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1358 Work of redemption.... spiritual rebirth....

March 28, 1940: Book 23

A heavenly friend is staying close to you and tries to communicate with you mentally. All gifts of the spirit have to be offered in love and also received in love, and he now endeavours to establish a very intimate contact so that he can communicate with you uninhibitedly. He has been assigned to you by the father as your companion for the days on earth and therefore always and constantly looks after you. You owe it to His care that your will turned to this task, and now He tirelessly tries to make you accept that which your heart has not yet completely absorbed. Although you have the will, you still lack the understanding for one of the most important teachings of faith which has only touched you vaguely so far but which must be regocnized in depth. The lord is now sending you news through your intimately connected teacher on the other side....

Lightless is the state of a being that is unredeemed.... for redemption is liberation from darkness.... redemption is liberation of the spirit from bondage, and redemption is spiritual rebirth. Redemption is the state of the free versus the state of the bound. All guilt on earth presses man down to a burdened being, every sin binds man more and more to the earth, to the bound.... Jesus Christ, however, redeemed mankind from the guilt of sin, i.e. He lifted the banished state of mankind, He took this banishment upon Himself, as it were, and gave Himself as a sacrifice of atonement for it through His death on the cross. The work of redemption is therefore the greatest work of mercy. It was thereby made possible for man to leave the banished state through his will; it was left up to him to free himself from it or to live eternally under the pressure of the burden of sin. His will alone was sufficient to redeem himself from all bondage and to be able to enter spheres of light, whereas previously the human being was powerless and had to carry the immeasurable guilt that weighed on him until the divine saviour also took pity on these souls and through His death also gave them freedom. Christian doctrine, however, demands a full admission of one's own guilt before the grace of the work of redemption can redeem this guilt. Man must first have regocnized his sinfulness, he must know about his desolate state in order to be able to appreciate the divine mercy that now declares itself ready to redeem this guilt of sin.... In the realization of his guilt of sin the human being must ask for the graces of the work of redemption and thus consciously place himself in the circle of those for whom the lord died on the cross.... His soul must want to be free and ask the heavenly saviour to have taken care of it.... Furthermore, recognizing its guilt, it must renounce all evil and strive to lead a life pleasing to God. It must ask for mercy and thus consciously avail itself of the lord's work of redemption....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers