Live as if You May Die In a Year

Q. Why is it important we need to know about the issue of eternal life?

Shouldn't we just worry about the end of life when we get there?

Don't we have enough issues on earth to deal with before thinking about life in the other world?

Then we can switch to a more earthly base.

Why are families throughout the world being destroyed?  Why do husbands and wives become enemies and children cannot trust their parents?

It is because there is no true love.

The most important thing is eternal life.

There we go again.  We are connecting problems of the world back to the basis of an earthly life.

Why do religions seem to focus more on the after life than the here and now?  The life we can prove exist.

The first question is how are people to understand the the importance of the next world if they do not even believe that it exists?

If a person headed in the wrong direction was to clearly know that he lives for eternity, would he want to commit a crime if he knew he would pay for that misdeed for for eternity?

Yes, everyone at the base has the basic knowledge that they will 'reap what they sow' or believe in some kind of law of Karma.  But what if people were brought the true fact that every deed they do, or seed they plant manifest forever in the other life?

If humanity was to feel this simple truth to the core of their being, we would not be able to just live only for our own selfish ways  in this world even if you were instructed to do so.

If you are not able to invest in true love or a true life while you are here on earth, it doesn't matter if you practice a religion or are a Christian, you will not be able to live in heaven, God's ideal world.

Heaven begins first how we live on earth.

If our church is armed with the truth of the Principle, the issue of eternal life will become clear. 

If we could not connect to the basic issue of eternal life, then the idea of a social revolution of future change would be impossible.

Issues on earth can be connected to eternal life.  Unfortunately, what was a basic human truth was severed when humanity turned in the wrong direction, to an evil path.

If we are to approach such issues as poverty from the perspective of eternal life, we will be able to overcome environmental conditions. This is why the principles which religion teaches are so great which connect to eternal life.

Before religions could digest the cultural differences and background.  This was because they could not establish a true concept of eternal life and how to apply it to our daily circumstances.

You may see that even the faithful and Christians are shaken when their circumstances are changed.  This is because of they do not have any confidence in regard tot he concept of the after life.  When we place our whole focus on goals for the here and now or our life on earth, it is easy to not be focused on eternal issues.  Christianity built its foundation on the back of saints and a people who sacrificed their lives to push God's dispensation forward.

Can Christians now lay down their lives in order to overcome their circumstances?  They now are backsliding into living to satisfy their present needs on earth and their social obligations which leave no roots or traditions for future generations.  They experience distractions coming from all directions.  unless the proper concept of eternal life is well planted in these people, they will fall away from this difficult path of attendance to God and the Messiah.

What can turn this wrong path people of faith are taking?

Only love alone can do this.  We are are the ones who can completely accomplish this task.  We understand that our path of faith is not preparation for life on earth, but for a life in the eternal world.  People who have this conviction to set their life path to live the correct way for the next world can take care of themselves in this world.

After we pass the age of 40 and fifty, the day that we will die draws closer and the more serious people become about the issues of eternal life.  Some may become serious about how they have wrongfully spent their time on temporary things and have not yet left anything behind.

The older people get, the more serious they become.  As we get older, the thinking becomes dim, but when one has a strong concept about the eternal world, they will become more serious with age instead.  In the future, only those who have have a religious ideology can lead this world.  Those who are able to maintain an absolute concept about the eternal world will be able to face changing circumstances and the ups and downs of life without any problems.

Our lifetime and the issue of eternal life

Have you ever wondered how long you think you will live?

Everyone may think that they will live to the age of seventy or eighty and don't think about dying before then.  Yet, we may have these feelings, but we really do not know whether we will die tomorrow or even later today.

Young people may think that they will live at least to forty or fifty years old.  Did God guarantee that you would live to a certain age?

You should live as if you might possibly die soon or perhaps within a year.  Therefore, you should make all the necessary preparations during this short time and live with such a thought.  The shorter the time you think you have, the happier you will be and the less you will have to lose in life.

Your sincere preparations during this time become the building blocks of your home for your eternal life. 

Have you ever loved God in such a way that you thought you only had a short time in mind to do so?

If you are able to live this way, then you will become the master of eternal life when you die.  If you had the thought that you will die in two years, how serious would you make plans or live from day to day?

You would start visiting cemeteries and attending funeral services.

In our life of faith, it is absolutely necessary to do prepare in this way.  This is where the Principle applies.  If you are able to think about dying for God's will and for heaven during this short time that we spend on earth, you will thus live eternally.  This is where the Principle applies.

Wouldn't a man who once believed that he would die single and unmarried, suddenly received a loving life before he died, how grateful would he be?

You should leave something behind that God can praise, while you go forward to immediate death under God's order.  You would feel that your time on earth is too precious to spend just sleeping and eating.

You would not waste your time worrying, even if you wanted to.  You will be able to live your lives with greater value the more you think that you only have a short time to live.

What value is there in loving someone, a family or a tribe?

Loving others creates a textbook for loving all of humankind.

Love is a textbook to loving everybody in the spirit world that transcends time and space.

How do you plant the concept of eternal life?

God created Adam and Eve to be His objects of love, therefore, we should live as objects of God's love.  We do not just talk about it, but feel it and experience it deeply.

Once you know the great power of true love, you would willingly go this way even if someone told you not to do so.

When you plant the idea of life after this one, that there is another life after this one, everything will be complete.  This idea will vibrate through your mind and your body will resonate harmony with the mind to the same level.  Adolescence is when such things happen.


The Fall occurred at the age of adolescence, so the years leading up to the age of 16 are unaffected.  The age before 16 is the standard of original nature and remains intact.

Therefore, you should get acquainted with God during your adolescence.

In doing so, you will become inseparable with Him.  This happens based on the your understanding that this life is not the end and there is an eternal life we live based on how we lived on earth.

Our descendants would follow no other path but this if they went this way even if they were told not to do so.

Therefore, we must save the world and quickly bring about a heavenly nation.

This becomes your possession in the other world.

Also, your rank is determined in proportion to how many people you have witnessed and brought there.  That is why heaven is empty right now and the rest of the lower spirit world is being filled daily.

Humankind seeks eternal life

What is the purpose of living this way of life?

A life of faith consists of seeking the world of eternal life.  Our faith involves us seeking God's eternal love.  To unite with eternal life along with eternal love, we must seek where God's joy can be felt as our own joy. This is the way of faith.

The most important thing in this life of faith, the degree to which we can live life with a progressive love and vitality.

Your value as a human is determined by how much you perceive sensations through your five senses in relation to life and love.

Therefore, we should think about whether we have lived in society with an added heart of love.

If you are not standing in such a position, then you are at a standstill or in a position in retreat.

Eternal life and religion

Human beings have the gift of eternal life.

Religion has expanded throughout the entire world and passes through all kinds of circumstances, which include different cultural backgrounds and customs.

That is the central issue concerning eternal life moreso than a person's earthly lifetime.

 

People should live together with the universe during their life.

 

 

 

 

Life is short, amounting only to one hundred years.

Your life does not disappear after your life on earth ends.  Once you are able to overcome that boundary, you can continue to live in the realm going beyond the bounds of the global village that once defined our limits here on earth.

An eternal life sympathizes with and helps humankind who have lived in suffering until now.  Religion is necessary.   We have to resolve the issue of God in matters of eternal life.

All of these matters are interconnected.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Let's Plant Seeds of True Love

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeon, Book Five, Chapter One, Section 5.

What to Leave Behind Before Death

The process of dying for people is no different than the process for animals.

Even if a person lived an exemplary life and were honored for their patriotism with a monument, it would disappear when America perishes.

Even if the monument was to stand for centuries during the time of the country's prosperity, it can later be viewed as bad during the period of decline.

Leave a tomb of love behind.

God's purpose is to have His posterity populate the earth.

Do we live in such a world?

Therefore, when we go before God at the end of our life, we also come to stand in His position after leaving behind children of the living God on the earth.

"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth," in the Bible describes this.

So, how will you live your life?

Do you only want to leave a tomb behind and a lot of debt and the regret in how we have lived?

Let us leave a tomb of love behind.

If you live inside a tomb of love, you will feel no bitter sorrow. 

Of course, you would feel stifled living in a tomb, but you will not feel any sadness if you live in love.

If you live within love and then die, Go will bring His sons and daughters to welcome you in the spirit world.

If you do not have any fancy clothes, He will dress you in the richest apparel fit for royalty in Heaven.

Property rights in the spirit world are determined through witnessing

How much property you can own in the spirit world is determined by how many citizen you bring to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The time will come when millions of people will be witnessed to the new truth in one day.  We have such tremendous potential at this moment.

When we look in the world, we see many people wandering around like lunatics in agony over whether to live or die through ending their own sad existence.  Suicide has become an option to a difficult time in one's life.

The bigger your heart is when you enter the spirit world, the more the people will line up to be with you.

Such a person of heart will be respected in the spirit world.  If millions were to wish to live with him, he would become wealthy with extensive domains.

What kind of person would find wealth in the next world?

The one who invests for the sake of love is rich.

To witness to brothers and sisters is the way to collect the blessings of love.

With love, we as owners are able to recover the property of heaven which was stolen by the satanic world.

We live in a world where those who do the most evil are able to prosper, but we are in an age where those who center their lives on God will prosper.

If we approach those we witness with the heart of love more than their mother and father have for them, then we are able to bring in all of the blessings related to love.

Even if you are mistreated along the way, you will not perish.  Myriads of saints and all of the things of creation will follow you.

Thereby, you will become wealthy naturally.

Therefore, take care of Satan's children.  Each of us are to look after more than 120 people.  The Kingdom of Heaven lost all of its citizens, but by engrafting them, we establish a condition for them not to be lost any longer.

Once you enter the spirit world you leave money, treasure behind.  The people you bring to Heaven is all you can bring to spirit world.  You leave behind everything that is physical.

In order to pass through the twelve pearly gates in spirit world, you must recover the citizens of heaven from Satan through witnessing them to God's word on earth.

This path of faith is not an easy one.

You must shed tears, sweat and blood.  With the heart of love for restoration of the world, invest your heart more than any father, mother, sister, brother husband, wife, sons and daughters in the satanic world.

Then through shedding your tears, sweat and blood bring about the transitional process to bring satanic children back into God's bosom.

If you are unable to do so, you cannot become the citizen of heaven.

Based on the number of citizens you win to heaven, your position of glory and your closeness to God in the other world will be established.

You are unable to take possessions or positions of earthly glory to the spirit world.

So, what should you do from now on in life to prepare for the next life?

It is to recreate as many sons and daughters of God to love.

We can bring our own children, but there is only a certain amount of babies one can procreate while on earth.

By recovering many sons and daughters whom God can love from the satanic world, your deeds will be linked to your ancestors and serve to help liberate them as well.

This is the greatest gift you can obtain in the course of restoring the world.

If you were a regional director, but you have not witnessed one person to come to God, you will go to the spirit world empty handed because you will not have even one person attached to you.

Position and grandeur enjoyed on earth do not pas on to the next world if it was not based on bringing people to the heavenly Kingdom.

Heaven is an infinite world requiring bridges linking up with the heart of love. 

The more people you witness over the world, the more you will be able to move around in the spirit world because everyone will want to be be linked to you.

By resolving relationship problems on earth creates a vast base for the relationships you are able to resolve in heaven.  Therefore, your sphere of activity will spread out to the entire spirit world based upon this standard.

If you are unable to create this base, you will be pushed into a corner and will be restricted.  After learning how important our activities are on earth, there is no spare time to be idle or rest.

Eating, living and raising children are no issue in the spirit world.

We must recover heavenly citizens; they become your assets there. We must digest all of the human problems and the world.

If we are able to restore much of the problems humanity faces today, all the spirits in the next world will undergo returning resurrection.

If the satanic foundation which stole the birthright returns to God's foundation, the archangel will listen to us and follow.

If we stand in the absolute position of obedience, the archangel enters the realm of Adam's love together with God's love.

Thereby, naturally he enters heaven following Adam.  This is the principle and was heaven's original plan before the Fall.

People on earth even those of any faith, have been unable to fulfill this responsibility which caused a mess they must clean up, not God.

We must understand the tremendous power of witnessing.

The way to restore the world through indemnity, paying for past wrongs has been opened up.

Jesus paid for the initial way for spiritual salvation but lost his physical body in the process, and we enter the era of bringing about full and complete physical salvation.

Just singing empty praises and going to church is useless in terms of salvation.

We must bear actual fruit.

The question is how many people can you bring in for registration into the realm of eternal life.

When Jesus approached a fig tree to see if it had any fruit, he cursed it when he found it to be fruitless.  Thus, it withered and died.  This is how judgement will be.

What is the use in keeping appearances of having a successful witnessing campaign if when you reach heaven you find yourself without a harvest?

You need to bring 120 people, even hundreds to Heaven.  The number 120 represents the nations of the world at the time of Jesus.

The 430 families are equivalent to all the surnames in one nation. The 430 families represent 4,300 years of Korean history. Through them, I opened the gate for the citizens represented by these surnames to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Although I have opened it, it does not mean they have actually entered. This is not empty talk; it is logical. 


Once you are able to raise sons and daughters will you be able to leave to your descendants a foundation to be proud of.

Only after your children become great people can you stand proud before history.

To rise to the national level, you need actual results that can be passed on as a tradition.  This is why everyone desires to leave something behind for the nation, the world and heaven and earth.

This principle applies to you as well.

You must set a clear life-long goal of purpose to establish your domain of ownership.  Therefore, do not think of giving up on the way of God's will even if you do not like it and there is tremendous suffering along the way.

"Why would I take on that responsibility even if it means I have to go to prison and suffer there alone to save people from suffering in such circumstances. People in suffering circumstances will follow if it can benefit them.

By following, they are harvested. When I go to the spirit world, because all I have done will be welcomed as something public, I will go to the highest position of the heavenly kingdom.

If citizens are well educated, the nation prospers. The same principle applies to you. It is a question of how much you can reason with people, straighten out their attitudes, and leave behind the achievement of your ideals centering on the realm of life of the heavenly kingdom.

If this is done, the world will be restored quickly. That is why you have to devotedly raise them.

It is the same with me. 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."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Then where must you sow your seeds?

In an unspoiled place.  Where would that be?

In adolescents.  Once you sow your seeds in them, they will last a lifetimes.  They will not be uprooted.  People are more sensitive in elementary school.  Peoples' senses are dull as they advance to middle and high school.

Once they go to university, this is like passing through a neighboring village, an excursion of activity.  The most difficult time is during elementary school.

Where must you sow the seeds, then? It must be an unspoiled place. Where is that? Adolescents. Once you sow seeds in them, they will last a lifetime. They will not be uprooted.

As time goes by, the sensitivity dulls.  We must sow seeds of life accordingly.

If in Sunday school, you teach children songs and read stories, such things will become external assests for your future.

Whenever you meet elderly people, testify to God's Word. 

May church leaders are not laying these seeds well.

Even when you have time on the bus, you can talk to ten people and ask them where they are going so you can get to know them.

You can arrange to see them again so you can introduce the Divine Principle to them.  There are enough materials to witness them as much as you like.

It is much better to witness on the bus and the subway instead of driving alone in your car.  If you commute routinely for twelve months a year, you will get to know people simply by their faces.  By greeting them, you are tapping into an interactive network of people.  Such paths have been cleared, but we are wasting our time on just individual, superficial things.

More important than eating is harvesting the citizens of heaven.

We are not sowing seeds well.

This should be our main occupation as people of faith.  This is or principle activity while we live on earth.

Among all of the work you do in your lifetime, the most important thing is to sow seeds for citizens of haven.  Getting a good job, being promoted, making money is all just water under the bridge.

Money quickly becomes useless in the other world.  Materials, and knowledge are also unnecessary in the life after here.

There, you do not have to be taught many things, you mind can know things within a week.




Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Nobility of Life on Earth


This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 5

Now All Sin Can Leave the Earth

We are living in the age where all of fallen history is being indemnified.  This means that all of the wrongs of the past are being completely turned around.

Jesus laid a foundation for our sins to be forgiven, but we still carry the seed of sin on the earth.  Now is the time for full resurrection and eradicate sin completely from our lineage and from the earth.

In the Completed Testament Age, the world of peace that has been hoped for by millions of saints, peoples and those of faith will finally unite God and humanity together.

This can only happen because the True Parents, who have restored the fallen first parents of humankind, have arrived.

Jesus was to be the first true parent of humanity.  Since he perfected himself and became God's True Son carrying God's true blood lineage, he would have been able to connect his True Family to this lineage.  Thus, his followers would have engrafted to his family clearing away their path of sin and this would then rise to the national level.

Unfortunately, Jesus was unable to complete his mission due to the faithlessness of his disciples who ultimately abandoned him in the end.

So, we should know the value of how precious this time that we are living in to live in the same time as the True Parents and finally liquidate the sins throughout history.

So, how much love do we receive of the True Parents?

Today, many groups, atheists and communists are screaming out that God is dead or there is no God.  If there is someone who condemns this declaration, then he would love True Parents more than God does.

If you pray that you will be able to witness to such a person and bring them to meet the True Parents, then you will meet such a person and God will be joyful.

If you agree that this person is the smartest person, then absolutely you cannot be defeated by the spirits in the spirit world.

If you love True Parents and practice their teachings, then you absolutely cannot be defeated.

Satan accuses God's people endlessly.

But you can accuse the spirits that you have loved True Parents this much, but what have they done for God's dispensation or ever done for God?  Then you become the people living in the greatest abundance.

If family members were to fight over who loves the True Parents more, would God be saddened upon witnessing this?

God would call them both and establish them as a model of loving True Parents.  Then tell other people to love True Parents as these two have loved them.  This is the standard.

We should love True Parents

How far away do you think you are from this standard?

Those without tears cannot follow True Parents.

God, spirits, and all people need to pay close attention to True Parents.

We should think about this in our daily lives.  Without following True Parents' difficult path with tears, your face cannot be brightened.

You should live for the sake of others.  Even though you may try to do your best, you should always have an apologetic heart towards heaven.

We must attend True Parents

If you went through the wilderness course and crossed the Jordan River, and then fought the seven tribes of Canaan, this still would not be a victorious death.

You become an original person that is worthy of a heavenly appointment from God, only after you conquered the seven tribes and then established a new nation centered on God.

The True Parents are the ancestors of humankind.  You should therefore attend them as your own parents.

When you follow and serve them for three years or more, then the nation should serve them and the world should serve them.

This is the only way we will build a world of peace.

Since True Parents have conquered the root of sin that has caused so much suffering in human history, following their path will lead this world finally out of darkness.  This is how it should be.

This is the way to advance to global restoration.

The principle is that you serve for three years eat, and live with parents and discuss with them.  This is how the household should be.

As a family living with the parents, you should have a three-year period where you live in peace and happiness, use only good words, and share joy with one another.  This is the path each individual should take.

We should be obedient

The children should show absolute obedience to the Parents who have come in the original name of God without any trace of the fallen blood lineage.

There is no objection to that.  This is not done by force.

We are creating an environment where humanity can serve the True Parents centering on love.

The wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife.  You become parents centered on love and create an environment where your beloved children can naturally submit to you.

Only through this natural submission without force, such as communism and false parents practice, can the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth be realized and not destroyed.

We must inherit the tradition

Upon the arrival of True Parents who brought the truth of the age through their Divine Principle teachings, the Completed Testament, we did not know what was to become of humankind.

We did not know what was to truly become of ourselves.

People have never understood history and where we were headed.

They did not know humanity's purpose and what was to happen in the future.  This is because we did not have the true parents and ancestors to reveal the truth of all of history and the coming world of peace.

Because of the True Parents, we know true history, the circumstances between God and us and we have come to know the present and future.

We can know such a tradition and inherit it.

We can win over the fallen history and the future with this tradition.

Why and from whom?

It is because you have met True Parents.  You follow what True Parents teach, and what they do.  They have cut a clear path which to follow continuing the mission left incomplete through Jesus' death.You desire what True Parents desire and inherit from them.

You inherit these things from them.

We realize that until now there have been no parents in this universe.  Those who gave birth to children before this time acted on behalf of fallen parents.  They were evil parents, using and ruining their children.

What got broken through this? 

Through the first parents of humankind falling, we lost true brothers, and sisters, brides and bridegrooms, fathers and mothers, who are meant to become perfect, have split apart.

Parents throughout history had not been able to have children of goodness, meaning they ultimately lost the family.  

The family is a representative of universal history.

Imagine a world where every family was centered upon God's ideal.

All of humanity's current problems would be immediately eradicated.  Why?  Because the Fall began through the family based on the false love of a man and a woman.

Family represents the world, the heavenly kingdom, the nation and all families.

God is trying to find its center.  People living today should be connected to this center.  In other words, the common purpose pursued by God and human beings is to be connected to the center.  There is nowhere else that the past, present and future can be bound together.

True Parents have accomplished the tasks that Adam and Eve were meant to do from the beginning, building a tradition for all of humanity to follow toward a world of heaven on earth.

Through restoring family, you have now something Satan is unable to own.

You are separating from Satan through the base of your family connected directly to God through the unfallen lineage of the Messiah.  You should have the best brothers and sisters; you should have original siblings that are not found in the evil world.

You must have brothers and sisters that are not from the satanic world.

You should establish such a tradition.  This is how it should be for you before you marry.

Two people who perfect themselves, cleansing the mistakes of the past and being reborn, you will leave a tradition to your sons and daughters that teaches them how to live.

You fight such a hard battle in the countries so you can leave behind a tradition for your descendants after you have gone.

This is a great opportunity that comes only once.  An opportunity to educate your children saying, We worked amidst this kind of hardship.

The tradition you leave behind will be your testament.

This cannot be changed. It is an eternal tradition.

Since we have been able to transcend the world, blacks, yellows and whites can be brothers and sisters.  This is in order to realize the brotherhood realm of humankind.

This is the true realm of Adam and Eve, which has no connection with the Fall.  Once humanity goes in the opposite direction of the Fall, then we will see an Utopian world come.

What philosophy can establish such a tradition to lead us to that better world?

Everything will work this way if we live for the sake of others.  

Sons and daughters who grow up in that kind of environment do not have to suffer such as their parents who walked a path of faith to leave such a tradition.

They will become descendants who will be able to automatically go straight to the heavenly nation with actual accomplishments that surpass the satanic worlds greatest feat, because they are directly connected with heaven.

The next step is for such people who live such sacrificial lives to marry one another.

Our marriages transcends the satanic boundaries.  We have the mindset that we can marry an African if told to do so, marry a white if recommended to do so and marry a yellow person if recommended to do so.

Such a tradition should be established from now on.  We should create oneness from now on.

Then you should guide your descendants and the world to live in this way from now on.  The two must become one.

When you become one with your spouse, you should not bear evil children.

To bear children of goodness, the husband and wife should be completely one.  Without becoming one, children of goodness cannot come about.  Thus you should become completely one centering on God's will.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book, Chapter 6 True Parents and Us from Cheon Seong Gyeong Book two

World Champion of Public Way

Eating is truth, and love between husband and wife is truth, and giving birth to children is also truth. No matter how old you may be, still you want to give birth to a child. Some girl may say she is afraid to get married because eventually she has to give birth to a child; she doesn't know what truth is. But when she is thirty or forty then she understands and wants very much to have a baby. I think that is true. This is true everywhere.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



We are going forward for the sake of the world and spirit world.  While we are doing this, everything around us will be left behind.

Those living in spirit world know that club dancing is wrong because of its selfish purposes along with drugs and smoking cigarettes which are harmful to our temple.

Satan uses these weapons as his tools to lure people away from following God's way.

We will do away with those things.

Don't go to a cabaret to dance, but dance in your home. 

If a father, mother and the children were to dance in their home that would be all right because it does not have the sexual connotations or selfish reasons, but can bring about unity.

Those who have passed into the spirit world are able to look into the world and observe everything that is bad going on earth.  We should wipe all of this out which is bad.  T

he prostitution and immorality that is happening within the city limit must be eliminated.  How does such behavior promote peace or national sovereignty?  Does a country move forward that promotes such behavior?

You may think that the work that you do is trivial, but you should know that in a year, everything will be better.  Every decade will be better than the decade before.  We should have a clear vision of where we are going now we know there is hope for the future.

You may say that you are just an ordinary person without much significance and don't want the world.  Y
ou might say that you just want to live with your own individual family  If you refuse to do such work, you will be fencing yourself in without a foundation once you go to spirit world.  You should be able to go everywhere freely without boundaries once you are in spirit world.

But if you just stay in the same position while here on earth, you will be unable to go beyond your fence as well when you reach the world of spirit. No one will be able to break that fence down to free you.

There are many Christians who believe that just merely believing in Jesus that when they reach the next world all of their problems will automatically be eradicated.

But once you reach that world, you cannot go beyond what you were while you were on earth.

You would regret everything so much once you know that this was all explained to you when you could easily do the work of restoration here on earth.

Once it is bound in spirit world, you must return to earth again and work through people who do not recognize you.  This explains the phenomenon of many spiritual experiences people are having in these last days.

This is a miserable situation and may take thousands of years for you to restore yourself back to your original position before the fall which takes years while on earth.


If I didn't know about the spirit world, I would not live the way I do. I would be easy-going like you. I am smarter than you and have many skills, and still I work harder because I know about the spirit world. That gives me conviction and strength. Even if the whole country comes against me, I couldn't stop, because l know that whatever I fail to do here I will have a harder time doing there.


To break barriers is never easy.

Once Father would get to the fence or barrier of a country, he would just kick it open and all of Satan's people would shout in retaliation and accuse him.  This speech was given in 1981: has there been any other time before where somebody kicked open a big barrier like a nation's fence and make all kinds of commotion?


We are supporting President Reagan so that a Christian revival can be made possible through the conservative ideals. As soon as the Reagan administration takes office, the communists will start to demonstrate against the new administration all around the country. Even Mr. Reagan is not thinking about it but also getting ready for that event.


When the Communists demonstrate, you should be in the front line to fight against them.

Many people may ask why a religious organization is fighting communism instead of loving them.  Communist have their focusing on entirely dominating the world with their God-denying ideology through force.

If the communists nations were working for the sake of mankind and for God's dispensation, then they would be helpful to the work of world peace and we would work with them.

But the atheistic communist doctrine teaches that it is necessary for the social classes to struggle and clash. Communists believe in confrontations between different parts of society not true unity.  God's ideal is centered on unity, not confrontation.  The one who strikes first always loses.

Communism promotes promiscuous sex, homosexuality, club dancing, and drugs.  It urges people to create a world of hell by centering their whole lives on themselves forgetting about family and society.

We cannot let that teaching continue to influence the world.

The public way would be to fight against communism.  We do it for the sake of the country, world and God.  If we had not fought, then the people of religion will be destroyed.

The Messiah has the foresight to see that communism could pose a threat and that we must take a stand against it.  As a side note, the Washington Times played a major role during the Cold War that aided in the victory of Ronald Reagan in bringing the wall down in Russia.


Only after listening to my words have you come to know my real value and the value of the Unification Church. I am not doing all these activities because I am dumber than you; if what I am doing looks obscure, it's because I am way ahead of everyone else in my vision. Eventually, everyone will conclude that this is precisely what should be done.


We clearly must have an ideal for a public life, a public way.  If we don't have one, then when it is time to decide which direction to take, we will be thrown into confusion and disunity.  But if we clearly know the public way, then we can always become successful.

We know that 'God' is a good word, but for some reason it has become negative when people speak in frustration screaming out, "Oh God!".  What they are really saying is that they want God instead of Satan who stole the central position.

It happens many times where someone was on the pathway toward God, yet ended up under Satan instead.

When you are happy or unhappy, you have experienced tears at both times.  But the quality of those tears makes the difference.

Therefore, just because you are crying does not mean you are in heaven or hell.

What do you think God would like most?

God would like religious meetings!

Throughout the ages, there have been many forms of religions and now religion has come to a very high level.

In America, there are many people of all religious backgrounds, but in other countries, people only worship in one way.

There are also five different colors of skin here, but in most countries, there is just one color.  We see that throughout history that when a better religion comes into being, the established religions always challenge and compete with it.  Finally, the higher level of religion emerges from this.

Now, the Unification Movement is confronted by Jews, Christians and communists.

The content of the Divine Principle, which upon this blog is based, members believe the words are good and they know them to be true.  But members do not really want to act on them.

We like the idea of fundraising, but you do not actually want to fundraise.

Young people from all over the world have come to compete in a religious Olympics.

People accuse Father of breaking up families and brainwashing people to hear this truth.

But all of spirit world knows that we are good.  All the world is going against the champion of religion.  Where as in the spirit world, they are cheering you on as you do the work of restoring the world.

Is our score in this competition better than the world's score?  You champions are not so great, but you have a great coach.

The champion who is able to go out when the coach give direction, wins all the time.  Then the world would praise the coach and say he is really something.  Will you be defeated or will you win?  Do you pay a lot of attention to home church now.

If you do not have that confidence, how will you be able to break through even one barrier here?

Once you are able to finish home church, you then are given credit for doing all the rest of the work.

Think that the arena where you fight for the title match against evil is in your home church.  We have a world champion in this movement and we are competing among ourselves.

Are you the Church champion at winning, or are you the champion at losing?

There was a member who was fundraising who was a teacher before he joined.  He really enjoyed his work, but after joining for one year and three months, he said he had learned more than he had learned in his life.

He was thankful for being given the gift of the teachings of the Divine Principle.  Father shouted out, Oh God!" at such a person who could see the gains he was making in his life.

Your Home church area is the dividing way between heaven and hell. 

Those who were not able to have success in the home church providence will wonder why such a mission was created because if it did not exist they would be free to move about in spirit world.

Those who are in spirit world who successfully witnessed in the their Home Church area would speak up and say that they did as they were instructed and were successful and that is why they were able to be in heaven.

There may be a fighter who is a champion in his local area, but if he loses the fight on the national level, then he is a loser.

The person who did the work of fundraising getting persecuted and shedding many tears will have an easier time witnessing to the 360 homes in his area and become successful in a short period of time.

You are trained in the champion way.

If you were to go up in a rocket ship, you would not eat the usual food.  You must eat what is available in the capsule.  In this case, then you must eat and be able to digest the Principle food here that is prepared.  These are serious words.

Once you enter the ring, fighting with all your might would be the right thing to do.  If you don't fight, that would be wrong.  Inside the ring, hitting and fighting well is your virtue, but outside the ring that is different.

Home church is the public way. 

You have been given the best present that mankind has ever had.

With this weapon and this food of truth, you will never be defeated by going this way.

Like dedicated runners who jog everyday, you should jog to home church.   You will destroy the walls between individuals and families.  Walls between 'white' people and other races will crumble.  You will enable everyone to move back and forth freely.

If you were to say that you don't like the public way, then you are retreating to hell.

You are doing good work when you are going the way you are supposed to.  Have you ever thought that after you do home church that then you will go to other countries?

Laid upon that foundation, you can think that millions of people will act upon your direction in the future.

Will you go into the arena of home church now?

That would be the ring which you fight the championship bout.

You must truly understand and know the public way.  Once you turn into the direction of the private way, you will be declined and blocked wherever you go.

You always should check yourself in this situation.


A straight line passes through the three points of the past. present and future. If the central point turns around, will all the rest turn too? Since this line is the axis, it will turn. If heaven will make the axis spin, then everything else will tend to spin, too. As long as you maintain a public position, if heaven spins then you spin accordingly. 


As long as the three points are in a straight line, when the axis spins, everything will automatically spin.  The center will always need more power in order to spin.  What would be the power that is strong enough to move everything around and still have power left over?

It is the power of love.

Could America spin around with the power of love?

When life and love come into harmony, then they are strong enough to move the whole cosmos.

When we make the statement that God is love, we mean He is in the center.  To be public is to connect to the axis of love.  Each individual, and nation each level must connect to that axis.

Sacrificing is not bad at all.  Love is all good.

When your parents keep hounding you to study, it is good just as long as they do so with love.

Sacrificing is not bad at all; love is all good. 

No matter how much a person bothers you, if he does it with love, then you must accept that as being good.

God urges you to sacrifice because He wants to bring you to a higher level of love.

Thus, you should bear the heavy burden and important responsibility.  If you are able to persevere, then you can become the axis of love.  Right in the center.  This is why you are urged to sacrifice and suffer.

If one runs away from the work because it is too hard, could he become the center?

Through love, Father was able to become stronger than the communists and nothing else.


I have been strong and unafraid of anything. I am the point connecting the present time to the axis of love, and when I go around in love, the universe will go around with love.  Once I teach you, whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. If you fail, it does not mean this is a bad school. It's the other way around, in fact.


If there is a school that was so strict that many students fail, then that school would become well respected.

This teaching is a rigorous standard, with no compromise.

The world will come to understand that this is a true school.  It is up to you whether you want to go through this tough course successfully working for others. There have not been many members who have been going the way which will yield success.

Stay with the public way all of the time.

You can forget eating or drinking, but you cannot neglect the public way. 

This way of life of spreading the truth is more important than loving, eating or anything else.

When you are hungry or do not get enough sleep, you may wonder why you work so hard going this way.

You would like to go on Christmas vacations once a year and perhaps there is someone you really like to see.  These are the difficult things that you must overcome and give up.

Do you not pity the young people who do not know who they are and which direction they are going?

They take drugs without knowing what they are truly getting into.  Living for just their carnal desires, there is no future doing that.

When you understand and know the love of God, you must still go the public way no matter how hardened your body may become.

Once you are married, would you want to just give up and get divorced?

Even after you get together, you still have to sacrifice and continue working for the sake of the country.  Once you secure the country, then you have to work for the world.  You still have all of these goals ahead of you.

Your spouse should be really close.  He would be like your friend or your comrade.

During combat, your friend is more than a companion, he becomes like one of your legs.  Your spouse is to be closer than that.

Without a family, you will not come to the love of God. The family is the axis of love, and this is why you love your family.

Even if you are fighting the war for the country, the family is still the nuclear unit.

You should have the kind of thinking that through the work of your family, the world will turn around.
If you are unable to think in this way, then you forget about everything else and just enjoy your family, then your family will perish.

We see many families who are prosperous, and live only for the prosperity of their own family.  But then they leave nothing behind and the children decline.  What use is it to accumulate a lifetime of wealth if the children do not have the means to carry on?

A family that cannot live for others would be like a thief of the heavenly country.

Love yourself so that you can become strong and be an axis which the entire world can depend on.

You are not loving yourself for your convenience, but for the destructive element of the world.  By loving the world, you automatically become the central shaft.  Everyone knows how to love themselves first, but the public way is to love the world, and then for that reason love yourself.

Once you reach that level of loving, everything will come to you.

On the outside, Satan's way tries to look like God's way, but God is living for the sake of the world, while Satan is living for the sake of himself.

You don't have to sit and ponder what your accomplishments will be, if you are able to live in the public way, then your future will be bright automatically.

Likewise, you don't have to worry about the future.  On the other hand, if you work just for your own profit, then you will automatically be headed for hell, with no way to turn around.

As long as you work in the public way and follow the Principle direction,  you will win every time.  As long as this is true, whether you go to heaven or hell is up to you.

You follow this way because it is the fastest and easiest route to the country and world levels.

If future Presidents and world leaders were able to follow this way, then World Peace would quickly be brought about.

People asked where the Kingdom of Heaven is.  Jesus replied that it was in every person's mind.  We must know how we are seriously standing at the borderline of heaven or hell and we must persevere to win.

There is no substitute for winning.

Are you able now to forget about all of the past attachments and realize the public road, continuing on until you win the final victory?

Let us pray.



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This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Public Way and Private Way

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?




Return for Tomorrow's Post: Can a Selfish Person Change?


This post was rewritten from the speech Everybody is Headed Somewhere