ORDER NUMBER
8O-05-01
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
PERSECUTION
AND
BLESSING
May 1, 1980
Belvedere International Training Center
Translator - Sang Kil Han
Copyright © 1980 by Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
As you know, today is the anniversary of the founding of our Church
in 1954: this marks the 27th year. The history of the last 26 years has
been a history of persecution. Why have we been persecuted? It had to
come so the; we could receive blessings in the end. People have
puzzled about why' Good people and religious people down through
history have always been persecuted. In trying to understand this,
people have speculated that perhaps there is no God at all; if He
really were omnipotent then why would His people suffer?
It has always been true that under persecution a good person would
become stronger. while a self: centered person would begin to lean to
the evil side. This pattern is ages old, and even sodas we find that
the moment we let ourselves lean toward the bad side. we feel
ourselves weakening. Regardless of a person's position, once he decides
to stand apart from the side of goodness he begins toe weaken.
The question is what hat causes a person to feel that way. The rich
people of the world always seem to be the rascals and scoundrels, not
the good people. Once a person veers to the bad side, it is hard to
return to the good side; but once he is aware of his situation and
realizes why good people are persecuted, he can hold tightly to
goodness. Under these circumstances, we have to conclude there are two
kinds of god-one who helps propagate goodness, and one who ho
multiplies evil and helps evil people to prosper. Then, we would ask,
did these two gods create the world together or was it the creation of
just one or the other?
Man has always searched to find whether man is originally good or
bad; some say that originally man was good, while others feel that
originally he was bad, but is overcoming evil and getting better day by
day. In this confused and hazy situation, people don't know which way
to go. Logically, we say that if a bad god had created the world then
the beginning would be bad and the outcome would be bad. But everyone
has a conscience. Which is alive and struggling against the stream of
badness in the world. Why does conscience exist and why does it word;
that way? If a bad god created the world then there would be no room
for conscience.
We could think; either that conscience came into being after man
was created, or that it was created along with man. How can we say it
has been part of man all the time? How is it that conscience has been
such a strong force in history and where does it come from? Would it be
possible for a light to shine in the darkness if it didn't receive
power from somewhere else? People have seen that the power of
conscience is always present, so we can conclude that it must be
powered by, energy from somewhere.
Because we know about God, we feel that conscience must be powered
by energy from God, and that it will continue to fight against the evil
in history until evil is conquered and dispersed. But the evil in man
will always confront goodness and not let it go freely on its way. Thus
the person of conscience is also tempted by evil: how have these two
elements come to divide man? We can surmise that along the way some
accident occurred which caused man to contain these two opposing
elements.
We build a machine to work and function correctly. It is not
necessary for the whole thing to break down for it to stop working;
when just one part breaks down then the whole machine will not work.
We can realize that one part of ourselves is broken the conscience is
intact, but something else is amiss. We can see that somehow it is our
body that has ceased to function correctly. Man's conscience is still
in its original state, but the body must be repaired to function
correctly.
We see three types of people in the world who lives absolutely by
his conscience; one kind who sometimes does and sometimes doesn't. and
finally, the kind of person who never tries to think about the meaning
behind things, and only lives for his own profit. If there are two
gods, then the evil god can Basil, dominate the people in the third
category, plus often the people in the second category. The God of
goodness can only have connection with people in the first category,
however.
The third category will be those who emphasize what the body wants,
while people in the second category have a standard of conscience which
changes according to their circumstances. A person in the first
category however is so conscientious that love is part of his
motivation in whatever he does. The world is a museum of people, good,
bad and in-between. God and Satan battle over who gains people in the
different categories. Satan easily invades the second and third
groups. whereas God works the other way trying to strengthen man's
conscience.
In every competition there are rules to obey and there is no
exception for good and evil; The rules must be kept. What kind of rule
would apply to all situations in the universe? Around us we see that
nations have laws which were made to protect their people; laws are
intended to protect goodness from being invaded.
A man must have true love before he can be a true man. Before we
can say God is a true God. He must have true love. We can only think of
a true rule in these teens. Then what is this true love? Any person,
whether good, bad or in-between, can claim he is acting out of true
love, but how can we recognize true love?
True love likes and embraces everything, whether in man's world,
God's world, or the world of the universe. If true love shone like the
sun rising in the morning, everything would see and admire it, and
never look elsewhere. The eyes of everyone in spirit world will be
fixed upon it. Who will get to it first? Would everyone rush at it,
without order, or would there be a procedure and sequence for getting
there? Even true love should have order, shouldn't it?
There is an order in man's body, and each limb and organ always
appear in the same place. likewise, when true love appears, those who
are closest to being "true" should go there first. The true
man can become closest to true love. But when true love doesn't show
itself then the center of heaven is empty. Until the true man and true
love appear, the real heaven is empty. God is trying to widen His
territory, and domain of goodness to include everything. man is raised
up enough to be included here, all things will come under him.
According to this standard are you a true man? Do you want to
become a true man? Why weren't we born as true men? Why is it we only
try hard to become true men after we are born? Realizing that something
fundamental is wrong with man. We come to the question of' the fail;
man is always trying to overcome the effects of the fall. fallen men
live in the area where God does not dominate, and their fervent desire
is to return to the original area, but some material is needed to form
a bridge. That material is a true man. Finally, God forms a bridge to
enable man to go right into His heart.
Viewed in this light, it is clear that a small set of rules govern
all of history. and then it no longer appears complicated. But it is
confusing when these rules are working on every level at the same
time.
Every man has a conscience, and without being told he knows what is
right. A man's mind has to have a purpose of goodness; an intense
feeling, that you absolutely have to do something for goodness is
almost a religious feeling.
When you see the bright sun in the morning. don't you expect that
it is going to be a good day? If you meet someone you like early in the
day. you feel that the day will be a fruitful one. When you meet a bad
man. perhaps you feel it will be a fruitless day. A religious man has
an advantage because he can feel that even meeting a bad man will bring
him luck. No one can beat Unification Church members, because you know
that difficulty and hardship will help you pay indemnity!
If you travel in the countryside where there is no road then you
travel up and down and round about to reach your destination.
Unification Church members especially go everywhere to reach their
destination. A bad man could not continue our way of life one day, for
he would be too tired. We are tired too. but not discouraged. That is
the difference. We can compare this to walking-ordinary people might
take a whole lifetime to all; to Washington, but religious people might
walk all the way to the Orient. They can go that far. Some people might
climb only a 3,000 foot mountain, while religious people might climb a
30,000 foot mountain.
Even man, good or bad, powerful or weak, wants to reshape the world
the way he likes it. Why is it so? How can you say it is permitted
within the law? If a person has true love, anything can be done because
everything he does is within the law. This is what many people don't
know. A person should have the purpose in his life of reaching true
love, and no matter how long it takes, he still has to reach his
destination.
imagine that this blackboard space is ;he entire earth, and one
person possesses a tiny speck of territory. If that person has true
love ;hen he can ca! the whole world is his. Even God desires that true
love. Everyone has that desire, but usually people don't know why. The
purpose of that desire is to guide them to find true love.
It is good for everyone it have strong desire because it will carry
us up high to true love. To get to that point a man should have
absolute desire, without intense desire. a man will go wrong. Desire
can be either good or bad. You have to be clear about this so you won't
be confused. since being contused causes you to lose power. We must
know we are heading this way, because we need material to make a
bridge, whether it is all things, man or spirit world.
The individual's life is going there. and also providential
history; everything is directed to that goal. Man's life and history
are preparing to get there. God also must go there, but without man God
cannot be there. What is God's true love? Is it God Himself, or some
object? That object is true man. That true man and true God will live
together cantering on true love. God can do anything He wants, so why
does He make us suffer, and why does it salve so long to mend history?
Without true man, God cannot fulfill His true love. We have an equal
position in this.
God created man to have true love but man fell; thus, God is
agonized that true love has not been achieved. He has been trying to
raise man so that they can both have true love. True God can hex e true
love and true man. True man can have true God and true universe. True
creation has true man and true God. True love is the most
important-without that you cannot be a true man or possess true
things. Do you really want true love then?
If you go hungry for a few days, do you want true love more than
food? You have experienced seven days fasting; one minute before the
fast ends do you want true love or good food? In that one crucial
minute you can destroy the purpose of your seven days. If you can feel
that for true love you could even continue to fast then you have served
the purpose of the fast.
There have been thousands of years of human history and
providential history, but now within one generation we can comer the
whole distance to true love. If we really plant our stake in true love
then God will be overjoyed. Then human life will have reached its goal
and mankind can have joy. Everyone will say mansei. I must be the most
foolish man in the world because no one likes persecution except me.
But what is that foolish man going to accomplish? He knows this fact
that true love is man's goal. In that case am I really foolish or not?
Why is this Unification Church necessary? If I just want to be
proud of myself and boast about the Church I lead, people would ask
what that would have to do with America and the world's problems. I
walk; a consistent way in my life; I founded the Unification Church as
a vehicle for indemnity, so it goes the same direction I do. When this
path of indemnity is finally done, a highway is laid for the entire
world and there is nothing in the world that will be unconnected to
everything else. Every thing will then be going in the same direction.
When the world knows this, everyone will be grateful for finding hope.
What are we here for? No matter what race we come from, when we
reach true love we will have complete unity and there will be no
fighting each other.
The Old Testament era v. as the first stage of the dispensation,
and its center was focused on material. The New Testament era is
somewhat more advanced, with man the center of the dispensation. In
the Completed Testament era, what would assume the center role? Love
of God's heart, or shimjung. Hasn't this been the sequence of God's
orderly steps throughout history? We have arrived at a new concept one
so far has been seeking or conceived of a heartistic God, but we are
even talking about heartistic man and heartistic all things. They are
all one in the realm of heart.
We can achieve all that in one generation through our heart, body
and all things, corresponding to the three levels of dispensation. If
we do it within ourselves, we can erase that problem. What has the
Unification Church achieved? We can solve the failures of history
within our own lifetime and settle them all. We can achieve what people
failed to do in the Old Testament. and New Testament eras, and enhance
our love so that one day we can become true men. That's what history
has mainly been striving for.
These three states include the major philosophies of
man-materialism, humanism, and Godism. Even in the very early times
there was a theism, or Godism, which over the years became humanism,
and today has become materialism. Today it is even a crude form Of
materialism; we could call it deteriorism! What ism is a disco dance?
Any bad name would fit, but there is such a thing as rock bottom. By
the time we hit that, we feel we are not going the right way.
Fundraising is a pan of restoring, material. Then through
witnessing we find people. Through home church we find heart. Once we
have a clear idea and work at it this can all be finished in seven
years: home church needn't take a whole lifetime. Don't you want to
invest a good seven years? I was amazed to recall that yesterday (March
16th by the lunar calendar) was our 20th wedding anniversary. April 30,
1973 was the official start of my dispensation in America, that was the
day I forgot my green card for permanent residence in America.
Yesterday ended the seventh year here in America. The anniversary of'
these events came within 24 hours. All times and dates fall within the
precise time frame of God's Principle.
It is thought that Jesus started his public ministry at the age of
thirty, but actually it started at the age of 27. Today is the 27th
anniversary of the Church, and it will untangle the unsuccessful past,
all within the 24 hour period. Tremendous things are happening in
history now-for instance, the failure of the rescue mission in Iran. If
it had succeeded then of course President Carter would be reelected.
But there is no intelligent explanation for its failure.
So far history has been moving at a certain tempo, but recently
events have speeded up so much that even news people wonder what is
going on. America has been complacent toward Russia's threat to the
world, but now everyone is thinking again that Russia is a menace to
this country and the world America needs strong leadership to counter
that menace.
From the time of Congressman Fraser's downfall conservatives have
begun a steady rise !to prominence, which no one expected. Hearing this
explanation for it you should have great faith to go toward the goal
and reach it. You think if you hit something with your fist that your
hand will break, but no, the obstacle will shatter. This is what CARP
is doing. Originally CARP leaders thought it was not feasible to strike
out boldly in America, but now the, are finding that the obstacles will
crumble
First came the age of worshipping through material, then through
man, and finally worship of the true God. Now we can combine everything
together and fulfill it, so combine everything in history in yourself
and go for broke. Know you will succeed Because of the weight of the
true words you have. You will be heavier and tip the balance to your
side. That is what I have always been doing - the world is on one end
of the seesaw and I am on the other. I couldn't sit still and sometimes
I would go up and down, but I never got off the board: if I had, all
history would have gone down the drain. The more people persecuted me,
however, the more weight was added to my side. Heavenly law is working
here. If evil attacks good. but goodness does not yield, evil will
become weaker and weaker, and that side will get lighter and lighter.
Every time you meet persecution you can become stronger and stronger.
The high point of persecution came in 1976, and I declared that
everyone in the world would come against me. Judaism. representing the
Old Testament and Christianity representing the New Testament, have
come against me: America representing the free world, has opposed me
and communism has opposed me. All 127 countries where we sent
missionaries persecuted us. Do you think I was beaten in that war?
Everyone hates to admit it, but I really won. The pendulum has swung in
the other direction.
Now I can tell you to forget about history and concentrate on your
own seven-year course. Now that you have inherited everything you can
give it away. What if I told you that you don't need home church? The
authority to do home church rests with me, but what have you to do with
me? The main problem is how you inherit the correct pattern from me in
your own area; you have to have proof that I should give it to you.
Actually you have no right to receive it, but if you can say that you
are a son or daughter of the True Parents then you can say that I must
leave it for you to inherit. Then I will agree.
What is the qualification for being a true son? Do true sons pack
up and leave when they don't agree with their parents? Many people
today are doing it, though. Even if it's not easy to be a true son,
would you want to do it? Maybe one out of many children would struggle
to stay home and be a true son. Such a child would say that he will
never leave no matter what his parents do. He can say that his parents
must be jealous at the thought that he w ill share true love with them
and they can bear and kick him, but still he will not leave because he
is determined to inherit true love. He will tell his parents, " If
you need my eyes. you can have them but I will stay."
God never sympathized with me, worrying if I had eaten or not. When
I worked hard and then slept, God could say, "Do you know what time
this is and you can still sleep?" You can only imagine. God thought
that perhaps I would only last a few days and then run away, but He was
surprised when I kept going. He was surprised whenever I went over a
difficult barrier. Satan may be able to follow you over a certain
height, so God will wonder whether you can make it over the highest
point then and leave Satan behind. If you can make it over that highest
point then Satan cannot follow you and your progress from there on is
not so difficult.
Don't think that Satan is all bad. If there were no Satan then you
would not work; to pass your examination. Does anyone like exams? But
you need to take an examination, don't you? If you knew you weren't
going to be tested then you wouldn't study. For every exam you pass you
gain more knowledge and become more useful. Persecution is necessary
for us to get blessing; also, if we get persecution then we keep
going.
The one tenth of your material that you tithe is the most precious
part. An offering must be pure. Have you heard of how young , virgin
girls were killed as offerings in ancient times? The criterion is to
offer first love. Likewise with animals. The Old Testament era is the
period when things of creation were given as an offering, while in the
New Testament era man was dedicated as offering. In the Completed
Testament era the standard of offering is elevated, and we experience
sacrifice of heart. When we have dedicated everything for the sake of
goodness it is painful to be called a Moonie and be rejected and
misunderstood.
Everyone must come to look upon that particular person as an
offering. The best material should be used for offering, so a pure and
wonderful person should be an offering. Even one should know that he or
she is an offering; if we don't let people know we are Moonies and let
ourselves be persecuted, can we say we are an offering? Everyone
should know we are Moonies and see that we are persecuted. Then we can
be an offering. If we hide and let someone else do it then can we say
we are an offering? People who know my ability will ask why I do things
the way I do, letting everyone know we are Moonies. They say we would
have many more members and have less persecution if we kept that fact
quiet.
But God has a timetable. so I push you to accomplish things. If you
do them then you are all set. but if you wait until the last minute and
God tells you to do it then God cannot wait if you fail to complete
it. I make you do it in such away that once it is over you can tell
God you are finished before He asks you.
You will never understand how much I pushed myself to complete the
dispensation on time, spending many sleepless nights planning If the
dispensation had to be extended then there would be no assurance it
could be completed so I did it in such a we, that I finished three
years ahead of schedule. Now I am on safe territory.
First we advance across the bridge formed by material and then by
man. The only shine man can see clearly is material and other men. When
some property belongs to your family, tribe, or nation, it is not
unrelated to you, but though you are a citizen you do not own it
personally. You cannot say that what belongs to your nation
automatically belongs to you. The fifty states belong to the nation,
not to individuals. Likewise, America belongs to the world. Even the
earth is part of the cosmos, including spirit world. If the Messiah is
going to bring the whole world and spirit world into unity, then he
belongs to God. This confirms that the individual comes under the
family, the family belongs to the tribe, the tribe to the nation,
nation to the world, world to the cosmos, the cosmos to God, and God to
absolute love.
These are the steps, and by following this reasoning we conclude
that we are living for the sake of true love; that's what we all have
to care about. Everything else is automatically included in true love.
Whether carrying a handkerchief in your pocket or keeping an
appointment, you do it for the sake of true love. When I sleep I snore
loudly, and Mother goes into the next room. But my thought is that
Mother should snore just as loudly beside me, in rhythm. What a scene
that would make!
In Korea we say that a man who has already reached his destination
is a crazy man. That's the kind of craziness God wants to see. Do you
love true love, now? Why do you like me so much? If you work hard to
make money, you want to give it all to me; even though it means getting
no sleep, you want to see me. It's hard to explain without
understanding true love. Without it, thinking about uniting the races
and the world would be pure fantasy.
You want to rob me of something just like a child gets milk from
its mother. Whenever I see a baby it id always eating something. The
baby likes the person who feeds him very much. You have been eating
invisible food now for almost three hours. Even the bitter food is
tasty.
To reach this destination. your course will lead you to all things
of creation and to mankind. When someone asks what country you come
from, do you tell them what state you were born, or that you are an
American? You are always fundraising to catch people for true love. You
are, fishing to catch people for love. When you fund raise you give not
only your result but also your own money donating it to help build the
bridge so all those people can cross. Now must contribute not only
material but also men, and give them with God's heart. We dedicate our
families to that bridge. centering on love. When we recover our nation
we offer it, and when we recover the world we offer that to God also.
For the sake of true love we shall recover the universe and dedicate it
to God.
Not just one or two things but all things will be gathered for the
offering, plus men and heart. Our property, our bodies, and heart-when
we dedicate everything we have to God, it is the same as offering all
material, all people, and all their heart. Whose property is it then?
God's. Something may be yours, but since you dedicate it to God. it
becomes His. Your ownership is external, and God's ownership is
internal. All of this can be indemnified in one individual.
Home church is very much like a tithe of the world dedicated to
God. More practically, we bear all the faults and sins of that area.
You must become completely one with home church before you can offer it
to God How can you become one? When you know that, then the whole
problem can be solved. Home church now is more like the satanic world,
or external world. We have the experience every day that our minds and
bodies, or internal and external aspects, always fight. Who is the real
master of the world? Even though small in number, those who are in the
internal realm are the masters.
One way to become united with others is to obey and follow. If your
home church people believed you were a messiah in their area, then
instantly you and home church could be in heaven. If a person is
willing to give you everything he owns. then we can say he obey and
follows you. Religion has been teaching people to have this quality. to
follow and obey. The religious world began in a small area, but
throughout history has been enlarging.
God planned to send the Messiah and deal with people on the
national level, not the individual level. This was His plan in the Old
Testament for Jesus time. If the Jews had united with Jesus then they
would have been strong enough to bring the Roman Empire to unite with
them also. Unless the people were willing to offer all they had. it
would be difficult to make this happen.
Religious leaders must know that they are only managers, and the
true master is someone else who is yet to come. It is at this point
that religious leaders usually go wrong. thinking that they are the
central figures. We see the same pattern in the act of the fall.
Everything belonged to God, but someone else tried to make it his own.
Now everything has to go back to God or God's representative. What
happens if a leader says that his group belongs to him ? It is the same
as Satan claiming God's creation. It is the ideal for religious people
to obey and follow, but it is difficult to do. If you worked hard for
something all your life, but God wants to take it for the purpose of
the world, you have to give it gladly. It is difficult to do, however.
If God asks me if something is mine or His, without hesitation I
will say it is His. When God gives the blessings you will give them out
again. When man is obedient and follows, no persecution is necessary.
But usually God has to let good people be persecuted, and when they
overcome He will share the blessings with them. But that is less
desirable. God lets Satan strike you, and then God recovers all the
blessings that Satan stole.
If a minister is appointed to a church but he does not do his job,
he is fired. The minister's authority comes back to the person who
appointed him, who can then give it to someone else. If man is obedient
then God will get everything back, but if man is not obedient then
Satan will be allowed to persecute people, and then God can bring the
blessings back. If Christian countries, for instance, had been obedient
to God then the ideal solution could have come easily. But instead
Christians fought each other. God want those countries to transfer
everything to the Messiah when he comes. Since it is difficult for
fallen man to be obedient. even with religious training. he inevitably
is surrounded by struggle and persecution. .Adam was not obedient to
God; since the chosen people would not unite with Jesus, God let them
strike Jesus, but He then took back their blessing. It is the same at
the Second Coming.
This pattern recurs throughout history, from the individual to the
world level. If whoever is in the central position on the world level
is not obedient to God, there is a big struggle on the world level;
that is happening now.
On each level man and all things will form a bridge to the goal.
The communists also follow this pattern, but in the reverse direction.
We have seen that the free world liberates man; the communist world
claims to be working for the same end and purpose, but at gunpoint. The
free world and communist world follow the same pattern, but in reverse
directions.
Christianity in the free world is confused. Contradiction prevails
in America, which represents the free world in God's dispensation, but
no one is doing anything about the problem. Korea depends on America to
fulfill its purpose so that Korea can do its job. Though I started out
in Korea, I have forsaken Korea for a time to come to America. We have
to stop the communist movement, which is bent on destruction of the
free world.
If we ask who is the leader of the free world, people will not have
an answer. Likewise, if we ask who leads the communist world, there is
no one central point. Soon it will be clear that the Unification Church
is the leader of the whole world. Even though we are doing goodness,
the State Department is afraid we will swallow up America. The
communists are afraid we will swallow up the communist world. This is
our position today.
Unification Church so far has been an underdog, but now we must
assume our responsibility. Because we have been persecuted, God has
brought all blessings back to His side. He has a heavy bag of blessings
ready to give out. The Unification Church will set the example and show
the solution.
You have a basic understanding of history and mankind. I have given
you a precise explanation of history and where we are at this time. and
now you know what you have to do every day. You must realize your
position today. All of us are a pipeline for God's blessing to flow to
the world. You couldn't do that ten years ago; only this year could I
say this. Is this all in my imagination, or is it logical and precise.
You have to become atomic bombs of love. Would you become a love
bomb wherever you go? Then you will be victors of love. I started the
Unification Church 27 years ago, and there were many times when I felt
I couldn't go on any longer. People came to kill me because Satan knew
I would end his ownership of the world. I always felt I could not
stop-not for myself, but for the world. Satan always anticipates my
activities a certain amount so he tries to block my next move.
Even now the communists sneer at me for pro-claiming we will have a
rally in Moscow, just as America laughed when I said I could solve
American problems. Today the major battles are won in the free world.
Even the communist problem is indirectly solved. If everyone here is
blessed and carries on the tradition, and America can be strong, then
the communists will inevitably decline. When through the media the
deceptions of communism are exposed, all other countries will realize
what is the true way of life and they will gradually begin to change.
This is the beginning of a victorious new era, a new seven years.
For me this is a new beginning for the world dispensation, as well as a
new seven years on your part. I feel these next three years will be a
very important time in achieving this. Are you just trying to believe
this or do you know this precise timetable? It is good that we have
been persecuted, for it will keep us on this road. If your desire to do
home church is stronger than the antagonism of your persecutors, then
you can succeed. You can include every level in your success.
I determined that I must work harder than I have been persecuted.
The same is true for you. I will try to give more than I have been
persecuted. distributing the blessings that God has reaped. You must
see that home church is your training ground. Persecution will decrease
markedly from now on. Mainly we must educate people and love them. We
must give whatever we have, and surpass the standard of our
persecutors. This is a transition time and technically there should be
no more persecution, but just as winter lingers a little while spring
comes. Persecution may still come in the next seven months. It will be
over by the end of that time.
I have been speaking of this for three years, but when people know
that you are not doing these activities for yourselves they will
respond favorably. We have been persecuted because God wanted to bring
all blessings back to His side again, but now He is giving them to us,
on every level. I will work even harder to give them to other
countries. Soon world leaders will want to meet me and discuss the
future of their countries and the world.
So far we have worked hard without result, but from now on the
result will be comparable to our effort. We will be increasing, rather
than indemnifying. Recently 22 important Argentineans came to stay in
New York for two weeks and attend our seminar. I spoke with them only a
little while. but they were very happy and hopeful. When I asked them
whether their country could be changed if they had a good newspaper,
they felt it would happen.
By using satellite communications, American television can be sent
to any continent in the world. If I were able to broadcast to the rest
of the world exactly what I have told you this morning, what do you
think the response would be? Don't you think a good, religious person
would change in one day after hearing Divine Principle on television?
This is a practical matter today. This is just one sign that we are
getting nearer the goal. The world will be amazed. People didn't think
that Moonies could do anything practical, but how surprised they will
be! They will wonder when I discovered all this knowledge and made
these historical breakthroughs.
Don t you see that the simplest member is better than the president
of Harvard, or the president of a nation? Why then are you powerless?
Why is something still unresolved in your brain? Now do you know what
you are? You can feel that by doing home church you will be the best
leaders of America. Don't you feel that your home church area is too
small? You can get a loudspeaker and wake people up with your speaking,
and go around America. If you really understand your situation, you
would say 360 homes is too few: you would ask for a national or world
church.
From now on every thing will become more visible. To begin with you
just stand straight and firm. not like a tender sapling, but like a
rock. Have confidence, for God is right behind you. So far you have
been swaying in the strong winds. but now you should be strong.
Do you know what home church means? Your ultimate destination is
God's heart, and home church is your grammar school When you finish
there. You will have finished grade school. When America comes to the
truth, you will have finished high school. When the communist world
comes, you will have an MA. When the spirit world is reorganized. You
will have a Ph.D. Actually home church is everything. and after that
everything else is easy, just a few hours work.
Now we work in a wide area and stir up the people. We have been
persecuted for that. but we are sowing seeds in various pieces. It
will all be harvested one day. I sowed in such a broad way that I will
not have a specific harvest to keep; it belongs to the world. But you
have a definite area in which to sow, and when it grows you can harvest
it as your own. Then for whom do you do home church ? For yourselves.
You need a foundation for your family, and home church will be that.
So far God collected all blessings as the result of persecution.
Even though we are persecuted, we will definitely harvest all the seeds
we sow now. No matter how you fool; at it, this is worth doing. Would
you like to do it? Where will you sow your seeds ? Go everywhere you
can and sow seeds. If you are really like me then automatically your
home church people will like you and want to go with you wherever you
go. You will be the ancestor of a new tribe.
Put a "new" in front of your name; Smith will become New
Smith, for instance. We knew that God was a God of love, but now it is
clear that God allowed us to be persecuted for a reason. Now that we
know, we have to run even faster. We have to let people know what kind
of world this is and what it should be, and what God has been doing
about it all this time. We can point out who are the good and bad
leaders, educating them as I have educated you. This is a great time,
because even if you stumble, when you wake up you will still have
gained fruits from your work.
You have to have guts. Wherever you go, the Old Testament spirits
are following you because without you they won't get anywhere. You are
also the resurrection of the .New Testament spirits and of all worthy
people in spirit world. You are the key for them and they must follow
you. Your body is resurrected Jesus and resurrected Reverend Moon. God
is charmed at you. .No one can bother you. Whenever you go. Your path
may lead to death or to happiness. but you can even go happily to
persecution because you go voluntarily.
If you go only because someone chases you, you will not be a
victor. If America does not understand and it persecutes you but still
you go, then victory is ahead. Do you feel that way now? Are you happy
or are you going to be happy? You keep thinking, "I am supposed to
be happy, but I am powerless." Is that consistent ? It s either
one way or the other If you go fund raising, you must not feel you are
just a punk fund raise, but a king of fund raisers.
When I found myself in prison, I felt I was king of all the
prisoners and everyone would come under me. Now you have a reason to
feel that. Who would God love, a person like me or like you? Father and
son should be the same, not different. Are you really going to do it
now? Grit your teeth tight and determine you are going to do this for
the future. Yes? Yes?
Thank you.