1) The Qualifications that a Minister Must Have What type of representative must we become? You are all not good looking, you have no experience, you have no possessions, but your heart is yearning for the highest standard. What kind of representative are you going to become? Becoming a representative who takes responsibility for one's household is obvious but you must go beyond that and become your nation's representative and the world's representative. In order to accomplish such a thing you must have a global standard. If you want to have this global standard, it must come close to the absolute standard. However, without first going through the center of the family, you cannot go through the center of the people. Furthermore, without going through the center of the people, you cannot go through the center of the nation and without going through the center of the nation, there is no way to go through the center of the world. You must know this fact. Because of the current direction of history, countless people want to become rulers and be responsible for their countries centered on themselves. Going beyond that, they wish to become the leaders of the world. However, these people must go through the family door, the tribe door, go over the hill of the people, and the hills of the nation and the world. Only then can they call themselves universal. To be universal is to be number one. You must become number one. The primary problem is that you must determine God's ownership. To you as an individual, God must be able to say, "You are eternally my son (or daughter)." One cannot be a son or a daughter by name alone. You must become one who has a subjective love which can gather all the central elements of your nature and which God can hope for. He must be able to say, "You are truly my beloved son (or daughter)." These words are necessary. Why? Because God knows of the historic scar left by the history of our ancestors through the Fall. Adam fell and couldn't be a true son. Therefore there was a need to say, "You are truly my beloved son." Do you know how much effort it takes to receive that recognition? Have you tried? If there is an altar at the church, you must shed a lot of tears there and receive that recognition. You must go to a high mountain and spend the night in prayer saying, "Only your love is my shield for certain victory." The educator is the one who takes responsibility for the church and takes on the responsibility of becoming a true sapling onto which people can graft to receive new life. Just as Jesus represented God and bore witness to him, just as Jesus represented God and fought Satan, and just as Jesus represented God and died for him, you must represent Jesus and bear witness to him, fight for him and be able to die for him. From there, you must become a person whom someone else can bear witness to. That is why Jesus had apostles and you, too, will have followers. In order for you to be in a position to call yourselves a son or daughter of God, there must be someone who can testify that you are an unwavering son or daughter of God, someone who can fight for you and die for you. It is not something you do after receiving restoration. The road to restoration is a road that must be developed. You cannot realize the history of restoration by accepting things from the satanic world. You must give Heaven's things. So what is it that you must give? You must give true heart, true character, and true words. In order to do that, you must establish the standards of true words, true character and true heart. You must set up true words, true character, and true heart on the individual, familial, national and global levels. The one who comes as the person responsible for increasing the scope and establishing an indemnity standard for the entire world is the Messiah. You mustn't forget that he comes during a serious historical time. If you want to accomplish something big in this world, you must take on a big mind and start to do a lot of preparation. People are unable to accomplish big things because of a lack of preparation. Therefore, if your goal is big, then your preparation should also be big. If it is some sort of trial, then it needs preparation over a continuous period. If the preparation is not correct, then even though the opportunity for success arrives you will not be able to reach your goal. From a long time ago there have been heroes and patriots who have come and gone on this earth, but without making a correct foundation for success they would have never been able to accomplish the things they did on the national or world level. If you do not make the appropriate foundation nothing will work. Also, no matter how well prepared your foundation is, if there is no support from God at that precise time you will fail. You need the right conditions, Heavenly fate, and the correct timing. Time is a factor. In order to become an airplane pilot, how many decades must you train? In order to become an astronaut, how much money must you invest in your training? And how much knowledge do you need in that field?
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