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0481 Wrong relationship with the ather.... Recognizing Jesus Christ....

June 23, 1938: Book 10

Jesus walked on earth in the fullness of His divinity.... Nothing has moved the lord but His immense love for humanity and precisely this love you must recognize, and then you will also commit yourselves to the fact that the lord Jesus Christ is the only true path to eternal bliss. In an endlessly long struggle you awaited the grace of embodiment on earth.... you were close to the deity in the beginning.... you can only come close to the deity again through union with It.... you cannot receive God into yourselves if you reject the same deity.... and God the father and Jesus Christ are one.... But how can you want to call God your father and at the same time reject Jesus Christ.... Try to absorb the following explanation: A father conscientiously sets aside a sum of money for his child, which he wants to use to train this child in all arts and crafts.... and now this child will suddenly take a dislike to the father.... Can it then still demand to be lovingly cared for? Will it not rather, if it thinks legally, either try to overcome the aversion or have to do without any support from the father's grace?.... If the heavenly father now wants to bestow all graces on the earthly child in order to procure eternal bliss for it.... and the earthly child rejects the one Who acquired this bliss for it on earth.... it will either have to renounce all glory completely or it will have to overcome itself and learn to love the lord God and try to establish a cordial relationship with the father.... But the conscious rejection of Jesus' divinity establishes a hostile relationship with Him, and God can then never ever repay such a person for its deeds on earth in the beyond in the way the earthly child expects, for it does not feel itself to be a child of the Father.... It does not accept what it could receive from the hand of the saviour.... It cannot share in the blessings of the work of redemption and therefore cannot reap what it has not sown. Through Jesus Christ, earthly life has only become what it should be.... the station of knowledge. Yet anyone who fears knowledge and consciously remains in darkness will not be able to achieve success in earthly life either, for the lord promises such a person through His teaching alone.... but who wants to accept the teaching and reject the teacher?.... And so, without faith in Jesus Christ, life on earth may be pleasing in the eyes of men, but it will not stand up before God, for God Himself came to earth for men and gave Himself to them through His word.... Those who hear and accept it will be blessed, but those who reject the lord Himself will also never be able to accept His word, and their part will be a terrible struggle in the beyond until they have found realization there and also finally thereby their divine saviour and lord.... Jesus Christ....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers