Sun Myung Moon
December 4, 1975
Barrytown, New York
Translator: David S. C. Kim
Photo date and location unknown
Every time I come here, new trainees are waiting for a new message and I am afraid that if you only listen and don't practice the message in everyday living, you will owe so much to heaven. Can you bear it? It is similar to a man who has a big head, but whose legs and body are disproportionate in relation to it. I am afraid that you are receiving truth in your head only.
Man wants to be trusted, but to be trusted you have to set up some condition. Such a condition means you have to have responsibility. Heavenly Father cannot trust man because Adam and Eve were unable to fulfill their responsibility. That's why He lost trust.
A part of human nature wants to be left alone. It does not want to have to interact with people; it wants freedom. Isn't it true we have this tendency? If you are going to insist -- "Leave me alone." -- then you have to be completely perfected by yourself. You will have to bear that kind of responsibility. Why didn't Heavenly Father leave Adam alone? He couldn't because he had not fulfilled his responsibility.
Yet another part of your nature wants to be loved. We want to love. Before loving even your physical parents, you love me alone. You want to have that kind of monopoly of love. But to receive love you must be qualified, you have to fill the parental role. You cannot fulfill this responsibility by yourself. The mother and father's role means you have to take an objective position. You have to be able to protect the object as your partner. You have to be able to love, be able to protect. That means you have the relative position of father to mother, mother to father; that is the role you have to fulfill your responsibility.
In God's restoration, we have to restore trust, independence, and love. You have to complete your responsibility for the sake of God, for the sake of your partner, for the sake of the object, not for you a subject alone. You want to perfect your partner and yourself. It is interrelated. As fallen man to be restored to God you must become a trustworthy person for God to use. You must be a person giving every thing and receiving total, absolute love from God This is your present job and this time you have to fulfill it. You have to take responsibility in order to be trusted by God. So, between you and God, you have to set up a condition through which you can be trusted. When you, as individuals, are looking for this relationship with God, it means you have to train yourself on the horizontal level among man. The problem, though, is, how many people do you have who can trust you?
The same thing applied to Jesus Christ when he was on earth. Even though Jesus was trusted by God he had to set up the actual condition on earth whereby people could trust him. He was unable to do this. No single person ever followed him. His disciples followed him when there was great hope, but whenever persecution came, they ran away. Jesus had no key person to trust him, and so he was not trusted by the people. He could not set up a condition so that God was able to give him a mission to do by himself. So automatically, he was unable to find the person who he could love. In this process of restoration to God we have to do a better job than Jesus Christ did. In a three-year period how many people will you meet who trust you? The Bible says that whatever you do for the person God loves, you will be rewarded. If you bring many people to God they can trust you and that means you are setting up the condition for God. God will trust you. Without that condition you are not to be trusted by God. Look at yourself. Examine yourself. How many people do you have as your spiritual children who trust you? The problem is to have your parents' trust, your juniors' and seniors'. Who is going to trust you? How many children do you have? If you have none, you are a miserable person. You will be more miserable, for if you have nobody, not even God can trust you. You become the most miserable person in the world. Do you want that kind of a situation surrounding you? Nobody wants that situation to happen. We have to get out of that situation.
I know all of the spiritual laws, and I don't want you to be left out. I want you to be in the category of a person to be trusted. We have to think which category of person God will trust: those doing the most difficult job, or those doing the least task. You know very well whom God trusts but it is hard to put into practice. The problem, as the Bible says, is that if you want to live, you must die, but if you are willing to die, you shall live. That means the degree of dying situation. The position of dying, the place of dying is the most trustworthy place for God. The more difficult job brings out more trust. This is true not only with world problems but even for spiritual problems in spirit world. Liberation of spirit world, liberation of all mankind, is the hardest job in which God will trust you the most.
You want to be trusted by three people: Heavenly Father, myself, Unification Family. That means you have to serve God, me and your brothers and sisters in the Unification Church -- you have to take responsibility. Such service is not found in the commercial business area. It is not in the area of money making, nor in the area of Bible or Principle study, and it is not to be found through any university degree. The responsibility is to liberate mankind from Satan. That is the greatest concern of Heavenly Father and myself.
Jesus Christ's greatness lies there. He recognized the need to save all mankind from under Satan; so he was the greatest man in past religious circles. It is also very important to liberate spirit world. This is the predestined road all mankind should go: if you cannot fulfill in your lifetime, then you have to fulfill in spirit world. You'd better do it here. We have to do it while our physical body remains here on earth. After that, it will take a long time. Wherever the body goes is so important. Wherever the mind and soul go, the body must follow. When my mind is doing something like this, then my body automatically follows. If my body is doing a good job, my mind will automatically be attached to the body and they will be working together. Then mind and spirit can be transformed because of the physical body. It's important.
In spirit world you deal with only spirit and mind. On earth you might change but spirit never changes. That's why all things must be settled while we are on earth. Earth is the plane where all mistaken things must be corrected, restored. Some conventional Christians or not so devoted Christians feel that there is time enough to believe in Jesus Christ and God just before physical death. It is a very convenient belief system. Is this possible? Suppose a tree has a rotten root system and the trunk is dried up, but the leaves on the top are green. Can those leaves live much longer? No. Life begins from a tiny spot in the mother's womb, not from the outside.
The salvation process is the same thing. It starts from the beginning of life, and to start this process the younger you are, the better. That's why all teaching must take place while you are young, because you are spiritually and physically very sensitive. That's why we encourage you to study while you are young. Religious practice should start from the earliest age. The older you become, the harder it is to inject belief. There are too many biased, prejudiced ideas when you get older, too much egotism. Heavenly Father is very wise to begin this kind of principle so that I can attract young people to come and surround the Unification Church centering on me.
You will expand according to your effort. You will develop, you will advance your own potential. You have to think that you are the luckiest person in the world. While you are young, God put you here in the Unification Church to accept the Divine Principle. That means that you are fresh, you are dynamic, you have a future ahead of you. Advancement is a wide road. You are bestowed the heavenly responsibility to liberate mankind and God. You are even going to liberate spirit world. How glorious a job. You have it. I am envious of you people. You are fresh, young, in a green age, wonderful. If I were young like you, I would spread more power over the world. I wish I could be your age. I envy you. I am resentful of your glorious youthful age and that is why I want to make you the kind of person of whom I dreamt in my young age.
When good young people graduate, the whole world and the whole community benefits. If you have a family when young, your descendants will be young, dynamic people centering on God. That whole hopeful future depends on us. I think of you in that category. So everybody, including you, once in the Unification Church, centering on me, must see prosperity, advancement and a glorious future ahead of us. We want that but the closer we reach that stage, the more deeply involved we become in the Unification Church. You have to work harder, endure more suffering, and broaden your responsibility. Ordinary people do not like that. They want everything done in a short time and then they will relax. If you are relaxed and satisfied on one level then your growing stage stops. When a tree does not grow, something is wrong; it is beginning to decay. When water stands still, never flows, then the river will be contaminated by germs and disease. When the tree has more leaves come out, then there is action. The same thing applies to our movement.
If you want to try to advance all the way, with the spirit of Americanism, then you have to work hard all your life, all the way. The hard worker will win over the slow worker; automatically subject and object relations shall take place. Those who suffer the most, those who work harder shall be the boss and other people cannot complain when the qualified ruler appears. Although America is the wealthiest nation in the world, the more a nation advances, the more hope they have; but if they stay in one spot, then the decline of the nation shall take place. The secret for the unification advancement progress is to liberate mankind. That's one motto, but just talking, conceptualizing is not enough. You have to put it into practice. Unification people are still working, although sometimes you are torn, you are nailed, and with the hard work your hands become very rough.
Satan is claiming all of mankind from the individual level all the way up. Satan is not going to surrender to you easily. You have to work harder than Satan, who has been conquering the whole world for 6000 years. Do you think Satan is sleeping like you do? Does he sleep? There is no need for him to sleep He is far superior than you. Heavenly Father cannot restore this world if you are weaker than Satan, because the spirit of Heavenly Father demands more dynamic, more aggressive people. Have you ever thought about the seriousness of Unification people and the mission? Even Jesus Christ was unable to convert people to total loyalty. He had terrible disciples under him. How could he expect 1000 people in the Jewish nation to follow and trust him? Even if he found three out of twelve people, three who wanted to trust and follow him, they were unable to fulfill. No single disciple was ready to risk his life to die for Jesus Christ. Not a single one of the three. Although Jesus actually wanted to die, was ready to die, risking his life for the sake of God, he had none to follow him. Jesus Christ accomplished all the way to be trusted by God; he had the salvation, spiritual salvation of mankind. Therefore, God resurrected him while his disciples went to hell.
Do you really believe in me? Do you believe more than the three disciples, Peter, James and John? Jesus clearly said to Peter: Before the time comes you will betray me three times. Peter said, "No, I will not betray you." He said that. Do you believe more than Peter did? Maybe you will be another Peter in the Unification Church. When trouble starts, you will deny me. Shall you? How can I trust you? Peter was Jewish and one of the descendants of Israel, yet he denied Jesus. How can I trust you? You are Americans, you are whites and black, I am yellow. How can I trust you? What's the difference between the two? I would like to trust you, but how? I cannot trust you until I let you do harder work than the Korean family is able to do. Then if you pass that stage, then maybe I can start trusting you. If I apply this theory, you may go away but if you don't go away, you will receive more fortune, more heavenly love. You are not going to repeat what Peter did. You will not lose anything if you stick to it, believe in me, risk your life for me and so, get your life back. So you don't have to feel bad if I push you harder, more than even the Korean family can bear. You enjoy luxurious conveniences in this civilized world of 20th century America, more so than Korea. So with all your history, I will give you the hardest work. I want to create additional missions, not only the American mission, but also Asian missions. If white people go and work harder for Asia, then your indemnity can restore the exploitation of past centuries, of taking people and wealth from the Asian and African nations. You have to restore that condition. Will you do it?
Do you really love me to believe in me? If you are well-built or overweight I will push you with hard labor so that your physical body will be half skin. Will you accept it? Would you be better off not doing anything, being overweight and fat or to become skinny and bony because of the hard work. Which one is better? The second one is better, isn't it? Instead of going on a diet, you'd better work hard for God's sake, for the sake of unification, for my sake, and you will be far better off spiritually. Right? So I feel fortunate in having lots of heavy weight here that can be put into training to become half skinny. I am very thankful to God to have sent all this heavy weight to this movement. This is a serious question. Even though it looks like very hard work for you, if, with this theory, you become wonderful heavenly missionaries, then through you, all can come to you as their spiritual parent. You are losing nothing by the hard work required by me because it means giving you more blessing for the world territory.
In order to be trusted by God, you have to fulfill your individual heavenly responsibility. Nothing else.
You have to be trusted by me, then you have to be trusted by your brothers and sisters; you have to be trusted as the senior. We cannot carry all fortunes to Heaven, only spiritual fortunes. You will leave here physically but your work will be spread by your second generation. That fortune will accumulate more and more goodness on earth, even though you have gone to spirit world. When you believe, you have to have total belief in it, not partial belief. We cannot be trusted if only one hand is doing something good. You have to involve total trust toward missionary work. You have to concentrate, concentrate on one point. The Bible says that you have to serve and love God with all your might, with all your heart and with all your love.
Witnessing is not just a game, not just an ordinary routine. You are risking your life when you try to save another's life for God. If you plant your seed of life, you will reap the seed of life. If you plant the seed of truth, then you will reap truth. You must have the seed of righteousness and goodness, otherwise, you will not reap goodness. If you plant beans, you will harvest beans. That's why the Bible says that when you look at the fruit of a tree, you can know the truth. If you see the fruit, the result of organization, you can judge what kind of organization went into it. In witnessing, you are planting the seed of truth and love in the ground. You have to think how much you have to put in, in order to grow the best plant of goodness and truth. Think of it. When you practice this way, you will be rewarded by some person who will trust you. If you do not practice this way, you will not receive trust. If you are going to trust somebody, you must trust 100 percent. You must be worthy to receive 100 percent trust by somebody. Up to this point there have only been untrustful persons to become trustful. That's our job, our heavenly mission. In one sense it is a very difficult job because the person in front of you is an untrustful person, but you are giving him, or her your trust and your life, and through this you are trying to plant your life and truth in him. That is the grafting process.
When false truth comes your way you have to turn the false into truth. You must have a love beyond the parent love. If, in the pure parental position, you love the untrustworthy person, then right there love begins between you and that person. You don't have to look for love if you set up this condition because it happens automatically. If you can give complete trust to somebody, then you are perfect yourself. You are giving to him totally. If you love somebody, you want to give yourself totally, not partially. That's the characteristic of love. That means that those who are ready to give themselves totally to somebody belong to God; you receive love from God directly. If you want this love, you must practice it in your relationships with human beings.
When you go into the secular world, everybody is unfaithful, untrustworthy, and they are suspicious of each other. Because of the fall, untrustworthiness, unfaithfulness and untruthfulness were planted, and now they have spread throughout the whole universe. So now we are going to change this world by our own effort. This untrustful world must be changed into a trustful one by you. You have to think that way: instead of trying to receive love you have to give total love. You are in the process of restoring this world to God. When, from God's point of view, this untrustful, unfaithful and sinful world is turned upside down through you individually, then God is going to turn the now impossible status of America into a heavenly America. So between God and myself, between you and myself, there must be a trustworthy relationship: a trinity relationship of God, me, and you.
This trinity involves three generations. God lost His three generations. After the fall He never restored three generations: parents, family, society. That's why the Bible says that you must love your neighbor as yourself. Unless you give your love, you are not going to receive love from the object. That's why we have to expand our territory in which to win spiritual children. Which is better? To have many spiritual children or few spiritual children? When, after the Blessing, you have a home, a spouse and a family, would you like to have many children or few children? How many? Is the American practice of birth control right or wrong? In one sense birth control is good because Satan's children cannot be multiplied if people practice birth control. God does not want the multiplication of Satan's children. But you do believe that a true loving wife and a true loving husband shall create true, wonderful children? Do you think that? Yes, it is true; true, wonderful children shall be born between the two.
So what is the issue here? You've got to be trusted by three persons: Heavenly Father, myself, your children. This also applies to leaders of nations. There must be three people who can be trusted. If you spread this four position foundation and if you stack it on the horizontal level, then you fulfill the three stages of growth. Trusting someone is very precious. So, when you want to trust, give the amount and take the responsibility to be worthy to be trusted. Then you are trusted. By that you receive your own independent road, your mission to be done. Then between the two, only give-and-take, love and total trust shall emerge. When you do something, you are working for the sake of God, working for all the brothers and sisters of the world, to transform the relationships of mankind into positive ones.
Who is a happy person? He is the person who wants to give something he is able to give, and wants to receive something he is able to receive. That kind of free flow between the subject-object relationship, centering on His will and His love is the happiest relationship in the world. Is it true? When you reach this stage of give-and-take in love then equality shall take place. Ideal love between the two will make people envious of this couple. Do you have some subject to whom you can freely give? Do you have some person? Are you ready to receive when you want to receive from somebody. But you have none. First you have to give true love, then you will be qualified yourself to receive true love in return. Trust him and the other party will trust you. This way the generation of love will take place between the two.
Who is the ideal parent? He is one who wants to give love to somebody, his children, all the time. He is the happiest person. It is the same in a husband and wife relationship, between the brothers and sisters, and family. To be trustworthy you've got to be faithful and you have to be honest. Then with total honesty you will qualify yourself. You will be trusted by God You will be assigned your independent mission and then heavenly love shall come to you.
This condition was lost because of fallen Lucifer. To restore this condition, you have to go into the satanic world, Lucifer's world. We have to go there, win the victory and return with it. You have to get a sign from Satan that you are an honest and trustworthy parent. Then God can say that you are trustworthy, you are honest. The same thing applies in the secular court if the prosecuting attorney cannot prove you guilty, you are acquitted. The judge will agree; he cannot give any adverse opinion. When you get approval from Satan, Satan must admit that you are a true person, a man of truth. That means you must have something better, something Satan cannot even do. Who is Satan? He is the lord of untrustworthy persons. By his own will he took the heavenly responsibility and he is lord of stolen love. We are to become the restored men and women of God. We have to go in the opposite direction. We have to return the untrustworthy, then we have to do our responsibility independently. We have to return heavenly love by fighting for the world and returning it to God.