Eating is truth, and love between husband and wife is truth, and giving birth to children is also truth. No matter how old you may be, still you want to give birth to a child. Some girl may say she is afraid to get married because eventually she has to give birth to a child; she doesn't know what truth is. But when she is thirty or forty then she understands and wants very much to have a baby. I think that is true. This is true everywhere.
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
We are going forward for the sake of the world and spirit world. While we are doing this, everything around us will be left behind.
Those living in spirit world know that club dancing is wrong because of its selfish purposes along with drugs and smoking cigarettes which are harmful to our temple.
Satan uses these weapons as his tools to lure people away from following God's way.
We will do away with those things.
Don't go to a cabaret to dance, but dance in your home.
If a father, mother and the children were to dance in their home that would be all right because it does not have the sexual connotations or selfish reasons, but can bring about unity.
Those who have passed into the spirit world are able to look into the world and observe everything that is bad going on earth. We should wipe all of this out which is bad. T
he prostitution and immorality that is happening within the city limit must be eliminated. How does such behavior promote peace or national sovereignty? Does a country move forward that promotes such behavior?
You may think that the work that you do is trivial, but you should know that in a year, everything will be better. Every decade will be better than the decade before. We should have a clear vision of where we are going now we know there is hope for the future.
You may say that you are just an ordinary person without much significance and don't want the world. Y
ou might say that you just want to live with your own individual family If you refuse to do such work, you will be fencing yourself in without a foundation once you go to spirit world. You should be able to go everywhere freely without boundaries once you are in spirit world.
But if you just stay in the same position while here on earth, you will be unable to go beyond your fence as well when you reach the world of spirit. No one will be able to break that fence down to free you.
There are many Christians who believe that just merely believing in Jesus that when they reach the next world all of their problems will automatically be eradicated.
But once you reach that world, you cannot go beyond what you were while you were on earth.
You would regret everything so much once you know that this was all explained to you when you could easily do the work of restoration here on earth.
Once it is bound in spirit world, you must return to earth again and work through people who do not recognize you. This explains the phenomenon of many spiritual experiences people are having in these last days.
This is a miserable situation and may take thousands of years for you to restore yourself back to your original position before the fall which takes years while on earth.
If I didn't know about the spirit world, I would not live the way I do. I would be easy-going like you. I am smarter than you and have many skills, and still I work harder because I know about the spirit world. That gives me conviction and strength. Even if the whole country comes against me, I couldn't stop, because l know that whatever I fail to do here I will have a harder time doing there.
To break barriers is never easy.
Once Father would get to the fence or barrier of a country, he would just kick it open and all of Satan's people would shout in retaliation and accuse him. This speech was given in 1981: has there been any other time before where somebody kicked open a big barrier like a nation's fence and make all kinds of commotion?
We are supporting President Reagan so that a Christian revival can be made possible through the conservative ideals. As soon as the Reagan administration takes office, the communists will start to demonstrate against the new administration all around the country. Even Mr. Reagan is not thinking about it but also getting ready for that event.
When the Communists demonstrate, you should be in the front line to fight against them.
Many people may ask why a religious organization is fighting communism instead of loving them. Communist have their focusing on entirely dominating the world with their God-denying ideology through force.
If the communists nations were working for the sake of mankind and for God's dispensation, then they would be helpful to the work of world peace and we would work with them.
But the atheistic communist doctrine teaches that it is necessary for the social classes to struggle and clash. Communists believe in confrontations between different parts of society not true unity. God's ideal is centered on unity, not confrontation. The one who strikes first always loses.
Communism promotes promiscuous sex, homosexuality, club dancing, and drugs. It urges people to create a world of hell by centering their whole lives on themselves forgetting about family and society.
We cannot let that teaching continue to influence the world.
The public way would be to fight against communism. We do it for the sake of the country, world and God. If we had not fought, then the people of religion will be destroyed.
The Messiah has the foresight to see that communism could pose a threat and that we must take a stand against it. As a side note, the Washington Times played a major role during the Cold War that aided in the victory of Ronald Reagan in bringing the wall down in Russia.
Only after listening to my words have you come to know my real value and the value of the Unification Church. I am not doing all these activities because I am dumber than you; if what I am doing looks obscure, it's because I am way ahead of everyone else in my vision. Eventually, everyone will conclude that this is precisely what should be done.
We clearly must have an ideal for a public life, a public way. If we don't have one, then when it is time to decide which direction to take, we will be thrown into confusion and disunity. But if we clearly know the public way, then we can always become successful.
We know that 'God' is a good word, but for some reason it has become negative when people speak in frustration screaming out, "Oh God!". What they are really saying is that they want God instead of Satan who stole the central position.
It happens many times where someone was on the pathway toward God, yet ended up under Satan instead.
When you are happy or unhappy, you have experienced tears at both times. But the quality of those tears makes the difference.
Therefore, just because you are crying does not mean you are in heaven or hell.
What do you think God would like most?
God would like religious meetings!
Throughout the ages, there have been many forms of religions and now religion has come to a very high level.
In America, there are many people of all religious backgrounds, but in other countries, people only worship in one way.
There are also five different colors of skin here, but in most countries, there is just one color. We see that throughout history that when a better religion comes into being, the established religions always challenge and compete with it. Finally, the higher level of religion emerges from this.
Now, the Unification Movement is confronted by Jews, Christians and communists.
The content of the Divine Principle, which upon this blog is based, members believe the words are good and they know them to be true. But members do not really want to act on them.
We like the idea of fundraising, but you do not actually want to fundraise.
Young people from all over the world have come to compete in a religious Olympics.
People accuse Father of breaking up families and brainwashing people to hear this truth.
But all of spirit world knows that we are good. All the world is going against the champion of religion. Where as in the spirit world, they are cheering you on as you do the work of restoring the world.
Is our score in this competition better than the world's score? You champions are not so great, but you have a great coach.
The champion who is able to go out when the coach give direction, wins all the time. Then the world would praise the coach and say he is really something. Will you be defeated or will you win? Do you pay a lot of attention to home church now.
If you do not have that confidence, how will you be able to break through even one barrier here?
Once you are able to finish home church, you then are given credit for doing all the rest of the work.
Think that the arena where you fight for the title match against evil is in your home church. We have a world champion in this movement and we are competing among ourselves.
Are you the Church champion at winning, or are you the champion at losing?
There was a member who was fundraising who was a teacher before he joined. He really enjoyed his work, but after joining for one year and three months, he said he had learned more than he had learned in his life.
He was thankful for being given the gift of the teachings of the Divine Principle. Father shouted out, Oh God!" at such a person who could see the gains he was making in his life.
Your Home church area is the dividing way between heaven and hell.
Those who were not able to have success in the home church providence will wonder why such a mission was created because if it did not exist they would be free to move about in spirit world.
Those who are in spirit world who successfully witnessed in the their Home Church area would speak up and say that they did as they were instructed and were successful and that is why they were able to be in heaven.
There may be a fighter who is a champion in his local area, but if he loses the fight on the national level, then he is a loser.
The person who did the work of fundraising getting persecuted and shedding many tears will have an easier time witnessing to the 360 homes in his area and become successful in a short period of time.
You are trained in the champion way.
If you were to go up in a rocket ship, you would not eat the usual food. You must eat what is available in the capsule. In this case, then you must eat and be able to digest the Principle food here that is prepared. These are serious words.
Once you enter the ring, fighting with all your might would be the right thing to do. If you don't fight, that would be wrong. Inside the ring, hitting and fighting well is your virtue, but outside the ring that is different.
Home church is the public way.
You have been given the best present that mankind has ever had.
With this weapon and this food of truth, you will never be defeated by going this way.
Like dedicated runners who jog everyday, you should jog to home church. You will destroy the walls between individuals and families. Walls between 'white' people and other races will crumble. You will enable everyone to move back and forth freely.
If you were to say that you don't like the public way, then you are retreating to hell.
You are doing good work when you are going the way you are supposed to. Have you ever thought that after you do home church that then you will go to other countries?
Laid upon that foundation, you can think that millions of people will act upon your direction in the future.
Will you go into the arena of home church now?
That would be the ring which you fight the championship bout.
You must truly understand and know the public way. Once you turn into the direction of the private way, you will be declined and blocked wherever you go.
You always should check yourself in this situation.
A straight line passes through the three points of the past. present and future. If the central point turns around, will all the rest turn too? Since this line is the axis, it will turn. If heaven will make the axis spin, then everything else will tend to spin, too. As long as you maintain a public position, if heaven spins then you spin accordingly.
As long as the three points are in a straight line, when the axis spins, everything will automatically spin. The center will always need more power in order to spin. What would be the power that is strong enough to move everything around and still have power left over?
It is the power of love.
Could America spin around with the power of love?
When life and love come into harmony, then they are strong enough to move the whole cosmos.
When we make the statement that God is love, we mean He is in the center. To be public is to connect to the axis of love. Each individual, and nation each level must connect to that axis.
Sacrificing is not bad at all. Love is all good.
When your parents keep hounding you to study, it is good just as long as they do so with love.
Sacrificing is not bad at all; love is all good.
No matter how much a person bothers you, if he does it with love, then you must accept that as being good.
God urges you to sacrifice because He wants to bring you to a higher level of love.
Thus, you should bear the heavy burden and important responsibility. If you are able to persevere, then you can become the axis of love. Right in the center. This is why you are urged to sacrifice and suffer.
If one runs away from the work because it is too hard, could he become the center?
Through love, Father was able to become stronger than the communists and nothing else.
I have been strong and unafraid of anything. I am the point connecting the present time to the axis of love, and when I go around in love, the universe will go around with love. Once I teach you, whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. If you fail, it does not mean this is a bad school. It's the other way around, in fact.
If there is a school that was so strict that many students fail, then that school would become well respected.
This teaching is a rigorous standard, with no compromise.
The world will come to understand that this is a true school. It is up to you whether you want to go through this tough course successfully working for others. There have not been many members who have been going the way which will yield success.
Stay with the public way all of the time.
You can forget eating or drinking, but you cannot neglect the public way.
This way of life of spreading the truth is more important than loving, eating or anything else.
When you are hungry or do not get enough sleep, you may wonder why you work so hard going this way.
You would like to go on Christmas vacations once a year and perhaps there is someone you really like to see. These are the difficult things that you must overcome and give up.
Do you not pity the young people who do not know who they are and which direction they are going?
They take drugs without knowing what they are truly getting into. Living for just their carnal desires, there is no future doing that.
When you understand and know the love of God, you must still go the public way no matter how hardened your body may become.
Once you are married, would you want to just give up and get divorced?
Even after you get together, you still have to sacrifice and continue working for the sake of the country. Once you secure the country, then you have to work for the world. You still have all of these goals ahead of you.
Your spouse should be really close. He would be like your friend or your comrade.
During combat, your friend is more than a companion, he becomes like one of your legs. Your spouse is to be closer than that.
Without a family, you will not come to the love of God. The family is the axis of love, and this is why you love your family.
Even if you are fighting the war for the country, the family is still the nuclear unit.
You should have the kind of thinking that through the work of your family, the world will turn around.
If you are unable to think in this way, then you forget about everything else and just enjoy your family, then your family will perish.
We see many families who are prosperous, and live only for the prosperity of their own family. But then they leave nothing behind and the children decline. What use is it to accumulate a lifetime of wealth if the children do not have the means to carry on?
A family that cannot live for others would be like a thief of the heavenly country.
Love yourself so that you can become strong and be an axis which the entire world can depend on.
You are not loving yourself for your convenience, but for the destructive element of the world. By loving the world, you automatically become the central shaft. Everyone knows how to love themselves first, but the public way is to love the world, and then for that reason love yourself.
Once you reach that level of loving, everything will come to you.
On the outside, Satan's way tries to look like God's way, but God is living for the sake of the world, while Satan is living for the sake of himself.
You don't have to sit and ponder what your accomplishments will be, if you are able to live in the public way, then your future will be bright automatically.
Likewise, you don't have to worry about the future. On the other hand, if you work just for your own profit, then you will automatically be headed for hell, with no way to turn around.
As long as you work in the public way and follow the Principle direction, you will win every time. As long as this is true, whether you go to heaven or hell is up to you.
You follow this way because it is the fastest and easiest route to the country and world levels.
If future Presidents and world leaders were able to follow this way, then World Peace would quickly be brought about.
People asked where the Kingdom of Heaven is. Jesus replied that it was in every person's mind. We must know how we are seriously standing at the borderline of heaven or hell and we must persevere to win.
There is no substitute for winning.
Are you able now to forget about all of the past attachments and realize the public road, continuing on until you win the final victory?
Let us pray.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love Language
This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Public Way and Private Way
