If people's minds are securely centered on the truth, no matter if the earth were to fall into chaos millions of times and the universe was destroyed, they will never be changed or shaken.
On the other hand, if you are not prepared to accept such a central truth in your heart, however genuine the truth may appear, you would not recognize it when it comes to you.
Even if true love appeared, you would not be able to understand it because it did not come alive in your heart.
The stronghold of heaven
If Christianity wants to become a religion that establishes the mind's center that nobody can make fall and seek a genuine truth of life and love, then it must completely deny itself to the end.
Religion must deny itself to discover new truths and pathways. Make sacrifices.
When mankind were discovering new continents, it seemed as if the continent was constantly expanding.
Now, as every facet on earth has been discovered and partially destroyed, it is as if the earth is shrinking day by day.
In other words, as civilization was still developing, the world seemed huge, but as history and civilization expanded, the world seemed to gradually shrink.
In that regard, you can know the ideal world, realized through history of truth. It will become the universal era where everything in creation forms direct ties with humanity.
What standard should we as citizens of heaven follow?
Our love and life of the Kingdom of Heaven should follow truth. Our life and the truth should follow love, and likewise, love and truth should necessarily follow life because truth, life and love are like a family. They are inseparable.
These must bear good fruit within us.
Why are truth, love and life connected to one another this way?
For something to exist there should be an above and below front and back, and right and left, centering on existing things.
No part of creation can escape the realm of number three, which is the fundamental form of existence. The three growth stages are: formation stage, growing stage and completion stage.
Love, life and truth get together and make an unified form.
However, if a force proceeds in the reverse direction, then an action of force different from the original one occurs.
However, if a force proceeds in the reverse direction, then an action of force different from the original one occurs.
God is the origin of love, life, and truth.
After we did not follow God's original formula, we have been unable to form a triangle that holds love, life and truth in equal balance.
Thus, God could not fulfill His will through us.
Jesus' disciples thought that Jesus would just automatically dominate the Roman Empire with his truth and become King of Israel, and they would hold high positions.
But we have to first make a foundation for God's Kingdom within our mind.
Then centering on the good mind, we should make a foundation for unity between our body and God.
This is the foremost issue.
Our mind is its stronghold.
Where is God's stronghold?
Many people of faiths say that they just believe in Jesus and will just automatically go to heaven. Where is that stronghold?
When Peter asked where the Kingdom of Heaven was, Jesus answered, "It's not in heaven, but in your heart." Where is that stronghold located?
Can it be formed from a sadden or hateful heart? Or a selfish, arrogant mind, or a mind that denies society and lives only for self?
These are not the kind of content we desire, or the kind of Kingdom which God can approve. If you seek the stronghold of God's Kingdom, you must meet with solitude more than anyone else on earth.
Why?
God is solitary, the too must be solitary.
When serving the church we must be determined to bear the responsibility of solving the problems of sin and evil in this world.
If we are unable to have a single direction of determination to bear that responsibility, then the stronghold of heaven cannot exist.
People mistakenly are confident that just because they are conscientious and hold a respectable social position that they exhibit the beginning of Heaven from such a mind.
But unless one is perfected, he still holds evil within him. How can heaven and hell dwell in the same place?
This thinking is based on the understanding that good and evil begin together. Yet, these dual qualities cannot begin together.
When evil goes east, we good must go west, and when evil moves, good has to stop.
The Kingdom of Heaven begins from within us.
Our mind is its stronghold.
Where is God's stronghold?
Many people of faiths say that they just believe in Jesus and will just automatically go to heaven. Where is that stronghold?
When Peter asked where the Kingdom of Heaven was, Jesus answered, "It's not in heaven, but in your heart." Where is that stronghold located?
Can it be formed from a sadden or hateful heart? Or a selfish, arrogant mind, or a mind that denies society and lives only for self?
These are not the kind of content we desire, or the kind of Kingdom which God can approve. If you seek the stronghold of God's Kingdom, you must meet with solitude more than anyone else on earth.
Why?
God is solitary, the too must be solitary.
When serving the church we must be determined to bear the responsibility of solving the problems of sin and evil in this world.
If we are unable to have a single direction of determination to bear that responsibility, then the stronghold of heaven cannot exist.
People mistakenly are confident that just because they are conscientious and hold a respectable social position that they exhibit the beginning of Heaven from such a mind.
But unless one is perfected, he still holds evil within him. How can heaven and hell dwell in the same place?
This thinking is based on the understanding that good and evil begin together. Yet, these dual qualities cannot begin together.
When evil goes east, we good must go west, and when evil moves, good has to stop.
Moreover, when evil has a desire, good must not have that same want.
Good and evil are opposite.
In God's original world, Heaven was a place we would reach automatically centered on a life with Him. But we started our search for the heavenly nation where God lost all His hope in the world of humankind after we had abandoned Him.
Therefore, people who are satisfied with their present fallen lives, cannot be truly religious people.
You should not be attached to your satanic habits, and lifestyle, but instead you must proceed to seek new values, deny even your life when confronted by intersecting fortunes of life and death that can cause you to sink into despair.
By proceeding in this manner, then the way of true goodness can start from here.
Good and evil are opposite.
In God's original world, Heaven was a place we would reach automatically centered on a life with Him. But we started our search for the heavenly nation where God lost all His hope in the world of humankind after we had abandoned Him.
Therefore, people who are satisfied with their present fallen lives, cannot be truly religious people.
You should not be attached to your satanic habits, and lifestyle, but instead you must proceed to seek new values, deny even your life when confronted by intersecting fortunes of life and death that can cause you to sink into despair.
By proceeding in this manner, then the way of true goodness can start from here.
When we see the way for true restoration or salvation, are there people who can therefore confidently say that their character is the stronghold of heaven?
Have you met a religious leader or person who was the pillar of standard for the way to heaven?
There is no one who would claim that God would recognize their family for living in their satanic, habitual lifestyles while in a comfortable environment.
There is no tribe that exists that God can recognize their achievements. There are no races, nations, ideologies or philosophies that can demand God's recognition.
When you truly look at God's situation of bringing the world of peace to fruition with no family, tribe or nation from which to work, you are probably dumbfounded.
Have you met a religious leader or person who was the pillar of standard for the way to heaven?
There is no one who would claim that God would recognize their family for living in their satanic, habitual lifestyles while in a comfortable environment.
There is no tribe that exists that God can recognize their achievements. There are no races, nations, ideologies or philosophies that can demand God's recognition.
When you truly look at God's situation of bringing the world of peace to fruition with no family, tribe or nation from which to work, you are probably dumbfounded.
Those who work to protect themselves from the evil world for more than a millennium can dream such a dream, and only those who gratefully sacrifice themselves for more than ten thousand years can find hope to live for ten thousand years.
If there are those who cry out to see such an eternal Kingdom of Heaven, eternal life and eternal happiness must be able to overcome the current situation with eternity as their main focus of all activities.
They must endure the present circumstances, sacrificing themselves. Only from such a standpoint can the eternal stronghold emerge.
If there are those who cry out to see such an eternal Kingdom of Heaven, eternal life and eternal happiness must be able to overcome the current situation with eternity as their main focus of all activities.
They must endure the present circumstances, sacrificing themselves. Only from such a standpoint can the eternal stronghold emerge.
The standard for going to heaven
Without setting a standard of loving God, we cannot free ourselves from the satanic realm.
Thus, we must love Him with all of our heart more than our spouse.
We are trapped within the snares of false love within the satanic realm.
Fallen people must emerge as far as the edge of that hellish realm and come out of it completely.
Hence, we cannot love our parents more than God.
What kind of people enter Heaven?
They are people whose mind are in harmony with God. To what extent?
Our mind must be in harmony with His for eternity as He works toward the eternal ideal based on His eternal purpose.
Therefore, our minds must eternally be in harmony with the eternal God.
Thus, we must love Him with all of our heart more than our spouse.
We are trapped within the snares of false love within the satanic realm.
Fallen people must emerge as far as the edge of that hellish realm and come out of it completely.
Hence, we cannot love our parents more than God.
What kind of people enter Heaven?
They are people whose mind are in harmony with God. To what extent?
Our mind must be in harmony with His for eternity as He works toward the eternal ideal based on His eternal purpose.
Therefore, our minds must eternally be in harmony with the eternal God.
What must we do to achieve this high standard?
We must become children who can be liked by God and who like God. Therefore, we would not be children of sadness or regret.
Next, we must walk in step with God's body. here, 'body' means direction.
The body is manifested through the direction it takes.
In order to become children who walk in step with God's ideal, when He goes east, we must go east with Him.
If God liked something warm, but Jesus liked something cold, would this be a right relationship between Father and son?
If He wanted to laugh and talk, and Jesus wanted to sleep, would this feel right?
Would everything be fine with just that? No.
If God is amiable, He would not be hot-tempered at the same time. Therefore, if God is amiable, we should be amiable, not angry.
The internal and external must match.
Would this attitude alone make everything work out?
Next, we must do things which are in line with God's will.
For that to happen, can there be things we are reluctant to do which God would want us to accomplish?
Can there be things that our bodies detest that are good for us?
We must do things that both our good mind and body like to do. As God exists, there must be things that He likes. Also, as Jesus is God's Son, he also has to like such things.
We must become children who can be liked by God and who like God. Therefore, we would not be children of sadness or regret.
Next, we must walk in step with God's body. here, 'body' means direction.
The body is manifested through the direction it takes.
In order to become children who walk in step with God's ideal, when He goes east, we must go east with Him.
If God liked something warm, but Jesus liked something cold, would this be a right relationship between Father and son?
If He wanted to laugh and talk, and Jesus wanted to sleep, would this feel right?
Everything manifested through the external body must be in step with God.
Would everything be fine with just that? No.
If God is amiable, He would not be hot-tempered at the same time. Therefore, if God is amiable, we should be amiable, not angry.
The internal and external must match.
Would this attitude alone make everything work out?
Next, we must do things which are in line with God's will.
For that to happen, can there be things we are reluctant to do which God would want us to accomplish?
Can there be things that our bodies detest that are good for us?
We must do things that both our good mind and body like to do. As God exists, there must be things that He likes. Also, as Jesus is God's Son, he also has to like such things.
We can never go to heaven without sacrificing our fallen, humanistic lives.
This is how it is with the essence of faith, if you were to go to spirit world you would see whether this was true or not.
The starting point of the Kingdom of Heaven
Where does the Kingdom of Heaven begin?
If we are not able to dissolve God's anguish at losing His children, how can we enter heaven with a peaceful heart knowing how the Father suffers?
Since humanity has woven a history of sorrow since the Fall, we must restore all of its ties from the sinful lineage to the Godly pure lineage without the trace of the Fall.
All of the six millennia, since Adam and Eve have to be restored to the point before the Fall.
Secular people dislike sorrow and run away from it, but we are taught about God's sorrow which is more miserable than any other sorrowful situation we have encountered.
If something tragic happened in the world, most people would avoid it and run away from it.
But our motto is to go through such places of sorrow and restore it to the Kingdom of Heaven.
The more that we understand God's sorrow and misery, the stronger the force that actually emerges to dissolve His anguish. That force becomes the motive of unlimited explosive action.
That great force is the foundation of the Messiah.
If we are not able to dissolve God's anguish at losing His children, how can we enter heaven with a peaceful heart knowing how the Father suffers?
Since humanity has woven a history of sorrow since the Fall, we must restore all of its ties from the sinful lineage to the Godly pure lineage without the trace of the Fall.
All of the six millennia, since Adam and Eve have to be restored to the point before the Fall.
Secular people dislike sorrow and run away from it, but we are taught about God's sorrow which is more miserable than any other sorrowful situation we have encountered.
If something tragic happened in the world, most people would avoid it and run away from it.
But our motto is to go through such places of sorrow and restore it to the Kingdom of Heaven.
The more that we understand God's sorrow and misery, the stronger the force that actually emerges to dissolve His anguish. That force becomes the motive of unlimited explosive action.
That great force is the foundation of the Messiah.
The essence of the Kingdom of Heaven
What kind of world will the Kingdom of Heaven be?
Since it is the original world of creation, then individuals, families and tribes who are still attached to the fallen, satanic bloodline still accused by Satan cannot go there.
In order to enter heaven, these three levels must become one - three generations become one.
In Adam's family, Adam was the first generation, Cain and Abel the second and their children the third. From God's standpoint, God was the first generation, Adam and Eve the second, and Cain and Abel, the third.
As heaven is a world of living for others, we must go forth making that notion our first consideration.
Those who have the idea that others serve them will be destroyed.
Heaven is the world filled with God's love.
Love's essence is not to be served, but rather live for the sake of all.
Thus, heaven differs from the lower standard of the secular world. This religious teaching of living for the sake of others, which is being absolutely obedient, sacrificing self and serving does not exist in the selfish, secular world.
To serve others are perceived as beggars who know nothing of this world.
Yet, this was God's secret strategy against Satan so that people could still be blessed even if they were ignorant of heaven's laws.
The framework of the Kingdom of Heaven
We have not restored the original homeland.
We lost our original hometown, by which means God's Kingdom on earth.
When we speak of God's Kingdom, we are referring to the realm which is on earth and that which is in heaven.
There are three major elements required to establish a nation: first sovereignty, next territory, and then citizenry.
Yet, God has not been able to establish a sovereignty over which he can govern. He has no people whom He can govern. This amounts to not having a homeland where to rest.
We live in a world that is not the world which God's original people should live.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter Four, Section 2
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