Seoul, Korea
There are many sorrowful people around us, and there are many who are not sorrowful. Our families, cities, and nations are either sorrowful or they are not. Some are developing and others are not; some are smiling and others crying. In this way everyone is different, yet everybody feels sorrow and solitude and everybody seeks the whole.
Everyone also seeks joy, glory, and happiness. The same is true with every family, society, and even every nation. Everyone tries to avoid sorrow, seeking glory, and for that purpose,e everyone endures hardships. The same is true with the world. If there is a being who controls the whole, then that being should be the same as human beings.
Love wasn't meant to be given in a lonely, suffering place but in a free, glorious place. God's heart is such that He wants to give His utmost love in such a receptive environment.
On earth, is there any human being who can do that?
We have to think about it. That utmost love is not to be given only to a certain individual; rather it is to be given to families and the whole world. This is the essence of love. The nature of love is such that it is given to two people rather than one person, and it is given to three people rather than two people, and 10 people.
Therefore, love can flow toward human beings here on earth.
The ultimate goal of love should be the greatest thing. A parent with many children would be able to understand this deep heart. Such a person cannot have an enemy.
All human beings have to receive love. If you think that you alone should receive love and not the world, then this way of thinking would be destructive.
God's desire is not confined to a certain individual. Heaven seeks the whole, hence, the distinction between public life and private life. Pubic life is for the sake of the whole. Therefore, to serve the expectations of the whole is to lead a public life. Joy only for yourself cannot exist; it would be chased away by the joy of the whole. I think God is that way. Therefore, those who are wise live for the future, not only for the present. Hence the necessity of faith. Once you have faith, hope can exist.
Victory should not be confined to the individual level; it should be for the whole. It is not good to think that you are you and I am I. The truth is that you are me and I am you. We need to attain that level of awareness. Individual victory can only bring forth individual joy. However, if individual victory is dedicated to the whole, then it can belong to the whole.
Therefore, individual sacrifice can bring about public victory. We should think that after the whole Korean nation of 30 million people smiles because of happiness, then each of us can smile. The greater the extent of sacrifice, the greater the value. By following this principle, the world can prosper.
Sacrifice for others always accompanies the path of love. We cannot walk that path by any other method. We cannot rejoice as individuals. In this sense, victory cannot exist in religion. Of course, we exist as individuals, but we as individuals exist for the sake of our nation and the sake of the whole world. We must understand that clearly.
Be a Public Person
We as individuals should symbolize the world. Hence, individuals should live for the public. It is in this way that God's love expands infinitely. We must not live only for the sake of the Unification Church but for the sake of our nation and the sake of the world. Although we may have to sacrifice ourselves, we must walk this path. This is the way we as individuals should live.
When you see a beautiful sunset, do you want to see it only by yourself?
In your truest heart, you would want everyone to see such a beautiful thing. So the eternal Kingdom of heaven cannot exist only within an individual. It can exist only within the whole. That is why religion, especially Christianity, is strong. No one can remove its power.
Needless to say, it's not easy to walk a religious path. You have to become miserable people. However, human history develops through such miserable people. We have to have ambition of the highest dimension. Even when you collapse as an individual, you can collapse with the hope that your situation will bring about development. The Unification Church must serve the world; otherwise, the church will perish. In this way, we must establish a new civilized world, a new civilized thought. We must create an ideology representing heaven and earth.
If we succeed in doing that, even if heaven and earth are destroyed, the ideology will remain forever.
When we endure suffering for the sake of our nation, we must be proud of it. It may be painful at one point, but it creates a love that no one can remove. Jesus died on the cross; however,r has the love of heaven that brought forth his crucifixion disappeared from the earth? No! Even though God's love for mankind allowed Him to give His most beloved son to be crucified, that deep love did emerge again on the earth, didn't it? This is the love of True Parents. It is a love so profound, a love we cannot imagine. It can bring forth a new resurrection:
We must know this clearly: Until we see our nation of 30 million people victorious, we must endure this miserable environment and fight. Even though it may be the path of death, we must go on. With that kind of conviction, we can live.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
At first glance, the Unification Church seems to be walking the path of death: The reason is that our church lives for the sake of the nation. We cannot leave our nation when it- may perish. We must do our utmost to work for the nation. We must become the center of activity for the whole nation.
Otherwise, we cannot help but perish. We stand at the crossroads to determine whether we become victors or losers. It will not be determined 10 years from now; it is determined at this moment. Unless you can overcome the present moment, you will not be able to become the victor. Those who cannot conquer the present will not be able to bring forth victory in the future. We must overcome the present difficulties to liberate God. We must therefore be victorious now.
We need to clearly realize how God's destiny depends upon us. We have to save our nation and the world. We must also save God. This kind of victory for humanity cannot be obtained in a comfortable room. A day of joy would be very difficult for us if we were to live in such a comfortable way.
We Are All Seeking the Heavenly Kingdom
We must not fight with the established churches; rather, we must do our utmost to establish the Kingdom of Heaven, which they also are seeking. Our purpose is to establish the kingdom. Is the Heavenly Kingdom realized? No, we still have to establish it. We must not stop or become frustrated. We cannot live only for the sake of our own families; we must live for something greater. We can't stay where we are at this moment. We don't have to worry about saving ourselves; rather, we have to save the nation and the world. We need that kind of thinking. Even if we are hungry, we must march forward. Even though we face difficulties, we should accomplish what we have to do.
We should walk together with history, and participate in the creation of a new history. For the sake of heaven's purpose, heaven's sorrow, and heaven's dignity, we must be active.
We are now marching forward. We cannot sleep now. We have to fight together with those who are fighting for the sake of the world. Then we will discover we aren't alone in the battle. We are fighting vertically together with the saints in the spirit world. It is, of course, not an easy fight but a difficult one.
However, we must not fail. Many times we may tremble when walking this path; it's a very serious path. In order to fight against communism and Satan, we must march forward, transcending the national dimension.
Someone may live in this world, but that does not mean he lives only for himself.
He belongs to his family and his nation. That is the case at least in the democratic world. We as individuals live surrounded by our families and our nation, but now the individual is the center, with God's providence surrounding him. Which family and which nation is the center? No one knows, truly. Man does not know. Then, who does know?
According to the Bible, only Heavenly Father knows. The center of God's providence, which only God knows, is nothing else but the Lord of the Second Advent.
Therefore, all people are destined to unite with this individual and his family and live together with him. Centering upon this one man, all people will realize what is good and what is evil. Therefore, we must unite with that center and do our utmost to eradicate evil. We must be trained. Whether we can do it or not will determine whether all individuals, all nations, and all humanity live or die.
All human beings must abandon the evil world to unite with this good center. The Lord of the Second Advent knows whether God's kingdom will perish or not and whether Satan's world will perish or not. The reason is that he knows all the secrets concerning God's kingdom and Satan's kingdom. He must be the one who can establish God's kingdom by going through the struggles between God's kingdom and Satan's kingdom.
If you desire to establish God's kingdom, you must not think that you want to stay with Satan. If you live for God's purpose, you should overcome evil.
Jacob fought for 21 years and defeated an angel. Afterward, he received the name Israel, which means the victor. Anyone who desires to establish God's kingdom should go this kind of path.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
Moses, too, fought for that purpose. He fought for 120 years. Before God hits the power of evil, we must accomplish the desire of God. If God could handle the evil world by Himself, then why would He need any help from man? Therefore, we must represent God, destroy evil, and bring forth the day of victory. We must not perish.
If Jacob, when he was wrestling with the angel, had thought that he could not fight anymore, and if he had wanted someone to help him, then what would have happened? God would have been disappointed with him. But Jacob fought by himself and became victorious. Thus, he was able to receive the title Israel. To gain this kind of victory, Jacob's thigh bone was broken. We must remember Jacob fought with the angel at the risk of his life. He never gave up until he obtained the victory. We, too, must be strong that way.
You Must Defeat Satan
For us to be able to enter heaven, we must show proof that we have overcome Satan. Without that kind of certificate, we cannot go to heaven. When we try to overcome Satan, he does not just let us; rather, he resists and opposes until the end. Because Satan resists this way, God must be concerned about it. When we walk God's path, we have to face all kinds of difficulties. Did you ever see a woman delivering a baby? When a woman gives birth, she does so with her utmost effort, being ready to die. We, the Unification members, are now in this kind of situation, so we must not retreat.
Americans are now saying they will withdraw their troops from Vietnam and Korea, but we must not retreat. Instead, we should be ready to march forward to the enemy. Why do we want to defeat our enemies?
Because we want to make God rejoice. Our purpose is to bring forth joy to God. We must defeat Satan for God to rejoice. He has been fighting for 6,000 years to remove Satan. But we cannot do this all by ourselves. It is impossible to do alone. Therefore, we must defeat God's enemy by becoming one with a nation.
We must defeat communism, and nothing else but Unification thought can do it. Who can deny it?
We must overcome communism. Until we can see the day of communism's defeat, we cannot give up. This is our conviction. We must defeat Satan, who is trying to block a glorious future. For that purpose, our tactics now are to surround the enemy.
To surround the enemy, we have to pay a great sacrifice. We have to go through a severe war, so all of you should be ready. In this miserable situation, we should bring victory. When God's side becomes victorious in the future, who will rejoice most? It will certainly be Reverend Moon Why? Because Reverend Moon has not been able to sleep at all because of this fight. When victory is brought forth, the one who rejoices most is the one who suffered most.
We must not become losers. My prayer, therefore, is really serious. In this sense, your prayer and my prayer are different. With the destiny of the entire world at stake, how can we think of our situation? The Unification Church must not perish.
We must fight courageously to make this nation of 30 million people survive.
If you stop because of your situation, you will end up a loser You cannot do such a thing. Once you have taken God's responsibility, of course, you may have to walk a miserable path and you may be disappointed, but you cannot stop or retreat. If we cannot accomplish this, our descendants will have to do it. We have to have this kind of determination. This kind of thought is the most fearful. Anyway, we must go forward and stop our enemy.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
We must be ready to die. When I started this path, I was ready to die. I am sorry that during my life I did not have any military experience. But I believe that I am a man of courage who is always ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of goodness, and I am always ready to go to the front line.
Who made the Unification Church?
Who created the fortune and destiny of the Unification Church? Did you? Did history? It's not you; history did it. We must know that we can work only because of the foundation laid by the great saints of the past who sacrificed themselves, shedding blood for thousands of years. We must take responsibility for history. That is the path of the Unification Church.
We must become the subject of history or symbols of history. If we are to solve these difficult problems, we must become co-workers and fight. We cannot do that by sitting inside a room. Those who ruin the beautiful hope of history by sitting around will be left behind forever. Let's not become those who let this happen.
When we see the Unification Church from a historical standpoint, we realize that this kind of phenomenon never happened in the past, and it will never happen in the future. So far what has human history sought? It has sought to meet with the True Parents.
Because mankind did not have True Parents, it had to walk the path of misery throughout history. The Christian idea of the Messiah needs nothing else to be fulfilled but the True Parents. Even other religions, all kinds of religions, have been seeking the True Parents.
Christianity Acaits True Parents
In the Unification Church, I am called Father. In communist North Korea, Satan is trying to do the same thing. There, Kim Il Sung is called Father now, but there cannot be two Fathers.
South Korea is so precious because True Parents come there, but then who will choose the True Parents?
The people should. There cannot be two pairs of True Parents. There is only one true set of True Parents. The one and only True Parents of mankind are the hope of history and the starting point of the new history. It is eternal life and love. Therefore, you must know every detail of the hearts of True Parents and unite with them.
What kind of attitude do the True Parents have to take toward the children?
Because the children are good children, selected from the evil world, the parents should meet them with God's infinite love. The True Parents' attitude toward their children should be different from that of the parents in this world toward their children. There should also exist a basic attitude that children should have toward the True Parents whom they serve.
You should become the champions of filial piety as representative children selected from all the nations and your nation If you try to escape this responsibility, then it will be remembered with sorrow by all generations to come.Dr. Sun Myung Moon
But if there emerge children of filial piety who are ready to serve True Parents, and if they unite with each other, then they will never perish.
The people who have this quality of heart, are you. Unfortunately, you people cannot just do whatever you want, or say whatever you like. At this time, that kind of freedom is not allowed. I, myself, the head of the Unification Church, am not allowed to say anything I want: When I pray I say, "Heavenly Father," and thereafter I cannot say anything. And in that position, I stay overnight. I become so sorrowful that I cannot face Heavenly Father, and I cannot pray. This is because I am so sorry for Him, but you all have very independent thinking. Some of you are proud of yourselves, and many of you are trying to promote yourselves, but that is no good.
A child of real filial piety would not say anything. He would just be silent, doing his portion of the responsibility and raising his face in front of the True Parents. Otherwise, you could not be a child of filial piety.
In the Unification Church,h we are trying to be this way. The world regards us as heretical now, but the day will come when people won't be able to say anything critical of our church. On that day the Unification Church will be raised.
Therefore, you have to be serious, day by day. You have to regard your daily life as precious. You should be earnest, and you should walk proudly, step by step. In the process of becoming a child of filial piety, you might even become crippled. But that kind of man will shine in the future like the sun. That kind of man will become a focal point. To obtain this kind of glory, you must walk without saying anything, and while being silent you must not excuse yourself.
When you are told to climb, you should climb. When you are told to go down, you should go down. We Unification Church members must not make excuses. If your standard is very clear, then you don't have to make any excuses. When you all become like that, then the Unification Church will not perish. The present situation of our country is very urgent. Christianity already predicted the coming of this situation 2,000 years ago. Then who will be responsible for this nation? The Unification Church and its members. Suppose that we have to repair the clothes of a destroyed country. Then I am the needle and you are the string.
Unless the string is attached to the needle, the clothes cannot be repaired. The needle alone cannot work. Although the needle is important, nevertheless, the string is also important. You have to clearly understand this. You and I should have the relationship of the string and needle and repair the clothes of the destroyed country and the world.
If this nation perishes, there will be no place for the Unification Church to go. In this sense as well, we have to protect this nation. We must not be fearful of communism. We must courageously practice what we have already been determined to do. We have nothing; we are naked. But we can surpass communism when we Unification members do things that even the nation cannot do. Then heaven will protect us. Here lies the key to victory or defeat. We must become soldiers to see victory. We must not become losers who taste sorrow.
From this angle, we have to analyze and criticize ourselves, and now we have to be ready to overcome difficulties for the sake of victory. When you always worry about the nation, you cannot help but become sorrowful people.
If you worry about the nation and world from the bottom of your heart, then you must love the Republic of Korea and the world more than you love me. If you are that way, you will never perish.
Therefore, to accomplish our portion of responsibility, we must double our efforts. We must not perish. We-cannot perish. We must overcome all the various difficulties we face today. Everything should be mobilized to save the world. Of course, money might be needed and there might be a time when materials are necessary. Nevertheless, we have to march forward courageously.
Wherever I may go, I will pray for you all. Therefore, please overcome the difficulties of the present moment.
I Am The Needle And You Are The Thread
The present situation of our country is very urgent. Christianity already predicted the coming of this situation 2,000 years ago. Then who will be responsible for this nation? The brave members of the Unification Church will be responsible.
Suppose that we have to stitch and mend together the ripped cloth that is this country. Then I am the needle and you are the thread. Unless the thread is attached to the needle, the cloth cannot be stitched together. The needle alone cannot work. Although the needle is important, the thread is as important as the needle. You have to clearly understand this. You and I should have the relationship of the thread and needle, and together you and I must mend the torn cloth that is our nation or this world.
If this nation perishes, there will be no place for the Unification Church to go. In this sense as well, we have to stand firm for this nation. We must not fear communism.
We must courageously carry out what we have already been determined to do. We have nothing; we are bare-naked. However, we can defeat communism. When the Unification members carry out tasks that even the nation cannot do, Heaven will protect us. Here lies the key to victory. You must become brave soldiers who can stare at victory as if it is at hand.
We must not become losers who will taste bitterness and the sorrow of defeat. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
We must not become losers who will taste bitterness and the sorrow of defeat.
From this angle, we have to analyze and examine ourselves critically. Therefore, it is time that we must resolve to conquer any difficulties in order to win the victory.
When you always agonize over the nation, you cannot help but become sorrowful people. If you agonize over the nation and world from the bottom of your heart, then you must love the Republic of Korea and the world more than you love me. Once you reach this point, you will never perish.
You must not be the one who cannot accomplish his responsibility. Therefore, to accomplish our portion of responsibility, you must redouble your efforts.
You and I must not perish. We cannot perish. We must overcome any obstacles, hardships, and difficulties, now. We must save today's world by giving everything for this purpose. Of course, money must be necessary. There is to come a time when other materials may be required. We may be challenged for our judgment.
Nevertheless, we have to march forward, courageously. Wherever I may go, I will pray for you all. Therefore, please prevail over the difficulties of the present moment.
Let Us Be A Victorious Jacob
After Jacob had struggled and completed his suffering course of twenty-one years, he had to confront an angel; and only after defeating an angel at risk of his life could he receive the name Israel, the victor. Therefore, anyone who desires to establish God's kingdom must go through such a path. Moses, too, struggled all by himself in order to fulfill that purpose, for 120 years.
For God to strike the power of evil, we must accomplish and fulfill the conditions that God needs by our power. If God had eliminated and uprooted the evil world by His power alone, for what purpose would He have required any assistance from human beings? Therefore, as a representative of God, you must strike and destroy evil, and bring forth the day of victory. You must accomplish this; it is of no value if you retrieve from it and yet, give up midway.
While confronting and wrestling with the angel, had Jacob embraced a weak and defeated thought, saying to himself, "Oh, I just can't take it anymore. I wish someone could help me," then, what would have happened? Surely, God would have bemoaned saying, "What a helpless man he is." But Jacob struggled and persevered by himself alone and gained the victory. Thus, he was able to receive the title Israel.
To gain this victory, Jacob endured and fought, even though his thigh bone was broken. You must visualize Jacob who wrestled with the angel at the risk of his life. He never let go of the angel holding on until he was declared the victor. You, too, must be tenacious and determined until the end – to gain the victory.
To enter the Heavenly Kingdom, you must show proof that you have overcome Satan. Without the certificate that proves you defeated Satan, you cannot enter heaven. However, Satan does not easily give up when you try to defeat him. Rather, he resists and opposes until the end. Because Satan resists and counterattacks so hard, God must be concerned about your battle against him.
When you walk God's path, you will face all kinds of difficulties. Have you ever seen a woman delivering a baby? When a woman gives birth, she does so with her utmost effort, being ready to die. You, the Unification members are standing now in the same situation -- you must endure until the end at risk of your life.
We Must Not Retreat
We must not retreat. We must not become losers. We must never be defeated. For this reason, my prayer is really serious. In this sense, my prayer is different from yours in quality. Knowing that the destiny of the entire world is hanging in the balance, you must consider and view your situation.
The Unification Church must not perish. You must fight courageously to make this people and nation survive. You must not excuse yourself for your situation. If you do, you will become a loser. You will be escaping from your vocation. Once you take up the responsibility for God, you must not abandon it. Of course, you may face a time of misery and a time of despair. But you cannot quit or retreat from this path.
You must be resolute that if you fall short of accomplishing this, you will pass this mission on to your descendants to carry it out. This is the most awesome thought.
Anyway, you must stand at the front line. Then, you must prepare to defeat your enemy at once.
We must be determined to give our lives for this mission. When I started this path, I made up my mind to give my life willingly for this cause. From this point of view, what I regret most in my life is that I did not serve in the military.
But I believe that I am a man of courage, as I am willing to venture out for this worthy purpose without regard to my own life. I am committed to stand at the front line.
Who in the world founded the Unification Church?
Who guided the fortune and destiny of the Unification Church? Did you guide it?
Or was it directed by history? You did not guide and direct it. THistoryhas guided it. You must know the fact that you did not do it by your effort.
You must also know clearly that the only reason why you can participate in this mission is because, in the past, the great saints laid the foundation by sacrificing themselves and shedding blood for thousands of years. Therefore, you must take up this historical responsibility. This is the path that the Unification Church has been treading.
As you stand in this position, you must resolve difficult historical tasks as the subject or representative of history. Under this common purpose, you must fight together as co-laborers. You cannot do that by sitting inside a comfortable room.
Given that you know these facts, how can you be helpful just sitting around in the room?
Those who damage the beautiful history (that was made by the great sacrifices for God) will be left behind forever. You must not be the one who damages such a diamond. Seeing the Unification Church from a historical standpoint, this precious phenomenon has never happened in the past and will never happen again in the future.
Who Is A True Filial Child?
You have a lot of nerve. Some of you are too busy blowing your own horn and bent on self-promotion. You give me a headache. A child of real filial piety would not say any such things. Even though he takes his portion of responsibility without a word, he still has the attitude that he cannot raise his face in front of his parents for he is not enough. Without such an attitude, you cannot be a child of filial piety.
Of course, you are not qualified to be a loyal subject unless you can be a filial child first.
In the Unification Church, we are trying to be this way. The world regards us as heretical now, but the day will come when people won't be able to say anything critical of our church. On that day the Unification Church will be raised up.
Knowing this, you have to be serious about the way you live even one day. You have to regard your daily life as precious. You should be earnest, and you should walk proudly, step by step.
In the process of becoming a child of filial piety, you should not be afraid of being injured or crippled. Such a man will shine like the sun with the fullness of time. He will become a focal point like a bright star in the night. To gain such glory, you must walk forth without a word of excuse.
You must not be justifying and excusing yourself. When you are told to climb, you should climb. When you are told to go down, you should go down. We, Unification Church members must not make excuses. If your standard is very clear, then you don't have to make any excuses. When you all become like that, then the Unification Church will not perish.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
