2059 Violation of divine commandments.... sin.... bondage....

September 6, 1941: Book 30

To violate the divine commandments is sin, for it increases the distance from God insofar as that He cannot be where there is unkindness. Everything that goes against the commandment of love will also result in a cooling of divine love and thus be detrimental to the spiritual being itself because it will thereby fall into an increasingly unfriendly state. As a human being this state now has the effect that the power of God's adversary over him becomes ever greater, that he is forced by him under his will, that his thoughts and actions will always be as he wants them to be, thus always opposed to God. And this is unimaginably agonizing for the soul, for it is still so far away from its final liberation that it takes the bound state with it into the spiritual kingdom. For only love can redeem the being, consequently unkindness has to bind. And whoever is therefore unloving towards his neighbour violates the commandment of love and will therefore never be free from the bondage which the former rebellion against God has brought him. That is why God has given people the commandment of love, which they only need to obey in order to thereby come closer to God and be able to enter the spiritual kingdom as a blessed being. Man can sin against the commandment of love by acting contrary to the divine doctrine of love or by omitting actions that are supposed to demonstrate love for his neighbour. Man should not only protect his neighbour from harm, he should benefit him, i.e. do everything to him that seems desirable to him, only then is the connection with God established, because God Himself descends to a loving person and honours him with His closeness.... And this means spiritual freedom for him. The human being frees himself from the power of the adversary, for the power of God, which passes into the human being through His closeness, is stronger than the power of God's adversary.... And the victor will therefore always be the person who connects with eternal love itself through works of love. He will break the shackles and become free from every compulsion that God's adversary wants to exert on him. The commandments of love must not be ignored, for they are the means of release from the endless time of bondage. And at the same time they are the bridge to the connection with God.... For he who is active in selfless love thereby comes ever closer to God and overcomes every distance from Him.... He fulfils God's demand and will also be allowed to receive the reward from God, which consists of God uniting Himself with the one who serves Him in love, i.e. who likewise sees God's creatures in his fellow human beings to whom he wants to do good. Eternal bliss is only the result of unselfish loving activity, just as, conversely, damnation is also the result of unkindness, and everything that is directed against God or His commandments is unjust before God, i.e. sin....

Amen

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