
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<p>Why did you come here instead of staying with your own families? Many members are wondering how they ended up here because they are scared to move forward and scared to stay put. I feel sorry for them. There is no such thing as two ways- there is only one choice and that is to go forward. The Unification Church way of life is not just ours, but the universal way of life and God’s way of life. If a spanking is inevitable, you might as well get it over with and let other people be inspired by your example.</p>
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<p>Maybe you like the Unification Church but have decided you still don’t like people of other races. Is that your position? White and black make a beautiful mixture. When you are teaching someone, you should feel you want to convert them into the best possible man or woman. To do that you must make a wholehearted investment. Am I investing myself in America? In every respect I am investing totally-materially and economically, of course, but most importantly, with spirit and heart. I am holding nothing back.</p>
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<p>You are either here to take advantage of me or to be directed by me. Which one? That means you are willing to respond to my call? If your lips say yes, do your eyes bear witness and your heart echo it? You are willing to be directed by me because you know it will be used for the purpose of God and mankind for salvation. You welcome that, don’t you?</p>
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<p>I tell you to live and die for the sake of your country because otherwise America will not be saved. That determination means you will give everything, without reservation, for the sake of this country. The person who is ready to die doesn’t care about hunger, lack of sleep, or hard work. As long as he is still alive, how can he complain? Suppose you are martyred. Would you wonder how that could happen to you and complain that you worked so hard while I lived in East Garden?</p>
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<p>You are a different person now. You can tell the sun that you are here to liberate God. If you climb to the top of a mountain, you can say you are the first one to climb that hill with the heart of liberating God and the world, and the mountain will know you are its friend. When I first came to America I went to every state and dedicate a holy ground, offering a special prayer. I told nature at each place that I would be back, and I could feel the creation welcoming and cherishing me. The entire universe will be your friend.</p>
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<p>Will you ever be lonely? If you are in chains in jail, you will not be lonely if the entire universe is your friend. When you are a dynamo of the spirit of God, even if you don’t say anything, still people will be brought by spirit world to comfort you. Have you seen me in dreams and visions? If you live this life 100% then you will be like me. Your position and place is that of a master, not a servant.</p>
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<p>When you are witnessing or fundraising you feel hope to convert this nation. In years to come many people will seek your advice and you can influence the leaders of this nation. That is a realistic hope as long as you live this way. Today we have churches in 127 countries, but think of 25 years ago when I was living in a mud hut in Pusan, talking about these very things. The people listening thought I was really crazy.</p>
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<p>Now that I am saying these things at Belvedere no one thinks I am crazy. You can see hope, and you know this is the only alternative remaining for the nation and the world. My crazy words turned out to be true. You are persecuted now, but in time you will be honored by the world, and leaders of nations will invite you to come help them. Will you start working when that times comes, or will you start now?</p>
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<p>Today is the day to begin, here in New York in your home church area. Will you be a freight car or a locomotive? A locomotive is smoky, hot, and noisy, so everywhere you go, there will be noise and smoke and controversy. You have to receive persecution; that is our daily diet. People may think you are weird and they are curious about how you live. That curiosity is a good thing and through people’s interest you will become famous. Then you can exercise more influence for God.</p>
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<p>My name is well known, isn’t it? Even elementary school children know my name. When my 11th child was born, it was announced by all the wire services and all the major newspapers.</p>
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<p>Whether they like me or denounce me, no one ignores me. Among Moonies I am the best man, but among anti-Moonies I am the worst man on earth. Who is right?</p>
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<p>I knew that I would prevail even without your help, but with you it is much easier. Will you be defeated or victorious? Our mission is to liberate God. It is the most difficult mission. You may shed much sweat and blood, yet feel you haven’t done enough. Even when you give every possible service, you still feel you have not done enough. Do you think God will embrace you, saying, “My child, I know you love me and I love you”? If you drop from total exhaustion, God will embrace you, and in the dark of night even your dirty hands will glow. You will experience many mysterious things.</p>
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<p>A pious son wants to take over his parents’ difficulties and liberate them. A loyal subject takes over the problems of the kingdom, sacrificing himself to solve them. What is the starting point? It is the point of love and truth. You have to know what is good and what is evil. If you know it, then you will act on it.</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="2018-06-19T14:49:19+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/record-setter-of-history.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:49:19+01:00">June 19, 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>Whenever a champion enters a contest or major competition, his foremost desire is to set a new record. For example, in the Olympic games all the contestants go hoping to set a new record. To do so they have to follow all the rules and regulations set forth by the Olympic committee. A new record cannot be set just by doing things at random, but only within strictly disciplined limits. No matter how capable an athlete you may be, the moment you violate any rules not only the judging committee but all the other participants as well will rule against you. The judges will disqualify you and you will lose your chance. That is the most fundamental thing a champion must remember-he must obey all the rules of any competition.</p>
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<p>Sometimes the rules change and then you have to understand and obey the new rules. All competition heads toward the matching of better and better contestants.</p>
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<p>When we talk about records, the first thing that comes to mind is athletic games, but actually there are far greater competitions going on at higher levels. Nations are competing with each other in world affairs, and we can also consider each nation as one stadium where competitions are being held. Do you think there are rules on all those levels as well?</p>
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<p>Certainly the people of each nation must follow the rules, and not only that, but follow tradition as well. A nation can set a record among other nations, but to do so it must clearly abide by the rules of international competitions; it must be recognized and respected by a multitude of other nations. In this game different nations are champions while mankind are the spectators, with God acting as the judge or referee. In our world today there are two ideologies in competition-democracy and communism. It is an invisible, yet bitter battle between the two.</p>
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<p>We can see confrontation and competition in every area of our lives. In America here we see on-going political competition between the political parties trying to win power in government. Here again, certain rules must be followed. In every arena of competition there is a law, a kind of covenant which clearly sets forth the goal and is derived from the tradition of the past. This phenomenon is everywhere-in government, schools, families, every facet of our lives.</p>
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<p>In order to become the greatest champion you begin as a small competitor, starting in local competitions, then state, then regional, before you enter national competition. That is the way champions are selected. I can draw an important conclusion here, that our lives and careers are always exposed to some kind of competition. That’s life. We eat and sleep and handle mundane things every day, but in addition we are each engaged in some kind of competition. Your eating and sleeping is for the purpose of maintaining your well-being so that you can be a winner. Who is going to be a victorious person who sets the record?</p>
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<p>The ultimate competition is that of life. If there is a way to win that competition, it is the ultimate, and for that goal we should be able to give all kinds of sacrifice. In that competition we want to be victorious and set the record. Which direction should we go? What will our strategy be?</p>
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<p>Suppose there is a competition in track; the fastest man cannot win if he runs anywhere else except the track because no one will acknowledge his accomplishment. The way you want to do things is unimportant because the rules are all-important. Each champion is required to run around the track. Perhaps one contestant might think he is clever and plan to run across the track instead of around it. Some people in our world think about how to get around the rules and snatch the victory and they ridicule those who follow the rules and do things the hard but legitimate way.</p>
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<p>How many in America are trying faithfully to abide by the rules? Many people in America today lead lawless lives and they see no reason to abide by the laws or put up with authority figures, like parents and teachers. People have come by this wrong idea by thinking that they have freedom from any restraints. They want to know why they aren’t recognized as the victors, but theirs isn’t the logical way of doing things is it?</p>
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<p>Unless you abide by the rules of the school, you cannot pass your courses and no one will give you credit. Competition in life is just the same. In school you may complain about required reading or tough homework; you feel the pressure of measuring up to regulations and getting a good report card. You may feel as though you are being hung by the system, imprisoned by it, but actually your liberation comes when you fulfill triumphantly, not by avoiding it but by confronting it. Then you are free and the school, the teachers and even the books will welcome you.</p>
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<p>In school the teachers, the dean, the other students are all competitive, yet you can truly achieve the level where people can’t help but recognize you for your accomplishments. That is real liberation in school. Without that accomplishment there is no freedom and you will always be under pressure.</p>
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<p>Where can we truly find human freedom? Freedom can only come after the requirements are fulfilled. Freedom comes within discipline, within the law. It is not abuse or license. There is law everywhere: If you disregard nature’s laws, you will die; this nation is governed by law; the world is under law. Therefore, you will be triumphant in freedom when you triumph within that law, not outside of it. The law is the most common sense direction. For example, there is a certain way a spoon is to be used. If you use it right side up it is useful, but if you turn it upside down or on end it won’t be any good. There is a common sense way to use a spoon well.</p>
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<p>The law is always seeking the optimum situation. In history that optimum law continues and is universal, needed by everyone. There is no law that prevents you from blinking your eyes. It is nature’s necessity. Yet there is an optimum way of blinking the eyes, perhaps a certain number of times a minute. Then there is a way of blinking too much that is detrimental. Even in such a small thing it is noticeable when someone does something outside the law. In everything there is an optimum way, even in breathing. There is an optimum way to listen; no particular facial expression is required. How you sit can also be evaluated, as well as how you dress. There are certain rules to follow. The law is not there to harass you but to guide you to the ideal situation.</p>
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<p>Sometimes we resent the law, but in this perspective is law a necessity? Liberation always comes through fulfillment of the law. With the fulfillment of family law, for instance, you shall be liberated centered upon the family. Some people might wonder why they need parents or brothers or sisters, or why they have to sleep in a bed instead of anywhere they choose. That attitude will eventually bring that person to destruction. The man who tries to live like that would never even think of setting a new record, and even if he did, no one would recognize it or give him credit. Even a mechanical device moves precisely as it is designed to do, following certain principles.</p>
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<p>Here in America some people claim to be patriots and champions of the nation. The patriot is a law-abiding person, not the one who disregards the law as being too clumsy. Without even knowing the laws, can you claim to be a good citizen? If you actually try to live up to every article of the U.S. Legal code, you could spend your whole lifetime just trying to understand it. What I mean here is the spirit of the law, the attitude that by following certain principles everyone can be benefited, not just individuals.</p>
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<p>The law always follows certain patterns based on experiences of the past, moving in the direction which benefits the most people. When we look at the behavior of Americans today, we see that most of them are ill with “excess freedom.” They are freedom-crazy. Will anyone say that is not true? No matter how prominent or exceptional you try to make yourself, if you don’t understand the true spirit of freedom or the true meaning of tradition, whatever record of accomplishment you make will have no purpose. For America to truly enjoy freedom, each individual must be disciplined in the law of the nation. If a person is triumphant in that way then he will truly set a new record.</p>
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<p>Our life is already a competition, so we must learn how best to engage in that art. First, we must acknowledge the past and its tradition. Also, we must recognize the necessity of the present time and recognize a certain vision that can be welcomed by the future. These three conditions must be met. What is the central game or event in the Olympic Games? What is the most spectacular game? There is no question about it: The Olympic marathon is always the central game, in the past, present and future. A marathon is the longest race, so is it easy or tough to run? It would be easy to cover the distance in a helicopter, but to win the race you have to cover every inch of ground on foot. There is a common definition of why the marathon is spectacular, why it is recognized as a great achievement. In it a person has to give his own sweat and labor for a great distance. To run that race is a great strain, and people have died attempting it.</p>
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<p>What is our marathon in life? Again, it requires going the longest distance against the toughest odds. In our arena of life competition there must be some central event. Philosophy is one area, sport another; the cultural and academic worlds and field of religion are also areas. Each of them is a game in life. Which of these goes the longest distance? Christianity has talked about the coming of Christ for 2,000 years and still it is not known how many more years it will take. Truly the religious arena involves the longest distance.</p>
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<p>Is the religious way of life an easy way? In religious competition the regulations are stringent. For example, you have to fast, endure suffering, be humble and avoid temptations. Religious competition seems totally apart from common sense. For instance, Jesus said, “Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” What kind of dilemma is that? Many people just cannot put up with it. People may look like slaves under religious rules.</p>
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<p>God knows that He imposed the toughest of all rules in religious competition, but He is doing so because He has to select one champion. Will He pick one politician or academic? God must pick from the toughest arena of all areas of human life, which is religion.</p>
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<p>Does anyone like religion? You are crazy; that’s why you like it! You live only one life on earth so it is an acceptable desire to want to go the toughest course and meet the toughest challenge of all. As ambitious young men and women, what area would you prefer to set records in? We recognize that religion is the arena that everyone must ultimately participate in.</p>
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<p>Suppose this circle is the globe. We are heading toward the highest pinnacle, starting from all directions and going out. Some people may come close, but miss by a few inches and then have to go all the way around again to try. The person going this route doesn’t see the overall picture, just the same angle and height, so even if he reaches the top he may not realize it. So far no explorer has gone over the entire planet to make a map with clear directions to the pinnacle. Without clearly defining their goal, many people just keep walking, wasting their lives.</p>
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<p>Human ambition is a great thing. For instance, many people deeply desire to climb the tallest mountains. Recently two ambitious Korean climbers wanted to climb Mt. McKinley; they made it to the top, but on the way down they met with disaster and were killed. They came all the way from Korea to die on Mt. McKinley!</p>
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<p>Because religion has not given man a clear map or course, mankind has suffered tremendous harm in seeking to fulfill religious ambitions. Without knowing the goal clearly many people made attempts to reach the pinnacle but died along the way. Do we have to give up religion because of that? No, because religion is man’s ultimate destiny. Can you eliminate the marathon from the Olympics simply because it is so tough? If so, the Olympics will no longer be exciting. There is no question that the religious field is tough, and because of that the world’s people ultimately must be interested in religion.</p>
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<p>What arena are you in? Did you come here to make money, or to be a famous politician or to get married? You are actually champions in this toughest of all arenas in life. We have clearly defined the goal so that we shall not falter but go on to set the new record. New champions always emerge to surpass the records of the past, and the same is true in religion. What past saints and prophets have said is not the ultimate statement of faith so we look forward to a new record being set. Therefore, we are inheriting the record and tradition of the past, as well as recognizing the present, and going forward to set the record that will remain in the future.</p>
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<p>There is no other church or religion that has inherited the past more perfectly than this one. For example, the Bible records an account of the fall, but many contemporary religions regard the fall as nonsense. Yet we absolutely know that it did happen, and not only that, but how it took place. We recognize everyone in the Bible-Adam, Noah, Abraham-as well as internal things about the dispensation that are not even explained in the Bible. We know precisely what happened. There is no doubt that the Unification Church has absolutely inherited the tradition of the past. History is on our back; we stand on the foundation of the history of God.</p>
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<p>We know many hidden secrets about what went wrong in the past, such as the failures of the central figures which the Bible does not explain. Therefore, we know precisely why certain faiths and religions failed in the past. By knowing this we have a new set of tools which will not fail us. There are many scholars and theologians who concentrated their study on the Old Testament, but when we ask them certain questions they have no answers; yet we know the answers, which are only common sense.</p>
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<p>It is a natural conclusion that the Unification Church has a most authentic historical inheritance. The New Testament is also a book of mystery, but we have brought it into the sunlight, explaining the mission of Jesus, how he came, and what he tried to do. We know in what way the New Testament dispensation was not completed, that Jesus came to marry, not to die as a single man. These things are so shocking to conventional Christians that they practically have heart attacks hearing us, but when you come to the bottom line, who has the most realistic view of the situation? Our proclamation today is so drastic and dramatic that millions of Christians around the world look at us as heretics. Which view is more faithful to the Bible and to the will of God? Our philosophy and belief is certainly the one.</p>
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<p>The tenth anniversary of the moon walk is coming shortly, and people are thinking all the time about it. There are many philosophically-minded people in the world today, and they are all caught in one universal disease, which we call moon-phobia. Already people look at you as an extension of Reverend Moon. Are you?</p>
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<p>We are not in politics or economics, but in the religious arena. Are we in an exciting or dull game? Are we the winners in the competition with contemporary Christianity? We are running in the marathon with the Christians of the world. They are accustomed to resting when they are tired and eating when they are hungry, but we take the kitchen and water tank right along with us so we don’t have to stop. The conventional religious way of thinking is that the preacher preaches and the congregation pays his salary, but the Unification Church doesn’t work that way. We create our own money and resources, and in the process I have accumulated many titles by starting work in many areas.</p>
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<p>We are talking about a new game with new in a new arena. The old ways will not work in this new arena so we have custom-made our way of doing things for the new. We are determined not to be defeated but to be victorious in the religious Olympics. We have been called heretics, but even those name-callers cannot disregard us. Even while they are accusing us they are learning our methods. It is common sense that all the runners in a race as well as the spectators focus on who is in the lead because they want to beat him.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church has definitely inherited the traditions of the past and we have also devised a realistic way of doing things. We are not in the clouds but on solid ground. We also have a realistic future vision of how to bring down the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and we are not just talking about it but living it. What is it? Home church.</p>
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<p>Many people in the religious arena are going in circles at random but we are going in a straight line, like an arrow to the bulls-eye. Did God say that one of the rules was that the champion in the religious arena had to be a white man? Must he also be an American citizen, or adhere to the democratic way of doing things? Or did God leave the door wide open so anyone can participate in this most difficult of marathons?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is a spiritual athlete in this toughest game. What will the trophy be? The love of God is the ultimate reward. We alone in the Unification Church are talking about the heart of God, the love of God for the world, nation, family and individual. Suppose the winner of the marathon was an American. When he entered heaven I am sure he would go first to the treasure house where the jewels are stored. Another champion might go first to the world of culture and the arts. Another champion might go first to the dining room, while yet another might look for the department store and wardrobe room to get all the things he lacked on earth.</p>
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<p>When the Unification Church runner enters that world, where will he go? You said he would go to the heart of God, and you know the heart of God is not in any of those places I mentioned. God has suffered so much that He is down in some storage room in the basement of heaven. If you found the heart of God in a corner covered with dirt and dust, what would you do? When you find Him there would you give a shout of Mansei in excitement, or cry out to find that the heart of God was burdened with so much suffering?</p>
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<p>Then you would say, “Heavenly Father, don’t worry; now your child is here. Let me escort you out so you can really sit on your throne and receive joy from the world. I will make it happen. I didn’t come to receive glory from you, but to liberate you and ease your sorrowful heart. Since your heart has been suffering, the entire world has been suffering. I come to liberate your heart and in turn liberate the world.”</p>
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<p>If you are a champion with that kind of goal and heart, do you feel you are going toward the noblest of all? Can you think of any higher goal than that? We are motivated and challenged for this purpose and goal, and there is nothing we cannot do; we can give all our money, our lives, any suffering necessary. We are a group of people gathered together who are crazy for God. Indeed, if you enter heaven in any but this way then there will be still more competition to go through. But when you set the liberation of God’s heart as your goal there is no higher place to go. Ultimately that is the highest.</p>
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<p>I am motivated to achieve this goal and my will is of iron. No matter how people treat me, I am unswerving in this goal. I thought this conclusion out on my own, but do you think I was smart or dull? You came here to join, so are you smart or not? Are you better than me or less so? God keeps telling me that I think of things even He does not think of. God is asking me to be like that, and you as well. I am determined to do something that God could not do, and I am asking you to do things that I could not do. Would you smart men and women accept that challenge?</p>
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<p>If other people sleep two hours, would you sleep only one hour? Normally people who try to drive after not sleeping at night will nod off at the wheel, but we are challenged by this extraordinary task and we will never sleep. We see the bulls-eye of God’s love so clearly that there is no moment we can be dull and sleepy. Since this is the moment of competition, how can we let up? In a boxing match your opponent could jab you at any moment so you must be alert to any eventuality. The arrow flying toward the target doesn’t care what anyone is saying.</p>
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<p>Now nearly all of you are matched, and I can see that most of you still haven’t come back to earth yet. If you got the perfect match then do a perfect job to deserve it. You and your fiancee have to inspire each other, competing with each other and with other engaged couples. Life is a competition, after all. Will you accept the challenge? Are you fortunate to be in the Unification Church?</p>
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<p>How many years will it take for you to win the marathon? Three, ten? Even for the unbeatable Reverend Moon it took sixty years to cover the course and still I have not finished the race. Last night after graduation at the seminary I took all the leaders fishing. It was in the midst of a thunderstorm and we were cramped in a little boat. Even though they didn’t say this, inside they were probably thinking, “What kind of Father are you? Can’t you have even one day to rest?” Even though I gave Col. Pak permission to be with his family that day and Col. Han didn’t go because he had only dress clothes to wear, I told them that really those were not acceptable reasons.</p>
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<p>What does it matter if it is night or day once you are going toward this challenge? Would you prefer a leader with absolute determination, regardless? It is normal to rest after a day’s work, to have meals at mealtime and to sleep at night. But here our standard is to keep going for all 365 days. That is not acceptable to many people, but would you do it? Do you like my type of leadership?</p>
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<p>You never hear me praising or complimenting anyone. I only push them harder. Do you like it? Why? Each time you are pushed by me you are going farther toward the goal, even though it is painful. If I am coming at night or at a difficult hour to see you, you may flee but under any circumstances don’t complain. The place to hide is home church.</p>
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<p>What are we going to do? I want you to understand that the Unification Church is here to set the record, and in order to set the record you have to live in an abnormal way and go an incredible distance. There are two worlds of East and West today, and the Orientals want me to win big but the Western world is trying to push me down. There is a competition between the two worlds centering on me. Many governmental agencies are investigating us, which is a sign of how the Western world feels about me, wanting me to decrease. Even you are skeptical sometimes-you may cheer me, but then when you look around and see that the rest of the country is not cheering, you feel doubtful. Whether America recognizes it or not, historical events are happening now. Why has this one individual become so controversial? Why are people so apprehensive about me? This kind of phenomenon is new to America.</p>
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<p>Where do we go? To our pinnacle. How far away are we? Soon Americans will change and come to confess that they have evaluated all the other possible ways but they didn’t succeed, and the only way of hope is Reverend Moon’s way. Do you think that day will come soon? Do we have the capability to present hope to America? 10% or 100%? If America continues as it is will America decline or prosper? Would you Leave it alone?</p>
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<p>First you have to apply the brake. The 240 million people of America must be stopped, then turned around and headed toward the goal. Have you ever thought that sparks and heat will start flying when the brake is applied? Do you want to go first and have the brake applied on your back, or wait until next in line? Who will be the young people who can apply the brake 24 hours a day?</p>
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<p>In the religious arena I want to be the champion. Who of you in the Unification Church wants to become the champion? Sometimes you are exuberant and answer me enthusiastically, but many times your answer turns out to be a lie. We need money and people to move America, but is the government going to provide the budget? Some rich foundation? No, they regard us as their enemies, so we will trade our blood for the money. Some people may worry about the social courtesies and their reputations, but who will worry about America’s decline? America’s future is more valuable than any of those things.</p>
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<p>If we are too late to save America then the Unification Church is also part of America’s defeat. I want you to understand that our survival is directly linked to the survival of America; we must survive for the sake of America. America’s survival is vital because it means the survival of the free world. In the free world Korea will remain as well. If you think that the communists would not kill you if they had the chance then you don’t understand the reality of communism. That kind of consequence is not far away.</p>
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<p>The ultimate confrontation over the champion ship is being waged now. In Japan we have won heated confrontations with the communists. Here in America we are confronting the churches as well as communism, and we will never avoid it. We are runners, and though we may feel suffocated at the moment, we keep running for we are in the marathon race.</p>
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<p>We are not spectators, but participate in the race as champions. I am determined to be the champion in the arena of religion in history, determined to be a champion in the arena of the Unification Church. Ultimately the heart of God is our goal, and I want to liberate Him. Once you set that kind of record, it is the alpha and omega, and when God blesses such people, it brings consummation, completion.</p>
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<p>When a person occupies love, he occupies all other authority and dignity as well. The record-setter is the kind of person God and history are looking at. God is expecting you to become one who sets the record, so this is a one-in-a-million opportunity. I am now investing much energy in the fishing industry and I am determined to make it successful. When you see my desire, you should put your shoulders to the job to be a champion in that arena. I would like to see all the seminarians and church leaders go for sea duty for one and a half years. At this time there is no master or host who is claiming or leading the American fishing industry because this is one arena God carved out and saved for the heavenly dispensation.</p>
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<p>What if I supply sufficient fish and say that Unification Church members will eat nothing else for six months, not even bread? We will give all the good fish to the trade and eat the leftovers ourselves. Will God say we shouldn’t eat just the leftovers, or will He be touched? Who do we suffer for? For God and humanity. By doing it we are covering God with an invisible net, making Him our prisoner. All you have to do then is pull that net and God will have to follow you.</p>
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<p>Did anyone in history ever have this kind of thinking and ideology? Look at me. All this time many people through the country have been trying to destroy or discredit me-in Korea, Japan and America-but I have survived and am still going strong. That in itself is a miracle. You think you do the Unification Church work, but in reality it is the spiritual world acting. All you have to do is set the condition. You are here as a remnant, not out of your own goodness, but because of spiritual pressure and guidance in dreams or visions. Does existing Christianity have such things? There is an amazing power behind us pulling us into oneness.</p>
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<p>You have entered the competition in this arena now. Would you run with your full might, or only half-heartedly? Our Unification Church freedom is not just that of eating or sleeping and doing things as we like. Your real freedom comes through our victorious achievement, and then you will receive recognition that you are free. Before heaven and earth you will present yourself as the victor who won the race within the heavenly discipline and law. You strive to become a champion in this situation so that you can set a better record than anyone else, one which will command the respect of the people. Then you can be a victorious person before heaven and earth.</p>
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<p>You men who think you are pretty smart, strong and capable, raise your hands. Now you confident women raise your hands. None? By worldly standards we may not be attractive or ideal, but we are applying to be champions of highest quality. Once you win this race, all the good men and women of the world will come bow down to you, however imperfect you may be. That is the kind of authority you will be given once you finish the race. Many women in particular agonize over their faces but that is useful thinking in the sense that they can turn that energy into service, into giving an additional kick to themselves. “My shortcomings will all be overcome when I set a record,” they think. That’s why God is sending ugly men and women to the Unification Church!</p>
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<p>Since we are already lowly people here, we have nothing to lose. The amazing thing is that with this kind of attitude once you hang on until the end you shall be gloriously triumphant, a record-setter. We have records in witnessing, in MFT, in many arenas. I want you to be champions in your specific area. When we gather the record-breakers together to work we can set American records. Our combined effort will do that. I used to feel that Col. Pak was really pushing you for home church and I liked that, but nowadays Col. Pak is too gentle and not pushing enough. You can’t complain because I am commissioning him to push you, and the purpose is for you to become record-setters.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is here to be a champion and God is depending upon you. God wants you to set records on the universal scale, not just in one nation or organization.</p>
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<p>Today is July 1, which usually falls on a Sunday. Those who will become record-setters, raise your hands. I want you to become record-breakers in every way. You can even set a record in eating, but at the same time you can fast more than anyone else. Even in sleeping set the record, all month long, but then stay awake all month and work. Set a record in putting on makeup-white people use black makeup and black people use white makeup. In sleeping don’t lie down in an ordinary way but lift your leg up in the air. When you sleep plug up your nose and don’t breathe the way ordinary people do. In the bathroom set the record for the shortest possible time, or sit down and stay all day long.</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="2018-06-19T14:45:28+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/reflection-upon-life.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:45:28+01:00">June 19, 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>The meaning of my topic this morning is to turn around and evaluate life.</p>
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<p>Today is June 1. Now summer is practically here and all of nature is ready. When you come to Belvedere you might look at that one big tree outside here and remark at how big a tree it is. When you go into a garden the special characteristics of some trees catch your attention, especially if one is particularly tall or colorful. Even in nature, however, it is very difficult to find something that is perfectly beautiful. It is not a simple thing because there must be arrangement and tremendous effort made to create and present that beauty.</p>
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<p>There is man-made beauty and natural beauty, but beauty created in the natural way is more difficult. A big oak tree began as a small acorn and during the many years that passed while the tree grew large many sacrifices and contributions were made; the tree absorbed many elements in order to grow. Before that big tree can ever command respect as a great tree, it must realize that many elements and circumstances were combined to make it all possible. It is a heartistic necessity that before he feels himself great he must bow down to those elements which made his greatness possible.</p>
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<p>If that tree can be grateful and humble before the elements which made him great then all those elements would respect him for knowing his position. Then they would be glad to give even more elements. Even the little blades of grass in the tree’s shade would not complain that the tree gets all the sun, but would decide just to live with it because the tree is grateful. Both internal and external elements combine at great sacrifice to make that one tree.</p>
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<p>What would happen if suddenly the sun no longer shone on the tree? Would he still feel proud and great, or be worried and anxious about how he could survive without the sun? Suppose there was no more air; would he be more wrapped up in his own greatness, or more worried about the lack of air? If there was no more water, how would the tree react?</p>
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<p>This situation of the tree is merely an analogy for the same relationships that exist for man. Can you exist independently and walk pridefully, thinking that you owe nothing to anyone? Or are you meek and humble enough to thank the sun and air for sustaining you? You eat food with your mouth and at the same time your skin is “breathing” sunlight; which is more delicious? You may think that you taste everything with your mouth, but without the sun you would no longer need your two eyes at all. You have eyes to see with, but for that you need light. Would you be proud of yourself without your two eyes?</p>
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<p>Your nose inhales the air, and if there were no air you would no longer need a nose. Without air do you think sound waves would travel? Then without air you wouldn’t need your ears either. Your mouth takes in many things from outside, sacrificing them for you. What can you be really proud of then? You walk very proudly, but where did your arms and legs come from? Did you design them at a drawing board? Who really owns your legs and arms? They come from your parents and belong to them in reality.</p>
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<p>You started out in your mother’s womb and stole energy from her while you grew. Even in a little country store money and change is carefully counted and you get a receipt, but did you ever issue one small receipt to your mother for all the sustenance she gave you? That’s why you are thieves! Can you still be proud of saying that your body is yours? Did you complain while in your mother’s womb, or have gratitude? Day and night you kicked and poked her, but you never apologized. Then after 9 months of acting up inside your mother you were born.</p>
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<p>As soon as you were born you still took nourishment outside from your mother when she nursed you. Then later when you were a little older you were fed meals by others. Does your body really belong to you then? You never earned it. Americans are prompt to say thank you, but how much more do you owe thanks to your parents who gave birth to you and attended to you while you grew? Particularly if you were a very restless or sensitive baby you were crying all the time and demanding attention. Your parents wouldn’t insist that you stop crying, but would try instead to comfort you. Then as you grew you needed education and they attended to that as well. All in all your parents had to take care of you for over twenty years.</p>
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<p>When you think of all these things you realize that every cell of your body is totally indebted to your parents. Have you ever thought of that? If you conversed all the service your parents gave you into dollars, the debt would be so great you could never repay it. In many cases American young people only think that their parents don’t understand them and talk about the generation gap, and they act like they just appeared from heaven without causing any trouble to anyone else. Many times young people think their parents are only bothering them, and later in life put them away in senior citizens homes with the attitude that no one needs them.</p>
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<p>But the universe doesn’t work that way; the world must be harmonized. If each individual only claimed things for his own selfish benefit and demanded his rights then he would never parallel the universal way. It is a law of nature that while you are growing up you are deeply indebted to your parents, and after you are grown and responsible then you repay that debt by taking care of your parents.</p>
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<p>Therefore, what can you be proud of when you reflect on your past life? You can be proud that you are deeply indebted to your father and mother and recognize that you are deeply indebted to nature. You can appreciate the water, sun and air, for without them you could not survive, even for five minutes. We must be thankful for the world of plants and the animal kingdom. When you see a cow in the pasture, what do you think first? That she is fat and well nourished and will give good steaks some day? Probably you think of food first, instead of thanking that cow! Would the cow welcome the person who showed some gratitude, or the one who only thought of her as a potential steak? Even a cow wants to be eaten by a person who shows some gratitude instead of greediness.</p>
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<p>When God looks down and sees man’s very self-centered behavior, He feels that He certainly did not create this entire world just to serve man’s greed. Do your clothes belong to you? You wear jewelry and ornaments, but who do those things belong to? When you are proud and boastful and think that you can be independent, nature laughs when it looks at you, knowing that you can never exist all by yourself.</p>
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<p>The universe would never show any gratitude to ] the person who has no thankfulness, but if a person I knows his position of indebtedness to nature and his parents, then the world gladly harmonizes with him. Then he can think that an oasis in the desert is created simply for him, and how much gratitude would he show in that case? Suppose you were living in a barren desert, but woke one morning to see each beautiful aspect of nature being created just for you -sunrays, grass, trees, flowers, and so forth. How much ecstatic joy and gratitude would you feel then? Wouldn’t you shout out in happiness if all of this appeared out of nothing one day?</p>
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<p>There was once a day when nothing existed, before God created anything. When God created each thing He said it was good, but suppose that you as His child took more delight in each thing than He did? Would He upbraid you, or really be glad at the appreciation you show? God is eternal, existing from beginning to the end, so He has memories of all history and looks at you in historical perspective. Will God just comment that you were good, or would He remember and appreciate you in His heart? He will think that you are better than anyone in history for having so much gratitude.</p>
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<p>If that appreciative person were not attractive at all, but ugly and maybe even crippled, would that diminish God’s appreciation of him? That person would be remembered first in God’s heart. What do you feel when you look in your mirror? Do you have confidence that you are good looking? I have heard that some women just cringe and look away whenever they see their reflection in a mirror. But no matter how ugly you look, view yourself in the broader perspective that God sees us in.</p>
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<p>Each of us sends out waves or vibrations to the universe and the world can communicate with you through them. Will the person who appreciates all things send out good or bad waves? What about the people who always complain and try to take advantage of others, will they send out good vibrations? Such a person will repel everything in the universe because of his vibration. The person who is always dissatisfied is internally biting everything in sight, even his parents and friends. Today there are a great many people living in such an unhappy state.</p>
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<p>I have seen women whose fingernails are very long and painted vivid red, and I used to wonder why, but now I think that they grow them that way to bite or scratch the universe. You may not have long fingernails, but what about your heart? A dissatisfied person has nails everywhere his ears, his nose, all over his body-ready for action.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, when you realize your position relative to your neighbors and family you feel gratitude and then instead of trying to bite and scratch others you are reaching out to embrace them all. Then you are sending out infinite waves of gratitude which reach every corner of the earth. The ocean is wide, but it could not be greater than your mind of gratitude. Your mind can be small if you make it so, but if you make it large then it is larger than any ocean on earth. In that case the entire universe is embracing you also.</p>
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<p>You have millions of individual cells in your body, like employees in a corporation. Each cell sends out waves, which all nature responds to. Whatever wave you send out is how nature will echo you. What kind of person would you like to be-one of infinite appreciation, or one with infinite disappointment and complaint? This is why the Bible teaches us to have gratitude always, as well as meekness and humility.</p>
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<p>Do you know how many words you have spoken in your life up to this point? Can you count them? Can you determine what portion have been dedicated to speaking gratitude or complaint? There is a general tendency in our world to complain, so most people deserve a sign saying, “I am a complainer.” That’s the kind of life most people are leading. But when you complain then everything in the universe is repelled by you and even your parents and friends don’t like it. Would God be happy to hear it? Are your eyes and nose and ears complaining or appreciative? Have you always been thankful? When your body and mind are full of complaint, who will welcome you? Your husband or fiancee? There is no exception-no one likes it.</p>
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<p>When you weigh the bags holding your complaint and appreciation, which outweighs the other? Are complainers usually good or bad people? You don’t like to hear this do you? But even evil-minded men or women like to hear kind words from others. Then what about nature, would it like to hear some words of kindness and love, or tell you to shut up? Are you at zero balance between complaint and gratitude? If you are below zero then nothing will treat you like a human being because you will be substandard, at the animal level.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is a wonderful place in this respect. We know about the law of indemnity so we are willing to assume our burdens with an appreciative heart, and then we can be far above zero. Satan’s scheme is to give you harsh treatment and test your mind to see whether you are full of complaint or whether he has no power over you under any circumstances That is our way of life, and no one can win over it. But if someone persists in complaining even after coming to the Unification Church, he is really on the minus side. Have you learned that heart of gratitude here? Don’t you think in your heart that you would be more grateful if you didn’t have to do fund raising and witnessing?</p>
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<p>The heart of gratitude must be unconditional, being thankful for any mission. Every day in the Unification Church you are winning a sign to wear saying thank you. I can see whether you have a thank you sign on your forehead, but if you are wavering and doubtful then your sign is turning upside down even as I look at it! What kind of thank you sign do you have-firmly attached, or wiggling around and turning all which way? You might remember how you had really nice clothes before you joined but now you don’t look so sharp, and at that moment your thank you sign is moving. Or you might think that since you have joined your face has become paler and more wrinkled. Then too the thank you sign is turning around. Now you have more to worry about than before, but if you complain then your gratitude sign is shaking. The important question to ask is whether you are being dominated by gratitude or complaint, the clear sky or the cloudy sky. Your mouth is saying yes, but your face is saying no, I think.</p>
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<p>If you complete your whole education with a Ph.D. it can take up to 25 years, so you are indebted to your parents and teachers for that length of time. Do you remember how many teachers poured out their hearts to give you an education? You may think you are a good writer or a good artist and that you can do those things all on your own, but did you acquire your skills by yourself? In the beginning you were like a blank piece of paper, upon which one instructor after another wrote, implanting their skills in you. Before you can be proud of your achievements you must be grateful to those who gave you that inheritance. Men are first indebted to their parents, then to their teachers. In Oriental philosophy teachers are the second parents. Have you really showed your appreciation and gratitude to your teachers?</p>
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<p>It is an amazing fact that here in America many teachers are physically assaulted by their own pupils, and some even beaten to death. The power of the universe would bring such people to ruin and never allow them to prosper. Nature cannot permit this kind of thing. Would God allow this, saying that America is a great country and deserves His blessing? If you were in God’s place would you give additional blessing to that kind of nation?</p>
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<p>Those children who are grateful to their own parents are welcomed by the universe. If you have that heart then you can harmonize with your own brothers and sisters and with nature, and of course God would welcome that kind of man and woman.</p>
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<p>But what is genuine gratitude-is it when you can thank them under rosy circumstances, or under adverse conditions? The latter is most precious. God is actually observing the depth of gratitude of each individual and in His eyes your value is determined by the amount of gratitude you can impart. This principle works the same in a courtroom, where any criminal who shows true repentance and willingness to make restitution for his crime will win mercy from the judge and prosecutor.</p>
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<p>I have come to America telling the people what is wrong with America and how it must change, and Americans demand to know what a yellow man is doing coming here to meddle in their business. Will that kind of attitude be acceptable in the sight of God and nature? No matter what kind of mistake a person has made, if he is making a conscientious effort to extricate himself and make restitution he can win forgiveness. But if he is hard-headed and claims he did no wrong, that person has no way to be forgiven.</p>
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<p>At some time you should sit down and write to your teacher, telling him or her that you realize how indebted you are and thanking him. You can recall how you and your classmates sometimes resented how strict he was with you, but you know that because of that firmness you can now spell and write well. Because of that discipline you have gained very much and can make much clearer judgments. Now when you can appreciate great masterpieces in art or literature you can recall that it is because of your teachers that you can have such perception.</p>
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<p>You can write to your teacher, recalling what kind of student you were, and expressing gratitude that now you have the ability to perceive and understand things like literature. It is your teachers who have bequeathed their skills to you, and this kind of unconditional gratitude should be given to them. Do you have any complaint about that?</p>
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<p>If this tradition prevailed at American schools, would there be much immorality and crime on the campuses? If American children appreciated their parents, would homes break up as much? Now American young people are trying to blame older people for what is wrong, but I say that it is the young people who are equally or more responsible, trying to separate themselves and do everything at their whim. Instead they are the ones who must change and become loyal. Then even the most evil parents could be swayed and turned around.</p>
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<p>Parental heart is always there, so when parents see the good deeds of their child their hearts have to be moved. If American young people would become righteous then even if parents were inclined to fight or separate, they could not do it; they would be shamed into becoming better parents for their children’s sake. If such genuine appreciation dominates the family, it will unite them all, but if a complaining attitude prevails in the home, it faces destruction. Here in America the most important thing is how to get rid of complaint.</p>
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<p>Are you inclined now to be thankful to your teachers? Some of you sisters have beautiful handwriting, but you must be thankful to the person who taught you that skill. If you write with that kind of grateful mind then the entire universe will help enhance your skill. When you enter into society, you find you are deeply indebted to society and the nation. Suppose there was no social system at all, but only anarchy; how could you live?</p>
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<p>When you get a job with a mind of gratitude you will prosper. Do most people have a grateful attitude toward the person who becomes President and toward the government? The office of the presidency is an awesome one because ultimate responsibility rests there. The President has to protect the people, make good policies, conduct diplomacy and maintain defense. In order for those policies to work the people must unite with them. Should the people be grateful? But no matter how great the leader in office, if the people’s inclination is to criticize, what will happen to their society?</p>
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<p>If a manipulative, scheming person is elected president, however, what will happen to the country? Disaster will come. The most important quality for electing a President is that he truly loves this country in a sacrificial way. Do you love President Carter? What would you expect if a nation is built by people who don’t feel gratitude toward their parents and teachers, or toward their society and nation? What direction do you think this country is going?</p>
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<p>Education is a paramount task now in America. There are two places where education is- given- through the schools and through religion. Is the American educational system interested in teaching these grateful attitudes, though? What about the churches? When there is so much struggle and politicking going on in the churches, I don’t think the religious people could really be concerned either about what happens to the nation or the world.</p>
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<p>There has to be one religion that is on the right track, caring about the family, society, nation and world and teaching these things. That is the Unification Church. A genuinely good society begins with good parents, then children who grow up in gratitude and go out to relate to society through their teachers, and to their nation through the head of state, and finally to the world. After the parents raise the children a number of years they pass the baton to the teachers to educate them; they in turn pass the students to the society and the nation will take up the baton. In that way the person can take up a higher mission all the time.</p>
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<p>The person growing up with a heart of gratitude at home for his parents and teachers and nation will be grateful to the almighty creator. Unless a person goes that central route, he will never be successful. Harvard gained fame because it has excellent teachers, and students who are educated there want to take up important positions, such as President or Cabinet member, which can influence the nation. If they have the right frame of mind then that’s acceptable, and then they will think that by influencing the nation they will serve the world.</p>
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<p>After they become nationally important they want to go on to become worldwide leaders. The true worldwide leader is a religious person, or saint, because the worldwide level is already beyond the boundary race and nation. The only person with that kind of life and attitude is truly a religious person. To know God and enter heaven as a saint is the destiny of all men. To go this route each individual must carry a bag of love of parents, of teachers, of the nation, and finally from the saints, and then reach God.</p>
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<p>At every stage you will receive a certificate which is signed first by your parents in recognition that you are a child of filial piety. Then your teachers will sign, saying that you are a devoted and grateful student. Then the head of state must confirm that you are a patriotic person, and the saint must affirm that you are a trustworthy and dependable man for the sake of humanity. Then with that certificate you can go to God and He will accept you. From childhood all through your adult years you have to gain certain qualities in order to reach the ultimate goal, which is God.</p>
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<p>When you come to the level of the nation you cannot always listen to your teachers and parents because you are already at a level of higher responsibility. At that higher level of mission you should be able to govern even your own teachers and parents. In that case you listen to the saints above you and to God. When you come to the level of sainthood then the saints’ level of teaching is inadequate and you listen directly to God, who is the greatest teacher of all.</p>
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<p>You are going forward step by step, trying to reach higher goals, ultimately focusing on the supreme teacher of love. At each level the capacity of love is different. As a child you learn to receive parental love, and when in school you learn to love teachers. At the national level you learn love of the patriots, and in sainthood you learn the love of the saints. On the world level you learn love of the world, and finally above that you learn the love of God. Then ultimately the universe is yours.</p>
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<p>Through love you know your parents and through love you know your teachers. Through love you find your nation and world, and through love you find God. That is the kind of education we are talking about. That kind of man and woman will be able to go anywhere and harmonize with anything. You, therefore, must be a recipient of the love of parents, love of teachers, love of head of state, love of the saints and of the world, and finally of God. Until the age of 18 parental love predominates. After that age your attention is shifted to education and the love of teachers predominates until you have finished the Ph.D. level at age 36. Then you come into society. The society and nation are the paramount target in these years until age 54. Until the age of 72 the world is your stage, the universe and God are your stage. Actually you start your life at that point; all this time before then is devoted to education, and the subject is love.</p>
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<p>Most important of all in this period is getting the right start so that you receive this love from your parents and show ample appreciation. Then in the same frame of mind you can move on to each stage and be formed in the right way. The subject of education is love, and the attitude of education should be gratitude. There are two things to inscribe in your heart-love and gratitude. In all this time there is nothing that is yours; you are completely indebted to someone else.</p>
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<p>You will confirm your position when you give ample love to your own children and brothers and sisters. To determine your position you need a horizontal line, which is love of your brothers, and a vertical line, which is love of your own children. Then you yourself become a teacher and patriot. Then you become like a saint yourself so you can introduce God to others.</p>
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<p>In history all these processes of education in love and gratitude have failed. Therefore, it must be indemnified, and by finding an example and following it you can make restitution for the entire loss. The world of microcosm where this takes place is the Unification Church. First, we teach the love of parents and love of teachers. We teach love of the nation and head of state. We teach how saints should love their own pupils or disciples. Ultimately we are here to teach how to love God.</p>
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<p>I am in a position of parent and also of teacher, instructing you how to become a teacher. Also I teach patriotism, which national leaders today are failing to do. In the position of saint I am teaching how to love humanity and the world, and ultimately I teach how much God loves the world. Therefore, even though you leave your home to go to the world, it is not a violation of universal law on your part. You are actually coming to a new world and learning the very best essence of education. Many of you are very faithful to your own parents, but for the time being you set that aside and join the Unification Church because you know there is a higher mission in the sight of God. You have been getting a good education but for the time being you stop that and join the Church because you are here to get a better education.</p>
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<p>Since joining the Unification Church you have come to love me, but I tell you to love your own parents more than you love me. That is your education right there. Would your parents be upset if they heard this? They haven’t known I am trying to teach you how to love your parents and teachers. The Unification Church has the one ideology that can unite the universe and I am teaching you to be the leader of a God-centered society. If the Unification Church were one sovereign nation then I would be in the position of head of state. I tell you to love your own nation as much as you love me.</p>
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<p>Do you honestly think history will give me the title of having done more than any other religious leader like Buddha or Confucius or Jesus? As soon as it is known what Divine Principle stands for, then even famous theologians will say that here is a modern-day saint who outdates what others have done and sets a new trend of love. I want you to become saints, each one of you. Once you come to that level I want you to love the world as much as you love me. I am teaching the true heart of God for the first time ever in history.</p>
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<p>We are talking about the heart of God in history, the past, present and future, and in the society, nation and world. Other people are not even sure if God exists, but we are talking about the very heart of God. That is why we can teach the true love of God. When you see me you don’t look at me as a Korean or as an Oriental; you see me as a universal being. Regardless of your race or nationality you want to follow me. In me you see the best father, the best teacher and best leader, even as the best saint and representative of the heart of God. That is why you don’t mind giving up everything to follow. In your heart you know you are winning, never losing.</p>
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<p>Your heart knows that here you will go through the best education to be a good family man, teacher, patriot and saint, and to reciprocate the love of God. Do you think the courses of that school will be easy? No, as the best school our courses will be the hardest of any institution. Our stage is everywhere. We are not confined but go beyond all boundaries between races, nations, and even between the spiritual and physical worlds.</p>
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<p>When I go to Korea the members there call me their father; when I go to Japan all the members there call me their father, and here in America you call me your father too. You applauded, but what historical applause that will be when you really understand your position. No one has ever seen a mass matching like you have, but more than that, no one ever saw people asking for interracial marriage like you do either. People cannot even dream of such a wild idea, and even if they did they wouldn’t know where to start.</p>
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<p>Most important, this is not just precious in the temporal sense, but is eternally precious. In this energy we find the power for unification of the world and cosmos. We know it can be done. A lifetime may seem like a long time, but after you pass through it you see that life is really like a spark of light, and the beginning and the end pass ever so quickly.</p>
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<p>Now you enjoy having me here, but I will not be here indefinitely. At some time I will positively go to South America or Africa, or back to Europe and Asia. Would you try to protest that I should stay? The wise Americans are those who go out there in advance and are waiting when I come. If you are already there then I know that my children are there waiting, and in reality I am visiting you. If you are here then I will not necessarily visit you, but if you go to a mission in Africa or South America then I will be your guest.</p>
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<p>In England I invited about forty missionaries who had been kicked out of their countries or who had been imprisoned to come and work in London. When they came I told them that they could stay in London where no one would put them in jail and they would be treated better, but they all objected and said they didn’t want to abandon their countries. Recently I told them we would have forty days’ training and then they could go back, but they all thought forty days was too long. They have a wise attitude. You work in New York and on MFT as hard as they are working, but their deeds will be more historical because their work is changing the destiny of one nation; they are becoming part of the history of their nation.</p>
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<p>Are you making your work part of the destiny of this nation? Your record will remain in home church, but it is far more difficult to make impact on a national level in America than in Africa or another mission area. When historians write the history of the Unification Church in America, will they write about me? Will they write about your deeds? Historians will see clearly what I have suffered and the work I have accomplished, and the final chapter will be about the fruit I harvested here so your name will be there in the grand finale. However, the missionaries in their countries are in my position, doing work in my role. When the history of those countries is written, those missionaries will be in the central role. It’s only natural that there is a missionary fervor in the Unification Church to go to untouched areas.</p>
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<p>There is a way to make history here in America too. You can feel that as far as hardship and tribulation are concerned you are going to set the highest possible standard. Are you young or old people? This is the privilege of young people to do. However, some people may be young physically but old in spirit, all tired out and sluggish. You must be young in spirit and body, going over the hills like a rocket to reach the stars. Will you be that kind of young people?</p>
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<p>What would you Japanese sisters say? If you are dozing then I should give you a tough husband who can wake you up. Do you know that this is the time when I am testing you? Now everyone is awake! Those entitled to inherit the love of God are those who suffer in the lowest possible position but with the heart of gratitude. They shall win the highest possible position in the love of God. Would you welcome having me push you down to the lowest possible position? Would you accept it with complaint?</p>
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<p>I know that of the 705 couples I recently matched there are some who are disappointed or not fully satisfied, but please accept my advice-for these three years be grateful for your life and for your fiancee. Think that you do not even deserve to be matched, and then three years later see what kind of children you have. They are the greatest of all gifts.</p>
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<p>A child is a real gift from God, even more than a wife receiving her husband, or a man his wife. In some cases the matches don’t seem to fit according to common sense, but I put them together knowing what their children will be like. So just be grateful and see what kind of children you will have. When you see that child you will know that he is truly a gift from God, and you will love that child more than you love your husband or wife. You can be mutually grateful because your mate enabled you to be the parent of such a child. You can admire each other on that foundation.</p>
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<p>I encourage all the blessed mothers to breastfeed their children, even just for the time being. Mother always breastfed our first children, but since she has had so many children it has become much more difficult. Still that basic principle is there. Breastfeeding is the best link for a mother and child to truly relate. It is a most beautiful sight for God to see a black mother loving and feeding her white child at her breast. Is it conceivable that a father or mother in that situation would have some racial discrimination? This is the Unification Church culture, God’s culture, and there is none more beautiful than this one.</p>
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<p>You have entered the best school in the universe, coming through the narrowest gate. Therefore, it is a most precious and rare blessing for you. If you truly inherit my philosophy and way of life, then wherever you go in the world you shall be welcomed and respected and loved as much as you love me. That is the consummation which will be seen in the world of Unification Church. In seven years you have to consummate this role. During those seven years there must be nothing you cannot bear, even being treated like human trash. There is where great kingship and queenship begin.</p>
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<p>That dramatic scene will make the best movie. What kind of drama makes the best movie-everyday life, or some story of shocking courage and victory? You can definitely think of yourselves as movie stars. Shall we do it? When you come to Belvedere you say yes, but when you reach the World Mission Center are you so confident?</p>
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<p>Will your conviction last more than three days? Time is like an arrow flying and this is already the month of June. Would you say that you will start next month or next year? Your timetable must start today, June 1. Even if you say you will start now, there is still much time passing by, but if you wait until next month or next year, tomorrow will never come.</p>
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<p>Those who were just matched, raise your hands. Three years from now you will have a lump there beside you which cannot be separated from you. It will be a very clumsy feeling. Where would you go? Do you want to go your own way, or the way God wants you to go? Where will you settle ultimately? I cannot take care of each of you individually, couple by couple, so you have to set your own goal and home church is the way. In home church you can be proud of your husband or your wife. That is your territory and realm.</p>
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<p>No man will compare with your husband, and no woman will compare with your wife. Home church is the place for your settlement, so unless you establish the home church foundation you will be kicked out and there is no other world for you to go to. If you fail there then there is no way I can bring you along this path. I instructed you to go and your destination is home church. That is the order coming from the true parent, teacher, head of state-all in one. When you love your home church you are consummating every order you have received from True parents, true teacher, true patriot and true saint.</p>
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<p>In a few years I would like to have a shrine built to the home church parents, home church messiah, and tribal messiah. You must build your home church in order to be honored by that shrine. Anyone who is successful will have their own shrine in their home church area, and when I am passing by that will be the place I visit and where I rejoice; where it is located won’t make any difference for it is definitely the place I will visit. It will also be the place God wants to visit. The destiny of women is to marry and go where their husbands go. In the same way the Unification Church destiny is to go to home church. This is where you will find your permanent home. It is almost like being given in marriage. Through the home church destiny you will go to heaven, but if you don’t then no matter how much you love the True Parents you cannot go. If you leave it unfulfilled then that great burden will be left to your own children to complete.</p>
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<p>A wife will work harder than her husband and a husband will work harder than his wife, loving home church more than they love each other. More than anything else you love home church and concentrate there to find your own kingdom and heaven.</p>
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<p>Then you know you are entitled to ultimate heaven. Even if you appear in your home church without clothes, they will still welcome you as their savior. This is the new evangelism where we must succeed.</p>
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<p>After three years you will have your children, first one and then two and more. I do not support birth control, so have as many as you want. Home church grandparents will always be competing to have your children come to their home to be taken care of. Then your baby will have 360 homes right away. Home church people will give true blessing and honor to your children. “We know your father and mother very well and they are true saints. We saw God through your parents.” Then your children will be embraced and loved by your people as precious children. Do you feel that way toward my children? Your home church people will pray for blessing towards yours as well. Your children will go to the same school in the morning with the home church children.</p>
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<p>If the home church people have money they won’t consider it theirs but think how they can use it for home church work; 360 homes will be one family work and they will want to spend money for that. In another twenty years you will be approaching your fifties, and by that time you will be assisted by many people. This is really a prime time now.</p>
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<p>Would you want to die in the place where people spit at you and never even look at you? Would you like to be treated like a dying cow or dog in your final days? When I am eighty would you tell me you don’t want senior citizens in your home and ask me to stay somewhere else? If you had me in your home but I was totally incapacitated and became very dirty in my bed, what would you say then? Would you be glad you had me in the beginning but then want me to go to the next place?</p>
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<p>You say no, that you really want to serve me. Do it for your own parents then. I am only one person and not all of you can serve me, but you should serve your parents in my place. When they get old, serve them as much as you would me. Will you promise me that? That’s real love.</p>
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<p>I want you to make your base so you can practice this love, and that territory is home church. It will happen within seven years if you consistently make effort now. Then if I am passing by to another destination some power will pull me to visit you. Life goes by very fast. Already five months have passed in 1979. If you had met one new person each day and really poured out your heart imagine what extraordinary things could have happened. You could have converted 150 people. Start today and renew your energy. That’s what Heavenly Father wants, what your wife or husband wants, what your children want and all your relatives.</p>
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<p>Time is not merciful enough to slow down for you. You have to keep abreast of time because time will never relax its pace. You can finish school in four years, but with extra effort you can graduate in three or even two years. Our Unification university is the same-it all depends upon your own effort. This morning the two central words are gratitude and home church. Once the home church providence is begun there is no room for complaint. When I came to America I never complained at all, even though it has been hostile here. I will always be grateful to God instead. Even though I have been persecuted constantly, no one can beat me. My territory is constantly growing.</p>
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<p>Our opponents thought that we were knocked down and out of commission but the more they attacked me the more blessing came to us. If the government persecutes us, then their blessing will come to us. If the media attacks us, their blessing will diminish. It will be like scales being emptied on one side and loaded on the other. We are receiving persecution, but with that as a daily diet we are growing. Many of you have no idea what I am actually doing now, every day, but in a year or so some of it will be revealed.</p>
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<p>Until now I can forgive all your shortcomings in home church, but only on one condition-that from today you really live up to my expectations in home church. Will you promise? So far you have listened to me with the feeling that you are indebted and that what you have can never be yours, but actually what you have is nothing to be proud of.</p>
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<p>Give your pledge and promise this morning by raising your hands. Let us pray.</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="2018-06-19T14:16:43+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/return-to-hometown.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:16:43+01:00">June 19, 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>Where is your hometown? When the original human ancestors became fallen, they departed from their original home, which was the ideal world. When we say “ideal world” we are including everything that is good. Anything we want to possess belongs to that ideal realm. What do you want to have? You want your parents to be the ideal parents. You also have brothers and sisters, neighbors and a society. and you want all of these to be linked to the ideal.</p>
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<p>We can basically divide ideal things into three categories: ideal world, ideal man, and ideal God. You might say that God is perfect from the beginning, but the fall brought the death of His children: how could God feel joy when He saw that His children were all dead? How could there be ideal parents if there were no ideal children?</p>
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<p>God became a sad God, and mankind wandered in despair. When God is heartbroken and man is in despair, all things of creation are caught in between. They also lead a tragic existence because there is no one to give them joy. Because the creation did not fall, it is in a position to reject fallen mankind. Creation knows that only original man has the right to govern it, that fallen man has no right to exercise dominion. But all things of creation have been exploited and damaged by fallen man.</p>
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<p>A tragic history has unfolded in human society as men have competed and fought and tried to take advantage of one another. Evil originated with the two human ancestors and has multiplied to every corner of the earth. The brothers of the next generation were enemies, and there was also separation between parents and children. Men are destined to he united and live in harmony but they became separated because of the fall. History has recorded only division among men, yet we are destined to unite. Therefore, there is a movement organized to unite men in their original state.</p>
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<p>Many leaders have tried over the centuries to unite their tribe, or nation or the world under their ideology, until today we can see basically two ideologies in the world. In the reality of today’s world we see nothing but despair and restlessness, but even under those circumstances people are still longing for and talking about unity and ideals. Even in past centuries when people enjoyed relative peace in the world they still harbored a desire for a higher goal and ideal. Today many people think we have reached the end of the world, yet still they talk about hope and the ideal.</p>
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<p>What is the solution for this world? There is some road teach to the hometown or birthplace for the individual, hut whether in East or West there must be one central formula for every individual to reach that ideal. There must also be some pattern and formula for a husband and wife to reach the ideal together. Next there must be a pattern for the family, for the tribe, the nation, the world, and ultimately for God.</p>
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<p>Today’s America is very modern and cultured, but there are still some people who are isolated from modern styles and live a backward way of life. They don’t care too much about the outside world, and they think that their way of life is the best. On the other hand, people who have the best the American culture has to offer feel that they are living the best way of life.</p>
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<p>Imagine that some people from each group were to meet and discuss the ideal way of life, explaining why theirs was the best. New Yorkers might boast they would never live anywhere else because they can buy anything in New York, see plays and concerts every day, live surrounded by skyscrapers, and have the most modern life. The country man might say he is scared to death to live in the manmade jungle which is New York. “How foolish you are to ride up so high in a little box hung on a cable; you never know when that cable might break! How can you stand all the noise on the streets? This is hell! People are always so restless and hurrying. What a life!” he would say.</p>
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<p>The country man gets up leisurely, climbs the mountains and watches the rising and setting of the eternal sun, breathing the fresh air. He drinks water fresh from the spring, but the city man drinks water purified with chemicals and pollutes himself. Country people don’t need much cash in their pockets, but city people cannot live without money every day. City people are always taking advantage of each other. Each side has its points in this discussion, and neither will be persuaded to change their minds. Neither side can settle their argument and show that the other side is wrong.</p>
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<p>If this issue cannot be resolved between people of the same nation, how much more difficult would it be for people from different nations and cultures? Is it easy for the various people of the world to come to the same conclusion? We are talking about one way of life for the individual, family, nation, world and God, but where can we find it? How can we know whether there is such a thing as the ideal? The key word is “true”-true parents, true children, and so forth, but what is “true”? What would guarantee that something is true?</p>
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<p>What is the truth you need most when you are hungry? Is the truth a sizzling steak or dried corn flakes? When you are very hungry you appreciate the taste of whatever you have to eat, and even it you have only a dry piece of bread you savor every crumb. But if you are already full and then are presented with a thick steak, would you appreciate it more or less than the bread’> If you don’t appreciate that steak all the time then it cannot be truth.</p>
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<p>Perhaps the bread came from a nasty, grudging neighbor, but the steak came with your mother’s love. When you were hungry you eagerly accepted the bread, but when you were full you rejected the steak. Also, if you ate the dry bread when you were hungry, you digested it thoroughly and got its nutritional value. But if you were full and forced yourself to eat the steak anyway, you would get stomach trouble. Where is the true value then? Nothing has absolute value all by itself. Everything is interrelated and has harmonized value. The value it has in creating harmony is what must be determined.</p>
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<p>Whether you are in the East or West, past, present or future, there must be one common denominator which determines truth. For something to be true it must bring joy to both sides; for instance, the steak must bring joy to both the giver and the recipient. The subject and object together create the harmonized value of anything. You cannot say dry bread has no value; for a starving man that bread is priceless. But if you don’t need the steak, or if you will suffer from eating it, it has no value for you.</p>
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<p>Truth always fills some need and brings the common good and creates a joyful feeling. The truth of whether something is good or bad cannot change with circumstance. What do the individual, family, tribe, nation and world all hunger for? What is needed by all these? Money? Power? Knowledge? They all want love. But love is a very confusing word also; there are many mixtures and kinds of love. L is long and wide so it means love is long and wide; O means it is OK, big like the ocean; V means love is the very thing you need; E means love is eventful and includes all the earth. Do you like love because its letters are good, or because its meaning is good? What is the meaning of love?</p>
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<p>I am an Easterner and you are Westerners, so am I talking about love which is different from yours? When you Westerners think of love, you imagine something that is different in quality and quantity from the love imagined by Easterners. Does true love vary from place to place? What is the base of the ideal-material wealth, big cars, technology? When God created Adam and Eve were there cars, planes and computers in the garden? What was the base of the ideal in the garden of Eden? Four elements existed there-God, Adam and Eve, angels, and all things of creation. Would you like today’s world or Eden better?</p>
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<p>The conveniences of today’s way of life are enormous compared to what Adam and Eve had in their primitive setting. Did they have rich dining rooms with silver and china, great mahogany tables and elegant manners? They had no formalities. If they were hungry then they just ate together when they felt like it. You might say they led an uncultured, primitive life. Today we talk about restoring the world and returning to the garden of Eden; do we mean returning to the primitive way of life? Did Adam and Eve have the fashionable clothes we see today” The only fashion they had was fig leaves!</p>
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<p>Did Adam have a nice shaving kit and toothbrush? Maybe Adam and Eve smelled like hell! But still we talk about the ideal in the garden of Eden. There was no government to print money or run schools, no theaters and culture, no law, no highways. But Adam and Eve had one very important thing-they liked each other and were happy together. God wanted to feel joy with them whenever they had give and take. God desperately needed Adam and Eve, and they desperately needed Him. Adam and Eve desperately needed each other as well.</p>
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<p>If they had a great deal of joy when they were young then when they got old and neared death they would still want to be near each other. Even in spirit world all three would still need each other absolutely. This one point would never change. No power could separate them, and even if they were separated a greater power would reunite them. If any power tried to infiltrate their unity, they would make a determined effort to fight back, wouldn’t they?</p>
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<p>The essence of the value of their lives lay in their unity and togetherness, so anything trying to curtail that life would be rejected. Equipped with the power of unchanging love Adam would be completely welcomed by Eve, and with that love Eve would be welcomed by Adam. In that love God and man would be totally melted into one.</p>
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<p>If Eve hadn’t washed her face, yet still wanted to show her love to Adam, would he push her away until she had washed? Could true love be conditional in that way? Love goes beyond appearance and cleanliness. If Adam and Eve completely forgot things like cleanliness and just wanted to show their joy and love for each other, would God be upset with their lack of formality and culture? If God evaluates love only according to external appearances, something is wrong with Him. True love has the power to transcend appearance and formality.</p>
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<p>I have heard that when parents visit their child’s elementary school the child is most proud when the parents are well-dressed and dignified. The teachers also like more refined people. But does a prosperous appearance determine the degree of love the parents can give their children? Children who receive true love from their parents will run after them to embrace them, no matter what the parents look like. That is a much more heavenly expression of love. Which one would you like? When you have true love you are parallel with the original nature of love. Any love that parallels God’s love we call genuine love. Today’s God is not really the true God because He is heartbroken instead of joyful. Until we can reach that true quality of love between God and man, certain things remain to be achieved here on earth.</p>
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<p>Ultimately restoration is working toward one final conclusion: one common principle of genuine love which shall be the standard of each individual, couple, tribe, nation and world. Today we are talking about returning to hometown; are we returning only as individuals? No. We are not talking about an individual’s birthplace, but the home to which all mankind are destined to return. That is the ultimate home and ideal, and everything from the individual to the universe must return there.</p>
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<p>Shall we return with money? With honor or knowledge? With power? What is going to be our gift? If a person leaves his home town empty-handed and then goes on to get an education, start a career and win honors, when he returns to his hometown he has become a legend. He is pointed out as a successful man in life. When he returns home would he tell his family they shouldn’t come near him because they are too lowly? How would you Americans react to such a man? Even if he is an important, successful man who exercises authority in the land, it isn’t acceptable for him to ignore his family. It isn’t acceptable because he has gained everything but lost love for his fellow man.</p>
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<p>If that great man comes home and loves and serves his parents as he used to do, if he wants to love and comfort his brothers and sisters and neighbors then he would be remembered as a great man. Suppose his mother was a bed-ridden invalid who had to be taken to the bathroom, and he insisted on doing it himself, sitting up with her at night and comforting her, all because she was his mother. Is that a great deed or a trivial one? The lower down he goes to serve his loved ones, the higher he shall be raised up.</p>
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<p>There is a great distance to go for fallen people to return back to their original home. One type of couple only wants to be happy by themselves when they return to their original home and doesn’t feel concern or obligation to anyone else. Another kind feels they cannot be happy all alone, but wants to go on to higher and higher levels and make others happy by enabling them to return home as well. Which type would be welcomed by the universe? It is not easy to live the second type of life because the farther you go the greater are the difficulties you must overcome.</p>
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<p>Restoration involves an about-face first of all. We have to go in the direction opposite our old way of life. and then tackle larger and larger goals. Even if a person turns around, starts the road of restoration and accomplishes the individual level, what he has accomplished has no value of he decides that one step is good enough and he goes no further. It would have been better if he had never started. If he gives up after reaching the second goal, that has no value either. It only has value when you tackle the ultimate goal and strive to reach the ultimate home.</p>
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<p>History is waiting for the man who will not only do an about-face but will penetrate all the way to the ultimate home. What are you doing here today in the Unification Church? True Moonies are the people who will do an about-face and go all the way to the final home. They are determined to go this way and will never be bothered by opposition. For what reason will we return? Because we want to meet the ideal God, not the suffering God, and meet ideal parents, ideal brothers and sisters, and ideal mates. When you start this path you may be defeated or you may be victorious, but the ideal always exists in the victorious way. Ultimately the ideal is love-that is our ultimate destination.</p>
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<p>History has been aiming this way from the beginning. Jesus came to complete the journey, but still it has not been complete. It would have been easy for Jesus to return home alone, but that would not be the ideal. He should bring his family nation and entire world to that goal. That’s what made his path difficult. What is the most important necessity for us to return home “First, a burning desire to love God, a consuming longing to meet Him. Our question is not whether God exists; we know that He exists and He is love, and we want to love that Father. We want to meet God in a heartistic relationship so that nothing can ever separate us.</p>
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<p>In the ideal Adam and Eve are truly brother and sister and nothing can ever separate them. Even if this entire world is offered in exchange, neither could ever trade that love away. When they are united in that bond and tradition and become parents, then they are true parents of unchanging and eternal quality. The formula of the heavenly tour positions must be possessed by the individual, family tribe, nation and world. The greater the distance you go, the stronger this bond should get. Unless it gets stronger it will be broken or cracked.</p>
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<p>In order to accomplish that we totally invest ourselves without reservation. The heavenly tour position exists as the center, the core. Because ot the fall it did not exist in the beginning, but by throwing ourselves into the center we will create the core. I came to America to teach and give myself to the center, and the people who join with me will become the core. Even if the world were smaller, this principle would still work the same. There is no easy way to fulfill the central role; it can only be done by bearing the cross. By doing so as an individual and family you are creating a bigger realm which can suffer together with you for a great cause. Thus we widen the horizon.</p>
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<p>Do you know how much money I need to do the job’! I feel I must earn enough to feed all America. I want to embrace and be totally responsible for all Americans. I also want to feed all mankind. How could I do that as one man? The formula is simple: I sacrifice my family to feed the tribe, sacrifice the tribe to teed the nation, and sacrifice the nation to feed the world. When you keep expanding this formula then eventually you reach the entire universe.</p>
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<p>When we talk about returning home we mean returning to the place where all mankind can find happiness. We need a bridge from the individual level to the cosmos. The bridge is built by the individual’s sacrificing himself to go into the center of the greater circle, and then making that greater circle an even greater sphere. Every realm should join with the next higher level and enlarge to form the next realm. Thus, each individual can expand to cover the entire universe. Once the smaller realm is engulfed by the larger one, it is benefited whenever the larger realm is benefited. The greater universe includes all levels of existence, and each level contains the heavenly four position foundation. Jesus came to achieve this ultimate goal, and today the Unification Church mission is to go this road also. Whether you are Western or Oriental, white, black or yellow doesn’t matter; everyone has to go this central way of life.</p>
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<p>God is always on top, but He comes down along a straight line to each level and takes His position in the center. That line is the center of every level. That line shows God’s true way of love, and wherever it moves it becomes the center of all existence.</p>
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<p>The straight line is the line of love. God travels only on that straight line and there is no wobbling. The fundamental relationship is that of father-son, and when that is broken down then there is no more straight line acting as a pillar. The parent who has true love represents God’s trunk line; therefore, the true son is always in a position to follow that line exactly. When parents demonstrate true love their children have no right to say it is only their parents’ thinking and they want to go their own way. The vertical line is father and son, while horizontally the husband and wife form the central line. Normally Adam and God together represent heaven. and Eve and children represent earth. In Western culture children feel closer to their mother, and talk about Mommy and Daddy instead of Daddy and Mommy. That derives from this principle.</p>
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<p>Ultimately these relationships form a circle. God goes with His son, Adam, and the children go with Eve, their mother. Usually a grandfather pays most attention to his son and grandson, while the children feel closest to their mother. But everyone tastes the dove of the parents because it continues all the way around and maces a circle. That principle is applied in restoration and the four position foundation.</p>
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<p>All men are in a position to represent the father also they represent the position of husband. For a wife her husband is the Abel husband, and all other men are Cain husbands. In addition, men represent the position of son. Men have the roles of father, husband and son. On the opposite side, woman represents three distinct roles-mother, wife and daughter. Everyone has these relationships. Your own family is your Abel family, and the rest of the world is your Cain family. It is because of the fall that Cain came into being; in the ideal world there would be no such thing as Cain because all would be in one loving sphere.</p>
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<p>Initially we were meant to expand our love from the center outward, but because of the fall we start from the outside and work inward. If there had been no fall then the core would have come first and been expanded. Because of the fall however, there was no core, so we start from the outside and try to work into that core. Abel is in the position to give true sacrificial love. When you sacrifice for the sake of the Cain world would you do it on a one-to-one basis. or would you want to sacrifice for the sake of the entire Cain world? When you work on a worldwide basis you can restore the entire world at one stroke: When you go all the way to the other end and come back to the center then you have covered the entire universe.</p>
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<p>Men go one direction and women another, so when they meet in the center and create a family, logically they can say that their family represents the entire universe because they have already given themselves for the sake of the universe. The fallen world doesn’t have this core, however; though the shape is there, it has no content. In the Unification Church we are operating on the cosmic level and wherever we move there is always confrontation and controversy, but when we unite with the core then the rest of the world shall appreciate it. Every individual is moving toward this world.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand your individual position. You may think that you simply become a Moonie, wait for blessing, have a family and that’s it. But that’s not the end of it. Next you expand your family onto the worldwide scale and give it for world restoration. After ten years perhaps you have covered only a little bit of territory and think that you will never cover the universe by the time you are old. But you can sympathize with God. It took God 6,000 years to find one true Adam, so how much more difficult would it be to create Adam and Eve’s family, society, nation and world? Not everyone can do these extraordinary tasks; though everyone must do it, we know that individual capacity is limited.</p>
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<p>God knows your time and physical limitations, so He set up a good deal for you. God does 95% and gives it to you, providing you do 5%. Furthermore, He made an agreement with Satan-provided man does 5%, it will equal 100%, and then Satan cannot accuse. Satan insisted that it be done according to the principle of restoration through indemnity, with no short cuts, and then he agreed to accept it. The whole world came under Satan’s dominion, so he has Adam’s body, and even Jesus’ body. Satan said that if anyone would do more than Jesus did and set a higher standard then he would accept that person without accusation.</p>
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<p>Adam and Eve became fallen because they could not love God more than they loved themselves and they obeyed their own carnal desires. But since I know God’s principle, I will never be subjugated by this body, but will be guided only by the love of God. That’s the standard we need. Furthermore, I will love God more than anything else-more than my life, more than my family, more than anyone. The world has had fallen love and life, so we deny that love and determine to have the true life and love, no matter what. This is why Jesus’ teaching begins with denial of the physical world. He said that anyone who loved Jesus more than he loved himself or his family would be worthy of Jesus. That’s the central ideology of Christianity. Jesus came to proclaim new life, new values and new love, so it started from a denial of the old. Your old love for your parents, wife and children cannot be accepted.</p>
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<p>Always we find what seems to be contradictions in Jesus’ teaching in the Bible such as “For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Jesus proclaimed the greatest revolution. There have been many revolutions in the last 2,000 years, but he brought a revolution of life and love. Jesus made statements which made it almost certain he would be crucified. He said that anyone who loved his family more than Jesus was not worthy of Jesus, and that meant denying everyone. So everyone opposed him tor encouraging division of families. People said Jesus was destroying the family bond and social ties.</p>
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<p>Today the Unification Church is receiving the same criticism, but actually we are in an entirely different situation. In Jesus’ time the family system was much stronger; today American families are breaking down anyway, yet still they are blaming me for disrupting families making me the scapegoat! God has to re-establish new life and new love at the right time in history, so God is making our job easier by allowing families to break down on their own. We don’t have to break down the old ones, just make new ones. The American family system is in real danger, with parents separating and children running away. It is easy to build new structure when the old one has already been torn down.</p>
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<p>America is a representative Christian nation; it drew the Abel-type people from all over the world and planted them here in one nation. Now that nation has become a vacuum. The brilliant culture of white people is crumbling and families are disintegrating. People feel lost, and are starting to think that maybe the minorities in America have a better culture since they stick together and still have family ties.</p>
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<p>White people are the most agitated, wandering and looking for answers in new areas, marrying people of other cultures in their search for something they can feel good about. Now all of a sudden they hear me teaching about one family of man and a world without nationalities. I bring a new creed and discipline and morality tor family life. This one voice crying in the wilderness is saying things that sound logical and people are eager to receive them because the atmosphere in America is ripe for a new revolution of love.</p>
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<p>You are the children of the established generation in the United States, and in their own way I’m sure your parents tried to love you. Now you have dedicated yourself to the work of the Unification Church and the white community is upset, trying to understand why Reverend Moon could succeed where they could not. They are trying to find out what my technique is, and they cannot discover it, so they say you were brainwashed. A tornado doesn’t care how expensive your beautiful home or car was. There is a tornado of the new life and love which is blasting everything out of their already-weakened foundations, moving them from one place to another. In their place we will build something new. That heaven is what we have been waiting for 6,000 years.</p>
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<p>I did not create that tornado, however. A power greater than myself generated it, and I am merely riding the tornado. My secret is that 1 know precisely the rhythm and destination of the tornado so I can go one step ahead of it. Do you think God is scientific, that He has a pretty good brain? God is offering a partnership to His children, saying to them, “I have suffered so much for you, and I don’t mind suffering a little more, but if I do 95% then you have to do 5%. Do you agree? Your 5% will involve changing to a new life and new love.” God is offering beautiful new clothes to His children, who are wearing rags, but the problem is that you can’t see what He is offering and you cling to what you have. God knows you will be benefited 1,000 times by His offer, but you don’t have a glimpse of it so you don’t believe it.</p>
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<p>You need to make a commitment and be able to say, “Yes, Father, I see and I will do it.” Once you see clearly, would you hesitate to give up your old things” God knows you will have a difficult time believing, so His plan is to give you one example, Reverend Moon. If I had the respect of the world you would not understand your course, so God put me in the worst possible position of suffering. Yet under those circumstances I was not defeated, but rose up and won. In this respect I am a successful man and no one can compete with what I have overcome. Could the President of American duplicate it?</p>
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<p>God is showing you how I could win even under the worst circumstances because God was with me. Now God is saying that if you uphold the same cause that I am committed to, His power and strength will make you as successful as I am. It doesn’t matter to God what color you are, or what country you live in-as long as you apply this principle, God’s power will raise you up as much as He has me. God is issuing that decree to all people everywhere in the world.</p>
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<p>I am the most mysterious phenomenon in American society today, and no one can figure me out. When you work hard and pray, you meet me in your dreams. particularly when you are facing the most difficulty and suffering. If power lines carried this energy from me to you, they would form a system so gigantic that it would make IBM look like a peanut. But in my system no wires are needed, and each individual is a receiver who can automatically tune in. You can listen to me and see me, and distance doesn’t make any difference. Do you think God is with us? If so. we have the solution. Then all I have to say is that you should go out and die for the sake of the world because you have nothing to fear. What is there to be afraid of?</p>
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<p>You think America is a civilized nation, but today it is a manmade jungle. You know this is a dangerous world. [ came to create a new breed of Americans because I know that if this nation can be recreated then the world can be recreated. I asked God for young people who can be raised up to be God’s champions and change the world. Have you changed? Are you new people? How new? God is using me as a sample or example for the world to see, and He told me where to go. He told me how far to go in each direction, but He set certain limits which I must not cross over. I can cover all the territory within that boundary, and it is the responsibility of every individual to do everything outside that boundary.</p>
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<p>I gave up my own parents and family and nation. Actually I have been opposed by my parents. family and nation, so you also must take that route. The difference is that the opposition I received from my own family was a thousand times more painful that what you receive. Those who persevere under these circumstance and follow with the utmost commitment shall receive the benefit of it. Those who depart can receive nothing. I have received every possible accusation and been called every bad name. In America some people even think I am worse than the Mafia. People describe me as a monster who eats women without even chewing them.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, I am also given the highest possible reputation by people who call me a saint, and even say I may be the Messiah. There are two kinds of people making up two kinds of reputation for me, but there are no lukewarm people. The opposition is so persistent they are almost like Moonies. Even the <i>New York Times </i>and <i>Washington Post </i>have shown repentance, but to the very end those other people will not change. They want to see me fight them back one-to-one. They are offering us many temptations to fight them, but we have no time to waste on fighting on their battleground.</p>
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<p>We are like marathon runners with a goal to reach. The spectators may be shouting their ridicule and curses, at us, but do the runners have time to stop and fight with them? No, it sounds like music in our ears and we keep running. Then after we win the gold medal we will go back and greet them. When we go back then they will be flabbergasted and unable to speak. You won’t have to explain how wrong they were because they will see that their opposition makes no sense. That will be your real vindication.</p>
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<p>The victor won’t have to punish the whole world-he will just pick up one person and defeat him three times, and then the rest of the world can repent. Our battle with Congressman Donald Fraser showed the world that I am a winner, and let the world know that God is with us and I am innocent. Unless I had won all the spiritual victories and received the gold medal from heaven, this kind of victory against the Congress would never have been possible. By defeating Fraser I could teach the world a lesson.</p>
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<p>We also confronted the Senator from Kansas, and finished that battle in two weeks. We let Congress know what a mistake it is making, and eventually we will let the American President know what an awful mistake he is making. As God’s champion I have already covered 95% of the territory, and all you have to do is the remaining 5%. God is hoping for you to hang on with iron will and finish your 5% responsibility. God is hoping that your 5% will be a much more severe test under opposition so that you can really prove yourself and God can give you a medal. Then he can give you His unreserved blessing, something even greater than what He gives me. You should be such fanatics about doing home church that your 360 homes draw up petitions to the government to hold you back because you are at their doors so much every day.</p>
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<p>America is a nation of all races and colors, and in order to oppose you they will have to unite together. You must pray for such incredible opposition to come that people will club you and chase you down. When the people discover that you really are innocent and are living for the sake of God, they be remorseful over the evil they did. Then it will be your turn to say, “You have been united in opposing me and Reverend Moon, and now you realize you are wrong. Would you now unite even more strongly to do the work of God with me?” Then they will be glad to do it. When they realize the evil they have done in uniting to oppose you, will any additional opposition come once they decide to support you?</p>
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<p>We shall be superior to the standard of’ Adam, who fell. We shall be superior even to Jesus, who was crucified. Jesus proclaimed this revolution, but he became a victim and was murdered. But we will hang tough and survive to declare victory. You are Americans who have rights under your Constitution to live according to your religious beliefs If even a Korean man is still going strong in America, you can certainly go on without fear.</p>
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<p>What weapon do we have? At every level of our existence we crave the true love of God. That love is our weapon. There is no other way we can light. We give our heart and soul in serving and loving people, shedding tears and sweat for brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents all the people who are extensions of our own families. Home church is your foundation, and in order to make it firm you have to stamp on that area one time, three times, ten times, a hundred times. You must feel that you are launching a satellite that is Hying to the moon and sun, and home church is your ranching pad. In order to launch a rocket, you need a strong launching pad which can withstand the fiery heat of take-off.</p>
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<p>When the time for the launch comes I will push the button, and your lift-off will be so loud, bright and powerful that all America will shake and even the whole world will recognize it. Even one launching at Cape Kennedy makes news, but in home church there will be simultaneous launchings every day. Looking down, God will see all the missiles launched and flying to hit His heart. The steering mechanism of the rockets is the vibration of love and we are following it right into the heart of God. If you make a small mistake in steering, you will miss the target entirely, but once you hit the bulls-eye you will stay forever in the heart of God.</p>
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<p>Wherever the love of God is burning there is peace and joy and excitement, and you will hold the title to that world. ln that world husband and wife can embrace and say, “We’ve finally got it!” the wife will tell her husband she is so glad he hit her and made her go on, and that she can finally be here. You will even be grateful for my spanking too!</p>
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<p>Are you in exciting work? Can that ultimate joy be compared to walking down the aisle to a wedding march somewhere else? If you live your own way and marry on your own, when you finally enter the spirit world you will be a wanderer who does not know where to settle. Satan will stride up and order you into his realm. But when we live this way of life we don’t need anyone to guide us because we know we want to land in the heart of God. When you are going to meet your father do you need a guide to point him out?? Does someone have to help you find your own husband or wife?</p>
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<p>We are strange in a way because no one else thinks of that way of life I am not that handsome and 1 don’t look that smart, but I have been living this way of life. No matter what the world says or does to me, I have no time to fool with it. I am always going forward, day and night. I am only concerned that everyone is going toward the goal, and when I meet you I am concerned about how to make sure you are going straight. In a sense I am throwing you at the goal, so when I toss you I want to hit the bulls-eye. I am always concerned about strong discipline, and even at home I often speak about it to Mother and my children.</p>
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<p>Mother has the additional duty of bearing children, and it is not easy to give birth to many. I understand that she is careful and hesitates before doing some bold thing, but I always push her ahead anyway.</p>
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<p>The one principle that always works is that of hanging onto the rocket. You must be bold. When I am launched and you hang on, you will reach the same destination. You know you are on the right track, so are you going to hang on?</p>
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<p>We are all destined to go to spirit world, so when you arrive there who would you look for? If all of a sudden you find I am in the dungeon of hell, what would you do? Would you say you will go where your love is and come to hell with me? If I am in hell then you cannot avoid going there. But if you arrive and are excited to greet me. when you lift up your eyes from bowing you will see it is actually heaven. Wouldn’t that be more exciting and dramatic instead of just going straight to heaven when I am not there? If you possess the true love of God then you have the supreme power which can transform hell into heaven. I love love.</p>
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<p>I have been going around the entire world, and finally in 19761 stood on the pinnacle, with the whole world shooting at me. I came to America and predicted certain things. Do you think they were fulfilled? I predicted 1978 would be our worst year, but that if we went over that obstacle then we would come back with the power that would shatter the communist world. Recently the vice premier of China came to America. In Korea we write his name, Deng Tsiaoping, in Chinese letters. His family name means “climbing up”, so that is good, but his first name means “small and flat.” He was received with pomp, fanfare and headlines in America. But after he returned to China, it started a war with Vietnam and that giant country of China was miserably defeated. It was exposed as a paper tiger, and its reputation was damaged.</p>
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<p>In Korean “carter” means “fussy”, or”busy with this and that.” The meaning indicates being restless and always up and down. There is no decisiveness and righteous conviction in this Administration because it is only worried about popularity.</p>
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<p>Now that 1978 is over and 1979 is begun, whatever we do should have impact, and whatever you do shall accumulate as your monument. We can hit the world and it will tremble. We shall gain victorious result so you need lots of spiritual gunpowder and bullets. Is it better to have a rifle with a long barrel or a short one? If it is long enough then it will touch the target and there is no way you can miss! This is how I think. You might think this is not common sense, but nothing is impossible with God. But even with a gun, unless you have enough gunpowder the bullet will get stuck halfway down the barrel. What would you do if that happened? I always think of every possibility, so my plan is to have another charge within the bullet, and when that explodes the bullet will finish going all the way.</p>
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<p>Moonies are impossible people, and wherever I throw you, you can get out because you have your own gunpowder inside. With one stroke we shall hit the bullseye, which is the ultimate heaven. Your method of shooting would use up millions of bullets and still not hit the target because you aim in all directions. So I have designed a mechanism for you in which the barrel will not move and all you have to do is pull the trigger. There is a trigger for the family dispensation, national dispensation and world dispensation. Unless you know this much at least, you won’t know how close you are to the final destination.</p>
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<p>When you know where you are, you have hope to cover the rest of the distance. If you are crawling through a very tight, cramped tunnel, your back and legs hurt and it will take a millennium to get out. But if a flood roars along behind and pushes you through, would you appreciate that water? If you are going home do you want to make the journey last a thousand years or one year? No matter what, no matter how wounded you are, you never deviate from the goal of the love of God.</p>
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<p>Maybe you are hungry and cold and miserable, and you regret seeing your youth pass by. But if Unification Church life became routine then you would never get to the end in a million years. This is a revolution and you have to finish it in one stroke. Why did I make such a commotion and generate controversy? Why did I hold so many rallies? I am a topic not only in the religious world but also in the worlds of business, culture and education. I am making an impact on every aspect of American life so that American history can never leave me out. No one has ever seen one man come to this country and make a foothold in all areas of life in such a short time.</p>
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<p>I did not come to accommodate or negotiate with America, but to penetrate through it to the other end. To do that I needed speed and impact. Am I drowned by the American culture, or do I stand above it because I have penetrated it already? We do not live the American culture here. You sit on a hard floor to hear a sermon and after three hours you don’t even know if it will end soon. The rule of thumb in regular American churches, however, is that no soul is saved after fifteen minutes.</p>
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<p>Home church is your world. Go ahead and duplicate the world of God in this small area. Love them as much as God loves them. When you do this, the 95% God created through me will be given to you for free. To inherit this, you must walk the way of life 1 have walked, for even a short time. Then you shall truly be lord of all creation and a triumphant person. With that accomplishment you shall return home.</p>
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<p>You will report to God that you received the 95%, and added your 5%, and now you can bring the full 100% to God. Then He can declare that you have won the victory and are worthy to be His son. Satan will bear witness also. He will say he has done all</p>
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<p>kinds of evil against you, but you won over it. Then God can give His entire Kingdom to you.</p>
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<p>When you go home the entire village will celebrate with you. What kind of dances would you have at that celebration? Maybe disco? Why not create heavenly discotheque? You can dance so long and hard that God will give up first, and then you collapse after Him. When you revive again you be a capsule of the honey of God’s love. You will be so intoxicated with that love that you will forget about sleep and work because you are melted in that love.</p>
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<p>Before you reach your destination you must taste both death and life. Would you mind? Will you cover that distance with enthusiasm and excitement” Who wants to go there? Is home church good or bad” Home church is good! Amen.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">SPRING SEASON OF THE PROVIDENCE</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="2018-06-19T14:33:26+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/spring-season-of-the-providence.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:33:26+01:00">June 19, 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/2018/06/19/spring-season-of-the-providence.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">April 1, 1979<br />
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Translator-Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>This morning I vividly felt spring at East Garden, with the birds singing and the grass turning green. Now we don’t need the tent we have in winter and the sky is our ceiling. When the sun comes out it will be even better.</p>
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<p>All of you here have different characteristics, some tall, others short, some thin, others not thin. Some people like spring most of all, others prefer summer, and others winter. In most cases, which season do you think people prefer? Why spring? Perhaps Americans like spring best because it represents a well, as in wellspring. You can say people prefer spring because it brings new life and flowers, but most important of all, spring brings variety and change. Spring is the symbol of hope.</p>
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<p>There are many changes in our lives and in all seasons, with some changes for the worse, like sickness, but spring brings changes full of hope. Of course, spring is the season of flowers blooming, sending out their fragrance and beauty. The birds and butterflies dance around. Even the smallest insects feel the activities of spring and they dance around too. What will the worms do since they have no wings? The worms will wiggle and wiggle.</p>
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<p>Do people fly or wiggle around? People find joy in spring by observing the things of creation joyfully welcoming spring. For whom are those things of creation singing and dancing? How could they be singing for God if they don’t have spiritual senses to communicate with Him? The things of creation rejoice for the sake of men. Then who should men rejoice for?</p>
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<p>Mankind includes both men and women. Although spring brings variety and change and hope, all of the activities of the flowers and birds and insects have the common purpose of rejoicing for love and for life. Do birds sing early in the morning because they are hungry or defending their territory, or because they are calling for love and for their mates? In the springtime the voices of the birds sound especially clear and happy. In spring all creation becomes full of joyful vitality, but truly everything is singing and dancing for love.</p>
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<p>What about people? Would a lone man or woman singing out loud when no one is listening feel happiness? A song is basically expressing a call for love. What kind of song do people like most? There are basically four kinds of love songs-the meeting of love, love of living, sorrow of parting, and heartbreak of missing each other. Life itself is embroidered by these four songs about love. All four categories of love are woven into the human stories in drama, movies and shows on TV, sometimes with tears and sometimes with joyful laughter.</p>
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<p>There are different characteristic kinds of love -that of parents, of children, of the nation, of the world and of mankind. In religion we are talking about one more important love-love of God. The expression of love of God is most profound in religious life. I’m sure if you could converse with the birds and ask which season they like most, they would answer, “Spring.” The butterflies and other insects would undoubtedly love spring most as well because spring is the season for songs of love; it is truly the season which activates all love.</p>
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<p>Have you ever wondered why God made the flowers so beautiful and fragrant? All the flowers blossom in spring because God knew that in spring all things of creation would be rejoicing; God prepared such beautiful, fragrant flowers to enhance the celebration of all things. In spring you sisters want to wear nice dresses and put on cologne or perfume. Then you want to go somewhere and sing a song of love. When you talk about love even a shrunken, wrinkled old lady will become very beautiful. When you talk about love even children wake up. When you talk of love, everyone feels some injection of vitality.</p>
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<p>Is there some word which will comfort a very hungry person and make him forget his hunger? Talk to him about love. Do you prefer to eat first and then talk about love, or to share love first and then eat? Love is really a vitalizing, activating force in human life. When we talk about love here, no one dozes. Your eyes are sparkling and you feel enthusiastic and your faces are like blooming flowers. God feels His most beautiful flower garden is at Belvedere on Sunday morning.</p>
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<p>Have you a song of love? Do little children feel love? They know about love because they can miss their mother and father; they also cherish their toys and that too is in the category of love. Children communicate with their toys and sleep with their baby bear and so forth. Then they also want their parents to play together with them. Toy shops have lots of stuffed animals of all kinds-bears, rabbits, mice. Children learn how to relate with all things beginning with their toys.</p>
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<p>When you ask people what kind of life they would consider ideal and how they would like to live, people often say simply they would like to see springtime all over the world, with fragrant flowers blooming. Singing of love and whispering love seems to be the ideal. In order to sing of love you need a partner because the world of love is a reciprocal world. If anyone wants to live as a single person all his life, he is retreating from the world of love. There is a weird trend expanding now in America, where men actually want to marry men and women want to marry women.</p>
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<p>In East Garden do you think the male birds sing a song of love to each other and the females likewise? Does that seem natural? What kind of song could two male birds sing to each other? How awkward and dry that would be! If you ask to buy two male lovebirds at a pet store, the salesman will wonder if you are all right. If you bring them home and expect them to sing, do you think they will sing a song of ecstatic joy? When God sees such a thing He will wonder if you are crazy.</p>
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<p>Here in America there are many bachelors living the single life in their apartments. What kind of song can a bachelor sing to himself? His song would not be just lonely, but despairing. I feel sorry for the building that houses only bachelors and for the flowers that have to bloom for them. You laugh, but there is a certain truth here. Do you women want to sing for your four walls, or would you rather sing wherever there are loving people who will appreciate your song? People long to be in the place where the song of love can be meaningful and understood.</p>
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<p>Is there any limitation on the time and place you I can express songs of love? Do you have to be well dressed or on a well-lighted stage or have on makeup? Will you women have rules for your husband that he must brush his teeth and shave and put on cologne before he can kiss you? Definitely Mother doesn’t have such rules. Imagine an extreme situation, as when a husband and wife have been separated for a long time and the husband is returning after a long journey. He has no time to clean up, but when he walks in the door will his wife insist that he has to wash before he can greet her? Would you women , mind if your husband were very smelly at a time like that? Love makes you blind. Love can transcend anything because it is the supreme power. When a man and woman like each other in a reciprocal way we call it love.</p>
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<p>How is the relationship between men and women different from love between mankind and God? You want to be alone with your mate when you express your love, right? How would you like to have a third person observing that scene? What kind of love relationship is there between God and an individual? Will God shoo everyone else away?</p>
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<p>God can love both men and women, so which would He prefer? If God had to choose between loving a man and a woman, one would accuse if God went to love the other first and a great squabble would start. Do you think God didn’t imagine that this problem would arise at some time? Put yourself in His position; where would you start? Should He have them choose straws? How would God determine the sequence of love? The beautiful solution God decided upon is that He comes down only when the two are loving each other with ecstatic joy. The Principle of the Unification Church is very clear: when your mind and body join as subject and object then the dwelling of God is with you. When man and woman are united in reciprocal action of love, God dwells there. When you are single you are incomplete; only when you are united with your partner in harmonious love, walking and having give and take, can God fully dwell with you.</p>
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<p>The best expression of Divine Principle is two people working harmoniously together. That is the basic teaching, actually. When you walk you want to walk together with the person you love. Would you have two different minds, or one united mind? Two destinations or one destination? Your destination is the love of God. When spring comes and all creation is activated, what is it for? Love. What is the center of that love? All things of creation center upon man, and together they all center around God. Man has lordship over all things and he rejoices over God.</p>
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<p>Ultimately we conclude that springtime centers upon the love of God. Do you feel spring? Then you may thank God for all the things of creation and say to Him, “Here we are singing a song of love together. But when did You have a chance to sing a song of love?” How will God answer? Do you think God has a stage and special room set aside where He can really express His love?</p>
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<p>How many Gods are there in heaven? There is only one God, and if He has been singing a song of love for millions of years by Himself then He must be a crazy God. Where can God find His object? That is a grave problem. God can only find an object for His love in men, but because of the fall of man that object has shattered. Imagine how lonely and heartbroken God must have felt all these years. In that situation, does God feel wonderful and renewed every time He sees the spring season come? He must think, “Is it another spring already? Are the flowers blooming again and the birds singing”</p>
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<p>Spring is a burden instead of a joy to Him and He can’t bear to listen. The fragrance of the flowers and singing of the birds would be painful to Him. God created all these things as an expression of His love and all of them are perfectly fulfilling their purpose. However, God can only say, “Where is my love?” If a handsome, rich man marries and prepares a fabulous mansion for his bride, taking meticulous care with every detail and hiring servants, but then his wife betrays him and runs away, how would that man feel when he is in that house? When he looks at the mansion he prepared, he would feel only unbearable pain and he would rather destroy it than look at it. You can imagine that the worst crime you can commit is the crime of love. by which you bring despair and heartbreak to someone.</p>
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<p>When we compare God’s position to that of this heartbroken man, can you imagine Him singing a song of love? God has felt many times as much pain as any abandoned husband or wife. Everything was prepared in great glory and beauty for His children, but His house has been empty and never filled with love. When you are betrayed by the one you love then all the things you prepared for that person become not only meaningless, but a painful burden. With a loving heart God prepared the whole universe for man. When man betrayed God, all the things He had so lovingly made became only a source of pain to God instead joy. Can you imagine?</p>
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<p>Without knowing how man has betrayed God and without knowing His heartbreak, men are trying somehow to live with love among themselves, singing and dancing in different ways, like the frantic gyrations of disco dancing. When God sees men trying to enjoy love without having God as their partner, what would He think? God would be choked with wrath. God’s position is almost like that of a husband whose wife ran away to some stranger. After loving her so much, what feeling would that man harbor in his heart toward her? He would feel tortured.</p>
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<p>When two lovers sing and dance it is a joyous expression. If two people are really caught up in love then it wouldn’t matter what kind of song or dance they did, whether belly dance or snake dance or disco. I have no objection to dance halls as long as the lovers going there to express their love are approved by God. It would be fine for younger people, but even more exciting for older people! True love supports that kind of thing.</p>
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<p>The worst kind of crime or sin in the sight of God is the violation of true love. That is Article One in the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven. What kind of punishment is deserved by the men and women who violate this article? Should their act be ignored, or is there no room for negotiation and compromise? Is their sin greater than that of murder? The violation of the law of love in the Kingdom of Heaven is the worst crime and even an execution would not be adequate retribution. Would every cell of the body be resigned to that punishment, or would they complain that it was unfair? Then where is that absolute love? When God created law for His kingdom, He made violation of love the worst crime.</p>
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<p>I hope that this will sound serious to you Americans. Does it sound logical and workable? Do you want to support and live that principle? Do you have absolute love?</p>
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<p>I would like to recommend that you blessed couples stay together as much as possible when you have the chance, even going to the bathroom together and whispering love to each other there. Share the equipment together and when you finish clean one another up. Would God look down and exclaim at how ridiculous and repulsive you are? No, He would be excited and uplifted to see such love. God’s number one rule is that true love is absolute and in that case it doesn’t make any difference where it is expressed – in the bathroom, in the garden; anywhere is fine and that love will bring ecstatic love to God.</p>
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<p>If in order to promote such absolute love you end up in jail for several years, what does it matter? It makes your life more romantic and dramatic. There is no prison anywhere which can confine true love, no regulation which can stop the march of true love. Any law trying to do so shall melt away. Those who are trying to proclaim and practice such true love in the twentieth century are called Moonies.</p>
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<p>People might look at your humble dress and pale faces and think you are really wretched people who do nothing but work all day on MFT or knocking on peoples’ doors. Externally they might see that, but inside the motor is running and you have a big heart going after true love. Nothing under the sun can compare with the value of your heart. You should have pride; even though you may not be the most beautiful kind of person physically, you possess true, burning love centered upon God. You are princes and princesses of love and of heaven, and you shall have such a person as your husband and wife.</p>
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<p>The person who conquers the universe with his true love is going to be your mate; he will be a king of love. He will be the only absolute king of love in your life; he will be your subject and master and for him you will write poetry and songs of love, pouring out your heart. God is almighty in that respect, and He has the ability to make each of you a king of love so you shall have such ecstatic joy as this. God is the king of kings of love and He is eager to see each of His children becoming kings of love, each creating his own empire of love where God can dwell.</p>
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<p>No matter how much earthly power or authority a person might have who is trying to stop this love, he shall be destroyed. It is the law of God that love must prevail on earth. There is not much true love in the world today; instead it is corrupted and dirty and stained, but we are declaring a revolution to clean the world and bring it back to true love. That is the declaration the Unification Church is making today. True love is so absolute that when a husband and wife make their covenant with each other they shall be recorded permanently by God.</p>
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<p>In the garden of Eden God gave only one commandment, declaring that Adam and Eve should not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.</p>
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<p>What He was telling them was not to misuse love. That was the only commandment God gave, to keep pure. Love was the only thing God had to protect. You all know that though you are young you are from varied backgrounds, many of which are unacceptable. You must feel total abhorrence toward such an unprincipled past and want to get as far away as possible. Put up such strong barriers that your old life cannot encroach on you again.</p>
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<p>Are you still just thinking about cutting off the past? If you haven’t definitely cut off the past, how can you ask for the blessing? Do you think such a person should be considered for the blessing ? The heartbreak of Adam and Eve’s fall was enough tor God. You cannot crucify God another time by violating love. You must truly be reborn and be obedient to God’s law of love.</p>
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<p>When God makes a rule are many special exceptions made? No, this principle is absolute. How much do you think God loved Adam and Eve? Even though He loved them wholeheartedly, when they violated His law and ate the fruit God had to cut them off and chase them out of the garden of Eden. Losing your purity is far worse even than dying. If we are flexible in that standard, it would be like the stained, corrupted Adam and Eve inviting God to come live with them.</p>
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<p>If we can go over that history then for the first time God can enjoy springtime. My topic is Spring Season of the Providence. That spring will come when we go over the hill of that ultimate test. How many of the 240 million people in America, including the people in the White House and Congress, are going over that hill? Is there even one? Now this morning you know it is a grave problem. You see the reality according to God’s standard and see the greatness of our life here. Until now many of you never realized the seriousness of it.</p>
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<p>This is true for all four billion people on earth. Is there anyone trying to follow this, let alone actually live it? Is there a couple who live with absolute true love such that nothing can part them, who realize the value of true love? No one has been longing for the springtime more than God. Do you think it has arrived? A person who cannot live up to the absoluteness of God’s law cannot cross the absolute barrier which God erected after the fall. When Adam and Eve united with Satan and died spiritually, God set cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the way so no one could re-enter the garden of Eden. When a couple with absolute love emerges, God would like to protect them to an absolute degree.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church do the blessed couples value their love with this absoluteness, truly living up to this standard? The True Parents’ purpose in blessing them is so they can become pioneers in this love, but often instead of living up to that purpose and living this love they talk about their position and authority. They forget their responsibility and try to reap authority instead.</p>
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<p>When a couple with the absolute standard of God’s love emerges, they will truly be the king and queen of love and the entire universe will bow down to them. Even God will bow down. History will bow down. They will be practically worshipped, not only by single people but by other couples. Everyone will see in this couple a royal monument of love. The Unification Church gives blessing, aiming to harvest the fruit in this springtime of providence. being admitted past the cherubim with fire to consummate the goal. When you receive the blessing but you cannot fulfill, a grave responsibility will be yours. The consequence of any mistake will not remain with you alone but will be passed to your entire family, including your ancestors. This is the seriousness of the kingship of love. From this standpoint all things shall be judged.</p>
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<p>When you have this absolute love consummated, however, and kingship and queenship is sealed in you, then even if you march to the gates of hell the door will open. There be no place you cannot conquer and nowhere you cannot go. Everywhere you go you shall bring springtime. Love is not consummated for your own sake; it shall be shared with the people. Centering upon love you must attain kingship such that no one can topple you in that area. You will have one father, one mother, one husband, one wife.</p>
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<p>When you look at American society according to this standard, you can see what a terrible thing Satan has accomplished here. American families are in shambles. When you have this kingship of love, however, you can bring your tribe and race to the door of heaven. Where on earth will we see the spring of the Providence of God? That particular spring is actually at hand. I declared that spring and the new calendar of heaven and earth in 1977 on February 23. That started the year one of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It was declared by the instruction of God. Of course Mother and I must go first. With that standard I am looking at Mother. Each day I must check, and if there are certain areas lacking I must educate Mother and raise her standard so she will graduate with an A+.</p>
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<p>This is the Principle, that the man or king should bring that absolute love first. After he sets the tradition he must re-create woman. Therefore, Adam must set the kingship of love, and then Adam and Eve together shall be perfected. Who has the established world reputation for seeking liberation from men? American women. No matter how you try to claim your human rights, first you must claim your right to true love. You live to establish your love rights. If people ask why Reverend Moon is persecuted, you can reply that it is because he wants to protect this love right.</p>
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<p>Americans criticize without understanding me. Americans who are smelly with corruption try to criticize me, but don’t worry. The entire creation and the whole universe is coming forward to support me. You can see that the people who hate and oppose me think they can succeed, but it has been the pattern that those opponents have been taken care of by God and they went to spirit world. I am going to proclaim continuously this principle of the love of God, this absolute standard. No matter what, there is no compromise or negotiation. The mighty power of God is pushing this movement forward and there is no way it can fail.</p>
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<p>Ask the rising sun what it hopes to see here on earth. It will reply that it wants to see a man and woman who are absolutely perfected in love, and that’s why it has been shining for thousands of years. If you have a way to ask the birds who are whistling in the morning, they will say they want to see the day when the kingship of God’s love is established here on earth. All things of creation are uncorrupted, so they will have the correct answer if you ask them.</p>
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<p>Anyone who tries to go against that rule can never prosper, whether it be a nation or family. There is no way they can survive. The only power that will ultimately succeed in this universe is the kingship of love. My teaching and conviction centers around this kingship of God’s love. I shall fight and die for this purpose. There may seem to be only one roadblock after another and no way to forge ahead, but there is no such word as impossible for me. I have forged ahead step by step. This is why I think God has to love me. Anyone who takes exception to this, raise your hand please.</p>
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<p>If you ask Satan about this, he must answer, “Well, I have to say yes.” Logic is logic and principle is principle. Once you obtain this absolute kingship in the love of God, you enjoy absolute freedom. Whatever you do will give joy and glory to God. If you do something weird, it becomes very funny to God. If a heavy man is riding his slender wife like a horse, God will look and say, “Um hmm. Beautiful.” You have total freedom once you secure the right of true love.</p>
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<p>Usually you walk on two feet, but you can walk on your hands and use your feet like hands instead if you want to. There is limitless freedom in love. I want to bring Mother to that world where love prevails. When we look at the reality compared to that highest possible standard, we see how far away we are and how corrupted the world is. Trying to bring this world back to that standard is truly an awesome task. Do you want to go that route? Think about it now. It will be very difficult, but would you still go?</p>
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<p>The work of MFT is nothing compared to the consummation of true love. Being criticized and cursed, getting no sleep and going hungry is nothing compared to the journey you are going to make. When you are angry at someone who has scorned and spit at you, then remind yourself, “I am going to obtain the kingship of the love of God.” When you remind yourself of this highest possible goal, there is nothing you cannot endure. When you see that goal, then you can endure. Do you want to try? It is very difficult.</p>
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<p>Why don’t you do this the easy way; in the next five years the foundation will be complete, and when you come back everything will be much easier. Who wants that five-year vacation? No one? Are you really sincere? Why is it so important for you to make a pledge that you really desire to do this? Because it will bring money, power or knowledge? No, only for the true love of God.</p>
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<p>No matter how you look, if someone asks you where you are going, you can answer that you are striving for kingship in the love of God. Your ambition is entirely different from the world’s. If a dog is following you, barking, you won’t have to make the dog be quiet; a universal power will do it because the characteristic and motivation of the entire universe is centered on the desire of God. Nothing that opposes such a movement shall be tolerated by the universe.</p>
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<p>I don’t have any official title like ambassador or president, but when I walk this land thinking of the kingship of love I know that the entire universe supports me. This is why all kinds of commotion follow me wherever I go. I cannot be ignored. After the fall it was as though man had lost one eye, his spiritual eye. Now all of a sudden a two-eyed person has appeared. All the one-eyed citizens see he is different from them and call him a monster. We are talking about things entirely different than the wood has ever thought about.</p>
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<p>Suppose some spy comes to report back to his boss about what I am doing every morning at Belvedere. He might report that I hit some brother or sister who was in the front row, but that for some strange reason he likes it and others tried to get his place so they can be hit too! Imagine what would happen if a minister in church went down to the first pew and hit one of the congregation; that would be the end of church! Yet every Sunday you compete with each other to sit up front! No matter what I do, you know I am talking about the kingship of true love.</p>
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<p>I have a handsome hip, but it is even more beautiful if it is hit with a club of love and swells up in a big bruise. ln God’s eyes it is even more beautiful if it is carrying a lump of love. Love is freedom and any action expressed in love shall be accepted. Democracy claims all kinds of freedom, but without true love democracy actually is bondage. The more people enjoy their “liberties” the more they are bound.</p>
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<p>There is no way to describe God without a sense of true love. When you do certain things as an expression of love, even hitting someone, it is acceptable. What a dramatic life we lead! Even the criticism of other people sounds like the barking of a dog far away. In the meantime we pursue true love, and we will become kings and queens fulfilling that love.</p>
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<p>The cherubim with their fiery sword represent an impenetrable curtain which no one can pass unless they embody the love of God which can break down that wall. The cosmic spring of the providence of God is here. We shall see the spring of heaven come to this world, and when we penetrate this barrier we will liberate ourselves from the fallen world and enter that realm. You have learned the secret weapon for penetrating that barrier. I came to this world to teach this to whomever is willing to learn.</p>
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<p>The test I took and the hill I crossed over was no ordinary hill. It was the most severe kind of test. but by crossing over I laid the highway. Your hill, even though it is of the same kind, is much smaller. With just a little extra energy you can do it. Before I did it no one could even dream of crossing over, but now you can do it. The way to go is crystallized now and you an see clearly. Crystals have a certain distinct shape and pattern of facets. whether big or small. You will be a smaller crystal, but of the same shape I am. God’s hill was incredibly big. God crossed over the biggest hill to reach out to meet me, and I crossed over my hill to search for you. Your hill is a microcosm.</p>
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<p>Eventually those hills will be flattened and no more will remain to be crossed over. The way to cross over that hill is home church. The springtime of home church shall be the springtime of the cosmic dispensation of God. The time for home church is at hand. The people who are anticipating the spring are like the early birds who know even in the cold weather when spring will come. Those people will respond to home church. There are people who are awakened and they will rejoice together in the song of spring.</p>
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<p>There will be a blossoming of heartle; angels will be flying around and spiritual Rowers with their fragrance will bloom. God’s throne will be set in that garden and there He will write a poem about the first spring. You can anticipate God’s visit to your garden and have a melody ready for God’s poem and then you can sing together. When you are intoxicated with the song and the love of God you will forget yourself and dance around, and when you are doing the dance you realize you have become Ah-man. You will dance in the bosom of God. You and God will become totally one and there will be no separation there. There you can truly echo God, saying, “Ah-man.”</p>
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<p>We enter that world in total freedom. When that world is ours there will be nothing save ecstatic joy. No power under the sun will be able to separate you from that realm. Even if I am telling you a lie, you wish that it were true. But it is not a lie at all; it is the absolute truth, and how much more do you wish it were true right now? If you know that world can be reality and know it is at hand, how much more will you do? If that is the case, you want to jump farther and run faster and your whole body shall fly like a bullet, knowing that that goal is at hand.</p>
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<p>With this realization everything becomes your counselor and encourager; the song of the birds will cheer you on. Everything you see will be your teacher and engender a greater feeling for the love of God- the wide plains, the peaceful crane flying with big wings, the blue sky overhead. Everything will give you added incentive. With that kind of ideology you will write new poems and songs and masterpieces of literature. You will create a new culture with that love. In the activation of springtime the love of God finds fulfillment in the family. At home you wouldn’t see your grandmother, mother and father all looking in different directions. Everyone will be looking at each other, ready to exchange the love of God.</p>
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<p>Whether young or old, love activates everyone. I am the kind of man who has this crazy dream. Do you feel good? I think you wish your stomach were full more than you wish for this love. Is your denial really from your heart or just lip service? Our world is full of falsity and artificiality. Are you real or artificial ?</p>
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<p>Knowing that the springtime of the dispensation is at hand, do you want to have lordship of all creation and become true husband and wife, truly fulfilling the kingship and queenship of love? Unification Church women should develop new vision which can see deeper than just the external appearance of men, and be able to distinguish the men who have real spiritual backbone and determination. That is what has value. The external will vanish away.</p>
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<p>If you want to expand the value of your love you have to do extraordinary things, the more extreme the better. Then you can have extraordinary give and take of love. We must look forward to the day when God can say, “Here is my spring. I have found the true lovers. Grass, birds, flowers, rejoice and sing because finally I have found my loved ones who have kingship of love here on earth.” That day is our dream.</p>
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<p>We must help God to be a God of hope so that He will not see only despair and pain here on earth. In the shortest time the world shall come under the kingship of God, and when God has real hope of that He will truly be joyful. Just think, you are sons and daughters of God; He is our living God and Father. He has been brokenhearted for 6,000 years, without even one good day or hopeful spring. Don’t you want to be the son of filial piety who can welcome that Father to the cosmic spring? If you have a longing to live for that goal it is a great blessing for you and the greatest success of your life. Nothing else in your life could be more extraordinary or precious than to find this truth and the place to practice it.</p>
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<p>This is the garden in which True Parents, the true husband and wife can be found, in which children can be reared and the true world will be born. The Kingdom of Heaven shall be here. Only love has ultimate power and rules there; no other power can rule that kingdom. It shall be truly the world of equality; people of noble position shall be lowered and the poor people raised up. Do you think that is possible? If such a place is available do you want to run to it no matter what the difficulty? How courageously would you go? With what conviction? Your criterion should be that you will have greater conviction than even God Himself. Do you think God will scoff that you are trying to compete with Him? No, He will exclaim with excitement at what a son and daughter He has and cheer you on. When God gets excited you know that spirit world gets excited and is all ready to assist you. They are all excited because they know that springtime is at hand and the children of God are making ready the dwelling of God. The invitation is ready, the flowers, songs and costumes and everything is ready. In stormy weather when a plus and minus are created there is a tremendous crash of electricity. I am talking about a gigantic lightning bolt of love that will ignite a fire that will consume Satan. Well, your applause is very nice, but those who want me to wait and see how they will live this, you can applaud now.</p>
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<p>From here do you want to go to breakfast or to home church? Do you want to rest or go to home church ? You might have been sick and tired of hearing about home church every day, but after today’s sermon it is a beautiful word, isn’t it? Do you really feel that way? Do you love home church more than your watch or dress or yourself?</p>
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<p>No matter how loudly you shout your slogan, if you do home church out of duty you will never succeed. Only when you do it out of the intoxication of love will you succeed. The home church arena is where you can obtain the kingship of love. Put everything inside home church, and put home church everywhere so that wherever anyone touches you they will feel home church. When every cell shall be part of the kingship of love then there will be no more hills. Once you become Ah-man that accomplishment shall be eternal and no more Ah-man shall be needed. Until you come to this point you need prayer, but after you go over that hill you won’t even need prayer.</p>
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<p>When you reach that destination you won’t need me or Mr. Pak or even God because they will always be with you. Only love prevails; love is all. Today is April I and one-third of the year 1979 is over. April is going to be an important month. In the Oriental tradition #4 is a bad number, but as soon as we restore number four in Divine Principle it will be an important number. This will be a critical, decisive month. What we do in 1979 shall have its breakthrough made in April.</p>
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<p>You know where to go; you know the destination. You now have all the things you need to know. The remaining task is to fulfill and make it yours. Shall we do it? Thank You very much.</p>
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<p>People in the world today do not have a clear definition of good and evil. Some think power is a measure of goodness. If there is a God, it is most important to realize what His purpose and intentions are for this world. The way we understand God, He must be all-powerful and entirely good. But these days people are so confused that they don’t even know whether God is entirely good. What is the ideal God intended realize in this world? We conclude that if there is a God, then He must be almighty and all-good and to realize His ideal in the creation, He will work with the good people of the world.</p>
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<p>On earth people measure power by a visible standard. When a person utilizes his power, it is always for an aggressive purpose. But God must possess invisible power. He is the origin of invisible power, but its action manifests in a visible way.</p>
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<p>Suppose there is a person of great virtue who possesses both inner and outer strength and power. His invisible nobility can be perceived. Which type of power would God emphasize more-internal or external? Since God is invisible, He would emphasize invisible, internal strength. A good God must express Himself through a certain discipline that manifests His power in a visible way.</p>
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<p>If there is a power opposing God, it would manifest itself entirely differently. If God dominates the internal aspect of power, then Satan must be emphasizing the visible, external kind of power. Thus, the pattern of history must show the conflicting aspects of these two masters. The religious way of life pursues the internal aspect, the invisible elements of power, while the opposing side is preoccupied with the visible world. These factors are interwoven in the advance of history.</p>
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<p>Self-denial has been the starting-point of every good religion. The religious tradition has always emphasized denial of self and one’s own family. This means that the pursuit of religious goals is based on invisible power and character, so one must get rid of the shackles of the visible world to attain these goals. Religion emphasizes prayer, fasting, and service to others. Thus the goal of religion is to attain another world of power.</p>
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<p>How great is that invisible world of power? God is infinite and almighty, so that invisible world of power is also infinite and almighty. On the other hand, the world of visible power is limited. Recently Fidel Castro came to this country and tried to demonstrate his power, but there is a limit to what he can do. At one time Hitler thought the power of the German people could conquer the world, but be ran into a limit there too. In the present day, communists believe they will conquer the whole world, but it will not quite work like that.</p>
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<p>The power of the visible world is always halted by certain limits. Most people in the world are preoccupied with visible power, wanting to influence or dominate others. The President of the United States has great power, but he is not almighty. America is a mighty nation, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to be strong for eternity. If the U. S. were ever conquered by another nation, this government would be dispensed with and the conquerors could toss aside the Constitution and the existing laws.</p>
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<p>People are striving every day for power, but most of their goals are limited and vainglorious. Do you have more interest in the person who is shallow and reveals his entire depth, or the person who is mysterious? Would you like your future husband or wife to be someone you can know entirely in five minutes, or someone who has more depth? A shallow person will react to being struck by indignantly wanting to strike back. But a man of depth will not be annoyed so easily. Look at God-many people have mistreated Him, but did He retaliate? It is as though a little boy tried to hit a wrestling champion; that champion would just smile at the boy’s puny efforts.</p>
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<p>We cannot deny the two aspects of the realm of power, one visible and limited and the other invisible and unlimited. We religious people are pursuing the world of invisible power, while Satan’s goal centers on the visible world. What is the limitation of the visible world? We have a visible world of our own surrounding us, beginning with our family, tribe, nation and world. The invisible world starts at the limit of the visible world. Knowing this, no one would swap the invisible world for the visible world.</p>
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<p>A worldly man might try to tempt a religious person by offering him honor and prestige. Many times in history religious people have faced death rather than submit to the world’s standards because they know there is no power which can conquer the invisible world. They do not change. Which world are you pursuing?</p>
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<p>Man has two aspects-invisible and visible. Man’s physical self longs for visible power with which to control something. But the invisible, spiritual side wants to achieve and dwell within the invisible universe, God’s world. Until Satan took control of the visible world, it was all good, but now the physical world is in Satan’s domain, while the invisible world remains in God’s domain.</p>
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<p>By what rule would Satan want to govern his world? He wants to govern it with values that change every day. So we see there is an unavoidable conflict in human life. The good man always invests himself today for the next world. Now there is a conflict between the free world and the communist world, between one world that wants to reach a higher level tomorrow and a world that wants to conquer for today. The future is invisible, so the invisible future is closer to goodness, closer to God.</p>
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<p>Does the Unification Church today have power and strength? What kind of strength? You have amazing power; you are so strong that neither your parents nor your government can handle you. Only Reverend Moon can handle you, and because of that the world says I must be worse than Hitler. Why do people feel I am a powerful, almost fearful, person? Am I a wrestling champion? People hear a lot of bad things about me, but when they meet me they are surprised that I look like so ordinary.</p>
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<p>What do I have then? My source of power is invisible, not rooted in any worldly power. I represent an invisible power, one that does not act blindly, but is based on principle and the discipline of universal law. It has harmonizing, loving power, not destructive power. Therefore, once you taste that power you can forget worldly things such as food and sleep and disco dancing. When you walk in harmony with it, you feel you are not an individual any more but a whole universe, because the universe is marching with you.</p>
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<p>People truly do not realize there are two layers to the world, one visible and the other invisible. There are two ways of expressing power-one by force and with weapons, and the other by sitting peacefully and meditating. There is no real satisfaction in demonstrating visible power. Also, visible power is feeble and weak; physical force may conquer in the short run, but it cannot defeat the invisible power.</p>
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<p>Whoever confronts visible power with the power of thought and peace will be the victor. Therefore, my method of fighting is not one of external confrontation. I am waging an entirely different war. There is no limit to the invisible power. When you keep pursuing the invisible power, you ultimately travel in a circle that will include the visible power. When you walk in only one direction, say from East to West, eventually you will encircle the entire globe and come back to your original position. When two enemies part with great hatred and go in directions 180 degrees apart, eventually they will meet again because their paths will come together. By the time they meet each other they won’t have the energy to voice their hatred. One will say, “I am about ready to die, so rather than die alone, let me shake your hand and make up.”</p>
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<p>When we know this principle, we know that a person like Jesus, who seemed feeble and was crucified, is never defeated by the world. Because they live and think on a higher and deeper level, they will ultimately meet the enemy who killed them and finally conquer him. A man of God has infinite patience; he can wait for a man to get worldly power and still defeat him.</p>
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<p>The people who reject Jesus may try anything they want in the world, but they will always end up with emptiness. So they have to come back to Jesus and be reconciled with him. When they come they will offer all their worldly things to him and bow down, asking forgiveness and saying Jesus is their life. They will want to know what Jesus’ source of power is, since they found only despair in the world. That is the unavoidable destiny of all men. Inevitably they will want to know what the source of invisible power is.</p>
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<p>The good man always pursues the incorruptible, invisible goal which is infinite, while satanic people always want to get the visible goal first. They are always boastful and arrogant and they always end up with corruptible things. What world of power are you pursuing now? Is there a limit to the invisible world of power? We must make infinite effort to reach the infinite world. What is the boundary between good and evil? This fallen world will end when human greediness is consum mated, when evil bears its final fruit. People who want to conquer this visible world feel that the end justifies the means and they don’t care what they must do to get what they want. They would do anything to satisfy their greediness.</p>
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<p>The end result of that evil ideology is expressed today as communism, which totally disregards anything except material things. For their own purposes, communists say that the end justifies the means. What will they do after they conquer the world? There is nothing left after that; it is an empty goal. Suppose a man works ruthlessly to conquer the world and achieves his goal at age 80. What did he gain if he dies the next day? Would he be a happy and fulfilled man or a miserable one?</p>
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<p>A man seeking to conquer the world will try to destroy others around him so he can usurp their power. Isn’t that how the communist system works? No communist could deny it. After communists gain power, the result is al ways tragedy. Eventually history brand the person who worked hard to conquer the world for communism as a traitor and a murderer.</p>
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<p>When you pursue an invisible goal, however, you may look defeated and even die on a cross, but your death is not defeat. Instead it is a victorious new beginning. Be cause you gave everything, everything is resurrected. The supreme example of this is Jesus Christ, who was crucified and died in an excruciating manner, branded as a criminal. He seemed to be hopelessly defeated, but his death actually began a new victory.</p>
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<p>I am not dumb. I could have chosen to pursue the world of external power, but I knew that it would end in tragedy, so I pursued the world of invisible power instead. Am I near the bottom of the list of great modern thinkers, or at the top? I am a man of complicated thought who has considered things that no one ever imagined. But instead of just thinking about them, I wanted to make them a reality.</p>
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<p>I know precisely how the invisible world works, so it doesn’t matter if the entire secular world comes against me; I will go my own way. Even if the entire world uses its power against me, I can break past it and continue into the infinite, invisible world.</p>
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<p>There are people who try to get the best of both worlds. They think they can enjoy the secular world and then when they reach old age start believing in Jesus. In that way they think they can receive the benefit of heaven, too. But a person who does that has forgotten that he must serve a higher level than himself to reach a higher goal. There is no way to avoid it.</p>
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<p>Most of you are white Americans and I come from a backward country in the Orient. Why do you come here and listen to me? Why do you follow when I say you must go one way or another? You listen because you know the Principle and only by following and serving can you make a breakthrough. You have to go forward step by step with that outlook. Even though you start at the worldwide level, you cannot just go straight up to a higher level. You have to inherit the achievement of the person who has covered all the area beneath that level. Thus you must unite with me, become en grafted to me, so you can share the richness of the truth.</p>
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<p>As a member of the Unification Church, you might think that instead of suffering now you will leave and come back after I have finished building the Kingdom. Isn’t that clever? But you have to commit yourself 100% in order to become connected with the invisible world. Thus, any person who wants to give only 10% of his energy here and 90% to the secular world won’t make the connection. Do you have 90% reservation and 10% commitment? Do you think I have 99% or 100% commitment?</p>
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<p>If you want to, you could complain many times every day. “Why does Reverend Moon come to the meeting at 6:00 when I have to get up at 4:00?” you might ask. Do you pray, “God, I can’t keep up,” or “God, I want to do more than Father, but he is always ahead of me”? A long time ago in the countryside of Korea I knew this truth, and I began my work when no one else understood. I was those no one to consult with or help me. I began to speak, trying to win friends, but as soon as I opened my mouth the opposition began-from my family, my people, nation, and the world.</p>
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<p>Always I have endured confrontation with the evil I had to confront the evil power because I was pursuing the invisible world which was surrounded by the visible world. The world knew I was pursuing a different power, so it tried to stop me with temptations like women, money or honor. But I was never deterred and thus Satan decided he had to kill me. One way he tried was by putting me in a prison where people were sent to die. Yet even there I not only survived but gathered godly people together. My pursuit of the invisible power never stopped.</p>
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<p>The worldly power represented by the government and the courts tried to destroy me, but there is another world where God is subject which has loved and protected me. Amazing things have happened. For instance, at the moment when someone tried to kill me, that person would die instead of me. An invisible power always intervened, working on every level. Because I had invisible strength, I never avoided confrontations.</p>
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<p>I fought an invisible battle against the secular power of the nation, a battle lasting from 1940 to 1960. During this time I was a lonely man, barraged by allegations and hostility. Yet I never made excuses. I was silent. Only God knew; that was my power. That meant no visible power could destroy this feeble-looking individual. One government after another in Korea tried to destroy me. There were three changes of government in those 20 years, and not one of them succeeded. I withstood their attacks patiently and survived. With the infinite power of the invisible heaven, I have withstood all the pressure from people seeking to destroy me.</p>
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<p>In 1960 the Holy Wedding was conducted and Mother was installed. Thus in 1960 my victory was declared on the individual level. Then I initiated my public ministry and started the three seven-year courses. Then the dispensation moved to the family level, with renewed persecution and attack. The first seven years were a period of trial in which negative power tried to destroy the family, concentrating mostly on Mother. Women were despising her and trying to destroy her in her mission. In those days many members received revelations and knew my position. Since Mother was my bride, the realm of women was jealous. But Mother used my tactics and never made excuses or accused anyone, no matter how unjust people were toward her. In the meantime I silently laid the family foundation, and then by giving the Blessing, I laid the foundation for the tribe.</p>
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<p>First, the 36 couples were blessed. What is their role? Twelve couples each represent Adam’s family, Noah’s family, and Jacob’s family. There were 10 generations from Adam to Noah, but Ham and Japheth were also dispensational figures, signifying a total of 12 generations. Dispensationally speaking, Abraham’s generation was extended through Isaac and again totaling 12 generations. Jacob had 12 tribes, so this period included a total of 36 generations.</p>
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<p>The 12 tribes were intended to indemnify all dispensational history up to that point which had ended in failure. Jacob could make restitution, so God gave him 12 children through which to restore horizontally the providential history. Thus, the 36 couples constitute the new forefathers of mankind, representing the entire historical background of God’s dispensation.</p>
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<p>The history from Adam to Jacob had to be restored on the tribal level, and the history from Moses to Jesus followed the same pattern. Moses was equivalent to Noah on the tribal level. In Noah’s time God judged the world by the flood. In the same way, Moses came on the tribal level and exercised the power of judgment, paralleling Jacob’s course.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ role was that of the second Adam. There were 12 tribes of Israel, and Jesus had 12 disciples who increased to 70 and later to 120, restoring these numbers from history on the national level. The 120 disciples represented 120 nations, or all people. However, because of the Crucifixion, that ideal was not entirely fulfilled. The dispensation was prolonged for another 2,000 years. Jesus’ work was completed only spiritually, and there remained no physical central nation for God to work through. Therefore, the Second Advent was necessary, as promised by God. The Lord must come physically as well as spiritually as the third Adam.</p>
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<p>When the Messiah comes a second time, he is in a position to restore horizontally all of the history preceding him, meaning the Old Testament and New Testament eras, as well as his own Completed Testament era. In order to restore those three levels, three groups of 12 families were selected. The most important pillar in erecting God’s Kingdom was the blessing of the 36 couples, and erecting that pillar was most difficult. As history developed, the spirit world was divided into three different levels. By uniting 36 couples under one father, the boundaries between the Old Testament era, the New Testament era, and the Completed Testament era can be broken up and they can all become one. All would be combined through restitution here on earth.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church has the role of restoring all of history. God has given me the authority to conduct that restoration, so I am responsible for Adam’s realm, Noah’s realm, and Jacob’s realm. Therefore, 36 couples were selected for Blessing. By doing so, the tribe of the third Israel was created, surrounding the True Parents. This was the cornerstone of the third Israel. In this case, even though the people undertaking the dispensation might be individuals, a family or a tribe, it all had worldwide meaning and impact.</p>
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<p>My topic today is “Territory of Goodness.” How is that territory expanded? Certainly it started with the individual, and grew into a family and tribe, nation and world, but how was it done? Through the Blessing. How do we build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? The family is the building block, and the 36 couples were the first brick laid here on earth. Next I blessed 72 couples, who represented the tribe; 124 couples represented the national level. That foundation of Blessing was finished in July 1963.</p>
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<p>If Jesus could have fulfilled these Blessings after taking a bride himself, he could have built the Kingdom at that time. I received much persecution because of the Blessing, and had to organize heavenly families under tremendous opposition. Parents accused me of taking their children and marrying them off in my own way. From God’s standpoint, I was claiming children back for God. But the world didn’t see it that way!</p>
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<p>In the Garden of Eden man fell through deceit and falsehood. In restoration, people are resurrected to the heavenly realm through the word of God. After 124 couples, 430 couples were blessed, representing the universal level. This was done in the year 4300 of Korean history. The Hebrews suffered in Egypt for 430 years, then made a new beginning. So with the Blessing of 430 couples, God marked a new beginning. The 4300 years included every conceivable element of both good and evil men. Actually 434 couples were blessed. The four extra couples represented people who had suffered in prison, thus opening the door for resurrection of those in hell.</p>
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<p>That Blessing opened the door for all nations and races to enter heaven, since they represented all aspects of the human race. After they were blessed in 1968, I made a worldwide tour and blessed 43 couples in other nations. Thus the two Blessings are in positions of subject and object.</p>
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<p>In 1970, 777 couples were blessed, signifying the completion of formation, growth, and perfection. That Blessing included various nationalities, and through it the heavenly territory was expanded. l personally indemnified the individual and family levels, and in 1970 after seven levels of Blessing had been conducted, a new dispensation of tribal-level indemnity began. In 1971,1 initiated a crusade in which families demonstrated sacrificial love for the nation, leaving their families for three years to go work on the national level. Even though they had God-given families, they made them a sacrifice for restoration of the nation. In 1970, 1971, and 1972 the blessed couples in Korea suffered the most, willingly taking up tribulation and absorbing what seemed to be many tragedies.</p>
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<p>On the foundation of their taking up the cross so gallantly, I could begin the worldwide mission. In the second seven-year course the tribe gave itself in a sacrificial way for the national foundation, and in the third seven-year course from 1974 on, the tribes of the Unification Church united to give themselves for world restoration.</p>
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<p>This is why families here in America are sacrificing their families for the mission. When I told the families to go to the front line, there was much grumbling about separation, but you must remember our ultimate mission is to restore the world. Representing the tribe and nation, we must give ourselves in a sacrificial way. Once we set this tradition, the world’s people will want to volunteer to do what we did.</p>
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<p>We can set a tradition of sacrifice that will be handed down from generation to generation, and then you will be liberated from Satan’s accusation that you did nothing worthwhile to serve the world. That is the most important qualification to win the victory. When Satan knows there is no more room for accusation, he has to leave us alone. Then we can create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
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<p>1976 saw the culminating victory of heaven on earth. During that year Moonies were in the headlines everywhere. I really went on the offensive on April 30, 1973, for three and a half years. On that day America granted me permanent residency here, and in the next three and a half years I consummated the worldwide level of restoration. When the battle was won in 1976, it meant that restoration of all past history was consummated. On September 18, 1976, the historic victory of Washington Monument was won and then on October 4th, I declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven. On February 23, 1977, 1 declared Year One of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
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<p>The spirit world has been compartmentalized over the ages, but the victory of heaven meant that there would be no more barriers. After unity was made between Great Britain and America as subject and object, I entered Korea in 1978 and conducted a special ceremony to demolish all the boundaries in spirit world. For this purpose I conducted a special ceremony on November 2, 1978, in Korea. Until February 23, 1977, liberation was given only to the religious realms in spirit world. The rest of the spirit world has always been divided into the many family trees and nationalities. On the foundation of religious unity in spirit world, I could lift all the boundaries between tribes and nations on November 2, 1978. By liberating my tribe and linking the entire world to it, one tribe in heaven was formed.</p>
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<p>Now the entire non-religious world can unite, meaning there is no more separation in spirit world. The entire spirit world is descending to work on earth as a unified force. By the time the third seven-year course is completed, there shall be no more opposition here on earth.</p>
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<p>Once unity was achieved on the spiritual level, the home church dispensation could begin on earth. Since every tribe in spirit world has been liberated, we can now organize the true heavenly tribes. Your home church area is your tribe. Actually we are ahead of schedule; God originally planned home church to begin in 1981, after the third seven-year course. But because all the debts of the past have been paid, I could advance the time.</p>
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<p>What we are talking about is almost like a dream. The home church dispensation does not recognize national or racial boundaries. You can transform every place you go. Initially you are in the position of tribal messiah, but you can be elevated to the true parents’ role. When parents and children are united in home church, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth becomes a reality there.</p>
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<p>God wanted to create the Kingdom of Heaven in the Garden of Eden by uniting three generations, with God as the grandfather, Adam and Eve as the father and mother, and then their children. In the home church crusade you represent the Messiah, so you represent God. The home church children have their own natural parents, and when they are united with you, it resembles God’s original intention for the Garden of Eden. This is how we came to have the terminology of “tribal messiah.” God’s dispensation can be consummated and the continuous conflict between good and evil will end.</p>
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<p>The world level is always the ultimate goal of God’s dispensation. I went from the individual level to the worldwide goal, fighting one battle after another, paying all the indemnity on each level. Today the conflict between the free world and the communist world is obvious. Actually, the free world should be dominant but the communist world is taking over the free world bit by bit every day. In the midst of this conflict, the Unification Church has been growing from the individual to the worldwide level, taking the internal role. We represent the strongest good.</p>
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<p>The battle between the free world and the communist world is so severe that in the end there will be no winner; both will be knocked out. The children of ardent communists will reject what their parents are doing. In the free world many children now disregard their own family’s and parents’ values. But there is another group arising which is critical of both the communist and the free world. These are Moonies.</p>
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<p>As the conflict becomes more heated, both sides will lose their families, their world, their nations, and themselves in the chaos. People will decide they just don’t care about any kind of commitment and feel they want to live any way they want to. Then they will do all kinds of crazy things in order to satisfy their desires. In the meantime the group that rejects both worlds will be growing internally, rejected by both worlds, but winning individuals, families, tribes, nations, and the world. They will be the central pillar of the world.</p>
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<p>The more the world fights, the more it crumbles and loses ground. But the more we fight, the more we prosper. When the time comes that we receive true liberation, the whole world situation will crumble. The world is living aimlessly and doesn’t care about morality or God’s principle, so the human race is becoming like one big zoo.</p>
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<p>When I came to America, Satan was working in this country in many ways. But now things have gone so far that it is near the end. You are part of that corrupted generation, aren’t you? There is a prophecy in the Old Testament that in the final days the world will be a sea of skeletons. That is what America’s society today resembles, from God’s standpoint. But the Bible says that those bones will recover their flesh and come back to life through the word of God. That is resurrection. God said that out of those skeletons He would raise a new army. That is you, the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Now you know how the territory of goodness has been expanded. The decisive victory has been won, and now it is only a matter of time until the victory is expanded to all four corners of the earth. In time the media, which has been so critical toward us, will visit blessed couples all over the world to get the story from them. Those couples will be the feature news of the world.</p>
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<p>Americans love a champion, and I am certainly the “matching champion” of the world. Even if people don’t know anything about the Principle, they have to recognize that I have matched more couples than anyone in history. I have thought that one day we might advertise the matching services of this world champion for people who have had trouble finding a good husband or wife. Wouldn’t many people want to respond? After matching the people who came, I would tell them they have to fulfill a condition of separation for three years, and then come to a certain place for the wedding. Do you think they would be there? The condition would be not to touch their spouse, but to preserve their purity. Would they just sit and wait for three years? They would think it best to join the Unification Church and work hard so the three years could pass quickly.</p>
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<p>Many would say it was an impossible condition for them to make, but when you think of it, it is an exciting way to get married. So many marriages today aren’t working, and I am proposing an exciting new method. If I matched 100,000 couples around the world, do you think the world would be turned upside down? If those marriages go on for eternity while the rest of the world’s marriages mostly fail, people would have to turn to us.</p>
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<p>Behind each heavenly victory we celebrate there is a foundation of incredible indemnity, a heated battle between Satan and God. In America today a ruthless power is working to destroy me, so our victories have not come easily. People in America are trying to find a loophole in</p>
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<p>the law so they can incriminate me. Evil is always on the offensive, but in the end God always turns out to be the victor. Kim 11 Sung should have been doomed the moment I was released from prison, but because policy-makers in the U.S. were indecisive, that dispensation has been prolonged.</p>
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<p>President Carter is responding weakly to the communist strategy, becoming a prey of their exploitation. The 39th and 40th presidencies are the most critical for America. The 39th is President Carter; it will be a tragic day if he continues to be President for another four years. Even the Democratic Party doesn’t think Carter would be a good President again, and now there is a heated battle between Carter and Ted Kennedy. Kennedy is a liberal with a magic name and wealthy background, but actually the leading voice of American politics should be that of Christianity, God’s people standing up to speak out.</p>
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<p>Whether Democrat or Republican, politicians are basically not trusted by the people. A leadership education program is needed. The basic principle is very simple: the person who loves God loves this country. The person who does not care about or recognize God cannot truly love or serve this nation. The religious leaders of this country will awaken to that point. The recent growing involvement of Christians in American politics is a good sign.</p>
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<p>As long as communism flourishes, Christians are the major champions of God. Therefore, the Pope’s recent visit to the U.S. serves a spiritual meaning. The spiritual forces of the world must be mobilized and united to speak out on the issues. The invisible mind should govern the body, not the visible body governing the mind. Can mind and body be separated? How then can we separate religion and politics?</p>
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<p>As long as there is satanic sovereignty in the world, there will be separation of state and religion, but when people are united in God’s spirit, mind and body will make one whole person, and God and politics should be united. There is much corruption in the democratic process and people’s votes are influenced by many ungodly factors. God doesn’t want to see that. In order for righteousness to come to the planet, the invisible realm should govern the world, like the mind governing the body.</p>
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<p>Some people criticize me by saying I want to dominate the world, but that is not my desire. I am merely proclaiming what God wants. God wants His people to live under His banner, and no one else’s. If we obey God, we try to live up to His standard. We must take responsibility for communism; we want to restore the moral life of this nation with our own hands. We go as individuals, families, and tribes. A new tidal wave is swelling now and will push with gigantic power to reverse the tide of evil.</p>
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<p>Because I know God’s timetable I can be bold and strong. I began by pursuing the invisible world and that righteousness is my backbone, but I must extend heaven’s influence over the visible world. This is why our movement starts businesses, cultural programs, seminaries, and so forth. Money is needed to build the Kingdom. I began by denying myself in order to break through this visible world, and thus I attained infinite freedom. In moving toward the invisible world, I am encircling the entire visible world as well. How will the visible world be bound? The binding force is a God-centered heart in the family, tribe, nation and world.</p>
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<p>We are going to win people’s hearts without a bloody fight. That is how God moves. When the heart of God is exhibited in this way of life, even Democrats and Republicans have to follow, as well as the economy and culture. Don’t you think so? You know how important home church is. Even the greatest rocket needs a launching pad. You also need a launching pad, and that is your home church.</p>
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<p>We are breaking down all the barriers of race, language and nationality. We can deny all these things because we are bound by stronger bonds and values. When you really know this as you enter your home church, all heaven and earth will enter with you. This cause is worth living and dying for, worth investing your youth for. The providence is unfolding at this time in history, and somehow you are one of the first to participate. The weight of history is moving forward with you. As soon as we succeed in that territory of goodness, no more negativity will be generated by the media or by established churches, and even the communists will not affect us.</p>
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<p>God has the positivity that can demolish all the world’s negativity. You will be the wire to conduct heavenly electricity and that current will jolt the world. Do you think that shock treatment can make the world into one? The power of your blood, sweat and tears will be an electrical power to purify the world and make it jump. The decisive showdown has already happened and God has won. Wherever your feet go now, you are expanding the heavenly territory. The power of your mind is so strong that once you are intoxicated in this spirit, your body will have to follow. This phenomenon is also happening in the world.</p>
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<p>If a winch from the satanic world is pulling on you, you may stand so firmly that the steel cable will break. Or you could start pulling the winch toward you! Are you being pulled by my winch instead? My winch is invisible, while the other-is visible and makes lots of noise. Would God like to see that the invisible winch is stronger?</p>
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<p>What would you do if I left America and did not come back? You could take a vacation and go back to your old life. Or would you demonstrate and shout for me to return? I know you would, so I’m not leaving now! Certainly we have enough people to do sit-ins at embassies around the world to disrupt business if the government harasses me, but we will not resort to that method. I have piercing eyes, and when I see injustice and wrongdoing I cannot tolerate it. That is the kind of passion I have. The most fortunate thing is that God grabbed me. If Satan could have exploited my character, it would have borne fearful fruit.</p>
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<p>Haven’t you ended up in an exciting place? You don’t mind if you have wrinkles and lines after a few years of working hard? Do you get more discouraged each year, or do your eyes get brighter and brighter? When you walk, your eyes do not droop down, but always look up.</p>
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<p>By Oriental standards, I am a handsome man. I appreciate beauty and I know how to dress nicely. I also have many abilities, yet I subjected myself to a miserable life. In prison my clothes were full of lice which sucked my blood. Sometimes hordes of them would crawl out of my clothes. I used to enjoy picking up the lice alive and putting them together to watch them fight among themselves. Did you know lice fight each other for survival? I learned an important principle from them: when they fight, they normally unite together in groups. I observed that this one trait made them smarter than most people. Instead of fighting individually, they would group together. Then I couldn’t kill the lice; I would just pick them off and put them somewhere else.</p>
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<p>I have had many experiences like that, but I won’t tell you about them because you already understand me. I will save that material to tell negative people, however, and reveal to them what kind of life I have lived. I will tell how this innocent man was persecuted by people trying to destroy me.</p>
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<p>My subject is “Territory of Goodness.” Wherever I have gone, I have found a territory of goodness, even in prison. I initiated the expansion of that territory to the world, for the sake of mankind and God. What is my asset and power today? I am empty-handed, but God loves me and people are gradually coming to understand and love me. Do you love me? Does that mean you will listen to and obey me?</p>
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<p>I don’t worry about money because I know we can do whatever needs to be done. The necessary money is out there, and eventually it will come to be used for the Kingdom. All we are doing now is applying for that money! Don’t worry-it is there. I don’t feel I am missing anything. I know the foundation is laid now. If I make up my mind to buy the Empire State Building, can it be done? When I came to the U.S. years ago, I said I wanted to buy the skyscrapers, but even the members could hardly believe it. It’s a matter of making up your mind that something is needed; then there will be a way to do it. Is our foundation big or small? How big? It is as big as God.</p>
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<p>When you turn on the water faucet in the morning, you can think that sea waters from the giant oceans of the world are washing you. When you take a deep breath in the morning, you are inhaling air from all over the world. You can love and revere it. Have you ever thought that way? Did you ever imagine what would happen if the air declared a strike against humanity for five minutes? But the air will never betray and destroy you.</p>
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<p>The Moonies’ territory is the universe. You can converse with the sun and say, “You are shining for me and I love you.” The sun will say it loves such a rare individual as you. You can even talk to God this way: “Don’t You like a guy who embraces the entire universe and wants to fulfill Your desires? God, wouldn’t You like your daughter to marry a guy like me?” God will agree. I feel that way and that’s why God gave me a beautiful wife. The amazing part is that in Mother’s eyes I am the most handsome man in history! My children think their daddy is greater than anyone in the world.</p>
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<p>The entire world thinks poorly of us, but we are living in such a fantastic world of joy. I am glad that this world is invisible; if people could see it, they would try to take it away from us! It is the Moonies’ privilege to live in this world. If you are really happy, you can laugh so hard that your belt will break. Then your belt will think it has a great guy for a master. Other people don’t understand how you can work so hard and still be joyful, or how I can give you such a hard time and still you are happy. We are living in a world of different values and standards than everyone else.</p>
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<p>We have no boundaries. You are incredible people because you can be happy even if you fast, even if you work hard day and night. Satan has no way to deal with you. The world has its own standard, but their gauge can’t measure you. No ruler in the world is big enough to measure your life. You are not crazy-happy every day, but you do have a direction. The important thing is that it parallels God’s direction. You are a real problem to the world, but for God this internal world is the greatest thing that ever happened.</p>
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<p>You are jubilant over God’s way of life, and even if you falter and die on earth, you will continue forever in spirit world. Our job is to initiate the crusade from the internal world and to embrace the entire external world. If someone in your family is opposing you, you must study why they do that. The everyday world is a changing, untrustworthy place, so you have to show trust in them and see what happens. Are you afraid of ending up in hell? What would you do there? Would you question how you got there or do you know you could turn hell into heaven? If you follow me, then you know you can turn hell into heaven. When you pray to thank God and then look around to do the task, you will see that it is no longer hell. but heaven!</p>
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<p>When you put infinite trust in God, infinite energy will be given. This is the territory we are working in. Even if America accuses me, no one will touch our territory. You need my signature if you want to enter this territory of goodness. If you can’t get it here on earth, then in spirit world you will have to wait millions of years. Our territory is gigantic, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>My signature is important, but as my sons and daughters you have the power to make me sign for you and for your home church people. Later on I will delegate to you that enormous task of signing for all your people and I will recognize your signature. I can give that right to you and make you my representative. It is an amazing and infinite territory, and to be entitled to it, you have to have unconditional faith and trust. When you act with that faith, you will have that territory.</p>
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<p>Is that territory bigger than the United States? Maybe Americans don’t like to hear it, but that doesn’t matter. Today is a celebration of the battle and liberation I have won on each level. If you parallel my way of life, you can go anywhere and win equal victories. If I match the most beautiful white sister with the homeliest black brother and direct her togo with him to Africa to save his people, she would say, ‘ “Thank you, Father.” At the last engagement many white members asked to have a black husband or wife.</p>
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<p>In the future white women won’t even want to marry white men. Do you black people want to marry whites and not blacks? Can you still say you love your black people? I would like to see blacks willing to cross racial lines, but still respecting their own people, not rejecting them.</p>
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<p>Where can you find this way of life except in the Unification Church? Are you in the right place then? Do we have a good philosophy of marriage? Your manner of thinking determines everything. When you are tackling a difficult chore, you can think you are a heavenly prince or princess who is here for a tour to taste what the world is like. Then nothing can really trouble you. Our life on earth is brief and our tour here is short, but you want to experience everything.</p>
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<p>In my life, I have tasted every aspect of human suffering. Since everyone enjoys praise, I wanted to enjoy being cursed instead. I would enjoy being tested by the most confident deprogrammer. If the most beautiful woman, who thought she could seduce any man, crept into my bedroom to tempt me, I would know how to make a Moonie out of her. I do not fear temptation because it is an extra opportunity to check myself out. It’s all a matter of how you think. I am a dramatic person, tasty and irresistible. If you had known me before joining the church, how would you like me?</p>
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<p>There are many interesting episodes in my life story. The Korean leaders here have been following me for 20 or 30 years, but still sometimes their eyes open wide when they hear something I have never said before. I seldom speak about my experiences in prison. No one has dug it out in all this time.</p>
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<p>This gathering today is very special. On this day I want you to be aware of the preciousness of the invisible world, which is contrary to the values of the visible world. I want you to be people who can’t be measured by the secular world.</p>
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<p>Always feel confident that you possess a special world which is owned by no one else. How big is our territory? It is infinite. Have that kind of guts and confidence. if you love someone, love him infinitely. Do a loving deed and then forget it, only remembering that you have not yet loved enough.</p>
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<p>Those who say they will take up that way of life, raise your hands. You will win and change the world. God bless 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="2018-06-19T14:50:04+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/thanksgiving-to-gods-will.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:50:04+01:00">June 19, 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>You are some of the many young people living in the present time. When we look at young people on the college campuses or on the street, we wonder where they are headed. They live lives of intoxication. but without a goal. They don’t care much about the past or worry much about the world, and they don’t care too much about the future. They would rather live a free style of life at random, without contemplating any responsibility, and are basically self-centered. They don’t worry about such fundamental questions as why man was born.</p>
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<p>They have also forgotten about the founding spirit of America, which was basically religious and focused on a God-centered ideology. When you really study the founding spirit of this nation, you come to the conclusion that this nation is really not a democratic country but a religious nation founded on the spirit of God. That has been the national motto.</p>
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<p>At the present time, however, America is not living like a religious nation and is even less than a true democracy. Right now the American way of life is totally materialistic and money seems to have become almighty. People are trying to locate human value within the realm of money to such an extent that they are incapable of thinking outside that sphere. But who should be subject, dollars or man? In the present way of life in America none of these things are clearly defined or realized.</p>
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<p>In America the most important information is the minimum wage law, which says that a worker is worth at least $2.95 an hour. America is so totally enslaved to the money system that every measure of human value is translated in terms of dollars. When you hear $10, you think that is worth three hours. If you loan someone $10, you think that you are entitled to three hours of work. Sometimes children loan their parents $100. and before thinking of their parents as parents they think, “You owe me thirty hours.” It is to the extreme that the money concept dominates all other human relationships.</p>
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<p>Money has become the tyrant of America’s way of life. Children often resent having poor parents and think that if their parents were better people they would be rich like some other people. Sometimes children are very critical of their parents simply because they are poor. Particularly when looking for a husband, American women are checking in terms of dollars. ‘ How much is that man worth?” Many women marry because the man is very well off, forgetting however, that money cannot stay in one place. Once the money is all spent. those women who married for wealth start complaining. If their husbands don’t earn good money, the wives become scornful towards them. Money increasingly supercedes other human values, such as character, morality, religion. etc. These are the more valuable things but money seems to be blinding people. This is the kind of life we see around us.</p>
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<p>How much value do we have as men and women? Man’s value has become so small that people are considered insignificant unless they have money behind them. If offered a choice between having money or good men and women around them, people would normally choose the money. You say no, but that’s the way American life seems to be going. When people cannot satisfy their fantasies through money, they seek to intoxicate themselves with other external methods, such as drugs. They are trying to find intoxicating happiness through many external means.</p>
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<p>What would be the end result? The fundamental illness of today’s society is irresponsibility. People don’t want to take responsibility so they abuse freedom and reject any kind of disciplined or organized life. They have no goal or master plan for their lives so they live capriciously. In the final tragic result of such a life a person will feel he has hit a stone wall and be shattered into pieces. If individuals are living in that fashion, they will form an irresponsible society, which will lead to an irresponsible nation and an irresponsible world.</p>
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<p>Knowing that such a way of life will eventually lead to disaster, people must start a trend or new movement that denies the existing value system. We see this trend in the attitudes of young people who question why they need money, democracy. parents. or the institution of marriage. If a person is only denying all the objects of the world without a clear-cut goal to substitute for them, he will soon conclude there is no reason to exist and eventually come to deny even himself. He cannot avoid the fact that in this world no one can survive all by himself, so he will either end his own life in despair or live out his days as human trash.</p>
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<p>There are two ways to deny life and value. One way is to deny a lesser value by securing a greater value Denying the lesser value in order to search after a greater value is the right thing, but total, blanket denial is dangerous because then people cease searching after true goals or the true way of life. There are many thinking people in this country who are searching and experimenting with new values. That’s how the hippie movement began. But people couldn’t find values they were seeking there, and in their search many even ended up in a communistic way of life without knowing its true nature. They thought they might find something worthwhile in communism and never realized that once a person gets in he becomes a victim of that philosophy, which denies human value.</p>
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<p>In the communist system no individual, no human rights, and no freedom are recognized. Communism itself becomes god. To ensure the survival of that god, communists would sacrifice anyone without a second thought. Compared to communism. human life and even love is considered unimportant, and even the family system is forcibly sacrificed to promote the prosperity of the communist system. The communists claim that their ideology will bring utopia, that it is the ideology of ultimate human satisfaction. If that were true, maybe their sacrifice would have some meaning, but we know that communism is based on lies. There is no truth in it.</p>
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<p>Today both communism and democracy have come to a deadlock. Then what do we need at this juncture of human history? Even though communism and democracy can be shattered into pieces, there must be one ideal that can survive and clarify the value of human existence. Where can we find this ultimate human values? The dilemma is this: the world is dirty, yet you can never totally deny the whole world and liv·e all by yourself because you need someone to live for. On the other hand, you can’t completely embrace the way the world lives either. This is the dilemma of our society today.</p>
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<p>No matter how great the democratic ideology is, it cannot digest the human situation. and neither can communism. Then what kind of ideal do we need? An ideology is needed which can start out small and grow to greater and greater horizons, finding something that is greater than the world, the universe and the cosmos. Some ultimate destination must exist, but without an ideology of this dimension it would be impossible to reach. It is almost like climbing over a mountain with a small ladder. As you climb further and further, instead of finding your small beginning disappearing, you will find it becoming wider and wider and providing you with a much sounder foundation for your further climb. Whoever goes by that route and climbs step by step to the end will win the respect of all people because it’s a goal everyone aspires to.</p>
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<p>Every individual has certain aspirations and desires to climb higher and higher to a commanding position. You have ambition, don’t you? Everyone wants to fulfill his own aspirations, but today most ambition is squelched by the world, and instead of bringing fulfillment it is only one more heavy burden. When all ambition is shattered, your life is hell. No matter how many great things you are given, if you are in that position then nothing can satisfy you because no one lifts your burden. We are in a contradictory position because each individual is small compared to the world, but our ambitions. goals and ideals are so big that they are greater than the universe. This is man’s eternal dilemma.</p>
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<p>Then how can we satisfy these contradictions? Suppose you become a billionaire. Even with great wealth you are still small compared to the world and are unable to change or deal with the entire world. There is a vast world out there untouched, so where can we find true inner satisfaction? All men and women have an inherent ambition to become conquerors of the world. First, everyone wants to rise to the top of the world, and second, everyone wants to possess the most precious thing in the world. Do only Americans harbor that kind of ambition? All people want to fulfill that kind of dream.</p>
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<p>As you know, each person has two aspects, mind and body. Which one should be subject? Which one would you follow? Do you live for your ambition. desire and ideal, or for your physical body? You may work very hard, but is work itself your goal in life, or is it the means to fulfill the goal of your life? That goal is always ahead of you, and though you can’t see it you are always working toward it. Then what should become your fundamental concern-giving satisfaction to your mind or your body? Does that mean you neglect to give your body food and sleep? The most ideal situation is to give satisfaction to both your mind and body. In lieu of the ideal, however, there could be a very easy solution: give the body enough to maintain itself, but give the utmost satisfaction to the mind. If there is such a way then that .should be the ideal. In other words, you may not eat or dress like a millionaire, yet your mind is infinitely free and happy. Your ideal is there and being fulfilled. The person who lives this way must be a very happy person.</p>
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<p>Two ways of life can be seen among men. One kind of person doesn’t care about the desire of his mind or about pursuing a larger will or ideal: he just follows the sensual desires of his body for good food, lots of sleep. fun and sex. The other kind of life doesn’t pursue the satisfaction of the body but of the desires and goal of his mind. These are the two basic types of life that can be seen in our world today. Which one would you prefer?</p>
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<p>What about the happiness of the body? That’s happiness, too. A person is basically dominated by the ambitions and desires of his mind, however, which govern his entire life. No matter how some tyrant may try to eliminate ambition or desire from man, it is impossible because a person’s goal, desire and ideal are greater than the universe. Each individual has his own universe. When you are centered upon the goal of your mind, even though it seems to be difficult to achieve in the beginning, there is always hope for opening greater horizons every day. But when you only seek to gratify the desires of your body you know that your momentary pleasure will not last and that you are headed down the road to despair.</p>
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<p>Basically we can define good and evil by saying that the direction pursued by the mind is good. while the direction pursued by the body is evil. As a result there are two types of people in our world: Conscientious people are trying to satisfy their own consciences, while others are only living for the carnal satisfaction of their bodies.</p>
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<p>Who is the man of conscience? He lives for the public purpose and is willing to give himself as a sacrifice. In doing so he sacrifices his outer person, not his inner self, which is steadfast and constant. When you try to be humble and meek, you are making an effort to control your body. At the same time your ideal is not limited but is as free and as great as it can be. Your ideal is pursuing the benefit of others and the public purpose, the purpose greater than yourself Your mind unceasingly pursues that goal.</p>
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<p>National laws or constitutions are enacted in any good nation, basically to enhance the public way of life The philosophy and basic nature of the law is to uphold the giving way of life and to attempt to limit those who would live only for themselves. Once you make yourself the center and try to pursue only self-centered goals, the more effort you make, the more you narrow down your life ultimately confining yourself to darkness and despair.</p>
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<p>Many people today embrace the ‘me-first” philosophy. When you pursue that goal, you evaluate everything in terms of how happy it makes you. Actually the opposite will occur; your nation and society will turn away, and your parents, friends, and brothers and sisters will all go away. Even your children will leave you. In the end you will be left all by yourself and you will eventually hit the sharp edge of a stone wall and get a bloody face. The outlook will be so dark that finally you will not be able to see any more hope to continue. Though you tried to be happy and to gain the most for yourself, you actually suffered the most. Your suffering begins inside yourself because you will be struggling with your conscience.</p>
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<p>Everyone has another public man inside himself who keeps insisting that living selfishly is wrong. The person who tries to ignore his conscience is only torturing himself. If a dog barks at him, his first reaction will be to think that the dog doesn’t like him. If he passes by Belvedere and hears the birds singing, he won’t think their songs are for the glory of God, but will feel the birds are criticizing him.</p>
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<p>A person who is this self-centered is so closed that he cannot relate to anything. Consequently he is perpetually scared to death that everything is coming against him. In the end, he will feel he is no good and that everything is against him and then he will want to kill himself. That is why the suicide rate in this country is phenomenal. The statistics show that last year at least 38,000 young people committed suicide, and the rate of attempted suicides was 50 per cent greater than that. This is the reality, but it is only the logical outcome of the way America is heading now.</p>
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<p>Where are you? Have you hit the stone wall? There is one hope for democracy. for this nation and the free world. and that is to create a movement that will deny the materialistic and self-centered outlook. We must find the way of life in which our greatest ambition and ideal can be freely pursued and a sense of fulfillment attained. Even the smallest person has a dream and a goal and wants to possess the entire world. That is an undeniable dream.</p>
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<p>Everyone also has the desire to be liked by everyone and everything, even the birds and the flowers. That’s a natural desire, but how can we satisfy it? It’s impossible to erase this desire from within yourself. Do you want to possess the United States or the world? When you go beyond America, you do it joyfully because you receive the world instead of one nation. What is greater than the world? When you receive a greater value, you can give up a lesser value without any complaint. The earth is a very small particle compared to the universe. so if you can own the universe then you are willing to give up the world. Is there something greater than the universe? If there is some greater value than the universe, then in order to receive that value you can gladly give up the universe. What is greater than the universe? How do you know there is a God? Have you seen Him?</p>
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<p>Deciding whether or not there is a God is really a problem for many people. When you look at the universe, however, would your logic tell you that everything came about at whim or random, or that there is someone who planned and willed the universe to exist? We live in a solar system in which the earth is but a very small particle, and there are millions of other solar systems and galaxies in our universe. These heavenly bodies are not stagnant or still like a dead fly on the wall, but are in constant orderly motion. Not one heavenly body is standing still for one second. Have you ever heard of a traffic accident between planets in the universe? The earth has been rotating for millions of years, but have you ever read that one day God’s alarm clock didn’t work and the earth didn’t get in on time and 365 days became 379 days? The exactness of the universal movement cannot be compared to any man-made computer system.</p>
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<p>Is it logical for someone to say that all these things just happened at random with no will behind them? The logical answer is that there must be some cause or will which preceded all existence. There was an invisible cause somewhere and the universe was the result.</p>
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<p>During my school days I knew many people, some of whom were communists who argued that material is real because they could see and touch it. but God is a fantasy because He can’t be seen. I said to one fellow, “You believe in logic, don’t you?” He replied, “Yes.” “Then if I logically explain that there is God, would you accept it? Let me ask you a question. Do you know the history of your eye? Where did your eyeball originate? The first man on earth must have had eyes, and whether born with his eyes open or closed, he eventually opened his eyes and saw.” This person knew that no baby has his eyes open in his mother’s womb, so he said, ‘ ‘I’m sure that baby’s eyes were closed before he was born.” “When you close your eyes, do you see your eyeball?” I asked. “Then was the eye the result of some accident?”</p>
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<p>He replied that it must have happened at random because there is no will in such a thing. Then I asked him which came first, the sun or the eye. The eye was made to perceive light, and without it the eye has no function. The eye of the baby inside the mother’s womb didn’t know the sun was shining, but someone else had to know because the eye is made in such a way that it can function in sunlight. The eye didn’t know but some cosmic knowledge knew and matched the sun’s rays with the eye.</p>
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<p>If everything can happen at random then the eye could have been like the sole of your foot. “Now think,” I said. “Was there some knowledge prerequisite to your birth and the creation of your eye.” There was some universal intelligence existing that organized the two to match. Either the eye knew everything that was going on outside and decided to become as it is, or else there must be some outside will or intelligence which matched the eye to the sunrays. The eye certainly had no consciousness of it. Then what do you think? There must be some previous intelligence. You may call him anything, but we happen to call him God.</p>
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<p>“Before you were born, did your eyelash know that there would be lots of dust in the air? Some will or universal intelligence knew there was air and dust outside and that your eye needed something to prevent the dust from coming into the eye. There is also a water supply which moistens your eye all the time. Do you think the eye knew that there was heat and dry air outside that would prevent the eye from functioning unless there was moisture always available?”</p>
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<p>“Do you know how hard your eye works? Try lifting your hand and blinking it all day long like your eye does. It’s hard work, isn’t it? If your eye was open 24 hours a day it would dry out like a fish eye after three days. But because your eyelids blink. your eyes are cleansed and moistened. If someone says that everything happened at random and no one planned this universe, I have to say he is crazy. How can you say that material comes first and spirit second,” I asked this communist. I was young and very excited, and at the end of our heated argument the first communist surrendered to me.</p>
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<p>From today on, when you look in the mirror look at your eye and appreciate it. “God, thank you for giving me a built-in water hose and for eyes that blink.”</p>
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<p>When I first came to America and saw how women here talk so fast, I wondered how their lips could work that quickly. What kind of incredible skin did God give to American women? When you think of the beauty of man and the intricacy of the human body, you come to the conclusion that the human body is a mystery palace. There is incredible beauty and mystery within your one body, which is a microcosm of the universe. One human body is so delicate and complex that the entire universe cannot compare with it.</p>
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<p>The human ideal is infinitely gigantic and there is no limit to the capability of man’s mind. Every man is born with ambition. The ultimate question is: If there is an Almighty God, would you want to possess Him? There is only one God. but billions of people want him. So what should we do? To whose home should He go? If God has only one body and everyone wants Him, it’s a great problem. God thought,</p>
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<p>Everyone wants me, so in order for me to go to everyone’s home I should be invisible. Now I’m available to everyone and they will come to me in spirit.”</p>
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<p>With what spiritual substance would God want us to make a relationship with Him? With what kind of love? Does true love have a string attached? When you go to God with true love, He has no sensation, but as soon as you contact Him with true love He will jump from the shock of it. You don’t want to touch a live wire, do you? If you attach a live wire to a wooden stick and touch someone with it. he won’t feel any sensation. If you connect it to metal, he will feel some sensation, but if you connect it to pure gold then all the electricity will be conducted and the person will really jump.</p>
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<p>God said, “I am the Alpha and the Omega. the beginning and the end.” The love God is talking about is not just wooden love or metal love, but genuine gold love with 100 per cent conductivity. When the gold wire is connected to a source of electricity it doesn’t make any difference whether it’s 1,000 miles away or one mile because the same sensation and power are conducted. There are all kinds ot love, but true love has that 100 per cent conductivity. What kind of love do you have?</p>
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<p>Are your body and mind united into one, or is there some struggle within you? Your mind and body may be pretty good friends, but you should make them absolute friends. Are you the kind of person whose mind conceives some thought and whose body then gets excited and echoes that thought to your mind? This morning your mind said to go to Belvedere early and sit right in front of me. but your body said to forget it and sleep a couple of hours longer. Normally does your body come to Belvedere first and then your mind follow, or does your mind come first and your body follow? Your mind comes to Belvedere and then your body wakes up and says, “Mind, where are you? I want to go to Belvedere too. Why did you leave me?” Do your mind and body work together as one team and does your body respond quickly to your mind? If that is the case then your mind and body are one. If you are genuine gold. you should act like that. What is your real situation?</p>
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<p>The man of conscience always has his body under control. God is invisible, but we know through Divine Principle that God has internal and external characteristics, sung sang and hyung sang. Even though God is invisible, He has two parts which work together 100 per cent. When you love someone with your mind and body in total oneness, you are completely flexible and can penetrate anything. The heart of God is perhaps the most impenetrable of all things, but when a bullet of gold love hits it, even God surrenders. When true love hits the heart of God, it causes the greatest thunder and lightning.</p>
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<p>Even the birds sing songs of love in the spring. Then how much more glorious would it be for man, God’s greatest creation, to sing an eternal love song? Their love together would be the supreme power. Have American men and women thought about noble and true love? When that love hits men and women, they become totally consumed into love. How can two things which are utterly melted into one be separated? Even at death that love cannot be parted. If I think and preach in this fashion, how much more must God have this conviction?</p>
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<p>Is there divorce in the spirit world? Are you convinced you can give a shock treatment to God with true love? Do you want to be the men and women of love? How beautiful you are. When you look at each face here, there is none that is truly ugly. When you just look at the surface it may be sometimes ugly. but when you see the origin of your life, everything is so beautiful. When you know your true origin, everything on your face-your eyes, nose, teeth, lips, hair, ears-possesses incredible beauty and mystery.</p>
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<p>Do I look like an ugly man, like a potato or pumpkin? Even if I do, it doesn’t make any difference. When men and women come into the Unification Church do they love me? Is it because I give you sweet things all the time? Your simple answer is that you like me, even if you don’t know why. When you come to see me you feel different vibrations, don’t you? People outside our Church can’t understand these vibrations and so they decided you must be brainwashed. They are trying to describe me, but they can’t do it because these vibrations can’t be detected by any instrument.</p>
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<p>When sunrays shine onto a dirty mirror they aren’t reflected well, but a clean mirror gives 100 per cent reflection. If sunlight is being reflected from a mirror into a cold room, then warmth and light come in there. You feel that reflected warmth and move closer to it. I am like a mirror reflecting God’s love, so in this cold and freezing world you want to come closer to be warm.</p>
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<p>If I taught that there was no love and no ideal, would it do any good for you to come here? If I only craved power and money, there would be no attraction or vibration between us. God doesn’t <i>need</i>money or power or knowledge. God needs only two items: true life and true love. True life is lived by men and women who have mind and body united. What is true love? It is the infinite give and take between God and yourself. Only through true love can you have give and take with God heartistically. Our ambition is bigger than the universe. If there is a God then we want to conquer Him, but there are many different ways to possess God. You can possess God’s wealth, God’s things, or you can hold God’s hand or body, but the ultimate way to possess God is to conquer His heart.</p>
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<p>The heart has different contents, so where would you like to concentrate? The center of the heart of God is love, and in the deepest corner of God’s heart is true love. The Unification Church was born in heart, shim jung. You don’t have a word in English to translate shim jung, so I created a new word, heartle. The wisest men and women aim at this innermost heart of God. Snatch it and put it in your pocketbook, for as long as you have God’s heart in your possession He cannot leave you.</p>
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<p>Imagine a gigantic powerhouse generating millions of watts of electricity. If that power is burning within instead of being sent out over the lines, how big an explosion will be generated? The power of it will shock the world. This is what I am like inside.</p>
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<p>When you touch true love you can taste and appreciate it, and then when you look at the spirit world you understand it completely. In true love there is nothing you cannot see, so getting a diploma from Harvard or Yale isn’t worth as much; in true love you have the highest education of all. When you look at the world through the eyes of true love, you already know the world. When you look at the spirit world through the eyes of true love, you already know what is there. There is nothing more you can learn.</p>
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<p>If that is the case, are you an unhappy, miserable person? If you have this ambition and come to experience true love, is there anything else you need? No more effort is needed because you have reached the peak and you can stay there for eternity. You live in love, dance in love, sing in love.</p>
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<p>If that is the case, do you think love should be the ultimate goal of life? Then what is the Unification Church for? We are very greedy people, so greedy that we want to Possess the universe and more. No matter how much we are persecuted, we persevere because we are greedy. I, for example. am the greediest Moonie and I go on and on because nothing bothers me. We are so greedy that we can’t stop until we reach the heart of God. Once you arrive at the center, you can occupy the precious heart of God. Then the whole universe and the entire world of persecution will be turned around.</p>
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<p>Recently a report came from Scotland about a minister who was so vicious in his attacks on us that one day as he was making an anti-Moon speech he collapsed and was taken away on a stretcher. We don’t advertise such events, but many such mysterious things have happened around me throughout my life. The Japanese members had a certain fund raising goal to meet this year, and it was reported to me that most of the result is coming through the activity of spirit world. Often a person has received a revelation or had a dream to have a certain amount of money waiting. Then when our member knocks on the door, his response is, “Please come in. I was waiting for you.”</p>
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<p>The other day Mr. Kamiyama met with me and we discussed whether the outstanding MFT members would like to receive good watches. Mr. Kamiyama said they didn’t want anything like that; they wanted a picture signed by me instead. Unification Church members don’t care about money. It has no value to them. Can you find young people anywhere in the world who say they don’t need money? That’s why people think you are crazy. In the world money governs everything, but in our world money has no power. Everything is secondary to receiving the love of God.</p>
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<p>Do I have lots of money or very little money? I myself don’t have any money, but when some goal is given to raise money in fifty days, can I do it? Everyone thinks I am a billionaire but my pockets are empty. I have a need for money because there is so much to do, but not a single penny goes for my own well-being. It all goes for the sake of the world. Therefore, I don’t love money. I love God and mankind, so money is merely the instrument with which to do God’s work.</p>
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<p>A diamond ring is actually only valuable as an expression or an accessory of love. The money I spend is also an accessory of the love of God. I would like to give every American a diamond ring as an expression of God’s love. In a way I am doing that now, and because our work represents God’s love it would be more precious than any other diamond under the sun, even the First Lady’s diamond.</p>
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<p>People know that I am doing many projects and spending much money, but they only see that external aspect. What they do not know is that this expenditure of money is an accessory of the beautiful love of God. The day will come, however, when Americans will know the true meaning of my presence in this country and my projects here. Once they come to understand the core of it, they will cry out in praise. If this generation doesn’t do it, your ancestors who are already in spirit world will do it. This is the truth.</p>
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<p>The man who pursues the “me-first”, materialistic goal will hit a stone wall because he is living a contradiction between his mind and body. The ultimate freedom and liberation is not offered by democracy or communism, but by the one ideology which will offer total harmony between man’s mind and body. That is Godism, the absolutely God-centered ideology. The Unification Church possesses the ideology that can satisfy the infinite ambition, will and ideal of man. That means we have the possibility to help man settle in the ideal world.</p>
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<p>No matter how powerful or greedy a person might be, the love of God can satisfy him instantly. The purpose of life here on earth is to develop our sensitivity and capacity to have give and take of love with God. That’s the way God intended life to be, but because the fall of man shattered everything into pieces we need salvation and restoration. The consequence of the fall was the total loss of everything, and the most precious thing to mankind-God. God is our common parent, the beginning and end, alpha and omega. When we discover our eternal king, we discover ourselves as eternal princes and princesses. The ideal world is the atmosphere or circumstance in which that prince and princess can receive a formal education of the love of God.</p>
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<p>The love of God will fill you according to the size of your container. When you have a greater container, more love comes. Our job here on earth is to expand the capacity of our containers. Are we then creating a better world than the democratic and communist worlds?</p>
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<p>The American people are basically smart, so when they compare the conventional way of life and this new way of life, they will see that the new way is a greater. more valuable way. Then they will get rid of their old mode of life.</p>
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<p>When you come to the Unification Church you can find an incredible value that cannot be swapped for anything. Sometimes your parents or your society persecute or kidnap you, but nothing can stop you because you have found your ultimate value. If you are kidnapped, will you want to stay with the kidnappers? If loving husbands tell their wives to stop coming, will all the wives not come again? Even your husband should not be allowed to become a barrier between you and the ultimate love of God. That doesn’t mean he should be cut off but that his wife must win him. Go to the goal and come back with a rope strong enough to pull him there with you.</p>
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<p>If two people are caught in a flood, the best way for both to be saved is for one to somehow reach shore, anchor himself and then pull the other to safety with a rope. That’s the way you must think about your life now. Sometimes your parents can’t understand your mission and don’t have the patience to delay judgment about what you are doing. Nevertheless, many members have succeeded in winning their parents.</p>
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<p>When God looks down at how the secular world is doing things and how we are doing things, which side do you think He will take? If God doesn’t support me but sides with the world, when the world crumbles God will crumble too. Do you think God can afford to crumble? There are many prayers petitioning God for my removal, such as God, Reverend Moon is a heretic from the Orient. Please summon him to spirit world soon so that we can be without him. Do you think God will listen to that prayer? He comes to me and says’ “My son, this person is praying for your death. But keep going 100 per cent.”</p>
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<p>The Unification Church will provide the ultimate satisfaction. We have the ideology and the way of life to attain the ultimate ambition and ideal that mankind can possess. But at the same time, Unification Church members are not living in a fantasy on cloud nine. We are bringing practical restoration starting at the individual level by upholding one central way of life. First you perfect the individual, then restore your mate, create your family and have children. Finally you change your society, nation and world. We have a practical master plan to build the kingdom of God here on earth.</p>
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<p>Ultimately when we restore the entire world we will liberate God. Have you ever heard anyone talk about liberating God? It is an incredible proclamation. John 3:16 says that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son and whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. God loves the world, but the circuit of love has been broken and God is not in a position to truly love the world now. We must liberate God so that the circuit can be reconnected and God can truly love the world once more.</p>
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<p>There are many ideologies in the world, but nothing that surpasses this Godism that I am proclaiming. All the great professors and theologians are entitled to inherit these things, but the inheritance is going elsewhere instead. The inheritance of the blessing is one thing, but fulfilling the responsibility that comes with it is the problem. You can do it, however, because the message is a simple one. No one is asking you to lecture at Harvard University; all God is asking you to do is practice true love.</p>
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<p>There is a specific way to practice our love of God, and your 360 home area is your battleground. This is your university curriculum. You should receive at least eighty points of credit, so in order to make this grade at least 288 homes in your area must say, “yes, you are truly my tribal messiah. You are a great savior and subject of love.” What kind of men and women should you become in your home church? Suppose there is a newly married couple who have just come back from their honeymoon. If they are in the bedroom when you knock on the door, then they should want to jump up to greet you.</p>
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<p>The amazing thing in the Unification Church is that wherever I go, no matter how much a couple love each other, they follow me rather than each ether. You should also be followed and respected to that degree. If you truly represent God then your home church people should respect you that much. Recently I tested what kind of standard our married couples live by and called all the wives to assemble for new missions. All the husbands urged their wives to go instead of trying to hold them back.</p>
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<p>There is no doubt that I have become controversial but it was inevitable because without undergoing persecution we could not kindle the revolution of love in this world. We are the planters of the universal standard of love on the individual level, and when you extend this standard it will cover the family, tribe, nation and the entire world. That’s the way step-by-step restoration will be conducted. Are we doing it? We possess the loftiest ideology, but at the same time we have a very realistic master plan to fulfill it. We are not just dreamers. Every individual knows where he is standing now, what he has achieved and how much further he has to go. You know whether you have passed the examination, or are just a first or second grade student because you have a standard to measure by. We have triumphed over the individual, family, nation, world and spirit world.</p>
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<p>With this central standard we are changing ourselves. The important thing is to deny the world first and then to rebuild it. When you deny the old, you already have a responsibility to build something better. I deny the democratic world and the communist world because I have a plan to build a better America and world. It is only upon that condition that I can speak out. If you just deny for the sake of denying, you will become the enemy of this nation and of the world.</p>
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<p>The only thing I want to say to those who deny me is this: show me your blueprint to make this nation better, and to make this world better. If you don’t believe me, show me a better alternative. But no one has submitted a better proposal. Therefore, we can come to the conclusion that I have already won this battle.</p>
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<p>Do you think I am just sitting idle because of all the persecution that has been directed against me? I am thinking of all possible ways to go. I lived in the worst kind of concentration camp for several years. Do you think I just sat back passively and waited for something better to happen? That is not the way I am. I thought out every possible way to solve the situation. As an individual and as the head of a family I have fulfilled my responsibility. As the head of the society, nation and world I have been fulfilling responsibilities as well.</p>
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<p>When we had the 705-couple engagement, I declared to you that we are the love race. Does the love race consist of white marrying white, black marrying black and yellow marrying yellow? It was beautiful to have a lovely white woman say, “Give me a black husband.” When God saw that did He say, ‘ What’s wrong with you? You will stain your beauty by forsaking your tradition that way. Don’t do it”? No, God said,”She is part of my love race.” That is not just an ideal. It has become reality. The world is small for Unification Church members. Going to England is like a weekend sightseeing trip.</p>
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<p>Where are all your chairs? You are sitting for hours on a concrete floor. Because we live with all kinds of cultures, we can be comfortable wherever we go. In Asia, Africa, Europe, South America we are comfortable because we have the capacity to embrace different cultures. I am doing the most incredible mission possible, but is this making everyone miserable and unhappy? Before we began our new life we were lost people. We had lost God, the universe, the world, the nation, and ourselves. But as soon as we came to this new vision of the world, we found we got everything back and more. Now our hearts are filled with gratitude and excitement. That should be our way of life.</p>
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<p>When people persecute you, have mercy on them instead of being mad at them. Have a compassionate mind which is big enough to embrace them and smile. Actually, they are jealous of your position. They feel you have come to this position without any qualification and that they should have come first. That’s why they come against you. By persecuting you, they will make you greater sons and daughters of God because through them you can fulfill all the qualifications. Don’t go in a mediocre way but prove yourself worthy.</p>
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<p>I created the home church system to give you an arena in which to be persecuted and to realize what your position is, to feel gratitude and really live the heart of God. You must have a grateful heart and really understand the life we are living at this time in history. We know the most precious truth under the sun so now we have a great responsibility. The entire world is like a rag that we must mend, and even though our hands are roughened and hardened by mending this dirty rag, we will be grateful.</p>
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<p>Even though you have been persecuted, you can be grateful for being born in this country, because it is here that we met. Thank your father and mother for giving you birth at this particular time in history. Be grateful to all the teachers who instructed you, to everyone who benefited you so that you could be in this position today. Thank all things of creation which provide you with physical food. Thank the birds for singing a beautiful song of God. Thank the farmers and their fields for providing for you.</p>
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<p>Declare to all creation that you have become the princes and princesses of true love and love them as a representative of God. Love the grass and the trees. The entire earth is like a glacier, so now you must bring the warmth of the love of God and enable the earth to truly feel the cosmic spring. Do you feel the joy of being the harbinger of the cosmic spring? Feel the warmth in your heart, that satisfaction and purpose of life. Look at the world and all things of creation with that frame of mind. We have discovered God’s will and dispensation and will live on earth in eternal faith and gratitude.</p>
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<p>Even though your heart is willing to give thanksgiving to God, sometimes your body lets you down. Always repent that your body can’t keep up with your will. That way God will be very sympathetic with you. Can you complain then? The moment you know the will of God and His dispensation there is no way you are entitled to utter even one word of complaint until you die. You should not even know how to complain. Are you living that way? Even though you go through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil but be grateful instead. We have so much to be grateful for. We should begin our life in gratitude and end our life in gratitude. With this heart you can desire to bear a greater burden and be grateful for it.</p>
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<p>If anyone lives this way of life and it comes to no avail, then he can accuse me. I myself have lived this life and been persecuted, but many incredible things happened. When other people wanted to see me destroyed, God was right behind me and I became more and more prosperous year by year.</p>
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<p>The road of dispensation is our way of life and the way we can restore the individual, family, tribe, nation and world. Our way of life is the way of restoration. Every feeling and sensation in your body should be an expression of gratitude. Would you be grateful to the will of God? After working all day in the heat like a horse, would you be grateful at night when you come back home? One brother requested a Korean bride, but I gave him a white woman instead. Is that reason to complain? You must always think you were given the best.</p>
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<p>Recently I declared an emergency situation at <i>The News World </i>and now everyone is going out to get fifty subscriptions. Should you be doing that with a complaining heart? Would you wish I would go away because you don’t want to do it?</p>
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<p>Mother has carried many children and her physical ordeal is great, but my mandate to her was that she must have twelve children. Should Mother pray to God, “My husband is crazy. How can I have twelve children? Could you somehow convince him to be satisfied with less than that?” Mother is precious because she is grateful to God for her mission. It is an incredible mission but that’s why she is even more grateful. That is also why each child is more beautiful and great than the ones before. Then Mother wants to give more because God is rewarding us in such a fantastic way. God shows His love by blessing this family.</p>
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<p>If you want to start complaining, you have all kinds of reasons to do so. “Why do I have a flat chest,” or “Why do I have no hips?” God has a reason for everything so you should be grateful for whatever you have. If you are big and walk heavily, think of the thin person who looks at you and is grateful to be thinner. Have that kind of serving attitude. When your body has some abnormal condition, you are serving some godly purpose.</p>
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<p>If you are crippled, thank God. There are many healthy people who don’t appreciate their condition, but when they look at you they must appreciate being given two healthy legs.</p>
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<p>We have gotten so involved this morning that we have forgotten the time and it’s almost time for the home church service. So in conclusion, everyone lift your hands and open your eyes and mouth and thank God. God bless 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="2018-06-19T15:02:35+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/the-contrast-between-secular-people-and-us.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T15:02:35+01:00">June 19, 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>When we come to the Unification Church we feel a certain distance from people who are not members. Not only Unification members but actually every person who commits himself to religion feels this way. Religion turns people away from one direction to an entirely different road, so naturally they feel a gap between themselves and the world. We can use common sense to divide people into two camps- good and evil people. How can we define the difference between the two? Generally speaking, there are more bad people in the world. Normally the people who are striving to go in a good direction are in the minority. This is why Jesus said that the road to hell is wide, but the road to heaven is narrow and steep, with few people traveling on it.</p>
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<p>Interestingly enough, even though there are many people in a bad environment on the evil side, they do not think of themselves as being bad. Even those who realize they are on the bad side feel that the situation is temporary and that tomorrow they will be better. Since they have some hope, they can live in the present world and have the power to deny it. We conclude that when something is evil from God’s point of view, the evil world will welcome it, and when there is something good, the evil world will feel it is bad for them.</p>
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<p>The road of goodness is a rough one, and to follow it you have to walk straight ahead and never waver. The road of evil is easy to follow, however. As a rule people prefer to follow the easy way. If you ask a person whether he would rather work eight hours a day or two hours, he will enthusiastically decide to work two hours. Don’t you think students would rather not have to study and do homework or take exams as long as they could still pass? That might sound sweet, but that will never be reality.</p>
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<p>When you are determined to accomplish something, you have to go a tough course. If you want to be a somebody, you have to graduate from a famous school. A famous school acquires its fame by setting a tough tradition. But just graduating from such a school is merely passing through one gate. If you are going to be a person who influences society, your battle begins after you graduate.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is a tough road, and the fact that you come here early in the morning is a good example. I’m sure you get up at least at 3:30 in order to get here on time. Other people sleep in until 9:30, have breakfast in bed, and get to church by 11 and are out by 12, but our schedule is not like that. Furthermore, their church has all kinds of modern conveniences, such as thick carpets, heating and air conditioning. No one sits on a concrete floor! Usually the pastors are very conscious to time; the rule of thumb is that no soul is saved after the first fifteen minutes of a sermon. I know very well that coming to Belvedere is an ordeal. You have to organize your own transportation, and come very early to get a good seat. In winter the concrete is cold, and the women might worry whether they will suffer some damage.</p>
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<p>I am not dumb; I know very well what kind of ordeal you go through to get here on Sunday morning. But compare the value of sitting on a cold floor and truly forgetting yourself in the joy of worshipping God. It is an entirely different experience from sitting through a comfortably short service. But would you still choose this way? You are not dumb either! We didn’t choose this way out of ignorance. You became Moonies precisely because you have a sharp understanding of the two worlds. Did I just blindly start on this way out of ignorance of the real world? Even if I was directly ordered by God to do this, I would never do it until I compared which way of life had the most value; then I would invest everything I had, knowing it would come out right.</p>
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<p>The Korea I was born into was a hermit kingdom, undeveloped and closed away from the rest of the world. It was not an easy thing for a young man of such a background to grasp the world dispensation. I knew that in those years America and Europe were enjoying great prosperity. I also knew there were great differences between the races and their cultures. Still I made up my mind that, even though I was coming from a backward country, I wanted to give the world something that no one else could give. I had something to share with the world. In order to do that I had to feel that I would do something that yellow, white and black people could never persevere and do.</p>
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<p>Do you think I looked for an easy life once I decided to do that? I knew I had a great distance to cover and catch up with the world, so I did everything with lightning speed to finish quickly. Instead of walking, I ran like lightning. Do you think I slept long hours? I determined that the first record I set would be to sleep less than anyone in history. I always felt I would set a record in everything. The dialect spoken in the province where I was born is quite slow, while in Seoul everyone speaks ten times faster. But I determined I would speak even ten times faster than those people. I trained myself to understand something at a glance, instead of looking leisurely and taking the time most people do. To evaluate and appreciate a person you have to look at him from every angle, but I can glance with the speed of a camera shutter and still fully appreciate him.</p>
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<p>Quick analysis, quick judgment and quick appreciation-what was the purpose of this? Always my attitude was to do what no one else could duplicate. There were many Christians in Korea, and their prayer was usually peaceful, but my prayer was intense and strong. An hour of prayer was like a wrestling match with God. Should prayer be like lightning, or take a little longer? I just hung on to God all day and night in my prayer. When I grabbed God, no one could separate us. My usual prayer position was down on my knees, with my head on the floor. Often I would pray in that position for twelve hours at a time, wrestling with God. My knees and elbows and forehead became callused and hard. The area of floor where I prayed became discolored with my tears and sweat.</p>
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<p>A wrestler uses every ounce of his energy and his whole body is wet, but when I prayed, even in winter, I shed much more sweat than any wrestler. My padded winter clothes became wringing wet. Since I determined to do something no one could duplicate, I had to do this. In such circumstances I could receive great truth. I was the toughest person. If someone tried to tempt me away with sweet words, do you think I would listen? In this determined confrontation with God in prayer I could unlock the truth of the cosmos. Once I knew the truth, I came out to the world, and nothing the world could say would ever matter. I knew what I could do and nothing could sway me.</p>
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<p>I felt that even if every single Oriental person accused and scorned me I would still go forward because I knew the truth. Even if all white and black people laughed at me, I would still go. I felt that even if all the people who followed me felt they couldn’t go on and gave up, I would not. Think of what mountain I climbed</p>
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<p>Even if a mountain is very steep, it is still possible to climb in any weather, but if the road is completely vertical, everyone will give up and say it is impossible. White people will say it is scientifically impossible, and black people will say it is physically impossible; yellow people will say that according to common sense it is impossible. But I would say, “That’s why I will go, and I will do it.”</p>
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<p>The route that everyone else says is impossible is the road I will go. The most difficult way of life is my path. Furthermore, I said to God, “Whatever You cannot cope with and don’t know how to tackle, give it to me.” That’s what I was like at your age.</p>
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<p>When I was your age all the young people were busy thinking about marriage. I decided I would set a record for not chasing girls, but would also set a record for girls chasing me. At the same time I decided I would never be bothered by it. Many young and pretty girls bothered me very much, but it was to no avail. American women are very frank and open with their opinions, while Oriental women are shy and look very fragile, but I found out that in their hearts they are tough like steel. I have studied women very much, and I know that women are tough in general, whether Western or Oriental. I determined I would never fall behind anyone in doing constructive things. In sleeping less, working hard and studying more-in every encounter I knew I would come out a winner because I knew no one else would try harder than me.</p>
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<p>Even when there was time to play I wanted to be number one. When friends would come to play games, they would all yawn and be stretched out by midnight or one a. m., but I never let them rest and made them keep playing. I felt very good that even in playing no one could keep up with me.</p>
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<p>Are you women interested in that kind of life? You may not do this yourselves, but when you have a son he should be like that. That means your husband has to be tough like me. But if you have a husband like me you will have an awful time because you will have to work hard to keep up. Such a husband would not give you an easy time and worry about your comfort; he would have no sympathy at all about pushing you out. Why would you like that? If you women feel that you will do even more than such a husband and push him to keep up with you, then you are really great women. Are you great women? I understand that in America if a husband goes away for a week without explanation, when he comes back his wife will sue for divorce. But I want a wife who, even if I go away without a word for seven years to do God’s work, will welcome me back with trust and respect. Can you be that way with your own husband? Your hands are being raised very slowly!</p>
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<p>Do you think that the person God chooses as His champion will have a rosy life, or would that person go through untold difficulties and hardship? When that person looks at something will he stare straight ahead for 24 hours, or will his eyes wander about? Until his death he will go toward one goal. Sometimes even when you are looking in the right direction your thoughts are still wandering, but what about a man of God? Would he be depressed about his situation and compare it with how good life was before? How about you-do you have a focus in your life?</p>
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<p>Did you come to Belvedere just because everyone else comes, and choose a seat in the back where you can relax against the wall? Those who never dozed off when they came to Belvedere, raise your hands. Am I right or wrong to say that your mind wanders? Those people who said they never dozed at Belvedere probably made sure to get enough sleep the night before, right? I know that falling asleep at Belvedere is a natural thing, but if you are determined not to do it then that is where your greatness lies. That means you have to make a great effort, however. I can teach you some techniques-pinch yourself, or bite your tongue, or get someone to hit you when you slump over. One kind of person might be resigned to his fate and decide he needs to doze off for ten minutes. If the other kind makes every kind of desperate effort yet still cannot help sleeping, which one is better? Certainly the one who at least makes some effort. Both kinds fall asleep, but one can receive God’s sympathy.</p>
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<p>The same analogy holds in our day-to-day activities. Two people may be doing the same good work, yet one does it under average circumstances while the other has to overcome great obstacles. His opposition may not come just from people who spit at him and call him names, but also from brothers and sisters who criticize him. Yet that person could care less because he only wants to go ahead. Which person has more value? You know very well.</p>
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<p>There are two ways I can train and discipline you; one is the way of letting you take naps and do anything you want and then in your spare time take time for God. The other way is to just push you so that you have no room for anything else. Which kind of training has more value? Does a good teacher give his students lots of free time to do as they please? Or is the teacher who challenges his students with many exams and much homework the better teacher?</p>
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<p>From first to last we shall be different from ordinary church members. We are not ordinary Christians. Ordinary people look down from 90 degrees, while we always look from 90 degrees up. I would support looking up instead of down even if you were always tripping and breaking your leg. Even if you lose your leg altogether would you complain, or would you appreciate the value of doing that? Even if people say, “See what you get for following Reverend Moon” would that bother you?</p>
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<p>I know there are many ax-Moonies, so when new people come I look at them and speculate on how long they will last. Then I test them by pushing them hard to see how much they can bear. There are many ways of testing people-the Oriental and the Western ways, God’s way and Satan’s way. I always choose Satan’s way of testing because it is the toughest. If you pass a test that is even more ruthless than Satan’s then Satan will surrender to you. When you pass his test then there are no more exams for you to overcome.</p>
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<p>I want each of you to have a credential signed by Satan saying that he cannot keep up with you. Once you meet the satanic standard then you not only have freedom to travel around heaven but also freedom to go in and out of hell. God is also testing me in the hardest way, so I expected that my way of life would be the toughest one, filled with difficulties and threats to my life. The person who has the highest possible motivation to do goodness will be labeled as the worst possible person by the world. The world has given me all kinds of bad names, such as calling me a dictator worse than Hitler or Stalin, a tyrannical demagogue, and so forth. I have many such medals, but all that is on the outside; on the inside I am pure and shining. When Hitler and Stalin take off their jackets, they are even worse on the inside, but I am the opposite. Why would you smart men and women stay with me? Only because you know what I am on the inside, not only the outside.</p>
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<p>Once I came to know that God was my Father, I realized that the entire creation was designed for me by God. There is nothing that God created that I feel foreign to. No matter what people say about me, I know the universe is there for God’s son. That realization has never dimmed one bit; I know God is my Father, so the world is my universe. I feel that to my bones and I live it every minute. Therefore, I feel responsible for the world.</p>
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<p>When spring brings beautiful flowers and fragrances, I see that beauty as glory to God. Why do flowers bloom and butterflies flutter and bees buzz around? They are all there in service to me. I feel that God wanted to explain His love to me through this creation. They are His mediators. When a bird sings, I feel God is asking that bird to sing for me; when it cries out in longing for its mate, I wish I could help him find his mate. I am very sensitive to the universe. When two butterflies flutter in fellowship and love, when a male and female bird sing together for joy, I see it as a lesson that men should live in greater happiness than these.</p>
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<p>When I hear the birds sing in joy for the spring, I feel that I will bring the cosmic spring in which all mankind can have more joy than the birds do. Then their song gives me inspiration. As much as the birds and flowers give me the stimulation of joy and love, when I sing for joy and love then God in heaven will also be stimulated. It is my duty to stimulate God in that way. Even if my clothes are ragged and I am penniless, I never feel poor because the sky is my roof and the rivers are my water and nature is my food. When you feel that the house of God is your house, how can you feel poor?</p>
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<p>When I see a small drop of water I feel that it has the dignity of the great ocean behind it and I can respect it. The small blades of grass have greater beauty than the greatest masterpieces in museums around the world. There is no life in those paintings and pieces of paper. But grass has life, and this little creation of God’s is greater than any human masterpiece. When I see grass, I feel it is a masterpiece in my museum, which is the house of God. I kiss a little bird in my hand and feel it is a living masterpiece of God’s making.</p>
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<p>On some sunny day at Belvedere, lie down and examine all the forms of life in the soil-the ants, worms, and so forth-which are in communication and fellowship with each other. There is beauty everywhere. When I see the creation and realize that God made it for me, I never get tired of it. All the millions of things God created know that men are to be their masters, and they are trying very much to attract the attention of people.</p>
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<p>When you ask the grass, trees and birds if they recognize national boundaries and have things like visas, what would they reply? God did not issue passports to birds. Would a typhoon stop in the Gulf of Mexico because it didn’t have a visa to America? Does the weather recognize American law? It’s amazing when you think of it-ants can cross the Mexican border as often as they want, as well as the birds and lizards, but men cannot cross the border without a visa! Are there American ants and Mexican ants who must get government authorization to marry? The animals don’t care about national sovereignties, but men have complicated their lives with such things.</p>
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<p>There is an amazing education to be had from nature. Does water in America taste different from water in Korea? Are Koreans forbidden to breathe American air? Each nation receives rays from different suns, right? When we evaluate all these things we conclude that true freedom, openness and joy can only come when you recognize God and His universe, realizing that He created one world and one family. Then we would see that there is a straight highway connecting everything from the smallest life form all the way to God. There is no hindrance between them.</p>
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<p>A violin has only four strings; when the bow touches one string do the other strings vibrate? All the strings vibrate together a certain amount, even if only one string is being played. The creation is the same; the entire creation vibrates together even if only one part is being touched. When you use your two legs as a bow playing the universal violin, the rest of the universe will resound together with you. The vibration can be conveyed in between the strings because there is air to transmit the sound waves. The universe also has a common medium to convey vibration-that is love. When you send a vibration of love, it sounds throughout the cosmos, particularly in spirit world. Love is the atmosphere you breathe in that realm. You know that you are the center and creator of that vibration, that the angels will dance around and sing with you when you are creating music. A certain feeling accompanies your creativity because the entire universe vibrates together.</p>
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<p>When you think with that consciousness then even God will respond, feeling that you are writing poetry for Him, that you are singing about the universe He created for His children. That’s why when I pray it is like a poem many times. Many times my topic of prayer is praise for what God created, talking first about one thing and then another. I know that God is smiling when He listens, knowing that I appreciate what He created. Sometimes I give an eloquent speech in prayer to God as my audience.</p>
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<p>Children always want to show their parents the little drawings they make, and the parents always smile and praise them. When you live in the consciousness of God and His creation then in school you want to know more about God’s creation so that you can relate better to Him and love Him and His creation more. When a teacher gives you strict discipline and study, you can appreciate it by knowing it will help you understand your universe more.</p>
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<p>Everything can be explained this way. When you go to work, for instance, you are dealing with the people God created, so you breathe the air of love wherever you go. I have done much hard manual labor, such that my face was black and my clothes were rags. When there was a short break to sit on the beach and eat lunch, I would praise God for His universe. Sitting there in nature with my little lunch I felt grandeur around me which was greater than any cathedral, seeing the grass, gravel and the river. I love nature and make myself at home there because it is the house God created. I have slept in all kinds of places-in a shack, on the grass, on a bench, under a tree, under a bridge, under a boat.</p>
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<p>I wanted to appreciate nature at all times of the day, so at night I would climb a mountain to look at the moon, and there in the darkness I saw a different kind of beauty. Spring has its own taste, and summer has its unique flavor. Sometimes you don’t like winter because it is cold, but winter has its particular taste as well. I feel that everything I see is there to relate me to a deeper understanding of God’s love.</p>
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<p>I talk about five colors of skin, meaning all races of the world. They have all opposed me because they don’t know me, but I feel it is more dramatic for me to love them in a situation where I am hated. Because God created them, I am here to love them and bring salvation to them. In the early days I spoke night after night to the Korean members, and we had beautiful deep fellowship. I want to do the same with white and black people as well. Since our work has expanded on the worldwide scale I don’t have as much time as I used to, but my feeling is still the same. When I was speaking to the Koreans I didn’t see only Korean faces; I thought they represented all races of mankind.</p>
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<p>If there are difficulties then you should have the attitude of wanting to take responsibility and digest them, not to complain. Usually people don’t want to touch a problem, but that is precisely where I move in. The world today has many problems, and I want to take responsibility for them. The main problem is the decrease of religious awareness, which results in separation of people from God. The next most difficult problem is the moral degradation and loss of direction for young people. Thirdly, the problem of communism infects the world like a disease.</p>
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<p>America, the nation God is relying on to stand up for the sake of the world, is doing nothing; it is becoming immoral and losing its pioneering spirit. Young people are becoming the victims of drugs and free sex. The problem of communism is forgotten. The world’s worst headaches are God’s headaches as well because He is responsible for the world. Who will take care of them? Knowing these are God’s worst headaches, I asked God to let me take care of them.. It’s not easy to clean them up, particularly the problem of communism. Communists know I am the archenemy of their ideology and am determined to do something about it.</p>
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<p>Many people participate in today’s social evils because they think they gain happiness from it. The gay movement and the hippie counterculture, for instance, see me as their enemy. People do madcap dances because they want to forget the world and think only about having fun. But my standard is to look the worst externally while enjoying the greatest happiness internally. That’s why we fund raise more during the Christmas season. Fund raising is not easy, but that’s why we do it. We do the very things we really don’t want to do. You want to be respected by people, but in fund raising you humble yourself to ask people to help with contributions. That is a great experience because when you receive from someone you learn the feeling of wanting to give. This nurtures you and deepens your character. When you are in dire need and a few people will help, you feel deeply appreciative. In the same way, for the sake of the world you want to give. This is a great education.</p>
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<p>Another tough thing is witnessing. People don’t want to be bothered by you, say they don’t have time for you, but still you try to get their attention to preach the eternal truth. When you forget yourself in concern for the other person’s life, it is the most sacrificial heart. If you really care, then you witness. What a noble deed that is. Through fund raising you learn gratitude for receiving, through which you build a character of giving. You may not have much money to give in the future, but you give the best of all-love. That is what you can give to the world.</p>
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<p>When people are negative and nasty and you truly give yourself in return, loving them instead of hating them, you are building your character. You can think that the most spiteful person you meet is a training aid for you. You can thank God for sending this person to you so that you can learn something new about the reality of the world.</p>
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<p>You are being trained to evaluate taste, so you need to taste all kinds of flavors-salty, sour, bitter, as well as sweet. If your tongue has only tasted sweetness, then it doesn’t know the full range of taste. The entire universe is there to teach you so you can become whole like God. Nothing is foreign or hateful, and there is nothing you cannot love. When you cry in the East, the vibration will draw Westerners closer to the center because your anguish is that of love. When you cry in the West, it will bring the Eastern peoples to the center.</p>
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<p>You can think that God is a composer who is creating melodies for you, melodies of joy and sadness, and every occurrence during the day is part of His composition. When there is an exciting moment, God has put drums in the score. There are melodies for every experience. The universe is your symphony orchestra and your life is like a concert. You are the conductor who pulls all this music together. When you perform the music God has written, the masterpiece will be so great that God and all people will join you and dance together.</p>
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<p>If God has written 90% of His composition for you, wouldn’t you want the final 10% to be a grand finale instead of dull and flat? God is writing the final ten minutes of my symphony and using all of you as His pencils. There are many, many symphonies in our world, but my symphony contains the core truth of God, and it shall remain for eternity. You are God’s pencils for finishing that symphony. There are various movements in the composition, one from black people, another from whites, Orientals, and so forth. The grand finale will harmonize them all together. There will be a movement for the mountains and another for the sea in that symphony. You will have so much depth of feeling that you can cry until you laugh, but also laugh until you cry.</p>
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<p>Would you enjoy seeing a slow, dull movie? What kind of movie would God want to see then? Ultimately everyone will appear before the throne of God, and He will say, “Tell me about your life story.” Of all the stories God could hear, mine will have more sadness, more laughter, and more excitement than anyone else’s. When I tell Him the sad part of my life He will weep, and when I tell Him the funny parts the entire universe will laugh and dance together with Him. My life would make an exciting movie.</p>
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<p>I always feel that my life is a movie, a symphony for the sake of humanity. It is as though we are making a gigantic movie, with God as the director and myself as the leading man and Mother the leading lady. I am looking at you with the eye of a casting director, trying to find the best part for you. You are participating in this great drama. All your experiences during the day-fund raising, getting a speeding ticket for driving 100 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone-all these things will be recorded on heavenly film and God will enjoy it. Would God send you to hell for driving too fast? No, I think He would give you a hug for driving so fast for Him.</p>
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<p>Is our life as Moonies flat and dull, or dramatic? No one in the world has suffered as much as I have, or worked as hard, or lived as hectically as I have. But because of all the excitement in the heavenly drama there is no time for me to get old. I entertained one married couple at East Garden recently. The lady said to me, “Reverend Moon, what happened?!” “What do you mean, what happened?” I asked. “I met you five years ago, so now you are five years older, but you look five years younger now than you did back then! Do you have some secret for looking younger?”</p>
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<p>I might be handcuffed in jail or a concentration camp, but that doesn’t matter – I know there is always educational material and someone to have fellowship with wherever I go. Prisoners sentenced to death are dramatic people to deal with. You can find the worst kind of human characters in a prison. If I am put in a dark cell with fifty such people I know that within one week they will all be my friends and there will be a heavenly atmosphere in that place. I am well acquainted with the world of prisoners, particularly those who are sentenced to death and are counting the days. I know that when I speak to them of certain things that they will cry. If I speak to them up to a certain point they will want to start their life over and be different people.</p>
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<p>My main job in life is speaking and teaching, and I am a real professional. One day I spoke ten different times, on ten different subjects. I know how to deal with children very well, and when I taught Sunday school the children didn’t want to leave. Yet I hardly take time to speak to my own children. They think that I am terse and stern and don’t speak very much, but there are many other children who have been enthralled by me. I am a very tasty personality, don’t you think?</p>
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<p>I have a universal taste, so even white and black people think I am attractive. You have seen how willow trees are not bothered by strong storms. When a hurricane hits and other trees are blown to the ground, a willow tree will still be there afterward. That is what the Unification Church is like.</p>
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<p>I have room to embrace everything in peace. There is no need for desperation. If a storm comes, that is fine. If all the world’s people come against me, it won’t bother me a bit. I am tough, yet I have room for everything. Since I know God and His love and I know what kind of world is coming, even death cannot make me anxious. Don’t you want to be like that? A great teacher always wants to make his disciples greater than himself. I want you to be greater than me. I love you as my sons and daughters, and a parent always wants his children to be greater than himself. I love you and want to make you greater than me.</p>
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<p>Is there anyone among you who could truly replace me and keep up my pace? Are there more members who want me to push them harder, or more who want me to slow down a little bit and let them relax? Even though you say you want to be pushed, your heart is not sure and your smile looks funny. That is something to think about.</p>
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<p>Some pragmatic person might wonder what he would get out of staying in the Unification Church for ten years, and then decide he might as well work outside the Church. If you make millions of dollars that way, where would you spend it? What would your motivation be for getting rich-to have cars and wonderful homes? That is only self-centered. You may not have millions of dollars now, yet your goal centers on the world and its people instead of yourself. Even if you have only one dollar in that circumstance, it is greater than one million.</p>
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<p>Americans are very pragmatic and money is important to them. Some people are ambitious to have political power, but for whom do they want public office? That ambition is still self-centered. I met many Senators in Washington, and I saw that they are very busy maintaining their own reputation and popularity, worrying about themselves. Their entire interest is focused on how to win the next election. They don’t have much time to worry about this nation and the well-being of the American people. Who will remember such Senators?</p>
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<p>Even if you work hard for many years to become a Senator, there is no guarantee that you will be great. At one time Senator Kennedy thought he could easily become President, but one morning the whole picture changed. Would you want to invest your life in such vainglory? After ten years of growing together in the Unification Church what kind of organization will we have? I know that I can make our leaders much greater people in ten years than they could become on their own in the same amount of time.</p>
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<p>Whatever I am really determined to do can be done. Money can be made, people can come. You certainly do not know all of what I am doing now. Recently I told the international leaders about how fifty new companies have been formed, and they were amazed, wondering when I did all that. When you compare yourself now to what you were like when you joined, you might think that the only change is that your clothes are worn out and your shoes have holes, but look at the overall picture of where our movement is going. Sometimes even someone as close to me as Mother does not know all that I am doing.</p>
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<p>In the early days many members came who had good education, but they felt after a while that even though the ideology was good in Unification Church that they would never amount to anything in the world if they stayed. Then they not only dropped out, but said that only dumb people would stay. Now twenty years later those people see that the members who stayed with me are presidents of companies, are respected and well-known. Even though they thought they could do better outside our Church, now they are coming to ask me for some small position.</p>
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<p>The parents in those days who thought their bright children shouldn’t be mixed up with the Moonies now proudly speak of how their son is a president or a director of something in the Unification Church. And those parents who pulled their children out now demand to know why the children didn’t argue with their parents and stay in the Church. “Why didn’t you fight me and stay in the Unification Church? Look where that kind of person is now!” That kind of hardship has come to ex-Moonies. I have heard many reports like this in Korea.</p>
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<p>Go ahead and pack up and go. We won’t even need ten years for this to be repeated here in America. I am not an ordinary thinker. I know precisely where we are going and what the shortest possible route is. I have invisible spiritual antenna which pick up messages from God which guide me.</p>
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<p>1979 is coming to a close. I want to start 1980 fresh, with new vitality. Those who want to leave the Church should do so in 1979 because I don’t want you here in 1980. Does that mean you are going to stay strong? Do you want to be better than me or inferior? I certainly think you can be better because you have more food here in America, as well as many things I never had in Korea. How can I trust you Americans? You say one thing, but will you really do it? You say you will stay with me because you know you have an exciting and dramatic life ahead of you, and most important of all, there is eternal value in our way of life.</p>
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<p>When you compare us to the everyday world, you see two entirely different directions. We look small today, but we are going up while the world is going down. The time is coming when the world will know it is sinking and will cry out for us to throw a rope to them. Where are America’s young people heading? It is an incredibly sad situation. TV stations have plenty of time to advertise discos and entertainment, but no time to advertise Reverend Moon. But don’t worry-the time is coming.</p>
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<p>No matter what kind of circumstance I find myself in, I always think the same way I am telling you today. When everything is out on the table and God checks each of the billions of people in the world, He won’t find any more exciting and dramatic and loyal son on earth than me. Do you applaud me because you are Moonies, or because my record is genuine? Therefore, God has to help me; He cannot do otherwise. Even with all the criticism and danger, God sees His real man here.</p>
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<p>Even though America has rejected me, instead of hating this country I plan how to make a net big enough to catch this nation. When this whole world criticizes me, I plan how to make a world-size net. It is not a net of money or power, but a net of love. Once you are caught by that net, the tighter it is pulled the better you feel. Love is so good that if you are hooked in your nose by love, for instance, you will hold on to the line with your hands, and when your hands get tired you will bite it with your mouth. Love is that tasty.</p>
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<p>The people most troubled by the rise of the Moonies are the communists, because they have not been challenged so far. Now our CARP movement is moving onto American campuses, where communist groups have always had a stronghold. We might have only eight people while they have 200, but when we demonstrate against them we can grab onto their long hair and pull; we have short hair so they won’t be able to grab hold of us! Already there have been several incidents which swung public opinion to our side. People will soon realize that communism is not on America’s side. When our eight members demonstrated, the school body united to disband the communist demonstrators. This has happened numerous times.</p>
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<p>The time is here when the only people who will be outspoken against the Moonies are the communists. Then because the people who want to oppose us won’t he branded as communists, they will say, “Forget it.” The same will happen in the media. Ultimately I will be recognized as the one outstanding fighter against communism. When the CARP movement arrives on campus and clashes with the communist youth, the local police always support our side, glad that they have finally found some group that will stand up to the radicals. This is what we mean by dramatic. Parents may oppose Reverend Moon, but their children are coming to me. Even though the government opposes me now, who will be the eventual winner if the young people are coming to my side? These young people will live longer than the people who oppose me now. Of course, we have many older people as well, but they have young minds.</p>
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<p>Do you have confidence that you could lead a hippy to the righteous side? Don’t you miss the days when you had long hair and beards, when you could drink and take drugs? Don’t you miss the good old days when you had lots of girlfriends and boyfriends? You used to have lots of goodies and presents at Christmas, but now your holiday is much plainer. Not only that, but the holidays are the best time for fund raising. You don’t have an easy life, and it is easy to be discouraged.</p>
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<p>What do we get out of this? After you forget what I have said, you think about how pitiful you look now and wonder why you bother doing this. You are normal energetic young people, but in the Unification Church once you are finally engaged you still have to wait for three more years to be with your spouse! You laugh now, but when you are tempted and agonized later on you will wonder if you have made the right decision. I know you go through these things, but I have gone through them much more so. Your greatness lies in overcoming the worst possible situation which ordinary people would never accept. When you turn your hardship into a triumphant victory then you have proved that you are really different.</p>
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<p>The great people who truly made an impact on our world were the ones who went through that path. I have gone that path, and now it is your turn. Aren’t you fortunate to have this kind of training while I am here suffering with you? You can see a living example, and while you struggle you know that I have gone through hardships and worries hundreds of times greater. Did I just stumble blindly through all that? In spite of all the hardships I am making a global impact in my own lifetime and you can see it with your own eyes.</p>
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<p>One good example is the Science Conference, which is attended by hundreds of prominent scholars. They used to come with the attitude that they were doing us a favor, but now they see the value of what I am doing and worry about what they will do if I should ever discontinue the conference. They cherish my presence. Do you think I should continue the Science Conference? Even if it costs millions of dollars? Have you ever felt while you were fund raising that you wanted to contribute just a little bit for the Science Conference? Many of the participants have the power to influence important people, including heads of state in their own countries.</p>
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<p>No one really worries about money and budgets except me. I have to juggle all our worldwide projects to finance everything. I know that in a few years there will be many more blessed children, and I worry about how we will take care of them all. You don’t have to worry about what will be happening in ten years, but I am always planning that far in advance. You hardly sympathize with me, yet I hear criticism from many places. Do not ever think that I am just using you and your hard work. On the contrary, I am giving all my energy for you and America.</p>
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<p>The media has really brainwashed the public to think that I am using you to raise much, much money to send out of America. On the contrary, the record shows that I have brought much money into America for the sake of this nation, but the media never writes about that. If there was no God, I would never bother with America. But because I know God’s dispensation, I know God is focused on America. Even if I die a tragic death, that doesn’t matter. The important thing is that God’s will is done in this country.</p>
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<p>Christmas is just a great commercial venture in this world, not a real celebration of the birth of Jesus. I know that this affects you in some way and this is why I want to set your mind straight ahead. I set a great goal for fund raising in Japan during December and January, and most of that money is going to be spent for America. Don’t you know you are indebted to Japan and the movement around the world? Do you know that some of our brothers are working underground in communist countries, and that some of them are tortured in prison? I have received their heartbreaking reports. I know that we are in the most favorable position here to liberate them.</p>
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<p>Why would I push you so hard if there were no satanic power rising in the world? But there is a final showdown coming and we are not yet prepared. One thing is clear-the present American way of life and thinking will never cope with the difficulties of the future. I know that no one else can stop the avalanche of communist power flooding this country. We are God’s hand-picked forces who are preparing for that day. If you want to complain, do so only after you know what communism is all about.</p>
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<p>Americans don’t know about communism. President Carter knows nothing about communism. You are the hand-picked champions, and you are more than Americans. God is removing you from the American way of life to ready you for the crucial day when you will become a power for the salvation of this country. This movement is the only hope. Without us the future of this country is very small. Be proud of what you are and what your mission is. Be proud to be chosen by God.</p>
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<p>The job must be done. If America fails to respond then I must go elsewhere because the job must be done, regardless of who does it. I look as though I have nothing today, but wait ten years and see. I could tell you what my precise plan is for the next five and ten years, but I will not do so because it would not benefit you. Your benefit will come from knowing me and having conviction in our mission. 1980 is coming, and it can be a year of victory and fulfillment. No excuse will work. Everyone should feel they have a lighted stick of dynamite tied to them. If you don’t want to be put on the spot then the best thing would be to leave now; such a person will only be an obstacle to us so he should leave. Do you want me to trust you?</p>
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<p>The Moonies truly have a precious and proud position. If I had not had this consciousness of God and the universe I could never have lasted this long, but would have been destroyed long ago.</p>
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<p>Before 1970 I never encouraged our members to worry about making money; I even prohibited it. I instructed them to go to their witnessing area with only enough money for a one-way fare, and they took only a couple of pounds of rice flour. Beef, eggs, cheese – these were luxury items our members never thought about having. Breakfast was water mixed with some rice flour. That was lunch and dinner also. When they ran out of rice flour, they had wheat flour instead.</p>
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<p>Only since 1970 did I start to work on our economic base, and that was only because the right time had come. I even prohibited fund raising before then. If you need a plane ticket now then all you have to do is fund raise for one or two days and you can get it. You don’t worry about money because you know it can be done. Even a millionaire could not do what you do. There are many Americans living on the West coast who have never been to the East because they can’t afford it, but I told the CARP commanders that they should be able to finance their travel to the west and east coasts within one week. The leaders should be able to complete an itinerary taking them around the entire country in one month.</p>
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<p>When I first came to America in 1965 I visited every single state by car in forty days. The drivers drove day and night, and when they dozed I woke them up. I lived in that station wagon for forty days, eating bread, cold cuts and a pickle for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There were five or six passengers with me and Dr. Young Oon Kim was responsible for the food. She was absolutely stingy, and when the driver asked for an extra slice of bread at lunch, she refused.</p>
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<p>American leaders who travel with me are accustomed to drinking coffee, cokes, and having snacks. But during those forty days we had nothing like that and the eyes of the passengers always turned eagerly to the store windows when we stopped. I told them to train all the American members like I was training them. At that time I already knew what I was going to do here in America. When we drove through states like Arizona and Nevada where there is no one for miles and miles, I told the driver to floor the accelerator, and that car just about took off and flew! Americans who travel are accustomed to stopping at night, seeing a movie and sleeping comfortably in a motel. When the passengers asked if we couldn’t stop at a motel, I replied, “This is your motel!”</p>
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<p>I never let up for 24 hours a day. If the driver was sleepy, he could rest while the other person drove. And if he wasn’t sleepy it meant he wasn’t tired enough to need rest and he should keep driving until he was. I was the oldest person in the car so I should have been the first one to get tired, but as long as I kept going the younger people had no excuse. That’s how I started out in America.</p>
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<p>I know more about American culture than any American. I have been to every state. There is no room for anyone to complain. Up through 1979 you had many things to say, but from 1980 on, no more. Even if you have to turn your mouth up and down instead of horizontal so that you won’t complain, your job is to save America. Do you feel good today? If you only want to be comfortable even when you can see how rapidly America is disintegrating then you are a traitor to your own country and to God.</p>
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<p>There is a vivid contrast between us and the world, and we are proud to be Moonies. That is the attitude to have in 1980. You have T-shirts which say, “I’m a Moonie and I love it” and you should get badges like that to wear on your forehead! I have already told you that Moonies will become Sunnies and Sunnies will become Kingies. Under any circumstances, even in prison, I never felt any shame, not once. Why should you feel ashamed? What have you done wrong? From 1980 on I will not accept anyone who is not proud to be a Moonie. If you have a complaining heart, the best cure is to repeat, “I’m a proud Moonie,’ and the anguish inside will go away. Be proud of what you are.</p>
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<p>How different are we from secular people? The world today is just like the movie “Animal House.” People have relationships based on animal instinct and self-centeredness. If you are a God-centered person then you feel choked and nauseated when you go out. That’s the kind of world we are living in. People only study and work to advance their own careers and be rich. There is no spirituality; people have stopped worrying about life after death and it is not even a topic of discussion. There is distrust between parents and children, between friends, between people and government, between husband and wife. Can you find any ideals in this world? What good would it do to have power in such a world?</p>
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<p>Do you miss that world? This world is so disgusting that I feel nauseated. No matter what the difficulties or how little sleep I get, this path is where I belong. Here I have a purpose and goal and eternal life. There is no comparison between our way of life and the world’s. Do you want to go back to that world, or move forward?</p>
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<p>You see how a religious holiday like Christmas has become commercialized, and people have no seriousness when they say the Lord has come. We may not say Merry Christmas, but every day we will go out to win even one more dollar for the sake of humanity, to win one more soul for God. That will be a far greater Christmas. Even if people don’t say Merry Christmas to you, but curse and ridicule you instead, you know where you are going. I have always been living this way of life for God.</p>
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<p>You can drink champagne and party and do anything you please, but I know where I am going. Have I declined by following this way of life? My own life is testimony to this, and after my death people of all races will want to visit my tomb, even though they have never met me. Why would they do this? In my life they will see one extraordinary example of someone who was determined to live for God and humanity and bring the truth for the world. For this I gave my life. I am proud of the life I have lived.</p>
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<p>Will you join with me? Can you say that in this secular, commercial Christmas season you will not be blinded or swayed from going to the heavenly goal?</p>
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<p>God bless 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="2018-06-19T14:36:14+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/the-importance-of-prayer.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:36:14+01:00">June 19, 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>Everyone harbors hope. There is no one without hope. How each one can accomplish that hope depends not upon heaven but upon the individual. There are two ways of doing so-through your own power alone, or by receiving cooperation from others. If your desire is extraordinary and great then your responsibility is also great. If you cannot fulfill it on your own, you need help from outside.</p>
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<p>When you start elementary school your purpose is to finish with a good record. In order to finish with good marks your own effort plus the effort of your teachers is needed. The same is true of junior high, high school and college life. It is not easy to fulfill 100% of your desire at each level of study. What kind of attitude is needed? First you need total concentration which leaves you time for nothing else. If you think about playing and meeting your friends first, you cannot fulfill 100% of the goal.</p>
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<p>From this standpoint let us analyze the life of believers. What is our goal ? It is to become sons and daughters of God. There are many kinds of sons and daughters: An adopted son is a son; also there may be a rebellious son, a son of filial piety, and a son who is mediocre. In this situation becoming a true son and daughter is difficult.</p>
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<p>In order to become a true son or daughter you must concentrate on the goal 100%, looking to the True Parents constantly and thinking of nothing else. Just becoming good sons and daughters to your natural parents is not easy, but how much more difficult it is to become absolute sons and daughters of God. When you call upon God, your Father, He does not answer right away. Even though you call upon God, if in your innermost heart you are not sure whether He even exists then God would not answer.</p>
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<p>What is the fall of man? It is nothing more than departure or separation from God. Man has been separated to the degree that he has nothing to do with God. We are going back to restore that original union. We can use an analogy from our world. Perhaps because of an unfortunate incident a child is separated from his parents at a very early age. After he is grown he may have occasion to meet his parents, but they will be total strangers to him; he will not know who they are. This young man must have some assurance that this man is his father, and at the same time, there must be some witnesses to testify to the fact. Even if he knows they are his parents, there is still some conflict and feeling of estrangement between the two parties.</p>
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<p>In order to become a true child to your parents, you must inherit their desires. Between the two there should be only one desire; their road in life should be your life, and your desire should be theirs. Parents give their heart and soul to the children, and the children must do likewise. When you are in one union, even though there are two separate parties there is still only one goal and one desire and purpose. Then the fulfillment of each becomes the joy of the other. Fulfilling a task becomes the common joy of father and son. When you continue that way of life for one year, ten years, a whole lifetime, there is total unity between parents and children.</p>
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<p>Today our task is to discover the true desire of God, because as believers our goal is to be sons and daughters of God. What we eat and drink and where we live are not part of God’s central concerns; these are things everyone does. In the Bible Jesus said not to worry about where to dwell and what to eat, that this is what non-believers worry about. You must seek God and His righteousness first. What is His kingdom and what is that righteousness?</p>
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<p>For us as Unification Church members, that kingdom and righteousness is the fulfillment of the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. When Jesus spoke of God’s kingdom, he wasn’t referring to just one nation; God’s righteousness isn’t limited to one nation’s righteousness, but includes the whole kingdom that God designed. For instance, the American people’s righteousness is secondary to that of the kingdom, not primary. If the righteousness of a whole nation is secondary, then clearly your own personal desires are much farther down the line.</p>
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<p>God’s kingdom should engulf the nation, and the family and individual should come within the scope of that nation. Imagine that this large circle is America; within it are circles for the society, tribe and family. The shapes are the same and they differ only in size so they can all be contained within the large circle. The crossing point of the axes is the center of each of the circles. There may be a big nation and small nation, but the same vertical line cuts through them both. Everything is centered on that axis, and that alignment can be connected to one primary desire.</p>
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<p>An individual trying to achieve the highest goal does not have to leave his own country or society or family. He must actually go to each of them and penetrate each stage. Another way of depicting this is to picture you as a locomotive pulling a family behind you, plus a society, nation and world. All of these can be aligned behind you. When you move, the train of the family, nation and world and spirit world moves behind you.</p>
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<p>Does this concept apply in the context of today’s America? This is the so-called “me generation,” and among other things it means that America is totally isolating herself from the rest of the world. God is trying to fulfill one harmonized world, and so when anyone thinks in a selfish fashion he is a traitor to God’s own desire. Americans say they don’t care about their country. There are people of all five colors of skin in this country, and if they only care about their own race then in God’s sight they are the most traitorous foe. They are causing barriers to emerge between the races, which is totally opposite to God’s will.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that God’s will always centers on one focal point for everyone-for the family, nation, world and cosmos. That’s the way God designed the world. What is that center? That central principle or axis of the universe is the father-son relationship. In any family there is a father-son axis and everything else surrounds that. When one family assumes the father position, other families assume the son’s position.</p>
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<p>Any corporation operates the same way; the president is in the father’s position and the employees are in the children’s position. The concept should be that the employer is working for the sake of the employees and each employee is working not for his boss, but for the well-being of his own corporate family. A head of state is in the parental position and the people are in the children’s position. A true central figure should be thinking like a father would think. Without that parental heart anyone in that position is a false central person.</p>
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<p>The criterion of comparison is whether he is better or worse than your own father. The people should love the central figure of their nation like their own father, because after all, their own natural fathers are also in the position of children to that person. Those fathers would expect their children to love the head of state and the nation more than their own fathers. With this viewpoint the children can participate in patriotic action even to the extent of giving up their own lives and sacrificing their own families. Above the president of the nation should be someone in the position of president of the entire world. The head of state should be loyal to the president of the world to the same degree. Almighty God resides above that man, and he should be loyal to God in the same fashion that everyone is loyal to him.</p>
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<p>Why should it be like this? From the individual to God there should be one central connecting axis, with the result that everything in between is like a bridge between the individual and God. In any company operating under this principle the president would serve his employees like a father would his own children. The employees would work for the well-being of the company just as children would for their father, and naturally such a company would prosper and be righteous.</p>
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<p>What about the Unification Church in light of this principle? The Unification Church is bound together by the father-son relationship, but our purpose is not to advance the well-being of the church. We are here to accomplish something greater for the sake of the world and cosmos. I always teach you to sacrifice yourselves to help the nation and God, never to live for the prosperity of the Unification Church. If we truly practice this ideology then it has to become the central theme of the world. Then we can use the Unification Church as a ladder, going all the way to the top with the same principle. You are working toward being tribal messiahs, then national and world messiahs, all the way to God.</p>
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<p>When I was searching after the Principle I spent many agonized nights in prayer, and the central theme of those prayers was to understand what the central axis and core principle of the universe was. Ultimately the answer came that the central axis was the father-son relationship, which I have just explained. When we live up to that principle then we are going to bring a world of peace and unity. Since the universe is organized this way when you look horizontally at other people you are seeing no one else but your brothers and sisters. You are linked together because you have common parents.</p>
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<p>If the younger children serve and love their elder brother more than their parents, would the parents be jealous? No, they would smile ear to ear to see such an exchange of love between their children. I know you love me and love God, but when I look at you I want to see whether you have that love among yourselves. That becomes my joy and something beautiful to behold. In order to become true sons and daughters you must first love each other more than your parents; that is the most beautiful gift you can give your parents. If you are loving in that way then you are positioning yourself closest to the parents. Then even if you don’t know Principle intellectually, no one could say you don’t know the truth.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we have a common rule about who is the true member of the church; he is the one who truly loves his brothers and sisters. Not only I think that way, but company presidents, national and world leaders should think that way as well. God Himself is that way. Do you think there are different principles working on each different level? Would you welcome this principle of love if this works in every different situation?</p>
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<p>To become sons and daughters of God you have to move the heart of God and entice His love. If a person leaves for a far-away place, would he be separated and not have anything to do with this theme? Whether a poplar tree is at Belvedere or New York, it is still a poplar tree. Wherever you go, this principle shall remain as the standard. If you want to live by another principle, I say to you, go ahead and try to find a better one. Do you agree that God’s kingdom and righteousness shall be built by this father-son relationship?</p>
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<p>When this relationship is expanded horizontally it is known as the subject-object relationship. Right now I am subject and you are objects. When you are united in that relationship with others, even a piece of chalk can be very precious. In this relationship everything you do is rewarding and serves a purpose. Of itself studying is nothing, but when you take the central position and have a purpose, studying becomes very important. Instead of saying you hate your books, you really love them.</p>
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<p>No matter what you see in this universe, when you think it is related to you in this subject-object relationship, everything becomes very important all of a sudden. With this point of view you are a dynamo and ambassador of the love of God and there is nothing that is not lovable or precious. There is happiness and harmony wherever you go when you are a subject of the love of God. I don’t think God could think up any better way than this.</p>
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<p>Our job today is not to seek what to eat or drink or where to live but to seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness. Now we know where to look. God is not unaware that you need food and shelter, but He knows that when you take care of the important things first then everything else will be taken care of. You have to decide to win the love of God first.</p>
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<p>Words are cheap and this sounds good, but how far are you from realizing this? When you look at yourself you know better than I do where you are in terms of realizing this. Is the realization of it quite far away or close at hand? As an ideal this sounds good, but living it is another thing entirely. Maybe you think you are not cut out for such a life because you can see many, many problems to be solved. The problems of the family are as big as the family; the problems of the nation are as big as the nation. The problems of the world and universe are as big as the world and universe. How can you cope with such vast and complex problems?</p>
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<p>The easiest thing you can do is just give up, right? But that’s no solution. If your capacity is not adequate then you must seek the help of others. Where can you get the necessary help and guidance? Is there anyone to turn to? Now we have come to the topic of today’s message, the importance of prayer.</p>
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<p>The most important thing in prayer is the attitude of the person who is praying. The most essential thing is your commitment to go toward this destiny without reservation. If anything wants to block you, you have to be decided that it will never stop you. Unless you have that commitment first, God will not waste His time trying to help you. He has always been deceived in history, so what God needs to see is proof of what you are and how strong your commitment is. You may tell God you are totally committed, but He will shake His head and think, “I have to wait three more years and see.” If God sees that something isn’t quite right in you, He will wait before sending down His help. God needs to be sure.</p>
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<p>God is foolish if He gives His help freely but then at the end of several years the person is all in pieces. If I were God I would also wait and see. Suppose you were God. What would you do? You may tell God, “You see I am living as a Moonie and I will die as one.” Then God will notice and look more closely, but no matter how firmly you pray, without this basic commitment nothing will happen and you will be wasting your time. A decisive attitude is the key.</p>
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<p>Do you think I made a commitment to God that I would never change, not for fifty years or the rest of my life? I prayed first for the absolute faith which could say, “Even if not a single person in this world can believe, I will believe and follow in whatever incredible course You give me.” Second, I asked for absolute knowledge and wisdom. Third, I asked for absolute love. I prayed for these three things throughout my life, and now in looking back I see that they have been fulfilled, even when I didn’t know it was happening. There is no other power that could go beyond the boundary of race and nation. Since God could give me this absolute wisdom, I could search and find the Divine Principle and the truth about the world.</p>
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<p>An attitude of absoluteness is the basis for everything. Nowadays most of you think in terms of when you will get married, thinking that you are getting older and older. If this worries you then your absolute commitment is starting to shake. Instead of shrinking, you can make your commitment much thicker by thinking, “Marriage? That doesn’t bother me or change my commitment. ” When you face great problems and agony, after you finally overcome them your faith will be like iron. When you can see the kind of obstacle that might confront you, you can clear the field.</p>
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<p>Suppose you have been married for some time and are deeply in love, but then suddenly your wife or husband dies. Would all of heaven and earth crumble for you? That might be the very moment you could curse God for taking your loved one away, but instead you can thank Him for His grace in giving you a situation that will strengthen your faith. Then your belief can become stronger instead of weaker. God is a parent, and if He takes a loved one away it is not because He hates you but for some greater reason. If you can accept it and have faith in that purpose then you are ready for another challenge.</p>
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<p>In our Unification Church faith the most beautiful word is indemnity; through indemnity we can pay the debt of sin. You can think that no one else could stand such a burden of indemnity, so God is asking you to pay instead as His champion. You can accept it with a thankful heart. When you compare the time you spend without the person you loved with the millions of years your generations will live, your payment of indemnity is small in comparison to the blessing God will give you and your descendants. If the death of your loved one was really accidental and not direct intervention of God, yet you pray with this attitude of gratitude, then God will feel that He has really found an extraordinary child and His blessing will automatically be yours. Your attitude will decide the amount of blessing.</p>
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<p>Are you ready? If an extraordinary grief or tragedy hits you, are you ready to thank God and ask what is next? You know the law of indemnity; you cannot expect only good things and then curse God when unpleasant things happen. With knowledge of indemnity there should be nothing you cannot bear. That is the attitude of those who truly know God. When you first join this church your eyes might be bright and filled with fervor, but after three years your eyes get a little duller, don’t they? No? Ten years later? It is easy to say no, isn’t it? But do you really have confidence?</p>
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<p>Prayer is an absolute necessity. You may kneel all the way down to pray, but the most important thing is that you create an environment of commitment first. Unless your basic attitude is ready, no amount of prayer will be useful. In the Christian world today many people pray every day, but do you think they pray to destroy the Christian churches? No, they pray for prosperity, but the churches are crumbling nevertheless. Do you pray for the sake of the Unification Church? You don’t have to pray for the Unification Church. Pray for the big things: the nation, the world, the liberation of God. What you are really doing then is praying for a cross even bigger than the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>If you pray for yourself or for things smaller than the church then God will not answer because He is not interested in listening to such boring prayer. When you talk about the nation and world, He gets excited and starts looking for ways to help. This is training for how to love greater things. If you really live like that then even if you don’t have time to pray God will still back you up.</p>
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<p>In churches today people pray for their denominations, their social security check or their family problems and their pet. God’s ears hurt when He hears those prayers and He will plug His ears. If those people prayed for God to use their church to help save the world and liberate God, He would perk up and be amazed because God is a person just like you. When you only talk about yourself in your prayer, God is thoroughly bored and nothing will happen. But if you pray for His righteousness and His kingdom, He will be caught up in your passion.</p>
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<p>In order to fulfill bigger things you need an adventurous mind willing to take risks. Then God will tell you not to worry, that He is right behind you. If you throw yourself into overcoming the stone walls and persecution before you, God will take up your battle for He knows who is just and who is unjust. But first God will watch, giving you a chance to knock your opponent down with your own capability. This is the same thing a father and mother would do. If you come running to God to ask for help before you even confront your enemy, He, like any parent, will be ashamed to hear you and will send you back out again. Create a good problem: be a heavenly troublemaker instead.</p>
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<p>I came to America and became a good troublemaker, and that’s why America doesn’t like me. America has built a prosperous society, but I came to shake this nation and Americans resent my disturbing their peace. But I did not come to destroy America, only to warn this nation that there is danger ahead. Someone has to warn the people and bring them out of disaster. You know there is a big battle coming so you must ready yourself in body and spirit. After you go first you can ask God to come and help you with anything you lack. Then God will say, “Go ahead. I am right behind you.”</p>
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<p>If you seriously sit down and pray in those circumstances, God will encourage you. As soon as proof of your commitment comes to God, an avalanche of help will come to you. I have had the experience of thinking about some problem and not even praying about it, but already God knew my thoughts and went one step ahead of me. When I discovered that my thinking had been fulfilled, He smiled and said, “See what I did?”</p>
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<p>You need the basic attitude of sincerity as a foundation of prayer. Otherwise, no prayer will work. More important for creating that atmosphere is to go out and serve one more person, knock on one more door, receive more persecution. That is more valuable than sitting for hours in a dark room praying. Prayer is only needed after you have exerted all your energy and it was not enough. Then you can ask God to come help. When you can do it then you don’t have to ask God, but can tell Him to relax. The prayer for all seasons is the prayer for God’s kingdom and His righteousness.</p>
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<p>Do you think God prays sometimes? Sometimes without thinking a parent murmurs to himself or herself, “Oh, I wish my son would do this, or be that way.” That is God’s prayer also. God is murmuring about you, about me and about the Unification Church because this is an emergency and He is engrossed in His concern. That is God’s prayer. You don’t even have to sit down to pray; you can just talk to yourself as you go, whispering and murmuring your concern. That’s prayer. In our case praying and doing is our life. Praying and waiting is not our life.</p>
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<p>If you pray unconsciously in everyday life then undoubtedly you are becoming sons and daughters of prayer. You give your last ounce of energy but it is not enough, then ask God for assistance and your prayer will be answered. If that were not the case, how could we ever subjugate Satan? Satan has given unending anguish and heartbreak to God for 6,000 years and if there were no way we could finally subjugate him then there would be no end to it. There must be a way.</p>
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<p>The power of prayer works wonders, but prayer must be serious and done with one united heart, not a divided heart. When the moment of engagement comes, it is a most serious moment for both men and women, but in the Unification Church it is different because you leave it to me. Do you realize what a formidable job it is to pick your own spouse? In that moment you become dead serious, but prayer is even more serious than that. If you pray with that attitude then it will be answered. If your parents are on their deathbed it is a serious moment, and the words you speak then are urgent. There is no way you could doze at that time. Your prayer to God is more serious than that.</p>
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<p>Prayer is like a covenant between you and God, a promise. Once you make a contract, you follow through and then it will undoubtedly be fulfilled. That is the attitude I am talking about. You must not be disappointed when prayer is not answered immediately. Some answers come late. At other times you should not be overjoyed when prayer is answered quickly. That is not necessarily the best thing.</p>
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<p>Because you are surrounded by the world there are many stages to go through horizontally and vertically. The answer to prayer does not come from you but down from heaven and it takes time to reach you. There have been many foolish people who received answers to their prayers up to a point but who didn’t go the final inch, and when they weren’t satisfied they betrayed God. When you pray for the world you may not see things changing immediately around you, but far away the communist world starts to crumble. The impact of prayer can be felt in a far-away place. If you are in the Abel position, the answer comes from Cain and takes time to reach you.</p>
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<p>You must think that your prayer today may not be fulfilled until thousands of years from now. I pray such prayers. I am not praying just for this world today; I am praying for 1,000 and 2,000 years from now. If that prayer makes a bridge between that time and now then the Unification Church will continue to flourish even a long time after I am gone from the earth. That kind of prayer is needed.</p>
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<p>If many of you pray that kind of eternal prayer, the world will start to shake and the impact be far-reaching. The root of that prayer is your tears, sweat and blood, and out of it beautiful flowers will blossom. When Jesus prayed in Gethsemane he was deadly serious, shedding tears, sweat and blood. All day long you must be in a prayer mood, not just one hour, but 24 hours. What prayer position do you prefer? The best is to kneel and lower your head. You have to restrict your body’s freedom, as though it were bound. You will feel pain, but overcome it because you must be serious. Then God will know your attitude. That is a necessity for prayer. Without prayer Jesus and the saints could not have done the great things that had an impact on the world. When you resort to the power of prayer you can have hope because you never know when the fulfillment will come.</p>
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<p>My prayer is centered on the culmination of the third seven-year course. You may think I relax when I am alone, but there is no moment of relaxation because my mind is always concentrated on the completion of the third seven-year course. You must understand the importance of prayer and have conviction that prayer will be answered. Through prayer you can receive power.</p>
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<p>Through prayer you can receive visions into the future and guide yourself accordingly. You will know what kind of difficulty is coming and how to divert it and overcome. If you know how to steer yourself then you can do big things, and prayer alone can pioneer such a path. It is more important than eating. I go out to nature because it gives me a better environment for prayer, and I love nature for that reason. I love the quiet of midnight. I don’t say much about the visions I receive, but if you receive them then don’t you think I do too? That kind of new world can only be reached through prayer. In that position you can taste love. This world is desert-like, but the world created through prayer has a climate where love can thrive.</p>
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<p>You must learn how to generate your own power. You cannot expect that I will always pull you and push you out. You must make yourself self-propelling. In order to do that, prayer must be the diet of your life. Whether people recognize your efforts or not, you must do your duty enthusiastically because you have a covenant with God. Day and night you move on; there is no pause. That is a living testimony.</p>
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<p>Every several years my topic of prayer changes, which shows progress to a new era. In a prayerful mind I know precisely what time it is in God’s timetable. That kind of preparation is necessary for self-perfection, and you must learn it through the power of prayer. Do you pray in the way I taught you today, for His kingdom and righteousness? Pray that this country can become a center of God’s righteousness. Your country has seen many fervent patriots, but you must pray with more fervor than any of them. If your concern for this country is greater than God’s then this country will survive, but otherwise it will crumble.</p>
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<p>What is our goal and destination in the Unification Church? I am leading you where God desires for you to be. It doesn’t make any difference whether it is difficult or easy because whether there are many obstacles in front of us is irrelevant. The important thing is not just getting there, but getting there in the shortest possible time. If we go quickly then there is less danger, but when the process is stretched out there are many opportunities for disaster and we must not allow that.</p>
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<p>This is a transitional period. We are entering into a new era, a new plateau and history of faith. Therefore, this is a critical moment for you and God. Last night I spoke to the department heads about the true meaning of home church. Home church is the greatest gift God and True Parents can give mankind. It has never existed before and will not again in the future. When you make this gift yours by fulfilling it, you will definitely become a son and daughter of God. I have prepared this precious gift for you for my entire life of sixty years and now I freely give it to you. You can make it yours in six months. This is an incredible opportunity.</p>
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<p>Home church should be the subject of your prayer. Pray with a parental heart for your home church people as your children who are struggling in hell. Your heart as a parent must be grieved and desiring to save them. If you don’t have that feeling then you are in a dire emergency. You must open your heart to parental feeling of love toward your people. If you don’t have real love for them then push yourself until you do. No one has to teach a parent to love his children. If you feel like a parent to your home church then your love will be the same and no one will have to teach you.</p>
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<p>Just finishing elementary school takes six years of daily attendance. Do you think home church is comparable even to elementary school? It is the school for becoming a messiah. Think of how important it is. Even though you might attend it your entire life, you must give your heart and soul because you could not have any better school. Even though you have only 360 homes, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire universe.</p>
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<p>In America there are about 70 million homes, and if each person had 360 homes we would need 200,000 members to cover all America. If the entire Christian population accepted Divine Principle and wanted to do home church, what would happen? There would be no room for you! There is nothing more important tor you than this. Test your own power of prayer: take one person and pray for him fervently, constantly, without telling him. Pray tearfully for his well-being and then that person will feel a magnetic attraction to you. He won’t know why he feels drawn to you.</p>
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<p>If you receive in your prayer that you will meet a person at such and such a time, when you go there then that person will come. If you are dead serious then these things will happen. Hypnosis can transfer a person into another state of consciousness, but how much more can prayer change lives. There is no distance or limit to its influence because the power of thought travels everywhere. You can mobilize the entire spirit world by the power of prayer. You have experienced that I will work through your prayers and tell you certain things. There is no limit to the power of prayer.</p>
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<p>When you have the right attitude in prayer then miracle after miracle will happen. The most important part of a launching pad is the foundation. At take-off it must not break under the heat and pressure. Your prayer is like a missile firing and you need a solid foundation. You must not pray from greed for yourself. That prayer would be harmful to you. Public prayer as a public person will cleanse you and elevate you higher and higher.</p>
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<p>If you live with this high sensitivity to spirit world, you will sense what is forthcoming. Your perception will be keen and you can prepare for the future. You should know that you are like two people in one. Your inner man is like a mirror, clean and bright. When the inner and external men are not synchronized you feel anguish but when they are perfectly aligned you feel joy and power. This is happening every day within you. When you see a person your inner man can tell you what kind of person he is, and if you hear a person’s report, a sixth sense will tell you how truthful it is. When someone walks into a room, I can see whether he is bringing good news or bad.</p>
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<p>Don’t neglect this inner man but consult him all the time. When you are higher spiritually you are always there, always speaking with this inner man. You have a spirit man and he wants to talk to your physical man. You may not have any intention of saying anything yet suddenly you find your mouth moving. That is not you but your inner partner speaking. Even the rats of a ship can sense when a ship is in trouble and run away, but how much more should man, the supreme creation of God, know when life or death is coming? Shouldn’t you be alerted when a certain destiny is forthcoming? For your inner and outer man to become one you need the power of prayer.</p>
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<p>I have a family but I seldom pray for them. My prayer is anguish for the nation and world and cosmos. God will concern Himself with my well-being because I am concerned with God’s. If I only paid attention to my family instead of to the world and God, my family would get sick. I don’t concern myself with my family’s well-being; I concern myself with the church and God’s work and I know God will take care of them in the meantime. This is the principle of give and take.</p>
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<p>Those who want to do more for others will receive more. Those who want to go down will be lifted up. Don’t pray empty prayers. Now you know the power of prayer. Everyone needs to experience these things spiritually. You must know whether the things you do will succeed or fail. You know that certain things will succeed because you feel pulled in that direction and are eager to go ahead. Your body is like the receiver of a radio. Free yourself from self-centered thinking, and then mighty things will happen to you. You must open that valve.</p>
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<p>You are entitled to ask for God’s power, but only for the sake of His righteousness and Kingdom. Then He will come down. Pray and act. You will feel different from yesterday and you will know the power of prayer is in action. Today is just the beginning. Pray to tell God that you are just beginning and need His help. Make a showdown with God every day. It shall become second nature, and without being conscious of it you can live that life all the time. Let’s do it then.</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="2018-06-19T14:36:57+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/the-mission-of-our-life.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:36:57+01:00">June 19, 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>We are all born into life, and there is no one who does not value his or her own life. Many times we wonder why we were born and what our destination is. Throughout history all men have thought about this fundamental question, “For whom do I exist?” These are serious questions. For whom does the world exist? For me. For whom do I exist? For the sake of the world. I was born for the sake of the world, and the world exists for me.</p>
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<p>What is the central factor we can gather around? What is the central theme that will bring us together with the world? We must never think that any creation exists on its own. Everything exists as one and we must link ourselves together with our surroundings. Therefore, the key word in the world today is “relationship.” All creations exist in one central harmony so we are all related, not isolated.</p>
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<p>Under those circumstances, let us consider the family, the place where parents and children can make a relationship. Again, the components of the family are all inter-related in one central harmony. What is the relationship between the nation and myself? Here too, the individual and nation cannot be separate. Americans, for instance, create some national characteristic or being through their relationships. Furthermore, no matter how great this nation may be, it cannot exist in isolated fashion in this world. It must relate to the rest of the nations and help create a greater existence on a worldwide scale.</p>
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<p>What is our relationship to the spirit world? Some people feel they don’t need to understand the existence of God because they don’t have to relate to it. Though people may concede the existence of spirit world, they don’t see how it relates to them, but that is the same as an individual’s asking why he needs his family or country. The existence of God and spirit world is greater than our existence as individuals, so we must be related to that supreme existence somehow.</p>
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<p>That is not the end of it. Ultimately we must pursue a certain purpose through these relationships. First of all, let us look at our situation. Our closest relationships are with our parents and brothers and sisters, and after marriage, with our spouses. Should the four different positions be going in random directions? Is there no central connection or discipline? Do all things exist at random? If they are related in one cohesive body, where are they going? No, their goal must be centered on one common purpose.</p>
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<p>There must be some common purpose that men have been trying to achieve throughout history; that purpose has defined the pattern of history. If all four positions are going in one direction, are they going harmoniously, or in conflict? Whether you are American or Oriental, everyone would agree that we must go in harmony. Would people from the past answer differently? Young people today commonly talk about the older generation and the generation gap, but that kind of thinking contradicts the basic idea of creation. Many young people insist that they have their own lives to lead and question why they need their parents or why they should have to relate to their brothers and sisters and neighbors, but they are the truly crazy people.</p>
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<p>Young ladies may be proud of wearing the latest Paris fashion or having a fine Swiss watch, but if at the same time they feel that they have nothing to do with their own nation, their thinking is contradictory. This one example shows that it is impossible for you to maintain your life all by yourself. You may think you live individually, but you must realize that you are all indebted to the nation and the world. How can you have the attitude, “If I won’t bother you then you shouldn’t bother me”? In that case you would have to close your nose and not breathe, or close your mouth and not eat. Try being truly independent for five minutes and see what happens! You would even have to block out the sun’s rays because they are not yours. How can you steal the sun’s rays?</p>
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<p>If the soil were to claim the part of your flesh that came from the earth, what could you do? If you paid all your debts, you would have nothing left. Then where is your existence? When you truly analyze the situation, do you own your face and nose? If nature claimed all the pieces of you that belonged to it, there would be nothing left. If you really want to be independent then you must not eat or breathe.</p>
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<p>You should realize that when you take care of yourself, combing your hair and putting on make-up, you are actually loving the world because you are a microcosm of the world. You are the world and the world is you, so when you smile the world smiles; when you walk the world walks. There is an echo relationship between the world and you; when you laugh the world would laugh. When you realize that, would you still think independently)?</p>
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<p>Some people may like the very things you don’t like. Americans probably don’t care so much for hot sauce and kimchi, but the Koreans are crazy about it. Two elements may seem to be so tar apart that they are not related, like the North and South poles, but when you look at the globe you can truly see that they are inter-related. When you see clearly, there is an obvious relationship between them.</p>
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<p>Would you like to live in a world sharp corners or a world of rounded character? You like roundness because that is the best shape for making a relationship with everyone and everything. The sun and planets are all round and all the creation has roundness of shape. Everything exists in motion and a triangular shape would have difficulty revolving; imagine a triangular tire, for instance. Roundness makes circular motion easier. A circular existence wants to fit into the environment and not remain apart. There is no truly sharp place in your body and you must think that you are rounded so that you can easily fit in with the universe, with the ultimate purpose of becoming one.</p>
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<p>Would you like to have bigger or smaller things? Wouldn’t a short man like only small things? No, in contrast he would probably prefer bigger things. Obviously things of all sizes are inter-related. Would vastly different things like the eyes, ears and mouth feel unrelated? Our bodies have many parts, but they are all related into one cohesive existence, and that is the beauty of our bodies.</p>
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<p>Then why were you born ultimately? To harmonize with the universe and flow in the same rhythm. You are Americans, so would you rather hear that you were born to harmonize with America, or with the entire universe? Would you like to hear that you were born to harmonize with other races and add color, or to harmonize with your own race alone? Since becoming Moonies you are learning new ways of thinking. Why do you laugh? You laugh because relating to only one country and race is absurd and contradicts common sense.</p>
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<p>Why were you born? To sing in rhythm with the universe and harmonize with everything. When you admire the beauty of flowers, you are seeing yourself within them; when you see the waves on the ocean you are seeing yourself within them. When the wind blows, there you are. At a beautiful place, like Belvedere when you hear the birds in the morning you are singing together with them. They are singing for you and you are joining their melody. We are supposed to lead poetic lives, and when the birds are singing you are making conversation with them. We are supposed to have lives rich in emotion and heart.</p>
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<p>Is love the center of your life so far? That is secondary. You are living for the universe, as part of the universe. That universe includes your family, society, nation and God. Therefore, you are actually living for all of them. People are constantly striving to make a relationship with the best of the universe. What is the best of the universe? You might say gold and diamonds are the best. Before love and before God, what is the essential best of the universe? Since we are all resultant beings, there must be a causal being before us. If you are the result, who caused you to be here on earth? Your parents. Why do we need parents, plural? Is it essential to have more than one? Your being is the product of two other beings, the product of a relationship, not an isolated entity.</p>
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<p>You might say you don’t care and don’t need your parents, but then you are a result denying its cause. Perfection can come only where there is cause and effect, or subject and object. A person who has a good ideal but whose action is apart from that ideal cannot be a perfect person. If a person pays lip service to an ideal but acts differently, he will be isolated by the world because the world cannot accept that kind of falsity. The universe is always true, and cause and effect must always come together. American custom is such that when your parents go West you go East, right? If that way of life goes against the universal principle, do you think such a nation could flourish?</p>
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<p>What kind of cause and effect are parents and children? Their relationship is vertical. What about husband and wife? Do you young ladies need husbands some day? If God insists that you don’t but you insist otherwise, then you will defeat God. Is a husband an absolute necessity or just nice to have? If some power separates husband and wife then the whole universe will weep and your own body won’t function correctly. Then eating and sleeping and even existence itself becomes meaningless. Is this true for American women? I thought they were different.</p>
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<p>Don’t American women think that one man is just as good as another and that having more than one is fine? After joining the Unification Church you are learning this is not so, but before you might have seen nothing wrong with that idea. “Why do we have to be limited to one man?” women ask.</p>
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<p>Can you cancel your connection to your parents ? Even if your father and mother are divorced, you know you still cannot deny your father and mother. If you have to go two different places to greet your parents, do you feel good? What decreed that is not good? The universe itself would say so. The universe always upholds its own laws and it brings pressure to bear on anything that opposes such laws. When you feel heartbroken if you break those laws’ it is the universe letting you know you are opposing the universal way.</p>
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<p>Pain and sickness result if the give and take relationship is impaired. That is the universe telling you that give and take is not going smoothly in your body. If you don’t take care of it, the universe will you even more and finally you may even die, which means the universe has let you go. No one can exist if they contradict the rules of the universe. Americans want to live sensual, pleasurable lives and they see no reason to condemn free sex, but if that is in contradiction to the universal way of life then eventually that way will be cast off. You feel sad and discouraged when you cross purposes with the universe. Heartbreak is the punishment of the universe.</p>
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<p>Your parents are above you in the vertical relationship and you are here today because of them. They gave you a mind and body which should parallel each other. You need both. You need your father and mother just as you need your mind and body, and by following that principle you will be accepted by the universe. If you would deny that, then the universe will deny you. If a husband dies, his wife is heartbroken, but why is she so sad? When any couple has a deep love but one partner dies, the other person’s sorrow is a universal expression because their existence as a couple paralleled the life of the universe. If one is missing then in the view of the universe you are incomplete and the universe imparts its sorrow to you.</p>
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<p>The causal being at the top of the vertical relationship is two parents. The more perfect the harmony you find between two parents, the more perfect the harmony you can find between mind and body. If mother and father are one in total understanding trust and love, then their children are bound to be happy and will come closer to perfection. You are not alone but have brothers and sisters. Again, the harmony with parents makes a beautiful trunk line for you to have perfect horizontal harmony between brothers and sisters. As much as your parents united into one to bring you into the world, so will your brothers and sisters be united into one. This is the vertical public law, so when you fight with your brothers and sisters do you feel good? What makes you feel uncomfortable? It is the universal, public law chastising you.</p>
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<p>You know you are constantly under tons of air pressure but you don’t feel it because the pressure from inside your body balances it. The universe is made in such harmony that the pressure inside and outside of you is balanced. The universal power and law of love says that with the action of love you can be more perfectly harmonized, and therefore, you must love your parents. It doesn’t say to love your father and love your mother, but to love your parents, plural. It does not say to love this brother and this sister and this sister, but to love your brothers and sisters, plural .</p>
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<p>Why isn’t the law written in the singular? Because love makes love, and it comes into being in circular give and take, or plural relationships. This vertical relationship of subject and object is an absolute law in the universe and no one can destroy it. Nevertheless, many young people today think they only need horizontal relationships with friends and their spouse or lover, but they disdain the vertical relationships.</p>
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<p>Can there be more than one straight line to diagram the vertical relationship? Does it end at one place or can it end at two places? Absolutely it can end at only one place. There is always one center, period; that center is true love. When the absolute vertical exists, true love is there. Therefore, no parents can deny their children and no children can deny their parents. Whether your parents are disabled or their children are handicapped, no one can cancel that relationship. That is the public law of the universe.</p>
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<p>Are you children of filial piety, faithful sons and daughters? If your parents are divorced then you as their child have the power to re-unite them. The parent-child relationship is an absolute one. They must recognize you as their child, and for your sake alone they have an obligation to love each other because the public law of the universe decrees that parents must always be ready to sacrifice for the sake of their children. Not one individual but two brought a child into the world, and therefore, to have the right to look at the child they must be two together. Parents must feel that way and be able to love each other as much as they love their children.</p>
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<p>If there is a God do you think His logic would be like this? If this law were changeable then there would be no such thing as true love. Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen, always in the same proportion. Could they produce anything else? No, because physical reactions are unchangeable according to natural law. In the same way, the subject must always love the object, which always respects and loves the subject. By doing so circular give and take of love is present. Some of you might think this is Oriental philosophy, but I tell you that even in the Orient you won’t find such philosophy. This is God’s philosophy, the universal philosophy.</p>
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<p>In order to comply with the universal law, we must recognize our parents as subject and love them, receiving their love in return. Why do we have to live in harmonious oneness? So we can receive recognition from the universe that we have complied with universal law. Article One in the universal constitution compels children to unite with their parents. You might say this is the worst form of dictatorship, but through absolute obedience you can be entitled to absolute love. This is the channel where absolute love can flow. If you want absolute love instead of mediocre love then you have to go the absolute way.</p>
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<p>I wish that your parents could hear this, especially if they are thinking about kidnapping you. You are not quite happy if there is no oneness between your parents and you. Without harmony there is always some burden. You must take up the responsibility of educating your parents and so you need some strategy.</p>
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<p>When you obey this principle then you cannot end up anywhere except in love for your parents. If you have a loving relationship, is absolute obedience to those people a joy or a burden? Absolute obedience brings absolute happiness. Practice and experience this and you will know it.</p>
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<p>Article One in the universal constitution covers vertical love, but with that alone the universe cannot turn. Horizontal relationships are needed to complete circular motion. This is Article Two. No action can take place around one simple line, but action can occur where there are both vertical and horizontal lines.</p>
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<p>Then what is the core of that horizontal line? Husband and wife, man and woman. They make up the horizontal line but it must cross the vertical line at precisely 90 degree in order to be acceptable to the universe. The evenly distributed 90 degrees formed in four sections by the crossing of those lines makes up 360 degrees, and perfect love can only act upon that line. The love now in vogue in America is like a diagonal line crossing the vertical, and as a result young people have gotten involved in all kinds of crazy things like disco dancing. If carnal desire is the purpose of your life then the universal law will reject it and you will crumble, no matter how much you try to survive.</p>
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<p>You young women want to get married. What kind of horizontal line would you like to draw? If you men determine to walk in such a way that you establish precisely 90 degrees, then when you close your eyes and walk ahead, the object you bump into will be the perfect woman. You won’t have to go out on dates or examine pictures; if you bump into her then she must be walking at exactly 90 degrees also.</p>
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<p>In this principle there should be equal proportions of men and women in the population because they have to bump into one another in equal numbers. God already worried about providing your subject and object, knowing that otherwise the greatest competition on earth would be the competition for marriage. When you live in a pure and upright manner then you are bound to become a perfect husband or wife. If you want to marry someone, do so not just for himself individually but because of the tradition of perfect vertical love in his family. If you see the parents fighting then don’t marry their son, no matter how good he looks, because things will be bound to go wrong. There is no way you can expect things to go smoothly in a home where your parents argue.</p>
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<p>How many husbands would you want, one or two or more? What happens if your one and only husband dies? Then you will live by yourself until you get to spirit world also. When a perfect horizontal and vertical line cross, there is perfect circular motion. If a family is living according to universal law the universe is ready to pour down upon them its blessing of complete joy. You may insist you don’t want to eat, but the universe will give you blessing regardless. If you insist on blocking your mouth then the rest of your body will eat instead.</p>
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<p>This particular law works in the nation as well as the family. When you analyze political systems, which is more godly-elected government or monarchy? Now you think that a heavenly monarchy is best and the State Department will think I am the enemy of democracy! But let them think their way; we think of God and the Principle. The parents on a national scale become king and queen and the people are in the position of children. When the people form a perfect horizontal line, they make up one big circle with the monarchs. In light of this is American democracy a perfect ideology?</p>
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<p>If this formula works for the nation then what about the world? Isn’t it logical to think that the world should have common parents? There are governors in each of fifty states, and they are in the position of parents. Why couldn’t the world be considered one federation and have one central government also? Then the head of the world would be the king of kings. That is the very ideology of the Messiah, and even democratic Americans want to see this king of kings come.</p>
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<p>Beyond the universe we have the cosmos, which includes the spirit world. Who will rule that cosmos? God. In Korean the sound “god” means the traditional hats worn by the aristocratic men, so in both languages God is right on top.</p>
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<p>This 90 degree angle should be precise on every level and then everything can fit into one grand circle. That means when you have perfected your love on the family level that you obtain total freedom in the family. That freedom extends to the nation, world and cosmos. Therefore, in the Unification Church the family is the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. When we construct absolute relationships in the family, they extend to every other level up through the cosmos. That is why we discipline ourselves in the workshop of family life. Perfection and freedom will blossom right in the center of the family in the relationship of vertical and horizontal. Jesus aimed for this goal and God has been aiming for this because once it is achieved, every goal can be achieved.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church diagrams this as the heavenly four positions, the basis of Divine Principle. Parents and children are essential components, and by relating in absolute obedience and loyalty and love they are perfecting the ideal of the universe.</p>
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<p>We can enter the Kingdom of Heaven only as a family unit, so we need parents, husband and wife and children. You can never enter heaven as an individual. This is most logical. If there is no perfection on this family level then the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world is closed. This is why the Kingdom of Heaven has not yet existed. It is still yet to come. When you perfect vertical and horizontal love on the family level, you can expand that to the national and world and cosmic scales. Although you are small in comparison with the whole universe, you are positioning yourself at the very core, and by doing so everything in the universe is related to you.</p>
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<p>Therefore, love is the central theme, and by centering upon true love you can find your home, nation, world and universe. No one could ever deny this central law, Article One of the constitution of the universe. If anyone does so, they will crumble. in every direction we can shout out Ah-man. Then even if you go to the discos, you would still be Ah-man. If you and your husband were wired together in a surgical operation, you would still be Ah-man. Once you reach that absolute love you have total freedom. That’s the way I see heaven. Once you reach that goal then no matter how fast or how much you turn, you cannot go wrong; perfection will continue regardless. If you hit a stone wall and shatter, perfection is still yours. No one can destroy you. That is the ideal heaven we want to create.</p>
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<p>I want to see Moonies’ faces shining in joy and light. You must say to the world, “Come to me and I will harmonize you.” Would you want to harmonize everyone, or would you still maintain reservations about some people? When you live with broad-minded love and absolute obedience to the Principle, whoever comes will always be welcome. Say Ah-man to the universe for the absolute love which continues everything. Once you position yourself in that center, the universe will come alive with you and then there will be nothing foreign or separate from you.</p>
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<p>There are many heavenly bodies in the cosmos, but there is always a central theme or discipline connecting them. Without that connection the universe couldn’t exist for even one day. Blessed husbands and wives, raise your hands please. You should repent if you ever complained tor being given your particular mate. Pledge that from today you will not complain but be a perfect husband and wife. The universe is your partner and you must harmonize with the universe so you can receive its blessing and pass it to your children. I want you to understand that true love is the most precious thing, not you.</p>
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<p>When you become a dynamo of true love, you can melt everything into true love, without limit. You can be surprised at yourself when you realize you can embrace the universe and wonder when you became such a person of love. You should be surprised at yourself some time and realize you are different</p>
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<p>Today’s topic is <i>The Mission of Our Life</i>. What is our responsibility? It is to set the tradition or discipline of love on the family, tribal, national and worldwide levels. You must set the pattern of love. For the sake of fulfilling this absolute love you work and cry and sweat. When you go to God’s throne and He asks what you accomplished while on earth, you can reply that you loved your family more than anything else, even more than you loved Him. Do you think God would be outraged and evict you? Instead of calling you a rascal He will proclaim that you are His child and that everything of His is yours. Since you loved your family more than Him, He will love you for eternity more than He loves Himself. What more could you want?</p>
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<p>Love must be absolute; not carnal, but Godcentered. Because of harmony God will want to see a balance among the races; therefore, a woman like a pumpkin should marry a man like a carrot. They can make perfect harmony, dramatic harmony, and so that match would be most ideal. In satanic thinking only the best things or similar things should come together, like well-educated people, or poor people with poor people. But God thinks differently. He thinks that when opposites come together and love in perfect harmony it is the most dramatically beautiful thing to see.</p>
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<p>In this theory is it more ideal tor white and white to come together, or white and black? Aren’t you apprehensive in your heart? If God were going to honor outstanding couples on earth do you think He would pay most attention to white or black or yellow couples doing well, or multi-color couples doing well? If you put yourself in God’s position, a harmony of colors would seem most natural and beautiful.</p>
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<p>If you ask for international marriage but you get a mate of your own race then you can still say you were willing to marry someone of another race regardless, and God will approve. In the dispensational development a national foundation has to be laid before the world level, and the True Parents were installed before we reached the world level. So I just obeyed God. I was completely willing to marry a black woman like a potato if necessary. I always thought that would be most dramatic and would give most joy to God.</p>
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<p>When I was matching couples in Europe last year there were all kinds of Europeans gathered but there was no regard for nationality or language; I only matched ideal couples. One thing you can rest assured of is that a man will be matched with a woman. Actually the ideal of matching would be for men and women to close their eyes and walk forward until they bump into someone and then take that person. God sees a dramatic beauty there.</p>
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<p>Your duty in life is not to look just for enjoyment but to love your parents and brothers and sisters, the world and God. Therefore, you want to exercise that love in a most dramatic manner by being a sacrifice and living for the family and world. The more dramatic the better. You can be a dramatic example of love sacrifice it you are a dynamo of love. By receiving you, God receives love. When you represent such absolute love and go to the world, you are truly living love and are most pleasing to God. Once you enjoy the perfect love of your parents, you cannot enjoy any other love that is fake. Their love forms the backbone of your love.</p>
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<p>Would you American women like to marry a husband from a large family? Or would you rather just have your husband to yourself? You are going as a queen of love to your husband’s family, and to be a good queen you need many subjects to give your love to. Then you would want to have many family members around so you can practice your love. Would you like that, or would you hang back?</p>
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<p>What is the purpose of your life? It is to practice love so you can receive absolute freedom and liberation. When you are trying to make a loving relationship with the world, everyone will respond and like you, even animals and plants. Nothing can unite the universe except the power of love. The entire universe will dance with a loving husband and wife, moving around together. The workshop of that love is the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Do you love me? You love me and Mother as True Parents, so here you are actually practicing the most important vertical relationship found in the constitution of the universe. When you live it, you enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We are opening up the Kingdom of Heaven by loving parents and brothers and sisters. That’s what we are doing here in the Unification Church. God wants you to love your parents and brothers and sisters more than Him. In the same way, Mother and I want you to love your brothers and sisters more than us. That will be the most welcome, exciting thing for us to see.</p>
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<p>Loving brothers and sisters this intensely will evoke the love of the parents and they will all be involved in one harmony. When you practice your way of life in this vertical discipline and are blessed, you can draw a perfect horizontal line. Then you shall be entitled to love the world and God.</p>
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<p>We have come to the conclusion. You were born to love your parents, and brothers and sisters, and husband and wife. Ah-man! Let us pray.</p>
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<p>We think individual perfection and national problems are big topics, but cosmic completion is a very big topic! Yet this is the goal of all mankind, and God as well has been looking forward to it. Why do all these cosmic entities exist? Once in a while both men and women think about all these things and about why they are here. God must sometimes think about why He created all of this. These are all created for some purpose, so through which route can we accomplish this goal?</p>
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<p>God is in action, not standing still. He is living, so His activity is continuous. Men and women keep moving, and the nation and world are also in motion. We cannot go blindly in a certain direction. If God is moving in a certain way then He must have some goal and purpose. Why then would man move toward God? If God is subject and His creation is object, could their goal and purpose be different? The overall purpose is eternal and unchanging. Whether God is moving to the East or West, He has to be moving toward that purpose.</p>
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<p>When kids get out of school for vacation they scatter in many different directions, but when school opens in the fall they have to come back again. The school brings them back in order to move them in a certain direction. The members of a family can be scattered around the world doing many different things, yet they all think of themselves as part of one family. The hostages in Iran have one desire that is unchanging-that is to go back home.</p>
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<p>God has the freedom to maneuver throughout the entire universe, but He is anchored by one thing He always returns to. Is that thing a mountain somewhere, or a beautiful resort area? A place where great music is played, or some disco hall? It is definitely not a place where there are squabbles and fighting. His base is a place where harmony and joy are abundant. Where is there such a place? Where is the center and anchor of such words as peace, joy and freedom? If they are anchored in True Parents, what are they? They are centered upon love, without which nothing remains.</p>
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<p>If there is a big bag of love somewhere, when God enters it He will be intoxicated with joy. All His billions of cells would be melted by the experience. Even if He was very upset and irate, once He entered the bag of love He would be completely melted and as happy as a spring day. If you give God a shot of love, it would be like drugging Him with opium-everything else just melts away. When God begins to laugh then the entire cosmos will shake. When God says, “Mmmm, good,” the entire universe will buzz.</p>
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<p>The same thing can happen in a home. If the father is filled with love then the mother can be happy and the children will be relaxed. But if the father is very stern and upset, the mother and children will be on edge and a little scared. On the other hand, if the mother is filled with true love then the father will be affected because it is contagious, and the children will be melted by that love. The same thing can be said about the children-if they are filled with true love then it will overflow and even their parents can be melted by it.</p>
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<p>If there is a gigantic super-bottle filled with the sweet honey of love and someone could stick the top of the bottle in his mouth, would he want to release it? He wouldn’t care about anything else except holding onto that bottle. Would he worry about falling down from the top? He wouldn’t even think about how it could be made better in some other way, but would just hang on to it, showing his happiness with all kinds of gestures and motions. Perched way up on top of the bottle he would be in a dangerous place, but he would hardly care.</p>
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<p>Everyone is making an effort and pursuing a certain direction to get to that bottle. If everyone had a pipeline to that bottle of love, would anyone be unhappy? Everyone would concentrate on getting that line in their mouth and sucking very hard to taste the love. Because it would be coming to them over a long distance through a narrow pipe, people would start cutting off sections of pipe, trying to get closer and closer to the source so they could get more love. The closer they get to the origin, the wider the diameter of the pipe and the more love they can get. Some people might be content to settle down once they cut off half of the pipe, but those who truly know the value and the exquisite taste of love would keep cutting the pipe off until they get right to the bottle. The pipe is not easy to cut, however; it is tougher to cut the pipe than to do MFT work.</p>
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<p>It is man’s innate nature to want to pursue something great and noble, and he makes a constant effort to get nearer to his origin. In this super-bottle you can find all the things men ultimately desire-joy and harmony and peace-because it contains love. In love you can find everything. How much would you pay for that? Would you pay even with one eye? or both eyes? Could you give up everything except your mouth? Could you swap the whole American continent, or even the whole world for that love?</p>
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<p>If God is omnipotent then could He only make one bottle of love, or could He make millions? If several champions managed to cut through all the pipe and eventually arrived at the very top, would God decide He had better make one bottle for each person? If you had a whole bottle for yourself, what else would you need? There is no way you could put it down; your mouth would stick to it instead if you tried to pull the bottle out. Recently in Gloucester I saw a couple in love sitting together, and that man and woman never moved for ten minutes. If even in the secular world men and women could be that intoxicated by love, how much more would they be enthralled with true love?</p>
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<p>Once true love comes to you, nothing else matters at all. If God had a bottle would He allow anyone to tell Him to put it aside? Do you agree that love has that power? Men are pursuing true love, and women are after true love, and the whole world and the universe want true love. Are there any exceptions? Everyone has different opinions, but on this subject the vote is unanimous. No one is dozing this morning. If everyone is wide awake when they only hear about true love, what if you had a little smell of it? Your eyes would pop out! And if you actually tasted it what would happen?</p>
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<p>The atmosphere of spirit world is made of love, and you breathe that air all day long. Every single cell breathes love. True love is almighty, and with it nothing is impossible. If your husband is ugly, you might wonder how you could feel true love from him, but in spirit world he would be the most handsome, attractive man you have ever seen if he has true love. You see your face in the mirror every day, but do you remember what it looks like? Sometimes when you see a picture of yourself or look in the mirror you think you are pretty attractive, while at other times you disagree. But when you look with the eyes of love you see nothing but beauty.</p>
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<p>When you look at something too close up you can’t see it very well. You can’t see your eyelashes very well, for instance. To really evaluate something you need some distance. If you look too closely at yourself, you have no way to know yourself. But when your mind and body are united, you are not seeing your physical body; you are seeing your spiritual state when you look at yourself. Recently I spoke with a woman who came to see me. Initially she looked ugly, but as we spoke, her face was changing, and after several hours she looked very beautiful.</p>
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<p>You learn in Divine Principle that we grow through stages. There is no ugliness in the perfection stage, and every divine spirit is a shining beauty. You have a body and a mind. Everything in the cosmos connects with that body and mind. Spirit world contacts your mind and the physical world contacts your body, and a vertical line is formed in the center. In the Orient there is a saying that a righteous person has a straight mind. It means that a person has a central vertical line where mind and body meet. If such a person commits himself to something then he will fulfill it. Thought and action meet at that one line.</p>
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<p>There are many people who say one thing and do another, moving in a zig zag fashion. But if your body comes to join your mind, they form a straight line. Your state of mind produces thoughts, and then your words and deeds should come in a straight line with them. When mind and body are united, they form a straight line. That is the kind of person we want to become. The spirit and physical worlds come together through you, and you should want to meet them in a straight line. Many people resent it when the spirit world tries to meet the physical world through them, so they leave only a very narrow hole open. If your body is closed then your mind is also closed and there is not much room for spirit world to come in.</p>
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<p>The process of education is always trying to open wide the door of the mind, and once your mind is wide open then your actions will be wide. Racial discrimination means simply that blacks have a narrow mind toward whites, and vice versa. Education is needed to open their minds to convince them that we are all one brotherhood. Is the best way to persuade someone to open his mind to warn him he will get cold water thrown on him? Or would you tell him that he would be filled with love? He would open the door wide to love. After that no door would even be needed because it would be standing open all day anyway.</p>
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<p>Once the door is open, your physical actions will be wide also, and once your door is open wide enough no one can close it. Then that person is filled with love. This is how the Kingdom of Heaven i~ “^~sible. The fall of man closed the door of man’s mind, and thus the body was also shut. What power could open such a tightly closed door? Certainly not money or power. Oriental women are very protective of themselves, covering themselves entirely with long dresses, and in some countries even using veils to cover their faces. But when love comes they open everything.</p>
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<p>No one would slam the door on the prince of love, but would beg him to enter. Would you show him right away to the bathroom, or show him to the best chair in the house? Perhaps you would not be sure even then that he would stay, so you would want to lock him up. Where would you lock him up? In your heart. The problem is whether your mind is big enough to lock in true love so it won’t escape.</p>
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<p>Would you gave extra room in your mind even if you put the whole super-bottle of love into it? How would you use such a great mind-for raising money, or to study law, to pursue a career? You would want to invest it for the sake of love. There is no limit to what your mind could do. Does the President of the United States have the biggest mind? How does it compare to a Moonie’s mind? Only if you are centered upon love can you say your mind is bigger, only if you love all five colors of skin and the whole world. There is no limit to how big we can make our minds. A mind can wrap up God and the whole universe and still have room left over. You want to have contact with bigger minds and bigger things, don’t you?</p>
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<p>Where can we find the original base for cosmic completion? Particularly in these few weeks before Christmas you are thinking about what you want to give people, so you think of this superbottle of love. In order to secure that bottle you need to be willing to go any route necessary, including MFT, where you get so tired. When you feel so tired that you don’t want to go on any more, think of the super-bottle. You must think you won’t quit until you can grab hold of the top of that bottle. Every day you are chopping some more off the pipeline, and you have some intuitive idea how much more remains. If you have been a Moonie for twenty or thirty years but you don’t know how to make the pipeline shorter, you are wasting your time. You have to know how to get closer. Your attitude must be, “Let the people curse me and criticize; I don’t care because I am too busy cutting away at the pipeline.”</p>
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<p>When true love is in the center then even God is circling around because His goal is true love. Man’s life is also rotating around true love. Women as well. I want to make a bigger super-bottle for women. A baby is centered on true love. What about birds? Why do birds sing? Male and female birds are talking about love when they sing. Are there only male insects? Because there are male and female insects then even in the insect world there is true love. On the atomic level there are electrons and protons, and they rotate around in give and take. Even on that level there is a certain kind of love.</p>
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<p>All these loves can be linked together. What kind of thread connects them? Only true love. Any arrow except that of true love would hurt you, but when true love penetrates you, you love it. Doesn’t this apply only to white people? A mother longs to have the love of her sons and daughters. She would want to be hit by the arrow of her children’s love and by the love of her husband and the love of God. A husband wants the love of his children, his wife and God. Then he feels fulfilled. The world of the animals follows the same principle. In love they multiply, generation after generation.</p>
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<p>God also wants to be with father, mother and children. Wherever father goes, the mother and children want to go. Wherever the children go, the parents want to accompany them. Everyone wants to be penetrated by the love of God, their spouse and children.</p>
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<p>This is why the Unification Church ideology revolves around the heavenly four position foundation. Its completion brings the fulfillment of all. In that framework you meet everyone-husband, wife, children and God. No one argues there over whose love is better or worse. There is total harmony even without words being spoken. Give and take is automatic there, not conscious. This is where the universe draws its power. People sometimes debate who started the movement of the universe. but here we see that when love unites, action automatically begins. The power of true love is the power to start the universe moving.</p>
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<p>When a husband and wife are in love they don’t have to plan how they will love each other; it is automatic. When there is true love, then harmony is automatic. The action of true love heads toward eternity; it is not temporary. Thus, we can conclude that God is the origin of true love, and so He is eternal and always in action. His existence is automatic. With true love God can be self-existing, selfperpetuating and self-motivating. When true love is activated, there is always harmony, and they don’t stand still to hold each other but turn round and round. The globe is turning, and all the planets revolve. Could money cause them to turn? Power or knowledge? No, only true love could do it.</p>
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<p>True love is self-existing and self-perpetuating. Our goal is that very love. With love in your heart you have energy inside and you keep moving. You want to do something about it because you cannot stand still. The Unification Church has been persecuted and ridiculed but we never lose energy because we have unlocked this secret. We have the power of love. I have been opposed my whole life, yet I never get tired. I am self-motivating and always in motion. If I am pursuing money or power then there is a limit, but there is no end to true love.</p>
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<p>The universe and God are moving with me wherever I go in my pursuit of true love, as well as all nations. Based on this principle, if I am moving toward this goal then all mankind also have to be moving with me; that has to be their goal also.</p>
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<p>True love alone is self-generating. If you try to force two chemical elements together, will they obey? When their natural subject-object relationship is established then you don’t even have to tell them to unite; it is automatic. God is eternal because He has a plus element and minus element which always have give and take. That is the most perfect principle we have. We are talking about God’s dual essentialities, and it is a tremendous discovery.</p>
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<p>The universe always mandates that you must unite mind and body, and then you will be your true self. If your mind and body are united then you can stand before the whole universe with dignity and pride. Do your two eyes see two images? No, they form one image because they are united. Your nose has two openings yet you don’t breathe two different ways. Your mouth has an upper lip and lower lip which work harmoniously. Imagine what it would be like if they worked in separate directions!</p>
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<p>You have two arms so your two hands can work together and come together to pray. Each time you take a step you are making a four position foundation on the ground because two components come together to make a line. Is the ideal for plus and minus to make a zig zag or a straight line? Would you prefer a short or long line? Usually you want something to happen in the shortest time, and the shortest distance in horizontal time and space is vertical. The more intense your give and take, the greater the tendency to become vertical.</p>
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<p>Who was the closest to Adam? After God, who was closest, closer even than Eve? Adam’s own self was closest. The important question is how close you are with God. How distant you are is what concerns you. God is the highest and you are low, yet the two are linked. If you are united with God then you are as tall as He is and as noble. Your physical position doesn’t make any difference. It is man’s built-in nature to want to be higher than everyone else. If you want to be the highest then you have to stand right in the center, with the absolute conviction that you and God are one.</p>
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<p>Then you need a horizontal relationship, and the closest one is your mate. How can you make your vertical relationship wider? Through love in a horizontal relationship, specifically, with your mate. Once a man becomes one with God and a woman becomes one with God, then they have a right to search horizontally. Until the age of 21 you are busy uniting with God. When you are confident you are one with God, you can search for your mate and nothing can break that relationship. Then your central, vertical line becomes thicker because you are no longer only one. Then your area of motion increases.</p>
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<p>When children come then your territory and realm of activity become even wider. You start out tall but then get wider and wider. How wide do you want to be? Wide enough to become a round sphere. After restoration of the family you move on to restoration of the tribe, clan, nation, world and universe, and ultimately you become completely round. What is the center, the nucleus of it all? That is true love between husband and wife. People have never known this.</p>
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<p>As a man you are responsible, not just for yourself as an individual, but for half of the universe. Each woman is responsible for the other half of the universe. A man is half of God. A woman is the other half of God. If they are pulling each other with true love then they will meet in the center, and the result will be something like the dramatic special effects in the movies. When true love meets true love would the outcome be brighter or dimmer than lightning? Did you ever imagine it would be brighter than lightning and louder than thunder?</p>
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<p>How can you imagine it? You have never come near to true love. The only love you have known is far from true love, and only genuine love can generate that power. If Adam and Eve had come together in true God-centered love, the entire universe would have felt the explosion. That should have been the greatest event in the universe, bringing the greatest light and the greatest laughter, dance and music. It would have been the most colorful, dramatic event in the universe.</p>
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<p>When a male and female dove are in love they sing when they meet. Do you know why a dove is the symbol of peace? I think that among all the animals the doves express their love most beautifully in sound. For the sake of true love you can cry so much that your eyes ache and throb. Any event that happens because of love is good. True love is sacred and holy, but love in the world today is dirty and impure. The greatest thing in the universe has been stomped into the ground and made filthy. We have to rebuild and purify love.</p>
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<p>When you talk about the highest possible holiness are you talking about one or two qualities? Can you have pure love with more than one person? Many of you are now engaged, and your relationship should be sacred and noble. You should never look around and compare your fiancé with any other man or woman. When you are chosen to be a living sacrifice on the altar you become a holy sanctuary. Do you married couples ever have unhealthy ideas? The universe itself would not allow such a departure from cosmic law and would cause you to feel pain in your conscience. When you feel pressure and guilt, it is the universe warning you that destruction is taking place.</p>
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<p>When the educational system centers upon unity of mind and body, upon making one whole person, this nation will be completely different. Without parents you cannot be a component of the heavenly four position foundation. Parents are essential. Also, unless you become parents, your four position foundation is not complete. The gay movement is the new avant garde in American life. That relationship is centered upon sensual love and it cannot produce children, so certainly it goes against universal principles. Those people will be judged according to cosmic principles, which would not allow this.</p>
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<p>Why do you feel sadness if your loved one passes away? What power makes you cry? Why do you feel sadness if your children die? You know automatically that it means you are prevented from completing the four position foundation. When a wife dies, her husband is then an incomplete or imperfect element of the universe. Then the universe says that he is not fully in harmony with it, and when the universe rejects a person he feels sad.</p>
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<p>In spirit world, however, the connecting line of love remains. In the sight of God the spirit and physical worlds are one. But you must consummate perfection here on earth, and when certain components of that perfection are absent you feel sadness. Each time you practice love, you are widening your own territory of love, both here on earth and in heaven. Though you might think you are dedicated to forming the heavenly four position foundation on earth, you might be blinded temporarily by difficulties. Then you might try to draw your husband or wife away. Rejecting the universal purpose for your own point of view is the greatest violation of universal law. In that case it would be much better to cut off that component, and then God will give you a better one.</p>
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<p>If Adam had refused to have anything to do with Eve’s temptation, telling her she had no relationship to him any more, and then gone to God, God would have created a better Eve for him. But instead, Adam followed the path of the fall and started the generations of fallen history. If you don’t want to do the same then you must cut off anything that would lead you in that direction. If you don’t know the core principle then blindness will set in. There is a recent instance of a wife feeling she couldn’t go on any more, and her husband allowed himself to be led away. There is no compromise in the Principle. If there is any negative component in the four position foundation, chop it off. I have demonstrated this myself.</p>
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<p>Women are the most responsible for bringing the children into unity with the four position foundation. A woman played the key role in bringing down the dispensation when fallen Eve persuaded Adam into her circle. There is a dangerous situation today in America in which women exercise tremendous influence over men. If they can bring their men to the righteous side, bearing the cross without complaint, then they are great women, but most likely they will not do that. The men usually listen and follow the women.</p>
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<p>The men have to restore their subjective role. Women’s liberation has gone too far so there should be men’s liberation! The other day I saw one man on the street wearing signs saying that men’s rights have to be restored, and men should be liberated from the tyranny of women. What I am saying today is not just my own thinking, but derives from the cosmic principle. If you violate these laws on earth, you are destined to hell. If you women think I am being unfair, you can picket and demonstrate against me. But first ask God if you should demonstrate, and He will answer you very clearly. You should know this truth completely. Would you want to influence your man away from God’s way?</p>
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<p>Through Eve, Cain and Abel should assume their rightful positions, but Cain’s world will not submit easily. There is a boundary between the satanic world and the heavenly world. The original concept of the ideal creation is that God would have dominion over the world through love. Love has the power to dominate, but it never uses force. Instead of striking Cain’s world, you subjugate them with love. That’s the universal principle.</p>
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<p>Eve and Abel must work together to restore Cain. Abel should inherit the birthright of the elder son. Since Cain is also Eve’s son, once Eve becomes involved there is hope to restore Cain. Eve and Abel should go to Cain’s world to serve and convince it with love to give up the birthright to its rightful owner. Cain’s world became fallen because of satanic love, so it will be restored with heavenly love. That love has to be love that is stronger and more intense than satanic love to melt Cain’s heart. Whether fallen or not, every creature reacts to the power of love, so Cain will be won over if he can receive constant, pure love. Then Cain’s love can also be purified. Our role in Abel’s position is to go to Cain’s world and give unconditional service and love for seven to twentyone years, receiving all the rejection and resistance that world can give until it has to surrender to our love.</p>
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<p>Because of the sequence of the fall, women have suffered very much throughout history. I am very sympathetic because they have borne the heavier burden. If a woman unites with the heavenly subject then naturally her husband will be in a position to be jealous and try to separate his wife from that subject. If his wife persists then her husband will become like a wild man, beating her and locking her up. Inevitably there have been some difficulties, but this has been the historical position of women. They have borne the greater burden in making restitution for initiating the fallen act.</p>
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<p>If a couple has children and they see their father unjustly persecuting their mother, some of the children will inevitably side with the mother. They will resolve to protect her and serve her cause on the Abel side. Even if a child initially thinks his mother is unloyal to the father, he will conclude that his father is too harsh on the mother, and stop supporting him. There are many women in history who have been beaten so much by their husbands that they fainted. But these women should feel no resentment, asking instead that God forgive their husbands, praying that they can understand. They should never ask God to bring vengeance.</p>
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<p>In family restoration you must live the tradition of loving your enemy and asking God to forgive him. If the mother upholds God’s position and keeps forgiving, then sooner or later all the children will come to her side. When the father sees that no one takes his side, he might still try to attack the mother but the children will shield her and declare that he has already done too much to this woman, who has actually done nothing wrong. If he persists, they will tell him he should go away and leave all of them alone. When the husband sees that continuing the fight is fruitless, he will surrender and apologize.</p>
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<p>Should men or women initiate this kind of love campaign? Why shouldn’t the women ask God to get rid of any men who block the heavenly campaign? Because of restitution. The fallen process has to be restored by reversal. Eve enticed Adam, so women on the side of God should entice the men back to God’s side. Through that process the historical pain of men will be restored. Women first bring their children to Abel’s side, and then ultimately their husbands will repent in tears. Events in the garden of Eden must be restored through indemnity.</p>
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<p>Knowing this process, you Unification Church women are in a position to be reprimanded by men. I am leading that campaign! Women are going straight to God, and their husbands should chase after them. You women are in the position of Eve before the fall if you are pure and God-centered. Forget your dignity and position and demonstrate complete devotion to God. You have to demonstrate the quality of Eve before the fall. If you don’t do it in seven years, you should do it in 21 years. This is why I tell you that women should never complain for seven years. Even though you feel angry and upset, as long as you do not open your mouth you can make restitution; if you speak, however, you are proving you are on Satan’s side. In many cases women who join the Unification Church go a zig zag, up and down course, instead of going straight up.</p>
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<p>This is not my theory. This is a principle I have practiced myself. I practice this in my home, and tell Mother that no matter how upset she feels inside she should be silent and not open her mouth. If she speaks out, it is a condition Satan can utilize. There is no exception for me in this law; I have no special privileges. I have fulfilled every possible responsibility toward women.</p>
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<p>My first wife helped stir up incredible opposition to me among Korean Christians. I have tasted painful persecution from this woman, but I never said a word against her. Even at the age of seven my son knew his mother was wrong. Though he had hardly seen me during those years, he came to me when he was seven, saying he didn’t want to live with his mother any more. It was clear that he had taken Abel’s side.</p>
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<p>My first wife knew that I was the best husband, and her motivation for all that persecution was to have me for herself. She told me she would earn money to give me good clothes and food as long as I would stay home and not worry about the Church. She would try to chase the women members of the Church away, doing everything possible to keep me for herself.</p>
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<p>Instead of supporting her husband in God’s purpose, she wanted to have him for herself. But the women members told her she was wrong and stood up to protect me, telling her she was not really doing her husband any service.</p>
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<p>If I had done as she asked and gone her way, would there be a Unification Church today? I knew when I took up the path of God that my immediate family would come against me, that my own wife and parents would criticize, as well as my nation. But I was committed to persevere for seven years, or twentyone years if I could not do it in seven. I initiated the three seven-year courses, planning to serve my nation and the world. There were nothing but enemies surrounding me, including my own family. Everyone – my family, Christianity, my nation and the whole world – predicted I would decline. The persecution was beyond human imagination, but even in those circumstances God always brought sympathetic followers to me.</p>
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<p>My goal was to reach the pinnacle in 1976, knowing that then world opinion would start to change. But in the meantime I served the world for 21 years, never saying anything against the people who persecuted me. I prayed for their blessing instead. In the meantime my territory became larger and my strength and influence were more concentrated. After 1976 the tide began to turn, and instead of enduring silently while the world attacked me, I began to go on the offensive against the world.</p>
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<p>There are many episodes that I will not reveal because you could not bear to hear them; you would break down in tears. You have endured heartbreak in your own situation, but still it is nothing compared to mine. Nevertheless, I could endure those things because God’s situation was even worse and more intense. My prayer was, “God, before You I have nothing to say.” In this way I became linked to God in total understanding. Only by understanding sorrow and heartbreak can you become one with God. This is the reason I push you to do what no one else wants to do. By enduring tribulation you can become linked with God.</p>
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<p>Even if you suffer many times more than I have, there should be no complaint, because you are not suffering for yourself but for humanity. You women in particular, will you commit yourselves? Keep your mouths shut, no matter what, and never say the slightest word of complaint. Whatever you say will be a condition against you, and I don’t want that to happen.</p>
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<p>God is following this law more scrupulously than anyone. He is more silent than anyone. Until God can truly manifest His love for the world, He has no word to say. Until I truly prove that I love mankind, I have no word to say. But the time will come. God has practiced that rule, and I have practiced it, and one more generation-which is you-should practice it. The heavenly four position foundation has three stages of God, parents and children, so three generations are needed to complete the dispensation. God has practiced this and I have practiced it, and now it is your turn.</p>
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<p>Once vindication is complete, God will speak up. Yet God will not talk about how much He suffered, but will express His anger at the difficulty the world has given His son. “I don’t care about my suffering, but you let my children suffer. That I cannot forgive.”</p>
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<p>I have often heard that after coming to America I made the serious blunder of supporting President Nixon during Watergate. Actually I dislike Mr. Nixon, and certainly I have no personal link and feeling for him. He is the President who realigned American defense in Asia to exclude Korea. I know that God’s providence is always trying to link the East and West, and Korea will have a key role in that. The Nixon Doctrine would hurt that providence. Also, I know that the communists are trying to overrun all Asia, and they key country they want is the entire Korean peninsula. The Nixon Doctrine has to be changed.</p>
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<p>Even though I abhorred Nixon’s doctrine, I supported his position as President because he concentrated American power in Southeast Asia, trying to conclude the Vietnam war quickly. I knew that if Southeast Asia fell there would be terrible consequences for all Asia. If a victory could have been won in Vietnam then Korea’s position would be strengthened. I saw that because of the political scandal Nixon had no courage to go about the national business, and the Vietnam situation became a remote concern. That’s why I proclaimed that America should forgive, love and unite with him. By doing so America could concentrate again on the international scene.</p>
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<p>Even under adverse conditions I proclaimed the true Christian doctrine of forgiveness, love and unity. If the American public had responded to that then the President could have concentrated on foreign policy. Everything I did was for national salvation. I wanted to be the champion to bring the spirit of forgiveness and true love in this country.</p>
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<p>Every country conducts international espionage, and the KGB is doing more than anyone else in taping secret conversations. The tapes that brought Nixon’s final downfall should have been brought out before the entire press corps, and Nixon should have announced he could not afford to endanger national security or free world security, maintaining that it was his prerogative to destroy them before the entire nation. The CIA has great quantities of tapes, and since they have the responsibility of keeping them secret for national security, so should Nixon have assured his private tapes would be kept secret by destroying them.</p>
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<p>In God’s sight, monitoring the secret conversations of other heads of state would be an even worse crime. Nixon’s priority job was to be conerned with the millions of lives in Southeast Asia and bring a positive conclusion to the conflict there. Because Nixon did not do that, Ford became President. I was bitterly disappointed to see America literally lose its shirt in Vietnam. America’s international dignity was totally smeared, and ever since other nations have scorned America.</p>
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<p>God blessed this nation and supported it for 200 years. God wanted to build up a strong and dignified America which would exercise leadership in the world for the sake of God. My strongest desire is to restore America’s dignity so it can exercise leadership against the enemy, which is communism. Nixon failed, and he betrayed this country. Ford was a mediocre president. Carter is selling out America. I gain nothing by saying these things except more hostile treatment by the United States government. But I have to speak the truth, regardless of the consequences. Have I done anything wrong?</p>
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<p>If Jesus had been able to mobilize his people to march on Rome, start a movement there, then triumph over opposition there and be vindicated in his lifetime, there would not have been any 400 years of martyrdom among the early Christians, and Christians would not have suffered for 2,000 years.</p>
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<p>I do not live my own private life; my life is setting history straight and laying the cornerstone of history to come. What I do in my lifetime is not for myself but for history. I must clearly set things for the future. I must be vindicated in my lifetime by winning victory on the worldwide base. My tradition, position and legal rights must be clear. If I had done this in Korea or anywhere else in Asia it would not be the worldwide victory. I had to come to the Rome of the modern age to wage that battle and win the victory.</p>
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<p>My critics in America have gathered all the rumors and allegations made about me in Korea and publicized them as the truth, trying to smear my name through character assassination. That came to a peak in 1976. I won a towering victory, and declared in Washington, D.C., America’s capital and the capital of the free world, who I am and what I am doing. Because I won this victory, there shall be no more of this dirty persecution in the coming generations. After that victory I declared the start of the offensive battle in Korea, Japan and the world. We will bring into court anyone making false statements about me. Already we have won over 100 legal cases in America alone.</p>
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<p>You should know in what dirty way some Americans are trying to destroy me. We will be proven legally to be right, and the only route left to our enemies will be violence. If they ever did that then America would be totally ignored by the free world. Have I done something right or wrong by taking our battle to the courts? People thought I was a helpless Korean man, but when they attacked me they found a man of conviction and power who represents the authority of God. Even the American Government cannot take me lightly, and this lesson will be learned by all the other governments of the world. I do not just believe this; I know it.</p>
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<p>Whenever anyone tries to exterminate me illegally, the conscience of the world’s people will be stung and people around the world will rise up. Even if I die, the Unification movement cannot falter. I am going forward with strength and conviction because I know this is true.</p>
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<p>I spoke and gave testimony to U.S. Congressmen, and it is recorded in the legal proceedings kept in the Congressional Record, and it shall remain as evidence for generations to come. Those were historical remarks.</p>
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<p>For what? All this I have done for the sake of love. I have never cursed America. If it weren’t for God I could curse this nation, but for God’s sake I cannot. The blacks in this country have been oppressed for centuries by the whites, but it is nothing compared to what has happened to me in this nation. If what this whole nation has done was known, the blacks would be sympathetic to me.</p>
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<p>But I keep forgiving America and praying for her blessing. That is God’s will. I am telling you that when you forgive yoo will not be destroyed. If you forgive and love and embrace people, you will be their savior. I have been accused and cursed but I am still moving toward center stage.</p>
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<p>Already three hours have passed. Shall I keep going? I don’t want to talk too much because I want to push you out to work! If you want to hear more then I will continue.</p>
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<p>When you are blessed you should never evaluate your husband to see if he is handsome and capable; look at yourself instead and determine whether you are worthy of being matched to any man, whether you have taken responsibility for the position of restoring Eve’s position. If you find that you love yourself most, then you are your own enemy. Check whether you are really concerned about saving the nation.</p>
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<p>Do not ever think that I hate American women. I love them and truly want to see them succeed; I want to pay more attention to them and give them extra advice. If you deserve the highest honor but you put yourself in the lowest place then you are great. Because God needed you and summoned you, you are grateful. That’s the way you should feel. Your most important concern is whether God can accept you. That should be your first worry-not even whether your husband will like you.</p>
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<p>Mothers do all the dirty chores at home. Changing diapers and cleaning up messes are done by the mother. Mother and I practice the same principle. I tell Mother that she should unite with the children and bring them together to their father. When Mother brings them to me then I can love them more than she does, more than anyone else loves them. Our youngest, Hyung Jin, recognizes Mother first and is attached to her and I am a little jealous! But I comfort myself by knowing that this is according to Principle. Hyung Jin smiles and laughs when Mother talks to him. but resigned to that.</p>
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<p>If women fulfill Mother’s role well, you are in a key spot to be loved more by everyone else. God will love you more; your children will call you the number one mother; your husband will appreciate you. I want to see American women trying to be servants now, but you have the consolation that then you shall become queens. Do you want that?</p>
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<p>You must wait, however, until you go this route of serving and then come back as a victorious mother and wife. We have a fierce battle here in America. CARP is representing the Unification Church on the front line, so I wanted to mobilize more than just the men. The women should play the major role here. In the garden of Eden Eve brought destruction to Adam and her children, so now Eve shall bring salvation to her husband and children and shall be in a position to be the most loved. From being on the front line you can gather much experience that will be useful for your husband and children. You have to know the taste of tears and of love.</p>
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<p>You practice intense love in trying to win members, and when you come back home you will be able to love your husband and children with even greater intensity. You love your husband more than your Abel, and your children more than your husband, and thus the true harmony of a family shall be instituted. This is the ultimate recommendation and credential I can give American women. Would you accept or reject it? Women have the key role in the success of the family. Is this just my opinion, or is it God’s principle? Is it needed by America?</p>
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<p>I have brought the blueprint for salvation of this country, yet everywhere I go I am ridiculed and called names. But on the other side God and the spirit world are pushing me with all their might and supporting me. Would you like to be just a bystander? You are</p>
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<p>willing to accept persecution on my behalf, aren’t you? You are standing at the original home base of the consummation of the universe. If that is the case then is there anything you cannot do?</p>
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<p>I fulfilled all by myself, without having anything. When I was lonely and there was no one else, I still fulfilled. Here you have the entire world responding to you. If you still cannot do it under those circumstances-God forbid. If nothing else at least you can be silent. If you cannot go then let other people go; at least never pull down to your level thechampions who are going ahead of you. Can you do it?</p>
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<p>You are standing at the home base of universal perfection, so when you laugh the universe will smile. When you are sad and heartbroken, the universe will suffer that same heartbreak. You are representatives of the universe. Today we know very clearly what needs to be done vertically and horizontally. This is not the road that only I have to go. Everyone has to go this way, but I had to go by myself, being persecuted and alone. But you go with comrades and with the praise of the people. We have to cover that route without exception.</p>
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<p>If you don’t go now then eventually I will have to sit in judgment on you in spirit world, and I don’t want that at all. I never want you to violate that law. It is my love to push you out so that under any circumstances you can succeed in this way. It is an expression of my love.</p>
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<p>1979 is coming to a close, and 1980 will truly be a year of hope. This is the night time, but when 1980 comes we will see the daylight for the Unification Church. If you can truly say that with true love you will go all the way to the goal, with real commitment, raise your hands please.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS</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="2018-06-19T15:03:03+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/the-true-meaning-of-christmas.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T15:03:03+01:00">June 19, 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">December 25, 1979<br />
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<p>Merry Christmas! In a few more days the year of 1979 will be over. When another year passes by it denotes that we are becoming one year older and also that much closer to the spirit world. That could be a pessimistic statement, but actually the spirit world is our ultimate destination, and it is not a bad world to look forward to.</p>
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<p>What is the true meaning of Christmas and why do we celebrate? It is not done for America’s sake or for the sake of the world. We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The central issue of this day is what kind of Christmas Jesus would have wanted.</p>
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<p>Who sent Jesus? God sent him, and God had a certain will for sending His son. Considering the political situation in that part of the world at that time, what kind of Christmas would God have wanted people to celebrate? Who should have been the first person or people to celebrate Jesus’ birth? Not Jesus himself, certainly, because he had just been born. The first person truly to celebrate should have been God Himself, who caused His son to be born. Furthermore, the angels and all spirit world joined together, glorifying and praising that great day. Here on earth, however, Jesus’ birth was only quietly welcomed because few people knew of his coming. We can see that the birth of Jesus was truly celebrated in heaven, centering upon God, but on earth hardly any celebration took place.</p>
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<p>The Christian world honors Christmas by setting up nativity scenes of Jesus in a manger. Actually a manger is a very lowly place. They are proud of Jesus’ being placed in a manger, but is this the kind of place God’s son, the King of kings, should be born? Do you think God truly wanted His son to be born in a stable?</p>
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<p>What about Jesus’ mother, who knew through revelation what kind of son she was bearing? Do you think she was happy that her son, the Messiah, was born in a stable? I’m sure Mary would have thought that the son of God would deserve more than the most elegant palace. The appropriate way for the son of God to arrive would be with announcements of hour-by-hour bulletins and a proclamation throughout the land when he arrived.</p>
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<p>If the priests, scribes and rulers of Israel had known of Jesus’ coming, I’m sure that during the ten months before his birth everyone would have been</p>
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<p>eagerly awaiting his arrival, and would have come to worship even before he was born. Mary would have been treated like a queen wherever she went. A record would have been kept of everything she did-if she ate a snack, how many times she went to the bathroom, how long she slept. If people had truly known that the son of God was in Mary’s womb, the twelve tribes of Israel would all have competed in trying to serve him before his birth.</p>
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<p>If that had been the case, do you think the people would ever have allowed him to be born in a stable? A great fanfare would have been prepared, great bells readied to ring and bands to play. Should the birth of the son of God be an event greater than America’s independence day? America preserves her cracked Liberty Bell, but a small bell that rang to herald the day of Jesus’ birth would be preserved in a shrine as a priceless item. If there were a record of the Jews fighting each other to be the first to offer the new baby some gift at his birth, would that make Jesus unhappy?</p>
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<p>Jesus came after God had worked for 4,000 years in preparation. After all that preparation the greatest event was the coming of God’s son to this earth. Is the fact that he then came in such a humble way to a lowly place the pride or shame of history? Ultimately Jesus was crucified, but if Jesus had begun his life in the recognition that he was the son of God, would the history of his life have been different? Truly he would have been treated as the king of Israel. Furthermore, if he had been embraced by the chosen people then he should have received more glory as God’s representative than the emperor of Rome.</p>
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<p>God wanted to see all the great priests of the day gather to hold the holy child. If Jesus had been recognized from the moment of his birth as the son of God and the long-awaited Messiah, then all the chiefs of the twelve tribes would have competed to serve him as he was growing. Then when he was 21 he could have exercised the authority of the Messiah, and because the people would have been so busy serving him he never would have an ;idle moment.</p>
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<p>What kind of education would Jesus have received? Truly he would have been taught about the importance of the mission and responsibility he had. From the early days Jesus would have known he was born as the son of God and his mission was to be the King of kings, who would initiate God’s kingdom here on earth. Would history have been different then? Then wouldn’t the entire world celebrate Jesus’ birth, generation after generation?</p>
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<p>If the Jews squarely proclaimed that Jesus was born not only as king of Israel but King of kings, including the Roman Empire, would Rome have welcomed him? Not at all. When Israel prepared to celebrate Christmas, the Romans would be in an uproar, for according to Jewish prophecy even the Roman Emperor should bow down and present a gift. Don’t you think the Romans would send their legions to crush Israel in that case? If the Roman legions surrounded the arena where the celebration was being held, wouldn’t the Israelites have gathered around Jesus to protect him?</p>
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<p>You have seen on the news how the Iranian militants demonstrate against America’s President Carter. The Arabs are kin to the Israelites, so if the Romans demonstrated against Jesus like the Iranians are against the Americans, wouldn’t the Arabs be in a position to support the Jews in resisting the Remans? The political confrontation between Israel and Rome would grow into a confrontation on a global scale, with the Arabs backing Israel. That would affect other religious Asian countries, like India and China, which would then support Israel as well. The greater the oppression of the Romans, the greater would be the unity to resist the Romans and truly celebrate Christmas. Instead of Jesus’ reaching the age of thirty unnoticed, there would have been such acclaim and attention from the time of his birth that by the time he was thirty the entire world would already have been united with him against the Roman Empire.</p>
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<p>They would not be supporting him blindly, but would have investigated why he should be the King of kings and why a Messiah was needed. All the great thinkers of the world would have been concerned about this, and, knowing who Jesus truly was, would have knowledgeably supported him. Then the wood would have been divided into two camps-the Roman Empire, and the nations which supported Jesus and Israel. Then when the Roman Empire mobilized their military to stamp down the opposition would the world remain silent in fear? No minister except Reverend Moon has ever considered such a hypothesis as this.</p>
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<p>Christmas is truly the celebration of the birth of God’s son, but without knowing God’s purpose for sending him there cannot truly be a celebration of Christmas. I have described what could have happened externally, but think about Jesus himself. Would he have thought that he didn’t need anyone else to help him rule the world as Messiah? Or would he have thought he would need a wife, in-laws, children and grandchildren so that his tradition could be passed down? Don’t you think Jesus felt he needed to be exemplary in all human relations on earth and should occupy every position a human being could have- parent, grandparent, in-law-so he could set the heavenly tradition?</p>
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<p>Many Christians think that Jesus was God Himself, so he didn’t need anyone and only worked like a machine. You are so-called Moonies, whom people say are not true Christians, so you say this is not true. We Moonies are supporting a revolutionary concept; modern Christian leaders would be knocked out by what I am saying this morning. There are two major schools of thought-the conventional school of thought and the Moonies’ thought. Which thought would Jesus support? After praying many hours to find out the truth about this, I think that Jesus would like my thought.</p>
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<p>You are ordinary U.S. citizens, yet you want to become President so you can bring this nation to the side of righteousness. Wouldn’t Jesus, ax the Messiah, be thinking of the world kingdom which he would govern, as a parent and grandparent? One religious camp teaches that Jesus came to die, but the other teaches that Jesus was sent as Messiah to bring salvation by being the father of mankind and bringing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Whose Christmas celebration would God and Jesus want to attend?</p>
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<p>If something is logical then it should be consistent from beginning to end. Christianity today is a worldwide religion which has prospered for 2,000 years, yet today it is entangled in confusion and chaos. Why? Because the beginning and end of today’s Christian thought are not consistent. Look at the contradictions in Christian thought and Christian practice: Jesus came to build one world, but contrary to Jesus’ will there are now several hundred denominations dividing Christianity. Greater division has been brought about. No matter how people try, they cannot justify this.</p>
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<p>But what I say about Jesus’ purpose makes because the people did not accept Jesus that the crucifixion, which was contrary to God’s will, came about.</p>
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<p>What is the difference between a loyal subject and a traitor? Both say they are serving their country’ but the loyal subject is the one who follows the will of the king without compromise. The traitor is the one who always thinks his way is right and wants the king to follow him. God’s desire is to have one world and so Jesus came to bring unity. But some Christians ignore this because they are more concerned with maintaining the power of their own denomination. When they disregard God’s ideal and promote their own, they are acting like traitors.</p>
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<p>What does the Unification Church think? In order to fulfill God’s will we can forget about denomination, and ignore even racial and national barriers. We are going the way of loyal subjects, but many people are reluctant to give up the old ways. They could care less if God’s will is done here on earth.</p>
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<p>Today the followers of Reverend Moon are being accused and persecuted by the world. but in the sight of God and Jesus we are the true central religion, the orthodox of orthodox. Therefore, I proclaim today that Christianity needs to learn a direction and new way of life. My direction is now being supported by spirit world, Jesus Christ and God Himself. How do you know I’m not the greatest swindler in the world? If you use your own logical minds you can deduce whether what I am saying is true or not.</p>
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<p>If Jesus had been recognized as the Messiah by his contemporaries, yet he had been too shy to accept such recognition, don’t you think they would search everywhere to find him and put him on a throne? Looking down on this scene would God kick Jesus off the throne, or would He smile and tell Jesus that he was in the very place he should be?</p>
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<p>When we think of the true meaning of Jesus’ coming then today’s Christianity is like an empty shell, lacking true content. If Christians were true Christians, how could they sit down and eat turkey on Christmas Day when they know that the communist power is about ready to take over the world?</p>
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<p>Why do we need Jesus? Why do we need the Messiah? The important thing to know is that we are born into a satanic lineage of hereditary sin based on satanic love. We need a Messiah because we want to have God-centered love, and only the Messiah can give us that love. Jesus needed to eat and sleep like everyone else, but Jesus led a life that God could rejoice over; that was the difference. We need Jesus in order to learn his way of life, so that we can inherit the tradition of unstained heavenly love. In order to do that we have to follow his way of life, obeying his instructions.</p>
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<p>Could Jesus completely exemplify the heavenly tradition if he were a bachelor? Because Jesus was always a bachelor we have not seen any other tradition, but that was only the first step of Jesus’ contribution. He was to have given the world not only a tradition of individual perfection, but also the tradition of love between husband and wife. As a God-centered man he wanted to show how men should live. As a husband he was to show how to be a model Godcentered husband. Does the Bible teach this? Have you ever read in the Bible how Jesus loved his wife?</p>
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<p>Would God call Jesus a heretic for thinking that he should marry? Christianity does not have the tradition of a husband’s love for his wife. Furthermore, Jesus wanted not only to love his wife but to teach her how to set the tradition of wifehood. Does the Bible record that tradition? Is there any record of Jesus becoming a father who could teach people the right way to love their children? Is there any indication that Jesus became a grandfather who could show how grandchildren should be loved?</p>
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<p>Did Jesus leave any tradition for Christianity of leading a tribe? Is there any tradition for a king and ruler of the world about how to govern with God’s love? Is there any tradition of a King of kings who governs without any national or racial prejudice? Is there a tradition for governing not only the physical world but also the spirit world, of showing what the Kingdom of Heaven should be like for eternity?</p>
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<p>Is there a tradition of the love of God here on earth? Jesus came to teach this tradition. He struggled by himself but finally was crucified, and there was not much room for him to leave the traditions that God wanted here on earth. Compared to the scope of the mission Jesus came to fulfill here on earth. he spoke only a small bit about the tradition of the love of God. The hulk of it has been left undone. It is essentially true that Jesus must return to pick up that mission and finish it. isn’t that logical?</p>
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<p>What is love? What is the love of God from the point of view of Christianity? This world we live in is truly a wilderness, for there is no taste of the love of God in it. People hardly have a concept of the love of God. In this wilderness I came to cry out for the love of God. In itself this is a historical mission. I am proclaiming in this wilderness how the love of God should be.</p>
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<p>I came to this world knowing precisely the will of God, and the agony and heart of Jesus. I know what no one else has ever known and I came to proclaim it to the world. People who think they are the zealous Christians today, who think they have happiness, are the real traitors in the eyes of God. People don’t want to hear that; they want acclamation and great respect instead. But there is no word of praise I could give them.</p>
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<p>Today people don’t write out the word Christmas, but use Xmas instead. Often on a test O means true and X means false. Thus, written as Xmas, Christmas is the false, upside-down message. People are celebrating the wrong kind of Christmas. When you hear me say this it makes sense, but because of this people say I am a heretic who is attacking the 2,000-year old Christian tradition.</p>
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<p>Again, the important thing is which side God is receptive to. If the entire world has another opinion, how can you be so sure God would take my side? When we know that the true meaning of Christmas is that God sent Jesus to bring the true tradition of love, then when we exchange Christmas greetings they will be sweet and acceptable to Jesus.</p>
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<p>Jesus led a tragic life of accusation and persecution and finally crucifixion. He truly led the most miserable life, and his one wish would be for one man to step forward and tell the world who he truly was and how he felt, why he cried out on Gethsemane. He would want someone to speak out for him who could look at the world through his eyes, with the tradition of the love of God, and tell the world what to do. Jesus would want that spokesman to vindicate his mission, to herald the tradition of love that Jesus could not finish during his own life. This is the kind of champion Jesus truly wants to see in this world.</p>
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<p>In the fallen world men look at a beautiful woman and think how they can have her for themselves. When Jesus looked at any woman – whether charming, feeble, young or old – Jesus felt she was his sister and thought about how to love her in a pure, heavenly way. When seen through Jesus’ eyes, even the ugliest possible woman – so ugly you would have to spell ugly with ten u’s – would truly be a sister and he would pour out his genuine heart to her. That’s how Jesus looked at all mankind.</p>
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<p>Only a few relationships are possible with the rest of mankind-a person is your sister or brother, mother or father, uncle or aunt, or a member of your race. Whenever you see an old man, you can think of him as your grandfather, as Jesus’ grandfather. Jesus would have given his grandfather utmost respect, so that is how you should look at the old man.</p>
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<p>Is there any group who truly represents Jesus’ heart, and can tell him that they are here to vindicate him and recreate his work on earth? When there is a group of people doing that every day, would Jesus have tears in his eyes as he watched them? He would exclaim, “The entire world never came near to understanding me. How can you keep going, and never mind when you are accused and persecuted as you try to comfort my heart?” ls there any way Jesus could just sit still watching? He would do everything possible to help and mobilize all spirit world.</p>
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<p>The people who want to see the Unification Church dispersed for good and have their own denomination rise are seeing exactly the opposite happen instead. The Unification Church is booming while other churches are declining. The younger people are gathering here, while the order people stay there. Which group represents hope? Once you taste the tradition of God’s love there is no way you could separate yourself from it. Even God could not afford to leave you. What a great hope!</p>
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<p>Of course God would want to stay here if this is where He finds love. If this is where you found love, would you fight among yourselves? If there was love here, would God be the one trying to get away while you held Him back, or would you be the one trying to get away and God be the one holding you back? Would you only stay with God one hour or forever? That’s the hope I am living for. What other joy could I have in this world if not for the hope of the tradition of God’s love? Everywhere I go people criticize me and call me a monster who brainwashes people. We have a better term; brainwashing is actually moon-washing, or love-washing.</p>
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<p>We are gathered to celebrate the true Christmas because we know God and His purpose; we know Jesus’ purpose and intention for coming to this world. And in addition we are handpicked by God to vindicate Jesus and liberate the heart of God by accomplishing what Jesus left undone. If we say Merry Christmas with that mind then God and Jesus would respond thousands of times, “Merry, merry, merry Christmas.”</p>
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<p>This year’s Christmas is different from all the other Christmases you celebrated in the past because you know its true meaning. You want to do more for God and Jesus in 1980 than you did in 1979 so that you can celebrate Christmas even more next year. Look back on how you have loved the people with Jesus’ heart and looked at them as he would. How good a Christian have you been? Jesus looked at everyone as his family; that has to be the tradition of Christianity today, but is that being done?</p>
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<p>No other people are truly responding to the call of God. We are given the divine mission which no one else is undertaking. There is nothing greater or more important to God and Jesus and mankind than establishing the tradition of God’s love. The commitment you can give that task should be greater than to any other task, and far greater than the dedication of the communists to their cause. Love is supreme; nothing is more perfect or precious. Once established it will remain forever, so for this task there is nothing we cannot spare.</p>
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<p>Have you truly loved the world that much? Basically you have been living capriciously, but you must realize that your body is not yours – it should be the personification of God’s love. It is the holy temple of God, who is love. It should be a love temple. If someone squeezes you, love juice should come out, and through you people should find salvation and eternal life.</p>
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<p>Christmas Day is the perfect day for repentance, for checking how much you have truly lived as Jesus’ representative and loved the world as he did. We are the only people inheriting the true tradition of Christmas which God conceived in His heart. The true meaning of Christmas is the tradition of the true love of God.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t matter how big or small our festivities are; we will celebrate a Christmas which God and Jesus will want to attend. After hearing me, “Merry Christmas” becomes “Concerned Christmas.” This year you greet each other with “Heavy Christmas,” with the desire that next year we can truly celebrate a Merry Christmas. Will fruitcake and ice cream make a merry Christmas? The true content of Christmas is the amount of love you, gave during the year. That is far more dazzling than any amount of decorations.</p>
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<p>When you truly live the tradition of love during the year, even if you don’t have a piece of fruitcake but only a half glass of water to toast God and Jesus with, they will receive yours as the most beautiful and memorable Christmas. I know that God and Jesus Christ will truly appreciate that kind of Christmas.</p>
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<p>Would you promise me that you will expand the rather small love you have had until now and truly give the world a Niagara Falls of God’s love so we can really celebrate Christmas in 1980? That is the best Christmas present. Shall we do it? God bless You.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE TRUST PLACED IN US</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="2018-06-19T14:46:49+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/the-trust-placed-in-us.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:46:49+01:00">June 19, 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">June 3, 1979<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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<p>Every word has its own nuance and flavor and cultural background. Correct perception of each word is important, yet translation from one language to another is very difficult sometimes. Have you ever thought how much of a gap there is even in a 100% translation from one language to another? You must recognize that it is virtually impossible for a translator to close this gap in interpreting for me into English. If I am speaking about one point, do you think the interpreter can get 75% of the way to the target? Some time in the future when you know Korean perfectly and you read my own words you will realize how different the English and Korean versions of my speeches are.</p>
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<p>When I tried to understand English I discovered it is an impossible language, with many kinds of usages. It is true that in any language there are many exceptions to the rule and odd usages without explanation that just have to be remembered, but I also realized that English is not the best language for conveying the spiritual element of life. The language is just not equipped to express things about the spiritual life as Korean is. When you compare Korean and Japanese there are marked differences; even the Japanese language cannot match the Korean facility of expression. I am definitely encouraging you to study Korean.</p>
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<p>The Korean alphabet is very scientific and modern, comprised of only 24 vowels and consonants, yet even with that small alphabet Korean can reproduce any sound. The Korean people are very good at learning foreign languages because their mother tongue already has a variety of sounds. I see God’s hand working here, preparing the Koreans with a language suitable for the universal dispensation.</p>
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<p>English can be a boring and tasteless language to study, but Korean has a profound taste in comparison, with a most intricate and beautiful way of saying things. It is true that the contents of Korean expressions are complicated, but that makes it sweet, so have trust in Korean based on my recommendation.</p>
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<p>What are Moonies? You are not competing in a gold rush or seeking fame and reputation in society. You are not seeking fun from day to day or involved in drugs or sensual experience. Neither are you pursuing academic honor, or ruthlessly seeking worldly success. None of you are writing love letters or dating, and you don’t have lots of money in your pocket. There are many who want their names known to the world, but not you. You don’t even have many accomplishments that command the respect of many people.</p>
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<p>When we see all this, what would make anyone ambitious to become a Moonie? There seems to be no reason at all. On Sunday morning you come early to Belvedere, but here you won’t find even one chair to sit on, only a hard floor. Reverend Moon’s church is one without chairs. When you present yourself as a Moonie to the world, no one says how wonderful you are, but ridicules you instead. Even your parents cannot understand why you became a Moonie and your brothers and sisters think you made a mistake. No one is sympathetic and the nation and world are treating us poorly.</p>
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<p>No one thinks Moonies are normal people. Regardless of how normal you try to be, as soon as people discover you are a Moonie they look at you in an entirely different way. Your clothes and demeanor may be perfectly normal, but still they will think you are odd. Waiters and waitresses practically expect Moonies to eat with their noses instead of their mouths. These are the circumstances we are forced to live with every day.</p>
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<p>Why do we have to go this route? Our ambition is not to have delicious food every day or to make much money or gain honor, so we are looked at by society as an unusual group of people. Nevertheless, our goal is to give ourselves for the sake of all. People in the everyday world have one small target in their lives, setting money or honor as their life goal, but we look at the whole picture. These people who aim at only one segment of life can move freely and don’t care about anything else as long as they have that one thing. They may be far from the whole, but as long as they have their one thing they are content. Americans today are individualistic, going in their own directions. The concept of nation, society, or even parents and their family are unimportant to them as long as they can go after their individual goal. If their life goal happens to be fun and carnal pleasure, they only think about having fun and a good time. But such an individual is pursuing a goal that contradicts the well-being of the whole.</p>
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<p>Our first job is denial and separation from that kind of life, and we begin by denying the materialistic and individually-oriented trends that America thinks are worth pursuing. We deny the new counterculture the hippies said they would build. We do unconventional things like worship, and not only that, but in a sanctuary without chairs. We are not thinking only in Western cultural terms, but looking at the world as one unit. Here white people are thinking about all races, for instance.</p>
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<p>Instead of drifting away from the center we are returning to it, trying to unite with it, and no matter where we are we can always instantly join together at the center. We are turning, but there must always be an axis around which to move. Today people commonly seek happiness by revolving around the opposite sex, but then what is going to be the axis of men and women once they come together? Their job or family or society? Today Americans are living center-less lives and young people are not even making an effort to find a center, thinking that they are already having fun.</p>
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<p>What is the center of America? There is none today. Because there is no center in American homes, families today are living at random without any lasting sense of purpose. A tree has roots, trunk and leaves. Just as a tree cannot survive without having its roots in the earth, the family is rooted in the society and the individual is rooted in the family. How can an individual leaf deny that it needs the roots and trunk? Do you agree that a rootless way of life prevails here in America?</p>
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<p>How can you ever exist in isolation from everything else? Even minerals have certain relationships of harmony which unite their atoms and crystals. What is the central axis of American life? Should the center be the soul or the body? Americans today tend to favor the body and physical pleasure, and since there is no fixed center Americans bump into each other and bounce off the walls, ultimately inviting self destruction.</p>
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<p>There are central principles in the universe which no one can change. In each solar system there is a fixed center and all the planets revolve around it. Each day has order, with the morning coming first, then noon, then evening. An animal’s tail cannot be its head at times, nor can the tail and head argue over who does what. There must be order in relationships between men and women, not confrontation over who is subject. If everyone is constantly leaving his own position then there can only be chaos.</p>
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<p>There should be consistent order and discipline in life, but when they are ignored nothing but chaos can result. Sentences have a certain structure; just lining up nice words from the dictionary won’t make any sense. A great painting is always thought out and then constructed, but just throwing things together has no meaning. We live in a senseless society, so what are we doing about it? We are people who are uniting with the center of the universe, going back to the original center without which this universe could not exist.</p>
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<p>What is the center then? You may say God is the universal center, but what is God’s center? What kind of relationship is there between the love of God and the love of men, and which should be the center? There is love seen from God’s point of view and love seen from man’s point of view, so what kind of relationship must be created between the two in order to have meaning for both?</p>
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<p>We have five physical senses, but at the same time we know we have five spiritual senses and that they should always be united harmoniously. That is why we are looking for one love which will satisfy both the spiritual senses and the physical senses so that they can function together. How intense should that love be? The intensity of this love is such that even though you may try to leave it you will be pulled back. The attracting power of that love is so strong that you cannot ever leave it. It is possible for such love to exist that will attract not only you but God. In that love the mind and body will be the same burning crimson red. When you begin to taste this love you cannot help but bring yourself up vertically instead of just remaining in the horizontal. If you journey all the way up you will penetrate the love of God and even go beyond. Do you have that love? This is a convincing explanation, isn’t it? If you want love, that’s the kind you want, right?</p>
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<p>When Unification Church members are really burning red with love that melts spirit and body together, no power under the sun can separate us or stop us, even the power of God. Isn’t that exciting? When this love is activated even a sleepy grandmother is electrified. If even grandparents can be electrified then the bodies of young people will be burning like the sun, giving out light and heat. You can become a radiator of love. Are you imparting such life and love?</p>
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<p>Once you taste such love, would you be pulled away by anything trying to interfere? Even if someone physically tries to pull you away, your physical body may be dragged in one direction but your mind and soul will be straining to go the other way. That’s why people tell you that I am using mind control and brainwashing on you, but actually that is not mind control at all; we are all patients suffering from the disease of true love.</p>
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<p>If no one can deter you then you are like a bullet, with your purpose and goal so clear that you can fly straight to the bulls-eye. Amazingly enough, when you are a bullet of love you do not destroy or harm anything. When you penetrate a person or a society or nation, no one will feel pain, but will be overjoyed instead. Usually a bullet destroys what it hits, but not a bullet of love. People look scornfully at Moonies, but I want you to know that our ideal is the best of all. That is the exciting and dramatic philosophy which we live.</p>
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<p>Because we have a goal and are not moving at whim, we have a discipline. Men and women are not pursuing gratification but pursuing the highest goal in a parallel way. There are many strings and ropes attached to each Moonie, including the individual line, a family line, a tribal line, national line and so forth. It is very complicated and there are many ropes to handle, but each rope has a certain meaning and we need them all. We have a way to straighten everything out. The individual line will extend a certain distance and the family rope will go in the same direction, but be a little longer. The tribal line is longer and can thrust you further, but most important of all, it still goes in the same direction. In crossing a river you need a bridge that is long enough to reach all the way across, not just halfway. The national rope can extend further, but the rope of the world goes farthest of all and will finally reach the other side. Each rope is an important segment of the bridge crossing the river.</p>
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<p>Do you know how to make this process simple? Your goal is to go all the way to the world, and with that line you will embrace everything else. Once you reach that goal you already have everything else. That’s why we set the highest possible goal of going out to save the whole world. We can save the world by practicing love, true love. When you truly practice love of the world, you will already have loved your family, your people and nation. All of those are smaller than the world, so once you have loved the world you have already loved them as well.</p>
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<p>Since our goal is to love the world, it is nothing for white people to love black people, and for black people to love whites is easy. Your love shows when you come to be matched. Did those who volunteered for interracial marriage accept it because I pushed them? That day I was colorblind. Why is it possible in the Unification Church? Because our goal is to love the world, and as a result there is nothing we cannot digest. For us there is no boundary between races or cultures.</p>
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<p>As an individual you must be anchored in this love, and as a nation and world as well. Everyone’s life must be anchored in this foundation of love. If America really sees that the foundation of life is true love then this society and nation must be anchored there, and the government’s first policy will be to anchor all citizens in this love. Could they oppose me or respond to me then? Then should the nation respond because you are Moonies?</p>
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<p>One thing is sure, however-because you love me most of all, no power can separate us and it doesn’t matter whether the government or people accuse you. That is our pride. Naturally some adverse reaction comes because your parents are jealous of that love; after giving so much of themselves to raise you they will feel badly if you love an Oriental man, particularly one from Korea, which they have never known anything about. Your answer is that you can’t help but love me because otherwise your conscience would suffer. With that love you can work harder and accomplish more, sleep better and feel better, so you can’t help but love me. It is not brainwashing; you are bound by that bond of true love.</p>
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<p>Why is it a goal to love me? I am at the other side of the river, like a support for the bridge you will cross over on. Unlike a regular bridge, I move back and forth, so when I pass nearby you hang on and cross over. That means you are here to take advantage of me! Are you happy people to see this? Why? Because you are sure now that you have a bridge of love between heaven and earth. You need a permit to cross that bridge, a statement that you practice love. That ticket not only gives you authority to cross, but tells you how. You came here to get that ticket! This is the only place that ticket is issued.</p>
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<p>On Sunday morning you come from New York, and I am sure that many of you probably get speeding tickets for driving so fast. The Moonie’s goal in life is to secure the central point, knowing it is everlasting. We have found that point, the central theme of the universe. When we loop our ropes around it and create a bridge we know we can cross the river. This is the first time in history there has been a bridge to cross over, and this bridge extends from here to eternity in the spirit world.</p>
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<p>There are many ways you can travel, but they must all ultimately connect to this bridge. That is the destiny of mankind. It is ordained that every man in history and in the future must cross this bridge, the only one in existence. Do you agree that without it there is no connection to eternity? In order to cross it you have no choice but to listen to me and follow this way of life, even if you hate doing so. The most amazing thing is that no one is forcing you, but something inside tells you to go ahead. Once you know that the bridge exists and that you have to cross, do you want to wander and take your time or would you cross over in a flash, like a bullet? What about relaxing first and then crossing? You are young; don’t you have time to linger and have fun before you cross?</p>
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<p>Do you want to cross with your spouse? Suppose three couples came who are ready to cross-one couple is white, another is black, but the third is black and white. Which couple should be given priority? Don’t white people have supremacy? American people resent hearing you say that white people don’t have priority. Forget for a moment that you are a Moonie; what would you say then? I’m sure even the President and anyone in his family, if they are people of justice and good heart, will say that black and white together take priority.</p>
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<p>Since the answer is so obvious, we in the Unification Church pay a great deal of attention to international marriage. I recently matched 705 couples, and the most beautiful scene was seeing all the volunteers who stepped forward for interracial marriage. I left it up to you, and a great many brothers and sisters made that request on their own. We will have all colors of skin in the society we are going to create. They will not be there for a fighting championship, but to embrace in love. This is the Moonie philosophy.</p>
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<p>You don’t feel good when people are scornful toward you, so today you must come to a confident understanding that you are destined to cross that bridge between heaven and earth. Being a Moonie is the only way you can accomplish that. Here is one brother who is a lawyer; he could have had a profitable practice, yet he is sitting here without money in his pocket. A Moonie’s pocket never holds any money, no matter how much goes in.</p>
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<p>Mike Warder recently went to Las Vegas for a Newspaper Publishers Convention and as <i>The News World </i>representative he was chosen to be on the host committee. That involved greeting and assisting all the leading publishers from around the country, yet Mike flew out there without a penny in his pocket. He has no money but he doesn’t worry. If he really needs money then he can always fund raise. Mike’s parents might wonder how he can be a publisher yet be so poor, but they don’t understand Moonies. This is the drama of our life-one day you could be a newspaper publisher and the next be a fund raiser. This is how we can go up, down, and all over.</p>
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<p>I am a messenger to mankind for the most important message from God, but at the same time I can be the number one laborer in any factory or mine. There is no shame in this because we do it all in the name of God. Many people think the Unification Church is rich and that I live in luxury, but that is not true. It is because I have laid a foundation based on terrible suffering that we have come this far. People in the everyday world despise Moonies. But we love each other.</p>
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<p>What is the trust that is placed in us? We are taking up the life that proceeds all the way to God, with segments of the family, nation and world all in that one straight line. There is no confusion here, yet in the history of dispensation God could not even pass through this first gate of the individual and family.</p>
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<p>That is why God could never hold His true position as loving Heavenly Father. Because even the first gate was not open, there was no tribal, national or worldwide gate.</p>
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<p>What was your goal in being engaged recently? Your purpose was to open up the first gate of the heavenly family. Those couples are forming the family gate, declaring to the world and to spirit world that everyone, including God, must pass through this gate. Would you object to having all those people passing through your gate, wanting only your husband and children to go through? Here in America everyone is worried about his privacy, but a Moonie has no private life, only a public one. Some blessed wives feel they must have some area that is just for their private lives, but I say absolutely not. Every moment of the day is for public ministering. The universe follows this principle as well.</p>
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<p>What kind of gate are you making-a narrow one, or one wide enough so the world’s people can come dancing in with room to spare? Can you create such a gate with money or power or knowledge? Only with love. Love makes the gate wide and open. Suppose you couples have a tiny room to live in and you finally have a private moment; if I knock on the door would you ask me to wait so you can have some private time? I’m sure you would tell me to come in any time, but what if other brothers and sisters knock on the door? Would you turn them away or will your door always be wide open to them?</p>
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<p>Love is elastic, far more than any balloon. There is no end to love. In one sense love is harder than a diamond, but in another sense it is softer than cotton or down. That love is our target. You American members are not just U.S. citizens who are working for America; you are living and working with Japanese and Germans, whose nations were this nation’s enemies thirty years ago, but that historical fact doesn’t make any difference to you. This family can only be united by the true love of God, with which we can open the doors and embrace everyone. It is not easy to follow me, but I’m sure you have realized that in the process you are learning many things.</p>
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<p>Since knowing me you have learned how to use chopsticks. Can you envision God using chopsticks? It is logical that God must be the chopstick champion!</p>
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<p>God’s chopsticks are very long. He made one representing Western man and the other representing what? If you think like God then you perceive the entire universe as one, so naturally the other chopsticks must be from the East.</p>
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<p>Westerners use canes often, and their philosophy is also straightforward and pointed. Oriental philosophy is very abstract, and you may think you understand it, but in reality you can’t see the bottom of it. The bottom is rounded and disappears somewhere in the distance. If Oriental philosophy seems unending then does God comprehend this mystic philosophy? No one else is more mystic than God. Have you ever wondered whether God favors Western or Oriental philosophy? God’s two chopsticks must have some differences of character; otherwise, how could there be both East and West?</p>
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<p>I am from an Oriental background and I came to the West to examine the Western chopstick. I found that it is rusty and has rough edges and metal spurs on it. I came to cut off these dangerous rough spots so they won’t cut your mouth when you use it. I discovered that this chopstick of God’s has been rough and rusty and God has not been able to use it well so I want to shine it and clean it up to present it to God for His use. I will invite God to a banquet for all races and cultures and languages, and then put this chopstick there for His use and enjoyment.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t want you to be embarrassed by not knowing how to use chopsticks, so this way of life is important training, including sitting on a hard floor. You should know about Oriental customs as well as Western customs, even though your long legs and your back ache from sitting on the floor. I know that when Westerners come they are glad to see me, but often they are practically Iying down on the floor with their legs sticking out toward me. Even dogs are more courteous in front of their masters than to lie down. If you were to do that at God’s banquet it would be an embarrassment to Americans and to the Western world. You are a representative of your people at the banquet and you have to be prepared to comply with all heavenly etiquette and courtesy. There is no room to complain.</p>
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<p>Do you think it is easy trying to instill discipline in you untrained young people? Nevertheless, we cannot function like West Point; we are a religious organization so our manner of teaching must be based on love, not coercion. In love you come to know a higher protocol, but it takes time and also a great deal of energy on my part. You may never realize it, but you are so far departed from the usual American way of life that your countrymen are astonished to see your new manners.</p>
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<p>The Japanese members who came to America use pidgin English, so some of our members are starting to use pidgin English as well! Instead of Yes, they answer Hi. What would the rest of America lose by bending over backward like that to learn about other cultures? In the future the Moonies will make the best diplomats because you learn how to mix with and embrace others. Governments will want Unification Church members to be their representatives because no others can better associate with other peoples. We know how to serve.</p>
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<p>You are soldiers seasoned from MFT training, learning how to evaluate all circumstances and how to win someone’s heart. You may not have anything in your pocket or in your bank account, but you know how to cope with the world. The training you are getting here will never be obtained at any university. You may not have a college degree, but I know you sisters will be the best wives for diplomats or Senators and Congressmen. No one can excel us in leadership.</p>
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<p>I am an expert in every field, such as public speaking, but also as a fighter and hard worker. I would like to become a pilot, not for small aircraft, but for a 747. I very often fly across the country and have noticed that every time the 747 comes down it bumps on the ground. I am sure that I could make such a smooth landing that the sleeping passengers would never even realize they had landed. If I were the pilot then the stewardesses would have the extra job of waking everyone up. Because I am a little old to be trained as a pilot I may not have that opportunity, so you can inherit that mission instead.</p>
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<p>Many times I have to drive to various places, and if time is short then the driver has to have the skill to weave in and out of traffic to get to the destination quickly. If I were a driver I know I would get many speeding tickets, but I also know how to go slowly and other drivers would be honking their horns for me to speed up. If war breaks out, you have to be alert enough to know how to act in an emergency. Would you prefer having an encyclopedia which covers all knowledge or just a simple dictionary of your own country’s language? You need to become very broad and round in your thinking.</p>
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<p>No one now knows the Moonies’ true qualities, but in ten years everyone will be looking for my disciples because they are so versatile and adaptable. I would even like to organize an Olympics of the religious people of the world. Recently I invited some elder ministers to travel the world and examine Unification Church activities. They were amazed at the tremendous variety of things I am doing around the world and they said, “There is nothing Reverend Moon cannot do, and nothing that he does not do.”</p>
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<p>I was going to go to sea today, but the weather did not permit. Some people might say I should rest on the Sabbath, but since the Sabbath is still a workday for God, going to sea and catching many fish for needy people is in accord with God’s own standard. In our concept a holy day is not one for just sitting around. It is far better to go out and bring reconciliation to people who are fighting.</p>
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<p>We are not the same old-time religion; we are a 20th century religion, but when the 30th century comes, the Unification Church will still be the most modern of all. We are creating a new unification culture centered upon one true love as a foundation of life. This is our goal. The path to love is strong and bold, never ambivalent. Love is almighty; it can be forceful and soft but it can also be hard and dignified.</p>
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<p>America will definitely come to a time when it will accept this philosophy. America is now wandering without a focus or purpose, but we have a purpose and in every phase of life the love of God is our center. By centering upon that love we create a new family, nation and world. There is not a moment of wavering allowed because that way of life is the one which all human history has been waiting for. When the Pilgrim Fathers came to these shores they were aiming at that ideal but it was never realized. Now after 200 years of American independence I have come to this country and they are confident that their goal is ready to be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>There are vast differences between the cultures of East and West, yet the power of God’s love can unite the two powers and traditions. The vast distance between God and man can only be bridged by the power of love. This is our central ideology and theme and way of life, and no matter where we go, even to the rim of the world, we always come back to the center. There is no way we can deviate from it. Wherever we go we bring the power of love. At home you can embrace your parents and brothers and sisters with this love; with this power of love you can become one with anyone in society.</p>
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<p>Now people are mistrustful and misunderstanding of us, but the day will come when they will put their whole trust in us. Why? Because God has trusted us and spirit world has trusted us. Spirit world is assaulting this earth, so those who are more sensitive spiritually will be the first to recognize our true value. Then more and more people will come to realize our true value. God is putting His trust in us because of His dispensational purpose; God knows that finally there is a possibility of consummating His historical love and that is why He supports us. This is God’s battle, not only yours and mine. God has committed His whole life and honor to this, so we do the same for the fulfillment of love.</p>
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<p>The marriages of the international couples will not be easy, but I tell you to go ahead and consummate this love, no matter what difficulties you face. Because it is difficult to fulfill, it can be your pride that you have been chosen especially for that mission. We must not forget the great trust and expectation that are invested in us by God and spirit world and history.</p>
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<p>In England over 300 couples were matched last year, and out of those only two were matches of British people. Members from over 21 European and African nations were matched together. Often when the future husband and wife met to talk they needed interpreters, and if there weren’t enough interpreters they started to talk with their eyes.</p>
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<p>The European continent is much smaller than America, but each nationality there has fierce pride. The Germans think they are the best and they always stick together, while the British think they are the true gentlemen and the Germans are barbarians. Even in London society there are organized groups of each nationality. The European nations might be trying to come together economically now through the EEC and EuroParliament, but culturally and heartistically they are reluctant to mingle. There is no other way apart from international marriage to bring heart-to-heart contact.</p>
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<p>The three great barriers in Europe are the barriers of national boundary, of language and of marriage, but when I went to Europe I challenged all three of those. Is there any national boundary or language barrier in this heavenly culture? In a few years everyone has to recognize that I could unite Europe and then one world will finally be born there. The communists want to promote division there so they can conquer each country one by one, so they see me as their archenemy in this respect. Here in America the oldest and greatest problem is animosity between black and white, and the communists thought I could never cope with it, but what happened? After the 705 couples were matched, the black community can see that it has found its champion in Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>The worst possible war in the future would be racial war. Whites know that if racial war ever begins that they will be the ones to be annihilated. Who is manipulating all these racial disturbances? The communists. Those white people who worry about the future of the world and of America must ultimately conclude that Reverend Moon alone can solve the racial problems of America. Interracial marriage is the worst problem of history, but the Unification Church is solving that problem.</p>
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<p>The entire world is watching the couples I have matched to see what kind of children will be born to them and how those families will serve the world. Once they recognize that interracial marriage is working here, the entire world will be turned around. When you understand the incredible implications of this, you can’t help but get goose bumps just listening.</p>
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<p>This is the day and goal that everyone has been waiting for. The idealistic people of the past, present and future will welcome this new way of life, knowing that without it the world will not have hope. If you really live in this new way of life and commitment, you will have new dignity for eternity. When you are elevated to spirit world you can lift up your head before all the saints because you could practice what they only dreamt of.</p>
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<p>From the historical point of view, the trust placed in us will be the final one. We are going to be the people who carry the ultimate trust of history. spirit world and God. Korea must reach the conclusion that the Unification Church is the only hope of that nation. Japan is no exception either. Now Japanese leaders openly say that the future of Japan depends on Unification Church young people. There is no doubt that America will also say this soon. If you know this is true. then this is an historical event taking place here.</p>
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<p>Therefore, we are going along a straight line in this way of life, not from side to side. We go in a straight line, sacrificing the lesser for the greater. For the nation my family can be sacrificed. For the world my nation can be sacrificed, for once the world lives then all shall be fulfilled and everyone shall be saved. If there is a God, this must be His way, and the most idealistic thinkers and the saints must also feel this way.</p>
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<p>We are living for people from all six continents. If everyone lives under this principle, how much benefit can be brought to our fellow man? It is realistic to think that we can turn this world upside down into the Kingdom of Heaven. People might say they don’t like Moonies but they will have toe agree that our ideology is the best.</p>
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<p>When we know this goal and ideal, we as individuals become small in importance. Are you glad to be Moonies? Are you becoming genuine Moonies? I have heard your answer, so go and do it. Would you prefer to be limited to activity on a small scale? My own children will be educated in this way of life. Later on when your brothers and sisters and relatives join, I don’t want you to be in a position for them to point out what a poor Moonie you have been. Wouldn’t you be ashamed if they exclaimed, “You have known this truth for a long time, but what little accomplishment you have brought!” Later on more prominent Japanese people will come and point out what trivial accomplishments you Japanese have made here if you aren’t careful.</p>
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<p>I don’t want people to remark on what a tremendous ideology and way of life I had but what little I accomplished. This is why even now that I am sixty I am desperate to act every day. When my legs are tired I scold them and make them go on more.</p>
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<p>Our job is to live up to the expectation of the trust placed in us. Do you want to be just smallminded people? No, be giants who cause good trouble and controversy in the world. Go into the world of evil and stir things up; be strong and bold. America may not trust us yet, but already the entire spirit world has put their trust in us, and God Himself has put His trust in us. Would you be strong and bold to go to the ultimate victory? If you live up to it, America will come to trust us very soon.</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="2018-06-19T14:15:45+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/the-way-of-prosperity-and-defeat.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:15:45+01:00">June 19, 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 do you feel on this rainy morning? Probably not as bright as on a sunshiny morning. Everything that lives on earth wants to prosper or rise, and nothing wants to decline. That is true for the individual as well as the family and nation and world. Then what about the Unification Church? The Unification Church shares this desire with everything else in the world. There are many denominations among Christian churches which must “pioneer” their own way, and they will go the same way other denominations go.</p>
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<p>Would God rise and fall also? God existed from the very beginning, and it is reasonable that He would have had the same rise and fall as others. Just as there are times for us to think, there are times in which God thinks, and after thinking He certainly would take action. The Bible records that after God created all things He said they were good. His creation had to be good or bad, but certainly there was the possibility that something could be better than good. You have probably had a similar experience; when you do something you can do a good job, but then afterward you think you probably could have done it better.</p>
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<p>In the morning every individual is thinking about something. When all of you came here, you came here in many different states, with some alert and thinking and some dozing off. Is it good or bad that you came here? You came here hoping that everything would be good, but perhaps a person you disliked sat beside you, perhaps someone who has a smell you don’t like. You could have concluded that it was a bad thing, but also that it was good as well. You could reach this conclusion by digesting the things surrounding you and making them your own.</p>
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<p>If you hear me speak in the morning and conclude that it was a good sermon, you can develop on that basis. You can think, “Even though it was raining, I learned very much,” which means that something benefited you and gave you a basis for developing further. We can understand that this process works not just for ourselves as individuals, but on every level. Since this is something we all do, we ought to think deeply about what we should be doing and what result we can expect.</p>
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<p>We can look back in history to understand what a certain person thought, how he acted and what the result was. Most people can agree that Jesus was a good person, or a saint, and Mohammed and Buddha could also be included in that category. Looking at these three, we logically ask which of them was the best person-in other words, who thought the most and who carried it out in the best way. On what basis can we say that Jesus was the best? If you ask Buddhists, they will undoubtedly say Buddha was the best, and Moslems will say the same about Mohammed. Is this why white people think Jesus was the best? That would be weak logic. How do we judge who thought the most and acted the best?</p>
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<p>People automatically say that whatever they believe is the best; this conviction is the same everywhere, so this is the point that we have to think about. The only way to find the answer is to go to someone who is higher than all religious leaders, leaving that plane of purely human thinking. God is the only one who can give a judgment on this and His decision is the one we must follow. If these three religious groups go to God to get a decision, they should follow what God tells them and not dispute among themselves.</p>
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<p>Then what does God think about these problems? When God thinks of people in the past, present and future, who would He think are the best? We can say He thinks the best of people in the future because they will have become more restored. If God thinks that what is yet to come in the future will be better than the present time, certainly He will try to bring in the future today. Likewise, if He thinks the past is better than today, He would want to help the present overcome its situation and reach the standard of the past.</p>
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<p>God created all things as a result of His thinking. He did not create at random without purpose. likewise, we always have a purpose in thinking, expecting some benefit. You have a clear purpose in coming here and want to find some subsequent course of action for carrying out that purpose. Likewise, when God created all things He had a purpose. Even for the grass God had a purpose which was in accord with everything else He made. The hundreds of kinds of trees were created in accordance with His purpose of creation. The birds and animals all came to exist in accord with His overall plan. Finally, God created man after creating all these things. Mankind consists of men and women, who were created to become one through love. Was God’s final objective of creation to be man, or was it to be love?</p>
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<p>What was the ultimate purpose of God in His creation? What final destination did He envision? Love has to be the ultimate purpose. Does man include love, or does love include man? Once we accept the conclusion that love includes man, we cannot discard it. What is your conclusion-can love and man be equal, or is one bigger than the other? Are you saying that love is greater than any man? Why is it so? We have to say that love is bigger because it is through love that everything can meet God. It is only through love that everything God created will be able to reach Him and His higher existence. Men and women all have a way to follow to reach God.</p>
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<p>If they were independently going their own ways, then love would hardly be necessary. But no one can be independent and expect to get somewhere. Women’s purpose is to reach men, and men in their turn have a particular way to go, which is to meet women. They cannot reach independent conclusions. This is true for all people, in the past, present and future. It will never change. What about homosexuals? Living in that way is the one sure way to perish by not leaving anything behind for eternity. That kind of life goes against all the laws of creation.</p>
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<p>It is the same as a tree that would refuse to bloom and create seeds. If mankind refuses to live in accord with their intended purpose, being willing to see the entire world become a desert as a result of their action, they should be condemned by the entire creation for violating God’s law.</p>
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<p>Let me ask you what your ultimate desire is. Do you want to graduate from a good school and rise in society, or is your most important goal to meet your ideal spouse? If asked which way we will go, would it be man’s way or woman’s way, or the way of love? We arrive at the common conclusion that we go the way of love. Are there any exceptions?</p>
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<p>Can you say you are really hurt and tired from love? Can you say love put you in a miserable situation so you have to revolutionize it? No, it is not possible to revolutionize love. Would you women really make an effort to correct a man who tried to alter love? Would you bite him and never let go? What if you were too weak to change him? Such a man clearly goes against the law of God and we would call him Satan. Such a person is opposing God’s law of creation, jeopardizing men and being an enemy of God.</p>
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<p>Now that we know God’s purpose of creation, we know that Satan’s purpose is to destroy God’s ideal by confusing or nullifying the path to true love. Satan works to separate man and woman and also to separate man and God. Clearly Satan is the enemy of God, men and women because he destroys the purpose of creation. If we follow Satan we will lose everything. When men and men live together and women with women, nothing remains afterward and all is washed away. Satan will not destroy men by war, but rather by separation. That is the tactic which can destroy God’s own purpose of creation completely.</p>
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<p>Would it be better for men and women to struggle, yet to stay together, or to separate and vow never to marry? Is it better for them to stay together even if they fight? Living that way is far better than homosexuals living together, even if they don’t fight at all. The first thing Satan says to a couple going down the wedding aisle, is, “You will fight constantly.” God’s blessing or promise is that they will never fight as long as they recognize that conflict is the voice of Satan. God’s desire is for them to live harmoniously. How can a couple help but fight if they really don’t like each other? They can be victorious if they think clearly what the law and purpose of creation is; they should realize that they are responsible to help protect God’s purpose of creation.</p>
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<p>Suppose there were millions of women on earth, but only one man. Could that woman declare that she didn’t love her husband and look for another? Would it matter if he was a cripple as long as he were the only man? If he had one eye could she refuse to marry him on that basis? In that situation she really has to take care of any disgruntlement in her heart, and even though that woman doesn’t like that man she must accept him. If she succeeds in digesting the situation then unity will come into being and love will follow. When unity is accomplished then God moves there to visit.</p>
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<p>Unity is good because that is where God dwells, and then everything is love. Therefore, the Unification Church is good because we are creating unity everywhere. God only said His creation of man was good after He had created both Adam and Eve.</p>
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<p>Women today like the concept of equality, don’t they? But they cannot change the fact that they are different. How can they claim equality when men need two helpings of food and women only one? Men work at heavy labor for hours and hours, but not women. A woman wrestler could never defeat a man. How could men and women be equal then? Only in love are men and women equal. Could you want any better equality? In primitive times a man had to really work to take care of his family. Because man could be independent in this way, God gave woman the one ability that man can never have, which is childbearing, to balance the different capabilities. But lately women are even refusing to have children.</p>
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<p>Is a woman’s bosom for the enjoyment of men? Are her big hips for men also? Even a small child can answer that question-they are to nurture children and not for anyone else. But now women diet instead of wanting a big bosom and hips for their children. What man would want a woman who insists on being thin? I understand that the present designs of Western dress originated with the British in a time when women were proud of having big bosoms and big hips and wanted to show them off, but today Western women don’t look right because they are so thin. You all laugh at this topic, but actually it is a serious matter.</p>
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<p>Would God say it was better for a woman to have a small bosom or an abundant one? Would God prefer women to have ample, rounded figures? Of course, it would have to be proportional to their overall height. Perhaps it is good for Orientals to diet because they are short and being too plump wouldn’t look right, but what about you tall Westerners? You have to have features that balance your height. Now that you have thought about it, is there any reason for you to diet?</p>
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<p>My topic is The Way of Prosperity and Defeat. What way must you pursue in order to prosper? First of all, you must parallel the purpose of creation. If you have active, outgoing love then you have the ability to observe and digest. Man and woman should be able to do so together and if you have love then this will not be difficult. If you really try to love each other then you will have a natural ability to observe and embrace each other. Sometimes you have a wide road and sometimes a narrow road to go.</p>
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<p>Before you are married you go your own way, but afterward you are on a track with another person. That road cannot change for your individual preference, but must always be traveled together. If it is always changing then harmony is lost and conflict results. If you change tracks and discard the old one, the next one will never be as good. The way of prosperity is adherence with the law of creation. The reason is simple: whoever follows the law of creation will be protected by God because He wants the purpose of creation fulfilled. The man who opposes that law and follows Satan’s law instead will be opposed by God. This is how rise and fall actually take place.</p>
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<p>A rainy day is closer to Satan’s side, while a sunny day is closer to God’s side. Nevertheless, although it may be raining, you can feel that the sun is shining all around you. That indicates that you have observed and digested and overcome the circumstances. Though you feel low on a rainy morning, if you overcome and feel bright then Satan will have to leave you. That kind of person can walk in any place where Satan hangs around and make him leave. Satan naturally looks for the way to benefit himself, so if you can overcome circumstances and defeat his purpose, he has nothing to gain by staying around.</p>
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<p>Is the diligent or lazy man on God’s side? Satan would discourage people from working hard by persuading them it is too much trouble. God, on the other hand, would rather see regularity in your life. The person who lives day by day and only responds to life as it comes is leaning more to the satanic side. God would urge people to live according to heavenly law. In the unification Church we make it a rule to arrive here at 6 a.m. Sunday morning, and discourage the attitude of deciding by whim whether or not to attend. You are worthy of being in the Unification Church if you have the attitude that you must meet the prescribed time.</p>
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<p>Are you on the satanic or Unification Church side? What about the person who is constantly dozing off and the person who always has bright eyes? The person who doesn’t fall asleep because he took time to get a good rest before coming is also on the satanic side! The person who didn’t sleep more than anyone else yet who can still have bright eyes is the worthy one.</p>
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<p>Now no more explanation is necessary. What do you have to do to be on the rising side? Of the four saints I described, who would such a person most closely resemble? On what foundation can you say he resembles Jesus? Of course, Jesus abided by the law, but more than that he lived love. Jesus went beyond the limited concept of law when he lived love, going beyond the concept of race because he wanted to belong to the world. He also went beyond his own religion, transcending the detailed tenets of Jewish law and being faithful to bigger principles. He loved not only the Jews but even the enemies of his people as well as the rest of the world. Jesus could even embrace the people who crucified him.</p>
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<p>What did he accomplish by all that! Jesus intended to accomplish a unity which could even include the Romans, so now we can understand precisely how he was great. If Jesus lived in today’s America would he advocate segregation of white and black people? White people may feel most comfortable with their own kind because they can digest that situation, but God would warn them that as long as they fail to follow their Christian ideals by failing to accommodate black people and bring unity, then white people themselves would risk their own survival.</p>
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<p>Jesus had the capability to observe and digest even the Roman Empire, which ruled the entire known world at that time. Jesus was great in the human realm because of this capacity, whereas in the heavenly realm he was great because he was the only one who proclaimed that God was the only Father. Jesus consistently followed the law of creation and met God’s expectation. As a result, Christianity not only survived but prospered as no other religion has done.</p>
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<p>What about Christianity in America a nation which was nurtured by that faith? America has almost totally lost the essence of Christian faith, and as a result Christianity is clearly declining in this nation. Why is this so? It is because the love for heaven and love for mankind which Jesus taught has been lost. How do we revive that love once again? Today’s churches are incapable of doing this. Church leaders today are incapable of bringing fresh love and faith, but just perpetuate all the old ways. God’s solution has been to pull the young people away from the churches to re-educate them and let them fulfill the purpose of Christianity in place of the old churches.</p>
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<p>With the continuing development of technology people are questioning the value of churches which cannot provide solutions. God will teach the young people a new way because they are searching hardest for a place of truth where they can belong. Other people criticize the Moonies for being the worst group, but what they are actually proving by their criticism is that it is the only good place.</p>
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<p>The religions of the world have forgotten their love for mankind and mission for heaven. The Unification Church is different because we are trying to restore that love, even though our members are sometimes weak and sometimes strong. Before joining the Unification Church our members were sometimes living in degraded ways and their lives weren’t focused, but now they move quickly and purposefully in everything. They look up to heaven instead of down to earth and they are proud and confident. Who else looks forward to the future in this age? That’s how the Unification Church is unique.</p>
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<p>Inside the smallest Moonie you will find love toward heaven and mankind. All the teaching you hear is directed toward that goal of love of God. God will certainly say that such a church is a good place to be. According to this criterion, would God love the Unification Church? What is the proof that Moonies love God and mankind? Do you have the urge to love them more than yourself? Do you really enter into love today, or think about loving better tomorrow?</p>
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<p>Even though you realize the world is about to perish, do you think you will enjoy yourself now and come back later to save the world? Would God say, “This world is doomed to perish anyway, so don’t pay much attention to it. Attendance at worship once a week is enough, and besides, you have to think of yourself”? If God wanted you to become like that, would you do it? If you insisted on dragging God around to help you put out the fire in the world, He might even complain that you are making Him work too hard! God would panic to see you coming back again.</p>
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<p>Would you choose to be the Moonie who is dragged but still won’t do it, or the one who will insist that God come to help him 24 hours a day since there is so much to do? Are you that second way? You always say yes! I have never seen Unification Church members come to complain that home church work takes too much of their time and is so difficult. But neither have I seen the member come who thinks I should start nation church instead of puny little home church. Now you say “Amen” because I said this, but why didn’t you say it first? If a black brother was the first to suggest it would I hug him, or tell him that someone else had to come up with the idea?</p>
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<p>I want to urge that you black brothers especially never be second in line, but do things better and faster than the white members. Should we start world home church or universe church ? Absolute God church! We can visualize many steps ahead of us now and think of universal church. Will the person who thinks home church is already too difficult prosper or sink? If he is huffing and puffing over home church then he will really struggle when he has nation and world church ahead of him.</p>
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<p>You are destined either to rise or fall centering on your home church. Will you be on the side of prosperity or decline ? Our future and destiny lie on the way to God’s home, so the secret is to observe all 360 homes at one time and then digest them. Forget about liking or disliking a certain home and just observe everything and then digest it all. cannot do that then they will digest you, so go and let them like you instead.</p>
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<p>When you go deeper and deeper into the night you are bound to come upon daytime, and if you go deeper and deeper into daytime then you are bound to come upon night. That’s how it is with the universe. We prosper and develop along this cycle. Most people in the United States are opposed to Unification Church, but this is the time when Unification Church will expand and grow. The point where we are persecuted to an impossible degree is the key point where we will rise or fall. If we give up, then everything ends, but if we gain ground inch by inch even under severest persecution, the way up will become easier and easier. Common sense would say that the world is so wicked that our lofty ideal doesn’t stand a chance. but God’s thinking is that His good sons and daughters will never succumb to Satan; He will help us to make it.</p>
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<p>Even the youngest Unification Church member knows that we have the highest ideal. We have godism, and this standard is better than the highest ideals of democracy or communism. Absolutely no one can take it out of our hearts. As long as I keep working with that in my heart, this way must prosper. America wanted to uproot Reverend Moon and the Unification Church completely, but was that attempt successful? Our roots are reaching deeper and spreading wider, although it may not show so much from above ground. We have home church, nation church, world church, universe church, God’s home. Once we have all that, there is nothing left to describe except “home.”</p>
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<p>Once we do that God is free to travel anywhere-to Belvedere, to visit you in your own homes, anywhere. Moonies see God clearly every morning, but other people say they have never seen God at Belvedere. Some people see UFOs, but someone who has not seen one cannot either believe or disbelieve.</p>
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<p>Are you in a position to prosper or decline? Wouldn’t it have been better for you if you had never heard of home church? Isn’t it true that though you think home church all the time, your feet are heavy when you are actually walking in your area? Do you have home church always in your mind and no room for anything else? Haven’t you older sisters worried instead about when you will get married?</p>
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<p>If you are completely full of the home church idea then your feet will be walking even without your knowing it. Have you ever experienced that? Then you have met the standard which God can really approve and begin to help you. Have you been to your area once or twice and then felt you had to think about it more, or did you have confidence that you wanted to keep on doing it?</p>
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<p>We have an unchanging direction going toward the purpose of creation. This is the same direction that God is going in. that Jesus went and that the whole Unification Church is going; there is no compromise here. Adam and Eve as well were supposed to go in this direction. There are two forces at work, with one force saying don’t go this way, and God pushing you to go this way. God has nothing to do with anything that is discouraging people from going this way. Which side do you belong on?</p>
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<p>At first man lived in God’s realm, but after the fall he sank down to the realm God has nothing to do with. There is no direction or ideal in that realm.</p>
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<p>People today characteristically don’t know where they are going or what is about to happen. They are in this godless realm, praying for direction. Now the individual has a small problem, then his family has a larger problem, and all the time the clan and society are groping; when the end of the world comes the whole world is groping, no better off than the individual who is searching The people of the world have no idea of something new coming, but remain in their limited area.</p>
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<p>God works by finding one individual in this realm and leading him to God’s side. He does not choose arbitrarily, but takes a few from the world, a few from the nation, a few from society and a few from a certain family, setting up the stages. Then for the first time in history God will teach them what the world of original creation was about. By learning it clearly they will be able to go to home church and prosper, ultimately going to various parts of existing society which have lost direction. Through these people God wants to show mankind the complete individual, family, and so on. He is looking clearly at the purpose of creation and will always go straight that way. His people will have such deep love as others never thought was possible in ordinary people.</p>
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<p>Moonies today have indisputable notoriety; realizing that the communist cause will ultimately lose to the Moonies, communists urge people not to even meet us by making them afraid of being brainwashed. In Asia it is rumored that a person can be brainwashed by merely looking at a Moonie. That is really a satanic idea.</p>
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<p>The purpose of creation is God’s ideal and you should be teaching the people God’s ideal by your action. God always has His ideal of creation, but because of man’s fall He failed to accomplish it, so what we are doing now is recreating it again. Through the teaching of the ideal we can recreate other people, and when the ideal is done you can claim your share of the credit before God. Then you can insist that God bring you everywhere He goes and He will have to agree.</p>
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<p>We are succeeding with our own hands in doing what God was unable to do. This is how we claim sonship and daughtership of God. Would you like to be God’s daughter-in-law? If you are not content with that then you must work harder than the son and qualify as His daughter. Jesus’ main teaching was essentially a few points. Once he said, “You are the bride and I am the bridegroom.” Can you speak that way`? Now you can have the confidence to say you are the bride and all the grooms must follow you, and your activity must show them the way. You may think the ideal is nice but dislike the activity involved. Do you really like activity?</p>
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<p>Would you move quietly, or with a loud brass band? When an old steam locomotive is in motion people cannot help hearing it, but would you be moving swiftly and noisily, or slowly and quietly? When you really move fast you cannot help but make noise. When you are really moving fast someone is bound to say you are dangerous, but others will say there is no other way to get something done in this country and those people follow you. The youth will want to move faster than you and that’s the way it ought to be.</p>
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<p>We really have to move ahead, not thinking so much of peripheral things. First we have to get the work done. Looking down on earth God watches to see if you are moving faster than Jesus did 2,000 years ago and doing more. Would God be interested in such people ? Until now God has only heard prayers of requests from people who never took action themselves and God is plugging His ears. Yet still He is looking down and it He sees someone really moving fast His eyes will pop open. He has heard many people talking, but never seen them working. Now He sees a different species, called Moonies, who don’t spend so much time praying to find out what they should be doing because they already know; therefore, they are constantly on the move.</p>
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<p>Looking down on them God is inspired enough to unplug His ears and is willing to listen to their prayers. When you prove that you really run, God will be on the alert to listen to your sincere prayer. How would God feel if it becomes clear that the person cannot succeed? He would be deeply disappointed. Although you are moving quickly now, will you be successful or not in the end?</p>
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<p>God has heard many sincere people praying and trying hard, yet every one of them failed. What could give God hope that the Moonies will succeed after everyone else has failed? If you were God would you have unreserved confidence? You have to think that you can never disappoint God and then do much to draw God’s attention. Tell God that He can unplug His ears and open His eyes because you will make it. We have to give God that confidence.</p>
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<p>When the spirit world sees all the Moonies working that way won’t they help out too? Your yes in the morning is confident and unreserved, but you have promised me many things in the past. When you listen to me you are inspired and full of enthusiasm. but the time you leave and get to New York you revert back to your old thinking, don’t you?</p>
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<p>Of course you have ups and downs, but when you have ups, it should be higher than ever before, and your lows not as low as before. Can you assure me that you are getting better or at least staying the same? When you first joined you were enthusiastic. but as time went on and you learned more did you become more enthusiastic than ever? Really? When someone hurts you doesn’t your enthusiasm sink a little? By the time they hit you five times don’t you yell at them? Because of fallen nature you are bound to have some fallen reaction. If you are not that way then you are already a saint and have no need of God and you don’t need me to teach you! Do you still I need me to some extent?</p>
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<p>I have seen many people who were really determined, and even wrote a letter of resolution to me in their own blood, but even those people dropped away when their expectations were disappointed-for instance, if they were matched to someone they didn’t care for. Do you know what I mean? Aren’t white people especially choosy? How can you say white people are an exception?</p>
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<p>You must learn first to fight against the untrustworthy self which is inside Especially beautiful young people worry about working too hard and spoiling their figure and Satan will keep dwelling on these things. That is really true. That is absolutely true! A good figure can be your first enemy. If a person has great ability and a degree from a famous school, those can be his enemies as well. A machine gunner can’t stop and think a long time about shooting; at the same time a soldier’s responsibility is not to shoot with his eyes closed but to go quickly and alertly into action.</p>
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<p>Each person has many obstacles in himself, so if he makes a rule that he will forget himself he is better off. Our concepts of what suits us and what we think we can do will always hamper God’s will; we have to go along with His ideal. We have to be confident to observe and digest any personality we come in contact with. I was not born in America, and it was difficult for me to come and work here. But I observed and digested the situation, deciding I had to accept it and become one with it. Why will you prosper if you become like that? Because God will support it: if God pays attention to what you do then you have to prosper.</p>
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<p>Centering on your mind, the body can be digested. Once you can say that your mind and body are one, you can say you have a God-centered personality and God will stay with you. Then other kinds of unity will come easily and be possible centering around you. This mind-body unity is the crux of the problem; unless there is unity here, you cannot hope for anything greater. We will have to observe and digest communism, and naturally in due course there will be an incredible amount of difficulty. However, we will observe, digest and make unity and then we will develop. You can be sure that prosperous people have this capability because these things go hand in hand.</p>
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<p>Unless we can overcome these serious situations many dreadful things will happen. If racial war erupts, there is no hope for survival, and chances are it will be so extreme that one whole race could be wiped out. We can only say this won’t happen if some strong group can offer a solution. This will be the group God will have to support. We have to have confidence that God will certainly support us in this way.</p>
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<p>The master of all things will be the first person to observe the situation, digest it and make unity. We have to see both sides and understand that unity must come before God can respond; before unity can come we must observe and digest. There are two ways to obtain unity; first, when you really know clearly and teach someone clearly then you are observing and digesting him. Second, if your thinking is not so clear then your alternative is to serve him and later be accepted. When you are able to be recognized as being better than others, they will start to follow you. This is why Jesus taught his disciples to serve and sacrifice. By doing so you will be the subject instead of the object. In obedience, service and sacrifice, you will become subject of all things and be on the rise all the time.</p>
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<p>The teaching of 2,000 years was to serve and sacrifice, but that is not enough to make someone successful. Today Unification Church members know the truth that is needed in addition to that; we know the necessity of making unity. Previously you could only serve and sacrifice. Now if you explain the truth to someone yet he doesn’t follow it, you show him by your action. Better yet, if he doesn’t accept the truth then you are able to serve and sacrifice. This is the Principle.</p>
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<p>You said you want to prosper, so how rise? By uniting into one. How can you attain unity? By observing and digesting. When the Japanese members came to America to show the example, they didn’t care much about anything else except the work. Many Americans thought it was just the Japanese way to work all the time and be discourteous and disregard many things. But in their eyes it wasn’t of most importance to have harmony with the local people temporarily; their ultimate goal was to become one and they didn’t care about criticism.</p>
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<p>Sometimes bitterness is felt before something is digested and indigestion comes. Then you try again. We have to have unity before we can develop, so you have to be desperate to find unity. It was not easy either for Adam and Eve to observe and digest, and as a result they fell. You stand in a similar position today when you are on the verge of being restored. If someone opposes you, do you have to oppose him?</p>
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<p>You have to digest the situation instead of hitting him. If you really want of hit back, just turn around and hit something else. Overcoming at that time is when the complete foundation of your personality will be laid.</p>
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<p>You have a mouth, so when you go to home church you should speak to the people. Command your fist to knock on the door. Persecution may come after the door is opened, but that comes after you knock on the door, so don’t worry about knocking. The person just might welcome you, or have a special message from spirit world. If you are really reluctant to knock on the door then do so with your feet. The best people in any area experience all these things too, not just people who are having difficulty. The same is true in fund raising.</p>
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<p>When you train yourself in fund raising you can think of your fist as a flower. When you train yourself this way then when you have real flowers you will do very well. That’s how we develop. If an ideal is high and a thought is great then they are more difficult to digest. You will have to open your mouth as wide as possible to take it in. Perhaps you will die if you try to eat something that big, but that is better than dying and never having swallowed it.</p>
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<p>The world of men is unknown to the women and they cannot hope to understand it, so as brides they should just obey. Likewise, I can see that when black and white can digest each other America will really prosper. By making unity in this difficult situation you develop; love comes with unity and prosperity will follow This is true on each higher plane. You might ask why each race wouldn’t do better to unite separately and report to God, but God is not that way. God will give His approval only when white people can say they have loved blacks and Orientals.</p>
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<p>If there is only one group which can make this kind of unity then God will give His approval only to that group and dwell with them. Then that group or church will be eternal in His sight. If you don’t become one then you will perish. God would want you to bring everything into unity, while Satan would advise you to think only of yourself. Those with better marks at school are the people who observe and digest other people, right? Then they become achievers. The person who cannot do that well will never be able to go beyond the starting point, but will stay in one place and then decline.</p>
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<p>As Unification Church members we must know clearly that it is our mission to unify; before we can do so we must observe and digest. This is reasonable, like all the laws of creation; it applies on every level of family, society, nation and world. I want you to become like that and be a subject of the whole world, being appreciated by God and respected by all mankind. That is done through home church. Will you do it intensely through every 24 hours, or slowly and gradually? There is nothing else I can teach you; there are a limited number of important principles. This is a simple principle, but it applies to every level and in applying it you will do your mission.</p>
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<p>When the brain gives a direction to the foot or hand, the rest of the body focuses there. If the hands are the first to digest the situation then the rest of the body will focus on them. The first one to achieve that unity will be the subject of everyone else. Thus, he will meet God and God’s love sooner than others. Because we want to be the first to meet God we go this way.</p>
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<p>Today it is raining and sleeting, but it shouldn’t make any difference what the weather is like. You have to observe the rainy situation and digest it. How much encouragement and consolation you find in thinking this way! When you can make yourself the subject of all mankind in this weather then working in this weather is very nice. If you are short of clothing, you can simply digest that fact and feel the same as if you had nice things. When you have less food. instead of complaining you can handle the situation.</p>
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<p>When you do that all the time, you will bring unity in a wide area and the reward will follow from God. How beautiful it will be when white people shed tears as they see black people off on their journey, missing them, and also when black people are missing white brothers and sisters. Where else could God’s attention be drawn except to that scene? He would give it all His attention, hoping it would last.</p>
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<p>We can attain much unity according to how much we are willing to observe and digest. When this day comes to earth then mankind will experience happiness and God can rest for the first time. Can you do it? Let us pray.</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="2018-06-19T14:44:31+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/true-couple.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:44:31+01:00">June 19, 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 am sure that May 1979 will be an unforgettable month for those couples who have just been engaged. This event is also of vital importance in the history of restoration. As you know, because of the fall of man God could not find any heavenly couples here on earth; that was the fate of the fallen world. As far as God is concerned, all fallen history has been a denial of a denial, and even though there are many families and nations, God cannot give His consent or acknowledgment to them.</p>
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<p>God must find an ideal man and woman who are centered upon Himself. That man and woman are not ordinary, but are the ones who have overcome the world and set the victorious standard by going beyond the realm of the fall. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire purpose of history in the sight of God has been to find one ideal man and woman of God. He hand-picked one champion and let him confront the fallen world, especially the families of the world. The chosen one must be able to overcome the family, not be swallowed by it. He must either conquer or separate the fallen family.</p>
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<p>That man is not struggling along with the blessing or assistance of his own family, but only with God. He will engage in a lonely battle to ultimately confront and win the family. That particular formula of winning applies all the way up to the world level. Therefore, when this man of God emerges to confront society it is inevitable that he will receive persecution. This means that on every level he will stand on the side of God and wage war with the satanic element and separate from it.</p>
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<p>He will build a new tradition on the side of God, winning the war at each level and leaving a new tradition that will ultimately influence the satanic world and overpower it. First he struggles all by himself, and when he has built up enough authority he will take a stand and win over the satanic world. When he does go out to the satanic world, he will go to the national or worldwide level. This man of God will be trained in the fiercest struggle, which is on the family level, and when he finally goes to the satanic world it will be on the national and worldwide level.</p>
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<p>Why does God’s strategy have to be like this? When this man goes to confront and receive the persecution of the nation and the world, the people united with him on the family level will come to</p>
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<p>support his struggle. This Abel figure is sent to the national level of Cain and will be rejected, but by doing so he can receive cooperation and support from the Cain figures on the family level. This Abel will win step by step and gather steam to form a victorious stand on the national level. Therefore, the family level is always the foundation for the national level of battle. If for some reason the family level isn’t providing the necessary support, God will provide His champion with the necessary foundation to go on with the national-level battle against Cain.</p>
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<p>Once the national level victory is established, God will push this same champion another step to win the same battle on the worldwide level. When this man is rejected by the world, the national level Cain who has already accepted him would become a supporting force to join with him in the world-level battle. They will perceive his lonely struggle with the world as a struggle against persecution of their own nation. This one man is needed to fulfill the providence of God and in his own lifetime he must go through these three major stages of battle-family, nation and world.</p>
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<p>The man who is sent to fulfill this providence of God is known as the Messiah. God prepared a foundation for 4,000 years prior to the coming of Jesus, the first Messiah. That time was needed to provide the correct foundation for the one to come. There were two layers of organization in Jewish society at Jesus’ time; one was the religious establishment and the other was the political realm. Of course, Jesus came on the religious foundation, and with the support and strength from that realm he should have gone on to face opposition and then win support from the political area.</p>
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<p>The nation of Israel was in a position to indemnify the national level of dispensation, but its political realm was under the dominion of the Roman Empire. Israel was thus in an ideal position to link the national and world levels because in those days the Roman Empire equaled the world. If Jesus could have won the support of both the religious and political levels, then inevitably the Romans would have opposed him.</p>
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<p>As you know, there were two major families involved in the dispensation of Jesus’ mission; one was the family of Zechariah and the other was the family of Joseph. If the two families had united they should have been able to confront national-level opposition. Judaism also was intended to stand on Jesus’ side. There was a prepared atmosphere in Israel itself because that nation was oppressed by Rome and the people sought independence. If Jesus had been oppressed by the Romans, the Jews could have risen up with Jesus against that.</p>
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<p>The first step, however, was that Judaism unite with Jesus. Then the political power of Israel should also have followed. The Roman domination of all Israel would serve as a link to the worldwide level, since the two cultures were not foreign to each other. According to God’s schedule, once the national level had been won a trained force would be ready to assimilate the Roman Empire, overcoming the satanic tradition and bringing in the new tradition of God. It was most important that all this happen in Jesus’ own lifetime. He was to go to the family level, then national level in Israel and world level in Rome in his own lifetime as the perfected Adam on earth.</p>
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<p>Otherwise, God could not obtain a man whom He could uphold as His champion who had overcome the entire world, not just one family or nation. However, that particular plan was not fulfilled and has been postponed, so God has had to look for another champion to carry it out. This formula of receiving persecution on every level has been the central feature of Christian life for 2,000 years; persecution was received on the family, national and world levels until Christendom was finally established worldwide. That will serve as the foundation for the Second Coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>A Roman Empire in another form would also exist at the Second Coming, yet with one marked difference. This time the national equivalent to the Roman Empire would be on the side of God, not on Satan’s side as in Jesus’ time. Its key characteristic would be religious freedom. That nation is known today as America, the nation which is in the position of leadership for the free world. The Roman Empire 2,000 years ago dominated Israel for its own benefit, but the modern Roman Empire is in a position to lend support to the chosen nation of the dispensation. The time of the Second Coming is the time to make restitution for the failure of both Rome and Israel 2,000 years ago.</p>
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<p>If we conclude that America is the modern Rome there must be a nation in the position of Israel, which is Korea. In the international political situation we see that America has given up many of its responsibilities around the world, as in Vietnam, but it cannot yield its responsibility in Korea. This particular Administration is trying to be more and more isolationist and wants to disengage from military involvement in Korea, but even President Carter has been unable to do so. The relationship of Rome and Israel 2,000 years ago is now being restored through America and Korea today. This clearly shows that these two nations have a special destiny together in the providence of God. There is nothing coincidental here at all.</p>
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<p>In order to fulfill the will of God it is inevitable that America and Korea have a special destiny. Korea is a peninsula divided in half, with the northern half under communism, the southern half under democracy. The 38th parallel is not a boundary between two nations but between two ideologies and two different worlds, between heaven and Satan. You don’t have such a boundary in this nation, do you? Who will be responsible to defend this boundary? Because it is not just a simple national boundary but a boundary in the conflict between heaven and Satan, America must help South Korea defend it. In this respect the Korean War was much more than a national conflict; it represented the Cain and Abel clash on the worldwide level.</p>
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<p>Who stood up ideologically against communist North Korea? The Unification Church did. Unification ideology is the core and soul of the ideology against communism. We have done the job of educating people about the danger of communism expanding from Korea to Asia to the entire world. Now the communists feel the Unification Church is their arch-enemy. Even now there is a heated confrontation between communists and Unification Church members going on in Japan. The Unification Church has played a major role in overcoming the danger of communism in Japan.</p>
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<p>But the battle is not confined to Japan. It spreads all over Asia and now comes to the United States. Therefore, it is a world-level conflict and communists around the world are united together against their one arch-enemy-Reverend Moon. They are stirring up a wind of opposition against me that is not just local but worldwide. They are instigating an anti-Moon movement throughout the world. This is why every department in the United States government is trying to do something about this and kick me out of America, thinking that would be the solution.</p>
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<p>But as I already said, America today is in a position on the side of God to protect and aid His providence. Today she is failing to do that, giving comfort and aid to the enemy of God instead. This is the reason that ever since 1960 chaos and confusion have persisted in American society. God is waging a heated battle in America, and the peak of that battle occurred in 1976.</p>
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<p>The small country of Korea desperately needs America’s help, but considering the desperate internal situation of American society, American leaders do not declare open assistance to God’s forces. Americans are trying to appease everyone, creating an opportunist situation in which such a scandal as Koreagate could be created. In reality it was nothing but a paper tiger, but the very real victims were the Korean government and the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Why should the situation of the nation of Korea and of the Unification Church be linked like this in the eyes of the U.S. Congress? It is because the Unification Church is in the position to represent one nation. This clash was much more than a local incident; it involved the worldwide dispensation, and thus our battle against the U. S. Congress was a worldwide historical event.</p>
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<p>Since the Unification Church and Korean nation were lumped together under attack, the people involved had to unite together to survive. When the Unification Church faced attack by the Congress, all 35 million Koreans were also grinding their teeth in outrage and cheering us on. By facing the opposition of the United States’ government, the Unification Church and Korean government were actually made one in spirit. The Fraser committee was trying to knock Korea down by maligning the Unification Church, but they could not succeed. Because they could not come up with any viable charges, the American government lost face. Now Carter has announced a visit to Korea in June, but the actual diplomatic meaning is more than just re-affirming ties with an ally. It is a trip of apology for the blunder of Koreagate. My advice to the Korean government is to be strong and not be intimidated by American actions. There is a heavenly power acting in this situation.</p>
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<p>It is my dispensational position to speak out boldly and strongly about the Carter administration. I am saying publicly that they must repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. I know that a government spy is listening to every word I say, that tomorrow morning an intelligence report will be made about how I spoke unkindly about Carter. But even though it does not benefit me personally, I am not afraid to speak the truth for the sake of history.</p>
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<p>Just as the American government changed its attitude toward the Korean government, the American people are rapidly changing their opinion about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, particularly after the engagement of 705 couples. It added a positive element to their understanding. They thought we would be defeated by all our opposition, much less amount to anything, but now we have 1,410 people of all backgrounds who are newly engaged. And not only that, we did all this while other churches and American homes are crumbling every day. Now they have amended their opinion about us.</p>
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<p>The time has come for us to rekindle a spiritual fire among the youth of America, and I see our opportunity. This spiritual offensive is being waged through the CARP movement, and we are going to American campuses to raise up American youth. Also, I have issued instructions to you to go to America’s homes; we will meet the young people on the campuses and the families through home church.</p>
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<p>I would like to show the world what kind of family system we have by demonstrating our position all over the country. When the time inevitably comes that the American nation will respect and support me, then our target will become international communism. Even now, what looks like opposition from the American government is actually opposition from agents of communist power infiltrated into the departments of government and Congress. They are creating this atmosphere of condemnation of the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Nevertheless, they will not ultimately succeed; America is basically anti-communist because America loves freedom. When Reverend Moon and the Unification Church emerge in the public mind as champions to fight communism, the American public will naturally support us as their champions. I knew from the beginning that this was our destiny, so I initiated the victory over communism movement in Korea and Japan, and now here in America, with our final goal as Moscow. Now you know where you are and what you are supposed to do.</p>
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<p>We must be superior to any religious organization in America; our CARP movement should be superior to any youth movement here and our home church system be stronger than any other Christian movement in the last 2,000 years. Communism is the arch-enemy of democracy and freedom, but mainly the enemy of God. Furthermore, the moral degradation of American youth must be cleansed. That’s why I have been educating you through the Divine Principle, so you are strong and capable, and your moral outlook is secure, pure and God-centered. That is our strength.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church mission is to bring America back to its founding spirit, which is Godcentered, but we will not end there. We will go beyond to found a new world, not just one nation. This is why I am proclaiming one world under God. The American ideal has still not been able to overcome the racial problem, but the Unification Church ideology will erase all racial, national and cultural boundaries. That has been exemplified in the engagement of 705 couples. This shows that we are laying a foundation for the new world, not just one national foundation.</p>
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<p>You cannot find any parallel in history to what I am doing now. This ideology centering upon God has been installed and proclaimed and is gathering momentum to win the victory on the worldwide level. In spite of all our opposition my position has become an enviable one since our initial victory. Even heads of state, comparing their position to mine and their life with my determination, cannot help but envy me. They think that I am the happiest, most successful man in the world. That means that this one individual is confronting the world and will become victorious and lay a foundation for God for the first time. That is no exaggeration.</p>
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<p>Christian history of 2,000 years has been indemnified by my work in twenty years. I am not doing it alone, however, but bringing my family as well. There must be vertical restoration, but also a horizontal base. A great movement is occurring, like the wandering for forty years in the wilderness. I am out in front, but all the blessed and engaged couples are participating. You are inheriting the True Parents’ ideology, and no power, whether of the State Department or deprogrammers, can take this ideology out of you. You are different in appearance, with various colors of hair and skin, yet inside you are all the .same color.</p>
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<p>From God’s point of view there is but one person who has won the battle throughout the satanic arena and been victorious over the fall is not any head of state or famous person, but only Reverend Moon. 1976 was the victorious crossing point in the cosmic history of God, the year when God’s victory was consummated. I already declared in 1977 that a new era has begun, the year one of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Now the three most vital years of 1977, 1978 and 1979 are being completed.</p>
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<p>After 1979 all those who are opposing me will increasingly lose power, and we will go more and more on the offensive because our adversaries have not proven anything against us. Anyone who hangs on to me will go over the hill and be victorious together with me, like cars behind the locomotive. I am more than willing to leave my inheritance to you, and the person who is truly qualified for this is the one who puts himself in the position of son or daughter to the True Parents now. That’s the qualification to receive my inheritance.</p>
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<p>The engagement this month was an extraordinary event, the grand finale of a year of engagements around the world. What is your determination going to be? It should be that you will receive the inheritance from your own True Parents and walk on their foundation. How can you tell the world that you have received this inheritance? By proving how worthy you are through home church. I have completed the home church mission throughout the world, so I assigned you one small microcosm of the entire universe, 360 homes, and by doing what I have done in home church you will prove to God that you should receive my inheritance.</p>
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<p>When you visit in your area you can think that one part represents Korea, another part Japan, and divide up your area to represent the six continents of the world. When white, black and yellow people all reject you, you can rejoice because you have received persecution from the whole world. It took me sixty years to lay this worldwide foundation, but if you really work well you can do it in your area in six months. By working in home church successfully you can raise yourself up beyond the realm of the fall. Who has given you that kind of power? True Parents. That is your inheritance from them.</p>
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<p>The True Parents suffered all their lives, but by following their tradition and receiving their inheritance you can go over that level of victory with much less suffering. No one who retreats from doing home church is qualified for that blessing, though. In some cases your wife or husband may be hesitant to do home church, but push them out. For three years you must erect a victorious stand in home church, for that is your arena to win victory.</p>
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<p>I received persecution on the national and worldwide levels, but you are receiving persecution in your home church; that represents racial rejection, communist rejection and national rejection all together. Always be grateful for the persecution you receive and take it as added energy to spur yourself on beyond the level of the fall.</p>
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<p>I can see that you still haven’t come down to earth after your engagement. You are all wrapped up in getting to know one another and your faces are different. What you should do when you meet your fiancee is to put your heads together and decide that you will each go to win in home church and then come back to ask me to bless you. You need a certain condition to fulfill before blessing, such as having Cain-type spiritual children and your tribe of 84 people. You have already heard all of these things, so you know why you are going in the capacity of Abel to home church.</p>
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<p>Abel is the son of Adam, not of fallen Adam but of perfected Adam. You are children on the Abel side because you are children of Adam, but since you are still growing toward maturity, Satan is everywhere trying to stop you. There are many Cains ready to slay you, just as in the garden of Eden, so how can you deter their hostility? By practicing love. By opposing you they are presenting conditions of surrender in the future, since by leaving a record of opposition they will have to bow down later. It is as though they are presenting their surrender paper in advance.</p>
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<p>If you go on with your whole heart and soul, it will not take even three years for you to finish because more and more acceptance will be seen in society. Do you know where you are standing in history? The old tide has completely receded, and the new high tide which will carry you to the Kingdom of Heaven is ready to come in now. When the tide first turns the water comes in slowly, but gradually it gathers power and rushes in with power which no one can stop. Even God cannot stop it.</p>
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<p>When you are truly consumed by this fire of conviction then nothing matters, not even eating or sleeping; you are just truly crazy about the mission. Now you have a fiancee, a new loved one, so you can love your people more. That is the standard I am giving you. Do you wish you had more time to spend with your fiancee instead of at home church? Your antenna should be directed to home church. Is it?</p>
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<p>Home church is a very precious blessing for you, for through it I am giving you a condition to go beyond the fall of man. You are an invincible force like the tide to cleanse your home church, and you won’t be deterred by opposition. Do you know who is going to sign your certificate? Not me, but the hostile people in your home church area should be the ones to uphold you as a man of God. Is home church something to be grateful for, or just a burden? Home church is a short-cut to the Kingdom of Heaven. If you don’t worry about anything else but that, you will find the heavenly kingdom.</p>
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<p>Home church is truly our gospel, an amazing blessing from God. Through home church you can find and restore everything-there you meet God, the Messiah, Cain and Abel, and all the historical missions. It is really a wonder world. I would like to see that you are practically worshipped in your areas, so that when you bring your fiancee everyone will say that now they have a king or queen as well. By winning this qualification you can truly enter the hall of blessing for the wedding march.</p>
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<p>We can conclude that the more you are oppressed and persecuted, the happier you will be and the more you will gain. You suffer more because you want to make your blessing more precious, for it is your added suffering that will make your qualification more precious, and your diamond more polished. All your suffering and tribulation can be vindicated by having your mate; this one blessing alone can make it all worthwhile. Your husband or wife is far more precious than your home church, and if you can give anything for your home church then how much more could you do for your mate? Since you are already trained by serving your 360 homes, you can be even more serving to your own husband or wife.</p>
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<p>In your 360 homes you are withstanding all kinds of persecution, yet even if all your people come against you, you still love them. If later God uses your husband or wife to give you a hard time, what would you do? Would you say you could not stand it and shove him out the door? You are already withstanding so much that now when some hardship appears within your own family it will be nothing in comparison. You are absolutely loyal to each other and you are willing to do whatever your husband or wife wants. Do you want to fight with your mate? I am warning you that Satan will try to agitate both of you and incite conflict. God will grant Satan permission to interfere with you because He has confidence that you can easily withstand it, but if Satan wins and you hate each other then he will return to God and gloat at how easily you succumbed to him.</p>
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<p>When you have a feeling that Satan is trying to tempt you to complain about how dumb or ugly your husband or wife is and have nothing to do with him, remember what I am telling you now about Satan’s infiltration. Then close the door and don’t let him come in; decide to do exactly the opposite of what Satan hopes. If you are serving and truly humble then there is no way he can win. This is why I am giving you a three-year training period before blessing.</p>
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<p>If there is a terrible man giving you sisters a hard time in your area then you must think inside that he is your husband. If there is an unbearable woman in your area, then you brothers can think, “She is my wife.” If you men meet such a man, think he is your brother Cain who wants to kill you. Then think about your duty to him and how to win him to your side. Think that unless you can win him to your side you are not ready to go on to any higher blessing.</p>
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<p>I want you to feel that home church is a training ground for your future married life, and that all the people coming against you are in a position to train you to live with your future spouse and in-laws. If you win the older people and the children of your area then everyone else in the middle will automatically come. When you initiate home church the ratio is 1 to 360, and when the first person is won it will turn into 2 to 360, or I to 180. When it increases to 3 on your side, it will be 1 to 120. Even though it starts out I to 360, eventually everyone will accept and your whole area will be one family dwelling, and as far as you are concerned you will be looking at your whole area as one house.</p>
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<p>In this area you will create your Cain-type home, and then after that you are entitled to create your Abel-type home. Once you find your Cain tribe you will establish your Abel tribe. Even if your ancestral lineage is inferior to that of people in your home church area, you will still receive greater blessing than anyone in your area because you set the necessary condition there. When the blessing comes to you upon this foundation and you have children, they will receive more abundant blessing than anyone in home church.</p>
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<p>The restoration process in the fallen world is one of three major divisions-of Cain and Abel, husband and wife, and parents, but now we are bringing these three together for the first time. Home church is the process of uniting the brothers, Cain and Abel. Your home church and your mate’s home church will come together eventually, and you will become a couple after receiving accolades from your home church. Upon that foundation you will join as husband and wife. There are universal implications in two home church areas uniting together.</p>
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<p>When you are united as husband and wife upon this home church foundation and have children, then you move upward to the parent level. Your children will come upon the foundation of the home church success and all your labor there will be reaped by them. In that case you truly have a foundation where you can receive God’s blessing abundantly. Because the Cain-Abel separation has already been made in the home church and there is no stain remaining, you can offer your children as a pure offering to God. Then God will gladly embrace you and your children. Unless you stand victorious in home church. However, you will leave that duty and responsibility to your children, who will then have to go through that tribulation themselves.</p>
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<p>1981 is the final year of the third seven-year course, and from that year until 2,000 the entire world will be organized into home church. That will complete forty years since the True Parents were installed in 1960. The more work we do here in the physical world, the greater will be the spiritual phenomena affecting the earth. Spiritual assistance will be equally strong because that realm is like the angelic world, in a position to serve the victorious Adam and Eve. In your home church you will exercise your authority to direct spirit world to assist you. You are given that authority.</p>
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<p>Only upon the victorious foundation of home church can you as men and women bear sinless children, just as perfected Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden would have borne sinless children. No one shall be able to come against that pure child. You must fulfill all these conditions before God’s blessing comes to you to be husband and wife.</p>
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<p>Today is a new day. This is May 27 and in four more days May will be over. If you make a special condition of the next four days then when June comes you will have a new beginning. Will you engaged couples do it? Those who would do it, engaged or not, raise your hands and pledge your loyalty. You are raising your hands to promise to become true couples. Then spirit world will be with you and God will be with you. Can you pledge that now? God bless you. Let us pray.</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="2018-06-19T14:32:51+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/true-parents-day-and-our-family.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:32:51+01:00">June 19, 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>When we talk about “parents” we usually mean the natural parents who gave us physical birth, but here we mean the True Parents who will give us eternal life. You all know that the dispensation of restoration was necessitated by the fall of man. Without the fall, there would be no need for salvation. The people who fell were not just figures in history, but the first ancestors of all mankind, and that means that God has never had the opportunity to fulfill His ideal in all of human history. Consequently, history has been proceeding on the side of sin and the ideal of true parents and the family of man has never been seen. Neither has man’s ideal of the ideal person and family and ideology been seen here on earth.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall of the first ancestors, history has been running on the side of despair, but even after the fall of man God could not abandon man. Originally God created man as His children, and since God was the Father of mankind, even after the fall He could not abandon man. For God’s part, if Adam and Eve had just vanished, He could have recreated them. If they had drowned and vanished, God could have recreated them, but that was not the case. They were still alive physically, but their original life was gone.</p>
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<p>What was that fall? If what had been lost by the fall could be replaced, we could easily get spare parts. If God could replace what went wrong, there should be no problem. However, the fall was not a material loss but a loss of heart, a loss of the core truth of creation. Genuine, pure love was entangled in the action of the fall. That love by which God wanted to have Adam and Eve blossom in the ideal was the hinge upon which the perfection of everything in creation would turn. God had dreamed of the blossoming of the beautiful flowers of love in Adam and Eve, and their fragrance would fill the earth. That was how God wanted to receive His joy and glory. But by the fall that love was hurt.</p>
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<p>God intended to have total unity in love between Himself and man so that there would be no boundaries between them and they could rejoice and live eternally together. That was the life God had planned for man. Therefore, God was waiting for Adam and ·Eve to bear the fruit of love. A fruit is actually the seed itself; the core and purpose of a fruit is to bear the seed inside. Inside every seed are two identical pieces joined together, and the life force is contained in the embryo of the seed. That embryo contains the essence of the parents’ love, of God’s love, and the life force. Everything is contained in that life package. The two pieces surrounding that embryo are needed to allow the seed to germinate and to give nourishment so life can spring forth.</p>
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<p>Fallen man still has the shape of a seed, but the embryo has become misshapen so that there is no life force and no love source there. Fallen parents gave birth to the fallen generation and many children have been born on earth. Their shape is the same as the original, but the embryo, the life essence, is missing. If man is born with the embryo still intact and pure then when life blossoms and grows, the embryo can only grow in the direction of God, just as a compass needle always points to due north. No one has to teach an original man without sin about God because instinctively he knows the direction of life and of God. There is no other direction for that particular life to take.</p>
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<p>When you were growing in your mother’s womb, did you worry about whether there would be air for you to breathe, or whether there was enough sunlight? In the same way, when original man was born on earth he had no worry about whether there was God or what direction life should take. Automatically he grew in the right direction. The life source of the embryo was the package of the true love of God it contained, and the life developing from that embryo automatically became a subject of love. But by the fall the essential embryo was destroyed.</p>
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<p>After the fall man became a seed without an embryo, so even though he was born he was like a ship without a compass, not knowing where to go or how to live. This describes the fallen generation. Even the lesser creations like the birds can detect the coming of the seasons without a calendar, and they naturally fly south in winter and north in spring in a most orderly manner. If man was to be God’s supreme creation, how much more sensitive should man be in perfection? God gave even the birds some special sensitivity to know the seasons so they could order their lives without deviation. The end result of the fall was that man collapsed in confusion and despair over love and ideology.</p>
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<p>Everyone is looking for true love and the ideal but they don’t know what direction to take so they try anything, even seeking answers through drugs and free sex. People are confused about ideology and think that maybe communism or socialism would be good, but no matter how much they search, without having true love as the focal point of their lives they will not find what they seek. True love means both human love and the pure love of God together. Your parents had human love, but the love of God was not at the center of it. For that reason it lacked the element of true love. Here we are talking about the true love of parents plus the love of God.</p>
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<p>Restoration means that we are going to establish an order for true love and ideology of the ideal. This order and standard, or discipline, must be restored. The ideal should be fulfilled in true love. The communist ideology is based on materialism, not upon God at all. Democracy is an ideology centering upon man, not God. What was the original ideology that God designed? True lovism. True love will provide the solution for everything, but where can true lovism begin? It can only begin in an environment without the fall. The fall brought man down from true lovism and the fallen world is the world without true love. You may think the ideal world must include three meals a day and journeys around the world, but without true love that will never be the true ideal for man.</p>
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<p>Why do we need true lovism? True love can make you a seed with an embryo of life. In order to become a true heavenly seed, the embryo must contain life from God. When you are restored to be that kind of seed, all you have to do is plant the seed and it will blossom and multiply many other true seeds. Each seed contains genes which determine what it will become. A pine seed cannot become a poplar tree. When you plant a pine seed, don’t expect corn to grow from it.</p>
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<p>What ideal are you trying to obtain? What is true lovism all about? True lovism can be called ideal humanism, or Godism. Many people in the world today talk about humanitarianism, but that is still fallen and without God. When you add the word ideal, that means God has been put back into it.</p>
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<p>Why are you gathered together here in the Unification Church? When we stand on the side of men and talk about this ideology we can call it “ideal, true humanism.” When seen from God’s point of view, it becomes true Godism. You might ask if I mean there are a true and a false God, and the answer is yes. The false God is the one who has had to deal with fallen man; He is a pitiful, miserable God, not the God of the ideal world. Is the fallen generation happy ? Do you think the God of the fallen generation is happy? God has been miserable, a parent who has to deal with dead children. He has been the most unhappy parent you can imagine.</p>
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<p>All the Christians in history have made many requests tor God’s help. Were they wealthy, happy children, or poor and miserable? They were miserable and that’s why they asked God to give them food and shelter. That kind of thinking was not God’s main concern and He did not pay much attention. But when God hears requests for His true love then His ears open. No one in history prayed that kind of prayer, however. Many church leaders have asked God to help them defeat the heretics and make their church prosper, but no one prayed for true love with such a longing heart that they were willing even to sacrifice their church to fulfill it.</p>
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<p>God really wanted to hear that kind of prayer, but for 6,000 years He has been hearing material requests and pleas for protection instead. So many ridiculous prayers are prayed that if I were God I would plug my ears. No one understood that God was heartbroken.</p>
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<p>We must know where true love comes from. It must come from a true father and true mother. That’s the logical conclusion. If God is working for restoration then logically He is looking for someone who can bring a channel of true love to earth, which is indeed the concept of true father and true mother. Then where will they come from? If God had every freedom to remake them, I am sure He would quickly do so. But that is one thing God cannot do-He cannot abolish His first son Adam because, after all, Adam was created as an eternal being.</p>
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<p>Two parents may have 100 sons and daughters, but if they lose their first child then they are miserable even though they still have 99 others. It has been God’s destiny to restore the first son back to the original state. That’s how the word “restoration” came into being. When God sees the world filled with men and women, He sees them as nothing more fallen Adam and Eve. God had to pick and refine people from all those on earth in order to have the true Adam emerge. You are fake Adams and fake Eves. Do you feel good? You say with fervor that you don’t want to be false Adam and Eve, so now go ahead and deny yourselves to that same degree. Do you really feel your old self is no good?</p>
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<p>Most people think they are all right but that everyone else is no good. You may be in the shape of Adam and Eve but you don’t have true life. What you need is true love and true life. When they can be grafted into you, you shall be restored to become true Adam and true Eve. You should say A-man, not A-men. Then you sisters should say A-woman. When you mean more than one, then it’s fine to say A-men, but when you talk about yourself, it should be A-man and A-woman.</p>
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<p>The very person who can be the first A-man is no one else but the Messiah. That is his role. In Japanese pronunciation, “messiah” means the house where rice is cooked. In Korean pronunciation, “messiah” means “what time is it now?” For you, the Messiah is nothing more than A-man. History has continued on and on, but the real A-man has never been seen.</p>
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<p>Even without knowing the whole truth, the churches talk about the Messiah and his return and the end of the world. Everyone thinks the Messiah must come on the clouds of heaven, having a wonderful time, and expect him to lift the Christians up in the air. They also say only Christians shall survive at the end of the world, that billions of others shall be judged by fire and brimstone and burned up. There are many conscientious people who scorn that doctrine and criticize the Christians for being selfish. They can’t accept such a God who would be so cruel as to allow that to happen. Listening to the two arguments, which side do you think God would take?</p>
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<p>How can you prove whether God will side with the non-Christians? We can prove it with the word of God. We can answer that question through the Scripture, John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God did not say that He gave His son only for the Christians. God loved the world; how could He destroy the world then? Was He talking about the restored Kingdom of Heaven, or about the fallen world where His generations were suffering?</p>
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<p>Christians have thought they had a monopoly on God and no one else was entitled to salvation. When I repeat that God loves the world and that He will not destroy it but save and restore it, they call me a heretic. They place great significance in their denomination, and when I say such barriers must be demolished and the churches must sacrifice themselves to save the world, they again call me a heretic. If God would ever call me a heretic and say that these Christians are right, I tell you we would lose nothing because there would be no God in heaven.</p>
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<p>Religion must be logical and common-sense. Do you need A-man? What is the essence of the number one man? Is he the one who is superior in the boxing ring? What is his qualification? Because he is such a super-person he probably wouldn’t need food or need to use the bathroom, and in order to climb to the second floor he wouldn’t need stairs, right? If you think you need him, would you want him close or distant from you?</p>
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<p>If God really wants to save this fallen world He will make the A-man very attractive to the fallen generation. What kind of person would you visualize as A-man? You white people would like him to be white and you black people would like him to be black, right? He should be a mixture of white, black and yellow, shouldn’t he? The important thing is not the color of his skin, but his content. True love and true ideal must be the content of that A-man.</p>
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<p>Human history has been proceeding with one main purpose of recreating one A-man, using all historical men as material to reach the final pinnacle. God has been molding a model, making it more and more perfect, bit by bit, progressing toward that perfect A-man. When we look at the history of God, we can see in the Old Testament era that God was molding that man into a servant. There are four major steps for men to take-to be a servant, adopted son, a true son, and father. In the Old Testament era God was striving to make a true servant. For 2,000 years God used all the rabbis and teachers to make one true servant, who was John the Baptist.</p>
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<p>God’s feeling was that John the Baptist was the true servant, and if he fulfilled his responsibility God would elevate him to the level of adopted son, to whom He would send His true son. But the covenant was that this adopted son must give his absolute loyalty to this true son when he came. If this adopted son was willing to give even his life to this true son, then he could become an adopted A-man. Life-giving loyalty was needed. John the Baptist was to love Jesus who was God’s masterpiece, truly the A-man. God labored for 4,000 years to bring him to earth, so in God’s sight Jesus was His most precious treasure. From God’s point of view it was most important that John the Baptist give his life to Jesus.</p>
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<p>God knows you men need true love and a true ideal. In order to secure that ideal your usual horizontal love affairs would not do, and neither would your way of loving your parents or brothers and sisters. That’s why God required the strictest standard that you should love the A-man most of all. When Jesus came he declared, “He who gives his life for my sake will find it. He who would save his own life will lose it.” Do you think that standard has been bent since Jesus’ time, or is it the same now? Is it true to say today that we who would lose our lives for God’s sake will find them? Is that your commitment?</p>
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<p>Jesus declared that the person who loved his own wife or parents or children more than he loved Jesus was not worthy of Jesus. Do you think there is truth in that? Did it mean that once people accepted Jesus as the Messiah they were free to get married on their own? What about you then, are you the same or different? What happened to John the Baptist 2,000 years ago; did he love Jesus more than his own family and nation? Did he pass or fail God’s test? Should you be better than John the Baptist or not? In order for you to be better than John the Baptist I am chasing you out to the wilderness. If I am chasing you out to raise money in the wilderness, then if the Messiah is rejected by the nation you can welcome him into the wilderness and build the Kingdom there.</p>
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<p>John the Baptist had gathered many disciples of his own, so when he knew that Jesus had come as the Messiah he should have brought his own disciples as his treasure and given them to Jesus. If Jesus returned them to John then John should have insisted. But did that happen? Wouldn’t it be smarter to keep what is valuable to you in your pocket and give what is unimportant to Jesus?</p>
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<p>The best way to be linked to true love is to give your life for it. When your life is connected to it then true love will flow into you. If your head is cut off then Jesus will replace it for you, but when you look closely you will see it is Jesus’ head you have now. By giving your life you can become Jesus. Then God will see that you look like His son, and will welcome you with the same love. If Jesus is a pine tree then you will look like a pine tree, not like anything else that you were before. When two people have an ideology and concept of love that are identical then they are identical.</p>
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<p>You need A-man don’t you? Now at the end of their prayer some people will say A-man and others will say Woman.</p>
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<p>If John and Jesus had become completely one, then John would have become an adopted son and all the Jews behind him would have followed Jesus. Then like a locomotive Jesus could have taken them all straight into the Kingdom of Heaven. That was God’s plan, but the reality was very sad. John failed to believe in Jesus; the rabbis and priests and scribes and all the people failed to believe in Jesus. Finally they plotted together with the Romans to nail Jesus on the cross. Do you think the crucifixion was God’s will? Do you think He put the true man here on earth again only to be killed on a cross? God’s work was restoration and recreation, so He wanted to create the A-man and A- woman first, then A-children and finally A-kingdom of God. But did Jesus live or die? Was the will of God fulfilled fully in his time? No, the Second Coming had to be announced.</p>
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<p>Through the history in the Bible we see that God has been working steadily according to one principle from the beginning to the end, so mankind is destined to welcome A-man one more time. Do you think Jesus Christ will return, or that someone else has to come? For 2,000 years after Jesus God has been using all men as material, trying to mold one more final model of a true man here on earth. Therefore, it is most logical that the Messiah must return through the country and people who have received the most tribulation and shed the most tears.</p>
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<p>That A-man must come as a physical person here on earth, a true man who will recreate true woman, because that was the order of the original creation. lt is not God who will make the true woman, but the true man. Why? In the Bible we read that God made Adam, but then only pulled a rib from Adam to make the woman. That actually means that God made woman by using Adam as a model. If God comes to take American women and push them out into tribulation and suffering, will they submit to it? Are American women likely to reject this and crumble, or are they more likely to accept it wholeheartedly? You may think they will accept, but God doesn’t think so.</p>
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<p>God sees that becoming A-woman is not an easy task because she must go through a tremendous ordeal. That woman must have absolute blind loyalty to A-man, so God looked for the country with that kind of virtue. Can that virtue be found more easily in the West or East? When God takes that woman to have her made into A-woman there should be no flaw.</p>
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<p>God instructed A-man to give A-woman a hard time because in the garden of Eden it was Eve who did not obey God or believe the commandment and whose cunning way united with Satan and betrayed Adam. Therefore, in restoration woman must be given a hard time and still unite with whatever God’s will is. Then A-woman is made. Do you think that is an easy thing to do? When that A-man recreates A-woman and they have children and make a home, then they would become the first True Parents in history. Would you like to meet the True Parents? Why? What would you gain?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is working for the salvation of the family, the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. So far Christians have thought that salvation was only for individuals, and that each person had to win his own cubbyhole in heaven. If the Unification Church is the place where you meet the Parents then you have to pay for all the historical sins and clean away the back debt of mankind. Only then do you become a perfect John the Baptist, and then you must unite with the true A-man. Even when the True Parents are finally installed, they cannot instantly make you into a true son and daughter. You have to go through several stages; first you become a servant, then adopted son, then true children. When you meet the True Parents, what would they do? Chase you out to the world, letting you become a true John the Baptist.</p>
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<p>That person cannot go out to the wilderness with skepticism, grumbling, “What kind of True Parents are they? The Divine Principle is very good, but why are they making me suffer?” But I want you to know that is the beginning point. When you meet True Parents you go back to that position and start out all over again, returning step by step, going through every level. First you become a servant, then an adopted son. The relationship between an adopted son and his stepparents is normally a difficult one and the son has much difficulty. But through the Principle you know the failure of men in the past, so you are willing to go this road nevertheless, without complaining, desiring to become true sons and daughters. Only those people can pass. The words Jesus spoke 2,000 years ago form the very credo you Moonies follow today.</p>
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<p>Why do we need True Parents? In order to restore and have the true ideal and love, True Parents are essential. Once you reach that ideal, no matter how strongly people insist there is no God, it won’t bother you because you know by experience there is a God. Do you have such antennae? We have special antennae so we can communicate the special love which others cannot detect. We can experience the true happiness others cannot taste. Do you only want to come for celebrations to cut the cake, but not go out to labor and sweat? Many people, even among you here, can’t figure out why you should go through suffering when you could easily have your own families and your own lives.</p>
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<p>I was smart; I didn’t willingly suffer without any reason. But there was no other choice. It was simply my destiny, the law of cause and effect in action. Because mankind is fallen, without going through that route there is no way we can taste true joy and true love. I am quite smart, and if there were some other way I would have found it. I am talking about finding the universal love which can be welcomed anywhere, even in the dungeons of hell. Hell will be melted into heaven by this love, but there is no easy way to get it. Even though there is a great deal of opposition, we have a great power of love which will submerge all the opposition in the water of love. That’s the only way we can finally overcome it.</p>
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<p>Then we bring the water of love to hell to wash it out. Do you live in the Old Testament era now? the New Testament era? In the Old Testament era the servant is carrying the load of God’s dispensation, while in the New Testament era the adopted son is carrying the dispensation. In the Completed Testament era the sons and daughters are undertaking the burden of the dispensation. Presently there are three levels of life in society; the non-believers belong to the Old Testament era, even now in the servant position the Christian world is living in the adopted son’s era, and the Unification Church is living in the era of true children.</p>
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<p>The responsibility of true children is the supreme one because they are going to inherit the responsibility of the parents. We are going to stop the crumbling of the world and bring it back to God. God has three major headaches here on earth. He must take care of communism; He must awaken and revitalize the Christian churches, and finally He must stop the degradation and immorality of the young people of the world. Who is doing it? One master satan is influencing all of this behind the scenes- communism. The communists are working to weaken Christianity because they know that religion is the greatest threat to them. In order to weaken the free world they are corrupting the young people.</p>
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<p>The focal point for the destruction of the tree world, the churches and the young people is the family, so once the communists destroy the family system, they will win everything. In one family in America you can find all kinds of religions and beliefs; because there is a chaos in ideology there is no unity and so love is going in all different directions. When the Messiah comes, however, and brings the central ideology, it will form the backbone of the individual, family and society, and then no power at all can destroy them. Even the communist power will not change them. All of Christian doctrine not be able to remove that ideology and free sex and carnal desire will not change it.</p>
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<p>Once equipped with this Godism, no one will be shaken, regardless of what enticements are offered. Will women be enticed by handsome men then? Didn’t you do it to Adam in the garden of Eden? The weakest creature is woman and she is more susceptible to the degradation of sin. Suppose you think you are beautiful and everyone envies you, but then all of a sudden I match you with an ugly man as a husband. Would you be proud of introducing him as your husband? Even though externally he is not handsome, you can be proud of him if he has the central ideology of God and if he possesses true love. Then he is far better than any movie star in the world. Your destination is not the handsome face of your husband; it is the ideology and spirit and true love he has.</p>
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<p>An electric bulb has a filament inside, and the more crooked it is the brighter light it will give; a straight filament will give only weak light. A man who is sturdy in the love of God may look unattractive, but once the switch is on he will light up the entire world. Light is the important thing. When you become a divine spirit you no longer see the physical body; in spirit world the intensity of brightness of a person’s spirit will determine his attractiveness, not his external appearance. The men who are pursuing God’s ideology and trying to obtain the true love of God are the noble men.</p>
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<p>Now it’s the men’s turn. They may think 1 am not qualified to say anything to them since I have such a beautiful wife, but I never prayed to have a beautiful wife. I said it didn’t matter what shape my wife was, even if she was so big I couldn’t reach around her. If God told me to love her and mold her into A-woman, I was ready to accept her and do my best. If that had happened would you have been pleased? Then the men would have thought they could be blessed to anyone except a woman of Mother’s shape. That’s why, even though I didn’t care what kind of wife I had, God cared very much. He wanted His children to think that the ideal woman was Mother, and any sister who looked like her would be the best wife. That’s why God gave you such a beautiful Mother, not for me but for you.</p>
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<p>Why are the True Parents coming to mankind? Is their goal only one nation? What was the goal in the garden of Eden in the beginning? The family. The basic unit of happiness is not the nation or world, but the family. The ideal family is more important than the ideal world. In this one unit of the family you must fulfill the ideal man and ideal love. The father’s position is the ideal man’s position and the mother’s position is the ideal woman’s position. The man’s position is the ideal son’s position, and woman’s position is the ideal daughter’s position. Our goal altogether is the ideal, Perfected family.</p>
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<p>The ideal would never be ideal with arrogance, and in order to eliminate arrogance a true love must be found which can melt everything together. Then nothing will be separated. If someone pulls the son, the entire family will go too because everyone is welded together. Is your family like that? Right now the family is mixed up and separated. You should be able to say that your father is greater than the President of the United States. A parent must be able to say that even though his son is crippled, he is better than any Harvard Ph.D. Why? Because true love connects them. That is first and foremost.</p>
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<p>the heavenly four positions the father, mother and children are welded by true love into one unit so that their positions are interchangeable, moving around and around. Then who is the center of this circular movement? God. There is a distinct rule in the true family that God is center, no matter what. Everyone goes toward God and nothing else comes first. Would a true father want his son to love him first before God, even for a short time? Would he be a true parent then? No, everyone would encourage each other to love God most.</p>
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<p>Why couldn’t husband and wife feel they were the closest, even just for a while? No matter how often father and mother may be living in different places on earth, if they are united in God they cannot be apart in spirit world. Though they are apart on earth, if they are united in the love of God then they will reach the same destination in God. Then they will become intensely close as husband and wife because God’s love will be manifested in their own love. As much as they love God, God permits them to love each other in spirit world, even many hundred times fold. Even though they are separated. if they are truly loving and serving God then they shall be given hundreds of times more closeness as husband and wife in spirit world. They shall be royalty of love there.</p>
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<p>When you meet your husband at God’s throne, you shall meet him as a queen of love. Love for God shall ultimately unite kingship and queenship of love on the highest possible level. That is why on earth we should want our spouse to love God more than loving us. That’s the way parents and children should think as well. We talk about true family in the Unification Church, but someone might misunderstand and lose faith by thinking they are not being given a chance to make their family because husbands and wives are often sent out on separate missions. If you are thinking that way, you are mistaken. This is the way you are going to be elevated into true kingship of love.</p>
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<p>Even if you are never with your husband or wife here on earth yet your love for God is intense, God will melt you into one for eternity, far more than if you had lived an ordinary life with your family here on earth. You are becoming an extraordinary person by living for God your whole life, longing for your family to be together. But once you are elevated to the eternal world you shall be welded into the most glorious family.</p>
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<p>You shall always remain a subject of the love of God and feel the intense presence of His love and ultimately move yourself to the position of God. I walked just this path. I started out in the servant position and then served in the position of adopted son. then son and finally parent. Who gives the diploma so you can graduate from one level to the next? Not God but Satan. You serve Satan’s world until they can say you are far better than any servant in the satanic world and there is no one else who can meet your standard. Then you move on to the adopted son’s position. There are many physical adopted sons on this earth, and you must pass all the criteria to be number one. Even though your step-parents hate you intensely, giving you nothing but grief, they should not be able to melt you. You should serve them and ultimately melt their hearts. Then they will sign your diploma saying that you are beyond their level and there is nothing they can criticize. When they surrender, you graduate to the next level.</p>
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<p>At that point you are eligible to join the Unification Church. At that point you may think you have reached the final destination, but then I chase you out to witness and fund raise. I am in a position to give you the worst kind of tribulation and hardship, but if you endure with loyalty and filial piety then finally I have to say to God that I surrender to you. Then you have met the standard of true son and will be elevated to the parent’s position. That is the principle of restoration by indemnity.</p>
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<p>The more you receive persecution and harshness yet endure and love. the quicker you will get to heaven. God has to allow you to go through that. Don’t misunderstand; God is not punishing you out of hate, but so that you can win over Satan by your own will and be separated from him. God wants Satan to be forced to say good-bye to you on every level because he has no more accusation. If you ever want to turn around and go back, Satan will chase you out because you don’t belong in his world any more. That’s what God wants.</p>
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<p>When we look at the entire world in the scope of the dispensation, we see that we in the Unification Church are one family, including all five colors of skin. In order to live eternally with the True Parents in the ideal world, you shall elevate yourself to the true son’s and daughter’s position, but here I see that you are at many different levels. Some are at the servant level, some at the level of adopted sons, and so forth, but everyone should reach the goal eventually.</p>
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<p>God created the physical world as the servant world, the angels as the adopted son’s world and Adam and Eve as His true son and daughter. You should be able to command lordship over all things and even be able to command the angelic world. When you join the Unification Church you do MFT work first so that you can exercise your lordship over all things. Then you go to restore the adopted son’s level, and ultimately come back to the family. Why do you need a family? That is where you can taste true parental love, in the true love of God and eternal ideal. The base for the Kingdom of Heaven is the family. The base for the true ideal is the family. The base for the true love and happiness is the family. In this family there shall be no more fighting between father and mother and there shall be no more tragedy of love.</p>
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<p>Parents should not show their tears or fighting to their family, and in the ideal separation would be unthinkable. Divorce would be like cutting your own body in half. In order to separate the two of you, you would have to remove God out of your lives first, which would mean digging up all the love inside of you and throwing it away. That would be self-destruction, and who would do that?</p>
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<p>You would like to have your family be Godcentered, wouldn’t you? Home church is the base for you to practice this particular way of life. Then later you will go back to Your relatives and install the ideal in the midst of your physical family. Everyone of you is now going through the tribal level since I have finished the nation and world levels. When you penetrate the tribal level you can go right to your family. This is where Jesus could not fulfill, so this is your starting point. You are going to love this tribe, your home church. You will be persecuted for that and yet you must love them unconditionally. By meeting that criteria you will ultimately love your family more than your tribe. Your tribe must bear witness, and signatures from 360 homes will be given that you are a son of God.</p>
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<p>When you have your own family God is going to say that since you loved your home church tribe so much, you should go ahead and love your family more than your tribe. You must love your family more than you love anything else because they represent your tribe, your nation and world. That’s the foundation of heaven. Once you reach this family level, there will no longer be any need for you to leave them. The basic atom of society is always the family, so the nation cannot disregard the family, the building block of heaven.</p>
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<p>Now in the process of restoration we sacrifice our families, leaving them behind to work for the world, but once we restore our families that phase is all over. The person who cannot serve his parents or brothers and sisters would not be any good for the society or nation either. You should be able to receive a diploma signed by your household which states that you are truly a loving person. With that diploma you can go out to serve the society and world. In the future world, if you reject your parents and go out to society, there will be no place you can set your foot or be accepted. If your own family cannot welcome you then certainly society will not.</p>
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<p>The family is the base for God’s love to be connected to you, and from you to society. If you lose that base then how can you expect to have any other? When this ideology of the family prevails in America, this nation will be the greatest of all. The Unification Church is now providing discipline and training for young people to become this kind of pious son and daughter who can love the world, yet parents are trying to kidnap their children from the Unification Church. From the point of view of true love they are the worst criminals. They are like Judas on the level of family, betraying the ideal family.</p>
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<p>Anyone who rejects the ideal nation on earth is truly Judas on the world level. That is what communism is doing. On every level we can find a Judas Iscariot, and when you enter spirit world, the ultimate Judas is none other than Satan. When we can win over all the betrayers on each level, we shall bring down the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church, therefore, there is no barrier between white and black, for anyone who is separated by race cannot make this family. The entire world is heading toward the focal point of the family. The purpose of the entire dispensation of God was to build that ideal family here on earth; that was the entire purpose of each religion and all history. Initially we are setting the conditions for such families to be restored, and step by step we will actualize it. That will be none other than the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Why did you come to the Unification Church? What is your goal? First, to find a God-centered ideology in your head, and true love in your heart. Then you will live in a true family. That’s the purpose of everything. When we have an international holiday like Parents Day and you come to celebrate, the focal point is always the ideal family. You know the depth of your yearning and determination to fulfill the ideal family. If you have that desire then you are entitled to celebrate Parents Day; otherwise you are not.</p>
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<p>Here you are trained in home church, the formation level. Next you move to the growth level, and will finally end up in the perfection level of the ideal family. We are ultimately going to restore True Parents Day and proclaim it all over the world. You celebrate True Parents Day with True Parents in the center, but in your home church area you shall be in the parents position and your 360 homes will come celebrate around you. As far as your tribe is concerned, the day you meet your husband or wife will be your tribal parents day. When that day comes your door will be open 24 hours and your home church children will come from every direction to celebrate. You will have lots of food and enjoy the day together.</p>
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<p>Once your Cain home church is completed there is one more step-you will go to your home town and form your Abel home church centering on your relatives and family. Then you shall be truly elevated as messiah. Once you come to that point you will not have to do the difficult work of MFT or witnessing because you will have graduated from all that.</p>
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<p>Your children won’t have to have MFT training or witness door to door. There will be no more separation between God and men because their sensitivity will automatically lead them home. We will do all the difficult tasks from human history that need to be finished instead of leaving them to our descendants. We will hand down the glory, not the indemnity. It is a great blessing and a victorious declaration that we can do home church so that later on we can return to our home towns and become tribal messiahs.</p>
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<p>Once you walk that path and live it in actuality, there will be no room for Satan ever to come near you with accusation. Unless you fulfill home church yourself, however, your mission will be handed down to your children with even greater suffering. Then there will be two separate worlds, the world of those children who must do home church in place of their parents, and the world where people are rejoicing over the true family and true ideal home. God does not want to see that division happen.</p>
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<p>There is no doubt that MFT and home church are tough jobs, but I want to see you welcomed in your home towns and living in happy families. Do your utmost to bring the completion of that goal. Those who will do it, raise your hands please. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<p>If all of a sudden someone asks you what you have, you may hesitate to answer, not knowing exactly what to say. You may start to answer this question by naming the things closest at hand, such as your face, hands and eyes, but is that all? You also have your mind and thought, but then what is the difference between mind and thought? Can you think because you have a mind, or do you have a mind because you think?</p>
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<p>Whatever you have is a property you can utilize and be benefited by, such as money. Thinking more broadly, what do you have as American people? People here have their families and relatives. No one would raise an objection when someone claims possession on that level, but when an individual says he has his nation and society, Americans become suspicious. Do you control or administer America as your property? As Unification Church members what do you have? We say it is our goal to unify the entire world and cosmos, but many people wonder how they can have a relationship to the world or cosmos, and whether it is possible to control or administer them. We know the cosmos exists, so by whom would it want to be possessed and controlled? All things of creation want to be dominated or controlled by men. Do they want to be conquered by man’s power? By his knowledge? Indeed, all things of creation want to be conquered by the love of men.</p>
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<p>What about God, who created the universe? God would say the universe belongs to Him since He created it, but would He think He is entitled to keep it because of His power? We have to consider the purpose for God’s creating such a magnificent universe. I am sure God had a reason in the goodness of His heart for doing so, but is that enough reason for the things of creation to want to be dominated by God? All things of creation would reply that that is not enough and they want something else. They want to relate to whatever there is in God’s heart that is of the utmost value and goodness.</p>
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<p>What is the best part of God? Is truth the most important part of God? If God and the things of creation are interrelated, what good would be brought about through truth? Truth is actually a cold, impersonal quantity stemming from logic, not from heart. Truth can specify facts, but has no warmth. Truth can describe something, such as how a dot and line create something through their harmony, how the dot moves and creates the line, and then the line in harmony creates the circle. In light of this understanding, would the power of truth be the best part of God?</p>
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<p>Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but by me.” Ultimately speaking, what good would it do to be the way, truth and life? If life itself is the ultimate goal, what is good about it? We can conclude that the culmination of the purpose of existence is found in one word-love. When Jesus said he was the way, truth and life, that key word of love was contained but not expressed there.</p>
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<p>If there are swimming pools of truth, of way and of life, which would you prefer to swim in? Whether handsome or ugly, everyone would prefer the pool of love. Love has incredible power, and as soon as you speak about love everyone comes alive. Love has incredible power, and as soon as you speak about love everyone comes alive. When you are embraced within love you already feel life and power and truth. God is truly the king of wisdom, and when in His wisdom He made all things of creation He wanted dominion over everything through an ultimate goal He had in mind.</p>
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<p>When you are in the dominion of love, sunlight and darkness are both fine because you can relate everything to love. Both daytime and nighttime are wonderful. Night is the time when God isolates you from the rest of the world so you love only one object. That is God’s mandate. During the day you embrace all things of creation in love, but at night God wants you to love Him alone. During the day a husband and wife are bustling about in many different activities, but at night they are isolated from the rest of the world and the darkness is better for loving each other. The darker the better!</p>
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<p>No other element in the universe enhances both day and night except love. God must think in that fashion, and if the creation has the power of thought I’m sure love is the center of their thinking as well. Agreed? No one in the world would say no to love. Love must be the center of the creation.</p>
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<p>Today many people who graduate from a good school are proud of themselves and the degree they obtained. There is a saying that knowledge is power. Many scientists think that science is almighty and that computers will solve the problems of the world, and indeed, computers are asserting a new tyranny over human affairs in many areas. Scientists feel that the human mind is limited compared to computers. Why do you laugh? It is because you know in your heart that mankind is not going to be dominated by computers.</p>
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<p>When we consider what we have in the universe that is of real value, what do we find? Unification Church members are poor people in material things, yet we are definitely here to obtain something. If there is something universally needed by the individual, family, society, nation and world and even by God, we want to have it. You said it is true love, but what then is true love? Is true love true seeing? Is true love a true smell? Is true hearing true love, or real eating? True touching? Where can we find true love? Do you see God?</p>
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<p>As a patriot you say you love your country, but can you see that element called love of country? We are confident it exists, but where can we find invisible love? Let’s analyze it. Is there more than one kind, with one type for each race? No, there is only one, and the answer to where we find it is very simple. Mankind is composed of two major elements-men and women, so can true love be found between women and women, or between men and men? Between men and women? Yes, true love can be activated between men and women.</p>
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<p>What are men and women then? When a man and woman meet, they are coming from two entirely different sets of lineages and backgrounds. True love has to have a true history and background, as well as a true present and true future. But today when men and women meet does their love have a true background and do they know that it will continue for eternity? Nowadays love is cheap. You may see a couple who have a few conversations and then think they are in love, but how long will it last? Fifteen minutes?</p>
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<p>The root is the important thing, the place where the true love of men and women begins and connects with the present time. The relationship of men and women is a horizontal one, no matter what, and once the horizontal line of today’s love is broken there is no way to re-connect it because there is no power to bring the two parts back together. Therefore, the American family system today is breaking down for lack of anything to sustain the horizontal relationship. Often one squabble snaps it apart. Horizontal love by itself has no depth, and as a result it is not only cheap but fragile.</p>
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<p>What is needed, then, is a horizontal relationship supported by the vertical. What is that? There must be some vertical reciprocal relationship between subject and object, in this case between parents and children. Why is that relationship vertical? Because it begins at birth. A horizontal relationship begins with a meeting or encounter, but a vertical relationship is one that is born into and which no one can change, even after death.</p>
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<p>A father and mother should have a vertical relationship both above and below them, in addition to the horizontal line between them. The unchanging line which no one can sway is the vertical line. No matter how many children you have, the father-son relationship is unchangeable. Furthermore, there is an unbroken line from the parents to the grandparents, and so forth all the way back. Is that vertical line crooked and changeable, or unbending? Would your forefathers agree that it is best for the vertical line to be crooked or straight? It should be a straight vertical line which no one can change.</p>
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<p>Who do you find at the top of that line? Would God, who is in the position of supergrandfather, think that the vertical line should be crooked at some point in history? I am sure God would declare that He is setting the vertical tradition in loving His children, and that they in turn will love their children the same way, and so on forever. Since God Himself set the tradition, all his descendants will continue that tradition forever.</p>
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<p>What if some parents somewhere down the line think it will be adequate to have 75 degrees of love instead of 90 degrees? In that case a complete circle could never result, but only a rectangle, and that would distort the entire tradition. The unchanging vertical line has been drawn by God, so husband and wife are supposed to be at precisely 90 degrees to the vertical. As much as the vertical line is absolute, the horizontal line has to be absolute as well. The vertical sets the standard. Why would you agree to that? Unless an absolute line is derived somewhere the entire universe would wobble and shake.</p>
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<p>What do you think is the longest thing in the universe? True love is so wide and vast that everything can be embraced in true love with room to spare. Would anyone ever complain that things are too cramped in true love and they need more room?</p>
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<p>The highest position, which is God’s, and the lowest position can still be harmonized in the one substance, which is true love. One direct vertical line drawn from the highest point of the universe, God, down to the depths of the universe is still one line. That unchanging, stable vertical line is the line of true love from God to all creation and man. No matter how high God is or how low this world is, these two points are connected with one line.</p>
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<p>This line which God has drawn is the axis of history, while the history of every man forms one horizontal line. The diagram of this would be many different circles which vary in diameter; the length of the diameter determines the size of the circle, but as long as the horizontal line is drawn correctly, perfect circles will always be formed.</p>
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<p>You want to be great men, don’t you? What should you do to become so? There is only one simple definition: a good man is centered upon this one central vertical, eternal line. That is how you become a good child, husband or wife, in-law, and parent. We frequently use the word “true,” but what is the definition of true son, true father, etc.? True refers to anything that has a perfect 90 degree relationship with the vertical line. When four perfect 90 degree angles are formed by the vertical and horizontal lines, a perfect circle is formed, with four equal segments.</p>
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<p>This 90 degree relationship is a central pattern, and no matter where you go, that angle will fit exactly with another 90 degree angle. When you make that relationship with the vertical then you can call it a true one. Then what is true love? In true love your horizontal relationships engage this vertical line at 90 degrees and your love is eternal and unchanging. When men and women engage in true love, wherever they go the vertical line automatically forms 90 degrees. True love is established when you recognize the two kinds of love-vertical and horizontal. What is the most valuable thing you possess? Now you can answer.</p>
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<p>Why did YOU gather here in this room? What are you going to do with true love? What are you gaining by being here? People outside our Church commonly make vicious allegations against me, but did you come to be a subject of the worst dictator? No? Then why did you come?</p>
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<p>You wandered many places and explored many alleys and streets in life before you came to sit here on this concrete floor. We gathered here for some common purpose and have a reason to be here. We recognize that our world is crumbling and the truth is not to be found in it. You know from your own experience that the world is deceitful and artificial, so you came here to find the answer in something real and eternally true: true love. We want to consummate our lives in true love.</p>
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<p>We emphasize trueness. Therefore, we draw the vertical line first of all between True Parents and true children. I did not create this terminology. It was there at the beginning of God’s creation and of human history. God has always wanted to leave the true tradition throughout history and I merely came to manifest it. But the truth was always there and so this is nothing new. In the Unification Church we first make our vertical tradition clear, then we try to engage that vertical line at precisely 90 degrees.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is like a workshop. For three years you recognize the True Parents and put yourself in the true son’s position, trying to be truthful to this relationship. Here we have a tradition that we are joyfully obedient to the vertical mandate, not forced or doing so only out of duty. That is the key. Yes, you have physical life given by your natural parents, but true life begins with the True Parents because this is the first time the true vertical tradition of God has been brought down to earth. Our lives must conform to this eternal tradition and life. By being part of it you will be resurrected and receive that eternal life.</p>
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<p>Before you can talk about anything else you have to come back to this vertical relationship. This is the most fundamental effort you must make. Once you are perfectly aligned according to the vertical line you can talk about horizontal love, or what we call the blessing of men and women. The true relationship of love is actually a sacrificial relationship of giving. Parents are those who are willing to give themselves die for their children. That is the true tradition of parents.</p>
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<p>Children as well could give their lives for their parents. That is the tradition of vertical love which God initiated in His love, the fundamental truth of the universe for which we are willing to give our lives. That is what truth is all about.</p>
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<p>Love is sacrificial and thus is true and beautiful. Do you accept that in logic? Since what I am teaching is this eternal and vertical tradition of truth, it matters not whether 240 million Americans accept it. Eventually all mankind will have to accept it because this is not my theory but God’s theory. Once we know this much about the vertical tradition which God is trying to consummate, we can seriously commit ourselves and give ourselves totally to it. We have the father-son relationship everywhere. You are in the position of parent to your spiritual children, so you love them unconditionally and sacrificially, even being ready to die for them.</p>
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<p>Before you talk about loving your husband or wife you must set the tradition of loving your children, whether spiritual or physical. Why is that? Because of the fall the Cain-type world exists and we must subjugate it with love, bringing it to the true love of the father-son relationship. When you see a husband and wife in your home church area who have a beautiful relationship of love then you can feel that you must love your spiritual children more than they love each other. That’s how you must inspire yourself. Your line will get longer and longer when you acquire the true vertical tradition.</p>
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<p>You are creating a vertical line from the horizontal line downward, but don’t worry about the vertical line upward yet. If you love your spiritual children then the vertical line above the horizontal is formed automatically. When you create the line downward which is truly straight, the extension of that line upward is automatic and your relationship with God is automatic. The relationship, tradition and achievement that you create in that vertical line is your precious asset. My situation is just the same.</p>
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<p>Outside of the Principle I have no reason to come to America. No one invited me and no one welcomed me, so why did I come to a country with a foreign culture? Because it is my divine duty to set the heavenly tradition, whether it is done in the Oriental or Western world. Since Americans today are ignorant of this, people have come against me with tremendous hostility, but it is inevitable that this truth will prevail in America within three generations. Are you convinced?</p>
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<p>Can anyone remove the chapter of American history that I have written here? Later on in history this teaching will shine as even more brilliant because it is God’s principle, not mine. This is why I am pushing you out to home church, the world where you will become a tribal messiah. The entire universe is ready for restoration but the center is empty. The whole environment is ready for the Kingdom, but the very essence is non-existent.</p>
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<p>The relationship of parents and children is confused and the relationship of men and women here in America is void because tremendous chaos and confusion persist. The vertical father-son relationship is not clear and the horizontal man-woman relationships are all confused, so all other relationships are entangled and confused as well. That is the state of this society at this time. We need a policeman to guide all this traffic to the one vertical line where it can all be organized.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church teaches what God is and what ideal men and women are, and as a result we are learning the foremost essential elements of the universe. In many cases men and women see no reason for God to be part of their private love lives, but no matter how much fun they try to have in life, they always need an axis to turn around. Without an axis no one can turn. If you are not stable then you will be self-destructive. When you are in a right relationship, however, all you have to do is hold each other and the universe will turn you, just like riding a merry-go-round.</p>
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<p>From this viewpoint today’s America is far from God’s ideal, sunk in immorality, and God finds no joy at all in this society. God is determined to bring change about. Do you really agree with this? There is no question that America is headed for decline if it continues this way, simply because no society can endure if it departs from the Principle of God.</p>
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<p>Because the world is slipping toward the cliff, we have to put on the brakes and stop it. When the wheels are turning fast and you apply the brakes you have to exert much pressure and inevitably much heat is generated. People wonder why I came and stirred up so much controversy, but I cannot be quiet be cause the world is crumbling and we must stop it If you want to stop this crumbling world you have to be stronger than the world. Are you strong enough?</p>
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<p>Love of God is the key; when you have that you have everything and need nothing else. First there is the vertical relationship of True Parents and true children, and the horizontal relationships you have with each other. We are engaged in many activities and there is nothing we do not do. Many segments are needed to make a complete circle, so we are doing all kinds of things. Because our radius of activity is so wide, some things may appear to be unrelated to the overall goal, but actually it all is part of the same horizontal line of true love.</p>
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<p>Home church is our system for filling the void in society. If all of your 360 homes are realigned in this vertical love relationship, would it be a noteworthy happening in America that would draw much attention? It would be like a volcanic explosion, a panacea for society’s ills made visible, and in every state people would try to make it work. Many people in history will start out in home church and compete to see who becomes the tribal messiah first. This is the one way we can make unification of the world possible without fighting and killing.</p>
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<p>I am the judge of this competition and I will go all over the world to find the best one. Will that title of best in home church last through eternity? The entire spirit world will erupt in recognition and there will be a great celebration there, with the ancestors of that person rejoicing and telling everyone their good news. Once you have that title, all your ancestors will claim relationship with you, no matter how distantly related they are, trying to link up with you for some benefit.</p>
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<p>We are filling the void in society. In God’s sight there is nothing out there so we must fill it with something substantial. The Unification Church is here in order to inherit the tradition of true love, both vertically and horizontally, and by doing so we can truly create harmony, which is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. That crusade is on now and I have made a covenant with God that the Unification Church will do it. This crusade of true love will be the first article in the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Why should the True Parents take so much time and effort to bless you men and women in families?</p>
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<p>Simply because we want to fulfill this ideal and the blessing is an integral part of that. If I chase you out of the Unification Church, what would you do? You may cry on your way out the front door, but then turn right around and come in the back door. If you are that kind of child then I can never be separated from you. That’s the secret I learned from God, who is just the same.</p>
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<p>The entire world comes against you so life each day is not easy, but some day when you look around you will realize that the whole world is ours because God was always supporting us and He has given it to us. I work on that principle. When I came to America this country was hostile and negative, but I pushed and God pushed, and now we see that this country is being swayed one way or the other by me.</p>
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<p>God is more eager than anyone else to get this done, far more than you are, and He is relentlessly pushing you so that His ideal will prevail. It is inevitable that America opposes me, but eventually even this society will accept this ideology as the way of salvation and thank me. Once that happens the entire world will follow.</p>
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<p>Why did you come to the Unification Church? You came to receive the inheritance of true love and to learn from the living example, to love our Heavenly Father as True Parents do so that you will set that vertical tradition. As I love God, you love me. As God loves me, I love you. This example will set the eternal vertical tradition and no one can alter or sever this relationship. The amazing thing is that your mind is not happy unless you do this. You don’t need extensive logic as motivation for doing this, but unless you go in God’s direction your mind and conscience are not clear. Love your spiritual children as much as you love me. That is how this tradition will be passed down.</p>
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<p>We are drawing this vertical line. No matter how many times you die, you will not become a rebellious son or daughter, right? Those who are ready to receive engagement and the blessing should be able to say that no matter what happens they will never be rebellious, but be completely obedient to this tradition.</p>
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<p>A vertical tradition has been set and a horizontal tradition is now being created, so since the prototype is established all you have to do is fit into it. Should you have your own unique way and want me to follow it? You don’t feel you can do that because you came to accommodate the vertical line, not for the vertical line to accommodate your wobbling horizontal line. This is why you come to me to be engaged and blessed and to be directed in your life.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church has set a tremendous tradition in the horizontal. We are truly horizontal because there is no difference between races here and no national boundaries. The greater power of true love is penetrating them all. Are you single-minded in concentration or is your mind wandering? You must be single-minded toward the one woman or one man who is your spouse. In the garden of Eden were there many choices for husband or wife? No, there was only one man and one woman. If Adam and Eve were engaged by God but later Adam slipped from a cliff and was crippled, could Eve say he was not qualified to be her husband? Then there would be no husband for Eve for eternity. It was a very simple situation! You engaged men and women are in exactly that same position so you should see only one man and one woman. It is very clear.</p>
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<p>An eyeball has one vertical and one horizontal line, which meet in the center. The eye moves as a unit; the center doesn’t move one way and the periphery of the eye move another. You have two eyes, but do you see two images when you perceive something? No, you see one image, not two, so in marriage your focus should be one as well. Man and woman are two individuals, but your one focus is love of your child. You love your parents as much as you love your children, and that’s how you restore the vertical line. The truth is always simple.</p>
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<p>This is the great conclusion of the Divine Principle, that the whole purpose of creation is the completion of the four position foundation. You have received a tremendous treasure without even knowing how valuable it is, yet it is given to you unconditionally. Once you become principled men and women you will be the center of the universe wherever you go, whether to Mars or to the moon, to the spirit world or physical world. No matter how small a portion you may occupy in the center, you are still in the image of the prototype and the circles are the same, though of different sizes. You will fit into any place in the universe and be accepted.</p>
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<p>We are trying to create the core truth here, with love of parents and children and love of husband and wife like the first atom or cell. Our effort now is to expand it to the worldwide scale. That is the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>When you look at a black grandmother or grandfather, don’t view them as strangers but as your own grandparents. When you meet people the same age as your parents, whether they are beautiful or ugly you can relate to them as to your own parents. When you meet your peers, they are extensions of either your husband or wife. When you meet younger people, see them as your own children, or as your younger brothers and sisters. If you are familiar and comfortable in that way of life then you are living in the one family of the world and you will fit in anywhere in the universe; you will not be rejected anywhere, even in spirit world, because you are the basic cell which can fit anywhere in the world God created.</p>
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<p>When you men look at women, don’t do so with the archangel’s point of view but from Adam’s perspective. Satan always knew that Eve did not belong to him but to Adam, yet he still wondered if there was some way he could conquer her and entice her away. A woman can also harbor the mind of Lucifer, looking at a handsome man who is not her husband and wondering if there is some way she can win his attention. The safest way to look at a man is through the eyes of your husband. The men should look at women through their wives. That’s essential. When you do so, the entire world will be the extension of your family.</p>
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<p>How will a sense of ownership and value be determined in the future? The assets you are entitled to possess will be determined by how far you can expand your central truth to influence your surroundings. That will determine the size of your world. When you have a true horizontal line, the true vertical automatically comes into being; when you have a true vertical line, the true horizontal line automatically comes into being. A perfect plus comes whenever there is a perfected minus, just as a high-pressure area is automatically attracted to a low-pressure area and generates thunder and lightning. Anyone living in this Principle, regardless of how they look, is sending out beautiful vibrations, and everyone who comes near won’t be able to help but love them.</p>
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<p>If you are white, you must ask yourself what you have done for the black and Oriental people What you need is the whole world, not yourself alone; you cannot survive without the world. Do you think this ideology should be welcomed only by white society? Or only by Asians because I am Oriental? Or only by black people? If I should be welcomed on the universal scale then I should bring God’s conviction and way of life of lovism.</p>
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<p>What do you gain in the Unification Church? I am anxious to give you much, but have you received it or are you in the process of receiving it? I can classify you in one of three ways-those who have received, those who are thinking about it, and those still in the process.</p>
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<p>Some people claim they have been members for twenty years, but they have been spectators, only trying to gain something without investing themselves too much. For those people it doesn’t matter how long they have been here. Also there are those who think they should gain some benefit from the Church, such as housing or money. Supporting the Church is actually only the first level because eventually you are going to support the nation and the world. It has never been my philosophy that the Unification Church should prosper; it is my philosophy that the Church should sacrifice for the sake of the nation. Am I pulling the Unification Church to the goal, or is the Unification Church pulling me to the goal? In that theory should you be pulled by the Church, or do the pulling? Just as I am pulling the Church, you too should be taking the initiative to pull the Church to the higher goal.</p>
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<p>For instance, do you come here to Belvedere because you are required to, or because you want to be better locomotives? Should members come only when I am here, or should more people come when I am away? It is absolutely true that when I am not here you should be even more strong, taking my position. No one else will lead if you don’t. If you are always passive and I am the only one pushing you all the time, then when you come here you will only think that you are being pushed some more again.</p>
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<p>You should be a radiator of the love of God to influence the world more and more. That’s how your value will be determined. During your student days you asked your parents for an allowance, but then when they told you to study you resented it and grumbled about the generation gap. Our life here is similar because I am always pushing you and when I am away I send Col. Pak to push you, so you think that there is no respite. Do you think I do that to earn my meals? No, I am investing every penny I have, and the harder you work the harder I must work to provide funds for all your activities.</p>
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<p>This is the only chance to make you into gigantic men and women in the sight of God so I have to push you hard. For the first time God is relieved, knowing that I am doing this work for His sake. For the first time in history God has found a representative to push mankind. America is proud of all her accomplishments, but unless they are connected to true vertical love they-have no value in an eternal sense. That’s why reorganization is necessary in order to bring everything back to the central line and that’s what we are doing in the world. Has anyone else even attempted this?</p>
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<p>Last month there was a momentous engagement. Is that the end of it, or just the beginning of expanding this true love to every continent? That engagement is symbolic of uniting the entire world in reality. Will that concept of unification be welcomed by each continent? People point their finger at me and accuse, but do they have any better alternative? Then who shall ultimately prosper and win? You shouldn’t say we will, but say “I will” instead.</p>
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<p>The topic today is “What Kind of Thinking Do You Have?” You are creating the heavenly four position foundation, and without it the universe will crumble and salvation cannot be brought to the world. It is the purpose of your life to start the living tradition of that foundation. That’s why you need your wife or husband and children-not for your own security and enjoyment, but to fulfill the heavenly foundation. You are becoming the point of stability in the universe and because of you the world will be stabilized.</p>
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<p>Can we swap that value even for the whole of America? Even if the whole universe is handed to you it would not be a fair exchange for this value. You cannot even swap it for God and True Parents. Do you want to have that value? How much have you been yearning to possess it? This process is one of trying to sculpt men and women together into harmony with the universe. Carving yourself out of stone is painful. with all kinds of hardships coming to you as the chips fall away. After many years of tumbling around in running water gravel has smooth edges, but imagine how harsh an experience it was to become nicely rounded. We are going out to the world, which is like the running water, to smooth off our rough edges. Through your experiences you will get harder and stronger, but the water will round you off and make you into a beautiful shape. Do you have confidence in this?</p>
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<p>For a few days you people who were just engaged were enchanted by having your new object, but after a while you looked closely and thought perhaps that he or she was not so attractive. Did you ever think back nostalgically to the days of having your former girlfriend or boyfriend? Inevitably then your skepticism would expand to include the True Parents who matched you. Do you have confidence that will not happen? Why? Because your engagement has common ground in true love. For the sake of the world and the future you are going to be a pillar to support the world, so you cannot crumble, either of you. It doesn’t make any difference whether this pillar is a little short or fat or thin. That person can be fat like a potato and it won’t matter as long as he has this burning desire and radiates true love.</p>
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<p>At this particular juncture of history God is using me to be a mediator of this true love to disseminate the example of a true individual, true family, true ideal society, nation and world. The Unification Church, therefore, is the place where you will receive it because I am the mediator to do that. Eventually you will receive God, and He will find His dwelling in you. Do you think you have received this inheritance or are you still receiving it? If you have received it are you really taking care of it? Are you using that inheritance in your own life?</p>
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<p>God created His world of love, and in the same way I am asking you to create your own world to love. You are in the process of recreation-of yourself, your family, the nation and world, and eventually even the entire universe. In love you are the builder and you administer your house with love. Don’t you want to become that kind of men and women? Is it easier than getting Ph.D. from Harvard or more difficult? It is so difficult that I have given</p>
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<p>all sixty years of my life to it and still I am working on it. No other thought even enters my mind. Do you want to receive that inheritance? Do you have the genius to do this? If I have struggled with my whole might for these sixty years, then how much more would you do?</p>
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<p>How many years would you need to live to do it-several hundred? You know you won’t live that long, so since your time is limited don’t you think you should be desperately hastening toward the goal? Then should I encourage you to relax? If I have a real heart of love then should I push you to work harder than I do? That is why I clearly say that if you have a real ear and real thought then go ahead and analyze this task and do it.</p>
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<p>What do you have? You have the ideal of the heavenly four position foundation. Would you put it in storage somewhere? If we have this ideal then we must fulfill it in every way to create a new world of unification culture. You will have to invest every talent and skill you have to fulfill this heavenly four position foundation. If you don’t have too much talent then invest your body and do it, but don’t ever be idle. You must not be a burden to the Church or to me, or to the nation and world. You must not be indebted, but give grace so the world will be indebted to you.</p>
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<p>At home you want to be a good child who will not burden your parents, so you take care of your brothers and sisters and bring comfort to your father and mother. If you die with a great debt then you will be bowed down eternally and not able to lift up your face, but when you make the world indebted to you, you can look at God face to face. That is the secret of heaven. That’s why I never wanted to be indebted when I came to America, but to make this nation indebted to me instead. Many times I have seen members trying to take advantage of me, but I am still giving and trusting because my life has been given and God’s life has been given.</p>
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<p>The young people of America have come to me, but they are indebted to me, not vice versa. The same principle works at my home with Mother and the children. I have received a great inheritance so I must be in a position to give abundantly. This is true for you as well, since you have received so much. Don’t worry whether Your work will be recognized or whether people know what you have accomplished. Just live the Principle. I may not recognize what you have done, but that doesn’t mean you have been deprived; your assets will remain and no one can take them away and there is no way you can complain. No matter how well you do, you know you have not yet fulfilled your responsibility to the nation and society, so as a person who has not finished how can you lift up your head or complain?</p>
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<p>Do you have this inheritance? I am a man with bare hands who has nothing except the most precious gift-truth. Millions of people of all races have to follow me because they want to receive that inheritance. Everyone comes to me to drink the water of life.</p>
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<p>Amazingly enough the entire spirit world is supporting me. There are many great ministers in the world, but even though I am unjustly persecuted spirit world is working with me and all kinds of miracles take place in our Church around the world. It is because I have the central truth of God; I am the heir of God’s kingdom and the mediator between God and mankind.</p>
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<p>Today is June 10, 1979. Today you undoubtedly received the inheritance of the true love of God from His mediator, the True Parents. Then what can you do? You have to give it to others. Go to your home church and give it away, and go to your nation for True Parents and God. At the beginning of this sermon you couldn’t answer the question, “What do you have?” But now you can answer that you have the true love of God.</p>
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