The Family Pledge - Chapter Two - Section 5 - 2

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5.2. Strive to advance5.2.1. Strive to advance every day

Advancement never stops. We must move forward constantly. We must develop ourselves. Advancement! We need to advance in all directions. You should follow this path exactly as prom­ised and become as one. You have not simply recited the Pledge for nothing. Thus, if your mind and body are dis­united and your couple is fighting, you will be unable to say the pledge. If your children fail to unite with you, you will be unable to recite it. You should real­ize how precious the family is. The fact that we have such a pledge for the family is making everyone in the spirit world pay close historic attention to us. They are saying there are no other people on earth who are so fortunate to do that. All our ancestors who have gone to the spirit world envy us. So as for my mother, how happy she must be to receive the Bless­ing even though she knew nothing about it previously! As I have finally started talking about the hometown providence and am blessing everyone together in the realm of liberation for all peoples, my parents can be one of these cases. It is in this way that we establish order. (271-290, 1995.8.28)

In advancing forward, we strive on with all our strength. We strive to advance toward unification. We are already advancing toward this, but still we strive on, hitting it with our stick. Do you know why Family Pledge num­ber five has come into being? It means smooth passage on earth and in heav­en! It means that the gates of hell in the spirit world and physical world have been set aside, and the march for enter­ing the gate of heaven has started and is in progress. To strive to advance toward unification means to strike hard. If you have many younger siblings, you should bring them to the Blessing even if you have to push them. If your children do not receive the Blessing, problems will arise. (294-105, 1998.6.14)

Don’t Unification Church members today think only rarely about being in step with the spirit world? This is why you are going out of control. You should check yourselves every day. Even if you have realized an extended family, you can fall again. In order to guard against this, you must strive to advance toward unification. You should be in rhythm. Next it says, “We pledge!” There is noth­ing called perfection there. The unifica­tion and perfection of God’s Kingdom in heaven has not been achieved yet. We should strive toward it and stay in rhythm with it. This is absolutely neces­sary. (261-90, 1994.5.22)

What is Family Pledge number five? We live like this, and form an extended family by realizing God’s Kingdom on earth every day. According to what stan­dard does this extended family live? That of the spirit world. The spirit world is the greatest extended family. The Cain-type extended family should get in rhythm in a reciprocal relationship and create uni­ty with the spirit world every day. This is in the direction of unity. This is how the content goes: “…strive every day to advance the unification….” Advanc­ing forward does not mean just becom­ing as one and staying still. It means advancement. From the age of the fam­ily, age of the tribe, and age of the race or people, this is the way we should go toward globalization. This is why we are called forward-moving. On the day we stop, we will slide off. If we were to stop, we would be connected to hell. We can be connected to prosperity and the King­dom of Heaven only when we advance forward even if by just one step. This is what we pledge: advancement. We must strive to advance. Push yourself again and again to make progress. I am telling you to advance quickly and accomplish things quickly. (261-90, 1994.5.22)

We should “…strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners….” When we are advancing in oneness toward unifica­tion, what does this mean? We do not just achieve unity and then sit still. We must move forward and advance. The spirit world remains for us to deal with. After we achieve the unity of just the physical world we cannot settle down. We must go even further. We must strive to advance. Do it quickly. We are pledging to strive on. (283-82, 1997.4.8)

What is Family Pledge number five? We “…pledge to strive every day to advance the unification of the spir­it world and the physical world as sub­ject and object partners, by centering on true love.” It is progressive. We must always go forward. We cannot stop. “Striving to advance” means that this advancement must be pushed for. These are important words. We are living on earth, which is a world standing as the object partner to that world that is the subject partner. Although the scope of your living environment is smaller than that of the spirit world, we must create a model that can be in accord with the model standard of the spirit world. We should go to the next world only after achieving this. There is nothing we can do about it. This is not something I say half-heartedly. The Family Pledge has come into being because, considering the spirit world and physical world alto­gether, this is the way that God wants us to go in such manner. (274-114, 1995.10.29)

We have to grow. Staying still and stopping are connected to death. When you joined the Unification Church, how glad you were to have heard the Word! Are you rejoicing even more now? It is God’s heart, hope and will to tran­scend individual joy and globalize it. I am also going that way. Thus, my joy is not my own. I am striving to global­ize it. Everyone started from God but became self-centered. Your life of faith has been blocked by your own way. (273-69, 1995.10.21)

What is our fifth Family Pledge? It is “Our family pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.” It is advancement: becoming new people, people who are alive. Is your heart that rejoiced when you joined the Unification Church growing bigger and bigger or diminishing? It should grow bigger. Strive to advance. Living things grow. Those who fail to grow will die. They will be lost because they will have lost their value in relation to the spirit world. This is why I am telling you to strive to advance. (273-69, 1995.10.21)

We strive forward, rushing on. Things like just sleeping, becoming lazy, eating and enjoyment do not count in God’s providence. We are busy. Life is short. This is why, “Our family pledges to strive every day to advance the unifi­cation of the spirit world and the physi­cal world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.” Run without resting, just like me. Run without even sleeping. (260-193, 1994.5.8)

“Pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners…” We should prog­ress every day. If we stop, death awaits us. We would perish. So we cannot stop. “Strive…to advance!” We must go for­ward day by day, even if by just one step. We pledge to do so. So we must advance forward so that everything required in the spirit world is achieved in the phys­ical world without even the slightest deviation. (260-305, 1994.5.19)

“Our family pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners...” We must advance toward unity, and we have said we will strive to make such advances. We should harshly drive ourselves for­ward. We must push ourselves hard. If we slow down on earth we will fail to keep pace. We must drive forward strongly. (301-83, 1999.4.16)

In Family Pledge number five we say that we will “strive to advance,” don’t we? It is good to create unity and go for­ward, but if we apply the stick we can go more quickly. We apply some force. If you push people strongly, make them stand like cattle and bless them, when those blessed people go to the spirit world they won’t end up in hell. And before long they will be in heaven. So this is why I am saying that you should use compulsion. (293-318, 1998.3.18)

Every day, the spirit world as the subject partner and the physical world as the object partner must be united; the subject and object partner worlds must be unified. There must be advance­ment toward their unification, – devel­opment that progresses. We pledge to strive to advance forward. We strive on and make things move quickly, quickly, quickly. We should not stop. If we stop, we will immediately fall back. We will be connected to hell and death. Stop­ping leads us down to hell, and striv­ing forward leads to advancement. So run and run without resting. Run and run without sleeping just like me. If you do that, won’t you be able to relate to the world you have been thinking of? How can you relate to a world you have not thought of? Only then will unity be achieved. You have to think along with the spirit world. You have to think rela­tionally. (260-193, 1994.5.8)

5.2.2. Let us pave a true love highway

God did not want to see the spirit world and physical world as they have been so far. They must be completely purged. It is not you yourselves, one by one, who are to save them. On behalf of Jesus, we must purge the families of the fallen lineage in this way and then realize God’s Kingdom on earth and in heaven in the realms of the tribal mes­siahs, national messiahs and global mes­siahs. We must deeply experience Jesus’ realm of heart and dissolve his anguish of dying on the cross and of not hav­ing been able to have a family. God also wants it. So you should resolve it. On that basis you should have your families. Don’t think of the Unification Church as a habitual faith like the established Christian churches. The Unification Church is not like that. This is serious. With the Word that teaches about both worlds, you should explode your worldly concepts of the family. You should com­pletely revise such concepts of the spirit world and physical world. After doing so, we must create a new world. (292-320, 1998.4.27)

In order to restore the physical world that had been defiled, God has been guiding the providence of salvation through which He establishes His rela­tionship with human beings, who are in the position of having betrayed Him and who have fallen haplessly even below all things of creation. In order to reestab­lish His sovereignty over human beings, who have been dominated and accused by Satan, God has been working to build a bridge, and this has lasted from the Old Testament Age through the New Testament Age up to the present day. (1-282, 1956.12.16)

Family Pledge number five states, “Our family pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.” This means that the whole world is the same family. We, in the position of the object partner, should all be as one with the spirit world, which is the sub­ject partner. As well as that, since hell – the satanic realm – still remains in the physical world, we must push for this. Our days are busy. If the second and third generations were to arise from there, this would be a problem. You must know that our difficulties are multiply­ing gradually. This is urgent. The years leading up to the year 2000 are the time in which we must decisively bring about total mobilization. Since we are urging such rapid progress, rapid collapse will occur in this world, and everything will be separated and fall down into hell; you will see this clearly with your own eyes before you die. You should know that you have determined the pledge by tak­ing the necessary core of what your fam­ilies, who are moving within the frame­work of restoration, must do. (264-202, 1994.10.9)

Blessed families all want me to come, don’t they? Do you want me to come to your house? I don’t know when I will go there. So prepare a feast table and stay ready, even if it may be for ten years, to start a feast just within a few hours of my arrival; you should have such a heart. I would visit such families even on the way to somewhere else. Even if I were unable to visit them, my car would break down in front of their house so I would eventu­ally have to visit them. If you do not offer devotion, there is no way. If I did not know about the spirit world, I would not be able to walk this path. The Father of the spirit world is my Father. This is why I know the secrets of the spirit world bet­ter than anyone else. During the refugee life, even the ancestors were mobilized; they would make their descendants pre­pare a feast for the guests passing by on the street. I was fed like this many times. I do not talk about these things because many of them sound like lies.

God has no right of possession before Adam and Eve’s marriage. What do you think would have happened had they not fallen? So if you have ownership, you are a thief. Whether it is a nation or whoever it is, they are all thieves. In Adam’s fam­ily, ownership before their marriage had belonged to God. Through Adam’s Fall, human beings took the right of posses­sion for themselves, and this meant they drove God out; He was chased away. Ownership of material, love and fami­ly was destroyed. If we are to indemnify this for God and the True Parents, who know this bitter sorrow, all peoples of the world must be true children of fil­ial piety and loyal patriots. In order to do this we should give even our bodies as sacrificial offerings, and offer every treasure we own and even our lives; we should be able to ask God to return them as our Parents. (299-46, 1999.2.1)

In what circumstances does the Mes­siah come? Based on love, he should be able to love the law of the earth and even the protocol of the royal palace of the heavenly kingdom. He is coming in order to build such a world on earth. In this way, the spirit world and physi­cal world will become one in harmony. Through what can we unify those two worlds? What is it that is a plus to both of them? It is God-centered love. (207-250, 1990.11.11)

Who are God’s divine sons and daughters? They are those who love heaven and earth. Divine sons and daughters are those who, throughout the spirit world and physical world, love heaven centered on God and His nation centered on earthly kingship. They know the protocol of the royal palace of heaven and the national laws of the earth, thus seeking to observe and love all the laws of the two worlds of heaven and earth. Divine sons and daughters (seongja) are God’s children; It has seong (聖), which means holy, and ja (子), which means child. It is not the ja (者), which means fellow. It is seongja, God’s divine son or daughter. This is the ideology centered on the Messiah. (207-250, 1990.11.11)

What is it that the True Parents are supposed to do? They have to complete­ly open up the blocked way between the spirit world and physical world and lay a highway, a highway from hell, from Dan­bury, from the hell of the spirit world to heaven! (134-127, 1985.2.25)

I am saying that we should lay a great highway, a direct route from the physical to the spirit world. This road cannot be traveled without true love. Let us make a true love highway where the beginning and the ending points and the spirit world and the physical world are of the same height and the same width. This purpose can be accomplished only after God’s Kingdom on earth has been real­ized. (135-168, 1985.11.12)

With God’s command, we will remove all the small stepping-stone bridges between the spirit world and physical world and lay a highway and a railroad. Once we have started, my hope is to build a road that continues uninter­rupted all the way to London. Is this an easy or a difficult thing? It is a difficult thing. How difficult is it? Many times we will have to risk death. We cannot stop on the way. Why? Being despised is unbearable. Being ignored is unfor­gettable. We are running day and night because we cannot forget it day or night. We run until none of our detractors are following us anymore, after which we will meet God.

God has gone all the way to the end of humankind. Until we get there, meet Him and obtain control through deci­sive negotiations, we have no time to rest. In this way, we will have unified the spirit world and then unified the earth through an earthly struggle. Whereas everything was ruined by the start of the false family of Satan, with a marriage that was 180 degrees opposed to God, the True Parents came and married by turning 180 degrees, thereby dividing hell and heaven. You should know that the Kingdom of Heaven is established in the family. (271-200, 1995.8.28)