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77-10-16
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
THE RETURN TO TEARS
October 16, 1977
Belvedere, New York
Translator-Bo Hi Pak
American young people probably do not know much about
tears. Because America is basically an affluent country you
never get really hungry or really cold, and under those
circumstances real suffering is far removed from the
American way of life. I want to ask those of you who never
cried to raise your hands. You all say you know the taste of
tears, so let us analyze for whom those tears were shed.
For yourselves so far. How many of you have experienced
shedding tears for others? Only after joining the Unification
Church, right? Basically there are two kinds of tears, the
tears you shed for yourselves and the tears you shed for
others.
With whom did the history of tears begin? I'm sure that the
first man and woman to shed tears were Adam and Eve
and certainly God shed tears because of the fall of man.
Adam and Eve cried for themselves as a result of the fall,
but for whom did God shed tears? God is Father of
mankind and after seeing the degradation of His children
at the fall of man God shed tears not for Himself but in
sorrow for Adam and Eve and their anguish. The tears shed
by Adam and Eve were for their own misery but God shed
the tears of goodness and the tears of mercy for the sake of
His children.
Those tears themselves are tragic. Man's history began in
tears, with sorrow and tragedy, and for God also history
was first marked by tears. Those tears meant tragedy for
both man and God. Man really deserved to shed tears for
his sin, but God did not deserve to shed tears. This history
of tears originated with the ancestors of mankind and has
expanded down through the generations to all mankind
today.
Human history is a repetition of the suffering of tears,
emerging again and again in suffering and struggle and
broken-heartedness. Mankind has been oppressed as
individuals, families, tribes and nations with the one
suffering because of the other. No one has conquered the
history of tears. We have to grieve for the world and suffer
in sorrow for the consequences of history on all the
different levels; then we may hope to return to the origin of
goodness. The fall of man actually began with only two
individuals, but because they were the ancestors of
mankind their actions shaped the history of the world.
Their transgressions brought the entire world down to
tears.
Man has fallen down to the bottom and in order to raise
ourselves up everyone must advance step by step and
eventually go beyond the realm of tears. This is our
mandate. The entire history of man's tears and sorrow was
all for the sake of himself. Man has been grieving over his
own misery but in order to go beyond the realm of that
suffering we have to change and reverse the purpose of
tears. We still grieve but for a different purpose. We need a
reorientation in this world of tears to the other kind of tears
that God shed when He wept in grief for the sake of others.
First a man must shed tears for man,
and then he must discover the realm of God's tears
Where can man truly find happiness then? The ultimate
happiness comes when he can conquer not only the tears
of man but of God as well. We must restore the world to the
realm where God no longer needs to shed tears. The history
of tears began because of the fall of man. When we conquer
the realm of man's degradation then we can certainly find
the realm where God and man no longer need to shed
tears. This is precisely the point we are approaching today.
It is our destiny as men to go over the two hills of tears. We
must cross over these two hills in order to be totally happy.
Those who are trying to pursue the road of truth must shed
tears over the misery of humanity and taste the suffering of
man. A thinking man could only be grieved by the
problems of man' the suffering and dying of men and all
the misery that permeates our society.
Many young people think about what the real purpose of
life is and they agonize over how and where they should
direct their young energy. That is the beginning of the road
along which you will conquer tears. Those people who
never even think about those things-the meaning and
purpose of life and death-do not even belong to the species
of man. Thinking people wonder about their own lives and
also about the society' nation and world and they grapple
with the problem of bringing a solution to those who are
suffering and in misery. Man has to think in that direction.
Grief over the suffering and sorrow of man alone will not
bring any lasting solution. Man has to go further, down to
the bottom and origin of tears. We have to go beyond
human tears and realize the tears of God. Tears that are
shed for one's own sake or the sake of one's nation, for the
human level alone, cannot ultimately contribute to the
over-all solution of bringing back the ideal world here on
earth. No matter what, all of that is still within the realm of
selfishness, being merely the continuation of the tears that
were shed by Adam and Eve for themselves.
Everyone must discover the new realm of tears that God
has shed and deeply experience the taste of those tears;
otherwise we will never solve human problems. This means
learning how to shed tears beyond self-centered suffering
and misery. First we must discover God and discover God's
tears and become people who shed tears to alleviate the
suffering of God.
I want you to know that those people in history known as
saints and holy men were people who learned about the
tears of God. By centering upon the grief and sorrow of God
they have been looking at mankind from God's point of
view and shedding the same kind of tears that God shed.
That is a religious way of life and by shedding the same
kind of tears that God shed you become a co-worker of
God's. What kind of religion stands as a co-worker on the
side of God? The religion that not only teaches man to shed
tears for humanity but to shed tears for God will
undoubtedly receive God's blessing and become the central
religion of humanity. There is absolutely no question about
it.
The chief question is for whom you weep. If a village
realizes that a person is crying for the sake of the village
then the entire village has to bow down to him. That act is
noble because it is not for the person's sake but for the
sake of the village. If there is someone who sheds tears for
the sake of the nation then the entire nation is benefited
and the citizens should bow down and respect that person.
The son of filial piety is one who shed tears not for himself,
but for the sake of his parents. Without exception the loyal
subject is the one who sheds tears for his own king and
queen. Patriots are those who shed tears for the sake of
their own country and countrymen. A saint or holy man is
a different kind of person altogether. The patriot is
concerned for the
nation but a saint directs all his energy and tears for the
sake of God and all of humanity. Under that condition
alone can we say that a person has lived a saintly life.
Looking at the great saints in history, is there one who
truly shed tears in order to bring God and humanity
together, even at the moment of his death? Certainly we
find one in the person of Jesus Christ. At the moment of
his own death on the cross he was worrying about his own
adversaries, the Roman soldiers who pierced him with their
spears. He shed his tears and sweat for the sake of his own
enemies. Because Jesus cried for his worst adversary he
was actually crying for the sake of all types of people. By
shedding his tears for the sake of his worst enemy Jesus
not only won the hearts of all good men, but will also win
the respect of the worst kind of sinful man in history.
Jesus considered his own well-being last of all, praying at
the end that God accept his soul, for he had done his very
best. Jesus directed his whole life toward shouldering all of
God's suffering here on earth and as his life ended on the
cross he could say that he had done it. You can see how
different were the selfish tears of Adam and Eve and the
unselfish tears Jesus shed. Both were falling down to their
deaths as they shed tears, Adam and Eve being the victims
of their sin, and Jesus being crucified on the cross. As they
approached their spiritual death Adam and Eve shed tears
for themselves but Jesus shed tears for the sake of
humanity and for God and for his own enemies.
Christianity has forgotten that
its role is to share the tears of God
Christianity was supposed to inherit the tradition of Jesus
Christ and share the tears of God, but in the course of
2,000 years of history that role has been forgotten. How
can we distinguish the true Christianity from the false one?
Christian churches which are wrapped up in their own
sorrow or difficulties are churches of no life, but those
which are shedding tears for the sake of God and humanity
and their own enemies are the churches with life. For the
first four centuries Christians endured the utmost
persecution and certainly they must have wept very much.
The problem is whether they cried for themselves alone.
Let's examine Christian faith and prayer in the past. How
much have Christians in the past cried for more than
themselves or their own church or nation? At most they
may have thought about their own country when it was in
difficulty. Certainly God has answered that level of prayer a
long time ago. Christian prayers in history have not been
wide enough; their scope has only reached the level of their
church or denomination and at most their nation. How
many Christian people have been praying for the sake of all
humanity, or for the heart of God and the cosmic
dispensation?
Christian thinking has never extended that far because of
the limit of biblical teaching. The Bible says that at the end
of the world God will manifest His power of judgment and
all evil people will be burned in fire, with only the righteous
and God-fearing people being lifted up in the air to see the
millennium. That's the concept Christians live with so how
could they pray for all of humanity? When you really know
God you know that such a scene could never happen. That
is not the true meaning of judgment.
History is looking forward to another epoch, the coming of
the Lord of the Second Advent. That marks the time when
mankind for the first time will learn to shed tears for all
humanity, even including the spirit world. Because of the
limitations of its teachings, conventional Christianity could
not produce a man who could truly give himself for the
sake of humanity here on earth and in heaven. A new
breed must emerge to take responsibility for the entire
cosmic dispensation, not only here on earth but also in
heaven. The Unification Church is born for that mission.
The Unification Church has a declaration for the world: We
must go beyond tears for our own selfish interests to the
tears for humanity and plunge into the tears of God so that
we can conquer and eliminate them. We must shed all of
God's tears so that He has no more left. That is the
Unification Church's task. That's the realm that Adam and
Eve never even imagined existed.
No matter how many tears were shed for the sake of
humanity, those tears are meaningless unless you really
know the love of God. Ultimately speaking, we are going to
be shedding tears for the very heart and love of God. We
must declare ourselves to be victorious not only
individually in rectifying the sorrow of God and becoming a
source of joy to Him, but also on the level of family, society,
nation and world. Our ultimate goal is to remedy the pain
in God's heart, and starting from this base to become the
center of the family, the tribe, a nation, the world and the
cosmos. That's the way we should live as individuals . No
one has a guarantee that they will live on earth for very
long. You may start out to do that but you can never know
whether you will pass through every step that needs to be
conquered.
When should you shed tears for God? Don, t wait until you
reach the family level but start right now. We are teaching
that from the very beginning of your commitment to this
movement you must shed tears for the heart of God. You
must put yourself in the position of God, with your eyes
being God's eyes and your tears God's tears. You must look
after humanity as God would look after His own children.
All men represent Adam and all women represent Eve.
There are five colors of men and women; when you look at
them as God looks at them and weep and suffer for them,
you are putting yourself absolutely in the position of God.
In that case can you be prejudiced about race and think
that God loves only a certain race of people?
We must be color-blind in the Unification Church and not
distinguish between races because God is color-blind. You
are learning God's point of view, seeing the world as God
does. As we look at the world we grieve over the suffering
situation of humanity and cry out for them as God has
been doing. The amount of God's own feeling you
experience will determine the depth of God's love that can
reach you. How much you become a portion of God shall
determine the quantity of God's love that you can
experience.
At night God looks over the city of New York, grieving at the
misery there. The people do not even realize that God
exists, that their own Father exists. Almighty God is
waiting to help but they don't even realize they are all the
children of God. How lonely God must be! How much God's
heart must be grieving. Can you imagine how lonely and
aching God's heart is, looking at so many of His children
enslaved in the communist world?
The course of repentance
A true religion teaches the necessity of repentance but how
many of you know how to repent so far? Repentance must
be an act of tears, not for yourself, but for humanity and
for the aching heart of God. Have you experienced that
kind of repentance? A repentant heart can say, ' 'Now I
realize what a poor and miserable son I have been. I have
pierced Your heart over and over, never even realizing that
You existed' my Father. I have broken Your heart and now I
come to You and need Your forgiveness." This is the first
repentance.
How do you know that your repentance can be accepted by
God? You can see proof in your own resurrection. When
your heart has grown in such a way that you totally put
yourself on the side of God and in looking at the world shed
tears, you know that your tears are no longer for your
selfish purpose. Then you know your heart is with God.
Regardless where the heart of God moves, no power under
the sun can deter it. It moves straight forward, all the way
to the end. As the father, God is ceaselessly going after His
own children but He will never tire. When you put yourself
totally on the side of God you are like a parent trying to
save your dying children. How can you as a parent get tired
or bored? You cannot help but go straight after hue
inanity, until every soul here on earth is saved. If you feel
as their parent, there is no way you can get tired. Our road
may be getting tougher and tougher and our tears may
come more frequently, but does that mean that we are
retreating or giving up the mission? No, that will spur us
on even further.
First of all, have you ever cried out before heaven and
earth, "God, I have been a sinner, I have been the worst
kind of criminal in Your sight. Please forgive me"? Have you
shed such tears yet? Have you said to God' "I have no more
personal ambition. I only ask for Your mercy upon me"?
Have you ever totally given yourself to do God's will, feeling
that
if you receive God's mercy there is nothing you cannot do?
This is the first step, the freshman course.
In many cases people look for a convenient God who will
smilingly accept everything they are already attached to.
Such people want God to come in a very narrow gate. How
about you, right now, in your own heart? Have you ever
thought about yourself as the worst kind of sinner, who
would give up anything to receive God's mercy and
forgiveness? Have you experienced that? By sincerely
feeling that repentance, you can liquidate your entire fallen
past and disengage yourself from the consequences of the
fall.
From your individual tears and misery you can make a
gigantic leap from one world to the other, from the human
level of tears to the level of God's tears. You can do this
because you can disengage yourself from the iniquity of the
past, freeing yourself from all the attachments behind you.
That point is critically important. You have been crying
your own tears, but at this point of repentance you can
meet the tears of God and be embraced by the merciful,
loving God. You are then experiencing the grief and agony
of Adam and Eve, but at the same time you are
experiencing the suffering heart of God. The two start at
one point. You must pass through that experience. Unless
you pass through that realm, you will never understand
the love of God, no matter what.
Words alone are empty. What you need is to shed so many
tears that your eyes swell shut and you cannot bear to
open them in the sunlight. We need men who are able to
shed the tears of God. Nothing can happen with dry eyes. It
is in tears that most of the re-creation process takes place.
In that atmosphere alone can the re-making of a new man,
society, nation, world and new universe take place. That's
why the declaration is made in the Bible, "Repent, for the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." By repentance you can
come nearer to the kingdom and to union with God.
Without your tears, your sweat
and blood have nothing to do with God
This is the way of life of the Unification Church. Nothing
bothers us if we put ourselves in an unconditional position.
1n that we are different from ordinary, secular people who
center the world around themselves.
I want you to know that without tears, no matter how
much sweat you shed, it has nothing to do with God's
work. No matter how much blood you shed, without tears it
has nothing to do with God. Tears are the link between you
and God. Tears must come together with your sweat and
blood because otherwise you are not walking the road of
restoration. We must return to tears.
You have cried for yourself but in doing that you bring
yourself down to the sinful world. In crying over your own
ambitions and desires you are actually declaring to the
world, "I am an ally of Satan." Unselfish crying for the sake
of God is a sacred and divine thing.
In order to shed tears for God you must first find the right
environment. If you stay in a very comfortable place and try
to cry for God, tears will never come to your eyes. Instead,
you must go after the situation where you can be
stimulated to shed tears for God.
What is that battleground? That is where you wage war
against Satan and Satan comes against you. In other
words, that is where you make yourself a champion of God
and fight the battle against Satan. There are all kinds of
places where you will inevitably be affected so that you can
taste the tears of God. You have to go out to the world and
disturb everyone. Take their children to the side of God;
take their wealth and power to the side of God.
How can you do this? The fallen process began with words,
but words which were lies. Satan took everything away
from God, not with weapons and violence, but with words.
By the same token you will give the word and love of God to
bring back to God the things Satan took away. False love
and lies brought about the fall and therefore the truth and
true love of God will bring the satanic things back to God.
It's very logical restoration. The entire world is starving for
truth and true love. If you really become a heavenly
messenger and disseminate the truth and the love of God,
then people will be gathered to you like small metal pieces
pulled by a magnet. That is exactly what I have done. I
came to America and have been
plundering the young people from the satanic world to
God's world. God has the power to pull everybody
eventually. I am determined to shake up the world so the
world is disturbed.
We shed tears for God and humanity and other people get
upset with us over their children and their belongings.
Actually this is a confrontation of two kinds of tears. We
have to cross this bridge of tears. When you go to witness
to the people and try to bring spiritual children you must
shed tears for them; unless you are tearfully loving them
and thinking of them you will lose them. You must be so
moved as to speak about the truth with tears and convey
the love of God with tears. When you meet the people in
that fashion God will be with you. There is no other way.
If your heart is like that then no matter how deeply the
world may bury you it cannot possess you. You just have to
set your goal high and advance step by step through each
level. Your companion on the journey will be tears and your
job is to sow the seeds of love. You are longing for the true
husband, wife, children, the true society and nation and in
the meantime you will pave the way with tears. No foreign
power can infiltrate this realm. You must volunteer for the
most miserable place because there you have more chance
to cry out for God. When you are in misery and holding on
to God then you are very close to the realm of tears.
This is our salvation. You can search after misery and
welcome it. You overcome it by holding onto God and
shedding tears as God did Himself, looking at misery from
God's point of view. When you overcome those tears then
you have indeed expanded God's territory. It is the cosmic
rule that whenever a true religion emerges it is always
accompanied by persecution. Persecution is not a difficulty
to be run away from but a blessing to plunge into.
Persecution is a blessing because it will bring you to the
realm of tears.
You have an empty container to fill with indemnity and
when it overflows Satan will have no more power to touch
you or our movement. That will be a real day of hope. That
very day is at hand, with the entire nation pouring out a
tidal wave of unreasonable slander and persecution. Those
powers are now dissipating, however, and the time is ready
for us to counter-attack. A new mood has been created. A
one hour television special about the Washington
Monument victory is being shown around the country. This
is the first wave of our counter-attack. The truthful, in-
depth testimony by a prominent scholar like Dr. Sontag will
totally disarm our worst critics, and if they have one ounce
of conscience they have to feel sorry for what has been
done by our opponents.
The entire press corps and publishers all over the country
will read this book out of curiosity. Their motivation will be
to find something to quibble about, but the important thing
is that this book will expose how untruthfully our
movement has been written and spoken about. The time
will come soon when the American people will know how I
lived my life, how many tears and how much sweat I shed
for the sake of this nation and the sake of the world and
they will have to gratefully acknowledge what I have done.
We have been patient and long-suffering, yet in turn we
have never wanted revenge. We have never learned how to
get revenge, but God will see that justice is done.
Every kind of persecution gives us the priceless
opportunity to shed tears for the purpose of God. The day
that God sheds no more tears is the day that we will no
longer shed tears or mankind shed tears. We can
completely conquer sorrow. Who shall truly cry out for God
and truly agonize for humanity? We are chosen to be
champions of tears and sorrow for the sake of God and
humanity.
How much have you shed tears in a serious moment?
This morning remember your lives in the past. What kind
of past did you live as a member of the Unification Church?
When you are selling the News World your tears must fall
upon your papers. The New York Times is a very influential
paper and if it became a tool of God it would hasten the
accomplishment of His mission. Unfortunately, that paper
is not God's paper. We have a little paper, the News World'
and this is where God is placing His hope. When you think
of how meager our paper is at this stage, don't you feel
some tears of sympathy for
God? Do you think, "I really want to make this a gigantic,
powerful paper so that You can truly use it as Your tool. I
am still young and I can definitely make the News World a
success in the shortest possible time. God, give me the
opportunity."
Once we move the city of New York you know that we can
certainly move the United States and the entire world. This
is a key city. I declared that New York is the front line of
our movement and I brought the best member here from
around the world for that reason. What are you doing? Are
you really going after the mission with tears?
Again, this is the day of your own repentance. The will of
God and the dispensation is waiting out there. How can
you worry about being hungry or about your clothes or
tiredness in the sight of God and in the sight of the
dispensation? If you really want to be in the mainstream of
the Unification Church then you must go beyond all that
and come to the point of tears. When you turn your tears
into the tears of God then you will see miracles happen.
How many times have those of you working in offices shed
tears on your own paperwork? All the leadership in our
movement should be praying special night-long prayers in
tears. You are most likely not going to lift your faces to look
at God because there is some shame in your hearts. Are
you just waiting for some great things to happen to the
Unification Church without shedding tears? You can't
expect blessing to come to you without even shedding
tears.
It is a serious matter. Regardless of the past we must
return to tears. How much have you shed tears in a serious
moment? You are basically followers but you have someone
leading you in the right direction. You have an example to
follow but I have no one to lead me. In this vast universe I
am the one who has to steer the ship. It is a miracle that
we have come this far and I am deeply grateful that it has
been without having a major setback.
I may have shed many tears and endured much suffering
but I know one thing: God has shed more tears and
endured more suffering than we can ever even imagine.
When you know that God is toiling and shedding tears, can
you freely say that this life is too difficult and too tiring for
you to continue? Some of you are so tired that you take a
nap for just a few minutes but when you wake up you
must feel ashamed and say to God, "It wasn't my intention
but I ended up spending a few hours for a nap. I'm sorry to
do this in front of You, Father.,, Sometimes you must
spend a little money for yourself but even then do you wish
you didn't need to spend it on yourself? Our path is
definitely not an easy one.
I must spend money for my own children but it is not
without reservation. When I spend money for them I think
of them not as my own but as Unification Church
members. Why should I live like that? Nobody would bother
me for spending my own money and living my own way of
life and loving my own children, but every time I spend
money on my family or rest at night I feel apologetic before
God. I live like that because God is like that.
The requirement for defeating communism
My personal mission in the dispensation was completed by
1976 and I was triumphant in it. On the personal level I
have fully accomplished my mission. However, from this
time on the greatest task is still ahead: dealing with the
power of communism. It is impossible to communicate with
communists so no message and no amount of reasoning
will work. In the free world we meet and talk with each
other and because of religion we can live together, but in
the communist world there is no religion and no religious
message will influence the government.
What shall we do then? We have to tearfully pray and pay
indemnity for them so that they can emerge out of the yoke
of communism themselves, finding their own way to get rid
of their shackles. That's the only way. In addition, if we in
the free world can build an ideal society on a religious
foundation here on earth, we can show them that our way
of life is far greater than anything their ideology predicts.
You'll see that the more we succeed in the free world the
more there will be internal problems among the
communists themselves. Internal revolution will break up
their ranks and the spirit of God will be at work. More and
more economic catastrophe will persist in the communist
world and even famine will occur.
As Unification Church members we must shed tears for the
sake of the communist world, tears that can represent the
entire free world. We will pave their way spiritually. As long
as there is communication in the free world it is only a
matter of time until people come to the truth of God. There
is no other alternative. Communism is the only barrier to
world unification because no communication is possible.
I am speaking to the seminarians now. You are already
destined to walk this path. You in particular must feel that
you are indebted to every member of the Unification
Church. You have an extra burden and in order to be
recognized you truly have no right to complain, but only to
show your merit in your deeds. Your conscience should not
allow any other way. Making excuses for yourself doesn't
work in our movement. For your own benefit I would like to
be extra hard on you, pushing you out to prove yourselves.
Another group of people who must take great responsibility
are the early members of the Unification Church. When
you come to Belvedere you must reflect on the path you are
walking. Are you thinking mostly about yourself, your food
and clothing or your own position? When you do things for
your own purpose and to pursue your own goal then you
are deeply in trouble. Your ancestors are watching you
from spirit world and your descendants also are going to
judge you. They will see the law of God and evaluate you in
light of that. They will see where you stand and how
imperfect and impure you are. I urge you leaders of our
movement to shed tears first. Those who do not know the
taste of tears will never become true leaders of our
movement. You must pray hidden prayers and experience
lonely meditation. There is corruption and destruction
coming on all levels, both spiritually and physically. Right
now you are preparing yourselves to work for the sake of
humanity so how can you take it easy? When you look at
the American school system and realize how the students
are living, the promiscuous attitudes they have, how can
you young people sleep comfortably and stand by idly? You
must feel that you will be like spiritual bombs exploding on
campus to eradicate all that.
Have you ever seen any professors cheerfully embracing
the young people, trying to lead them in the right direction?
Are any of the students truly loving the school and the
professors , concerned about the well-being of the people
and really praying for them? There are no students like
this. How many government officials are really concerned
for their own country regardless of what department they
are in? How many of them are tearfully trying to serve their
nation? The salvation of America will come when tears are
shed on all levels' particularly in the government. When
people feel unselfish about this nation and the world,
America's salvation is near. However, no one is moving in
that direction. The vast majority is totally nonchalant and
unconcerned about the situation. They only care about
their own salaries and well-being.
America has everything in abundance except tears. In that
this nation is poor. God is searching after the people who
have wet eyes but when He knocks on America's doors and
finds no one like that God certainly has no choice except to
turn around and leave America. God has only one hope:
the Unification Church, you members. Because God's eyes
are brimming over with tears, His only hope lies in anyone
who can embrace Him with that same tearful heart.
You members have the public mission and you are
becoming God's objects, responding to His tears with your
own tears. In that way we can mold the movement of
salvation for America and the world. That's the only way
God can respond and work with mankind. The real
members of the Unification Church are the members with
tears. The true leaders of the Unification Church are those
with tears. The fall of man came because of self-centered
tears and in restoration we must shed selfless tears, public
tears. When we shed tears for the public purpose, for God's
purpose we accumulate the genuine assets of the Kingdom
of Heaven on earth. The tearful life starts from the
individual and then tears and more tears will break
through one barrier after another until the worldwide level
is reached.
So far you have not been thinking in that fashion but this
morning you are learning the value of tears. Please show
me who of you are determined to walk this path in a tearful
way, responding to God's tears and shedding public tears
for His purpose.
The fastest advancement on the path of restoration
What is the fastest way to advance along the path of
restoration? Put yourself in the position of Adam and Noah
and shed tears for them and for the other central figures in
history. Put yourself in the position of Jesus and cry for his
sake. By doing this you link together the individual level,
the tribal, national and worldwide levels.
Go one step further and put yourself in God's position
during the time of Noah and understand how He suffered
waiting through the 120 years it took Noah to get ready,
only to see that particular dispensation fail at the most
critical moment. Then put yourself in the position of God
looking down at Abraham wandering like a gypsy and
meeting all kinds of persecution. How tense and anguished
God was while He waited! Then go through the time of
Moses and the suffering of the Israelites and later the time
of Jesus. Put yourself in every level representing God and
try to share His aching heart. Don't you think God shed
tears at each of those events?
By doing this you will be an individual upon which the
entire providential history shall rest. Today we are
witnessing the consummation of human history in which
all the central people have suffered. You must realize that
actually Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus suffered for you
to see this day.
God shed tears at the time of Noah, particularly when Noah
failed his mission, and God shed tears when Abraham
made the mistake in his offering. God shed tears for Moses
and again at the time of Jesus. Since God shed tears at
every historical event, when you put yourself in God's
situation you can certainly shed tears for these people.
When you link yourself with God you can cry out for them.
All this probably seems very far removed from your own
lives, but that is exactly why you need a champion going in
front of you. The Unification Church is following my
tradition because I have lived through the entire past in
this way.
Someone has to pioneer the restitution of all the historic
mistakes and I have been doing that starting at the
individual level. Everything has been connected and all the
entanglements straightened out. I want you to know that
someone has shed tears for you. By putting myself totally
in the position of Adam, Noah or Abraham I searched to
find the mistakes they made and come up with the
solution. I stood in the position of all of these historic
people and cried out for their sorrow. I have shed two kinds
of tears throughout my life, one being the vertical tears of
discovering the truth and putting myself in the positions of
history. The discovery process was accompanied by so
many tears. At the same time I had to link those
discoveries with actual indemnity in my deeds. That can be
said to be horizontal tears.
I have been linking history together with the present on the
horizontal level and restoring it by paying the debts of the
past. There is a spiritual struggle and a spiritual discovery
and on each level I would expand the territory of the
individual, family, tribe, nation and the world. This vertical
effort represented the spirit world. This is the real
restoration now, the physical restoration on the horizontal
level.
The vertical level of discovery in tears expands to the
horizontal level through an individual, tribe, nation and
world. The appearance of the Lord of the Second Advent is
the final manifestation on the horizontal level of the vertical
level of the dispensation. It sounds easy or simple but it
certainly is not. I want you to at least know one thing: the
Unification Church has the truth that has cleared up all
the entanglements of the past. The misery of the past has
all been sorted out. The diagnosis has been given and the
treatment and prescription has been written, not just by
logic but with the linkage of heart.
The foundation of logic and truth is there but the strongest
binding force is the linkage of heart. One spiritualist
wanted to know the truth about me so he prayed to God to
really know who I am. When God answered, it was not with
an explanation but with an overflowing of tears. That was
His answer. I have shed universal tears for mankind. That's
who I am. Most individuals are not capable or equipped to
discover these things. You can use the knowledge I have
acquired and shed tears for the sake of God and for my
mission. Then you can inherit my accomplishments and
have them become your accomplishments.
Confront your mission and do your absolute best
There are some older members who know how to take
advantage of me but they don't shed tears for me. They
think they are wise but they are very foolish because they
will not remain with me forever. Some of the blessed
couples in Korea know how to take advantage of me and
exploit me but they do not shed tears for me. In order to
really save them I will put them to one more test once our
mission is all accomplished. I will push them into the worst
possible position and let them come out of it. They must
repent for taking advantage of the Unification Church .
When I see our leaders dressing in the best clothes or
driving the most up-to-date cars I study them closely,
asking whether they deserve to have those things.
Because I have reconciled and paid the debts of history you
shall inherit all my accomplishments by uniting in tears
with me. If you really live your love for me and for the sake
of God and humanity then in turn you can certainly be
loved that much by God. I shall never get behind anyone in
fulfilling God's will but be in the front line position, no
matter what. No matter how many people get tired and
retreat, I myself will never retreat. I am always giving more
and more directions. If you fulfill one particular mission
then I will give you more and more responsibility. Some
people limit their sense of responsibility to just the area of
their mission but that is wrong. The person in a high
position should always be trying to do for others and for
the entire past.
I have given many instructions but none of those plans has
been carried out. Instead of tackling the mission
wholeheartedly you are just beating around the bush. You
must confront the mission and not try to evade it. Do your
absolute best and if you still cannot fulfill it then don't
worry; God will take it over and link it to a higher level.
Those people who are trying to evade the mission and go
the easy way are very foolish.
When you come on Sunday morning to meet with me
everyone is on an equal level externally, but it is not so
internally and spiritually. There are all kinds of different
levels existing among you. I am desperately trying to
accomplish God's mission here on earth but instead of
being a part of that effort most of you are just standing by
like observers. If that is the case, you will never become the
owner of the gold mine you have stumbled across. Those
who will actually become the hosts and hostesses will be
those who come after you if you remain by-standers. Even
though they may come later, if they really plunge into the
mainstream of the mission they will get to the goal before
you. The people who just wait for good things to happen
will never make progress, whereas those who
wholeheartedly commit themselves even though they may
come later can certainly reach the goal.
Many, many early members just boast about being early
members but in reality they are just blocking the way of
the members who came later. To do that is to be the worst
enemy of God. If you are not capable of accomplishing very
much then you must humble yourself and shed tears for
God. When a capable newcomer comes who really pursues
the mainstream of God's will, you as early members must
at least praise him and be humble to him, realizing how
much God needs him.
You all know very well what kind of men you are. Don't try
to cover up and hide yourselves but get out of the shadows;
on the other hand, don't come to the Unification Church
just to be somebody. When a leadership position must be
filled, don't try to build your image up as a leader in the
hope of being chosen. If your heart is not ready, you are
certainly not a leader.
I do not speak too much to individuals about their
shortcomings but I have a sharp eye and a sensitivity for
these things . The early members should be the first group
of people to repent and shed tears this morning. Why
should it be like this? Simply because that is the only way
we can remain in the love and grace of God. There is
nothing else to be feared under the sun, not lack of money
or lack of power or anything else. You need fear only one
thing: the love of God leaving you. We want to remain in
the grace of God. The return to tears is the only Principled
way you can remain in God's love.
I am exactly the same. I am afraid of nothing, not poverty
or hunger or any kind of persecution, except the possibility
that the love of God might leave me. That is my one fear. I
must cling to it until
the completion of my earthly life. Nothing else will work
except the straightforward fulfillment of the truth and the
following of God's law.
This morning let's make a new beginning. If you haven't
done well in this respect, then resolve to follow the tearful
path. From today on let's make a different day and really
desperately go that route, searching after God-centered
tears. Who are the host and hostess of the World Mission
Center in God's eyes? All kinds of people are dwelling
inside, but the person who sheds tears for the sake of New
York City, for the sake of God and humanity, the person
who sheds tears in his own room, for his own mission, this
person is the true host or hostess.
No matter how much you shed tears in secret it won't seem
to be recognized, but it will become a life-stream that will
not end, flowing from generation to generation. The
children born to those people will be the heirs of the
Kingdom of God. When you become an area of low
pressure, then automatically an area of high pressure will
be drawn to you. With tears you are making yourself into a
low pressure system here on earth which the high pressure
of God will naturally come to visit. When you meet, a
hurricane will be created.
You must sometimes feel that in all of heaven and earth
you are the only faithful one remaining, the only one whom
God can depend upon. Then you can reassure God that
you will be with Him all the way and ask Him to let you
take up responsibility for the nation, this world and this
cosmos. God will accept your offer. You can make a tearful
declaration before heaven and earth, pledging, "I am all
alone on earth so You and I are true partners, Heavenly
Father. As You have been persistent in restoring the
individual, family, nation, world and cosmos, I shall be just
the same here on earth. As long as You will never give up, I
will not give up.', You must experience this heightened
moment sometime, bursting into tears which are not for
you but for the loneliness of God. If you never give up but
persistently continue all the way to the end of your life here
on earth, you will absolutely be sealed as the sons and
daughters of God. God is looking for tearful sons and
daughters. The true companions of God are the people with
tears. Tears and tears must meet. You can pray to God'
"Please send me to the valley of tears so I can conquer
them.',
Are you a person for whom God can shed tears?
Today is a day of resolution to live the life of tears . You
have already raised your hands and pledged that to me.
You know very well what level you are on and you don't
need an explanation. Since you also know the truth and
what direction to go, can you allow yourself to be
destroyed? You are public property; in the sight of God you
are no longer a private person. If you don't let yourself
serve the public purpose then you are destroying yourself
and you cannot let that happen.
If you become tearful over others then many others will
become tearful over you. It is most important that not only
other people shed tears for you, but that eventually God
shed tears for you. This is the real challenge while we
remain here on earth, how much our deeds and thoughts
can make God cry. How can you do that? The only simple
way is to be responsible for the job that even God finds
difficult to fulfill. If you take it upon your shoulders and try
your utmost then God's heart shall be moved, and in that
case who shall ultimately become the hosts and hostesses
of this world? The people who are victorious in tears shall
become the hosts and hostesses. If that is not the case, the
teachings that I have given are all lies.
Does what I am saying feel like truth? Whoever sheds tears
for you is your truest friend. The true members of your
family are the ones who can cry out for you and shed tears
for your pain. If you want to be in God's family, you must
be able to shed tears for God, don't you think? God will
cherish the person who can really cry for Him and give his
heart for Him. This person will become a close member of
God's family.
Who shall be the closest friend of Jesus Christ? Whoever
grabs the mission of Jesus and really cries out in sympathy
with his position. By the same token, who is my closest
friend in the Unification Church? The person who sheds
more tears for me will indeed be my closest friend.
Therefore, whoever sheds more tears for the sake of God
and the True Parents will become the true owner of the
Unification Church. The Unification Church is destined to
penetrate the free world, the communist world and go
beyond and I am the one leading the Unification Church on
the rugged path. You could say that I am a very pitiful
person, but God is above me, leading me. How much more
difficult and miserable God's position is! I still have to take
time to rest but God even has no time to sleep.
I can think of something else for a while, but God doesn't
have the freedom to do that. There is only one thing in His
mind 24 hours a day. You are following a God and a leader
who are both miserable and if you look for relaxation and
lots of fun in the Unification Church, you are mistaken. We
are determined to do what no other organization or other
group of people could duplicate. We have to go the path of
tears as our way of life. Have you already made up your
minds to go that route?
All of your suffering can be
linked to God's suffering
How many of you are going door-to-door, shedding tears for
your people? Have you ever thought that God cannot come
to those doorsteps physically and needs you to represent
Him? You must feel that you are knocking on the door as a
representative of God, gathering your heart and love and
everything together, trying to penetrate that door and win
the hearts of the people inside. You can feel that heart of
God, who has come to this door after many thousands of
years preparation. God has reached that door through you
but only after many thousands of years of ordeal. He didn't
just come overnight.
When you open the door and the person looks at you, you
may feel tears falling down your face, stopping your words.
Have you ever visited your homes with that heart? Many of
you may feel that you don't want to do this but you must
go with tears' truth, love. You must knock on each door
equipped with these three things. No matter how evil the
person inside the house may be, Satan cannot claim those
tears or your truth or your true heart of love. As long as
Satan is incapable of doing that you will be a victor. Let
those 360 homes be like your own children's homes. Go
out there and stay up all night talking and look at the
rising morning sun together with them. You must have the
conviction in your heart that you are God's representative
to them. You needn't think of visiting only during the
daytime but also at midnight. If you go out there and wait
to meet a certain person, staying up all night and
cheerfully praying under those circumstances, then as long
as you are there America will never perish.
Have you physically visited all 360 of your homes?
Everyone should be able to say yes. When God ordered the
Hebrews to leave Egypt by a certain hour one night,
messengers were sent to tell all the people. If the
messengers missed any home those people would not be
able to leave on time, but who would be held responsible?
The messenger. Throughout posterity, that messenger who
failed to tell a particular person to leave at such a moment
would be accountable for his fate.
You are in a New Age Exodus. It is possible for you to bring
the people in 360 homes out of suffering but if you fail to
tell these people to come out of their yoke of misery and
into salvation then you as a messenger are responsible.
When your legs get sore and you are really tired, you have
more chance to shed tears in thinking of God's own legs
hurting for many thousands of years. All of your suffering
can be linked to God's own suffering. That's why suffering
is precious.
Those 360 homes will almost be your resting place. They
will be like your reservoir of tears. I want you to know
absolutely that New York is the front line. You are like a
savior to your 360 families. I am asking you to represent
me and go door to door since I cannot go myself to each of
those people. You have so much to talk about and so much
to tell them. The media has spread all kinds of
misunderstandings about me, particularly in New York
City, so you have much to straighten out. You are not the
only ones assigned to your particular area; God has
assigned spiritual assistance there also. You have spiritual
counterparts working together with you. Without fulfilling
your responsibility, how can you come back and lie down
and sleep at night? America is lying dead and the world is
going downhill. You young people of America who have
learned the truth, how
can you be so complacent? How can you say that you are
members of the Unification Church and that you are the
sons and daughters of God? God is not resting. You must
repent today.
When your head gets tired, accuse your own head, "You
have been working for Satan for so long and now for the
first time you are exerting yourself for the sake of God!"
That's the determination to have. Go out today with the
same feeling with which Jesus Christ prayed in the garden
of Gethsemane. It was a most serious, heart-rending prayer
that Jesus offered. From today on you are going to pray in
the same seriousness for your 360 homes. You may falter
at some point but because of your prayer those 360 homes
will have a chance to see salvation.
If I were in your position and hadn't fulfilled my
responsibility to those 360 homes I couldn't possibly lift up
my face or eat and sleep. Have you done well or poorly?
How can you lift up your face in the sight of God? Don't
you feel these words as reality? Why should you feel
repentant? By living like that you are becoming the
possessors of the love of God which is big enough to share
with 360 homes and more. You are becoming the hosts of
the love of God and that shall bring resurrection to your
360 homes. People accuse you but that's all right. Let them
persecute you. Persecution is your blessing in a way.
Somehow the Divine Principle message came to you first
and you felt that you were a new person with new life.
There are so many better qualified' capable people out
there who are waiting to have that message touch them. All
you have to do is meet them with the truth. Without doing
it, how can you say you want to be a citizen of the Kingdom
of Heaven? When you go to college you have to pass
examinations before getting your diploma and the same
thing is true in the Unification Church. New York is the
front line and unless we can fulfill right here, whom do you
think will do it? The entire world is upon your shoulders.
The words you hear on Sunday mornings at Belvedere will
be a curse instead of a blessing if you don't live them.
This is not a joke at all. Did we make the Divine Principle
tapes because we have lots of money? No, we had to borrow
the money and we did it under great strain. In order to
succeed right here I mobilized all the energy of the
Unification Church elsewhere. In doing that I hoped for
only one thing: that you should become exemplary and I
could show you to the world and say' "Look what New York
did."
You must use the blessings you have been given
You American people know the truth and have been given
the opportunity and materials to do the job but you haven't
used your blessings. If God had poured this much effort
into Africa the whole continent might have been turned
around by now. All kinds of miracles can happen right now
if you lay the foundation. If you had laid the foundation of
tears, the people in your 360 homes would be embracing
you and saying that they hadn't understood before what
you were doing. If your responsibility had been fulfilled
then the adversaries of our Church and the negative
parents would have already started to learn the truth about
what we are doing. Will you do the job or not? Even if you
must give up eating and sleeping? Which is more precious
for your life? You must make up for the failures of the past
by keeping this high standard in the future.
Once again you have heard that we must do it with tears. I
have trusted you but now you are shaking my confidence.
Get up early in the morning to pray because you are the
messiah to 360 homes. You must pray for those people and
have mercy upon them in tears. You can become a close
friend to them and if they have a problem they can come to
you for help. Then New York shall become our home and be
dominated by the truth and love of God and He can work a
tremendous dispensation through this system. New York is
the worst type of evil city but that is why we made the front
line right here. If we can overcome this city and turn it
around the impact will be gigantic. Your shoes may wear
out and your clothes be worn and soaked with sweat; your
eyes will be swollen with tears as you travel about but if
you are to save this city you must be single-minded and
not think about anything else. Before you eat and before
you sleep, think about the mission. The News World will be
a very important medium for you to contact the people.
That's why I asked you to sell the paper.
We will make a new beginning this morning. At least you
know exactly what you are to do. How can you say it
doesn't work without even trying? The Unification Church
itself will receive God's judgment and punishment if New
York perishes. We must tearfully go forward to fulfill the
mission. God has been shedding tears and now you are
participating in this glorious task of God and the True
Parents. Become a co-worker with us. This is your greatest
blessing. You can come up with all kinds of excuses, that
you need a little bit more money or a car, but don't say it.
Actually God is helping us; because Manhattan is such a
concentrated city, having a huge population, traveling from
one place to another is very simple.
Who of you can say, "In the next three months I am going
to do the things I have never done before. I will set a new
record"? Once you do that, I know that New York City shall
be conquered by God's love. Do you think that can be
done? If you can do it, and you know you can do it, how
excited you can be to save America and save the world.
In these three months you will set the pattern for the next
three years, until 1980. By then the entire world should
come under the dominion of God. The destiny of the world
is upon our shoulders. If we do this the world shall be
revived. If we fail then the world will crumble. From God's
standpoint in the dispensation, this is the front line. All the
leaders should be running ahead in the forefront. If doing
this means you have a problem with your family, then
could you give up that family? That family will not receive
any benefit by hampering you in this mission. Totally free
yourself from those hindrances. The life of New York is
determined by your own actions.
You can see that 8th Avenue is the avenue of prostitution
in New York City. We should do more than they do,
working day and night for the sake of God. I would like to
have all the Unification Church women clean up the area.
Men exploit those women and victimize them. You may
even learn karate or tae kwon do and even knock those
men out. There a lot of things to do. Ultimately we would
like to have the cooperation of New Yorkers. You know my
true intention and desire. This is so serious that you
should forget eating and sleeping to attend to the mission.
That is my criterion.
We are going to sow the love of God with tears and by doing
that New York and America will prosper and survive. Who
is going to take up the responsibility? God alone? Myself
alone? You are in a way sorrowful' miserable people
because you are following a sorrowful, miserable God and a
sorrowful, miserable teacher. You are in good company,
however.
The consequences of your failure will be catastrophic
because the destiny of the world hinges upon it. I want you
to know that in history no one has seen such a movement.
Years ago we talked about a new age but when we launch
an offensive there shall be a response to it. Today is a new
day; repentance and a new record are coming. Those who
pledge once again that this is the beginning of a new three
years, raise your hands please.
My plans for the worldwide IOWC
If we have enough core members in 1978 I will organize a
global IOWC of 10,000 members. In order to transport
them all we will need 30 jumbo jets. If landing each plane
takes 10 minutes it would still take about five hours to
accommodate all our jets, and just our coming to land will
be a sensational event When the 700 member IOWC global
team was in Korea we were able to bring 1.2 million people
to the rally at Yoido Island. Think of how many millions of
people could be awakened by 15 times those 700 members!
Each country will compete to have the IOWC come to their
own country because of the great benefit they will bring.
When we move on the international IOWC level I really
want to see each one of us going as an ambassador of God.
The young people of the world will want to join and be
ambassadors of God. There will be worldwide clamor to join
the IOWC. Applications will come from all the different
continents and we will have to select the cream of the crop,
organizing a brilliant performing arts program. When our
movement is known to the world as a Peace Corps in the
truest sense, it will be America's pride. If 10,000 American
citizens went together to Germany the United States
Ambassador there would have to take an interest. The
German Foreign Minister and the U.S. Ambassador would
want to discuss on the national level how to best help our
IOWC, right?
Having an impact in one nation will open up many doors
around the world, and the time will come soon when
nations will compete for a visit by our IOWC. Your IOWC
I.D. card will become very prestigious. I would also like to
have uniforms designed and have IOWC members known
by the uniforms they wear. We will be known to the world
truly as defenders of peace.
I can see that this will start to happen from June, 1979 on.
You must revolutionize your thinking. All the airlines of the
world will be competing among themselves to become our
special chartered airline. The world will have to be
interested in knowing about Reverend Moon and the
Unification Church because we will be too big to overlook.
Only one group will be really troubled: the communists.
Already they know something is happening and they don't
know how to stop it. We will even volunteer to go to a
communist country and if they don't want us to preach the
gospel, that's all right. We have many other things we can
do; we can help a humanitarian cause or solve a scientific
problem or be cultural emissaries. If they still reject us
then they will be very unpopular in world opinion. I am a
Korean citizen here on earth, but you are Americans and
with an American passport one is able to go easily to many
countries throughout the world. You could fly even to
Moscow and nobody would stop you.
This is what the Unification Church will be in just four
years. Think about it. You are being persecuted on the
streets of New York and while this period is necessary we
want to get beyond it. Shall we do it? We can mobilize
people outside the Unification Church to form an IOWC but
they will need to take a test; perhaps they can choose
whether it will be about English, history and so forth, but
the Divine Principle will be a required topic. They will
devote themselves to studying every page of the Divine
Principle because they will see that the Unification Church
is the means for jumping into worldwide activities. If they
see some hope and vision then they will be glad to help. We
have our own companies, cultural groups and seminary
and once people see that we are succeeding they will want
to become a part of it all. Thinking people will recognize
that doing this work is the quickest way to worldwide
leadership. Do you have regrets about being a member of
the Unification Church? The seminary graduates in
particular may feel that they wasted two years. No matter
what you do outside and no matter how brilliant you are,
you cannot compete with God. You must see that you will
all become successful upon this foundation.
It may be easy for you to imagine all this now, but 10 or 20
years ago many people followed me without seeing any
result. They just trusted me absolutely. Shall we give our
every effort to achieve this goal? If you are really smart you
will be excited about this, so much that even at night you
are wide awake thinking about it. Some people have
endured even 30 years in prison for their faith, but I am
asking you to give yourself up for three years just out of
your desire. Is it worth doing? Will you handsome men give
up three years? How about the ugly men, can you do it
too? If you think you are ugly then you should throw
yourself even more into the frontline work as revenge for
your handicap.
What will we gain by doing so? America will live. God will
live. I will be liberated too. When the whole world is totally
free my concern will be how to make you the happiest
bunch of people. We have to liberate Mother too. Mother is
trying to keep up with me but it's very difficult. Yet still she
has one secret to make me surrender and slow down.
When I want her to go even further she says, "You don't
understand women who have given birth to 10 children. Do
you really know how difficult it is to give birth to even one
child? Then I say, "Yes, I have never given birth to even one
child. You must be right, I surrender."
I want to preserve America's blessing
We are not talking about a dream or empty words; our
vision is a realistic one and it is within our reach. I came as
one individual and shook up this country and even New
York is too small for you if your determination is as big as
mine. Today is October 16. October is the month of
liberation; on October 14 I was liberated from prison and
October 4 is a day of heavenly liberation. We have a
historic task weighing upon our shoulders.
So far you mostly notice the people who work less than you
do, but don't concentrate on them. Look at the fast runners
in our movement and figure out how to run one step faster.
That's a cure-all for your own problems. Don't worry about
who will be your husband or wife. If you are really doing
your best then the best possible mate is waiting for you. By
doing this one thing all other things shall be solved.
Why do I want you to run forward and accomplish this
task? Because I want to be able to say that the American
people did it so that God can preserve the same blessing
America has had for the last 200 years. I would like to see
the American people so zealous and strong with inspiration
and actual accomplishment that they will tell the European
and Japanese members of our Church that they can return
to help their own countries. That's the way America will
save face in the sight of God and the world. If America
doesn't do it then I will assemble the world membership to
do it, but I would most like to have it done by Americans.
We will see what happens in 1978.
The restoration of the world is there waiting to be finished.
It is not that difficult now and it can be done. I would like
to have everything accomplished by the time you become
30 or 40. It depends upon your own efforts. When you first
started your door-to-door campaign you felt, "Why should
we do this? I don't think it will do any good, but now you
realize more and more how important that campaign is.
Our purpose is to educate the leadership of America,
raising up God-centered people to become national leaders.
Even if you wake up suddenly in the night you know where
you are and what you should do. Have you ever had the
experience of suddenly waking up at 3:00 a.m. and
automatically springing up to go out to do your mission? If
you become that kind of person then the entire spirit world
will come with you. When people in the spirit world are
mobilized they will worry about what you eat and wear.
Your ancestors will come and alert certain people in
advance that a young person will come to their house and
that they should prepare a nice hot lunch or breakfast for
him.
I have experienced this myself many times and if you live
the same way I did, that same experience will happen to
you. If that only happens to me then there is no hope for
the restoration of the whole world, but that same principle
works through you. That's why even if I die you can
continue on because the same principle will work in your
life. If you work just like I do then spirit world has to come
down.
Those who are not members of the Unification Church do
not know what we mean by this. This is not a threat or a
menace, but is actually the truth. Your earthly life is very
short but when you live your life like that here on earth
then when you go to the spirit world there will be a red
carpet rolled out and a royal welcome waiting for you. The
shrewdest businessman could never find any better deal
than this one. So far you have only seen a small vision for
yourself through your own eyes, but when you see through
God's eyes you take in the entire universe.
The Unification Church has a wonderful gospel and
opportunity for black people' who historically have been
oppressed by white people. Since God does not see color
this is your opportunity to lead America. No question about
it. The oppressed people actually have a better chance to be
accepted in the sight of God because they are always in a
better environment to see God and cry God's tears. The
person who normally does not cry for a foreign country only
sheds tears once his country is lost. That is not necessarily
bad, but if you can cry not only for your own country but
for God, then you are automatically linked to Him.
If America abandons Korea, Korea's situation will not
necessarily be hopeless. There is another kind of force that
will come around to support the country of Korea. The free
Asian peoples know they have to support Korea to ensure
their own survival. Actually the destiny of the entire free
world hinges upon that nation. Anyone who is sincerely
concerned about a communist takeover must logically rally
to the side of South Korea. God strategically positioned
Korea and that country is very close to His heart. When
anyone is really utilized as a tool for a higher purpose he is
blessed because he is in a position to exercise a great deal
of influence. The important thing is: make yourself a
needed tool of God.
If you realize that if the Unification Church fails the world
has no hope, that if the Unification Church fails God has
no hope and you shed tears with that heart, then you will
be brought right to the heart of God. We actually live the
truth instead of just talking about it. Once we actualize the
truth our victory will be worldwide. The more difficult the
dimension and scale of your task, the more love and glory
of God you can deserve.
Don't think that someone who is running and working very
hard is foolish. Think instead, "That person is depriving me
of greater blessing. I cannot let all the blessing go to that
person. I should run faster." The wisest person runs for 24
hours a day without resting because that way no one can
compete with or conquer him. Therefore, I have adopted the
policy that I will run on a 24 hour basis. I am not dumb. In
pursuing God's love I am asking for the most precious
thing in the world, and by going after me you will reach the
same goal. Do you know what attracts people to me? I
make myself very attractive by crying more, working harder
and going after suffering more than anyone. I am not
handsome yet people like you are drawn to me. Washington
Monument is a very good example. The American people
never believed that I would ever succeed, but once they saw
that I meant business and that people came and actually
listened to me, they changed their attitude.
I want you to be miserable for the sake of God. When you
cry out all the time you may look pitiful and everyone may
say you are a poor, foolish Moonie, but they won't realize
that 10 years from now you will become a hero in their
country. Do you see that this is the case? Is it wrong? Are
you going to make the 10,000 man IOWC possible? Let us
promise that to God.
I want you to know that glory will come in a tearful way
and in tears you will meet God. You will truly be united
with God and He will never leave you. His love will stay
with you forever. Today let us return to tears. Please repeat
after me, "Let us return to tears. In tears we see the love of
God." God bless you. Let us pray.