Training in Faith

1. It is written in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son…” It is not written that God gave His only Son because He loved America or a particular denomination.

God gave His Son for the sake of the world, not for the sake of the Baptist Church or the Presbyterian Church. I am teaching you this point. The Unification Church exists for the sake of the world and the sake of God, not for the sake of Rev. Moon. This is why I do not go to ruin and neither does the Unification Church; God protects the Unification Church.

All perfection begins with true love. We should apply this formula to the entire world, centered on true love. It has to become so habitual that we cannot lead our daily lives without practicing this formula.

Wherever we may go, we have to live this way When we see elderly people, we must love them as our grandparents; when we meet people the age of our parents, we must love them as our parents; if we meet people the age of our siblings, we must love them as we would our siblings; when we meet children, we must love them as our children. This way of treating people should be both habit-forming and fun for us. (254-198, 1994.02.06)

With true love

2. Rivers flow into the ocean. The earthly world is similar to a river while the spirit world is similar to the ocean. Every human being goes to the Spirit World. Freshwater fish die if they are suddenly thrown into salt water; they suffocate. The freshwater fish first need to acclimatize.

The Unification Church trains people on earth for life in the spirit world. It is the training center of true love where members learn to live for others with love. The Unification Church is also the training center that aims to develop the substance of love, which is living for others.

God lives for the sake of others; therefore, a person who has a love for others is welcome wherever he or she goes. No opposition arises against such a person. (256-061, 1994.03.12)

3. It is difficult to conquer with the sovereign power of true love. It is possible only after crossing rows of defensive lines and overcoming many ordeals. You cannot do it without a foundation. Accordingly, let us look at the current situation of the Unification Church.

What historical position does the Unification Church have to establish in the world to rule as the owner of the future? This position is not that of an individual; it is higher than that. It is possible to become owners of the future at the individual level if we surpass the individuals in this world. However, we cannot conquer true love as owners just at the individual level.

Furthermore, look at the family level. We can become owners at the level of the family if we surpass other families. But this is not our aim. Our aim goes beyond the family to the tribe, from the tribe to the nation, and from the nation to the world. We have to reign as owners at the world level.

When looked at this way, it is not an easy task. Unless we overcome the harshest historical course to prepare a basis for real victory, we cannot become owners of the future. (45-036, 1971.06.06)

4. True love is like a wrapping cloth that can contain God and the universe and still have room for more. The same is true of God. Given that God created electricity, which travels at 300 million meters per second, God must certainly be faster than electricity.

So if we were to travel at this blinding speed, using so much energy, inside the wrapping cloth of true love, we would want to be confident we are wrapped well enough to prevent any accident.

However large the universe may be, it is meant to revolve around true love and not to move linearly. The person who possesses true love possesses the universe and thereby has dominion over the universe. Our life on earth is the training ground of true love. We are now living in this training ground. (133-318, 1985.01.01)

5. When you live for others with true love, you ascend. When you love yourself, you descend. Where you center yourself determines heaven and hell. When you focus your love on the body, you are Satan's dance floor.

Conversely, when you focus your love on the mind, you are God's dance floor. The problem is that you are not entities of love centered on God's absolute mind. If your love is centered on the body, you will crash into hell and perish.
(419-204, 2003.10.04)

6. If you love your enemy with true love, you will take dominion over the world of your enemy. This world will come to respect and attend to you. When you give and profoundly share true love with everyone around you, more than you give and share with your children and your parents, Satan will immediately flee from you, while God will come and bless you several thousand times over.

What is the secret to making Satan run away? It is living for the sake of true love, dying for true love, and loving for the sake of others. However terrible he may be, Satan will abandon all the barricades he erected and run away from the person who practices such love.

When he flees, Satan will dismantle the barricades; he cannot leave them intact. Then what happens? Since the devil will have departed, all the countless people heading for hell's realm of death will turn around 180 degrees.

Then the opportunity for eternal life will unfold, enabling people to ascend into heaven. This is how God will bequeath the blessing of eternal life.
(419-198, 2003.10.03)

Following the Word

7. I have lived by God's Word and you should do the same. You need to surpass me in reading, memorizing, and practicing the Word. As you do so, you should say, “I must follow this path.

This is the path True Parents want for me; I must follow it.” True Parents therefore wish that you become joyful people, so joyful that you can visit any village and everyone, including the village's ancestors, will come and attend to you.
(592-239, 2008.06.10)

8. When your descendants carefully study the Word True Parents left, all people in all nations will approach the path that is close to the eternal kingdom of heaven.

Only when your descendants respect the teachings their ancestors left behind more than they pay attention to worldly things, and look upon them as a lighthouse, not only in image but as actual substance, will they be able to move safely forward along the path of freedom, through all the dangerous reefs in the dark ocean.

You cannot chart your course without looking at the lighthouse. The words I am telling you now are that lighthouse. Until now, no one has spoken more than I have about heaven and earth. You need to be able to accept these words as divine words that blossom from the highest world of heart. (424-198, 2003.11.07)

9. In the Last Days, God will judge by heart, character, and the Word, not by how much you believe. God is the center of the heart. He will set up only one standard of heart throughout heaven and earth.

Then there is the standard of character that is united with God's heart. And there is the standard of the Word, which represents God and is united with the center of character and heart. These are the three major stages of judgment. Among the three, judgment by the Word occurs first. In the fallen world, judgment by the Word will come first. (14-177, 1964.10.03)

10. In today's fallen world, searching for the truth has become a trend. Furthermore, history, which develops in tandem with culture, goes out and finds the ideology that is heading toward one global culture.

All trends in the world until now have emerged out of thought and doctrines; nonetheless, no thought or doctrine has succeeded in establishing a standard principle through which humanity can unite and harmonize. Instead, thought and doctrines have remained in the dark alleys of confusion.

This is today's reality. This is why we need to see the truth emerge that will move both the communist world and the free world toward unity. After this truth for which history is seeking emerges in this world, it will pass judgment on currently accepted truths. (14-178, 1964.10.03)

11. If you are filled with grace and risk your life as you walk forward, God will speak through you. This is true of the angelic world, and it is true of me. Therefore, if anyone among you is so enraptured by the

Word that you forget to eat and sleep and lose track of time, you will be able to do what I am doing. The effect of the Word is indeed wonderful. (563-273, 2007.05.22)

Crossing the peak of indemnity

12. Because God felt so much sorrow and anguish over the Fall of Adam and Eve that He wanted to kill off human beings once and for all, we who are alive and indebted to this Father cannot live for our well-being and personal happiness.

We have to redeem this fallen world, which God would otherwise have to discard. We do so by faithfully walking the path of filial sons and daughters, patriots and saints, without straying even one step, thus crossing the peaks of indemnity.

Furthermore, we will arrive at the original homeland, which is the kingdom of the ideal. Every one of you has to walk True Parents' path together with them; you must follow. Our journey has covered tens of thousands of miles, and there are still tens of thousands of miles ahead of us. (596-140, 2008.08.26)

13. The course of indemnity is time-consuming. It not only consumes time, but it also consumes us. Therefore, we all have a personal responsibility to pioneer this course of faith. The questions are, how much has this work consumed your time, and how much has it consumed you?

The answers to these questions determine whether you have removed the elements that require indemnity. Thus, we can see that the path of faith is the path of sacrifice; it is the path of sacrificing our entire self.

Put another way, it is the path of investing in everything that could make us happy. In addition to this, we also sacrifice our bodies. We must pay the price by sacrificing for the whole and individuals. It is reasonable that the longer your sacrificial course and the greater your sacrifice, the more indemnity you will have cleared away in your generation. (031-155, 1970.05.24)

14. More blessings go to those in hardship than to those in comfort. Reaching the highest level involves enduring the direst hardships. This is why I am sending you to difficult places. But you must be able to say, “I am the only one who can do this.” If you do so, you will fulfill your responsibility.

When you become the servant among servants, the adopted son among adopted sons, and the son among sons, and receive from your descendants the recognition that you reached the position of eternal blessing, you will have fulfilled your responsibility.

You have to walk your path as a servant, an adopted son, a son, a representative of Jesus and the Holy Spirit and, eventually, of Heavenly Father. The course until the position of son or daughter is the realm of personal indemnity, while the course as a representative of Jesus arid the Holy Spirit is the realm of indemnity for Heavenly Father.

When you fulfill the Heavenly Father's responsibility, you have completed your responsibility and become your true self, who is fully qualified to face the past, the present, and the future. (11-331, 1962.04.13)

15. As God's son, Jesus' purpose was not simply to be a man of filial piety connected to the world and cosmos. His purpose was to make a dutiful family. The family lineage was built upon the wrong standard, so Jesus was to re-create the family at the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world.

All alone, I have carried Jesus' cross, overcome the peaks of indemnity,y and crossed barriers and national frontiers. Since I achieved victory on the world level, I am causing Satan to end his war against God, and I'm building the peaceful kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. (487-084, 2005.02.12)

16. We have to indemnify God's sorrow. Since God is shedding tears for us, it is our turn to shed tears for our brothers and sisters, for the nation, and for the world. If a group of people capable of fulfilling this responsibility comes forward, this group will prosper.

The descendants of these people will certainly make progress. Even though we do not know what miserable historical events may take place, since we are in the Last Days, we need to know that this is the time for us to judge the two worlds and to build one world.

We need to know that now is the historical time in which we should become filial sons and patriots who can comfort God. (60-099, 1972.08.06)

17. When a group of people emerges that can overcome adversity with confidence and courage and start anew, it will begin a new world. However, some groups that have a foundation do not dare to engage, and others that seek to engage do not have the resources to begin.

We have to have something we can give to those in these circumstances, so they may begin to engage and carry out their work Advancing beyond this stage does not happen naturally; it requires numerous indemnity conditions and sacrifices.

What is needed is a group of people willing to sacrifice themselves, not for personal benefit but for, victory, and the value of the whole.
(15-079, 1965.09.29)

The principle by which we repair broken relationships

18. Adam, as the lord of creation, should have been able to harmonize all creation through his love, so he could stand before God amid creation and say, “My Father, please receive all the glory!” Yet due to his Fall, Adam lost that value.

God longs to hear the voices of His true sons and daughters, those who are the first to emerge since the creation, calling Him “Father.” Today we call God our Father, but He is not the Father we can call upon while we are in a position of sin and evil.

Therefore, we have to escape from this sinful and evil world and enter the ideal garden of goodness, the world where humanity can manifest God's glory while living enraptured in joy.

This is a world where, if human beings move, all things of creation move, and if human beings keep silent, all things keep silent, and God the Creator either moves or keeps silent along with them. This ideal garden is where God and humanity can meet in a mutual relationship and become one. (3-027, 1957.09.15)

19. God wanted humanity to become one with Him. He created human beings with the vision that they would be enraptured in joy based on His amazing love. Yet through their Fall, human beings brought about deep anguish, not only for themselves but also for God.

They have compounded it since then through the continuance of that sorrowful history to this day. Then what is God's greatest hope as He guides the providence about the earth today?

It is to bring people born from fallen parents back to His side and say to them, “I am your eternal Father and you are my eternal sons and daughters.” To be able to welcome such a day is the historic hope of fallen humankind and the original hope of God. (3-027, 1957.09.15)

20. A peaceful world is possible when nations have good relations with each other. As long as there is even the concept of struggle, there can be no peace. Bonds are formed through relationships.

This requires becoming reciprocal partners. It is destiny that we come together, but we need to build relationships to become partners. By relationships, I do not mean those that center on something bad; I mean good relationships.
(427-172, 2003.12.05)

21. A relationship is not formed if it is not destined. Buddhism speaks of destiny, but in the Unification Church, we speak of relationships. We are one step ahead. We can have a destiny all alone, but relationships always involve two.

Because the mind and the body are destined to unite, they are engaged in a relationship. Because a man and a woman are destined to be bound as one, we can say that husband and wife are one flesh. From this perspective, we realize there has to be a center in a relationship.

Even for the relationship between father and son, there should be a center that can satisfy the absolute conditions for both the father and the son. The Chinese character the r center (中) encompasses all four directions. (456-117, 2004.06.27)

22. The relationship between the subject partner and the object partner transpires in time and space, and even though the object partner might be in a lower position if treated with a big heart, that partner receives great glory.

The bigger the hearts the parents have, the more the children will resemble them. For a subject partner, there is always an object partner. (546-201, 2006.11.28)

23. If there were molds for relationships, each mold, even though the history of all human relationships is tied up in it, would contain unique personal stories and circumstances. In that case, what would each mold have to do with the mainstream?

If we take the example of a tree, a leaf that came out a thousand years ago has the same essence as a leaf that is a few days old. This essence is linked to the tree's central root, trunk, and main boughs. The same goes for the branches. Even though there are branches in all directions, their essence is the same.
(552-212, 2007.01.18)

24. The realm of resonance is the plane where two people become one. Parents are two people; a couple is made up of two people, brothers are also two, and sons and daughters are as well. Everything begins with two people. Since there are two, we can speak of a relationship.

When we speak of a relationship between elder and younger brothers, we infer that there are at least two. We cannot use the word “relationship” when talking about one person alone.

Even when we speak of political relationships, we infer that there is a nation and its citizens. When we mention the relationship between subject and object partners, we are speaking of two people. You cannot make a relationship if you are alone. (598-226, 2008.09.21)

25. We need to experience profoundly, in our hearts and daily life, the countless efforts God has made to build a parent-child relationship with us. What is our last remaining hope?

On what basis can we stand in front of God, in His grace? This depends on how much we succeed in building the parent-child relationship, which is God's ideal of creation. We discover our value based on how much we put this into practice in daily life. (3-028, 1957.09.15)

26. Birds, fish in the oceans, and all beings of creation possess their languages of song and dance with which they can converse. Their sounds develop into songs and their steps develop into dances.

We must understand that this conversing and harmonizing takes place in relationships based on love. All the creation competes to experience times of love and to intensify such moments of love. Human beings are the lords of creation.

Therefore, if we can produce such lovely songs and sounds of harmony, and love each other ten or one hundred times more intensely, this world will become an environment in which God is intoxicated, and in which He can dwell.
(613-264, 2009.07.09)