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6834 Right christianity....

May 19, 1957: Book 73

A good christian is only the person who endeavours to live a life of following Jesus, which means that he lives in love, that he also patiently takes up his cross and devotedly carries it into My will; it is not only enough to confess Jesus Christ with his mouth but profound faith in His act of salvation must also cause him to live as the man Jesus lived on earth, because then he will also accept the divine teaching of love which Jesus preached on earth.... Only through a life of love does he prove that he is a true christian, but not through external affiliation to a church which can also harbour completely unbelieving, unloving people who must be denied the name 'christian'. Thus, if christianity is to spread it is not enough to induce people to join a church, a religious organization, instead, in addition to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation they must first be taught the divine teaching of love and its living out as the most important thing in order to be accepted as a true christian into My church.... which only includes 'true christians'.... because pseudo-christianity cannot signify belonging to My church which, like its founder, is spirit and truth.... You humans must seriously come to terms with the fact that I, as the eternal truth Myself, can never be satisfied with a sham christianity.... And then you must ask yourselves whether you are seriously trying to rightly bear the name 'christian'.... You must take Jesus the man as an example and make an effort to follow His example.... And this means working on yourselves, for all of you must become gentle and patient, peaceful and humble, merciful and just and full of love in order to be like the one Who took life on earth as a human being upon Himself in order to exemplify a right way of life for you.... And only someone who consciously works on himself walks the path of following Jesus, he strives to be a right christian and Jesus Christ helps him to do so, he walks the earthly path together with Him, and he now also belongs to the 'congregation of believers', which is to be understood as His church.... who, in view of the divine redeemer, walk their roads in love and in suffering, who are therefore also redeemed from their original sin, who recognize Him in their heart and have joined Him and not just talk empty words and in truth have not yet found the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Christianity will be spread over the whole earth.... Wherever true love is kindled in the heart, the divine redeemer will also be acknowledged and My spirit will guide them into truth.... And therefore My gospel can resound everywhere and touch people's hearts.... But the working of My spirit is not guaranteed everywhere, even if people are brought close to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer.... Only living according to His teaching gives people the right to call themselves christians, otherwise people remain dark heathens, whether they belong to a church organization or not.... And again I have to emphasize that I Myself will not allow Myself to be deceived but that countless people carry out such a deceptive manoeuvre because they do not fulfil My commandments of love which show the path of following Jesus. A true christianity is only ever a way of life in love.... Where this is lacking there is also a lack of the right seriousness to reach Me, and there My adversary will have an easy game if the right christian is to prove himself.... in the last battle on this earth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers