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3747 Significance of the Act of Salvation....

April 20, 1946: Book 47

The profoundness of My Act of Salvation, its comprehensive significance for eternal times, will never be grasped by you on earth, for your intellect cannot comprehend it as long as you are not born again, and this to a great extent. Nevertheless, you will be able to understand that without My redemption you would be lost for an infinitely long time, for eternal times would pass by in order to attain the degree which makes you worthy of beholding God, if you attained it at all. Yet it would be more likely that you would sink ever deeper due to your weakness of will on earth, which cannot be remedied in the kingdom of the beyond without My help. I therefore came to this earth in order to redeem you from a state of torment and eternal hopelessness. What humanity, in its weakness of will, was unable to achieve for its spiritual salvation had to be accomplished by the will of a human being if the whole of humanity was to be saved.... You will be able to understand that, if humanity was to be helped, it had to be shown the way and that this task had to be accomplished by a human being, otherwise no-one would endeavour to tackle a task in itself if it did not appear humanly feasible to him. As a man I had to exemplify life to them, and the man Jesus must be followed by the man who strives for redemption. An extremely strong will is part of it, but this was weak because humanity lacked faith in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence at the time of My descent on earth. People's lack of faith was the cause of their weakened will and therefore there was no salvation for them until they learnt to believe and also experienced a strengthening of their will through faith. And I tried to restore their faith as a human being, I taught them, I worked miracles in order to prove to them the strength of faith.... I gave them the ultimate proof of the truth of My Word.... that I overcame death, that I rose again as a human being to eternal life.... And thus I, as a human being, also had to be willing to accept the most difficult death, the death on the cross, so that all people could take notice of it in order to be able to recognise My resurrection from death as the crowning glory, as the success of the strong will to reach God in faith in Him. In contrast to people I had to muster a strong will, I had to let Myself be killed in order to prove to them that death is conquerable.... And I accomplished this work in order to redeem people from their weakness of will, which signifies eternal death and eternal times of incomprehensible torment.... I died the most painful, most bitter death for people on the cross because I wanted to lead them to eternal life....

What the whole of humanity was unable to accomplish had to be carried out by the love of a person who was strong-willed in contrast to humanity, whose will was completely weakened because it no longer believed.... because it lacked all connection with Me and thus I was unable to provide it with strength. And through the man Jesus I showed the whole of humanity the path by which it could receive unmeasured strength from Me and thus also become free from the state of death.... I accomplished the work of redemption as a human being not for one person but for all those who believe. And for them earthly life is enough to free themselves from the state of death and attain eternal life. What no one can do in his own strength, he can do with Me, by believing in the Divine Saviour, in Jesus Christ, Who died for people on the cross to make them conquerors of death. Anyone who believes in Me has overcome death, for I died for him and he can remedy his weakness of will with My help, with My grace, which I acquired for the whole of humanity through My death on the cross as a human being.... and he will not die for eternity....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke