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<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-19T14:45:28+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/reflection-upon-life.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:45:28+01:00">June 19, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">June 1, 1979<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>The meaning of my topic this morning is to turn around and evaluate life.</p>
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<p>Today is June 1. Now summer is practically here and all of nature is ready. When you come to Belvedere you might look at that one big tree outside here and remark at how big a tree it is. When you go into a garden the special characteristics of some trees catch your attention, especially if one is particularly tall or colorful. Even in nature, however, it is very difficult to find something that is perfectly beautiful. It is not a simple thing because there must be arrangement and tremendous effort made to create and present that beauty.</p>
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<p>There is man-made beauty and natural beauty, but beauty created in the natural way is more difficult. A big oak tree began as a small acorn and during the many years that passed while the tree grew large many sacrifices and contributions were made; the tree absorbed many elements in order to grow. Before that big tree can ever command respect as a great tree, it must realize that many elements and circumstances were combined to make it all possible. It is a heartistic necessity that before he feels himself great he must bow down to those elements which made his greatness possible.</p>
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<p>If that tree can be grateful and humble before the elements which made him great then all those elements would respect him for knowing his position. Then they would be glad to give even more elements. Even the little blades of grass in the tree’s shade would not complain that the tree gets all the sun, but would decide just to live with it because the tree is grateful. Both internal and external elements combine at great sacrifice to make that one tree.</p>
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<p>What would happen if suddenly the sun no longer shone on the tree? Would he still feel proud and great, or be worried and anxious about how he could survive without the sun? Suppose there was no more air; would he be more wrapped up in his own greatness, or more worried about the lack of air? If there was no more water, how would the tree react?</p>
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<p>This situation of the tree is merely an analogy for the same relationships that exist for man. Can you exist independently and walk pridefully, thinking that you owe nothing to anyone? Or are you meek and humble enough to thank the sun and air for sustaining you? You eat food with your mouth and at the same time your skin is “breathing” sunlight; which is more delicious? You may think that you taste everything with your mouth, but without the sun you would no longer need your two eyes at all. You have eyes to see with, but for that you need light. Would you be proud of yourself without your two eyes?</p>
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<p>Your nose inhales the air, and if there were no air you would no longer need a nose. Without air do you think sound waves would travel? Then without air you wouldn’t need your ears either. Your mouth takes in many things from outside, sacrificing them for you. What can you be really proud of then? You walk very proudly, but where did your arms and legs come from? Did you design them at a drawing board? Who really owns your legs and arms? They come from your parents and belong to them in reality.</p>
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<p>You started out in your mother’s womb and stole energy from her while you grew. Even in a little country store money and change is carefully counted and you get a receipt, but did you ever issue one small receipt to your mother for all the sustenance she gave you? That’s why you are thieves! Can you still be proud of saying that your body is yours? Did you complain while in your mother’s womb, or have gratitude? Day and night you kicked and poked her, but you never apologized. Then after 9 months of acting up inside your mother you were born.</p>
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<p>As soon as you were born you still took nourishment outside from your mother when she nursed you. Then later when you were a little older you were fed meals by others. Does your body really belong to you then? You never earned it. Americans are prompt to say thank you, but how much more do you owe thanks to your parents who gave birth to you and attended to you while you grew? Particularly if you were a very restless or sensitive baby you were crying all the time and demanding attention. Your parents wouldn’t insist that you stop crying, but would try instead to comfort you. Then as you grew you needed education and they attended to that as well. All in all your parents had to take care of you for over twenty years.</p>
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<p>When you think of all these things you realize that every cell of your body is totally indebted to your parents. Have you ever thought of that? If you conversed all the service your parents gave you into dollars, the debt would be so great you could never repay it. In many cases American young people only think that their parents don’t understand them and talk about the generation gap, and they act like they just appeared from heaven without causing any trouble to anyone else. Many times young people think their parents are only bothering them, and later in life put them away in senior citizens homes with the attitude that no one needs them.</p>
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<p>But the universe doesn’t work that way; the world must be harmonized. If each individual only claimed things for his own selfish benefit and demanded his rights then he would never parallel the universal way. It is a law of nature that while you are growing up you are deeply indebted to your parents, and after you are grown and responsible then you repay that debt by taking care of your parents.</p>
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<p>Therefore, what can you be proud of when you reflect on your past life? You can be proud that you are deeply indebted to your father and mother and recognize that you are deeply indebted to nature. You can appreciate the water, sun and air, for without them you could not survive, even for five minutes. We must be thankful for the world of plants and the animal kingdom. When you see a cow in the pasture, what do you think first? That she is fat and well nourished and will give good steaks some day? Probably you think of food first, instead of thanking that cow! Would the cow welcome the person who showed some gratitude, or the one who only thought of her as a potential steak? Even a cow wants to be eaten by a person who shows some gratitude instead of greediness.</p>
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<p>When God looks down and sees man’s very self-centered behavior, He feels that He certainly did not create this entire world just to serve man’s greed. Do your clothes belong to you? You wear jewelry and ornaments, but who do those things belong to? When you are proud and boastful and think that you can be independent, nature laughs when it looks at you, knowing that you can never exist all by yourself.</p>
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<p>The universe would never show any gratitude to ] the person who has no thankfulness, but if a person I knows his position of indebtedness to nature and his parents, then the world gladly harmonizes with him. Then he can think that an oasis in the desert is created simply for him, and how much gratitude would he show in that case? Suppose you were living in a barren desert, but woke one morning to see each beautiful aspect of nature being created just for you -sunrays, grass, trees, flowers, and so forth. How much ecstatic joy and gratitude would you feel then? Wouldn’t you shout out in happiness if all of this appeared out of nothing one day?</p>
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<p>There was once a day when nothing existed, before God created anything. When God created each thing He said it was good, but suppose that you as His child took more delight in each thing than He did? Would He upbraid you, or really be glad at the appreciation you show? God is eternal, existing from beginning to the end, so He has memories of all history and looks at you in historical perspective. Will God just comment that you were good, or would He remember and appreciate you in His heart? He will think that you are better than anyone in history for having so much gratitude.</p>
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<p>If that appreciative person were not attractive at all, but ugly and maybe even crippled, would that diminish God’s appreciation of him? That person would be remembered first in God’s heart. What do you feel when you look in your mirror? Do you have confidence that you are good looking? I have heard that some women just cringe and look away whenever they see their reflection in a mirror. But no matter how ugly you look, view yourself in the broader perspective that God sees us in.</p>
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<p>Each of us sends out waves or vibrations to the universe and the world can communicate with you through them. Will the person who appreciates all things send out good or bad waves? What about the people who always complain and try to take advantage of others, will they send out good vibrations? Such a person will repel everything in the universe because of his vibration. The person who is always dissatisfied is internally biting everything in sight, even his parents and friends. Today there are a great many people living in such an unhappy state.</p>
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<p>I have seen women whose fingernails are very long and painted vivid red, and I used to wonder why, but now I think that they grow them that way to bite or scratch the universe. You may not have long fingernails, but what about your heart? A dissatisfied person has nails everywhere his ears, his nose, all over his body-ready for action.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, when you realize your position relative to your neighbors and family you feel gratitude and then instead of trying to bite and scratch others you are reaching out to embrace them all. Then you are sending out infinite waves of gratitude which reach every corner of the earth. The ocean is wide, but it could not be greater than your mind of gratitude. Your mind can be small if you make it so, but if you make it large then it is larger than any ocean on earth. In that case the entire universe is embracing you also.</p>
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<p>You have millions of individual cells in your body, like employees in a corporation. Each cell sends out waves, which all nature responds to. Whatever wave you send out is how nature will echo you. What kind of person would you like to be-one of infinite appreciation, or one with infinite disappointment and complaint? This is why the Bible teaches us to have gratitude always, as well as meekness and humility.</p>
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<p>Do you know how many words you have spoken in your life up to this point? Can you count them? Can you determine what portion have been dedicated to speaking gratitude or complaint? There is a general tendency in our world to complain, so most people deserve a sign saying, “I am a complainer.” That’s the kind of life most people are leading. But when you complain then everything in the universe is repelled by you and even your parents and friends don’t like it. Would God be happy to hear it? Are your eyes and nose and ears complaining or appreciative? Have you always been thankful? When your body and mind are full of complaint, who will welcome you? Your husband or fiancee? There is no exception-no one likes it.</p>
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<p>When you weigh the bags holding your complaint and appreciation, which outweighs the other? Are complainers usually good or bad people? You don’t like to hear this do you? But even evil-minded men or women like to hear kind words from others. Then what about nature, would it like to hear some words of kindness and love, or tell you to shut up? Are you at zero balance between complaint and gratitude? If you are below zero then nothing will treat you like a human being because you will be substandard, at the animal level.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is a wonderful place in this respect. We know about the law of indemnity so we are willing to assume our burdens with an appreciative heart, and then we can be far above zero. Satan’s scheme is to give you harsh treatment and test your mind to see whether you are full of complaint or whether he has no power over you under any circumstances That is our way of life, and no one can win over it. But if someone persists in complaining even after coming to the Unification Church, he is really on the minus side. Have you learned that heart of gratitude here? Don’t you think in your heart that you would be more grateful if you didn’t have to do fund raising and witnessing?</p>
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<p>The heart of gratitude must be unconditional, being thankful for any mission. Every day in the Unification Church you are winning a sign to wear saying thank you. I can see whether you have a thank you sign on your forehead, but if you are wavering and doubtful then your sign is turning upside down even as I look at it! What kind of thank you sign do you have-firmly attached, or wiggling around and turning all which way? You might remember how you had really nice clothes before you joined but now you don’t look so sharp, and at that moment your thank you sign is moving. Or you might think that since you have joined your face has become paler and more wrinkled. Then too the thank you sign is turning around. Now you have more to worry about than before, but if you complain then your gratitude sign is shaking. The important question to ask is whether you are being dominated by gratitude or complaint, the clear sky or the cloudy sky. Your mouth is saying yes, but your face is saying no, I think.</p>
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<p>If you complete your whole education with a Ph.D. it can take up to 25 years, so you are indebted to your parents and teachers for that length of time. Do you remember how many teachers poured out their hearts to give you an education? You may think you are a good writer or a good artist and that you can do those things all on your own, but did you acquire your skills by yourself? In the beginning you were like a blank piece of paper, upon which one instructor after another wrote, implanting their skills in you. Before you can be proud of your achievements you must be grateful to those who gave you that inheritance. Men are first indebted to their parents, then to their teachers. In Oriental philosophy teachers are the second parents. Have you really showed your appreciation and gratitude to your teachers?</p>
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<p>It is an amazing fact that here in America many teachers are physically assaulted by their own pupils, and some even beaten to death. The power of the universe would bring such people to ruin and never allow them to prosper. Nature cannot permit this kind of thing. Would God allow this, saying that America is a great country and deserves His blessing? If you were in God’s place would you give additional blessing to that kind of nation?</p>
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<p>Those children who are grateful to their own parents are welcomed by the universe. If you have that heart then you can harmonize with your own brothers and sisters and with nature, and of course God would welcome that kind of man and woman.</p>
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<p>But what is genuine gratitude-is it when you can thank them under rosy circumstances, or under adverse conditions? The latter is most precious. God is actually observing the depth of gratitude of each individual and in His eyes your value is determined by the amount of gratitude you can impart. This principle works the same in a courtroom, where any criminal who shows true repentance and willingness to make restitution for his crime will win mercy from the judge and prosecutor.</p>
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<p>I have come to America telling the people what is wrong with America and how it must change, and Americans demand to know what a yellow man is doing coming here to meddle in their business. Will that kind of attitude be acceptable in the sight of God and nature? No matter what kind of mistake a person has made, if he is making a conscientious effort to extricate himself and make restitution he can win forgiveness. But if he is hard-headed and claims he did no wrong, that person has no way to be forgiven.</p>
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<p>At some time you should sit down and write to your teacher, telling him or her that you realize how indebted you are and thanking him. You can recall how you and your classmates sometimes resented how strict he was with you, but you know that because of that firmness you can now spell and write well. Because of that discipline you have gained very much and can make much clearer judgments. Now when you can appreciate great masterpieces in art or literature you can recall that it is because of your teachers that you can have such perception.</p>
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<p>You can write to your teacher, recalling what kind of student you were, and expressing gratitude that now you have the ability to perceive and understand things like literature. It is your teachers who have bequeathed their skills to you, and this kind of unconditional gratitude should be given to them. Do you have any complaint about that?</p>
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<p>If this tradition prevailed at American schools, would there be much immorality and crime on the campuses? If American children appreciated their parents, would homes break up as much? Now American young people are trying to blame older people for what is wrong, but I say that it is the young people who are equally or more responsible, trying to separate themselves and do everything at their whim. Instead they are the ones who must change and become loyal. Then even the most evil parents could be swayed and turned around.</p>
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<p>Parental heart is always there, so when parents see the good deeds of their child their hearts have to be moved. If American young people would become righteous then even if parents were inclined to fight or separate, they could not do it; they would be shamed into becoming better parents for their children’s sake. If such genuine appreciation dominates the family, it will unite them all, but if a complaining attitude prevails in the home, it faces destruction. Here in America the most important thing is how to get rid of complaint.</p>
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<p>Are you inclined now to be thankful to your teachers? Some of you sisters have beautiful handwriting, but you must be thankful to the person who taught you that skill. If you write with that kind of grateful mind then the entire universe will help enhance your skill. When you enter into society, you find you are deeply indebted to society and the nation. Suppose there was no social system at all, but only anarchy; how could you live?</p>
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<p>When you get a job with a mind of gratitude you will prosper. Do most people have a grateful attitude toward the person who becomes President and toward the government? The office of the presidency is an awesome one because ultimate responsibility rests there. The President has to protect the people, make good policies, conduct diplomacy and maintain defense. In order for those policies to work the people must unite with them. Should the people be grateful? But no matter how great the leader in office, if the people’s inclination is to criticize, what will happen to their society?</p>
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<p>If a manipulative, scheming person is elected president, however, what will happen to the country? Disaster will come. The most important quality for electing a President is that he truly loves this country in a sacrificial way. Do you love President Carter? What would you expect if a nation is built by people who don’t feel gratitude toward their parents and teachers, or toward their society and nation? What direction do you think this country is going?</p>
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<p>Education is a paramount task now in America. There are two places where education is- given- through the schools and through religion. Is the American educational system interested in teaching these grateful attitudes, though? What about the churches? When there is so much struggle and politicking going on in the churches, I don’t think the religious people could really be concerned either about what happens to the nation or the world.</p>
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<p>There has to be one religion that is on the right track, caring about the family, society, nation and world and teaching these things. That is the Unification Church. A genuinely good society begins with good parents, then children who grow up in gratitude and go out to relate to society through their teachers, and to their nation through the head of state, and finally to the world. After the parents raise the children a number of years they pass the baton to the teachers to educate them; they in turn pass the students to the society and the nation will take up the baton. In that way the person can take up a higher mission all the time.</p>
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<p>The person growing up with a heart of gratitude at home for his parents and teachers and nation will be grateful to the almighty creator. Unless a person goes that central route, he will never be successful. Harvard gained fame because it has excellent teachers, and students who are educated there want to take up important positions, such as President or Cabinet member, which can influence the nation. If they have the right frame of mind then that’s acceptable, and then they will think that by influencing the nation they will serve the world.</p>
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<p>After they become nationally important they want to go on to become worldwide leaders. The true worldwide leader is a religious person, or saint, because the worldwide level is already beyond the boundary race and nation. The only person with that kind of life and attitude is truly a religious person. To know God and enter heaven as a saint is the destiny of all men. To go this route each individual must carry a bag of love of parents, of teachers, of the nation, and finally from the saints, and then reach God.</p>
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<p>At every stage you will receive a certificate which is signed first by your parents in recognition that you are a child of filial piety. Then your teachers will sign, saying that you are a devoted and grateful student. Then the head of state must confirm that you are a patriotic person, and the saint must affirm that you are a trustworthy and dependable man for the sake of humanity. Then with that certificate you can go to God and He will accept you. From childhood all through your adult years you have to gain certain qualities in order to reach the ultimate goal, which is God.</p>
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<p>When you come to the level of the nation you cannot always listen to your teachers and parents because you are already at a level of higher responsibility. At that higher level of mission you should be able to govern even your own teachers and parents. In that case you listen to the saints above you and to God. When you come to the level of sainthood then the saints’ level of teaching is inadequate and you listen directly to God, who is the greatest teacher of all.</p>
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<p>You are going forward step by step, trying to reach higher goals, ultimately focusing on the supreme teacher of love. At each level the capacity of love is different. As a child you learn to receive parental love, and when in school you learn to love teachers. At the national level you learn love of the patriots, and in sainthood you learn the love of the saints. On the world level you learn love of the world, and finally above that you learn the love of God. Then ultimately the universe is yours.</p>
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<p>Through love you know your parents and through love you know your teachers. Through love you find your nation and world, and through love you find God. That is the kind of education we are talking about. That kind of man and woman will be able to go anywhere and harmonize with anything. You, therefore, must be a recipient of the love of parents, love of teachers, love of head of state, love of the saints and of the world, and finally of God. Until the age of 18 parental love predominates. After that age your attention is shifted to education and the love of teachers predominates until you have finished the Ph.D. level at age 36. Then you come into society. The society and nation are the paramount target in these years until age 54. Until the age of 72 the world is your stage, the universe and God are your stage. Actually you start your life at that point; all this time before then is devoted to education, and the subject is love.</p>
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<p>Most important of all in this period is getting the right start so that you receive this love from your parents and show ample appreciation. Then in the same frame of mind you can move on to each stage and be formed in the right way. The subject of education is love, and the attitude of education should be gratitude. There are two things to inscribe in your heart-love and gratitude. In all this time there is nothing that is yours; you are completely indebted to someone else.</p>
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<p>You will confirm your position when you give ample love to your own children and brothers and sisters. To determine your position you need a horizontal line, which is love of your brothers, and a vertical line, which is love of your own children. Then you yourself become a teacher and patriot. Then you become like a saint yourself so you can introduce God to others.</p>
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<p>In history all these processes of education in love and gratitude have failed. Therefore, it must be indemnified, and by finding an example and following it you can make restitution for the entire loss. The world of microcosm where this takes place is the Unification Church. First, we teach the love of parents and love of teachers. We teach love of the nation and head of state. We teach how saints should love their own pupils or disciples. Ultimately we are here to teach how to love God.</p>
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<p>I am in a position of parent and also of teacher, instructing you how to become a teacher. Also I teach patriotism, which national leaders today are failing to do. In the position of saint I am teaching how to love humanity and the world, and ultimately I teach how much God loves the world. Therefore, even though you leave your home to go to the world, it is not a violation of universal law on your part. You are actually coming to a new world and learning the very best essence of education. Many of you are very faithful to your own parents, but for the time being you set that aside and join the Unification Church because you know there is a higher mission in the sight of God. You have been getting a good education but for the time being you stop that and join the Church because you are here to get a better education.</p>
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<p>Since joining the Unification Church you have come to love me, but I tell you to love your own parents more than you love me. That is your education right there. Would your parents be upset if they heard this? They haven’t known I am trying to teach you how to love your parents and teachers. The Unification Church has the one ideology that can unite the universe and I am teaching you to be the leader of a God-centered society. If the Unification Church were one sovereign nation then I would be in the position of head of state. I tell you to love your own nation as much as you love me.</p>
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<p>Do you honestly think history will give me the title of having done more than any other religious leader like Buddha or Confucius or Jesus? As soon as it is known what Divine Principle stands for, then even famous theologians will say that here is a modern-day saint who outdates what others have done and sets a new trend of love. I want you to become saints, each one of you. Once you come to that level I want you to love the world as much as you love me. I am teaching the true heart of God for the first time ever in history.</p>
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<p>We are talking about the heart of God in history, the past, present and future, and in the society, nation and world. Other people are not even sure if God exists, but we are talking about the very heart of God. That is why we can teach the true love of God. When you see me you don’t look at me as a Korean or as an Oriental; you see me as a universal being. Regardless of your race or nationality you want to follow me. In me you see the best father, the best teacher and best leader, even as the best saint and representative of the heart of God. That is why you don’t mind giving up everything to follow. In your heart you know you are winning, never losing.</p>
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<p>Your heart knows that here you will go through the best education to be a good family man, teacher, patriot and saint, and to reciprocate the love of God. Do you think the courses of that school will be easy? No, as the best school our courses will be the hardest of any institution. Our stage is everywhere. We are not confined but go beyond all boundaries between races, nations, and even between the spiritual and physical worlds.</p>
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<p>When I go to Korea the members there call me their father; when I go to Japan all the members there call me their father, and here in America you call me your father too. You applauded, but what historical applause that will be when you really understand your position. No one has ever seen a mass matching like you have, but more than that, no one ever saw people asking for interracial marriage like you do either. People cannot even dream of such a wild idea, and even if they did they wouldn’t know where to start.</p>
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<p>Most important, this is not just precious in the temporal sense, but is eternally precious. In this energy we find the power for unification of the world and cosmos. We know it can be done. A lifetime may seem like a long time, but after you pass through it you see that life is really like a spark of light, and the beginning and the end pass ever so quickly.</p>
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<p>Now you enjoy having me here, but I will not be here indefinitely. At some time I will positively go to South America or Africa, or back to Europe and Asia. Would you try to protest that I should stay? The wise Americans are those who go out there in advance and are waiting when I come. If you are already there then I know that my children are there waiting, and in reality I am visiting you. If you are here then I will not necessarily visit you, but if you go to a mission in Africa or South America then I will be your guest.</p>
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<p>In England I invited about forty missionaries who had been kicked out of their countries or who had been imprisoned to come and work in London. When they came I told them that they could stay in London where no one would put them in jail and they would be treated better, but they all objected and said they didn’t want to abandon their countries. Recently I told them we would have forty days’ training and then they could go back, but they all thought forty days was too long. They have a wise attitude. You work in New York and on MFT as hard as they are working, but their deeds will be more historical because their work is changing the destiny of one nation; they are becoming part of the history of their nation.</p>
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<p>Are you making your work part of the destiny of this nation? Your record will remain in home church, but it is far more difficult to make impact on a national level in America than in Africa or another mission area. When historians write the history of the Unification Church in America, will they write about me? Will they write about your deeds? Historians will see clearly what I have suffered and the work I have accomplished, and the final chapter will be about the fruit I harvested here so your name will be there in the grand finale. However, the missionaries in their countries are in my position, doing work in my role. When the history of those countries is written, those missionaries will be in the central role. It’s only natural that there is a missionary fervor in the Unification Church to go to untouched areas.</p>
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<p>There is a way to make history here in America too. You can feel that as far as hardship and tribulation are concerned you are going to set the highest possible standard. Are you young or old people? This is the privilege of young people to do. However, some people may be young physically but old in spirit, all tired out and sluggish. You must be young in spirit and body, going over the hills like a rocket to reach the stars. Will you be that kind of young people?</p>
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<p>What would you Japanese sisters say? If you are dozing then I should give you a tough husband who can wake you up. Do you know that this is the time when I am testing you? Now everyone is awake! Those entitled to inherit the love of God are those who suffer in the lowest possible position but with the heart of gratitude. They shall win the highest possible position in the love of God. Would you welcome having me push you down to the lowest possible position? Would you accept it with complaint?</p>
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<p>I know that of the 705 couples I recently matched there are some who are disappointed or not fully satisfied, but please accept my advice-for these three years be grateful for your life and for your fiancee. Think that you do not even deserve to be matched, and then three years later see what kind of children you have. They are the greatest of all gifts.</p>
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<p>A child is a real gift from God, even more than a wife receiving her husband, or a man his wife. In some cases the matches don’t seem to fit according to common sense, but I put them together knowing what their children will be like. So just be grateful and see what kind of children you will have. When you see that child you will know that he is truly a gift from God, and you will love that child more than you love your husband or wife. You can be mutually grateful because your mate enabled you to be the parent of such a child. You can admire each other on that foundation.</p>
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<p>I encourage all the blessed mothers to breastfeed their children, even just for the time being. Mother always breastfed our first children, but since she has had so many children it has become much more difficult. Still that basic principle is there. Breastfeeding is the best link for a mother and child to truly relate. It is a most beautiful sight for God to see a black mother loving and feeding her white child at her breast. Is it conceivable that a father or mother in that situation would have some racial discrimination? This is the Unification Church culture, God’s culture, and there is none more beautiful than this one.</p>
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<p>You have entered the best school in the universe, coming through the narrowest gate. Therefore, it is a most precious and rare blessing for you. If you truly inherit my philosophy and way of life, then wherever you go in the world you shall be welcomed and respected and loved as much as you love me. That is the consummation which will be seen in the world of Unification Church. In seven years you have to consummate this role. During those seven years there must be nothing you cannot bear, even being treated like human trash. There is where great kingship and queenship begin.</p>
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<p>That dramatic scene will make the best movie. What kind of drama makes the best movie-everyday life, or some story of shocking courage and victory? You can definitely think of yourselves as movie stars. Shall we do it? When you come to Belvedere you say yes, but when you reach the World Mission Center are you so confident?</p>
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<p>Will your conviction last more than three days? Time is like an arrow flying and this is already the month of June. Would you say that you will start next month or next year? Your timetable must start today, June 1. Even if you say you will start now, there is still much time passing by, but if you wait until next month or next year, tomorrow will never come.</p>
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<p>Those who were just matched, raise your hands. Three years from now you will have a lump there beside you which cannot be separated from you. It will be a very clumsy feeling. Where would you go? Do you want to go your own way, or the way God wants you to go? Where will you settle ultimately? I cannot take care of each of you individually, couple by couple, so you have to set your own goal and home church is the way. In home church you can be proud of your husband or your wife. That is your territory and realm.</p>
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<p>No man will compare with your husband, and no woman will compare with your wife. Home church is the place for your settlement, so unless you establish the home church foundation you will be kicked out and there is no other world for you to go to. If you fail there then there is no way I can bring you along this path. I instructed you to go and your destination is home church. That is the order coming from the true parent, teacher, head of state-all in one. When you love your home church you are consummating every order you have received from True parents, true teacher, true patriot and true saint.</p>
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<p>In a few years I would like to have a shrine built to the home church parents, home church messiah, and tribal messiah. You must build your home church in order to be honored by that shrine. Anyone who is successful will have their own shrine in their home church area, and when I am passing by that will be the place I visit and where I rejoice; where it is located won’t make any difference for it is definitely the place I will visit. It will also be the place God wants to visit. The destiny of women is to marry and go where their husbands go. In the same way the Unification Church destiny is to go to home church. This is where you will find your permanent home. It is almost like being given in marriage. Through the home church destiny you will go to heaven, but if you don’t then no matter how much you love the True Parents you cannot go. If you leave it unfulfilled then that great burden will be left to your own children to complete.</p>
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<p>A wife will work harder than her husband and a husband will work harder than his wife, loving home church more than they love each other. More than anything else you love home church and concentrate there to find your own kingdom and heaven.</p>
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<p>Then you know you are entitled to ultimate heaven. Even if you appear in your home church without clothes, they will still welcome you as their savior. This is the new evangelism where we must succeed.</p>
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<p>After three years you will have your children, first one and then two and more. I do not support birth control, so have as many as you want. Home church grandparents will always be competing to have your children come to their home to be taken care of. Then your baby will have 360 homes right away. Home church people will give true blessing and honor to your children. “We know your father and mother very well and they are true saints. We saw God through your parents.” Then your children will be embraced and loved by your people as precious children. Do you feel that way toward my children? Your home church people will pray for blessing towards yours as well. Your children will go to the same school in the morning with the home church children.</p>
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<p>If the home church people have money they won’t consider it theirs but think how they can use it for home church work; 360 homes will be one family work and they will want to spend money for that. In another twenty years you will be approaching your fifties, and by that time you will be assisted by many people. This is really a prime time now.</p>
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<p>Would you want to die in the place where people spit at you and never even look at you? Would you like to be treated like a dying cow or dog in your final days? When I am eighty would you tell me you don’t want senior citizens in your home and ask me to stay somewhere else? If you had me in your home but I was totally incapacitated and became very dirty in my bed, what would you say then? Would you be glad you had me in the beginning but then want me to go to the next place?</p>
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<p>You say no, that you really want to serve me. Do it for your own parents then. I am only one person and not all of you can serve me, but you should serve your parents in my place. When they get old, serve them as much as you would me. Will you promise me that? That’s real love.</p>
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<p>I want you to make your base so you can practice this love, and that territory is home church. It will happen within seven years if you consistently make effort now. Then if I am passing by to another destination some power will pull me to visit you. Life goes by very fast. Already five months have passed in 1979. If you had met one new person each day and really poured out your heart imagine what extraordinary things could have happened. You could have converted 150 people. Start today and renew your energy. That’s what Heavenly Father wants, what your wife or husband wants, what your children want and all your relatives.</p>
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<p>Time is not merciful enough to slow down for you. You have to keep abreast of time because time will never relax its pace. You can finish school in four years, but with extra effort you can graduate in three or even two years. Our Unification university is the same-it all depends upon your own effort. This morning the two central words are gratitude and home church. Once the home church providence is begun there is no room for complaint. When I came to America I never complained at all, even though it has been hostile here. I will always be grateful to God instead. Even though I have been persecuted constantly, no one can beat me. My territory is constantly growing.</p>
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<p>Our opponents thought that we were knocked down and out of commission but the more they attacked me the more blessing came to us. If the government persecutes us, then their blessing will come to us. If the media attacks us, their blessing will diminish. It will be like scales being emptied on one side and loaded on the other. We are receiving persecution, but with that as a daily diet we are growing. Many of you have no idea what I am actually doing now, every day, but in a year or so some of it will be revealed.</p>
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<p>Until now I can forgive all your shortcomings in home church, but only on one condition-that from today you really live up to my expectations in home church. Will you promise? So far you have listened to me with the feeling that you are indebted and that what you have can never be yours, but actually what you have is nothing to be proud of.</p>
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<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<p>I am sure that May 1979 will be an unforgettable month for those couples who have just been engaged. This event is also of vital importance in the history of restoration. As you know, because of the fall of man God could not find any heavenly couples here on earth; that was the fate of the fallen world. As far as God is concerned, all fallen history has been a denial of a denial, and even though there are many families and nations, God cannot give His consent or acknowledgment to them.</p>
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<p>God must find an ideal man and woman who are centered upon Himself. That man and woman are not ordinary, but are the ones who have overcome the world and set the victorious standard by going beyond the realm of the fall. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire purpose of history in the sight of God has been to find one ideal man and woman of God. He hand-picked one champion and let him confront the fallen world, especially the families of the world. The chosen one must be able to overcome the family, not be swallowed by it. He must either conquer or separate the fallen family.</p>
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<p>That man is not struggling along with the blessing or assistance of his own family, but only with God. He will engage in a lonely battle to ultimately confront and win the family. That particular formula of winning applies all the way up to the world level. Therefore, when this man of God emerges to confront society it is inevitable that he will receive persecution. This means that on every level he will stand on the side of God and wage war with the satanic element and separate from it.</p>
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<p>He will build a new tradition on the side of God, winning the war at each level and leaving a new tradition that will ultimately influence the satanic world and overpower it. First he struggles all by himself, and when he has built up enough authority he will take a stand and win over the satanic world. When he does go out to the satanic world, he will go to the national or worldwide level. This man of God will be trained in the fiercest struggle, which is on the family level, and when he finally goes to the satanic world it will be on the national and worldwide level.</p>
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<p>Why does God’s strategy have to be like this? When this man goes to confront and receive the persecution of the nation and the world, the people united with him on the family level will come to</p>
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<p>support his struggle. This Abel figure is sent to the national level of Cain and will be rejected, but by doing so he can receive cooperation and support from the Cain figures on the family level. This Abel will win step by step and gather steam to form a victorious stand on the national level. Therefore, the family level is always the foundation for the national level of battle. If for some reason the family level isn’t providing the necessary support, God will provide His champion with the necessary foundation to go on with the national-level battle against Cain.</p>
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<p>Once the national level victory is established, God will push this same champion another step to win the same battle on the worldwide level. When this man is rejected by the world, the national level Cain who has already accepted him would become a supporting force to join with him in the world-level battle. They will perceive his lonely struggle with the world as a struggle against persecution of their own nation. This one man is needed to fulfill the providence of God and in his own lifetime he must go through these three major stages of battle-family, nation and world.</p>
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<p>The man who is sent to fulfill this providence of God is known as the Messiah. God prepared a foundation for 4,000 years prior to the coming of Jesus, the first Messiah. That time was needed to provide the correct foundation for the one to come. There were two layers of organization in Jewish society at Jesus’ time; one was the religious establishment and the other was the political realm. Of course, Jesus came on the religious foundation, and with the support and strength from that realm he should have gone on to face opposition and then win support from the political area.</p>
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<p>The nation of Israel was in a position to indemnify the national level of dispensation, but its political realm was under the dominion of the Roman Empire. Israel was thus in an ideal position to link the national and world levels because in those days the Roman Empire equaled the world. If Jesus could have won the support of both the religious and political levels, then inevitably the Romans would have opposed him.</p>
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<p>As you know, there were two major families involved in the dispensation of Jesus’ mission; one was the family of Zechariah and the other was the family of Joseph. If the two families had united they should have been able to confront national-level opposition. Judaism also was intended to stand on Jesus’ side. There was a prepared atmosphere in Israel itself because that nation was oppressed by Rome and the people sought independence. If Jesus had been oppressed by the Romans, the Jews could have risen up with Jesus against that.</p>
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<p>The first step, however, was that Judaism unite with Jesus. Then the political power of Israel should also have followed. The Roman domination of all Israel would serve as a link to the worldwide level, since the two cultures were not foreign to each other. According to God’s schedule, once the national level had been won a trained force would be ready to assimilate the Roman Empire, overcoming the satanic tradition and bringing in the new tradition of God. It was most important that all this happen in Jesus’ own lifetime. He was to go to the family level, then national level in Israel and world level in Rome in his own lifetime as the perfected Adam on earth.</p>
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<p>Otherwise, God could not obtain a man whom He could uphold as His champion who had overcome the entire world, not just one family or nation. However, that particular plan was not fulfilled and has been postponed, so God has had to look for another champion to carry it out. This formula of receiving persecution on every level has been the central feature of Christian life for 2,000 years; persecution was received on the family, national and world levels until Christendom was finally established worldwide. That will serve as the foundation for the Second Coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>A Roman Empire in another form would also exist at the Second Coming, yet with one marked difference. This time the national equivalent to the Roman Empire would be on the side of God, not on Satan’s side as in Jesus’ time. Its key characteristic would be religious freedom. That nation is known today as America, the nation which is in the position of leadership for the free world. The Roman Empire 2,000 years ago dominated Israel for its own benefit, but the modern Roman Empire is in a position to lend support to the chosen nation of the dispensation. The time of the Second Coming is the time to make restitution for the failure of both Rome and Israel 2,000 years ago.</p>
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<p>If we conclude that America is the modern Rome there must be a nation in the position of Israel, which is Korea. In the international political situation we see that America has given up many of its responsibilities around the world, as in Vietnam, but it cannot yield its responsibility in Korea. This particular Administration is trying to be more and more isolationist and wants to disengage from military involvement in Korea, but even President Carter has been unable to do so. The relationship of Rome and Israel 2,000 years ago is now being restored through America and Korea today. This clearly shows that these two nations have a special destiny together in the providence of God. There is nothing coincidental here at all.</p>
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<p>In order to fulfill the will of God it is inevitable that America and Korea have a special destiny. Korea is a peninsula divided in half, with the northern half under communism, the southern half under democracy. The 38th parallel is not a boundary between two nations but between two ideologies and two different worlds, between heaven and Satan. You don’t have such a boundary in this nation, do you? Who will be responsible to defend this boundary? Because it is not just a simple national boundary but a boundary in the conflict between heaven and Satan, America must help South Korea defend it. In this respect the Korean War was much more than a national conflict; it represented the Cain and Abel clash on the worldwide level.</p>
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<p>Who stood up ideologically against communist North Korea? The Unification Church did. Unification ideology is the core and soul of the ideology against communism. We have done the job of educating people about the danger of communism expanding from Korea to Asia to the entire world. Now the communists feel the Unification Church is their arch-enemy. Even now there is a heated confrontation between communists and Unification Church members going on in Japan. The Unification Church has played a major role in overcoming the danger of communism in Japan.</p>
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<p>But the battle is not confined to Japan. It spreads all over Asia and now comes to the United States. Therefore, it is a world-level conflict and communists around the world are united together against their one arch-enemy-Reverend Moon. They are stirring up a wind of opposition against me that is not just local but worldwide. They are instigating an anti-Moon movement throughout the world. This is why every department in the United States government is trying to do something about this and kick me out of America, thinking that would be the solution.</p>
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<p>But as I already said, America today is in a position on the side of God to protect and aid His providence. Today she is failing to do that, giving comfort and aid to the enemy of God instead. This is the reason that ever since 1960 chaos and confusion have persisted in American society. God is waging a heated battle in America, and the peak of that battle occurred in 1976.</p>
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<p>The small country of Korea desperately needs America’s help, but considering the desperate internal situation of American society, American leaders do not declare open assistance to God’s forces. Americans are trying to appease everyone, creating an opportunist situation in which such a scandal as Koreagate could be created. In reality it was nothing but a paper tiger, but the very real victims were the Korean government and the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Why should the situation of the nation of Korea and of the Unification Church be linked like this in the eyes of the U.S. Congress? It is because the Unification Church is in the position to represent one nation. This clash was much more than a local incident; it involved the worldwide dispensation, and thus our battle against the U. S. Congress was a worldwide historical event.</p>
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<p>Since the Unification Church and Korean nation were lumped together under attack, the people involved had to unite together to survive. When the Unification Church faced attack by the Congress, all 35 million Koreans were also grinding their teeth in outrage and cheering us on. By facing the opposition of the United States’ government, the Unification Church and Korean government were actually made one in spirit. The Fraser committee was trying to knock Korea down by maligning the Unification Church, but they could not succeed. Because they could not come up with any viable charges, the American government lost face. Now Carter has announced a visit to Korea in June, but the actual diplomatic meaning is more than just re-affirming ties with an ally. It is a trip of apology for the blunder of Koreagate. My advice to the Korean government is to be strong and not be intimidated by American actions. There is a heavenly power acting in this situation.</p>
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<p>It is my dispensational position to speak out boldly and strongly about the Carter administration. I am saying publicly that they must repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. I know that a government spy is listening to every word I say, that tomorrow morning an intelligence report will be made about how I spoke unkindly about Carter. But even though it does not benefit me personally, I am not afraid to speak the truth for the sake of history.</p>
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<p>Just as the American government changed its attitude toward the Korean government, the American people are rapidly changing their opinion about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, particularly after the engagement of 705 couples. It added a positive element to their understanding. They thought we would be defeated by all our opposition, much less amount to anything, but now we have 1,410 people of all backgrounds who are newly engaged. And not only that, we did all this while other churches and American homes are crumbling every day. Now they have amended their opinion about us.</p>
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<p>The time has come for us to rekindle a spiritual fire among the youth of America, and I see our opportunity. This spiritual offensive is being waged through the CARP movement, and we are going to American campuses to raise up American youth. Also, I have issued instructions to you to go to America’s homes; we will meet the young people on the campuses and the families through home church.</p>
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<p>I would like to show the world what kind of family system we have by demonstrating our position all over the country. When the time inevitably comes that the American nation will respect and support me, then our target will become international communism. Even now, what looks like opposition from the American government is actually opposition from agents of communist power infiltrated into the departments of government and Congress. They are creating this atmosphere of condemnation of the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Nevertheless, they will not ultimately succeed; America is basically anti-communist because America loves freedom. When Reverend Moon and the Unification Church emerge in the public mind as champions to fight communism, the American public will naturally support us as their champions. I knew from the beginning that this was our destiny, so I initiated the victory over communism movement in Korea and Japan, and now here in America, with our final goal as Moscow. Now you know where you are and what you are supposed to do.</p>
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<p>We must be superior to any religious organization in America; our CARP movement should be superior to any youth movement here and our home church system be stronger than any other Christian movement in the last 2,000 years. Communism is the arch-enemy of democracy and freedom, but mainly the enemy of God. Furthermore, the moral degradation of American youth must be cleansed. That’s why I have been educating you through the Divine Principle, so you are strong and capable, and your moral outlook is secure, pure and God-centered. That is our strength.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church mission is to bring America back to its founding spirit, which is Godcentered, but we will not end there. We will go beyond to found a new world, not just one nation. This is why I am proclaiming one world under God. The American ideal has still not been able to overcome the racial problem, but the Unification Church ideology will erase all racial, national and cultural boundaries. That has been exemplified in the engagement of 705 couples. This shows that we are laying a foundation for the new world, not just one national foundation.</p>
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<p>You cannot find any parallel in history to what I am doing now. This ideology centering upon God has been installed and proclaimed and is gathering momentum to win the victory on the worldwide level. In spite of all our opposition my position has become an enviable one since our initial victory. Even heads of state, comparing their position to mine and their life with my determination, cannot help but envy me. They think that I am the happiest, most successful man in the world. That means that this one individual is confronting the world and will become victorious and lay a foundation for God for the first time. That is no exaggeration.</p>
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<p>Christian history of 2,000 years has been indemnified by my work in twenty years. I am not doing it alone, however, but bringing my family as well. There must be vertical restoration, but also a horizontal base. A great movement is occurring, like the wandering for forty years in the wilderness. I am out in front, but all the blessed and engaged couples are participating. You are inheriting the True Parents’ ideology, and no power, whether of the State Department or deprogrammers, can take this ideology out of you. You are different in appearance, with various colors of hair and skin, yet inside you are all the .same color.</p>
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<p>From God’s point of view there is but one person who has won the battle throughout the satanic arena and been victorious over the fall is not any head of state or famous person, but only Reverend Moon. 1976 was the victorious crossing point in the cosmic history of God, the year when God’s victory was consummated. I already declared in 1977 that a new era has begun, the year one of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Now the three most vital years of 1977, 1978 and 1979 are being completed.</p>
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<p>After 1979 all those who are opposing me will increasingly lose power, and we will go more and more on the offensive because our adversaries have not proven anything against us. Anyone who hangs on to me will go over the hill and be victorious together with me, like cars behind the locomotive. I am more than willing to leave my inheritance to you, and the person who is truly qualified for this is the one who puts himself in the position of son or daughter to the True Parents now. That’s the qualification to receive my inheritance.</p>
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<p>The engagement this month was an extraordinary event, the grand finale of a year of engagements around the world. What is your determination going to be? It should be that you will receive the inheritance from your own True Parents and walk on their foundation. How can you tell the world that you have received this inheritance? By proving how worthy you are through home church. I have completed the home church mission throughout the world, so I assigned you one small microcosm of the entire universe, 360 homes, and by doing what I have done in home church you will prove to God that you should receive my inheritance.</p>
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<p>When you visit in your area you can think that one part represents Korea, another part Japan, and divide up your area to represent the six continents of the world. When white, black and yellow people all reject you, you can rejoice because you have received persecution from the whole world. It took me sixty years to lay this worldwide foundation, but if you really work well you can do it in your area in six months. By working in home church successfully you can raise yourself up beyond the realm of the fall. Who has given you that kind of power? True Parents. That is your inheritance from them.</p>
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<p>The True Parents suffered all their lives, but by following their tradition and receiving their inheritance you can go over that level of victory with much less suffering. No one who retreats from doing home church is qualified for that blessing, though. In some cases your wife or husband may be hesitant to do home church, but push them out. For three years you must erect a victorious stand in home church, for that is your arena to win victory.</p>
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<p>I received persecution on the national and worldwide levels, but you are receiving persecution in your home church; that represents racial rejection, communist rejection and national rejection all together. Always be grateful for the persecution you receive and take it as added energy to spur yourself on beyond the level of the fall.</p>
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<p>I can see that you still haven’t come down to earth after your engagement. You are all wrapped up in getting to know one another and your faces are different. What you should do when you meet your fiancee is to put your heads together and decide that you will each go to win in home church and then come back to ask me to bless you. You need a certain condition to fulfill before blessing, such as having Cain-type spiritual children and your tribe of 84 people. You have already heard all of these things, so you know why you are going in the capacity of Abel to home church.</p>
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<p>Abel is the son of Adam, not of fallen Adam but of perfected Adam. You are children on the Abel side because you are children of Adam, but since you are still growing toward maturity, Satan is everywhere trying to stop you. There are many Cains ready to slay you, just as in the garden of Eden, so how can you deter their hostility? By practicing love. By opposing you they are presenting conditions of surrender in the future, since by leaving a record of opposition they will have to bow down later. It is as though they are presenting their surrender paper in advance.</p>
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<p>If you go on with your whole heart and soul, it will not take even three years for you to finish because more and more acceptance will be seen in society. Do you know where you are standing in history? The old tide has completely receded, and the new high tide which will carry you to the Kingdom of Heaven is ready to come in now. When the tide first turns the water comes in slowly, but gradually it gathers power and rushes in with power which no one can stop. Even God cannot stop it.</p>
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<p>When you are truly consumed by this fire of conviction then nothing matters, not even eating or sleeping; you are just truly crazy about the mission. Now you have a fiancee, a new loved one, so you can love your people more. That is the standard I am giving you. Do you wish you had more time to spend with your fiancee instead of at home church? Your antenna should be directed to home church. Is it?</p>
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<p>Home church is a very precious blessing for you, for through it I am giving you a condition to go beyond the fall of man. You are an invincible force like the tide to cleanse your home church, and you won’t be deterred by opposition. Do you know who is going to sign your certificate? Not me, but the hostile people in your home church area should be the ones to uphold you as a man of God. Is home church something to be grateful for, or just a burden? Home church is a short-cut to the Kingdom of Heaven. If you don’t worry about anything else but that, you will find the heavenly kingdom.</p>
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<p>Home church is truly our gospel, an amazing blessing from God. Through home church you can find and restore everything-there you meet God, the Messiah, Cain and Abel, and all the historical missions. It is really a wonder world. I would like to see that you are practically worshipped in your areas, so that when you bring your fiancee everyone will say that now they have a king or queen as well. By winning this qualification you can truly enter the hall of blessing for the wedding march.</p>
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<p>We can conclude that the more you are oppressed and persecuted, the happier you will be and the more you will gain. You suffer more because you want to make your blessing more precious, for it is your added suffering that will make your qualification more precious, and your diamond more polished. All your suffering and tribulation can be vindicated by having your mate; this one blessing alone can make it all worthwhile. Your husband or wife is far more precious than your home church, and if you can give anything for your home church then how much more could you do for your mate? Since you are already trained by serving your 360 homes, you can be even more serving to your own husband or wife.</p>
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<p>In your 360 homes you are withstanding all kinds of persecution, yet even if all your people come against you, you still love them. If later God uses your husband or wife to give you a hard time, what would you do? Would you say you could not stand it and shove him out the door? You are already withstanding so much that now when some hardship appears within your own family it will be nothing in comparison. You are absolutely loyal to each other and you are willing to do whatever your husband or wife wants. Do you want to fight with your mate? I am warning you that Satan will try to agitate both of you and incite conflict. God will grant Satan permission to interfere with you because He has confidence that you can easily withstand it, but if Satan wins and you hate each other then he will return to God and gloat at how easily you succumbed to him.</p>
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<p>When you have a feeling that Satan is trying to tempt you to complain about how dumb or ugly your husband or wife is and have nothing to do with him, remember what I am telling you now about Satan’s infiltration. Then close the door and don’t let him come in; decide to do exactly the opposite of what Satan hopes. If you are serving and truly humble then there is no way he can win. This is why I am giving you a three-year training period before blessing.</p>
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<p>If there is a terrible man giving you sisters a hard time in your area then you must think inside that he is your husband. If there is an unbearable woman in your area, then you brothers can think, “She is my wife.” If you men meet such a man, think he is your brother Cain who wants to kill you. Then think about your duty to him and how to win him to your side. Think that unless you can win him to your side you are not ready to go on to any higher blessing.</p>
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<p>I want you to feel that home church is a training ground for your future married life, and that all the people coming against you are in a position to train you to live with your future spouse and in-laws. If you win the older people and the children of your area then everyone else in the middle will automatically come. When you initiate home church the ratio is 1 to 360, and when the first person is won it will turn into 2 to 360, or I to 180. When it increases to 3 on your side, it will be 1 to 120. Even though it starts out I to 360, eventually everyone will accept and your whole area will be one family dwelling, and as far as you are concerned you will be looking at your whole area as one house.</p>
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<p>In this area you will create your Cain-type home, and then after that you are entitled to create your Abel-type home. Once you find your Cain tribe you will establish your Abel tribe. Even if your ancestral lineage is inferior to that of people in your home church area, you will still receive greater blessing than anyone in your area because you set the necessary condition there. When the blessing comes to you upon this foundation and you have children, they will receive more abundant blessing than anyone in home church.</p>
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<p>The restoration process in the fallen world is one of three major divisions-of Cain and Abel, husband and wife, and parents, but now we are bringing these three together for the first time. Home church is the process of uniting the brothers, Cain and Abel. Your home church and your mate’s home church will come together eventually, and you will become a couple after receiving accolades from your home church. Upon that foundation you will join as husband and wife. There are universal implications in two home church areas uniting together.</p>
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<p>When you are united as husband and wife upon this home church foundation and have children, then you move upward to the parent level. Your children will come upon the foundation of the home church success and all your labor there will be reaped by them. In that case you truly have a foundation where you can receive God’s blessing abundantly. Because the Cain-Abel separation has already been made in the home church and there is no stain remaining, you can offer your children as a pure offering to God. Then God will gladly embrace you and your children. Unless you stand victorious in home church. However, you will leave that duty and responsibility to your children, who will then have to go through that tribulation themselves.</p>
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<p>1981 is the final year of the third seven-year course, and from that year until 2,000 the entire world will be organized into home church. That will complete forty years since the True Parents were installed in 1960. The more work we do here in the physical world, the greater will be the spiritual phenomena affecting the earth. Spiritual assistance will be equally strong because that realm is like the angelic world, in a position to serve the victorious Adam and Eve. In your home church you will exercise your authority to direct spirit world to assist you. You are given that authority.</p>
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<p>Only upon the victorious foundation of home church can you as men and women bear sinless children, just as perfected Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden would have borne sinless children. No one shall be able to come against that pure child. You must fulfill all these conditions before God’s blessing comes to you to be husband and wife.</p>
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<p>Today is a new day. This is May 27 and in four more days May will be over. If you make a special condition of the next four days then when June comes you will have a new beginning. Will you engaged couples do it? Those who would do it, engaged or not, raise your hands and pledge your loyalty. You are raising your hands to promise to become true couples. Then spirit world will be with you and God will be with you. Can you pledge that now? God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-19T14:42:33+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/19/day-of-all-things.html" rel="bookmark">June 19, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-19T14:42:33+01:00">June 19, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">May 26, 1979<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>The literal translation of the title of today’s message would be “Day of 10,000 Things,” or Day of All Things.</p>
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<p>Those who were matched in the last engagement ceremony, raise your hands please. How do all of you feel? All along you have been single, but now you have someone else to worry about. I think you feel not just great, but wonderful great! Now you realize how important it is that you have your counterpart- a woman for man, and man for woman. This is true not only in the human world, but for all things in God’s creation. Even iron ore exists in the pair system. Everything exists in pairs, whether minerals, vegetables or animals, and according to their special characteristics everything is matched plus with minus, male with female.</p>
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<p>When subject and object are united in soul, mind and body, they form the ideal together. Man and woman each have spirit, mind and body; together these total six, but they form a new entity, or number seven. The most important rapport to be established is eye to eye. Especially in the Orient men and women don’t look at anything else except the eyes; the eyes must be right. When there is rapport on this level, then everything else falls into place. Your eyes are the windows through which you project yourself and they reveal much about you.</p>
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<p>Do you smile first and then look at a person, or look first and then smile? Do you hear first and then smile, or smile and then hear? Are you smiling while you talk, or do you talk and then smile? Do you smile first and then touch, or touch and then smile? I am trying to emphasize the importance of having your object or partner, because without your object you have no one to talk with or hear from, touch or see. Joy and smiling necessitate having someone who has rapport with you.</p>
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<p>What is the difference between cultured people and primitive people? A cultured society has a balanced environment in the sense that everywhere you turn you have give and take with the same level of culture. In this room, for example, there is a cultured atmosphere created by the chandelier and flowers, carpets and furniture. When the women dress up everything has to be right, not just a few things. Their dresses and accessories must fit together in the same level of culture. Every object used is present to stimulate a sense of beauty. Why do we decorate a room with special paint and wallpaper? Because we want to create an environment that fits our cultural level and allows us to be always stimulated by a sense of beauty.</p>
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<p>Why do we seek this balance in our culture? Ultimately men and women are seeking to find their culture embodied in one object or subject so they can establish a reciprocal relationship which will be a constant source of stimulation. Looking at you I saw that the women who have always been solemn began to smile as soon as they were engaged because they felt light and happy inside. You Unification Church women have not been trained in the use of makeup, but as soon as you are engaged you start looking in the mirror more frequently and care more about your dress and overall appearance. When you were single you had complete freedom, but now you worry about many things, such as whether your figure is right or perhaps too big for your fiancee. You think from the point of view of your subject now, not just yourself.</p>
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<p>You are like a flower blossoming and you want to add fragrance to it. You want to be in action, demonstrating your joy in movement instead of just standing still. Now you concentrate on widening your horizons, vertically and horizontally, trying to make a bigger projection of yourself so you can please your mate. It is natural and good that your mate is now the focal point of your concern.</p>
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<p>Do you know your own face? Could you portray yourself without seeing your face? If someone asked if you could remember your face you might think that was a ridiculous question, but after thinking about it you realize that none of you have memorized your own face. Why is that? Your features change according to your state of mind, and you don’t have one concrete image in your mind. Sometimes you feel happy and think you are good-looking, but other days you have no confidence and you think your appearance has certain weaknesses. Your state of mind is the subject factor here and your external self is an expression of your state of mind. Since that is changing from one mood to another, your external appearance is always changing.</p>
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<p>You are too close to yourself to evaluate yourself clearly; when you look at a painting too closely, for instance, you cannot evaluate it. If you bring a little object close to your eye, thinking you can see it better, you cannot really distinguish what it is. The husband and wife relationship is the same. When your right hand holds your left hand you don’t feel a sensation, but if someone else holds your hand you feel something. A husband may think he knows his wife and have one concrete image of her in his mind, but in that case he is not really appreciating her and doesn’t know her completely.</p>
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<p>Just as you cannot really know how you look, you cannot really know your husband or wife’s face too well because it has many aspects. Sometimes you are strongly impressed by the laughing face of your mate, and you cannot forget how he or she beams from ear to ear, for instance. A wife might be impressed with the dignified appearance of her husband, or she might notice some little habit, such as how he shows his tongue when he laughs. If something about your mate makes a strong impression in your mind, you might not want to see other sides of that person. He might snore a lot or have a very ugly side, but you won’t remember that.</p>
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<p>This shows the infinite variety of expressions of love between men and women. There should not be a fixed relationship there. If a man is always serious then no woman could stand him, but there is always a variety of expression, with joy or anger suddenly bursting forth, and it is there that the beauty of relationship between man and woman is found.</p>
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<p>Would you women like to have a different dress every day? You have an urge to look different each day, and it shows that your internal person also wants to be fresh and new every day. Do you want to wear a beautiful dress to go to the store, or to see your loved one? Your desire to be beautiful reflects an interior motive to please your loved one. If you dress up beautifully but your mood is serious and solemn, does your internal person match your external beauty? Your lovely dress would protest and urge you to change your expression. No matter how beautiful your dress might be, if you are sad and sick at heart, your dress sighs. But if you are happy and joyful in God’s love, even a humble dress will rejoice to be there with you for then it is an ornament of your love. Have you ever seen anyone wear a large, sparkling diamond directly on his finger? Usually a ring is made to set off a diamond, and a plain gold or platinum ring wants an ornament to wear on top of it.</p>
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<p>Everything in creation exists for some certain purpose. Do you think they would feel good just being a commodity on the market, even if they were expensive, valuable commodities? Would they feel happy if many men came to watch and observe them? Do these flowers here on stage exist to glorify themselves? Just as you do not see your own face, the petals of these flowers do not see themselves; they exist to serve something besides their own purpose. The flowers impart their fragrance to please someone else who comes to appreciate them.</p>
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<p>The flowers are beautiful in order to invite the attention of butterflies and bees, and the fragrance serves like a beacon to guide them directly to the flowers. The same principle applies to women; you want to be dressed up and wear perfume in order to be attractive, not for your own enjoyment. Many women are meticulous about their makeup, spending hours in front of their mirrors every morning recreating themselves. Would such a woman say that her purpose for living is to beautify herself in the morning? Would you say your goal in life was to eat or sleep or play? What would that mean?</p>
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<p>When you wake up from a good night’s sleep does your mind think ahead to school or your job? Your mind travels to your loved one, the place where love is. American-style loving today is often an unhappy situation; I have heard that in California over <i>70% </i>of the marriages are breaking up. What kind of love is that?</p>
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<p>A thing that is truly precious has an unchanging quality. Diamonds and gold are held to be valuable because of their unchanging quality. The most expensive things under the sun must be gold and pearls, right? No? True love? Where is true love; show me. True love means unchanging love that never tarnishes.</p>
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<p>Sometimes American young people run away from home because they are longing for unchanging parental love and they aren’t receiving it from their parents. True love never changes, so any parent who cares for his children always loves them, no matter what tragedy overwhelms their home. Even if the father dies, the mother has a strong urge to live in order to keep loving her children. Any woman who just wants to re-marry and doesn’t care about how her children feel will have nothing left, either love of her children or her husband. Children in that situation feel left out and cold when they are at home, and they usually go their own way. But children whose mother is still devoted and loving them more than ever, even after the father dies, will be completely devoted to her and never betray her expectations.</p>
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<p>Even though her husband is dead, that woman is not losing anything. More than ever her children will reciprocate the love she is giving them. The more she devotes herself to her children, the more they will return love that is even greater than their father’s when they grow up, knowing she dedicated her life to them. Then the vertical love between a mother and son is more beautiful than the love between the husband and wife. The same is true for man. If the mother dies then the father can find tremendous beauty and value in loving his children.</p>
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<p>Man is created to live in true love, and when he pursues that true love both vertically and horizontally he finds true fulfillment in life. When a man and woman unite completely in unchanging true love then they are each other’s pride; a wife and husband want to be proud of each other. Instead of asking the other person to serve you, you want to serve that other person genuinely, feeling that he is the best. When each person feels that way, their relationship is truly something to behold.</p>
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<p>Love has a certain sound when it is in motion, like an electric gadget at work. When another expert in love hears that sound he echoes it, so all over the place echoes of that love begin to join with that love. When two sounds of love meet, would that have greater impact than thunder and lightning? How great an impact would that have? The meeting of those sounds of love is so thunderous that anyone who is sleeping, even for 1,000 years, has to wake up. Even eternally sleeping people will wake up and be galvanized into motion and dance. No one forces or asks them to; it will just happen automatically.</p>
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<p>Do you enjoy a halting, uncertain kind of dance by someone trying to follow the rules? No. In that sense disco dancing is real dancing because there are no rules; it is just a free expression of happiness. When man and woman come closer and the sound of love starts up, what will happen?</p>
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<p>All of these explanations lead to one conclusion-that all things exist to rejoice over true love. All things are searching to be united with true love. Is there anyone who has a different idea? Why do you women want to look as beautiful as Miss America? For true love. Is there any better answer? You might wonder why you look so unattractive, and the cause of your concern is still true love. There have been many ugly people in history who could not receive love because of their appearance. Now I am here, an ugly person, but as a possessor of true love I will indemnify the pain of all the unattractive people of the past. Even if you look ugly to everyone else, for the person who loves you, you are the most attractive person in the world. Your spouse will feel that because of all the odd contours of your face he has much more to react to than if it were smooth and lovely.</p>
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<p>Love transcends appearance. Therefore, your own being cannot conquer love; love conquers your being. A husband might look like a chopstick and the wife might look like a potato, so that you wonder how they can continue together, but they are close because love blinds and harmonizes them. That’s why love is almighty.</p>
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<p>Why am I talking about love so much on the Day of All Things? In the world of men we feel that love is the ultimate goal of life, and it must be clear that all things live under the same rule. Would a gold nugget want to be independent and have no one bother it? Or would it want to be surrounded by other material? Do you think it matters to the nugget at all? What actually surrounds the nugget is unimportant; what is important is the nugget itself and whether it is true gold or false gold. No matter how lovely the setting, if the gold itself is impure, it is no good. Whether the nugget is found in a ditch or lake is immaterial; as long as it is pure gold its value and quality will not change.</p>
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<p>The important thing is you yourself, not the kind of people who surround you. The key is whether you are a holder of true love, regardless of whether you are surrounded by black, white or yellow people. Think of how beautifully harmonized creation is; why should the world of men alone be in conflict? In the world of animals there is no segregation according to color. White puppies don’t play with only white puppies. If a sparrow comes from Africa, would American sparrows tell it to go back to Africa? Did God draw a line between nations somewhere?</p>
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<p>Why are there so many dominions here on earth? There is a national sovereignty in America, as well as people who are masters of their own land. There are many man-made divisions and boundaries. In the world of love will there be many compartments? I have not seen this in person, but I have heard that American husbands and wives often have separate savings accounts; there is a distinct boundary in money even if they think there is not one in love. How artificial that is! They keep certain areas to themselves and forbid intrusion. Will you tell your mate he must have an appointment to see you and insist he be on time? When children go to see their parents should they phone ahead for a time slot? That’s the American habit, though.</p>
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<p>Does this show that love in America is weaker than money and job commitments? Would you like that kind of love? If not then you should get rid of it. There is no time boundary in love; it comes in the morning, afternoon, and midnight. Is there a rule in the universe about what time lightning can strike? The visitation of love is like the lightning of the universe; it can come any time through the front, back door, side door, anywhere. It may even come in a fistfight. The important thing is the quality of love.</p>
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<p>In front of the supreme power of love, everything else is subdued. Women are born to be conquered by the love of men. The motion of love is faster than an arrow or a bullet; it can travel from the North to the South pole in no time. Each one exists for the purpose of love. Does that make you feel good or bad? When you are a temple of that true love you are more precious than a diamond the size of your whole body. Even if that diamond were bigger than the universe, you would still be more precious.</p>
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<p>Man is supreme in all the creation because we can be kings and queens of love, giving and imparting love. No other creation has that capacity. Now you are princes and princesses of love, advancing every day toward perfection. Do you want it? Even God has not been able to fulfill that true love and certainly no man in history has fulfilled it. Now we are the first group of volunteers who want to pioneer that true love. All the things of creation are like the honor guard waiting for the day when God will walk down the path of fulfillment of that true love. They are waiting to glorify that day, waiting to see men, their masters, walk down the path as well.</p>
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<p>When God walks down that path He will not go alone. Who will be His companions? In the garden of Eden it was to have been Adam and Eve. The greatest march God anticipated was the march of true love, walking from the king’s throne down the path of love. Adam and Eve would follow God and invite all the things of creation to accompany them. When God sat on His throne Adam and Eve would stand before Him, and surrounding them would be all things of creation like the best man and maid of honor.</p>
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<p>When God embraces His children in true, eternal love, all things of creation would be intoxicated in that love. What would you imagine would be the day God would first start to love Adam and Eve? Would that be spring, fall, summer or winter? Why spring? Because spring is the season for rejoicing, for blossoming and harmonizing in beauty and fragrance. If God could sit on His throne and embrace His children Adam and Eve in true love, then the entire universe would sing the glory of God in praise, rejoicing over the sound of love. Before the throne of God Adam and Eve would be installed as husband and wife and give the first heavenly kiss between man and woman. Can you imagine how beautiful that would be? Have God and mankind and creation seen that particular momentous day?</p>
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<p>When God embraced Adam and Eve in love, then the creation surrounding them would clothe them, become the ornaments and form the wedding hall. If you were to ask all things what their history has been, all creation would be able to say they had fulfilled the purpose of their existence because they would have seen the day of the fulfillment of God’s love, the day God embraced His children. They could say that on that day they ornamented and clothed Adam and Eve. Ever since, all the creation that witnessed that day would remain as a museum piece.</p>
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<p>Their greatest honor would be to witness that wedding ceremony in the garden of Eden. A blade of grass by the path Adam and Eve walked would be historical, an important ingredient of that heavenly museum. An oak tree would be proud that it saw the fulfillment of the love of God in Adam and Eve; oak trees today would be proud of how their direct ancestors were present to see that cosmic event. Their family history began in witnessing the love of God, and that would be their tradition. They would look for the people who fulfill that true love and want to rejoice with them, just as their ancestors did.</p>
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<p>Would the Unification Church have been needed in the garden of Eden? That momentous day of the fulfillment of God’s love in the garden of Eden never took place, and all that God prepared became broken and ragged. Now once again we are trying to unite all things and recreate the day of that wedding, the day of the fulfillment of love. Our clothes should have been bright and fragrant with love, but instead they are stained with tears and sweat and blood. Now the tuxedos we wear are soaked by sweat and tears, and they have a totally different kind of value. In order to restore the lost garden of Eden we work hard in tribulation, and it is so hard to restore just this one time we cannot think of repeating any more the fallen garden of Eden.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is here to restore the day of joy of love, and we are piecing it together from this fallen, satanic world. Some day we will have a completed wedding dress and tuxedo to wear to restore that lost day of God. We know the sad, tragic history in which nations and peoples crumbled and had to sacrifice. Now all the hopes and fragments here and there are being pieced together to make one restoration of unification.</p>
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<p>Everything which should have existed solely to glorify God now exists solely to destroy you and destroy any attempt to restore godly things. Unless we are truly alert and cautious every day, we may be struck down by the dangers of this world. Human history has been one of misery and suffering, so how much more have the things of creation been in pain? The things of creation have been subjugated by a false master and abused. Now God has chosen one champion to come and be the friend of all things, asking them to follow him, guiding them step by step. It is like going through an endless maze, trying to find the other end and bring new hope for the fulfillment of love.</p>
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<p>I started as one lone individual, but I gathered the foundation for the family, tribe, nation and world, pulling the godly pieces together. This incredible</p>
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<p>march of the princes and princesses of love began decades ago, and now has come to the worldwide level. For the first time, Satan has met an adamant enemy and so has made an unending attempt to destroy him and his work. But I have overcome all these obstacles one after another and reached the peak of success, the 1976 Washington Monument Rally. God’s blessing to me is increasing because I have laid the foundation all the way to the worldwide level, and now the blessing is not just one of men coming, but also of material benefit.</p>
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<p>What are you Unification Church members and why are you here? You are searchers for true love, but true love is not contained in the Unification Church; it has been stolen by Satan. We must go out to the satanic world, plant the seeds of true love in the soil and harvest it. That is our mission. In home church you are actually creating a tribe, and once you obtain it you can go all the way to heaven. What you have in home church is a microcosm of the world, and by practicing there what I have done on the worldwide scale you are entitled to receive what I have inherited from God.</p>
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<p>You are small Reverend Moons. I am a tree of many branches and they have been grafted on to you, and ultimately you will blossom as full-grown trees yourselves. What kind of tree do I mean? Truly the ideal tree of love. What the Bible calls the Tree of Life is actually the tree of true love. Such a tree also knows the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and both need each other. That way of life is not one of receiving love but of sharing and imparting love. That love is strong and absolute, unlike the fragile love relationships in today’s world. Where that love is breaking down, our love is firm and hard like rock.</p>
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<p>American marriages today are fragile and breaking down so that the new love can be planted. This situation is not completely tragic; when Americans see the right direction they can still have hope. Who is the master of all things in America? They don’t automatically belong to the sovereignty, but to the one who loves them most.</p>
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<p>The other day I heard about one of our brothers, Richard Cohen. He is from a Jewish family which has always been skeptical about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, but Richard has persevered and been patient with them. Some time after his engagement he went home with a movie of the 1800 blessing and told them more about his own matching to a Korean girl. They questioned him hard, but since Richard was calm in himself about his situation, he won their hearts. Finally his father confessed that out of all his children Richard was the best one. Richard’s fiancee had written a letter from Korea and sent a picture, and Richard’s father had been carrying them in his wallet and showing them to all his friends. Richard’s brother has been married and divorced twice but Richard’s father knows now that because Richard has found this way of life and the principle for a God-centered home that Richard will succeed in marriage. Mr. Cohen said that he would like to meet me and wished I knew better English so that we could talk together.</p>
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<p>Why are we becoming such respected attention-getters? We are living in a new dimension of love. Suppose that a parent of one Moonie has many other children but their relationships are all superficial and sensual. If this one child who is a Moonie can establish true, enduring love, it is a sign that we are giving true salvation. There the new tradition of inheritance will be set up. The parents will want to give everything-love and honor and property-to that one child.</p>
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<p>If even numbed parents in the fallen world can react so sensitively to true love, how much more so would God be sensitive to true love? When you show that true love it makes God incredibly happy. When God sees that a person truly loves the universe and feels responsible for all things of creation, wanting to be a parent to them, don’t you think God would want to give everything to that son who is representing Him so well?</p>
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<p>In this principle there is no exception, whether in the past, present or future, no matter what race you may be. Even if you ask a grandfather from thousands of years ago, that rule would still be in effect. God knew this was the only way. This explains why He is going this way, and why I follow it as well and ask you to follow it. Why do you go? Along this way you will receive the inheritance of God, the True Parents and all things of creation, plus each other. Then you are the king and queen of love, intoxicated and harmonized in love.</p>
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<p>This is the way of life of the Unification Church, being intoxicated in this true love. We make a grand circle by giving and receiving this love, growing larger and larger like a snowball. Eventually we can make the entire universe intoxicated by this love. There are many people who don’t want to see this true love succeed so they stab and try to shatter it, but even though you falter momentarily, you still come back together even stronger and bigger than before.</p>
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<p>Our members know the taste of that love; it is the one thing we are permitted to be addicted to. Nothing is too much to give for this love. No matter how hard you work or how much you suffer, you insist on having that love. Even death won’t stop you because the taste of that love is so irresistible. Now you inherit God and the True Parents’ tradition and are carrying it on yourself.</p>
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<p>You are going to restore the dignity of love and conquer death, tears of sorrow and any amount of hardship. Nothing can be stronger than true love. If you only care about true love and nothing can stop your march forward, when you turn around you will find all of a sudden that the entire world and all things are following you. We do MFT and witnessing now, but soon you will find that money and people will chase you, not vice versa.</p>
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<p>Right now we are in the final battle and the entire world are like spectators, watching the conquest of the final hill which no one has ever been able to cross over. Now finally the Moonies have volunteered to try and people are giving opinions. “They’re 80% of the way but they don’t really have a chance.” At this point they are watching, saying, “Wait! They’re almost there!” Once we go over the hill the spectators will be pushing each other aside to follow us up that hill. The people most ready to run up that hill will be the Americans. In other countries people have many strings attached and tugging at them, but here there is much individualism and “freedom” so if a person wants to go up the hill neither his parents nor society will pull him back. Then when that person comes back ten years later as a king or queen of true love, all the Americans will come out to welcome him as their hero.</p>
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<p>Today is the Day of All Things. What is the deep sorrow of all things? It lies in not having seen the day of the true love of God and man, the true love of God, parents, couples and sons and daughters. Nothing has seen that day of fulfillment. All these years creation has sighed for not having seen true gladness centered upon God in families of grandparents, parents and children rejoicing together in love.</p>
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<p>Your matching and engagement is the important and beautiful beginning of a heavenly home in which you can truly be united in love and become the glory of all things of creation. God would like to have the universe be a museum of this historic moment and have us be important elements there, so He can be proud of His children who ultimately fulfilled. If someone wanted to put a price tag on you then God would say there was nothing to be written down because you were without price.</p>
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<p>Great artists like Michelangelo and da Vinci painted masterpieces worth millions of dollars now, but you are a living masterpiece of God. If one Michelangelo costs a million dollars, you as a living masterpiece are priceless. Even the little blade of grass which witnessed the love of God is this precious. All things of creation are waiting for their day of redemption and vindication, the day when they can see their true masters appear. In understanding God with true love you shall become their true masters, appreciating them and guiding them with the hand of God. That’s your should hand this down to your children and grandchildren, taking pride in the tradition you are setting today and allowing them to feel proud. They will need to be educated about how to be thrifty with creation, not wasteful.</p>
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<p>If the grandparents use the first few pieces of tissue in a box and then hand it down to their children, who use a few pieces and then hand it down to the grandchildren, generation to generation, how much history could be accumulated in that one box of tissue? In even more of an extreme, the grandparents could take one piece of bread from a loaf, then each generation take another piece. If one loaf was handed down ten generations and only a little bit was left, you would want to preserve it for another ten or twenty generations, breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces. That is like the tradition of love flowing down. No matter how humble your clothes are, if they are handed down in this tradition of love you will been prouder of them than of any more expensive garments.</p>
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<p>When things of creation have a true master loving them and enjoying them in a conscientious, thrifty way, how would they feel? They would feel they finally were living in the ideal world. Each creature would feel happy for the first time. On this Day of All Things we should think how we can reciprocate our gratitude to all things by saving them and loving them. This is today’s important agenda.</p>
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<p>How much would you pay in a department store for a handkerchief like this one here? $1 ? There is one brother in the Unification Church who received a plain white handkerchief from me ten years ago and has been carrying it with him ever since. After all that time it looks all bedraggled, but that handkerchief has no price. That brother cherishes it because I gave it to him and it represents an inheritance of love.</p>
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<p>There is a Korean diplomat who became a member, and some years ago he and his wife were to be sent overseas on diplomatic duty. He approached me, humbly asking for the honor to invite Mother and me for lunch. Their invitation was so heartfelt that I accepted and we went to a humble Chinese restaurant. They tried very much to make us happy that day. Later when he got a small receipt after paying for the meal he wrote down the date and hour, and carried that receipt with him all during his diplomatic tours. That happened about fifteen years ago and even now he carries it with him, even though no words can be read on it. Even though that receipt is hardly more than dust now, its value remains and all of spirit world recognizes it, rejoicing over that deed because it centered around true love.</p>
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<p>Material value itself is not the consideration here. The priceless implication of those small bits of material comes from love. If even a simple handkerchief can become that precious, how much more precious will you and your husband become when you really personify the love of God? A little receipt and handkerchief can have priceless value, but when you become the manifestation of God’s love and love the world, all things will become priceless because you will give value to them.</p>
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<p>That is our tradition and way of life; our discipline is to live in that one central goal. We want to search for and fulfill that true love. I want you to become a lover of all things centering upon the true love of God.</p>
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<p>God bless you.</p>
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<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">May 6, 1979<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>What are you thinking, sitting here early in the morning on a hard concrete floor? Are you happy to see me? How can you be happy to see such a dark face with slanted eyes? Walking by a grove of trees have you ever thought that they may have stood there for hundreds of years and wondered what they have been thinking? Do they think that their branches will cover the earth and their crowns touch the sky? Perhaps they are proud of being the tallest and oldest trees. If a tree’s goal is so big that it wants to cover the earth and reach the sky then it must be thinking about how tall it is now, even if it is already a thousand years old. With such a great goal yet to be fulfilled, can it boast of being the greatest? If a tree has the power to reason and think then we can say it is truly the greatest tree.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought about which bird flies highest in the sky? The crane flies highest. A crane is always looking up, never bowing down; our image of a crane never includes one whose neck is drooping down as it flies, but only looking up and ahead. A big bird like a crane never just leaps into the air and starts flying. A jumbo jet must rev its engines and gather speed down the runway and then take off, and a crane also starts slowly, aims high and gradually flies higher and farther.</p>
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<p>You have seen sparrows hopping about, but cranes walk entirely differently, with long, stately strides. Can you imagine how ungainly a crane would look if it hopped like a sparrow? A crane thinks ahead about slowly but surely crossing long distances over the continents and ocean. With that kind of vision and goal, its whole body is necessarily geared to that kind of task.</p>
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<p>A crane always wears a red hat and has a black tail. We usually say that red represents communism and black represents Satan, so what is good about this crane? The bird itself is white and leaps out to cross and conquer the ocean, and because the red and black harmonize in this purpose they are like restored red and black.</p>
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<p>Are you thinkers? Do you think about how to dig into the ground, or about how to leap into the sky? The best way to reach the sky is to sit down and doze, right? I’m sure you have to get up very early to get here on time, so it must feel like a long time before you can go back to sleep. Does the bird think the night is long or short? Is he eager to see the dawn come or not? You hear birds singing in the early morning and the cock crowing at sunrise; do you think they wish the morning wouldn’t come so early?</p>
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<p>For the birds the night is unbearably long so they rejoice over the dawn in their morning singing. Are you like the birds? Do you wait impatiently all week for Sunday so you can come to Belvedere and then jump up with happiness when that morning comes?</p>
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<p>When you say “let us think” does that mean that you are already thinking or getting ready to think? Which of the creations is a thinking animal besides man? Different animals think in different degrees, but in my opinion the most thinking one of all is the ox. During the day it sits in the meadow chewing and thinking.</p>
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<p>What kind of thinking do you: suppose the ox is doing? Is its goal higher and nobler than man’s? If so then there would be many oxen saints. Perhaps the oxen think about the suits they should wear, and if so then they would have more colorful clothes because they have four legs instead of two If they actually were thinking, they would create an oxen cultural sphere because thinking always precedes culture. What kind of toilet would they have, and what kind of bathtub? Thinking makes things happen.</p>
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<p>If oxen think about God more than man does, what would happen? God would be confused, because men and women were to’ be His sons and daughters, but the oxen are thinking more about Him. God notices which of His creations is thinking more of Him and which is most proud of Him. Would oxen be number one, or something else? There are two kinds of men, one thinking of divine and spiritual things, and another preoccupied with cheap, everyday earthly things. What kind of man would you become? It is the quality of a person’s thinking that describes his nobility or lack of nobility.</p>
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<p>If a person is thinking nobly, his thoughts must inevitably lead him into a noble life. What is the content of noble thinking? Is it on the side of goodness or evil? One aspect of goodness is that everyone likes it, both God and man, old and young, even the most devilish grandmother. Even the most wicked, purposeless young people like goodness. Nobility has universality.</p>
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<p>Where do we belong in all this; are we thinking people? When you work hard don’t you think about where you can get some food and take a nap? You may be fed up with sitting on the hard concrete floor here at Belvedere, without even chairs to sit on. In the American way of life you sit on chairs and cross your legs comfortably, and now you are far from that way of life. You’ve been thinking how painful that is, right? At one time you have probably wondered why, if my name is Sun, we don’t have worship when the sun is up and you can get up later! I really like it this way, but do you like it or hate it? If you hate it and it makes you upset enough to work hard, you will go to heaven and I will go to hell, right? Your logic is correct in that case if you really are working harder than me and you want to be here at six instead of ten in the morning. I takes will power and desire to get up in the morning, and come here.</p>
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<p>Why should you do it? You’ve been thinking about how to deserve sonship and daughtership of God more than others, how to be something that others cannot be. If the Jews gather at 3 a.m. to worship in their synagogue then when shall we gather? If Jews see a competition between Moonies and themselves and decide to get up even earlier, what would you do? We would have to have a morning service at 8 p.m. Then others might hear about it and gather at 2 in the afternoon, but we would have to declare that we would work 24 hours a day. Average will power would not be adequate in such hardheaded competition.</p>
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<p>If you make up your mind that you will win then you have to plan your tactics and think how to go about it. What would be gained by beating the Jews and other religious people? God raised up all these religions to have them compete among themselves to see which one really loved Him the most. If you think more about how you can be number one and you turn out to love Him the most, you can claim God. You can tell God that you might not be handsome or pretty but that He belongs to you anyway. How can He answer? If He refused, what would you do? Then you can look Him squarely in the eye and say, “You are I Satan, God!” Then He has to reply, “My son, indeed I have to listen to you. I belong to you.”</p>
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<p>What I am saying is that God can be made a prisoner by the people who love Him the most. You can bind God but you don’t need rope to make God helpless. If you have made God your prisoner and then ask Him whether He can stand it if you love Him more, He will think about it and say that you are already doing enough. Once God tells you are already doing enough for Him, you can take a nap or go disco dancing for 24 hours a day. Then you can think like an ox or a pig and it will be all right because you will have that freedom..</p>
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<p>God gave us the ability to think and each person has a thought bag which goes everywhere with him. If you think a great deal then your thought bag will get bigger; a balloon pops after a certain point, but your thought bag will constantly get bigger, even after it covers the entire earth. It will become so big and light that it will even lift you up in the air and carry you around. If you looked in your thought bag right now would you find a ragged mixture of different items, or genuine gold and beautiful crystal? Which kind do you have?</p>
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<p>In New York you commonly encounter garbage trucks; how does your thought bag compare with the contents of those trucks? Is there some resemblance, or none at all? Is your bag full of fragrance and color? If you sprinkle garbage on the streets the entire city is made unhealthy, but if your thought bag is healthy and fragrant then if you sprinkle its contents around the world the entire globe will be perfumed. What kind of thought bag do you have? This is a morning to think about it. If God wanted to inspect the bags of everyone here, would anyone clamor to have God look at his or hers first? Would you be at the beginning or the end of the line?</p>
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<p>I had many sisters in my family and as they entered their late teens and started thinking about getting married they made or bought special things to save for their wedding and new home. They would always hide them away in a safe place and I had a great interest to investigate what they had hidden. You women like to hide special things in a safe place, don’t you? Where does this trait come from? You can say that God resembles you in this. If God comes to look and see what the women have hidden in their bags, what kind of bag would He be interested in finding? Would He be interested in finding money, or knowing what kind of books you read or what medals of honor and decorations you received?</p>
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<p>God is interested in your thought bag. When you open up your thought bag you are really confessing what you are thinking, and God will remark either at how noble you are or how filthy and smelly you are. Would you rather have God embrace you with happiness or push you away in disgust? Are you free of shame, with nothing to hide, or can’t you be absolutely open? Are you ready for God’s inspection? Could God pass you in all areas?</p>
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<p>You know whether God will be happy or unhappy with your thoughts. You are Iying if you say you are not sure whether you would pass God’s inspection. You can’t claim that you aren’t clever enough to know God’s criteria. You don’t even belong to the human race if you really don’t know! Even in the Unification Church your mind wanders, wondering whether you are in the right place or not, and in the meantime one year passes, two years, then three years. Look into your thoughts right now. Could you rate yourself at 100%, or 50% or 0 capability before God? How many of you have confidence God would give you 100 points? If you raised your hand, you have something wrong with your head!</p>
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<p>Any student who thinks he knows all there is to know and can pass every test with A plus has something wrong somewhere. You know you are not perfect and that you have frailties; therefore, it takes effort to elevate yourself. Can you say that after three years in the Unification Church you rate 50 points and you have earned enough credits to be ready for blessing? Can you ask the principal for a citation with that kind of average? Or are you thinking that you are not even worthy of the blessing? Externally your physical body may be ready for marriage, but when you look into your conscience and thoughts, maybe you aren’t really ready.</p>
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<p>If you sincerely feel you aren’t ready and you just obey when God pushes in one direction or another, then you have done what was required of you and you can get blessed. Which one would you like? If you have a 50 point average and think you are deserving then God will be reluctant to bless you but if you are humble and really think you are not worthy then God will feel better about giving it to you. If a person with a lower average is always trying to be considerate and meek, even brothers and sisters with more points cannot say that person doesn’t deserve the blessing. It is not your will but God’s will that pulls you up to receive the blessing. Are you living with that attitude?</p>
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<p>There is one thing I want to teach you-to be meek and humble. Would God prefer the teaching which encourages boastfulness or humility? Although you have not earned full marks, when you are humble from the bottom of your heart there is a chance for you to participate in grace.</p>
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<p>Who is the general of the Unification Church? You Moonies say you think I am a good father, but what about people in general? Looking down, what would God say? Would He say I am the most handsome man under the sun and that’s why I am a good father? Or that I am qualified because I speak well? Do I have some special power to attract people?</p>
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<p>God will tell me to show Him my thought bag and there’s the real showdown. The public may think it is an incredibly awful, smelly bag, but God may think it is the most fragrant, delightful bag He has ever seen. God would be intoxicated and unable to put it down. He will think I am truly a wonderful person. Have you seen my thoughts? Maybe I am only thinking about how to exploit you. No? Who said so? The important thing is what is inside your thought bag.</p>
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<p>I look over at the VIP section here and see Dr. Pyun, but even for this dignified Ph.D. the most important thing is the content of his thoughts. Your evaluation by the everyday world is as important as what is truly inside you. If you have a right thought bag then you are seeking right things, and if you are thinking right things, you are acting on right things. Right thinking must be expressed in words and actions.</p>
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<p>In the beginning God had thought, or the Word, and God created by the Word. When supported by logic your thought becomes philosophy. If your thought is totally concerned with God and you express that thought, you will become a great minister. Before there was ever a Reverend Moon in the world, there was an ideal, invisible Reverend Moon. When thoughts were translated into words and they were acted upon, the invisible Reverend Moon became the reality the world sees today.</p>
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<p>Were you empty of thought when you came here this morning? Perhaps you were anticipating hearing some good message this morning, so did you come for the purpose of bringing a clean, bright thought bag to receive some new thought today? When some people come they are wondering why they have to go through this again for another Sunday and they watch the clock to see whether I will speak more than two hours. What kind of thoughts do you have at this moment? Are they bright as gold and hard as diamonds? Are you numb of sensation? I see all types here.</p>
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<p>You might be thinking you will meet God here this morning and in that case you can tell the trees you are straighter than they are this morning. Are you? I hear a confident yes and a doubtful yes; which one are you? Some of you don’t want to say yes, but you just close your eyes and plunge ahead. Is that a false yes or a genuine one?</p>
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<p>If you women have eyeglasses with heavy frames, you have a convenient disguise; then if you get sleepy you just move them down your nose a little and no one will ever see that your eyes are closed. You might think you are successful, but can you deceive God, or the walls or the air? Can you lie to yourself? Instead of trying to hide it from God, who knows anyway, it’s much better to say to God, “I am so sleepy. Please forgive me,” and just lie down and sleep. God has to smile on such a person for having such guts.</p>
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<p>If one Sunday everyone at Belvedere does that, then when I come there will be no one awake to speak to. Then I will tell God, “Since everyone else is sleeping, let me sleep too.” It’s much better than trying to be sneaky. Anyone who is trying to hide behind something, like glasses, is not forthright and open, is not a true Moonie.</p>
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<p>Deep down inside do you like to be called a Moonie? When I ask, you say yes, but how about when people outside our Church ask you? If you try to live a sneaky life as a Moonie, you will end up in hell. It’s much better to be open about your frailties and be yourself. Such a person can go to heaven. I have no shame and nothing to hide, no matter where I am. I am the super-general of the Unification Church army, but in this country everything is called super, so that is too cheap a name.</p>
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<p>There are two kinds of thinking-the kind that has to do with the family. nation and God, or nothing to do with the family, nation and God. There are the thoughts God likes and the thoughts Satan likes, the thoughts of a good man or an evil man, and you must make a choice between them.</p>
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<p>Have you black members carried some kind of hidden grudge against white people? Black people can have two thoughts-one, that some day they will get revenge for injustice done them, or two, that they want to win the respect of white people by serving them and becoming one with them in love. For hundreds of years black people have been oppressed and enslaved, but can you forgive and forget that, and tell God you want to serve others regardless? Do you think you are superior or inferior to whites? You are not different; you have two eyes and a nose and two ears, and so do white people. The two races are just a different shade of color, one happening to be darker than the other.</p>
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<p>A high mountaintop is always white and covered with snow, but in the valley the soil is always dark and fertile. Do animals always live on the top of the snow-capped mountain, or do they live in the fertile valleys instead? Is there more food to be found on the peak or in the valley? Black is a very rich color which has depth and absorbs all light. It is a very attractive and charming color. On the other hand, white is always easily stained and hard to keep clean. It would be simple to cover the world with black, but much more difficult to make everything white.</p>
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<p>Are there any schoolrooms where the teacher writes in black chalk on a white board? It would be crazy to use a white board. It would be impossible if you blacks were trying to be white, even after a millennium, no matter who you prayed to. So instead of trying to be something else, take what you have and be proud of it. Whites, be proud. Blacks, be proud. Orientals, be proud. The precious metals of the earth don’t lie on the surface of the mountain, but deep within the dark earth, and you also have your dignity as black men and women. It is far better to see a healthy, vigorous black horse than a run-down, sickly white horse. If both of them are in poor shape, which one still looks better? The black color helps cover up shortcomings, while the white color clearly reveals all deficiencies.</p>
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<p>Polar bears are white to give better camouflage in white snow and ice. White people belong to the North Pole because they can hide better there. The culture of white people emerged from hunting societies which killed animals for food, but black people have always lived in the warmer areas of the earth where there was always much food around. Be proud of what you are. If your hope is that the entire world can be embraced in your arms then you have the right idea.</p>
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<p>Why did God give blue eyes to white people? Because He knew that a plain white face would soon be tiresome to look at, He added the variety of blue dots to give contrast Blue is a very comforting color, like the blue of the sky and ocean. God is comforted when he looks at blue eyes. It sounds logical when I explain it, doesn’t it? The faces of black people have a dramatic kind of beauty because when they smile their white teeth are a vivid and surprising contrast to their black skin. When black people are standing in broad sunlight, their skin is a beautiful color to behold, much more than white skin.</p>
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<p>Would you white people like to wear only white shoes, not black or brown? If you only like white people then you must always wear white and no colors on your clothes, right? If a food is pure white, it is not tasty; dark sugar has much more flavor than white sugar. Which is real coffee, black or white? A white person riding on a white horse doesn’t look intriguing, but a white rider on a black horse is absolutely dazzling. We also see that the earth is dark and the heavens are bright.</p>
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<p>Do the great masterpieces of art have light or dark backgrounds? They frequently have dark backgrounds because a dark background provides more contrast and produces a more vivid effect of depth.</p>
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<p>Without black, there can be no depth of feeling Your eye is recessed a little in your face, creating shadows, and then you have a black dot in the center which is surrounded by the white eyeball. Imagine an eyeball that had no white but was only blue or black or brown. How devilish that would look! Westerners have deep-set eyes compared to Orientals, so Westerners would look especially devilish if they had solid blue eyes.</p>
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<p>The most dramatic combination I can imagine in a Western world would be white skin, black hair and eyebrows, blue eyes and white eyeballs. White people alone can never produce that combination; to get it you would have to mix the right combination of the white, black or yellow races. This understanding is why I am the world champion at creating international marriages.</p>
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<p>I haven’t even gotten to my main subject, but now it is almost time to close! Have you forgotten time or are you conscious of how much time has gone by this morning?</p>
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<p>There are always two kinds of thinking and you said you want to be on the good side. What is the definition of good thoughts? Is it good to think every day about how you can become President of America? Good thoughts are universally liked by people of the present, past and future. Black, white and yellow people can all agree that they like it. Starving people and people who have food like good thoughts. Everyone can agree.</p>
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<p>Would it be good for Americans to think they should love only America? Do you like America? The name sounds like “a merry car,” which must mean that Americans are car-loving people. Do you only love America then? Would it be good for you to think of other nations, even a small country like Korea? How about forgetting the rest of the world and thinking only of one other small nation like Korea, would that be good? Would it be good to want to help that nation only to prepare some refuge for yourself if all of Asia becomes communist? President Carter recently announced he would visit Korea in June, but it would be far more valuable for Carter to be strong against communism than for him to make a visit. If he does his job well then even if he doesn’t go to Korea that nation will be liberated.</p>
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<p>Because I speak out whenever I see the free world doing wrong, some people think I am not only against communism but against America as well. But I have a clear evaluation of the difference between the two. In the communist world there is no individual way of life available; people are told at gunpoint what they have to do. The communist state dictates the individual’s life, but that doesn’t happen in the democratic countries. If Russia were in America’s position of power but still followed the same totalitarian system, would it forcibly communize the entire world or not? When communists take over, the people are made into robots, but when America liberates a country it does not force a new way of life on the people.</p>
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<p>Who has the power to decide whether a government is good or bad? It is not the United Nations or governmental law which decides, but the one who exists from alpha to omega throughout history, and we call him God. God is the ultimate judge of good and evil. What is the ultimate criterion of good and evil? Those who think as God thinks are good, and those who oppose what God thinks are evil. It is logical that in a school those who obey school policy and the principal are considered good students, but those who violate the law are called troublemakers.</p>
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<p>In a home the children who try to follow the parents’ way of life are good and those who are rebellious and disobedient are bad from the point of view of the family. Company workers who follow company policy are considered good employees, while those who violate it are thought of as undesirable employees. In the Unification Church those who think and try to live in the way I am trying to teach are considered good Moonies while those who disregard that teaching are not felt to be real Moonies.</p>
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<p>According to this logic in the ultimate sense, the person who thinks as God thinks and tries to live up to what God wants is a good man, while those who go against it are evil. How old is God? He is so old that you cannot count His age, so the only way to express God’s age is to say that He is the alpha and omega. God has more knowledge than anyone else simply because He has been around longer than anyone else.</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t you want to have the freedom to have your eyes anywhere you want them ? There is a certain law and rule involved here, however. God gave much thought to how He should best formulate man’s body. The mouth should be where it is in the face so it can be watched over by the two eyes, for instance, and the two hands are conveniently placed to put food in your mouth. There is a reason why things are placed as they are.</p>
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<p>If your mouth bites your finger your eyes will see it, but if your eyes were on the bottom of your foot they wouldn’t see this happen and you would lose one finger! It has to be admitted that God is the master scientist, and can be understood in seeing the many details of our lives. Everyone has little valleys on either side of their mouths so that when they perspire the sweat won’t run into their mouths. If the mouth were set deeper into the face instead then when you sweat you would constantly have to blow it away, but you don’t have to do that because God already prepared better contours for your face.</p>
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<p>How inconvenient it would be if your nose were upside down and what a mess it would be on a rainy day! The contours of your face and the fact that there is hair inside your nose all make sense; everything has a certain role to fill. The universe exists through order, and law exists in order to maintain order. Is God’s thinking all mixed up and random? No, God follows a standard and has order and logic.</p>
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<p>Does God look at all people the same way, or does He see them in different categories and levels? Equality in the true sense does not mean that everyone is the same. Does God think everyone is on the same level? A poor-thinking man can be nourished with noble thoughts and this is why we need schools and universities. No matter how much you study here on earth, however, can you follow the level of God’s thinking? We are pursuing the highest education in the way that God thinks. God’s thinking is exactly the opposite of Satan’s thinking.</p>
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<p>Then what is Satan and what is evil? They are fake; they can shine like a spark of light but they have no foundation, no root, and so they are basically untrue. True and good things exist forever, but the others pass away. True value is unchangeable- people love diamonds because their quality remains for many years; gold possesses a harmonized color that never tarnishes, and the lustre of a pearl is truly harmonized.</p>
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<p>If something glitters or looks important for a moment but then vanishes, it is evil or fake. Are you fake or genuine? When you put gold in a blazing furnace will it change? If you have the qualities of genuine gold then if you are put in the furnace you will not change. Gold melts at high temperatures, but when it cools down it remains the same. Good and evil can be classified in this fashion. Did God think one way in ancient times, but now in a different way? It He did then He is not the true God. Is 24 carat gold from America different from 24 carat gold from Korea? Are they interchangeable or can’t one be taken to other countries? Your location will never change the qualities of genuine gold.</p>
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<p>After a big meal would God declare that He is the king of the universe and all mankind are His slaves? No, God will tell all the creation that it is an integral part of Him and without it He could not exist. all the creation be joyful to hear it is needed by God? I When you are ecstatic with that joy of being needed. shouting and laughing, will God tell you to be quiet? No, He will come to embrace you. If you can’t contain your joy and you laugh with a piercing laugh, will God tell you are a disgrace, or will He join with you? God knows how to harmonize, every time, everywhere.</p>
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<p>God does not declare that you must exist for Him; He will say that He exists for His creation. If you were evaluating God, would you give Him the highest mark if He lived for the creation, or if He wanted the creation to live for Him? Will real parents want their children to live for them, or want to live for their children? Would teachers tell their students they come to class only to earn their salaries? When a teacher looks at his pupil there is no concept of money. Instead, a true teacher would love his pupils, and even sell his own suit jacket to get money for a student’s tuition if necessary. Would people then criticize him for not wearing a proper jacket?</p>
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<p>God’s qualification to be God is not only to have created everything; it is having the heart to exist solely for what He created. When you belong to a certain home, you live for the sake of the home. When you belong to a certain nation, you live for the sake of the nation; when you belong to the world, you live for the sake of the world and for the sake of God. This is the only philosophy God accepts. There are two ways of fighting-one is for your own selfish benefit, and the other is to fight for the sake of God’s way of life and truth. I have declared that good war already.</p>
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<p>The communist ideology should be eliminated and the people enslaved by it should be liberated as well. I have declared that war already, and naturally the communists don’t like me at all. We are teaching the Victory Over Communism ideology all over Korea and Japan and I am advancing the global showdown between communism and democracy because God is behind it. The communists work clandestinely, having all their important meetings late at night and working through front groups. They are always hidden like bats in caves. ln America politicians are expected to convince people to vote for them and reveal all their finances and activities, and justice in the courts must also be handed down in broad daylight. But evil always hides under the cover of darkness. Do crooks and gangsters advertise what they will do for everyone to see?</p>
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<p>It is God’s way to act in broad daylight and so all our activities are in the open. I created the Unification Seminary and hired professors of all faiths. We hold conferences there for all kinds of religious people. If they won’t come, we go after them through home church. We don’t do this for our benefit but for their benefit. Are the Moonies bad or good? I push you and push you to serve other people and even sometimes rap you on the head at Sunday service.</p>
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<p>Am I a strange minister because I don’t wear a special robe and give a short sermon behind a pulpit? If people want to criticize me, they can find a thousand reasons just this morning. Other services are so dull compared to this one! A reporter could write how I hit people on the head and pushed my translator around, and the whole thing could sound very strange, but do you enjoy it? That is why people say you are crazy.</p>
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<p>We know God is an absolute necessity for us, and that we are an absolute necessity for God. God is working for the liberation of hell and of the past and present, so that is my concern and that is your concern. We must be totally immunized to evil so that no matter how much people ridicule us and tempt us we won’t be affected. Is God so strong in you that nothing can affect you? Then you can say A-man. If you really understand God that well then you can say that you are God’s representative on earth and God will not be ashamed to follow you.</p>
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<p>I know God and I am living that philosophy, and as a result there are people of five colors of skin here joined in one family. Wherever I walk, day or night, God follows. You feel something different here, even though you may not have a clear understanding of it. When I am not here at Belvedere, it feels empty when you come. When 1 go to Korea your spiritual radio is always tuned to Korea and when I go to England your antenna is aimed at England.</p>
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<p>You have learned a Korean word this morning; we call Jesus “Ye su” in Korean, and when you say yes it sounds like “Ye su.” Actually Jesus is a yesman in front of God, so Jesus is my competitor and I want to shout out a louder yes. But don’t be defeated by me; you can go ahead of me to God.</p>
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<p>Who can pledge, “Yes, the world shall be liberated by me with God”? Let us move into action then. A-man! God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="center">May 1, 1979<br />
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<p>This morning is the first day of May, and it also happens to be the Labor Day commemorated by the communist countries.</p>
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<p>Although the Unification Church was founded in Korea, it was not begun for a local purpose, but with a religious meaning for the worldwide dispensation. A drop of water can originate deep in the mountains and trickle down the hillside, gathering with others and becoming a brook, then a river, and finally join the ocean, and in that way travel around the world. Yet when we look at water we don’t speculate about which nation it belongs to or came from; it is a part of the world. Though water may land in Korea. it can go anywhere in the world. The same is true of the air, which also circulates and moves around.</p>
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<p>Aren’t people like that as well? We know that though water may become dirty at some point, it is purified again as it moves from place to place and can unite with other water. The same thing can he said for human life. Men mingle and mix culturally, and out of this can come something good which will advance and elevate all people. This also happens in religious development. At first a few people gather, like drops of water from different mountains. Then more will come together and a river will form, then the ocean, all the time enhancing man’s standard.</p>
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<p>When we think back on human history, we can clearly see that man’s history has been one of war. Has human civilization advanced or regressed as a result? We can roughly say that it has developed. The religious and non-religious person also clash. Both of them are determined to win, and as a result of the conflict all their rough places will be rounded off and the undesirable aspects perish’ leaving the desirable things to rise to the surface. Russia and America may seem to be at peace for the time being, but no one can deny that internally they have great conflict with each other. Wars are fought on every level. between individuals, between families, societies, and nations. War has now reached the world scale, such that if war started today almost no one would be left out.</p>
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<p>If there are two boxers fighting in a ring but there is no referee and no one is paying attention, they feel miserable. When will their fighting end? It will just go on and on. When both are tired after a long fight, they will get together to negotiate their own rules. Under those circumstances, once they finish the fight and a winner is declared, the loser will have no deep grudge or complaint. If the loser complains after having lost according to the rules, he is the one to be blamed, not the victorious fighter who didn’t complain.</p>
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<p>If the world is going to get caught up in fighting, will it be with or without a referee? Who will the referee be? Whenever children fight, they always come to their parents to ask them to be the judge. If children fight in the classroom, they go to their teacher. On every level this is so. Even in a small village there is always someone to be the judge or referee of a fight, and in national affairs it is the same. If the world were caught up in fighting and there were no one to be the judge, it would be very difficult to continue living.</p>
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<p>If brothers and sisters in the Unification Church have a conflict then eventually they have to come to me for a solution. We can say that the law is not intended to adjust evil things but to adjust good things, and if we can find nothing to mediate conflicts on the world scale, we must create one somehow. The person who says he will never compromise his stand has obviously never fought in a war. If someone feels he cannot compromise on which school he will attend but then he is refused admission to that particular school, he will have a difficult time adjusting. The only way to be admitted is to meet the requirements, so you must study them if you want to get in. When the time comes you must take examinations and follow the rules; you cannot insist on using your book if it is not allowed. The universe follows specific rules, without exception.</p>
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<p>Are you consciously aware of breathing all the time? Have you ever counted how many times you bat your eyelashes? If there is even a small particle in your nose or eye, however, you notice immediately and take action. You know it is abnormal and take steps to remedy it. If something tickles one of the little hairs on your arm, your nervous system is immediately alerted and your respond. If everyone on earth knew about a world war in progress, wouldn’t God know as well?</p>
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<p>Once people are involved in a conflict they want their side to win, but after the battle begins they have to fight in accordance with the agreed-upon rules. Even after war starts some citizens, even the president, may not want to fight at all, but once it is proclaimed then no one can decide he is exempt and not participate. If no one will tight then their side will lose and be overrun, leaving the enemy country to dictate what should be done to them. If you refuse to fight until the enemy soldiers march into your living room then you have no more choice about what happens to you. In war time there is little mercy and the enemy will run you out.</p>
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<p>Human history has witnessed two great world wars. In 1945, one bomb, dropped on one city, killed 250,000 people instantly and there was not even time to feel pain; it was instant death. God certainly knows when such a war is being fought, so which side would God take in such a war, the side which fought the war according to regulations or without? It is likely that both sides will ignore the rules to some extent, but the question is who fought in the most lawless, inhuman way. Does it appear today that the communists are violating more laws, or the democratic nations?</p>
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<p>How did the second World War begin? Did people agree to fight each other, or was there one group which arranged or instigated the fighting? In World War 11 it was obvious who fought in the least decent way; Hitler purposely killed many non-military people during that war-among them 6,000,000 Jews-and the Japanese mercilessly killed civilians in the Pacific during World War II. These are elements which God considers.</p>
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<p>When God compares the communist world and democratic world, He will side with the realm which is less guilty of inhuman deeds. We can assume that in a world war God will support the fairer side and afterward raise it up to be the leader of the world. Korea and Israel both won their independence after World War 11, and they share a similar history of suffering.</p>
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<p>The victorious side is usually the more just of the two, but now thirty years after World War II we see that without exception these victorious countries are declining. Why? Naturally God continued to observe them after the war ended, and if there is more to blame than to be praised then He leave those countries and not give them His assistance any more. There is always a reason for a country’s decline, but citizens hardly ever realize the reason for what is happening. I have an explanation for why England and America are declining today, even though they won World War II: They failed to promote goodness after the war. God has turned away from America to support people who show a higher standard of goodness than this country.</p>
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<p>Even to a layman’s point of view, President Carter always seems to do that which benefits the communists. The public notices this and will support him less and less. It is not hard to imagine that God and Satan will arrange the sides like teams, with the tree world and communist world confronting each other. Is the tree world dominant today, or the communist world? Shall the free world acknowledge its decline and give up, or brace itself up and stop drug usage and immorality in order to win over the threat of communism?</p>
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<p>We can reason that when the two sides fight, something good will remain and something undesirable be weeded out. If that is always a result of war then we can apply this principle to situations today. God’s purpose in all of this is for mankind to create better and better unity, and from out of all that confusion one champion can be selected on the worldwide scale who can demonstrate his ability to the maximum.</p>
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<p>It stands to reason that God will choose one champion to represent all levels, and events will be driven in his direction. If that champion represents both man’s world and the spirit world, would he tend to be religious or not? It is logical that God would choose a religious person in this role who is capable of influencing even non-religious people to change. This is what God had to do after World War II; He had to find someone who could move the world in the direction of religious unity. It is a new phenomenon since World War II to see such a group emerging.</p>
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<p>The world atmosphere after World War II was such that a strong religious movement was likely to happen. The time had come for this, like a cosmic season in the trend of history, and the Unification Church appeared in Korea to begin this task. God’s chosen individual was supposed to do something which no one in history had ever achieved, and no matter how great the odds against him might be, that person had to fight for justice. By winning, this person would be in a position to judge what is right and wrong on the world scale and no one will be exempt from that judgment.</p>
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<p>These events will encompass all of the earth and spirit world, without exception. If everyone had accepted that standard of goodness earlier then God would never have allowed Korea to be divided, nor Germany. There would have been no reason for conflict to continue there, nor even between the communist and democratic worlds as a whole. Human history would have been consummated at that time. Then all creation would only struggle over love until one standard of love was agreed upon. If God erred in the standard of love, then all mankind and creation would point it out to Him and even God would have to admit it.</p>
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<p>All creation can be regulated only by the law of love, and once it is established every problem will be solved, without exception. What kind of war has the Unification Church been fighting? It has been fighting according to the criterion of love; we fight for justice which conforms with the law of love on every level. Even on the national and world scale, we insist that nations and races must not fight each other, no matter what. Our Japanese, British and German members are coming to America and saying, “I love you,” but Americans are skeptical that this is possible. Nevertheless, our members do impossible things and come from all angles to reach a person in love, changing him into a loving instead of a hating person.</p>
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<p>Does the Unification Church fight? What is your weapon? How long do we have to tight? We have to fight to the end, to such an extent that God can say we are like Him. Eventually even our enemies must say, “Yes, you have won,” and beg us to stop. We have to go on fighting until our enemy recognizes that we are victorious. They will be thankful we have won because once they understand love they will see that even though they seem to have lost they too have actually won.</p>
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<p>I am fighting to promote love, even though everyone is against me. Why should people hate me? I have started the greatest war imaginable, coming to fill the world with love. We can deduce one principle here: God will certainly notice and take steps to inhibit the person who tries to block such a movement of love. It is only a matter of time until he inevitably declines, and so will any country in the same position. What if Christians around the world oppose I such a movement of love? Do you agree that the – opponent of a person fighting the war of love has to I be defeated?</p>
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<p>What about people who lived 1,000 years ago, how would they feel? What about people 1,000 years from now, will they have the same opinion? How would God feel, who has existed for all time and will exist billions of years from now? It is easy to understand logically that God will write His constitution to protect love; love itself may be the constitution and He will personally work to preserve it. Is your home church work a war too? A war of what? It is a struggle over who will love the most, a war in which you will win over evil or evil will win over you.</p>
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<p>There are children who love their parents very much, but if you have more love than the parents do, then you will gradually bring the children out into the heavenly circle. A husband and wife may love each other very much, but the love which comes from God will be even stronger, and gradually the husband or wife will be drawn away from the other to come to God’s side. You have to have love of such absolute power. A spectator might think that I am saying this because I belong to the Unification Church. My reply is that I wonder if this is possible for you, even within the Unification Church; what do you think?</p>
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<p>Are you going to get blessing first or get love first? As long as you have love you don’t have to worry about the blessing because it will just come to you. On the other hand, no matter how much blessing you have now, without love it will all dissipate. So don’t worry about blessing until you have worried about love.</p>
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<p>What are you doing, you people who come here early Sunday after Sunday? You are now being trained to tight the fiercest war so you can be champions who can take beating after beating and still win. There will be no greater war in the future than the one being fought now, and I am fighting for that cause. What would happen if I said to God that I was going to call off the fight and give up the love He has been promoting? Would God give His approval, or would He go berserk and not know what to do?</p>
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<p>God is quite dependent on me, and to make sure I won’t leave, God would give me an even bigger bundle of blessing. Are you applauding now because what I said was true, or because it would mean the Unification Church, and therefore you, would also prosper? Are you applauding absolute love itself, or calculating as the Unification Church gets bigger you will go higher? If you applauded for love itself, then you passed the examination.</p>
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<p>With this understanding the conclusion is very simple. No matter how long a person has prospered, he will plummet down if he opposes God’s champion in the war of love. If the rich nation of America opposes that champion then it will tumble, in even less than ten years. There is no other alternative in God’s dispensation. If the communists oppose the Unification Church movement, they will decline also. Since God has utmost wisdom, He knows the best way to carry out the dispensation.</p>
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<p>When a country or a person perishes this way, what happens to his blessing? It will be given to the Unification Church instead. You now know a valuable secret here of how to get blessing by the dozen-let people persecute you but overcome it all. The more you are persecuted, the more blessing will come, so you can be eager to be opposed. That is our deepest pride. Those who agree, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>In the future will you continue to work for what you believe in and be persecuted? If the free world had recognized the Unification Church when it was first founded then there would be no reason for the free world to be in the chaos it is now. If the Korean people and government had welcomed me in 1945 then North and South Korea would not have been divided, nor would Germany have been divided; neither would the Christianity that God nurtured tor 2,000 years have declined. People still do not know why the Christianity that was so painfully built on a foundation of blood and sacrifice has recently declined so much in such a short time.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, the Unification Church has been struck hard but has grown and grown, day after day, like bamboo after the rain. The spirit world yearns for true love to be established and so does God, so whoever opposes this love could not possibly have a chance to survive. In that respect are you grateful to be a member of the Unification Church? Now that I have explained all this to you, you become strong and confident but were you as confident yesterday as you are now?</p>
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<p>Yesterday concluded the sixth year since I had been granted permanent residency in this country, and today marks the anniversary of the day the Unification Church was founded. What is the significance of the number seven? It marks the realization of the ideal of love. Why didn’t I give you such a grand message as this a long time ago? Today is the appropriate day because this starts my seventh year here. From this moment you will inherit this war of love and you will take over for me.</p>
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<p>Who among you is glad to inherit that responsibility from me? If you really mean it then I am off the hook now, and I can travel around the world to care for other nations. I have persevered through impossible persecution to see this moment; I have been waiting to see members of all five colors of skin gather here and be happy to inherit this historic blessing.</p>
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<p>I am not even American so you should love this nation more than me, and I trust that eventually you will. Would you lose an ear for America? Half your nose? Would you become an invalid for the sake of this loved If you are willing to die for the sake of love then you will have no regrets. It may end your physical life, but you will never die.</p>
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<p>Jesus did not fulfill any part of this, yet the thought he left on earth enabled Christianity to prosper for 2,000 years. If you carry this out now, how many times more than Christianity will this movement prosper in the future? You should be able to feel this most realistically, even though you are sitting on a cold concrete floor. If your legs are hurting then you can realize it is the pain of love. It is not make-believe.</p>
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<p>This is preparation for love to travel in any direction; that is what you are doing now, preparing for the worldwide scale. When you violate the most basic law you have no chance of surviving. There are many examples of this in history. My first wife wanted me to be an ordinary husband and father and could not see the magnitude of what I was doing. Many families that opposed me have since split up. Even the nation of Korea, which refused to recognize me, was divided into two parts, with no hope of being reunited soon.</p>
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<p>By the end of the second World War the world was essentially united and communism was not very strong. The United States was practically almighty, but now today it has plummeted. Here in America it is hard to know the reality in other parts of the world, but if you travel abroad you will frequently find a common hope for America to perish, even while those same people still cling to some small hope that America will stand up for righteousness.</p>
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<p>There is little hope for the many people who lure addicted to drugs, and the immorality in America is staggering, but the communists everywhere are applauding this. No American has cared enough to do something drastic about this problem, but I came all the way from Korea to help. single-handed. In a short time I have raised you to that same standard. I have brought hard-won money to America to spend here, even though this nation is so trig that it is like dumping a bucket of water into a lake. Many hard-won people have come here from Korea and Japan to help. Certainly I did not do this for myself or the Unification Church, yet the response has been accusation that I am trying to brainwash the young people and dominate this country.</p>
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<p>Probably at some point you felt the same way. didn’t you? You may deny it, but didn’t you have some reservation inside” You have no complaint whatever about what I say to you? Then if you go full steam ahead America may have hope yet and ten years from now things will be different.</p>
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<p>You don’t want to see just Americans embracing each other, but to see the whites embracing the blacks and all the unfortunate people of the world, loving those people as they love themselves. All the social problems of this country could be solved over-night if all the whites who live in nice houses would willingly trade with people living in the poorest, houses, no questions asked. If people do it willingly I will God say they are foolish? In no time at all such people would find themselves living in better home</p>
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<p>Since, for obvious reasons, it is not an immediate practical solution. what are the alternatives? That is for you to introduce God’s thought into American homes. If so, then some day people will volunteer to live that way. Fashion is unpredictable. you know, so it’s not impossible that some day a white person would go to a plastic surgeon to trade noses with a black person. Or to have one black ear and one white ear. I am not saying that <i>should </i>happen, but that some day it just might happen!</p>
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<p>No one can evade having to lay the individual foundation in this war and gradually extend the foundation of God. The first seven years of my mission were a fight to secure the individual level, but since that time the biggest war on earth has been underway. Now there are many people around me, but there was a time when no one, not the government or the churches or even my first wife, was not persecuting me. Satan was almost all-powerful, and he mobilized everything to stop me, knowing that his world would crumble if I were successful.</p>
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<p>The height of persecution came in 1955, one year after the Unification Church was founded. The government was determined to eliminate me so they probed and probed, looking for something I had violated, checking our money and all our affairs. They even tried to accuse me of being a communist to justify keeping me in prison. They called me a dictator worse than Hitler, but what had I ever done? Nothing. I just stood firm and endured all of that. After putting me in prison without evidence they had to support their allegations so they investigated every possible thing, but they found nothing wrong, so on October 4 they released me. The first thing I did was to grow stronger. I just prayed for the forgiveness of those who had opposed me and continued working.</p>
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<p>In 1960 the foundation of my family was established and the next year there was a blessing of 36 couples, then later 72, 124, 430, 777 and 1800. The year I blessed 430 couples was the year 4,300 in Korean history, paralleling the 430 years the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt; it was also the year that the world-level dispensation was launched. The exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt was paralleled by the beginning of the world-level mission. The worldwide exodus centering on the Unification Church began in that year, at the close of the national-level dispensation.</p>
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<p>In 1965 I blessed 120 holy grounds in 40 nations; as part of that I blessed holy grounds in each state here, as though each was one country. My actual dispensation in America began in that year, for I knew that when America had won in this cosmic war that the whole world would benefit eventually. On this foundation the world could come into blessing on the world level and so in 1970 the 777 couples were blessed, with couples of all races included. Here the earth as well as men had met the condition for world-level blessing.</p>
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<p>I launched the worldwide dispensation after earth and men were secured. Consequently, our economic work in the Unification Church only began after 1970. Before that I never paid attention to economic things. Now you know the famous rumor that we have endless money and resources! In nine short years we have achieved that much. Keep in mind that the more persecution we get, the more riches we will get.</p>
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<p>It is difficult to witness to even one person because one person is infinitely precious. Money is coming to the Unification Church, and after that hundreds of thousands of people will follow. If we paid people to come tor three weeks’ training, who would refuse ? After the training, more than likely the person would give the money back again so that someone else could be trained. You will invite many people who are leaders and opinion-makers to be in that class.</p>
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<p>I will invite only leaders, and then other people will criticize me tor not inviting them with a salary too. However, you can tell the people you witnessed to in the past that they had their chance but refused it. You will really feel happy when that day comes, won’t you?</p>
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<p>Those of you who haven’t yet passed the fund raising course, raise your hands. Sooner or later you will go to do that. Everyone will go. Would you volunteer to go, or need some push? Am I fund raising now or not? When the departments are out of money they always come to me; when I look at them and ask, “Money?” they reply, “Yes!” <i>The News World</i> is typical.</p>
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<p>How would you like it if I blessed 3,000 couples this year? I already have almost 3,000 couples engaged now. I am thinking whether I should do it now or wait a couple more years. What do you think? Are you confident that you can be a better warrior in the war of love than the person you marry ? Once you are married you will start a competition and see which one will outdo the other in three years. If the wife wins the race then maybe we will have her stand on the right side at the wedding! That is the equality American women have been fighting tor, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>Would you men feel that you could never submit to r that, even if you lost? I have seen that usually women are more religious, however.</p>
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<p>I don’t want you to go just two hours to your – home church but to pay constant attention to it, going back and forth sixteen times a day if necessary. If the men go twelve times, the women will go fourteen times. Later you will just stay there, not sleeping, but even just standing there. Neither male nor female will l budge for fear of being outdone. You can go on seven-day fasts together. Don’t you think the home church people will come to stare and see what is happening? You won’t have to visit them because they will visit you first! When they come to find out what is going on you can give a speech or cry or anything. Are you fully determined to do even that?</p>
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<p>Why should I perform your marriage ceremony-is there any difference in me or anyone else doing it? Why not be light and free American-style, and go pick your own mate? Why not? You have tried that already and it didn’t work, did it? You have a simple explanation-it is because no one can see an individual like I can. I can tell you a thousand different things about a person, whereas even after observing him for a long time you may be all wrong. I am thinking of having up to 4,000 couples matched by this year.</p>
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<p>Do you men miss women so much that you want to get blessed? Are men so vitally necessary to you women? Always in your mind you must think that the blessing is good preparation for the war of love. You are not marrying just anyone. You have to be sure that your spouse is quite ready to tackle this war of love; once you are sure he is, then you are ready to marry. When people get married in the usual way they first go on a honeymoon, but we are ready for “honeywar.” Then when you get married and can travel together, that is “honey-sun.” You have heard that soon we will have Deli Suns, which will be family-style fund raising.</p>
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<p>Definitely we will have a 4,000 couple blessing before the third seven-year course is over, and all the recent engagements are in preparation for that. After the third seven-year course I won’t continue giving blessing in this way. By that time my own children and the blessed children will be of marrying age and I will concentrate on their marriages. During the time of restoration I have been giving blessings to everyone, but after the 21-year course I will not because the Principle won’t allow that. According to Principle I have been giving blessings first to those in the external position and then later will concentrate more internally; that is the pattern.</p>
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<p>When I can give blessing to my own children, every blessed couple will rejoice as much as if they were really getting blessed this time. At that ceremony only blessed couples will he able to attend; single members will not be qualified.. This is not just a logical decision, but one made according to strictest heavenly law. Certainly by that time the day of persecution will be over.</p>
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<p>On this foundation I proclaimed the new era on February 23, 1977. In that new era there will he nothing for me to envy, either spiritual or physical– no power, wealth or society-because l will be more prominent than all of them. God will never he able to give up the Unification Church; He may give up the world, but not the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>The coming of that age will he like turning the world upside down. So far even the best religious people have always been the underdogs, but now centering on the Unification Church we are almost equal, and as it keeps revolving we will he on top Then no area of government will have any excuse to investigate or persecute us. They have persisted in investigating for five years and found nothing. The day is coming when Congress will be blamed for doing injustice to us while not doing justice for America. This is why l told Col. Pak to file suits against various departments in government. We have the best lawyers working for us and there is much talk about these suits in legal circles. Some really righteous lawyers who have defended us in the past when they saw we had done nothing wrong and who received so much pounding themselves are now really excited about our legal actions.</p>
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<p>As I have told you many times before, we will now buy many jumbo jets. Once the world really understands the injustice that has been done to me, won’t presidents come to apologize to me when I go to other countries? You will be my escort and I will take you with me on the jumbo jets. Imagine how they will receive us when the world finds out what we have had to go through.</p>
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<p>We have been persecuted incredibly, yet the Church grew and you grew individually as well. If there had been no persecution, how much faster would the Church have grown? There will be alumni meetings for all the different blessings, and the couples will gather from all over the world. When the American government hears of it the Immigration people will come to bow and welcome them and urge them to stay as long as they wish. By then Unification Church members won’t need any visas to travel. They will be the champions in the war of love and there will be no one who can stand up against them. Citizens young and old will come out to applaud and respond.</p>
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<p>Don’t you think this boom is inevitable one day? You have nothing to be ashamed of because you have already been persecuted, but what about the people who persecuted you? They will feel ashamed and want to hide. Is there any argument or force that can dissuade you from this coarse? Will you do more than you have been doing already? You can measure out units of thread according to how much you are persecuted, and eventually you will have as much as the hair in a horse’s tail. By the time you have gone through much tribulation the world will be coming into unity all around you. Why does everyone like me regardless of their sex or age or religion? It is because I have fought every single war of love and I have a big assortment of fixtures so everyone can be hooked onto me.</p>
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<p>If I go tuna fishing this summer, who will volunteer to go with me? What about the women? I have only one boat and there is a limit to how many can get on it, so I will have more boats built for all of you to get on and we’ll have an armada. We will have women as captains. Then you women would like your future husbands to be captains too, right? Does that mean you want to marry fishermen?</p>
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<p>Jesus told Peter he would be a fisherman: being a fisherman is not bad at all. Often American women are somewhat stronger than men, so I think the 200 mile limit was reserved by God for American women. I don’t believe that, I know it! When you have a full boatload of fish I will recognize and accept you. Did you know we recently got a new property for our shipbuilding industry?</p>
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<p>What would you do to become rich? Fishermen in this nation are some of the poorest-paid professionals, so we will give the best schools and best living to fishermen. Now people visit the seashore for fun, but someday soon they will come to the sea to work and go to the mountains for recreation. If that trend doesn’t appear automatically then I will create it. I will bring one woman and one man at a time to come fishing with me and the fish will come. Do you agree? Thank you.</p>
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<p>If I were to tell you all the small things that happened to me along this way, one month would never be enough to cover everything. Yet I have to finish my speech this morning in only a few hours. In 25 years the Unification Church has expanded so quickly that now there is no one who has not heard of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, especially in America. Is there anyone who does not know? You think I am tops, but in the world I am thought to be the worst.</p>
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<p>Is the member who is coming from behind going to be on top, while the person already here sinks even lower? If someone who joins after you works much harder, he have to be elevated. This is why I am training you in how to witness to many people before that happens. Then you can go up and down as you like. Instead of needing someone to push you up, when you know there is a difficult task you will want to go and do it yourself in my place. If someone joins later then they will want to volunteer to do it for you, just as you do for me. But first you have to have the foundation which comes from witnessing to many people.</p>
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<p>We know that human history is the chronicle of restoration. What is the ultimate point of restoration? Of course it is home church. As home church becomes successful you go from level to level, and finally to the world; ultimately you take off’ and even gravity won’t hold you down. You may not know it yet, but this course is the miracle of miracles. The fact that I could announce the providence of home church within 25 years is a miracle; compare ] that to the little that Christians have achieved in I 2,000 years. God sent Jesus to earth for certain reasons, and ultimately Jesus died for that purpose. All of these events are culminated in home church, the center of the dispensation.</p>
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<p>Jesus left the key to heaven with Peter because everything had to be done on earth. To achieve this I gave everything I have, much more than you can ever imagine. You are to inherit that, both those who know its full value and those who don’t know. this is where we are now. You won’t have to break your back for 25 years to build this; from now on you will pick up the position of glory and harvest blessing equal to your hard work. God’s intention is to let you inherit everything I have worked for; I will not get the glory directly. Your glory may reflect on me, but you will receive it directly.</p>
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<p>Imagine how the world climate has changed since I began. When I was fighting to make this foundation it was a bloody war, but your situation is one of welcome and the people will soon respond, even in a few days. From now on it will expand year after year. You are beginning to get the knack of home church now, aren’t you? If you have 10,000 active home church members then all of New York respond and help you. Once New York responds, all of America will respond. This is no exaggeration; when America responds to God then the whole world will respond as well. I have already proclaimed New York as the front line.</p>
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<p>One of our brothers, Tom Ludwig, has been conductor of the New York Symphony and been guest conductor of famous orchestras, but he has put himself on the lowest level and now is scraping walls. I saw him yesterday helping with restoration and I felt good to see him working that way. It closely fits the description of the king of love.</p>
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<p>If I take off my tie and white shirt, I am a first-class worker. Recently I went to Barrytown, and even though the water was cold I waded in to catch fish and didn’t feel it. Mother felt cold just watching me. Each one of us needs to be versatile like that. I know how to stir up a fight too; when two people are fighting I sometimes agitate to make them fight more. First I will determine whether the small one was right and then I will tell him he is entitled to fight. If the small man doesn’t have the guts to fight then I will tell him to step out and fight in his place.</p>
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<p>If you see something wrong, you cannot just sit aside. If you are wrong then you should feel shame, but if you are right then you should never be defeated by any big guy. We should never compromise in the name of righteousness. Sometimes women are too quick to react and don’t think so deeply, but there is much to learn by seeing how they react when someone prods them.</p>
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<p>Love has many forms. It is not love to leave a person alone if he does wrong things endlessly. If he is doing bad things then it is love to give him a big whack. This is why we are training in karate to have fists of love. If you see someone doing something wrong yet no one is taking action then you will go and confront him, and if you have trained yourself you can win. Love is not indifferent or mediocre. When you are right, you have to speak out.</p>
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<p>If you want, you can fight a duel and settle differences that way. I want you to know how to deal with violence too. If you don’t, then your love will never be alive and vivid; you will just be cowardly. Don’t strike first and then love later. First you love, and if the person doesn’t respond then you strike him. That is allowed. You must know for sure how this works and how to combat with love. Then you will be refined in love.</p>
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<p>Now you know the situation and why you have to work hard in home church. Once you have laid the necessary foundation you should confront people and ask what wrong you have done and you can demand to know why they do not respond. Because you can rightfully protest, the power of righteousness work and they begin to help you. They will have to wonder about what wrong you have done, and then conclude they must help you. You must have many reasons to protest in case they do not respond, really trying hard by putting in long hours and doing impossible things, and then if they don’t listen you can confront them with your record.</p>
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<p>The ways the government has persecuted us have all been recorded, and later on when you confront officials with the facts they will not be able to deny it. When the truth is revealed it will work to restore them by helping lead them to repentance. We I never remember all of that just to punish them later, I but to hasten their restoration. If they have to have a reason to repent then it will help them, so we are collecting reasons. Then they will live just as you have. Once you reach a certain standard then after three and a half years you can profoundly influence these people. That’s how long it took me to collect basic information about Americans-what they like and how they live and so forth.</p>
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<p>Finally, after 25 years, there is no area in which I have not done everything I should have. I have pretty much done everything necessary. Some of you are more advanced than others, but basically you are r all just beginning: after you finish training you will carry on what you have learned. On this 25th anniversary, if you resolve to look ahead to the future and make today the beginning of your 25-year course, then this will be a very meaningful morning for you. If you deeply invest yourself in home church for 25 years knowing what you know now, what will you be like at the end? You will be like God to your people. That is what God and Jesus intend.</p>
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<p>By doing that you will be recognized before heaven and earth as having all of my value. Regardless of how difficult it is, you are still destined to participate in my glory. Every person has to do it, and if you know this and yet don’t do it, what kind of person are you? When I had difficulties in those 25 years, God came to console me many times. When you follow my path then I will appear in dreams and visions to help show you the way. You won’t even have to close your eyes to see such visions.</p>
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<p>Your home church members will see visions of me and of you also. When they are open like that then they will live eternally in the same spirit world, and realize they are to live as the same family. Love will open their eyes. You link that to your home church and they will link it to another home church, and yet another, and it will be an unbreakable chain of love which no one, not even God, can cut. This link will be directly sustained by the spirit world.</p>
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<p>Are we going to fight this war of love now? You don’t have to take my word about this. You have your own faculties for testing whether this is true or not. How do you test it? Go beyond the things and people you were close to; if one of your home church members dies and you feel more sorrow than if your own parent had died, then see whether your people won’t see visions. When you cry daily for their sake, see if they don’t respond. You should have such deep feeling for them that you sometimes don’t sleep at night for thinking about your home church people. If because you are thinking about them so much you don’t even remember how long it was since you last ate, see whether what I have told you is wrong. Any standard less than that is inadequate. Without that kind of heart you can offer them the Divine Principle but they will not listen.</p>
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<p>There is strong love in the everyday world, but it is going in the wrong direction. You have to be able to love people more strongly before you can expect them to cut their old ties of love and come to you. Start loving them and start loving God. Certainly there is a barrier because of the fall and it is difficult to penetrate. You will never do it with a sharp object, but only with love.</p>
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<p>There are barriers on the individual, family and national level. You have to have love great enough to break the national level barrier? and even more for the world. You have to think constantly what you are going to do with America and the world, even talking to yourself like a crazy person. There have been many American patriots, but you have to go beyond their standard, always going higher and higher. After you pass their standard then things will become easier.</p>
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<p>There is a very concrete practical reason why we do this. If you are Abel then you need Cain, and only together with Cain can you come to God You cannot go to God alone, no matter how wonderful you are.</p>
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<p>Let this be the start of your future for the next 25 years. Think of nothing but home church and then you will accomplish God’s dispensation. Then in 25 years America will be entirely restored, a big stake driven into the world as an anchor for God.</p>
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<p>As I have established all these invisible conditions the communist regimes have become divided and weakened. You are seeing signs now of internal communist division; China and Russia are hostile because certain conditions have been established. Who in America could really know that though? In the meantime I am gathering the godly nation, race and tribe, like a big river coursing along as many sources come together. In summary, I have been establishing the tradition of love. When this is established, liberation follows. For the first time America will be a free nation, and so will the world. Free from what? From wrong love.</p>
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<p>I want this to be the strong start of your new career; by visualizing the next 25 years ahead of you, let this be the very significant start for each of you. I want to let you march forward in the war of love with full commitment. A-man! God bless you.</p>
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<p>What is the ideal world? In the Unification Church we teach that the ideal world equals the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Therefore, I set this year’s slogan as Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. Even though mankind may not have some vital focus in their lives, everyone looks forward to having some ideal world. What is the definition of that ideal world? People say that the ideal world is the place where we can find freedom and peace, where all mankind can be united in harmony. There is no focus or clarity to their concept, but when we in the Unification Church talk about the ideal world, we have complete focus.</p>
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<p>If we are talking about freedom, peace and unity, which should come first? You say unity should take precedence, but others would say freedom, while others would say peace. Without how could there be peace? Without unity how could there be freedom? In the Unification Church we accept the values of all those great words, but most important of all, we have a central theme which is prerequisite to all of them-that is love. Peace centering upon love is true peace; freedom centering upon love is true freedom, and unification centering upon love makes sense.</p>
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<p>Without this central principle of love there can be no unified discipline. For instance, what the free world and what the communist world mean by freedom are two different things. They also talk about peace in an entirely different way. Communists talk about unity, but not according to our definition. Even if those words are defined differently yet the central theme is love, there still can be harmony and interchange and peace. Basically the love that all people yearn for is the same, but we are talking about a love whose backbone is formed by the central theme of cause and effect, beginning and end. With alpha and omega there can be no change or tarnish from start to finish.</p>
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<p>Today, we in the free world see many kinds of love, and the problem we have is finding a true discipline or standard of love. Commonly people think that when men and women have a good time together, that is love. In many cases that enjoyment is an expression of carnal desire and there is no real beginning or end, just a phenomenon with no direction. That kind of love could not form the dation of peace and freedom and unity. People talk about love today, but tomorrow they could become strangers or even mortal enemies. There is no guarantee of happiness there, only chaos and setbacks.</p>
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<p>That kind of love causes destruction and does not possess what we call the central theme of true love. I want you to understand that Satan mobilized the force of such love to destroy our world. Using this kind of love as bait, Satan is taking true freedom, true peace and true unity away from us. We know about Satan, but there is also a God, the opposite of Satan. God is talking about love but of an entirely different kind, one which has a beginning and end, with some background and tradition. From this standpoint, the satanic expression of love is truly His adversary.</p>
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<p>The word sin refers to violation of the law of the love of God. God abhors sin, and misuse of love is the crime God abhors the most. It is the Principle that ultimately the law and love of God will prevail. Therefore, whoever indulges in unprincipled love can only perish. In Italy the lustful and immoral city Pompeii was destroyed by instant calamity. Sodom and Gomorrah perished under the same law. The Roman Empire once prevailed in the world with unparalleled power, but it collapsed when it violated the will of God. America today is no exception, so it must not violate the law of the love of God or it too will be destroyed.</p>
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<p>People commonly say there is much freedom in America, but is there true freedom here? Here in America people talk about peace and freedom and unity, but there is no real peace and freedom here. Unless you as individuals live up to the law of the love of God, your destiny will be the same. No one can violate that law and still flourish.</p>
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<p>Today the Unification Church, more than anyone else, is anxiously working for the ideal world, or Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are pursuing true peace, freedom and unity more than anyone else. We conclude that there must be one principle of true love obtained before that can happen. within this true love we must rediscover ourselves. True love is Godlike. It has been the goal of saints through thousands of years and is the ultimate goal pursued by all religious people on earth today.</p>
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<p>What are we going to leave our descendants? Not money or the corrupted traditions of the tree world that seem to be flourishing today; the tradition that will flourish in the sight of God is the tradition of true love, not of power or knowledge. Your social standing, appearance or distinguished manner will not remain. If you truly love your children and want to give them a lasting gift, hand down the tradition of true love. Once you give them that, you have already given them freedom. We in the Unification Church are the people who have already committed ourselves to the cause of true love and determined that this is going to be our way of life. We are here to discipline ourselves and fulfill the tradition of true love.</p>
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<p>That is the very thing which God and all the saints in history have been hoping to achieve. All mankind is waiting tor the day of this fulfillment of true love. Wherever you go, it you are armed with true love you are the locomotive pulling everything behind you. God will follow, the saints and all mankind and your descendants will follow you. Do you know of any exceptions to this? This is a universal law, so whether you come from East or West doesn’t make any difference. Would there be different laws for the spirit world and this physical world, or do they both come under one God?</p>
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<p>How much do you love this way of life and how much are you pursuing it? How many of you want to get married? What is the qualification? Maybe you think it is enough to be a man or woman to get married. Perhaps you feel that because people think you are beautiful or handsome is qualification enough.</p>
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<p>If there is a man with one eye who possesses true love, and another, more handsome man who does not possess true love, whom would you sisters choose? How much would you be willing to tolerate in that man of true love? What would you young men say about such a woman? Even if she had gray hair? Even if you have a social reputation or a degree from the most famous university, a man or woman without true love is still human trash. Worldly honors and social prestige are always secondary.</p>
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<p>The qualification by which heaven judges whether you are entitled to eternal heaven is not knowledge, power or prestige; they would do no good because they are not even considered when you talk about the Kingdom of Heaven. I’m sure some of your parents achieved some high social standard, but that alone cannot command respect. In many cases such people lose respect because eventually people realize that they lack God-centered love. If your parents have no social standing but they truly love each other and center on unselfish love, then they command the respect not only of their children but of the town they live in.</p>
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<p>We constantly talk about the Kingdom of Heaven, but what is it? We mean the world in which absolute love is the center around which everyone is united. That love is what we call the purpose of creation. In order to head toward our purpose, we need a direction to go in.</p>
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<p>If I were going to Korea I would go to Kennedy Airport and board a plane. How could I be sure that particular plane would take off and find its way to Korea? What would lead that plane in the right direction? In most cases the passengers do not worry because they believe in the capability of modern navigation, but what would happen if the navigator ignored his instruments in order to take an extra nap, or decided he wanted a little variety in his route? If he decides he wants liberation from the prescribed course, would you be happy? Why not? Because that kind of freedom invites disaster.</p>
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<p>If the compass decides he wants fellowship with the other instruments and he leaves his place to visit them, he might think he is promoting peace and unity, but is leaving his proper position really going to bring peace? The most important element of peace and harmony is the necessity for each being to keep his proper position. Every instrument in the cockpit is placed to fulfill its particular mission so that the whole plane can reach its goal. Those instruments never sleep, but concentrate on the one goal of getting the plane to its destination.</p>
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<p>The commanding will is the will of the captain, which commands the instruments toward the one goal. The wings and flaps don’t go in their individual directions, but follow the directives of the compass. Anything trying to avoid that discipline and exercise its free will would head that plane into disaster. Abuse of free will is random will, and never produces good result. The important thing is that all components are set to cooperate with that central goal, even though they do so involuntarily.</p>
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<p>Our human world works like one plane, with one navigator directing mankind toward one ultimate goal. What is directing us? A captain of a plane can do anything he wants, but even he does not have absolute freedom. In the same way, God is the ultimate authority in the universe, yet even He does not have absolute freedom to do as He chooses at random. There must be some universal compass which leads the entire creation, including Almighty God, bringing it into one common direction. What is that? Isn’t it money? Chunks of gold? Surely it must be power? Isn’t it power when the President of the United States can sacrifice the good of one tiny island nation like Taiwan in order to start a relationship with a giant like Red China?</p>
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<p>Whether small or big, any nation can be the object of a political goal. Some day even America will become the prey of someone’s ambition. If President Carter can abandon the small nation of Taiwan, certainly God with His power is capable of doing the same to America, right? Would you welcome seeing God using His power at random, or would you protest, even to Almighty God’.’</p>
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<p>Criticizing President Carter’s foreign policy in this way will never benefit me, but I will say nevertheless that injustice has been done and it must be judged. Even if the American government tries to restrain or inhibit me, perhaps even evict me from America, I will not be stopped. If I am truly speaking with God’s authority, there should he nothing for me to be afraid of saying. I must pass the judgment of history, which otherwise will accuse me of failing my mission to proclaim God’s truth. I’m sure my words disturb some Americans, and even some of our members might request that I he more diplomatic and say something nice about the President.</p>
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<p>American women are always a target for my words. Americans are famous for picketing and demonstrating, so why don’t you form a picket line one Sunday in protest? If you women don’t like to hear me say certain things then you can leave and I will work with the men. If I give the word then they won’t marry that kind of woman, so what will happen to you? Would you enjoy your life alone? That’s your weak point; you need men. The last thing the poorest diplomat would do is criticize American women. But I do it; however, I do it with a loving heart. The President of the United States must say nice things about women in order to get their votes, and American husbands must be careful with their opinions because otherwise they will have their allowance cut off. But I have to speak out. I have been told many times by different people that it is bad diplomacy to say critical things about American women, but that only inspires me to speak more!</p>
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<p>What is the universal navigator that everyone likes, including God, all creation, and every kind of person? True love. That is easy to say, but have you tasted true love? Do you know it? You may not quite understand true love, but somehow you know logically it must be central. True love alone has the universal qualification. What makes people lonely? Lack of love. In America there are many senior citizens who may have achieved fame and wealth and security in their lives, but who now weep all day because they are lonely. No one cares for them unselfishly or comforts them. This is a tragedy.</p>
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<p>Millions of American young people have grown up in this affluent society and could easily lead prosperous lives, but many of them run away from home because of loneliness and lack of love. The Unification Church is here to pioneer true love so that no one is without love. We want to create that kind of world. We have one navigator leading our world to that goal. to the Kingdom of Heaven. What is that compass? That is true love. True love navigates even God.</p>
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<p>Do you think God feels He does not need true love because He already has total authority? Since God is almighty and absolute, God needs love more than anyone else in the universe. Do you think God can fulfill love all alone? Does He laugh and dance all by Himself? Love needs an object to complete a circuit, and even God cannot violate this law. He needs someone to love and be loved by. Are men or women in a position to love God? Men and women together or separately? If men and women must love God together, what is the sequence or order? Who will be in the forefront of that love crusade? Will love hit two people at the same time or one at a time?</p>
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<p>Do you women love your mother and husband with the same intensity, or one more than the other? Would you kiss them at the same time? You can embrace your mother and then love your husband, but it’s impossible to go in two different directions at the same time so there is an order. We said that men and women are equal, but there should be a certain order or discipline between them. Equality is one thing and fairness is another; blind equality does not necessarily represent fairness. There is always a certain sequence or priority to be followed. God definitely loves both men and women as His children on an equal level, but there is a priority or sequence.</p>
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<p>Which one comes first to God? Why do you women say men come first? In everything there is a double layer, one internal and one external. When you make a circular motion based on this external layer, it goes in all different directions and ultimately is self-destructing. Lasting, peaceful circular motion is always set up around an axis. If you use that central line then no matter how fast or how long you turn there will be no destruction. In everything we need this central axis, which is formed by the person who can take and fulfill the responsibility. The more responsibility that person bears, the farther he advances toward the central position.</p>
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<p>Who is designed with a greater capacity for responsibility, men or women? That central responsible subject is man. In biblical tradition the blessing is always given to men because men are ultimately responsible. Blessing always accompanies responsibility. Mankind has traditionally lived like that, with women leaving their homes to marry their husbands and take their names. During war and all the dangerous, pioneering times in history the women were always behind the men, assisting. Men are in the subject role and women in the object role.</p>
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<p>Do you prefer feminine men or strong, masculine men? Do you women know why you prefer rugged masculine men? Because that is the quality you don’t have. That’s because God created men and women in complementary relationship. Women are made for conquest of love by men; when genuine, unselfish love conquers you, you are intoxicated by it instead of repulsed by it. You know that at a certain point you will become a prisoner of love but you want to remain and give everything you have for the sake of your man. That’s the way God designed woman.</p>
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<p>The more you are conquered by love, the more you want to give. That’s the spirit of love. I am a tough and rugged man who cannot stand any injustice, but even though I have a fiery temper I was conquered by the love of God and became totally helpless. In that love I was made a lamb. If I weren’t caught up in the love of God then I could not stand all the criticism that has come to me, but because of the love of God, the more people criticize the more I like it. In the name of God I can be persecuted and tortured.</p>
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<p>God deliberately tests me sometimes by hitting me and allowing more persecution to come, but when I overcome because I am truly intoxicated by the heart of His love, He will recognize me as His son, the proof of His love. God gives me more tribulation so He has a condition to give me more love. If I can absorb and even welcome whatever persecution I meet, then in the love of God there is nothing I cannot do. Love is the central theme. Out of love God is allowing persecution, and I am enduring it because of love. Would you like that kind of love?</p>
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<p>Equality is good, but not with blinders. Because you are not losing anything you don’t take exception to this, do you? If a woman has to go out at night, she naturally often asks a man to go with her. You women are built as object, not subject. Even if your brother is much younger than you, he goes out at night all by himself without asking one of his sisters to go with him. That’s the complementary order of the subject and object relationship which God established.</p>
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<p>God created Adam first to be next to Him, and then Eve to be next to Adam. The East Garden family has that order too. The first-born is a daughter so she is next to me, and then Hyo Jin next to her. Even the son cannot just assume that position. He does not complain when his elder sister is given first treatment. Why? There is order in love, a sequence of love, flowing to first fruits, then second fruits. God created one at a time in order, not two at once, so there is a certain flow and timing which remains as the universal order. Who received the first love of God then? Adam. I’m sure no one can complain about this because it is God’s universal order, established in subject and object relationship.</p>
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<p>If we look at the entire creation as a Boeing 747, then true love is the compass and navigator which guides the whole plane with all its passengers in the correct direction. I have been called all kinds of things, such as a dictator worse than Hitler. Do you think I have the power to do everything at random according to my will? Am I without principles and law? What is guiding me? True love. I am more obedient than anyone else to the law of true love because I am upholding that law and giving my life for it. Here are people of all five colors of skin in one room. Why did you come here to follow me? Because we have one common goal. Is true love colored white, yellow or black? It is all colors. We arc not just talking about it; we are building it. A good example is our service here where we have all colors and races under one fatherhood and hound by true love.</p>
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<p>Is this the result of my dictatorship? No. The Moonies’ life is not an easy one. You witness and fund raise very intensely and often you ache all over. On the surface it looks like a very miserable life, but underneath is a burning desire to be a central man of true love. You give meaning to your hard work; you are not doing it because someone forces you to but because your own desire is burning and you have peace within you. That is true love. When you are activated by true rove’ everything you do shall have beauty and glory. If you are communicating with God then you cannot leave Him.</p>
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<p>We may receive persecution from the entire world, but the true love of God is upholding us. This love is invincible because this true love is what mankind needs. Because they have to receive that love through you they have to come. Once you reach total oneness with God in His true love then you can enjoy absolute freedom and do anything with God. Then no deed is ungodly and even when you do things that might seem nasty, they will bring you closer to God. No deed done in true love is ugly.</p>
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<p>Suppose God is mad about something, hut His little three-year-old grandson comes toddling over to say, “Grandpa.” He cannot help but smile because that one word came out of the child’s pure love. Perhaps God is making a life-or-death decision about the universe, but even at that moment that one word of true love can melt His heart.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we are pursuing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and our central theme is true love. That is our navigator. Are we doing the right thing or not? When you think about that at night or during the day your answer is still yes. What if you are kidnapped and you think about it; will your answer still be yes? If you are truly intoxicated by the love of God then no power under the sun could make you a prisoner. A thousand deprogrammers would be powerless.</p>
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<p>I was born as an obscure Korean, but then my march started, first throughout Korea and national persecution, then to Japan and more persecution. Now I have come to America and the entire world is paying attention, but still I am marching on. What is the power behind me? Many formidable adversaries have confronted me, but I never get tired and am still going strong while those opponents have all stepped out, one by one. Are you tired? What power enables you to continue? I know that honestly speaking you don’t quite grasp love yet but you know something nice is coming. You want to touch it and come close to it. There must be such a power because otherwise the Unification Church could not go on.</p>
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<p>Would you men like to have me as your elder brother? Why? How about you sisters? I have some quality, some flavor. Even though you lose America or even the whole planet earth, once you grasp true love all of that and even God will come back to you. True love encompasses everything. Once you grab the top, everything else will follow. Do you agree? If that is the case, what worry do you have?</p>
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<p>Without pure motivation, everything you do becomes a burden. You may like to come to Sunday service and you may like Divine Principle’ but without love you won’t want to fund raise or do home church. When you are motivated by true love, the greater the tribulation that comes, the greater the value and ecstasy of your joy. I pray to God that if people don’t love Him then He should let them oppose me. Then under persecution I will truly exemplify God’s love to them. I want those people to know God through me so I asked God for that opportunity.</p>
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<p>To be honest, most new members first became involved, not because they loved the Unification Church. but because they were curious and came to investigate. Then they were caught by the net of true love. When they are hooked by true love it is a life or death matter and they cannot take it lightly. When a fish is hooked it tries desperately to get away and in the process it gets hurt. The same analogy works in the Unification Church. If the hook is true love, don’t try to thrash and kick but taste it and enjoy it. If you know the taste of true love then the problem of being hooked is all solved.</p>
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<p>Sooner or later the world has to agree with my conclusion that the true compass to the ideal world is true love. No one can deny it and even our boldest adversary needs to be benefited by it. Our march is in the direction of love.</p>
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<p>You must realize your own position. If you are in the middle of the Pacific but you think you are arriving in Tokyo and try to land, you face absolute disaster. You are a passenger on that plane of love over the middle of the ocean, but in a way you are trying to land right now. By trying to gain unearned fruit without working, you are courting disaster. No matter how much you desire to land, if you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean you cannot do SO. You have to cover the whole distance to reach land.</p>
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<p>Usually the flight to Korea is 18 hours long, but recently it has been getting shorter and now it is 16 hours. If the trip takes 16 hours, the wise man does not get all anxious to arrive there in 13 or 14 hours. Instead he will think that to reach the destination takes 36 hours and he prepares accordingly. He takes plenty of food and things to do and is ready in his mind to fly for 36 hours. Then when he lands after 16 hours, the extra hours are like a bonus. If you are deeply asleep when the plane lands because you didn’t expect to arrive so early, someone will have to wake you up and chase you out of the plane. When you arrive that way you always feel that you earned 20 hours so you have more time to work. Then you can use that time.</p>
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<p>Our ultimate destination is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. There are seven different stages to go through to reach it; one is individual heaven, next the family, tribe, race, society, nation, world, and then Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Do you know which stage you are in? Are you still waiting on the ground, or have you taken off? Do you have enough fuel)? Did you double check all your flight instruments? Are you sure your compass is working.? Can you have confidence there will be no accidents en route? What if a head wind comes and pushes you back; will that deter you? Are you prepared for a long, long journey?</p>
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<p>Is your yes from your mouth or from your heart? Do you want me to test your readiness with some hard work and tribulation?</p>
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<p>A plane always has a specific capacity for passengers and the airline always wants the plane to be filled before it takes off; otherwise, they lose money on the flight On this plane you can take your family and entire home church, which is your tribe. Should it include only white people? Of course you want it to include all races. The tribe will go to the nation, the nation to the world and the world to the cosmos. If our thrust is strong enough, we can go not only to the world but beyond to embrace the spirit world and whole universe. When you finish after covering the entire world, you won’t need a plane any more because from the world level you will be launched to the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>The interesting thing about a moon launch is that the moon may be up in the sky in one direction, but the rocket actually is launched in the opposite direction. The spectators may not be able to see any sense in it. In the same way many people say we are crazy because they think we are going in the wrong direction to the Kingdom of Heaven, but we have a compass with clear direction, a spiritual compass leading ultimately to heaven. If that compass leading your heart is true love then you are bound to reach heaven. The rocket may seem to be going through unnecessary maneuvers, but if the compass of true love is working it will definitely take you right into heaven.</p>
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<p>When that rocket lands in God’s love, that love will explode and rock the entire universe. God will be activated in true love and begin to dance. When God is dancing, will the entire world dance with Him? When God starts dancing, His entire creation will harmonize with Him and begin to dance also. He might even step on someone’s head in His excitement, but would you chase Him away or ask for more? You can grab His foot and keep Him from going away.</p>
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<p>The contest of giving true love is the ultimate competition between husband and wife. When you can say without any hesitation that you have loved your partner in the true love of God, then no matter how handsome or beautiful he or she is, he has to bow down. True love is the ultimate gauge of value, not appearance or social standing. A wife can ask her husband if he has given true love to his family, and if he is defeated in the competition of true love, he has to bow down to her. If a subject is defeated in true love then he must humbly come under his object.</p>
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<p>This question works on every level, as between a head of state and the people. If you ask the President if he has loved the people as much as his parents loved him and his answer is yes, then he is a great President. If not, he is a failure. What is the expression of that true love? Unselfish giving in everyday life is the true expression of that love. That’s the way parents live for their children and that’s the way God has been living for mankind. Any subject demonstrating unselfish love toward his object is living true love. Where there is a man in the center with that true love, the Kingdom of Heaven shall be there. That love will go beyond every power here on earth and win over it and then the power of unity will bind everything together into oneness like glue.</p>
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<p>Our goal is the ideal world and our direction is true love. The manifestation of that true love in our daily life is unselfish giving every day. Also’ you will always remember your position. When you get closer and closer to the goal, many burdens and responsibilities come upon you because the time of fulfillment is near at hand.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that you mustn’t think that every day is a holiday once we reach the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, for the closer we come to the goal, the greater are the responsibilities. You shall be preparing the entire world to lift off to the ultimate heaven and you must be ready with all the necessary equipment. A spaceman has many limitations on his movement with all his equipment. Your great responsibilities will also limit you, but you must welcome it because it prepares you for a great launching.</p>
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<p>You may think MFT work is difficult and witnessing is difficult, but I want you to be prepared for even greater responsibilities. You must be willing to tackle them. Inside the Unification Church we are going to bear the greatest of all burdens because we are trying to help prepare the rest of the world for take-off. We have so much responsibility that sometimes we don’t see too much love. It seems there is nothing but work every day, but I want you to understand that the great moment of launching is like an emergency and we must be ready.</p>
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<p>We easily talk about unifying the world, but is actually doing it an easy task? We are the objects of scorn today. There is more persecution and more misunderstanding coming, but we must persevere and go on to the goal. Do you want to retreat? You know this principle is the truth and we are tackling it. We need wisdom to know the truth and our true position and our direction. We have one unity of spirit in the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>When I go to Korea your spiritual antenna is automatically focused there because you don’t want to live your own way, but God’s way. You raise your antenna high so you can receive heavenly signals and then your body and mind are at peace. If you try to go your own way you feel restless and upset in your heart. God’s spirit works like a magnet to link opposites like the North and South poles. There is a magnetic field between us, and if you try to deviate you feel disturbance inside. You must go in the right direction of true love.</p>
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<p>The month of May will soon be here and you single members are waiting for news of the matching, aren’t you? You should ask yourselves if you are people of true love. What is your answer? No matter how you look, unless you possess true love you are not qualified to be matched in heavenly blessing. If you want to get married, go ahead and do so. Why not? Your antenna tells you that just getting married is contrary to your true direction. You know it in your heart.</p>
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<p>We need a goal, direction and everyday practice, and with that we can definitely reach the goal and live the unselfish way of life. This is the central teaching of God throughout history and the central revelation brought by Jesus. This is what I have talked about this morning. Our job is to perfect these four pillars of heavenly life with a humble heart. Our job is to perfect ourselves so our two eyes will never see anything wicked, so our brains will never think anything evil and our mouths will never speak anything ungodly. This is what we have set out to do and we work with sweat and labor to fulfill it. If you become one with this, then you can proudly say A-man.</p>
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<p>We are all born into life, and there is no one who does not value his or her own life. Many times we wonder why we were born and what our destination is. Throughout history all men have thought about this fundamental question, “For whom do I exist?” These are serious questions. For whom does the world exist? For me. For whom do I exist? For the sake of the world. I was born for the sake of the world, and the world exists for me.</p>
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<p>What is the central factor we can gather around? What is the central theme that will bring us together with the world? We must never think that any creation exists on its own. Everything exists as one and we must link ourselves together with our surroundings. Therefore, the key word in the world today is “relationship.” All creations exist in one central harmony so we are all related, not isolated.</p>
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<p>Under those circumstances, let us consider the family, the place where parents and children can make a relationship. Again, the components of the family are all inter-related in one central harmony. What is the relationship between the nation and myself? Here too, the individual and nation cannot be separate. Americans, for instance, create some national characteristic or being through their relationships. Furthermore, no matter how great this nation may be, it cannot exist in isolated fashion in this world. It must relate to the rest of the nations and help create a greater existence on a worldwide scale.</p>
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<p>What is our relationship to the spirit world? Some people feel they don’t need to understand the existence of God because they don’t have to relate to it. Though people may concede the existence of spirit world, they don’t see how it relates to them, but that is the same as an individual’s asking why he needs his family or country. The existence of God and spirit world is greater than our existence as individuals, so we must be related to that supreme existence somehow.</p>
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<p>That is not the end of it. Ultimately we must pursue a certain purpose through these relationships. First of all, let us look at our situation. Our closest relationships are with our parents and brothers and sisters, and after marriage, with our spouses. Should the four different positions be going in random directions? Is there no central connection or discipline? Do all things exist at random? If they are related in one cohesive body, where are they going? No, their goal must be centered on one common purpose.</p>
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<p>There must be some common purpose that men have been trying to achieve throughout history; that purpose has defined the pattern of history. If all four positions are going in one direction, are they going harmoniously, or in conflict? Whether you are American or Oriental, everyone would agree that we must go in harmony. Would people from the past answer differently? Young people today commonly talk about the older generation and the generation gap, but that kind of thinking contradicts the basic idea of creation. Many young people insist that they have their own lives to lead and question why they need their parents or why they should have to relate to their brothers and sisters and neighbors, but they are the truly crazy people.</p>
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<p>Young ladies may be proud of wearing the latest Paris fashion or having a fine Swiss watch, but if at the same time they feel that they have nothing to do with their own nation, their thinking is contradictory. This one example shows that it is impossible for you to maintain your life all by yourself. You may think you live individually, but you must realize that you are all indebted to the nation and the world. How can you have the attitude, “If I won’t bother you then you shouldn’t bother me”? In that case you would have to close your nose and not breathe, or close your mouth and not eat. Try being truly independent for five minutes and see what happens! You would even have to block out the sun’s rays because they are not yours. How can you steal the sun’s rays?</p>
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<p>If the soil were to claim the part of your flesh that came from the earth, what could you do? If you paid all your debts, you would have nothing left. Then where is your existence? When you truly analyze the situation, do you own your face and nose? If nature claimed all the pieces of you that belonged to it, there would be nothing left. If you really want to be independent then you must not eat or breathe.</p>
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<p>You should realize that when you take care of yourself, combing your hair and putting on make-up, you are actually loving the world because you are a microcosm of the world. You are the world and the world is you, so when you smile the world smiles; when you walk the world walks. There is an echo relationship between the world and you; when you laugh the world would laugh. When you realize that, would you still think independently)?</p>
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<p>Some people may like the very things you don’t like. Americans probably don’t care so much for hot sauce and kimchi, but the Koreans are crazy about it. Two elements may seem to be so tar apart that they are not related, like the North and South poles, but when you look at the globe you can truly see that they are inter-related. When you see clearly, there is an obvious relationship between them.</p>
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<p>Would you like to live in a world sharp corners or a world of rounded character? You like roundness because that is the best shape for making a relationship with everyone and everything. The sun and planets are all round and all the creation has roundness of shape. Everything exists in motion and a triangular shape would have difficulty revolving; imagine a triangular tire, for instance. Roundness makes circular motion easier. A circular existence wants to fit into the environment and not remain apart. There is no truly sharp place in your body and you must think that you are rounded so that you can easily fit in with the universe, with the ultimate purpose of becoming one.</p>
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<p>Would you like to have bigger or smaller things? Wouldn’t a short man like only small things? No, in contrast he would probably prefer bigger things. Obviously things of all sizes are inter-related. Would vastly different things like the eyes, ears and mouth feel unrelated? Our bodies have many parts, but they are all related into one cohesive existence, and that is the beauty of our bodies.</p>
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<p>Then why were you born ultimately? To harmonize with the universe and flow in the same rhythm. You are Americans, so would you rather hear that you were born to harmonize with America, or with the entire universe? Would you like to hear that you were born to harmonize with other races and add color, or to harmonize with your own race alone? Since becoming Moonies you are learning new ways of thinking. Why do you laugh? You laugh because relating to only one country and race is absurd and contradicts common sense.</p>
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<p>Why were you born? To sing in rhythm with the universe and harmonize with everything. When you admire the beauty of flowers, you are seeing yourself within them; when you see the waves on the ocean you are seeing yourself within them. When the wind blows, there you are. At a beautiful place, like Belvedere when you hear the birds in the morning you are singing together with them. They are singing for you and you are joining their melody. We are supposed to lead poetic lives, and when the birds are singing you are making conversation with them. We are supposed to have lives rich in emotion and heart.</p>
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<p>Is love the center of your life so far? That is secondary. You are living for the universe, as part of the universe. That universe includes your family, society, nation and God. Therefore, you are actually living for all of them. People are constantly striving to make a relationship with the best of the universe. What is the best of the universe? You might say gold and diamonds are the best. Before love and before God, what is the essential best of the universe? Since we are all resultant beings, there must be a causal being before us. If you are the result, who caused you to be here on earth? Your parents. Why do we need parents, plural? Is it essential to have more than one? Your being is the product of two other beings, the product of a relationship, not an isolated entity.</p>
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<p>You might say you don’t care and don’t need your parents, but then you are a result denying its cause. Perfection can come only where there is cause and effect, or subject and object. A person who has a good ideal but whose action is apart from that ideal cannot be a perfect person. If a person pays lip service to an ideal but acts differently, he will be isolated by the world because the world cannot accept that kind of falsity. The universe is always true, and cause and effect must always come together. American custom is such that when your parents go West you go East, right? If that way of life goes against the universal principle, do you think such a nation could flourish?</p>
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<p>What kind of cause and effect are parents and children? Their relationship is vertical. What about husband and wife? Do you young ladies need husbands some day? If God insists that you don’t but you insist otherwise, then you will defeat God. Is a husband an absolute necessity or just nice to have? If some power separates husband and wife then the whole universe will weep and your own body won’t function correctly. Then eating and sleeping and even existence itself becomes meaningless. Is this true for American women? I thought they were different.</p>
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<p>Don’t American women think that one man is just as good as another and that having more than one is fine? After joining the Unification Church you are learning this is not so, but before you might have seen nothing wrong with that idea. “Why do we have to be limited to one man?” women ask.</p>
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<p>Can you cancel your connection to your parents ? Even if your father and mother are divorced, you know you still cannot deny your father and mother. If you have to go two different places to greet your parents, do you feel good? What decreed that is not good? The universe itself would say so. The universe always upholds its own laws and it brings pressure to bear on anything that opposes such laws. When you feel heartbroken if you break those laws’ it is the universe letting you know you are opposing the universal way.</p>
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<p>Pain and sickness result if the give and take relationship is impaired. That is the universe telling you that give and take is not going smoothly in your body. If you don’t take care of it, the universe will you even more and finally you may even die, which means the universe has let you go. No one can exist if they contradict the rules of the universe. Americans want to live sensual, pleasurable lives and they see no reason to condemn free sex, but if that is in contradiction to the universal way of life then eventually that way will be cast off. You feel sad and discouraged when you cross purposes with the universe. Heartbreak is the punishment of the universe.</p>
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<p>Your parents are above you in the vertical relationship and you are here today because of them. They gave you a mind and body which should parallel each other. You need both. You need your father and mother just as you need your mind and body, and by following that principle you will be accepted by the universe. If you would deny that, then the universe will deny you. If a husband dies, his wife is heartbroken, but why is she so sad? When any couple has a deep love but one partner dies, the other person’s sorrow is a universal expression because their existence as a couple paralleled the life of the universe. If one is missing then in the view of the universe you are incomplete and the universe imparts its sorrow to you.</p>
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<p>The causal being at the top of the vertical relationship is two parents. The more perfect the harmony you find between two parents, the more perfect the harmony you can find between mind and body. If mother and father are one in total understanding trust and love, then their children are bound to be happy and will come closer to perfection. You are not alone but have brothers and sisters. Again, the harmony with parents makes a beautiful trunk line for you to have perfect horizontal harmony between brothers and sisters. As much as your parents united into one to bring you into the world, so will your brothers and sisters be united into one. This is the vertical public law, so when you fight with your brothers and sisters do you feel good? What makes you feel uncomfortable? It is the universal, public law chastising you.</p>
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<p>You know you are constantly under tons of air pressure but you don’t feel it because the pressure from inside your body balances it. The universe is made in such harmony that the pressure inside and outside of you is balanced. The universal power and law of love says that with the action of love you can be more perfectly harmonized, and therefore, you must love your parents. It doesn’t say to love your father and love your mother, but to love your parents, plural. It does not say to love this brother and this sister and this sister, but to love your brothers and sisters, plural .</p>
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<p>Why isn’t the law written in the singular? Because love makes love, and it comes into being in circular give and take, or plural relationships. This vertical relationship of subject and object is an absolute law in the universe and no one can destroy it. Nevertheless, many young people today think they only need horizontal relationships with friends and their spouse or lover, but they disdain the vertical relationships.</p>
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<p>Can there be more than one straight line to diagram the vertical relationship? Does it end at one place or can it end at two places? Absolutely it can end at only one place. There is always one center, period; that center is true love. When the absolute vertical exists, true love is there. Therefore, no parents can deny their children and no children can deny their parents. Whether your parents are disabled or their children are handicapped, no one can cancel that relationship. That is the public law of the universe.</p>
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<p>Are you children of filial piety, faithful sons and daughters? If your parents are divorced then you as their child have the power to re-unite them. The parent-child relationship is an absolute one. They must recognize you as their child, and for your sake alone they have an obligation to love each other because the public law of the universe decrees that parents must always be ready to sacrifice for the sake of their children. Not one individual but two brought a child into the world, and therefore, to have the right to look at the child they must be two together. Parents must feel that way and be able to love each other as much as they love their children.</p>
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<p>If there is a God do you think His logic would be like this? If this law were changeable then there would be no such thing as true love. Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen, always in the same proportion. Could they produce anything else? No, because physical reactions are unchangeable according to natural law. In the same way, the subject must always love the object, which always respects and loves the subject. By doing so circular give and take of love is present. Some of you might think this is Oriental philosophy, but I tell you that even in the Orient you won’t find such philosophy. This is God’s philosophy, the universal philosophy.</p>
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<p>In order to comply with the universal law, we must recognize our parents as subject and love them, receiving their love in return. Why do we have to live in harmonious oneness? So we can receive recognition from the universe that we have complied with universal law. Article One in the universal constitution compels children to unite with their parents. You might say this is the worst form of dictatorship, but through absolute obedience you can be entitled to absolute love. This is the channel where absolute love can flow. If you want absolute love instead of mediocre love then you have to go the absolute way.</p>
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<p>I wish that your parents could hear this, especially if they are thinking about kidnapping you. You are not quite happy if there is no oneness between your parents and you. Without harmony there is always some burden. You must take up the responsibility of educating your parents and so you need some strategy.</p>
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<p>When you obey this principle then you cannot end up anywhere except in love for your parents. If you have a loving relationship, is absolute obedience to those people a joy or a burden? Absolute obedience brings absolute happiness. Practice and experience this and you will know it.</p>
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<p>Article One in the universal constitution covers vertical love, but with that alone the universe cannot turn. Horizontal relationships are needed to complete circular motion. This is Article Two. No action can take place around one simple line, but action can occur where there are both vertical and horizontal lines.</p>
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<p>Then what is the core of that horizontal line? Husband and wife, man and woman. They make up the horizontal line but it must cross the vertical line at precisely 90 degree in order to be acceptable to the universe. The evenly distributed 90 degrees formed in four sections by the crossing of those lines makes up 360 degrees, and perfect love can only act upon that line. The love now in vogue in America is like a diagonal line crossing the vertical, and as a result young people have gotten involved in all kinds of crazy things like disco dancing. If carnal desire is the purpose of your life then the universal law will reject it and you will crumble, no matter how much you try to survive.</p>
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<p>You young women want to get married. What kind of horizontal line would you like to draw? If you men determine to walk in such a way that you establish precisely 90 degrees, then when you close your eyes and walk ahead, the object you bump into will be the perfect woman. You won’t have to go out on dates or examine pictures; if you bump into her then she must be walking at exactly 90 degrees also.</p>
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<p>In this principle there should be equal proportions of men and women in the population because they have to bump into one another in equal numbers. God already worried about providing your subject and object, knowing that otherwise the greatest competition on earth would be the competition for marriage. When you live in a pure and upright manner then you are bound to become a perfect husband or wife. If you want to marry someone, do so not just for himself individually but because of the tradition of perfect vertical love in his family. If you see the parents fighting then don’t marry their son, no matter how good he looks, because things will be bound to go wrong. There is no way you can expect things to go smoothly in a home where your parents argue.</p>
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<p>How many husbands would you want, one or two or more? What happens if your one and only husband dies? Then you will live by yourself until you get to spirit world also. When a perfect horizontal and vertical line cross, there is perfect circular motion. If a family is living according to universal law the universe is ready to pour down upon them its blessing of complete joy. You may insist you don’t want to eat, but the universe will give you blessing regardless. If you insist on blocking your mouth then the rest of your body will eat instead.</p>
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<p>This particular law works in the nation as well as the family. When you analyze political systems, which is more godly-elected government or monarchy? Now you think that a heavenly monarchy is best and the State Department will think I am the enemy of democracy! But let them think their way; we think of God and the Principle. The parents on a national scale become king and queen and the people are in the position of children. When the people form a perfect horizontal line, they make up one big circle with the monarchs. In light of this is American democracy a perfect ideology?</p>
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<p>If this formula works for the nation then what about the world? Isn’t it logical to think that the world should have common parents? There are governors in each of fifty states, and they are in the position of parents. Why couldn’t the world be considered one federation and have one central government also? Then the head of the world would be the king of kings. That is the very ideology of the Messiah, and even democratic Americans want to see this king of kings come.</p>
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<p>Beyond the universe we have the cosmos, which includes the spirit world. Who will rule that cosmos? God. In Korean the sound “god” means the traditional hats worn by the aristocratic men, so in both languages God is right on top.</p>
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<p>This 90 degree angle should be precise on every level and then everything can fit into one grand circle. That means when you have perfected your love on the family level that you obtain total freedom in the family. That freedom extends to the nation, world and cosmos. Therefore, in the Unification Church the family is the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. When we construct absolute relationships in the family, they extend to every other level up through the cosmos. That is why we discipline ourselves in the workshop of family life. Perfection and freedom will blossom right in the center of the family in the relationship of vertical and horizontal. Jesus aimed for this goal and God has been aiming for this because once it is achieved, every goal can be achieved.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church diagrams this as the heavenly four positions, the basis of Divine Principle. Parents and children are essential components, and by relating in absolute obedience and loyalty and love they are perfecting the ideal of the universe.</p>
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<p>We can enter the Kingdom of Heaven only as a family unit, so we need parents, husband and wife and children. You can never enter heaven as an individual. This is most logical. If there is no perfection on this family level then the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world is closed. This is why the Kingdom of Heaven has not yet existed. It is still yet to come. When you perfect vertical and horizontal love on the family level, you can expand that to the national and world and cosmic scales. Although you are small in comparison with the whole universe, you are positioning yourself at the very core, and by doing so everything in the universe is related to you.</p>
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<p>Therefore, love is the central theme, and by centering upon true love you can find your home, nation, world and universe. No one could ever deny this central law, Article One of the constitution of the universe. If anyone does so, they will crumble. in every direction we can shout out Ah-man. Then even if you go to the discos, you would still be Ah-man. If you and your husband were wired together in a surgical operation, you would still be Ah-man. Once you reach that absolute love you have total freedom. That’s the way I see heaven. Once you reach that goal then no matter how fast or how much you turn, you cannot go wrong; perfection will continue regardless. If you hit a stone wall and shatter, perfection is still yours. No one can destroy you. That is the ideal heaven we want to create.</p>
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<p>I want to see Moonies’ faces shining in joy and light. You must say to the world, “Come to me and I will harmonize you.” Would you want to harmonize everyone, or would you still maintain reservations about some people? When you live with broad-minded love and absolute obedience to the Principle, whoever comes will always be welcome. Say Ah-man to the universe for the absolute love which continues everything. Once you position yourself in that center, the universe will come alive with you and then there will be nothing foreign or separate from you.</p>
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<p>There are many heavenly bodies in the cosmos, but there is always a central theme or discipline connecting them. Without that connection the universe couldn’t exist for even one day. Blessed husbands and wives, raise your hands please. You should repent if you ever complained tor being given your particular mate. Pledge that from today you will not complain but be a perfect husband and wife. The universe is your partner and you must harmonize with the universe so you can receive its blessing and pass it to your children. I want you to understand that true love is the most precious thing, not you.</p>
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<p>When you become a dynamo of true love, you can melt everything into true love, without limit. You can be surprised at yourself when you realize you can embrace the universe and wonder when you became such a person of love. You should be surprised at yourself some time and realize you are different</p>
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<p>Today’s topic is <i>The Mission of Our Life</i>. What is our responsibility? It is to set the tradition or discipline of love on the family, tribal, national and worldwide levels. You must set the pattern of love. For the sake of fulfilling this absolute love you work and cry and sweat. When you go to God’s throne and He asks what you accomplished while on earth, you can reply that you loved your family more than anything else, even more than you loved Him. Do you think God would be outraged and evict you? Instead of calling you a rascal He will proclaim that you are His child and that everything of His is yours. Since you loved your family more than Him, He will love you for eternity more than He loves Himself. What more could you want?</p>
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<p>Love must be absolute; not carnal, but Godcentered. Because of harmony God will want to see a balance among the races; therefore, a woman like a pumpkin should marry a man like a carrot. They can make perfect harmony, dramatic harmony, and so that match would be most ideal. In satanic thinking only the best things or similar things should come together, like well-educated people, or poor people with poor people. But God thinks differently. He thinks that when opposites come together and love in perfect harmony it is the most dramatically beautiful thing to see.</p>
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<p>In this theory is it more ideal tor white and white to come together, or white and black? Aren’t you apprehensive in your heart? If God were going to honor outstanding couples on earth do you think He would pay most attention to white or black or yellow couples doing well, or multi-color couples doing well? If you put yourself in God’s position, a harmony of colors would seem most natural and beautiful.</p>
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<p>If you ask for international marriage but you get a mate of your own race then you can still say you were willing to marry someone of another race regardless, and God will approve. In the dispensational development a national foundation has to be laid before the world level, and the True Parents were installed before we reached the world level. So I just obeyed God. I was completely willing to marry a black woman like a potato if necessary. I always thought that would be most dramatic and would give most joy to God.</p>
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<p>When I was matching couples in Europe last year there were all kinds of Europeans gathered but there was no regard for nationality or language; I only matched ideal couples. One thing you can rest assured of is that a man will be matched with a woman. Actually the ideal of matching would be for men and women to close their eyes and walk forward until they bump into someone and then take that person. God sees a dramatic beauty there.</p>
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<p>Your duty in life is not to look just for enjoyment but to love your parents and brothers and sisters, the world and God. Therefore, you want to exercise that love in a most dramatic manner by being a sacrifice and living for the family and world. The more dramatic the better. You can be a dramatic example of love sacrifice it you are a dynamo of love. By receiving you, God receives love. When you represent such absolute love and go to the world, you are truly living love and are most pleasing to God. Once you enjoy the perfect love of your parents, you cannot enjoy any other love that is fake. Their love forms the backbone of your love.</p>
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<p>Would you American women like to marry a husband from a large family? Or would you rather just have your husband to yourself? You are going as a queen of love to your husband’s family, and to be a good queen you need many subjects to give your love to. Then you would want to have many family members around so you can practice your love. Would you like that, or would you hang back?</p>
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<p>What is the purpose of your life? It is to practice love so you can receive absolute freedom and liberation. When you are trying to make a loving relationship with the world, everyone will respond and like you, even animals and plants. Nothing can unite the universe except the power of love. The entire universe will dance with a loving husband and wife, moving around together. The workshop of that love is the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Do you love me? You love me and Mother as True Parents, so here you are actually practicing the most important vertical relationship found in the constitution of the universe. When you live it, you enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We are opening up the Kingdom of Heaven by loving parents and brothers and sisters. That’s what we are doing here in the Unification Church. God wants you to love your parents and brothers and sisters more than Him. In the same way, Mother and I want you to love your brothers and sisters more than us. That will be the most welcome, exciting thing for us to see.</p>
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<p>Loving brothers and sisters this intensely will evoke the love of the parents and they will all be involved in one harmony. When you practice your way of life in this vertical discipline and are blessed, you can draw a perfect horizontal line. Then you shall be entitled to love the world and God.</p>
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<p>We have come to the conclusion. You were born to love your parents, and brothers and sisters, and husband and wife. Ah-man! Let us pray.</p>
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<p>Everyone harbors hope. There is no one without hope. How each one can accomplish that hope depends not upon heaven but upon the individual. There are two ways of doing so-through your own power alone, or by receiving cooperation from others. If your desire is extraordinary and great then your responsibility is also great. If you cannot fulfill it on your own, you need help from outside.</p>
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<p>When you start elementary school your purpose is to finish with a good record. In order to finish with good marks your own effort plus the effort of your teachers is needed. The same is true of junior high, high school and college life. It is not easy to fulfill 100% of your desire at each level of study. What kind of attitude is needed? First you need total concentration which leaves you time for nothing else. If you think about playing and meeting your friends first, you cannot fulfill 100% of the goal.</p>
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<p>From this standpoint let us analyze the life of believers. What is our goal ? It is to become sons and daughters of God. There are many kinds of sons and daughters: An adopted son is a son; also there may be a rebellious son, a son of filial piety, and a son who is mediocre. In this situation becoming a true son and daughter is difficult.</p>
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<p>In order to become a true son or daughter you must concentrate on the goal 100%, looking to the True Parents constantly and thinking of nothing else. Just becoming good sons and daughters to your natural parents is not easy, but how much more difficult it is to become absolute sons and daughters of God. When you call upon God, your Father, He does not answer right away. Even though you call upon God, if in your innermost heart you are not sure whether He even exists then God would not answer.</p>
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<p>What is the fall of man? It is nothing more than departure or separation from God. Man has been separated to the degree that he has nothing to do with God. We are going back to restore that original union. We can use an analogy from our world. Perhaps because of an unfortunate incident a child is separated from his parents at a very early age. After he is grown he may have occasion to meet his parents, but they will be total strangers to him; he will not know who they are. This young man must have some assurance that this man is his father, and at the same time, there must be some witnesses to testify to the fact. Even if he knows they are his parents, there is still some conflict and feeling of estrangement between the two parties.</p>
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<p>In order to become a true child to your parents, you must inherit their desires. Between the two there should be only one desire; their road in life should be your life, and your desire should be theirs. Parents give their heart and soul to the children, and the children must do likewise. When you are in one union, even though there are two separate parties there is still only one goal and one desire and purpose. Then the fulfillment of each becomes the joy of the other. Fulfilling a task becomes the common joy of father and son. When you continue that way of life for one year, ten years, a whole lifetime, there is total unity between parents and children.</p>
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<p>Today our task is to discover the true desire of God, because as believers our goal is to be sons and daughters of God. What we eat and drink and where we live are not part of God’s central concerns; these are things everyone does. In the Bible Jesus said not to worry about where to dwell and what to eat, that this is what non-believers worry about. You must seek God and His righteousness first. What is His kingdom and what is that righteousness?</p>
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<p>For us as Unification Church members, that kingdom and righteousness is the fulfillment of the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. When Jesus spoke of God’s kingdom, he wasn’t referring to just one nation; God’s righteousness isn’t limited to one nation’s righteousness, but includes the whole kingdom that God designed. For instance, the American people’s righteousness is secondary to that of the kingdom, not primary. If the righteousness of a whole nation is secondary, then clearly your own personal desires are much farther down the line.</p>
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<p>God’s kingdom should engulf the nation, and the family and individual should come within the scope of that nation. Imagine that this large circle is America; within it are circles for the society, tribe and family. The shapes are the same and they differ only in size so they can all be contained within the large circle. The crossing point of the axes is the center of each of the circles. There may be a big nation and small nation, but the same vertical line cuts through them both. Everything is centered on that axis, and that alignment can be connected to one primary desire.</p>
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<p>An individual trying to achieve the highest goal does not have to leave his own country or society or family. He must actually go to each of them and penetrate each stage. Another way of depicting this is to picture you as a locomotive pulling a family behind you, plus a society, nation and world. All of these can be aligned behind you. When you move, the train of the family, nation and world and spirit world moves behind you.</p>
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<p>Does this concept apply in the context of today’s America? This is the so-called “me generation,” and among other things it means that America is totally isolating herself from the rest of the world. God is trying to fulfill one harmonized world, and so when anyone thinks in a selfish fashion he is a traitor to God’s own desire. Americans say they don’t care about their country. There are people of all five colors of skin in this country, and if they only care about their own race then in God’s sight they are the most traitorous foe. They are causing barriers to emerge between the races, which is totally opposite to God’s will.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that God’s will always centers on one focal point for everyone-for the family, nation, world and cosmos. That’s the way God designed the world. What is that center? That central principle or axis of the universe is the father-son relationship. In any family there is a father-son axis and everything else surrounds that. When one family assumes the father position, other families assume the son’s position.</p>
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<p>Any corporation operates the same way; the president is in the father’s position and the employees are in the children’s position. The concept should be that the employer is working for the sake of the employees and each employee is working not for his boss, but for the well-being of his own corporate family. A head of state is in the parental position and the people are in the children’s position. A true central figure should be thinking like a father would think. Without that parental heart anyone in that position is a false central person.</p>
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<p>The criterion of comparison is whether he is better or worse than your own father. The people should love the central figure of their nation like their own father, because after all, their own natural fathers are also in the position of children to that person. Those fathers would expect their children to love the head of state and the nation more than their own fathers. With this viewpoint the children can participate in patriotic action even to the extent of giving up their own lives and sacrificing their own families. Above the president of the nation should be someone in the position of president of the entire world. The head of state should be loyal to the president of the world to the same degree. Almighty God resides above that man, and he should be loyal to God in the same fashion that everyone is loyal to him.</p>
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<p>Why should it be like this? From the individual to God there should be one central connecting axis, with the result that everything in between is like a bridge between the individual and God. In any company operating under this principle the president would serve his employees like a father would his own children. The employees would work for the well-being of the company just as children would for their father, and naturally such a company would prosper and be righteous.</p>
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<p>What about the Unification Church in light of this principle? The Unification Church is bound together by the father-son relationship, but our purpose is not to advance the well-being of the church. We are here to accomplish something greater for the sake of the world and cosmos. I always teach you to sacrifice yourselves to help the nation and God, never to live for the prosperity of the Unification Church. If we truly practice this ideology then it has to become the central theme of the world. Then we can use the Unification Church as a ladder, going all the way to the top with the same principle. You are working toward being tribal messiahs, then national and world messiahs, all the way to God.</p>
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<p>When I was searching after the Principle I spent many agonized nights in prayer, and the central theme of those prayers was to understand what the central axis and core principle of the universe was. Ultimately the answer came that the central axis was the father-son relationship, which I have just explained. When we live up to that principle then we are going to bring a world of peace and unity. Since the universe is organized this way when you look horizontally at other people you are seeing no one else but your brothers and sisters. You are linked together because you have common parents.</p>
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<p>If the younger children serve and love their elder brother more than their parents, would the parents be jealous? No, they would smile ear to ear to see such an exchange of love between their children. I know you love me and love God, but when I look at you I want to see whether you have that love among yourselves. That becomes my joy and something beautiful to behold. In order to become true sons and daughters you must first love each other more than your parents; that is the most beautiful gift you can give your parents. If you are loving in that way then you are positioning yourself closest to the parents. Then even if you don’t know Principle intellectually, no one could say you don’t know the truth.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we have a common rule about who is the true member of the church; he is the one who truly loves his brothers and sisters. Not only I think that way, but company presidents, national and world leaders should think that way as well. God Himself is that way. Do you think there are different principles working on each different level? Would you welcome this principle of love if this works in every different situation?</p>
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<p>To become sons and daughters of God you have to move the heart of God and entice His love. If a person leaves for a far-away place, would he be separated and not have anything to do with this theme? Whether a poplar tree is at Belvedere or New York, it is still a poplar tree. Wherever you go, this principle shall remain as the standard. If you want to live by another principle, I say to you, go ahead and try to find a better one. Do you agree that God’s kingdom and righteousness shall be built by this father-son relationship?</p>
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<p>When this relationship is expanded horizontally it is known as the subject-object relationship. Right now I am subject and you are objects. When you are united in that relationship with others, even a piece of chalk can be very precious. In this relationship everything you do is rewarding and serves a purpose. Of itself studying is nothing, but when you take the central position and have a purpose, studying becomes very important. Instead of saying you hate your books, you really love them.</p>
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<p>No matter what you see in this universe, when you think it is related to you in this subject-object relationship, everything becomes very important all of a sudden. With this point of view you are a dynamo and ambassador of the love of God and there is nothing that is not lovable or precious. There is happiness and harmony wherever you go when you are a subject of the love of God. I don’t think God could think up any better way than this.</p>
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<p>Our job today is not to seek what to eat or drink or where to live but to seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness. Now we know where to look. God is not unaware that you need food and shelter, but He knows that when you take care of the important things first then everything else will be taken care of. You have to decide to win the love of God first.</p>
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<p>Words are cheap and this sounds good, but how far are you from realizing this? When you look at yourself you know better than I do where you are in terms of realizing this. Is the realization of it quite far away or close at hand? As an ideal this sounds good, but living it is another thing entirely. Maybe you think you are not cut out for such a life because you can see many, many problems to be solved. The problems of the family are as big as the family; the problems of the nation are as big as the nation. The problems of the world and universe are as big as the world and universe. How can you cope with such vast and complex problems?</p>
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<p>The easiest thing you can do is just give up, right? But that’s no solution. If your capacity is not adequate then you must seek the help of others. Where can you get the necessary help and guidance? Is there anyone to turn to? Now we have come to the topic of today’s message, the importance of prayer.</p>
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<p>The most important thing in prayer is the attitude of the person who is praying. The most essential thing is your commitment to go toward this destiny without reservation. If anything wants to block you, you have to be decided that it will never stop you. Unless you have that commitment first, God will not waste His time trying to help you. He has always been deceived in history, so what God needs to see is proof of what you are and how strong your commitment is. You may tell God you are totally committed, but He will shake His head and think, “I have to wait three more years and see.” If God sees that something isn’t quite right in you, He will wait before sending down His help. God needs to be sure.</p>
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<p>God is foolish if He gives His help freely but then at the end of several years the person is all in pieces. If I were God I would also wait and see. Suppose you were God. What would you do? You may tell God, “You see I am living as a Moonie and I will die as one.” Then God will notice and look more closely, but no matter how firmly you pray, without this basic commitment nothing will happen and you will be wasting your time. A decisive attitude is the key.</p>
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<p>Do you think I made a commitment to God that I would never change, not for fifty years or the rest of my life? I prayed first for the absolute faith which could say, “Even if not a single person in this world can believe, I will believe and follow in whatever incredible course You give me.” Second, I asked for absolute knowledge and wisdom. Third, I asked for absolute love. I prayed for these three things throughout my life, and now in looking back I see that they have been fulfilled, even when I didn’t know it was happening. There is no other power that could go beyond the boundary of race and nation. Since God could give me this absolute wisdom, I could search and find the Divine Principle and the truth about the world.</p>
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<p>An attitude of absoluteness is the basis for everything. Nowadays most of you think in terms of when you will get married, thinking that you are getting older and older. If this worries you then your absolute commitment is starting to shake. Instead of shrinking, you can make your commitment much thicker by thinking, “Marriage? That doesn’t bother me or change my commitment. ” When you face great problems and agony, after you finally overcome them your faith will be like iron. When you can see the kind of obstacle that might confront you, you can clear the field.</p>
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<p>Suppose you have been married for some time and are deeply in love, but then suddenly your wife or husband dies. Would all of heaven and earth crumble for you? That might be the very moment you could curse God for taking your loved one away, but instead you can thank Him for His grace in giving you a situation that will strengthen your faith. Then your belief can become stronger instead of weaker. God is a parent, and if He takes a loved one away it is not because He hates you but for some greater reason. If you can accept it and have faith in that purpose then you are ready for another challenge.</p>
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<p>In our Unification Church faith the most beautiful word is indemnity; through indemnity we can pay the debt of sin. You can think that no one else could stand such a burden of indemnity, so God is asking you to pay instead as His champion. You can accept it with a thankful heart. When you compare the time you spend without the person you loved with the millions of years your generations will live, your payment of indemnity is small in comparison to the blessing God will give you and your descendants. If the death of your loved one was really accidental and not direct intervention of God, yet you pray with this attitude of gratitude, then God will feel that He has really found an extraordinary child and His blessing will automatically be yours. Your attitude will decide the amount of blessing.</p>
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<p>Are you ready? If an extraordinary grief or tragedy hits you, are you ready to thank God and ask what is next? You know the law of indemnity; you cannot expect only good things and then curse God when unpleasant things happen. With knowledge of indemnity there should be nothing you cannot bear. That is the attitude of those who truly know God. When you first join this church your eyes might be bright and filled with fervor, but after three years your eyes get a little duller, don’t they? No? Ten years later? It is easy to say no, isn’t it? But do you really have confidence?</p>
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<p>Prayer is an absolute necessity. You may kneel all the way down to pray, but the most important thing is that you create an environment of commitment first. Unless your basic attitude is ready, no amount of prayer will be useful. In the Christian world today many people pray every day, but do you think they pray to destroy the Christian churches? No, they pray for prosperity, but the churches are crumbling nevertheless. Do you pray for the sake of the Unification Church? You don’t have to pray for the Unification Church. Pray for the big things: the nation, the world, the liberation of God. What you are really doing then is praying for a cross even bigger than the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>If you pray for yourself or for things smaller than the church then God will not answer because He is not interested in listening to such boring prayer. When you talk about the nation and world, He gets excited and starts looking for ways to help. This is training for how to love greater things. If you really live like that then even if you don’t have time to pray God will still back you up.</p>
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<p>In churches today people pray for their denominations, their social security check or their family problems and their pet. God’s ears hurt when He hears those prayers and He will plug His ears. If those people prayed for God to use their church to help save the world and liberate God, He would perk up and be amazed because God is a person just like you. When you only talk about yourself in your prayer, God is thoroughly bored and nothing will happen. But if you pray for His righteousness and His kingdom, He will be caught up in your passion.</p>
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<p>In order to fulfill bigger things you need an adventurous mind willing to take risks. Then God will tell you not to worry, that He is right behind you. If you throw yourself into overcoming the stone walls and persecution before you, God will take up your battle for He knows who is just and who is unjust. But first God will watch, giving you a chance to knock your opponent down with your own capability. This is the same thing a father and mother would do. If you come running to God to ask for help before you even confront your enemy, He, like any parent, will be ashamed to hear you and will send you back out again. Create a good problem: be a heavenly troublemaker instead.</p>
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<p>I came to America and became a good troublemaker, and that’s why America doesn’t like me. America has built a prosperous society, but I came to shake this nation and Americans resent my disturbing their peace. But I did not come to destroy America, only to warn this nation that there is danger ahead. Someone has to warn the people and bring them out of disaster. You know there is a big battle coming so you must ready yourself in body and spirit. After you go first you can ask God to come and help you with anything you lack. Then God will say, “Go ahead. I am right behind you.”</p>
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<p>If you seriously sit down and pray in those circumstances, God will encourage you. As soon as proof of your commitment comes to God, an avalanche of help will come to you. I have had the experience of thinking about some problem and not even praying about it, but already God knew my thoughts and went one step ahead of me. When I discovered that my thinking had been fulfilled, He smiled and said, “See what I did?”</p>
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<p>You need the basic attitude of sincerity as a foundation of prayer. Otherwise, no prayer will work. More important for creating that atmosphere is to go out and serve one more person, knock on one more door, receive more persecution. That is more valuable than sitting for hours in a dark room praying. Prayer is only needed after you have exerted all your energy and it was not enough. Then you can ask God to come help. When you can do it then you don’t have to ask God, but can tell Him to relax. The prayer for all seasons is the prayer for God’s kingdom and His righteousness.</p>
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<p>Do you think God prays sometimes? Sometimes without thinking a parent murmurs to himself or herself, “Oh, I wish my son would do this, or be that way.” That is God’s prayer also. God is murmuring about you, about me and about the Unification Church because this is an emergency and He is engrossed in His concern. That is God’s prayer. You don’t even have to sit down to pray; you can just talk to yourself as you go, whispering and murmuring your concern. That’s prayer. In our case praying and doing is our life. Praying and waiting is not our life.</p>
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<p>If you pray unconsciously in everyday life then undoubtedly you are becoming sons and daughters of prayer. You give your last ounce of energy but it is not enough, then ask God for assistance and your prayer will be answered. If that were not the case, how could we ever subjugate Satan? Satan has given unending anguish and heartbreak to God for 6,000 years and if there were no way we could finally subjugate him then there would be no end to it. There must be a way.</p>
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<p>The power of prayer works wonders, but prayer must be serious and done with one united heart, not a divided heart. When the moment of engagement comes, it is a most serious moment for both men and women, but in the Unification Church it is different because you leave it to me. Do you realize what a formidable job it is to pick your own spouse? In that moment you become dead serious, but prayer is even more serious than that. If you pray with that attitude then it will be answered. If your parents are on their deathbed it is a serious moment, and the words you speak then are urgent. There is no way you could doze at that time. Your prayer to God is more serious than that.</p>
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<p>Prayer is like a covenant between you and God, a promise. Once you make a contract, you follow through and then it will undoubtedly be fulfilled. That is the attitude I am talking about. You must not be disappointed when prayer is not answered immediately. Some answers come late. At other times you should not be overjoyed when prayer is answered quickly. That is not necessarily the best thing.</p>
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<p>Because you are surrounded by the world there are many stages to go through horizontally and vertically. The answer to prayer does not come from you but down from heaven and it takes time to reach you. There have been many foolish people who received answers to their prayers up to a point but who didn’t go the final inch, and when they weren’t satisfied they betrayed God. When you pray for the world you may not see things changing immediately around you, but far away the communist world starts to crumble. The impact of prayer can be felt in a far-away place. If you are in the Abel position, the answer comes from Cain and takes time to reach you.</p>
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<p>You must think that your prayer today may not be fulfilled until thousands of years from now. I pray such prayers. I am not praying just for this world today; I am praying for 1,000 and 2,000 years from now. If that prayer makes a bridge between that time and now then the Unification Church will continue to flourish even a long time after I am gone from the earth. That kind of prayer is needed.</p>
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<p>If many of you pray that kind of eternal prayer, the world will start to shake and the impact be far-reaching. The root of that prayer is your tears, sweat and blood, and out of it beautiful flowers will blossom. When Jesus prayed in Gethsemane he was deadly serious, shedding tears, sweat and blood. All day long you must be in a prayer mood, not just one hour, but 24 hours. What prayer position do you prefer? The best is to kneel and lower your head. You have to restrict your body’s freedom, as though it were bound. You will feel pain, but overcome it because you must be serious. Then God will know your attitude. That is a necessity for prayer. Without prayer Jesus and the saints could not have done the great things that had an impact on the world. When you resort to the power of prayer you can have hope because you never know when the fulfillment will come.</p>
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<p>My prayer is centered on the culmination of the third seven-year course. You may think I relax when I am alone, but there is no moment of relaxation because my mind is always concentrated on the completion of the third seven-year course. You must understand the importance of prayer and have conviction that prayer will be answered. Through prayer you can receive power.</p>
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<p>Through prayer you can receive visions into the future and guide yourself accordingly. You will know what kind of difficulty is coming and how to divert it and overcome. If you know how to steer yourself then you can do big things, and prayer alone can pioneer such a path. It is more important than eating. I go out to nature because it gives me a better environment for prayer, and I love nature for that reason. I love the quiet of midnight. I don’t say much about the visions I receive, but if you receive them then don’t you think I do too? That kind of new world can only be reached through prayer. In that position you can taste love. This world is desert-like, but the world created through prayer has a climate where love can thrive.</p>
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<p>You must learn how to generate your own power. You cannot expect that I will always pull you and push you out. You must make yourself self-propelling. In order to do that, prayer must be the diet of your life. Whether people recognize your efforts or not, you must do your duty enthusiastically because you have a covenant with God. Day and night you move on; there is no pause. That is a living testimony.</p>
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<p>Every several years my topic of prayer changes, which shows progress to a new era. In a prayerful mind I know precisely what time it is in God’s timetable. That kind of preparation is necessary for self-perfection, and you must learn it through the power of prayer. Do you pray in the way I taught you today, for His kingdom and righteousness? Pray that this country can become a center of God’s righteousness. Your country has seen many fervent patriots, but you must pray with more fervor than any of them. If your concern for this country is greater than God’s then this country will survive, but otherwise it will crumble.</p>
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<p>What is our goal and destination in the Unification Church? I am leading you where God desires for you to be. It doesn’t make any difference whether it is difficult or easy because whether there are many obstacles in front of us is irrelevant. The important thing is not just getting there, but getting there in the shortest possible time. If we go quickly then there is less danger, but when the process is stretched out there are many opportunities for disaster and we must not allow that.</p>
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<p>This is a transitional period. We are entering into a new era, a new plateau and history of faith. Therefore, this is a critical moment for you and God. Last night I spoke to the department heads about the true meaning of home church. Home church is the greatest gift God and True Parents can give mankind. It has never existed before and will not again in the future. When you make this gift yours by fulfilling it, you will definitely become a son and daughter of God. I have prepared this precious gift for you for my entire life of sixty years and now I freely give it to you. You can make it yours in six months. This is an incredible opportunity.</p>
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<p>Home church should be the subject of your prayer. Pray with a parental heart for your home church people as your children who are struggling in hell. Your heart as a parent must be grieved and desiring to save them. If you don’t have that feeling then you are in a dire emergency. You must open your heart to parental feeling of love toward your people. If you don’t have real love for them then push yourself until you do. No one has to teach a parent to love his children. If you feel like a parent to your home church then your love will be the same and no one will have to teach you.</p>
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<p>Just finishing elementary school takes six years of daily attendance. Do you think home church is comparable even to elementary school? It is the school for becoming a messiah. Think of how important it is. Even though you might attend it your entire life, you must give your heart and soul because you could not have any better school. Even though you have only 360 homes, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire universe.</p>
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<p>In America there are about 70 million homes, and if each person had 360 homes we would need 200,000 members to cover all America. If the entire Christian population accepted Divine Principle and wanted to do home church, what would happen? There would be no room for you! There is nothing more important tor you than this. Test your own power of prayer: take one person and pray for him fervently, constantly, without telling him. Pray tearfully for his well-being and then that person will feel a magnetic attraction to you. He won’t know why he feels drawn to you.</p>
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<p>If you receive in your prayer that you will meet a person at such and such a time, when you go there then that person will come. If you are dead serious then these things will happen. Hypnosis can transfer a person into another state of consciousness, but how much more can prayer change lives. There is no distance or limit to its influence because the power of thought travels everywhere. You can mobilize the entire spirit world by the power of prayer. You have experienced that I will work through your prayers and tell you certain things. There is no limit to the power of prayer.</p>
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<p>When you have the right attitude in prayer then miracle after miracle will happen. The most important part of a launching pad is the foundation. At take-off it must not break under the heat and pressure. Your prayer is like a missile firing and you need a solid foundation. You must not pray from greed for yourself. That prayer would be harmful to you. Public prayer as a public person will cleanse you and elevate you higher and higher.</p>
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<p>If you live with this high sensitivity to spirit world, you will sense what is forthcoming. Your perception will be keen and you can prepare for the future. You should know that you are like two people in one. Your inner man is like a mirror, clean and bright. When the inner and external men are not synchronized you feel anguish but when they are perfectly aligned you feel joy and power. This is happening every day within you. When you see a person your inner man can tell you what kind of person he is, and if you hear a person’s report, a sixth sense will tell you how truthful it is. When someone walks into a room, I can see whether he is bringing good news or bad.</p>
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<p>Don’t neglect this inner man but consult him all the time. When you are higher spiritually you are always there, always speaking with this inner man. You have a spirit man and he wants to talk to your physical man. You may not have any intention of saying anything yet suddenly you find your mouth moving. That is not you but your inner partner speaking. Even the rats of a ship can sense when a ship is in trouble and run away, but how much more should man, the supreme creation of God, know when life or death is coming? Shouldn’t you be alerted when a certain destiny is forthcoming? For your inner and outer man to become one you need the power of prayer.</p>
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<p>I have a family but I seldom pray for them. My prayer is anguish for the nation and world and cosmos. God will concern Himself with my well-being because I am concerned with God’s. If I only paid attention to my family instead of to the world and God, my family would get sick. I don’t concern myself with my family’s well-being; I concern myself with the church and God’s work and I know God will take care of them in the meantime. This is the principle of give and take.</p>
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<p>Those who want to do more for others will receive more. Those who want to go down will be lifted up. Don’t pray empty prayers. Now you know the power of prayer. Everyone needs to experience these things spiritually. You must know whether the things you do will succeed or fail. You know that certain things will succeed because you feel pulled in that direction and are eager to go ahead. Your body is like the receiver of a radio. Free yourself from self-centered thinking, and then mighty things will happen to you. You must open that valve.</p>
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<p>You are entitled to ask for God’s power, but only for the sake of His righteousness and Kingdom. Then He will come down. Pray and act. You will feel different from yesterday and you will know the power of prayer is in action. Today is just the beginning. Pray to tell God that you are just beginning and need His help. Make a showdown with God every day. It shall become second nature, and without being conscious of it you can live that life all the time. Let’s do it then.</p>
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<p>This morning I vividly felt spring at East Garden, with the birds singing and the grass turning green. Now we don’t need the tent we have in winter and the sky is our ceiling. When the sun comes out it will be even better.</p>
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<p>All of you here have different characteristics, some tall, others short, some thin, others not thin. Some people like spring most of all, others prefer summer, and others winter. In most cases, which season do you think people prefer? Why spring? Perhaps Americans like spring best because it represents a well, as in wellspring. You can say people prefer spring because it brings new life and flowers, but most important of all, spring brings variety and change. Spring is the symbol of hope.</p>
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<p>There are many changes in our lives and in all seasons, with some changes for the worse, like sickness, but spring brings changes full of hope. Of course, spring is the season of flowers blooming, sending out their fragrance and beauty. The birds and butterflies dance around. Even the smallest insects feel the activities of spring and they dance around too. What will the worms do since they have no wings? The worms will wiggle and wiggle.</p>
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<p>Do people fly or wiggle around? People find joy in spring by observing the things of creation joyfully welcoming spring. For whom are those things of creation singing and dancing? How could they be singing for God if they don’t have spiritual senses to communicate with Him? The things of creation rejoice for the sake of men. Then who should men rejoice for?</p>
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<p>Mankind includes both men and women. Although spring brings variety and change and hope, all of the activities of the flowers and birds and insects have the common purpose of rejoicing for love and for life. Do birds sing early in the morning because they are hungry or defending their territory, or because they are calling for love and for their mates? In the springtime the voices of the birds sound especially clear and happy. In spring all creation becomes full of joyful vitality, but truly everything is singing and dancing for love.</p>
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<p>What about people? Would a lone man or woman singing out loud when no one is listening feel happiness? A song is basically expressing a call for love. What kind of song do people like most? There are basically four kinds of love songs-the meeting of love, love of living, sorrow of parting, and heartbreak of missing each other. Life itself is embroidered by these four songs about love. All four categories of love are woven into the human stories in drama, movies and shows on TV, sometimes with tears and sometimes with joyful laughter.</p>
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<p>There are different characteristic kinds of love -that of parents, of children, of the nation, of the world and of mankind. In religion we are talking about one more important love-love of God. The expression of love of God is most profound in religious life. I’m sure if you could converse with the birds and ask which season they like most, they would answer, “Spring.” The butterflies and other insects would undoubtedly love spring most as well because spring is the season for songs of love; it is truly the season which activates all love.</p>
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<p>Have you ever wondered why God made the flowers so beautiful and fragrant? All the flowers blossom in spring because God knew that in spring all things of creation would be rejoicing; God prepared such beautiful, fragrant flowers to enhance the celebration of all things. In spring you sisters want to wear nice dresses and put on cologne or perfume. Then you want to go somewhere and sing a song of love. When you talk about love even a shrunken, wrinkled old lady will become very beautiful. When you talk about love even children wake up. When you talk of love, everyone feels some injection of vitality.</p>
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<p>Is there some word which will comfort a very hungry person and make him forget his hunger? Talk to him about love. Do you prefer to eat first and then talk about love, or to share love first and then eat? Love is really a vitalizing, activating force in human life. When we talk about love here, no one dozes. Your eyes are sparkling and you feel enthusiastic and your faces are like blooming flowers. God feels His most beautiful flower garden is at Belvedere on Sunday morning.</p>
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<p>Have you a song of love? Do little children feel love? They know about love because they can miss their mother and father; they also cherish their toys and that too is in the category of love. Children communicate with their toys and sleep with their baby bear and so forth. Then they also want their parents to play together with them. Toy shops have lots of stuffed animals of all kinds-bears, rabbits, mice. Children learn how to relate with all things beginning with their toys.</p>
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<p>When you ask people what kind of life they would consider ideal and how they would like to live, people often say simply they would like to see springtime all over the world, with fragrant flowers blooming. Singing of love and whispering love seems to be the ideal. In order to sing of love you need a partner because the world of love is a reciprocal world. If anyone wants to live as a single person all his life, he is retreating from the world of love. There is a weird trend expanding now in America, where men actually want to marry men and women want to marry women.</p>
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<p>In East Garden do you think the male birds sing a song of love to each other and the females likewise? Does that seem natural? What kind of song could two male birds sing to each other? How awkward and dry that would be! If you ask to buy two male lovebirds at a pet store, the salesman will wonder if you are all right. If you bring them home and expect them to sing, do you think they will sing a song of ecstatic joy? When God sees such a thing He will wonder if you are crazy.</p>
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<p>Here in America there are many bachelors living the single life in their apartments. What kind of song can a bachelor sing to himself? His song would not be just lonely, but despairing. I feel sorry for the building that houses only bachelors and for the flowers that have to bloom for them. You laugh, but there is a certain truth here. Do you women want to sing for your four walls, or would you rather sing wherever there are loving people who will appreciate your song? People long to be in the place where the song of love can be meaningful and understood.</p>
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<p>Is there any limitation on the time and place you I can express songs of love? Do you have to be well dressed or on a well-lighted stage or have on makeup? Will you women have rules for your husband that he must brush his teeth and shave and put on cologne before he can kiss you? Definitely Mother doesn’t have such rules. Imagine an extreme situation, as when a husband and wife have been separated for a long time and the husband is returning after a long journey. He has no time to clean up, but when he walks in the door will his wife insist that he has to wash before he can greet her? Would you women , mind if your husband were very smelly at a time like that? Love makes you blind. Love can transcend anything because it is the supreme power. When a man and woman like each other in a reciprocal way we call it love.</p>
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<p>How is the relationship between men and women different from love between mankind and God? You want to be alone with your mate when you express your love, right? How would you like to have a third person observing that scene? What kind of love relationship is there between God and an individual? Will God shoo everyone else away?</p>
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<p>God can love both men and women, so which would He prefer? If God had to choose between loving a man and a woman, one would accuse if God went to love the other first and a great squabble would start. Do you think God didn’t imagine that this problem would arise at some time? Put yourself in His position; where would you start? Should He have them choose straws? How would God determine the sequence of love? The beautiful solution God decided upon is that He comes down only when the two are loving each other with ecstatic joy. The Principle of the Unification Church is very clear: when your mind and body join as subject and object then the dwelling of God is with you. When man and woman are united in reciprocal action of love, God dwells there. When you are single you are incomplete; only when you are united with your partner in harmonious love, walking and having give and take, can God fully dwell with you.</p>
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<p>The best expression of Divine Principle is two people working harmoniously together. That is the basic teaching, actually. When you walk you want to walk together with the person you love. Would you have two different minds, or one united mind? Two destinations or one destination? Your destination is the love of God. When spring comes and all creation is activated, what is it for? Love. What is the center of that love? All things of creation center upon man, and together they all center around God. Man has lordship over all things and he rejoices over God.</p>
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<p>Ultimately we conclude that springtime centers upon the love of God. Do you feel spring? Then you may thank God for all the things of creation and say to Him, “Here we are singing a song of love together. But when did You have a chance to sing a song of love?” How will God answer? Do you think God has a stage and special room set aside where He can really express His love?</p>
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<p>How many Gods are there in heaven? There is only one God, and if He has been singing a song of love for millions of years by Himself then He must be a crazy God. Where can God find His object? That is a grave problem. God can only find an object for His love in men, but because of the fall of man that object has shattered. Imagine how lonely and heartbroken God must have felt all these years. In that situation, does God feel wonderful and renewed every time He sees the spring season come? He must think, “Is it another spring already? Are the flowers blooming again and the birds singing”</p>
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<p>Spring is a burden instead of a joy to Him and He can’t bear to listen. The fragrance of the flowers and singing of the birds would be painful to Him. God created all these things as an expression of His love and all of them are perfectly fulfilling their purpose. However, God can only say, “Where is my love?” If a handsome, rich man marries and prepares a fabulous mansion for his bride, taking meticulous care with every detail and hiring servants, but then his wife betrays him and runs away, how would that man feel when he is in that house? When he looks at the mansion he prepared, he would feel only unbearable pain and he would rather destroy it than look at it. You can imagine that the worst crime you can commit is the crime of love. by which you bring despair and heartbreak to someone.</p>
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<p>When we compare God’s position to that of this heartbroken man, can you imagine Him singing a song of love? God has felt many times as much pain as any abandoned husband or wife. Everything was prepared in great glory and beauty for His children, but His house has been empty and never filled with love. When you are betrayed by the one you love then all the things you prepared for that person become not only meaningless, but a painful burden. With a loving heart God prepared the whole universe for man. When man betrayed God, all the things He had so lovingly made became only a source of pain to God instead joy. Can you imagine?</p>
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<p>Without knowing how man has betrayed God and without knowing His heartbreak, men are trying somehow to live with love among themselves, singing and dancing in different ways, like the frantic gyrations of disco dancing. When God sees men trying to enjoy love without having God as their partner, what would He think? God would be choked with wrath. God’s position is almost like that of a husband whose wife ran away to some stranger. After loving her so much, what feeling would that man harbor in his heart toward her? He would feel tortured.</p>
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<p>When two lovers sing and dance it is a joyous expression. If two people are really caught up in love then it wouldn’t matter what kind of song or dance they did, whether belly dance or snake dance or disco. I have no objection to dance halls as long as the lovers going there to express their love are approved by God. It would be fine for younger people, but even more exciting for older people! True love supports that kind of thing.</p>
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<p>The worst kind of crime or sin in the sight of God is the violation of true love. That is Article One in the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven. What kind of punishment is deserved by the men and women who violate this article? Should their act be ignored, or is there no room for negotiation and compromise? Is their sin greater than that of murder? The violation of the law of love in the Kingdom of Heaven is the worst crime and even an execution would not be adequate retribution. Would every cell of the body be resigned to that punishment, or would they complain that it was unfair? Then where is that absolute love? When God created law for His kingdom, He made violation of love the worst crime.</p>
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<p>I hope that this will sound serious to you Americans. Does it sound logical and workable? Do you want to support and live that principle? Do you have absolute love?</p>
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<p>I would like to recommend that you blessed couples stay together as much as possible when you have the chance, even going to the bathroom together and whispering love to each other there. Share the equipment together and when you finish clean one another up. Would God look down and exclaim at how ridiculous and repulsive you are? No, He would be excited and uplifted to see such love. God’s number one rule is that true love is absolute and in that case it doesn’t make any difference where it is expressed – in the bathroom, in the garden; anywhere is fine and that love will bring ecstatic love to God.</p>
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<p>If in order to promote such absolute love you end up in jail for several years, what does it matter? It makes your life more romantic and dramatic. There is no prison anywhere which can confine true love, no regulation which can stop the march of true love. Any law trying to do so shall melt away. Those who are trying to proclaim and practice such true love in the twentieth century are called Moonies.</p>
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<p>People might look at your humble dress and pale faces and think you are really wretched people who do nothing but work all day on MFT or knocking on peoples’ doors. Externally they might see that, but inside the motor is running and you have a big heart going after true love. Nothing under the sun can compare with the value of your heart. You should have pride; even though you may not be the most beautiful kind of person physically, you possess true, burning love centered upon God. You are princes and princesses of love and of heaven, and you shall have such a person as your husband and wife.</p>
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<p>The person who conquers the universe with his true love is going to be your mate; he will be a king of love. He will be the only absolute king of love in your life; he will be your subject and master and for him you will write poetry and songs of love, pouring out your heart. God is almighty in that respect, and He has the ability to make each of you a king of love so you shall have such ecstatic joy as this. God is the king of kings of love and He is eager to see each of His children becoming kings of love, each creating his own empire of love where God can dwell.</p>
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<p>No matter how much earthly power or authority a person might have who is trying to stop this love, he shall be destroyed. It is the law of God that love must prevail on earth. There is not much true love in the world today; instead it is corrupted and dirty and stained, but we are declaring a revolution to clean the world and bring it back to true love. That is the declaration the Unification Church is making today. True love is so absolute that when a husband and wife make their covenant with each other they shall be recorded permanently by God.</p>
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<p>In the garden of Eden God gave only one commandment, declaring that Adam and Eve should not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.</p>
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<p>What He was telling them was not to misuse love. That was the only commandment God gave, to keep pure. Love was the only thing God had to protect. You all know that though you are young you are from varied backgrounds, many of which are unacceptable. You must feel total abhorrence toward such an unprincipled past and want to get as far away as possible. Put up such strong barriers that your old life cannot encroach on you again.</p>
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<p>Are you still just thinking about cutting off the past? If you haven’t definitely cut off the past, how can you ask for the blessing? Do you think such a person should be considered for the blessing ? The heartbreak of Adam and Eve’s fall was enough tor God. You cannot crucify God another time by violating love. You must truly be reborn and be obedient to God’s law of love.</p>
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<p>When God makes a rule are many special exceptions made? No, this principle is absolute. How much do you think God loved Adam and Eve? Even though He loved them wholeheartedly, when they violated His law and ate the fruit God had to cut them off and chase them out of the garden of Eden. Losing your purity is far worse even than dying. If we are flexible in that standard, it would be like the stained, corrupted Adam and Eve inviting God to come live with them.</p>
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<p>If we can go over that history then for the first time God can enjoy springtime. My topic is Spring Season of the Providence. That spring will come when we go over the hill of that ultimate test. How many of the 240 million people in America, including the people in the White House and Congress, are going over that hill? Is there even one? Now this morning you know it is a grave problem. You see the reality according to God’s standard and see the greatness of our life here. Until now many of you never realized the seriousness of it.</p>
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<p>This is true for all four billion people on earth. Is there anyone trying to follow this, let alone actually live it? Is there a couple who live with absolute true love such that nothing can part them, who realize the value of true love? No one has been longing for the springtime more than God. Do you think it has arrived? A person who cannot live up to the absoluteness of God’s law cannot cross the absolute barrier which God erected after the fall. When Adam and Eve united with Satan and died spiritually, God set cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the way so no one could re-enter the garden of Eden. When a couple with absolute love emerges, God would like to protect them to an absolute degree.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church do the blessed couples value their love with this absoluteness, truly living up to this standard? The True Parents’ purpose in blessing them is so they can become pioneers in this love, but often instead of living up to that purpose and living this love they talk about their position and authority. They forget their responsibility and try to reap authority instead.</p>
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<p>When a couple with the absolute standard of God’s love emerges, they will truly be the king and queen of love and the entire universe will bow down to them. Even God will bow down. History will bow down. They will be practically worshipped, not only by single people but by other couples. Everyone will see in this couple a royal monument of love. The Unification Church gives blessing, aiming to harvest the fruit in this springtime of providence. being admitted past the cherubim with fire to consummate the goal. When you receive the blessing but you cannot fulfill, a grave responsibility will be yours. The consequence of any mistake will not remain with you alone but will be passed to your entire family, including your ancestors. This is the seriousness of the kingship of love. From this standpoint all things shall be judged.</p>
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<p>When you have this absolute love consummated, however, and kingship and queenship is sealed in you, then even if you march to the gates of hell the door will open. There be no place you cannot conquer and nowhere you cannot go. Everywhere you go you shall bring springtime. Love is not consummated for your own sake; it shall be shared with the people. Centering upon love you must attain kingship such that no one can topple you in that area. You will have one father, one mother, one husband, one wife.</p>
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<p>When you look at American society according to this standard, you can see what a terrible thing Satan has accomplished here. American families are in shambles. When you have this kingship of love, however, you can bring your tribe and race to the door of heaven. Where on earth will we see the spring of the Providence of God? That particular spring is actually at hand. I declared that spring and the new calendar of heaven and earth in 1977 on February 23. That started the year one of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It was declared by the instruction of God. Of course Mother and I must go first. With that standard I am looking at Mother. Each day I must check, and if there are certain areas lacking I must educate Mother and raise her standard so she will graduate with an A+.</p>
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<p>This is the Principle, that the man or king should bring that absolute love first. After he sets the tradition he must re-create woman. Therefore, Adam must set the kingship of love, and then Adam and Eve together shall be perfected. Who has the established world reputation for seeking liberation from men? American women. No matter how you try to claim your human rights, first you must claim your right to true love. You live to establish your love rights. If people ask why Reverend Moon is persecuted, you can reply that it is because he wants to protect this love right.</p>
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<p>Americans criticize without understanding me. Americans who are smelly with corruption try to criticize me, but don’t worry. The entire creation and the whole universe is coming forward to support me. You can see that the people who hate and oppose me think they can succeed, but it has been the pattern that those opponents have been taken care of by God and they went to spirit world. I am going to proclaim continuously this principle of the love of God, this absolute standard. No matter what, there is no compromise or negotiation. The mighty power of God is pushing this movement forward and there is no way it can fail.</p>
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<p>Ask the rising sun what it hopes to see here on earth. It will reply that it wants to see a man and woman who are absolutely perfected in love, and that’s why it has been shining for thousands of years. If you have a way to ask the birds who are whistling in the morning, they will say they want to see the day when the kingship of God’s love is established here on earth. All things of creation are uncorrupted, so they will have the correct answer if you ask them.</p>
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<p>Anyone who tries to go against that rule can never prosper, whether it be a nation or family. There is no way they can survive. The only power that will ultimately succeed in this universe is the kingship of love. My teaching and conviction centers around this kingship of God’s love. I shall fight and die for this purpose. There may seem to be only one roadblock after another and no way to forge ahead, but there is no such word as impossible for me. I have forged ahead step by step. This is why I think God has to love me. Anyone who takes exception to this, raise your hand please.</p>
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<p>If you ask Satan about this, he must answer, “Well, I have to say yes.” Logic is logic and principle is principle. Once you obtain this absolute kingship in the love of God, you enjoy absolute freedom. Whatever you do will give joy and glory to God. If you do something weird, it becomes very funny to God. If a heavy man is riding his slender wife like a horse, God will look and say, “Um hmm. Beautiful.” You have total freedom once you secure the right of true love.</p>
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<p>Usually you walk on two feet, but you can walk on your hands and use your feet like hands instead if you want to. There is limitless freedom in love. I want to bring Mother to that world where love prevails. When we look at the reality compared to that highest possible standard, we see how far away we are and how corrupted the world is. Trying to bring this world back to that standard is truly an awesome task. Do you want to go that route? Think about it now. It will be very difficult, but would you still go?</p>
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<p>The work of MFT is nothing compared to the consummation of true love. Being criticized and cursed, getting no sleep and going hungry is nothing compared to the journey you are going to make. When you are angry at someone who has scorned and spit at you, then remind yourself, “I am going to obtain the kingship of the love of God.” When you remind yourself of this highest possible goal, there is nothing you cannot endure. When you see that goal, then you can endure. Do you want to try? It is very difficult.</p>
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<p>Why don’t you do this the easy way; in the next five years the foundation will be complete, and when you come back everything will be much easier. Who wants that five-year vacation? No one? Are you really sincere? Why is it so important for you to make a pledge that you really desire to do this? Because it will bring money, power or knowledge? No, only for the true love of God.</p>
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<p>No matter how you look, if someone asks you where you are going, you can answer that you are striving for kingship in the love of God. Your ambition is entirely different from the world’s. If a dog is following you, barking, you won’t have to make the dog be quiet; a universal power will do it because the characteristic and motivation of the entire universe is centered on the desire of God. Nothing that opposes such a movement shall be tolerated by the universe.</p>
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<p>I don’t have any official title like ambassador or president, but when I walk this land thinking of the kingship of love I know that the entire universe supports me. This is why all kinds of commotion follow me wherever I go. I cannot be ignored. After the fall it was as though man had lost one eye, his spiritual eye. Now all of a sudden a two-eyed person has appeared. All the one-eyed citizens see he is different from them and call him a monster. We are talking about things entirely different than the wood has ever thought about.</p>
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<p>Suppose some spy comes to report back to his boss about what I am doing every morning at Belvedere. He might report that I hit some brother or sister who was in the front row, but that for some strange reason he likes it and others tried to get his place so they can be hit too! Imagine what would happen if a minister in church went down to the first pew and hit one of the congregation; that would be the end of church! Yet every Sunday you compete with each other to sit up front! No matter what I do, you know I am talking about the kingship of true love.</p>
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<p>I have a handsome hip, but it is even more beautiful if it is hit with a club of love and swells up in a big bruise. ln God’s eyes it is even more beautiful if it is carrying a lump of love. Love is freedom and any action expressed in love shall be accepted. Democracy claims all kinds of freedom, but without true love democracy actually is bondage. The more people enjoy their “liberties” the more they are bound.</p>
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<p>There is no way to describe God without a sense of true love. When you do certain things as an expression of love, even hitting someone, it is acceptable. What a dramatic life we lead! Even the criticism of other people sounds like the barking of a dog far away. In the meantime we pursue true love, and we will become kings and queens fulfilling that love.</p>
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<p>The cherubim with their fiery sword represent an impenetrable curtain which no one can pass unless they embody the love of God which can break down that wall. The cosmic spring of the providence of God is here. We shall see the spring of heaven come to this world, and when we penetrate this barrier we will liberate ourselves from the fallen world and enter that realm. You have learned the secret weapon for penetrating that barrier. I came to this world to teach this to whomever is willing to learn.</p>
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<p>The test I took and the hill I crossed over was no ordinary hill. It was the most severe kind of test. but by crossing over I laid the highway. Your hill, even though it is of the same kind, is much smaller. With just a little extra energy you can do it. Before I did it no one could even dream of crossing over, but now you can do it. The way to go is crystallized now and you an see clearly. Crystals have a certain distinct shape and pattern of facets. whether big or small. You will be a smaller crystal, but of the same shape I am. God’s hill was incredibly big. God crossed over the biggest hill to reach out to meet me, and I crossed over my hill to search for you. Your hill is a microcosm.</p>
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<p>Eventually those hills will be flattened and no more will remain to be crossed over. The way to cross over that hill is home church. The springtime of home church shall be the springtime of the cosmic dispensation of God. The time for home church is at hand. The people who are anticipating the spring are like the early birds who know even in the cold weather when spring will come. Those people will respond to home church. There are people who are awakened and they will rejoice together in the song of spring.</p>
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<p>There will be a blossoming of heartle; angels will be flying around and spiritual Rowers with their fragrance will bloom. God’s throne will be set in that garden and there He will write a poem about the first spring. You can anticipate God’s visit to your garden and have a melody ready for God’s poem and then you can sing together. When you are intoxicated with the song and the love of God you will forget yourself and dance around, and when you are doing the dance you realize you have become Ah-man. You will dance in the bosom of God. You and God will become totally one and there will be no separation there. There you can truly echo God, saying, “Ah-man.”</p>
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<p>We enter that world in total freedom. When that world is ours there will be nothing save ecstatic joy. No power under the sun will be able to separate you from that realm. Even if I am telling you a lie, you wish that it were true. But it is not a lie at all; it is the absolute truth, and how much more do you wish it were true right now? If you know that world can be reality and know it is at hand, how much more will you do? If that is the case, you want to jump farther and run faster and your whole body shall fly like a bullet, knowing that that goal is at hand.</p>
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<p>With this realization everything becomes your counselor and encourager; the song of the birds will cheer you on. Everything you see will be your teacher and engender a greater feeling for the love of God- the wide plains, the peaceful crane flying with big wings, the blue sky overhead. Everything will give you added incentive. With that kind of ideology you will write new poems and songs and masterpieces of literature. You will create a new culture with that love. In the activation of springtime the love of God finds fulfillment in the family. At home you wouldn’t see your grandmother, mother and father all looking in different directions. Everyone will be looking at each other, ready to exchange the love of God.</p>
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<p>Whether young or old, love activates everyone. I am the kind of man who has this crazy dream. Do you feel good? I think you wish your stomach were full more than you wish for this love. Is your denial really from your heart or just lip service? Our world is full of falsity and artificiality. Are you real or artificial ?</p>
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<p>Knowing that the springtime of the dispensation is at hand, do you want to have lordship of all creation and become true husband and wife, truly fulfilling the kingship and queenship of love? Unification Church women should develop new vision which can see deeper than just the external appearance of men, and be able to distinguish the men who have real spiritual backbone and determination. That is what has value. The external will vanish away.</p>
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<p>If you want to expand the value of your love you have to do extraordinary things, the more extreme the better. Then you can have extraordinary give and take of love. We must look forward to the day when God can say, “Here is my spring. I have found the true lovers. Grass, birds, flowers, rejoice and sing because finally I have found my loved ones who have kingship of love here on earth.” That day is our dream.</p>
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<p>We must help God to be a God of hope so that He will not see only despair and pain here on earth. In the shortest time the world shall come under the kingship of God, and when God has real hope of that He will truly be joyful. Just think, you are sons and daughters of God; He is our living God and Father. He has been brokenhearted for 6,000 years, without even one good day or hopeful spring. Don’t you want to be the son of filial piety who can welcome that Father to the cosmic spring? If you have a longing to live for that goal it is a great blessing for you and the greatest success of your life. Nothing else in your life could be more extraordinary or precious than to find this truth and the place to practice it.</p>
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<p>This is the garden in which True Parents, the true husband and wife can be found, in which children can be reared and the true world will be born. The Kingdom of Heaven shall be here. Only love has ultimate power and rules there; no other power can rule that kingdom. It shall be truly the world of equality; people of noble position shall be lowered and the poor people raised up. Do you think that is possible? If such a place is available do you want to run to it no matter what the difficulty? How courageously would you go? With what conviction? Your criterion should be that you will have greater conviction than even God Himself. Do you think God will scoff that you are trying to compete with Him? No, He will exclaim with excitement at what a son and daughter He has and cheer you on. When God gets excited you know that spirit world gets excited and is all ready to assist you. They are all excited because they know that springtime is at hand and the children of God are making ready the dwelling of God. The invitation is ready, the flowers, songs and costumes and everything is ready. In stormy weather when a plus and minus are created there is a tremendous crash of electricity. I am talking about a gigantic lightning bolt of love that will ignite a fire that will consume Satan. Well, your applause is very nice, but those who want me to wait and see how they will live this, you can applaud now.</p>
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<p>From here do you want to go to breakfast or to home church? Do you want to rest or go to home church ? You might have been sick and tired of hearing about home church every day, but after today’s sermon it is a beautiful word, isn’t it? Do you really feel that way? Do you love home church more than your watch or dress or yourself?</p>
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<p>No matter how loudly you shout your slogan, if you do home church out of duty you will never succeed. Only when you do it out of the intoxication of love will you succeed. The home church arena is where you can obtain the kingship of love. Put everything inside home church, and put home church everywhere so that wherever anyone touches you they will feel home church. When every cell shall be part of the kingship of love then there will be no more hills. Once you become Ah-man that accomplishment shall be eternal and no more Ah-man shall be needed. Until you come to this point you need prayer, but after you go over that hill you won’t even need prayer.</p>
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<p>When you reach that destination you won’t need me or Mr. Pak or even God because they will always be with you. Only love prevails; love is all. Today is April I and one-third of the year 1979 is over. April is going to be an important month. In the Oriental tradition #4 is a bad number, but as soon as we restore number four in Divine Principle it will be an important number. This will be a critical, decisive month. What we do in 1979 shall have its breakthrough made in April.</p>
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<p>You know where to go; you know the destination. You now have all the things you need to know. The remaining task is to fulfill and make it yours. Shall we do it? Thank You very much.</p>
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<p>When we talk about “parents” we usually mean the natural parents who gave us physical birth, but here we mean the True Parents who will give us eternal life. You all know that the dispensation of restoration was necessitated by the fall of man. Without the fall, there would be no need for salvation. The people who fell were not just figures in history, but the first ancestors of all mankind, and that means that God has never had the opportunity to fulfill His ideal in all of human history. Consequently, history has been proceeding on the side of sin and the ideal of true parents and the family of man has never been seen. Neither has man’s ideal of the ideal person and family and ideology been seen here on earth.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall of the first ancestors, history has been running on the side of despair, but even after the fall of man God could not abandon man. Originally God created man as His children, and since God was the Father of mankind, even after the fall He could not abandon man. For God’s part, if Adam and Eve had just vanished, He could have recreated them. If they had drowned and vanished, God could have recreated them, but that was not the case. They were still alive physically, but their original life was gone.</p>
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<p>What was that fall? If what had been lost by the fall could be replaced, we could easily get spare parts. If God could replace what went wrong, there should be no problem. However, the fall was not a material loss but a loss of heart, a loss of the core truth of creation. Genuine, pure love was entangled in the action of the fall. That love by which God wanted to have Adam and Eve blossom in the ideal was the hinge upon which the perfection of everything in creation would turn. God had dreamed of the blossoming of the beautiful flowers of love in Adam and Eve, and their fragrance would fill the earth. That was how God wanted to receive His joy and glory. But by the fall that love was hurt.</p>
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<p>God intended to have total unity in love between Himself and man so that there would be no boundaries between them and they could rejoice and live eternally together. That was the life God had planned for man. Therefore, God was waiting for Adam and ·Eve to bear the fruit of love. A fruit is actually the seed itself; the core and purpose of a fruit is to bear the seed inside. Inside every seed are two identical pieces joined together, and the life force is contained in the embryo of the seed. That embryo contains the essence of the parents’ love, of God’s love, and the life force. Everything is contained in that life package. The two pieces surrounding that embryo are needed to allow the seed to germinate and to give nourishment so life can spring forth.</p>
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<p>Fallen man still has the shape of a seed, but the embryo has become misshapen so that there is no life force and no love source there. Fallen parents gave birth to the fallen generation and many children have been born on earth. Their shape is the same as the original, but the embryo, the life essence, is missing. If man is born with the embryo still intact and pure then when life blossoms and grows, the embryo can only grow in the direction of God, just as a compass needle always points to due north. No one has to teach an original man without sin about God because instinctively he knows the direction of life and of God. There is no other direction for that particular life to take.</p>
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<p>When you were growing in your mother’s womb, did you worry about whether there would be air for you to breathe, or whether there was enough sunlight? In the same way, when original man was born on earth he had no worry about whether there was God or what direction life should take. Automatically he grew in the right direction. The life source of the embryo was the package of the true love of God it contained, and the life developing from that embryo automatically became a subject of love. But by the fall the essential embryo was destroyed.</p>
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<p>After the fall man became a seed without an embryo, so even though he was born he was like a ship without a compass, not knowing where to go or how to live. This describes the fallen generation. Even the lesser creations like the birds can detect the coming of the seasons without a calendar, and they naturally fly south in winter and north in spring in a most orderly manner. If man was to be God’s supreme creation, how much more sensitive should man be in perfection? God gave even the birds some special sensitivity to know the seasons so they could order their lives without deviation. The end result of the fall was that man collapsed in confusion and despair over love and ideology.</p>
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<p>Everyone is looking for true love and the ideal but they don’t know what direction to take so they try anything, even seeking answers through drugs and free sex. People are confused about ideology and think that maybe communism or socialism would be good, but no matter how much they search, without having true love as the focal point of their lives they will not find what they seek. True love means both human love and the pure love of God together. Your parents had human love, but the love of God was not at the center of it. For that reason it lacked the element of true love. Here we are talking about the true love of parents plus the love of God.</p>
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<p>Restoration means that we are going to establish an order for true love and ideology of the ideal. This order and standard, or discipline, must be restored. The ideal should be fulfilled in true love. The communist ideology is based on materialism, not upon God at all. Democracy is an ideology centering upon man, not God. What was the original ideology that God designed? True lovism. True love will provide the solution for everything, but where can true lovism begin? It can only begin in an environment without the fall. The fall brought man down from true lovism and the fallen world is the world without true love. You may think the ideal world must include three meals a day and journeys around the world, but without true love that will never be the true ideal for man.</p>
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<p>Why do we need true lovism? True love can make you a seed with an embryo of life. In order to become a true heavenly seed, the embryo must contain life from God. When you are restored to be that kind of seed, all you have to do is plant the seed and it will blossom and multiply many other true seeds. Each seed contains genes which determine what it will become. A pine seed cannot become a poplar tree. When you plant a pine seed, don’t expect corn to grow from it.</p>
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<p>What ideal are you trying to obtain? What is true lovism all about? True lovism can be called ideal humanism, or Godism. Many people in the world today talk about humanitarianism, but that is still fallen and without God. When you add the word ideal, that means God has been put back into it.</p>
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<p>Why are you gathered together here in the Unification Church? When we stand on the side of men and talk about this ideology we can call it “ideal, true humanism.” When seen from God’s point of view, it becomes true Godism. You might ask if I mean there are a true and a false God, and the answer is yes. The false God is the one who has had to deal with fallen man; He is a pitiful, miserable God, not the God of the ideal world. Is the fallen generation happy ? Do you think the God of the fallen generation is happy? God has been miserable, a parent who has to deal with dead children. He has been the most unhappy parent you can imagine.</p>
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<p>All the Christians in history have made many requests tor God’s help. Were they wealthy, happy children, or poor and miserable? They were miserable and that’s why they asked God to give them food and shelter. That kind of thinking was not God’s main concern and He did not pay much attention. But when God hears requests for His true love then His ears open. No one in history prayed that kind of prayer, however. Many church leaders have asked God to help them defeat the heretics and make their church prosper, but no one prayed for true love with such a longing heart that they were willing even to sacrifice their church to fulfill it.</p>
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<p>God really wanted to hear that kind of prayer, but for 6,000 years He has been hearing material requests and pleas for protection instead. So many ridiculous prayers are prayed that if I were God I would plug my ears. No one understood that God was heartbroken.</p>
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<p>We must know where true love comes from. It must come from a true father and true mother. That’s the logical conclusion. If God is working for restoration then logically He is looking for someone who can bring a channel of true love to earth, which is indeed the concept of true father and true mother. Then where will they come from? If God had every freedom to remake them, I am sure He would quickly do so. But that is one thing God cannot do-He cannot abolish His first son Adam because, after all, Adam was created as an eternal being.</p>
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<p>Two parents may have 100 sons and daughters, but if they lose their first child then they are miserable even though they still have 99 others. It has been God’s destiny to restore the first son back to the original state. That’s how the word “restoration” came into being. When God sees the world filled with men and women, He sees them as nothing more fallen Adam and Eve. God had to pick and refine people from all those on earth in order to have the true Adam emerge. You are fake Adams and fake Eves. Do you feel good? You say with fervor that you don’t want to be false Adam and Eve, so now go ahead and deny yourselves to that same degree. Do you really feel your old self is no good?</p>
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<p>Most people think they are all right but that everyone else is no good. You may be in the shape of Adam and Eve but you don’t have true life. What you need is true love and true life. When they can be grafted into you, you shall be restored to become true Adam and true Eve. You should say A-man, not A-men. Then you sisters should say A-woman. When you mean more than one, then it’s fine to say A-men, but when you talk about yourself, it should be A-man and A-woman.</p>
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<p>The very person who can be the first A-man is no one else but the Messiah. That is his role. In Japanese pronunciation, “messiah” means the house where rice is cooked. In Korean pronunciation, “messiah” means “what time is it now?” For you, the Messiah is nothing more than A-man. History has continued on and on, but the real A-man has never been seen.</p>
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<p>Even without knowing the whole truth, the churches talk about the Messiah and his return and the end of the world. Everyone thinks the Messiah must come on the clouds of heaven, having a wonderful time, and expect him to lift the Christians up in the air. They also say only Christians shall survive at the end of the world, that billions of others shall be judged by fire and brimstone and burned up. There are many conscientious people who scorn that doctrine and criticize the Christians for being selfish. They can’t accept such a God who would be so cruel as to allow that to happen. Listening to the two arguments, which side do you think God would take?</p>
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<p>How can you prove whether God will side with the non-Christians? We can prove it with the word of God. We can answer that question through the Scripture, John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God did not say that He gave His son only for the Christians. God loved the world; how could He destroy the world then? Was He talking about the restored Kingdom of Heaven, or about the fallen world where His generations were suffering?</p>
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<p>Christians have thought they had a monopoly on God and no one else was entitled to salvation. When I repeat that God loves the world and that He will not destroy it but save and restore it, they call me a heretic. They place great significance in their denomination, and when I say such barriers must be demolished and the churches must sacrifice themselves to save the world, they again call me a heretic. If God would ever call me a heretic and say that these Christians are right, I tell you we would lose nothing because there would be no God in heaven.</p>
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<p>Religion must be logical and common-sense. Do you need A-man? What is the essence of the number one man? Is he the one who is superior in the boxing ring? What is his qualification? Because he is such a super-person he probably wouldn’t need food or need to use the bathroom, and in order to climb to the second floor he wouldn’t need stairs, right? If you think you need him, would you want him close or distant from you?</p>
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<p>If God really wants to save this fallen world He will make the A-man very attractive to the fallen generation. What kind of person would you visualize as A-man? You white people would like him to be white and you black people would like him to be black, right? He should be a mixture of white, black and yellow, shouldn’t he? The important thing is not the color of his skin, but his content. True love and true ideal must be the content of that A-man.</p>
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<p>Human history has been proceeding with one main purpose of recreating one A-man, using all historical men as material to reach the final pinnacle. God has been molding a model, making it more and more perfect, bit by bit, progressing toward that perfect A-man. When we look at the history of God, we can see in the Old Testament era that God was molding that man into a servant. There are four major steps for men to take-to be a servant, adopted son, a true son, and father. In the Old Testament era God was striving to make a true servant. For 2,000 years God used all the rabbis and teachers to make one true servant, who was John the Baptist.</p>
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<p>God’s feeling was that John the Baptist was the true servant, and if he fulfilled his responsibility God would elevate him to the level of adopted son, to whom He would send His true son. But the covenant was that this adopted son must give his absolute loyalty to this true son when he came. If this adopted son was willing to give even his life to this true son, then he could become an adopted A-man. Life-giving loyalty was needed. John the Baptist was to love Jesus who was God’s masterpiece, truly the A-man. God labored for 4,000 years to bring him to earth, so in God’s sight Jesus was His most precious treasure. From God’s point of view it was most important that John the Baptist give his life to Jesus.</p>
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<p>God knows you men need true love and a true ideal. In order to secure that ideal your usual horizontal love affairs would not do, and neither would your way of loving your parents or brothers and sisters. That’s why God required the strictest standard that you should love the A-man most of all. When Jesus came he declared, “He who gives his life for my sake will find it. He who would save his own life will lose it.” Do you think that standard has been bent since Jesus’ time, or is it the same now? Is it true to say today that we who would lose our lives for God’s sake will find them? Is that your commitment?</p>
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<p>Jesus declared that the person who loved his own wife or parents or children more than he loved Jesus was not worthy of Jesus. Do you think there is truth in that? Did it mean that once people accepted Jesus as the Messiah they were free to get married on their own? What about you then, are you the same or different? What happened to John the Baptist 2,000 years ago; did he love Jesus more than his own family and nation? Did he pass or fail God’s test? Should you be better than John the Baptist or not? In order for you to be better than John the Baptist I am chasing you out to the wilderness. If I am chasing you out to raise money in the wilderness, then if the Messiah is rejected by the nation you can welcome him into the wilderness and build the Kingdom there.</p>
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<p>John the Baptist had gathered many disciples of his own, so when he knew that Jesus had come as the Messiah he should have brought his own disciples as his treasure and given them to Jesus. If Jesus returned them to John then John should have insisted. But did that happen? Wouldn’t it be smarter to keep what is valuable to you in your pocket and give what is unimportant to Jesus?</p>
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<p>The best way to be linked to true love is to give your life for it. When your life is connected to it then true love will flow into you. If your head is cut off then Jesus will replace it for you, but when you look closely you will see it is Jesus’ head you have now. By giving your life you can become Jesus. Then God will see that you look like His son, and will welcome you with the same love. If Jesus is a pine tree then you will look like a pine tree, not like anything else that you were before. When two people have an ideology and concept of love that are identical then they are identical.</p>
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<p>You need A-man don’t you? Now at the end of their prayer some people will say A-man and others will say Woman.</p>
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<p>If John and Jesus had become completely one, then John would have become an adopted son and all the Jews behind him would have followed Jesus. Then like a locomotive Jesus could have taken them all straight into the Kingdom of Heaven. That was God’s plan, but the reality was very sad. John failed to believe in Jesus; the rabbis and priests and scribes and all the people failed to believe in Jesus. Finally they plotted together with the Romans to nail Jesus on the cross. Do you think the crucifixion was God’s will? Do you think He put the true man here on earth again only to be killed on a cross? God’s work was restoration and recreation, so He wanted to create the A-man and A- woman first, then A-children and finally A-kingdom of God. But did Jesus live or die? Was the will of God fulfilled fully in his time? No, the Second Coming had to be announced.</p>
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<p>Through the history in the Bible we see that God has been working steadily according to one principle from the beginning to the end, so mankind is destined to welcome A-man one more time. Do you think Jesus Christ will return, or that someone else has to come? For 2,000 years after Jesus God has been using all men as material, trying to mold one more final model of a true man here on earth. Therefore, it is most logical that the Messiah must return through the country and people who have received the most tribulation and shed the most tears.</p>
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<p>That A-man must come as a physical person here on earth, a true man who will recreate true woman, because that was the order of the original creation. lt is not God who will make the true woman, but the true man. Why? In the Bible we read that God made Adam, but then only pulled a rib from Adam to make the woman. That actually means that God made woman by using Adam as a model. If God comes to take American women and push them out into tribulation and suffering, will they submit to it? Are American women likely to reject this and crumble, or are they more likely to accept it wholeheartedly? You may think they will accept, but God doesn’t think so.</p>
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<p>God sees that becoming A-woman is not an easy task because she must go through a tremendous ordeal. That woman must have absolute blind loyalty to A-man, so God looked for the country with that kind of virtue. Can that virtue be found more easily in the West or East? When God takes that woman to have her made into A-woman there should be no flaw.</p>
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<p>God instructed A-man to give A-woman a hard time because in the garden of Eden it was Eve who did not obey God or believe the commandment and whose cunning way united with Satan and betrayed Adam. Therefore, in restoration woman must be given a hard time and still unite with whatever God’s will is. Then A-woman is made. Do you think that is an easy thing to do? When that A-man recreates A-woman and they have children and make a home, then they would become the first True Parents in history. Would you like to meet the True Parents? Why? What would you gain?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is working for the salvation of the family, the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. So far Christians have thought that salvation was only for individuals, and that each person had to win his own cubbyhole in heaven. If the Unification Church is the place where you meet the Parents then you have to pay for all the historical sins and clean away the back debt of mankind. Only then do you become a perfect John the Baptist, and then you must unite with the true A-man. Even when the True Parents are finally installed, they cannot instantly make you into a true son and daughter. You have to go through several stages; first you become a servant, then adopted son, then true children. When you meet the True Parents, what would they do? Chase you out to the world, letting you become a true John the Baptist.</p>
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<p>That person cannot go out to the wilderness with skepticism, grumbling, “What kind of True Parents are they? The Divine Principle is very good, but why are they making me suffer?” But I want you to know that is the beginning point. When you meet True Parents you go back to that position and start out all over again, returning step by step, going through every level. First you become a servant, then an adopted son. The relationship between an adopted son and his stepparents is normally a difficult one and the son has much difficulty. But through the Principle you know the failure of men in the past, so you are willing to go this road nevertheless, without complaining, desiring to become true sons and daughters. Only those people can pass. The words Jesus spoke 2,000 years ago form the very credo you Moonies follow today.</p>
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<p>Why do we need True Parents? In order to restore and have the true ideal and love, True Parents are essential. Once you reach that ideal, no matter how strongly people insist there is no God, it won’t bother you because you know by experience there is a God. Do you have such antennae? We have special antennae so we can communicate the special love which others cannot detect. We can experience the true happiness others cannot taste. Do you only want to come for celebrations to cut the cake, but not go out to labor and sweat? Many people, even among you here, can’t figure out why you should go through suffering when you could easily have your own families and your own lives.</p>
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<p>I was smart; I didn’t willingly suffer without any reason. But there was no other choice. It was simply my destiny, the law of cause and effect in action. Because mankind is fallen, without going through that route there is no way we can taste true joy and true love. I am quite smart, and if there were some other way I would have found it. I am talking about finding the universal love which can be welcomed anywhere, even in the dungeons of hell. Hell will be melted into heaven by this love, but there is no easy way to get it. Even though there is a great deal of opposition, we have a great power of love which will submerge all the opposition in the water of love. That’s the only way we can finally overcome it.</p>
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<p>Then we bring the water of love to hell to wash it out. Do you live in the Old Testament era now? the New Testament era? In the Old Testament era the servant is carrying the load of God’s dispensation, while in the New Testament era the adopted son is carrying the dispensation. In the Completed Testament era the sons and daughters are undertaking the burden of the dispensation. Presently there are three levels of life in society; the non-believers belong to the Old Testament era, even now in the servant position the Christian world is living in the adopted son’s era, and the Unification Church is living in the era of true children.</p>
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<p>The responsibility of true children is the supreme one because they are going to inherit the responsibility of the parents. We are going to stop the crumbling of the world and bring it back to God. God has three major headaches here on earth. He must take care of communism; He must awaken and revitalize the Christian churches, and finally He must stop the degradation and immorality of the young people of the world. Who is doing it? One master satan is influencing all of this behind the scenes- communism. The communists are working to weaken Christianity because they know that religion is the greatest threat to them. In order to weaken the free world they are corrupting the young people.</p>
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<p>The focal point for the destruction of the tree world, the churches and the young people is the family, so once the communists destroy the family system, they will win everything. In one family in America you can find all kinds of religions and beliefs; because there is a chaos in ideology there is no unity and so love is going in all different directions. When the Messiah comes, however, and brings the central ideology, it will form the backbone of the individual, family and society, and then no power at all can destroy them. Even the communist power will not change them. All of Christian doctrine not be able to remove that ideology and free sex and carnal desire will not change it.</p>
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<p>Once equipped with this Godism, no one will be shaken, regardless of what enticements are offered. Will women be enticed by handsome men then? Didn’t you do it to Adam in the garden of Eden? The weakest creature is woman and she is more susceptible to the degradation of sin. Suppose you think you are beautiful and everyone envies you, but then all of a sudden I match you with an ugly man as a husband. Would you be proud of introducing him as your husband? Even though externally he is not handsome, you can be proud of him if he has the central ideology of God and if he possesses true love. Then he is far better than any movie star in the world. Your destination is not the handsome face of your husband; it is the ideology and spirit and true love he has.</p>
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<p>An electric bulb has a filament inside, and the more crooked it is the brighter light it will give; a straight filament will give only weak light. A man who is sturdy in the love of God may look unattractive, but once the switch is on he will light up the entire world. Light is the important thing. When you become a divine spirit you no longer see the physical body; in spirit world the intensity of brightness of a person’s spirit will determine his attractiveness, not his external appearance. The men who are pursuing God’s ideology and trying to obtain the true love of God are the noble men.</p>
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<p>Now it’s the men’s turn. They may think 1 am not qualified to say anything to them since I have such a beautiful wife, but I never prayed to have a beautiful wife. I said it didn’t matter what shape my wife was, even if she was so big I couldn’t reach around her. If God told me to love her and mold her into A-woman, I was ready to accept her and do my best. If that had happened would you have been pleased? Then the men would have thought they could be blessed to anyone except a woman of Mother’s shape. That’s why, even though I didn’t care what kind of wife I had, God cared very much. He wanted His children to think that the ideal woman was Mother, and any sister who looked like her would be the best wife. That’s why God gave you such a beautiful Mother, not for me but for you.</p>
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<p>Why are the True Parents coming to mankind? Is their goal only one nation? What was the goal in the garden of Eden in the beginning? The family. The basic unit of happiness is not the nation or world, but the family. The ideal family is more important than the ideal world. In this one unit of the family you must fulfill the ideal man and ideal love. The father’s position is the ideal man’s position and the mother’s position is the ideal woman’s position. The man’s position is the ideal son’s position, and woman’s position is the ideal daughter’s position. Our goal altogether is the ideal, Perfected family.</p>
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<p>The ideal would never be ideal with arrogance, and in order to eliminate arrogance a true love must be found which can melt everything together. Then nothing will be separated. If someone pulls the son, the entire family will go too because everyone is welded together. Is your family like that? Right now the family is mixed up and separated. You should be able to say that your father is greater than the President of the United States. A parent must be able to say that even though his son is crippled, he is better than any Harvard Ph.D. Why? Because true love connects them. That is first and foremost.</p>
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<p>the heavenly four positions the father, mother and children are welded by true love into one unit so that their positions are interchangeable, moving around and around. Then who is the center of this circular movement? God. There is a distinct rule in the true family that God is center, no matter what. Everyone goes toward God and nothing else comes first. Would a true father want his son to love him first before God, even for a short time? Would he be a true parent then? No, everyone would encourage each other to love God most.</p>
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<p>Why couldn’t husband and wife feel they were the closest, even just for a while? No matter how often father and mother may be living in different places on earth, if they are united in God they cannot be apart in spirit world. Though they are apart on earth, if they are united in the love of God then they will reach the same destination in God. Then they will become intensely close as husband and wife because God’s love will be manifested in their own love. As much as they love God, God permits them to love each other in spirit world, even many hundred times fold. Even though they are separated. if they are truly loving and serving God then they shall be given hundreds of times more closeness as husband and wife in spirit world. They shall be royalty of love there.</p>
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<p>When you meet your husband at God’s throne, you shall meet him as a queen of love. Love for God shall ultimately unite kingship and queenship of love on the highest possible level. That is why on earth we should want our spouse to love God more than loving us. That’s the way parents and children should think as well. We talk about true family in the Unification Church, but someone might misunderstand and lose faith by thinking they are not being given a chance to make their family because husbands and wives are often sent out on separate missions. If you are thinking that way, you are mistaken. This is the way you are going to be elevated into true kingship of love.</p>
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<p>Even if you are never with your husband or wife here on earth yet your love for God is intense, God will melt you into one for eternity, far more than if you had lived an ordinary life with your family here on earth. You are becoming an extraordinary person by living for God your whole life, longing for your family to be together. But once you are elevated to the eternal world you shall be welded into the most glorious family.</p>
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<p>You shall always remain a subject of the love of God and feel the intense presence of His love and ultimately move yourself to the position of God. I walked just this path. I started out in the servant position and then served in the position of adopted son. then son and finally parent. Who gives the diploma so you can graduate from one level to the next? Not God but Satan. You serve Satan’s world until they can say you are far better than any servant in the satanic world and there is no one else who can meet your standard. Then you move on to the adopted son’s position. There are many physical adopted sons on this earth, and you must pass all the criteria to be number one. Even though your step-parents hate you intensely, giving you nothing but grief, they should not be able to melt you. You should serve them and ultimately melt their hearts. Then they will sign your diploma saying that you are beyond their level and there is nothing they can criticize. When they surrender, you graduate to the next level.</p>
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<p>At that point you are eligible to join the Unification Church. At that point you may think you have reached the final destination, but then I chase you out to witness and fund raise. I am in a position to give you the worst kind of tribulation and hardship, but if you endure with loyalty and filial piety then finally I have to say to God that I surrender to you. Then you have met the standard of true son and will be elevated to the parent’s position. That is the principle of restoration by indemnity.</p>
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<p>The more you receive persecution and harshness yet endure and love. the quicker you will get to heaven. God has to allow you to go through that. Don’t misunderstand; God is not punishing you out of hate, but so that you can win over Satan by your own will and be separated from him. God wants Satan to be forced to say good-bye to you on every level because he has no more accusation. If you ever want to turn around and go back, Satan will chase you out because you don’t belong in his world any more. That’s what God wants.</p>
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<p>When we look at the entire world in the scope of the dispensation, we see that we in the Unification Church are one family, including all five colors of skin. In order to live eternally with the True Parents in the ideal world, you shall elevate yourself to the true son’s and daughter’s position, but here I see that you are at many different levels. Some are at the servant level, some at the level of adopted sons, and so forth, but everyone should reach the goal eventually.</p>
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<p>God created the physical world as the servant world, the angels as the adopted son’s world and Adam and Eve as His true son and daughter. You should be able to command lordship over all things and even be able to command the angelic world. When you join the Unification Church you do MFT work first so that you can exercise your lordship over all things. Then you go to restore the adopted son’s level, and ultimately come back to the family. Why do you need a family? That is where you can taste true parental love, in the true love of God and eternal ideal. The base for the Kingdom of Heaven is the family. The base for the true ideal is the family. The base for the true love and happiness is the family. In this family there shall be no more fighting between father and mother and there shall be no more tragedy of love.</p>
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<p>Parents should not show their tears or fighting to their family, and in the ideal separation would be unthinkable. Divorce would be like cutting your own body in half. In order to separate the two of you, you would have to remove God out of your lives first, which would mean digging up all the love inside of you and throwing it away. That would be self-destruction, and who would do that?</p>
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<p>You would like to have your family be Godcentered, wouldn’t you? Home church is the base for you to practice this particular way of life. Then later you will go back to Your relatives and install the ideal in the midst of your physical family. Everyone of you is now going through the tribal level since I have finished the nation and world levels. When you penetrate the tribal level you can go right to your family. This is where Jesus could not fulfill, so this is your starting point. You are going to love this tribe, your home church. You will be persecuted for that and yet you must love them unconditionally. By meeting that criteria you will ultimately love your family more than your tribe. Your tribe must bear witness, and signatures from 360 homes will be given that you are a son of God.</p>
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<p>When you have your own family God is going to say that since you loved your home church tribe so much, you should go ahead and love your family more than your tribe. You must love your family more than you love anything else because they represent your tribe, your nation and world. That’s the foundation of heaven. Once you reach this family level, there will no longer be any need for you to leave them. The basic atom of society is always the family, so the nation cannot disregard the family, the building block of heaven.</p>
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<p>Now in the process of restoration we sacrifice our families, leaving them behind to work for the world, but once we restore our families that phase is all over. The person who cannot serve his parents or brothers and sisters would not be any good for the society or nation either. You should be able to receive a diploma signed by your household which states that you are truly a loving person. With that diploma you can go out to serve the society and world. In the future world, if you reject your parents and go out to society, there will be no place you can set your foot or be accepted. If your own family cannot welcome you then certainly society will not.</p>
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<p>The family is the base for God’s love to be connected to you, and from you to society. If you lose that base then how can you expect to have any other? When this ideology of the family prevails in America, this nation will be the greatest of all. The Unification Church is now providing discipline and training for young people to become this kind of pious son and daughter who can love the world, yet parents are trying to kidnap their children from the Unification Church. From the point of view of true love they are the worst criminals. They are like Judas on the level of family, betraying the ideal family.</p>
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<p>Anyone who rejects the ideal nation on earth is truly Judas on the world level. That is what communism is doing. On every level we can find a Judas Iscariot, and when you enter spirit world, the ultimate Judas is none other than Satan. When we can win over all the betrayers on each level, we shall bring down the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church, therefore, there is no barrier between white and black, for anyone who is separated by race cannot make this family. The entire world is heading toward the focal point of the family. The purpose of the entire dispensation of God was to build that ideal family here on earth; that was the entire purpose of each religion and all history. Initially we are setting the conditions for such families to be restored, and step by step we will actualize it. That will be none other than the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Why did you come to the Unification Church? What is your goal? First, to find a God-centered ideology in your head, and true love in your heart. Then you will live in a true family. That’s the purpose of everything. When we have an international holiday like Parents Day and you come to celebrate, the focal point is always the ideal family. You know the depth of your yearning and determination to fulfill the ideal family. If you have that desire then you are entitled to celebrate Parents Day; otherwise you are not.</p>
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<p>Here you are trained in home church, the formation level. Next you move to the growth level, and will finally end up in the perfection level of the ideal family. We are ultimately going to restore True Parents Day and proclaim it all over the world. You celebrate True Parents Day with True Parents in the center, but in your home church area you shall be in the parents position and your 360 homes will come celebrate around you. As far as your tribe is concerned, the day you meet your husband or wife will be your tribal parents day. When that day comes your door will be open 24 hours and your home church children will come from every direction to celebrate. You will have lots of food and enjoy the day together.</p>
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<p>Once your Cain home church is completed there is one more step-you will go to your home town and form your Abel home church centering on your relatives and family. Then you shall be truly elevated as messiah. Once you come to that point you will not have to do the difficult work of MFT or witnessing because you will have graduated from all that.</p>
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<p>Your children won’t have to have MFT training or witness door to door. There will be no more separation between God and men because their sensitivity will automatically lead them home. We will do all the difficult tasks from human history that need to be finished instead of leaving them to our descendants. We will hand down the glory, not the indemnity. It is a great blessing and a victorious declaration that we can do home church so that later on we can return to our home towns and become tribal messiahs.</p>
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<p>Once you walk that path and live it in actuality, there will be no room for Satan ever to come near you with accusation. Unless you fulfill home church yourself, however, your mission will be handed down to your children with even greater suffering. Then there will be two separate worlds, the world of those children who must do home church in place of their parents, and the world where people are rejoicing over the true family and true ideal home. God does not want to see that division happen.</p>
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<p>There is no doubt that MFT and home church are tough jobs, but I want to see you welcomed in your home towns and living in happy families. Do your utmost to bring the completion of that goal. Those who will do it, raise your hands please. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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