1) The Importance of Education

As regards the question of whether you possess more factors to relate with evil or more factors to relate with good, your whole being is full of factors that leads you to evil.

To walk the path of evil, there is no need for education. Anybody can walk that path without receiving education. Because history has begun from evil, anyone can walk through it without receiving education. Is there a need to educate someone on how to travel the path of evil? Because it comes naturally, today we are educating people to center on ethical and moral standards, making judgments based on the standard of conscience.

What is the education centered on? Despite the fact that the education was given centering on goodness and conscience, how many people have met the standard of the education? Anybody can perform evil deeds without being educated about it. Everyone can receive a perfect score on it. (36-57)

This is the reason why education is needed. Just as I have educated people at every opportunity that I've had during the 24 hours of day and night, you should grab onto people and shed tears, skipping lunch and dinner, being intoxicated in the Word, and staying up through the nights. Do you understand how I have been living my life here so far? When I don't go out, what do I do here? If one person comes to visit, don't I talk to that one person? Haven't I lived that kind of lifestyle all my life? I have been pouring out my spirit, always.

So, you are to educate. Do you understand? If you succeed in education, you will not perish. Education is indirect preparation. Indirect preparation is for the sake of the direct preparation. If you make indirect preparation, then I will be responsible for transforming it into direct preparation; so you should just focus on making indirect preparations. (149-205)

If there is a hard steel, then the blacksmith must repeatedly beat on it. He has to beat on it at night as well as in the day time. Why must he beat on it day and night? This is to establish the condition for it to pass through all of the four seasons. Morning is equivalent to the spring, day is the summer, evening corresponds to the autumn, and night corresponds to the winter; for this reason, through the four seasons, starting from the period of childhood and passing through those of youth and the adulthood, one must finally cross over to the time of old age. The more you beat on the metal, and the longer you beat on it for the rest of your life, the better it becomes, isn't this true? [Yes] It is the same thing. You should beat on it. You should beat on it with all your strength.

People who do not understand this might say, "Before teacher told us to do it like that and today he is telling us to do it like this; he changes his mind all the time." If you look at how God does things, he often changes the way he does things. Why is this? This is because right now is the time to throw away. If something cannot be used to make a contribution, then it cannot be used for anything else.

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