Sunday Sermon
April 16, 2000
Translator - Peter Kim
Belvedere
Father spoke to the Japanese preceding the Hoon Dok Hoi, explaining
the speech to them. Dr. Carlson read "World Unification and North-South
Unification Will Be Accomplished by True Love" - 2/10/2000 Seoul Olympic
Stadium (from new book - To Him I Offer All The Glory And Honor).
Father then spoke (the whole time from His chair) - no
title. Rev. Peter Kim translated. (unofficial notes by Eric Erstling)
It is simple to unite the world. Uniting the mind and body is the key
to restoration. It is always in conflict. People who fight, no matter
what level, cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. When we look at our eyes,
they are in different positions, yet they work in harmony. Our nose has
two nostrils, when one is clogged it is uncomfortable. Yet when both
nostrils are open, it is very clear. The same holds true for our ears
and arms. If one arm were longer than the other one, it would be very
difficult to hold things.
If you go to a Buddhist Temple, the Buddhist put their hands together
when they pray. It is a very comfortable position when their hands are
in harmony.
When you are focusing on something, your face forms a perfect
4-position foundation. Who here has fulfilled perfection? If you dwell in
harmony, then there is no conflict. The place of harmonizing is the core
where God dwells. If you sit there, you are comfortable. Why must the
mind and body be united? Because it is there that God will dwell with
you. God is the origin of life, love and lineage. If we are absolutely
one with these points, God will dwell with us.
We have to question ourselves: How many days have we been one with God?
God can't dwell with us, if we don't have harmony within. Neither our
spouse nor our children will want to live with us. Is there harmony
between husband and wife, parents and children here? How many days has
there been harmony in your house? If there is conflict in you, no one
wants to approach you. If you demand love, your wife will run away, or
scratch you and leave a scar. The problem is inside of you. As long as
you have conflict, you can't be proud in front of the world. Will you
stop the conflict in you? [Yes].
It is more difficult to unite your mind and body than unifying the
world. That's how difficult it is to unite your mind and body. If there
is a shortcut, will you want to take it? Negate Yourselves!! Absolutely
offer yourselves for the sake of others. This is the beginning point
of mind and body unity. Shall we do it? [Yes].
If you are forced to confront your enemy every day, how will you be
comfortable? If you live for your enemy every day, will your life improve?
What if you sustain this for a year, will God bring you to Heaven? God
will say, "You are better than I am; be My teacher!"
If you are with 10 people that you don't like, then you will have no
friends and be lonely. You have to embrace these 10 people. Hell is where
you don't embrace everyone. Heaven is where you embrace everyone. It
shouldn't take our whole life to accomplish. If you do it in 10 years,
God will embrace you and say, "You are My child, I will serve you."
True Father has dedicated 30 years of his life in America. How many
Americans love True Father? At first you didn't like True Father, but
now you're here. True Father has always been giving to others. Those who
live for others are number one. If this way of life, living for others,
continues for 7 generations, the entire world will be restored. If you
truly understand True Father's message, then from this moment live by
this absolute standard. Test yourselves on how many days, hours, you
have lived this way. And score yourselves.
In the beginning, True Father wasn't this good. True Father has gone
through tough tragic situations, having to bite his tongue to endure. God
tested him. His external enemies were nothing compared to his closest
loved ones who didn't follow him.
What comes first, God loves True Father, or True Father loves
God? Offer absolute love to God first even if He turns away. Where is True
Father in love, at the pinnacle? God has been very cruel to True Father
in love. True Father had to come all the way from the bottom of Hell to
the top. God needs True Father. God gives True Father so many trials and
tests to climb. True Father has passed them all. Even in the physical
world, Ph.D. candidates have to write a dissertation to be approved
by professors. If the dissertation teaches something to the professors,
the student passes. God passed True Father in a similar fashion.
Is this True Father's first speech since returning from Korea? [Yes].
When True Father looks at the Korean situation, he is looking at the
world and individual situation. There are two provinces in conflict,
and north-south conflict. Cain and Abel situation is everywhere in the
fallen world. We have to achieve the unification of the Fatherland.
We all say that we love someone. What is the goal of our love? The
degree of our love is saying, "yes." Yes, we are willing to marry our
worst enemy. If the 2 provinces (referring to the eastern and western
sides of the peninsula, which bear animosity toward each other), north
and south Korea, the spiritual world and physical world, become one in
marriage then there will be unification. True Father has been matching
people from the 2 provinces. True Father will match north and south
Koreans, and then unification will come to Korea. Then there will the
marriage between spiritual world and physical world. These enemies will
become one. If True Father matches you to your opposition, when you say
yes, you will have the power of love.
There's conflict in the spiritual world, because people couldn't marry.
True Father will marry enemies together. Our marriage is not just for
the family, nation and world. Our goal is the cosmos.
What is the most fearful country to the US? It is China. Russia also
fears China. There are 1.4 billion people in China. If we marry the
Chinese to Russians and Americans, there is still an over-abundance
of Chinese.
We have to welcome exchange marriage (international marriage). True
Father told the people in the spiritual world to marry their enemy
not their close friends. Would you rather be by yourself or marry your
enemy? The spiritual world agreed to the exchange marriage proposal
by True Father. Racial and other barriers have been broken by exchange
marriages. There is no barrier between Koreans and Japanese, Americans
and Orientals. God wants to see this.
Human history began with enemy relationships. Adam and Eve became
enemies. Yet they married. We have to pick our enemies and love them.
There is a famous Korean girl, Yoo Kwon Soon, who was a patriotic hero.
She lad the mansei rally of March 1, 1919. She was eventually caught and
cut into 12 pieces. So she had intense hatred towards the Japanese. True
Father matched her to a Japanese and she accepted. Saints and sages are
married to murderers and criminals in the spiritual world. That's the
way all will be equal and we will have a "world of peace." Therefore
those blessing candidates in the UC should be the ultimate role models
for world unification.
God wants to restore Eve from adulteress to the spouse of God.
True Father will bring people out of Hell. True Father made enemy
families into in-law families. If we build this kind of world wouldn't
it be the Kingdom of Heaven? We have to focus on our mind and body
unification.
Mind = God. Body = Satan. You can't do anything until you unite
both. It might take 3-5 years if you are serious.
Anyone who likes divorce, please show your hands, this is your chance.
Who would like to see divorce? [No one.] Those people who don't care and
get divorced will go to Hell. Will your family enjoy your divorce? Will
your family be happy if you marry over and over again?
The Love organ has been the tragedy - the trash can. If God liked
people having many wives, He would have given Adam 10 wives.
God's attributes are, absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. Our
love has to be that way too. Absolute Love is the key. Women in the
secular world are like trash cans. They are bringing the world into
ruin. Just by one mistake (Eve's), the world has been destroyed. These
women are making many mistakes. You should not trade your love organ for
the entire nation or world. Nobody should get close to your love organ.
God is vertical. Children are horizontal.
Why do we marry? To conquer God's love. The purpose of marriage is to
obtain God's love. To experience God's absolute love, you need a spouse.
You have to worship your sex organ more than your king or God. God and
your spouse want to see this holy love towards your sex organ. If a family
lives like that, will it be happy or sad? [Happy]. This family will own
the world. All levels of love, from family to cosmos, will be found in
that holy family. Since the family level is the standard to conquer,
then all levels will be conquered.
We have to train ourselves to adopt children of all races. If a white
mother has 3 children of different colors, she can give one breast to
the black child, one breast to the yellow child, and a bottle to her
own baby. God would take a photo of this and display it in the Kingdom
of Heaven museum. With this attitude you will secure a core position in
the Kingdom of Heaven.
When we join the spiritual world, do we want to live with True Parents?
[Yes.] True Father received persecution since coming to America. Yet,
True Father shed blood sweat and tears for Americans, especially
Christians. Now, leaders are saying we need Rev. Moon to save America.
Did you women, especially in the front row, learn your lesson about
loving your enemy? If True Father matches you to Satan, will you agree to
that? True Father told all the religious people in the spiritual world
to marry outside their religion. The spiritual world was turned upside
down from True Father's direction. They all went after UC members. UC
members are the envy in the spiritual world. Everyone wants to marry them.
(This is a brief summary of Mr. Joo's report.) ALC started in 1984
based on the communist threat. It has emerged to combat the cultural
crisis. The target people are mostly political leaders. Mayors,
senators and judges have attended these conferences. More than 30% of
attendees have been these political leaders. Other attendees have been
clergy, business, media, and economic leaders. These are the people who
are forming the American culture. So far 1,200 have been educated at
the four conferences. There are more planned. True Father wants to
give special treatment to top leaders. Of course, it is not easy to
teach True Father's words. The main part of these conferences is Hoon
Dok Hoi. They are broken into five sessions.
- Foundation of Leadership
- Foundation of Faith - perfecting mind and body, individual
perfection, husband and wife perfection, marriage life
- Parenting - four position foundation, parent-child relationship,
love school, God's ideal
- Ideal Society - teaching God's ideal, ideal society
- Vision of America - hope of America, mission given to America.
It is a Divine Principle structure. It is very interactive. The dilemma
is that people want to attend again (although only invited once). The
best part of the most recent ALC was the speech given by Hyun Jin Nim.
All the leaders said that he is carrying True Father and True Mother's
spirit.
True Father: "The gate is now open!"
Peter Kim prayed.