God's Heart

Kook Jin Moon
July 1, 1993
Unification Church of Brazil Headquarters
San Paulo, Brazil

It's extremely important that we understand the depth of True Parents' love, which is capable of bringing us together here, to purify our hearts and our souls and to teach us the true way of life, to teach us how to live and how to conduct our daily activities. We must truly come to understand and truly come to try to feel this love in our hearts, because the love of our Parents touches our soul and it gives us our identity, lets us know who we are as people and why we have been sent by our Creator to this earth to live.

Our Parents' love liberates us and frees us from all of the evil of this earth. It shows us and teaches us that each man and woman has a divine mission and has a divine value. It teaches us that if we can come in touch with the divine mission which has been given to us, then we can be a part of that greater divinity, and that greater love, that love of our Father and our Heavenly Father.

This is what our Parents have challenged all of you to try to understand, to try to grasp in your hearts and try to receive into your souls. This is what you must understand and this is what you must receive into your hearts, because this will give you the strength, the understanding, and the purity you need, to truly become engrafted into the lineage and the family of our True Parents. You must seek with your entire soul and your entire heart to try to receive the love, the true heart of the love of our Parents.

Far from the family's love

However, unfortunately, for so long, for so many thousands of years, the people of this earth, the people of Brazil, the people of the United States of America, of all the countries of the world, have been separated from this love of our Parents and they have lost their sensitivity, in many ways, to this great love which our Parents have. Many peoples' hearts have become hardened in the way of sin and in the way of evil. They have become animalistic in their behaviors and they have truly disgraced the divinity which God had intended for all of us to receive.

When faced with such evil on this earth, how must we feel? If your brother and sister were lost in their ways and so separated from the love, from your love, as their brother or sister-wouldn't you feel a great desire in your heart to reach out to that brother and try to tell him how much you love him. Wouldn't you want to reach out to that family member and bring him back to the family so that he can correct again his way and so he can once again be part of that love of the family.

This analogy is similar to the situation which we face today. All around us are our lost brothers and sisters who have become lost in their ways and corrupt in their behavior. If we are true people who have a true desire to reach out to our brothers, then we must become motivated to bring them in together, and to bring them back to our family. We must be motivated to teach them how to rectify their ways, and how to live a life in accordance with the life of our Father. We must teach them how to receive a love so great and so true that their lives will be filled with the love of Heavenly Father. This is what we must do. We need to let them know that our True Parents truly love them. However, those brothers and sisters whom we have lost, they have sinned greatly and have fallen far away from our Father and our Heavenly Father.

The original vision of love

Think about the original vision of creation. Think about the grand vision of love which our Heavenly Father had when He decided to create this universe, and all of the world that you see around you today. Think about the great beauty and the passion for love which our Heavenly Father had when He created all the beautiful flowers all around you, the roses, the carnations. Think about the great passion of love which He had when He brought to this earth all of the beautiful creatures that are on earth. Think about the grand vision of love when He created His own children in His own image. Think about that vision of love: Our Heavenly Father's desire to create an object which He desired to love so purely and so truly that this love would truly encompass the entire body and the soul, and would truly encompass the entire heart, mind and soul of each and every single one of us.

Try to understand this great love, and this great vision of love, this great vision for a love so pure and so true that if once we taste of it we would never, never want to be separated from this love, once you understand this vision and this concept of this love so pure.

Look at the reality around you today! Look at the total disgrace in which mankind lives. Look at the corruption of his soul and the impurity of his actions. Think about when our Heavenly Father, who had encompassed this original vision, looks down upon His creation, looks down upon His children and sees such disgrace and evil. Imagine how hard, how tremendously painful, how much He would suffer in His heart and soul. Just think about it. Even for yourselves. If somebody or something which you love dearly betrays you, think about how great that anguish is and then try to think and imagine about our Heavenly Father, for truly He is so much infinitely greater than all of us, and since He has such infinite value, imagine how much greater His suffering in His heart is. We must truly come to think about how we can console this aching heart of our Heavenly Father, and how we can console the aching heart of our True Parents. We must truly find the way to liberate their hearts and to bring back the joy into their souls once again. If we want to liberate their souls, if we want to liberate their hearts, we need to bring the people of this world, we need to take them all and we need to cleanse their hearts, wash away their evil ways and truly teach them how to be repentful for their sins and teach them how they must truly restore the original purity of their hearts so they can receive this great love once again, this great love of our Heavenly Father.

That cleansing brush

Since our brothers and sisters have fallen so far away, and since they do not understand the great heart of our True Parents and of our Heavenly Father, it is our responsibility, it is your responsibility to take that cleansing brush in your hand, to take the burden of all the sins of this earth onto your shoulders and try to cleanse it and to make this world once again clean and pure so that it can receive the love of our Heavenly Father and of our Parents.

This is our challenge. For the sake of this world, for the sake of our Parents, for the sake of Heavenly Father, for the sake of our brothers and sisters, we must be willing to take on our shoulders the weight and responsibility of restoring and cleansing all the sins of this earth. Even if we have to walk the road of great suffering, even if we have to walk through the depths of hell, we must be willing to march, so that for the sake of this world we can truly bring these people, bring the children of Heavenly Father back to Him again. We must truly in our hearts be motivated to liberate the heart of God, to liberate the heart of our True Parents. We must be willing to do so through our own sacrifice, through our own blood, sweat and tears, through our own deepening and cleansing of our hearts, and through our hard efforts in cleansing and restoring the people of this earth.

To us appointed

One by one, we need to let the people of this world understand the great vision of our Parents, the great love which they have. One by one, we need to reach out to our brothers and sisters and teach them how to live, and we need to teach them how to cleanse their ways, how to truly become pure once again, how to have a heart which can truly be like that of a child who can truly receive purely the love of their Parents.

This is our responsibility. This is our challenge. This is a challenge which is truly, truly appointed to us and we cannot fail. For the sake of our True Parents and Heavenly Father, we cannot fail. Please, please, try to understand the importance of trying, of why we have been gathered here together. Please try to feel and understand the importance of the responsibility that each and every one of you have to restore your fellow brothers and sisters. Understand that and feel that at the bottom of your hearts. Let that understanding encompass you so that you can go out to the world and so that you can bring back your brothers and sisters, and so that you can restore them and make them true once again.

Please understand that your sacrifice and your suffering is for the sake of your family, it's for the sake of your brothers and sisters, it's for the sake of your parent. You must understand this and you must try to help your brothers and sisters understand. Because we are one great family and since all the people on the earth are part of our family, we must night and day, twenty-four hours a day, always be thinking about them and always desire to bring them back, to bring all those lost brothers and sisters back to our Parents. Do you understand what we have to do?

It is truly very important, but if we can truly understand our mission and if we can truly go out to the world and try to do it then that will give each and every single one of us the greatest joy. Because, in restoring our brothers and sisters, and then showing them how to love our Parents, we are receiving the love of our Parents. For each life we save, we're saving our own lives because as we teach our brothers and sisters and as we make their spirit strong they will make your spirits strong, and as you strengthen in your spirit and your heart you will be able to receive the love of our Parents on a much greater scale and you will grow in your love, and you will grow in the joy you feel in your heart.

This will liberate

You must understand that although we carry a great weight and a burden, this weight and burden is our joy, our happiness. This is what you must understand. You must understand that every day in which you work to save your brothers and sisters you're working for yourself. You are working to save your own life. You are working to be a more heavenly person, who can more purely feel the joy and love of Heavenly Father and our Parents. If you can truly understand the value of the mission which you are pursuing and if you can truly understand its great fruits and rewards, then you will understand that your mission is of more value, is more precious, more joyous than any other work in this world. This is what you must come to understand and this is what you must come to feel in your souls and in your hearts. This will liberate your mind and it will liberate your soul. It will let you rise above all that is corrupt on this earth and let you truly unite with our Parents. Please try to understand and try to feel it in your hearts. If we can do that, then we can do everything. Do you understand? Then let us try to do it, and let us make a pledge in our hearts. Are you willing to make that pledge? (Yes.) Thank you very much. 

Search Your Own Hearts

Kook Jin Moon
March 27, 1988
Seoul, Korea

On March 23, 1988, True Mother lets all the brothers and sisters greet Shin Gil Nim, the first son of Hyo Jin Nim and Nan Sook Nim, during his 40-day celebration at East Garden. Nan Sook Nim (behind Mother), Jeung Jin Nim (at Mother's right), and Sh…

On March 23, 1988, True Mother lets all the brothers and sisters greet Shin Gil Nim, the first son of Hyo Jin Nim and Nan Sook Nim, during his 40-day celebration at East Garden. Nan Sook Nim (behind Mother), Jeung Jin Nim (at Mother's right), and Shin Jeung Nim (in front of Mother) look on.

I'm very happy to come before all of you today. Today my nephew Shin Won was born. You must understand that today, with his birth, the True Family is receiving a new foundation, a new future, because the third generation is now coming into this world. Today is a day in which we have grasped the future.

As we celebrate this day, we must seek to understand the significance of what the birth of a True Child means. We cannot just look at this day as the day Shin Won was physically born. It is something much more. This is a day when all members -- both first generation and second generation -- can come together in celebration of the new future.

You must understand the real significance of the True Family. We, the members of the True Family, exist in our physical bodies, but the reality that exists in our hearts is that of our Parents' love. The whole ideal of creation, for which God created all things, is based on the four position foundation centered on Heavenly Father and True Parents. Upon this foundation, True Children can be born, and with each new birth, the heart of the True Parents can be passed on to generations to come. This is why the births of Shin Gil Nim and Shin Won Nim are so important.

Nurturing True Parents' root

All of us -- first and second generation -- must work together to make a foundation in which this root planted by True Parents can grow. We must nurture this root, which represents the original seed that True Father has planted, so that it can grow into the healthiest, tallest tree, branching out to all the people of the world. We are destined to live for this purpose. This is a day when we, as members of the Unification Church, can say, "The future will be ours!"

This day is not just for us; it is for the sake of the world. As the heart of True Parents is expanding, being given now to the third generation, we will be able to reach out to liberate the whole world. Our future together will not just be in our church, but in the whole world. By inheriting, supporting, and nurturing that heart, we will unite the world. Then together we can live in the world we desire, which we came to understand many years ago when we began to serve our Parents. This is a day when we can come together as one family, when we can truly understand the value of the suffering, sacrificial heart of the True Parents.

I'm sure you all remember that time many years ago when you first joined the Unification Church and our movement had such a fragile foundation. Many years have passed; we have fought many wars together and won many victories. We have come a long way from our original point. But this doesn't mean we can slow down now. This is the time when we must recommit ourselves and march forward to bring this world together, not just in words or as a dream, but in reality!

You must feel the determination and fire you originally had when you first chose to live a sacrificial life. This is a time when we can relearn this, when we can grasp and take in the original heart of True Parents -- that heart that has sacrificed for so many years for our sake. No matter how many times the people of True Parents have faltered, our Parents have always loved all of us. No matter how many times we have made mistakes, or have been weak inside, or have stumbled, they have never brought judgment against us. Our Parents have truly given us pure, sacrificial love without asking anything in return except that we learn what is in our own original heart and mind and that we can feel the love of the Father within us -- that kind of joy and happiness.

Your Parents understand what your life has been like. You cannot think that they would forget your deeds. You shouldn't feel insecure or think that your Parents would ever leave you. If you can truly understand your Parents' heart, then your own heart, I tell you, will be full. You will not tremble or feel that you may be left in the dark one day.

Father prays at the 8-day ceremony of Shin Won Nim, first child of Hyun Jin Nim and Jun Sook Nim.

Father prays at the 8-day ceremony of Shin Won Nim, first child of Hyun Jin Nim and Jun Sook Nim.

You Should Not Feel Weakness of Heart

Think about the kind of sacrificial love you give to your own children as you raise them. Whatever your child needs, whatever has to be done, you are willing to give of yourself for the sake of that child as he grows. If you are willing to do that for your children, how much more do you think True Parents would do for you? True Parents have been willing to do anything for you, and will always be that willing. The heart of True Parents is a heart that can understand the heart of Heavenly • Father. Thus, you cannot feel weakness of heart when you realize Parents' absolute determination to love and nurture their children.

When you were a child, do you remember your innocent fascination with everything around you? Do you remember how easily you received whatever you were given? As the children of True Parents, what must we do? As a child grows he is willing to learn, to accept, and grow with whatever he receives. How much more so must we be that way with True Parents! If you can truly take in the love and sacrifice that True Parents have given you, and if you can love your fellow brothers and sisters with that kind of love in return, then we can create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth today.

It is in your heart where the Kingdom of Heaven is found. It is in your heart where True Parents and Heavenly Father can dwell. You must search in there! This is how we can actually take part in completing the original creation -- by creating our original selves. That is the Principle of Creation.

If we are willing to face what is in our own heart in a pure way, without lying to ourselves -- if we can truly see just where we are -- then we can begin to open up our hearts to our Father and receive his love and give that love back. But we must be willing to open up our hearts.

We must relearn how to look for the thing that is most valuable. Two thousand years ago Jesus said, "Let the dead bury their own dead. If you want to find the Kingdom of Heaven, come with me." Today, we must try to understand the kind of absolute determination, love, and service we must offer for the sake of our True Parents. We must be willing to leave everything behind. Just as Jesus was trying to teach 2,000 years ago, our Parents have come here today to help us recognize the most valuable things existing in our own hearts.

We cannot live any longer in a world of lies, where importance is viewed by what chair you sit in. If the person in front of me is a beggar but has a true heart that can really understand his Heavenly Father's heart, then I tell you I would bow down before that person. The person who can serve our Father in that pure way is the one I am willing to respect. We must understand that greatness is determined by the level of our understanding of the heart of our Heavenly Father and True Parents.

The True Family greets some of the teachers of Hackley High School after the graduation ceremonies.

The True Family greets some of the teachers of Hackley High School after the graduation ceremonies.

The Only Way to Defeat the Enemy

Jesus said, "If you partake of me, then you can find the Kingdom of Heaven. You will have eternal life, and you will never die." We must understand what he meant when he said, "If you partake of me..." He was really saying, "If you can inherit my heart, if you can inherit the heart of the Father which is in my heart, then you will find eternal life." If we seek to enter our Heavenly Father's house in the Kingdom of Heaven, we must first understand His heart.

In order to win a battle or a war, you must know who the enemy is. That is the only way you can create the strategy to defeat the enemy. In this mission we are faced with today, we must understand where we have to fight and be willing to go there. If you can do this, then you have the ability to effectively attack and defeat the enemy.

You should realize where your enemy is -- in your own hearts!

The barrier that is preventing us from coming together into one is inside of you. You are holding onto something that is apart from your original value -- your self-centered pride. That kind of lie we are living. These are the things that hold us back from realizing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Originally each man was created according to the Principle. However, it is man's responsibility to complete the creation of his own heart. Therefore, if you can search your own heart truthfully and make a judgment against yourself just as you have been willing to make judgments against others -- if you're willing to take that kind of road -- then you can truly fight against Satan and against the evil that exists within you. Then we can accomplish that world of heart and unite together.

We must follow our True Parents for the correct reason. We must follow our True Parents and be willing to give our lives for their sake because we understand the value of their heart. We cannot follow for any other reason.

In the Bible we read that Jesus had to go the way of the cross. After saying many times that he must die, the actual time came when he had to go to Jerusalem and be crucified. At that time his disciples said, "No, you can't die. We will die for your sake!" Because of these words, Jesus took his three closest disciples with him to Gethsemane, and there he prayed three times, but his disciples fell asleep.

Here you can see the difference between words and actions. The disciples did not understand the heart of the Father. If they had understood the heart of Heavenly Father and Jesus at that time, then Jesus, with the foundation of those three disciples, coo Id have remained on the earth and worked to multiply that heart.

At his graduation from Hackley High School in Tarrytown, NY, Kook Jin Nim receives the Mrs. Frederick W. Sherman Book Prize for excellence in the visual arts.

At his graduation from Hackley High School in Tarrytown, NY, Kook Jin Nim receives the Mrs. Frederick W. Sherman Book Prize for excellence in the visual arts.

The Disciples Didn't Understand True

Let us further examine the life of the disciples. Three days after Jesus passed away, he returned to the world and per- formed many miracles. Upon viewing these miracles, only then did the disciples take seriously their once-spoken words to die for Jesus. Let us examine what that action meant. Did those disciples follow the heart of Jesus as the Messiah? Or did they just follow what they could see on the physical level -- his miracles? If you look in the book of Acts in the Bible, you can learn about the actions of the disciples. Peter said to the people many times, "I have cured you and I have done miracles only through the name of Jesus Christ." This is all he could understand about Jesus.

The reality is that the disciples failed to understand the true heart of Jesus. Even though they eventually died for his sake, their heartistic level was shallow. They lacked an understanding of the heart of true sacrifice. They did not grasp the essence of Jesus and live his way of life. That is why when we look at this world today, the world established upon the disciples' foundation, we do not see an ideal world -- a world we would want our children to liv, in. This is a world of drugs, of illicit sex. It is a world of corruption.

Today is a day when you should look into your own hearts and see what you must do in order to grow. Although my words may sound harsh, if you can understand them, this can be a day of your rebirth.

A day when a True Child is born is a day for all of us. This is what we have struggled for. Now we can be determined and willing to take the role of our Father. By understanding the love our Father has given us, we can look into ourselves, and no matter how much it may hurt now, we can bring our heart around.

As you live your physical life on this earth you must learn that true service means that no matter how often you are rejected you continue to give, asking nothing in return. This is the kind of love your Parents are showing you. This is the kind of love you must inherit.

How happy we should be today! Today we can realize that there is a love that never ends, for it is a circle, and it's constantly growing. Every day we can come to understand more of our Parents' heart. But if you want to find that happiness, you must be willing to work for it -- to grow your heart, to live a life of service. Things with the most value are the most difficult to attain.

Try to Feel What Father Has Felt

No matter how much True Parents want to do the mission for you, they cannot, because according to the Principle of Creation, all of us must complete the creation of our own heart. This is the pain and the suffering of our Parents.

You know what it means to work for something. In order to make a lot of money, you must face a lot of difficulties. But what you are working for is so much greater; it is of eternal value. This is what will allow you to live in the Parents' house in the Kingdom of Heaven, together as one family. In order to gain this heart, you must be absolutely determined and put your 100 percent energy into living the life that Father has led, trying to feel what Father has felt in his course.

This is of the greatest importance because it will give us life. Are you willing to work to gain this ticket into the Kingdom of Heaven? Are you willing to do it?

Kamsa hamnida.