Sow Seeds in People

“When I give sermons, I speak for five or six hours at a time. I do not do that because I like to.

“The gist of a sermon is simple and does not even require a fifteen minute talk. I speak that long because I try to make it easy for different types of people, for those who have come to hear, to understand the gist by explaining to them using many examples, and to have them participate within that sphere.

“The purpose is to sow as many seeds as possible in the spring season. If I sow many seeds, many plants will grow.”


Where must you sow the seeds, then? It must be an unspoiled place. Where is that?

The time of adolescents.

Once you sow seeds in the young people, this fruit will last a lifetime and will never be uprooted.

When is the time people are most sensitive?

In elementary school.

In the time of middle and high school, our senses become duller.  At the time of university, it is like passing a village, like an activity.

The most difficult time is during elementary school.

Next is during middle and high school. As time goes by, their senses dull. We must sow the seeds of life accordingly.

You can accumulate eternal assets for the future through teaching children at Sunday school children songs and tell them stories or such things.

Testify to God’s word every time you meet elderly people.  

Members are not doing these things well. You can witness better when you to take the bus or subway than driving your car and talk to ten people, ask them question and get to know them.

You can arrange to see them and introduce the Principle, the Completed Testament to them.  There is enough material for you to witness as much as you want.

When you commute on the same route everyday for twelve months a year, you get to recognize and know people by their faces and tap into an interactive network.  Why do you waste time when this path is cleared?

More important than eating is harvesting the citizens of heaven. 

This is our main occupation while on earth is to witness God’s word.

Among all of the works you do in your lifetime, this is more important than a job, making money or power.

Money becomes useless in the next world, things and knowledge are also unnecessary.

In the spirit world, your mind knows ahead of time everything within a week without being taught.

What is needed there is love-centered harmonizing power, love-centered influential power. 

Therefore, those who do not have love-centered influential will not be able to harmonize with the original world that move by the influence of love.

They will be repelled when they arrive to spirit world and end up in hell.

“You say you have lived and worked for the Unification Church ever since you joined it, but you should consider in what position you have worked. Always ask yourselves in which direction you are headed and in which position you are located.

“If you do that prayerfully, God will be with you. You will know it the moment you close your eyes -- even without praying.

“As you go somewhere to give a talk, the right word  just flow out of your mouth. If you come across conscientious people, you are drawn to enter their houses.”

Everything seeks relationship. 

Even flowers have the power of attraction to create relationships.

A magnet in essence is eternally unchanging.

Even if you see someone for the first time, it does not mean that you cannot relate to that person.

If you go to such a place, you feel joyful and are inspired to speak.

What will you say to God who has been working to restore us with great pains to this day find Adam?

Since the beginning of time, God has been looking for a perfect son.

“You all know the Principle. This is the weapon that can save countless people. Until now, God could not teach humankind and consequently had to guide the work of redemption amid ignorance.”

God’s words in the Principle is an enlightened path that can assemble a following of hundreds and thousands of Adams.  We must connect them to eternal life.

The topic of eternal life is a serious matter.

When you are with your contacts, have the heart that wants to convey the Principle to them all night without getting tired.  Go all out and inspire them at your first meeting.

You should not be doing anything other than finding sons and daughters whom you can take with you to heaven. 

If you had hundreds of millions of dollars and lived richly, that will all pass away in the next world.

Invest all your materials, knowledge and your very lives all at one time to create heavenly citizens.

How much you invest will be proportional to the amount of your input your input.
It is shameful for you members to proudly fancy yourselves.

How many lives have you saved from your own efforts?

The degree to which you will be praised eternally before heaven for your achievements depends on how many heavenly citizens you harvested.

There had no been a way to harvest them until now.

They could not do it because they did not know, but with the Principle  you have an A-frame carrier on your back.

You can bring in an explosive harvest once you start spreading God's words passionately.

However, because you are wasting time even with that kind of real internal power, God wants to strike you with a thunderbolt.

It matters not whether it is midnight or dawn, whether night or day. When Heaven is ready to receive you, you cannot say to Him, "Oh, I just want to sleep!" In that position, you just run straight through.
We must provide education concerning the issue of eternal life.

“From now on, assume that responsibility. I cannot curse those who oppose the Unification Church. God wants them to connect with me and commit themselves, but if they drop out that is our church's responsibility and I must assume responsibility for that.

“This world came to oppose us: because of Satan, but it is our responsibility to overcome those adverse circumstances quickly. If we do not, our situation will be all the more miserable from the resultant damage it will sustain.”

It is the same as nursing a baby. If you give birth to a baby, you have to nurse it. That is why people come looking for you.

Therefore, when they do, never treat them coldly.

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

Can a Selfish Person Change?

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


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



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

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

Should we vote on it democratically in the resolution?

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

There is no way you can drop out.

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

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

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

What if you showed up on only rainy days?

What would God think?

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

What does one benefit from living like this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which type are you?  Are you selfish or unselfish?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't this kind of discipline going against nature?

Why should we do this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has anyone become a great person through fighting?

Fighting causes division and weakness.

Democracy is based on the consensus of the majority.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody can deny the truth of that theory.

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

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

Would Westerners think that way?

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should all move upward together.

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

Only by following an unselfish way can people be united.

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

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

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




Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Public Way and Private Way


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

Are You Moving Forward or Backwards?

All things of creation are preparing to burst forth in springtime. March is the revival month.  This is the season to grow by leaps and bounds; we need to make an extraordinary jump.

Picture an open book on the blackboard.

Do you want to turn over the page?  Once you turn the page, then  you cover the previous one.  If you want to go in the opposite direction, you must turn 180 degrees.


Therefore, to find a new course, you have to turn about-face.

Each of you is in this book.

We each want to get rid of the bad things of the past and become new people.  Now we are turning over a new leaf and beginning a new life.

We use key terms that the rest of the world has not established yet: True Parents and True Children and True Nation and so forth.

We are becoming new people, new family members, new men and women. 

By going this pathway, we have completely turned around toward the greatest ideal.  There have never before been people who have worked for such a grand goal of world salvation.  Most can never dream of where to begin.

We are not just thinking about it, but we have turned around and reach out for it.  When it is Christmas, everyone wants to go to their hometown and visit their family and old friends.  Wouldn't you?


The only reason I don't do it is that it would hold me back instead of helping me advance. I cannot allow myself to retreat; my thinking does not permit it. New horizons and new goals are there waiting. I want to work to fulfill them every moment of the day. Every moment is so precious.


What about you?  Are you able to envision new days ahead?  Do you forsee a new life?

When you go out on your missions, do you go and say, "What is the next goal?  I want to accomplish it."

Or before you go, you go expecting just another tough day?

Sometimes you hate witnessing or fundraising.  Sometimes you feel passive about doing it.  But once you go to a country such as Africa, Asia or Latin America, you will really appreciate such training.

The Messiah's goal is to eliminate immorality in America.

Likewise, he has a desire to also save the Mafia, drug addicts and prostitutes.  Was that not the same level of work Jesus did in his time?

Are you able to do the same work?  Are you determined to accomplish this with your own hands?

Maybe you think that there are millions of Americans who aren't doing much so, you don't see any reason to try.  Maybe you just want to live a comfortable life like everyone else.

By coming to understand Father you have learned about the true value of existence, the meaning of creation, God's will, the true way of life and true love.  But in your heart, how often have you been scorned for doing such work of restoration for the world?

Practically everyone wishes that the church didn't have such fundraising and witnessing activities.

This world is decaying.  Our mission is to go out and save it.

Our responsibility is to apply the brakes and stop the world's decline.

Is what we are doing an easy task?  Of course we know the answer is no.

In the near future, the whole world will know and recognize our good deeds.  Then this is truly a precious way of life.


I heard that the 120-day workshop included some periods of 24-hour lecturing or fundraising. You may protest that it is too much. You all have your opinions about this and that, don't you? You may be right. The United States may not need it, but we have to turn the page.


Do you want to live this way of life or not?

This world is not the limit,  We will be able to go to another world eventually after world peace has been established.  If I was a good, concerned God, I would not want my children spreading their filthy ways to the other parts of the universe.  Once we have world peace, then the universe is the limit.

Once you have reached the spiritual world, your every deed will be judged.  The spirit world is the real, eternal world.

When you get there, will you say, "Man!  I didn't know the truth." But God would reply, "What are you talking about?  Reverend Moon gave my message to the earth.  Through him I told you truth clearly through his sermons."

Then, you would not be able to offer any excuse.

Even though the messages in these posts seem bitter, this kind of instruction is necessary in order to go in the right kind of direction.

We need to make a leap.

Now, we know that unless something drastic happens, this world will crumble under the God-denying communist world.

Once you join the church, did you continue your secular ways making a little change, or did you make a drastic change in your way of life?

After living this way, it is virtually impossible for you to return to your original, selfish way of life.  If you were able to return, you could not live there for even one day.

Then, you would turn around and come back even though it would be difficult at first.

You are a new kind of citizen, not ordinary Americans at all.

Father has dealt with tens of thousands of members.  Many have betrayed him and left.  He would not say a word once they left, but he knew they would eventually return.

When one is doing Gods work, they can face him.  But someone who became a weak solider and turns away cannot face Father and rushes away when they come face-to-face again.

There are many cases where people returned with a bowed head and said, "Father, can you forgive me?  I was weak and was not thinking deeply.  But once I went back to the world, I understood the true value of what you were teaching."

Once you hear the new truth based on the Bible, you came to know God.

You know you have come into contact with a true religion.

Whether you fulfill this mission or not is up to you. Many have failed, but many have succeeded.

You have to take a giant step if you want to be successful.

Those who follow this way of life are transformed people, who are no longer their old selves.

After you learn the Divine Principle, can anybody erase it from your brain?

Even if you went away from this teaching and you won a million dollars living a lavish lifestyle, no one would be able to eradicate this Principle from your mind.

Would becoming a millionaire satisfy you if you know you were not following God's will?  No one can be happy until he lives up to the requirements of the Principle way of life.

Doesn't the truth ring clear in your heart?  It may be raining or murky day where you are, but now you think it is a sun shiny day, correct?


When I came to America  in 1973, I foretold this nation's decline. I declared that the United States must turn around and make a change, but nobody took me seriously. People laughed at me then, but now many of those who mocked me have come to the realization that I was correct. The problems haven't ended-ten years from now you will see people weeping as they realize how right I was.

I have done my duty in the sight of God. 

Father received the mandate from God and has done his best to fulfill that requirement.  He has dealt with the highest possible authorities in this nation, and carried out his mission for the sake of America.

People in the nation have not treated him with courtesy, and have done a lot of wrong to him.  He was able to transcend his personal feelings by acting for the sake of he nation and the world.

Who would be more correct.  The one living in this way for God or the government administration?

History will be the best judge.  There will be a time when people will understand this content and flock to Father's tomb to pay their respects for the great works he has done for this nation.  His tomb will receive homage more than any President that held office.

There is hope for America.

There will be a new generation of people that will crop up and understand the true value of this movement and push forward to bring Heaven on Earth.   People may not be able to understand this today, but in the future, they shall know this content and want to take action.

Wouldn't this be so?

You know this is true in your heart.

The world is moving toward a God-centered culture step-by-step.  You will see that this is true.


I know this like I know the sunlight. I see this truth so clearly. Once we turn America around, the whole world will turn around. Think about it. The United States is a gigantic country, so it's not going to be easy to turn it around. I knew this from the outset.


Where are you?  Are you moving forward or standing still?

Many people think they are moving forward based on certain goals.

There are three people among you: One is indeed moving forward, another is standing still and another is retreating.

Which group do you belong?

You are only fooling yourself if you say you don't know your status.  You do know where you are precisely.

Which person would get the approval rating of 100 percent: the one who just sits around and relaxes, going slowly everyday or the one moving forward constantly without stopping?

Of course, it is the one who is moving and pushing forward beyond any obstacles.  Why don't you give yourself a grade?  Are you 100, 50, 30 or minus 30 percent?  Is anyone below minus 100 percent?

There should be someone who is spying on us from the communist camp to the speech because they believe that this information is very vital.  Maybe the CIA. The communist that participates listening to this speech is really at 100 percent.

To do this work, you have to be at least above the 50 percent mark.  Those of you who think you are above that standard might wonder why you should even march forward since no one else went ahead of you and no one is behind you.

You might think that you should turn around and join everybody else even if they are going in the wrong direction.

Those of you who are above 50 percent are you going forward? Are you 50 and going up or 50 and going down?

After you hear or read these speeches that last for an hour and a half, you are a new person afterward.  You think that you have changed much.  You then feel a great power surging through you that makes you want to shout in agreement.

But when it comes time to do the mission a couple of hours later, you will discover that you have a mountain of work waiting on you.  You will wonder where all your energy went.

Living this way of life living to witness to others the truth of the age, you will find the same old peanut butter and bread when you go in the kitchen.  Once you see that Sunday is not a holiday for you and you do not have time to watch television, you wonder why you are doing this kind of work.

Well, there's one simple solution: quit.

Even the Messiah has the option to quit, as well.  Would anybody volunteer to take his job?  He is confronted with terrible news and difficult situations being told of accidents and problems all of the time.  Then there are campaigns, fundraisers, new developments and problems that need to be solved in every country.

As this movement spreads around the world and members become part of all kinds of intense activities, we suffer casualties the same as people dying in the front line during war time.

Once you are able to face one problem, you wonder how you will handle another.

Father listens so much discouraging, shocking and agonizing things that happen day after day.

Conscientious people, especially young people who are on the side of God, can you say that you are indecisive, mediocre or half-hearted?

If you are at the 50% point, you are 150 points away from the minus 100% point. If 100% on the plus side is the destination, you have only 50 more points to go.

Which direction would you choose if you are wise?  Should you choose the plus or minus?

The most important thing is do not stand still.

You must be constantly moving forward the same as running water.

This world is stagnant corrupt and rotten.  The world's water is too impure for drinking.  But, if you are able to become running water, everybody will come to drink and be nourished.

So, where are you now: standing still or moving forward?  Moving forward or moving backwards?




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This post was rewritten from the speech Everybody is Headed Somewhere

Utopia is Possible

I have investigated during my entire life the best way to accomplish the ideal, and there is one unfailing formula: that of sacrifice, suffering and receiving persecution for the sake of goodness, and serving others with true love.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



What do you believe is the ideal world?

The ideal world is a world or Utopia is where you can go anywhere in the universe freely, without any blocks or barriers.  This is including national and racial boundaries.

There is no person so contented with himself that can resist a person who brings true love to him.

Whether they are white, black or yellow, or atheists or communists, all people are attracted to the person who is genuinely trying to sacrifice himself for their sake.

Thus, total freedom comes to such a person.

These are satanic characteristics: jealousy, arrogance, self-promotion, and sacrifice of the whole purpose just for one's sake.

The "I" viewpoint is the center of the satanic mentality. 

This viewpoint, however, will never bring a person total happiness.  Such a person finds himself alone and rejected by everyone, including his own spouse and family.

Clearly, then you can see that God's way is superior to Satan's way.

Even the most selfish person wants to see a kind of Utopia, but the road to that ideal is only brought about through a  life of service and sacrifice for the sake of others.  The true ideal will never be achieved in a dreamy, unrealistic way.

The principle of service and sacrifice will never change.  The past, present and the future are within its realm.

Not just this world, but the spirit world is also guided by this principle.  Therefore, you cannot just work diligently in your home church area with an attitude that you just wait to earn your certificate to go to Heaven.

The purpose of Home Church is to send the people there to Heaven first.

In that way, you go to Heaven yourself.  Only having an attitude of true love can enable you to do this.   You should desire to pass along the blessings you have received along this pathway.

You then are able to achieve victory through the heart of sacrifice and service and true love.  This is the Principle.

Few know the fact that we must first be welcomed on earth before we are welcomed in the spirit world.  Therefore, the statement, whatever is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven.  We must do the work of restoration here on earth.

To do this work in spirit world takes thousands of years.


If you went to spirit world right now, you would know that what I am saying is absolutely true. People can serve God in many ways; perhaps a great architect might dedicate a beautiful building to God.  But when you dedicate yourself to working in your home church area, that is the offering God is most eager to accept at this time. 


The greatest pain God suffered was when He lost Adam and Eve through the fall.  Therefore, God's greatest joy comes when you offer your Home Church of witnessing constantly to 360 homes in your area back to Him.

Through your work of home church, you are restoring yourself back to the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall.

It may seem small to you when you are witnessing, but it has the greatest meaning of all to God.

From this time forward, true family trees of goodness will begin. 

By restoring your family back to the original position, your name will be at the top of the family tree and from that point, your new family history will begin.  To bring the ideal in a tangible way has never been presented before in history.

You, certainly, must have a plan before you go for the goal based upon valid reasoning and the confidence to carry it out.

Now that you have a strong and clear understanding of how restoration works, you will encounter stronger opposition from the people wherever you go.

This opposition will be short-lived and  you will be able to accomplish the same level of restoration as the Messiah did in a much shorter time.

We must head forward toward that goal of restoration; it is truly all that matters.  Of course tending to your family matters and your children are important, but the most significance is home church work in God's dispensation.

You must do this work of Home Church to receive the free pass to Heaven.  If if you do home church all of your life and you were not able to marry, once you go into spirit world, you would be would be able to go to Heaven.


I want to teach you all the things you need to know to get to Heaven; I don't want you to blame me later. No one can force you to do home church. God would like to take you to Heaven regardless of what you do, but Satan will not let you go without some condition.


Therefore, let us all move forward together in unity to the total completion of God's ideal world.

Since you recognize the Messiah in this age and are connected to him, you are related to him.  Even though we all look different - some of us are blond, some have dark hair and others black hair - every part of you is related to the Messiah.

Now, that you understand the importance of Home Church, please raise your hand if you are determined to do it.  God Bless you.




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This speech was rewritten and given by Reverend Sun Myung Moon based upon the Completed Testament caled the Divine Principle which reveals the truth of the Bible from God's point of view.

God's Child Doesn't Need An Appointment

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

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


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever the parents own, the children inherit.

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

God had to push Father into many suffering situations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is the time when we must succeed.

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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You should see evidence to the truth of this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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



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

Persecution of Home church

Home church is witnessing to 360 homes in your area and bringing them to the The Completed Testament and the true way of life. This way their families can join in the dispensation of the new era of Heaven on Earth upon the work of the Messiah of the Second Coming.

Your ultimate destination is God's heart, and home church is your grammar school.  

When you accomplish this, you will have finished grade school level.  Then, when you bring America to the truth, you will have finished high school.

When the communist world tags along, you will have an MA.  When all of spirit world is reorganized, you will have a Ph. D.  After you finish your work in home church, everything that follows after is easy.  It will take just a few hours of work.

First, you must lay the foundation.

Before, we were persecuted in the past when we did this work.  Now, we must work in a wide area and stir up people.  We are sowing seeds in various places.  These seeds will be harvested one day.

This harvest belongs to the world.

You have a definite area in which your seeds will grow and can harvest as your own.  You do home church for yourself, because you need a foundation on which to stand for your family.  Home church does this.

God has been collecting all of the blessings accumulated from the persecution of His faithful children.  So, even though you are persecuted, we are harvesting the seeds we sow now.  This work is worth doing.

Where do you sow your seeds?

You sow seeds everywhere you can.  If you follow the providence of restoration led by the Messiah and like him, then  your home church people will like you and want to go everywhere you go.  You become the ancestor of a new tribe.

We have always been aware that God is a God of love, but now we understand clearly why God allows His people to be persecuted through yesterday's post.

Persecution is not for just your own sake. Now that we understand the standard of liberation through suffering and persecution, we have to run even faster.

We need to educate people what type of world this should be and the kind of work God has been building throughout history.  Now that you have been educated on these principles, you can discern who are the good and bad leaders and educate them with this same content.

You are living in a great time built upon the sacrifices of millions of saints and people of faith.  Even if you were to stumble along the way, when  you look up, you will see that you still have gained fruit from all of your work and effort.

You have to have strong determination.  Wherever you go doing this heavenly work, you will be followed by spirits of the Old Testament.

Without working through you on earth, they are not able to get anywhere.

You are also the resurrection of the New Testament spirits and all of the worthy people in spirit world.  You are the key to their liberation and they must follow you.

God is charmed by you.

No one will be able to bother you wherever you go.

Even if your path were to end in death, or to happiness you will be able to go toward persecution happily because you go voluntarily knowing you are not only liberating fallen history but God's sorrow.

If you go this way, because someone forces you and chases you down, then you will not be a victor.  If all of America was to persecute you because they do not understand, yet you still go this way, then victory is ahead.

Do you feel happy or powerless as you go this true way of life?

You mostly feel powerless.  When you are witnessing and working for the mission, you should not feel like a loser who does this work, but a king.

When I found myself in prison, I felt I was king of all the prisoners and everyone would come under me. Now you have a reason to feel that.  Who would God love, a person like me or like you? Father and son should be the same, not different. 


Now you have knowledge how this dispensation of restoration works, are you really going to go this way now?  Grit your teeth and determine you are going to do this for future generations.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Persecution and Blessing