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.

Love is the Bait

The Western way of demonstrating love is often superficial, like a fly trying to break through a wall. 

The traditional Korean couples shows their affection differently than the Western way.

When it is time for the Korean husband to leave for work, there is a depth of communication as they look at each other.  There is no need for kissing and hugging.

The Western wife is more open with her love.  She may give him a quick kiss and talk about what she was going to do for the day. The Korean wife is a few steps behind, as if she is shy, and her husband has to turn to look at her.

As he walks away, she would say a tearful prayer for his day and safety.  This is the most mystical relationship.

This is the time to understand this kind of deep love.

When you taste the style of love from the Orient, you do not want to come back to the tasteless Western way.  The Orient has s mysterious way of expression that is done without words.


Father:

"I am a puzzle to Americans and though they study and analyze me, they cannot measure me. You too are trying to size me up, but there is an infinite quality about me that you cannot digest.
I speak for hours at a time each Sunday and at leaders conferences, but I never run out of things to say.

Do you feel some charm from me? But I am also very fierce. You Westerners have such big eyes that no one will be really afraid when you get mad, while my eyes are so small that you don't know what is happening inside and you tremble when I get mad.

But no matter how mysterious and deep I look, if there were no love in me I would be like the desert. 

The sweetness comes from love.

In our church life, there is a bitter, difficult side but every one of you has tasted the sweet side of love here also.

Do you feel drawn to me? Once you taste the sweetness of love, even if you are criticized or pushed out, you cannot separate yourself from me." SMM



Everyone would agree that God is the master fisherman.  He is very wise.  What kind of bait do you think God as a fisherman would use?

The greatest bait God would offer man is love and truth.  You and I may use the same word 'love' to describe our feelings for something, but the quality of what we mean is very different.  Satan's love is self-centered, self-seeking while God-centered love is always unselfish.

In order for the world to be restored to the original heaven on earth, which God planned, all of the history of mankind since Adam and Even had to be indemnified.  This means reversing the fallen act of unmarried Adam and Eve which caused the fall of humanity to this day.

Historians have researched and tried to understand the causes of what was happening in history, but they never understood the reason for them.  Only with the teachings in the Last Days do the answers to the fundamental questions be explained.

When we look at the decline of morals in the Western society, we see that the people are on an useless march toward death today.  Older people are in the front, middle-aged people next, and the young people follow right behind them.  Since young people are at the back, God is able to reach them first to turn them in a different direction.

God chases the crumbling civilization in order to turn the people around.

America's young people are rebellious and they mistrust older people, but God is also working through that.

Actually, this kind of 'rebellious' attitude makes it easier to turn the youth's thinking around.  God creates environments where the young people who are searching for great ideals can easily join religious movements that are making changes in the world.

Young people have not left anything to the imagination, they have tried everything from streaking to pre-martial sex at the youngest ages.  They know that they are behaving just like the animal world, so at some point, they long for some purpose and value.

When God sees people who have this kind of longing for some ideal, He can more easily work within that person's life.

Help comes in the form of the East.

Those who are in the drug and free-sex lifestyle are tangled in a huge net and start to rip that slavery to this behavior once they hear the depth of truth.

The first test Father encountered when he came to America is that the people would not feel that he loved them as much as the Asian members.

Then after Father would pour out his heart with depth and long speeches to save America, they would discover that no one has ever worked harder.  In fact, Father gave the most difficult task to the Korean and Japanese members to suffer for the sake of America.


At one time, I was persecuted and tortured by Japanese people, but now I don't feel they are my enemies; I truly feel a father-­son relationship with them. When I ask for something to be done, they absolutely follow my instructions, without adding their own interpretation. They are absolutely loyal and trusting. You know now that I truly love America. 


You have worked hard for the restoration of God and the world and have ended your death march.  Now, it is time to go back to your hometown and build and save your family foundation.

The parents have been going in the wrong direction and all of the sudden they look back and see that their children are no longer following behind them.  In the Unification Movement, parents have hired deprogrammers to kidnap and try to erase what they are taught.

The parents rather have their children experiencing promiscuous sex, drugs and wild behavior than to be taught the Completed Testament, the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon.  What kind of parents can they say they are?

It is up to every member whether they rather stay in the movement or to run back to their parents.  If you cannot be victorious over your own sins, how can you imagine to conquer over the world's problems?

We need people of discipline to do this work.

We are marching toward life instead of death. We are able to save those who are on the death march.  God has the central thinking that young people must come to do this work first so they can be the prime movers of morality.  Is this the right way of thinking or the evil way?

When you first have an understanding of these revolutionary teachings, your concept about family, life, society, nation and world become pure and different.  This way of life is complete opposite of the satanic way and you may wish that you have not come upon the truth which you were seeking.

Even if you were able to deny your discovery of this teaching, you still would be able to know that America needs to turn away from the path which it is following.  America is suffering and going down into the pits of hell.  Without knowledge of the Completed Testament, there is no way for survival.


Americans will realize that they definitely need me; when that time comes, I will leave America. I have much more territory to cover for the sake of the world. We have missionaries in 120 nations and I will meet them on their battlefields. I know when I visit them that I will find them being persecuted and enduring suffering. I will go and vindicate them and they will be victorious. 


How would Africans feel when they hear that such a man is in their country?  You should plan your entire life.  There are three stages of adult life:    fifteen to thirty is the formation stage; thirty to 45 is the growth years; and 45 and beyond is the time of perfection.

Father made a goal to be number one in every challenge: in eating less food, sleeping less than others, working harder and be his own harsh critic.

In that respect, he was able to set world records.  One of them giving an over twenty-hour speech at a conference nonstop.

Not only God's world welcomes such a person, but the satanic world has to welcome him and surrender to him.

Since the Divine Principle is filled with such secrets such as the original sin of Satan, how to bring families together and a world of peace, those who spread it get much opposition.

Instead, the nation should have supported such efforts instead.  Children born of such members are the brightest American young people and someday they may become the national leadership.

America is the slowest to awaken to the new truth; other nations-and even the communists have already realized my significance. 

One after another, God will remove from office the unrighteous legislators; the makeup of the legislature will change. In time, Congress will take the position of supporting and welcoming me. That pattern has been seen in Korea.


When one side attacks us, God always prepares another side to give us support.

The principle has been taught for over fifty years and have not only changed lives, but have moved nations and peoples with its historical information.

What kind of world would we have today if Rev. Moon had never been born to relay such timely Revelations prophecy.  Would unity of different races, religions and East and West have happened within that time frame?

People may be skeptical and say the world is never going to head toward world peace, but if you turn around and look at history, blacks were not allowed in certain areas, different religions didn't intermingle and many countries were still at war.

If you venture even further back,  you will see that religions were persecuted more, poverty was had everywhere and suffering was more evident.  In comparison, we can see the work of God, people of faith and the Second Coming will truly usher in a heaven on earth which God wished from the beginning.

Could you seen God's precise plan that He has hidden in the Bible without this teaching?  Sometimes the information that is revealed seems like a dream.

This speech was given on an early, cold morning, but instead of staying in bed or complaining people gathered around to hear the breaking news.  Who makes people do that?

Only the power of God can do that.

Anybody, even the government who tries to stop this history from happening will work in vain.   The victory doesn't come in an office or in the headquarters, but on the battlefield.



Return for Tomorrow's Post:  How to be Grateful for the Little Things

The First Day and Our Lifetime

Mass Weddings: World Peace Through Marriage

What is the distinction of God-given marriages and current ones?  Simply, the first marriage was outside of God's dominion and has been ever since.  We are blessed to our spouses in a 'conditional' marriage before God.  A True God-Given marriage sanctified and given approval by God will cleanse the blood lineage of the children and they will be born free of sin. 

Who has been in a marriage that has such a blessing? Every human was born into the bloodline of Satan's lineage, whose word we followed instead of God's, except Jesus.  Also, we have stated in several posts that Jesus was to plant God's seed substantially on earth through his holy blessed marriage directly sanctified by God and produce - Holy Sinless Children.  This was God's first choice. 

These two paragraphs alone explain a considerable amount about biblical history: why Jesus begged to stay on earth if it was God's will, why God dispersed the Israelites after they murdered Jesus and why Jesus returned in our time.

Since Jesus could not marry, he could only set the foundation for spiritual salvation, Jesus returned to the earth in our time to complete his mission to cleanse the bloodline through his holy children leaving the foundation for humanity to have physical salvation.  Who can deny that Jesus, no matter how holy, lost the battle of his body to satan.  This has to be reversed.

God’s desire is to end human suffering and build a world of true, peaceful families. God needs for us to take care of our portion of responsibility. If humankind receives and acts decisively upon God’s message, the achievement of God’s Kingdom will be relatively swift and joyful. If not, God’s and humanity’s suffering will be prolonged, and the misery and needless deaths will continue.

 
Blessing of Marriage by True Love

Then how can God’s headache be solved? How can families become fundamentally healthy? How can divided religions reconcile and cooperate under God? That answer is in the international Marriage Blessing Ceremony. The Messiah upon his return, Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his wife, began officiating blessing of marriage ceremonies starting with three couples in 1960.

With God’s help and going beyond nation, race, and religion, the blessing ceremony of 39.6 million couples, promising purity and fidelity, was carried out in Korea at one time.  This phenom has been titled Mass Wedding or Moonie Wedding ceremonies.



Here is an excerpt from one blessing ceremony:

"Respected leaders! I only want to stress once again that, through the Marriage Blessing, the world’s families can stabilize and finally fulfill their original role. For true family to be restored, we have to establish true love character, we have to attend God, and we have to seriously pledge to become true couples and true parents. Those harmonious families that are restored to the ideal through the Marriage Blessing Ceremony can create a peaceful society, nations, and world.
"This Marriage Blessing that encompasses all nations, races, and religions and goes beyond all boundaries is itself the foundation for world peace. Is this not God’s desire? That this miraculous number of families – almost 40 million! – can participate in this blessing of marriage is because of the active support of the world’s religious leaders. It was also made possible because many national leaders agreed that this true family movement can cure the fundamental teenage problems and the breakdown of families, and they have actively supported it. I would like once again to thank all the volunteers.

"The Marriage Blessing Ceremony can awaken people, especially young people, to the value of true love, and it can become the motive and catalyst for them to realize the necessity of absolute purity. All the world’s good young men and women who are awakened through this movement should gather together to stand up for a true love revolution, establishing themselves as eternal couples under God’s blessing.

"All these new families can receive support from already married couples who have renewed their vows before God and practice right ethics, and they can all become examples of moral citizens and build an ideal family, society, nation, and world – the fruit of true love.

"The Marriage Blessing Ceremony eradicates the connection to false (satan's) love and brings to life the holy content and value of marriage centered on absoluteness. This ceremony recovers true couples’ love, true parents’ love, and true children’s love. Therefore, those who participate in the Marriage Blessing Ceremony value purity and trust as highly as they do their lives and promise unchanging couple’s love.

"On the foundation of that true love, they can establish a true family, raise true children, and pledge to sacrifice themselves to build a true nation and peaceful world. In the world of the future, God, humankind, and creation are in harmony, living in a new culture of heart, a culture of love centered on true family.

"In the world of the future, true love means living for the sake of others in a world of interdependence, mutual prosperity, universally shared values, and cooperation. In the future, the natural desire of young people to live in a world of true brothers and sisters, one family of mankind, will be realized by centering on true love, true parents, and true family.

"Esteemed world leaders, the Marriage Blessing is the most precious gift that God is giving to us. My wife and I devoutly hope that you will participate in this historic ceremony to receive God’s blessing of marriage. From now on, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification will expand the true family movement. By the year 2001 we will carry out the 360 million couples blessing in three different events. Because of immorality and the loss of values, our young people are falling into moral decadence, and the family is being utterly destroyed.

"Is there anything more important than saving humanity from plunging into ruin? My effort to globalize and universalize the True Family Movement and the Marriage Blessing Ceremony, which are the fundamental solutions to save humanity, needs the active support from respected leaders like you.

 "Those who understand the fundamental problem and the solution God is offering should band together within their country and form a True Family Marriage Blessing support group and create a movement to save your nation. I ask that you put yourselves at the center of this great work to restore humankind to its original ideal. We have to quickly educate all men and women so they can establish true families and enter into the age of God-centered kingship on earth and heaven, centered on true love, and live in the victorious world of freedom, peace, and unity."


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Spiritual Food or Die Trying

 

This excerpt was taken from a speech titled "Realization of a Peaceful World by the Ideal of True Family" given at the  4th World Peace Conference in Washington, D.C. 1997