To Be a Leader Live for Others

All the members of the church have difference in light of the service each has done for humanity, or for the whole.  There are some members who belong to spring, others to summer, still others belonging to autumn and the rest belonging to winter.

These four seasons put together we call one year.  The church is like a body where some have the roles of the eyes, some the ears, the other the mouth, limbs, or legs.

They each have one aspect in common.

The eyes do not live just for the eyes themselves, but for the whole.  The same with the nose.  We must realize this point.

We should not go in different directions as individuals, this movement has the goal of saving the whole world, so our thinking should not be individualized.

We should see through "Unification eyes", hear with "Unification ears" and smell and talk through "Unification nose and mouth".

If we are able to have this unity with each other in that way, we will be the strongest group.  Then what we do is in the will of God.

We all go together a certain way directed by God.

The whole body moves, not just certain parts.  If you are willing to live this way for eternity, then the movement will prosper through eternity and never perish.  We exist as a whole for the sake of the whole world not for the individual.

When the whole world is restored, the individual and family is saved as well.  Just as God had sent Jesus for the sake of the world, He sends the Lord of the Second Advent for world salvation.

We should not live for our own small family or ourselves, but for the sake of all humanity to be restored back to God's bosom.

Do you live this way yet?

We may wonder that if we live totally giving our whole to others that we disappear and we think that we are losing.  But if we are able to deny our own desires and think and invest our whole being for the sake of the whole, then the whole in turn will support you and will live for you.  This is Principle.


As I always say, those who live for the sake of other people become the central figures. If you say that person is the central figure, without exception, that person is a sacrificial person, living solely for the benefit of others.


Every man and organization would support the man that is a sacrificial person living for the sake of the whole.  The definition of a central figure is the person who lives for the sake of other people.  God is like this.

Do not try to figure out your identity in yourself, but in the whole world.  If you are able to live for others and reap what you have done, it will come back to you and you become the central figure.

You must never forget that you are the representative of the whole ancestral past.

You represent your past ancestors. And you represent your family, your relatives, your neighbors, the nation, and all humanity on the horizontal level.  This is for the present.

To the future generations, you must represent them.  You must be the good start or seed from which to be multiplied.

Who is the representative person?

The representative is the person who has lived a life of total sacrifice for others.  The central figure is the person who has not only lived for the past, present and future generations, bur for God in the past, present and future.

Isn't this what we strive for?

When you are in that position, this would make God proud of you before the ancestors of the past, and before all of humanity living in the present, and before the people of the future.

Of course you are born to your parents and are part of your parents.  If all of your ancestors were each to claim a part of you, there would be none of you left for yourself.  You must know that you do not belong to yourself.  The concept of yourself comes about in relation to other people around you.

You can only find yourself and place value on yourself on the basis of your being a product of your past ancestry.  This is the only way to find your value.  Then, only in this way can you consider yourself as a central figure.

You are in the center of the cosmos with all the rest of the people around you. 

That's all right as the basis of the idea.

If you begin by wanting others to serve and you be sacrificial to you, you will have nothing from those people, and you will have lost the whole world.  If your whole existence is for the sake of other people, then you can say you are a central figure and others will support you.

In order for you to claim yourself, you must put yourself in the central position, being sacrificial and doing things for the sake of other people. Then alone you can claim yourself.

If you forget about everyone else and think of yourself alone, then you come to nowhere. And you will have lost everything.

In God's ideal world before the fall, man was to live for others; so this world of harmony and unity has to come about.  But because of the fall, man began to live for the sake his own selfish desires and thinking, doing all things in a self-centered way.

Selfishness, putting self first, is the primary character of the fall.

Because God has been investing His whole being for the sake of the cosmos and is at the center, He can claim Himself as the center, or nucleus.  After you have served other people, you as well can come back to yourself to locate yourself, place yourself in the central position and think that you are important.

After knowing this, where are we all headed?  To the center.

To become the central  point, you must be willing to be a living sacrifice.

When it is time to eat,it is natural to reach for the best food, the most rich food.  We, also, want to wear better clothing then others, get the good things, what is convenient and you want this all for yourself.

This is not the way it should be.

Now, you have a clearer understanding of the responsibility once you are the central figure.  You should put it into practice.

You have a natural way of wanting to give orders to others, or have others do something for you, but it is not easy for us to do something for others.  You should go the reverse way.  Do things the opposite way as you have been doing.

When you receive orders from others, in utter humbleness, and do as you are told, then you can have dominion over those people, and over their minds.

You can dominate the heart of God., because God is constantly giving orders to us to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of humanity.

If you are able to live up to that standard, then you can dominate God's heart, too.

Now that you understand this, and pledge to begin living in this way, then you will be pushed hard from now on and you cannot object or complain.

It is natural to think that our bodies needs eight hours of sleep, and three meals a day, so there should be limited work of only eight hours, but you will be pushed beyond that standard to work through all the 24 hours a day.

Will you be able to be grateful in that case, or would you complain?

If you are able to live like this, then God could not help but to dance about for joy and live with you and visit you all the time.


You must remember this -- I must repeatedly say that you must be living for the past ancestors and present humanity and future generations; not only that, but also for the God of the past, the God of the present, and the God of the future. Then you will be living through eternity with God as your Father. God is looking for one like that. Human history of the past, present, and the future is looking for the person like that.


Of course we would all like to meet such a selfless, universal person.  With such a person setting the example, you want to be just like him.

To really become like him, he must teach you.  He would teach you how to become a sacrificial person who lives for the past ancestors, present humanity and for the future descendants.  Also, you would live for the God of the past and the future.

In other words, you will learn how to deny your fallen ways, your worldly habits.  You will learn how to die, to kill your sinful self.  Jesus' teaching was that those who wanted to live would die, and those who wanted to die would live.

All people of faith go this way of death.  If someone dies for his nation, then the nation comes under his dominion, and if he is able to die for the sake of the world, then he can dominate the world.  What other group professes such a ideology?

When we speak of dying for others, we are not speaking only of the physical.  Those who want to live for the world and stay in sin are actually like dead corpses with no life within them.  And those willing to sacrifice their worldly desires and walk this bloody path of faith, find life through the word.

What you have done, your deed, is what you alone can claim; and with what you have done, you will live through eternity.

When  you look at how you should die for the nation, world and God, you cannot say that you are tired after having fought for several months or years in this way.  You can never dream of complaining on this path.

Religions have taught this on a smaller scale.

We have been taught that we as humans exist for mutual benefit.  Parents live for children; children live for parents.  A family as a whole lives for the relatives and the tribe.  And so forth leading up to living for God.

In this way, we are able to erect the kingdom of heaven on earth.  Would you rather stay living in the kingdom where people live for themselves or the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth where everyone recognizes others as brothers and sisters of the One Family under God?

Then we can safely define that those who live self-centered lives are doomed to hell; and those who live unselfish lives, for the sake of other people, are destined for the Kingdom of Heaven. 

You have nothing which belongs to you in the real sense.

You cannot claim your eyes are your own, because they are created for the sake of other things and other people.  You inherited your eyes from your ancestors.

First of all, you should never complain.

We should learn how not to complain or become discouraged during the times of difficulties.  We should learn how not to be exhausted after a long day.

It is only during the times of difficulty, that God is able to see what kind of character you have.

At that moment, God takes out His notebook and grades you when people are more apt to grumble and complain.  Instead, you should smile at that time and go through difficult situations in that manner and you will feel victorious.  You are victorious.

God thinks of beauty in a different way from our thinking.

Suppose there is a beautiful woman that has worked hard in the sun all day and does not have any make up and looks rather ugly and dirty.  But this is the utmost beauty that God esteems in you, too.

If you were to work this way for just your own self, there is no merit in that.  But if you are able to work this hard for the sake of other people, then there is value to your work.

Sometimes you go door-to-door selling candy and you are rejected by many people.  You're called many names and you may cry.  But because you fundraise for the sake of others, that is the time that your tears are something of beauty.

If you are grateful and happy in your heart to do this hard work of restoration for His sake and the sake of humanity, then that merit is yours and God will be proud of you.  For generations to come, mankind will have to be grateful to you for your work.

If your attitude is like this, doing the same thing, that becomes heaven on earth. But, if your attitude is the opposite, that becomes hell.  So, even though you are crying, don't cry for your own situation, but cry for the whole, cry for God.

Also, if you must complain, do not complain for the sake of yourself, but complain for the sake of God.  For instance you can complain about what to do with this evil world and how you will destroy evil from the world.  This kind of public complaint is acceptable.

Every moment, you must be careful not to be accused of something by Satan.

If you continue to live your life for the sake of the whole, you can be proud of yourself.

We put this into practice everyday, sacrificing our own desires for others.  We will live for the sake of restoring humanity back to God's bosom.

You should be proud of what you are doing and proud of the church.

In this way, you will succeed in this mission and build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth with our own hands.  While others are waiting for the rapture to carry them to Heaven, we live this way in restoring the world toward Heaven on Earth and can be proud of ourselves.  Do you understand?  Let's pray.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Our Life Compares to Seasons

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Whole and Myself.

Preparing Leaders to Save America

What makes a great leader?  Is is someone who gives commands to their subordinates easily, a person who has accumulated many degrees and years of knowledge?  It is a question the Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon has asked many times to his congregation.  Here he speaks to a class of Unification Theological Seminary graduates:

"You see me here, such a short distance from you, in a very intimate way. However, you have no idea what I have been doing during this time. Many things are going on in my heart, in my mind, and in my actions.

If you don't know what I am doing now, you are even less aware of what is happening spiritually. So much has been happening spiritually that you have no way of knowing about it. I originally asked how much you know me; it is not an exaggeration to say that you know me very little.

As recently as last night, I gave Bo Hi Pak a hard time and scolded him severely. His eyes popped out; he was completely shaken. Even someone as dedicated as he is, and someone who serves me so closely, didn't know me well. I know him completely, but he doesn't know me. Since I gave him such a hard time last night, I was waiting at breakfast time to see whether he would show up, and when he did show up I looked at his face to see whether his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. They weren't.

I treat leaders like that because I am preparing them to face greater difficulties in the future. I want the leaders always to be prepared. The best way is to scold them, and let them react. This is one of my strategies for training leaders. If you know my principles, you should strive to follow my example."

I personally trained the first UTS class

"I am very happy to see you UTS graduates. I feel a special affection and affiliation with you, because when the school was built, I drove from Tarrytown to Barrytown virtually every day for three years. I spent two and one half hours on the road every day in order to meet with you and speak with you. If one day passed without seeing you, I felt empty.

That is what I invested to raise you up. I trained you so much, because that first group was the pathfinders, the compass. Unless I put them into shape, establishing the right tradition, I would not leave a good tradition at UTS. I tried to set the best possible tradition at UTS by going there and teaching every day.

Members of that first class have unforgettable memories, because I put you through many strange experiences, such as carp fishing on the Hudson River. I sent shivering, frozen men and women into the water for many hours. I made fishing nets that are still there. Do you think I was just aiming for more carp?

I caught many carp, but not one ended up on my dinner table. I often went out deep-sea fishing, but not because I wanted to eat fish. My only focus was to give you unforgettable experiences and teach you my tradition. You went through difficult times. You were hungry and cold, but I was there with you, touching you, pulling you.

You used the net I made, and fished by my side. No money can buy such memories. This is the new tradition that you should leave to posterity. How many of you alumni here today still cherish the memory of those experiences? How many of you really value those days that you spent with me?"



This Nation Must Be Saved

"At that time I had a noble ambition. I knew that difficult times would come for the United States and I would need leadership prepared for that day. I knew that this great nation would diminish and probably even go down the tubes. Determined to raise up this nation and save it, I brought the leadership to UTS to prepare them for that day".

America could boast itself as a hopeful Christian nation full of strong families of faith and now we must reevaluate the situation of America today.  AIDS, immorality and drugs are rampant.  The young people in the nation are dying and alongside the physical death of the nation is the spiritual death.

This wealthy nation is in a poor spiritual state and needs to be saved.  There must be one champion that can stop the nation from slipping into the quicksand.

Reverend Moon continued to tell how he came to America as a doctor to cure the sick or a fireman to put out the flames in which the country has been blindly engulfed.

"One time Jesus passed a tree along the roadside that was not bearing fruit, and he cursed it. When I am going down the streets of the United States, and curse this nation for its lack of leadership to cure its ills, I always feel that I am the one, that I have my people to do this thing. This is how I think about you UTS graduates. I cannot let this great nation slip down the drain.

I toiled in this country for twenty-one years. My labor cannot have been in vain. If I leave America for good, how many of you would remain to pursue my goal to the end? Right now every one of you thinks you would. However, to back up your thoughts with deeds is something different. There is so much distance between your thoughts and your reality. Everyone knows that the United States is declining. America is decadent. In order to save this country, there must be sacrifice. A price must be paid to save this country."


You Must Take Over My Mission

"I cannot stay here permanently. I have a job to do in Asia. I have to bring unification to the Korean peninsula. There are 3.2 billion people there waiting for my message. I must move on. When I move on, how many seminarians will say, "Father, leave it to us. We shall guide this nation. We shall be Rev. Sun Myung Moons here. Don't worry about the United States"? By words and promises I would like to bind you together.

That's the purpose of your coming today. I would like to bind you together in a promise that UTS will initiate the "Save America" movement and take over my mission. Say, 'Yes, Father, we are your direct heirs, your champions, your children. We have inherited your tradition, your methods, your truth. We will take care of this country.'

The flame of UTS has been burning. Now I want to use that flame to burn up all the iniquity and unrighteousness in this country. Truly you will become the saviors of this nation. I can say this because only you were taught by me. There are no other people who deserve this kind of statement. Promise that you will multiply the flame three-fold, ten-fold, twelve-fold. Pass down the torch until the fire is burning everywhere in this country.

When you stop the decline of this nation, you will have truly carried out my role, which is to save America. You will ignite the resurrection of the American people. A firestorm of resurrection shall begin, but someone has to ignite the people, and I am looking at you seminarians to be the sparks. Two years from now, in 1995, you will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of UTS.

A great deal of time has elapsed. You have grown. By then there will be a thousand alumni or more. One thousand multiplied by two is two thousand; multiplied by three, is three thousand. These are the forces that shall ignite the moral and spiritual revolution in this country.

The flame, the torch, shall start burning high and bright in America. Good seeds must be taken and planted in other fields as well, all over the United States. Become a seed and plant yourself in this society. You are the heirs of my teaching and tradition and spirit. Those who pledge to begin this movement, raise your hands. God bless you. If you keep that pledge, America shall not decline."


Be the Savior of the Nation

"As much as I have trained you, led you, and guided you, giving you the tradition, you should lead your juniors, and guide your children. UTS is the forum of the movement. Recruit people for UTS, knowing that I need future leaders as well. Bring them in, thereby multiplying yourself. UTS will erupt in a volcanic explosion for America.

That campus shall ignite, and foment a revolution for America. When you look at me and the things I have done, can you feel to the bone that you will be responsible for the United States, that you are the saviors of this nation, that you will stop the decline of this nation, that you will make America prosper once again?  You shall be central figures for that mission.

As much as I love UTS and love you, you should love UTS, your juniors and your children, creating a patriotic movement that will inspire love of your country, love of your fellow man, and love of the world. This is how you shall expand the horizons of the people, so that we can make another golden era for the United States.

You built many things during your school days. We will preserve your accomplishments as part of the founding spirit of the school that started out from me. Thus the genuine love for your school can be translated into genuine patriotism."

When will Rev. Moon give us money to repair the Mission Center?

"That is a very irresponsible way of thinking. This is not my house; it is your house. Even if I have lots of money, still you should say, "Father, you have lots of places to spend your money. Here in America, we'll take care of things, particularly the World Mission Center. We will clean it, and make it the most incredible monument in New York." I have not heard even one person, even with a ten dollar bill in hand, say such a thing. Not even one person is concerned about it, as far as I have heard.

I am not an American citizen. My job is done. My mission is over. This World Mission Center shall be here fifty years from now, a hundred years from now. Certainly by that time I am not going to be here. I may not be on the earth. In the coming decades the entire world has to go through the Unification community, because there is no other hope for resurrecting humanity. This building is the monumental holy ground, a holy building. Somebody has to take care of it. This kind of thinking represents the hope of America, and the future is bright with this hope."


This text was taken from the speech, How Well Do You Know Me?  January 29, 1993 given at the World Mission Center, New York, NY USA andTranslated into English by Dr. Bo Hi Pak