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1434 "And the world will be redeemed from all sin...."

May 24, 1940: Book 23

And the world will be redeemed from all sin.... Thus the lord once spoke to mankind, He proclaimed the saviour, He promised mankind redemption from all sin. And Jesus Christ fulfilled this promise through His suffering and death on the cross. But how does the world, i.e. people themselves, view this redemption?.... The lord has done everything to fulfil this promise; but what must man do in order to share in the divine promise?.... He must first have the will to be redeemed.... Thus, by recognizing Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world, he must want to belong to those who have been redeemed by His death on the cross. He must be prepared to receive the graces of the work of redemption, as there is: a will strengthened by fervent prayer, which makes everything feasible, i.e. can be put into practice. Previously the will was bound by the power of the adversary and there was no means to free itself from this power because the human being was too weak to resist due to his guilt of sin. Divine love gave itself to break the adversary's power, so that the human being's will could become strong enough to escape this power. The strength of will must therefore first be requested through prayer.... And at the same time the human being must mould himself into a loving being, which is also only possible for him through the lord's work of love.... For sin can only be eradicated through love. Therefore, the person who wants to be redeemed from sin must stand in love, i.e. be permeated, as it were, by the ray of divine love that moved Jesus Christ to sacrifice Himself for mankind's guilt of sin. The human being must affirm the great work of mercy, regocnize the love of Christ and want himself to be allowed to stand in the circle of those for whom the lord died on the cross.... he must regocnize the work of redemption and want to be redeemed....

He therefore claims the graces of the work of redemption who calls upon God's mercy for Jesus' sake, who implores Jesus as mediator between himself and God for His intercession.... If you ask the father in My name, He will give it to you.... For the sake of His son all guilt of sin shall be cancelled, for the sake of His son forgiveness of sins is assured to all men. Whoever therefore believes in Jesus Christ, that He is the son of God, Who through His death on the cross redeemed the world from all sin, will also be redeemed through his faith.... For he accepts the grace that the saviour Himself offers him, he allows himself to be redeemed by His will.... He affirms the work of redemption, he regocnizes the immense divine love, he regocnizes his immense guilt, he regocnizes his unworthiness and his powerlessness to free himself from it. He lifts his hands up to Christ in supplication and asks for mercy.... And so he is freed from all guilt.... The saviour's work of love for humanity can only be assessed in its greatness when the human being imagines the heavenly delights as well as the unspeakable suffering in the beyond, that is, the redeemed as well as the banished state.... when he imagines that only His infinite love moved Jesus to take unspeakable pain upon Himself in order to spare the souls in the beyond the pain. But if His love is not regocnized, i.e. if the lord's work of redemption is doubted or even denied, the person excludes himself from the circle of those whom the lord redeemed through His death on the cross. For if the lord in His love offers him the most exquisite gift of grace and he rejects it, it is his own fault if unspeakable suffering comes upon him in the hereafter. No being can be redeemed without Jesus Christ, for the will was bound, i.e. in satan's power, for as long as Christ Himself had not released this will.... The redemption took place through the death of Christ on the cross. The lord died for everyone, and thus everyone's will can become free from the adversary's power, yet without redemption the power of the adversary is so great that the human being alone can never escape it....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers