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REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON SPEAKS ON HOME CHURCH IS THE BASE OF THE KINGDOM
OF
HEAVEN
January 1, 1980, Midnight
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak
......
I can say very clearly that without the Unification Church America has no
hope. The free world has no vision of hope without Unification Church.
Furthermore, the Unification Church can go on and truly liberate
communism.
No one except the Moonies has the ideology or the power of love to do
that.
I have made a most im****tant declaration: all the historical debts of the
past have been paid. Now the time has come when I can focus completely on
building. The time has also come that Mother and I can take some rest. At
the
outset of this talk I said the Kingdom of Heaven is the place of Sabbath
and
true peace. No satanic power has any right or condition to claim True
Parents' family or the Unification Church movement. We are above their
accusation.
The final role the American movement will take in addition to what the
True
Parents and the Korean and Japanese blessed couples have done is a 2
1/2-year
condition by the blessed couples. I want America to go ahead on a global
scale and show in front of God and Satan the determination of the American
blessed couples. That's why I have asked the American blessed wives to go
to
the CARP movement for 2 1/2 years. It is the final condition the women are
going to undertake in America. If this final condition by the American
blessed couples is fulfilled then even if you volunteer for such things
there
won't be any op****tunity. This is the final chance. After that the home
church crusade will be wide open and home ministry will be our way of
life.
In other words, you will not face the indemnity Mother and I went through.
You won't have to go through the same condition the Korean blessed couples
went through in those harsh years.
Now everything you do is building a lasting accomplishment that will
become
your tower. The men and women going out into home church will be
harvesting
and bringing things in. We are moving across the boundary. We no longer
belong to the old age or old territory. We are moving into a new territory
and a new era. That is why I told you that home church is the base of the
Kingdom of Heaven. We can now build the physical kingdom with our own
hands.
In the past the Unification Church missionaries endured incredible
situations. Your elder brothers and sisters were kicked and spat at, and
even
killed, but that era is now over. You don't have to face that. When you
speak
the Divine Principle you will meet people anxiously waiting for the
message
and you shall be regarded as their savior. The people are waiting for you
to
come.
This afternoon Tiger Pak re****ted that 150 brilliant college students came
to
the CARP week-long workshop in Florida. He re****ted that those students
were
really excited when they heard our lecturers teach the Principle and they
look like real Moonies. I told Tiger Pak, "Don't you know that it ought to
be
that way? Don't you know God's timetable? It's just about that time for
that."
You are in the same position. Just concentrate and totally unite and do
things beyond the standard I established. All you have to do is try to
cross
over the boundary of the worst persecution I have been receiving. If you
exert your energy trying to bring yourself over the line of my own
suffering,
once you go one little step beyond it the entire spirit world will come
down
upon you. A new horizon will be wide open.
Home church will only be difficult at the beginning. The first several
steps
will be difficult but try to cross over the point of persecution by
comparing
it with my energy at that particular point. When you go just one more step
over that point everything will become easy. Can you do it? At the
beginning
you may wail, "Father, I just can't do it!" But as you continue, slowly
everything will become easier. Don't worry about trying to save face. Make
a
new hole and tighten your belt. Make up your mind, grit your teeth and
step
forward.
When you go to home church don't try to get into someone's living room
right
away. Go through the back door and then to the bathroom. Your first
thought
will be, "How can this be a bathroom in the heavenly kingdom? I cannot
afford
to leave it this dirty. Let me clean it." After the bathroom is clean and
fresh you can come out and look at the hallway. You will say, "I cannot
afford to welcome Heavenly Father in this dirty hall. Let me clean it up."
The person living there will stride up to you and shout, "What kind of
rascal
are you? Why do you bother my bathroom?" Then you will shout back, "What
kind
of rascal are you? This is my home. I'm trying to welcome Heavenly Father
in
this home and no one will stop me. I'm going to keep cleaning your house."
You can tell them, "Don't you want to celebrate at least one of God's
birthdays in your home?" The other person will be totally overcome and
say,
"Is it true? Can we have God in this house? You say, "All you have to do
is
try me out free for one week. Whether God is coming in through the door or
not, try me out for one week." This is a very effective way to make a sale
in
America, offer someone a tree trial, and if they don't like what you offer
they can return it.
I want you to know that the term "home church" is a most precious one.
Many,
many saints, wise men, prophets and Christian martyrs have waited for the
day
of home church but they did not have the luxury of seeing it. They did not
have anyone to set the highway straight by paying back all the necessary
indemnity. There was no way home church could start before I came. Only
because I have paid all the past debts can we now undertake home church. I
want you to know how precious the gift of home church is.
Your 360 homes are your tribe. If your name happens to be Smith, those 360
homes are the Smith tribe. You can even put a sign up. You can say, "Who
built all these homes for them? I came and I am going to build homes for
all
of my tribe." But then you can think, "I know who built these homes. God
built them for me to give to my tribe and He used Satan as labor. I claim
owner****p of this place and as the tribal messiah I shall lead my tribe
into
the Canaan of the modern century."
When you begin to enjoy your home church and claim the land, God will come
down, smile at you and say, "My son, don't you like it?" Then you will
reply.
"Yes, Father, I like it." Then Satan will come and tell you, "You are
using
the homes that I sweated very hard to build but that's okay. You go ahead
because I cannot claim you any more."
Do you understand what a welcome word "home church" is, and how much
indemnity was paid in order to make home church possible at this time? If
you
truly know the value of home church through learning the depth of the
Divine
Principle then you will come to the point where even if you just see the
words "home church", tears of gratitude will roll down your face. You will
bow down to those words, saying, "Thank you, Father, that I can read 'home
church' and have home church."
Now home church is available for all mankind. I have done everything on a
global scale to pay for the past 6,000 years and now I am asking you to
take
care of one little corner of the land with 360 homes. Can you say you
cannot
do it? If you say you refuse this task then you are entitled to the worst
hell, not heaven. That is true because it is so obvious that home church
can
easily be done.
Once we turn the atmosphere of America around, particularly the media
atmosphere, everyone will say, "Reverend Moon, please come and do home
church
for me." If everyone says that, don't you think home church can be done
easily? Then will you be persecuted or be a hero?
When I say "base",. what do I mean? Usually a base is a launching pad like
the pads at Cape Kennedy. When a rocket is launched, the capsule for the
astronauts is on the top. The engines for take-off are on the bottom, then
the booster engines in the middle, and the capsule put on top. What you
are
doing is building a rocket. You build the engine on the base first, and
that's the most difficult. Then you build up and up and up all the way to
the
capsule where you can stay. Once you have finished constructing it, all
you
have to do is push the button and lift off. After a successful launch you
can
look back and see your 360 home church families all around you.
Why did God allow man to land on the moon successfully? Where did
Armstrong
land? On the moon. M-O-O-N. But the moon is not the end of the journey.
When
you land on the moon, I will be up there waiting. Then I will build
another
rocket and we will lift off to the sun. Then you will be a Sunny, but
that's
not all. I will ignite you once more and this time you will land in the
heart
of God. Then you will be a Kingy. Other people might say you are
brainwashed
or crazy, but who cares what they think as long as we are happy? What is
our
topic? Home Church is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Let me ask you a question-Do you want Mother and me to take a rest and go
around the world? Would you say, "Father and Mother, you can go and rest
under one condition: that you take me along"? I will tell you to come
along
with me only after home church has lifted off. I have done home church on
a
global basis, and because of the work I have done home church can be done
everywhere by everyone.
No matter how gutsy you are, can you ask me to take you along if you have
only done home church in 360 homes? I have been looking forward to home
church for at least twenty years. This is my twenty-year dream become
reality; even to speak the word home church is a dream become reality for
me.
I never gave up but hung on and fought it out for twenty years. How long
have
you been doing home church? Some of you have not even done it for twenty
weeks. Are you justified in whining, "Father, I am so tired. My legs are
hurting and getting sore"? Do you think home church is incredibly
difficult
or can it be done? Not "can be done" but "candy done". Sweet things are
always done.
In the future being deprived of the right to do home church would be the
worst sentence to pass on anyone, worse than prison or electrocution. The
age
has come when home church is that precious. Everyone will be so eager to
have
a territory for home church that if they can't have their own area they
will
feel they are in the worst hell. Do you clearly know the value of home
church? Do you know that in order to establish the foundation of home
church
God and I have worked desperately hard to pay all the indemnity? Many,
many
saints and martyrs have shed blood in order to achieve the home church
dispensation.
You don't need any additional explanation, do you? Can you go on and
finish
without me? Let's meet together when we complete home church and then we
can
have a victory party. I am looking for one person: the champion of home
church. Whoever consummates the home church dispensation shall truly be
recognized as the tribal messiah and will issue invitations to Mother and
me
to come to the first completed home church on earth. I am looking forward
to
that home church and am anxious to see whether it will come in Japan,
Korea
or America. I will ask the same question to the Korean congregation and
they
will say, "The first champion of home church will be in Korea." The
Japanese
will say it will come in Japan. So you have fierce competition!
Sometimes you think it's a great advantage for Americans to have long legs
because you can run faster, but watch out for the Japanese and Koreans.
They
will be fierce competitors because, even though their legs are short, your
eyes are big and you look around at so many things. But Koreans and
Japanese
have small eyes and they see only the goal, nothing else. Can you still
win?
The Korean way of life is such that they can skip lunch for a week and
never
notice. But in America you count on eating three meals, and when one
o'clock
comes you think, "Why isn't lunch ready?" The Koreans have another
advantage
because they don't need any special furniture to sit on. They can sit
anywhere: on the grass, on the sand, on the highway, and it doesn't make
any
difference to them. But when you tell Americans to sit down they look for
a
bench or chair. The Korean people don't need flush toilets because nature
provides a toilet everywhere. But when Americans have to relieve
themselves
they run around until they find a toilet.
Also you Westerners complicate a meal by using so many different
utensils-a
fork, knife, butter knife, salad fork, steak knife, coffee spoon, soup
spoon.
Why do you make your life so complicated ? All Koreans need are two chop
sticks for everything. Chop sticks were inspired by the birds, whose beaks
work on the same principle. A bird doesn't need many forks and knives.
When
you think you need so many items, you will get left behind. Would you fall
behind?
In an American meal there is soup, then salad, then the main course, then
dessert and an after-dinner drink. You have breakfast and then in a couple
of
hours you want a coffee break. How many breaks do you have during the day?
You waste so much time doing many tedious and ridiculous things. How many
of
you sisters waste time painting your fingernails and trying to shape your
eyebrows? If you do all these things do you still have time to complete
home
church?
It is not very easy to win at home church. You need to do three things:
think
differently, plan differently and act differently. Your way of life must
become different. Instead of walking the normal way at a normal speed you
need to be shouting out and running down the highway. If you have that
kind
of stamina then I can see some hope in you to win the home church
champion****p here in America. Can you do it? Your answer is very clear.
Do you know how much I have been tricked and cheated by you? You always
lie
to me. How many yeses have you spoken to me? But where are those yeses in
action? I forgive you for 1979. It's gone and behind us. What about 1980?
Would you do it? Is this a yes I can remember or should I forget it?
I gave you not only a sermon this morning but a one-man show. Why? Because
I
see nothing but hope in 1980, nothing but brightness and excitement.
Therefore, I want to start the day by being happy, excited and jubilant. I
would like to keep a record in my own notebook of successful home church
#1,
#2, #3, and #4. How many numbers would you like to have? You won't see
that
notebook here on earth, but as soon as you get to the spirit world you
will
automatically see that notebook. If you find it and see you are number one
then all your American ancestors will be shouting and dancing. God will be
awakened and ask, "What are you doing down there?" and you will reply,
"Father, come and dance with us. America has the number one home church
and
did the number one job."
When you become a champion in home church, is that comparable to winning
the
Olympic marathon? A marathon is trivial compared to the home church race,
where a champion must run for ten or twenty years to win. You are going to
win far greater glory as a home church champion, so wouldn't you want to
give
your entire best for a few years? It is only logical. I want you to know
that
what I said this morning will be put into practice by all the Unification
Church members around the world, not just you. You have tough competition.
Within three days the entire world will hear what I said this morning and
then everyone will want to catch up with you for the three-day delay. They
will want to run faster and do something better than the American
movement.
"I will witness better and lecture better and visit home church more."
Even
the MFT will want to do better than you in every competition. Especially
the
heavy women will want to get rid of their extra burden so they can do
better,
and God, looking down, will say, "That's truly my daughter. She resembles
me
and my character.'' then will God think that He wants to give her the best
husband or not? You know the answer. You are not dumb.
Today's topic is the slogan for this year of 1980: Home Church is the Base
of
the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the destiny where true rest lies, where
true
happiness and joy lies, and even where true life lies. The person who
lives
and dies in home church is the person who is truly happy.
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