Sunday Morning Message
East Garden, Irvington, NY
November 26, 2000
Translation by Rev. Peter Kim;
unofficial notes by Tyler Hendricks
Rev. Michael Jenkins: We are surprised but happy that our
True Parents are here today, this day that we are beginning the four
year activity centering on the blessed wives across America.
Hoon Dok Hae: Rev. Jenkins read "The Way to World Peace," which
was given on August 28, 1991, at the founding of the Federation for
World Peace, in Seoul, Korea. It is a premiere speech of True Parents
in the 1990s and is printed in Textbook for World
Peace. It will be included in a new English language collection
of True Parents' 1990s speeches. He followed this by reading the next
speech in that collection, "Peace and the 21st Century:
The Fundamental Principle of World Peace," which was the Founders
Address at the 2nd World Peace Conference of the Federation
for World Peace. This is another profound speech in which Father
revealed the fundamental truth to world leaders. That the world has by
and large ignored it is horrible. It explains the Family Pledge to the
world. Then Rev. Jenkins read the Founders Address at the 4th
World Peace Conference, Federation for World Peace, given in Washington,
DC, on November 28, 1997, just prior to the RFK Stadium Blessing. Again,
this is an amazingly prophetic speech.
Father's Words
What is the meaning of the completion of God's will? [An
ideal family.] What's the meaning of the completion of an ideal
family? Perfection of the four position foundation. Of what do families
consist? Parents, husband and wife, and children. That is the model
of the family. Only such perfected families will enter the Kingdom of
Heaven. So what is the meaning of the fall? It means the separation of
parents and children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters. Who
caused it? Satan.
THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
The original ideal of creation was the inseparable oneness of husband
and wife, and parents and children. But division took place because of
the false, satanic lineage. Without love and life, you cannot connect
to God's lineage. Love and life connect in the blood lineage. Most
important is the blood lineage. How does the blood lineage connect the
upper, middle and lower, the three positions? All things have the three
vertical positions, such as God, parents and children, or grandfather,
parents and children. The blood lineage connects them. An absolute blood
lineage can create absolute three stage couples. Without that kind of
couples' connection, the absolute blood lineage can never come about.
In the fallen world, all these are separated because the mind and body
are fighting. Everything is separated and becomes complicated, originating
in the mind and body fighting. How can we make a new mind and body? That
is most important. The most famous of people have Satan in the flesh,
Satan's blood lineage. The body is on Satan's side. Without unifying the
mind and body, you cannot stand as an object to God or create a peaceful
world.
Where can we find the righteous way? Without the mind and body
being unified, we cannot find it. All human beings have their mind and
body fighting. It always continues. Who can stop it? No religions or
governments can stop it, no matter how great their power. What is the
purpose of religion? It is to stop the mind and body fighting. You did
not resolve that problem. What caused that fighting? It was caused by
the fall. What was the fall? The blood lineage changed. The original
contents of the blood were exchanged with Satan's contents. The ideal
growing way was with God, in God's blood lineage, and bearing children
and connecting them to that lineage.
JESUS OVERCOMING SATAN
Do God's mind and body fight? No. Why does the body have Satan's
blood lineage? The original mind is growing to fulfill the purpose of
creation. The question was the relative strength between the original
mind's power and Satan's love power. Whichever was stronger would
determine the blood lineage. Man's love power connected with Satan's love
power and that controlled the blood lineage. This led to all aspects of
fallen nature, of denying others, of individualism.
What shall individualistic beings do? They only drop down, denying
everything. Where is my enemy? Where is God's enemy? What is Satan? Satan
is the one who connected to the father's position with his blood lineage,
completely denying others. The most fearful enemy is Satan. God's most
fearful enemy is Satan, and it is the same for mankind. Everyone repeat,
"Satan"!
The archangel became parents instead of God, connecting to the
wrong blood lineage. Without changing the blood lineage, no matter how
difficult it might be, we cannot be saved. The saving point is my flesh,
which Satan controls. How can we rearrange and connect to the highest
level of God's love? God is the king of the absolute blood lineage
to which we want to connect. How can we receive that absolute king's
blood lineage? For the sake of every ... The fallen concept is that which
centers on myself. Instead of God, I want to become the center. How can
we remove that from ourselves? It takes absolute faith, love and living
for the sake of others. High religions need to teach this, sacrificing,
... the blood. [Father's English was unclear, but I recall the sense was
that all religions involved some sort of blood sacrifice.] This is
the providential mainstream, from the Old Testament Age sacrificing
the creation, to Jesus' sacrificing the children, to the Completed
Testament Age sacrificing the parents on the earth for the sake of the
children.
Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are fighting. How can they become
one? They can do so only by centering on parents. They are the elder
brother and younger brother in Adam's family. They need to connect with
the mother. The younger brother becomes the center, naturally wins the
heart of the elder brother, then the mother win the objectivity of the
father, making the foundation for the Messiah who is the true father. The
Messiah brings the true love, life and lineage, the seed, the pure blood
lineage centering on God. That completes Adam's foundation, God's true
love set in lineage.
Jesus Christ was the first completion of Adam's position. He was the
bridegroom, but he did not have a woman in Eve's position. She was not
recreated. Jesus is the recreation of Adam, but there was no recreation of
Eve. Eve came from Adam's bone. God took the core system and based upon
it created Eve. Jesus' family should have prepared his marriage. Then
his couple making love would have created God's lineage. God would have
created that unity.
THE FAMILY IS THE SEED
Without that messianic foundation, Adam and Eve cannot make a
family. They can never attain a straight horizontal line connected
with the vertical. There will never be the three positions set
up vertically. The third position is children, the result. The family
formula is three generations connected after God's pattern. The problem
is that the second position as an individual cannot make a pair. God
needs a son and daughter to make a pair. This is origin-division-union
action [as explained in the Principle of Creation]. The origin is God,
the division is the couple, the child is the union. Without that, there
is no connection to the blood lineage. This is the family formula,
in perfection.
Adam's grandson is the fourth level. This is the completion of the
family seed. The seed is the expansion. No matter how famous the family,
they cannot stand without this pattern, this formula. So Jesus came as
a perfect man. How could he get into heaven? He absolutely needed a true
woman. The reality of a true woman and man with a true connection as one,
centering on true love, is marriage. They combine in their first love,
connecting concave and convex. They create absolute children. Blessed
couples have to achieve True Parents' position, and Adam and Eve have to
connect with the conjugal love center, the convex and concave, centering
on the position of absolute unification. Did you accomplish that?
Then comes the unified atmosphere, called the family. The family
seed, the absolute seed, contains God's life, love and lineage. God
is the center of that kind of love. The harvest of the seed's fruit
is the family. Expansion comes from Adam's child's son, the fourth
generation from God. There is the complete seed. God's complete love
is the unification of parents' love, conjugal love and brother-sister
love. Where they unite together is the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the
formula. Your mind and body cannot separate. No matter how famous, your
mind and body must be filled with God's true love, life and lineage. Are
you confident you have done this? God's wants families that fulfill that
formula. The people of Israel could not understand this.
Now the fourth Adam's generation is coming. What shall we do? You
have to ... yourself, centering on the family. The family base is God's
completed love. This is the center, with God in the center connecting and
unifying all the six positions. The children, husband and wife all become
absolute. These positions cannot change. Who is doing this? Everyone
has to do it. The family is prior to the high level thinking about the
ideal world. Begin with the family, with grandparents. Spend your time
making this perfect, and you'll do fine. This is the formula.
BE A MAGNETIC FAMILY
Yesterday morning, I gave an important teaching, in particular for
the sisters who came from the Chung Pyung Lake blessing who were there
at hoon dok hae. In summary, God created the universe and human
beings, through His word. What we have to do is not just receive the words
through hoon dok hae, and not just follow them or be pulled by
them and carried around, but we should be able to go around and plant the
words, i.e. plant ourselves, which means to be the substantiation of God's
words. Wherever we go, we should plant ourselves as the word of God.
God, prior to creation, had His ideal or complete blueprint. Then
out of that He created the universe. When I teach you, I practice and
experiment with it. I teach based upon the successful result in my
life. That is the way to substantiate. But the basis is love. Through
love, this substantiation of the word will take place. Love is the base,
then go through the course for substantiation. Wherever we go, we should
be able to plant ourselves. We should become the manifestation of God's
word. If you talk true love, but don't practice it, it doesn't work. No
matter how beautiful the packaging, without feeling the vibration of
true love from you, it will not work. What I hate most is the people
who say one thing and then do something else.
Through hoon dok hae, the word, the seed, is being given
us. Now we have to germinate the seed and bear the fruit. That is our
life, that substantiation that creates the new seed. That is the life
of true love. The words we receive through hoon dok hae are not
ours. If those words are our own, no matter how much we try, people are
not inspired. We have to embody the words through true love. Then when
you plant those seeds that stem from the original seed, people will be
inspired and moved.
We struggle between mind and body. When we watch nature, particularly
the light, wind and air, we see that they can infiltrate wherever there
is a crack. They always get in. More than that, true love is waiting to
get in. So we have to prepare the crack for it to come through. Then true
love comes and Satan runs away. So in the fourth Adam era, the purpose
of hoon dok hae is not just to give the words but to guide our
practice for the sake of other people. So the best way we can plant the
seeds of the words for others is through our family. People will watch
our family, and if they feel we are a true seed, they will follow us
and we will multiply.
That means, within our family members, every member should
be satisfied. When the grandchildren watch the grandfather, they
should feel he is a model that should be planted. This applies to
every relationship. Each feels the other is the model person in their
position. Then your family is a model family. Such a family becomes a
magnet. Through 360 degrees, all others are attracted by the magnet. If
your family fits the right formula, it will move to the center and cover
360 degrees.
Do you, as Unification Church members, like me? [YES.] All 360
degrees? [YES.] If it is not 360 degrees, then your angle is not exact and
you have a crack through which Satan will come in and out. If you want to
secure your 360 degrees, you have to restore 180 families each for husband
and wife, which means 360 families. That represents 360 degrees. That is
big enough to embrace the universe. When the 360 is formed, the family
at the center revolves and the entirety will revolve.
LEAVE THE FALLEN WORLD BEHIND
You say you like me and I am the center. Then when I tell you to go
to Korea, you tell me your mom is in the hospital and your daughter is
sick. What if they die? If you stop revolving all 360 degrees, what will
happen? The machine will stop, the system will break down. Through
you, one individual, your ancestry of hundreds of thousands are
affected. If you stop revolving, everyone connected to you will stop
and be destroyed. That person who stopped deserves to go to hell.
When Israel left Egypt, the ones who stayed behind were forgotten
in the history of Israel. If Father says go, we all have to do it. The
invisible God is turning the cosmos. If I do not revolve around Him,
the entire world will be destroyed. Because of the fall, the hands of
the clock reversed the direction of their rotation for 6,000 years. Now
we have to turn them in the opposite way. Someone who does not want to
change direction will go to the bottom of hell. In that sense, there is
no concept of your children, family and nation. You have to seek true
love first. Our final task is engrafting our lineage into True Parents'
lineage, to receive the true lineage.
Do you want to remain behind in Egypt? [NO.] What about your children
who do not want to come with you? What of your business or your beautiful
house? Can you leave them behind? What if I order you to secure your own
boat and sail it to San Francisco on a certain date? Would you go? What if
I even give you the boat? Don't think that I don't have so many boats;
this is a figurative speech. Because of the fall, the entire world
started spinning backwards. To save it, we need the true model family,
the true parents and true family. The mind that doesn't want to do it
comes from Satan's side.
How do you know if I am not the worst father? Your original mind
knows. Your five senses know, and your body knows and it will pull
you. If there is any Unification Church member who believes that America
will become the Kingdom of God on Earth if he keeps living the way he
is living, he is crazy. Without my teaching, America is lost. I went to
the UN building and declared to the world that we should tear down the
borders, with absolute authority. Can anyone else make such a declaration
to the world? [NO.]
If America were to give authority to me, I would clean up America in
three years. How? Remember, we did ALCs in fifty states in two months. We
educated legislators and local leaders. No one opposed it. Even our FFWPU
flag campaign was resisted by a few churches, but we persisted and finally
they all accepted the flag and hoisted it. They realize that what I have
said for thirty years has come true and is good for America. But some
of them said, "I am a WASP [white Anglo Saxon Protestant], so I
don't want to talk to you, but I will accept the flag because I know it
is right." They accepted the flag with their face turned away.
The next stage is to distribute the True Parents' portrait. Soon
those who did not receive one will complain. When the autumn comes, the
leaves show beautiful colors and then fall to the ground. They cannot
resist. They do not choose to fall; it is natural law. When the leaves
fall to the earth, they become fertilizer. The established churches will
be the fertilizer for the future.
FATHER-SON COOPERATION
What if I tell you to go to Moscow? Or to twelve different
countries? Moscow sounds like "must go." When a sock fits
the foot, you needn't keep pulling it, and you can see the shape of the
toes. So when I pull you, your shape will appear. There should not be
any holes to show the skin. If you go to a hot place, you should keep
your socks with no holes. I have been raising you for years; will I
abandon you now? No.
We have to know what time it is when we wake up. The providential
time always moves on. On November 11, I gave a special dispensational
proclamation about the providential time we are in. It was after
hoon dok hae, on the island of Kaui. We are in the fourth Adam's
era. Because of the fall, in the family of Adam and Eve, God lost
three generations, the grandparents, parents and children. Through the
perfection of these three generations, the seed of life and love would
have been ripe, perfect and never subject to change. Satan would never
have been able to invade. Because this seed was lost, to this day ...
So, the meaning of restoration is to secure the true seed. As long
as you have it, you can multiply true children of God infinitely. To
restore the true seed there have been providential periods of mother-son
cooperation. Husbands have been in the archangel position, with a
condition to belong to Satan. Because God lost the true seed of life
and love, He lost sovereignty. So the mother-son cooperation strategy
was given. So blessed wives had to go out to restore the children,
including their own children, and with them be engrafted to True Father,
then through that they could receive the new lineage, with the new seed,
and after that they could bring their archangel husband with them,
and with their children, to True Father, to receive the blessing.
This mother-son cooperation era has passed. That's why the husbands
came to Chung Pyung Lake for three days for the new blessing. Now we have
the father-son providence, not mother-son anymore. The mother received
the seed, grew it, and gave birth. The seed doesn't remain with the
woman. The father has the seed and it goes [through the mother] to the
son, and the mother's role [in this respect] is eliminated. So now is the
father-son providence era. The mother-son providence is over. Through
the Chung Pyung Lake workshop, the mother-son was completed and the
father-son started.
BUILDING WORLD PEACE
Jesus Christ wanted to establish God's sovereignty first and declare
these things. He could not because of failure of Israelites. But I
have a grip on the UN, and through the UN in 191 nations the hoon
dok hae education is taking place. The world is being covered with
True Parents' teachings. The UN is in my right hand, and the left hand
is Korea. Even though there is no formal unification of Korea, it has
taken place spiritually. On that foundation condition, I could give the
Chung Pyung Lake blessing. Thus the father-son providence has come.
You can look at it as a single nation. It is a nation that has no
territory, land or people. It has no sovereignty. For the UN, I prepared
1.2 million hectares in South America. I am educating all people to become
true citizens of the UN. I am uniting the island nations, starting with
14 island nations in the Pacific and expanding to 52 [other?] island
nations. This will become the foundation for the UN. Because of this
world level dispensation, we can go on to the world level without the
substantial unification of South Korea and North Korea. I worked behind
the scenes for the South Korea-North Korea summit. In the past, China,
Russia, America and Japan were enemies, but I brought young elite from
each nation through the hoon dok hae seminar and they became
friends.
In my life, I have done so much. I was the arch-enemy of the
Soviet Union, but at the right time I opened my arms and embraced
Gorbachev. Therefore Russia opened its doors to world religious
teaching. What of North Korea? In 1987, they sent someone from the
Japanese Red Army to assassinate me. But I went to Pyongyang, embraced
Kim Il Sung and made a 10 point agreement with him. The points are
identical to the 10 point agreement from the recent South Korea-North
Korea summit. That is the groundwork I have done, risking my life.
A LIFE OF FORGIVING
Also, I have educated tens of thousands of young elite in Russia
and especially China. And who brought Hon. Minister Farrakhan out to be
closer to the people of America? I did it. What about the relationship
between God and Satan historically? Who worked to give forgiveness to
Satan? I did. Who blessed the saints and criminals of the spirit world? I
did. My life has been one of forgiving and embracing others. That's how
I eliminated hell in the spirit world. That's why I directed Daemo Nim
to give the blessing to 21 generations of your ancestors.
If you look at spirit world, it is almost full of blessed couples. The
earth is as well. Therefore I am mobilizing all the blessed couples in
the spirit world, your ancestors, to play the role of good archangels
to assist, support and help you bring this world into the Kingdom of
God on Earth. Until now, because of Satan's influence, efforts for
good deviated and ended up in hell. Satan cannot do that anymore. Our
ancestors will come, but if we resist, they will punish us. If we follow,
they will give medicine. When they see us being stubborn and sinful,
deviating from the way of Principle, they will say that this descendent
is not beneficial to our lineage. It is a fearful time. If you are not
sure about this, pray hard. Absolute faith, love and obedience will come
into your heart. You will see. No one likes the word absolute obedience,
although we like absolute faith and love.
Think of the debt humanity owes to God, for tens of thousands of
years. No matter how much we sacrifice to pay off this debt, it is
not enough. On our own, it would take tens of thousands of years, but
because of True Parents' foundation, if we offer absolute faith, love
and obedience in this short time period, we can indemnify this debt,
because True Parents are giving this abundant blessing to us. [As Paul
said] even if we give our body to be burned as indemnity, it is not
enough. But because of True Parents' foundation, we can indemnify the
debt and be forgiven. Even if we pluck all the hairs from our head, we
cannot pay it off. Only through True Parents. Instead of sacrificing
millions of lives, if you have the determination of absolute faith,
love and obedience, you can do it.
Our own individual body is a small condition. Some say that the
Unification Church teaches absolute faith, love and obedience and that
sounds like dictatorship. People like absolute faith and love, but not
absolute obedience. But the offering condition is only 1 millionth of
what comes back. When God created us, He infused absolute faith, love
and obedience into His creation. So our return of the same is like one
pin point compared to the enormity of this world.
CREATED AS A NEW BEING
Even when we make our offering, it is so dirty that God does not want
to accept it, but He will accept it through True Parents. We can boil
and recreate you, and so God says, okay. When I have to put you in the
melting pot, do you want to just melt one hair, or your whole body? Sin
has accumulated like Mt. Everest through human history. Therefore, I
have to throw you into the melting pot and boil you until every trace
disappears and you are recreated as a new being.
The way we are now does not work, so we have to go through this melting
pot. What if I say that your husband cannot deal with the national level,
but we have to indemnify the failure on the national level? I am working
on the world level at the UN, but you wives have to set the condition
to go beyond the national level to the world level, because I am the
only one who has received world level persecution.
I believe that the secular world represents the first level
religion, like Judaism and all different religions, and Christianity
represents the second level religion, the second Israel, but I have to
unite them and guide them. Therefore I am doing the campaign to unify
denominations. America does not know how to reach out to the world, nor
does the UN. Only I know, and many American leaders agree when I say this
in public. Did the speeches you heard this morning come from nowhere? I
spend tens of millions of dollars on these international conferences at
which I gave these public speeches. Sometimes only one is three or four
million dollars; three of them cost maybe $10 million. That sacrifice
was there for me to give this message to the world. But you sit here
and relax and distance yourself from it.
Each message is a proclamation, eliminating Satan's power, cleaning
the world. When they respond, you will not be able to come to East Garden
anymore, because there will be no room. Don't take me lightly. I look the
same, maybe a bit older. But my authority and power are there. Even my
public speeches have come true; I have accomplished, step by step. When
I hear them, I am gratified that I spoke those words when I did.
MEDIA FEARS THE TRUTH
It is like a time of final judgement in a court. Do you think I have
the power to do this providential work? You wait and see. Things will
appear, step by step, more and more. The Korean media organizations
are competing to promote me, to introduce me to the people. President
[Sun Jo] Hwang in Korea has become famous and busy because the media
is always contacting him. The major America media soon will not be able
to say whatever they want about me. My worldwide foundation will be so
strong that they will have to conform with it.
I prepared never to be defeated in a fight. Aren't America, Japan and
Germany afraid of me? Is it that I have a dagger or bomb? What are they
afraid of? They are afraid of the truth. There are many nationalities here
today. As long as you sit here, I can direct you to go anywhere in the
world. But will you say yes? It is easy to say yes, but will you show it
with your action? Show your hands if you are ready to go. [everyone does]
That is why the American society is afraid of me. I asked the Japanese
members the same thing, and they said yes. That is why the Japanese
government is afraid of me.
If you follow me, when you go to spirit world, you will go on a
superhighway to the Kingdom of Heaven. You will have a visa. If you follow
America, you don't know where you will go. If you are confident to attend
me in your house for one month, raise your hands. Instead, contribute
the money you would have spent on me. If you do that, I will put you
on the list of those who helped me buy 200 million hectares of land in
South America. In this sense, I am the richest man in the world.
I am preparing this land for the UN. It will be the worldwide level
ancestral land. Then all the land our ancestors owned will have to be
connected to it. That means the entire planet will be connected to this
land, and that will become the Kingdom of God on Earth. That is God's
ideal of creation.
WHEN WILL YOU CHANGE THE NATION?
I am hungry. Are you hungry too? Many Christians believe that when the
Lord of the Second Advent comes, he will always fly and disappear and
appear without explanation, with no need to eat or sleep. But the Lord
of the Second Advent is here and claims to be the father of Jesus Christ,
but he is hungry. When Jesus Christ gave his testimony from spirit world
in Dr. Lee's book, he called me "father." So I am his father. He
confessed that because of his mistakes, Christians have been misled. Is
it a lie? If you think so, you will go to hell. If you believe it is
true, you will go the other way, to heaven. Do you understand me? Say,
thank you!
From next year, I may not be able to meet you. I may not stay
in America. America doesn't like me, so why should I bother staying
here? Only Unification Church members like me. If you say others love me,
it is like dust in the wind. When are you going to change this nation? In
twenty years you haven't done it.
I have nothing to do now. I already unified the spirit world, and the
UN is in my hands. There is nothing to lead, nothing to fight. Nothing
makes me excited. What shall I do? Dancing? The Little Angels and
Universal Ballet are top in Korea and the world. They call me king of
the art world. What of my substantial being? If the name is famous and
elevated, the entity has to be elevated too. Do you see that possibility
in me?
I do not have a nation, but I have the power of the truth, of
organizations and of activities. We can do many things. Two years ago, the
Washington Times Foundation held 113 conferences. When the US government
has a conference, they take two years to plan one. But we did conferences
twice a week. It cost a lot; did you contribute? Americans are stingy. You
count your donation with the pinky and start with the left hand. If I
took such an attitude, how could I accomplish my goals? In four years
I indemnify tens of millions of years, single handedly, with no time to
eat or sleep. What about you? Have you done it? Those who have been in
the movement more than twenty years, raise your hands. [almost everyone]
I am helping America; what about you? Please remember what I've taught
you this morning. Have absolute confidence in God and True Parents,
and be bold.