1471 The Doctrine of Christ.... Inwardness.... Loosening - Binding....

June 14, 1940: Book 24

The teaching of Christ is a structure, which is only based on inwardness and lacks all outwardness. Therefore only that can always be considered teaching of Christ what has such an effect that the nature of man shapes itself according to the will of God. The outer form on the other hand does not contribute to the change of the nature; it leaves the inside untouched. When Jesus instructed his own in his teaching, he gave them no regulations or instructions in which outwardly recognizable form they were to spread these his teachings among men. He therefore did not make the following of the teachings dependent on externals, but the divine word was only to be taught, accepted and followed purely and simply.... .There were also no hints given about a building, which was to remain in existence powerfully and mightily for eternal times. Jesus only illustrated the activity of the disciples and their followers who wanted to serve God by giving Peter the power of the keys to loose or bind according to his knowledge. He thereby called him to stand up for his divine teachings and to spread them there where men were willing to receive them, but to deny them to those who were still too much held captive by the spirit of the world because these did not recognize what was offered to them. And therefore Jesus made the spreading of his teaching dependent on the will of men.... to receive what you bind will also be bound in heaven.... what you loosen will also be loosened in heaven.... . These words are only the confirmation of it that the Lord on earth instructed his disciples to spread his divine word, and so the disciples recognized men as being willing to receive the divine word, to introduce them to the divine love teaching, the obeying of which earns complete release from the banishing form. But where the readiness to receive the divine word is lacking and this is only accepted as empty sound, the act of becoming free cannot occur, and therefore the same banished state will be the lot of him in the hereafter, who does not believe the word of his servants on earth. But his servants on earth are, who spread the teaching of Christ on earth among men without all externals, only in the endeavour to serve the Lord God and to help mankind. These his servants will therefore be able to be active redeeming because they strive.... for nothing more than the redemption of men out of the banished state. But they will also recognize that men will not be eternally liberated when they do not accept this inner teaching of Christ and live according to it. They will also enter the hereafter in the banished state. The teaching of Christ is something so deeply inward that it cannot be replaced through forms and externals, and therefore he will also remain bound who keeps form and externals, but remains untouched inwardly and therefore does not follow the teaching of Christ according to the will of God. Everything divine lifts you up, everything human pulls you down.... The teaching, which Jesus imparted to his own on earth, was divine and must therefore also lead to redemption out of the deep. But when the work of men disfigures this pure teaching, when more respect is paid to the work of men, the teaching will lose power, because only the pure divine is powerful, and this power has a redeeming effect, while everything human weakens the will of man and this explains the bondage, as long as man just accepts the teaching of Christ in a form, which deviates from what the Lord himself has taught on earth. The Lord has mentioned to His disciples whose nature was.... full of inwardness and there will also continue to be His disciples on earth who form themselves inwardly according to His will.... because they will become enlightenment to recognize the pure teaching of Christ and to spread it according to the will of God.... .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

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