1. THE REASONS WHY WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE

Why have the families in this world been ruined? Even mothers, fathers, and children became enemies. Why is it so? Because there is no true love. The most important thing is eternal life. However, they don't know if there is a spirit world or not.

If you know clearly that there is a spirit world, you can't commit a crime even if others tell you to do so. You cannot live for yourself even if others tell you to do so. Without knowing this, even if you believe in Christianity or believe in any other religion, you cannot go to Heaven. You cannot go to the ideal world. You cannot go there without pouring out true love and life. (205:261)

If religious principles are not related to eternal life, even a social revolution is impossible. If the social circumstances become more corrupt and ruined, no one has a basis to reach eternal life. When you relate to eternal life, however, you can overcome all circumstances. Therefore, religion is so great. Only if you are sure of the concept of the matter of eternal life and establish the understanding that it is a fact can you truly guide your sons and daughters.

Until now, no religion could embrace such a complete theory or could digest all of the structures that became the present culture. The background of the religions was always the customs of their culture relating to the circumstances. They couldn't go beyond the circumstances. Why was it so? They couldn't maintain the concept of eternity.

Isn't it so in Christianity? In Christianity, people have kept faith. However, the closer they came to reaching the end of the fallen world and the more the circumstances have changed, the more things went wrong. Why? It is because people lost the concept of eternity. They don't have confidence in the matter of eternal life. They are not sure if there is a God or not.

Because of this, they could not go beyond the circumstances by risking their lives. Everyone stays put, looking around, and falls into the comfortable way of this present life. Unless the concept of the eternal penetrates into them, they will fall into the middle sphere of the spirit world. Who can insert the concept of the eternal lineage into them? Only Unification Church teachings can penetrate them.

If you are confident that our present life is not preparation for the physical life but for the life of the eternal world you can continue as you are.

The more our days pass--40 years old and 50 years old--and the closer the day of our death comes, the more serious we become about the concept of eternity. Do you understand what I am talking about?

The older we become, the weaker our love becomes. However, if we are penetrated by a concept of eternity, we become more serious. Evil circumstances and confused change are so frequent now. If you can overcome changing circumstances and keep an absolute concept of eternity, nothing can disturb you.

Therefore, the point is how you can penetrate a concept of the eternal life. Therefore, whenever you give a lecture, you always have to teach centered on the matter of love and a concept of subject and object. You also have to teach God's Principle of Creation, that creation is centered on eternal love. You have to penetrate this backbone.

Didn't God create Adam and Eve as the objects of His love? Because God created them like that, we should live as an object of God. You have to not only talk about it but actually feel it. And you have to understand it deeply.

If you only knew how great the power of true love is, you couldn't help going this way even though someone told you not to go this way.

Therefore, whenever you give a lecture, the point you must give all of your energy to is how you can get across the concept of eternal life. If you only do that, everything will be accomplished.

In teaching those younger than 15 years old, you can use the standard of man's original nature before the fall. Because the age before 15 years old is before Adam and Eve fell, their original mind is still free. Therefore, before adolescence or at adolescence they should know God. By understanding God, they will know the inevitable relationship with God. To teach them why the relationship with God is inevitable, you have to reach them with the concept of eternity. Do you understand what I'm talking about? We always have to think about it.

If only you can penetrate it into them, our second generation in the Unification Church won't go the other way, even if we told them to do so. Therefore, we have to adopt other people quickly, save the world quickly, and bring everybody to heaven. It becomes your possession. You will be ranked on a certain level in the spirit world according to what you bring there. Heaven is completely empty. I see it is completely empty.