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8137 "Heaven and earth will pass away...."

March 28, 1962: Book 86

It is not spiritual presumption to defend the words of the lord, for these always and forever remain pure truth as long as they are not exposed to human changes.... And thus Jesus taught on earth and conveyed His word to people.... He proclaimed the gospel of love to them, and He instructed His disciples to record His word in order to make it accessible to humanity time and again, because it is necessary that people take notice of the gospel of love, because they should know about God's will, Who sent His son to earth in order to address people through Him. This word can therefore also be defended, and in order to confirm it Jesus promised His spirit to them (people), which was to repeatedly introduce people to the truth, which was to remind them of what He Himself spoke to them when He walked on earth(s). But through the promise of His spirit, through the assurance that the spirit will guide you humans into truth, He also made provision for His word to be conveyed to people.... the pure truth.... because this will never remain pure as it came forth from Jesus, for people in their imperfection will also deface what is perfect, precisely because they are still imperfect. But He said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for all eternity.".... And this results in the necessity that pure truth will always be conveyed to earth and that this will always be the same truth as it was taught by Jesus Himself on earth, and therefore His word may always be defended.... And thus it only remains to examine whether it is His word which you humans defend, who believe yourselves to be in the service of the lord.... And thus you can only adhere to His word again, you have to take Jesus' words as a touchstone.... And you can rightly hold on to the scriptures which testify of Him. You must therefore first know about the 'working of the spirit in the human being', for which you will find proof in scripture: “I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, who will guide you into all truth and remind you of all that I have told you." Jesus Himself made this promise as well as the promise: "I will remain with you until the end of the world." So this is also the confirmation that His work was not finished with His walk on earth and that He would constantly speak to people.... And He has promised those who believe in Him and keep His commandments that He will reveal Himself to them.... Time and again He has mentioned the working of the spirit, and when His word is now conveyed to people from above, only those promises are fulfilled which are contained in scripture, which only ever point to the fact that the father repeatedly speaks to His children who allow the 'working of His spirit' within them.... And the truth of the word, which is now conveyed to people as the 'working of the spirit', can therefore also rightly be defended, for it cannot flow from any other source than the eternal word Itself. And it must and will also coincide with the divine gospel which the man Jesus proclaimed on earth, Who had so prepared Himself that God took abode in Him, Who Himself is the word from eternity.... Who now also expressed Himself through Jesus and instructed people in all truth.... (28.3.1962) His sanctified word always and forever remains the same.... And therefore every change must be described as a human distortion of the divine word, and then it is no longer possible to speak of the pure Word of God.... This is why Jesus said: "I will send you the comforter to guide you into all truth...." because He knew that time and again His word would be changed by human will, otherwise people would constantly move within the truth. And the transmission of pure truth could only happen through His spirit again, God Himself had to speak to people.... the eternal spirit of God had to address the spiritual spark in the human being, but this always required the willingness of the human being himself together with the prerequisites under which the human being's spirit could therefore express itself.... that God Himself therefore worked in the human being through His spirit.... "It is the Scriptures which testify of Me...." And thus you cannot reject the scriptures as the work of men, for the most profound truth is hidden in them for the awakened human being, even if human will repeatedly results in changes which, however, the awakened spirit recognizes and will correct according to their meaning. Jesus pointed to the "working of the spirit".... Yet the process of this has mostly remained alien to people, precisely because the prerequisites for the working of the spirit in the human being were lacking...., just as at the time of Jesus on earth people were far removed from God and could no longer hear the voice of God within themselves because they were still under the burden of original sin, which Jesus Christ first had to eradicate in order to put people back into the state of seeking intimate contact with the father-spirit from eternity.... And thus the spirit from God will only ever be able to express itself where this expression is consciously expected. Thus the voice of the spirit will never sound in a person who does not prepare himself in any way to hear God's address.... because His voice will never exert a constraint on the human being's will. God certainly wants to reveal Himself to people at all times, yet the human being has to initiate His revelations himself through his free will and by fulfilling the conditions which are attached to the hearing of the divine word.... And he must now consciously listen within.... Then the "outpouring of the spirit" can take place, which Jesus Himself promised when He walked on earth. And so you humans must also be able to understand the delivery of pure truth from above, you must not call them 'messages from the spirit realm'.... For even such can reach you without you having attained the spiritual maturity which an 'outpouring of the spirit' requires.... You must know what it is about when the truth is conveyed to you in an unusual way.... but it only seems unusual to you because you yourselves are too little informed about the 'outpouring of the spirit', because you also don't want to acknowledge the book of books which, however, is 'the scripture which testifies of Me'.... First learn to understand this scripture, and then you will also understand why again and again My (the) pure word of God is conveyed to earth, why again and again "the comforter guides people into truth...." For nothing maintains itself as pure as it originated from God, because time and again it is exposed to the will of people, who are still imperfect.... But time and again God will guide His word to earth so that it will be fulfilled: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for eternity.... “

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers