2.1. The Birth of the Church according to the Flesh

Two thousand years ago I made My way to the man and then I walked on it. I made My disciples and then I put My Spirit in them, by the teaching that I was giving to them, by the mysteries I was enveloping them with to be able to keep them and that the world might not be able to pull them out from Me, and I worked much upon them, to be able to get them used to the humility of the spirit, because without it the man cannot know God on earth and cannot receive Him to become then My disciple and My way to man, and of the man to Me, for this is the work of My disciple: humility of spirit, and then his work with Me and for Me. Amen.

When I was with My disciples, from time to time, from place to place, I was making them wait for the moments of our meetings, because I was teaching them with power, with the spirit of My Spirit, and whoever receives of My Spirit, that one desires and waits and then he loses his life in My life, gaining himself for Me, living in Me, with his thought of Me and of My word full of life and longing of life, for the life is the light of the people, and this was My word of life giving. I was sitting into their midst and they were sitting on one side and on the other near Me, as I sat in the night of the supper, when they sat on My left and on My right, and I in the middle, embracing them within My Spirit, like a Teacher Who gives both to the right and to the left, and both with the right and with the left hand, for My work with the man is hard, both for Me and for My disciples, when it is for the man to receive God as He is and not as each one would long for God with him and for him.

I was sitting with My disciples at the table, and they were surrounding Me from all sides and were gathering around the love of My word, and this is how I was sitting with them at the table, and I was gentle and humble in My heart before them, to be able to made them My path to the people, so that they may go and do the same kind of work as Mine with them and not to become proud within their work or because they are My disciples, as Israel became proud because as though they were My people, for whoever gets proud, that one cannot give life to the people; he cannot make light of My light, path to the man for the man to see the way to God, to the light of the teaching of the life, which so few people seek after and long for it and to come together near God coming out of this world, as My disciples did, who were learning of My teaching a new love of life, a new power of victory, because I said, and I say in the same way now: «I make them all new, and those that are old pass with a great noise, because one cannot put new wine in old vessels», for nothing old is able to renew the world, as the renewal of everything is prophesied. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the beheading of the Saint John, the Baptizer of September 11, 2005

In the time of My body among people I often told those who easily believed into My glory which came down in the image of a man on earth, and speaking with them about My coming, I was telling them that I was Messiah, about Whom it was written to come, and he who had the dough of a sonship faith knew Me because of My confession and believed that it was so, and then he preached that way and worked that way, with the faith and the work of a son, for they were taking their work from Me and sharing My glory, My coming, and they became glory among people pulling themselves out from the world and from themselves and giving themselves to Me for the confession of My glory in them, a glory which testified about them as God’s sons. Oh, this working name in man is great, My people, and in order for the world to know this it has to see the work of the sons of God, their likeness after Me, the confession of the One of Whom they were born again, for I came down from heaven to give birth to the world, to give birth to the one who has the gift to believe in Me and to work like Me and for Me, and to live among people in My image and after My likeness and not as he was by that time among people by his living, by his behavior and by his fruit.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Transfiguration of August 19, 2005

It is written into the Scriptures that «the Spirit of God judges everything, He searches everything, up to My deepest things», if the man is made divine and waits with awe for the wind of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit Who has been waiting for seven thousand years for the man to be like God, for the man to be able to speak with God, if he has faith, and if the man has love.

Oh, how beautiful was the work of My Spirit over Cornelius’ house, the one in the time of My apostles, a righteous man and one who feared God and who always prayed to Me within his spirit to bring salvation over his house and comfort at his expectation! I sent My angel in the time of his evening prayer and I told him that I would fulfill his prayer, for it was heard in heaven and it would come back to him with what he had requested. I sent Peter, the apostle, to him, who confessed Me as Messiah, the true One in word and deed, the reason for which the priests put Me to death, and then My Father resurrected Me with His power in Me after three days, according to the Scriptures, which spoke about Me.

Oh, how beautiful is the man to God, the one who has fear for God and prayer through it and a gentle and humble spirit, which reaches to heaven! Oh, how beautiful is the man who does not doubt of Me, for that one does My will diligently in him, for the Spirit of God in man has hopes for everything and then he believes them with patience, and he puts Me with love in his being full of holy pleasure, for this is how God in man is. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saint hierarch Basil, the Great of January 14, 2005

Oh, how much I helped the man in the time of My body and then by My Saints, who took after Me in love and mercifulness, and through these to draw the man to the Father! I could not do greater things for the man than help him in his needs and weaknesses, to make him know Me and to long after Me and the people to confess Me to one another. Oh, all the people have got used to My goodness, with the help from Me, and I have not been able to rely on man for Me too, because the man thinks only at himself when he thinks at Me. Oh, few, very few people were and are on earth to deny themselves and to follow Me in order to be able to work My will in them and to do it for Me, because I am the most helpless one,

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saint hierarch Basil, the Great of January 14, 2005

Oh, how much the apostle Paul had learned from Me, the last one called for the building of My church! He let himself be made by Me in one moment when I called him, and he lived fully the day of his making from Me, and he had remained in it, in his first love, and that day had not been separated from him, and neither he from it, and I, the Lord, gave him a greater grace, and grace upon grace I had given him everywhere he was building Me or everywhere he was building the church for My kingdom, breaking down the kingdom of the world from man to replace it with the kingdom, which was not of this world, and for which the man has to become a child. Amen.

Oh, My people, the greatest teacher for life is the child, around whom with all love come father, mother, brothers, relatives and all those who see him as a beautiful and a dear child, as an attractive child, as Paul, My apostle was, before whom rulers and kings bowed, ready-ready to receive his testimony about My kingdom, which was not of this world and which was above it.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Church Entrance of the Lord’s Mother of December 4, 2004

— Oh, Son of the Father Sabaoth and mine, and God of Your obedient people of Your word! The most painful thing is not that the man does not want to be like God, but that it is his will to make God to be like him, heavenly Son. Of, if even the one who hears the word that comes out of Your mouth gets used to it in order to fulfill it after he hears it, how much more when he sees You with Your godly body, how would it be not possible for him to get use to it in the same way, mysterious Son, Who remain hidden under the image of the bread and wine for them to long for You and to love You, as I loved You when I always saw You within the image of the mystery of the bread and wine, then when Your apostles were giving You to me as a mysterious baby, perfect man and God. Amen.

Oh, there are no longer apostles and there are no longer priests on earth, for those who dare to get under the work of priesthood without any heavenly calling, they have been growing weak for two thousand years in grace and in power by those who have taken away from them Your Body and Blood, mysterious God. In the time of my body and after Your ascension into the Father, Your true church was not so, because every family had a priest of Yours from it who was put over it by the gift of prophecy, and there was no weakness upon him, for he was put over his entire house orderly, and there was good behavior in spirit and in nature, and there was love only for You, and it was grace, Son, and where there is not this kind of order, the priest goes astray and he can neither put in order or take care of his house and nor of his fleshly and spiritually relative, as it also happened with Your body and mine, which were brought together into a kinship relationship, and this economy of God was worked out mysteriously for Your coming into the world, for my coming into the world, and for the work of the supper afterwards, Lord, for the bonds made from God upon man, established through the word, are bonds according to the spirit, as it also was with Elijah the prophet, whom You sent to the widow to bring her son to life and to make him a prophet and to multiply in that house the bread, the oil, the food and the grace from God within a hard time, mysterious Son. Oh, I have been looking down to earth for two thousand years and I have seen apostles and priests crushed as in the time of the first Christians, for if there is not always teaching upon the mind of the priest, he grows weak in love and in its benefits. The apostle and the priest forget that even You were not able to carry Your cross, made by man, let alone the priest; how can he carry it? However, he does not know what it is when he says that he is a priest. When Your crowd was pressing against You, the sick woman touched You and You lost Your power and asked: «Who touched My clothes?», and the disciples did not know what You said and they marveled that You asked such a question, and they responded in a discontent wonder: «You see the multitude pressing against You, and You say, „Who touched Me?”» However, You were the true priest of the Father and You lost the power of Your body because the woman took of Your power by touching You in order that she could be healed. But the priest of today does no longer lose his power, for it is his power in him and not Your power, which feels the heaviness from the man. The one who truly feeds the man with Your Body and Blood, that one grows weak from the man if he really is a priest, because if he gives of Your power from him and he is always pressed against because he is a man from where the man draws for him, not for You in man, Son, grown weak from man.

Oh, if You had not set aside those anointed by You in the garden of Your word a long time ago, in the old times, You would have not had them as intercessors for the whole human kind before You, and that is why You had always been teaching them that their life had to be God and not to put out their power, in order that You could remain with them and not without them, and that they could be Yours and not man’s, as the priests of the world are, for You need priests for all human kind, down to Adam and up to Your coming, and You had always been teaching them to be good and to live in such a way that You might have Your wisdom in them, Lord.

Oh, I have always been looking upon them all the time after Your ascension into the Father. There, where humility was, and love for Your supper, for its protection, there was the whole heaven, for the priest had one, two or a couple of disciples and he kept the power for You in him and in his disciples, but there, where it was a multitude without grace, without spirit, the priest did no longer know the mystery of the supper, of Holy Spirit, and he used to read the book of the priest service and he was rejoicing over the praise from the people and not from You, Lord. The mystery of the embodiment of Your word in man makes the man satisfied with his life in Your life, in Your pain, and that one helps from You and for You the one who he receives Your Body and Blood from, and with this teaching I want to teach Your people today. Amen.

I speak to Your people about Your apostle satisfied within You, about James, the holy and the righteous one, for he knew that You were the Son of God and that it was why he accompanied us all the time on the way of Your cross, which started even since Herod, by killing the infants, he wanted to kill You as well, and he saved You from his hand by our leaving to Egypt with Joseph and James, his child from his marriage, before my Father gave me under his protection for the mystery of Your birth.

Oh, how much this child, James, loved You, for he knew that You were the Son of God because he loved God. From a younger age he gave himself over to an angelic living and he did not love his body, but he only took care of it with bread and water and nothing more, and he loved God, without rest in his love, day and night. His nights were only prayer, with his knees knelt down and with his hands lifted up, and the grace of the pure virginity was blameless in him until his end. When he saw You how You taught in the Temple and then the nations, he became fire under Your word, and his love for You was consumed within him and he made his life harsh to live only for You on earth. He has learned from You, Lord, the love and its benefits, and You loved him even more, and You relied on him more than on any other disciple of Yours, and after You came to life again, he was the first among the disciples to whom You appeared resurrected. So many Jews knew who You were through him, for he was a bishop and no one among the unbelievers from the temple knew that he was within You and You were within him, and that You taught him and settled him to a godly work of the mystery of the holy Liturgy by which You became bread and wine for him and for me and for the beloved John, and that he taught Your disciples how to work You and how to work this mystery with You after You had given it to them at the Last Supper, three days before Your resurrection after Your passion on the cross, when You truly accomplished Your sacrifice forever for the man’s redemption from his falling, after seven thousand years. For the love and its benefits in him, all called him: «James, the righteous one», for he loved the justice for You, and that is why he wrote to the twelve tribes of Your church his exhortation full of life and teaching against sin, and many were looking, if possible, to touch the tassels of his garment, which I made for him with so much holiness of spirit and love, to serve You in it, Lord, my Son. Oh, how much power of love he had! Love overcomes fear, and the bishop of the temple did not stop him to enter the Holy of Holies whenever he wanted to pray like this, even if one did not enter there but only once a year and never without blood from the sacrifice of animals. Oh, how much you have thriven with this mystery among the nations through him, my Son, and the rulers of the Jews did not know how to break down the nations’ faith in You, and they urged him on a Passover feast to climb the pinnacle of the Temple, where the devil set You to tempt You to throw Yourself down for Your angels to bear You up, and which You put him away saying: «Go away satan, for it is written not to tempt God», and the rulers of the temple asked him to speak to the nations not to believe in You, the crucified One, anymore. However, when the multitude saw him and asked him how to believe in You, he responded: «Do you ask me about the Son of Man, Who willingly suffered and was buried and then was resurrected on the third day? He is in heaven, on the right side of the power of the Most High and He will come down again on the clouds and will judge the living and the dead». And when the crowd said, «Hosanna, Son of David!» the rulers of the Jews spoke to themselves: «The righteous one was wrong!» and being seized by anger and envy, they threw him down, but he, still alive, prayed for them saying: «Forgive them this sin, for they do not know what they do, Lord». Then, they stoned him to death and he was sent to You, Son and Lord, praying to You for their forgiveness. He accompanied us all the way of Your cross from Your birth and to Your ascension to the Father, and within a great mystery he was the sacrifice of love, and I speak in a great mystery as much as I can speak according to the faith and unbelief of the people, but I had You as the mystery Supper by his hand, for he was Your bishop even from the womb, for this is how You choose, and that is why You taught him the work of Your mysterious Supper and put him to its work, and I had my Son worked out by his hand and then by the hand of John, and I want to give Your people instruction and to reveal to him the mystery of the embodiment of Your word as it was in James, Your brother and disciple, Your herald, priest and martyr, Lord. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the birth of the Lord’s Mother of September 21, 2004

— Oh, how was it not possible for us to become a temple of Your graces, Lord, if You were feeding us from Your mouth with God’s word? The Pharisees and the scribes, who were tempting You in every way possible, being Jews unfaithful to God, they were taking after the devil who tempted You in the wilderness, and You answered to his temptation with the word of the Scriptures, Lord, as You also did with the Pharisees and the scribes, Lord Teacher. Oh, how fallen is the man who does not read the Scriptures to understand them and that he may not tempt You with them and all those who do not have the faith from the Scriptures! The faith from the Scriptures, Lord, is not that by which the man believes in You and in Your sacrifice on the cross, but it is the one working by love, and the love is the man into Your image and after Your likeness on earth, as You taught us to be, and only after that You made us Your messengers on earth, so that You could work through us, You and not we from us, and You said this to us: «Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation, and these signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover». Lord, the faith of those who believe is accompanied by wonderful signs done by those You have sent to preach the kingdom of the heavens, but the man does not believe, as those, who were the rulers of the earth, did also not believe, and who judged You before Your death on the cross and to whom You spoke: «From now on you will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky». Amen.

Oh, the faith of those who do not believe through love and which works by love, cannot see You and bring Your coming on the clouds of the sky upon the man. However, we understood the mystery of the Scriptures of Your coming on the clouds of the sky, even if, when You spoke these things to those who crucified You then, we did not know what to believe at that time. However, You fulfilled then the whole mystery of the Scriptures You came on earth for, and You sent us the Holy Spirit afterwards, and from Him we received from You and we saw and confessed, as the queen of Sheba, after everything she heard that was spoken in the world about Solomon’s wisdom, she came to him and saw and believed more than she had heart about it, and then she blessed God’s people and gave gifts to Solomon’s kingdom, Lord.

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the twelve apostles of July 13, 2004

And the word of God was growing and it was growing everything I spoke to My disciples before and after My passions, and then after My resurrection, for they were confessing everything and everywhere, and My word was sharing and proving Me out, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem who believed was increasing, and there was a great amazement: many priests believed in the faith of My disciples and of My prude disciples, because their love for My fulfilled word was great, for the love which teaches the man to come closer to God, and which has to be shared in order for the number of the disciples to grow,

excerpt from The Word of God on the third day after Passover, of the myrrh-bearing women of April 25, 2004

I was going with the disciples through the cities and the Samaritan woman received Me, with her faith in Messiah’s coming, and while I was speaking to her at Israel’s well, I told her: «I am He, the One Who speaks to you». Oh, and many received Me after that, and after My ascent near My Father, after forty days from My resurrection from the cross, and after I sent the glory, the comfort and the power of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples, a lot more received Me then, for they were going through the world by My sending and they were giving testimony preaching Me that I had come and brought the salvation to the world by My birth, death and resurrection, and many believed and were baptized and became Christians, of whom My apostles were establishing bishops over those that became My church with their body, soul and spirit. Amen.

The feast of today is sweet, the feast of My apostles, Peter and Paul: one for the people of Israel, who became a faithful man and My church, and the other, for the nations of the earth, to make the Christians into spiritual sons, Israel according to the spirit, as I spoke to Abraham about his seed of the promise, which would be as numerous as the stars of the sky, and not from the earth, among those who bear the body and who are chosen and picked up from the world to belong to God on earth, and then preaching every moment My kingdom in them, a kingdom persecuted by those who did not want and do not want Me to come.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul of July 12, 2003

Oh, it was the same on the day, when I, the Lord, the One Who was resurrected and ascended to the Father, sent the Holy Spirit upon the disciples in a visible way, giving them the tongues for the nations of the people and to everyone who were with a living soul between heaven and earth. It was a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and the wind was speaking with its noise, with its voice, and then tongues of fire came down upon My disciples and they all spoke upon those that were together in Jerusalem from among all the nations of the earth, and all them that were there were amazed and perplexed and they were saying one to another: «What does this mean?». And Peter spoke to them all: «Let this be known to you and listen to my words. This is what has been spoken through the prophets: It will be in the last days, says God that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh… and whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved». And then he said to them: «Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit».

Oh, behold how My church has been being built. It is built this way and not as the man builds it, who makes himself a minister over the church. Church means a miracle of the Holy Spirit as two thousand years ago, after I gave the Holy Spirit onto My disciples in tongues of fire and every soul was full of fear, because there were being done great miracles and signs upon them in Jerusalem and the fear of God seized them all, and all who believed were together and had everything in common, and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, according to everyone’s need, and then they were all together in one spirit breaking the bread in home and taking bread with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and His grace let upon the people, and the assembly increased in number as the Lord added to it day by day those who were being saved.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, (Whitsuntide), the second day of June 15, 2003

And when I left My Father to draw them again, I told them to remain in a spirit of holy Jerusalem until they were to be clothed with power from above, and then I told them this: «You will receive power coming from the Holy Spirit upon you, and you will be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth». And if I told them so, I went then back from near them to the Father, speaking to them through angels that as I ascended from them, so I was to come, as they saw Me ascending into the sky in the clouds. And after ten days I gave them the Holy Spirit and suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting; and tongues of like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one set on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit became God in them, and those gathered together heard them speaking, in their own language for the Holy Spirit is the One Who can do this when He works from man upon man. Only that people are different and because of this the Holy Spirit cannot work upon them, because the Holy Spirit is like the good wine, which befuddles the onewho has had it, and his language is not understood by those who do not know what God’s mystery with man on earth is.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, the second day of June 23, 2002

as they, who became My disciple then, would sell everything they had so that they might not be mixed up with them, and they would give themselves and their belongings to Christ’s disciples, and would enter My family whose had I was; I, the Lord, I, the Son of the Lord, and they would go from place to place with Me, and they and I, were seedsmen. What do we seed? We seed the kingdom of the heavens in the man and upon the man. Those who did so with their life, were wise and gained the kingdom of the heavens.

excerpt from The Word of God on the third Sunday after the Passover, of myrrh-bearing women of May 7, 1995

Oh, the mystery of repentance goes before the holiness and faith, and then before the Holy Spirit. Now the church does not work this way, for if someone comes with a baby to be baptized into My name and to entrust it to Me, that one lies when he comes, as he is not repented and sanctified and faithful; and he also does not urge the baby come to Me and follow Me, as Cornelius did with his entire house when he was baptized by the hand of My apostle.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of Epiphany of January 19, 1995

Be faithful Israel, as the remnant of Israel was, the remnant that remained after Israel forsook Me; for I made the salting food, which I ploughed the ground with, sons, from the faithful remnant of Israel. And who were those from Israel’s remnant? They were Peter, Paul, Jacob and John, and all My apostles, who preached My name and the kingdom of heaven to the ends of the earth. My people from today, I made of this remnant of Israel a host of apostles and prophets and saints and I salted the earth with the salt of My word, which was flowing by the mouth and spirit of these heavenly servants on the world. I salted the world with My word through them, as after My ascension I told them this: «Go and preach that God’s kingdom has come near. Go to the ends of the earth and baptize those that believe in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit». Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Assumption of August 28, 1994

There were people gathered together in Jerusalem from all sides of the world, and the Holy Spirit descended upon them all. How comes upon them all? I tell you that it was so. Not only upon the apostles did the Holy Spirit descend. The being of the Holy Spirit appeared upon the apostles, so that it might show their work from Jesus Christ; the image of the Holy Spirit was shown upon them, so that the others might believe in Jesus Christ, the One that was preached by the apostles; the One, Who was raised from the dead and taken up into the heavens. And those that said that the apostles were filled with wine, they received the Holy Spirit too, as each man from then on understood what the apostles were speaking; each one understood in his own language, as on that moment the tongues of the people were made clear, and it was only one language, the language of the Holy Spirit,

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of Pentecost of June 19, 1994

All the people that were gathered together at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, were seized by the work of the Holy Spirit; they all were hearing the language of the Holy Spirit into their own languages, and believed that it was the wine that was speaking through them, children. My apostles were filled with the new wine, the renewed spirit of the new wine, a drunkenness of the Holy Spirit on the earth, a joy of the Holy Spirit upon the people, the spirit of Jesus Christ’s victory, the One Who ascended to the Father, the One raised through death and resurrection. Every people were seized by this joy of the new language in Jerusalem, the language from heaven over the creatures.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of Pentecost of June 19, 1994

And behold, I am the Word of God, the life making One; I am the Word of the Holy Spirit, Who proceeds from the Father, and Who came down upon the prophets and apostles to become flesh and to come true by His power.

I am the head of the church consisting in a synod of apostles, as I gave some to be apostles into My name; and I also gave some to be prophets into their midst, so that My word may be in the synod of the apostolic church, which I arrived with, at this time of heavenly fulfillments, as here is the time proclaimed through the prophets, the one promised to be. And behold, the Lord is faithful in His promises, for it is the time that the eyes of the blind to be opened, so that the fulfillments prophesied beforehand may be seen.

excerpt from The Word of God one year after the laying of the foundation stone of the Holy of Holies of the New Jerusalem (Excerpt) of July 22, 1992