Attend the Messiah to Liberate Your Sin

Liberation of your forefathers will take place in proportion to your efforts.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

We have entered the era where the unification of North and South Korea is possible.

Everything is possible.

Now, there is a welcoming environment in which heaven's law can work.

You should feel mortally ashamed if you are unable to witness your tribe in such an environment toward the heart of God. 

History is a course seeking the truth. 

The truth should show the true path of the true individual and a true family should live.

How a true society, a true nation and a true world should establish.

Therefore, the perfection of the world, nation, tribe and family and the individual is possible when the focus from the individual  level to the world level is one.

The person who brings these logical key words, the truth, is the True Parent.

The truth is God's true love.
Now, people of the world must listen and pay attention to this truth.

The teachings of Rev. Moon is the truth for the salvation of the world.  They are humanity's words of true love and life which are needed for eternity.

If the Savior comes to save the world, then he should not come to judge humanity with a rod of a real iron in the real sense.

Not even one person would give in by being hit by the messiah to submit to God.

The sacrificial love of a mother, with hands as tough as a toad's back, whose fingers are so bent from working hard for her children they cannot be straightened out, can have the power to make the disobedient child repent and come back to the right path.

Even though God is the mighty king of judgment who leads heaven and earth according to His will, the cosmic unification is impossible without true love.

In other words, we are living in the time where we can bring about humanity to God through love - not through war, fight or force.

Difficulties are not an obstacle in true love. 

While in true love, there is the vigor to go forward at the sacrifice of one's own life.

We fail if the people can say, "In that church, the words are good, but the people are bad."


Did I give you only words? No, I did not just speak. I have done all the things that I am teaching you now. Therefore, there should be no doubt about them. I am teaching by creating a system of thought that is free of inconsistency and contradiction in both its intellectual and the practical aspects. No one can say anything about that. Both Satan and God approve of it.



God is calling us with His words.

Therefore, we must go according to His words.  What is the way that True Parents and true children can meet each other?

It is through true words.  Those words are my words.  You cannot be children without knowing Father's words.

My words are absolute and true. You won't feel tired even if you listen to the same words for a thousand or ten thousand years. You'll never get tired of them. We must search for such words.


Just finding words is not logical enough.  It is a dominant principle that can give life even after one hears them again and again for eternity.

You must seek such words and live such a way.

The words of the True Parents are eternal and transcend time and space.

Therefore, God's words transcend history.

These words transcend time periods, principles, and ideologies.  They are more precious than the words of others.

These words whether you listen to them at night or during the day or read them at night, flow into your heart endlessly.  You must seek these words.

What is my bitter sorrow?


I failed to fulfill my duty as a filial son; I should have cried  and pleaded with my parents to join the Unification Church. I am trying to resolve this through you. I could not even witness to my family. There were eight brothers and sisters, but I could not say one word of the Divine Principle. My older brother obeyed me completely whenever I said something. I have restored Cain completely. If I told him to sell the house, he sold the house, and if I told him to sell the cow, he sold the cow. My mother and father could not be like him. To that older brother, I could not speak about the Divine Principle once.

From now on, don't keep quiet.

When people gather around, try teaching for seven years as I taught you for seven years in the 1950s, without sleeping more than two hours a night. You don't have to do this for seven years. It won't take four years, either. It will all be done within four months. When I return to my homeland, I will unite it in an instant. Therefore, you must teach your parents well.


Also, teach your brothers and sisters the true significance of these words.

Through your own blood sweat and tears, you should teach this yourself without the help of others.

Then you will become the precious uncles, younger siblings, older sisters, and sons and nieces and nephews who follow the model of the sincere attitude you have when you are teaching.

You must confidently proclaim these words from now on.

From this moment, you must proclaim the Principle to your neighborhood for eight hours or however many hours a day, even staying up through the night as I have done for seven years. You must do so. It won't take seven years; it will probably be restored in seven months. When this happens, I may load up a truck and come and see you. I am sure your families will invite and welcome me.



Father made the national leader, Mr. Eu lecture for sixteen hours a day for three and a half years.

When Mr. Eu was tired, Father felt his heartache when he would tell him, "Who are you trying to kill by lying down?  You lay down without even asking me?"

Why did they live in such a way?  They lived that way in order to establish a tradition.

Organize Reading of God's Words/Hoon Dok Hae

Words of the Messiah's speeches, which this blog is based upon, can be considered Hoon dok hae or reading of God's words. Reading The Divine Principle or various books by Reverend Sun Myung Moon has the same spiritual effect.

Why?

Father's words are never spoken directly by him, but they are words spoken by God through him.

Your hearts will be moved no matter where or when you hear these words.  There will be a great revolution within your body, when the heart is inspired.  There is such a power in those words.

Whenever there is a meeting, this is an opportunity for studying.  Whenever you find that you have time, this is a time for studying the word.

You should continue to read material hundreds and thousands of times until it becomes yours and you can embody its substance. 

Our members will become sick if they are inactive.

In order not to become sick, you must read hard, be tested and put forth the effort.

In other words, don't just read the word, but become the embodiment and put them into practice and spread it to others.

True Parents are the ancestor of words, character and heart.

Hoon Dok Hae, the reading of God's word,  is the treasure chest that I stored up under all sorts of hardships and deprivations and that I have opened up to the people. I have told everyone not to translate it; it cannot be translated. You should do Hoon Dok Hae until I say otherwise. You must know that. You should do Hoon Dok Hae whenever time permits. You should always keep a speech book in your pocket and do Hoon Dok Hae even when you are alone, even in the bathroom, and keep a record of the part you have read, even if it was for a couple of hours a day.

You should read the Divine Principle, but you should also read Blessing and Ideal Family and all the other major speeches because they are the records of victory over the satanic world.

We should become one with these speeches which include all past battles of the True Parents up to the present point.

By uniting with and following these contents, you will become one with True Parents.

These speeches and posts should take root in yourself, in you family up to seven generation, and then 160 or 180 families horizontally, all united together.

Between husband and wives in the Blessed Families, Hoon Dok Hae should be done for one hour every morning. If you cannot do it in the morning, then you should do it in the evening before midnight or 1 am.

Father has done Hoon Do Hae every day.

When he had to do a tour in South America, even though he was tired, he still did Hoon Dok Hae, even after midnight.  He did not miss even one day.

Therefore, he instructs us, too, to try to read it every day without fail.  Since he has built the super highway road to restoration to bring a world of peace, we should be able to become cars filled with gas and go at the maximum speed.

Talk about the contents of the Divine Principle until it makes you sick to even think about it.

When you keep going until you get sick of it, you will find that it is very interesting and exciting.

You should clearly know that sermons have the ability to create. 

Because God is with you, then your heart will influence the people directly.

Do you understand?


If you have not read the entire collection of my sermons, you are a dreadful bunch of people.


Father did not even speak the deepest contents in those speeches and he is unable to express them now.

You must understand how precious these words are that are held captive in text with the source of life within them.

This source of life is flowing away.

It is our responsibility to find a way to have this eternal water of life, finding a way to connect the water pipe to this source.

 But what have you done?

Are all of those books something that you can just sell to an antique book shop?

The contents of these words hold a greater value.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Grandparents Have Value

This post was rewritten and derived from Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Thirteen,  Chapter 4, Section 4,5

America, Get Rid of Complaint

When we look at America, it has fallen far from its glorious Christian path carved by the first settlers who wished to serve God completely in this country.

It is a startling fact to see that teachers in America are physically assaulted by their own students and sometimes lose their life.

The universal law would bring such people down into ruin and they would not be able to prosper.

Nature does not permit this kind of event.

Do you think God would allow this immorality and say that America is still a great country and deserves His blessing?  If you were God, would you give more blessings to that kind of country?

Children who are grateful to their own parents are welcomed by the universe. 

If you have this kind of heart,  you are able to harmonize with your own brothers and sisters, with nature and of course God would welcome that man and woman.

But what can we say is genuine gratitude?  Is it when you can thank your parents under rosy circumstances, or under adverse conditions?  The latter is the most precious.  God is always evaluating the depth of gratitude which each individual has.  From His eyes, He sees each person's value is determined by how much gratitude they can impart.

This is the same principle that works in a courtroom.  If a criminal shows true repentance and a willingness to make a restitution for his crime, he will win mercy from the judge and prosecutor.


I have come to America telling the people what is wrong with America and how it must change, and Americans demand to know what a yellow man is doing coming here to meddle in their business. Will that kind of attitude be acceptable in the sight of God and nature? 


No matter how horrible a mistake one makes, if he shows that he is willing to make a conscientious effort to better himself and make restitution he can win forgiveness.  But the one who blames others and claims that he did no wrong, then there is no way for that person to be forgiven.

Teachers should be thanked for all the hard work they do.

We should write to our teachers telling them how much we are indebted and thankful for them.  We can remember how we resented how strict our teacher was, but we know that we can read and write well because of their teaching.

Because of the strict discipline in class you have gained much and can make clearer judgments.  Now when you see great masterpieces in art and literature, you can remember that it is because of your teacher's views on the subject.

You can write to them remembering what kind of student you were and express your gratitude for now having the ability to perceive and understand great art and literature.  It is because of your teachers bequeathing their skills to you, you should give them unconditional gratitude.  Is there any complaint about that?

Imagine if this kind of tradition was prevalent in every American school.  Would immorality and school shootings happen?

What if American children appreciated their parents? Would there be much breakdowns in the family?  The youth blame the older generation for all of the problems, but the young people are equally or more responsible for trying to separate themselves and do everything at their whim.

Instead, the youth must change their behavior and become loyal.  If this was to happen, even the most evil of parents would be swayed and turn around also.

The parental heart is always present.  So, when parents see their children doing good coming from their children, the parents' heart has to be moved.  If the American young people were to become righteous and do good deeds, even if the parents fight or separate, they could not do it.  The parents would be ashamed and try to become better parents for their children's sake.

If this kind of heart and appreciation was to dominate the family, each member of the family would unite.  But if instead members had a complaining attitude in the home, the family would face destruction.

Here in America the most important thing is how to get rid of complaint.

Are you inclined now to be thankful to your teachers?

Many sisters have beautiful handwriting, but they must be thankful to the person who taught them how to write in such a way.  Now, many American schools are getting rid of teaching cursive writing.

How much more valuable is this skill you have been taught?

That skill has helped enhance your skill when you entered into society.  If you write with that mind of gratitude, then the entire universe will help to enhance your skill even more. Then you find that you are deeply indebted to society and the nation.

When you get a job with a mind of gratitude you will prosper.

What if America was not some social system but anarchy or communism?  How could you live in such a society?


Do most people have a grateful attitude toward the person who becomes President and toward the government? The office of the presidency is an awesome one because ultimate responsibility rests there. 

The President has to protect the people, make good policies, conduct diplomacy and maintain defense. In order for those policies to work the people must unite with them. Should the people be grateful? But no matter how great the leader in office, if the people's inclination is to criticize, what will happen to their society?


What if a manipulative, scheming person was elected president?  What would happen to the American society?

Easy.  Disaster would come to the nation.

The most important quality for a President to have is to truly love his country in a sacrificial, unselfish way.  Do you love President Obama?

What happens to a country built by people who don't feel gratitude for their parents, teachers, or toward their society and nation?  Are we not seeing the effects of that kind of attitude in this day and age?

Where do you think America is headed?

Education is a paramount task now in America. There are two places where education is given through the schools and through religion.

Does the American educational system show interest in teaching such grateful attitudes?  What about the church?  There is so much struggle and politics within the church pews.  

If this is so, it would not seem that the religious people are really concerned about what happens to the nation  or the world.

There should be one religion that has a strong foundation and is on the right track, caring about the family, society, nation and world and teaching those things besides just religious scripture.

The movement of the Unification Church has those principles.


A genuinely good society begins with good parents, then children who grow up in gratitude and go out to relate to society through their teachers, and to their nation through the head of state, and finally to the world.



After parents teach their children for a few years, they then pass the baton to the teachers to educate them, then they in turn pass the students out into society and the nation.  In this way, the person takes on a higher mission all the time.

The person who grows up in the home with gratitude for his parents, teachers and nation will become grateful to the Almighty Creator.  Unless one exhibits this attitude, he will never be successful.

Harvard became such a popular school to attend because of its excellent teachers, and the students who are taught there want to take up important positions in society such as President or Cabinet members that will influence the nation.

This attitude is acceptable if the student is in the right frame of mind, and they will think that by wanting to influence the nation, that they will serve the world.  This kind of public thinking should be taught in the education system.

That kind of person would not want to stop there.  They would want to become nationally important and go on to become world leaders.

The true worldwide leader is a religious person, or saint.

This is true because the worldwide level already goes beyond the boundary of race and nation.  The only person that has this kind of life and attitude is truly a religious person.

To know God and enter heaven as a saint is the destiny of all men. 

To go this path, each person carries a bag of love of parents, of teachers, nation and finally from the saints, and then reach God.

From childhood all through your adult years you have to gain certain qualities in order to reach the ultimate goal, which is God.

At each stage of completion, you will receive a certificate from your parents in recognition that you are a child of filial piety.

Then your teachers will sign it, saying that you are a devoted and grateful student.  Then the head of state will confirm that you are a patriotic citizen, and the saint must affirm that you are trustworthy and dependable for the sake of humanity.

Then you can take this certificate to God and He will accept you.

When you get to the national level, you will not always be able to listen to your teachers and parents because you will be at a level of higher responsibility.  At that higher level of your mission, you should be able to govern even your own teachers and parents.

In that situation, you will be able to listen to the saints above you and to God.  Then, once you reach that level of sainthood, then you will surpass the saints level of teaching.  You will listen directly to God who is the greatest teacher of all.

You are going forward step by step, trying to reach higher goals, ultimately focusing on the supreme teacher of love. 

At each of these levels, the capacity of love is different.

As a child you learn about receiving parental love, and when you are in school, you learn to love your teachers.   At the national level you learn love of the patriots, and in sainthood you learn the love of the saints.

On the world level you learn love of the world, and finally above that you learn the love of God. Then ultimately the universe is yours.

Through the practice of love,  you get to know your parents and teachers.  Also, through love you find your nation, world and you find God.  This is the kind of education we are talking about that is need in schools.

That kind of man and woman will be able to go anywhere and harmonize with anything.  You must, therefore, become a recipient of the love of parents, teachers, head of state saint, the world, and finally God. Until you reach 18 years old, parental love predominates the other types of love.

The most important of all is to set right from the start ample appreciation for the love you receive from your parents.  Then in this frame of mind, you can move on to each stage and develop in the right way.

The subject of education is love, and the attitude of education should be gratitude. 

There are two things to inscribe in your heart: love and gratitude.

People these days think they do not need anyone, but in all of this time there is nothing that is yours.  Everyone is completely indebted to someone else.  You will confirm your position when it is your turn to give ample love to your own children, brothers and sisters.

You determine your position on the horizontal line, which consists of the love of your brothers.  Then on the vertical line is the love of your own children.  Then you become a teacher and a patriot. Then you become like a saint yourself so you can introduce God to others.


In all of history, these processes of education in love and gratitude have failed.  This process must be indemnified.  Through finding an example and following it, you can make restitution for all that has been lost in the past.  This movement teaches the love of parents and the love of teachers.

We teach love of the nation, head of state, how saints should love their disciples, and ultimately how to love God.


I am in a position of parent and also of teacher, instructing you how to become a teacher. Also, I teach patriotism, which national leaders today are failing to do. In the position of saint, I am teaching how to love humanity and the world, and ultimately I teach how much God loves the world. 


Therefore, once you leave home to go to the world, it is not a violation of the universal law.

You come to a new world learning the very best essence of education.  Many are faithful to their own parents, but are able to put that aside and join a higher mission in the sight of God.

You may have been studying for a degree, but will put that aside to join the church because here you are getting a better education.  You are told to love your own parents.

The Unification Church with the Completed Testament can unite the universe. 

As soon as it is known what Divine Principle stands for, then even famous theologians will say that here is a modern-day saint who out dates what others have done and sets a new trend of love.

You each must become saints who love the world as much as you love the Messiah.  The true heart of God is being taught for the first time ever in history, the past, present, future, and in the society, nation and world.

Other people are not even sure if God exists, but we are talking about the very heart of God. This is why we can teach the true love of God.  The Messiah is an universal being.

Your heart knows and understands that you receive the best education on how to be a good family man, teacher, patriot, saint, and how to reciprocate the love of God.  Would the courses of this school be easy?

No, these courses in love will be the hardest of any institution.

This education is not confined but goes beyond boundaries of races, nation and even between the spiritual and physical worlds.


When I go to Korea the members there call me their father; when I go to Japan all the members there call me their father, and here in America you call me your father, too. What historical applause that will be when you really understand your position. 


In this environment, we find the power for unifying the world and cosmos.  We know this can be done.  A lifetime may seem like a long time, but once you pass through it and look back,  you can see that life is just a spark of light, and the beginning and the end pass ever so quickly.



Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Can We Become 'Ideal'?


This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Reflection Upon Life

Pour Your Heart Out for Others

It is said that children are a blessing.  A child is a real gift given directly from God.  

This is more so than a wife receiving her husband, or a man his wife.  Father matches couples that don't seem to make sense, but he puts them together based on knowing what the children will be like.  This couple should be grateful for their pairing and see what kind of children they will have.

When the couple first sees a child from this kind of matching, they will know he is truly a gift from God.  They will love that child more than they love the husband or wife.  This will be okay, because the couple would be mutually grateful, because their mate enabled them to be the parent of such a child.  Through this foundation, the couple can admire each other.

Mothers should breast feed their children, if it it is just for a little time.  The more children she has, it may become more difficult to keep this standard, but the basic principle is still there.

Breast feeding is the best link for a mother and child to truly relate. 

The matchings are mostly made of international and interracial couples.

It would be the most beautiful sight for God to see a black mother loving and feeding her white child at her breast.  Would it be thinkable that the father and mother in this situation would have any racial discrimination?

This is God's culture.  There is no other culture more beautiful than this one.

Through learning the contents of the Divine Principle, upon which this blog is based, you come through the narrowest gate.  This means it is the most precious and rare blessing for you in your life.

If you were to truly inherit this philosophy and way of life, then wherever you go in the world, you would be welcomed, respected, and loved.

This is a course of seven years compared to the university's four years.

In seven years, you must consummate this role.  There must be nothing you cannot bear, even if you were treated as human trash.  This is where true kingship and queenship begins.

Which would be the better dramatic movie: everyday life, or a shocking courageous and victorious story?

Walking this narrow path is most difficult, would you be able to have such conviction to fill the goal for more than three days?  Time is just like an arrow flying through the air, and it is already the middle of the year.  Would you say that you will start this work next month or next year?

This timetable must start today.  If you wait until next month, next year, tomorrow will never come.

After three years of marriage, by that time, a couple may feel that they have a big lump that they have to carry wherever they go and never be separate from it.  Would you want to go your own way, or the way God wants you to go?

Where is the ultimate settling place?

Each couple must set up their own goals and serve your home church where you witness 360 homes. In home church you can be proud of your husband or your wife. That is your territory and realm.

Home church is the place for your settlement.  You must set the home church foundation for which to work through, or there is nowhere else for you to go.

Your destination is witnessing.

When you love your home church you are consummating every order you have received from True parents, true teacher, true patriot and true saint.

If a shrine was placed up for those who accomplish their home church mission, it would definitely be a place where God wants to visit.  Through the destiny of home church you will find heaven and your permanent home.

It is almost like being given into marriage.

If you leave this responsibility unfulfilled, then that great burden will be left to your own children to complete.

In this providence, the wife will work harder than the husband works and the husband will work harder than his wife, loving home church more than they love each other.  You love home church more than anything else.  You can concentrate there to build your own kingdom and heaven on earth.

This is the new kind of evangelism where we must succeed.

You will be welcomed even if you appear to your home church without any clothes.  You will still be welcomed as their savior.

The grandparents in your home church area will be competing to have your children come to their home and take care of them.  Your baby will have 360 homes right away in which to live.

Home church people will give true blessing and honor to your children. 

They will proclaim, "We know your father and mother very well and they are true saints. We saw God through your parents."

Then your children will be embraced and loved by your people as precious children.  Your home church people will pray for blessing towards yours as well. Your children will go to the same school in the morning with the home church children.

Your children will be embraced and loved by your home church people as precious children.  They will pray for blessings to come to you as well.  Your children will attend the same schools.  If your home church people have money, they won't consider it theirs, but think how they can spend the money for the home church providence.

Three hundred and sixty homes will be one family work and they will want to spend money for that. 

In another twenty years, you will look back and see that you are assisted by many people.  This is a prime time now.


In order to walk this path, you need to be able to absorb all types of people.  If Jesus was still alive and he was in his 80s, would you tell him he could not visit your home because you don't like the elderly?  You would say that you would serve him.

If you do this, then you should do this for your own parents in the Messiah's place.  As your parents get older, you should serve them as much as you serve Jesus.  That is real love.

The base to practice this type of love is in the home church providence.  If you consistently make effort now, some power will pull people to visit you if they were passing by to another destination.

It already July; imagine if you poured out your heart to a new person each day starting in January how extraordinary things could have happened by now.  You would have almost converted 200 people.

It is not too late.

You can start today and renew your energy.  This is what Heavenly Father, your wife, or husband, your children, and all of your relatives wants.


Time is not merciful enough to slow down for you. You have to keep abreast of time because time will never relax its pace. You can finish school in four years, but with extra effort you can graduate in three or even two years. It all depends upon your own effort. 


This morning the two central words are gratitude and home church.

In this providence, there is no room for complaint.  When Father came to America, he came as a firefighter to save the people, but he was met with hostility instead.

He never complained.

He was always grateful to God instead.  Even though he was constantly persecuted, his territory is constantly growing.

His opponents thought they had succeeded in knocking him out of commission.  But they did not understand that the more they attacked, the more blessings came to him and the members.

If the government persecutes, then their blessings must go to him.  If the media attacks with false claims, then their own blessings will diminish.  It will be like scales being emptied on one side and loaded on the other side.

While receiving persecution as a daily diet, we are growing.

You must really live up to the expectations in home church and all your shortcomings will be forgiven based on this condition.  Will you promise?

Give your pledge and promise this morning by raising your hands. Let us pray.


Return for Tomorrow's post: True Love Most Valuable to God

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Reflection Upon Life

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