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0466 Work of redemption.... faith in it necessary....

June 14, 1938: Book 10

What you are commanded to do is the lord's will, and so today you receive an announcement which touches on the great problem in a comprehensible way, which is so difficult for you humans to understand.... The majority of humanity is in a considerable error if it believes that it can gain merits in the hereafter and yet has not done its part on earth to maintain faith in Jesus Christ as the son of God. A person may well be lawful, he may have always faithfully fulfilled his duties on earth.... he may also have acted as a brother towards his neighbour.... but he has denied Jesus Christ.... then his reward will truly be very little, for since he does not want to acknowledge the divine saviour, he will never be redeemed from his guilt, for only faith is able to set him free, and in Christ all the threads of life will always and forever come together.... And where this faith turns away from the idea of redemption.... where the divinity of the saviour is doubted and denied, there the Godhead itself also turns away.... A person's legal thinking will undoubtedly be recognized, but until the heart of such a person professes Christ, the rebirth of the spirit will not be able to take place and without this the path to eternal bliss will never be paved. Anyone who has therefore been brought up in the faith in Christ but does not want to and cannot profess it will have to go a long way in the beyond.... And his search for the truth will be arduous and very protracted. No amount of strict adherence to God's commandments will achieve what the clear realization of Jesus' divinity can bring about in a short time. If only one thing were always to be considered, that the lord walked on earth because of mankind's guilt of sin.... how clearly understandable it is then that precisely this guilt of sin of man cannot be redeemed as long as he does not want to recognize such a work of redemption, but rather sees it as a human sacrificial act, which, however, lacks any divinity. Thus such a person will never be able to feel the graces and blessings of the work of redemption in himself.... He will only recognize the signs of divinity when, in case of doubt, he begs the heavenly father for enlightenment, which is gladly and willingly granted to him, and he is then so obviously pointed to the true work of the son of God on earth. In His indescribable goodness, the lord seeks to come close to everyone.... He wants to give everyone full understanding and will also always come to help where man alone is paralyzed, but the will must be good.... he must not reject what is incomprehensible to him but must ask for enlightenment, which is then willingly granted to him. But without faith in Jesus Christ it is not possible to enter the father's kingdom.... the gate to this kingdom has only been opened through the work of redemption.... but how can he enter through this gate if he doubts the divinity of the saviour.... It has been sufficiently made known to people what the purpose of the saviour's descent on earth was.... not wanting to acknowledge this but then still expecting His blessing is completely unthinkable.... And you humans have no other option but to acquire the kingdom of heaven through faith.... however, without faith you are so far away from it that your other struggles are in vain. You can certainly endeavour to live a good life, you will thereby acquire many graces, but these graces will always help you to find and strengthen this very faith in Jesus Christ, only then will your walk on earth be crowned with real success.... only then will you be able to enter the eternal kingdom which was opened to you through Jesus Christ our lord....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers