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1. Today, we come to an exceedingly important turning point in God's governance of His providence. It is unprecedented, historic, and revolutionary. The returning Lord, Messiah, Savior, and True Father, who came as the root of the lineage of original goodness, has departed to the spirit world.
Consequently, we now stand at a providential starting point. From here, we have to inherit the True Parents' realm of victory and build the ideal kingdom of peace. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
A new beginning in the providence
2. Having been together with True Father my whole life, his Seonghwa brings me unfathomable pain and sorrow. What's more, we cannot begin to fathom the sorrowful heart of God, who is the original substance of eternal love and the True Parent of humanity.
From another perspective, however, this time is also one of hope to initiate a new dimension of God's providence. We have this hope based on the True Father's work by the heavenly laws that God established at the time of the creation of heaven and earth. He concluded, completed, and perfected the providential tasks on earth that had been unfulfilled by anyone in history.
He has now transitioned to the spirit world, where he will exercise dominion over both the spiritual and physical worlds. There is no language, spoken or written, by which we can express how we feel today. We stand now in the providence, overwhelmed with emotion.
(2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
3. True Father proclaimed that Foundation Day is the most important day for us. From the time of the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship twelve years ago, Father set countless providential conditions to prepare for it. This is not a day that comes by casual happenstance. As He carried out the providence of restoration, God prepared the Israelites as the chosen people.
They were yearning for the Savior. They believed everything would be solved when the Savior came to them, and that he would come gloriously. It seems they didn't understand indemnity.
The providential history of restoration depends upon human responsibility. When one's responsibility is not fulfilled, indemnity follows without fail. Nothing about this has changed in this age. (2013.01.14, Cheon Jeong Gung)
4. According to heavenly law, the True Father will now make the spirit world his base and, while freely traveling between the spirit world and the physical world, will carry out the providence to expand Cheon Il Guk. True Father and I shall preside over the providence in a state of oneness in heart, essence, harmony, and thought. Through the victory of Foundation Day, we will be with you in building the original Garden of Eden on Earth. There is no stopping the providential work of Heaven. (2012.09 17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
5. The suffering that True Father and I experienced in the providential course of restoration through Indemnity, a course with which not even Heaven could interfere, is beyond imagination. We even lost four children of the True Family as sacrificial offerings for the providence.
Who dares to say that they can comprehend this painful course of restoration through indemnity? I have dedicated my entire being, sharing the joys and sorrows of life with True Father as his companion, overcoming innumerable trials and difficulties.
On that victorious foundation, Heaven bestowed upon True Father and me the right of equality, the right to live together, and the right to hold the same position in the providence. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
6. The True Father accomplished many things before his passing. It remains for us to inherit and develop his work. I intend to take responsibility for this, standing at the forefront. This truly is difficult.
It is difficult to maintain both the internal and external levels. From wherever you are, each of you will have to help me. (2012.10 13, Yeosu Blue Sea Garden)
7. At this new transitional point in providential history, I want to make clear that I shall inherit the True Father's victorious foundation and stand at the forefront to lead the providence on earth. While doing so, there are several things I would like to convey to everyone. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
The way we need to go from no one
8. First, we must value the tradition that True Parents established as much as we value our lives, and pass it down to our descendants, the future generations. True Parents established the tradition of love and heart, the tradition of the Word and the rules and regulations, and the tradition of the culture of heart.
The Hoon Dok Hae tradition of reading the Word, which is the crystallization of True Parents' course in the providence of restoration through indemnity, should become the central practice in each family, as well as in the church and at any gathering centered on Heaven. At the same time, we need to go forward in creating a new order on earth.
Please never forget the True Parents' tradition, based upon which our organization will be developed and a united body. It will have perfect order, based on the True Family, with the True Parents as its center and Abel figure.
(2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
9. Second, we need to complete the ideal of the blessed family, with which Heaven has blessed us. The family is the cradle of true love, true life, and true lineage, and the base upon which God's purpose of creation is realized. Based on the eight verses of the Family Pledge, you should uphold the tradition of the absolute good lineage with absolute faith.
Our vision for peace evokes pure love, happy families, and a peaceful world. Blessed couples should raise their children through love and the Word in a tradition of attending Heaven with absolute love and attaining complete oneness.
Through Hoon Dok Hae in your families, you should foster the firm establishment of the Cheon Il Guk order, and fulfill the ideal of the Blessing. That is how the tradition of the heart can take root both vertically and horizontally according to the standard of vertical, noon alignment.
(2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
10. Third, you have all received the blessing of being tribal messiahs, which is your mission and responsibility until the time we complete Cheon Il Guk on earth.
Tribal messiahship is the greatest of all blessings given by True Parents. It could not come to fallen people without the foundation of victory that True Parents established in the providence of restoration through indemnity.
That is why True Parents consistently emphasized the tribal messiah mission during their lifelong governance of the providence. The completion of Cheon Il Guk in heaven and on earth becomes possible when tribal messiahs fulfill their responsibility to share the Word and the Blessing with their tribes, and live for the sake of others.
This will establish a realm of goodness, a peaceful world, and the ideal of humanity living as one global family. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
11. Fourth, we will create a community based on the culture of the heart, in harmony and unity, with True Parents and true families. Each of you, without exception, found the path of God's Will because Heaven chose you. It was based on the merits of your ancestors and because of the character you acquired.
To follow True Parents and enter this realm of victory that we have now, you have faced immeasurable persecution. That makes us all a part of a single family, a community of heart centered on one Parent. Division and conflict continue to afflict the world, but the Unification family can become brothers and sisters who can easily transcend race, nation, and any barrier.
If you can display an exemplary life of giving and living for the sake of others, this dream will surely come true. Especially in this time of great transition in the providence, I ask that you unite with True Parents in your heart. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
12. Although True Father is in the spirit world, he is always with us. He exists without corporeal form, but he never leaves our side even for a moment. What do you think he desires from us at this time? He desires that we march forward without pausing.
God's providence has to continue throughout the world until, with True Parents as the center, love and peace overflow, a culture of the heart settles, and a new order is established.
Moreover, from the victory of Foundation Day, we should advance further to offer great glory to Heaven and True Parents, and to instill great hope as we stand before the world and before all the history. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
Indemnity for the sake of the future
13. In the history of God's providence, no advancement comes without indemnity. Indemnity does not only mean something bad. Through it, a promise for the future. The providence of restoration through indemnity is not achieved easily.
Progress requires indemnity on a large scale at every stage of the providence. Since the onset of history, no one has been able to say, “I have accomplished everything. I have liberated God and completed, perfected, and concluded everything, so the history of the providence can begin ane.”
Has there ever been a person who could say this, who could claim this, and who lived like this, fulfilling Heaven's commands? You are now standing in a blessed position, at the center of the providence.
(2012.11.24, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
14. True Father worked day and night without rest throughout his entire life. I also have not slept more than three hours a day since I began attending him. As a result, we were tired throughout the day.
Now, True Father has gone to the spirit world. He transcends time and space and will be working tirelessly. I imagine he does not have time to rest. If you have been unable to fulfill your responsibility, you need to resolve to invest yourself to the utmost with a life-or-death commitment.
The life you have been leading up until now will not suffice. We must create a new beginning. This is our last chance. (2012.11.05, Manhattan Center, New York)
15. This day, the day of the worship service celebrating the fortieth day after True Father's Seonghwa, marks a new starting point for the providence.
During the last forty days, Father has visited many places in the spirit world. He has met figures from providential history and has experienced directly the circumstances of God's creation of heaven and earth. I have been conversing with True Father in my heart over the past forty days.
I have been preparing. Father's thoughts have become my thoughts, and my thoughts have become his thoughts. Now, with oneness of mind and will, centering on the Principle, let us move forward with determination.
(2012.10.25, Cheon Jeong Gung)
16. For us, there is no stopping. We simply have to go forward. I hope and pray that you, true families throughout the world, will carry out your mission as new tribal messiahs with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, and become the victors who inherit Heaven's great blessings and heavenly fortune.
Heaven has poured great blessings upon us. All of us, including the second generation, need to fulfill that responsibility. (2012.12.09, Cheon Jeong Gung)
17. When I met True Father for the first time, I set two goals for myself: to conclude the providential history of restoration through indemnity, and to realize God's ideal world of creation.
Nobody, not even True Father, told me what to do. But I realized that my failure to do this would make it more difficult for later generations. Therefore, my position today is the result of my constant effort to complete my mission.
(2013.01.14, Cheon Jeong Gung)
Divine spirit, truth, and a church of love
18. The Unification Church originated from the divine spirit and truth. The years have passed, our church has grown, and our members have matured, based upon a truly loving heart. In the beginning, when Father was ministering, whenever members came to the church, they never wanted to leave.
They wanted to stay with True Parents, even if it meant staying up all night. If there was anything True Father wanted to be done, members wanted to do it for him, spontaneously, without being asked. That was the life of faith our members led back then.
Though ours was a small church, it was overflowing with love. Everyone was united, and we overcame the most difficult of times.
We need to give Divine Principle lectures in our churches without ceasing, to give people rebirth through the Word. Where individuals, families, tribes, peoples, and nations practice true love, that is Cheon Il Guk. That is the kingdom of heaven on earth. (2012.10.01, Cheon Jeong Gung)
19. Sunday sermons should not last more than thirty minutes. A long sermon bores the members and makes them want to return home quickly. At the same time, the sermons' impact has to last for a week.
When the sermon is finished, it is good for the church leader to listen to members' witnessing reports, welcome new members, and do something to lift the members' spirits. With such programs, the church will become truly vibrant. It will be filled with the energy of life. Both current and new members will hardly be able to wait another week before going back to church.
The church has to be a place where members feel enriched both physically and spiritually. If a minister feeds his members with the nectar of the Word and creates a place where the members feel embraced with love, I am sure that the church will experience incredible growth. (2012.11.29, Cheon Jeong Gung)
20. All of True Father's swords and actions are like uncut jewels. I want to create something of the most significant value out of those jewels, and keep it close to me where I can love it freely. You may feel the same way.
As the first step, I will polish the words of Cheon Seong Gyeong, creating a jewel without which you cannot live. On the last day of your life, you will want to take this jewel with you to the spirit world. That is why I am working on this. (2013.01.10, Cheon Jeong Gung)
21. Christianity spread through the world with one book, the Bible. Father's words should be followed in the same role. If the words are not put in order, there will be confusion in the future. I feel an urgent need to organize the volumes that contain the Word.
I plan to engage a committee of elder members to review and edit, too, to make all things clear for the sake of the future. We need to leave one root, one stem, and one fruit, that being the eternal Word of the Father.
Father's words are the standard, signpost, and compass that people can use as a guide, every day throughout their lives. I am full of regret that Father's words have not been organized. (2012.09.17, Cheon Jeong Gung)
22. When we publish True Father's teachings, many committees need to examine the content before a book comes out. This is to benefit you and your descendants. I do it so that you can hold this book in your arms at the end of your earthly life when you go to the spirit world. Be proud in front of True Father.
Report to him: “I received True Mother's training during my life on earth and came to love Father's teachings. And so I have come to you with this book in my arms.” (2013.01.07, Cheon Jeong Gung)
23. You have the True Parents with you. You have the Principle and the Word. Now we have to make True Father's life known throughout the world. Our future will be bright. I will work to vitalize our church.
Our church should be alive and breathing. Through our actions and practices, blessed families need to set an example and bring neighbors and clans to follow us. (2012.10.01, Cheon Jeong Gung)
24. From which year did True Father tell you to study Korean? The nearby nation of Japan must take on the mission of Eve. Must translators always follow you around to help you? You must now put into practice what Father said, and learn Korean. (2012.10.13, Yeosu Blue Sea Garden)
A life of gratitude
25. Our ultimate goal is to create Cheon Il Guk in attendance at God. The first thing we have to do in the goal is to examine ourselves. According to Father, Cheon Il Guk is established when two people become one.
Therefore, in our life of faith, the most important thing is to live in a place of one hundred percent unity between mind and body. What do we have to do to live in such a place? Begin with what I have said: “Before you criticize things that are wrong, you should say these words with a pure and sincere heart: 'I offer thanks to Heaven.'”
If you can stand on a foundation of oneness on the individual and familial levels, at church, in your tribe, in your country, and in the world, then the unified world centered on God will be realized naturally.
If you live with this mindset, Heaven will always be with you in everything you do, and blessings will pour down upon you.
(2012.11.11, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
26. Each of you needs to empty your heart and repent, truly repent. Those in high positions need to come down to low positions with an earnest heart. Thank Heaven for awakening your heart to be able to repent for everything, and for the ability to look at yourself and make a new beginning. At the end of each day, think back on the things you did and pray to God.
Ask Him to help you complete the things you were unable to do that day by investing everything you have the next day. If you live with a heart of gratitude, everything around you begins to look beautiful. You become happy.
Then you cannot keep your happiness to yourself, so you will start witnessing to others. You will not be able to help witness to others.
(2012.10.27, M Hotel, Las Vegas, USA)
Witnessing and the creation of the environment
27. It is a pity that although you have listened to Divine Principle lectures dozens or hundreds of times, you have not yet grasped those teachings, nor can you translate them into action.
Our environment was shaped not only at the time of God's creation of the universe. It has continued through the course of the providence of restoration. I have made a great effort to create an environment for the coming generations. What about your parents?
Have they fulfilled their responsibility?
Have they created the environment that you need? As a second generation, you stand at the center of the Unification Church. You need to clearly understand your roots and create a good environment. Simply put, witnessing is the way you create the environment. You need to witness.
That is the only way you can avoid an accusation. No matter how much the world has honored you, or how strictly you have lived for the providence, without straying even once, if you have a condition for accusation, you will not be free when you go to the spirit world.
Please realize this. That has to be your constant motivation. Think about the seven billion people in the world. Our environment is still very limited. (2012.12.12, Cheon Jeong Gung)
28. True Father completed and accomplished the providence of restoration through indemnity. He opened Cheon Il Guk. It is up to us to create the environment for Cheon Il Guk. It is not possible to turn heaven and earth upside down overnight.
What is important is how much we devote ourselves to embracing our brothers and sisters, our clans, our nations, and our neighbors with love. They are the fruits of our witnessing. Think only about how you are going to offer one more life to Heaven, even to the extent of forgetting to eat and sleep.
You are all blessed members, and you probably all have children, so you know how marvelous it is and how much you anticipate the birth of each new life.
You can feel Heaven's blessings at that moment. If you can give birth to one new life each day with your effort, then you will receive a great blessing.
(2012.12.12, Cheon Jeong Gung)
29. The Blessing you received by meeting the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind should not remain only in your family. You are the ones who can display your pride in the Blessing in front of the seven billion people on the earth. Please remember that with every blessing comes responsibility.
If you fail to fulfill your responsibility, indemnity will follow. Know that for a surety. Because of this, you should completely unite with True Mother. Completely unite and move forward toward a single goal. Don't look sideways.
This is how blessings can come to you. In the spirit world, you breathe love as your air. Witnessing is about the love you sow. (2012.12.25, Cheon Jeong Gung)
30. In the history of the providence, the failures by a central figure or chosen person to fulfill his Responsibility have been followed without exception by the need for indemnity. For sixty years following the founding of our church, True Father worked publicly and earnestly for the sake of God's providence.
It is not an overstatement to say that he spent two-thirds of that time, forty years of his life, in America. Our eternal homeland is Korea, but he invested more in America. This is because he was thinking about all humankind.
The great blessing that America has received as the eldest son nation means it has the responsibility to gather all the brothers and sisters and bring them to the parents. (2012.11.05, Manhattan Center, New York)
31. As a nation, the United States of America represents Christianity. After the crucifixion of Jesus, God developed Christianity for two millennia and gave a great mission to America. This nation does not belong to the people of America alone. Its responsibility was to work hard for world peace, but it failed.
True Father came to awaken America to its mission, but how did the American people treat True Father? He was innocent, but they sent him to Danbury prison. When will this nation indemnify the sins it has committed against Heaven?
From an external standpoint, America is standing at the edge of a cliff. From this perspective, you have to understand the great importance of your mission. (2012.10.27, M Hotel, Las Vegas, USA)
32. If you take responsibility and organize activities that are lively and inspiring, the spirit world will fully assist you. What is the wish of those in the spirit world? What is our wish? It is the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, Cheon Il Guk.
How exciting, and grateful we would be to realize that in our lifetime! If we have gone through life feeling that way, how can we now just sit calmly and placidly? How can we not exert ourselves?
Our goal will not disappear with the passing of Foundation Day. We have to bless all the world's people and transform them into Cheon Il Guk citizens. To achieve that, what should you do?
Those in the spirit world will not help people who do only what they are told to do, who just live from one day to the next. I am asking you to become people who report to Heaven every day and who move with Heaven all the time. Therefore, you must work hard, as if having twenty-four hours in the day is not enough. (2012.10.13, Yeosu Blue Sea Garden)
33. Because educating our children is an urgent and important matter, you should begin each day in Hoon Dok Hae with your family. Until now, you had no time to spend with your children because you were carrying out church work.
From now on, you should begin your day together in Hoon Dok Hae with your children. Please begin your day this way. We need to educate and nurture our second generation. No matter your position, you need to think about the generations to come. (2012.10.01, Cheon Jeong Gung)
The role of women in the Era after the Coming of Heaven
34. When it comes to educating and raising children, the mother has to be stronger than the father. That is why I told my daughters-in-law, “You have to follow the tradition and become stronger than your husband.”
The mother's role was great during Israel's course of paying indemnity while living in a difficult environment. It is the same with the Unification Church. Women have the responsibility to march at the front, organize and handle everything, and help the men. (2012.11.05, Manhattan Center, New York)
35. Regardless of position or office, our goal is the same: to make everyone in the world a Cheon Il Guk citizen. This is the blessing and the purpose for which we were born. Don't place too much importance on your position. The action you take is more important than the position you hold.
The second generation, in particular, will not be able to move forward if they cannot overcome the difficulties that present themselves at this time. Foundation Day is not the day that heaven and earth are destroyed, but is the day on which Cheon Il Guk begins.
Until it is complete, we each have our responsibility. We should not rest until every last person in the world is a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. Until we have done that, we cannot say that we have accomplished everything. We are only at the beginning. How can we bear fruit if we have not even begun?
We need to sow to reap. Thus, we need to do our best and show God and the world what we can do. What we can achieve from now on will depend on the effort we make. Let's transform our environment as much as we can.
(2012.12.12, Cheon Jeong Gung)
36. How will you move after Foundation Day? It is the great age when heaven and earth open, an event that will occur only once in history. Who will be the true and good children, the loyal subjects and patriots currently?
Heaven has given you its words and opportunities. We need to march forward with the heart of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Do not center on yourself. Be humble, not full of pride.
Let us each have the attitude that we are here to learn from everyone around us. Everyone is equal according to God. In front of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, all sons and daughters are equally in the middle of the process of growth. Please keep that in mind. (2012.12.25, Cheon Jeong Gung)
The seven billion children of our Heavenly Parent
37. How do we create a world with God as its center, one world under God? It is through the perfection of our ideal blessed families, centered on true love. We cannot stop.
All we can do is to march forward continuously, with our purpose to realize the settlement of Cheon Il Guk on earth. Thus, the perfection of blessed families, the creation of ideal families, depends on whether you fulfill your responsibility. (2012.09.17, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
38. In the Old Testament Age, God was called Jehovah. In the New Testament Age, God was called Heavenly Father. Foundation Day is the day God's dream comes true. So now He should be called by a different name.
When we pray, we need to address Him as our Heavenly Parent. It sounds good in English and has a good meaning in Korean. God is the Heavenly Parent. Whenever we pray, the first word that comes out should be Heavenly Parent and then the beloved True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.
We have to do this. Furthermore, I am changing the name of the Unification Church to the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.
(2013.01.07, Cheon Jeong Gung)
39. The hope we share with our Heavenly Parent is that there will not be a single person on the earth who does not know about our Heavenly Parent. It is our responsibility to make this happen. We have to merit the titles of filial child and patriot by making a life-and-death determination and marching forward with utmost effort. (2013.02.10, Cheon Jeong Gung)
40. We are sinners according to Heaven. In light of the grace we have received from Heaven, we have not been able to fulfill our responsibility. Is there anyone who can stand up and proudly say he or she has completed everything?
Now, for the first time in history, we are ushering in Foundation Day, a day of blessing that has never been seen before and will never be seen again. Do you intend to receive this blessing without having done anything for it, or will you receive it based on your qualification as a son or daughter?
Once again, we need to think about True Father, who has departed this earth before us, and we need to repent. We need to forgive one another. We need to give greater honor to our Heavenly Parent, who has been suffering behind the scenes throughout the providence of restoration.
We are unworthy to stand before True Parents, who have given everything unsparingly, and who desire that each of us become a proud citizen of Cheon Il Guk. We are woefully unprepared. What do you have to do?
You need to take the lowest position and receive the coming Foundation Day with a repentant heart, as you ask Heaven to take pity on you. (2013.01.20, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
41. As blessed families in all parts of the world prepare to welcome Foundation Day, they should ensure during this period that they have nothing to be ashamed of before Heaven. I have opened all the doors through Foundation Day.
I have opened the doors wide for anyone who resolves to be filial, loyal, and faithful, and to put his or her beliefs into action. We must practice absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience until our last moment on earth, centered on True Parents.
If we make such a resolution and carry it out, we will not need to pay indemnity in the future. We need to prepare for the era of Cheon Il Guk that is free from indemnity. That will come when we fulfill our responsibility. (2013.01.20, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
42. I sincerely ask everyone here to remain loyal, devoted, and enthusiastic. On this foundation, we will give birth to the citizens of Cheon Il Guk and nurture them as we expand throughout our nation. But it is not only for this nation.
Until we give a rebirth to the seven billion people of the world, we will move forward, devoting ourselves completely with life-or-death commitment. We have to offer this nation to Heaven.
Before anything else happens, North and South Korea should reunite. In this context, are you aware of the important role of women? We need to go beyond the work of a daughter and take on the mother's mission.
We should give birth to and raise children. True Father built a big house and gave it to us. We should organize it, arrange it carefully, and furnish it well. That is our responsibility. (2013.01.10, Cheon Jeong Gung)
43. I hope and pray that your heartfelt devotion will bring glory to heaven and joy to the earth, and that you will all become recognized and beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk in the eternal era of Cheon Il Guk.
Let us once again resolve to do our best to accelerate our work, the work of guiding the seven billion people of the world to become citizens under our Heavenly Parent. Only if you have achieved this will you be free when you pass on into the next world, and you will live in a world that is free from accusation.
If you are unable to fulfill your responsibility on earth, accusation will follow you to the eternal world. In that event, you will have trouble breathing in the spirit world, where breathing takes place through your heart of love.
You need to fulfill your responsibility while you still have your physical body on the earth so that you can stand free before True Parents in the eternal world and be authentically proud of yourself. (2013.01.20, Cheongshim Peace World Center)
Sun Myung Moon
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