World Peace is Our Responsibility

Are you still waiting for the rapture and for Jesus to return?

Christianity teaches that God's son, Jesus will return in the Last Days for the purpose of restoring the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth as God initially intended.

Through the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, we learn that the Lord of the Second Advent will spiritually pioneer the way of the cross and will be victorious where Jesus left off.

This is the difficult part of restoring the world and God's people back to their original positions before the Fall.

Since, the Fall began with the first parents, then True Parents must reverse the mistakes of the Fall.

In all of history, when we look at earth, humankind and heaven, has there been anyone who was able to attend these victorious True Parents(Messiah)?

Heaven, earth and humankind have not been prepared to attend such True Parents who do not carry the trace of the Fall within them.  

Now that we are living in the Completed Testament Age, the position of True Parents have been restored and humanity is being prepared to follow to attend them and God.

Is it just enough to attend the Messiah when he returns?

After attending the parents and reaching perfection, you need to restore your own family, tribe, nation and world. God prepared the people of Israel for the birth of the Messiah as well.

To stand before True Parents as true children, you must accomplish the course of the individual level, family level, tribe, and national-level restoration.

After completing the parents' course of restoration on each level, then the standard of parents and children having become one and victorious is thus established and Satan must leave.

Only after this is accomplished can we conclude the restoration of the national and the global level.

Then, what is the mission of the Unification Church and in what kind of position are you who have joined the church? You have been called into the Unification Church, of which I am the central figure. 

As you walk this path or restoration, you have to develop spiritually and physically what has been a sorrowful six thousand years of vertical history.

Then what is our goal?

We must establish a nation of people who are restored to the True Parents position on a worldwide foundation.  In other words, we must establish the world-level nation of True Parents instead of fallen, satanic parents.  This would be a world of peace.

We must eliminate the remaining sorrow, pain and tears of the world as soon as possible. 

As long as brothers and sisters suffer hunger, pain and suffering, a world of peace will never be found.

This is our responsibility and mission.

This is the path you were meant to follow.  You should not turn and look back either with your heart or with your body as the Israelites did.

This kept them from from following Moses and further delaying God's victory to 40 years with the first generation dying in the wilderness on the way to Cannan.

The Israelites suffered greatly in the desert that they even envied their past life as slaves instead of having faith and believing they could conquer the more established Canaanites.

Therefore, we should have the sincere hope to be able to fully attend the True Parents on the behalf of God.

In attending them, we should not attend them after the conditions and difficult path has been laid and everyone admires and respects them.

Rather, we should desire to attend the True Parents of all history as they pass through this sorrowful course.

When you look at the saints and good people throughout history, they have prayed for the day that the Messiah would return and liquidate the fallen lineage and return humanity back to God's lineage.

In their time, even after arduous pray, they could only momentarily keep Satan's attacks at bay.

Our own ancestors deeply are pained that they could not attend the True Parents while they were on earth.  All humankind deep in their hearts have such hopes to attend True Parents.

Therefore, you should become true sons and true daughters of filial piety who are able to attend them from a miserable situation rather than trying to attend them from a glorious position.

Such sons and daughters will cry out that the True Parents are walking the suffering path of the cross that is more severe than that of Jesus, even though the sons and daughters are experiencing difficulty, despair and misery themselves.

As filial sons and daughters they will exclaim, "As someone who attends True Parents, I therefore accept any kind of heavy cross as a matter of course. I praise that, so please, God, do not worry on account of me."

How can we engraft, on the individual level, to the parents' individual victory of restoring the sinful blood to God's pure blood lineage?

Only after we indemnify, restore the worries, pains and sorrow that come to us, instead of giving them to God to bear.

Why have I spread the Blessed Families(families married by the Messiah and rid of sinful blood) out everywhere in Korea? God works with the thirty million people of the Korean people and the entire Korean peninsula, and True Parents are coming to the thirty million Korean people and the Korean peninsula.  Every village, valley, mountain and field -- desires to attend the coming True Parents. 

Serving True Parents is the desire of all people in history. 

You should set an individual standard of indemnity and then become the substantial representatives of True Parents.

You should become the type of people whose whole village will want to serve you without regret.  Of course, True Parents are always in the center making a spiritual relationship with everyone.

There is only one set of True Parents.  However, with limitations of a physical body, they are unable to relate with everyone personally.

This is why True Parents have blessed families so they can stand in the position as their representatives. Therefore, they stand in the position to relate with all people.

True Parents' responsibility is to bear the cross and pass the national level where Jesus had laid the path on to the worldwide level.

Therefore, the cross of the people should be carried by the Blessed Families who live as true children of True Parents.

After the Fall, we fell below the position of God's true sons and daughters.  Through Jesus' difficult path, we were able to become God's adopted sons and daughters.

Now that we live in the Completed Testament Age, we can become true sons and daughters just as Jesus was.

All families that receive the Marriage Blessing which reverses the fallen blood lineage and connects your family to God's direct lineage, must serve as the foundation for the people in order for Heaven to gain victory.

We must love True Parents and separate from Satan based on the standard of original love. We must fulfill our responsibility to go beyond the standard of perfection on the world level.  This is how world peace will come about.

Our mission

We are preparing a foundation so we can directly attend True Parents and assemble other brothers and sisters of the world before them.

We are the ancestors who have this responsibility.  Therefore, we have to remove the path of the cross and persecution so our descendants do not have to bear it.

Currently, the sad situation of humanity is that we pass on the blood of the fallen blood lineage to our children who have to also bear the cross to liquidate their sins.  This is our original mission, not our descendants.

When can God finally appear as the master and Parent of all creation and reclaim His position which was stolen from Satan?

Once the human world unifies and the Abel and Cain world become one.

We can think that all the people living on the earth today, are like children living without their parents.

They fight among themselves.  Therefore, God has to appear as the Parent and teach them that those who are fighting are only fighting their elder brothers and their younger brothers.

Nobody knew this but God. 

The concept of true, ideal parents departed once false parents were established.  Also, because true parents' position was lost, there was no foundation for the ideal children to come.  These positions were sacrificed to Satan.

Therefore, the ideal parents must now appear replacing the false parents linked the blood lineage of Satan.

The time has finally come, awaited through all of history, for God to educate ideal children.  A religion, a movement has taken over this mission.

This is the Unification Church.

We should be proud of the True Parents' achievements.

Next, true children must come together.  They should not just love their family clan, but they should love on the global and universal level.

True children should not say that they only know the American people.  They should transcend any ethnic feelings.

In whose name did the Fall occur?

In Satan's name.

Therefore, in these Last Days, we should jump over the line of the Fall in God's name.

So, God should be above our head and command us directly, just as God was above Adam.

True Parents have no connection to the Fall. 

Our path is to make this new world by gathering people with the true lineage from around the world, who are connected to True Parents and God.

Thus a true family will become a tribe, a tribe will become society and a people will establish a  nation that takes dominion over the world.

Throughout history, the fallen world has been sinking.  Now, we must make a new start and go up.

We are at the time in history where the fallen world and the new world centered on God will meet.  Everything will now reverse.

Then, when will we connect to that central line?

The True Parents had to reach the worldwide level to finally be victorious over Satan who is firing his weapons.

This is why we are experiencing a heavy battle, so we can expand from the nation to the spirit world capacity of True Parents.  

We are approaching the time where the True Parents will be welcomed as national parents.


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This Post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook,  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Two, True Parents and Us Chapter 6

Mind Wants Principle, Body Pursues Addiction

A constitution is the base of all laws of a nation.  It is the yardstick for determining what is good and what is evil.

You make a judgement based on a standard which you hold within yourself

If you are a person that does not have principle, then when you view something as good or bad, your judgement has no value.

Random judgments are based on self-centeredness.

A true judgment can only come from a basic law or principle within yourself.  The mind has an unchanging quality, while the body always changes.  The mind should have a permanent foundation.

The body follows the direction dictated by your five senses which are always changing direction.  If your eyes see a lovely flower, then your body will walk over to it.

But the mind is not bound by the five senses.  The mind can refuse to obey, and it gives direction to your body.

Your mind tries to bring the body to the place where all the five senses can be contented.  If the mind favored only the eyes, then the other senses would complain.

The mind takes in account all the five senses.  The mind decides how it will respond to the desires of each sense.  The mind can only make these decisions based on principles.

Actually, we should thank God that we have a conscience as a command post for the body.  Before knowing this, you may have felt bothered by the mind limiting your activities.

Americans look for the comfortable and convenient way of doing things in life.  To those who just want to party and enjoy sex, the conscience seems to be an obstacle to those activities.

When it is time to eat, the body craves delicious food.  It prefers to have delicious pleasures all the time.  Why does the mind put certain limits on what the body desires?

Habits and customs are hard to change, no matter how logical it is to change them.

Addiction to drugs, alcohol and sex are hard to cure.

Have you ever thought how we can truly cure these addictions in our society?  Our lives must be planted on a firm foundation of principle.

If we do not already have one, then we have to create one.  Without standards or principles, we will only cause and see destruction around us.

If there are no principles that bind the parents and children or husband and wife, then the family will fall apart.

The mind wants a principled life, but the body pursues all kinds of addictions. 

Don't you feel the war between your good mind and your sinful body?

This contradiction is a terrible burden.

People feel sorry for mentally ill people, but the reality is, those whose mind becomes sick is even harder to restore.  Religion deals with that world.

A grasshopper doesn't plan ahead for the winter, but instead enjoys the warm weather thinking about how sweet his life is.  Spring and summer always come to an end, however.

We must come to a standard law and principle that should be followed by everyone in their homes, society, nation and world standard based on your conscience.

This standard will be acceptable by everyone and it will be unchanging, eternal and unique.

Thus, we conclude that the conscience provides such a standard.

Everyone appreciates material treasure, but would material things like everyone?

If treasure could speak, it would tell you that it would like to be possessed by someone that has a higher standard than it holds.  You feel this way because you yourself are like that.

We like things that are higher and nobler than ourselves. So do material things.  A diamond would like someone who shines brighter and is harder than it is.

Gold's deep color represents peace, and it wants to be loved by someone more peace loving than itself.

A pearl will respect and love someone with a more harmonious color than itself.

Would a diamond like some unworthy person who just grabs it or prefer to be possessed by someone with a moral ethic?

A diamond also has a preference and would resists the thief who reaches to snatch it.

This is also how we would react.

One person does not consider if he is worthy to possess a diamond, while the other considers whether he is really entitled to it.

If you have this quality, then the diamond would have that inclination, too.  This is elementary, but necessary education.

America's problem is that it doesn't really know the power and existence of the world of conscience.

How large do you think that the conscience is?

Seven billion people live in the world today.  So that means there are 7 billion different kinds of conscience.  Then if we were to include people in the spirit world that is billions more.

If you did the work of ten people today, the conscience would not tell you to do the work of nine tomorrow.

There is no such conscience.

The conscience will tell you to do more work the next time.  If you gave ten people ten dollars, would your conscience permit you to give nine people ten dollars the next day and keep the ten for yourself?

Your conscience will tell you to give the money to eleven people instead.  As you can see, the conscience is never satisfied.

Even if the whole planet earth was contained within your conscience, you would want to reach out farther and possess the whole galaxy.  Then if you had the whole galaxy, you will want to have God.

Even then your journey would not end until you owned the heart of God and had His love.

Even if you contained the whole planet earth in your conscience, it would still want to reach out farther and possess the whole galaxy.

Even if it had the whole universe, it would still want to have God. Your journey wouldn't end until you owned the heart of God and had His love.

That is how the conscience works.

When you try to set a standard for this extraordinary kind of conscience, it is not easy.

Who made the conscience so big?

God did.  If He had nothing that He could put into it, He would run away.  He is responsible.  What can fill the conscience?

God knows you like diamonds.  Would He be satisfied by filling everyone's conscience bag with a lot of diamonds?  Why not?

God can make all the diamonds and gold at will, but there is one thing He cannot control.  True love.  True love is only activated in a reciprocal relationship of subject and object.

Without an object, love is not created.

Can you show the love that you have?  Man's love is only activated when he finds a partner.

When you are sitting by yourself, your love cannot be activated.

God has been sitting all by Himself, lonely just like you would be, so can He enjoy His love alone?

Even if He was holding a piece of chalk and can laugh with enjoyment, then it would make a little better sense.

No matter how much potential love God has, by Himself God cannot feel its excitement. 

An object is always needed in order to activate love through give and take.  When a woman has a man to relate to, the vibration of the give and take can begin.  How about between woman to woman?  Even God needs an ideal object.

What was the purpose of God creating the whole universe?

For the perfection of His object.  Since God is gigantic, He needs an equivalent object who can stand side by side with Him.  Therefore, He created man with a conscience as big as God's conscience.

When man completely fills his conscience and starts to laugh, then God can respond.

Then the whole universe can laugh together with them.  That is God's design.

Nothing else except love can fill that conscience, however. Love alone can excite God.

In love, God is an enormous plus and man is an enormous minus, when they come together a giant spark will flash.  How much power do you think that will generate?

The entire universe will jolt at that connection.

Then God, men and women will be totally intoxicated and melt within the power of that love.  From the one-celled amoeba, the insects all the way to the galaxies, all of creation will be affected by the unity of God and man.

You might think that God is too far away for us to unite and cause such a great spark.  Electricity can speak between any distance.

God's electricity travels faster than the electricity we know on earth.

When He is totally happy and intoxicated in love, then all of mankind can respond that they are happy, too.  Then the entire creation will echo around the world that they are happy.


I like the word "too."  The cross bar on the "t" represents the horizontal absolute; the vertical line represents you-you are a pillar of love. The "oo" means everything is OK. Americans say OK; the O means perfection, and K comes from "keep." So OK means that you keep perfection, that everything is going well. You didn't know I had a definition for this!



Conscience is OK, but what is it centered on?  Life?  That is good.  Knowledge?  That is also nice.  Power?

These are nice, but are not the central things.

What is one substance that everyone likes and participates in?  Love alone has that universal character.

When the cornerstone of existence is conscience that is based on true love or true love is based on conscience, then everything is in the right place.  That is the standard.

This is not a temporal standard, but it has an eternal, unique, and unchanging quality.  The essentialities of love is the same, but the components are different from person to person, depending on where love appears.

Each individual is a truth body with unique love and characteristics.

They all share a common essentiality in God.

Each person is a cell of love. 

Each person has love that is unique to them which cannot be duplicated by anyone else.  Yet, it is unchanging and eternal.

If you have true universal love within you, then you have become a standard man or woman of the universe.  The conclusion we have come to is that we need the standard of conscience which is true love.

Through just this standard alone, we can digest the world and bring it into our consciences.  We can even bring in God with our invisible true love.

As long as you have that true love, you can go in any direction.  The world of true love also transcends time and space.

The five senses will cooperate with that standard of true love instead of repelling each other, for they do so out of happiness, not duty.

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This Post was rewritten from the speech Our Standard

Life is a Classroom

Whoever truly practices public mind love for the nation shall become the leader and master of that nation. The same Principle can be applied to the world.

Why should this Principle be practiced on earth when not many people adhere by it throughout the world?  Why don't we just enjoy life and then practice such a true way of life once we enter into the spirit world much later?

This is a very clever idea!

This is the only classroom you have.  Therefore, this Principle must be practiced here on earth.

You have to go through elementary school before you can enter high school, correct?  No one can just skip any of the material.

When you enter college, you still use the same formulas you learned in your elementary and high school days.

No formula can change; all it can do is expand.

The spirit world is a higher realm that is completely Principle-oriented, public minded, and sacrificial.

If we do not practice this right way of life here on earth, then we cannot unite with the spirit world.  This is what is deemed as hell, where there is no movement or growth, just suffering.

Even though the spirit world and physical world have been divided after the fall, they both operate on one principle.  In order to enter the spirit world and practice that principle on a higher level or plane, you must first have practiced it here on earth.

You elementary work must be done on earth so you can continue in spirit world.

If you are unable to reach the level to feel the love of God on earth, you will not feel it once you reach spirit world.  Thus the Bible states, "What is loosed on earth, is loosed in heaven."

You enter the level of spirit according how you lived on earth. No one is sent anywhere, but is his own judge based on the level of his own immature or mature spirit.

What kind of temple do you think God would want?  We should each be the temple of God.  God dwells within each of us.  In true love, He would like to look, smell and hear through your eyes, nose and ears.  Your five sense become God's instruments.
Through them, God can perceive His way.

When the mind is fully contented in the love of God, the whole body will thus be contented.  When the mind has love, it becomes exuberant and ecstatic.

When there is love, therefore, there is freedom. Without love, everything is in slavery.

A person who takes drugs in America will think he has found freedom.

Actually, he cannot find freedom in drugs.  This person creates his own hell because no love dwells in him.  How does taking drugs bring about the purpose of the whole of world peace?  Can one bring about unity through such behavior?

All creation was made for God's love.  You become the temple of God when you live as a public person.  Look through your eyes in God's way; have God's hearing; God's smelling, God's voice, and God's touch.

If the brothers were to look at a beautiful woman in God's way, how would he think?

Would he look at her lustfully, thinking how he could get her to bed?  Does he think about how to make her happy?  How can he make her better and whole?

A brother would want to convey something with a public-minded love of God so that she becomes in turn public minded who is another beautiful temple of God.

If you find there is no love of God within a person, then you want to give love to him. 

How noble that is to give love to one who may have never experienced true love.

Naturally, when most women see a very handsome man, they wish that they could go on a date with him.  The godly vision is different from this fallen way.

Once you place God inside of you, your world concept changes.

Even though you may not have wealth, it does not matter.  As long as you practice love, you are the richest person under the sun.

You know that God dwells within you when you have a mind of Principle, a public mind, a sacrificial mind.  That is the place where God rejoices.  You must see that the moment you complain, become depressed, give up, God is leaving you.

You cannot afford to lose God.  So, you try to improve in order that He will stay.  As long as God stays within you and you think in God's way, there is no complaint. But once God leaves, you lose everything.

Many good-looking American brothers ask Father to match them with a Korean or Japanese fiancee.  Why?  Because Father, who is from Korea, represents the whole Oriental culture, and through him and his teachings, you have had a taste of heavenly love.

No one can take that love away from you.

An elderly Korean woman who has been a member ever since the beginning told father that she must see him three times a day or she would become crazy and could not live.

She said that her life was hell because she could not see him everyday.  He never showed her any special treatment in the past and he always treated all the members the same way.

She said, "I feel shy to say this, but I love you, Father."  Father did not show any grand miracles, but there is something within him that touches everyone's heart.

It is the love of God.  It is like electricity, it is not visible, but you know that the current is flowing when you have been touched by it.

God is a super person, but He works exactly the same as you do.

You are specially attached to the clothes you wear, even your eyeglasses.

If we are in the image of God, do you think God's mind works that way?  Would He feel a certain attachment to an object or a person?

Since God uses our body as a dwelling place, would He have a certain attachment to us?

God lets us suffer as people of faith, but that is the fastest way to welcome Him within us.  God enjoys the love that is public-minded and sacrificial.  You are going to resemble God.  When you go inside of God and He comes within your heart, you have total freedom.

You have no strange feeling at all when this occurs.

If God dwells in you, but you still have selfish, sinful thinking, then you feel as though you are choking.

This is God saying, "You're wrong.  Change your mind."

Unless you live the public minded way, God wants to chop off the hand or limb that disobeys His principle.

There is no way that He can stay within you otherwise.

To keep God within you, and to make Him happy, you have to practice the three points explained in the previous post.  You must be a principled person, you must be public-minded, and you must be sacrificial.

Within God, there is no national boundary.

That is why this love can extend even to your enemy.  Then, true unity between mankind and God will be created.  True unity between the spirit world and the physical world can be created.  God is that catalyst.


Within your heart I have planted a small seed of God's mind. That seed must germinate and grow bigger and bigger, reaching out to your family, society, nation and your world. If you have a difficult task ahead of you, go after it.


By going this way, you are not asking for an easy way out or looking for a clever way.

While you are tackling this difficult mission, there is no room for complaint.  When you are truly trying to practice everything within love, how can you complain about the difficulties you encounter?

You cannot complain against love. 

God will be within you while you are searching after that love with a grateful heart to give glory and praise to God.

Since you want to be the dwelling place of God, you should be serving and praising Him all the time.  If God is within  you, you want to make Him happy, so you practice the Principle way and become public minded.

To truly have God live within you for eternity, you must be sacrificial.

When you practice this way of life, you cannot go wrong.

Automatically, when someone is nasty to you, you may want to fight back.  But then you think that for the sake of God you must win him over. That is how you change your fallen mind toward the more public mind.

God loves love and wants to dwell in love. 

The church is not the dwelling place of God.

He doesn't want to dwell in the church, but in me and you.  The church is merely an organizing systematic way of teaching the Principle way.  Don't think you are only a part of the Church; the Unification Church is for you. It is at your service.

The work you do for God's will is for you.  The church is only an instrument to merely come to assist you to go to heaven.  How thankful you should be.  If the church is here to serve you, then how can you complain?

You must know clearly that the church, God and the Messiah are mobilized for your sake.  Now you clearly know who God is and who you are.  Did you forget?  You are the dwelling place of God.

Then your eyes shall become whose eyes?  Once your eyes becomes God's eyes and your ears are God's and so forth, God would feel they are working for Him.  Then once you hear something, you know immediately if it is a satanic sound or a heavenly sound.

If a European was here for the workshop, he may want to go back to Britain where he thinks the job is easier.  On the contrary, they must think that the job is not hard enough.

What place would be the hardest work for God's will?

Africa, or South America?

Even though a person and his family may not welcome the idea of moving to Africa, it does not matter.  They will go anyway.  Is this wrong?

Now you understand that suffering creates a larger shopping bag for you to hold the love of God.

That fragrance of that love is so wonderful that black, white, and yellow people will feel heaven in it.  Through your God-centered suffering, that kind of container is created, and you want to give that package of love to the world.

If people reject you, you do not lose.  That package of love is then passed down to your own children.  You do not lose anything.  One way or another, you are a winner.

Be thankful as you live this way of life.  Digest everything so there is nothing stuck in your stomach.

Is there anything harder than a marriage of two people from enemy nations or other countries who do not speak the same language?

If you are able to unite these two extremes in marriage, you can digest anything.

When you can serve a strange husband or wife, you know that you are just sampling the difficulty that is ahead of us as we travel this pathway toward world peace.

When you serve in your home, you should be principled, public minded and sacrificial.  That way of life will grow like a snowball rolling down the hill and will cover the world.  That world will become the dwelling place of the infinite love of God.  Amen.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech given by Rev. Sun Myung Moon Who is God and Who Am I?

Can a Selfish Person Change?

You are smart. Others might say you are foolish for investing yourself in the home church providence. They wonder why you are working so hard to witness to others. Maybe someone would prefer you to do only a little so the central figure won't be able to compare you. If you do very well, the central figure will come after someone else and chew him out for doing so poorly!


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Do you welcome a person with great accomplishments?  Do you see yourself moving forward by taking the tough route?

Maybe you would prefer standing still.  Maybe you need to be forced to move forward.

Should we vote on it democratically in the resolution?

A true, real central figure of the universe is exerting mental and spiritual force to move everybody forward. 

There is no way you can drop out.

You must continue to move forward and reach the goal.  You are already inspired, right?

We all enjoy the most beautiful sunny days, don't we?  What if you went to witness your home church area only on sunny days taking time off when it was stormy or cloudy weather.

What would your area think of you?  They will accuse you and tell you that they waited all day for you to show up.  Why do you only come when the weather is nice?

What if you showed up on only rainy days?

What would God think?

If it was raining, if there was a hurricane, God would be concerned for the people suffering in home church and want to go and help them.  This is how a saint thinks.

You may not be trying to reach sainthood, but you should be able to become a good person.  This is the way of a great person.

Whose way would you rather follow: the path of a normal person, a great person, or a saint?


Am I walking a normal or abnormal way? Mother tries to bring me closer to a normal way of life. "Father, you aren't a young man anymore," she says. "Please don't act like a 20 year old!" Mother also has another good piece of advice: "You shouldn't give sermons longer than two hours. It's bad for your heart!" When I go beyond two hours, Mother always gives some warning signal. Indeed, I am surely living an abnormal way!


Normally, we expect to eat three meals a day.  We do not have this concept when we are working hard pushing forward for the restoration of the world.

Is there a law that states we have to eat three meals a day?  One meal a day is sufficient.  Even no meal is okay.

Sometime the Reverend gives his speech all day long and at the dinner table he says that this is his breakfast. That is the kind of schedule he kept.

He is always hungry when he eats and enjoy every meal, no matter the content.  This is how he stays healthy.

Food wants to be eaten by someone who is living for others.  

What does one benefit from living like this?

This abnormal way of life is far better than the normal way of life.  We are doing this not for selfish reasons, but for the sake of the generations to come.  Those who follow you will also be able to benefit from your abnormal way of life.

Also, history will never be able to forget those who live that way today.  Posterity shall always honor and revere them.

In our world, there are two basic groups:  Those who act altruistically for the sake of others, and those who act primarily for just their bodily pleasure.

The latter group doesn't want to have anything to do with thinking deeply, because that would inquire one forgetting oneself for once.  Once a person's thinking is self-centered, he will act accordingly.

We constantly speak about those who live sacrificially for something greater than themselves, and those who want to live for only themselves.

People who are unselfish revere patriots, saints and religious role models.  They try to apply this to their contemporary way of life.

On the other hand, the other type of person would not care how the saints felt, what religion teaches or what philosophers write.  They do not want to hear that kind of speak.

All their cares are for the carnal way of life, or more closely resembling the animal life.  They only live for physical gain and seek only their own satisfaction not caring about other viewpoints outside themselves.

Which type are you?  Are you selfish or unselfish?

The main problem is we know the correct way is the altruistic,  righteous way, but we know we can't always follow that way.  As fallen people with sin, we are already wired to automatically think of ourselves first and follow our physical desires no matter how harmful the effects.

We know that there are many people who have a 'I don't care' attitude in the world.

Students say that nobody is going to tell them what to do.  They know that having a good time is fun and do not want to be bothered by no one else.

What about you.  Which type of person are you?  What would your original godly mind tell you?

Because we descended from the first parents that did not follow God's words, we inherited a selfish mind.  The human species was not originally born into sin.  They passed on the self-centered attitude to all their offspring leading to our generation.

When something is not right in society, we see many protests and revolutions that have brought about change throughout history. How is it possible to revolutionize the selfish, external way of thinking?

Is it even possible for such people to be able to change their direction?

Is it right or selfish to even try to prohibit such a direction?

We see that there are all kinds of perverted activities around the world.  People are able to indulge in these fallen acts without any remorse or guilt.

In one family, the father may sleep with his daughter, or the grandfather sleep with the granddaughter.  Some people's reason is that the animal world lives that way, why should they be tied down by such rules?

They will say that they, too, are a part of nature and this is only normal behavior.  They are only acting out human nature's desires.

The sacrificial way of life is weird and abnormal from the perspective of the world.  

Some of you have been engaged for two years, yet you rarely talk to each other or write very many letters as you walk this path of restoration.

Isn't this kind of discipline going against nature?

Why should we do this?

There is not a teacher who is giving a clear direction of what is wrong with the free, and fun way of doing things.  Thus, there is such great confusion right now in the United States of what is right.  Particularly among the young people, who are not being raised with a definite clear direction.

Do you think first and then act, or do you just do something and then think about it later?

Only those living this full path for God's will would answer they think before acting from that godly point of view.  Do you wish to go back to the other way?

People take the easy route by just acting on their physical urges.  They get carried away by their emotions just so they can have fun and then they think about the consequences later.

But a confrontation is occurring between the new age and the old. 

There are two schools of thought clashing: the carnal way of life, versus the thinking way of  life; the selfish way of life versus the unselfish way of life.

In order for you to go in the right direction, you need to have a clear basic standard of what is right or wrong, good and evil.

If there are six self-centered people who make up a family, then there are six different way of life within that family.  Can such a family maintain unity easily?

What if the daughter was to demand that the parents were to follow her way because she thought it was the most fun or cool way so it was the best?

Then the son would say that his parents are old-fashioned and do not understand how hard it is to be a kid in this day and age, so he wants a new, fun-filled way of life.  He would demand that his way was best and that his parents should listen to his direction.

If we were to see into such a home, we would see daily arguments and fights.  Sadly, after each battle, the family's morale would drop until a disaster resulted.

Has anyone become a great person through fighting?

Fighting causes division and weakness.

Democracy is based on the consensus of the majority.

Therefore, their unity on a decision is meant to be a safeguard for the whole nation.  In a democracy, each individual does not just proclaim his own way of life.  The people should reach a consensus of what is the best to benefit everybody.

When we speak of benefiting everybody, would our direction be moving up or down?

We would be moving upward.  As individuals move upward in consensus, they will eventually reach the level of society.

Then as society moves upward, it will reach the level of nation.  Then the level of nation reaches the world.  This is how it works.

If America was to head in the right direction, then the whole world would follow that direction, thus bringing about the new world.

Unfortunately, this formula has been seen to work in the wrong direction.  As America abandons God for their selfish way of life, we see the world being led in the wrong direction.

If there is something beyond the world, we want to transcend the world to reach it.

Nobody can deny the truth of that theory.

In your heart, you have an appreciation for what is popular, don't you?  You also want society and the nation to recognize you.  You want to become a world champion in something.

Isn't it human nature to want to go higher and God to recognize you and the spirit world on an eternal basis?

Would Westerners think that way?

Then we are all the same people aren't we?

We have the same course, the same original mind that desires good and of course the same origin. This is why there is a potential for world peace.

There must be a unified way to raise everybody up where it will benefit them.

If we plan to survive and move forward, we have to come up with a course, not just for the present, but the principle should apply in the past as well as the future.

There should be one principle that will enable everyone to unite and move forward.  It would have to be something a Korean would want, America and all of mankind would desire.

Do you think only people desire world peace, or is this something God would want, too?

We should all move upward together.

Are you able to solve the problem by yourself, or is this a joint effort?  Would we be able to do this by following the selfish way or unselfish way living for others?

Only by following an unselfish way can people be united.

The selfish person says, "I want to benefit from you.  Work and sacrifice yourself for me."

No one would respond to such a person's request.

To reach the goal, the basic principle is to live for the sake of goodness.  The credo of history is to live sacrificially.




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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Everyone is Headed Somewhere

God's Purpose Not to Satisfy Public Opinion

Someone might ask, "Reverend Moon, what kind of person are you? You confuse me. You came to America and you disapproved of many things here. You spoke against the Carter administration and now you are criticizing the young people here. You just don't make sense to the American mentality."

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.



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This post was rewritten from the speech The Victorious Person and the Defeated Person

God's Child Doesn't Need An Appointment

When I speak to you, my desire is to speak the words you can learn from the most. Often people comment that Unification Church members are good at speaking; probably this is because you have listened to so many sermons!

You are capable of speaking with renowned scholars and heads of state with confidence because you know that the knowledge you have gained from your understanding of Divine Principle is superior.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Some of you doze during the sermon; some of you may be thinking of what you will be doing after this and other of you are truly listening, but when it comes time for you to defend your beliefs you become very animated and eloquent.

If Adam had followed God's guidance and reached perfection, he would have undoubtedly have been able to walk into heaven without an appointment.  You want to do that as well.

If you have a close relationship with someone, appointments are not necessary in order to see each other.

A rich man's servant would not desire a close relationship with him, while his children are able to freely move about the house and go wherever they desire.

Since you are the children of God, do you think that you should get permission to visit places within your Father's world which He created for you?

The world we live in was not the world which God desired.  This world that we experience with boundaries and barriers only came about as the result of the Fall, after we followed Satan's will.

Everyone desires the kind of world which is open to everyone. 

A world free of boundaries is better than the world that we are currently a part of.

What if we lived where it was possible to buy a pass that enables us to travel freely around the world and even in spirit world without limits?  You would probably give up everything you had in order to gain such freedom.

Since we are the Creator's children, wouldn't He want to issue us a pass that allows us to go anywhere in creation?

But Satan makes his demands and tells God that He cannot freely just give permission to fallen man who has followed him.   Satan will say, though,  "If another man makes the right conditions in following  your direction, I will accept it, but You cannot do it for them."

In order for mankind to be able to freely enjoy passage throughout God's creation, we have to make an indemnity condition.  We set the foundation through home church of witnessing to 360 homes in our area.

Through this providential work, we are working for the world with the people in our area representing the people of the world.

Whatever the parents own, the children inherit.

We are living in the age where we can pay indemnity conditions through restoration.  You are doing home church providence not because you are highly capable, but because you are the children of the True Parents, the Lord of the Second Advent and his bride who have reversed Adam and Eve's mistake.

As you are walking this path of home church, you are telling people the good news of the Completed Testament and about the coming of the True Parents (Returned Messiah and True Wife) who reversed the sins of the fall created by our first parents.

Thus, people can be proud of the True Parents who have reversed the sin caused by the fallen, false parents who inherited the sinful blood lineage of Satan. They can be proud of the heavenly family and proud to be related to God.

Through this work of restoration, you inherit the position and heart of true parents through taking care, loving and teaching those in your area as if they were your own children.

Thus, you free yourself from any accusation and judgment from Satan before God.  This is a requirement for everyone that God cannot do for you.


This is why I push you out to do home church. I want you to get that free pass, that Heavenly I. D. card, which will allow you total freedom. Since I have passed on to you this inheritance, you must share it with your home church members; otherwise, it will go nowhere. Either way you look at it, home church is a necessity.


As Father has walked this course to complete the mission of Jesus, which is not just spiritual salvation, but physical salvation, all the powers of Satan and his forces came against him.

It is like the story of Job in the Bible, Satan accused God saying that it was only because God blessed him that he achieved anything.  Satan demanded that God test him by taking everything away from him and see if he would stay strong.

God had to push Father into many suffering situations.

As we walk this path of restoration, we must also go through similar trials, but our encounters are small in comparison to Father's experiences.

You may think that God has left you and is nowhere near you and you will feel that He cannot help you at all, but as soon as you keep going beyond that situation, God can pour out His blessing abundantly upon you.

Whenever you go into a situation, remember that God has made preparations for you; you are not entering haphazardly.

Even though God has made all of the preparations, He still has to let you tackle the situation and make it a success.

The True Parents go beyond all satanic blame and received the I.D. card of total freedom.

In order for you to receive this card, the archangel must sign it as well as the perfected Adam.  As soon as you receive the signatures, you can travel freely in Adam's world, the spirit world and even in Satan's realm without any accusations.

The heavenly hierarchy is God first, then Adam and Eve, then the angelic world, then all the things of Creation.

This of course was the original heavenly order, but was disrupted.

Satan came into existence through our listening to the archangel's word instead of God's holy word.  We have fallen so low that we don't know the world of spirit, we don't know if God exists or what kind of relationship we were supposed to have with God.

We don't know the heart of the original Adam and the true parental heart.  The only thing we know is the fallen realm of suffering and disobedience.

All mankind can see is the 'I', and we only see the visible and tangible world of creation.  Mankind is degraded and is lower than the creation.  The creation follows God and the laws of the universe absolutely, while man disobeys these laws.  Because of this situation, no one truly knows the dignity that human beings were supposed to possess.

Before you learned these facts through the Divine Principle and the horrible situation we have fallen to, you weren't even aware what you had lost or what kind of ideal to search for.

Finally, in the Completed Testament Age, we can know what the true ideal is.

Everything else, including our possessions, our nationalities. our careers. is meaningless until the basic questions of life are resolved.

The only real value is in finding out how to restore mankind's dignity and recovering that lost ideal.  How wonderful it will be when each level of God's ideal world is established from the individual, family all the way to the worldwide level.

You are able to achieve all of these of restoration through one 'school' without having to spend hundreds of years to achieve them.  Through the realm of the 360 homes in  your area, everything is represented, 360 days of the year and 360 degrees of a circle.

But you need to gain a certificate which shows that you have completed the seven levels of the human ideal.

There is one thing that Satan hates and fears the most and that is the day He is able to give that certificate to all of mankind.  It does not matter, because Satan has to bow down before the Principle.

When the Messiah discovered the secrets of the Fall, and a way for people to COMPLETELY free themselves from Satan's dominion, the Divine Principle is like a newspaper revealing Satan's deepest secrets.

This is Satan's situation today; he feels desperate as the truth is revealed.

If we were to witness people one-by-one to the truth of the age, it would take centuries to liberate the entire world.  If you were in the Messiah's position, wouldn't you want to find a more effective way to bring all mankind back to God?

If you were to ask God where He would most like to dwell, He would answer "Home Church".

When you witness to your area, the heavenly hierarchy is being restored.  The house represents all the things of creation; the ancestors of the people already in spirit world represent the archangel's position; and the Adam position is filled by the people themselves.

Once God has relation with all of the elements, the ideal of creation will be realized.  Satan will have to leave as a result because he will not have any place to call his own.  Since you are in America, all races of man are contained in your area.

All the races have freedom within America, according to law.

When you look into history, it is no coincidence, because this country's foundation was laid by people searching for liberty, especially religious liberty.  The first 200 years of American history, indemnity was paid for the 2000 years since Jesus.

This is the time when we must succeed.

We should feel that the time of the fulfillment of God's ideal world of Heaven on Earth is drawing near.

The founders of the world's religions namely Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and Conscious themselves can work directly on the earthly plane because of the foundation and sacrifices laid by the people of faith.

What kind of work do you think they will be assisting?  This time of restoring the world is not only the work of people on earth to inherit.

Definitely, people on earth and in the spirit world are called to do the work of home church to receive the heavenly certification.  Because your ancestors have direct access to you and your inheritance, they can assist you in your work and receive the heavenly certificate alongside you.


Last Sunday, February 22, I went to the Holy Ground and prayed about these points. This is the time that all indemnity must be paid for the failures during Jesus' time. Also the persecution of our movement by the world, both the communistic and democratic, must be indemnified. 



There must be a spiritual as well as a physical indemnity that must be paid for all the wrongs done throughout history.  Therefore, the spiritual and the physical worlds must be mobilized.

There is no other way to go toward a world of peace.

Before this time, your 360-home area was under Satan's dominion, who is the chief criminal of the angelic world.  He was able to do as he pleased according to his desire using the people with Cain-type personalities.

Now you are working with the Messiah and you have the assistance of the good angels as well as God Himself through this path of restoration.

As you go to your area, the good angels will work with you and chase away the evil angels.

This is not just fantasy, that kind of confrontation will take place.  Until now, Satan had greater power over the good people on the earth.

Before, even with the shedding of many tears, much prayers and indemnity, good people could only make Satan retreat for just a short time and only in a small way.

But in the time of the Second Advent where the Messiah clears the path and makes Satan bow down, we have not only achieved equal leverage with Satan, but we have achieved dominance over him.

You should see evidence to the truth of this.

You must know that you are truly living in an amazing time never witnessed before but prayed about by million of saints throughout the ages.

Armed with this knowledge alone that you are obtaining about God's viewpoint of restoring the world and the truth about the fall, you are able to confront evil forces squarely.

Your odds are better than 50-50 to win this battle.

You will not go into this battle alone.  All the good angels can work alongside you with and support you which has never been the case.

America is experiencing many problems such as youth alienation, drug abuse, and breakdown of the family.  How can we fathom conquering these problems without finding the root cause of them through the new truth of the Bible revealed in the Completed Testament?

We must push past the boundaries of what we mentally understand and we must know and act.  We should deeply understand the importance of doing home church.

When you go out to your area. you can command the spirit world, in the name of God and True Parents, to come and help you; and your command will have effect.  More and more spiritual phenomena will occur in our favor.

The best way to lay a foundation to be able to command the spirit world, including your ancestors, is to follow the directions and examples of the truth given by the Messiah.

By following the examples of the True Parents, the children become true children not just by name but also in reality.

Then the children incorporate the pure tradition of the parents and pass it on to their own children.  You should be proud to hold this title.  Whenever you are persecuted for following this path, you should demand a some reason for such attitude.

If Jesus' disciples had followed him along with all of Israel as the Messiah and son of God and he lived beyond 33 years old, the next major step was to conquer Rome.  There would have been no need for Jesus to return in our time or 400 years of Christian persecution.


I have spoken out very boldly and strongly here and by doing so, I took many risks for myself and the movement's progress. Why have I done this? In this way, Jesus' inability to go to Rome and fight for God's purposes could be indemnified. These next seven years must be a successful period. Otherwise, communism would totally occupy the world and religion would be wiped out everywhere.


At this time, we have a direct connection with the highest realms of spirit world.

Those in the highest of spirit realms are coming down to participate directly with us.  Accordingly, your pray should directly appeal to those higher spiritual realms.

Your prayer can be strong and short, "Heavenly Father, whatever True Parents are planning, let it be done.".  You can, also, ask spirit world to come and help you with your mission.

You must make a determination that you will accomplish a total victory in your home church area leaving nothing for others to finish later.

You should have the attitude that you will invite the Messiah to come and receive joy and glory at the successful completion of your home church work.

With this confidence, you can call upon the spirit world and receive direct help.  You are in the subject position, so you must work hard and feel responsible for your area.  Only then will the spirit world be able to assist you.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Total Completion of the Ideal

The Power of Witnessing

Why do you want to witness? Once you have a successful experience, no one can keep you from witnessing.

When you witness, you open the way for others to be connected back to God who is their cause.  You help people find the correct path toward health and perfection.

Could there possibly be anything more valuable that you can give a person than the gift to connect directly to God?

A traffic cop directs the traffic when the street lights are not working properly and does so in an efficient way.  This is your function, too, when you witness the words of God.

You are in the position to tell people which direction they should go.

People would be grateful that they found someone like you who can guide them through the wilderness of this world!

You are the spiritual 'traffic cop' that understands the great power of the universal law.  You realize that this law is about to collide with America's sinful ways.

Of course, you want to tell the citizens of this country as if you were telling them that a large asteroid was headed toward them.

You want to tell them to stop moving in the wrong direction, however people are ignorant to this fact and don't see what is about to happen.  Therefore, they just continue heading in the wrong direction.

You must explain to them why they have to stop and then show them sufficient reasons.

You have to explain to them, "If you go to the left, you will come to a decrepit bridge. If you go to the right, you will find a good highway."

People seek out those who really know which direction they should take.  

This could explain the phenomenon of celebrity.  People place celebrities on a pedestal just because it looks like they are headed in the right direction.

When people see that you know what you are talking about, they value you more.

If you guide people, you should do so with love.  Love them more than their own parents love them.  Once you love in this way, you find yourself in the center of love.  This is the greatest and most wonderful way to live.

When you live this pure way of life, you find yourself getting closer and closer to the central point, which is God.

Our original nature has the desire to return to the center, our cause.  The center is God's realm of love where we can live for eternity.  You were born for the purpose of returning to the center.  Every single person, whether they realize it or not, has a deep desire within him to return to God.

Unfortunately, people are constantly stopped by the influence's from the world which gradually distances them from the path toward God.  This is why those of conscience live in agony.  They want to go 'somewhere', but they don't know where or how to get there.

All most people know is that they are not fulfilled and they have a hole within them that cannot be filled with materials or false love.  It is a very painful existence.

Those who work hard with their mission everyday, may feel that their central figures may not realize their value.  That person should be aware that God and the universe do recognize his value, even better than his leaders.

The same is true of you.  You may work hard for the sake of others forgetting your own desires, but no one may acknowledge it.  Parents understand that feeling.  Still, you should know that God understands your situation and He appreciates what you do for His will.

The year's motto is "Victory of Home Church".  Home church is witnessing to 360 homes in your area and loving them as your own children.  The people in that area represent the people of the world, and as you shed tears and sweat for them, it is the same as doing the work for the world.

This foundation was laid by the 6,000 years of religious history.

When home church is done successfully, it enables us to launch ourselves like a rocket back to our source, God.

If it wasn't for this superhighway reaching toward God's heart, it would take thousands of years to retrace the steps through Biblical history to restore that foundation.

Instead, you are guaranteed by going in this direction, you can get back to God in a shorter time.  If it is not done here, it takes thousands of years once you enter spirit world to fulfill this mission.

Even though you may be yelled at or have doors slammed in your face, the value of this work is priceless.  The more tears you shed, even though others may not see your value, brings you closer to God.

This is the value of home church.


I have been pushing you in a certain direction, and I recognize that it is difficult for you in the Western culture to change yourselves.  Nevertheless, I push you forcefully to go a certain way. Why do you think I do this? Judged from a personal standpoint, I am losing much more than I am gaining. If I were living for my own benefit, I would never live in this way. I live this way because I know that I can teach you the solution to all the problems in life.


There is always a conflict between the true nature we inherited from God and the fallen, human nature we acquired by disobeying God.  You know deeply that your original, godly natural desires is to be with God.

Once you realize this fact, you don't say that you do not want to go that way because it is too difficult and let others do it.

Once you fully understand that your purpose is to go in the direction of God, it is normal to want someone to push you in that direction because we each have our weaknesses.  But someone who has to be constantly pushed to go in the right direction will never get there.

No matter the difficulty and the challenges to go the opposite way of our sinful selves, it is of the utmost importance to achieve our purpose and goal of returning to God.  Now, that we understand this, there should be less reason to complain.

Thus, you would not look for approval for your witnessing efforts.

God and the universe know that you are still far away from perfection.

You shouldn't want to hear a lot of praise.  You don't want to complain about your situation either.

You only want to go toward the goal, hoping to achieve it during your lifetime bringing others with you on this pathway toward world peace and restoration.

World peace begins with the individual.

This is really all you want if you understand how important it is to reach your perfection.

Those who resolve to go toward that goal, raise your hands. Thank you.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: America Must Change Direction

This post rewritten from the speech Our Deep Desire of Our Original Nature

An Encounter is Never an Accident

This speech is another speech that was announced that it could not be adequately translated from its original language of Korean to English.

For example, the concept of "In Yun" is not found anywhere in English.  If two people meet in a crowded place and their sleeves touch, it is said to be caused for some hidden reason and not to be counted as a coincidence.

These reasons had a beginning many years before unbeknownest to the individual wish is called In Yun.

Because of "In Yun" we are meeting together like this and not by accident.

"Sung gong" means meeting or encounter.

There is one book that is very influential to the Oriental life called "Chu Yok" in Korea which tells about how things separate and meet again.


There is "o haeng" and "sa ju". Each individual has a "sa ju" within him. It is composed of the time and date he was born. Experts can calculate an amazingly accurate account of your future and past using this method. It is about 80 percent correct. They can tell you what specific ailments you have, and what herbal medication to take for them. They can tell you how many children you will have, what are the highlights of your life, what you are suited for, what your ancestors' problems were, and so forth. Then they try to explain to you why these things are so.


Everything that happens in your life is not by accident.  Each case has a certain explainable cause or "In Yun".  Everyone gathers here from all over the world.  Each of us have been destined a long time ago to be here, living together and especially to be married through international marriage.

The things that happen to you are not accidental; they have a certain explainable cause, or "In Yun". We come from all over the world and you might say, "Well, we are like a scoop out of the mass," but actually each one has been destined a long time ago to be here, living together and especially to be married.

Why have some people gone to the North Pole and South Pole? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to consider that no one voluntarily goes to either extremely cold area?  The human body has a tendency for us to find a comfortable place to live.

Why would anyone want to live in these extreme areas?

Maybe someone is in hiding after killing someone or committing some crime.  Maybe someone hates them so much that if they are left handed, they would eat with the right hand that they want to get as far away from them as possible.

It is for sure that the cause behind them ending up at the North or South Pole was not a happy cause behind them separating from their society.  Does the beginning of the ancestry of the white people have a good condition or a bad condition?

Why would white people have chosen to live in the extreme cold?

Those in the North Pole regions must have been hunters or nomads.

We normally express compassion for horses.  Therefore, when one horse is in extreme pain and can no longer walk, even though we love horses, we have to shoot it as an act of mercy. On the other hand, if a son or daughter is very sick, it is not customary to kill them.  Even though a horse and man are different, this situation is similar.

Which is the better way: to let the horse die a natural death no matter how painful the process, or to terminate him and ease his pain?

How different are people's ways of thinking.

All of humanity originated from one human ancestor.  From there, different tribes, races have been scattered all around.

Is this for a good reason, or unhappy ones.  Now there are so many different languages and customs.  The yellow race has been living in the moderate temperature zone, with reasonable rainfall where crops grow well.

They have been worshiping a god under shamanism, not such a high-level religion; it is rather superstitious.

The spirit world is not unified just like here on earth, but divided by different societies.  It is even more segregated by different groups that share certain things in common than the people living on earth.    What is the nature of the spirit world?

Everybody eventually goes to spirit world.

Those who lived on the earth and lived like cats always scratching others so no one can live in peace, will go to spirit world to live in a community of others who live in this way.  Imagine a community of people like this.

Strangers meet, but they are not actually strangers.

Their meeting was predestined.  Individuals encounter are never an accident. If a cloud was to form right in front of you, where do you think it originated?  Would it be an American cloud, or was it formed from other parts of the world?

This cloud was formed by water vapors from different parts of the world from Africa to the polar region.  If a part of this cloud formed from the droplets of a black person's eyes, and combined with the evaporation of a white person's saliva, would the waters hate each other?  Will they start fighting?

Even though they are side by side, will they refuse to shake hands.  No, they will give up hating each other.  They would make friends under those circumstances.  A cloud lacks dust and pollution.  This cloud is world scale going around and around to America, Africa, to everywhere, across the oceans without discrimination.

We see that clouds act in this way, but we don't like to sit next to a white girl. Maybe you do sit there, but your mind doesn't flow.  If this is so, this makes you inferior even to the particles in a cloud.

Was this air bred on American soil and just stays in America?

The air that we breathe in America, is that American air or does that air belong to the world?  Of course, this air belongs to the world.  The air has parts coming from Asia, the Orient, Africa and other parts of the world.

Does air have conflicts with air from other parts of the world?  Does air from Korea only go to Korean plants?

There is no boundary in nature.

If a boar from South America was to go and use the bathroom in North America, will the tree there protest that?  No, the tree will like the free fertilizer and say it taste better because it is different.

This is the birth of the universe: everything develops according to the harmonious "In Yun".

Do you know who you will meet from one moment to the next?  No one knows this, but when they meet someone new, it is a good destiny and they learn to get along together.

You sometimes hear about stories where siblings separated for many years find out they live in the same city all along decades later.  How many tens of thousands of years of preparation did it take for two sisters to end up sitting next to each other?

That would be an historical encounter, a miracle.

This is how spirit world operates; it is like a big computer that at a push of a button reveals tons of records showing what measures were taken to bring these two sisters together.  This computer covers every area.

Perhaps at some point, Sister A and Sister B came very close, but did not make it years before.  Now the two are together.  Everyone that reads this post did not arrive here in a straight way.

If you were to see in the spirit world, you would see that your ancestors clubbed you to bring you here now.  That is why your way here is crooked.  No one understood predestination and how it works until this.

When you were born, did you have the slightest idea that you would one day meet the Messiah?  How many years would it take to plan such a meeting? We have hardly done anything, but this is how we end up here.

The background is very complex.  We can look at the universal level and see that there was plenty of work in order for each person to be here.  After ten or fifteen years in your current relationship, you can truly love one another.

Can you predict what is going to happen?  Can you predict the good things?

We must think that ten twenty years from now and cherish this moment.  We should not just think of today in treating each other.  If you treat others with this attitude of good "In Yun" for ten twenty years, then everybody will come to support you. Everything that is happening now is for the sake of this goal.

Fishing is very dramatic even though it is done in a sitting position. You may fish for eight hours straight, and nothing happens.  All of a sudden there is a tug of the line and before you know it, a thousand-pound fish is trapped on your hook.  All it takes is that split moment.

All things that are happening now are for the sake of this goal. In fishing, this becomes a dramatic scene.


In Alaska, there was a fierce competition. A Japanese brother had not caught a fish after several days. One day, everyone was catching fish, but he did not, until five minutes before the deadline, 8:55 pm. Suddenly it came; he landed the biggest fish and got first prize. This is a true story. 


Who can tell?

How can you tell what will come from two people in five or ten years, or even tomorrow?

Why does it take thousands of years for two people to meet?  Because the goal behind the two meeting is so big, that nature and history work thousands of years of "In Yun" for them to meet.  No one realizes the significance and work behind such meetings taking place and shrug it off and doze.

There was a lot of sacrifices were required for each person to meet the Messiah.  Even ancestors died to pay the price to have such a meeting.  Spirit world watches us nervously.

When we see how things work in the background, we realize that indemnity is a natural thing.  If indemnity did not exist to correct the wrong direction we are going, maybe we would not get a chance to go in the right direction.

When we know this detail, we want to work for a bigger cause.  We can say that we are ready to accept more suffering and more indemnity for God's dispensation to move forward.  If you are able to think and live in this way, then there will be more In Yun that will work on a higher level of encounter.

There is much In Yun in America.

Based on work day in and day out, a person will come to be loved by others and even at the sacrifice of their own lives they can not leave him. This kind of strong relationship has come about.  By working in America, one will meet offspring from the Mayflower.

The Messiah has lot of thought of how to meet such people and lead them to the top of heaven.  He does not recognize his own suffering until he fulfills his part of the responsibility to the offspring of the Mayflower or other American members who came through In Yun. A person who has this kind of thinking will receive all the blessings of the universe.

The universe longs to give the blessings to and welcome such a person.

When you have the kind of attitude to think of saving others before your own pain, then there is no room for complaint in your life.  There is no cause for complaint.

Even if during your mission you were to bump into your enemy on the street, we should think, "What is this "In Yun" going to bring me?

If you live in this way, suddenly you will look around and see someone there.  It is the true son and daughter you lost many years ago, because of war.  This 'accident' can happen to any person.

You look back before your reunion and remember that if you had not bumped into that drunk on the street, then you would have missed seeing your lost son and never have another chance.

Even though the man may be crazy, you would wonder if he himself know he is crazy, and what was making him act that way, for my sake.

That is good In Yun.

There are two kinds of people: one who is always ready to fight and ruins his day because of this inconvenient meeting, and then the other thinks philosophically.  They will wonder, why did this come to me? What do I deserve? What can I expect from this meeting?

In Yun and encounter has a great significance.

Remember the story of Joseph?  His jealous brothers put him in a well because he was being treated so great, better than the other siblings.  Later, after he was rescued, he served in the noble man's house.  The wife tried to seduce him, but he was determined not to repeat the fall. Then because of this, he got to meet his own brothers again and they ended up bowing to him.

Because Father spent three years in prison, by knowing and taking this lifestyle for the sake of others, your life will improve.   We come to know and understand within minutes the details of the nature of communism, liberate communism and unite.

This principle applies in our everyday life.  Something innocent happens, but an accident occurs.  You may cause some kind of accident to an elderly woman who just wants someone to be nice to her.

Then when she is hospitalized, you can witness to her and save her life.

If this were to happen, you may end up thinking that her breaking her leg,  her way of thinking was a blessing to bring her to you.  How proud would you be if you were able to live in this way?

So, how historical is it to witness to the Divine Principle using this knowledge?  We shouldn't pray to God that an accident does not happen.  It is better to pray for God to lead you toward his will.

We all experience accidents.  Maybe when you look back you see that it had to do His will.  As a result of endurance and faith, we gain a different level, higher level.

We are bound to get to a higher level if our mind is basically good.  

If something bad happens, everyone may agree it is a tragedy.  

There are two ways to handle bad situations: either complain or contemplate what chance this offers.  

The wise person does not complain.

The other day a bus was stolen and arrived to its destination late.  Everyone was worried and annoyed that they would not be on time, but a wise person thinks differently.  They wonder who they are going to meet due to this bus being stolen.  Maybe you could cross paths with the cousin of the President.  Maybe he could invite you to a political dinner quicker than through your own planning.

Anything is possible.  This is usually how this kind of extraordinary "In Yun" works.  When we understand this principle, how can we complain?


Father knows one thing: our life, whatever it may be, is a course of indemnity, paying for past mistakes. Whether we approve it or not, it's indemnity. It's bound to be. So if the indemnity goes the normal way, it takes a normal amount of time. Everybody wants to quicken it. But how? By something extraordinary happening, then it quickens. 


This is the history of humanity for thousands of years.

This happens like a sine curve. One is smooth and one is saturated.  Would you rather follow the complicated or simple curve?  Just know that the simple way will take thousands of years of sacrifice, and the other saturated way means you are always busy going the incredible way, but only takes one hundred years.

There are several different combinations of curves.  Sometimes you can go up and sometimes you go down.  Successful corporations go through one or two hundred years of turbulence before finding their elaborate foundation.

Shorter indemnity means that even though you think today is miserable, tomorrow will be worse, and the next day even worse. 

Which  life do you want: a smooth life that takes thousands of years of indemnity, or a short life that gets the indemnity over with?  The way of paying indemnity through religion takes thousands of years.

This is the principle: once you receive glory, that period ends and you must go down before you can go back up again.  Look at the history of Christianity.  It suffered for 2, 000 years and then it finally went up in America.

When you look at the current situation of Christianity, it has obviously gone down again.  This is the reason why God now relies on a new movement that starts from the deepest suffering with its foundation in Christianity and now is going up.


Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Why Do We Struggle With Sin?

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Encounter is Never an Accident