1. Pastor HJN speaks to leaders from the worldwide church
Part 1
As you can see the Cheon Bok Gung Temple has been built.
You’re sitting in it! We always saw it in pictures and heard
about it but now it is built. This is the growth stage, as you
know. And we had True Parents, we were able to attend
True Parents here just the other day on the 21st. That was
really so special. Mother gave such a tearful prayer after the
opening ceremony. Father really gave his heart, as you saw,
when he was up there. And I told you this when we met
earlier, I told you when we declare True Parent’s in the right
way, and when we are able to do our job, which as leaders,
is to declare the Lord of the Second Advent, the messiah
has come. If you are a leader in the UC, that is your job. That
is your occupation; to believe in the messiah, to declare the
messiah, and to bring confidence to the people who are
saved by the messiah. When we do that properly, when we
don’t hide it, we don’t fudge it at all, then Parents feel
confident. As you noticed I mentioned a couple of days
before, did you notice Father doesn’t speak twelve/thirteen
hours when we properly declare him?
And as you saw at the event, we both, Kook Jin Hyung and I,
strongly declared him as the Messiah. We did have VIPs and
the vice mayor of Seoul City was there. The head of the CIA
was there, he is one of the highest government officials in
the country. He is president of the KCIA. He was sitting right
in the crowd, right in front of you guys. We have two former
presidents of Korea that came out of that particular position.
So it’s an extremely high position. He reports directly to the
president every week. He actually came on Kook Jin
Hyung’s personal invitation.
Mine and Kook Jin Hyung’s experience after having
witnessesed in the Che Dan(?) over 1000 new members,
having had them donate to the Unification World Temple, the
new members have donated over 7 million dollars to the
temple. Everyone told us that was impossible. No Korean
people will donate. No new members will donate to the
Unification Church. This was the culture, the level of faith
that was alive in the church, very low. And so whenever we
heard that stuff we said, ‘Ok, maybe you think that, but we
believe.’ We moved forward and we made the results. New
members, witnessing, declare True Parents, bringing higher
level VIPs then we ever could. Because why? We are
confident what we believe. We believe what we believe. We

2. don’t hide it. We don’t let anyone take our religion or our
faith away. We are confident we know that True Parents are
the Lord of the Second Advent. I have studied religion and I
have seen all the founders of the religions, studied them.
There is no founder that is more successful than True
Parents, none, during the time of the founder. To have this
much of a world foundation, you can even be totally secular
and admit that. But our leaders and members, we should not
even be close to that level. Objectively speaking we can say
that. We should really have confidence in True Parents. This
is the real key to the Unification Church’s success. It comes
through no other medium only through True Parents we will
succeed and fulfil our destiny. And this, I think, is the hope of
our church.
At True Parents birthday celebration, which was on Friday,
AP requested an interview. So I did a brief interview with
them actually while they [the members?] were singing and
festivities round me. We just did it on the side of the room
and they asked me a couple of questions, you know, about
Father’s health, etc etc. He is extremely healthy. And then
they asked me a question, ‘So, you are the head of the
Unification Church, you are the international president, you
are the highest religious authority in the church under Rev.
Moon.
So are you his successor? And I said, ‘No. And I’ll tell you
why, because my Father is the messiah and there is no
other messiah. There is no other messiah. He has a
messianic mission. We don’t have the mission, we are
apostles. We declare the messiah has come, the Lord of the
Second Advent has come, that is our role. Of course Father
uses terminology that we have to become tribal messiahs
and family messiahs but there is only one person that
reveals and substantiates the essence of God. That person
is our True Parents. They are the ones who have revealed
the truth of God’s essence and divinity. They are the ones
who revealed the purpose of creation, the purpose for which
human kind exists.
We must not see True Parents with our physical eyes,
we’ve done that too much. We have really lost our spiritual
scenes. In the sense that we have viewed and tried to show
to the world a more popular vision of True Parents as some
kind of peace activists, or some kind of educator. They are
not peace activists or educators. They are the Lord of the
Second Advent! Do you understand? They are the messiah.
That is totally different. There is only one. There are tons of

3. peace activists. There are many peace proponents, many
many around the world. Even in history there were many
people who worked for peace. But there is only one Lord of
the Second Advent, that comes to fulfil the mission of Jesus
Christ and who fulfils that role through the substantiation and
total inheritance of God’s essence through his life. And only
our True Parents have accomplished this task. When we
understand this then we can have our spiritual scenes open,
and we can start seeing what kind of individuals we stand
before. So at the event, I tried to remind people, If you stood
in front Jesus Christ the Lord and Messiah, if you stood
before him, what kind of attitude, with what kind of mind
would we stand before Jesus?
Part 2
We are living what the apostle Paul only could dream of. It’s
absolutely incredible. Brothers and sisters, I’m not crying
because I’m sad, I’m crying because it’s amazing.
Because I feel totally blessed to be able to witness what we
have for True Parents. I never knew the extent, the path that
they had to walk. I always understood them as my father and
mother, you know the normal thing; why didn’t they come to
my school plays? Or why didn’t they… why couldn’t they
encourage me? Why are they not home? Why do we have all
these people always at our house!? You know all the normal
stuff that kids complain about. But I never understood who
they were. And even in my own immaturity I tried to
secularise them, tried to forget, leave out the messiah and
Lord of the Advent stuff. But the more I got to study religion,
the more I got to understand the founders of the church,
how serious were the founders, so radical. All the religious
leaders; extremely radical. They break away from tradition.
Usually they think the Buddha is quite calm and meditating all
the time. He was totally breaking away from tradition! There
were parts of his life. Jesus of course we all know. The
prophet Mohamed we know. The more I got to understand,
slowly at least my intellectual mind began to play with the
idea that True Parent’s are incredible religious leaders, but
that was basically the level I arrived at after all my studies, in
the school and all that. They are amazing religious founders,
they have done an impossible task. And you can only say
God bless them. God bless what True Parent’s do.
But it was really after I really started practising. I never tithed
in my life. I never was told to tithe. Did you know that? Did
you know that? It’s crazy. I was never told to tithe. So I
didn’t tithe! Until I started ministry. Then I started tithing.

4. Then I started doing all the special donations that’s True
Parent’s were requesting. Or whatever. Doing the
conditions. Still doing the training. Working in the ministry.
Meeting members. Going to houses whatever. Doing my
stuff. Then something like, I feel something was happening,
you know. Going from free loader to owner. Free rider.
Going from the point where, oh our members in Japan,
suffering for the rest of the world. There was this whole
culture of rhetoric, ‘Oh they have to do that because they
colonized Korea.’ That was a terrible excuse to make
Japanese members suffer. Going to see them, sleeping in
the churches. I was visiting them trying to encourage them.
No more, I realised, no more. We are going to have to step
up and become owners and responsible and mature, all of
us. And we are going to start with the Korean church, which
we did. We started with the Korean church to become fully
financially stable, so that we do not receive Japanese blood.
Our brothers and sisters. Because I’ve been to Japan over
twenty times now, visiting the members, going to the
churches, sleeping in the churches. I’ve been to the
smallest church in Japan. It’s tiny, very tiny.
And we really took them for granted. I realised what a sin we
have committed. Because I had been in church
environments, where people actually made fun of Japanese.
Oh they are just fanatics. Oh you know the Japanese. They
used to make fun of them as if that were some radical faith,
or as if it was part of the Japanese psyche, to want to
practise that kind of religion. I tell you its not. They are
people like you and me. Just as much as you do not want to
give up you children’s education fund that you have saved
for, our Japanese members don’t either but they have done
it. Just as you enjoy your house, or your car that you drive…
So when I went to try to encourage them, in whatever way,
we just tried to do as much as we could do. We made rules,
you know when we went to Japan, they always want to give
true children thank you donations. We said we are not going
to take anything. We didn’t come here to get a thank you
donation; we came here to try to encourage you. We are not
going to receive any gifts. No gifts allowed. I’m not going to
receive any gifts. I don’t come here to receive gifts. Don’t
prepare a hotel room, I’m going to go to the church. We are
going to sleep in the churches. And we are going to pray
together. We are going to bow together. We are going to
train together. And we are going to believe together.

5. They truly changed my life. And so I was in quite a dilemma
because I have to try to spiritually guide living saints! The
lowest of which is 100 times, 1000 times beyond me. And so
it was quite a challenge, because spiritually I was not yet
opening my eyes to True Parents. I was teaching Divine
Principle, I was sermonizing, preaching on the pulpit…
Part 3
I was in that kind of extraordinary dilemma. If I’m going to
have any impact on these saints, Father, it’s not going to
come out of my own ability. So it was in that time that I
entered into more intensive practise and prayer, where True
Father revealed, just like the transfiguration, where Jesus
showed who he was to his disciples. Where he stood there
in front of the disciples. With Moses and Elijah above them
all. Completely transfigured, illuminating his eyes burning like
ten thousand suns. That’s when True Father revealed the
seven deaths and resurrections. That completely...
completely changed everything for me because I'd never
understood, I never thought True Parent’s died for me.
Never. Yes they suffered, fought long to build the church. I
never thought that they laid down their life for me. But when
I realised, that even greater than Christ, he died for a fool
like me. Willingly, sacrificing their soul so I can be free. So
my children can see the Kingdom of Heaven. Not just once
like Christ, but constantly laid down their life to fulfil every
stage of indemnity that occurred since the fall. And that they
were resurrected by the power of True Love.
And then at night after that vision, after they showed me
that, that night I saw Father coming to me spiritually. I saw
his face, and it was like the transfiguration. His face was
totally like the sun. It was so bright I couldn’t look into it. I
knew he was there. His eyes were like… just in the Bible it
describes. And that night I wrote the repentance letter. I
never knew who you were True Parent's. I never believed.
But… I was such a coward. I didn’t go the next day to go
see them. I felt so ashamed. That’s the kind of fool that they
died for, I can’t even go see them. But I did go see them
eventually! I did. I said to them, ‘I never knew.’ And Father
said, ‘Finally you understand.’ Because I realise Father
couldn’t tell us. He couldn’t tell us because the True Love
that he taught gives and gives and forgets. Forgets that it

6. has given, even its life it forgets. It will forget. It will erase. I
realised True Father has lived his teaching, the teaching. He
has done the impossible. Not just in the world. But the
impossible.
And from that point I went from always having some kind of
reservation, some kind of intellectual doubt about who True
Parents were, to becoming a believer in True Parents. Then I
was reborn. My sermons have changed. My devotion had
changed. My life has completely changed. Now I understand
why Christians all cry, and go crazy when they are reborn.
When they talk about eternal life, why they jump with joy. I
can finally get it. So that’s why it’s such an amazing
blessing. It’s such a profound blessing. That we can be
here doing this for the messiah. It’s incredible. It’s
incredible. And it’s not a work. It’s completely fun doing it. I
feel alive doing it. I read the apostles I hear the words of
their acts. You know, I can feel that I can understand why
they’re doing that. How when they testify it brings so much
joy!