Crossing the Border to Victory

As the saying goes, there are few guarantees in life other than death and taxes.  This is far from the original world which God had bestowed to us.

Everyone on earth has thought about or feared at one moment about the point we cross the last border.

No matter how much we avoid it, we will each die in our lifetime.

This is each human's final destination on earth. We should pass the line even if we have to brave the fiercest storm.  Where is the value in doing well most of the way and then collapsing just before you are to cross the finish line?

On the other hand, what is the use in living the good life if we end up living it in a secular way?  You chose to live the right way by joining and following this way of life.

You can think of yourself as a motley crew.

It is good that you joined.  Even though we are totally focused, we still have doubts that we can make it all the way on this difficult course where many have sacrificed and died to see the day of World Peace. Yet, after thousands years of sacrifice, we the day of peace still has not dawned.

Be encouraged and don't give up in the middle of the battle.

We win victory only as we dash toward the finish line at the last border.

Every human that is born on earth should make this effort to walk this path.

No matter how much opposition or persecution you receive, it is worth continuing on your path.

Opposition is not our concern.

A person that is able to work hard and walk his destined path one step at a time, even if he has to crawl, will eventually cross the final border.

Everyone from the President to the farmer must go this way.  If everyone was to live this way for the cause, then world peace would appear in one generation.

Modeling ourselves after God's external form, heart and divine character

Everyone will eventually shed their physical body and move on to the spirit world, no matter how healthy or wealthy they have lived.

As human beings who are born into this world, we must be prepared for our inevitable death.

We endure through the suffering so we can form our good self into the second self we will be in the eternal world.

Once a mother receives good prenatal education and care while she is pregnant, then the baby will be born as a good and healthy baby.  In this way, your life on earth is similar to the same care and attention you received while in the mother's womb.

We should grow by modeling ourselves after God's external perfect form with His heart and divine character.

As we grow, we should risk our lives in overcoming obstacles in order to achieve this goal of perfection.

Do not sin

Of course if it was as easy as making an effort to never sin again, maybe world peace would have been founded on religious efforts alone.

But when we talk about the mind must be straight, we see why people walk upright; they must be vertical.  We should make our mind completely vertical as God is.  Your body will from the horizontal line.

Accordingly, you must find your true self.

When you say that you have finally found yourself which is in line with God's standard, then God
should be able to agree and the Messiah must agree.

Your relatives, your tribe, nation must also be able to say that is right.  The one who is accused by any one of these is the problem.

In the future, the continents will be divided not based on superficial borders, but between frigid zones and temperate zones.

There will be a time when those who continue to sin a lot despite the world becoming united centered on God's true way, they will be sent to the North Pole.  This is the same as patients who have contagious diseases and are quarantined.

Live and die for the world

We have gone from an era where saints, sages and people of faith walked a blood path to see the day of glory where God standard would shine as the rising sun to an era of individualism.


I did not work hard for the sake of the Asian situation or the Korean people. Think about how to fulfill your responsibilities in the global field and be willing to die for this cause.


When you think upon these things, you must live and die for the sake of the world.  Once you stand on the global level and die for people of the world while embracing your loving spouse, family and race, this is the position you should reach when you die.

We have formed tribes and are now forming a race.

When the founder of the Unification Church dies, he will die for the sake of the world while he embraces Korea, also.  If the Korean people unite and die for the sake of the world, there will be a paht for them to be able to live with the world.  This is how Reverend Moon went forward seeking that path.

Work hard

This is the territory where you work: If you need money, make it; if you need people, work hard without eating or sleeping to raise them.

Do not ask anyone for help.  Do not rely on the church headquarters to help; you should help them with what they need instead.

Work three times harder than ordinary people to make it through this difficult path.

That is why, if I were to live for 70 years, my life content would actually be equivalent to 210 years. Likewise, don't think of living for 100 years; instead, think of working three times harder than others. If you were to live that way for 70 years, it would be worth 210 years. 


Only when you live to this standard can you bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world.

When you live that way, you can bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world.  That way of life yields a life of freedom in the spirit world.  Your fortune of love will grow.  Your ownership will grow and your sphere of activities will expand.

Work for the public good

Society has moved away from the idea of living beyond the family for the good of the public purpose.  Private matters belong to Satan and public matter belong to God.

What are the laws of heaven which we abide by?  They are to promote the public righteousness.

Even if you are opposed as you walk this course, if you are not disturbed by the opposition but go the way of hardship with vitality, you will become a person of heaven who will welcome spring.

If you notice a greedy shopkeeper, you'll see that that there will not be many customers who will buy from him.  The world does not have a need for a greedy person.

Everyone has the innate knowledge of what is the secrets of managing one's life in terms of distinguishing between private and public matters.

Therefore, if you are unable to go to heaven because you lived a selfish way of life, there will be no excuse that you did not know how to manage your life in the true way.  Why?

You already know the distinction between what is a private matter and what is a public matter without the need to be taught.

Let's say that you and your brother or sister were dividing rice crispy treats equally and you eat your share, but your sister keeps hers without eating it.  Then you wake up at night and you secretly eat your sister's half which she had her heart set on.

Before you can eat it, your conscience will warn you, "You devil you!"  If you are unable to feel this in your consciences, you are not a true human being.

Some people have suppressed their good conscience by so much of their evil deeds that they are numb to its calls of warning.  You should feel this.  Why?

Because your conscience was created to pursue public matters.  Your subconscious is God.

If you follow private desires you will perish.

In the world that originally existed, when you follow the laws of heaven, a mind defends and protects them from destruction.

What does it mean 'originally" existed?

God originally had such a mind and human beings came to have the same mind from the start of our creation.  This is not a man-made law.

Is anyone able to change their conscience's standard by commanding it to follow the way he chooses?
Where does our conscience receive its orders?

We do not know the origin, we do know that it does not originate from us, but outside ourselves.

When we see that our conscience guides feelings that control us, we can understand that they do so over public and private matters.

People struggle internally and externally at the crossroads between good and evil and between their public and private lives daily.

In many cases, people struggle between the two before they settle for a self-centered private lifestyle that does not expand outside the realm of his individual self or family life.

Those who live in this way will perish.

Therefore, in order to go in the right direction, we must repent for our past self-centered, private lives.  They should grit their teeth and push toward living publicly  and end up distancing themselves from the public good.

This has been your life of faith until today.  Therefore, all of those who live a private life, must repent.

Everyone wishes to receive good fortune and to live forever.

In order to live in this way, you must become a public person.

This means in educating your children, don't just love them as your own, but become parents who love their children as offerings for the sake of the people of the world.

Teach them to live for the sake of others.

When you hold your baby to your breast and nurse them, think of yourselves and your baby as representatives of the entire human race on earth.

Become a woman who can nurse your babies with such a heart.

Instead of caring only for your children and how they appear in front of others, cherish other people's children as your own with a loving heart.  Babies who are suckled by such mothers will certainly grow up to become great people.

Of course, you will not be able to see such a result right away in your family, but after the first and second generations among your descendants, there will be born great figures who can rule the world.  This is the formula.

Which would you prefer to dedicate your life toward, a life indemnifying private matters or public matters.  Both are devoted to some purpose.

Such people who are able to risk their entire lives for the good of the public will become great people.

A group like this will set up a new history toward a better world.

This is the course of tribulation which we must follow from now on.  When you manage your life, the issue is whether you can live your life individualistically as much of the world or publicly.

For whom do you eat, wear, buy sell things in your daily life?  Is it for yourself or for the purpose of God?

This is the issue: whether your life is a private or public life.  Do you have a private or a public mind in all these activities?

You should pledge to go the public way.  If you are supposed to indemnify the sinful, wrong history which humanity has gone, you must advance to the stage that everyone desires.

During each day, you must make effort to transcend private feelings and embody public feelings. This is the important issue that all people of faith must concern themselves with.

What is sin?

Sin came into the world from a private standpoint.  Therefore, ruin comes along through the private way of living.  Evil is the same.  When one pursues private matters just for their own life to a certain degree, they manifest evil.  Private matters only go to a certain limits.  When you reach the limit of a private life, sin, evil and ruin are the result.

Where will be in a position to be eternally good, prosperous and fortunate for eternity?  How do we get to the point where we can prevent sin,evil and ruin?  That position is a public standpoint.  When you speak, you should digest the situation with public words and not from a private mind.  In this way, live connecting all aspects of your lives with public matters.

Such people are not able to go to hell even if they try.

Experience love

Do you live your life only concerned about yourself?  Do you think, "I am the only one."

If everything that your parents and elements supplied by creation were removed from you, you would disappear. So, how can anyone claim that they belong to themselves.

We are each in a position to represent our mother and father.

You live through your mother and father by going through the period in the womb, inherit their blood and flesh and are provided for by them.

In the modern age, the term Mother Earth and Mother Nature are used.

This planet is our mother which provides us with elements at different levels.  What do we breathe while we are in the mother's womb?

e breathe in the womb through the umbilical cord.  This is a hose that is linked to the mother's body.

Now we are connected to this second world, the world of air.  As we emerge from life in the womb, we cause destruction.

Thus, the moment from our first cry, we are connected with the world of air where we breathe air through the nostrils.  Our nostrils are the absolute supply line.

Can we live if our nostrils are all the sudden both blocked?  Any human who is unable to breathe will die.  It is made with a dual structure.

The umblical cord and the placenta which the baby depended on to live is destroyed once he comes from the womb.  So, what appears at the point of death when we are being born into the spirit world?  The baby comes out into the universe, to the Mother Earth and come to live by the supply of elements through its mouth.  Our nostrils are prepared as the airway while we are breathing through the umbilical cord in the womb.

Once we emerge from the womb, we switch the use of the organ and begin to breathe.  Likewise, what must we do in this world to prepare for the next world now?

We must experience love, inhale the air of love from our mother and father and undergo all processes by the supply of the air of love.  Once we are born in a family as a baby, then we go up and then come down along a sine curve.  After we are born as a baby, we grow and age, then we die and are dissolved back into the earth.

We are born as a baby and return to the stage of being a baby again in our old age.  What will happen when we die?
We have to kick away the second womb and be connected to the thrid breathing organ of love which is the air we breathe in the next world.

We kick away parental love and fraternal love and enter teh world of love which is in total harmony with the Original Being of the great cosmos, God.

The spirit world is filled with the air of love.

Therefore, we should prepare our life here on earth as a pipe-like device for breathing love.

We need to experience the spirit world.  We become immortal only when we become people who feel spiritual love and then breathe the air of love.

Then when we kick away this womb we call Mother Earth and come out, we breathe with the respiratory organs of love.  We can gain eternal life only when we inherit the third love.  Where do we go after being connected with love?

We then return to God.

We return to the spirit world by being linked to teh respiratory organ of love.  yet there remains the way to go to God.

Since God is the originator of the seed, it must bear fruit and return to Him.  The course of life being a traveler's journey, then what must we take with us here?  We must go this path of experiencing love.

The Fall meant that we could not receive parental love, we must form the vertical family centering on true parental love, true brotherly love, true conjugal love and true filial love.

Families should be formed in the north, south, east and west.  These families should form true families that can link the vertical with the horizontal.  When this is linked to the realm of tribe, people, nation and world which is bound by love.  This is called the Kingdom of Heaven.

Leave a Tomb of Love Behind

When we think of eternal life, we don't think in terms of years or centuries, we think in millennia or
eons.  When people die, they are no different from animals at that point -  their bodies return to the earth.

What is the use in leaving something behind? Even atheists and agnostics say that they want to leave a name behind for themselves.

What's the use in leaving behind a good name.  Even if you are able to become a patriot or are honored with a monument, it would disappear when that country perishes.

Even if you were to leave your name behind, a name is only able to be considered good during a period os prosperity, but it can later be viewed as bad during a period that the country experiences a period of decline.

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

When we enter spirit world and go before God in the spirit world after leaving behind children who live for God on earth, we also come to stand in His position.

Therefore, how will you live on earth?

Leave a tomb of love behind.

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

You may get tired living within this tomb, but will feel no bitter sorrow if you live in love.  If you are able to live in a tomb of love in your lifetime, your life will be a success for eternity.

If you are able to live and die living in this way, God will bring His sons and daughters to welcome you in the spirit world.  If there's no ring yet on your hand, God will put a diamond ring of the Kingdom of Heaven on your finger.

If you are not well-dressed, God will dress you in the richest apparel fit for royalty of the Kingdom of Heaven.


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This Post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Five Chapter 2, Section 2

Love is Boundless Giving

Love requires one hundred percent devotion.

God invested 100 percent of Himself when He was creating the universe through His love.

God created the world for humanity, so this is why true love begins with living for the sake of others.

Many atheists believe that God is a ruler that demands to be loved.  God is not a dictator.  God gave His all for human beings, His children.

God stays close to us because He wants to live for us.  This is also why we want to follow Him eternally.

The natural law is to live for the sake of others.  If we are to maintain our existence in the world, we must live in this way.

Only when we live our life for others sake can the connection be made between East and West and between past and present.

When you are able to give and then give again for the sake of others, this places you in the same position as God Himself at the time of creation.

By putting everything you have into something, you create a second self.

This is the same as God investing all of Himself during the time of creation.

God has invested Himself in the process of restoring mankind back to their original position.  The course of restoration through indemnity is the process for each of us to recreate ourselves into children before the Fall.

So, only when we invest everything you have can recreation take place.

The idea of eternal life operates solely when one invests again and again.  You will never come to ruin if you live for the sake of others.  From giving small things, you move on to giving bigger things.

Where does this finally lead?

It comes back to you.  

We still are not satisfied after we have given love.  Instead after you give, you want to give more.  Then you feel ashamed when you are unable to.

Those who feel ashamed even after giving truly are the owners of love.

Within the realm of love, the more you give, the more we receive in return.

The more we do this, the more the power of what we gave is exceeded by the power of what comes back.  In this way, you will never perish; rather you prosper.

There is no way to be prosperous without love.

Also, love can never be exhausted.

When it is set in motion, the greater it gets.  In the laws of mechanics, anything that is in constant motion becomes exhausted in time.

But in the case of true love, the more it is in motion,  rather than being used up, the greater it becomes.

This is the essence of love: when you live for the sake of others, your love becomes greater.  But when you want people to live for you, your love diminishes little by little.

So, what is true love?

It is giving, and then forgetting about what you have given.

True love is giving and giving and then giving some more.  This is a characteristic of God.

Even if you give and give and give, the world of love lasts forever.  The word 'love' is truly mighty.

There is a Korean saying, "One well-spoken word can clear away a large debt."  What that means is that with just one word of love, you can indemnify something even if you have a debt of billions of dollars.

The only power that has the authority to govern the universe of infinite magnitude is none other than the house of love.

Love comes from living for the sake of others.  Even God, the great almighty Creator, has to bow His head to  love.

Although God is almighty, He cannot fulfill love alone.  It can only be attained through a relationship with another.

So, where does love begin?

It does not begin from oneself; it grows and develops through a relationship with a partner.

Where is the root of true love kept?

Even the all-powerful God does not keep the root of love within Himself.  Even though He is the central figure of true love, He does not want to keep love within Himself.  He wants love to take root in the person who is the object of His love.

The more love you give, the more love you have.

You will have the reserve to give more love on a larger scale.  It never ends.

Everything else has an end: money, knowledge and authority all come to an end.  Everything that is connected to human circumstances and sentiment in the world comes to an end.

On the other hand, original true love never comes to an end, no matter how much you continue to give.

Love has such an amazing quality that it continues into eternity.  You cannot fulfill love centered on yourself.  Love does not begin from oneself.  Love begins and is fulfilled through one's partner in love.  Therefore, love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart.

Even the greatest or wealthiest person in the world cannot attain love if he is alone.  Love is only formed in the relationship between a subject partner and an object partner.

Even the omniscient all-knowing God is unable to feel any stimulation if He attempts to achieve love  just for His own sake.  This is why we need a partner, this was the purpose of creation.

Human beings are the core of the universe.

The core of human beings is life.  The root of life is love.  The root of love is God.  But this love cannot be realized by someone all alone.

God is the origin of love. 

The only beings qualified to be partners in that love with God are human beings.

The word 'love, and the word 'hope' cannot be used in reference to someone who is alone.  Even life only comes through the bond of a relationship.

Life cannot come from being on one's own.

Life and love are the two things that lasts for eternity.  Which comes first?  Life or love.  For God, love did not exist before He did.  Love came to exist after God existed.

For God, love did not exist before He did.  Love came into existence after God existed.

For God, life comes first and love comes second.  But for human beings, love comes first and life comes second.

We were created to be the object partners to God's love and to have His absolute and unique value.

He created man and woman to enter with Him into a partnership of love.  Thereby we are given the greater value than that of even the whole universe.

We are born from love, raised in love and live in love until we die in love.

It is not as if they disappear.  Since the subject of love is an eternal being, unchanging and unique, when we stand before God as the object partner, we have to have the same eternal qualities of life.

God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve was to feel joy. 

This was not the kind of joy of just looking at them or touching or speaking with them.  This joy was based on love.  He created it for the attainment of joy.

Even though God is the Absolute Being, He needs another being to be His partner in love.  God of course had the authority and power to create beings that automatically loved and obeyed Him, but God gave the power to humanity to share with Him in the creation through giving them equal value as His partner in love.

Once human beings are perfected in love as His partner in love, then He becomes the God of happiness.  He is the God who has found His ideal of joy.

God's only dream was to realize the ideal of love.  However, God does not accomplish His dream alone.  Love, happiness or joy cannot be achieved by one entity.  These cannot be realized without a partnership.

Love only manifests from your partner.

When you think your partner is ugly, you dislike him or her and want to withdraw from them.  If the partner is beautiful and good, the dynamics of love are set off that much quicker.

In other words, the workings of love are determined by the qualities of those in partnership, such as their words, beauty, fragrance, and flavor.

Since love comes from the partner, we should bow down and live for that person.  This is why the law of nature instructs us to, "Live for the sake of others."

Since this precious and valuable gift comes to us, when we receive it we should practice the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

This means we must revere, value and live for our partner and spouse.

It is not without meaning that I am vibrant and active in many fields; I do so because I have a purpose. That purpose is none other than to realize the world of love. Human beings exist with the aim of realizing and attaining love. 


Since the purpose of life is to realize true love, our value of existence is also decided by this true love.

Everyone hopes that their partner will have thousands times value or infinitely more value than they have.  In the same way, God wishes for human beings, His partners in love to have infinite value.

Once someone reaches perfection, they achieve a divine nature.

Therefore, he becomes a flawless being as the Heavenly Father and attains the same value.  This was God's original ideal for His world of creation.

What is true love?

It is a love that moves you to want to stay with your partner for a thousand years.  That makes you want to love that person forever.  With such a love like this, there is no hell.  Satan will not be able to touch you or dominate you.

Who would God place as His absolute partner in love?  None other than human beings.

One who has become one with the eternal love of the Creator must also live forever.

This is an important issue for religion.

Religions must establish a logical understanding of eternal life based on a relationship of love.  Eternal life does not lie in a man or a woman.

It does not lie in God.  You must clearly understand that eternal life is in the love of God.

If there is no subject partner in love, you feel empty and lonely.  Isn't this true?

If there is a subject partner of love, then everything feels full and you feel infinite joy.

Only when something is filled to the brim with love can everything else be filled up as well.

You can then give out love infinitely and truly.

You give love with others in order to achieve an ideal and to multiply that ideal.  The world of love transcends distance.  Love is so fast that even light is unable to follow it.  It is the fastest thing in the world.  It is also the brightest and the most perfect.

Love is the only thing that fills things up completely.  Who is closer to the center:  one who is willing to sacrifice love to sustain life, or someone who is willing to sacrifice life for the sake of love?

Which person is closer to the truth?

The one who sacrifices his life in order to attain love is the one closer to the center.  He is what is true.

The one willing to sacrifice love for life is self-centered.  Whereas the one willing to sacrifice life for love is not.

As I wandered through the five oceans and the six continents, I preached earnestly about the path of love. I have sought to shine the light of love on all people, who, living without love, are like a desert. 

If we are ultimately headed toward that other world of love, the most important thing for humanity must be the "love beacon".  That beacon of love can lead humanity to the original homeland.

Once you become one with God, a circular motion manifests in all kind of forms and figures.  This is why the older sibling in the family must love the younger following the example of their parents in loving them.

In such a family that is united into loving oneness, the love within the family will blossom.

Then that love expands to  become the love within a society, and then the love within a nation.  This love becomes the love of the whole world.

Lost within the rapture of love, God created man to live forever.  People are born from love, live in love, and finally they are harvested as the fruit of love.

When you die, you are harvested as a fruit of love. 

We have lived receiving the love of our parents and our children.

After experiencing the love of a couple, we have loved our children as their parents.  Therefore, the love of God and everything we have sown in the inner world of love is to be brought to fruition over the course of our lives.

It is said that when you die, you do not take anything with you, but this is not completely true.

When we pass onto the next world, we will reap the fruits of the kind of life we lived on earth and take them with us.

God maintains life on the foundation of true love.

His omniscience and omnipotence should be based on true love.

Only then can He stand as the ideal subject partner for humankind.  He is the subject partner that transcended all history.

If He wants to be the subject partner with only the power of life, then all things of creation will not want to unite together with Him.

Even microscopic animals and plants wish for a master of love to tend to them and take care of them.  They would like to feel the touch of loving hands.

You should not say, "I'm stronger than anyone else, so you have to listen to me."

Only when love is involved is life set in motion.  The root of life begins in love. The basis for God's continued existence is not life, but love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: World Peace is Our Responsibility 

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book, True Love Chapter 1 section 2

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

Our Life Compares to Seasons

It is natural for everyone that is living on earth to think that they are the most important and to think of himself or herself.  It is also a human trait to think of one's family, and the world centered on himself and even think of God centered on his own thinking.

It is human nature to think of oneself in relation to others.

What is the source of one self?

We each started our existence in God.

Science teaches that human history has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Everything starts from self, myself and everything exists to bring us about.  Your ancestry consists of many generations.

Your ancestral tree would consist of all different types of people.  You might have a tall grandfather, a tall grandmother, one grandmother who is small in stature, all kinds.  You had handsome and beautiful men and women, crippled, and disabled.

Your ancestry is an encapsulation of all humanity.

From God's point of view, some of your ancestors were good and some were evil.

Some were thieves, some were murderers and we can imagine there were all sorts.  We cannot help but think that those kinds of ancestors are mingled within our bloodstream.  You are a product of that lineage.

Therefore, when we look at our ancestry on these terms, we see that we are not pure.  We are unclean and not so decent.

God has all knowledge of your background and your ancestral tree.  In His eyes, He sees that more of your ancestors have been evil than were good.  But when everyone speaks about their bloodline, they would imagine that his ancestry has been good or fairly good at least.

That is not so.  Everyone one of you are the fruit of a stained lineage inherited from Satan.

When we think of the history of a piece of fruit, we would see that it is the result of one person's year of toil and labor.

In one fruit, there is every element: the nutrients absorbed, the sun, and the elements coming from the environment.

We don't know the past story of the fruit, but just by seeing a small scar on the surface of an apple, we can see there is a long story behind this.

It is our fallen nature to think of ourselves in a selfish sense, but this is not the right way.  We think about things centered on our own thinking saying, "This is good, or this is bad because I don't like it."  But this is not the way we should think of things.

It is possible that your ancestry in general has been good, but in your generation, you yourself are committing many sins, and it makes your ancestry lower, or stains your ancestral lineage.

Each generation of our ancestors has built a graph of ups and downs.  You are either on the peak of the graph of ups and downs or you are at the very low bottom.  When you are at this low point, you think that you are lofty and high in status.  Is this good for your ancestral bloodline?

There are four seasons in a year revolving around one after the other.

If the graph was placed in circular form, the circle would revolve as human history revolves.

One day can be compared to the season: our mornings correspond to spring, summer corresponds to noontime, evening corresponds to the night.  With noon as the center, we start from the early morning and ascend or go up, but from noontime, we begin to descend or come down.

Your ancestors represented the season, too.  Some belonged to the spring, some to summer, still others to the fall and the rest to the winter.

Among us, we represent the four seasons in terms of in-born nature.

A springlike person would take delight in making friends who belong to fall. Those who belong to winter are more or less for those belonging to summer.  When we find our spouse, we must think of people in these terms, too.

Your entire life can be compared to the seasons, too.  

Our childhood belongs to spring, adolescents is a transition to summer, youth represents summer, middle-age represents fall and the elderly represents winter.

This comprises the four seasons, so we should not like our childhood only and feel like getting rid of some parts of our life belonging to summer, fall and winter.  The total experience of each age is our life.

What is the definition of a good man?

A good type of person is one whom children, youth, middle-aged and the elderly can like and vice versa.  A person who can like children, youth middle-aged and the elderly is an ideal person.   As the subject towards nature, you should be able to love the four seasons alike.  God likes all ages alike.

There are many colors here: white, black, yellow and red.

God does not discriminate.  He never likes just one race, but He likes everyone.  He loves white people, black people, yellow and red people.  With all of these races included, we can call this humanity which is woven in history and culture with these people.

But is this the end of human history?

We say that Western society is going down, but it should prepare to go up again.

When you come down, you are prepared to go up again.  This means we should never be arrogant in thinking of ourselves.  You may be enjoying a prosperous time now, but there is no guarantee you will stay in that position.

It is more smart that when you are up, that you prepare yourself to go down.

When you are up, you must do something for those who are less situated.  If you are not supported by the people below you when you are in the high position, you cannot really keep such a position and that's the end of it.

Everything moves, not in a straight line, but making waves. This is inevitable.

You must realize that Western civilization is declining from its high position.

So, if Western people only think about their own nation and prosperity alone not reaching out to other countries less fortunate, they are doomed to decline or perish.

On the other hand, if you are able to think of people at that point, the whole of humanity, then there is hope for your civilization and you will soar up again.

For instance, the white people are at the top.  If they do things centered on themselves alone, the situation will drastically be reversed.

This same principle applies between the East and the West.  Because of science, the East and West have come much closer like relatives more than neighbors.

The world is not for just the Orientals, but with the two combined, we can picture the wholeness of the world.

Even when East and West come together, they will still experience up and downs.  If either one of them does things centered on itself, this harmony would not be able to sustain.

 We must ride on the tide of human history. 

When the white people go down, you cannot tread down upon the black race and go up, but you must push them ahead of you and go up.

The law of human history is to work for others, live for others, and help each other.

We can determine that those who live in this way are destined to rise, and those who are living self-centered lives are doomed to decline.  By being open and welcoming other people, it means you want to be beneath them while lifting them up.

Based on this power, you will go up again.  If you willingly welcome a person placing yourself below them, then you are supported by that person and many others, and you will be lifted up.

This is the manner to welcome people:  you concede and give your seat to others.

From that point you will be lifted up from your position.

The morning cannot be arrogant and say that it will stay all day and make the whole day morning.  To have a sound day, your morning must give way to the noon, noon must give way to the evening, and the evening must concede to night.

If you work hard enough to stay in childhood throughout your life would that be possible?

You must think that childhood is for youth to come, youth is for adulthood to come and adulthood is for the aged period to come.  You must respect the other ages and levels.

This is the law of God and nature which God is teaching us.  God wants us to live for other people, sacrificing ourselves for them.  In proportion to how much you have lived for others, you then can be supported by others.

You can become the central figure with all of those people you lived for supporting you.

Would you like your whole life to live for yourself alone and would you like to have other people live for your family?

Are you greedy and like for the whole world to live for your nation?  Your nation would prosper for a period of time, but then it would end and go down.

At the height of your country's prosperity, your nation would decline and perish and disappear from the human scene.

This is what has happened to many nations and dynasties throughout history.  If the nation is careful to make another leap, the history of the nation can go on.

When we look at the history of humanity, we see that those who have sacrificed themselves for the sake of other people survived, and then became part of the mainstream of history to last generation after generation.

A patriot is a person who has done something for the nation and his existence will remain as part of the history of the United States.  He will be remembered by other people and his name and deeds recorded.

If one sacrifices his own pleasures for the sake of the whole world and all of humanity, we can call him or her a sacred or holy person.  From that viewpoint, we can call Jesus Christ the most holy man.

We know that the history of the Western civilization was founded upon the Christian ideology, but absolute faith and obedience to God's word is declining.  It is puzzling that such a prosperous Christian nation like the US is losing ground in these Last Days as the people turn away from Jesus' true teachings of sacrificial living becoming individualistic and self-centered instead.

The fact that Christianity is losing its influence and is declining is evidence that Christians have lost sight of the original calling and become self-centered based on their own thinking of how to live.

This nation has hope if it revitalizes the Christian spirit and the people begin to live lives for the sake of others.

Self-centered ideals are against God's will, and against the law of God.  A nation that goes that way will naturally perish and decline.  In order to rise up to a great nation once again, we must discard the old way.

The fundamental spirit of Christianity is to live for other people. 

Christianity's greater purpose is for the sake of the nation, something bigger than Christianity itself.

If Christians continue to center on self and works for the prosperity of oneself, then the theology is doomed to decline.

God had foresight to see that Christianity existed not for its own churches, but for the future generation and for the whole world restoration to Heaven on Earth.

God set up the foundation of Christianity in order to save the world not for the members to live individual, selfish lives.  This is a major reason for the decline.

The Bible states that God sent Jesus to save the world, not one religion or territory.

Therefore, God does not consider Christianity to be the most important thing, but placed Christianity in the sacrificial position in order to save the whole world.

The purpose of Christianity is more important.

This purpose will be realized using Christianity as the instrument.

When we look at the chosen nation of Israel, we see that God had prepared that nation for the salvation of all humanity.

For thousands of years, He prepared the nation for the coming of the Messiah.  Going about their daily lives, they forgot their mission.  If you focus your viewpoint with more emphasis on 'myself'' you are doomed to decline and perish.

When we stop to think of ourselves who am 'I'?

In a word, I am for the whole.  The kind of person that has that kind of thinking is liked and loved by the whole and defined as a good person.  On the other hand, an evil person is disliked, or hated by others.  This alone defines him as evil.

Centered on yourself, you have your whole ancestral past, so in this light you are for the past ancestral people, too.

On the horizontal line, you have all humanity living on earth.

On this level, you are for the family, relatives, tribe, nation and the whole world.  Vertically, in spirit, you are for your ancestors and for the future generations and your descendants.

If you live for the whole, you are situated in the central point. 

Among all of your ancestors you are the most important person if you live every day solely for others.

Your ancestors would want for you to live for the whole, more than they did when they lived on earth.  In the present day, your living relatives and family would want you to live your life for the sake of other people.

Also, your descendants would want your ancestors and yourself to work for the sake of the whole.  Then they are able to be proud of you and their heritage.  You must become the person who works for the sake of the people more than any of your ancestors have.  Do you understand?



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

To Be a Leader Live for Others

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

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

They each have one aspect in common.

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

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

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

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

We all go together a certain way directed by God.

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

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

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

Do you live this way yet?

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

Who is the representative person?

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

Isn't this what we strive for?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is not the way it should be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religions have taught this on a smaller scale.

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

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

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

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

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

First of all, you should never complain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Invest Your All

This is how God is: God invests everything into a being, and then that being experiences love. Then that explosive love will be returned back to the original Being who made all that investment. God created everything according to this principle.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon

During the process of creation, God gave His everything to man.  On the same accord, a man should want to give everything to a woman. In return, the woman will want to give everything back to the man, and then the man will give everything back to God.  

This is how everything is created.

When a husband and wife give and take in this lively way, then the two will come into complete unity and never separate.  This is the center of God's love.  That is the most ideal place the nucleus.  When a couple are truly in love and live in love, then God is living there, too.

This is the secret to being a true spouse the way God intended: Pour your love into your spouse and live for your spouse doing things for his/her sake day in and day out.  When he gets overly saturated in this love he may ask why you invest so much love into him and want to get away.

But if you continue to love him in this way despite his protests, he will turn around and return your love.  Love grows in this way.  This is the Principle of Creation.

What would be the true definition of a saint?

A saint is the one who goes ahead of other people in realizing, practicing and teaching this principle.  They have laid a foundation and expanded this realm of living for the sake of others.  This is all part of the law of creation.  

We must follow this course and we must love. We must emulate God's image and put all of our love into our families, into other people and into the nation.  

There is only one way for us to go: I, as an individual, must love my spouse and then bring all of society into oneness and later meet God. Then I will fall in love with God and jump into that love and live happily day by day.

When I really live for the sake of other people, the society, and the nation, love always comes back to me.  If we live in this way, this principle will go around and around and expand throughout the universe.

Anyone who is looking for love goes against the process of the law of creation.  You cannot find love.  You first invest yourself and pour your love into others.  Have you loved your spouse?  Love comes back to you as much as you have invested into the other.  When that happens, love starts coming back.

When Ownership Begins

This tradition of living for others and investing love first is being laid on earth for the first time.  The Messiah lives for this sake to leave this kind of tradition behind and lives consistently with the will of God.  He invests everything and spares nothing; he searches for ways to give out even more.  This is where true ownership begins.  After living in this manner, all things follow such a person.

Couples everyday tell each other that they love each other.

But that husband and wife may think they love each other, but once they disagree and the other gets offended, they start quarreling.  This is obviously not the true way and is not an example of love.

Love is when you want to put your whole life into the relationship until there is nothing left to put in.  Through this investment of self, love starts coming back.

The more we love, the more love and ownership will come to us. 

If spouses invested themselves for one another, is it possible for them to quarrel?

When this kind of life is practiced, we are guaranteed to be on the right path.  Even if we do not know where we are going, we are surely headed in the right direction.

How do you decide who is going to be the center of such a large family with many brothers, sisters, in-laws, uncles and aunts?  Just because one is the eldest, does this make them the center of that family?  What if they were truly mean to others and never practiced true love? 

The person who invests day in and day out the most into that family by giving everything he's got for the sake of the other family members without expecting anything in return is the center of the family.  This is how you predict who is going to be the center of the household and the true owner of everything.  

We naturally know that we are supposed to love the world, but this sentiment is too vague.  We must truly put our life into what we are doing just as God did for us.  This way, all things belong to us.  If you want to own everything with love then give, give all you have. This is our credo.

Don't say, "Where is love?".  Don't say, "My husband must love me", or "I expect love from my wife". If you do, peace and love can never be realized within your family. 

There is no love until we put our love in. 

Put in everything you have, then your investment will return as love towards you. How wonderful that is!

This is an amazing truth that can transform today's loveless society.  We should love in this way from the individual level all the way to the national level and we will see change.  Those searching for love, should put in everything they have and then they will see their investment returned as love.

If you want to be a true mother or father, you have to honestly ask yourself, how much have you loved your children in the righteous, heavenly way.

When a child is absolutely loved by their parents, they will never want to leave even if they are being scolded.

When you give out your love and everything comes back to you and wants to be owned by you, then you can truly live happily.  This is the ideal way of life.

God loves us, but we have to love God too. 

Since all things belong to God, if we love Him, wouldn't all things also belong to us? The only way to own anything in the universe is only through loving God.  This is when we become the true owner of things.

Your Own Mind Knows

Humanity should go this way.  How will we know that we have invested everything?  Your own mind will tell you before anything else whether you have given 100 percent or not.  Here on earth, people can cover their actions and intentions behind every deed, but in the spirit world you cannot pretend.  

Everything is in the open and will be revealed.  The ideal way to live is to daily live for the sake of others.  There is no other way to reach the ideal.  The amazing reality is that God even tries to love even Satan.

Do we have such a standard of living?

"Everyday I am so excited that I hate it when one day ends; I can't wait until the next day dawns. That kind of excitement is the ideal way. Unless and until we put everything we have into what we are doing, we cannot realize true joy. Just put in more and more every day without thinking what will be returned, then you will always have more and more -- never less. I have always followed this formula.

At the last moment you may feel you have done enough. Then insist on putting in one more bit of effort. That one step makes all the difference.

When love owns you, you can't oppose it.  You have to belong to somebody. 

How can you object to belonging to someone who truly loves you? Do you think I'm a happy person? Why do you think so? Because I know that in the future, even Satan, even the communists, will not be able to oppose me. How can they oppose me when I love them?"

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

What is the will of God? It is to fulfill the ideal of creation, which is to form a four-position foundation of the husband/wife/children centered on God and live for the sake of others. Then all the love ownership comes back to God.

The person who has done this will have lived the will of God. Such a couple will be an ideal family and live happily ever after. This is the nucleus through which the whole world can be connected. The world is an extension of such a family.
  

What is the ideal life?

The ideal life is putting everything you have into the ideal.  If we live this way, we can go anywhere and be welcomed and no country will oppose this way of life.  This is the will of God.  If we each live this ideal way of life, wouldn't the world turn into the ideal world?

The secular world has an opposing philosophy: I want to be loved.  

I will take whatever I can get.  This type of philosophy does not allow a world of unity and peace. God's formula is to live for other's sake.  If we live in this way, the world automatically comes into unity.
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We can say the world will automatically come into unity because God lives that way.  When we live in this way, our unity becomes broader and broader.  There is no other way for a unified world, no other secret besides this.

Now, we see the ideal world is at hand.

Do you think that the ideal world will come if you just sit back and wait for it to come thinking, "I'd like to sit in that kind of world and go to heaven when I die?".  This type of thinking is the same thinking of a thief.  A thief doesn't work and takes everything he has.

Because of the foundation of the Messiah you are able to participate in Gods heavenly world on earth.

Faith without works is dead.  Just sitting and believing that God will work is not enough.  He gave us 5% of 100% to fulfill our portion of responsibility.  It is our choice to do His will or not.  If we do not do enough before God, our conscience will not permit us to stand before God.

We should not be in the position to be ashamed of ourselves before God.  We should live always conscious of the fact that I should not live a life that I would be ashamed of.

The real situation is that every human needs salvation.

We are saved by dignity, not by shame. This way of life, we may not be able to eat what we like, say what we like, do the things we like so there is a possibility that we will not be ashamed of our actions.

How can we be complacent as our brothers and sisters at this very moment are losing their lives at the hands of Satan?  His ultimate goal is to destroy humanity and pull them as far away from God as possible.

You should not be just members or followers of the truth just borrowing the true way of thinking or life.  You must make it as your own and be proud of the concept and actually live this true way of life and become true descendants.  These are not just words, it is actions.

Do you understand clearly? Now we know how we will achieve salvation; how we can be saved with
dignity, without shame. 

We are all individual messiahs of love.   Plant love and you will never perish.

You may suffer in giving out your love, but you will never perish in this way of life and will never be ashamed.  By practicing true love, true love will come back to you with ownership.  This is a reality.  

Do you understand? Those who say, "Father, I understand deeply now and I will live the way of love," raise your hands as a pledge to do your best to fulfill this.".


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This post was taken and rewritten from a speech given by the Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon based on the Divine Principle teachings which are centered on the history of the Bible.