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Kyle Kim - Philippine Leader's Meeting (4/1/98)
Kyle Kim (Second Son of Rev. and Mrs. Byung Wooh Kim)
National Leaders' Meeting
Manila, Philippines
April 01, 1998
I guess all I can do is what I always told brother Michael, I can't generate money for you, I can't generate goals in single candidates, I can't do all those things for your regions, but all I can do is just help you generate them. All I know is that my inspiration will never die. You know what I mean. My inspiration will never die because I have not just seen the light, I've held on to the light. I've had my successes and failures, and I have hurt my parents enough in the past. Now I have grown, I'm still growing, but from this time on nothing will shake me. I'm sure all the members don't have this, they're always still shaken, they want to go home. All I can do is share this inspiration. The best thing I can hope for in this short time that I am talking to the leaders here is that we can really give just a little push before you go back to your respective regions, and hopefully I can give a little message from my parents.
Does anybody understand Korean here ? ( No ) So we are still far from entering the Kingdom of Heaven. Everyone must study Korean. So what does it say?
This is like our life. This phrase is what my father always used to guide members during his pioneering days. All these failures in their past is just affecting the members, getting them discouraged. Satan holds on to this, and he's the owner of this past. The present and the future belongs to us. God waits behind His open door. What does this mean? This means every time in life, in whatever you do, Satan will always use your past, your life's past to attack you, invade you, and shake you away. What shall we do? By giving the best in this present, by giving 100%, God can use you as the hope of the future. So whatever the past may be, if you try to throw it down to the ground and just stamp it and try to put it away, the more it will jump off in your face, the more it will smell everywhere in the room. So what do you do with this? You just have to bury this. Bury this deep in the ground and let it become a fertilizer and make yourself be able to be embraced by God's open arms. Whatever your stories, whatever your failures, forget it, let that be the seed for you to bring in more, let that be the fertilizer, to be more inspired, do you understand me? If you always have this kind of resentments and you think too much about your past, Satan will come to enslave you. If you will let your mind and spirit dwell in the past, Satan is with you in spirit, and Satan will drag you into your past.
I'll be visiting other regions too, the places that I haven't gone yet, also Business department.
We just have to look in ourselves. Remember last time, how many people were here when my mother was speaking about how Father said that if you want to see God in your prayers you must see yourself. She was talking about that and I gave an example in my Sunday Service. She asked True Father, True Father, who do you see in your prayers? Who is God, how do you see God in your prayers? And he said, go home and pray. And at that night she had a dream, and in that dream Father was walking around giving guidance to some leaders, and right behind Father was this twin of Father who looked just the same except a little older. Then she realized that this was Father's image of God; we are all a part of God, we were created in the image of God. This is actually more literal than we think.
When True Father said that we are a part of God, it means that when a new baby is born, God takes a piece of Him, a piece of His spirit and puts it in this baby, just as
He does to each of us. I'll give this example, in the Philippine Church, let's say when Rowena ( Vice-President of Philippine Unification Church) was born, God took His thumb off, and then put it in her, and then He took His forefinger off and put it in brother Roland, the same with all His other fingers. So each of God's finger are with these people, they are part of God.
Now, why is unity so important? Why is it that there is God in unity and God in harmony? Because, this palm that connects these fingers, in Philippines, this palm here is brother Michael ( President of Philippine Unification Church). What can you do with a thumb? If you just have a thumb, if you just have sister Rowena here, can you do "kamayan" ( to eat by using hands ) ? When you unite, you use the bigger force of God. Each mission that you're given is a different part of God's ability that you have. It may be a finger, an eye, a toe, or even the dirt in God's toe nail. God wants you to unite and see how you can use those God-given powers and abilities. That's why it's not God and angels who perform miracles, but when you unite, you are using that part of God to make your own miracles. We have the power to make miracles. Does everyone understand? This is all I could say.
This is the new month of April, don't let your failures in March discourage you. Anyway God is never discouraged, God is always confident. What would have happened if God lived in His past, and then He would be affected by it? Look at the past 6,000 years of this failure of His children, everything does not affect God definitely.
I'll be trying my best also to dwell in the present and rush into God's embrace, God's loving embrace as He just sits here and waits for us with open arms, open doors, so let's all determine again.
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