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Form faith.... False worship....

Pay attention to the words which are sent to you today.... Your thoughts so often move heavenward and therefore lead you much more surely upward than an earthly child, however willing, who makes a point of listening to Christ's teaching, but afterwards gives no thought whatsoever to what he has heard. People do not know that they stand in immeasurable riches, if they hear the word of God and live according to it..... They are familiar with the teachings, but they do not grasp the deep meaning, because only the ear hears them, but the heart does not try to understand them. And so the faith is outwardly not to be touched, but inwardly the man is empty and hollow, and the Word of God finds no echo in the human heart.

And to such people it is not given to speak a judgment..... They believe to be deeply initiated, and yet do not harbor the slightest wisdom in their hearts, from where alone all understanding of the doctrine of God can come. If a person wants to devote himself to the Word of God, the first condition is that everything around him is silenced so that the heart can absorb.... , i.e., that no temptations from outside are a reason for the person to divert his thoughts from the Word of God. Only where man is immersed in the Divine teaching, the heart will be considered, and only there is also full understanding for the gifts from above to be presupposed.

Nothing is more unwholesome to man than the external affirmation of faith. It lets man become sluggish, because he is so conscious of his value and his fulfillment of duty, that striving is out of the question, and so man remains eternally on the same level, because the Word of God goes unheard by the heart, and therefore such an earthly child cannot feel the blessings of a deep, living faith in himself..... Knowledge will be so far from him.... and.... since he does not strive of his own accord to come close to Divine truth.... he will have no spiritual progress to record.... And yet, what is the worst, living in faith, completely fulfilling his duty.

Therefore, an unbelieving person is even more likely to be guided on the right way than a person who satisfies all ecclesiastical forms, because he is on the wrong way, but remains on this way mostly in wrong or lacking knowledge..... He thinks himself to be on the right track.... he believes to serve God, but his worship is superficial.... it lacks any depth and is therefore only a form-faith which does not contain the Divine blessings.... And My words will not seem acceptable to them, because they demand greater self-denial and a strong heart willing to sacrifice..... And all wisdom will therefore remain hidden from them until their own will drives them to internalize....

Amen

FORMALNA VERA.... NAPAČNO ČAŠČENJE....

Bodite pozorni na besede, ki so vam danes poslane.... Vaše misli se pogosto gibljejo proti nebesom in zato vas veliko bolj zanesljivo, kot zemeljske otroke, vodijo navzgor, ki se, četudi so pripravljeni, trudijo poslušati Kristusov nauk, a potem sploh ne razmišljajo o tem, kar so slišal. Ljudje ne vedo, da so v neizmernem bogastvu, če poslušajo Božjo besedo in živijo po njej. Poznajo nauke, vendar ne dojamemo njihovega globokega pomena, ker jih sliši le uho, srce pa jih ne poskuša razumeti. Vera je torej navzven videti brezhibna, toda v notranjosti je človek prazen in votel in Božja beseda ne najde odmeva v človeškem srcu. In takšnim ljudem ni dano izrekati sodb. Verjamejo, da so globoko posvečeni, vendar v svojih srcih ne nosijo niti najmanjše modrosti in edino od tam lahko izvira vse razumevanje Božjega nauka. Če se želi človek posvetiti Božji besedi, je prvi pogoj, da je vse okoli njega utišano, da jo srce lahko sprejme..., to pomeni, da nobene zunanje skušnjave ne morejo odvrniti človekove misli od Božje besede. Samo tam, kjer je človek potopljen v Božji nauk, bo srce pozorno in samo tam lahko pričakujemo popolno razumevanje darov od zgoraj. Za človeka ni nič bolj škodljivega od zunanjega potrjevanja vere. To naredi človeka počasnega, in ker se zaveda svoje vrednosti in izpolnjevanja svojih dolžnosti, nobeno hrepenenje ne pride v poštev in potem človek ostane večno na isti stopnji; ker Božja beseda zbledi, srce jo ne sliši, in tak zemeljski otrok ne more niti izkusiti blagoslovov globoke, žive vera v sebi... Od njega bo spoznanje zelo oddaljeno....in.... ker se sam od sebe ne prizadeva približati Božanski resnici.... ne bo mogel zabeležiti nobenega duhovnega napredka.... in kar je najhuje, živel bo v prepričanju, da je v celoti izpolnil svojo dolžnost. Zato je lažje voditi po pravi poti nevernika, kot človeka, ki zadovoljuje vse cerkvene forme, kajti slednji je na napačni poti, vendar v lažnem ali pomanjkljivem spoznanju običajno na njej tudi ostane.... Prepričan je, da je osebno na pravi poti.... Verjame, da služi Bogu, toda njegovo čaščenje je površinsko. Nima globine in je zato le formalno veren, ker v sebi ne nosi Božjih blagoslovov. In tem ljudem se Moje Besede ne bodo zdele sprejemljive, ker zahtevajo večje samoodpovedovanje in močno srce, ki se je pripravljeno žrtvovati.... In vsa modrost bo zato ostala skrita pred njimi, dokler jih njihova lastna volja ne bo spodbudila k ponotranjenju....

AMEN