Victory of Home Church

Why do we recite Section Five of the Children’s Pledge? Because it is representative of the entire Pledge. The first thing we say is that we are “proud of the one sovereignty.”

Do we have that sovereignty? Should true sovereignty come on earth or spirit world first? What should that sovereignty be centered on? Here on earth we have sovereignty based on money, power, etc. Our sovereignty should be based on the love of God. On earth there are so many different sovereignties, but we are talking about one sovereignty: the sovereignty started from one individual, tribe, and family.

If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have perfected themselves and formed a family; this family would be immediately connected to a tribe, nation, world, heaven and earth. At the same time, they set up their own family, they would have created the universe. Their sovereignty would have been incorruptible and infallible throughout h\story. It could not have been changed, because there would have been no formation of the opposition, of satanic forces.

So, Adam’s family position would have become the authentic heavenly tradition. That tradition would have prevailed here on earth and would have been connected to the spirit world. Adam was the center of not only the family, but the tribe, nation, world, and cosmos as well. When Adam and Eve failed to fulfill here on earth it had impact not just on earth but also in the spirit world.

But here on earth we are not yet part of one sovereignty. So, you blessed couples here on earth are giving your absolute best for the fulfillment of this goal. There is tremendous opposition coming against us. In this atmosphere you are trying to settle down and live; this is unthinkable. No matter what, we must exert our energy together to create one sovereignty or an atmosphere conducive to it. Day in, day out, we cannot live like ordinary men and women, without this sovereignty. We have to exert ourselves within our lifetimes to make sure that we have God’s sovereignty here on earth.

How can we obtain this sovereignty? By force, by sword and rifle? No. By love. Fulfilling sacrificial love. Only by that. The existing sovereignty is Cain-like. We have to digest the Cain-type sovereignty; we have to bring about heaven’s sovereignty, not just by word, but by deed. I want you to understand that all things in God’s creation are grieved in their hearts because they do not have a true master. They want to experience the dominion of a true master.

We must be proud of our way of life, of the goal of our blessing. Our goal should come first so that we are ready to put up with any hardship, any amount of difficulty, any sacrifice so that we can move forward. We have to unite all religions, all cultures and all intellectual traditions to achieve our goal of God-centered sovereignty here on earth.

What is next in the Pledge? We are “proud of the one people.” What is that one people? Japanese? Koreans? Americans? All people here? What does it mean? We are not talking about any particular race or nationality. We are talking about Unification people, commonly known as Moonies. We are one people, Moonies. But in the name of one people, everyone is included.

That one people should be able to digest the entire culture of the world. We cannot say that we cannot live the wav the Africans ‘live because it is not “our” culture. Who can say that? We should be able to embrace

all. We always think about one people. We are not talking about one particular high standard. We are talking about everyone together. That one people is centering upon the True Parents and they are all brothers and sisters. Has the world come to that level? How can we achieve that goal? If we stand still and wait for things to happen, nothing will change. We’ve got to do something.

Bad people will not just vanish. The method of making one people is through home church. There is no other way. We should be united and totally awakened so that we can extract the evil out of home church. We can extract anything — including Communists, mafia and thieves, in home church. But we haven’t been doing it because we don’t know them. No matter how many different people there are in home church, we shall make them one.

What is next? We are “proud of the one land.” We don’t have one land. We have one planet, but not one land. We think in terms of Japan, Europe, the United States, and so forth. What can we do to make it one land? Again, through home church. Even though there are all kinds of people, when they become loyal to one sovereignty, they can become one.

Next? We are proud of one language and culture. Have you become one-language people? Is that English or Japanese or German? Which language? Why Korean? Because that is the mother tongue. Unification Church Korean is not ordinary Korean. We are creating a new Korean. Even Korean people do not understand my language of subject and object, give and take and reciprocal relations. When I speak strict Divine Principle, no one can understand me; they ask what language I am speaking.

You are dumb and disabled if you are born not knowing. your mother’s language. Centering upon home church, you are becoming tribal messiahs. You are becoming parents, too. You as home church men and women must teach that one language to your home church people. This way you can create one language and one culture centered upon God. If there had been no fall, what language would have been here? Whatever the language Adam and Eve used.

In the second 21-year course you are to learn the mother tongue. In the first 21-year course I could not enforce that policy very well, for various reasons. It is a shame that many members have to read my words through German, translated from Korean, etc. It’s too bad that you cannot read directly from our language. Think about it. I am learning English even after the age of sixty. I am making a tremendous effort. You young people have no excuses.

Should you learn the language? Is using an interpreter to talk to you the principled way of communication between parents and children? Do you think that we should learn your language? You keep saying every Sunday that you are proud of the one language and one culture. But what have you done about it?

What is next? We are “proud of being children of the one True Parent.” In other words, we are proud of being Moonies. The Pledge can become lip service which we don’t take seriously, and I have not been pushing it too hard. The first 21-year course was my course; therefore, I wanted to fulfill my responsibility. Now the second 21-year course is your responsibility.

So, you have to live up to being “proud of the one family who is inheriting one tradition.” What is the tradition? So far, we have been talking about one sovereignty, one land, one language and one culture, one people, one ’ child of one True Parent. All these comprise the tradition. We are sharing the lineage and blood of our True Parents. We don’t have anything to do with Satanic lineage. We are grafted into the heavenly lineage.

What is next? We are “proud of being a laborer who is working to build one world or the heart… We are here to fight a battle. And finally, we are saying that unto our life we are responsible for fulfilling and accomplishing these missions. There is no way to accomplish them without a battle. This kind of thing does not come easily. In order to obtain all of these goals we’ve got to go through and win the battle. Struggle and win the struggle. Through what? Love and sacrifice. Those will be our wea pons. Without having love and sacrificial spirit there will be no way to win the battle.

The Unification Church is living under one tradition. Whether you are in Africa, Europe, Japan or the United States of America, you will jump to that mission. Do not forget the responsibilities upon your shoulders. The blessed couples are the ones who will fulfill all these responsibilities. When can you say that you are successful?

Going all over the world does not necessarily fulfill it. You are going to fulfill it through home church. This is an absolute necessity. Home church is your battle ground. That is where you wage war for one sovereignty, for one people, for one land and culture. Your every cell should be transformed. Every ounce of energy should be going toward that goal. That is my aim.

So, we are going to be proud of our tradition and our lineage. What is the tradition? Restoration through indemnity. Without paying indemnity, restoration is impossible. Through the indemnity course your restoration is possible. No one else can do it for you. The degree of indemnity or pain will determine your spirit-world level. Why not lead a joyful, joking life? That will not make true restoration possible.

From now on when you recite the fifth part of the Children’s Pledge, meditate upon its meaning. Every word of it is serious. Even though home church is a small area, it is where you can serve and attend God and the True Parents. Therefore, you have everything in home church. For God it took 6,000 years, for me it took 60 years, for you it will take only six years. It’s up to you now. The atmosphere is ready. You can even do it in six months.

Mr. Kamiyama has home church and Dr. Durst has home church. Being president of HSA-UWC is second to home church. One man who does home church as his life is Reverend Kim. I am instructing him that you shall become a home church example to all the members. You should live and. sleep in that place day in and day out. Dr. Durst should learn from Reverend Kim in regard to home church. Dr. Durst cannot set the tradition about home church because he does not deeply know about me. Furthermore, who can set the best home church example? I can. I know more than Reverend Kim. At this particular juncture in history I am designating that position to Reverend Kim. So, you should learn the tradition from him. Reverend Kim is the head of the 36 Couples. He has a responsibility to teach the tradition. Do you blessed couples understand that?

Reverend Kim speaks:

Since we have been doing home church for quite some time, everyone takes it for granted that we are all doing very well in home church. Every Sunday Father speaks of many ideas on home church. I have been summarizing the statistics in New York. Some people could not do home church; some people are doing very well. But when you average it out annually for 1980, it comes to less than one visit per member per month. In 1981 this record moved slightly forward. However, it is still not very much different from 1980. The average is 13.15 visits per year per member.

An entire three years have passed, and that is the result. Those persons who welcome our members into their homes, even serving one cup of coffee, are on the roster. We are winning one person like that every two months. Six people every year per member. 1981 was the same as 1980.

Father continues:

Do you know what Reverend Kim is talking about? Is home church Reverend Kim’s responsibility or your responsibility?

At this slow speed how quickly can you make one people, one nation, one sovereignty? Are you talking about millennia, many thousands of years? There is a Population of eight million in New York. If we have this kind of record here with 800 members, think about it on a national or worldwide basis. How trivial. All the Korean leaders should take first responsibility. They are the ones who have to spearhead the home church crusade. Every day, every hour, I am thinking about home church. What about you? What kind of result did you get? I feel betrayed. The primary responsibility of the News World and all other institutions is to home church. It might take three years, but we have to walk that path. It doesn’t make any difference how long it cakes. There must be a formula, there must be a manual. The principle of home church must be constructed and has to be lived up to. At one time home church was under Bo Hi Pak; he tried the evangelical meetings and World of Hope Crusade, etc.

But the most important crusade must be individual. All of the leaders have been saying to me that they are doing home church, they are committed to home church. And this. is the result. We have to make a joint and unified effort so that everyone is responsible. No one in this room can say, “I am not responsible for it.” No one can say that. Each nation has to have its record compiled. One visit a month, is incredible. It is absolutely nothing. You have to do it fifty times a month, seventy times.

When I initiated Tong-Il industries in Korea, several times during the day I realized that my home church was Tong-Il industries. I went there every minute that I could get. Why did I go? Because I myself was doing home church…

Isn’t it true that I have done it? When the Unification Seminary was being created, I went up there every other day for two and a half years. It took five or six hours to make each visit. I would think that it was my home church tradition. I am burying myself in East Garden because I do not have freedom of movement. So, I am taking more people to East Garden and educating them there. I have an urge to go to home church every day. It is a privilege that you can do this. Unless you do it, even if you are elevated in the spirit world, you will have nothing to do with me. This is not just a threat. When we complete the home church providence, the purpose of religion will be fulfilled. In the future, home church areas will be very difficult to come by because everyone will have one already.

Those who go less than thirty times a month will have their home church areas taken away. Virtually, therefore, you have to live there. Shall we go to the home church? The Bible says that in Christ you shall be kings. God and Jesus Christ send home church champions to the earth. Also, God sent me to the earth as a home church champion. Jesus Christ is fulfilling unto his life. I have committed my life and soul to the fulfillment of home church. Home church is your root. It is where you find your ancestors, your relatives, your posterity. So that is where you stay. Where would you go beyond home church? You make yourself at home in home church. In the home church area, you are like the elder tribe leader. Should the 360 homes have to go around looking for you, or should you be there?

You have to go through the home church providence. There is no other way that you will reach the ultimate heaven. Don’t you think that God would be anxious to visit you in your home church? Let’s say God is visiting your home church area and you are not there.

You should be there to welcome God. And then the home church people can welcome God. God is coming upon the foundation of two home churches. One is the Cain-type home church; the other is the Abel-type home church. There are 360 homes in each. The Cain-type home church is what you have now. The leaders are in the Abel position. When Cain and Abel unite together, then God can come to dwell. That is ‘the Principle. When Cain and Abel are separate, God can have no way to visit that home church. In East Garden I tell the 36 Blessed Couples to come every day. They are the home church representatives. I spend much time with them; that is the home church tradition. By doing so, the dwelling of God is with them.

On the level of the nation, the Christian churches are in · the position of Abel and the American government is in the position of Cain. When they unite, the messiah can be welcomed. The communist and free world represent Cain and Abel on the worldwide level. These two must be united before the coming of the lord. The physical world is Cain and the spirit world is Abel. All the angelic world is coming together to create God’s world here on earth. Unless your mind and body become totally one, there is no way that you can welcome God. Between husband and wife, unless there is unity of Cain’s and Abel’s positions, there is no way that you can unite with God. Parents and children are also in Cain and Abel positions. When there is unity, then the dwelling of God can be in the family.

Last night I expounded on the criteria of Abel. It is not automatic. Whoever in a family exerts more effort to sacrificially serve others is Abel. The minister of a church and his congregation are in Abel-Cain positions. The minister is there to serve the congregation, instead of vice versa. I am the leader of the entire worldwide Unification Church movement. Yet you are not existing for my sake. I am existing for the sake of the Unification Church. That is Abel’s position. When I come to the American Church, my intention is not to take away from it but to add to it. It was the same when I went to Germany. Wherever I go, I want to help and I want to bring prosperity.

You have to be giving constantly. You have to work hard to make it. The True Parents are a formidable type. To be solid True Parents is not an easy task. The True Parents have to serve the entire world. And the children, in order to participate, have to make a certain offering to the parents.

The parents are not waiting to receive the gift. No, the parents want to have the brothers and sisters share among themselves. But in order to share the blessing, they have to make a condition with the parents so that they then become like parents. I am in no way trying to extract anything for my benefit. That is a parental heart. Therefore, my heart is always the heart of giving. Yet the children, in order to share the blessing among themselves, should bring conditions to the parents. And that is why the parents receive them, not because they want to receive them. Nothing comes free. Create that kind of tradition. You must be labelled by the people as being weird for wanting to give everything away.

Japan in the Eve’s position should play the exemplary role in the home church crusade. The 36 and 72 Couples of Korea must be· responsible. They should be ashamed of how little they have done. If they come to my table at East Garden, I will look at them and ask them if they have done their responsibility. When you come to my table, you must feel shame because of how little you have done to fulfill my will. In many cases, members take it for granted. They think that some of the cake is owed to them. You national directors always say that you are major leaders. Would you like to be served without doing your responsibility? Japanese members have come from Japan to the United States to set the tradition. Now is the time to do it. Let’s go to the general meeting now.