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3783 Labourers for the kingdom of God.... Teaching activity....

May 28, 1946: Book 48

A time of complete faithlessness also develops eager servants of God who, as a result of their God-pleasing way of life.... a life in unselfish neighbourly love...., have knowledge and see the consequences of a wrong way of life, without faith and love. These people, who are spiritually awakened, now work incessantly and full of dedication for the kingdom of God.... they want to help the misguided, enlighten the ignorant, and warn the hardened and God-opposing people. And God takes everyone into His service, who offers himself to work for His kingdom, and He puts every person in his place according to his ability.... He gives them a sphere of activity appropriate to their realisation, so that everyone who wants to serve God can be active wherever he is compelled from within. The unrestrained devotion of a person on earth to God and the will to serve Him is decisive as to whether he is accepted as a labourer for His vineyard, but then he shall always and everywhere find the opportunity for spiritual work and use his vitality in the right way...., leading people to faith, pointing them to God's grand love and mercy, making them aware of the wrongness of their actions and will, and also mentioning the time of the end on God's behalf. The more faithful a labourer for the kingdom of God himself is, the more convincingly he will be able to speak and the greater his spiritual success will be. And the more joyfully he devotes himself to his work, the more empowered he becomes for it, because then it is no longer he alone who works but God Himself does it through him. And thus everyone who is active for God out of innermost conviction and true neighbourly love will carry His spirit within himself, and this will instruct and drive him to eager spiritual activity. And he will bear true witness to God, to His love, wisdom and omnipotence, and God's blessing shall accompany him on all paths.... However, special servants are chosen by God for teaching activity because this requires knowledge which the servant of God must first acquire through the dedication of his will and constant willingness to receive instructions from the spiritual kingdom, from the mouth of God.... The direct transmission of the divine Word is necessary if a person wants to be a teacher to his fellow human beings whose teaching is complete truth. The spirit of God can indeed express Itself through every deeply believing person, and he will then only speak the complete truth, even if he has not obviously been introduced to it beforehand, but then this always presupposes listeners who are not completely unbelieving, who are therefore willing to listen to what is imparted to them by the servant of God. But if humanity is entangled in error and lies, as in the last days before the end, then it is also necessary to enlighten people by confronting them with the pure truth, and this requires knowledge, a realisation of the pure truth, which the teacher must have received from God Himself if he wants to be successfully active towards his fellow human beings. For then he must be able to withstand all objections and contradictions, he must be able to recognise it himself, only then can he pass it on. The spirit of God then certainly also speaks through those servants of God, but in such a way that the fellow human being is not forced to believe, but can always take what is preached to him for his own human thinking, and he can then freely decide to accept it or not. In the last days before the end, the fiercest means shall be used against all spiritual beings, and then the sharpest weapons shall also have to be used in order to survive the battle.... it has to be fought with the sword of the mouth with the assistance of the Divine Spirit.... Victory will not fail to materialise.... And God's blessing rests on everyone who diligently works for Him as His servant, because this work is extremely necessary and shall still bring salvation to countless souls from deepest spiritual hardship....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke