The Family Pledge - Chapter Two - Section 2 - 2

[대태양/김현수]

True Families and the Family Pledge 
Chapter two. Explanation of the Family Pledge
Section 2. Explanation of Family Pledge Number Two

2.2. Perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth

2.2.1. The path of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters that we must inevitably go

What kind of people are filial sons and daughters in the family? Filial sons and daughters are those who want to love their parents no matter how much they sacrifice their minds and bod­ies for them and then still love them even beyond that. What is a patriot? It is someone who sacrifices himself for the nation again and again without car­ing about his own well being, and who invests and forgets about how much he has invested for the nation. Such a per­son is a genuine patriot. If there is a man who invests ten times for his nation and forgets about his investment and a man who invests eleven times and forgets about his investment, the one who has invested and forgotten eleven times is in the subject position. Following this prin­ciple, everything can be settled in peace. Without love and without the path of living for the sake of others, there is no way to achieve this. (255-190, 1994.3.10) 

The family needs filial sons and daughters. A son of filial piety is one who is absolutely one with his parents. A nation’s patriots must become abso­lutely one with the central person of that nation. This is the reality of the universe. There are saints in the world, and people want to become absolutely one with them. Beyond that, through­out heaven and earth people want to become absolutely one with God, who is the center. (262-128, 1994.7.23)

Filial piety wants to follow filial sons and daughters. Although those devot­ed sons and daughters become old, they follow their heart for their par­ents, and even their descendants in the future and all their brothers and sis­ters want to entrust matters to them. We will determine to establish families and a world that move toward God and that God wants. Who will do it? Each of us! Even if it cannot be achieved, if we know God as a God of heart who can entrust us with things to do and sup­port us, and if we have conviction, we cannot come to ruin. (263-170, 1994.8.23)

Because God wants his partner in love to be better than Himself, that partner can go up to the position where he can tell God what to do. If a devoted son asks his mother and father to come, will they go to the son or not? They will. It is the path of devoted filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters to have to do new things, whatever they may be. (263-183, 1994.8.23)

As it says in the second pledge, you should be filial sons and daughters in your family and patriots – that is, loyal citizens – in the nation. The filial sons and daughters are not the ones in the satanic world on earth. They are the ones who have appeared for the first time, having never existed in history.

God is in grief and sorrow over the loss of Adam’s family. That is why God has struggled to find the True Par­ents. Therefore, you must understand how precious True Parents are. (263-204, 1994.8.21) 

Those who live investing their entire life for their parents and then forget what they have invested are called true filial sons and daughters. A true filial son or daughter means that one is the truest among them all.

It is the same in nations; if some­one aspires to become a loyal subject or patriot in front of the nation’s ruler, he can be called a true patriot when he invests, invests again, even invests his very life, and then forgets what he has invested. Thus, a divine son or daugh­ter is the one who can invest and invest his or her life again for the world, and those who invest even more and still want to invest more are called the most divine of all divine sons and daughters. That is how it is. (263-275, 1994.10.15) 

Will a wife feel happy or unhap­py if her husband is absolutely obedi­ent in front of his wife’s love? She will be absolutely happy. If the wife is also like that, her husband will be absolutely happy. Those who are absolutely obedi­ent in front of the love of their parents are filial sons and daughters. Those who have the same heart for the sake of the nation are known as patriots. Those who have the same heart for the world are known as saints, and those who can have the same heart for heaven and earth are divine sons and daughters! Amen. All of this is our textbook, mate­rial for our education! A…la, la, la, even your tongue dances, the flesh and skin of your stomach, and your stomach too, all dance saying, “A-men”! “Men” means “people.” When you say “Amen!” think that it means “Ah! Amazing people.” Say “Amen” thinking about this meaning. Do you understand? (264-140, 1994.10.9)

No matter how difficult, you should think it is proper and natural to smooth out the path and go the way of filial sons and daughters, of patriots, of saints, and divine sons and daughters. You need the conviction to do so. You must have the mind to go the way of filial piety even if you sacrifice yourself for your parents and, in the family, even if you sacrifice not only yourself but your wife as well. When filial sons and daughters and par­ents together resolve to sacrifice even the parents to save the nation, they stand as patriots. Furthermore, if those patriots resolve to save the world and so sacri­fice even their nation, they complete the path of a saint. That is the ideal of cre­ation Adam was to have fulfilled. You must become filial sons and daughters, patriots, and saints, and willingly deter­mine to fulfill the way of divine sons and daughters even if it means sacrific­ing all the members of your family. (266-105, 1994.12.18)

In a family, those sons and daugh­ters who have made greater sacrifices than other children are known as fil­ial sons and daughters. Those who have invested more for the sake of the nation than other tribes or citizens are known as patriots. Saints are those who have invested more than others for the sake of the world. Someone who has invest­ed for the sake of heaven and earth can become a heavenly prince like Jesus Christ. If you do not live that way, you cannot go to the heavenly kingdom. The heavenly kingdom is where people go who have lived that way. If you do not live in such a way, you cannot enter the heavenly kingdom.

You do not work here just to make a living or to succeed in the worldly sense. You have gathered here to become the people of the heavenly kingdom, to ful­fill the way of filial sons and daughters, patriots and virtuous women, saints, and divine sons and daughters of the heavenly kingdom. You need to know that the people and members of the heavenly kingdom on earth and in heav­en are those persons who, from within their families, love other families and our members whom God likes. (269-253, 1995.4.30)

Only when you are confident of being perfect as a filial son or daughter in a family that represents all of humanity throughout the world, a patriot repre­senting the historic nation, saints repre­senting the world, and divine sons and daughters representing all of Heaven’s providence, can you return to heaven by going completely beyond the satanic world from the level of the individual. You are such people. You are the ones to be perfect filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. Such a husband and such a wife become a filial son or daughter as a couple, patriots as a couple, saints and divine sons and daughters as a couple. The families who can be considered families, national-level couples, world-level couples and couples connected with the history of heaven and earth will become families that have fulfilled the will of the ideal of creation! Amen! Amen! Amen! Those who are confident enough to create such families should raise their hands; let us make a pledge. Mansei! What mansei means is that everything will enjoy everlasting pros­perity. It means it will continue on for­ever. (270-103, 1995.5.7)

When the heavenly kingdom on earth exists, it must invest for the sake of the heavenly kingdom in heaven. The pledge of our Unification Church says we pledge to “represent and become central to heaven and earth by attend­ing God and True Parents; we pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our fam­ily, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth, by centering on true love.” This is impossible without investment. The reason for becoming a filial son or daughter is to create a stepping stone to the way of a patriot, becoming a patriot is the stepping stone toward becoming a saint, and becom­ing a saint is the stepping stone on the path to becoming a divine child. Only by passing through those levels can one reach heaven and become the son, the divine child, of God. Then, when one returns home, it is possible to realize the heavenly kingdom on earth. (274-114, 1995.10.29)

Those who live continuously for the sake of others become the central peo­ple. This is a certainty. Filial sons and daughters in the family are the ones who live continuously for the sake of their parents. They can become the central figure in a family who can inherit from the family. It is the same with patriots. Those who live in service of the nation’s ruler and invest and invest again, sac­rifice and sacrifice again for the sake of the nation become those who can take responsibility for the nation. Presidents or prime ministers are such people. They should certainly be the central fig­ures. For this reason your conscience tells you to go that far. Your conscience teaches you to be a filial son or daughter in the family, a patriot in the nation, a saint in the world, and even to go the way of a divine son or daughter in heav­en and earth. (275-38, 1995.10.30)

In the family, those who are willing to offer even their lives for the sake of their parents are filial sons or daugh­ters. Those determined to live sacrific­ing their lives for their nations are patri­ots. Those who are resolved to save the human race and who are willing to go the way of death several times over for the world, and who resolve to offer them­selves even again are saints, and those living and dying for the sake of heaven and earth are divine sons and daughters. Those kinds of people are remembered in history. (275-136, 1995.12.4)

A true child is a family king who cen­ters on God. Therefore, one must become a true filial son or daughter from the beginning, and consequently that king can move up to the position of a patriot of the nation. The prince and princess of a nation are patriots. Then those who stand in the position of a prince or prin­cess of the world are seeking to become a saint.

After that, when you say you are aiming to be a son or daughter stand­ing as a prince and princess of heaven and earth, that is the way of a divine son and daughter. Do you want to become a divine son or daughter or to become a saint? Why would you want to be a divine son or daughter? It is because you can take pride in front of saints. Would you rather be a saint or a patriot? Why would you choose being a saint? It is because you can be proud in front of the patriots. So would you rather be a patri­ot or a filial son or daughter? Why? You would choose to be a patriot because you can be proud in front of the filial sons and daughters. A filial son or daughter follows the way of a patriot; a patriot fol­lows the way of a saint; a saint follows the way of a divine son or daughter, and a divine son or daughter follows in God’s footsteps. (280-117, 1996.11.11)

Those who live comfortably at home are fools. They inevitably have to remain within the bounds of the family-level heaven. That is exactly how it is. That is why your families have to become repre­sentative and central families. You must walk the path of filial sons and daugh­ters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. That is the path you must inevitably walk.

That is why you must be filial sons and daughters in your families. You must be patriots in your nations. To be patriots, you must not stray from that dutiful path from the time you are born. You should maintain your focus day and night. My focus on God’s will has never faltered throughout my life. I continue whether I am awake or asleep. I will keep going forever. (283-77, 1997.4.8)

Being parents who are dealing with a true, genuine, filial son or daughter is more difficult than dealing with the ruler of a nation. You must be careful about every word you say and every­thing you do. What does that mean? In your families, you must show how you would attend the nation’s ruler. Once parents attend their children in this way, their children cannot relate with them in a rash manner.

Those children whose parents treat them with cautious respect tend to be careful in attending their parents and do not say even one word without thought. They will think things over several times before speaking. (285-16, 1997.4.19) 

We say that we should become filial sons and daughters in the family, don’t we? What should we do once we become filial sons and daughters? We may think that mothers and fathers who teach their children filial piety might be doing so for their own advantage, but that is not the case. Add your love to your parents’ love! That is the way it should be. That is how the sphere of love can develop. It grows. Things that are in motion grow larger, don’t they? Why would things in motion become larger? Because they are interacting based on love, they want to grow. (253-234, 1994.1.30)

It is not easy to be a husband or wife. Your children are not your own chil­dren. They are distinct from you. They are children belonging to the world. It is not easy to be the parents of children of the world. It is not easy to be a teacher. Moreover, it is not easy to be filial sons or daughters in front of such parents. Once you have created an exemplary model family in which the grandparents, par­ents, and you, as husband and wife, are trained in living for the sake of others in front of your children, your family will be welcomed in any neighborhood, any nation, or anywhere in the heavenly kingdom. (252-265, 1994.1.1) 

The Bible says, “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” This is not referring to dirty, immoral people losing their lives. Exemplary people who are willing to sacrifice their lives and die after having expressed their loyalty fully in the position of filial sons and daugh­ters, patriots, and virtuous women are the heavenly people who have reached a standard higher than the filial sons and daughters and patriots of the fall­en world. Such people will live, even in a situation facing death, if they are will­ing to sacrifice their lives. Even if one had many lives to live, if he has gone to the bottom of hell he has no relationship with God. Bluntly speaking, that is what it means. (261-58, 1994.5.22)

Everything must be discerned based on the ideal of God’s providence of res­toration. In the midst of this, you must find something special for which you can be grateful in offering your lives to God. You must go beyond the history of betrayal that came from Adam and Eve. You must understand this clearly. If God does not appear to you more than He did to Adam, our first ancestor, before the Fall, you must wait without sleeping or eating for God to appear to you to that degree by reaching beyond the position of the heart of the filial sons and daugh­ters, patriots, and virtuous women. (261-55, 1994.5.22)

Filial sons and daughters do not go to hell. Even in the case where they should have to go to hell, they wait somewhere other than hell until the Second Advent of the Lord. There are middle realms in the spirit world.

Do you want to be filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, or divine sons and daughters? Even if you do not practice filial piety in relation to your parents, once you become a patriot you stand on the foundation of having per­fected such filial piety. (246-188, 1993.4.16) 

If, as members of the Unification Church, you become patriots, should you just be like other patriots, or should you be patriots such as the world has never seen? Even after you have become filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters, you have to take on each of these roles in such a manner that the world and history have never encountered, and only by follow­ing these respective paths can you attend God. Bitter grief came about through Eve’s mistake of a single day. When you know this, you must then understand how serious you must be to transform the lineage, the realm of ownership, and the realm of heart. (273-114, 1995.10.22)

When God becomes the object cen­tering on love – true love – and meets His partner in love who is a thousand times better than Himself, God can automati­cally be liberated. That is why you must understand that you should be the best filial sons and daughters, virtuous wom­en, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. Otherwise, you cannot liber­ate God. If you cannot reach that point, you cannot liberate Him.

If people follow Jesus, the best place they can end up in is paradise! That means living a single life. Other religions all urge people to leave their hometown and to live a single life, but what about the Unification Church? Do I tell you to leave your home? I tell you to return to your hometown, right? And to get married, right? It is just the opposite of what it was. Why is that so? I am saying that religion is not needed. We stand as those who have surpassed religion. (265-93, 1994.11.20)

Adam was to become a son of filial piety and patriot of the heavenly king­dom; he should have become a loyal cit­izen and fulfilled the way of the divine son in the nation, but he could not ful­fill his role. My regret is that I could not fulfill the way of a filial son while I was in my youth, in full vigor; I missed the chance. I could not walk the path of a patriot who stands in the front line to face any risk if it could save the nation, and who, though bleeding, remains grateful to God. (264-187, 1994.10.9)

Why do I weave together the strands of history in making such shocking proclamations or saying things to spur you on? This is God’s situation, and it is not yet resolved. He has not been able to resolve the bitter sorrow in His heart. True Parents have not been able to resolve the bitter sorrow in their hearts.

Not being able to fulfill the path of the son of filial piety in front of God in my youth is my own bitter sorrow! Not being able to have the honor of being a patriot because I could not gain God’s nation is my bitter sorrow! Not being able to fulfill the duty of a saint represent­ing all nations is my sorrow! Not being able to have the victorious supremacy of heaven and earth and to liberate God as a divine son is my sorrow! These deep sorrows still remain. (264-63, 1994.10.9)

Why are filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters needed? Even if you do your best in serving your parents, that is for only a hundred years or so. It is not something you can do for your whole life. Your parents cannot live for a thou­sand or for ten thousand years. Even if you attend your parents throughout your life, it will be less than a hundred years. However, patriots are remembered beyond a single generation. The patriotic tradition can be bequeathed from your grandparents’ generation and your par­ents’ generation to your generation, and on to your descendants. Otherwise the nation cannot continue to exist. 

The outlook of a saint can go beyond level of the patriot. Saints must live based on a love that embraces the whole universe. They must love the entire uni­verse. Therefore, the path of saints sur­passes the path of patriots. The path of divine sons and daughters surpasses the path of saints and is the highest position of all. They respect the rules of the heav­enly kingdom on earth and in heaven and maintain the balance between the internal and external, the vertical and horizontal relationships. (246-188, 1993.4.16) 

You must understand that True Par­ents are the first son and daughter of fil­ial piety in the family. They have nev­er existed in history. They stand in the position of patriots of the heavenly king­dom, the representative position of loyal subjects. Furthermore, they stand in the position of the divine son and daughter who have fulfilled the way of a divine son and daughter. That is why you must have the same thought as True Parents. As True Parents have fulfilled the way of a son and daughter of filial piety, patri­ots, saints, and divine son and daughter, you should inherit that same tradition of True Parents, and you must maintain an attitude of heart that you are the only son and daughter in the whole world.

The fact that you have received the blessing from True Parents as a son and daughter representing the world signi­fies that you are allowed to be in a rela­tionship with True Parents. You need to understand that Blessed Families must have experiences of heart with my own family in their daily lives. (266-89, 1994.12.18)

2.2.2. The difference between a saint and a divine son or daughter

What is the difference between a saint and a divine son? A divine son can appear where, centering on God’s love, original Adam and Eve who have not fallen become one as the embodiment of God’s life and God’s lineage. The divine son and daughter are to appear in the place where they inherit the lineage of God’s son and daughter. However, this is not the case with saints. That is why there are no divine sons and daughters in the fallen world. There, people can only reach the level of a saint. Therefore, until the present, saints have been able to teach the way of the outer, relational world but have not been able to teach the inner path that is at the root. Why? This was because the Parents and the divine sons and daughters had not appeared on the earth. The ideology relating to the returning Lord is to establish the way of the Parents and of divine sons and daughters. That is the ideology relating to the Messiah. (226-113, 1992.2.2)

Who has been the most central saint among all saints of this world? It is Jesus. Because Jesus’ lineage was already sanctified from the time he was in the womb, there were no conditions upon which Satan could invade. That baby, who was conceived on the basis of God’s love, was the very first fruit whose cen­ter was true love. He had no relationship with false love. Other than Jesus, there has been no one born as a divine son. Buddha, Mohammed, and Confucius were not such people. However, Jesus taught based on the realm of heart. God is the absolute Parent, and Jesus is in the position of an absolute husband and absolute elder brother. Jesus’ teach­ings are all focused on the family and on love. That love is not a secular love but a Godly love. Because Jesus is the central figure who disseminated such teachings throughout the world, we can conclude that wherever he went he never thought in a self-centered way. (229-221, 1992.4.12)

Jesus was the first son to be born in history with a purified lineage. Thus, he became God’s eldest and only begotten son. In the realm of religion, Jesus is the only divine son born through a puri­fied lineage; therefore, he can be called the divine son of all divine sons. (244-249, 1993.2.14)

Jesus is the saint among all saints. He was able to become the first ancestor based on love due to the purification of the lineage. (251-296, 1993.11.1)

Because Jesus was born on the foun­dation of the national-level victory based on the transformation of the lineage, no one on the national level of the satanic world can show any condition to accuse based on blood relations that have not been indemnified.

Jesus was the first and only begotten son of God; He was born centering on God’s love on the national level. The lin­eage had been purified, hadn’t it? In all of history there had never been a saint with a purified lineage. Neither Confu­cius, nor Buddha, nor Mohammed, nor anyone else – except for that one person, Jesus – was born after the purification of the lineage that remained from the past. (251-253, 1993.10.31) 

A divine son is the son of God. To God’s son, the existing world is not the only issue. He must bring together the spirit world and the earthly world, and rule by laws that are the same as those that come from the palace of Heaven. These are not the federal laws that a nation’s people obey. They are the uni­fied laws of the palaces of the heavenly and earthly realms. A divine son is one who stands connected to the love in these realms. Everything must be focused on love. (229-42, 1992.4.9)

As the only begotten, divine son, Jesus was the first ancestor centered on true love. (251-298, 1993.11.1)

What must you do to become a glob­al figure? It is not enough to focus sim­ply on ethics and moral principles. You cannot do it just by making people your central concern. If your central concern is human beings, you will not be able to go beyond the national level. In heaven there is a way to surpass the national lev­el. Without a philosophy encompassing heaven and earth, you cannot transcend the national level. (38-260, 1971.1.8)

Thus, the saints have spoken about God, not just about humankind. If you look at the people who are numbered in the ranks of the saints, have they revered God or not? Is there anyone who has become a saint without God? Moreover, the saints have taught not only the way of morality but also the way of heavenly law. (33-291, 1970.8.21) 

In families, those who care for and love their parents are filial sons and daughters. Those who care for and love their country are patriots, and those who love the world are saints. Then what have I taught you? I have taught you to be divine sons and daughters who love God, the world, and the universe. Who would you be? Would you like to be divine sons and daughters, or filial sons and daughters? To be divine sons and daughters, you must have the same love in your hearts as God does. (129-99, 1983.10.1)

Up until now the saints have not taught strongly about the unity of mind and body. Since they thought that it was normal for the human mind and body not to be united, they got it wrong. To begin with they dealt with the issue based on the external world. Confucius said, “Cultivate yourself and harmonize your family, and then you can govern your nation well and bring peace to the world,” didn’t he? How can you culti­vate yourself and harmonize your fam­ily? Where does bringing peace to the world begin? People have thought that it begins at home, haven’t they? Peace is not brought to the world that way. There is no way for the world to become one within a family. Then what must it be based on in order to become one? It begins from you, yourself; it is the strug­gle between mind and body. That fire is burning within you. (250-166, 1993.10.14) 

A divine son is God’s son. A divine son resolves to love not only God but also heaven and earth. He resolves to love not only the realm of love of heaven and earth, but also the laws from the pal­ace of the heavenly kingdom. A divine son is a prince of the heavenly kingdom. He should keep the laws that come from the palace in the heavenly realm as well as the laws from the palace of the earth­ly realm. On that basis, he should love the royal descendants of the heaven­ly kingdom, the people of the heavenly kingdom, the royal descendants of the earthly kingdom, and the people of the nation on earth. When he loves the king­doms and peoples of both worlds, he can be called a son of God. The people and members of the royal family on earth need God’s son, and the people and the members of the royal family in the other world need God’s son. That is how he can become a divine son. (229-183, 1992.4.12)

It is the same with religion. How did religions begin? Saints founded all of the religions. They are the lords of the religions. They all started out from posi­tions where they could receive instruc­tion from God through practicing devo­tion and reaching an enlightened state; however, after the religions developed to a higher level, they became more and more secularized.

That is why there are no religious organizations that can guide this world out of its whirlpool of confusion and onto the proper path with very clear and essential guidelines. There are religious systems within regions, but there is no religious system that can embrace and solve the situation of the entire world.

Religions have all completed their tests. All have been tested. Politics and all the various ideologies have been test­ed. They have all performed disappoint­ingly. All have reached a limit that not one can go beyond. (253-13, 1994.1.1)

It can be said with certainty that there has been no family, no nation, and no world in which God can dwell togeth­er with human beings. You must always have this concept in mind. God could not live together with you, your fami­lies, your nations, or the world. You must attend God once again and live in atten­dance to God from a position of being higher than any of the filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters of this fallen world. That is the motto of your faith that you must strengthen. (266-85, 1994.12.18)

Saints are people who love all the people of the world. Up until now, the leaders of the religions have been saints. Among the saints, the highest saints are those who have shed blood and devoted their lives for humankind, and who are willing to continuously devote them­selves. These are the highest saints of all. In keeping with this principle, Christi­anity unified the world after the Sec­ond World War due to having shed so much blood throughout history. (228-45, 1992.3.3)

I am living in such a way that I am ready to die at any time. I have pledged myself before God. Because I have already determined to offer my life, I would have no regret even if it were my fate to die on the street. There is no great­er blessing than to become filial sons and daughters for whom God Himself would come and take away our bodies, or to become patriots for whom the king would come and take away our bodies, or to become saints or divine sons and daughters of the heavenly kingdom like that. The places where our bodies lie will become places of historic interest. They will become sites for memorial services and festivals that can revive everyone in the world. On account of these sites that evoke sorrow, countless youths will be born anew in generations to come. As representatives of their countries, they will explode like erupting volcanoes. The Unification Church has numerous such resources. (227-260, 1992.2.14)

2.2.3. The true way that people must go

The loftiest hope of humankind is that which is realized through love. All of God’s hopes are to be realized through love, too. If God were to take the position of a son of filial piety, He would want to do so on the basis of love for parents. If He became a couple, He would want to become a couple estab­lished through love and then a parent established through love. This is what God desires. (263-309, 1994.10.27)

Those who spare no effort in sacrific­ing themselves become the light of their families. They are called filial children. Those who shine by sacrificing them­selves for the sake of their nation are patriots. Those who sacrifice themselves for the world are known as saints, and those who do so for heaven and earth are divine sons and daughters. (276-159, 1996.2.18)

You must know that those who can live for the sake of the entire universe with their minds and bodies united become the central people of the universe. Fil­ial children are those who live for their parents more than anyone else in the family. Those who live for their nation’s ruler and its people more than anyone else are patriots. Those who live for the world more than anyone else are saints. Those who live for the sake of heaven and earth more than anyone else are the sons and daughters of God – divine sons and daughters. (276-180, 1996.2.19)

Filial children do not become indebt­ed to their parents. Rather, they make their parents indebted to them. Patriots do not become indebted to their nation but, rather, make the nation indebted to them. Saints do not become indebted to the world, but make the world indebted to them.

Because I am not indebted to heav­en and earth, the time has now come for the world to be able to move center­ing on True Parents. In the world, there has been the way of the filial children of the satanic world, patriots of the satanic world, saints of the satanic world, and divine sons and daughters of the satanic world. But there has been no standard, no way of the filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters who are centered on the heavenly king­dom. You should know that this is what we must establish. (266-103, 1994.12.18)

You must know that your family has greater value than if it had been pur­chased at the cost of heaven and earth. You Blessed Families have not known this amazing truth, have you? You must not have conflicts or get into fights. Here on earth we have the amazing task of preparing the foundation of fil­ial children, the foundation of patriots, the foundation of saints, and the foun­dation of divine sons and daughters, all representing the heavenly kingdom. You must understand that doing so will result in the ideal world God wanted to create centered on Adam.

Because True Parents are in such a position, when I go to the next world, I will become the central “plus” or sub­ject of all the filial children, of all patri­ots, of the saints, and of the divine sons and daughters.

Through your paying indemnity yourselves – more than your moth­er and father, more than your nation’s patriots, more than the world’s saints, and more than heaven and earth – to indemnify that which Jesus desired to accomplish, liberation can be attained. This will be the central basis of the ide­al and principles for establishing the nation. (266-105, 1994.12.18)

Who wants you to become a divine son or daughter? God wants that. Who wants you to become a saint? The world wants that. What the nation desires is loyal subjects and patriots; and families want filial children. That is the genuine path of truth. True parents would not tell their child, “As you are a devoted son, do not become a patriot; do not follow that path.” Such parents must teach them, saying, “You should sacri­fice our family to follow the path of a patriot and serve this nation; fulfill the way of a saint, and sacrifice even that path in order to go the way that Heaven desires; and sacrifice heaven and earth for the sake of God.” People have never even conceived such an idea. We must invest and make sacrifices. Otherwise, a unified world and nation can never be realized. (285-218, 1997.5.19)

You must teach how to advance from being a filial child, to a patriot, to a saint, and to a divine son or daugh­ter. This is necessary for becoming an ideal human being, being molded as a human being, and achieving perfec­tion. You must teach your children to fulfill the dutiful way of filial chil­dren, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters, and then to go on up to God.

If there were parents who taught their children to go this way, would God think, “Ah, these people are ful­filling the roles of parent, teacher, and owner,” or not? If they are qualified to be a parent and a teacher, they are also qualified to be an owner. Furthermore, they can be the kind of father who can become a king. Do western people have the concept of filial piety? They do not have the concept of patriots. They do not have the concept of saints. They do not have the concept of divine sons and daughters. That is why they are in decline. (285-218, 1997.5.19)

We must sacrifice. Sacrificing is the only way to find love. Throughout his life, a filial son follows the path of sac­rifice for his parents, solely for his par­ents; and a patriot makes sacrifices for his nation. A patriot sacrifices not only himself but also his family. It is not just the individual. He must sacrifice his wife, sons, and daughters. Those who do not know the value of sacrifice cannot become filial children, or anything else. They are unable to hook into the realm of the heart of restoration, but they must. Only when you hook onto a fam­ily, and the hook is more than equal to its task, can you become a filial child in a family. Even if a nation runs away when you hook onto it, you must put the hook in so that it does not get pulled straight. God’s hook is as thick as a post and does not get pulled straight. So, the prob­lem is not just that it must be securely hooked in without being pulled out, but also how much it can hold. Without sac­rifice things will not work well. (283-21, 1997.4.8)

Don’t you have the desire to be bet­ter than God? You have that desire, don’t you? Your desire can be like that. Filial children who can comfort God in his tears and sadness must be able to reach a level of comforting God more than God can. How can you comfort God if you are not better than Him? Am I not right in this? It is logical. The world with that standard is the eternal original home­land to which we will go. Do you want to go there or not? You cannot go there. With your stubborn character, you can­not move in all four directions. If you cannot turn through 360 degrees on a level plane, how can you turn through 360 degrees on the perpendicular? Turn 360 degrees over and under based on the East-West axis. You have not reached the point of doing this in an unrestrict­ed manner. (280-119, 1996.11.11)

We must perfect our families, our tribes, our nations, the world, heaven, and earth and ultimately liberate God! We must bring salvation to God. In order to ease the hurt in the parents’ heart caused by unfilial children, we must be the best filial children.

People have not known that God, who has embraced the fallen world, is in sorrow. When we think that our Father, God, has been burdened by such painful and miserable circumstances, we must know that it is the responsibility of the people who have to be saved on earth today to keep the dutiful way of the filial child who lives in such a sorrowful situ­ation that he cannot hold back his tears even if he has to crawl on the ground wailing for ten thousand years…. It is a serious matter. Who else is teaching such things? (283-215, 1997.4.12)

Even if you begin with a path of suf­fering and end your life with suffering, as a heavenly son or daughter going for­ward toward heaven, you must main­tain the attitude of seeking to ease God’s heart, and seeking to live for the sake of God as a filial child. Through hav­ing done this, I want to leave a legacy of patriotism for the heavenly kingdom. In the name of a divine son, I want to bring this world, which the saints and divine sons were not able to fully realize, into the realm of completion. I am that seri­ous. (258-106, 1994.3.17)

If by observing you God can be encouraged to go and break down the evil world, at that moment you actu­ally create the platform for God to work. That would be the highest heav­enly gift of joy for you, one that could not be matched by any precious posi­tion, throne, or place of glory, nor even by one’s lifetime or several lifetimes. I believe that the way that filial children representing eternal history have to go is one of being determined to face perse­cution even beyond history. That is sure­ly the path of being loyal to the eternal nation. (255-121, 1994.3.10)

Without human beings, God cannot be liberated through love. This means that through parents having filial chil­dren, their realm of heart is liberat­ed; through having patriots, kings are liberated; through having saints, the world-level president is liberated; and through having divine sons and daugh­ters accomplish everything as His object partners of love by fulfilling the way of the filial child, God can be liberated. Only when this is achieved can God be liberated. This is an amazing message. (283-173, 1997.4.8)

Throughout the course of my life I could never complain. I could never criticize. You must not complain on the path of filial piety and patriotism. You must not criticize. As long as we have a relationship of love with the perfect subject partner, we can neither com­plain nor criticize. If your husband does wrong, you should take it as your own fault. “This is my fault.” If your wife does wrong, you should take it as your own fault. You should not say, “I do not like you.” (263-105, 1994.8.21)

I am planning to make a record of each one of your witnessing results in the future. What is meant by the “Safe Settlement of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age”? God has been wandering around, and now it is time to settle down. You must pay taxes to live in His nation. We need patriots and filial children. We need filial chil­dren in the family and patriots in the nation. The path of loyalty and filial piety is a basic foundation for establish­ing the nation, isn’t it? Even if we face difficulties such as going hungry or even death, we should attend Heaven and not allow the nation to perish, don’t you agree? (254-119, 1994.2.2)

What we human beings absolutely need to do is to fulfill the way of filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. Due to the Fall, we need saints. We need to perfect the way of divine sons and daughters. Because of that, all the realms connected with God can connect to the nation, heaven, the world, and our family, through each of us. That is the path we must complete in our lifetime. We must perfect it. This is the first time you have heard this, isn’t it? I have given this message in detail in the United States, but this is the first time I have done so here in Korea.

That is why we must be filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. Where is the self that is you? Do you have your own self? You are noth­ing more than the bones of your mother and father. In a nation, the nation’s ruler comes from the bones of his father and mother. People want to engraft to that bone and grow. Unless we have a fam­ily we cannot stand before the nation. But even a family can be destroyed by Satan’s nation. Do we need to have God’s nation or not? (285-91, 1997.4.21)

Love gradually dissipates and disap­pears when we insist on ourselves. Love, however, continues to grow when we continually live for others. That is why true individuals live for the sake of oth­ers. A true husband lives for his wife; true parents also live for their children; true filial children live for their parents; and likewise, a true king lives for his nation, a true nation lives for its people. We should understand this. (268-259, 1995.4.2)