1) You Must Start from the Very Bottom

The people who are starting to establish the tradition for the present time are you people. But there are too many people. How many people attended here today? (Fifty five people.) I am saying that fifty five people is too much. All these people much each go out and take responsibility for a region. It is not that you are going to be starting from the position of regional leader, but you must start from the very beginning. Before you become a devoted regional leader, you must become a devoted churchgoer. If you become a devoted church member, you become a regional leader even if you don't want to be. Regardless of how deep a vein of gold is buried, one will get a professional to dig it out and reveal it's original value. Likewise, necessary persons become revealed.

Among you, there are people who think, "If I do this, I can become regional director from being a mere village director." These people are the ones who are living for themselves.

You must have the heart to be able to live one hundred years for the church. There are many people such as person x and person y in this world. Among them are people who have lost their children, lost their spouses, have nothing to eat and have nothing to wear- thousands of different kinds of people who can be pitied. You have to become the closest friend of these people. This is living for the sake of the world.

If you try to find the side of yourself which can endure a lot and fight a lot for the sake of the whole, Heaven will naturally support you. No matter how long you may have stood in that position, you may not boast about it. If you set yourself up, you will fall. However, if Heaven sets you up, you will not fall.

That is why it is not good for a leader to stand in a position which he has setup for himself. You must first seek a supportive environment in which you can stand. Then you can stand there and not fail. All things are this way. It is wrong for you to assert yourself. If you assert yourself there is no way for you to become God's son or daughter.

When I left prison, why did I take with me the ragged clothing that I wore while incarcerated? Even if I sold it, I couldn't get one cent for it. Even if I gave it to a candy dealer, I wouldn't get a candy for it. Why was it that during a period of nearly three years I gave away all my silk clothes to others and wore only these rags? Why would I need these rags that are falling apart when I touch them? This is because in ten years, or a century, or tens of centuries time, they will be such treasures that you could give all the world's fortunes and you could not buy them.

Hot-blooded young people today may laugh if they heard this, but because it was more valuable than any fortune, I overcame difficult circumstances to bring them out. To the average person, it is not worth a set of ordinary clothing, or even a single coin from their wallet.

Precious treasures gained by all sorts of severe hardships have all been lost by the Unification Church. Even one-of-a-kind precious treasures were lost. Even if you give all the money in the world, you could not buy them. Then, would I do this in order to leave something for myself? No. If you go forth with this kind of heart, then God will want to leave something, and afterwards he will want for your descendants to leave something as well. Because God's heart is such, and the heart of future descendants is also such, I am doing it for God and future descendants.

This is the lifeview that must be taken by people in a public position. You must know the sense of value for someone in a public position. Even if I am tortured and throw up blood and fall over, I say "Dear heaven, please do not shed tears over my blood. This is going to be shameful blood, and any tears will be soaked in lamentations and resentment. I do not want heaven to sympathize." Therefore I did not pray for myself even when I went into prison. In light of the world of the heart, this is what one must do.