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8820 Every being must want to be redeemed....

June 25, 1964: Book 93

I have borne the guilt for you and thus brought you proof of My greater than great love, which did not want to lose you to My adversary. As a human being I suffered and endured immeasurable things because your guilt was immense but which you yourselves could not have atoned for, because your guilt consisted of the fact that you, standing in the brightest light.... rebelled against Me and rejected My love. This sin, which was directed against eternal love Itself, could only be redeemed again through 'love', but you were no longer able to do so because you lacked love. And you would have been hopelessly at the mercy of the opposing power if a being had not made this atonement for you.... a being Which glowed with love for Me and out of this love took pain and suffering upon Itself for you.... so that you would become free from your original sin.... This being descended from above to you humans, It took on flesh and became "human" like you.... It was Jesus Who sacrificed His life to Me in order to buy you free from the one who held you in bondage. This is already sufficiently known to you all, that I Myself could take abode in Him, that He.... as pure love.... Myself involved in Him, that the „love“ sacrificed Itself, thus I Myself accomplished (suffered) the death on the cross, yet I had to make use of a human shell in order to be able to endure the suffering, in order to make the great atonement, since I, as 'God', was incapable of suffering. But one thing must not go unmentioned, that the act of salvation has certainly been accomplished for all people, but that the human being himself must also accept it, that he can also let millennia pass until this act of salvation has an effect on himself. For it must be accepted voluntarily; it is offered for all times, for the past, for the present and for the future.... But always first the recognition of the sacrifice of the cross belongs to it, the putting oneself under the cross of Christ, to now also be able to have an effect. It requires the will of man himself to be redeemed by Jesus Christ, otherwise he will take his guilt over into eternity and there, if he does not find his way to Jesus, he will sink deeper and deeper and again goes towards the new banishment. The original guilt cannot be redeemed by the being itself, and whether also eternities pass over it.... That is why the recognition of Jesus Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world is the most important thing in earth life. And that is why a living faith is demanded of it, which only very few men possess. And this faith will become weaker and weaker, so that a 'redemption through Jesus Christ' will only be called a legend, which no man takes seriously anymore. And so many still unredeemed souls go over into the kingdom on the other side, and they must find their 'redeemer' there, otherwise they take the way into darkness to again start the walk through creation. Again the light comes into the darkness.... again I approach people in the word in order to make clear to them the great significance of the act of salvation.... And again men do not accept the light.... and the number of the enlightened will no longer increase very much. But those who have a living faith in Jesus Christ and his work of redemption will truly also draw the power out of My word, which they need in the last faith struggle, and they will also recognize him, because they are already redeemed from their original sin. Their earthly progress was not unsuccessful, they recognized Me in Jesus, and their former sin is forgiven them, for once they did not want to acknowledge Me and consequently became sinful.... But I Myself took their sins upon Myself and died for people in order to redeem them...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers