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6195 Hearing the word only after the death on the cross....

February 22, 1955: Book 67

The hearing of My word in you is an expression of My spirit working in you as soon as you fulfil the condition: that you shape your heart to love.... I have promised you to send My spirit who will introduce you to all truth.... As long as I Myself walked on earth My spirit worked on and in you (in the human being) if I so willed.... but alone, without My intervention, people would not yet have been able to hear My voice, for at that time humanity was so completely under the spell of My adversary that he did not allow it, for people had not yet been redeemed.... Nevertheless, I spoke through the mouth of the prophets always and constantly before the time of My descent. It was then that these prophets were driven by My spirit.... I used their mouths to express Myself through them, to speak to the people who turned away from Me.... and these prophets had to speak as My will commanded them.... The original state of hearing My voice directly had been lost to people long before My descent.... It was only ever individuals whose hearts belonged to Me and who, as souls from above, were meant to be guiding stars for their fellow human beings who stood at the greatest distance from Me. For satan still had unbroken power over all people which he first used to push people away from Me. And I first had to break this power through My death on the cross.... I had to redeem people, I had to establish the connection between the kingdom of light and people so that the path to Me became free for those who seriously wanted it.... Through My death people were born into new life.... people who voluntarily strived for this rebirth through a way of life in love were born.... according to My way of life on earth.... now filled with My spirit.... My spirit was able to work in them, thus I Myself was present to people, and thus they were now also able to hear My voice.... I could address them Myself.... not only make use of them to speak to humanity.... I could provide each one with food for his soul.... I could give them Myself as food, I Who am the word from eternity.... Yet this was only possible through My act of salvation, otherwise people would not have been able to attain the rebirth of the soul, otherwise they would not have been able to exchange the kingdom of darkness for the kingdom of light. I said to My disciples that I would send them My spirit.... I certainly instructed them in the process of hearing My voice within themselves.... yet they were still unable to fully understand what I was saying to them, because they, too, were still in My adversary's bondage which I only loosened through My crucifixion. Then I sent them My spirit, which visibly happened to these disciples of Mine. But all people can experience the outpouring of My spirit in themselves, even if not in that obvious form.... Through their will they can put themselves into a state in which they are in contact with Me.... They can be reborn through a life of love according to My example.... and now the father can speak to His child and the child will hear Him.... The father can now give His child the right food it needs to mature in order to become what its aim is on earth.... a being full of strength and light which has once again entered the original state in which it was once created.... This address, My word, is the sign of the working of the spirit in the human being.... it is the outpouring of the spirit which made My work of redemption possible in the first place. The human being has to voluntarily unite with Me through love, only then will he have accomplished his rebirth and only then will I be able to give him the bread of heaven.... My word.... administer to him. And the fact that he is able to do so is why I died on the cross and acquired the grace of a strengthened will for him, for previously My adversary kept him bound and prevented him from this intimate connection with Me, which necessitates the hearing of My word. But the people who were previously worthy of hearing My voice thereby fulfilled an assignment for the purpose of which their souls were embodied on earth.... It was always only individual people who had to fulfil a mission: to point to My descent and to lead people to faith.... But after My crucifixion it was (is) possible for all people to hear Me who only seriously wanted (want) to, who keep My commandments and thus fulfilled (can fulfil) the conditions under which I could (can) reveal Myself.... In faith in Jesus as God's son and redeemer of the world, in Whom I was able to embody Myself, the human being also receives the strength to fulfil My will. He can now, without being hindered by My adversary, take the path of love and shape himself into a receptacle of My spirit, which was previously only possible for a few.... but these few were still burdened with the guilt of sin and therefore the path to Me was not yet open for them either.... Thus the love which established the bond between people and Me had almost completely grown cold due to My adversary's influence and therefore people were also extremely distant from Me.... Through the man Jesus this distance was reduced.... He was completely united with Me, and He suffered and died for people in order to redeem the separating guilt, so that people could now also come to Me unhindered and then also hear the father's voice. The original state was to be restored, which presupposes a degree of perfection.... But this degree of perfection could only be achieved after the redemption of the great original sin of turning away from Me.... Therefore I died for you on the cross because this guilt could not be redeemed otherwise. And now every human being can reach the degree which makes him able to hear My voice.... every person can shape himself into a receptacle of My spirit, I can now pour My spirit into every person who lives a life according to My will and keeps My commandments.... To him I can reveal Myself as I have promised....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers