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## RESTORED FAMILY

By Fami1yfed June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 21, 1979
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

I’m sure all of you realize by now that the cultural barrier between East and West is very difficult to cross. Spoken language, writing and customs must be understood in order to communicate. To those without some reason to be interested, the East seems far away and unreachable. When seen in God’s providence East and West are like twins, but the roots of Oriental culture developed and a spiritual heritage emerged sooner than in the West. What we call Hellenic culture is part of the heritage of the eastern part of the world, and the origins of all other ancient cultures as well are to be found in the eastern part of the world. If Jesus had not been crucified, then Christian culture would have started in Asia Minor and spread toward the Orient, but because of the crucifixion Christianity spread in the other direction, toward Rome and Europe.

God intended Christianity to stand on the foundation of Buddhism and Confucianism as the religion of perfection in the Orient. Christianity was intended to be a great unifying force embracing Hebrew, Egyptian and Hellenic cultures, unifying them into one world culture. But because of the crucifixion Jesus’ disciples traveled toward Rome and Britain, and later to the United States. Since coming to America, Christianity has spread across the Pacific and come full circle to unite with Eastern culture.

At the present time there is much friction between East and West, but actually it is to be welcomed; that friction indicates they are confronting each other, and only through confrontation will certain differences be worked out or eliminated. Eventually the two will emerge as one harmonious unit, and in that sense friction is not necessarily bad.

The Korean peninsula is divided in half by the 38th parallel, and the United States is linked to the southern half as an ally. President Carter wanted to withdraw America’s military support, but some power is preventing him from doing so. Carter is not the first president who wanted to withdraw militarily from Korea; President Nixon was the first. The American political mood is such that America wants to abandon Korea, but instead of allowing that to happen, God is sending Reverend Moon to. America; the Korean arm is holding America very tightly!

Present trends are leading America to give up different traditions and systems in its culture, such as the family unit. A dangerous situation is developing here in which people find no value in family life or in the church, and finally no value even in themselves. Young people feel they don’t need their parents or education or culture, and say they are going back to nature, which really means they are living like animals. Some influence is pushing them to deny their old surroundings, preparing them to welcome the new culture. If they hold on to the old ways then there is no room for the new when it comes.

When you are hungry you don’t care what kind of food you eat; you just grab anything and eat it. Right now God is allowing the American people to feel very hungry culturally, so as soon as something good comes they will grab it. Young people are interested in the mysticism of the Orient and many are moving to California, the place closest to the Orient.

We can see that there is a will in history which is not moving randomly. This age is being prepared for the new age to come in the future. Learning new ways and adopting a new culture is not easy and cannot be achieved by ordinary means. It is not easy for Americans to come sit on a concrete floor to worship God because you are accustomed to having nice carpets and chairs. Usually people go to church at 11 a.m. after eating a leisurely breakfast and reading the newspaper, but in the new culture we get up at 3:00 to come to Belvedere at 6 a.m. Have you heard the rooster crow in the morning? Why does he shout out so early like that? He is in the role of alarm clock, and those who are alerted spiritually know it is time to awaken.

There is a saying that history is made at night, but actually it begins in the early dawn; important things always start early in the morning before the sun rises. The persecution we receive from people is like the dark midnight in a deep valley, but we are climbing up out of that valley. We have come quite far, and historically speaking we are in the hour just before the dawn. Until now people have seen me in the worst possible light, even believing evil things about me that are completely untrue. But now the dawn is coming, and when they see the sunlight they will realize that what they thought was evil is actually the most precious and important of all. When the dawn comes they will see the true colors.

My topic this morning is Restored Family. It is not an easy topic because restoration of the family is not easy. It is not easy to read what I have written here on the board because it is very high-level writing. Handwriting is an important aspect of a culture, and without knowing the meaning and beauty of’ this writing you cannot understand its depth.

There are four Chinese characters in this title and one Korean letter. Each Chinese character has meaning. The first means “two persons.” This one refers to another person. This one means “day,” and this one means “repeat.” Each component here has a meaning. The East and West have different ways of’ observing the same object.

This Chinese character means ” heaven.” Literally it means “two persons,” in the sense that you cannot see heaven without at least two persons together. This next character means `’virtue:’ which in its literal translation is very philosophical: Again, goodness cannot be achieved by one person alone; there must be subject and object in reciprocal relationship for goodness to emerge.

Future historians must record that one of my accomplishments was to bring the culture of East and West together in unity, not just on the level of’ older people or scholars, but in particular among young people. That contribution alone is really an extraordinary one. Also, I am the one who created the movement in which Western and Oriental young people longed to have husbands and wives from other parts of the world. That in itself is a revolutionary movement. I never forced you to go that way, but somehow you feel that you would find joy in doing so.

A sense of mystery always derives from unknown factors. Why does man yearn after woman? Because she is a mystery; once she is known completely, however, there is no more mystery and attraction. Why is woman longing for man? Because of this mystic element. American women today are making a great mistake by exposing themselves too much, and because men know all about them their attraction is very much decreased.

Oriental women are very secretive, which is a great weapon. American women are all open and straightforward like machine guns, but if you make everything known then you lose your attractiveness. You know about Western culture and its limitations so it is losing interest for you. Now the Oriental culture is intriguing because there is much there you don’t understand. This is why you want to study and taste some portion of it. You want to conquer your ignorance about it and really see what is there.

God is a mystery because no one really knows Him entirely. If you could see God from all angles then you would lose all interest in Him. The same is true of the Unification Church; the world is saying many things about us, but they certainly don’t yet know all there is to know. Because of this mystery the interest of’ people outside our Church is mounting. They want to find out what 1 am all about so they come to investigate, and in the meantime they are convinced by the truth and love here.

It is an extraordinary thing that in this day and age all five colors of skins have gathered together with one common goal and truth, with a tremendous hope to move the world. Joining the Unification Church is just the beginning, and then all kinds of things happen after that. Unification members are a new breed; you are American citizens but there is something different about you. The Korean and Japanese members are not quite 100 percent Korean and Japanese, but have some special element which makes them Moonies.

The Unification Church can be compared to a magnet made out of five different components, which are the five races. Together they have tremendous pulling power. The black component of the magnet pulls black people, the white component pulls white people, and so forth. Everyone is pulled by that one magnet. The important thing is how big this magnet will grow. We are gathered together to become the heavenly magnet, growing even under adverse conditions, with the rest of the world accusing. If we can grow under adverse conditions, what will happen when the entire world wants to welcome us? The communist movements have grown quickly, but it will seem very slow compared to the changes that come when the atmosphere is set to receive the Unification Church. This atmosphere will be created all over the world, and exciting days are coming with the approaching dawn.

If you lose a few hours of sleep, it is a small sacrifice to give. Driving today with the cold rain and slippery roads, didn’t you feel excitement? Usually I drive over here in one of the bigger cars, but today the roads were so slippery that 1 came in a jeep with a snowplow. I was in the front seat instead of the back, and with the jeep jumping along it was a much more exciting ride. I thought for sure that there would be one-third as many of you here today because of the bad weather, but today attendance looks greater than usual.

Let’s go back to the original topic. The Korean words for “great universe” mean literally “great home.” This great world has been under Satan’s domain instead of God’s, and history began in conflict, with tears and suffering as the trademark. History has been full of disappointment, with people being born and searching for the meaning of life, suffering and wandering without direction. They all died without being able to find the answers, and no one has been able to conquer death.

Much evil has been done in war, but it also brought a fringe benefit because through war people have become advanced in knowledge and cultures have been spread quite quickly. People of advanced nations have to be physically present in order to conquer another land and in the meantime their cultures mingle. Defeated monarchs and armies have fled to remote areas and there continued their culture, trying to make a new life There are many stories in movies of criminals who had to flee their old life and start over in a new country, working on the most lowly level to regain some reputation. War has often been Satan’s tool, but God has not lost because of war. Criminals and sinners have made an historical contribution by fleeing to primitive territory and beginning a new culture. God never loses in history, but even pushes evil elements to make some contribution to human history.

Why are there many languages in the world today? Because people have been pushed away from their countries and started over. In anger and resentment peoples have determined not to speak the old language and made a new one instead. Criminals often use their own code to communicate and sometimes it becomes so sophisticated that it is another language altogether. Here in America there are many different uses of’ English, with special slang used by young people as well as different words in different regions.

The fallen world has become very confused and chaotic, and in that circumstance the work of restoration was begun. From God’s standpoint there is not even one man in this desert-like world He can call His own.

In searching for His representatives on earth God is not looking at famous people or men with great power because such people are only interested in their own power and in enjoying life. He has always looked to the people who suffered under oppression to find those who can understand Him . God always finds His champions in the lower level. Another reason is that Satan is interested mostly in power and prestige so he pays most attention to upper-level people.

It is the communist strategy to infiltrate on all different levels and gradually gain control, and in the same way God seeks to infiltrate one by one and establish his beachhead. God may be telling different groups that they are important in His work, nurturing them in their role. As a result of this spiritual reinforcement and belief that they are unique, these people don’t listen to anyone else. They do not know the overall point of view themselves, but all these groups are linked in a certain heavenly plan. They may not leave behind much physical achievement before they go to spirit world, but spiritually speaking they have a certain accomplishment. God is training and nurturing these champions, moving them up from the lowliest position to assume higher and higher positions.

There were many mystic or superstitious religions in ancient times and the idea of worship was very simple: people worshipped their many gods simply for their own benefit. In such religions the individual himself is the center, seeking simply to have good crops or to regain health. What blessing is that person receiving by worshipping God? God is guiding him out of this fallen world, leading him to become God’s champion.

How do we know these people are receiving blessing? By the fact that they are being persecuted; persecution is always a sign of blessing being given somehow. Those who try to live up to some higher spiritual will or direction always receive persecution. There are many degrees of faith among all these people summoned by God. One would want to receive blessing himself; another would want his family to benefit, while yet another would pray for benefit for his society or nation. People have different spiritual aspirations. The person who seeks the well-being of his family will be master of that family, and the person seeking the well-being of his tribe will be a tribal leader, and so forth.

Ultimately the person who seeks to bring God’s blessing to the world would be an international man, a leader who can see beyond race and nationality. Each religious leader’s sphere of influence is determined by his own desire. If he seeks universal well-being then he can be installed as a leader in the largest possible sphere, while the others will be led and influenced by him. What would be the highest possible religious aspiration is God’s sight? God has been waiting for the man who wants to liberate God, to bring Him rest and heal His heart of sadness. There is no higher religion than that.

What was Jesus philosophy? He said, “Not my will but Thy will be done.” Jesus wanted to bring glory to God and felt that he himself was nothing, that he could sacrifice everything for God. What is a Messiah? He come as a heavenly mediator between God and mankind’s desires, trying to reconcile them and bring harmony. Christians have faith in Jesus, but Jesus has faith in God. Therefore, if Christians truly want to advance they must not only believe in Jesus as a savior but believe in God and yearn to be His liberator.

Christians must fulfill both the wishes of the Messiah and the wishes of God. In order to do so they must elevate themselves to the position of messiahs and literally save the world. Their attitude must be: “For the sake of the world I must be a sacrifice. For the sake of God I can sacrifice my Christian church.” Because they did not do this, such a church is still needed.

There are many nations in the fallen world. God will raise up the people who truly want to live up to His and the Messiah’s wishes and pull them out of their countries. When all those champions are gathered will you find that they are all white? They must be of all five colors of skin because otherwise they could not be worldwide in influence.

Satan always knew that God was working to pull champions out of this world and create His own group or power, so naturally every time God tries to pull someone Satan tries to block his way. Satan doesn’t want to let even one person escape from behind his wall so he creates strong bonds of family and society to prevent the person from moving freely. But God is wiser than Satan-he pulls them one by one to a single destination and unites them into a group. This is done in the form of a religious movement which undertakes exactly this operation; some such movement must be born to do it on earth. The first. champions shall be chosen in one nation of this fallen world, so God will choose one territory to assemble His champions.

Israel was that territory initially, the staging area for God’s operation. After the crucifixion, Christianity had to have one place to assemble, and that nation was America. America was born for the sake of Christianity in the will of God, so people gathered in America from all around the world. Slavery is evil, but God worked even through slavery to bring some of His champions to America. God knew that in the end He would raise up representatives in the name of all people to be His champions, so He needed people from all continents, even though initially they didn’t want to come.

All colors of skin are gathered in the United States, as well as people of all different areas of knowledge and material power, but the basic reason this nation prospers is because of Christianity. America has drawn the great minds from all over the world, bringing a wealth of knowledge to this country, but the foundation to do this was Christianity, which is worldwide. There is a common goal among Christians, so drawing all that talent was easy because Christianity has a worldwide foundation.

This country is a microcosm of today’s world so the United States is the stage for the final messianic endeavor. No wonder God called me to come to America to begin the worldwide dispensation; it was most logical from God’s standpoint. America has a link with all different races and nations, so once we have an impact on this nation we will be linked to all countries. God prepared for many years in order to make this nation possible and to utilize it for this one critical time in history. If America fails to respond to this messianic movement then America’s mission is failed and thereafter America will be devastated.

Think of how God is working. Christianity flourished for many years in America, and then the Unification Church was born. Do you think the Unification Church would easily prosper? Until I came to America Christianity here was prosperous and rich, sending missionaries around the world. But once our activities became worldwide, American Christianity gradually began to decline. Young people knew that this was happening, and, being clever, they left first. But older people who move more slowly still remain. The interesting thing is that even as Christian leaders are telling the people to stay, they themselves are leaving!

This has been going on for ten years, and now churches are often empty, so that this is the perfect stage for Reverend Moon to emerge upon. While other churches have been crumbling I have been pushing through opposition and persecution. I won the battle in Asia and came to America to secure a beachhead. Here I proclaimed one movement for the liberation of God, of mankind and of Jesus. Furthermore, Reverend Moon and the Unification Church must be liberated. I issued a recruiting order for whoever was interested in kingdom-building, calling for champions from all races to step forward.

Each of you represents your nation and its leadership. This room represents the world, with all nationalities represented here, and even the nations that were enemies in the past now have their representatives sitting here together. Since God assembled the essence of the world in this place, the world here can be called the Abel world, and the everyday world can be called the Cain world. The Cain world is far bigger, but do you think the Abel world will be pulled or do the pulling? In the morning do you have confidence that you can pull the world? At lunchtime? At suppertime? Even in your dreams? That is true. We are going to pull this Cain world. The mark of my work is not only that I pulled the champions out of the Cain world, but that primarily they are bright young people. In twenty years you will be the key leaders of this nation. The time will come when America will welcome the Moon movement because there is no other workable solution for the world. What will your position be then? Right now the government and its agencies are chasing after the Unification Church, but we are fighting back and proving that we are innocent. We have 120 lawsuits underway right now, and one by one we are winning each of them as we are proven innocent.

We are not sitting idle while people try to destroy us, but are creating all kinds of weapons with truth and proof of innocence, documenting that our work is righteous. The record shows that the media and communist-influenced opposition have been trying to smear my reputation, but ultimately they will find that they have only helped by making me famous.

This is analogous to two wrestlers in a ring, one the world and the other the Unification Church. Even though the fighter for the world is being defeated and knocked down, he is discovering the strengths and weaknesses of the Unification Church fighter, realizing that he is not evil but righteous. After this loser comes out of the ring he begins to study the winner to see how he won and what his philosophy is. The popular trend now is to research Reverend Moon. Americans think they have the best national slogan-One Nation Under God-but I have come to proclaim a bigger slogan-One World Under God. America has found that next to my thinking and concept America’s own thinking is small.

Christians feel superior and think that other people will not come as near to God as they. There are over 400 denominations bickering among themselves, but I have come saying that all religions must unite under one God; you can see how entirely different these concepts are. Our members come from all kinds of religious backgrounds, including non-Christian. The Unification Seminary is unique among seminaries because the faculty comes from all denominations- Creek Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, and soon a Buddhist.

Hundreds of professors have come to visit Barrytown, and they can’t imagine how a seminary can survive if it employs scholars from different backgrounds. A Methodist seminary has only Methodist scholars, and Catholics have only Catholics, and so forth. But the Unification Seminary has teachers of all religions. Many observers feel I must be either completely stupid or else a genius.

I am not only pulling champions from different nations but from all religions of the world. You are those representatives. If you are American, you represent America, and if you are Christian you represent Christianity as well. The time will come when the leaders of, say, Presbyterianism will come to the Unification Church, and then they will proudly point out how many Presbyterian champions have already been in the Unification Church for a long time. Where can Jews go today? They are destined to join the Unification Church if they want to survive. Even though they are extremely negative now, the time will come when Jewish rabbis will come and be proud of how many Jewish pioneers already came to Unification Church.

Blacks will exclaim at how many early members were black and be proud, and you black members will be known as champions of their cause in days to come. We need representatives from all fields, all walks of life, all academic persuasions, so that later on everyone will have a channel into Unification Church. We are gathered into one circle, but we are not sitting idle there. We are engaged in many activities, rounding off all the sharp corners to become the rounded shape that can harmonize with everything.

You Westerners have eyes that are basically round, while the Orientals’ eyes are more angular, particularly mine. God made the human body round and smooth, and now your mind must be round and big as well. Is your mind like a penny, flat and small, or like a big round ball? If you are like a ball, you can roll any time in any direction, going everywhere possible. The Unification Church is round enough to roll in any direction, so it means you are ready for any mission. Today you fund raise with peanuts, next with ginseng, next with industrial machines-anything is possible for you. Today you can witness, tomorrow fund raise. We are flexible, not rigid.

I am truly round because there is no experience I have not tasted. I go to the sea, to the mountains, work in the factories, on the docks, in the mines. In school I can teach, or discuss deeply with philosophers, or come to Belvedere and be a father.

I have been extracting the essence of America into our movement. When people look at Moonies they see you are different-that you are capable, intelligent, charming and attractive. When eminent scholars come to the Science Conference and meet the Moonies, many remark that they wish their son or daughter could marry such a person. Many parents oppose the Unification Church because they envy my position; they see you becoming new young people, putting aside your old bad habits and drug life. Now they want to keep you to themselves, but you tell them you have to work for the mission because God needs you more than they do. They don’t like that; they would rather have you all cleaned up and sent back to them.

What would you do then? Are you working hard in desperation to keep food on the table? No, we are concentrating our efforts to liberate God and the, world. We are pulling the world each day, and since we are getting stronger, Satan is getting desperate and our opponents are working harder to defame our movement. Our opponents are astounded that even in the face of all this we are still getting stronger.

Have I already done great work? Compare the two individuals that you have been-one before and one after joining. Have you become a different person? A small peanut or a giant? You have grown and changed so much that your own parents must make an effort to recognize you. With this philosophy we can discipline ourselves, so if you have grown this much in just a few years, what kind of person will you be twenty years from now?

In the years before I started the 21-year course in 1960, hardly anyone welcomed me In later years even the members said they didn’t envy my position and found it hard to go on. I was talking about working on the worldwide level at that time, but none of our members could dream that the things I talked about would happen; I pushed through that doubt and hesitation and now what I am doing shines before the whole world. In 1960 I was older than you are now. In twenty years I have created much accomplishment, but you can do much more in twenty years because you are starting on an entirely different foundation. Eventually there will be no more opposition, and when you are welcomed by the people what kind of giant will you become?

Do we have hope or despair? Does the Unification Church belong to me or God? What kind of God is He? The universe is limitless, with many other solar systems and galaxies besides this one. God controls all these heavenly bodies. People think Neil Armstrong’s moon-walk was an impressive accomplishment, but in God’s point of view one man traveling from the earth to the moon is a minuscule accomplishment. Of all the many planets, don’t you think that perhaps there is one made of only gold? Or one that is a huge diamond? God’s jewel box is the universe, with planets of ruby and emerald. Wouldn’t you want to go there?

What would you do with a diamond planet? You would be shocked, wouldn’t you? What I want to say is that Almighty God long ago prepared everything for His children and nothing is lacking. The planet earth is a very small accomplishment in God’s sight. The movie about Superman shows him taking time to fly around New York and taking several minutes for him to fly to California. But to God that is very slow-He couldn’t run the universe is He moved that slowly. Don’t you think God is capable of moving faster than light?

God has children here on earth, and as a parent He has ideas for who will receive the planets in His jewel box when His children are restored. Already He has plans for giving all these to you. In all the galaxies that God created do you think there are more stars than humans on earth, or fewer? There are 4 billion people on earth now, and the number of people in spirit world must total many more than that, but there are more stars than all those people put together.

If God gave you one planet, how could you manage it? Your clumsy physical body is too inconvenient to move around, so God gave you a spirit man; your spirit man can move faster than electricity or light. Your spirit man can really move like Superman and even electric waves cannot keep up with it. Don’t you think God would create His own son and daughter to be faster than anything in creation” I look forward to entering into that vast space; I will be a grandfather by then so I look forward to visiting one son at one planet and a daughter at another. Don’t you suppose God thinks in that fashion?

God’s children are the princes and princesses of the creation, so don’t you think He imagined the nicest possible place for them to live? The Versailles in France is supposed to be the most glittering and elegant palace ever made by man, but it is pale in comparison to a bathroom in the Kingdom of Heaven. Here on earth we have to wear clumsy clothes, but in spirit world your clothes are always sparkling and dazzling. This is not a fantasy. God is capable of anything.

The communists teach that this world came about by accident or by chance. Do you think so? Even the smallest gadget requires man’s sweat and effort to conceive and repair, but man’s spiritual body continues living for millions of years and never needs fixing. God’s creations function as precisely as clockwork. Compared to the whole of the universe which God created, our existence here on earth is like a piece of dust, but in God’s mind He cannot trade the value of His son and daughter for the whole universe. Are you these precious children of God?

There is nothing impossible for our Almighty Father in heaven, and you are His sons and daughters. There is a whole incredible realm waiting for you which you have not seen but where you will live eternally. In that world you will travel faster than light and visit all these different planets made of precious stones. You won’t have to go shopping because everything you need will be ready. How much higher spiritually must you become to be entitled to that world? Is your body 100 percent conductive of God’s spiritual electricity, or is it a non-conductor like wood and soil?

Does wood or metal conduct electricity better? God has the best conductability. Are you 100 percent conductive of God’s energy, just like gold conducts electricity? Am I greedy for that or not? I picked you up when you were like driftwood on the side of the road, and I am trying to turn you into genuine gold. In order to do that I have to put you in the furnace and turn the heat up to melt out the impurities. How could you be pure otherwise? Do you complain at the discomfort of it?

Why does God seem to be helpless and subjected to ridicule by so many people? When people say there is no God it is the worst humiliation for Him, yet He submits to it because He wants to fulfill love. Those of you who were in love with several different people before you became members, which experience was the most memorable, the first love or your later loves? If your first love was an ugly man, but your next love was a Hollywood star, which impression would be the strongest for you? The first one. Love has such power that even an ugly person’s features become beautiful.

What about God, then? God wanted to give His first love to man and receive man’s first love, but was that love given? Ever since Adam and Eve became fallen, has anyone better than they were come forward to give God their love? The moment God lost man’s love He was deeply wounded. How do you think we can heal His heart? Man was the one who failed, so do you think God can heal His heart by Himself? No? Who should be able to do it then? Can you do it simply by saying that you love God? Our loving Heavenly Father has been deceived by man millions of times in history.

What shall man do to prove worthy of God’s trust? We have to be put in a position to receive hardship from God, to be chased out by God and yet still receive it humbly. God has one standard by which man can prove himself worthy-if fallen man can receive so much rejection that even unfallen Adam and Eve would have complained, and yet still love God and be willing to receive still more rejection, then he can be vindicated and heal God’s broken heart.

In order to prove ourselves worthy we must be pushed into suffering by God. God wants to be able to declare to Satan that His children are better than the original Adam and Eve. If they demonstrate utmost loyalty under intense suffering then God can tell Satan that he can never accuse these children of whom God is proud. History has never seen that kind of man, and for this reason God’s heart has not been liberated. But now God is seeing His first day of vindication through the Unification Church.

After knowing this secret, the man who volunteers to liberate God’s heart must be able to say that God can allow all the satanic forces to attack him and still he will remain as His son. Even if God Himself rejects such a person, he will still remain. That is why I asked God to let the entire satanic world come against me, and I am receiving that opposition now. Is it unfortunate to be persecuted, or does it need to be done? It is the secret method to bring the true love of God to man’s dwelling on earth.

Now the entire world is coming against you because you have united with me. At the same time I push you hard as well, but will you complain? What I am teaching you this morning is completely logical. If someone you dearly love betrays you, that person must show his love over and over under difficult circumstances for your heart to be healed. God has emotion of far greater depth than you do, so God has felt that hurt much more than you do. The man who could completely comfort God has never appeared on earth, and history has brought only continual grief and pain to God. But finally that man has come on earth; do you think God will take interest enough to visit him? Even if that man tells God to wait and watch for heaven, God cannot bring Himself to remain there but is anxious to come down and help. His throne would be a dull place while this man is busy on earth. Whenever I went through overwhelming suffering, even to the point of death, God always provided people or money to help, or an open door to a new start. In every difficulty God was always ahead of me, preparing. This is the only way God’s will could be fulfilled.

Do you think the barriers and persecution we face now are necessary or not? When you are blessed would you women prefer to have a good or bad husband? You can tell God you want the worst possible husband so that you prove your love for Him. If you have a good husband then you have no chance like that to prove your love. This is absolutely true! If you are truly a daughter of God, you can ask God for the worst man as your husband and tell Him that you will make that man the most outstanding and heroic husband of all.

The husband of such a wife could spend the rest of his life talking about her devotion and commitment and sacrificial love. A wife should be the one who testifies about the greatness of her husband and a husband about the greatness of his wife. I always testify to Mother’s beauty and charm and love, and she testifies to me.

As a loving Father, God will always use His best son in the worst possible circumstances, knowing that he will win. Isn’t that true? Since I have proved to be so tough, God trusts me enough to send me anywhere, even to the dungeons of hell, knowing that I will be successful. That is the kind of men and women God wants to represent Him. I am looking forward to see who shall become that kind of son and daughter among my own children, so I am always looking at you.

In the end it can be said that my life looked tragic and miserable, but I made up my mind a long time ago that I wanted to live through the worst suffering and indignation at the hands of man and God, and still I would love God and never change. That’s the way I volunteered. 1 never asked God for blessing or assistance, but He heaped blessing upon me nevertheless. I never prayed to God for things I needed, but always felt that I had not done enough. Apparently God likes that attitude better. for He always blesses the person who feels he should be doing more. In that position alone you can liberate God of His sorrow and mankind of their suffering.

God’s handpicked champions will be those who follow this way of life. God will have all the great prophets and saints of history come before those people to hear what they have done, and those saints will all say that those people have exceeded their standard and will pay their respects. That is the kind of men and women I am asking you to become. There is no day and night for God, and He will be with you 100 percent of the time. If there is a difficult task, you should be the one to ask God for it. Each day you will go one step further and break the record of the day before. There is always room to improve and you can never reach your maximum.

We are climbing up and crossing over every hill, but I want you to know that there is an end to all the obstacles. Once you reach the top of Mt. Everest then everything is spread out beneath you. You have a golden road ahead of you. At the pinnacle of that mountain you can feel that finally you can see why God pushed you so hard and in that realization you will be grateful to Him. That kind of man is essential if God is to be liberated.

So far God has always done everything He could do and it was always man who failed. Do you want to volunteer to be a champion in this world? Don’t you feel tired if you have already been in the Unification Church 3 years? How long can you go on? Forever? Your suffering on earth is limited. This opportunity will never come again, so grab it. Eternity will not contain this kind of suffering, so you must seize the time now.

The problem is that man stained his first love. God is seeking for a man who can restore more than the first love and who can truly liberate His heart. Until God installs such a man here on earth as master of the universe, His dignity will never be truly restored.

When God looks down He sees two churches, one trying its utmost to vindicate His heart, and another whose members believe in Jesus so they can have their safe little niche in heaven. God pays no attention to them; He has met countless people like that over 2,000 years and they were never concerned about God’s heart. Instead of giving them blessing, God is watching them decline. In the meantime He has drawn you away to become new champions with a new concept of faith to set a new tradition for the fulfillment of Christianity. Who will reject you in the end if you live that way of life? .,

Why do you follow me? You like me because God loves me. If God didn’t like me then you would never stay here. Are you ready for rejection and persecution? You might have had some lover from the “good old days,” but the value of what you are pursuing now is immeasurable compared to what you had before.

We are trying desperately hard to fill our cups now. A great vacuum and emptiness has been created throughout history and each of us is trying now to fill it up. No one can say they deserve the blessing; if it comes suddenly to you then that is a surprise blessing. Are you a patriotic person in this small, compact Abel world? Are there candidates for historical sainthood among you? Is it easy to achieve that goal?

There are examinations to be passed on the family, society, nation and world levels. How many levels have you passed? Unless you pass on each level how can you restore the family? When you restore the family it means you have achieved the original ideal of creation, and if you reach that level then no matter what persecution and opposition come, you will not be affected Your family should be like Adam’s in the garden of Eden. There was no opposition or rejection in Eden because there were no other people, and as long as Adam and Eve obeyed God they could have had the easiest way of fulfilling home church. Today you should fulfill that role of Adam’s family. Even though you may falter, you can regain strength because your Father and Mother have done it-they are strong and have met God’s standard and you are their children. You can think that even though you have your weaknesses, you will pick yourself up and go on ultimately to be like the True Parents.

You will need witnesses to testify about you, and God and the True Parents will be your witnesses. The True Parents will say, “This is my son. This is my daughter. We can send them anywhere in the satanic world and they will not be defeated.” You must be children whom the True Parents can testify to like this. You can realize that you are superior to anyone in history because you are children of True Parents and God. You must become exemplary for everyone in the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras. Among the three generations of Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Unificationism you should be superior. Each of you is passing through the formation, growth and perfection levels. Therefore, the number three is important in the Unification Church. When a husband and wife come together they form six, plus the True Parents makes eight, the family unit. Even if the other seven oppose you, nothing can make you recant your faith that you are a child of the True Parents.

There are three brothers as sons of God: the elder son is the yellow race, the second son is the black race, and the third son is the white race. The Unification Church is the movement in which these three sons can become one. In the future we will have a trinity system in the Unification Church, with one black, one yellow, and one white family living in one house so you can fulfill that expectation of God. Then you can go on to a higher level.

If there is a disabled person among the eight, would he receive less love” On the contrary, that would bring him added love, for the person who has a handicap receives greater love. Historically black people have been in a more desolate position of suffering so God will push white brothers more to help them. Would you welcome it? A few days ago President Carter made a statement which received a great deal of criticism-he said today’s Christianity is becoming a roadblock to racial unity, that American Christians are not living up to what the Bible says. At least he had done one thing right!

In order to win the title of restored family you have to set the record of loving all societies and nations. When you go beyond that level you can come back to declare that your family is a restored one. The center of the restored family is God. If you suffer for your own people then your record does not have as much meaning. If Americans suffer for America it means less. But if white people go to Africa to suffer for black people, it has great meaning. If black people suffer for white people that has great meaning, for that is the only way we can unite the wood into one.

There is no way we can become one until we realize that God, the master of all humanity and the universe, has been suffering. Until it is realized that God is suffering, mankind can never really become one. Further, man must realize that God is a miserable, suffering parent because He loves man and refrains from cursing man for his sin. God put Himself in such, a position of misery because he had hope for man.

Why is it you cannot complain to me? Because you know that I have suffered more than you for the sake of’ the world, nation, and family, and there is no one who has suffered more. No matter how hard 1 push you in fundraising and witnessing, you still feel you want to do more instead of thinking you are entitled to complain.

Only if man can love God with a love exceeding the love of unfallen man, which God never received, can the world become one. No other power can make people come. We in the Unification Church must be united around this concept and ideology. There is no way you can prove yourself worthy until you come under much pressure. Once you are ignited in that love you will be like yeast to make good bread. Then a revolution will take place.

If you have five members living in your center, who will be the host or master? Not the person who gives directions and then sleeps, or the one who tells someone else to cook and then only eats. If a person is always looking for a way out of work then he is the most foolish of all, losing the battle and defeating his own purpose. We are here to serve more than anyone, and we should compete with each other to serve more.

Those in the everyday world who try to advance themselves and show off seem to go farther, but in God’s world it is different. Here we try to lower ourselves in humility and meekness, realizing that this is the way to be raised up. The Unification Church has a practical way of life. Instead of putting on makeup, our sisters would rather do the cleaning or cooking. Even if their faces are pale God sees them as more beautiful. Those who serve only themselves, no matter how well they talk, will go in only one direction-powerlessness and smallness.

I am sure I have set the all-time record of receiving more beatings and persecution than anyone. When the Watergate publicity began, Nixon was berated every day by the media, and within 1½ years he gave up and resigned. Those Americans who attacked me predicted that I would collapse in six months, but now after six years I am going stronger than ever! The New York Times and Washington Post made such predictions, but they realize now that they can’t compete with me. Even the U.S. Congress was defeated. Who made you winners’! Was it me? America God brought that victory. How great God is!

Twenty-four hours a day the earth makes one revolution, without variation. If it lost even one second every day, what do you think would happen? After millions of’ years, one second each day would mean a loss of many hours, but God made the universe in such a way that even after millions of’ years the earth does not lose one second. God is that precise and meticulous. When God promises that He will be with you, He will do so without even one second’s variation. That is the Unification Church God. If that is the God you believe in then your faith can be precise and continuous, just as the earth never loses even one second. Even if the task is a million years long, the Unification Church faith shall never deviate from it.

Are you always vacillating in your faith, or always firm and consistent? If you are always faithful then you shall be serving God and restoring your family. You can become a husband or wife in that restored family, and raise great children there. Is that difficult or easy to do? I want you to make your mind very straight right now. For the fulfillment of God you are going to marry and have a home, not for your sake, but for the fulfillment of God’s will. Therefore if God gives you the worst possible mate, that person is the one you deserve, and anything better is a fringe benefit. Whatever God wills, you will. It you lower your expectation to the lowest possible level, how can you be disappointed?

It is as though each person wears a mask, and the person you thought was incredibly ugly turns out to be the most handsome in the heavenly way. But the person who expects to get a wonderful person will not have that kind of fortune. It is not to be worried about. Just be ready for God’s will and ready to rejoice over anything. If you are like that then there is no way Satan can dominate you.

Do you really love God? In order to test you, that God whom you say you love will show Himself as a deformed baby who can do nothing for himself, and who needs care his whole life long. If God is testing you, He will be saying through that child, “Why is my laundry always so smelly and my supper so late?” Will you still love that God? Then love your fellow man as you say you love this God; that is how you express your love for God.

Many American young people want nothing to do with their old parents and put them away in institutions. Is that the heavenly way? Is it the heavenly way to have to wait on them every day for all their needs, even taking them to the bathroom? If a charming young lady takes care of parents in such a loving sacrificial way, will the townspeople complain that she is taking business away from the senior citizens’ homes” Even in America today would that deed by praised as virtuous? Will we in the Unification Church put our parents in senior citizens’ homes?

When I am very old and need someone to take care of me, if I come to your home will you say you don’t have the resources to take me in and ask why my own children don’t take me in? 1 wanted to do that for my own parents, but they passed away before 1 had completed my responsibility for the world dispensation. You can be better than me in that respect because your parents are still living. The highest virtue is a burning family love and desire to help each other in a sacrificial way. Centered upon such love you can create the warmth of a true home. The tradition we are going to create is the restored family.

Today American families are going in the opposite direction, so inevitably American homes will crumble. The age-old family system is no longer honored because individuals are looking out for their own welfare instead. Is a new family system needed here in America? At one time you were like today’s young people, concerned solely with your own well-being, but since coming here and being taught and disciplined, you have become different men and women. This new ideology has been implanted in your heart and no one can take it away-even if you are dragged away from the Church. You will be comforting God for eternity, without end. That is our determination.

Today you may look like a miserable person, but I want you to have pride in it because the time of suffering will soon be coming to a close, and even if you go out seeking suffering in the future it will be hard to come by. My own life is a good example of this. There was a very lonely time when I longed for people to come, even just one person, but now there are too many people and I cannot see everyone. What a change! There is no question that by any standard I have succeeded on he worldwide scale-by American, Korean or any nation’s standard. The same God guarantees that if you pursue this way of life you will have the same success.

The final destination is the restored family, and in order to accomplish it you have to struggle in two worlds and overcome many barriers. The Cain and Abel struggle within the free world and within the nation and church, even in the Unification Church. The barriers are always there, even in the Unification Church, and you must overcome them.

Our goal is to do home church-first Cain home church, then Abel home church. Only then will you enter this restored family. In your home church put into practice what you have been taught this morning. Don’t worry whether other people love you or not. If no one loves you, don’t complain, but realize it is because your own love has not been sufficient. You must love more and give more service. God gave love first, He never asked to be loved first. No, God’s way is to love first.

You will become a victorious person who can enter the restored family by overcoming the barriers and living the principle you have been taught. That shall be your secret to succeed. Once you enter the restored family and look back at the road you have come, you will marvel at the incredible path you walked. Then you will feel much, much happier that you have already arrived at the destination, and exclaim, “It was all worth struggling through in order to meet my heavenly family, and I want to fill my family with the song of love. Just as God loves, I will love. I love my family and the world as God loves them and see them from His viewpoint.” You will reach the position where restoration is finally consummated.

You can put up a barrier of love which will be greater than that built by unfallen Adam and Even, and there is no way Satan will be able to overcome that fortress once you do so. In this sense home church is really wall-building for your own protection. I struggled in the satanic world to win this weapon, and now I am passing the secret to you so you can do just the same on a limited scale, which is home church. It is your world, and when you use this method to win there, God will acknowledge that your victory equals that over the whole satanic world.

You might wonder why God can’t freely give, you His blessing without home church, but without it you have not erected that barrier against Satan. There is no guarantee of eternal stability without it. Home church work is like building your castle which Satan has no power to destroy. The more difficult home church is to create, the greater your wall of love will be. Actually, difficulty is all to your benefit. It is a great revolution that Unification Church can do home church, at the same time transcending national barriers, racial or cultural barriers. We can do home church as one unit on the worldwide scale. You and I pass away from earth, but we will not have to finish the unfinished task later by coming back to earth. Once you finish the task here victoriously, you will go to the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven, where you can enjoy life eternally with God.

Later on when we gather in spirit world won’t you come to see me? Then when I invite everyone to go visit the planets, wouldn’t you like to come? It will be a traveling banquet for eternity. God created beautiful homes out of each planet but there have been no masters living there yet, so when we are traveling I will give them to you. If you worry about being left behind on one planet I want to reassure you. There is no time or distance in the spirit world, so wherever you are you are always with me. This is no dream or fantasy, but reality.

I am not dumb. I am smart enough to succeed spectacularly in any other field, even politics or business, but I gave it all up to stick to this job because I wanted to reserve this world for you. You are smart too, because otherwise you would not follow me. You know that I am keeping the best in reserve, and since you have tasted a sample you have decided to stay.

We have to be victorious, and our goal is the restored family because the Kingdom of Heaven shall be built in units of families. When you pass the test on that level then the entire universe will be yours for the asking. If I ask you what kind of husband or wife you would like to enter into heaven with, what would you answer? The worst? You know how you should live here on earth and you will accumulate your assets. By knowing this secret and working hard to reach the goal you will never lose.

The greater the love and sacrifice you demonstrate, the lighter you will be and the higher you will go. The amount of universe you can conquer is determined by the level of your love, and the spirit world computer is so accurate that there is no miscalculation or deviation. Sometimes you should be longing for God so much that you close your eyes and ears and nose, concentrating your senses to see God. “God, I want to see your face before I sleep, but I didn’t see you today,” and if you cry out, day after day, then suddenly God will appear face to face. That is why God is precious.

Are you confident to be a champion to build a restored home? What kind of barrier will you build? Where will that love be? Home church on the worldwide level. America is a wonderful place for that reason because here you can find all races and peoples. When you white members knock on the door of other white people they will reject you simply because you are Moonies. Sometimes black people will welcome you, though, just because you are Moonies.

Instead of visiting homes of other white people, whites would rather go to Spanish homes, black homes, Oriental homes. That’s restoration. How much history has been moving upward! It is difficult to keep visiting 360 homes every day, but in the meantime keep knocking and being rejected. While you are doing that the dawn is breaking. You are home church messiahs. You are going to be a messiah to 360 homes, but then will be elevated to be tribal messiahs, then national messiahs. That’s where you will find the restored family, and finally return to your home town.

Do you always have to live in the New Yorker? What is the goal? Do you live in home church now? Go to your home church and serve them spiritually and physically and be the contractor for re-creation in every way. How much you sweat and cry for your home church and how much persecution you receive there is the important thing. If you still come back to serve the people after three angry rejections, the people will say you Moonies are impossible and there is no one else like you anywhere in America.

There is no barrier you cannot break through in order to be a host and hostess in home church. Have the barriers of opposition started to crumble here in America? It is an exciting task, and they will inevitably break down. No matter how gigantic they are, our opponents will crumble eventually, so just go forward fearlessly. Initially Col. Pak felt he could hardly overcome the fierce opposition from the U.S. Congress, but that barrier broke also. What I have been saying sounds like a dream now, but it will happen.

The barriers in spirit world have been broken already, and all the barriers in the physical world will crumble also, even though many people are opposing us now. The communists have great power, but already their power is being eroded within communist nations. The communists’ worst enemies will be their own children, who will revolt and denounce their own parents’ ideology. This is the power of spirit world moving in every direction.

It takes time for this to become known, but the dam has already broken. To average people living far away it seems impossible until the water reaches them and then it is too late. Ten years ago I was saying that the dam had broken. You are accepting me at face value and believing in something that seems impossible-that is faith. Twenty years ago I spoke to a small group of members in Korea and said that in time people from England and America and the whole world would join with them to fight for world restoration. They were not only astonished but doubtful, and said among themselves that I was only trying to make them feel better. But what has happened now? Today I am saying extraordinary things and do you think I am only trying to make you feel better? No? Then you are better than the Koreans!

Home church is our destiny, so pack up to leave the New Yorker. Would you accept my challenge to be victorious champions in home church so we can all rejoice over restored families? All right. Thank you.

Let us pray.

## LET US RESTORE OUR HOMELAND AND FATHERLAND

By Fami1yfed June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 14, 1979
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Today we are known as Moonies. People outside our Church criticize Mother and me for being called True Parents because words such as “True Parents,” “true children” and “true ideal” are difficult for people to comprehend. Truth is hard to find. Then how much more difficult it must be to find the reality or substantiality of truth. When you go to a library there are many books by authors who wrote according to their own desire and will, which they considered to be truth. But could their truth be incarnated into visible, substantial truth bodies? It is very difficult for scholars to turn their theories into reality. How much more true this is when we are talking about the ideal world or ideal life as a reality.

In order to have truth become reality, we need to go through a tremendous ordeal of suffering and tribulation. In order to find one true man, much suffering is necessary. Truth doesn’t come through winning recognition from your fellow man but through being recognized by the ultimate one, the unchanging, Almighty God, His sovereignty and nation.

Throughout history people have been looking for true man according to their own definition, and have tried to evaluate men in light of that definition. Saints and prophets are most likely to be known as men of truth, and it is interesting that those who have been called saints always emerge from among religious leadership. We can name Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and Confucius as men who have been known throughout history as saints, acquiring this title by agreement of the people.

Then let us recall what those saints did. Did they completely fulfill their missions, their life and ideal? The answer is no. Their ideal was not fulfilled in their own time but was left behind in their holy books, such as the Bible. All of those saints are now in the spirit world while their followers are now on earth teaching their ideals. But where are the true men and true women who are following the teachings of those saints? The true followers are those who are making the maximum effort to live that teaching, not just memorize it. Realistically speaking, how many in the Christian world can be known as true Christians? There are many theologians, priests and leaders in the Christian world, but where are those who can be known as the true followers of Jesus? In the ultimate sense there is only one. In other words, there is only one truth. Today we live in a world where evil is all around us. If some true man emerged in this evil world, he would be an outspoken adversary, representing the exact opposite of evil.

In this evil world what criteria do we use to identify what goodness remains? Do you think we can find the true man among the well-known and recognized scholars, or among the downtrodden, suffering and persecuted? If a noted professor was a true man, would he hesitate to speak the truth for fear his reputation or prestige might be hurt? Suppose the true man was the president or king of a nation. Would he worry about upsetting people and losing his reputation if he said certain things? The person who is governed by concern for his own reputation cannot be a man of truth. The person who is born for truth is like a tank which goes straight ahead without any hesitation, even if it means digging a hole in a mountain or putting a bridge over a river. He would not think of going over or under but only of how he would penetrate and go straight through.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. This means there is no time to fool around. The true word is always shot straight, not flowered with adjectives. In Korean we say that a man speaks straight. Do you like to speak and hear straight words? it’s not easy. Those who like to hear and speak straight words, raise your hands. You are not speaking straight. You are a bunch of straight liars. The person who sneers, “You Moonies” is really speaking to you straight, but you don’t like to hear that, do you? Those who like to be told they are Moonies, raise your hands please.

When you go to your home church area and people slam their doors, saying, “You Moonies can get out,” you think, “Why did I have to become a Moonie?” The person who says that is not a true Moonie. The true Moonies are the ones who are walking all six continents with dignity no matter what people say. To be a proud Moonie you must know the true definition of a Moonie. He is the one who can go to his parents and proudly say, “Father, Mother, I’m a Moonie. If you love me, you will listen to why I have joined the Unification Church.” That person will have the power to inspire his parents to become Moonies also. He is a true Moonie.

In the Unification Church we have one super Moonie; if I am a true Moonie, you would want to pay attention to me and listen to my words. Do you know you have some invisible tail I can see trailing behind you? Is it true that the true Moonie shakes his tail and his head?

In our world what is the distinction between the good religion and the evil religion? One person says, “I believe so that I can be saved and have the best place in heaven.” Another says, “I believe this religion because I find in it a way to save the world. I want to save the world.” Which one is the true religion? Based on that, look at the Unification Church. Which one are we? Are we here just to save ourselves or to save the world? Is it a good or an evil religion? Did you say it is good because you are in it or because it is really is the truth?

When you wake up in the morning would you first look at yourself in the mirror, putting on makeup to make yourself look better, or think about the world and its fate first? You are unusual people, especially you women. Other women spend a couple of hours getting themselves ready in the morning. They do their nails and their hair, and spend an hour on their eyes alone. If I visited the sisters’ rooms, would I find them messy or neat? You have an excuse for not being neat because you are busy 24 hours a day.

There is one Moonie who wants to spend every minute in his mission, ready to meet one more person at the end of the day, even though it means having no time to fix his room, while another insists that everything in his room be neat and right before going out. Which do you think is closer to being the true Moonie? If you are really crazy about your mission, you should be out 24 hours, but if you are out 24 hours and no one touches your room, it should be neat.

Moonies really have no time to spend shopping, but there are always those who take time to care for themselves and look sharp. On the other hand, those Moonies who take no time for themselves look like beggars. Will God come down to those Moonies and say, “Get out of here you smelly Moonies,” or “What a heavenly fragrance you have. That is my smell.” To those who wear cologne God will say, “I don’t like that smell.”

If God evaluates the way humans evaluate then He is not God. Something that offends the human nose might be fragrant to God, and that which smells good to the human nose might be a bad odor for God. God doesn’t smell physically but spiritually.

One person follows his religion in order to protect his own well-being and another just forgets himself and tries to do one thing more for his fellow man and is willing to die for the world. Those are the two kinds of faith you can find in our world, regardless of the religion. Which is the true way of faith? This is why Jesus says that he who seeks to gain his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for Jesus’ sake will gain it. Isn’t that the immortal truth?

There are two kinds of single men and women. One thinks that his marriage comes first and that if he isn’t matched next time, he just won’t stay longer. Another says that he will do whatever he can to fulfill the will of God for mankind and will tell God, “Use even my marriage for the purpose of Your kingdom.” Is there a rule that you can’t marry after you’re thirty years old? One type feels he has to marry by the age of thirty. Another feels that it doesn’t matter whether the age is thirty or forty as long as he can do the will of God for the sake of the world. There is still another who is forty and says, “God, if You want me to marry I will, but if You don’t want me to marry, it’s no problem. I will still go on.” Which one would you choose? Are your lips saying yes to the third one while your mind is saying yes to the first?

Here in America who are the true patriots? Are they the ones who are using drugs, alcohol and free sex? What about the person who enters the realm of the prostitutes to try to liberate even one person from that world? That person would be mistreated, spit upon and slapped. The prostitute might say, “I have a business here. Pay your money and you can do whatever you want. But you are a strange person trying to persuade me to leave this world. You are crazy.” Which person is the patriot?

Moral corruption has become the American way of life. Taking drugs is common today. But no matter how small a minority you might be, isn’t it patriotic to stand up against evil because you know it is not God’s way? Nowadays most parents are anxious for their children to have boyfriends and girlfriends, and they worry if their children don’t date. In the midst of that a strong direction has come which proclaims that young people should grow separately until they are mature and can meet with God. Only after that can they meet with each other as husband and wife. Which is the way to national salvation?

I am being criticized because I am trying to change the behavior of society. I do not speak in soft tones. There is one way to go and that’s it. Even you as my followers have some reservations. Some think, “Yes, I’m a Moonie now and I’m going to be blessed but I don’t see anyone in the Unification Church who deserves to have me as a husband. The girl I used to date is better.” You might want to ask to be blessed to your old girlfriend but because you know it doesn’t work that way, you will have some complaint inside. Put yourself in my position. If I say yes to such requests, am I a true leader? Truth is straight so I have to be blunt and remain straight.

Most Moonies come to the Church with some string attached around them, making them prisoners of Satan’s influence. You always have some rope and without even knowing it you are being pulled. In order to be a true Moonie, the first job is to cut the rope so you are totally free and independent. The true Moonie feels shame when he thinks back on his old life. If you don’t, you are still stained. Is that the kind of Moonie you want to be? Are you trying to be pure and cut off your rope?

What about you women? You are working every day, but you are concerned at the kind of men you see in our Church. You have no idea with whom I will match you and you might feel scared to death at the idea of being matched to a certain person. Or maybe you want to be married to the man you used to date. Do you think in those ways? Or do you think that whomever I pick is the best one tor you and that you will be happy with that choice through eternity?

Look at the way of life in the world. It is all a facade behind which the truth lies hidden. True things don’t have a facade but are open and sometimes may not look very attractive. This world makes things look attractive but they are all fake. God and truth come opposite the way you might imagine. If your aspiration is to go one way, God always comes to you in the opposite direction. When something contrary to your opinion happens, I want you to consider the possibility that it is closer to the truth.

You walk on your feet, but suppose the heavenly man comes walking on his hands. He looks like an abnormal man, but would you accept that and still welcome him? When a person comes to you in an opposite way, ask in your heart if it is God’s will and if you will accept it and be happy with it. If you accept and commit your life, thanking and glorifying God, then when your wedding day comes the most miserable-looking man will turn out to be better than any movie star. He will turn out to be a heavenly, handsome man. In other words, that’s the way God tests you.

Biblical teachings are full of seeming contradictions. As Jesus said, “He who seeks to gain his life will lose it, while he who seeks to lose his life for my sake will find it.” That means that those who are willing to die and be miserable will find glory. The person who is willing to accept the worst possible husband will get the best husband. The men who are willing to accept the worst possible women will get the best wives. Those who want to be rich will live in absolute poverty while those who really want to suffer in poverty will become rich. Those seem like contradictions, but that is the way God works.

My case was the same. I told God I would marry according to His will. “If You want me to marry a crippled girl with one eye and half a mouth, it doesn’t make any difference. I will do that if it is Your will.” I expected the worst and God gave me the best.

Mother was very young when she was blessed and said that she didn’t know very much. She didn’t know about the world of men at all. With a prayerful mind just to do God’s will, she accepted the challenge. Mother accepted everything in faith and service to God and came to be the True Mother of the universe. In the beginning I didn’t expect glory and I didn’t understand that position at all.

I want to put you in the worst possible circumstances so you can say, “I’m dying and I have no future. I’m miserable and pushed down to the bottom, but I shall do it for the will of God.” I know that then the law of God will work and you will find the best life and the highest glory. That’s why Jesus said, “He who seeks his life will lose it; he who loses his life for my sake will find it.”

There are about 500 people gathered here and sometimes I want to give you the worst treatment so that everyone will turn around and leave, unable to persevere any more except for one crippled Moonie. That person will be the true Moonie through whom God can work His will. The blessing will go to him even though he is willing to die for the Parents without expecting anything. That should be the only reason he continues, not because he expects to receive great glory or blessing or power. Then all of a sudden I will say, “Open your hands. The entire blessing is yours.”

I am pushing you all out so much to home church that no one can stand it and most of you want to give up. But there might happen to be one miserable man or woman who keeps going after home church. That person will become the home church king or queen and all the blessing of the home church will go to that person. There God’s history will be written. That chapter will say that on such a year on such a day all the Moonies tried their best but couldn’t sustain the pace and gave up. But one cripple remained until the last, determined to die for the sake of home church. God will build His eternal home church upon that faith just as Jesus built his church on Peter, the rock. The men and women who remain shall be the rock of home church. That’s the way the true man and woman are revealed.

In America there is a generation gap between parents and children. It parents really gave unselfish, fully devotional love to their children day in and day out, no generation gap could ever be created. The problem is that parents don’t do that. They do not act as the true father and mother. They are even worse than false parents because they are half-hearted parents who are unconcerned and the children have no feeling toward them. Wealth doesn’t bridge the gulf between parents and children. It’s better to be in a miserable situation where the father and mother are struggling to feed their children because then the children can feel the true love of their parents. Then they will be much happier in their relationship.

Suppose there is a blessed couple with children in the nursery. The father is a missionary somewhere and the mother is trying to support the children with very little money. There are no luxuries for Christmas but the mother buys one small card and writes a I heartfelt Christmas message in tears. That’s the only way she can express her love on Christmas day and it is priceless, the very best gift of Christmas.

I’ve had the same kind of experience. Now I receive many gifts and many honors from all over the world, but far more than those things I value the tokens of love I received in my days in prison. The prisoners who knew who I was saved their rice powder, bringing it to me even though they were starving. No one in that prison lasted more than six months because the diet was pitiful. If any edible thing was sent from outside it was like a diamond, yet those inmates hid that precious little package from the guard’s searches, saving it for my sake. That rice cake was far more valuable than East Garden or the World Mission Center because the truth dwelt in it. True man and true love can manifest in that fashion.

There are three categories you can fit into: true man, fake man, and those who are trying to become true man. Which one are you? I’m sure at this very moment the fake man was converted into someone trying to be a true man. A promotion came this morning, but that’s all right because it’s the whole purpose of my sermon.

Sometimes parents really push their children or spank them hard, but it is not out of a selfish motive. They want to see their children succeed and be independent, worthwhile people, receiving honor and glory from society. When parents really pray for the sake of their children and cannot sleep at night when something happens to them, it is an expression of true love. Truth can be found in such places, not in a glorious palace or luxurious hotel.

Compared to the religions in the world is the unification Church a true one, fake one or one striving to be true? How do you know the Unification Church is true? Every time you come to Belvedere you hear something very harsh and difficult. I am pushing you to suffer. There is never one lenient Sunday morning when I say, “Okay, you have been working very hard, so everyone take it easy now. Take a nap.” You have never heard that. I know you have been suffering and doing the best you can, but when you come to Belvedere I push you more. You could very easily say, “Father, I’m trying. Leave me alone!” Suppose your nose is broken and you say you need a rest. I will say, ” Your nose may be broken but your two eyes are strong so keep going.” No excuse works. It sounds like a cruel thing for me to do. Do you think I am so insensitive that I don’t understand your suffering, and how you feel ? I know, because I am like you.

I know my body wants to take a rest and go the easy way, but had I followed the mandate of my own body there would be no Reverend Moon and no Unification Church today. If I had been following the easy way and tried to satisfy my own body, do you think the five races of the world would call me Father and give their lives to me? Do you think that even though they are pushed so hard they would still go on without complaining? Those things cannot happen at random. If my way of life was totally opposite to God’s way, God would have said a long time ago, “My son, you are doing too much. Don’t try to make yourself and others miserable. Leave them and yourself alone. I don’t like the way my children are suffering because of you.” God would have called me to spirit world a long time ago.

I have always said, “God, if You want me up in spirit world I am ready any time. If dying will complete the mission, I want to die as quickly as possible.” Then God replied, “No, my son, I need you down there.” In effect God was saying, “You just push them more. We need millions of young people like that in order to do my will on earth. I need you to take care of young people and create a heavenly army stronger than Hitler’s army or the communist army. I want to create an army for heaven which is strong in faith and dedication and love. Go ahead and create that army for me.”

Do you think it’s easy to make that heavenly army of love? In order to make that army do you think all I have to do is sit around in a big chair and give orders? No, the only way to create it is with sweat, sleepless nights and incredible suffering. You have seen my life for some time now, and knowing how hard I work you feel you are not doing enough. You see something great inside me, something you cannot measure. If you could measure it and size me up, you would not obey me or follow me because you would know you were bigger. You know the truth and how the truth comes about, so make up your mind that your entire life will be a life of service and a sacrifice on the altar.

Today’s subject concerns restoration of the homeland and the fatherland. Do you have a homeland? Where is it? Is your homeland the place to which your father and mother are trying to kidnap you? So far in history true men haven’t found a homeland. Then how could they have a fatherland? God told Abraham to leave his native land because it was no longer his homeland. In order to give Jacob the name Israel God chased him out of his homeland so he could overcome the danger of his elder brother’s wrath. For nearly 2,000 years the Israelites were wanderers all over the world, chased from their homeland. Christianity was driven out of its homeland and went to Rome, where it suffered. Christianity has been wandering around the world. If Christians had truly found a homeland, would they be persecuted and killed? Even Christianity hasn’t found a homeland where it is welcome.

Did Jesus have a homeland? He gave up his homeland. He even said to his own mother, “Woman, what have you to do with me?” There was no relationship between them, for he didn’t call her “mother” but “woman.” Jesus never acknowledged his brothers, but said that those who did the will of God were his brothers and sisters. The place where believers are dwelling is not yet the fatherland. You are the citizens of one country and have a place to return to as your homeland, but that is only by name, for you have no real attachment in your heart. There is no real protection for eternity but always threats. What is the father country of democracy? If it is America, what about Vietnam? Under the guidance of America, Vietnam wanted to create some democratic nation in the American pattern, but what did America do? She betrayed Vietnam and gave it up to communism. Today America is not serving as the true, eternal homeland of democracy.

Are public elections the way to pick the person God wants to lead the country? More than anyone else you know that elections are corrupt. Actually many communists are winning because they know people’s frailties and buy their votes, trying to undermine democracy. Every way you look, this country is destined to fall.

Do you think Russia and China are the homeland of communism? Russia and China are divided today, fighting among themselves and trying to conquer each other. You never know which country will fall. There is a war going on now in Southeast Asia between Vietnam and Cambodia, which is actually a fight between Russia and China. Is that their homeland? There is no homeland for anyone.

Where is the destination and ultimate homeland of all men? Where can truth dwell in prosperity and be secure? It is a logical conclusion that the Unification Church today is heading toward establishing the heavenly homeland, the mother and father country of the heavenly people. It is our job to build the homeland.

Jesus could not establish the homeland; neither Confucius nor Buddha nor any religious leader has been able to do so. All kinds of ideologies were developed by devout Christians and communists who said they were trying to build the homeland of their own, or utopia, but it’s impossible. Even with God behind him, Jesus could not establish the homeland here on earth. Then how could man-made ideologies like communism or democracy establish the homeland here on earth? No homeland can be found where man is striving to become the center and be god. The Renaissance movement was trying to make man god, driving God off this planet. For 400 years now that movement has practically thrown God out the window. Do you think anyone is talking about the homeland today?

Christians have no hope because the only reason they believe in Jesus is so that they can secure their own heaven. That ideology will not secure the homeland and father country for mankind. If there is some hope, it can only be in this new ideology of sacrificing oneself for the sake of God and humanity. Through this alone can we have hope to build the homeland and fatherland of mankind.

Let us explain the reason why Jesus and the saints failed to secure the homeland. They failed because the followers were thinking differently from their leaders. There was no oneness in their way of life or their thinking.

Throughout history religion has produced a great deal of martyrdom and sacrifice, but those people accepted that sacrifice and endured it passively. There has been no religious movement which has willingly and aggressively given itself to sacrifice, making this the pattern for building the kingdom. In the Unification Church there are people who are working for their own sake, and there are also people who are working and sacrificing themselves for the world, willing to die for the sake of mankind. In the ideal of God, which one is the supreme giver?

Suppose there was a saint who actually upheld his faith and was willing to be martyred so he could go to heaven. There are many such people in history. The young people of the Unification Church are not yet martyred or crucified, yet they sacrifice truly for the sake of the world, trying to give their sweat and labor every day. Even though you are living and they are dead, who is more precious in the sight of God? Then if you who are living are more noble, what if you are martyred? You will be even more precious in the sight of God. If you become a martyr in our time in order to save the world, you will be the king of martyrs in history. There is no saint in history who could parallel your sainthood in heart. The true martyr is the Unification Church martyr, and we have them already.

We walk this path for the sake of God and humanity, and for the sake of the past, present and future. Furthermore, we are going to liberate the spirit world and God Himself. Do you think the work is already completed or that this task is easy? Will that world finally come 10,000 years from now or do you want to erect it today with your own blood, sweat and tears? Why should it be now? If we lose one more year, we are actually losing 40 million people because in a year one percent of the world’s population of four billion people die. All those people will end up in hell with no chance of salvation if we sit idle.

They will go to spirit world and say, “Why didn’t you Moons wake me and tell me about the Divine Principle? You didn’t do your job so you are not a saint. You didn’t love the world at all.” We must avoid such accusations from spirit world and mankind. Therefore, while we are alive and I am here on earth, we are going to knock on every door in the world and let the news spread so that people can go to spirit world without excuse.

The providence of God has three stages: Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era. Even though people oppose you, knock on their doors and make your appeal once for the formation stage, twice for growth and a third time for perfection. If they still reject you after three times, you have fulfilled your responsibility and they can’t accuse you. Even if their ancestors are good people, they can’t ask why we didn’t take care of their grandchildren down here on earth.

I want to make my name known so that I can go to spirit world without any accusations from these people. Good or bad, my name should be known by all of mankind in their own lifetime. That’s why I have done many extraordinary and even peculiar things. In 1975 I also sent out missionaries representing Europe, America and Asia to over 120 countries, including communist nations, so that the people in those countries would be without excuse. Our missionaries are in jail right now in some communist nations, but I told them that even if they must die there not to come back for three years. In those countries they have become lightning rods for persecution.

I want you to know that with the blessing of God my name has become controversial and has spread all over the world. It is God’s strategy because whether my name is known in a good or bad sense, this is the quickest way for it to be known all over the world. No one alive today or in spirit world can say, “Reverend Moon, why did you only love America? Why didn’t you do anything about my people and my country?” No such accusation can come.

Surely we have done a super job and now we are going a step farther. Not only is my name known all over the world, now we are knocking on every door. How can people say they didn’t know me when I have been sending my own sons and daughters to their doorsteps? Sooner or later these people will end up in spirit world and then they will know the truth because in spirit world they cannot hide from the truth. They will know that this was the only way for ultimate salvation and that, although they had the chance because we knocked on their doors three times, they rejected us. They will grieve, “Even though the humble Moonies came to my door, I didn’t know they were the greatest of all saints. I had the chance to associate with them but I was not humble enough. ”

Now you call the name of the True Parents. What is the duty of True Parents? They want to set two world records: first, to send their children out to the worst possible suffering, to the place of death for the sake of the world, and second, to truly love those children the most. Then in the spirit world the natural parents of those children will have to bow down in gratitude. The True Parents chase their children out to the world. Then you will become a central person in history. No love of natural parents can compare to the love of the True Parents, for they are making their children the natural sons and daughters of God. How can any parent expect more than that?

We talk about liberating God. No one ever heard of such a thing before. In order to accomplish that we must bend whichever way our bodies will go because this is not the kind of mission we can give up. I want you to understand that the title “Moonie” is not easily attained. You didn’t come to the place where you can receive the blessing and end up in heaven by being idle and relaxed. You are here instead to create that heaven. In order to create heaven I gave up my parents, my brothers and sisters, my own family and children. I gave everything up and decided to die for the mission.

So far I have been disappointed with the blessed couples here in America. When they have one baby they think their mission is ended, and use that as their excuse for not participating. If by holding your baby in your arms you can liberate God and the world, that’s okay. But there is much more territory to cover and a little child should not make you a dropout. The child wants to have great parents who set the tradition he can inherit.

The true land is not a fantasy of our dreams or in spirit world. The homeland and father country is going to be right here on earth where we are going to build one nation. That fatherland is the one place you can call your homeland. However, so far we cannot claim any nation in the name of God. Does God dwell in Washington or Moscow? Our duty is to build the homeland and father country centered upon God.

America has great potential and it if really could wake up to God’s ideal this nation could be very close to that homeland and father country of God. America is the prepared land far more than Korea or Japan. Here we can see one nation in which all races and nationalities, all languages and cultural backgrounds come and live together in one harmonious pattern. All we need is God at the center. I came to America because God prepared this nation. I want you to understand that I have poured out my love and energy here even more than I did in Korea or Japan. I have invested more money, more energy, sweat and tears right here in America. In Korea we did pioneer missions strongly but I never spoke in public there. It was only after I came to America that I spoke publicly because I wanted to begin my public ministry with the world as the audience, not just Korea or Japan. That’s why I came to America to initiate my public ministry and worldwide mission.

Without understanding this the State Department has sustained much animosity toward me. Even now Congress is trying to deport me somehow, but I am laying a strong foundation here and no matter where in the world I go, God’s will shall be fulfilled in this country. God allows one homeland for all people, not two or three, and that homeland is where Adam’s family lives. Who is the master of the homeland? God is master because He is the center of Adam’s family. The physical center is whoever lives as the True Parents at that time. If Adam and Eve had fulfilled the will of God, their dwelling place would have been the first homeland of mankind, with father and mother united with God in the center and children united with parents. But because of the stall they all separated instead of uniting, husband from wife, parents from children, brother from brother. Instead of loving each other Cain killed Abel. False parents created a false homeland.

Satan created his homeland rather than God, and this has expanded onto the worldwide level. Every saint God sent to bring restoration of the homeland and father country posed a great threat to the satanic world and! was killed. Therefore, God’s people have historically been wandering, searching for and craving truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and Christianity have all been wanderers. I also have been a wanderer with no place to really anchor myself yet.

We must expand our territory, with our brothers and sisters growing in numbers. Once the satanic people are found they are our brothers and sisters, not our enemy. Only Satan is our enemy. We must restore these people and thus expand our territory. You must not deprive them due to your small thinking. Think that if Satan works 24 hours a day, you will work 25 hours a day to restore your brothers. That’s the only way.

I want you to understand that the true desire of God is to find the homeland. The true desire of the great saints is also to find the homeland and expand it into the true country of God. That’s the hope of mankind and all religious people. Although that has also been the will and desire of God, what has happened to religious people? They have become the prey of communism, being eliminated one by one. The communists are the only ones who are growing, taking over more people every year. Who in the world can turn the tide around? God is searching for such a champion.

Moonies are God’s only hope because they are the only ones who are trying to reverse the trend and create the homeland of God. Therefore, I want you to understand that at this very moment of human history the entire attention of God is focused upon you. Jesus, the saints, spirit world, all of history and mankind are watching you and what you do.

So far no one has known how to find the homeland. Do you know? Home church will not just make you a messiah to those people but also true parents to them. That is God’s goal. If those home church people are really grateful and willing to sacrifice for kingdom-building, then we can talk about expanding into the father country. You shall be superior to any past saint, servant of God or patriot in history. That will be our tradition.

So that you can be this kind of person I will chase you out to the worst kind of suffering. On the other hand, I am prepared to give you the unprecedented love of God. That is the tradition we are going to build and pass on to later generations. I have never complained while building the basis for this tradition and you also must hand it down without complaint. By living this tradition you are building a bridge between yourself, your tribe, nation, world and the Kingdom of Heaven. Not only you but generations to come will walk across that bridge. By succeeding in your home church, you are building a bridge to the world and you are the pillar supporting it. You can reach out to the world and humanity will cross to salvation across the bridge you build. Five colors of skin must become one as brothers and sisters.

There is only one group which thinks in that fashion-Unification Church, I am the only one who not only thought it but did it in my own lifetime. I brought a revolution to your hearts and your love, to your concept of nation and world, and to your concept of God You have more precious value than any saint who ever lived, for your are nobler and purer than they. You have such great value and yet sometimes you throw it away like a piece of paper in the trash because you can’t overcome some trivial disturbance or emotional problem. You cannot afford to lose this value.

We are talking about the eternal father country. Who will protect you? Even if you die in the Unification Church, you have protection because I will take care of you; God will also take care of you. How much more could you want? If you leave the Unification Church and die outside, no one will even look at you, much less take care of you. It would be no better than a dog’s death. But even if you die in the Unification Church, your death has historical meaning because your True Parents and your God will guarantee your honor.

Your homeland is the place where your parents and true love live, and where there is a longing for true brothers and sisters. There is complete freedom in that homeland. Today it’s true we don’t have that freedom in the Unification Church. Because we have a mission to complete we are working in a disciplined crusade. Not only you are bound by your mission; I am too. At this time, living within this discipline is freedom and brings substantial tranquillity because when you finish the mission you will have the entire homeland and father world at your fingertips. Then you can live and breathe it and enjoy it for eternity.

Therefore, home church is infinitely precious. It’s almost like landing on the final terminal of Clod’s dispensation You can’t even compare it to Armstrong’s landing on the moon because then tour billion people on earth watched. But when you land in the home church, all the billions of people of history will be watching from spin-it world. You were not anyone special before, but by meeting with me and the Divine Principle you have become an historical person, a great saint. You can be proud. Is there anything you can’t spare for this? Even it I have millions of dollars of debts it’s okay because there is nothing I cannot give to fulfill this task.

Christians think they can buy their way into heaven by tithing one-tenth of their incomes. I don’t give just one-tenth but everything, not to ensure my heaven but to bring all mankind into heaven. When you open your eyes, you will realize there is nothing more precious. No amount of dollars or diamonds could buy this life and no accumulation of earthly money could equal your worth. Compared to your position in history, the president or monarch of a nation has no honor and appears worthless. You are the universal Moses of the modern day, leading mankind into Canaan as the tribal messiah. Moses didn’t even know clearly why he had to do the things he did, but you know because you have the truth.

We are going to the eternal homeland of God and our Parents, but you cannot return there without restoring Cain first, your elder brother. Unless you restore Cain, you have no escort with whom to enter together into the kingdom. Even if you restore your own relatives into the Church, as long as there is an evil Cain world outside, it can always destroy you and pull you back. Therefore, the Cain world must be taken care of first.

You must succeed in the Cain home church; then you can do one more home church in your hometown and bring your own family back to God. Not only your Cain home church but your own parents and brothers and sisters will really bow down to you as they recognize you as a saint. While I was busy building my Cain home church, my parents and brothers and sisters, my Abel home church, all passed away in North Korea. But still I must go on to restore the father country and the father world.

You must find your homeland and father world. If someone asks you where you want to die, you can say you want to die in the homeland, which is situated in the home country. That is not just America but all of the world. As long as the world is transformed into the father world, anywhere can be your homeland. Home church, where everything shall be solved, is the bridge to unite the physical and spiritual worlds.

Even if tens of thousands of Moonies sari at one stroke, you could not even dream of achieving what I have achieved in the covenant that was made and fulfilled between myself and God. Now you have to do it because I have pioneered it all. The task before you is to become the tribal messiah. How incredible it is for you to become a messiah, especially on the national and world levels. Our mission is to restore the homeland. Would you do it even though your eyes pop out or your tongue is hanging out? Even if the nation comes against you and strikes you, would you do it?

When you die in your home church, your people will bring your body to your homeland and make a shrine at your tomb. Abraham and Jacob died as sojourners in foreign lands such as Egypt, and many centuries later their descendants dug up their graves and brought them back to their homeland. But that’s not good enough. The Egyptians should have done that, making a shrine for Abraham and Jacob in Israel, but they couldn’t because there was no home church. You will live and die in your home church. Then your home church members will honor you. They will bury you in your homeland with great honor and pride. 360 homes will mourn your death, following your coffin to the homeland. If you can accomplish that in your home church, you are a hero and a saint.

When I die do you think my own children would take me to the homeland to be buried, or would people from all over the world participate to glorify my work and bury me? All Unification Church members will mourn me. If you live and die like that then when you are elevated to spirit world you can say you have lived for the world, giving your life for all people. There will be proof to be seen because when you live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.

Now you understand. Shall we restore the homeland? Unless you find your home country, you cannot find home heaven. Today you clearly know that, don’t you? In order to find the father country, we can even sacrifice the homeland because the lesser can always be sacrificed for the greater. This is the way we can truly build one nation under God, not just one nation of America, but one country including the entire world. Here in America not only Americans are working but Orientals and Europeans as well; we are not working for the one nation of America but for our one father country of America, our father country of heaven. Whatever your nationality, you feel like the host and hostess of this country because that’s why we are all here.

We are jumping from one land to another. First we are entering the homeland and then jumping to home country, to home world and home heaven. How would you create the homeland? Home church is the formula by which we can find homeland, father country, home world and home heaven. When you love your home church more than you love anything else under the sun you can unite the entire world. The only way to unity is through love. In the home church you are like a star shining in the darkness. More stars are visible at night, so when God looks down at the world He will see one, two, ten, one hundred, a million lights and soon their light will melt into sunlight. Then God will come down, saying, “Let’s have a tour. Reverend Moon, come beside me. Invite all the people you would like.” Then I will invite all the heroes and heroines of home church.

Do you want to go back to your home country? When Christmas comes you feel you must go home. Is that your homeland? Which is closer to your homeland, staying in the Unification Church at Christmas and working or going home? This is why I do the same. The easiest way I could live would be to go back to Korea. There I have a home, and many people are waiting for me. Furthermore, in Korea I don’t need an interpreter. I have absolute freedom there because I know the customs and cultural background and can do things more directly. Here I have many more things to worry about because people are watching with a different point of view.

Now I have a lot of pressure from letters from Korea saying, “Father, Mother, don’t spend your birthday in America this time. Come to Korea. We’ll give you a better birthday.” Even though you celebrate my birthday and have singing, in Korea the singing is in my language and moves my heart more. But still I stay here. Why don’t I go back home? Because the world is our goal. I am like a hero there and because there are no locks on the doors it is easy to do home church. There are no burglar alarms or watch dogs. But I want to succeed here in America with you because this is the microcosm of the world, the representative of all mankind where all races are brought together.

I want to set the tradition of home church here in America because this is the shortcut to the world. Would you like that? Then here is straight talk: die for the mission. I make Mr. Pak suffer because I want to make him Mr. Home Church. Then he can do the same to you and bring your success. For what are we doing that? For Mr. Pak? For me? No, for the sake of God and the world.

You can go many places with a U.S. passport, but in the near future I want to see the passport to the Kingdom of Heaven where you can go anywhere with dignity and power. With that passport you won’t need a visa to any country because before you get to the country the door will be open already. The immigration office won’t exist to check your passport but to give you a glorious welcome. Furthermore, you can get a tree passport to the Kingdom of God in heaven. There will be no visas needed to enter. You can go right into Heavenly Father’s place, embrace Him and say, “Father.”

That “Father” is not an ordinary father, but Almighty God, the king of the universe and queen of all things. He has infinite love to give and when you embrace that Father as His son, even you will become a god. You will possess not only everything that belongs to Him but also God Himself. You can own God. This is the ultimate destiny of all mankind. Even after your death you cannot stop until you reach that goal. However, if you reach it after death, you have nothing to be proud of. But if you reach it on earth while your heart is beating and you are giving your sweat and tears, that is something you can be proud of throughout eternity.

You should feel that your life here on earth is endlessly precious. “Why is time running so fast? Slow down. I have more work to do. I must build the kingdom and do more home church.” That’s the way you must feel in your life. You have heard that IBM has great computers but God’s computer is the best. Every action here on earth shall be recorded in heaven with one push button. When you go to heaven, God will say, “I want to show your record of home church to the people here in heaven.” Then He will push a button and your own home church movie will be on the screen. There will be no comparison to “Superman.” You have been hit, kicked and spit upon, knocked unconscious; you prayed and struggled. “The audience in spirit world will cry. Then finally God will begin to cry.

I want to make that kind of movie and God is filming it now. God is filming you now. In a way it is good competition. White people will be seen by white ancestors, black people by black ancestors, and yellow people by yellow ancestors. They will want to know what the white people, the black people and the yellow people did. If the white people turn out to be last, your ancestors won’t like that. If the black or yellow turn out last, their ancestors won’t like it.

Thirty MFT captains around the country had a contest and the top seven were Japanese. This is a Japanese country so it’s logical the Japanese should have the best record, right? No? Then why do the Japanese people work so hard and make the best record? America and Japan have been enemies, but now it doesn’t make any difference. The Japanese are not working for America but for our mutual homeland.

If this movement prevails, the national boundary will automatically vanish. On January 14, 1979 you can say, “Well, Father, in 1977 and 1978 we didn’t know too much about this but now in 1979 we know it and we will do it. We will set the world record. ” Even with opposition would you do it? Even if you are put in jail? All right, do it. I want to watch you. Thank you. Let us pray.

## HOME CHURCH AND THE BATTLE OF LOVE

By Fami1yfed June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 7, 1979
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Home church has become the Unification Church trademark and is a very special word for us. Do you feel in your hearts that home church is a necessity? Many believers and religious people in history have talked vaguely about heaven without truly knowing how it could be developed. Jesus announced that the kingdom was dwelling in the midst of the people, but even he could not say that it was here on earth. I would like you clearly to know that the pronouncement of home church as a means of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth is truly an historic event.

What kind of war have God and Satan been waging? What has been the work of God so far? Truly history has been nothing more than the struggle between good and evil. Where goodness dwells there is always love, and where evil dwells there is jealousy. Goodness brings oneness and unity while evil brings division. Good and evil are indeed 180 degrees opposite. The nature of Satan is one of jealousy and struggle. The battleground of this struggle between good and evil has been man, his home and society. We in the Unification Church are trying to shift this battle from the individual to the family and society.

So far the dispensation of God has been trying to find one triumphant Adam, the victorious Messiah, with whom God could be united. If there had been no fall, God and Adam automatically would have been united into one, but Satan came between God and man, creating a tremendous barrier between them which requires a great effort to overcome.

Satan’s number one weapon is self-centered love, which he has been multiplying in men’s hearts. He also uses arrogance. In order to liquidate Satan’s power and bring God’s victory we will first employ the weapon of God-centered love rather than self centered love, and secondly, we will be humble. Throughout history Satan and God have been continuously employing their different weapons, causing history to go up and down as man makes different decisions for one side or the other.

However, today we do not see God and Satan clearly or know where they are. We can’t see air, for example, but when we feel the wind blowing we know it exists. Nothing seems to be in this space but when you feel the air brushing against your hand, you know it is there. By the same token, without different actions, the reality of God and Satan cannot be noticed. The battle line is the line between the mind and body. God is approaching the mind because that is His territory, while Satan is coming to the body, his territory. Where they meet is the front line. Unfortunately, the mind is not firm but rather shaky. In a way the eye has two masters, for the body urges it to see carnal sights while the mind urges it to look beyond to higher, purer sights. Both the body and the mind are trying to control the five senses at the same time, each for its own purpose.

We frequently hear people insist that they themselves are good people, not evil. They claim to be living within the territory of goodness as they understand it to be defined. Their definition is always centering upon self, however; therefore, they judge the surroundings centering upon themselves and discern evil according to their own point of view. That is the core problem. The front line battlefield is always within you, shifting from one side to the other, from God’s side to Satan’s.

Do you know there is a struggle within yourself? How many battles have been waged within yourself between your mind and body? Actually there is constant confrontation 24 hours a day. You sometimes feel that your mind is off-guard and you can quietly do certain things you would normally hide from it. But all of a sudden your mind comes back and says, “What are you doing here? I am watching.” Certainly your mind can be your connection to God, but still it has different levels of accomplishment. It can be connected in a stern, straight way, or in a sloppy, flimsy way. Both exist in your mind. Is the God in your mind the strong, disciplined one?

The body also sends up its own campaigner to say, “Why are you doing these foolish things? The important thing is to keep your body strong, healthy and idle. In order to do that you need to have lots of rest, lots of food, lots of money and women.” You don’t need to be patient with that, but chase it out. Your body is trying to make itself excited by listening to its own propaganda. When the body gets mad or excited about certain things, Satan is standing behind it like a conductor, saying, “Bravo. That’s right. You’re coming along.” But the mind also has a conductor who is leading heavenly music.

In everything you do there are two possible destinations: the heavenly realm, or the satanic realm. You are always up and down and sometimes Satan’s side makes headway, then sometimes God’s side. Although we are all on this seesaw, are we edging forward or moving backwards? Let’s say this line I have drawn is the central line. Our deeds look like a cardiograph on it, going up and down. Above the line is unselfish love and below the line selfish love. If a person registers more lines below the central line than above, that person is bent toward hell. Heaven is above the line. This is like an accurate scale which you cannot escape. Our everyday life is our desperate effort to try and let the heavenly side win. We try to put even a small grain of sand on the heavenly side so that we can accumulate our assets there. This is the battle you go through every day, and if you are defeated here there is no other battle which you can win. This is the first battle you must overcome.

So far religious people have been ignorant of the fact that the battle line is within themselves, thinking it was thousands of miles away. That thinking itself is a sign of Satan within them. Which do you think is correct? Every trivial or substantial action you take every day, eating, sleeping, walking, everything, has two possible consequences and you are making a choice between them. You can fulfill a good or an evil goal in every little action of the day.

What about Belvedere? Is this heaven or hell? What about the dozing person, is he in heaven or hell? What about the person who is awake but not really concentrating on listening? If your neighbor comes here and dozes, should you leave him alone or do something about it? Is it a good deed to give him a shock treatment that will wake him up? Then should the person who is sleeping say, “Leave me alone. This is a good place for me to sleep”? Or “Thank you. I’m sorry:” If most people in the world were pinched, they would say, “Leave me alone.” But those are very selfish words and we cannot say them. Instead we say, “Thank you.” That pinch is actually removing the satanic arrow from your body so you must be thankful. Look at your neighbor. How wide awake is he? You don’t want to sit next to the dozing person because sleep is contagious and spreads quickly.

You thought you would have an easy time here in Belvedere but there is no easy time. This is war time. Sometimes your body says, “I wish I didn’t know Divine Principle because it has brought me so much suffering. If I didn’t know it, I could sleep much longer in the morning.” I am sure there have been times when you haven’t been able to get up at 4:30 am and stayed in your bed. But then you thought, “This is the time Father is talking, probably about me and those who didn’t come.” Actually you are tasting three hours of hell in your bed. Isn’t that true?

The other day I talked to all the blessed wives and asked them, “Where are you on Sunday morning?” Most of them had a good excuse. “Well, I have a baby to take care of and can’t go.” But I asked them if they were living in heaven or hell and they said it was really hell. What about you? Do you think it’s heaven or hell?

Every breath you take, every look you give is either heavenly or satanic. There are always those two possibilities. Before we can talk about home church we need to win the individual war. Do you think the person who is defeated in the individual battle will be very successful in the home church? The person who is already defeated as an individual is like a mortally wounded soldier. If he gets up and tries to go to home church, he will only become an obstacle there. In order to go to home church, you need to have won your individual battle, to be strong, healthy, disciplined and absolutely determined. That is the only way you can move on to the home church and bring results.

Do you think God is aware that men and women are fighting at this front line within themselves? Is God shaky and unsure of Himself, sometimes thinking He must give up this restoration business because it doesn’t bring Him any joy? Do you think God moves straight forward to the goal or moves a step ahead and then retreats? What about you? The kind of man who is always going back and forth because he’s not sure of himself and then asks God for help will not even be listened to by God. Who would trust a double agent? Are you a double agent or God’s single-minded agent? God knows the double agent cannot be trusted, and if God tried to help him that help would sometimes be used for satanic reasons or power. How can God help such a person?

All of us have come out of the satanic lineage and have a self-centered nature which always tries to evaluate from a self-centered point of view. Because history was sown in that fashion, we must reap in that fashion. Whether or not you love things centered upon yourself is a basic criterion. Do you give love in order to elevate yourself? If you live in that fashion, will you become satanic fruit or heavenly fruit? Have you changed? Even though you don’t say it openly, inside you are thinking, “Father, why do you always chastise me and give me a hard time?”

There is some kind of rebellious heart within you, particularly in women. Since I always use American women as material for my sermons, they think, “Father, you always ridicule us.” But actually the heavenly heart should always be joyous and happy, even though used as a bad example in my sermon. Why should you be joyous? Because I used you. The Kingdom of God is the kingdom of use. If my goal was to take advantage of you for my private or personal benefit, it would be evil. But even though I seem to be unkind and harsh, my goal is to try to remold American women into the best of all women under the sun. For that reason you should be grateful. Sometimes I am very harsh with you. I know that my God’s Day message was very difficult for you to follow, but if you say, “Yes, Father,” then you can bring the results.

Life in the Unification Church is always like climbing a steep mountain. Although you are successfully going over the mountain, I am still harsh with you and push you. Then you think, “Father, I’m going. I’m going. Please leave me alone.” But I worry that at the very top of the pinnacle you may fool around and fall down. In order to prevent that I want you to jump over and that’s why I keep pushing you. If you are going so fast that you fall over the top of the mountain and end up in a ditch on the other side, don’t worry because that will be the Kingdom of Heaven.

Let’s be realistic. We are climbing a steep mountain. Are you in danger of sometimes miscalculating and falling? Each one of you is in danger of falling Therefore, none of you can say you can let down your guard and that no one can bother you. That is a very dangerous attitude. Unless you are clear about that, all your effort and suffering could be in vain. Look at the monks of the Middle Ages who led austere lives in the monasteries because they thought that suffering would bring them to heaven. Their suffering was pointless because they didn’t know what their real goal was. Suffering is not the goal or the purpose. The purpose is completion of the dispensation. That is why we are suffering, but suffering itself will not automatically bring us into the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you are stern with your body and can conquer its propaganda, you can get to heaven quickly. If you can totally conquer the temptations of your body, your efforts will accumulate and you won’t have to suffer much. Do you understand that even smiling can have a good or evil purpose?

Everyone should know now that there are always two possibilities. That means we all know the truth and are eligible for the Kingdom of Heaven. At the same time, since we all know the truth, we are eligible for hell, too. Suppose you end up in hell and look up and say, “God, why did You send me here?” Can you complain and say you got there without knowing why? Let’s say you end up in the Kingdom of Heaven. Can you boast, “I am the one who made it”? The balance of power within your own way of life will automatically determine your destiny in heaven or hell. There won’t be any judge who dispatches you to hell because the final showdown will already have been made within yourself.

Each one of you is like a balloon. Some balloons fly high because they have light air, while others fly so low they are in danger of bumping into houses. There are some Unification Church members who are actually outside agents disguised as devout members. Their motivation is evil because its aim is to destroy this movement. We welcome that kind of person, however, because by coming here and hearing these words, his conscience can be moved and he will think, “How miserable I am. Why do I have to come here and pick on these people who are trying their absolute best to uplift themselves and their society?”

We have had many extraordinary experiences in the past. One time a communist, by order of his boss, tried to infiltrate our Church to find some weakness. After listening to me many times he wrote a letter, saying, “I’m sorry. I came here by order of my communist boss to find your faults and destroy you, but after listening to your sermons my conscience started bothering me. Forgive me. I cannot listen to you any more for it brings me suffering. I must go. What the communists say about the Unification Church is completely opposite to what you are. You are great people.” This communist enemy testified to our greatness.

What about you? Have you already made up your mind to be 100% on the heavenly side or are you still trying to make a decision? Suppose a blessing comes and you are matched. Would you like to have the best person or the worst person as your spouse? Suppose you are the elite of the Unification Church and so is your spouse. Then there is nothing special there. But if you are a brilliant person married to someone who is not so brilliant, imagine how you can make that person absolutely happy and uplifted. You can give double salvation to that person. Then which will God see as the most dramatic, being married to the superior or the inferior person?

Have you women thought that you are inadequate to be anyone’s wife, regardless of whether he is a good or bad man? That’s the humble attitude. The opposite attitude is, “Where is the best man? I’m the best woman and deserve the best man.” Which one is closer to heaven and which one is closer to hell? Are you closer to heaven? Here again the biblical words apply, “He who seeks his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake will gain it.” The woman who thinks she is qualified to have the best husband will end up with a very poor husband. The humble person who feels she is not worthy of any man will end up with the best husband. If you think in that way, God will make you seem like a shining princess to men.

I myself never asked for the most polished, well-educated candidate for my bride. I just asked for God’s will to be done so that I could lift one woman up into heaven. “Father, if Your will is to give me the worst bride, I will accept it.” I was looking for the worst possibility and God gave me the best possibility.

American women think choosing a mate is their business and they don’t want anyone to bother them. You are different now, but weren’t you like that before joining the Church? Don’t you sometimes wonder why it isn’t best for you to choose your own mates, why you can’t look at this man and that one and evaluate which is best? Think how wonderful it is for God to become involved in your wedding and for it to become a world affair rather than just your own private wedding. What a privilege it is that your wedding is for the sake of the universe. Would you prefer a wedding that God can rejoice in and True Parents can participate in, or one small wedding that boxes you into hell even as you are trying to be happy?

If scholars wanted to study about weddings, would they have more material from outside or from inside the Unification Church? Marriage is so profound and deep in the Unification Church that no scholar can really get down to the bottom and perceive it completely. We elevate ourselves in a quite mysterious way through marriage. When you study for a Ph.D. you don’t study many different areas but delve deeply into just one area. In the Unification Church we delve so deeply into marriage, much deeper than for a Ph.D., that no one from outside can fathom it. Unless someone studied the Unification Church method he would not really know anything about marriage. Also, religious scholars who haven’t studied the Unification Church haven’t studied religion at all. Scholars who want to study man and haven’t studied me can’t really know man fully. Without delving deeply into the Unification Church and knowing the significance of good and evil in our way of life, no one can really know Moonies.

You must always remember that you yourself are the problem and the front line, and therefore can never be caught off guard. You don’t want God to fail within you. When you are out working and become very hungry, your stomach says, “I am very hungry. Give me food or I will stop.” Then say to your stomach, “Be silent Satan. I will continue.” Have you ever noticed that Satan is always coming through your body? Sometimes you have to work very late at night and when it’s time to get up in the morning your body says, “Leave me alone. I need two more hours.” At that moment have you ever thought, “Satan, I’m not going to succumb to you”? When you have to walk a long distance and your legs complain, do you say, “You, Satan, be quiet. I’m not going to be defeated by you. Satan, get out of my two legs.” Invite the power of God into your legs. People may think you are crazy, but who cares? The important thing is for you, God. Then God will come down and give you energy so you can begin walking again.

Women are exposed to many temptations every day. You would like some handbag or scarf and be able to walk down Fifth Avenue showing yourself off, wouldn’t you? You want to woo men with perfume. The Moonie girl’s smell is awful but that is really the heavenly perfume. For some heavenly man that smell will be the number one perfume. God purposely made the heavenly man’s nose different so that he can detect the heavenly smell of the Moonie girl.

The normal nose is placed in the middle of your face going straight down, but suppose someone has a nose that is all crooked. The Bible says that what comes out of the mouth defiles a man. Suppose if every time someone said something wicked, his face became deformed or his nose and eyes became crooked. Do you think his mind would be happy to see his face? Your mind wants to see your five senses set straight in the right place. When the mind and body are united together and not following any wicked desires, that person is a godly individual. Each body is somewhat like a camera which has to be focused between the mind and body. Are you focusing every day? If you have complete focus between mind and body with a clear-cut image, then you can even see God. There is nothing you cannot perceive through that lens.

According to Divine Principle, we have two minds, one spiritual and one physical. One represents the desire of the spirit and the other the desire of the body. Our job is to focus the two minds. If you were really focused, I wouldn’t have to deliver a sermon this morning because there would be nothing you could not see or perceive. If you focus on me, you will automatically know what I am thinking and want to tell you.

Throughout history religion has been trying to chastise the body because that is Satan’s territory. The approach of Satan is always made through the body and you must block it. Are you a good or an evil person? Are you sometimes good and sometimes evil, or always good or always evil? Even after being in the Unification Church you are still in and out of evil, so you can imagine how God has had to deal with impossible situations. How difficult it is for God to do His job and how much easier for Satan to walk in. The door is always open for him. That’s why Satan always says, “God, these are my children.” No matter how hard God tries, man is always vulnerable to Satan. If your mind goes two ways, does it totally belong to God or have two masters? How can you be blessed when you have two minds and two masters? If you are a mixture of good and evil, what will your children be like? It’s a very serious problem.

Do you think I have gone through that battle? I have indeed gone through that battle and won. Therefore, my motto has been that before you desire universal dominion, you must conquer yourself. Sometimes it takes a long time to overcome just one word spoken wrongly. If your entire life tends in that direction, how difficult it is to solve everything. While you are still in your flesh here on earth you can have hope to resolve the situation, but as soon as your spirit and body separate there is no way to resolve it. The mind, which has been the victim of the body, will end up in hell as the eternal object of Satan. If you knew the consequences, you would be cruel to your body, yet still it would not be enough because your body is your worst enemy.

The body has three major carnal desires: hunger, sleep and sex. Do you have these three cravings? Religious life always emphasizes overcoming these three by denying them to the body. We discipline ourselves by fasting and overnight prayer and by overcoming desire. No matter what kind of woman comes and tries to tempt you, don’t respond but tell Satan to get away from you. There are always three satans ready to encroach on your body. What can you do? The person who can say, “I have disciplined myself, Father. I can control hunger and sleep and sexual desire” is ready to march to home church. If not, you cannot win the battle because you don’t have a weapon with which to fight.

The 360 homes you are going to visit are full of temptations. You may feel, “They are eating good meals while I am hungry so why should I go to serve them? They are better off than I am. Why do I always have to go out so early in the morning and come back so late?” There are all kinds of men and women trying to tempt you. You are out there facing a poisonous atmosphere every day. Why do you go on like that, suppressing your desire? Because you want to win the victory of true love. “I will persevere over hunger and do without sleep because of the victory of true love. I will do away with sexual desires because of the victory of true love.”

When you go out thinking that you will ultimately receive love, you will not win the battle. But when you go to give love unconditionally, you can overcome. Why? Because the person trying to give love possesses the attitude of God. All this time God has been trying to give love. As soon as you try to love people, the energy of God automatically comes to you, making you a powerful individual. Because there is tremendous energy flowing to you from God, you won’t even notice that night is passing. As the transmitter of God’s love you won’t feel tired the entire night.

That’s the path I walked from 1953 to 1960. They were seven sleepless years. I intensely loved people, forgetting all about eating. I talked all day, so intensely that I thought evening was morning. There was no concept of day or night in my mind. I only knew the energy of love and of giving, so the entire spirit world came down and assisted me. That is real power and you can live that way.

The first battleground is your body. Satan’s bullet always comes through your five senses. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, which is your age, if I dressed to go out, many women would follow me. But I always moved in the opposite direction. l always went to the second-hand stores for my suits and appeared very humble, buying surplus military clothes which had become worn-out and shiny. I always wore that kind of brownish jacket and trousers. When there was an occasion to mingle with people I would stand in the corner, even though I knew I could easily stand out front. That was the period in which I was waging war on my body, and once you declare war there is no substitute for victory. You’ve got to win. Without victory you cannot eat or sleep or do anything.

A very good analogy can be made with a patient in a hospital bed. Every morning the doctor comes and measures his blood pressure, pulse and temperature, keeping a record. His temperature goes up and down. You are like patients in a hospital between heaven and Satan. There is a check-up every morning to see whether your temperature is up on Satan’s side or down on God’s side. Draw a picture of yourself and check every day to see if the different parts of your body passed the heavenly standard or succumbed to Satan’s temptations. Did your eyes pass the heavenly test? When you were passing by a good restaurant did your nose take your body in there instead of witnessing? Give yourself a check-up every day. Evaluate your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, etc. Keep that kind of diary 365 days. If your record is not good, you must continue that kind of check-up even for ten years until you have a perfect score. If your eyes fail you for ten years, it’s better to remove them and throw them away. Jesus said that if a certain part of your body offends you, it’s far better to do without that portion of your body.

This year let’s give the check-up to ourselves and make ourselves winners. Do not relax and think that just because you are reading or studying the Divine Principle book every day everything is fine. You still need a check-up because there are still two possibilities, even in reading or lecturing Divine Principle. It’s very serious.

In the confrontation between good and evil within yourself are you confident to repel Satan? Is it an easy or difficult task? It’s almost as difficult as dying. Therefore, unless you really make up your mind to die for victory, you will not win. Unless you commit your life to this struggle, you cannot win. We must win on the first battleground; then we can move onto the second battleground: home church.

Our weapon to win this battle is not military; it is true love. If you are filled with the energy of giving true love, no satanic weapon can penetrate you. We can go out and fire the automatic rifle of love. You know that Satan is always going to be firing at you so the best thing is to ignore him completely.

People are always trying to test you. You can become angry about something and lose your good heart and good mind so Satan always tries to anger you and make you complain. These two are the best signs of Satan’s victory. In order to win the heavenly way, you have to go in the opposite way. It is our good fortune and asset to be in the position of being opposed and persecuted. We are always in a position to be scrutinized and people look at us from two different directions. However small a condition we violate, they will try to rip it apart and destroy us. That situation keeps us always alert. Is it good or bad? If you are alert enough not to be exploited by that situation then Satan is blocked and has no way to enter. We always keep our guard up so that Satan can’t come in.

We can elevate ourselves to different stages and attain our own perfection. Number one, we must not be arrogant; we must be humble. When you are trying to bring yourself forward, do it with love, for only with love can you speak with authority and say, “Do as I do and love as much as I love.” You can say that if you are an example of love. If you don’t do anything for your people, how can you claim it? Set your standard so high that you don’t have to tell other people what to do; they will automatically be ashamed to do certain things because of you. For example, you won’t have to tell people not to smoke. They just won’t do it in front of you. If they are fighting among themselves and a loving Moonie comes along, all you’ll have to do is look at them and their fighting spirit will be all gone. They’ll be ashamed.

We must set the highest example. The battle between the mind and the body is a severe one. If your individual battle within yourself is so difficult, how much more difficult do you think the battle will be within your home church? Do not take it lightly. The road to perfection is very difficult. The Bible always teaches that dying is much easier than living. Giving of yourself unto death will bring your own perfection, your tribal perfection, and national perfection. Actually that is the easiest way to do it, but God did not give you an easy way out. You have to earn every bit of it. The course is so difficult that it took God millions of years to do. If there were an easy way, God would have taken it a long time ago. Instead, the battle is still being severely waged and the front line is right within yourself. For three years don’t remove your jacket. That kind of spirit is absolutely needed. If you relax just a little bit, you don’t know when Satan will creep in. If your guard is down even the slightest degree, Satan will penetrate.

When I began my ministry, I needed eight hours of prayer in order to work for eight hours. Otherwise, there was no balance and the work was not produced. The American way of prayer is very easy. You sit comfortably on a chair, but in the Oriental way you are on your knees with your head down for hours and hours. Would you like to pray in this way for eight hours, or invest that time in working for home church? If you took the route of prayer, it would be far more difficult. Prayer is not easy.

Today the topic is home church and the war of love. We are becoming the weapons of love, the cannon of love, shooting love all the time. What caliber weapon would you like to become, the pistol of love, machine gun of love, cannon of love or atomic bomb of love? You’re greedy, aren’t you? Do you know how the energy for an atomic bomb is activated? By chain reaction. One atom splits two other atoms, which split four other atoms, which split eight more atoms. These splitting atoms create incredible energy. That is the theory of home church chain reaction.

The physical world has come to possess atomic weapons, so in the spirit world God must have the atomic bomb of love. The secular atomic bomb can bring nuclear disaster and wipe out mankind; man now has the capability of destroying himself. What about the atomic bomb of love? Would it destroy or bring peace, happiness and joy? Once you explode the atomic bomb of love it becomes the panacea for the problems of the world, and there is nothing under the sun which cannot be solved. Satan himself will vanish, for the one thing that will be destroyed is satanic power.

You are going to the home church as one atom of love, saying to the people, “Become like me.” You cause other atoms to split other atoms, which in turn split more atoms. Our movement is here just to duplicate ourselves and multiply. We will create a chain reaction throughout the world and then the world will be converted by the atomic bomb of love.

There have been many wars in history and their purpose has been deprivation, with men wanting to confiscate materials and territory from other men. Previously wars have been fought to win material, but the communist war is to win people, land and money. The ultimate war God is going to wage, however, is the war of love. People will fight to get love and to give love. The more intense you become in the battle of love, the better it will be. In other wars the more intense the soldiers became, the more destruction there was. But the more you distribute the love of God, the more the peace, energy and unity that people desire will come. Would you become an atomic bomb or an atomic love bomb?

You have only one bomb, so when it explodes where can you get more? Home church is the battleground where you are going to explode your love. Where can you get more supplies for your atomic bomb? God is the reservoir. All you have to do is tell God you are firing your atomic bomb and He will supply you with more. God’s supply depot is a 24 hour operation. You can bring a request and God will always say yes because His supply never runs out. If you fire the atomic bombs of love as fast as a machine gun, the supplies from God’s depot will pour down like water.

When you are firing the atomic bomb of love, would you think you are destroying people or that you are giving resurrection? Giving love creates such a joyful atmosphere. The more you fire the love of God, the more you as the gunner will become excited and elated. What kind of love would you fire? What kind of love is God’s love? True love. What is true love? Selfless love. Only selfless love can exterminate Satan. You are young people and if you only try to give love to young people then you are being self-centered. But if you give love to old people, children, black people, suffering and poor people, that is heavenly love. When you are trying to love more than God loves and more than I love, then you can become a saint. If you love home church more than your own father and mother, more than True Parents or God, do you think God will be jealous and say, “Don’t do home church. Love me instead”? Will I say, “Don’t do home church. Just love me and pay 100% attention to me”? Will your husband say, “You are my wife. Your first duty is to love me before you love home church”? How about the wife who says, “You must take care of me. I need you”?

Home church is the basis for loving everything, even your wife and husband. Think that in going to your home church you are going to your wife’s or your husband’s home. You must go to that place and love them, and find your husband, your wife and your parents there. Don’t stand and try to let them come to love you but go out and love them.

Everyone will be shot by the gun of love. In that way 360 homes will be demolished, but not in a destructive sense. The only one who will lose in that battle is Satan. God will be triumphant, as will True Parents, you and all your home church people. If you win the battle of love in your home church you will be as God to those people. Because God is invisible, you will be His representative. 1 would like to hear home church people say that when you enter their house God enters in you. “Even Jesus could not be better than this Moonie. Not even Reverend Moon could be better!”

You know what kind of criteria you must establish. You must love the home church more than eating or sleeping. You must love your home church more than loving yourself, your parents or husband. With all your heart and soul and mind love your home church. You are going out there with the machine gun of God’s love and with its barrage you are firing at 360 homes every day. Would you be a winner then?

When you become victorious, how would you become? When you have become completely victorious, your 360 homes will become your home. 360 people will say, “You have been hungry for so long. Please come to our house for supper. You have lost much sleep. This is your bed. Please rest.” Everyone will say, “Let me do your job for you. Take care and rest easy during the day and let me go out day and night and work.” If people really see God in you, would they say that?

Love God more than anything else. God is the root and home church is the fruit and harvest of His love. When you come to the throne of God, can you proudly say, “God, I loved my tribe and the world representing You, and now I have come back to You”?

Whether or not you can make your heaven depends on this one war. With the five senses of your body you are firing out this love. Will intensity in this battle bring us better results or poorer results? Right now people may not welcome you, thinking, “Oh, that Moonie is always coming, sometimes even twice in the same day.” But the time will come when they will say, “Please do more; teach us more; discipline us.” 360 home keys will be jingling in your pocket as you walk. The time will come when people will let you come in any time of the day or night. You must win that much of a reputation. If you are trusted to that degree there is automatically hope for building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, for trust is the foundation for building the Kingdom of Heaven.

The motto for this year is Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. As young men and women, it’s very good for you to get experience on the battleground. Would you go to the battleground to take possession of material, territory or people, or for the war of love? It’s an exciting mission and the best battleground you can find. The time will come when the 360 homes will volunteer their sons and daughters, competing against each other to have their children accepted first. At the end of the third seven-year course everyone will be blessed. In other words, you will literally find your bride and husband in the home church. Unless you are welcomed in your home church you can have no wedding after the third seven-year course is over. I don’t have the time to explain everything to you today, but that is the Principle.

Is home church an exciting world? Why? Because each of you is going to be a gunner for the atomic bomb of love. Are you holding that atomic bomb of love? Those who have it, raise your hands please. How do I know you have that love? Show me where it is. The only way you can show that you possess that atomic bomb of love is by the success of home church.

When you are literally adored by your home church people, will your own parents come and say, “You didn’t love me at all. How can you love all these people? You will get nothing out of it” ? Or will they say, “My son, you are great. I didn’t know you were such a saint.” Husband and wife will see each other respected as saints by their home church people and be proud of each other. History will tell that at one time we had the greatest of all young people here in America who brought the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. People all over the world will be proud.

Success hinges upon this one project, home church. By succeeding here, you have already loved God and the world. You are trying to become the atomic bomb of love, pouring love out in your home church area so much that you totally forget yourself. When you hear the word home church you will remember that you suffered for it, but also that this is where you fulfilled and won your own victory. This is the place of hosannahs. Since you suffered, the shining glory will be more valuable for you. No one can take away that love because you earned every bit of it through your suffering.

Would you like to crave home church more than you crave food when you are hungry? Is your intensity about your home church greater than toward your first love? All men want to have a destiny with God, but I want you to know that God already set the appointment to meet you in home church. God is waiting for you in your home church area. Jesus is there and so is the Kingdom of Heaven. Everything you have been craving is there. I am out there. Don’t come here to meet me, but go to home church.

How many Sundays are there in 1979? Ever since God’s Day I have been talking about nothing but home church. Have you been intoxicated and motivated, doing nothing but marching forward? When you wage the war of love, do not become a defeated person but become a triumphant person. When you become a victorious flag bearer of love, following behind will be Jesus, True Parents, God and mankind. This is not theory but the Divine Principle. It can be done and it will be done. Shall we do it? Raise your hands if you can do it. Let us pray.

## OUR POSITION

By Fami1yfed June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
January 2, 1979
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

As you are fulfilling your mission you are meeting all kinds of people, on every level and in every walk of life, from influential leaders down to people at the grassroots. Therefore, you can read people’s thinking toward us and know what their attitudes are. I’m sure that in some cases people are scornful toward you and try to embarrass you, and inside you probably feel some anger and urge for revenge. More importantly, however, after people treat you this way you reflect back on it, and maybe you think, “Why do I have to come here and be ridiculed like this? I don’t need it.” This is the most discouraging kind of conclusion.

You would be surprised at how drastically different you are now from when you joined the Church. You were accustomed to having freedom and money to spend for yourself, but here you have firm discipline and go toward one simple goal. The money you earn is not for yourself but for the public purpose. In this situation the person who truly has a burning desire to fulfill the work of God and His dispensation will receive the persecution and gain greater power and commitment. Those whose basic commitment is not clear will become discouraged instead.

Your activities are not average but extraordinary. The work you are doing is unparalleled in the field of economy and there is no comparable example from the past. You are challenging the world in an entirely new way. You have done a great job and it is clear that this extraordinary declaration of war has been succeeding. Why? God is with you. In this work you come to experience God’s heart. He is the real owner of all things and all money, but He is bringing Himself down to a beggar’s position, petitioning the people and appealing to their mercy and compassion. In that situation you can feel that God has been suffering very much and you can know God’s heart to be in that position.

Why should God have to bring Himself down to such a miserable place? Not because of any deficiency on His part, but because of the sin and fall of the degraded animal called man. Since men committed sin, men should be responsible for their affairs, but God has found no man trying to take up that responsibility because no one has ever realized it. Those people who realize that it was not God’s mistake but man’s responsibility must finally make a start.

There are 240 million people here in America, but not a single one of them understands the suffering heart of God. We in the Unification Church are the only ones who understand, and furthermore, we are the only ones to share that suffering together with God. You must have that pride. When Adam and Eve tell they were ignorant, and that same pitch dark ignorance has caused the same mistake to occur over and over again. We must have an understanding of truth in order to begin.

The unknowing act of Adam and Eve brought formidable consequences to all mankind, and how much more is our ignorance today bringing results that are just as formidable? We know the truth, but if we still commit crimes and don’t take responsibility, then how much graver consequences can be expected? There was room for forgiving Adam and Eve because they did not know the whole truth, but you cannot plead that. The only way we can go once we know the truth is God’s way. We have no excuse for deviating.

I want you to understand that you are the center of the universe, representing not just yourself but society, the nation and the world. There is only one group like this in the world, burning with a sense of responsibility. That is our pride. Americans today really desire to have people like you, even though right now they oppose you. Americans may not realize how necessary you are today, but tomorrow America will definitely reach that conclusion.

America will definitely realize that you have done great salvation work for this country and sooner or later this nation will mobilize to take over the public-purpose economic activities you are doing. When that time comes, what you have done today under persecution shall be the acts of the apostles, their tradition and guide.

If you can accomplish this result under persecution, how much more will other people be able to do later under favorable conditions? Even though they may accomplish ten or twenty times as much, that is still not comparable to what you are doing today under adverse conditions. But when the day comes that everyone welcomes you, then MFT work will not bring as much joy. Your great joy today is that you are succeeding under adverse conditions, winning the victory because of your iron will.

We are not suffering for the present time but for the future, heralding the new dawn and struggling in order to make it possible. While you are working you can see how public opinion is changing. Because you breathe the atmosphere of the society and nation you know precisely where we are standing and can gauge the nation’s attitude toward us. A few years ago there was total lack of understanding, but increasingly people are trying to understand, and they even think of me as the hope of the future Each time you meet such a person you are inspired.

So far we have taken beating after beating, but the time has come now for us to let the American people know what we are and what we are striving for. The time will come when the truth will be told. People cannot deny the truth, but will recognize Reverend Moon and this movement as the history makers who brought renewal and revolution to a crumbling America. Although you may not think you have changed much since your first day in the Church, I want you to know that you are like passengers on a Concorde: Even though you seem to be staying in the same place, your value and achievement have shot forward and you are on an entirely different plateau than in the past.

Aren’t you sometimes surprised at how much you have changed? You might have gone through high school and college yet remained unchanged, but you know that somehow you have changed 180 degrees here, becoming an entirely different person from your previous self. Sometimes you amaze yourself. When you analyze your own motivation for fund raising from early morning to midnight, do you have shame or dignity in your heart” I recommend that you keep a diary of all the dramatic events in your experience. For instance, record the time when someone gives you incredible mistreatment and you just want to throw everything away and knock him down. Write how you were patient instead and thought that your mission will help save not only good people but people like this man, and criminals who are even worse. Think that those people are going to have hope because of you.

When you think that way, you can realize that those people are not necessarily serving a bad purpose; they are becoming rungs on the ladder upon which you climb up to sainthood. Then it is no problem when Americans or people of any other nation mistreat you; you will have the heart to embrace them with infinite gratitude, a heart of God. Will people of all races look down on such a person as a peanut or giant? Instead they will think that the saints must have been like that. Religious leaders always worked in their own countries, but your stage is the universe. The person who can save the world should be like that.

Externally you may not have changed, but internally you are centered upon God and this mission and you are making yourselves giants every day. Even though you keep your money in a savings account there are many ways it can be stolen, but the value and assets you accumulate in your heart cannot be taken away. They are yours forever. In time you men will receive your brides and can show how you have lived your life according to this conviction. Would your bride ask how you could be so dumb? No, she wouldn’t, and I would not give such a wife to you in the first place.

Your wife would even shed tears to realize what a giant of a husband she has and what a joy it is to serve such a man. You earn much money very quickly but don’t spend even one penny of it for yourself, giving all of it for humanity and God. That is your way of life. American women have never met such a man in all of history. Your wife can feel that she has a historical figure as a husband. This husband will be transmitting his greatness to his wife. Since you are working in an economic mission, will you have worries about how to buy your family groceries later? If I tell such a couple that their mission is to earn the money to build a house in three years, then they will be able to build a palace.

This MFT movement in itself is a great revolution of thinking and of way of life. If building a house is your mission, you work for it 100%, and if I say your next mission is to accumulate a savings account then the interest alone on the sum you gather will sustain you. I don’t think any economics department teaches this kind of system. Once you finish earning the money then your entire life is freed for the single purpose of witnessing about God.

You are responsible for your portion of the mission in the area of economy, but I am responsible for the economic mission on the universal scale. I am a super-MFT member. Without the necessary funds the world cannot be saved. Since I have done this work, I know how it works. My mission now is to make each one of you ready to take up greater responsibilities in the future

You always have to do more than your given responsibility, not faltering or only meeting the standard, but always being above the standard. History may fall and the nation may fall but we can never fall We shall survive and prosper. Even though I am short, if I am going to pull a tree out of the ground I will never tackle a small one but will go after a giant tree. It your iron will and determination are there, even a giant tree will be uprooted. The Bible confirms this. But don’t ever think that everything can be done in one day. You have entered the best university there is to study for the best possible Ph.D. degree.

When I first came to America our members wanted me to see New York and took me to the top of the Empire State Building, pointing out all the great buildings in this city. I nodded, and then asked how much the Empire State Building cost. They had no idea and were flabbergasted at my question. I told them that in a few years we would be buying some of those big buildings, and they thought that maybe I was crazy. The other day one of those members confessed how he felt that day, but now he sees that I have fulfilled many dreams that looked impossible. Now he believes that all those things I told them hack then will happen.

Now you say, “Father, we are doing this MFT work to the best of our ability. What is our next mission going to be?” Do you have that enthusiasm now? Are you going to graduate from this university with honors? What kind of men and women will you become then? All great things happen gradually. Even the fastest bus or train takes time to reach its destination because it has to go over each piece of ground; there is no such thing as skipping anything. It just covers each small segment and keeps going.

At any given time this locomotive might not look special, but to the person riding inside the train it is different Various trains might have distant or nearby destinations, but our train has the ultimate destination. We know what our terminal is. I’m sure for most people the first few weeks on MFT are just incredible and they think they will never be able to stay. But then they begin to see people respond and they experience some achievement and they entrench themselves in the mission, becoming like solid rock.

You used to be afraid to see your leader returning for you, thinking that he would give you some more to do, but now that you are trained in MFT spirit you are ready and waiting for some new direction, ready to accept any challenge that is forthcoming. When you began you were completely occupied with the mission of selling and you had no time to think about anything else; now as a seasoned soldier you are getting the result and at the same time you are planning for the future thinking how you will be doing greater things. You have room for that now.

How much have you grown? Tremendously. Now you have sharp eyes for analyzing all situations. You can make judgments and act upon them, learning quickly the process of leadership. In a boxing championship the winner will be the fighter who is able to think of his strategy even as the match progresses, analyzing his opponent’s weaknesses. I am the same. I am a religious leader, yet I am not doing only religious work. I am looking in all different directions and analyzing them so that whatever opposition comes I know how to maneuver.

No matter how terrible the situation is, I always have room to think and plan. That same trait is absolutely necessary for you. No one who is sitting behind a desk trying to figure out how to save America will ever succeed. You have to be out with the people, breathing with them, and the plans and visions found there will save America. Do you think my way will save America or will the politicians in Washington do it. Instead of strengthening America they are losing America and the world. In the last few years the free world has been severely shaken, being manipulated more and more by the communist force.

You conclude that even if young people have to be forced to come help save the world, such a system of force would be desirable. But do we do our work because we are forced? We don’t have to. You are not here to be forced by anyone. I know that you have every freedom to pack up today and leave, but I also know that if you leave then God will bring a stronger replacement. If Americans fail then God will raise up the Germans. If they fail then God will raise up the Japanese. If they fail then God will raise up the Koreans. There are endless ways that God can replenish this work and make it prosper.

I will not give up because of any difficulty or because some people run away. I do not want to fail however, because I know that then your children and grandchildren will have to pay the indemnity for that and then their suffering will be many times more than yours. We want to finish the task ourselves and hand down a glorious future. Are you going to do it and succeed?

Recently Mr. Kamiyama came to me, practically in tears, saying, “Father, our members are doing very well in December, but I am worried about their result in January and February.” I told him, ‘Why are you worried? If you worry about it then nothing can happen. But if you have confidence then everyone will have confidence and never let you down. They are not here to have fun but for the mission, and the greater the mission and challenge, the greater the standard they will have.” Would you accept that?

In order to graduate from this university, you must make your good record in December a launching pad to soar even higher in January and February. Why think that January will be less successful? If you think that way then it will happen, but if you think the other way then that will happen. Everything is determined by what you have in your guts, in your concept anti conviction. It is not you doing it but your conviction. If your desire is so hard and concentrated then it will be fruitful. It is not my body doing the work, but my conviction and positive thinking.

Do you think that after December you will be worn out and not bring the result” If you set a new record in December by working fourteen hours then in January you will work fifteen hours and in February sixteen hours. In December you worked normally at a walking pace, then in January a taster pace, and then in February you will run.

If you get constant result, what would I do with your money? Do I have a big savings account somewhere? The American authorities all wonder where my secret stash is and they are searching all over the world for it. They still haven’t found it because it is in heaven. Finally, after scrutinizing our finances with a microscope, they have found that instead of taking all your money out of America to hide it I have actually raised many times more money elsewhere to spend for this country.

From December through March our member countries around the world have given contributions to our work in America. You are here trying to save this nation of America, but would you want to be indebted to other nations of the world, or give benefit to those nations instead? I push you hard because I don’t want you to be indebted. I want you to be independent anti enable America to give benefit to the world community. That’s why I push you day in and day out. Do you like that idea”

Where do you think Christianity has been ruined? Right here in America. It has become apathetic and compromised itself and you cannot avoid judgment for that. America is the nation that reduced Christianity to a trivial religion. There are hundreds of millions of Christians around the world and millions in America alone. All of those people could easily save America, yet they have allowed this nation to be influenced by communism and become degraded morally, remaining totally selfish. They should feel so ashamed about this that they cannot lift up their faces. Jesus taught that Christians should take up the cross. Are you willing to take up the responsibility which Christianity has left undone?

Look at the nations surrounding America, like South America, Africa, Iran, the Middle East- where millions of people are breaking their ties to the free world. The communists have worked hard to make America crumble, but all of a sudden I show up and say firmly that America must turn around to go in the other direction. Those people who want to see America fall have discovered that I am their worst enemy and definitely want to destroy me and stop this movement. The communists are determined to destroy me, yet incredibly enough Americans are giving aid to them and refusing to accept my aid. The time has come for people to emerge who want to take up the responsibility, who cannot bear to see America stumble along like this any longer. People must move forward to make that declaration.

You must have clear judgment and be afraid of nothing. Even the children of proud traditionalist Americans are becoming hippies and getting into drugs. If we see thousands of young people going in that direction then our job is clear. At one time in the past you were part of that life so you know what these people are like. Now you have become new men and women with a great vision, hope and determination. By turning these people around you know America can be saved.

Our young people have demonstrated an incredible degree of giving and sacrifice. Even those people recently matched and blessed are giving up their married life for seven years to dedicate themselves totally to God. I know your miserable situation, but I know that your difficulty will prevent even greater misery and disaster to come. I know just how difficult your MFT work is, month after month and year after year, but if you cannot do it then America’s future will be dim. By doing it you can prevent the future misery of America.

Do you agree that the final goal of the communist world is to make America “‘alter? Because America has always supported Israel, the Arabs want to see America crumble some day. There is much poverty in South America and people there often resent American arrogance. America has betrayed the Asian nations one after another, like Vietnam’ Cambodia Laos; Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are all in a shaky situation now. The Carter Administration has given up Taiwan. President Carter is supposedly an advocate of human rights, but what about the right to sovereignty? How does anyone have the right to abandon a nation of seventeen million people at one stroke?

Because America has proved unreliable, Asians do not trust America. Because they are only trying to survive, they will take a neutral position or even make ties with Red China. Won’t they be affected by an alliance with communists” these developments are America’s responsibility.

We know all of this is coming and that the situation is desperate. Under these circumstances can we just sit back, or should we fight and win? That decision is yours. Once you have matte up your mind then you must honor your decision. The honorable man will carry out his conviction until the end of his life.

I want you to understand that I am spending this time with you this morning because you have a special, important mission. I wish I could visit you in every corner of the nation, but I can’t, so since you came for the God’s Day celebration I told Mr. Kamiyama that I wanted to meet you. I am not meeting with any other particular department like this. Even though I am not with you physically, I am never indebted to you. I want you to understand that you are dwelling in the innermost part of my heart every day. Particularly when the weather is severe, as in winter, I remember that our MFT members are working outdoors. On every path you walk I am out there with you, ahead of you spiritually. Can you complain? Your suffering and mission is an extraordinary one, but I am always ahead of you so you cannot let up. If you feel that spirit then God will always be with you.

There is a heavy load that needs to be moved, yet no one realizes that it must be done. We know that unless it is moved the world will have no hope, so we are carrying it on our backs like mules. A mule may be pulling desperately, yet even then the master may whip him to go further. Will the mule look around angrily as if to say, “I’m already working hard! How can you treat me that way?” Or will he say, “Yes, my master has a good reason to hit me. It will bring good fortune to the nation as well as us. Otherwise we will all collapse.”

It is normal to complain about those who whip you, but those who can thank the whip and work still harder are the extra-ordinary people. That is what sets us apart from average people. I want you to be extraordinary people that way. If there’s kingship in the mule’s world, such a mule will undoubtedly be king. God is looking for such a man who deserves kingship in His kingdom.

I am like that mule and God is a ruthless taskmaster. If anyone had a right to complain to God, I would be number one in demanding to know how He can be so cruel. But I thank God instead because I know He does it out of love, not cruelty. God has a better place prepared for us and wants us to deserve to be there.

Do you realistically feel that without us this world is hopeless? If you really feel that to the bone then the job is almost done. People who want to avoid the responsibility are mediocre and whether they are here or not means nothing, so the person we need is the one who will take up the responsibility. Why have we become so controversial in the world? The more we are kicked and persecuted, the stronger this movement gets and the more we prosper. How could that happen? In most cases when people are clubbed or hit, they collapse, but the Unification Church is different. When all these incredible things come to us we just work harder and prosper more. How could anyone overcome us then?

We are invincible, and therefore people become jealous. When you knock on a door and the person mistreats you, just smile and nod and say, .’We’ll meet you again three years from now.” Korea has mistreated me so much that when I came to America I said in my heart, “You just wait and see. I will come back and meet you then.” When I recently returned to Korea from my work in the Western dispensation centering upon America, people bowed down everywhere I went.

Without success and victory we cannot return to our people or go back to our home town because the people will just ridicule you. I want you to go back with honor and dignity so that you will be not only accepted but respected. Some parents are especially negative, so you should go back with a most wonderful wife or husband and say you have come back with a queen or king. You are chosen American women, so you make yourself honorable and respected by all men and be their first choice as brides. Most American women your age never think about the things you are concerned with. You are heroines.

The history we are making will have traditions stronger than any record set in 200 years of American history and we will turn this nation around. Do you know why I can revolutionize the 2,000-year old world of Christianity? Because the power and intensity of my history is stronger than the tradition of Christianity of 2,000 years. My tradition is becoming stronger than any previous one, and this ideology and conviction will eventually shape a new culture and tradition for the world. That is a scientific formula-the world will tend to go where the strongest power is.

As I said yesterday, you must become educators, teaching America through your actions. You are loving America, earning money with a parent’s heart to give for the sake of the children, the people of America. You are becoming the parents of America and your position is to be the forefathers of a new America. How could a father let this nation crumble? Self-centered capitalism in this nation will tall prey to communism because that ideology at least claims to benefit the world, while America doesn’t. Unless we come up with a new economic philosophy, America has nowhere to turn except to communism.

You are becoming teaching material. Your fund raising is an education process, and when people say that they don’t want that education you leave them without feeling bitter because you realize they don’t understand. Just think that they will enroll next time. You will meet them again in the days to come and they will apologize for acting as they did because they didn’t know. Just as they will do to you, America will do to me. That is precisely the path I walked, so can you say you want to avoid this route?

When you American citizens receive ridicule from your own people it is understandable, but the members who come from abroad for the sake of this nation are unjustly ridiculed by Americans. You know that the Japanese members are trying desperately to set a tradition and leave a better record than the American members. For whom did those members come to work so hard? For their native land? Then you should be doing better than they do. Am I doing this work because I want to save Korea? No, it is all for America’s sake. You have to be burning with zeal to correct the injustice and wickedness of this world, feeling a heavenly anger to bring change.

American young people are following a road of degradation and self-destruction, but we are moving toward hope, becoming masters of this nation by giving ourselves to save it. That is our way. If a student goes to Harvard to get his masters or doctorate but decides that the work is too hard and he doesn’t really want to make all that effort, will people sympathize with him when he packs up to leave? It would be much better if he had never attempted to go to Harvard.

Our situation is the hardest possible, but from the dispensational point of view, our mission is an inevitable one. 1 know precisely how you are thinking. I have experienced a beggar’s life, sleeping outside many nights under bridges and staying in the hovels of the poor where lice are everywhere and people are always dirty. I stayed there many days. The people who lived there all wanted to come to visit me because I set the pattern of how to live in poverty with dignity. I am always a teacher.

We did not start our fishing businesses only to make money, but to start rebuilding America’s economy. For live years I worked every day to set the tradition and find the best way. Now some officials in Washington have heard about what I am doing and they remark at what a perceptive man I am to see that America cannot afford to abandon her fishing industry. For fifty years that industry in America was desolate, but in time it will feed America. I have started far in advance of everyone else.

In the last three years our investment of millions of dollars has not made a penny, but do you think we should give up? Would you tell me to provide the money” Would you support this? I need millions of dollars this year. I am chartering a worldwide network of communications known as FPI-Free Press International-which has cost millions of dollars to create. Also this year I have to invest even more in this fishing effort. Where can I get the money.

What does MFT stand for? M is for Moon, I am sure; F is for faith. Is T for tedious? Would you like MFT to stand for “Moonie falling down in a tedious way”? Then what would you say” “Moonie standing on faith and truth.” I have to criticize Mr. Kamiyama because he grabbed the elite of the Unification Church for MFT, reaching here and there. In other areas there is a lack of leadership because he has all the good men and women. You should leave an excellent tradition then. If you cannot be number one in that case then you will really be Moonies stalling down tediously. Would you want that?

Mr. Kamiyama is always coming to tell me that the MFT members are still young, but I see that you are the elite. I know that you can take it when I push you harder in 1979. I am so attentive to MFT that I always sign many pictures for you. No other group leader comes to ask for signed pictures the way Mr. Kamiyama does.

One famous professor wrote me a letter saying that he had studied the signatures of famous people and that he collects autographed pictures. He asked me to sign my name so he could add it to his collection, but I refused, thinking that he didn’t deserve it. When Mr. Kamiyama comes to me for MFT, however, my heart is melted and I sign hundreds of pictures. Sometimes it takes hours and my arm is stiff, but still I go on. I am afraid that when you receive more than one or two pictures from me that you will start to be indifferent and not cherish them as much. Is that ?

I have discovered that you are tough, elite people who can take a beating so I will push you out in 1979. Will you take it” I know that if you become the new dynamo of the MFT that the teams around the nation will be influenced by you. That’s why I am speaking this morning. That’s another responsibility of yours since you were here to hear me this morning. I would like to have 100,000 members on MFT right here in America eventually.

You are the future leaders, and in the years ahead people will work according to your tradition. Not only will you be the leaders, but you will have the power to influence the nation. Whatever you unite to do, you will accomplish. Each person will be leading 3,()()() people. Even a Senator doesn’t have 3,0()0 devoted followers, but your 3,000 shall be united under you to turn this nation right side up and create a living America. In ten or fifteen years MFT activity around the country will be the talk of the town. The people who are influenced by you today will be senior citizens by then, and when they gather to talk about the good old days the topic will be those MFT Moonies and what wonderful young people they were, so dedicated and giving.

This kind of encounter with the MFT will be even more memorable in America’s little towns. There is no place where the MFT has not been. Soon history will record a chapter about the repentance of the American people over how America treated me. People felt threatened by our competition and deliberately tried to defeat me, but the entire world will know how I was right and America was wrong. Americans will repent, but they will have one consolation-even though they were wrong there was a handful of American young people who discovered the value of what I am doing early enough-that is you. You will be a comfort to America in the future.

What you are doing today shall shine like the sun in the future, and the more you suffer today, the more you will shine then. Imagine how in a state like North Dakota the newspapers will be calling on people to repent, but will also report about the young people from that state who discovered the truth years before and went on MFT, giving all of their earnings for the public purpose. When that time comes, the name Moonie will be honorable and we will be the educators of the nation. This is not my fantasy; this will happen and I will make you that kind of leader.

Without your knowing it I am planning for the future and it will all unfold step by step. Do you feel that simply by having True Parents you have hope. When I declared the overwhelming task of stamping out all the evil in the world, did I do it on a whim or was I serious and ready with a fighting plan? No mortal man has ever dreamed of such a thing before. That is not all. I am declaring the liberation of God. If a person can declare the liberation of God, is the liberation of America a big or small task in comparison?

Have guts and conviction. Even though America has ridiculed and persecuted me, do you think you have met the right man or not? Even though I push you to the MFT mission, do you think it is your, good fortune to have met me? Even when people snap at you and are hostile, do you still think you are fortunate? I want you to understand that the road we are walking is the road toward glory, with no comparison to any other road. It is truly the honorable one. L)o you know why America is declining now” Not because it lacks education or money or honor, but because so Par it has not found people like you. This is the first time in history such people have come forward.

Moonies have become the essential treasure of this nation. You taste the reality of society every day; you know the real condition of the oppressed people and the minorities in America, so you can sympathize with them. It is a world you never dreamt of in the past. The influential people in this nation have never tasted that. Perhaps you were apathetic toward Orientals or black people before joining the Church but now they are precious to you. Your attitude toward different races and cultures has changed. Black people were brought to this country as slaves, as though they were animals, but you have discovered how hard they have worked to build the basic foundation of America. They are in the position of forefathers to this nation as well.

Black people have been oppressed so much that they have a deep spiritual heritage. Since you are beginning the rebuilding of America, you can understand the suffering of the black people. When you cry, they can share those tears, and when they cry you can share their tears too. The majority of white people are still resistant to uniting with blacks, so we are like mediators between the two. The pro-violence extreme in the black community and the apathetic white community on the far right have always clashed and we must be a bridge between the two. No matter how much America resents the Moonies, they need us to be mediators at this critical point. Do you think we are needed by the nation?

America is a microcosm of the world, with all the world’s races assembled here. America is at the point of going up in flames, but we are serving to help hold the broken pieces together. When we succeed here, we can definitely succeed on a worldwide scale because already there are peoples from all over the world here. We will have people from every nation and race coming to participate in America’s salvation, even though they have no other connection with America.

The most formidable enemy is the communists, who are trying to infiltrate society, trying to weaken this nation like cancer from within. Many clergymen are actually communist or influenced by communists. The parishioners who give much money are often given church office, such as deacon or elder, and in that way communists can covertly assume such positions of influence. The Christian spirit is the backbone of America and made it possible for this country to be a social melting pot. Only in that spirit can many different kinds of people become one cohesive, working body. Once that Christian spirit falters, though, there is nothing else to keep people together.

We have come to the crucial moment when a way must be devised to bring nations and people together. Do you think our Divine Principle has enough life-giving power to unite the Christian world? You young people are the elite of society, and you are convinced and inspired by Divine Principle. The victory of World War 11 was won in 1945, and this is 1979, 34 years later. The Christian spirit was at its peak after World War 11 and people who were your age at that time are now almost senior citizens. You are a new breed of American who never really knew a time when there was a Christian spirit in this country.

Those soldiers who were in their twenties during the war are now in their fifties. Those men knew what communism was about and they understood patriotism. Today those people are the backbone of American Christianity because they are still in a position of influence, but in another decade they will all be out of the picture. You can see that the next five years are the crucial time in which we must lay the foundation her a new Christian movement to revive this nation.

If we started right now it would be impossible to train the necessary people from the ground up. Therefore, the people who are already summoned by God, people like you, shall become the essential moving force to revive the Christian world and create a dynamic force to awaken people to the danger of communism. When all the facets of American society come together a powerful central role will be produced. The drug culture is prevalent, not only in college and high school but even in elementary schools. Under these circumstances, the communists won’t have to fire a single bullet in order to see America crumble; it will only be a matter of time.

Teenagers are the hope of any nation, but if they are corrupted by drugs and free sex then the children they rear will be corrupted. Statistics have revealed that venereal disease is the second most prevalent illness in America after the common cold. If children are born under those circumstances then chances are that they will be disabled or have mental handicaps. Think how tragic it will be for the grandparents of such children to see them in mental institutions. No matter how much money the parents earn, they will hardly be able to pay for a lifetime of psychiatric treatment. This is the bleak future, without exaggeration.

You are living in this society, so you know the situation better than I do. You must see that spiritual dynamite has been laid, ready to blow up the whole nation, with the fuse already burning and all set to explode any moment. Will the communists be glad to see this situation or not” The communists have been working hard to infiltrate troubled nations in Africa and South America, and though people there are looking to America for hope and assistance, this nation is crumbling from within.

Why have I come to America to work? Simply to protect the dignity of God. God cannot tolerate America’s dwindling to that level. My concern is not just what America will be like, but that God’s situation cannot be hurt. For C; oaf, the True Parents and America’s sake you are united as champions to save this nation. Do we have the strength and ideology to set this America right? Since your answer is yes. we must hurry, for the time bomb is ticking. if you lose one moment of time, then history is actually losing a thousand hours. When you speed things up by one minute, history will gain thousands of hours. That’s how much every second counts.

I am declaring an emergency. I could organize our members to build factories to create our financial h>undation, but is there time for that? Or should I get into the drug traffic from Asia to make quick money? In this extreme situation I must turn to you on the M El. I know that we need a material foundation in order to proceed with spiritual work so I ordered a special crusade in Japan, in which every member will have a special fund raising task for four months.

We have no factories; we have only our bare hands and our sweat. You are part of that campaign. If we have 500,000 people around the world dedicated like you then we can quickly influence the world. You are actually doing a different level of home church and it is the same thing I ordered in Japan. Would you fall behind them or beat their record?

Because education is needed, the first thing we will build will be an international university. We already have much land bought for that purpose. After you finish your MFT mission how about getting your MA or Ph.D. at our university” With our own hands and sweat we will build this university and it will be a dramatic experience to go there to get your degree. Is it something to be proud or ashamed of? This is within reach.

I planned to increase MFT strength to 3,000 by the end of last year, but when I was traveling abroad the American movement didn’t do too well. Now I think that each of you can do the work of three people, though. Can you do it?

Today my topic is “Our Position.” I explained the position of the world and of America, of the Unification Church and the MFT, and of the providence of God. On every level everyone has failed the mission. God is in a pitiful position of waiting because He needs champions, and only one group is now determined to say they will do it-that is you, the Unification Church. Look at how pathetic American Christianity is. The American nation as well has utterly failed its mission. But in the midst of all this difficulty a David has appeared to fight Goliath and that is the Unification Church. What is our weapon” Our truth and conviction are our weapons.

After defeating Goliath, David became a king. Do you think I felt good or not when this David knocked down the Goliath which was the U. S. Congress? Are you very unhappy and pale, or bright and dignified and ready to march forward” The MFT started out with peanuts and flowers, and many members with college degrees have participated. When they started out they always met opposition, yet the joy they felt was greater than when they received their diplomas! They felt successful even while doing something as humble as fundraising. Your MFT work has greater value than any degree a university could offer you.

That’s the kind of training you are getting now. We cannot be average; we must be extraordinary. That’s why we can do what others cannot, and even without factories we can still produce and prosper. In the meantime I have many plans that are unfolding quietly-for permanent businesses, for the future missions of the blessed couples and their families and so forth. All these things are emerging every day.

Now you understand our position. Will you reluctantly undertake this task, or go out with eagerness? You like football, don’t you? Why” I like football because it is a rugged game that requires an untiring fighting spirit. When I see a player running with the ball and then get tackled, with ten other players falling on top of him, I think surely someone’s leg must be broken, but everyone gets up and starts all over again. That spirit is what I like.

That kind of ruggedness can only be found in football, not in any other area of American life, but I feel that we have thousands of such heavenly champions in the M FT. The excitement of American football draws many spectators, but in the same way your game will be watched by millions of spectators on earth and in spirit world. There are many colorful cheerleaders out there behind you!

When you are caught in persecution yet still you reach your goal, you are really a victorious champion when you come home. Don’t come dragging in at night, but enter like a winning football team into the fieldhouse. If you are trying to be a Moonie, MFT is the best place to be. Today is January 2, 1979. We are just beginning the new year. Do you have confidence to win the victory this year? I want you to liberate poor Mr. Kamiyama. 1 hand-picked Mr. Kamiyama to come to America from Japan for the new crusade on the worldwide scale. When I first came there were many American leaders who thought they would work closely with me, but all of a sudden this little Japanese who didn’t even speak any English appeared, and they didn’t think it was right for him to be there. They told him one day that he could pack up and go back to Japan and they could take care of the mission here. He was really in a corner, but he knew that I had asked him to come. I told him to wait for three years and he would see that those American leaders would be ashamed of what they had said to him. In the meantime, he was to work with them and eventually lead them. Did that turn out to be the case or not?

Mr. Kamiyama is a foreigner. Do you think it was easy for him to come without knowing the language and culture? It was a task two and three times as difficult as normal, but he overcame all the obstacles and is now in charge of a vital mission, the MFT. He is actually a very fortunate person because there is no place for him to run away to. The only people who can liberate him are you. If your mission is successful then his mission is successful and the entire Unification Church is successful. You are going to be his liberators.

The financial burden of the Unification Church is a heavy one. No one worries about the financial situation except him, and when the situation is bleak or your record is not good then he comes to tell me that our situation is difficult. I know he wants me to find money somewhere else, but I tell him it is his responsibility, and every time he somehow overcomes it. Every month there are payments to meet so every month is a heavy burden for him. But while he is bearing this burden we steadily advance and become bigger. The person who has untiring faith and obedience is never really stuck but will always emerge as the winner.

Mr. Kamiyama is in a position to be resented by the church leaders because he holds the purse very tightly, so he has a lonely position. I told him that he only survives because of his name, which means ‘God’s mountain.” If he were a river mountain or land mountain, he would have collapsed a long time ago. You are poor MFT members, he is poor Mr. Kamiyama and I am poor Reverend Moon, one man struggling for the purpose of the universe, suffering day in and day out. Beyond us, God is suffering and lonely. We are all poor people together, rising up for the ultimate liberation of God.

There is nothing to do but march forward. When you return to your area will you create a new hurricane of this spirit? My mandate is that your December 1978 record is your new launching pad. I want each of you to resolve that your 1979 record will steadily improve over what you did last December. Those who resolve that, raise your hands. God will see that a hurricane has come to MFT but if you are knocked out by that storm then there is no hope for restoration.

From this position we can take care of this emergency and come back with victory. Amen. Will you pledge, “I will do it. 1 will do it. I will do it”? 1 expect you to become a locomotive; I can’t speak to MFT all around America so you must tell them what 1 have said. Will each of you be locomotives? Then I trust you. One good thing about MFT is that your record is obvious at the end of the month. Crazy people may be able to go on for a month or two, but only if you are clever can you go on for the whole of 1979. I trust and believe you.

Let us pray.

## HOME CHURCH AND THE COMPLETION OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

By Fami1yfed June 18, 2018 June 18, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

January 1, 1979
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak
First of all I would like to express the joy of welcoming the new year of 1979, and the twelfth God’s Day. I also want to pray and invite the blessing of God upon the three primary nations for the providence of God-Korea, Japan, and the United States-as well as members of the Unification Church and nations all over the world.

On this God’s Day I would like to express the dispensational meaning of home church and the completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. Although I would like to go on about the true meaning of God’s Day, time is limited and I will concentrate my message on home church and the completion of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Where do you think the name “home church” originated? It was supposed to have begun in the garden of Eden. When we talk about religion we are automatically including God because without God no church or religion could very well exist. The meaning of the Oriental word for religion, chung-gyo, refers to a fundamental, elemental teaching. Religion was to have been the most basic teaching of men. In a house one main beam supports the building, and the teaching that is comparable to that beam is chung-gyo, or religion. That beam is like the position of God. When that beam is removed the entire house collapses, and in the same way, when God is removed from religion the world totally collapses. No matter how much construction work is done on a building, until that one central beam is firmly in place the structure cannot stand.

Home church was supposed to have existed in the garden of Eden, with the home as the place of worshipping God. God should have been the main beam of the home where His children could have lived in His love. The original concept of God’s creation began with one man and woman, who were to form one family and then form one nation and world. Therefore, as their family grew to this higher capacity, home church was to have become national church and then world church. That would have been the ideal.

We come to realize, therefore, that we actually have a great privilege in being able to build and live in home churches. We are going back to the garden of Eden and building the structure of God’s ideal creation from the very beginning. In God’s original concept. He wanted Adam and Eve to perfect themselves and create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, beginning in their own home, multiplying a host of children, and then opening heaven in spirit world. Then all the generations on earth would automatically follow their parents’ path to heaven.

In that case, the tradition that Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden without the fall would have been the tradition of the entire world because it would have been succeeded to by their children and all their descendants. Adam’s tradition was to have been the one God-centered tradition remaining here on earth, the one tradition of home and one tradition of church. Because of the fall of man, however, it all crumbled.

In order to restore the original position mankind must go through a reverse process. The fall came in this sequence: archangel, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and through Adam and Eve the fallen tradition has become the tradition of the world. As you know, God wants to restore the entire world but He cannot do so at one stroke because when He initiated the work of restoration the entire world was occupied by satanic power. The restoration of the fallen world, therefore, has been a gradual, step by step process. The first step God had to take was to choose a champion from among fallen people. The central man God finds to undertake the mission of restoration must unite the angelic world first and then expand his territory from the home to the society, nation and world.

One principle will need to apply to the relationship between this chosen, central man and the fallen people of the world, and that is the principle of Cain and Abel. Abel takes the side of the chosen one and Cain is on the side opposing him. In history we can see the inevitable polarization of these two conflicting parts-the mind and body within each person, as well as opposing elements in the home and society. We see this great separation in our world today, with one part being called the free world and the other the communist world. This separation stems from the confrontation of two ideologies-one a God-accepting ideology, and the other a God-denying ideology-and their final clash on a worldwide scale is now at hand. Anyone who follows a materialistic or secular way of life is engulfed by the satanic ideology, while anyone who denies the secular way of life and tries to bring himself to God draws farther away from the secular world.

In this conflict of good and evil on the worldwide level, what is the focal point and front line? The front line is always the place where the chosen one and his opponent face each other. The front line is always where the mind and body come together. You actually stand on the foremost front line because within you there is a struggle between mind and body. Serving God and following the religious way of life has been the way to volunteer to be a front line soldier against the satanic ideology. Where can we find the true patriot and loyal subject of God? The greatest conflict is never found on the social or national level because the greatest of all conflicts occurs within oneself; this struggle between mind and body is the worst conflict that men face.

I want you to realize that there is always a battle raging within yourself between your visible five senses and invisible five senses. When you go out you confront all kinds of temptations and your body wants to enjoy them, but the internal you keeps saying, “No, no come back and witness.” Whenever you go out on the street the world there is bombarding you with this machine gun fire, and unless you maintain a firm defense you will not be safe in today’s world. There are many invisible satans aiming at you as soon as you step out of the door.

This is why the religious way of life has always begun with self-denial and further emphasized withdrawal from society’s temptations. Since there is always much temptation in the world, religious people have isolated themselves rather than be exposed to it. This one explanation verifies that we are in the showdown battle of hell and heaven. You are always at the starting point of either heaven or hell.

There is always a tug of war between the visible and invisible self, and temptation is always trying to pull you in one direction, while God’s truth is trying to pull you in another. Each person is caught in the middle and usually goes a zigzag course, being pulled from one side to another. This is a very realistic picture. This is why in our world mankind is always looking for the best teacher, best leader and best parents to help them win over temptation. We know we are vulnerable so we want to have extra assistance.

If there had been no fall then there would have been no problem because God would have been the best parent. Could any parent be better? The best teacher would also have been God. The best parent gives supreme, all-powerful love which no other love can penetrate to tempt you. Furthermore, since God is a God of all wisdom, as long as He is giving you guidance who can divert you? It would be impossible. Even nowadays young people commonly have two goals-they want to be well-educated and they want to find secure love. These are the two great aspirations of all people. But what is love in the secular world without God? American-type love? Love can have many different qualities. If you become a victim of the carnal love that is only used as a tool by Satan, you will be pulled all the way down to hell.

The living God wants to tell people two things: “I am your parent and I am the best teacher for you.” Without question the cause of the fall of man lay in ignorance. Another cause was self-centered love. True love was supposed to be God-centered, but ignorance and self-centered love destroyed it and brought the fall. There is a craving for knowledge in our fallen world but it is all self-centered. People want to gain knowledge only in order to increase their honor and comfort and they want to secure love for self-centered satisfaction. This is why such love will not bring anyone to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The basic guideline in the world today is selfishness. People will do anything in order to profit themselves yes; this has been the standard and motivation throughout history. In that way of life people will sell their knowledge to be used for the worst purpose as long as it is for their own profit. They will even sell their love for personal gain.

The God-centered way of life is exactly the opposite; that life is the unselfish, public-minded, world-centered way of life. In that way of life each person is ready to give himself to benefit the entire community or world. The God-centered person is always ready to give up His love for the sake of the world.

I described two ways of life, one for hell and one for heaven. You are standing right in the middle in the place where both of them meet for a showdown. We can conclude, therefore, what the criterion is for distinguishing whether a person is good or bad. Why do you say you are good? How can you be so sure? The good man is unselfish, and his knowledge and love do not belong to him but to God. The good man’s way of life is like a straight line. Throughout history the person who gives himself for the purpose of others has been regarded as a good person, while the man who has sacrificed others for himself has been known as evil. That is the central point of education, and it has held true throughout history.

If everyone really knows the truth, why has America become individualistic and self-centered? God’s work has been a tireless effort to restructure society, beginning with one unselfish individual and through him creating a family and society, nation and world, gradually bringing the lost world back.

So far the basic error of religious teaching has been this: though religion has taught the basic value of sacrifice, it has extolled sacrifice as the necessary price to gain salvation for oneself. In return for their sacrifice people have expected to go to the top of heaven. A person should not be sacrificial only because he wants the highest place in heaven; that is selfish. No, we are going to sacrifice ourselves for the liberation of God and the healing of His broken heart, as well as the restoration of our True Parents and the liberation of all mankind. These are supposed to be the goal, not individual salvation. The truly sacrificial person feels he exists for the benefit of the world and God.

Every religion will also be judged by this simple formula. The truly unselfish religion is the good religion. The Guyana tragedy is an extreme example of an evil religion. How could one man sacrifice the sacred lives of others for his own madman’s ego? The true religion would teach that if death is necessary then a leader should want to die in place of or for the sake of others. Such a person would be a true leader. The Jonestown group was not even following a religion but a doctrine that was totally opposite Jesus’ teaching.

What vision and method for liberating God can be found in the true religion? Do you think God’s task of restoring fallen man to the Kingdom of Heaven is easy? It is an overwhelming task. If He had been doing it for Himself He would have given it up a long time ago. But He is doing it for mankind, not Himself, and so He is tireless in His efforts. He cannot throw up His hands and quit. If God were trying to restore the world for His own pocketbook or pleasure, I’m sure He would have stopped before finding even twelve people because the task is so unpleasant and arduous. God’s motivation could only be unconditional love.

God originally created man to be His eternal object for give and take. The ideal of God is still there and until He reaches the ideal He cannot lay the mission down. American society today is confused because people lack criteria about good and evil. Neither do they understand satanic, fallen nature. The supreme religion is the one which will proclaim the liberation of God and the salvation of mankind. That is the highest teaching you can find. When we evaluate today’s religions from this standpoint we see that today’s Christians are not concerned about liberating God and humanity. Most Christians are narrow-minded because they are talking about “your” God and “my” God. From the ultimate standard of God’s religion we can see that today’s Christianity is not good enough.

Christian denominations today promote their faith by proclaiming that their denomination alone can guarantee the Kingdom of Heaven. In God’s sight this is a very smelly conflict, like pigs in a pen debating about which is cleaner while they are all covered with filth. That blind, boastful attitude will bring nothing but their own decline and they will never see the sunlight. If there is truly a God of justice He would never let such a religion prosper. Any such religion is destined to decline.

What will happen to the rest of the world? The same principle applies. If America becomes public minded and unselfish then this nation can survive, but if America becomes selfish, boastful and arrogant, then just like any religious people with such attitudes the nation of America will also decline. If you wait you will see how true these words are. You will see whether my conviction and ideology will win out or whether America will continue as it is. Do you think America can continue this way of life into eternity?

Even though communists have conquered a large portion of the world’s population and territory, their ideology at least has certain virtues that parallel God’s own virtue. Marxism teaches that a utopia must come for the entire world. Communists say they want to save the world, want to liberate the world, but although the key word has been liberation, the actual goal has been world conquest. Even though the communists proclaim an international crusade for the liberation of the world, they don’t actually live it. Look at how nationalistic the Russian and Chinese communists have become now, competing with each other for spheres of influence. Even communists have not been able to transcend the barriers between nations or races.

How would God feel if He found a group of religious people here on earth who are proclaiming the supreme ideology, saying that their goal is to liberate God and all of mankind’! Would God be pleased or sorrowful to see that they truly had conviction to do that and really lived a sacrificial way of life? If God found such a group here on earth, He would be so pleased that He might faint. Such a group here on earth is the Unification Church, and so in the sight of God the Unification Church is the most orthodox of orthodox and is the center of centers. Therefore, God will look upon all the other religions who are saying the Unification Church is heretical and say, “What are you saying? You are the heretics!” This is the reality of our position.

Go and judge the Unification Church. Is it a good place or evil place? According to our formula of judgment, the Unification Church is good because we want to exist for the sole purpose of the liberation of God and mankind by sacrificing ourselves. I want to bring all America’s young people into the Unification Church to let them sacrifice for that purpose and that’s why this is a good group.

Do Unification Church people have five senses? Do I have a good or a bad brain? Then why haven’t we fought back at our attackers before now? Why do we have so many lawsuits nowadays and why are we winning so many of them? All these years I have said, “Let the world hit us and persecute us. We will take a beating.” But now I am saying that we have come to the point where we must tight back.

It has never been my desire to fight the satanic world in that way, but now God is saying that the time has come for us to show what we are. We must let the good people of the world know so that we can hasten the day of the liberation of God. Now the time has come for us to positively show what we are.

Am I a man of great strength or a man of weakness? Even in my high school days I was a wrestling champion and proficient in all kinds of sports. There was no sport I could not do. I was known as a very powerful boy who was never defeated by anyone. Even when an older and stronger boy came to fight me, he never saw the end of the conflict until I had beaten him.

I could never tolerate injustice because that is my nature, yet when I came to America everyone was scornful of me, accusing me of being a false religious leader. Even school children learned to criticize me, yet under these unjust circumstances I never spoke back, not even one word. The whole time America ridiculed me I was silent, working tirelessly to create the necessary base and foundation with my sweat and blood and tears. The time has come now to show the world what we are and what our true intentions are. The proof is seen in the material and spiritual foundation we have achieved.

The virtue of God is seen in just such situations. God is powerful and almighty, but He has endured Satan’s ridicule for 6,000 years. In doing so God was testing Satan, seeing how vicious and wicked he was, allowing him to do anything. After 6,000 years God has accumulated complete documentation of Satan’s evil, and finally the time will come when God will say, “Satan, I cannot stand it any more. Here is the proof of your corruption.” This logic works in our world as well. For example, no judge will send a criminal straight to jail without hearing all the evidence at a trial. The judge will first listen to the defendant’s story and all the proof will be examined and checked, and then finally the judgment will be made. A court trial is a slow process. That’s good because God’s court is just the same. Following a slow process is God’s scheme to let Satan reveal all the evil he can do and incriminate himself.

God wants there to be no complaint in His court once He pronounces a sentence. Even Satan will accept the final verdict as just. On that day even all the evil spirits in hell will say to Satan, “You deserve that sentence. You are a criminal.” God is a patient judge, therefore, documenting and listening to the evidence. We work the same way. We have been collecting all the evidence of evil against us and when God’s court is finally convened, God will show the entire world the undeniable proof of the evil that has been done, from the individual level to the family, tribal, national and worldwide levels. There is no way Satan will be justified in saying, “No, God, that’s not true. You are mistaken.” There will be no room for that. In order to win His case God has been more meticulous than anyone else. Is God a great judge or a foolish one? Unfortunately this process of collecting evidence takes time, but since He is taking the time to document a complete case there will be no one to come and say that His judgment was wrong, even after millions of years pass. Have you ever thought about it that way?

The Unification Church has been the target of the world, and people of all nations, races and religions have been coming against the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. America is a multiracial nation, almost like a corporation having many stockholders of all kinds. Here in America you have all the elements of the entire world in microcosm. When I came to this nation and received persecution and accusation, it actually meant that the entire world came against me. People thought I would not last even six months, but that prediction was never fulfilled.

When I first entered this country it was as though a little cat appeared all of sudden in a den of lions. The lions have been trying to intimidate the little cat with their fists, but the more they tried to knock him down the more this cat grew; and furthermore, this cat has been winning all of the lions’ children to his side. All the children of America have been saying that they really like the new cat who arrived among the lions. Everyone thought he was a cat, but he has turned out to be the biggest lion of all.

Only those who have an eye of wisdom can see the true picture about me. Many American young people are clever, idealistic and conscientious. In the whole history of the United States there has never been such an ironic instance as this cat disrupting the den of lions, and Americans feel upset over this “intrusion” by a yellow man coming from Korea. The love of white people is not as deep as that of yellow people, but the form love possessed by black people probably is the deepest of all.

You are gathered together here and you need to become great teachers because you now know the incredible truth about the universe and God. Everyone must become teachers who can teach the world how to liberate God and serve mankind. That is the very task God has been doing all this time, so we are taking over God’s job. Do you worry about leaving God unemployed? Because God is without form He will say to any champion who comes to take up His role, “You go right ahead and I’ll be working with you.” That’s the way God works. This is the Unification Church ideology and it is my conviction that we will make the Unification Church the ambassador and representative of God. We will go in place of God to do the work that God wants to be doing. We are going to educate the world for the liberation of God and mankind, demonstrating to the world the love of God centering upon the family, nation and world, teaching the world how we can love our fellow man.

If you join the Unification Church but you don’t feel enthusiasm then you are not a real member. When members first come to the Unification Church they are burning with ambition to become teachers and teach the world about the love of God. They want to teach the world how to liberate God and mankind. Day and night I am looking for this kind of man and woman. The world is looking for that kind of person and God is also looking for that kind of man and woman.

The amazing thing is that I never lose the attention of the American people, or of the world’s people for that matter. Even though people criticize me, they are always watching what I am doing and where I am going. When a tiger appears near a village all the villagers keep close track of it and pass the news, “The tiger moved from that mountain to that mountain.” Twenty-four hours a day that tiger is on the minds of the people. It is the same for the American people; whether they like me or not, they cannot forget me.

That situation is our asset and our foundation. Unless God were working with us, the people would not be as interested. People are more and more curious about me and on that foundation we can truly win this nation. The people who are trying to discredit me have ulterior motives, and usually they are not very productive members of society. When good citizens look at the kind of people the deprogrammers are they think that if this quality of person is a fierce opponent of Reverend Moon then Reverend Moon must be doing something right and they want to know more. This kind of trend will soon start.

God will lose nothing by following this strategy. If I had become instantly popular in this country, being welcomed by the President on down, then you would not have a chance to get in this room. All the people of high position would insist on being here instead. Whoever is looking for the truth, seriously investigating even unpopular people regardless of public opinion, is a real man or woman. These are the pathfinders God needs for the Kingdom of Heaven. You are those people and that is how you are helping God’s strategy.

How many people would say, “I am a representative of God and I want to educate and love mankind”? If you are such people then would the American people eventually welcome me? Of course Americans love their young people, so when you go out into American society, explaining about Reverend Moon and your conviction and your way of life, they will soon welcome you. God knows I need many young people for His work and so He uses this strategy. Do you passively or willingly welcome it? Religion is supposed to be the basic teaching which will liberate God and mankind. There is no greater teaching than this one.

What is the definition of a true parent or true friend” Such a person is one who will lead you to be a person welcomed by the world and God. I have been leading the Unification Church to work tirelessly through this philosophy. When I began this task I was all alone, but I knew that God set up religion because He wanted to be the true father who loved mankind. God’s position has been that of a teacher who could guide mankind into knowledge and show how He loved man. It is logical that, if God is such a God, if you take over the same position you will also become a teacher and parent of mankind.

Whenever truth is proclaimed it will be widely tested. I knew that when I initially declared the truth it would be scorned as being lies and the teaching of a charlatan, but I knew God’s virtue of being silent.

When I first declared this way of life there was opposition but I was silent. When I moved to the family dispensation and the families of the world opposed me, I was still silent. During the national dispensation all nations came against me but I was silent and moved to the world level. When America and the whole world came against me I was silent, and even when spirit world came against me I was silent but I moved on. While we are silently ignoring the slander and vicious lies, the time is approaching when the entire nation will accuse our attackers of being liars. The good people of America will accuse the media of having lied about me.

You know now who the true man is whom God likes. Suppose such a true man came to America and this nation opposed him. Who would win eventually-selfish people or that true man? What if he had only one leg. Would he be defeated? What if he had half a nose or only one eye; wouldn’t he lose then? If that true man happened to have no limbs or someone had to carry him when he went out, would he be defeated by America? If a true man in that condition could still win America then what about me? I have all my limbs, so will I lose or win?

Did I figure everything out in advance, or did I just plunge into the job? In your judgment have I failed or succeeded here in America? Have the deprogrammers succeeded or failed? Congressman Fraser investigated the Unification Church for two and a half years, but was he a loser or a winner? Did he lose his election because I fought him with bullets, or in a boxing ring? No, the spirit world came down and took care of the victory for us.

The home church mission is done by people who take up the position of God as educators of mankind, teaching people how to love God and liberate mankind. If such people become champions of home church, the world shall be restored automatically and the Kingdom of Heaven established. This is the basic spirit and principle of home church. We are going to teach the world these things: one, liberation of God and secondly, love of mankind in the spirit of sacrifice. You must know clearly the logic of the ideology upon which we stand. We will sacrifice ourselves to educate the people and love them. If you do that then without question God will dwell with you and will lead your home church, working day by day with you . You won’t be able to part from God for even one moment. In order to teach this principle and way of life God has been looking for Abel-type champions on every level throughout history.

On each level of restoration there must be an Abel figure known to God as the champion. There will be a worldwide champion to specialize in individual restoration, another for family restoration, another champion for society, another for the world and still another for the entire cosmos. Throughout history God has been working tirelessly to choose these champions, one from the East, another from the West, South or North, giving them missions to fulfill in the different ages. So far, however, no one has emerged to connect all those champions with each other and they have continued working in an isolated way. Satan is cunning; he cuts all ties between the Abels of the world and surrounds them, almost nullifying their work.

God may seem to be defeated, but He has a clear strategy. He will establish one champion of the world and cosmos who will link all the Abels of the world and they will all emerge together at one dramatic moment of history. That is the purpose of the coming of the Messiah. He is needed to gather an account for all the world’s goods, documenting them and presenting them to God on the universal altar. When Jesus came, the son of God, he appeared as a humble man who was opposed by his family and nation and finally crucified. Therefore, he must come again. I have been working to restore all these foundations that have been hidden, and as Abel of the individual, family, society and nation I am linking them all together into oneness to offer them on the altar of God, finishing the final showdown.

There are many Abels in the world on each of the different levels, but so far there has been no unity and each of them has gone in his own direction. Everything is disorganized. There are many denominations within the religions of the world, each of them creating its own world. When their members die and go to spirit world they create an exact replica there of these isolated societies here on earth. Someone has to organize all the Abels of each level into one direction, and if we succeed in doing that here on earth then spirit world will automatically mirror that and become one harmonized body. The relationship between the two worlds is something like that between a factory and a warehouse; whatever is manufactured here on earth is stored in spirit world. There is no such thing as a heaven after you die unless you have lived one here on earth.

Who comes to this earth, trying to unite the central religion with all others in the world? First is God, and next are True Parents. Who are True Parents? Their position is exactly that of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden before the fall. They are the ones who will fulfill the original ideal of creation in reality, receiving God’s original inheritance and giving it to the world. Once this path is pioneered and you liberate God and love Him, liberate mankind and love them, you are entitled to become a true parent because you come under this tradition. I want you to know these two things very clearly.

Since there has never been any unity in the religious world, someone is needed to unify it all. That is how the mission of the Unification Church was born. The first step is to straighten out the dispensational history of the central religions of Judaism in the Old Testament and Christianity in the New Testament. Our role is very simple: we teach what God wants to teach, putting ourselves in His position and telling the people what God wants them to know. When I started in the individual and family dispensation the whole satanic realm knew about it and came against me, but I was victorious in securing the individual foundation. The victory was won under tremendous opposition.

It is the principle that when Satan wages war God’s side must endure and withstand the assault. It may seem as though God’s side is being defeated, but as long as it can survive and go on to the next stage victory is already secured and Satan has to move out. Satan always works for himself, teaching people that they will only lose if they stand on the heavenly side. Nowadays every nation is self-centered and if the people have information that might benefit all mankind they don’t want to reveal it because they want it to benefit only their nation. In order to gain or protect that information they even wage war.

God is not a warmonger or attacker, but is always defending, letting Satan attack. Why does God have to be silent and defensive? It is because His angels and children are not ready yet; they are far weaker than Satan and God knows that this is not the time to stand up. How could He send His children out to confront Satan until they are prepared and qualified? God needs a champion who is just like Himself, who will be attacked but never shaken. In boxing, one fighter can win just by enduring to the end and letting his opponent wear himself out. That’s how God has been fighting Satan.

In the meantime, though, God has not been sitting idle. He has been educating His angels and people so that they can be superior to Satan. If God has a superior force on His side then there wild be no fight because Satan will surrender as soon as God’s side shows up. Is that a wise or foolish strategy? Are we strong or weak? In what way’.’ We are strong inside. We are setting a record superior to Satan’s, setting a pace he cannot keep up with. In that sense is the Unification Church a fearful organization? God has no reason to be afraid of us, but Satan knows he is facing a formidable opponent.

From the beginning I was opposed by even my own relatives but no one could shake my spirit. You are inheriting that spirit today, so when you are kidnapped are you influenced by the deprogrammers? It would have been easy for me to gather my relatives together and explain everything to them so they would understand me, but until now I have been silent and said nothing. I only thought, “History will tell. You wait and see.” I didn’t want to spoil God’s tradition of withstanding all kinds of beatings in silence. If I had won my relatives to my side then I would not be setting God’s tradition of being beaten in the worst possible way, all alone. Then God could not have said I was fully triumphant and Satan would always bear a grudge in his heart, claiming that he could have beaten me if only I had fought alone. If I am victorious with the help of others then I will only have that kind of conditional victory. I always prayed for God to be just a spectator and let me finish the fight by myself.

God really left me alone, but was that punishment or love? God wanted me to win the title of greatest possible champion with no strings attached. You have never heard such a sermon anywhere else than in the Unification Church, but when you hear this don’t you think it is logical? That’s why only clever people can understand the Divine Principle.

When I was victorious on the individual and family levels, all the nations, governments and churches of the world came against me. They used their power to imprison and torture me, and many times I was beaten so much that I threw up a fatal amount of blood and was left for dead. But even then I prayed for God to stand still and let me continue on my own, without His help. I wanted to comfort God by winning on my own.

Of course, God had many ways to assist me, and even though I was frequently accused and brought to trial on false charges I was always proven innocent and released: The amazing thing is that the people who were trying to kill me are the people who have disappeared, either through sickness or accidents. None of them remains on earth today, but I am still fighting my lonely battle. In my own lifetime I have withstood overwhelming suffering and have been triumphant in laying the worldwide foundation. Satan desperately tried to stop me in Asia but he failed, so I came to the world stage, which is America.

From December 18, 1971, when I entered America, until 1976 the entire world came against me, but I used the same tactic of fighting the lonely battle. No one came to my aid. When I first came, even the American leaders of our Church didn’t completely believe me, and still they are sometimes skeptical. But I fought the lonely battle, bringing our worldwide leaders to this country and training them. I never revealed my full plan to anyone, even my closest assistants; I just gave instructions to them. When I told the leaders to do something, however, there was no discussion because I had already done what I was asking of them, and they were only repeating my own victory.

There were many stages in the battle -individual, family, tribe, society, nation and world. At every level I went over a hurdle and paid the necessary indemnity. Because of my achievement there is now one superhighway from the individual level all the way to the cosmic level, and the crooked road has been straightened out. We are becoming the mainstream of the history of God and mankind. This highway is so obvious and so permanent that once someone gets on it there are no obstacles of race or language to hinder him. Once he gets started he can go straight to the goal. It’s like riding in a super-van where everyone is welcome aboard. I am the driver and though you sleep I still drive in the right direction and you can be assured of reaching the goal.

Having home churches was God’s goal in the garden of Eden but it was broken into pieces by Adam and Eve, causing many different obstacles to be set up throughout history. Now I have cleared them all away and we are returning to the original concept. It is your blessing and privilege to participate.

When we make a highway on earth in the cosmic dispensation then the same highway is created in spirit world. When motorists on earth have the chance to travel on a superhighway they all pay attention to how they can get on, even though they may have to backtrack or go out of their way. The time is coming when the Unification Church will be overwhelmed with trying to accommodate all the people who want to get on this superhighway and are flooding the tollgate. I want you to be ambitious to be a teacher of mankind and love mankind as God is doing. Are you that way? Even ugly men and women can have that kind of ambition, right? The Unification Church is like a workshop where you can be trained to be a lover of mankind and God, and I am the one who will sign your graduation certificate.

Do you love me? How much? Just as you love me now, when you teach mankind and give them God’s love you will be loved by them in return. I want you to know that this has been the hope of God and the hope of mankind, and we are here today to really fulfill that desire of theirs. We possess the greatest of all fortunes and the method to fulfill that dream and goal is home church. In doing this mission your Divine Principle book will be used so much that it will be like a rag. Concentrate on God day and night. Does God sleep at night? No matter how much we do we cannot keep up with God because He has no night. Do you still want to compete with God and not sleep at night: either?

Does Satan sleep well ? What about Unification Church members” You may stop to rest for three minutes and ask God to watch over you, but because your body is so tired you actually wake up three hours later. God will still be watching over you because He promised to, but you can say, ” Why didn’t You wake me up?” If you do that then God will understand and Satan will not be able to dominate you. In your sleep you will still be with God. God knows you cannot rest for just three minutes; He knows your trick.

I told the state leaders that they shouldn’t have their own bed or bedroom, but just rest a few minutes in the living room, giving apologies to God for needing to rest. God knows that we have mortal weaknesses, but this is the way we can overcome them. Every time I sit on the toilet I fall asleep, but do you think God will ridicule me for that? No, God will be sympathetic and encourage me to rest a few minutes right there. Sometimes for enjoyment God treats me to a tour of spirit world during those moments, showing what He is going to give to me, and then sends me back to work.

Sometimes I get in the tub for a bath and suddenly I am snoring. When I take a bath Mother is always careful to make sure nothing happens to me in my sleep. Would God say, “What kind of man are you? How can you sleep in the bathtub?” I definitely think God likes me very much, and the fact that you love me is the undeniable proof of it.

The starting point of the dispensation is one individual and the individual must become a family. As the family advances to each level it will expand the providential territory, becoming a nation and finally embracing the world, but it will be opposed at each step. Here in America I was opposed, but during that time I completed the individual, family nation, and world foundations as well as the condition to unite all the races. This involves the restoration of all Abels of the world into one unified organization. You know that opposition came from all corners-all races, all religions, and all nations-coming to a peak in 1976.

Even while the world was coming against the Church we were growing on a cosmic level and we have won a cosmic level victory. While I was receiving persecution in this country I sent out missionaries all over the world to 120 nations to be like lightning rods for persecution on my behalf. The primary responsibility of the missionaries was not even to gain members but to stand firm and even if they had to die for the mission to stay and receive the persecution of that nation. If I hadn’t done that then I would have received accusation from spirit world that I loved only America, even though my mission was a cosmic one. The accusation that I neglected other countries was apt to come, but I prevented that from happening. My body can be in only one place at a time, but in the meantime I sent my representatives to every country.

No one can accuse us of not loving Christianity or Judaism. I have given much sacrificial love for the Christian nation of America. Many Jews say that the Unification Church is anti-Semitic, but I have loved the Jews as the first chosen people. I respect their honor in that position. I made that clear, but I also said that killing Jesus Christ, the Messiah, was a crime, and the Jews will know this truth when they go to spirit world. I must set the record straight about why the Jews have endured a history of suffering for the last 2,000 years.

Christianity faced a similar situation when it opposed the Unification Church, and it could have suffered the same fate as Judaism for 2,000 years into the future. That will not occur, however, because there has been enough acceptance in the Christian world already. That acceptance helped lay the foundation for me to advance all the way up to the cosmic level of the dispensation.

This is the final dispensation here in America and when the pattern of what I have achieved here is expanded it will form the cosmic dispensation. Spiritually speaking, every victory you need has been won. There is no other victory left to obtain; the conquest of spirit world has been accomplished, and now all we have to do is translate the spiritual victory into physical victory. Since this cosmic level of condition has been set, you can go anywhere in the world and there will be no barrier you cannot cross. When we are able to work freely all over the world, the same situation will be seen in the spirit world. Now in the spirit world there is complete freedom of movement through all spheres. The time of disputes between denominations and religions is over. The worst kind of disaster humanity could face would be a racial war, but that crisis is also over because enough conditions have been set so that all races can be one family of man.

This teaching transcends race and nationality. Because our teaching is a universal one, you as students are universal. This is the universal class and it represents the races of the entire world. Once the world receives the universal teaching, there will be no more racial barriers on earth. God can transcend every barrier. God is our teacher and this work will he conducted by Him, but at the same time He is more than our teacher. He is our parent. How could you ask for anything more than that? Harvard graduates are proud to be classmates from that great university. Don’t you think this graduating class here is comparable in honor with any Harvard graduates? This is the university where we enroll as brothers and sisters and here our parent and teacher is God. Are you excited? When you feel this excitement would it bother you to hear negative criticism of the Unification Church?

How successful am I? Am I in a position to envy the President of the United States or should the President envy me? Do you envy the senators or congressmen or should they be the ones who envy you? You have the greatest teaching and the President of the United States must come to learn from you. Furthermore, you have shown through your actions that you love this country more than the president, senators and congressmen love this country. The highest honor in America would not do justice to the true heavenly teacher. However, God will award the medal of honor of the Kingdom of God to such a person.

In a sense I am the greediest person in the world because I would like to have every single one of you deserve the medal of honor of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. I want to make each one of you a winner. In order to do that should I tell you to do as you like? The average person goes out on dates, takes long vacations and has the freedom to do anything. Here in our Church you don’t have dates but once you are engaged and even after the wedding you don’t necessarily live together! We have amazing discipline and people have to shake their heads. The main question is, would you welcome it?

Many people work themselves to the bone trying to get a piece of paper saying they have a Ph.D. from Harvard or Yale. Here I am trying to give you kingship in the Kingdom of God. In order to win that title do you think you can work less than for a Harvard Ph.D.? I want you to become a tribal messiah. Does a heavenly king rule by using his fists and power? A true king rules for eternity by love. Kingdom building has both the spiritual and physical aspect. You don’t have to worry about the spiritual side because I have secured that kingdom. Now I want you to have the opportunity to participate in the physical kingdom building.

Without winning the spiritual victory, no matter how much you do in the physical world Satan will always claim it. But now that I have won the spiritual victory and anchored the foundation, nothing can shake it. In the spiritual kingdom which I have already built no one is idle. All of spirit world is coming down, making a fence to protect us. All the great saints who died many centuries ago and the founders of the great religions are working to shield you and help you win the victory.

Who is on the front line to resist spiritual infiltration? The saints in spirit world are protecting us like the guards who protect a palace, repelling all the spiritual negativity. Satan is trying to infiltrate you, but you have defenders who block his way and he has no way to penetrate that line. Satan is very clever, however, and works through spirit people to hit and run. They sometimes infiltrate successfully, but they will be detected and evicted. For a long time God had to use that tactic, penetrating the satanic camp to hit and run. Now the opposite is true, and Satan can only hit and run.

The spiritual turning point was marked by the crucial victory in 1976. The three years following 1976 are the vital period. The second year is always the most difficult, but now we have gone beyond it and are beginning the third year. After the victory at Washington Monument all kinds of formidable attacks came from all quarters, with the State Department, Justice Department, IRS, SEC and Congress all coming after us. We also battled with the kidnappers and deprogrammers and the media. 1978 was an incredible year. All of this happened because of heavenly strategy and I predicted it many times prior to 1976.

Those who oppose the Unification Church are the generation of the past and those who accept and welcome the Unification Church are the generation of the future. Our future is bright with hope. Would the generation of the past who opposed the Unification Church be the ones to educate you and bring you back, or would you educate them and bring them into the new generation? The showdown is over and even without my being in this country you can easily win. If each one of you clearly realized that home church is the destiny of our movement then you would give your life for it, and my presence here in this country would be irrelevant.

Home church can easily be surrounded and protected by the spiritual victory I have won and there is no way it can fail. The spiritual power we can employ for the home church is many thousand times greater than anything the satanic world can mobilize. All you have to do is unite with True Parents’ spirit and intent. Make controversy; go ahead and create good trouble. The world is plagued with evil trouble so let us become makers of good trouble.

I came to America to be opposed by the world, and now I want you to go to your home church to be opposed by that mini-world. I have won my home church here in more than 360 homes. Since I came here as a sojourner and have finished my home church, I have the right to go back to my home town. That’s why last year I went to Korea and had a special ceremony on November 2 to break down all the remaining barriers in the spirit world, liberating everyone from the barriers of religion and race.

In that ceremony I eliminated the barriers between my tribe and all other tribes of the world. I also broke down the barriers between the Unification Church and all other religions in spirit world. Because of that ceremony the door is wide open, and whether a person believes in some religion or no religion at all doesn’t make any difference. There is absolute freedom now and everyone has the opportunity to hit the jackpot. There are no more barriers in spirit world or on earth. That was done by my succeeding in home church. You can declare to the spirit world, “Because our True Parents set the condition there is no longer any barrier between their tribe and our tribe. There is no longer any barrier between the Unification Church and the religions of the world. All good men of conscience in the entire spirit world and here on earth must come forward to participate in the kingdom building. I am here to enlist your support.” You can pray that way.

You can also petition God, “You are my Father and I’m your child. I am going out to do home church as a tribal messiah and as your representative. Please send down one regiment of angels to come with me.” God will listen to that prayer. The angelic world exists solely to assist the true children of God. So far the angelic world could not come to help very much because you belong to the fallen generation. Now by doing home church you can become the true children of God and before all of heaven and earth you can request the help of legions of angels. In home church we set the condition to liberate the world, the condition that we truly loved mankind. By that condition God will forgive the entire world.

You have to make some victorious condition like Jacob did. He wrestled at the ford of Jabbok with an angel, and when he won the angel blessed him by saying that his name was no longer Jacob but Israel. Upon that foundation God could bless Jacob. You must also win victory by going to home church and securing some condition upon which God can bless the entire world.

Our way of life is like Jacob’s way of life. Initially his elder brother Esau wanted to kill him, just as the Christian world tried to kill the Unification Church, but when Jacob finally came back home then Esau’s heart was changed and he repented. Jacob loved him and gave him presents and embraced him. The two brothers became one. In the same way the world will finally come to embrace you. That will be realized through home church. My dispensation and victory shall be relived and reenacted SO that you can create the same condition. You must repeat my victory. This is the era for children to repeat the victory of their Parents.

The entire world was my stage. Now I have finished and I am asking you to do the same in your small world of home church. As soon as you unite with this spirit I will be there with you. My victorious pattern and tradition will be your asset. Is there any easier way to go? Unless you build your home church in the world of Cain, you are not qualified to go back to your hometown and restore your own tribe.

After the completion of a home church in the Cain world you can go and build one more home church, your Abel home church. Then you can invite your father and mother and whole family, and together with them you can enter the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God accepts only families, not just individuals. A family is three generations, and that is what you are supposed to enter with. Since Jesus was not able to complete the tribal messiah’s role physically here on earth, we are now succeeding to that mission. By physically creating our tribal messiahship, we can open the door for national and worldwide messiahship. There should actually be no blessing before home church is completed. From this time on, no one is automatically eligible for blessing simply because they have been members for a certain number of years. Only those persons who succeed in home church and restore spiritual children are qualified for the blessing. Jesus first restored his three major disciples and then the three became twelve. Those twelve plus his seventy disciples established the number 84. This is an important number for us and it must be done in seven year’s time by bringing one person per month. Jesus would have had the holy wedding after he had 84 people completely united with him. That is the same path I walked.

First we need unity of Cain and Abel. The Cain and Abel dispensation is most crucial and most elementary, and the restoration of Adam and Eve comes on that foundation. The same thing must be done again on the worldwide level. Today there are two worlds-the Cain world and Abel world-and when those two are united into one then the True Parents of mankind can emerge and one world will be formed. When Cain and Abel become one, such as your mind and body becoming one, they serve the higher purpose. Next husband and wife can become one and establish parenthood. Parents and mankind must become one and serve God. That is the way the Divine Principle is structured.

Where are you actually going to find your mate, your ideal object? In home church. You will be blessed with the person you find. That is the ideal situation. The procedure will be that the entire home church tribe in a general conference will make a recommendation to True Parents, saying, “This person and this person are just wonderful and our tribe wants to receive them as true parents. Would you marry them together?” That kind of recommendation will be given as the counsel of the home church. In the days to come there will be no such thing as blessing without having the home church program completed. This is not my statement, but a statement of the Principle.

Home church is a great accomplishment and the pinnacle of the Divine Principle. After all the struggles of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament, home church is the outcome, the ultimate fruit by which the Kingdom of God is going to be achieved. It is the ultimate fulfillment of love. I am telling you to be a teacher and one who loves. Truth and love are the two key words. Why do you go to home church? There are two reasons. First you will educate the people, but after education what would you like to gain” The purpose of education is to awaken them and bring them to the heavenly side. Education will give them birth. Once they see the vision they are no longer in darkness.

At first home church people will not welcome you but soon they will say that without having you visit them they cannot sleep too well. “This Moonie loves me more than God and Jesus love me. He is like my parent. I couldn’t have any better parent than him.” Later on they will even want you to marry into their family. Each of your 360 homes will want to make you their son-in-law or daughter-in-law. If I were still single would you like to propose to me? This is how your people will feel about you.

Many men admire how I live my conviction in spite of the world’s persecution and they want to live that way themselves. There is nothing impossible for me. When I need money, money comes. When I need manpower, that comes. In that respect, do you think that Mother is a happy and fortunate woman to be my wife? Am I a happy and fortunate man because I have such a beautiful wife, such happy, brilliant children and because I have you Moonies?

Now you know what home church is. Ever since the fall of man, God, Jesus and all mankind have been longing to reach the ultimate destination. That is home church. The Unification Church is Cape Kennedy and we are launching home church to the Kingdom of Heaven. Neil Armstrong lifted off from Cape Kennedy and reached the moon. Now we are lifting ourselves off from the Unification Church and our destination is the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a big place, so where would you like to land? Right into the heart of God’s love. The heart of God is not good enough; you have to be in the heart of God’s love. When you land in the heart of God’s love, you will surely give God a shock. At that moment God will really be awakened and He will smile ear to ear in explosive joy. Then the dancing will begin. When God begins to dance, the entire cosmos will be ignited in joy. All creation will feel joy with all five senses and everything will be intoxicated in happiness. That dance will be the ultimate grand finale. After that no more work of restoration will remain to be done. God will say that His restoration work is over and His ideal of creation is complete. His broken heart will be completely healed.

Home church was the ideal of God in the garden of Eden but it was broken into pieces after many thousands of years of difficulties and tribulations. Now finally in the 20th century I have opened the doors. All conditions have been fulfilled and the doors of home church are open for all mankind to enter. That is the history we are witnessing today.

How much you devote yourself to home church shall determine the distance between you and God and the intensity of love God can give to you. Set the condition that you love your home church more than your wife or husband, or children or parents. Jesus said if anyone loved his husband or wife or family more than Jesus, that person was not worthy of him. Today I am saying that if you love your own family more than you Jove your home church and more than you love God that you are not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Your home church is one small world representing all mankind and the entire earth; it is a microcosm of the whole earth. Where you live or travel makes no difference; your home church is the place where you will become a child of the Messiah and enter the Kingdom. Even if you live in Korea and then come to America you will still have to make a home church. No matter where you may go on earth, you must do the home church mission. Even if you went to spirit world now you have to come down to finish that mission because without going through that gate you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

There are no barriers between you and the home church mission, neither racial, national, spiritual or physical. Jesus gave the key to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, and today I give you the key to home church because that is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. With one turn that key will open the door to salvation for one tribe.

What is this year’s goal? Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. This will come by love and truth. You come to the Unification Church to be educated and to straighten out the thinking of the fallen world. This is not brainwashing; it is brain-recreation. Here you practice true, pure love. In order to put the love of God into practice you must do humble things like witnessing. Your body always complains and tries to dodge the mission, wanting to rest and eat and to put off working. You should reply, “Are you telling me you don’t want to go the way Reverend Moon and the whole Unification Church are going? Come on! Do you want to fall behind everyone? I don’t want that! Get going!”

Your worst enemy is certainly not me or the Unification Church but your own body. Your five senses are your worst enemy because they are always ready to be tempted. You have to constantly divert them, asking, “When are you going to betray me?” Your desires can betray you but you must not let them. Temptation is more severe among women in particular. You sisters here don’t wear makeup but I see that you are beautiful.

All of you want to get married, but where will you marry? Where would you like to work now? Where would you like to eat and sleep? Home church? Where would you like to die? Where would you like to give birth to your children? All right, go ahead! In order to open the door of the home church dispensation the Unification Church needed a foundation, and in the process of erecting that foundation we needed Parents Day, Children’s Day, Day of All Things, and ultimately God’s Day. The fall of man came at the growth level, and so three seven-year courses became necessary to restore the formation, growth and perfection levels.

If the Korean Christian churches had welcomed me at the beginning of my mission then the three seven-year courses could have been shortened into one seven-year course. Since they failed to accept me, however, it had to be expanded into three separate seven-year courses. I was actually supposed to erect the worldwide foundation in seven years, but because of opposition, particularly Christian opposition in Korea, 21 years were required to erect the foundation. I am creating the third Israel in the midst of the satanic world and we are undergoing an exodus, taking the third Israel out of Canaan. Wherever I turn there are roadblocks, but now these roadblocks will have no way to hold back the avalanche of heavenly progress.

When I proclaimed the time for home church, it meant that the foundation was complete and that we had arrived in Canaan. Now we are working on settlement; this is the home church mission on a worldwide level. When the Israelites came into Canaan the twelve tribes divided the land, and now I am organizing the children of God to restore heavenly dominion throughout the world. No power under the sun can destroy the Unification Church. No matter whether I live or die now, our movement will never fail because everything is already accomplished. We are in the final seven-year course, creating the individual, family and tribe on the final, perfection level, having completed the formation and growth levels.

If you complete these perfection years well your accomplishment will encompass all the other seven year courses, regardless of the fact that you were not here during that time. As long as you participate in the final seven years the final glory is the same. In 1976 we crossed over the final barrier to perfection, leaping into the direct dominion of God. It is good that people drastically opposed the Unification Church because now the drastic decline of the fallen world will be hastened. Now we can turn around and go on the offensive on the worldwide scale. We are going to transplant the victory we have won spiritually to the real society in a permanent way. That is home church work. If you do that it will be protected by the spiritual realm.

Home church is surrounded by a spiritual foundation. The Messiah is the person who brings the spiritual victory and spiritual heaven down to earth to create physical heaven. Since you are a middleman or bridge to transmit the Messiah’s work to your home church, you are his ambassador, and therefore, when you fulfill your mission you become the messiah to your own tribe.

Satan can no longer accuse you then, but if you fail that mission then your home church people will not be able to accuse you. Why? They will say, “You knew Reverend Moon’s ideology and revelation of truth and love. Why didn’t you live it? You are responsible for the fact that your 360 homes didn’t have the chance to go to heaven!” I have done this work tirelessly for twenty years, and upon that foundation you can do it in seven years, or even seven months. This is why accusation will come if you do not fulfill now. Your home church people will rage at you and you will have no excuse before them. They will be your judge.

Home church is not a witnessing method. No, home church is our destiny, the final terminal and the fulfillment of the dispensation. Fallen man must walk this road; that is his destiny. More than a man is destined to marry a woman, fallen man is destined to finish the home church mission either on earth or in spirit world. Can you deny it? How can you erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth other than by fulfilling the home church mission? This is not a dream or fantasy; this is the real blueprint from God. We have arrived at the final terminal. It is our great fortune to see this home church mission in our lifetime and install the pattern and tradition for history. You repeat the alphabet a thousand times a day in your conversation. In the same way, home church is the alphabet of the Kingdom of Heaven. It should become an intimate part of you. In home church you will find everything. In home church you can find God, Israel, Christianity, anything you want.

How many of you are over 25 and still single? You who are candidates for the blessing must find your spiritual children in home church in the next 120 days or you will not be qualified for the coming blessing. I may plan an engagement for the month of May, so I am giving you a 120-day opportunity. Will you say to me, “Forgive us, Father. Please be easy on us and let us get blessed anyway, without talking about conditions”? Or will you say to me, ‘ Let us leave the highest tradition to posterity. Let us complete the mission now”? Did God and spirit world hear your answer” I’m not sure I heard your answer! In your time I would like to see the consummation of home church, the place where you will find your final resting ground and total fulfillment of heaven.

One day after we finish our task here on earth we will have a great assembly in spirit world. At that time you will come to me in thanks for sending you out to home church, making it possible for you to go to the highest possible heaven. You will be comforted and there will be a celebration lasting for eternity. You can win assets of eternal value now, but if you come to me saying, “Please have mercy on me. I can’t come to your realm because I didn’t do the home church mission,” I will reply, “I don’t know you. Depart from me.”

God taught this principle to me and this is why I desperately gave my life hundreds of times over to fulfill the mission. I have clearly taught you this here on earth, and if you don’t do it then in spirit world I will say to you, “Depart from me.”

The first 120 days is the period when we will win a real victory in 1979. At this time everyone should fulfill home church and find spiritual children; then a great rejoicing will come in May. Have you decided, or are you still considering? This is your decision; I am not forcing you. I want you to pass me up and be so full of enthusiasm that I can follow you.

I have been looking back on my experiences in 1978. I was away for 180 days, traveling around the world in Europe, Japan and Korea. When I returned I found the movement here totally stagnated and in a stalemate. That is why I initiated this last 40-day campaign. This year I must travel to many other places, but would you like me to face the same disappointment when I return again? Do you want me to trust you? Your answer means you are not going to let me down this time, right? We’ll see. Whether I remain here doesn’t make any difference, does it? This is your age; you can do it.

You assemble to listen to my sermons at Belvedere, but would you like to come just when I am there, or even more when I am absent? Do you do home church just because I tell you to? Do you have an easier way? Centering on this mission you must gather your resolve for 1979.

We are giving tremendous joy to God on this God’s Day, but more than anything else we can give Him happiness by making a new resolve and determination to do home church. Let us have confidence and go on to really live this. I want you to understand that God will never appear halfway through a situation; He will always wait until the end. If He assists you too much in the middle of the mission then you will have to pay too much indemnity, and God doesn’t want you to suffer in that way. You can say to God, “You are my spectator, and I will never let you down. Just sit and watch how I am doing.”

Earn the money you need on your own and lecture to your own people. You don’t need anyone else to teach for you if you become a great lecturer on your own. On the West coast Dr. and Mrs. Durst are really united and their centers have exploded in heavenly spirit so they are bringing many spiritual children. In the middle of America the IOWC brothers and sisters are working and recently I visited them to inaugurate the three IOWC teams. They are going state to state to evangelize and win members and they have decided they are going to win one spiritual child every 21 days, not even in one month. Do you want to stall behind all of them?

I initiated home church work in London six months ago, so I am going back in January to see how they are doing. Then I will go back to Japan and Korea and see how they are doing. I will check how the missionaries are doing in their countries in this mission. Do I have a busy schedule? Are you going to fall behind me or run ahead?

When are you going to give me a little vacation? My vacation will begin when you complete home church, and I will come and sleep overnight in each one. What I would like to see is a parade of people from all 360 homes when I visit, all thanking me for sending their home church leader. How much would you like to have them welcome me in this way? I would like it to be to the degree that even the dogs are confused at seeing their masters welcoming a stranger so warmly.

When I love a certain thing, does God feel the same way? Even if you lock the door God comes in every night. Having communion and fellowship with the living God every night should be our way of life and your home church should be like that. Please have faith in it. Work until it can be done.

Have you made a decision today? You have 120 days, and getting four spiritual children is your tangible goal. Will you follow through on your decision? God bless all of you.