4. FUNDRAISING AND WITNESSING

1) What is Fundraising and Witnessing

Because Adam violated the creation that God created and trampled upon man and love, we must be respective toward the creation and act properly and respectfully before man and the love of God.

This path is not the road toward business, and this path is not the road of witnessing, but it is the destined path of indemnity. It must be traveled no matter what. I know all these things. You say this and that, but I do understand how difficult it is. I even know how you are doing. No, when I tell you, "Concerning this issue, you should do this," then you should be able to say, "I have taken care of it like this." You should be able to even grab onto me and insist on your ways. Then what would I do? Even God cannot do anything about it. What can He do when you grab onto Him with love? (94-271)

It would be terrible if you cannot accept its true meaning and digest its true meaning and act upon it with joyful heart, despite the invaluable training that I am providing you. How wonderful is the saying, "Doing financial activities will make it possible to love the creation closely, and witnessing is done to love people." Fundraising is designed to help you form good habits. If you can become like that while possessing love, when you go to the spirit world you will enter it with the same habits. The ladder will be automatically be laid down. It is the same. Everything is for the purpose of climbing up. (speaks while pointing to what he wrote on the board.)

When you do that, then you will surely become the incarnation of love in the spirit world. If you could not become the ideal perfected being in respect to love, through such a course of training, you have to eventually return and become a person who possesses divine qualities like God. For this reason, I begin with the divine love of God, and going through this course, move from the earthly world to the heavenly world and return the divine love. This is to say that I will become the son of God. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes] This is where you must go. Don't you think about this? (118-117)

What is fundraising? It is the public evidence that one has loved material things. What is witnessing? It is the public proof that one has loved man. Only after having done them does one need a bride or a husband. Who needs a husband or wife who cannot even love the creation? Who wants them, who? What kind of bride will come forward to accept such a man as a husband? They will not come. Also, if there is such woman, then no husband will come to her.

What is love? You have to lead a frugal lifestyle, saving material things. You must first love material things and then love man. While living the life in a society in which people come into conflict with one another, there can be fights and complaints at times, and if one is at disadvantage, one may conjure something up and so forth. You have to train yourself to endure through such a lifestyle telling yourself, "I will endure because I love." (111-178)