The Way of a True Child

1. The six-thousand-year history of the providence of restoration is the history of restoring the parents and then restoring the children. In the course of restoration, the parents and children have the same responsibility.

True Parents have to walk the way of the cross through seven stages – the individual, the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, the world, and the cosmos.

You as their children must also walk the way of the cross through these seven stages. There may be a difference in the period or a difference between who walks ahead and who follows behind, but the substance of the indemnity conditions is the same. (13-308, 1964.04.12)

The course to restore true children

2. What kind of people will be chosen as true parents, true children, and true husbands and wives when we enter the age of heavenly fortune? They will be people who understand human emotions, understand God's heart, and have experienced the universal suffering that is deep in God's heart.

They will have felt God's love such that they can call God their Father. Throughout six thousand years of history, human beings could not resolve the matter of their vertical relationship with God; nor could they resolve the issues in their horizontal relationships with each other.

People have sought to resolve these issues through religion. In the Last Days, we must surmount all such peaks and walls as we encounter them.
(3-294, 1958.01.19)

3. To stand before the True Parents as true children, children must go through a course of restoration on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation.

Through the completion of both the parents' course and the children's course of restoration on all these levels, the model of victorious and united parents and children is established. Only after this can we finally conclude national-level restoration and make a fresh start on the world stage. (13-289, 1964.04.12)

4. There must be a family that bears the cross. Only when such a family emerges can all the families of the 30 million Korean people be restored. Therefore, all the family members of the Unification tribe must endure hardships on behalf of the Korean people. You must become the pillars of Korean society.

You each have an individual indemnity course, but I must walk a family-level indemnity course. Moreover, when I bear a tribal-level cross, you must bear family-level crosses. I am walking one step ahead of you. (33-256, 1970.08.16)

5. Once my family has fulfilled its responsibility as Abel on the family level, you also will need to fulfill your responsibility as Abel on the family level. In this way, we must expand outward, with the kingdom of heaven as our goal. However, the base where God can rest is not yet prepared.

There will always be fighting, and Satan can come and go from every direction. So when can we settle down? This is the difficult task ahead of us. You must offer your utmost devotion to resolve this. (17-321, 1967.04.10)

6. When the Abel family is victorious and restores a family to the Cain position, that Cain-position family will have to stand in the Abel position in front of many other families.

Then those who were victorious in the first Abel position can rest. The Cain people who inherit the position of Abel on God's side will take their place. These people in turn must win over those in the position of Cain in Satan's world.

The people who inherit the position of Abel and then win over Cain gain victory as Abel. Then they too can rest, passing on their position to new representatives. This is how restoration through indemnity proceeds. (17-318, 1967.04.10)

7. As of now, while blessed families are going through a course to restore the Korean people, True Parents should be going through a course to restore the world. In other words, they should be one step ahead.

Unless your blessed families attain victory on the national level, True Parents cannot walk the course of worldwide restoration. This is why you must inherit the responsibility to restore the Korean people, so that True Parents can walk the worldwide course.

Until your death, or until the deep sorrow of these people is removed, you must shoulder the responsibility to restore them. (13-293, 1964.04.12)

We must protect True Parents' family

8. As individuals, you need to protect yourselves from Satan. On the front line between Satan and God, you who are standing on God's side have to protect yourselves by establishing a victorious foundation such that Satan cannot attack you.

Your families need a foundation of victory in Satan's world, and on that foundation, you need to protect the Lord's family. Likewise, protecting the individuals in Jesus, tribe requires many diverse peoples to constitute a realm of protection.

Those people have to stand on a foundation of victory in Satan's world and then create a realm of protection for the tribe on Jesus' side.
(52-228, 1972.01.01)

9. Cain's family exists for Abel's family, Cain's tribe exists for Abel's tribe, Cain's people exist for Abel's people and Cain's nation exists for Abel's nation. It is only when such concepts are firmly established that a realm of protection emerges for the first time.

With the attitude that you will take responsibility for difficult situations, you can attain the realm of rest, in other words, the kingdom of heaven.
(52-235, 1972.01.01)

10. Today both the left wing and the right wing are on the verge of collapse. Who brought things to this point? God and True Parents did. Your families who have become one with True Parents have inherited True Parents' path, so you should be bold and strong wherever you are in the world.

Then, just as God and this universe protect me, they will protect your families, and winning the hearts of a nation will be no problem. You should stand at the forefront with me. You should not retreat. Furthermore, you should advance directly toward true love. (201-129, 1990.03.27)

11. Wherever you go, you should proudly identify yourself as a Unification Church member. “We belong to True Parents. We are True Parents sons and daughters.” Please do not fight; to fight is to accept Satan.

You should go around proclaiming, “We are the number one children of God!” Then Satan will not be able to accuse you. You should carry such conviction firmly within you. (201-129, 1990.03.27)

12. Jesus came to earth embodying Heaven's dignity. Heaven and earth had been split apart, and had Jesus brought heaven and earth together, he could have formed a national realm of victory for the first time in Satan's world – in the spirit world and the physical world.

Had he succeeded in establishing that realm, it would have been a realm where Satan could not reign. Had he given God a nation that could not be invaded by Satan, there God could have rested at the center with His tribe, or among His people?

Unless a nation fights and wins, God cannot rest as the head of a tribe. Unless a tribe fights and wins, God cannot rest as the head of a family. For this reason, unless God has a national realm of victory, He cannot have a people's realm of rest, and unless He has a people's realm of victory, He cannot have a tribal realm of rest.

Likewise, if God does not gain victory in the tribe, then the family realm of rest cannot emerge, and without the family level of victory, the individual realm of rest cannot be attained. (51-035, 1971.11.04)