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2316 Jesus Christ recognized the greatness of human guilt....

April 28, 1942: Book 32

You humans cannot assess the extent of your guilt towards God and therefore the full significance of Christ's act of salvation cannot be made clear to you until you have penetrated spiritual knowledge. And that is why the will to reject is often so strong, because the idea of redemption is not compatible with the feeling of freedom, which is strongly developed in the human being. Thus he does not recognize the bondage of his will as long as he lacks the knowledge about it.... consequently, neither does he recognize the one Who redeemed him from bondage because he does not experience the bound state on earth as torment, since he has free will after all. He does not realize that he would not be able to free himself from this bound state for eternity if Jesus Christ had not accomplished the work of redemption for him through His death on the cross. He does not know about the power of evil, which has great influence on his will as long as he remains on earth, and that, although his will is free, he falls prey to this influence because he himself is too weak to be able to resist it. And he does not know about the consequences, about the dreadful consequences of a failure of this free will.... He does not know that the adversary will put him back in chains for eternity and that he will have to languish in unbearable agony in the beyond if he has to atone for his former injustice against God Himself, for he does not know the extent of his guilt.... But Jesus Christ recognized this as a human being, i.e., through His way of life in love the human being Jesus had penetrated into the deepest knowledge of the original state of all beings, of their immense transgression and its consequences, that He recognized the human being's weak will and his lack of resistance towards the enemy of his soul. And He wanted to help people develop a strong will which would be able to withstand the enemy's temptations and utilize the time of his life on earth for his final liberation from him and his power, i.e. his influence. And in order to purchase this increased willpower for people, He gave His life on the cross. His blood was the purchase price that was to bring people redemption from the greatest adversity, which He probably overlooked in His perfection and therefore wanted to avert from every single person. His immense love wanted to reduce the suffering of the unredeemed souls in the beyond, for He knew that no human being could free himself on earth from the dreadful guilt that the being had brought upon himself through his apostasy from God. The realization of this guilt impelled His will to extreme activity and He accomplished a work which no human being had ever been willing to carry out before because it required profound love and which no human being had ever been able to accomplish before either, for this act of salvation required immense strength of will which the man Jesus brought to its highest development through His activity of love and His way of life. And the whole of humanity was to share in this work of redemption. He died not just for one generation, but for all people who, as unredeemed beings, have to go through life on earth in order to finally become free. But the willingness to be redeemed must precede this in order to be able to share in the blessings of the work of redemption. The human being must recognize the act of salvation as well as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ if he wants to belong to those from whom the dreadful guilt against God was taken away through Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself as atonement in order to reduce the guilt of sin of all beings and to bring them redemption....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers