Chief priests who receive a salary are not doing heavenly work. One does not live to receive a salary. We must live from the rewards of our sacrifice. We all bow our heads to those who shed their blood in that manner. Isn't that right? The minister who neither sheds tears nor sacrifices yet asks for benefit is a rotten minister. You must know that. Look at America. Have you wondered why America has become a wealthy nation? When the forefathers made money they did not buy food to eat; they did not buy clothes to wear, and they did not build a house to live in. They first built a church, then a board of education, then they built their houses. I'm saying to build a church first because I also know that ideology, and because that is the Principle. So, this year for the sake of the church, I invested the money I had tearfully saved and set aside to build a house. I invested it for the construction of the headquarters in Yoido. After that, for the building of our schools and for the sake of our future descendants we must sacrifice today. The people who do not do that will be ruined. It is God's Will for the sake of the future. It is for our descendants. We sacrifice now during the history of the providence for restoration through indemnity, for the sake of the restoration of the future. Today, in order for us to save this world, in front of Heavenly Father and as people who can shoulder the responsibility of a priest, we must exist for the sake of God's Will and our next generation. A person who sacrifices for the sake of God's Will and the next generation will not starve. How many peaks does the Arirang road have? It has twelve hills. The woman who loves God, loves her husband dearly, and says, "No matter how difficult the path, I will bear it and go on. I will bear the hunger and the tears while I go on and overcome. Even though I die and disappear, let us meet as one, husband and wife, who will be praised by our descendants." Doesn't the Arirang road have twelve hills? That Arirang road is the road of restoration. If you look at Korean folk songs, you can see that the Korean people are a truly spiritual people. Why did the words "twelve hills" appear? Because that is the course of restoration. Rather than feed myself, I must feed my country. And rather than me living well, I must make my country live well. By doing this, what does the minister who overcomes that summit and achieves Israel's sovereignty become? Until that time, as the whole nation's representative, the minister suffers, and the people all bow their heads to him. Because of the minister's training, when God comes and gives a new sovereignty, then he becomes the one responsible for the sovereignty. In order for the minister to inherit God's tradition, Heavenly Father, throughout history, has gone the path of suffering, the path of death, the path of hunger, every possible difficult path. In order for us to inherit the tradition which came from God's course of suffering throughout history, we must overcome the path of death, the path of hunger, a difficult path, the course of being driven out from our homeland. You must absolutely know that this is the path the minister must walk.
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