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4712 Assisting in the work of redemption.... spreading the gospel....

August 13, 1949: Book 54

You can reach a high level of spiritual development by actively helping in Christ's work of redemption. His mission on earth was to spread the teaching of love, and as soon as you are active in the same way, as soon as you convey the divine teaching of love to your fellow human beings, as soon as you draw their attention to the effects of a right or wrong way of life, as soon as you do the same as Jesus Christ did.... bring the gospel to people.... you participate in Christ's work of redemption, and you help erring or struggling souls out of darkness into light. You don't know how indescribably important it is to point people to the divine teaching of love and therefore you, who receive the word of God directly from above, will be pointed to it again and again, for you have many opportunities to preach love, and you should make use of every opportunity, for only through love will the human being fulfil his earthly task, and through love can he redeem himself. Jesus Christ, in His greater than great love, gave a living example of what He advocated and what He adviced through His teaching.... He died the most bitter death on the cross out of love for people.... You should now pass on Christ's teaching of love, you should also be a living example, you should live a life of unselfish and active neighbourly love yourselves and thereby also awaken love in your fellow human beings, you should follow Him, Who truly showed you the greatest love.... Who bore your guilt of sin and made atonement for it to God. He gave His disciples the commission to carry the gospel into the world.... "Go ye, and teach all nations...." He asked nothing further of them, just as He now makes the same demand of you.... To spread His word. And His word teaches love. Therefore, anyone who encourages his fellow human beings to be active in love, who exemplifies a right life of love to them, who takes notice of God’s word himself, that is, who receives it from above or from His messengers and also passes on to his fellow human beings what he receives, is a disciple of Jesus, he is one of His apostles whom He sends out into the world to teach all nations. For people need His divine teaching because they are devoid of all love and must awaken love in their hearts as the most necessary thing for their salvation, otherwise they will be eternally lost. God only requires one thing of them, to practice love, and if this commandment is fulfilled the soul is saved from certain death. However, people take too little notice of this and therefore have to be reminded again and again of their actual purpose in life, to shape themselves into love. And this task is incumbent upon you, who are called by God to spread His teaching of love, and you will be true followers of Christ, you will be redemptively active on earth and also one day in the spiritual kingdom....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers