The life of faith is fundamentally the way of being an offering, as the course of history proves. This way of life mist be continuous and expand to people and return its fruits to Heaven. That is the mission of the offering. What I mean is, not only must you bring salvation to yourself, but you have the responsibility to bring salvation to everything beyond yourself.

When you see it this way, if you ask what the central position is, it is we who have become the offering. We have been placed in the central position of the offering. At the same time the offering is placed before a person it is surely placed before God. When the sacrifice is properly offered up, that person receives a blessing, and Heavenly Father's desire for that offering is satisfied and his suffering appeased. It is in this important position that the offering stands.

When you look at it this way, we must stay in a dimension where we are able to pass through the age of the individual offering, through the age of the family offering, and those at the levels of tribe, people and nation. Until now, you in the position of a spiritual offering, have represented the people, nation and world; however, now we are entering the Age of Substantiation. Although in the past it was enough for us to be a spiritual people, taking responsibility for God's Will at the spiritual level, from now on, we must move beyond that into the era of substantiation. When you think of this, you must know the difference between the dimension of our course in the past and the path we must take today.

Then, when the Unification Church stops and looks at itself, where does it stand? In the time centering on the spirit, the physical didn't seem important; however, that is not true in this time. Considering mind and body, we must stand in the central position representing both the spiritual aspect and the physical aspect of the people.

Therefore, the offering itself becomes the issue. When Heavenly Father looks at that offering, is the offering itself able to carry the meaning of history so that God can accept it? That is what becomes the issue. The offering has developed and become prepared; when it is shown to God, the issue is whether or not it is a sincere offering.

The Unification Church's mission is as a spiritual and a physical offering. Then who is the minister who should give the religious service? That also becomes the issue. Is it Heavenly Father? On this earth, who is it to be? If you look at it like this, Father, who has taken responsibility for the spiritual realm until now, from now on should becoming the officiating minister.

Then, not only do your selves need to be a clean offering, but also he who offers the religious service must be the same. When the original man offers the service, the issue becomes whether his devotion has been enough to cause the offering to grow or develop.

If the offering has not become clean, then, of course, it itself has to bear some responsibility; however, the person in the position of the priest also must bear the responsibility. This is what I have been thinking until now.

As our Unification Church is on the path of the providence for restoration, what is the marrow of our ideology? It is to follow the path of the offering. You must know this. What kind of thing is the offering? "Invest your entire heart, all of your desire and your entire spirit and love God," Jesus said. What does it mean to invest your heart, your desire and your spirit? It is to put your neck on the line. The conclusion is that you must go. You must put your neck on the line. You must, lay down your life and love God.

I do not mean for you to force yourself to lay down your life if you do not want to; I mean for you to do it as if you were crazy about it. That is what Heavenly Father loves. Would he want you to lay down your life crying over it; or would he like it if not knowing whether you would live or die, crazy with joy, you danced your way to lay down your life? Which is it?

In order to become a priest, you need a temple, an altar, and a people. The altar is there for the people, and the offering and the priest exist for the sake of Heaven and Earth. Therefore, you all must now assume the seat of the priest.

Why do you travel around the area? You do it to find a place to lay an altar. In order to become a priest you need a temple. Therefore you must gather that area's people and build a temple. Then you must build an altar. What is an altar? It is that town's sacred place of tears. Until God's Will is achieved, we need to make altars.

If there is a church leader who stands in the position of the priest who dedicates an offering, then he and the offering must become one. In front of the priest, the offering must adjust itself to him. Until when must it be like this? It must adapt itself until it sheds blood. With this kind of standard, though a difficult situation arises you adapt yourself once, twice and three times, with a determination to go beyond life or death, then Heavenly Father will come to look over that place.

Because of this, when you witness, even though it is only to one person, you mustn't think that it is just one person. Do you understand what I mean? Don't see him as one person; if he is a villager, think of him as a representative of that village. Also, as a priest, you must be conscious of what kind of priest you are making this offering as.

If it is a country, you must have the conviction that you are the representative of that country. With that kind of conviction, you must go, and when you enter a certain village, and someone comes before you, although he is not sent as a representative of the town, it is all right. Even if only one person has appeared, he must have the conviction of a priest to center on the standard and stand in the position of object to be in harmony with you and follow your command of offering, namely, to be thankful for suffering as he works. Then, that sphere of indemnity is not a one-on-one personal thing, but it becomes the country's representative sphere of indemnity.

From this point of view, God's providence for restoration through indemnity is to send one person who can represent the whole in order to go the way of central value transcending individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world, by holding to the standard of central value instead of going in all directions. Therefore, the Lord must come at the Second Advent.

Before there were national religions, prophets had to be sent. Those prophets had to complete the missions as responsible for religion in that era. When they died, they proclaimed who would come in their stead. If they did not set the path for the prophet who was to come next, and died, the mission of the prophets could not be unified. Even Elijah had to prepare for the next person to come.

Concerning the mission of the priest, when you look at the Unification Church, what is the mission of True Father? He must fulfill the individual mission, and the missions of the family, tribe, people, race, nation, world and cosmos. Further, centering on God's heart, he must even fulfill a mission as God's body. He must become the priest who can dedicate the entire world and stand in the position of the one capable of the internal standard of value and having the value of the entire world as the representative of the completion of the created world. Thus, the day he joins as one with his partner, a new resurrected life can come about. From this resurrected life arises the reborn individual, the reborn family, the reborn tribe, the reborn people and the reborn nation.

So, what do God and True Father desire? We hope to see a people, nation, and world connected to your Blessed families. We desire to see the entire democratic world connected. However, they are not. Therefore, the Unification Church is living a second history of indemnity.

The high priest pays indemnity through the offering. In the past, first material things were offered and indemnity paid; then sons and daughters were offered and indemnity paid. So, now what should you offer to pay indemnity? We must pay indemnity centered on our husbands and wives. That is how indemnity has come to be.

It is no longer the time to pay indemnity centered on our sons and daughters. In the past, centering on Cain and Abel, the relationship between past and present was decided horizontally. But now it is the time to choose the vertical relationship. This is a different time. Why does that have to be?

It is because the Completed Testament Age is the time representing the parents. Because of this, the married couple must become the offering for the sake of the complete unity of your Blessed families in Cain's position and True Parents family in Abel's position.

The name "state leader" means you are the priest responsible for tens of millions of lives in front of God. You must know what a priest is. You must know that it is your responsibility to pray for the people who die in your state. For the sake of the people who die. Do you know who is dying in your state twenty-four hours a day, every day. If they die while you are playing or while you are sleeping, their spirits will slander you. You must also know that you are responsible for the man who is sent to court for committing a crime and goes to jail.

Not only that, you must know that you are responsible for bringing all the lives in your state in front of God. The creation is watching you and saying the same as I: "In your state there are people suffering, young people going to jail; while these people are wandering aimlessly, what are you doing?" All the things which see you slander you; all the world's animal also slander you; this, you must know. The land you own also slanders you. You have to feel that if you are so crazy with the sincere desire to spread Father's words busily throughout the day, you will go beyond the town to the top of the mountain.

Even if as high priest you sacrifice the offering, if people pass by the temple without gathering, it is your fault. On their behalf, you must shed tears and pray for their forgiveness. You must pray. Also, you must think, "Because I have many sins no one came." If the place where you pray has a wood floor, it must never be dry, but should be wet with tears twenty-four hours a day. Then Heavenly Father will show you a person to whom to witness. God will have compassion. Representing God, you must receive the announcement, "Yeah, I'm on your side." Then, you must treat the people who come before you as kings.

You must have the heart to attend a king. "I will attend as a servant." A sinner cannot strip himself of his sins. The more you attend someone as a king, the faster your indemnity will go. Isn't that true? Because I lower myself, and raise people with sin to heaven, in that relationship a large condition of indemnity is created.

Therefore, from one person, ten people; from ten people, one hundred people; from one hundred people, beyond. If this happens, automatically it gets broader. All the things which have been thought until now must be turned upside-down. You think you're Abel? If so, you have to take the role of the priest. If you have no followers, and yet your people are committing sins, you cannot become a priest. If you have that kind of heart, although people cannot become your friends because they become God's friends God will gather and give them the spring breeze. Father went to the Washington Rally in an impossible situation and brought back victory. Father, with that heart took the Africans and the Asians and raised them up like kings. I prayed that prayer and shed those tears.

You all must be my replacements. If you become like me, then you must believe you will take on all the responsibilities of God, throw away the good blessings and take on only the bad blessings. If you want to do this, if you go to the top of a high mountain, that area's people can hear your voice calling them to come, and you can feel their ancestors in spirit world coming to find you. You must fulfill your responsibility in the middle of that place. That is the priest. You must hold the priest's certificate of qualification and do your responsibility. No matter how much your head aches, you cannot say so.

The priest must begin at the bottom, eating the food that is found there, and push straight upward. The things you wear must also come from down there first. All things must be restored. You must live that kind of life. This must arise from unity and with the nation and that nation's people. It is a wretched thing, a wretched thing.

With that meaning, Father often gives thanks for the pressure he receives. My family and our church's indemnity are talked about loudly so we become exhausted from our enemies' indemnity. Because of this, the responsible person suffers. The act of suffering becomes our exhibition of a condition for indemnity. Without sleeping, through praying, offering your sincerity, and making effort without resting, external indemnity is paid. That is the path of the priest.