Father’s speech at leaders’ meeting on May 1, 1996 at east garden
We all have our present missions, and we tend to give priority to them. However, you do not know what is happening beyond the scope of your own missions. You do not realize how the providence of restoration is being carried out and what kind of purpose lies beyond your mission. God’s providence comprises the entire cosmos, and your mission is like one small part of this greater providence.
However, you regard this one small part as everything. That is where you are mistaken. Your mission is like a small outreach or branch of the main providence, but it can-not be central in the cosmic providence of God. Your mission should reach out and span 360 degrees. It isn’t just one dimensional. Have you ever thought about that? Centering upon America you have different missions, but do not make the mistake of imagining that your mission represents the entire mission of America. There is always a 360-degree realm. In order to fulfill this mission and save America we need to access all 360 degrees.
My concern is to secure the central aspect of God’s providence and make sure that things go right. [Father draws on the board.] You may be in one outreach station without moving, but God is always moving throughout all 360 degrees to interconnect all the different aspects of every-one’s mission. At our level we have to build connections to all 360 degrees and expand our influence to greater and greater levels. If your responsibility is for one outreach station of the providence, and 360 different directions come to you from the central station, what would be your reaction? Would you take I the attitude that they have nothing to do with your mission I and refuse to deal with them? [No.] If you take such an attitude then you will become disconnected to the 360-degree providence, and that will cause a setback to the providence.
Even though we are responsible for just one outreach station, we always need to be connected to 360 degrees through the central station. Along this 360-degree line there can be millions of different missions that we are unaware of. Usually American people are so pragmatic that it is only when you are convinced logically to do your missions that you do them. But if some direction comes to you which is beyond your logical comprehension then you become confused and are unable to act. It is because you are located at one remote out-reach station of the providence that you feel confused. From the central station’s point of view the direction is logical, and it is urgent.
It is as if everyone stationed along the 360-degree line pitches baseballs towards the center station., and the central station has to catch all of those balls and stack them there. In a similar way, if 360 baseballs are pitched from the central station to your position, you are supposed to catch every one of them and stack them beside you. Are you confident to be able to do so? Even if there are only three different directions coming toward you at the same time, you open your eyes in amazement and don’t know what to do.
The providential history of restoration is maybe hundreds of millions of years old. It is like a warehouse full of stuff. Now I am opening the doors and taking everything out of the ware-house, trying to resolve it all. From this perspective, can you say that you want to just stick with one single clear cut mission and not care for anything else? [No.]
Within America alone there are scores of different problems surrounding us. Therefore, you cannot demand the right to focus on your own single mission and ignore everything else. This huge country of America is not totally united with the central station. There are no clear directions from the central station to you, due to lack of connection and communication.
Jesus needed twelve disciples to represent the twelve different directions. These in turn reached out to 360 degrees. If those twelve disciples of Jesus had fulfilled their mission centering upon their outreach stations, then Jesus would not have had to go to the cross. Not even three of the twelve were able to unite. They all felt their individual missions were important and looked down on the directions from the central station. They considered their local outreach stations more important than the headquarters.
Leadership Training
I always teach you to train members to be leaders and send them out to the world. The individual is supposed to sacrifice for the family, the family for the society, the society for the nation, the nation for the world, and the world for the cosmos and God. You should place more value on the number of people whom you have trained and sent out as world leaders rather than how you accomplished your church work Do you understand? This is very important.
The entire Unification church is somehow troubled by the issue I am explaining here. If I call upon someone to take up a certain responsibility they always say that they are the only one who is able to do it. Before they even attempt to accomplish anything, they respond this way. If you have that kind of attitude you have no future. By doing so you are denying the central headquarters role. Do you understand?
If the Japanese church had originally sent all of the elite students to the Unification Theological Seminary, as I had re-quested, by now those elite leaders would be taking care of the entire Japanese church. This same principle applies to the American church. The American church also sent only the second- and third-grade members to UTS. Where are all those UTS graduates? You should think in terms of our future and the future of the world and the central headquarters instead of only your own situation.
As the founder of the Unification Church, I don’t just focus on Unification Church issues. Instead, I am concerned about the future of the entire humanity, world and cosmos. Even if it is almost impossible, I try my absolute best to solve the problems and tackle various challenges in this regard. Because I give my heart and soul, I am able to mobilize the angelic world and through them this rebirth phenomenon is taking place.
The Mission of Headquarters
Working and helping me only brings prosperity. My foundation throughout the world is based on the principle of focusing on the central purpose first. Your local position is not as important as the role and mission of headquarters. In other words, you need to put more effort and soul into achieving the work of headquarters rather than your own work. With-out a healthy root system the tree cannot be secured. No matter how difficult your situation might be, even if you are in prison, you are supposed to give your absolute support to headquarters. Then you will never be forgotten.
If you truly live such a quality of life, then even if you are imprisoned God will come and help you solve your own problems. A highway will open up for you to run on. Even if I go to the remote countryside in South America where I might be alone with one fishing pole, as long as I have the absolute standard of the central headquarters then the entire world can be moved. Even if I forget the fishing pole in my hand, I must never forget the role of headquarters and the entire world situation. No matter how urgent a situation might arise, wherever I may be I can immediately give direction and guidance to those who are carrying out the urgent missions throughout the world.
Who in this room took the goal of tribal messiahship seriously when I gave you that mission? Through tribal messiahship your goal is to restore your nation. Through restoring heavenly sovereignty, we want to save the entire world. As tribal messiahs, before you think of restoring your tribes and nations, you are dealing with our own physical situations, worrying about how to earn enough money for food, etc. But in God’s mind there is no such situation. I even neglected my family and abandoned the nation of Korea for the higher Will.
With the fatherland of Korea in such turmoil and difficulty, I neglected it and went to South America where there is no foundation and began all over again. For what? Because I have to establish heavenly sovereignty in order to save the entire world. No one in all Korea understands this. I am the only one who understands this and that is why I walk the path of the pioneer even now.
My determination is that even if I sacrifice my own children, I am going to accomplish this mission. That is why my own family is suffering and struggling. I feel that even if all my direct children are taken by Satan and destroyed, I will never change my determination, because I am the central headquarters point and this mission has to be carried out for the sake of the world.
I am in the position to secure the heavenly headquarters and to protect the entire cosmos. That is God’s way. No matter how difficult your situation might be, you have to consummate this ideal. After the fall mankind lost everything. How can God’s ideal be reestablished on earth? Through your family, your tribe, your nation to all humankind. Without this we cannot create God’s ideal. This is the correct viewpoint. Is this true? [Yes.] The foundation of our own home is last, not first.
Campaign to Unite the Americas
You have been living centered upon yourselves, particularly American young people. You have enjoyed being subsidized. You must hold the ideal of God foremost in your minds. This is most important. I may give you this last piece of advice and leave America. The Washington Times and University of Bridgeport are important for the sake of American Christianity. I know that Christianity’s establishment in this country is based on sacrificial tears and shedding of blood. I cannot abandon Christianity in America. Therefore, I have launched the campaign of uniting the Christianity of North and South America. Do you imagine this is an easy task.
Among you leaders gathered here, has even one of you sincerely dedicated yourself to go to South America and offered some money to educate even one single Christian minister down there? How can you claim to be true children and call me your True Father? How old am I now? As an almost 80-year-old man I am traveling back and forth between North and South America. The remote South American countryside is a place of great danger, but you stay behind and sleep.
There are millions of Catholics in South America, and some of them would do anything in order to protect their religion. I revealed all the deep secrets of Jesus’ life to the ministers of these churches. It is just the opposite of what they believe. Who knows what some of them might try to do? Yet I have been clearly teaching them even in the midst of potential danger. I told these Christian ministers how Mary conceived Jesus. How could they take that? Their root system is now being shaken. Some of them might feel that I am a threat to their churches and decide to destroy me.
I have been preparing for many years order to give you re-birth and save your lives. Do you believe this? [Yes.] True Parents sent Heung Jim Nim and Daemon Nim to the spiritual world so they might work in the position of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They are mobilizing the high spiritual world to come down to the earth and assist True Parents in this providential work.
The Spirit World Is Being Liberated
True Parents have reached the level of perfection here in the physical world. However, in the spiritual world Jesus is still in the stage of imperfection. Through Heung Jin Nim and Daemon Nim the process of rebirth can take place in the spiritual world. Just as God sent Jesus and the Holy Spirit to the physical world in order to give rebirth to the entire humanity, True Parents have sent Heung Jin Nim and Daemon Nim to the spiritual world to give rebirth in the reverse way. [Here Father writes on the board.] In order for anyone to enter the Kingdom of God, they have to inherit the true love, true life and true lineage of True Parents. In other words the family unit has to be established.
I blessed Jesus on February 2, 1973. Based on the condition of blessing Jesus, I could bless Heung Jin Nim as well. Through this Heung Jin Nim has his family in this physical world. Originally those who enter the Kingdom of Heaven are supposed to have experienced a physical family in this physical world. However, there was no one who went through this course. Therefore, after Heung Jin Nim’s ascension, I established his family in a reverse way in this physical world.
The leadership here is being cleansed, and all those evil spirits are being sent into the spiritual world to be educated so they can become good spirits. This is the way we can liberate hell. Hell on earth and in the spiritual world will be liberated. You are presently residing in the physical hell of your physical body. How can we liberate this physical hell and then the spiritual hell? Now Grandmother Hong and Heung Jin Nim are working together to liberate hell in the spiritual world. They mobilized the fallen archangel Lucifer. Even Lucifer has repented and confessed and is now being used to liberate all those evil spirits in this physical world as well as the spiritual world.
When these liberated evil spirits turn into good spirits in sufficient numbers to form a nation there, then the entire spiritual world can immediately be restored. Once the nation is established, then Satan’s realm will no longer have any influence, because God’s ideal settlement can take place on that foundation. Satan will not be able to defeat that foundation. It will be an eternal place of settlement for God.
This is a time of great urgency. It is the time to save your nation and save the world. You cannot simply just focus on your own local mission and your family. Your local mission and local state is nothing compared to the restoration of the entire world. You have to connect with the headquarters power, the world power.
Take Responsibility for America
I am presently educating Christian scholars throughout North and South America. Your responsibility is to save Christianity. Because of the demise of Christianity, we are losing so many young people throughout the world. If the American church had truly fulfilled its mission to save Christianity in America, then America would have become the saving nation for the world. Then instead of one nation under God we would have one world under God. America would prosper eternally as a result of fulfilling such a work. But the reality is that America is declining into hell. Only I can halt this decline. Be alert. Wake up!
I am absolutely serious. Now I have to return to Korea, be-cause the North and South are unable to unite without me. Do you understand? [Yes.] Without my mediation we cannot establish one nation of Korea. Actually Korea is in a life-or-death situation. There are so many important issues that I have to deal with for the sake of North and South Korea.
If you continue to maintain your past attitudes, then you have no future. But with a new determination you can remain as mediators in your mission. You must be connected with the central station. Otherwise, you will have a miserable future. This is not just my idea; this is universal law. Will you take responsibility for America? [Yes.] If you don’t take responsibility I may leave America, abandoning all the foundation here. If Satan wants to take the University of Bridgeport and The Washington Times, then let him take them.
Once Rome failed, God abandoned it. When Christianity failed to receive the Lord of the Second Advent after World War II, God abandoned it. But I reclaimed it and have a grip on it now. [Father writes on the board.] I established Japan in the position of the Eve nation, America as the Abel nation, and Germany as the Cain nation. Therefore, the Christian culture and the Islamic culture are connected. That is why America was not abandoned. From my viewpoint, America has been the worst enemy nation. The whole Christian foundation of the world was intended for the Lord of the Second Advent, but America broke this foundation. That means America is in the position of the worst enemy.
However, I still desire to see America standing in the position of Abel, the country of blessing. Directly after World War II, the Allied nations failed, but I want to restore their failure by educating the American people and uniting Japan and Germany. As you know, these nations combined with communism to try to destroy me. This is historical fact. God is unable to
use a central figure once it fails. America failed; therefore, God is unable to use America again. However, I am in the position of son, and from that position I was able to choose America again. As God’s son, I took responsibility for the mistake of America and restored it.
You also need to feel responsible to save America and the free world. America was placed in the position of Abel again only because I chose to take responsibility for its mistake. America stands in the position to support both Japan and Germany. This is why ever since the end of World War II, America has been giving economic support to countries such as Japan and Germany. Today the central providential nations of Japan, America and Germany are on an almost equal level.
Missionaries Fought Instead of Uniting
After I came to America I sent out missionaries to the world. These missionaries included Americans, Japanese and Germans. Upon sending them out to the world I instructed them to unite with their own embassies within their mission countries and fulfill the mission there. If those missionaries truly had done this, then the Unification Church would not have received so much persecution in the late 1970’s.
If there had been even one country where we had built a strong enough relationship to receive protection from the embassy there, then centered upon that embassy all the countries could have been mobilized to support the work of the Unification Church. However, our Japanese, American and German missionaries in each nation were all fighting with one another over who was Abel and who was Cain instead of working for the higher purpose.
American missionaries insisted that they had to be Abel because all missionaries were sent out from America, the victorious Abel nation. The American missionaries felt that since Germany and Japan had been in the position of the enemy nations in World War II they could not stand in the position of Abel.
On the other hand, the German missionaries argued that many years had elapsed since the end of World War II. They considered themselves to be intelligent as a people and superior to Americans. They argued from a position of power.
The Japanese missionaries argued that their nation had become an economic superpower, and that God loved Japan so much that it was assigned as the Eve nation and held a greater mission than any other country. Therefore, the Japanese missionaries felt themselves superior to the American and German missionaries.
Everyone wanted to stand as the central figure. This is how Satan was able to infiltrate their work. Therefore, in 26 mission nations our missionaries were imprisoned. During the Carter administration, a letter was sent out to over 120 nations recommending that these nations arrest Unification Church missionaries because they posed a threat.
As a second alternative I sent 1,600 Japanese women missionaries to the world. True Mother became the spearhead for this. When children are fighting the Mother has to intercept and control the situation. When I sent out these 1,600 Japanese missionaries I gave them the same direction. I instructed them to build a good relationship with their embassies in the various countries and make sure those embassies protect the Unification community in those mission countries.
You Need Qualifications to Follow Me
Following the viewpoint of God’s providence, I have been preparing everything step by step. I never consulted with or sought advice from anyone else, just as Adam and Eve never received advice from anyone else. I never asked even the most famous religious leaders of the world for advice; instead, I did everything by myself. Recently I have been invited by various leaders in different countries to give them advice. However, I have never consulted anyone else, because they are all in the position of archangel nations.
Now we are in the age when the elder sonship has been re-stored as well as parentship. We are now living in the era of direct dominion, which is the time of kingship. In order to be qualified to follow True Parents and enter the Kingdom of Heaven, members of the first generation must go through the training session in Korea in order to cleanse yourselves. You need to reach the stage of Adam and Eve prior to the fall. None of you want to be scolded by me. Instead, you want to be praised. But no matter how difficult it may be, even if you have to crawl, you have to cross over the boundary of nationalities.
Secrets of Father’s Life Course
In North Korea I visited the tomb of my parents and brothers and sisters. Two of my sisters are still living. If I were an ordinary person in this world, I would do everything within my power to support, protect and have my family treated in a special way through appealing to the high officials in North Korea. However, I never opened my mouth on their behalf while I was in North Korea. Even at the tomb of my physical parents, I never shed a tear.
My elder and younger sisters burst out crying at the tomb site. They cried out to their parents recalling how their parents always continually called out my name during their lives. “Now he is here,” they cried; “please wake up.” But I never shed a tear. I came to North Korea in order to save the entire nation, not for my personal purpose. Therefore, at the person-al level I could not show my sorrow. In my mind, I acknowledged that I was indebted to my elder and younger sisters because I did not share any sorrow at this time. I promised to return and in front of all those North Korean high officials declare my feelings towards my physical parents in tears, but only after I bring about reunification of North and South Korea with my own hands. Then I will shed tears.
No one has ever understood why I am so serious, not even in North Korea. Even if I had shared this serious heart to the most trustworthy disciples, they would have forgotten it. Therefore, I never revealed it because they are incapable of understanding. I can never forget how my physical mother and sisters grabbed my legs and tried to prevent me from leaving North Korea. Yet I knew that if I stayed there I would not be able to do my public mission to which I had been called. Therefore, almost kicking them, I ran away from home.
If you truly understood my life history, you would cry. But no one fully understands it, not even the experiences of imprisonment. Jacob’s descendants had to follow his footsteps, and Jesus’ disciples, including Christianity as a whole, had to walk the path of Jesus. Likewise, Unification Church members, the disciples of Reverend Moon, must be able to follow my foot-steps. If I revealed my difficult life course and the different stages of persecution, you would have to go through such stages also. But I don’t reveal all the details because I don’t want to see you going through such a difficult course.
After joining the spiritual world, you will see all the different stages of my life course. If you had known all of this while on earth and had not been able to fulfill your role then you would be in deep trouble in the spiritual realm. Therefore, I am protecting you by not revealing all the details. Then you can always claim not to know fully all of the details of my life. Out of parental love, I am providing space to repent, even in the spiritual world.
When I begin to think about my life course, even without realizing it, I find myself in tears. When I am alone at the river fishing I reflect upon my life course and am overcome with tears. I never remember any moment of my life which was lived for my own purpose. How far you are from me in this sense. However, Daemon nim and Heung Jin Nim understand my heart. That is why they are working to help you grow closer to my heart. Do you understand? Therefore, don’t forget head-quarters and the liberation of the entire world. That is important and precious.
How to connect with God’s Family, God’s nation and God’s world
Even while eating, sleeping and working, you still have to remember those public goals and try to build your career at that public level. I have spent my entire life working for that public goal, so God can never abandon that foundation. During the last 40 years I have been establishing a foundation. You have to realize that I have made God cry many times. Each time I established some foundation God cried.
If you claim to be my children and disciples, you have to ask yourselves if you made me shed tears due to your effort and work This determines the quality of your accomplishments. During my public speaking tour in America, I covered 48 states in 40 days. I felt that even though the fallen people did not understand fully what I was doing, the creation understood. I shed more tears for your nation than your founding fathers and ancestors ever did. Don’t ever become indebted in heart, or you will perish.
My message may become my will for your country, because I cannot promise when I will be able to meet you again. Please take this seriously. Do you understand? Your outreach mission is not as important as the central role of headquarters and God’s providence. Therefore, support the work of headquarters to liberate the entire world. How can we liberate God, centering I on true love? Without the hope of a true love family, there is no hope to connect with God. This means that God will not be able to liberate your nation.
God cannot break down the worst satanic power. That is our mission centering upon True Parents. This is the Divine Principle viewpoint. Is this clear? You have to clearly under-stand this. This is not an oriental concept. This is God’s concept.
How can you connect with God’s family, God’s nation and God’s world? You have to seriously concern yourselves about creating an atmosphere to enable this connection to take place. Otherwise, this nation cannot be saved. It is a very serious matter.
I went out onto the Hudson River so many times in order to catch striped bass, but my true purpose was not to catch striped bass. I shed so many tears on the Hudson River. Many times I stood at the holy rock and prayed in tears, “When crystal clear water runs in the Hudson River, then God’s tears will be dried.” Who is going to be able to do this? Can any American do this? If this is the task that can save the American people then I will do it. This is my deep determination.
No one really knows how difficult it is to fit in all the different programs for the sake of the entire world and carry out the different stages of the providence I am implementing for the sake of the world. No one else can accomplish this, and no one can truly understand me.
America in general must recognize my contribution towards halting the decline of America. Without my help America would have declined far more rapidly than it has. Do you as my fol-lowers have the confidence to save America and the free world? [Yes.] Because of America’s immoral influence the entire free world has been declining for the past 40 years. Satan almost i took over Christianity. Do you clearly understand this? [Yes.] Do you? [Yes.] Do you only want to save your lives and focus on your own families while millions of young Americans die within ten years because of AIDS? [No.]
If you are truly serious about it, can you spend time to eat meals and sleep? Wake up! If I am not here, then you have determined to go out and do ten times more than me. Can you pledge this? [YES.]
Represent the Heavenly Kingship
I am giving you this final piece of advice. Since you heard vivid testimony from those who attended the 40-day training in Korea, now you know the reality of the evil spirits affecting your body and your life. Therefore, if you truly follow my directions today and implement them in your daily life, then America still has hope. Wherever you go make sure that you are in the position to represent true kingship. Make sure that you are the representatives of heavenly kingship.
By following God’s direction centered on true love, true life and true lineage, I have been working to restore all humanity. Likewise, if you go out to your mission field with the same level of dignity and integrity, you will be able to accomplish your mission successfully. Will you do so? [Yes.] If you truly go with absolute faith, as soon as you go beyond the growth level then Satan will leave you and God will lift you up. Even if you believe in Satan’s lie with absolute faith, eventually he will have to give up and let you go to God, because absolute faith belongs to God, not to Satan. Do you understand? [YES.]
Are you willing to take on such a venture? There is nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about. What is so difficult about approaching your friends, your police chief, your governor? Tell them that if they accept your advice, the entire state can be educated and there could be enough resources to have your state prosper. Challenge the police chief and governor to gather all of the state officials and police officers and give you the opportunity to teach them. Tell the governor and police chief to test you to see if you can do it. Challenge them by telling them that if they don’t choose to save their state and nation then you will do so. Why not? God needs such powerful and courageous actions.
Consider yourself the younger brother of your state governor and the cousin of your police chief and go challenge them. Those who received my words last week in Washington, D.C., are local leaders in your various states. Work with them to build influence in your state. If you cannot do so then disappear from my view.
Be determined and Courageous
From now on I need strong and courageous followers. This is like the time when the Israelites were about to enter Canaan. Joshua and Caleb were strong and courageous. The moment you respond I see determination in your eyes, but as soon as you leave East Garden and arrive again in New York you will have already forgotten. That has been your tendency. Because of the inspiration and spirit that you receive from me at this moment, you all have beautiful eyes and the look of inspiration. However, when you go to Manhattan you will lose this. [No, Father.] Will you not? [NO.]
Then when I return to America will you be ready to show me your results? [YES.] I may not come back. I may retreat from America. People ask me not to leave, but I am seriously contemplating whether to leave America. You have made your commitment to be responsible for America. Will you continue to do so? [Yes.]
The entire world has spread a rumor that I would go bankrupt. Yet I could not stop the providence even if I end up in bankruptcy. Six years ago this rumor began, but so far I have not gone bankrupt. I have even prospered during this time.
We cannot afford to eat as much as we want and to play as much as we want. Do you understand? [Yes.] Everyone thinks it is necessary to eat three meals a day. However, in reality we can survive with only two meals a day. Even one meal a day is enough to sustain you. No matter what method you take, we must accomplish this responsibility. Shall we do it? [Yes.]
Harvard may be superior to the University of Bridge-port academically, but it cannot provide the program which can rehabilitate, revive, and give rebirth to students. When you joined the Unification Church did you join because you looked into my face? You joined because of the truth of the Divine Principle, right? [Yes.] The Divine Principle restores and re-creates humanity.
The first qualification for leadership is the power of per-suasion; once you are equipped with the truth of Divine Principle you can persuade anyone. Second, you need diplomatic ability; when you meet governors you should be able to build a friendship with them. Third, you need economic self sufficiency. These are the criteria for Unification Church leadership.
I have these abilities. In South America I have the ability to persuade the leaders there and they like me. Certainly I have diplomatic skills. Because of my financial self-sufficiency I have been maintaining the Unification church all of these years. You have to follow my footsteps. Do you want to become responsible for the headquarters or just one branch station? [Headquarters.] Then you have to witness.
Raise up Members Greater than you
With enough members you can solve economic problems and all other problems. You have to be able to raise even greater leaders than yourselves in your regions. Therefore, you have to be able to persuade people to study the Divine Principle more than you and to witness more than you.
Let people read the Unification News and Today’s World and have them learn from those articles. They can gain the de-termination to become even greater than the people they read about in these publications. You should also be able to contact each state leader to find out who brings the best result each month and share such results with your members so they can become even greater leaders than you are.
If a much greater result was brought in a particular state, you could suggest to your members that you all go and learn from that state in order to bring greater results. You have to be able to build a ladder to enable your members to climb up to that goal. Do you understand? [Yes.] There are so many materials available now to educate people. You can use them to street preach, visit families, and teach Christian ministers the Divine Principle.
Your scope of activity should be wide. If you are confined, make a hole up and down, right and left, front and rear so that you can expand your horizon and range of activity. If you want to set a goal for this month to persuade certain people who oppose you in a nasty way, then go ahead and challenge it. Ask your members if they would like to volunteer to persuade these antagonistic people, or do they want to do so only when instructed. Sometimes you can even have them draw straws to decide which person they are going to be responsible for.
In the beginning they might feel hesitant, but once they meet these negative people a few times and get to know them and gain confidence, they will be more and more courageous. If members in your state have been trying with little result, then you as their leader should encourage them to try as much as they can. If they still cannot make it, you can tell them that you will go and complete it for them. You need to give people such training.
Only those with enough experience will progress. All of you look handsome; don’t waste your youth. Your congressmen and senators are nothing actually. Challenge people by saying, “We’ll see in the next ten years.” That is how you need to prepare yourselves.
Make the impossible happen
If you just sit around nothing will happen. You may want to sit around waiting for some donor, but don’t expect that. If you come to a certain place, determine to leave at least one building behind you when you leave. Don’t take anything from that place. Once the people of that place learn about your action, they will be impressed. You have to make impossible tasks possible. If any task is already possible, it will already have been done in the satanic world.
Do you think that I have only undertaken the possible things in life? If it seems impossible then put 20 or 30 times more effort into it and you will be able to make it possible. When I was your age I had to deal with very heavy persecution all the way to this point. But now, due to my victorious foundation, there is no more persecution. You are all young and strong, so what are you doing?
You American leaders are like tall trees. Do you want to become a popular tree, or a pine tree which bears pine nuts? American citizens have a free pass in South America wherever they go. They are not even required to obtain a visa. But in some South American countries it has been difficult for me to obtain a visa. I want all Unification Church members to be able to travel freely throughout South America without any visa.
Inspire People to donate to the South American Providence
Find the most fearsome and difficult person in your state and challenge that person. Will you do so? [Yes.] Maybe you should go and find a rich person and persuade him or her to invest in this project. Don’t just visit the person’s family right away. First you have to do some homework. Find out how many children are attending elementary, middle, high school and college and through such connections find a natural access to that person. Just as God created the environment first when He created the world, you also need to do your homework in advance. 1brough preparing a positive environment you can establish yourself in the position of subject and the person you, are approaching will be in the position of object. Then challenge ‘ that person. Maybe you can learn to know a member of his family first and gaining their help to persuade that person.
Once you secure that support then you can go and see that person and provoke him. He will surely fight you back. Then that would be a good time for the member of his family whom you know to intervene and take your part. These are some suggestions of how you might approach it.
If this person has three sons and all three were to take your part, then the father would surrender. If you praise his children and lift them up in his presence, you can become friends with him. Have the three sons write a proposal as to how much they think their father should donate to the South American providence. Of course the amount may vary from son to son. Then average the figures and show them to their father, asking if he plans to give more than his children proposed or less. If you challenge him this way, he will surely offer more than his children proposed.
If you find yourself invited to special banquets or functions, you should be able to give a fluent speech and sing well. If it is for the purpose of advancing God’s kingdom, then you have the freedom to learn how to sing well and speak well. If your host recognizes you as a very attractive, intelligent person then the door is wide open for you. You have to develop a strategy to make it come about. No matter how difficult it might be to meet rich people, if you plan your strategy and succeed then it will all become very easy for you. Then even if I instruct you to take a break you would just keep on going in order to meet more and more people. If you are doing so for a good purpose, nothing is impossible. Be sure that your motive is only for the purpose of helping and saving.
Create Rapport with People
I have great potential to accomplish things through using my wit. Do you understand? If you are hungry you should be able to find a place to obtain a free meal. If you are thirsty you should be able to find a drink any place. If you are hungry and happen to see a house, then just go in. If someone is cooking, try to sample it. What would they say? [Laughter.] You could praise the cook by telling him or her that you have a famous chef in your family, but this food is even better than anything this family chef makes. Maybe you could encourage them to create one more dish so that you can taste it and be able to really tell how good that cooking is. If you would like something more to drink, then just sit down and talk and you will automatically be offered more beverage.
If you become a good acquaintance of this person, then when you meet in the street they will invite you again to their home. This is possible. Why not? I experienced witnessing to one particular woman for one and a half years in the midst of very negative opposition from her husband. When I was chased out through the front door I would go to the back of the house and enter through the rear door and sit down to share a meal with the husband even as he showed how much he hated me.
I made sure that his second daughter and son really liked and respected me. These children asked their father to invite me to the house because they liked me. The father never actually said yes or no., so with that condition I entered that house. I shared many stories with that family and pleased the children in order to gain their trust and respect for the purpose of the higher goal.
Become Famous
This morning I have given you a seven-hour message. Does it feel as though you’ve been here for seven hours, or more like three hours? [Less than an hour.] If you truly think so, then I did a good job. There was one-woman follower who sat many hours in front of me and became so intoxicated by my speech that she forgot to go to the bathroom and urinated right where she was sitting. This happened. [Laughter.] Do you think it happened because I prepared my sermon in advance? I shared from my heart, giving many examples and analogies and involved the audience in my sermon. I become involved and interested in my talks. Doesn’t it make you happy when I use all different kinds of facial expressions. [Yes.] It is necessary. If you want to become a good leader, you need that kind of ability and flexibility.
If you happen to see fighting in the street, go and tell them, “Hey, there is blood all over you.” They will stop fighting because they will want to look and see. [Laughter.] Try it. Since you are all honest, ardent, religious leaders here, I hesitate to give you all the really vivid stories. [Laughter.] In order to reach this level of success, don’t you think I have trod every possible path? Since you became a leader of the Unification Church, you should become a leader within your family. It is not your place to become just another mediocre family member who follows the rest of the tribe. It is your role to become famous. Not just famous externally, but because you offer people good contents. Then you will become famous both externally and internally.
You leaders standing around over there, do you have the ambition to become senators and congressmen in the future? [Yes.] How many people are working under you now? No one pays any attention to you as you are. In order to become a big tree, you should have a strong root system and have strong branches. It is logical that if your congressman is far uglier than you are and it took him ten years to get elected, then it should take only three years for you to catch up with him. Isn’t that logical? When you accomplish four times more than your congressman you will be able to replace him with yourself. It is that simple. There is no exception. The key is to enjoy what you are doing.
I recognize all of you here as people who are capable of doing good work. Why are you all so tall? That means you have bigger guts and greater ambition. In order to contain big guts and ambition, you need a big body. Do you understand? [Yes.] What kind of responsibilities do you have?
With the modem communication system, I am able to visit Washington, D.C., several times a day. You know that? [Yes.]
Make The Impossible Possible
My conclusion is that you must make all of the tasks you receive possible, even if they appear to be impossible. Will you do that? [YES.] When I first announced my plan to educate North and South American Christian leaders, I was laughed at. For the past 400 years, Protestant and Catholic leaders have been in bitter conflict with one another. Then how can I possibly unite them? But I have been doing so.
I originally invited 120 leaders, both Protestant and Catholic, and some 80 leaders from both sides showed up at the conference. They all wanted to meet me in person. After hearing my message at that conference they were inspired. However, it also generated a good deal of controversy. They concluded that this conference for Protestant and Catholic leadership marked a turning point of 400 years of Christian history in North and South America. [Applause.] They strongly requested that this be the beginning of many more such conferences.
Are you able to accomplish such a task on your own? [Yes.] Nothing is impossible, go ahead and make it happen. If it doesn’t work the first time, then just keep on until it does. If I allow you to run the American church as you have been doing thus far, there is absolutely no hope. Therefore, I want you to crack this shell and emerge from it with a new substance. [Applause.]
Those of you who are over 40 years of age please raise your hands. At the age of 27, I turned the entire city of Pyongyang upside down. I became so controversial at the age of 27 that all the Christian ministers proclaimed me a heretic.
I persuaded so many youth leaders of the main churches in Pyongyang to follow me that I was labeled as the one who takes away the key members from each church. Instead of feeling ashamed that they lost their key members, the ministers persecuted and criticized me.
Challenge Christians
Do you ever challenge Christian ministers whom you meet by asking them if they think that Jesus was supposed to marry in his lifetime? Have you? [Yes.] What has been their response? In your opinion, do you think that Jesus had a male sexual organ, a female sexual organ, or something in between? [Male sexual organ.] Then what was the purpose of Jesus having a 1 male sexual organ? It was for the sake of his marriage. Through utilizing his sexual organ in marriage Jesus would have given life to his own children.
Since Christianity doesn’t believe in Jesus’ marriage, do you think that Christianity would have gotten rid of Jesus’ children? Do you think that God would have been happy to see such, children? [Yes.] Think about how many descendants of Jesus would populate the world today. If that had happened, the world would have been united long ago. Instead of restoring all of these fallen people, it would be much easier to gather Jesus’ descendants together and restore them.
What do I gain through revealing the secrets of Jesus’ life and mission? Nothing. But I have given the truth to the world. Don’t you imagine that many Roman Catholic leads met to discuss how to deal with my message? Don 1t you think that other prominent Christian ministers gathered and discussed this issue, since it has become a worldwide message now? They may say, “Logically, what Reverend Moon is saying is right, and if we oppose it we will eventually be chased out. Therefore, what shall we do?”
They don’t have any logical argument with which to fight against me. Theologians from the various Seminaries who hear my message concerning the life of Jesus may come to feel that I am very courageous and want to know more.
Jesus and Mary, who are in the spiritual world, are in trouble. Do you think that Jesus and Mary can hide the mistakes they made in their lives? By my clear revelation of their lives and their missions at this time, they are actually now free to pursue their course in the spiritual world. They can begin to take the correct initiative in front of God.
Be Proud of True Parents
Who can liberate Jesus and Mary in the spiritual world? Only True Parents. If I had revealed this truth ten years ago, just imagine the kind of opposition I would have had to face. But since I have laid a strong enough foundation, the battle is now over. Therefore, I am free to disclose this secret. Since True Parents have been announced to the world and have revealed these secrets, this year’s motto is “Let’s Be Proud of True Parents and Love True Parents.” Then what is preventing you from accomplishing your missions?
When you are in a restaurant and someone blesses the food, you can speak out loud and declare that you love True Parents and are proud of True Parents three times. Then you will digest your meal well. People around you will be curious enough to ask you what you mean by True Parents. Then you can share with them. In five minutes you can explain it to someone and convince them. It is a simple task.
Do you suppose that I invented the term, “True Parents,” or do you think that God gave it? If God could have given such an answer to me so easily, then why could He not give such a secret to Jesus? Suppose God gave such an answer to the American president? If God were able to do such a thing freely, then I would not have needed to walk the path of persecution. Even Christian leaders now have no logic to fight against the term True Parents.
The term True Parents is patented by the Unification Church. No either organization or holy book uses the term True Parents. Isn’t this fantastic? [Yes.] How wonderful the name of True Parents is! [Yes.] Don’t you think that I deserve to take a break after all of these hours? [Applause.]
Now I want you all to promise in front of me that you will no longer keep your mouths closed. Instead, you will go out and spread the good news everywhere you go that you are all proud of True Parents and that you all love True Parents. Do you realize how much the Coca Cola company advertises? Therefore, will you forge ahead of the Coca Cola campaign or lag behind? [Ahead.] At the entrance of so many towns there is a large billboard advertising Coca Cola. Don’t you want to create your own billboard proclaiming that you are proud of I True Parents and that you love True Parents? [Yes.] If you can’t create your own billboard, then use the newspaper. Advertise in the newspapers. Don’t you want to post more advertisements than Coca Cola in your local communities? [Yes.]
Save People from Committing Suicide
If you want to beat the Coca Cola company in advertising, how do you plan to do it? You have to promote True Parents through daily newspaper ads. Invite those who are seriously thinking of committing suicide to please contact True Parents at this number. Find such people. Every year the number of people who commit suicide increases. If those who are seriously considering suicide call the advertised number and you answer their call, you will be able to save lives. If they study Divine Principle they will be able to give up that crazy idea. Don’t you agree? [Yes.] Then why do you just sit around and watch many young people waste their lives?
Why don’t you visit your local high school and challenge the principal to allow you to speak with the students for three hours and you will save their lives. Why don’t you do so? Do you have that kind of inner conviction and courage? You are like a flock of flies and maggots. If you don’t utilize your mouth to speak the truth, when you join the spiritual world your mouth will be padlocked. Why do you rest? Just go and speak out. Walk around with a sandwich board declaring that you are proud of True Parents and that you love True Parents. Will you try this? [Yes.]
People might regard you as crazy, but you are not. Many saints and sages of the past were considered crazy people but they were not. When I went into prison, many of my followers pointed at me scornfully asking how I could go to jail if I was the son of God. I have never forgotten their persecution and criticism. I told them that I would make sure that their children would follow me and that they as their parents would have to shed tears of blood. I have never forgotten that. Neither have I forgotten the persecution I received in America.
I have to be Victorious
No matter what, I have to be victorious. You have to renew your determination in front of God and True Parents. Don’t trust anyone else. Trust only yourself. That is the key. Determine that God has no other choice but to believe in you. and that in this unbelievable world you will do believable work. Will you make that kind of determination this evening? [YES.] Then how many people will you witness to in one month with this truth you have learned from me? Twelve? Twelve people a month becomes 144 people in a year. Will you do so? [Yes.] Those who are determined to do so please show both of your hands.
Even if you may not be able to reach the goal of 144 spiritual children, why don’t you buy 144 Divine Principle books and distribute them to 144 people as a condition? Then go and visit them every other month. You will be able to harvest some people in that way. If they have questions, have them call you and discuss it with you. Give them that opportunity. If you continue in this way, within six months you will be able to select from among them those whom you can invite to your church and educate. Because you have not done this, we have a miserable result in America.
Do you all have the Unification Church flag flying from your house? Do you have it hanging on the wall inside your house or hoisted outside of your house? [Outside.] When you hoist such a flag and your community feels strange about it, invite them to your home for a dinner party and share with them about it. We have a lot of content to share with them. There are many different ways. There are 360 different means and ways to approach people. How can you continue to eat three meals a day without witnessing.
Throughout my life I have educated the elders of the church. My mouth has never rested. I have an obligation to teach you. I continue to repeat the same things over and over like an incantation. A masterpiece is usually created through many attempts, never upon the first attempt. Do you understand? [Yes.] Those who feel ready to fulfill what I have shared here even if I don’t give any more instructions and guidance, show your hands.
Today you have heard the testimonies of the kinds of tears that have been shed at the training course in Korea. Now return to your states and shed tears in your missions so that you can cleanse yourselves and bring greater results. After the training session in Korea where will you go? Water flows naturally from a high place to low place. Where do you think this low place is? Think about it. You’ll have to be sent some place.
I was imprisoned in America, but if you are sent to Africa it would be easier than going to prison. Because of my victorious foundation, no matter where you go in the world, the American embassies will not ignore you. There is no problem now. As a Unification soldier nothing can stand in your way. You can march forward to clear the path. That should be your de-termination all the way. What is America’s responsibility in regards to the blessing of 3.6 million couples? If your goal is 360,000 couples, what percentage of 240 million people are they? Approximately one and a half percent.
America is centered upon the Christian culture, but look at what is happening here. I spent 20 years here in this miserable nation based on the Christian culture, and in some other nation the results of my efforts could have been 100 times greater. I knew that, but I didn’t really have a choice. Now you know what direction you have to take in order to survive and save your country, don’t you? [Yes.]
I understand that all of you have good brains. Therefore, I expect you to have understood everything I have shared with you and to go out and implement it. Therefore, I will omit the rest of what was prepared in the written text. Everybody stand up, please. Let us pray.