How would I answer that? It is no secret that our movement is strictly based upon God's principles; we are a religious movement. Every position I have taken has been as a leader of a religious organization which was initiated by God. I have never said anything for the purpose of
pleasing other people, including Americans.
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
God definitely does not do things for the sole purpose of satisfying the public opinion.
God is above everyone. He is able to see everything in America, so He is in the best position to give advice and direction from that vantage point.
If your viewpoint is only inside a situation, then it is limited.
This country was born out of the desire to seek God without limit. Thus, it has no reason to disregard God's will in these Last Days.
The United States must be in accord with God's direction.
The American youth are experiencing drugs, drinking, club dancing, free-sex, but these are not tools or instruments of God. How do these thing help advance humanity to a world of peace?
We should focus the excess energy of young people for the sake of mankind and God.
Since we are not able to influence others directly, we set up our own framework within the movement. The young members are then chased out to do the work of restoration through fundraising and witnessing.
This is not done for Father's sake, but for a special motivation - the sake of America and the world.
Why do you follow this way?
It is because Father has never refrained from what God wanted him to say. He has worked from the very beginning to teach about the orderliness of nature and the universe.
People of faith should be able to see clearly that the American behavior is against God's will.
The post before this mentioned that children should listen to their parents, yet when the parents tell them not to follow this path of restoration in the movement, we know that the parents are wrong.
What principle should we use in order to determine what is right or wrong?
We must always consider what will maintain the right order of the universe and then we will always come out the victors.
Father is looked down upon as a failure by virtually everyone in the world, but because he has cleared a path for full restoration, he is successful.
We can say our parents look like victors because they have a steady income, are respected and are not persecuted by the community. But eventually they may end up on the defeated side, while those walking this bloody path of restoration will end up successful.
We may appear as outcasts and losers just as Jesus and his disciples did in his lifetime, but we will become the true victors in the future. That is as certain as daylight.
Members are constantly faced with sensitive and confusing situations in their daily life, but the Principle prevails always.
We should understand people in all kinds of situations or else we can't reach out to them. Don't you think God knows all about club dancing? To know about such thing is never bad.
It really doesn't bother my conscience to go to any place. I even visited the homes of prostitutes when I was younger in order to understand their society and why they did what they did. At that time, I thought, "There is no assurance that even after the Unification Church becomes prosperous, some of the members won't end up in this situation, even among the married couples."
Would it be wrong to educate about drinking by inviting members to drink from a big keg of beer?
If you are able to understand the problems of drinkers by doing that and thus help them, it is not wrong. However, this does not mean to say you should go out and visit every dreadful place of the world just to see how they operate. There is too much risk in that.
Members are urged to be clean cut and cut the long hair such as the hippies wear. There is nothing wrong in this hairstyle, but right behind the well-meaning of peace hippies want, there are evil elements of free-sex and even gangs and communism.
It does not matter to God how long one's hair is. In the real world a man with long hair is considered to be a hippie living without any responsibilities or rules.
If we are to distance ourselves spiritually from the standards of the world, we have to keep ourselves clean cut and different in appearance.
Established Christian churches tell their congregation, "Don't drink. Period." But if you were to gently ask them why, they would not have an answer. They would say that it causes bad behavior and fights and loose morals.
If a minister was to pass by such a brawl, he would say, "Poor souls," and continue on. But if Father was to see such a scene, he would take off his shirt and try to break it up.
"I have always tried to mediate and judge who was right and who was wrong. That is the true role of a minister."
Who else would break up such a fight?
This sort of toughness is necessary. It is good to join all sorts of games and sports, becoming not only friends of the players but even a leader among them! This is why a karate gymnasium was set up in the Unification Theological Seminary.
Where else in the world does such a sport exist in a seminary?
The students of the seminary were asked if they wanted a karate gymnasium and it was explained why it would be a good idea and they each agreed.
The gymnasium was not built in order to become a threat to anybody, but in order to protect ourselves and to be able to preserve the orderliness of society and the world.
There are a lot of evil people who do not understand any language other than strength.
Many people wondered why religious people should take an aggressive stance against communism. No one was taking a positive approach to ending Communism - not the American government, the FBI or the CI and certainly there were no students taking a stand before the Reagan administration.
Therefore, Victory Over Communism program took up the course.
What is wrong with aggressively stopping Satan?
If God said that it was wrong for people of faith to fight communism, then we would not do it. No one else could do it, so we cannot hold back out of fear.
Thus, we launched many demonstrations on college campuses. Established churches have not been able to tackle the true social problems in America or even understand the true nature of them.
Not many people understand how religion should eliminate the problems of the world. Would God look down upon such people and say that they were an embarrassment to Heaven?
This may be hard to understand, but the more experience you accumulate, the more you will realize its truth.
Some graduating students are embarking upon careers in the world of art and dance in the future. In that world, there are no clear-cut strict society and discipline as in religion. You have to be able to discern with sensitivity and subtlety what is good and bad in those areas.
We must pursue love, but only in its legitimate and orderly form.
We are all born for the purpose of love, but engaging in the improper order of love is wrong.
The proper order of love:
First, we must try to love our parents and God as our masters.
Whether God and my parents approve of me is indicated by my orderliness. The most important area is love. Two people who are about to get married are entering a love relationship for eternity.
Should that person say that they don't care what God, their parents or anyone else says?
This is not the harmonious way. No matter how strongly you feel that you have found the perfect mate, if God withholds His blessing upon it, will that union be possible to last?
People have come to believe that just because they believe someone is ideal that their family will love them, too.
This is the American pattern to choose someone and present them in front of the family demanding their approval, but this is the wrong way.
Just like in the olden days, majority followed the tradition of order where they present their possible mate first for approval before going on a date or parents chose for their children whom to marry.
I didn't come into being first and then my parents later, and then God. First, it was God, then my parents, and then me, in that order. So in making an important decision about getting married, it should be done according to the right order. Is that right or wrong?
One fiancee told a member that he needed her to come to him now and disregard her parents and if she loved him that she would go.
The girl asked Father whether she should go see her fiancee or he may let her go. God established the true order of relationships. A leader does not have the authority to go beyond God's proper order and give instructions to just go give love at the improper time and say they do not know what the results will be.
A true leader would advise the woman that her fiancee will have to overcome his own desires. Is that the wrong way or the right way?
Preserving and restoring right love order must be our main concern.
Our lives themselves are secondary to the maintenance of this principle.
The most important thing in our individual lives is to establish order. It would be better if we lose our life than to live with a confused standard of order and then later have to pay the consequences.
Dr. Durst has many members who come to him with problems asking for advice. How can he answer them?
Of course it is natural to be on each person's side and he is concerned with each. However, he must think about the proper order.
Even though he wants to side with someone he cares about, if his answer violates the principle of love's proper order he cannot do so.
Why are you special Americans?
Because you know these simplistic principles and are following God consistently with your whole heart. Would you like to be ordinary citizens?
The ordinary way of marriage is to get married right away after your engagement. The special way is to wait two years and wait to consummate the relationship when you are married.
If you are able to see that this is a valuable principle and apply them in all situations, you will be an eternal victor. Just like a long-range shot that enters past the goalie in a soccer game, you will be the victors in the end.
If you have the kind of thinking that as long as you master the principles set forth by God, then you know you can go nowhere else but Heaven.
Every single decision I have made in my life was done according to the principle of proper order. I have come up through many levels to this successful realm and so should you. That is why I have been teaching you to apply this rule in your own life.
Let us pray.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Right Way - Just Do It!
This post was rewritten from the speech The Victorious Person and the Defeated Person
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