Reverend Sun Myung Moon
We know the core beliefs of communism and democracy.
What is Unificationism? It is the harmony of everything through the power of love.
My children know the universal truth and they pray according to it. You, too, know what to pray for. Then God will heed your prayer. Otherwise, your prayers are just mumbling and bumbling-beating around the bush, in God's opinion. People say many things about me, but one thing is absolutely true, I am the one religious leader who will make you suffer the most!
You may protest to Father's instructions, but this is why he pushes us out to suffer for the cause.
If you are able to work harder than everyone else, with a loving heart of suffering for the sake of the family, even your parents will come and bow down to you and thank you from the bottom of their heart.
Through living that way, you become the child of God.
When you are truly one with God, living with Him, you attain God's position in your family. As members that understand Unification Thought, you shoulder the worst problems of the United States with a loving heart, then the entire country will eventually bow down to you.
This is heavenly law.
You become the patriots of patriots when you live this way. But in order to become that standard, you must suffer for the sake of the nation, with a loving heart more than anyone else in history.
There are quite a number of patriots in every country, but only a few saints.
The realm of the saint is different from that of the patriot: he works for the universe and for God.
There are three levels of spiritual advancement: children of filial piety, or good members of the family; patriots; and saints or holy people. How high is Father's ambition for the members?
He isn't just teaching merely how to be children of filial piety, but how to be saints.
I am ambitiously seeking to take on the worst problems of the universe, asking to bear the universal burden. Is that good? People have had high ambitions and have tried to establish Utopian ideals, but no one has been able to accomplish them.
Why haven't we been able to bring about a better world of peace?
Father sought out to understand the greatest problems in the world.
God's worst headaches are the expansion of communism, the rapid decline in religion and the degradation of the youth and collapse of morals in the nation. These are the major problems of the world that have to be tackled.
God has been working day in and day out through people of faith to solve these problems. Father volunteered telling God not to worry that he was going to take away His heavy burden and solve the problems for Him. He came up with a source and method with the quality of hope to unify the world and establish a true Utopia.
This was the motivation behind the International Conferences for the Unity of the Sciences. God's original plan was for people to be perfected within approximately 20 years. I am thinking that if I lead these scientists and eminent scholars for 20 years, they will have reached a pretty good level. Every year they give their unflagging attention to absolute values. When they could find no answer to a certain question, they decided to ask me about it!
Father had many accusations and criticisms thrown at him, but he continued on moving forward able to digest anything that came to hinder his mission. We are engaged in a war against communism, confronting face to face.
He is opposed by many established churches in the Catholic and Christian communities, but he just tells them that they are not able to digest him and they need him if there is any hope for the future of the world to become the ideal world God envisioned in the beginning of creation.
Father was not only able to digest opposition along the way, but he created a logical explanation for all these phenomena without any hazy areas.
I can be calm even in the midst of suffering. If I am sentenced to prison and have to face hardships, I am filled with peace even as I enter jail. I can sleep well, eat well, and even digest sand if necessary. There is never a cause for worry once you know universal truth. I am absolutely confident of my destination, the heavenly world, and I want to take as many people along as I can. I can invite you to accompany me without any doubts, since I know our goal and destination.
To the degree that I am a perfect minus to God, I am a perfect plus to you. Whenever you create the perfect minus position, I will be with you.
The Unification Church is grounded in the truth of this principle. We see throughout history that any new truth that emerged and outshone the current truth that the other one would fade away.
Unless there is a greater truth that emerges higher than the Divine Principle, there is no way anyone can push us back or put us on the defensive.
We should be the ones resolved to suffer more than anybody else. The principle does not change whether you have a Ph.D or are a famous actor or actress.
I am setting a new tradition, and those who give themselves to the best of their abilities for the sake of others with a loving heart shall form the mainstream.
It does not matter if one does not like this way or not, it is truth.
You are pushed out to live for the sake of others because the results will be glorious.
Great blessings await you at the end of your course.
Then you will be grateful.
Is this just to win you with cunning and sugarcoated promises? This is the absolute truth.
So many people have wanted me to disappear, to be taken to heaven or hell-or wherever! Many people have actually prayed for my life to be taken away, so why does God keep me here on earth? Regardless of what the entire world might think or pray for, God needs me and the members of the Unification Church.
You should have no fear going this way, as God has the power to protect you. So, you should move forward with a bold and strong heart. You are a living being and should have the powerful life force that can move the whole universe.
Once you are fortified with this ideology, no challenge is big to you. When Father first came to the US, do you think that he was overwhelmed?
Once you become the perfect object to God, you then can act independently. In that case, you might say, "Father, I don't need your help or the church. I will take responsibility for this country."
You can pledge that you will become perfected then reach out to bring along the rest of the church because that is your goal and destiny.
Opposition is a test to see whether you can do these things on your own. If you cannot overcome opposition, you have nothing to be truly proud of.
But because you have learned to withstand and overcome opposition, this is proof that you can accomplish great things on your own. This is beautiful and dynamic.
During the heaviest of battles, Father never was afraid. He never prayed to God that he was perishing and help him.
He told God to let him do the work and sit back and enjoy the show and take delight in the accomplishment to come. This is the way he teaches us to be.
You shall become people of dynamic boldness and strength.
We shouldn't lose motivation, become discouraged over our chose of spouse or lose our energy. With such thinking, you will not go far.
Those who pledge, "Yes, Father I will follow your principle, become a dynamo and perfect myself on my own, helping to create the nation, world which God desires,' raise your hands, please.
Let us Pray.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Prisoner of God's Love
This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Realm of Existence
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