You must have ideals from now on. When you become old enough to go to the Little Angels School, you must not say this and that. You must set those things aside, and first you have to love all the people in your neighborhood and must become close to them. You must create an environment in which people say, "Oh, in our school there are Blessed children of the Unification Church. They are frank, they have the best attitude towards their friends, and they are good models at school. If these people go, how lonely and sorrowful our school will become. How lonely we will become!" In case there are 100 Blessed children, they should be concerned about 300 children. If there are 300 Blessed children, they should be concerned about 1,200 children. That kind of foundation should be established. (April 12, 1981) Jacob had twelve sons, but do you know who received the most blessing? It was Joseph. He was the eleventh son; and after Joseph, Benjamin. And what were the other brothers doing while Joseph received blessings? They were engaged in satanic activities. The elder brothers hated Joseph. The reason that they hated Joseph was that the twelve represented all the different directions in north, south, east and west. Those divisions started with the families of Cain and Abel. Likewise, even under the circumstances of being opposed by more than ten families and persecuted by them, still you have to overcome these difficulties with a loving heart. Joseph's situation is a lesson as a model course. Joseph's brothers tried to kill him by throwing him into a well, and he was sold into slavery. But Joseph took the view that it was not his brothers that put him into that terrible situation, but the mysterious will of God. Thinking in that way Joseph discarded all his dignity, authority and desires, and loved them. On the foundation that Joseph loved his brothers upon that condition, it was possible for the Israelites to be revived. You also have to go a way similar to that. I gave you the Blessing, but I did not mean that you are allowed to live a comfortable life. Do you understand? Even if people oppose the Unification Church and hate us, we should love them as Joseph loved his ten brothers, and save them. In order to do that he embraced them and led them into the sphere of God's love. To stand in the position of bearing that responsibility, in the same position as Joseph, you have to take that responsibility. That is your position as Blessed children. This is the way for Blessed children to follow. Since you are in the same position as the children who would have been born in the Garden of Eden if there had been no Fall, you have to do work of a savior. Jesus was born as a sinless son but he was not born to live a comfortable or a good life in this world. Jesus' mission was to make this world better; after that, he himself would become able to live a good life. That was Jesus' mission. You have the same mission as he. Even if God and Father make an environment in which you, the Blessed children, can live a good living, still that environment is not for your sake. You must know it is for the sake of the world. In order for you to inherit the Blessing for the sake of the world, you must love more than twelve horizontal brothers and sisters and you have to stand in the position that is recognized as the Unification Church's and in which they admit that you are the subject of love, saying, "You are the exemplary subject of us all. You are like Joseph, the eleventh son, neither the eldest son, nor the second eldest son nor the seventh nor the eighth, and you can truly inherit our family." All the eleven brothers must become like that. To do that, what kind of life do you have to live? You have to sacrifice without saying anything, and you have to live for the sake of your brothers. Do you understand? You have to stand in the same position as that. (April 12, 1981)
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