3.1. Heavenly Wisdom and the Vanity of Man’s Knowledge

Oh, the whole kingdom of the earth is garbage and empty glory. It is full of empty glory and it cannot get rid of this sin, and even being dead it cannot get rid of it, for the man has got very much empty glory and he leaves it to his heirs to sing it for him, to keep it alive and that the man may perish from God by it.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Synod of the saint apostles, Paul and Peter of July 13, 2007

Oh, the man’s humility with God is great and comforting, the humility for Me, the One Who suffered and suffer from the man’s unbelief, for this is My heavy cross, and the man does not know what the Lord’s cross is. Oh, My comfort is great from the man who comforts Me in My heavy cross! And as the proud man does not know his pride, as the haughty one does not feel his haughtiness and does not know the damage that comes from it, in the same way the one who is truly humble does not know his humility and he has always humbled for the fruit of the humility by which he knows what he gets by fighting for the day of his victory from the One Who rewards the works of the man with good or evil, and behold, the humble one with his heart is My comfort and My work on the earth, My people.

excerpt from The Word of God on the third Sunday of the Lent, of the Holy Cross of March 11, 2007

He who has a teacher is that one who takes his entire work, that by the spirit and by the work, from his teacher and not from himself. Amen.

Behold a work that is to be learnt upon man: the man needs to learn to know his haughti-ness and pride, which come from this, and God has to know the man’s humility and all the work that comes from it. Amen. This is the work in which the man has to stay and to work with it against everything that does not mean God in man. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God on the third Sunday of the Lent, of the Holy Cross of March 11, 2007

Whoever imagines the kingdom of the heavens outside of him, that one cannot perceive its mystery, the work and its place between earth and heaven, and the imaginations of such a man are but fabrications and are not the truth. Oh, I was born for the man’s heart, that it may be the throne of My kingdom in the man’s body. The man’s body and My throne in his heart, that is the heaven which I, the Lord, wait for it for Me on the earth for My rest and for the rest of My Father, My people.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Birth of January 7, 2007

Behold, the kingdom of God is no otherwise than the man seeks to understand for him, and because of this I have no paradise on earth, I have no place where to stay or a glorified place on the earth, My people. When I made the man I made a garden of paradise for him in order that he may listen to Me in it, for the man to be My paradise, for I need the paradise more than man does, but behold, the man does not stop from his walking in order to understand My creation and its work, My purpose and the man’s purpose between heaven and earth, God’s mystery on earth with the man, My people.

In a day of feast, I am consumed with the man’s longing, with My longing within man. I long for a dwelling place on earth, but the man imagines that the kingdom of the heavens and its beauty is outside of him. The man wants that My kingdom may be otherwise for him and with him, and that is why the people cannot perceive with their mind the mystery of My saints, who became and become a dwelling place on the earth, the kingdom of the heavens on the earth. The place of the kingdom of the heavens and its glory is in man, and I say again: the place of the kingdom of the heavens is in man, and I built the man for this glory. Oh, for seven thousand years the man has been following the man built by My hand, the one who pulled himself out from heaven to put Me out of him and that I may no longer have house, and that I may no longer have rest. I set My rest to be in man, and I called the seventh day My rest. And, if I saw that the man did not remain in My day of rest, I came and I started all over again My work from the Father and I made the man again. I came and I became Myself a Man, and after I was conceived in a virgin womb, I was born as a child, like a man, and I was God’s rest, the rest of My Father, from Whom I am before the eternity, and then, at My birth, I showed the man’s mystery again, because I became a dwelling place of God’s kingdom on earth, and the Father was in Me, and I was in Him, and I made clear to My disciples this mystery when they asked Me to show the Father to them and when I, in a wonderful way, had always, always been showing that I and My Father were one, and working visibly I was showing them, that the work of My Father in Me had always become glory before the people.

Oh, only if the man wanted to stop from his way and to seek to understand the wisdom of the kingdom of the heavens, then I, the Lord, would sit in counsel with the man and I would give him this wisdom. I could have revealed Myself to the man as I am from eternity from the Father, but I humbled Myself so much and I lowered Myself so much until I was born of man, a Child like the man who is born of man; I humbled Myself so much when I was to appear before the man and to prove Myself as the Father’s subject, the kingdom of God’s miracles in My body made in the image of man, and then I was born to grow after the man’s likeness, to suffer for man and then to be glorified with the glory which I had from the Father before the eternity.

I want, man, to comfort you with the comfort of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. I want, man, to teach you and to help you to understand the mystery and the place of the kingdom of the heavens on the earth. Oh, man, do no longer wait for this kingdom to come to you or you to come to it, for you, you have to be its illuminating place around you, man born of man. I appeared Myself two thousand years ago, and this is how I taught the man what the kingdom of the heavens was and what kind of work it had. Oh, it is not possible for the kingdom of the heavens to be down on earth and in heaven above, it is not possible to be, by only in the spirit, in the man’s soul and body with all its face and its place. This is the wisdom, man, and the wisdom is not from the earth, and because of the man’s wisdom, which lives on earth an in the earth without heaven, God’s mystery with the man is put out; My track on the earth and in man is wiped out.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Birth of January 7, 2007

There is no other greater miracle among people than the fulfillment of My word. Then the man fulfills My word in him and he becomes God’s miracle on the earth and he thanks Me for this and becomes gentle and humble in his heart before Me and before the people, and this is how he teaches the people their way to Me, and more than that he cannot do any good to the people. Woe to those who want to be teachers to the people on My behalf without taking after Me, without having work in them from Me! In all the time of My works among people I hid from the trap of the man, I hid from the glory given by man, and the one who has My love in him, that one is like Me, gentle and humble in his heart, and that one does not look after My glory for his glory, but he rather seeks the wisdom of his life, the spirit of humility, the spirit that does not call out in the streets to be seen and heard, but it seeks after God’s testimony among people instead,

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the saint hierarch Spiridon of December 25, 2006

The time has come to speak with the voice of My word far and wide on the earth that the man who does not do God’s will on earth, that one does not belong to God, but he belongs to the devil instead, which makes the man do his will and that the man may not be God’s son on earth. No one can call God „Father” if he does not have the work of the son with a teacher upon him. I spoke to My disciples to preach Me on to the nations of the earth and I said this: «He who listens to you, listens to Me and the One Who has sent Me, and he who denies you, denies Me and denied the One Who has sent Me after the man». The man needs salvation from the death he has drawn upon himself by this pulling out of God for his own will, and he needs to listen to Me for this salvation from death. If I, being God, stayed and stay only in the will and the word of the Father, how should the man work now, after that, for such a long time he has not listened to the One Who made the man in the beginning? I made the man out of God’s will and I did not make him otherwise.

excerpt from The word of God at the feast of the devout Parascheva of October 27, 2006

I do not want to hear the man say that he has got wisdom; I do not want, since the man does not have in him and upon him the fear of God, which will make him a son obedient to God. There cannot be wisdom in man and on the earth greater than the obedience to God, and he who does not love it as his own life, that is a son of the vanity, which is upon the people who do their will,

excerpt from The word of God at the feast of the devout Parascheva of October 27, 2006

Oh, no man can dedicate Me anything beautiful in him if he does not have a teacher from heaven upon him, for I told the man from the beginning, that it is not good for the man to be alone. The one who is alone does not work according to the exhortation upon his life. From his beginning with Me I have wanted the man to be only under My counsel, and when he has no longer wanted that way, he has hidden and lost God, as a result, if he has worked that way.

Every man who hides within himself with his good and bad things loses God, My people. And behold, every man hides from God. Oh, My people, every man hides. The man cannot anything else but only his will first. The one who does not sanctify God in him, that one puts the Lord down for his own will, for one like that does not have other love in him and cannot do the will of the Father Creator. The man leads his love according to his heart, according to his flesh and the man does no longer have a teacher for his love, and it leads him far away from God and to the temptation of not having a teacher of life over him to ask him always about his life, about his love, if that is in the image of God and after God’s likeness in man or after the man, and behold, the man does not know what death is so that he may know after that what his life means and how he is able to have life in him.

I have become Teacher upon you, man without heaven in your life, and I tell you this: there are two ways out of which the man can chose one: submission, which is on My right side, and the free will, which is on the right side of the man. Submission is My work and with it on My right side I do God’s will, the Father, for I am His Son, and the one who loves it as his wisdom, that one choose Me for his right side and stays under My teaching and becomes a son, like Me under God’s will, the Father; and the free will, which is on the man’s right side, is the man’s work without a father from heaven on him, and that one has the devil as his father, the spirit of emptiness, the cunning seed, which separates man from God, for the spirit fallen from glory in the beginning is envious against God as its food, after what this spirit lost its glory near God by its disobedience.

Oh, man without a helm over your steps! Hear Me! Hear Me when I speak to you to wake you up for the spirit of the wisdom of obedience, for the wisdom of obedience has made so many people, big and small, holy and beloved by Me, people who have given their possessions to the poor that they may deny themselves and to become My dwelling place on earth, and they do not share their richness and their earnings with the thought to become haughty before Me with their good works, but they have done so because of their self-denial and for their deliverance from the burdens so that they may be without any burdens and to be able to receive Me in them with the wealth of My love and of My obedience of the Son of the Father Sabaoth. No rich man shares his wealth with those who are rich and who have possession like him, but he rather shares it with those who do not have any possessions, with the poor, that they may get away from the heavy burden of the self-love, which enslaves the man so ruthlessly. I work the same and I share the wealth of My glory with those who are poor in their spirit, to get rid of My burden, that heavy burden of My love for the man, which presses Me so ruthlessly when I do not have anyone to give it, when I have no one to share with, when I have no one to set it on to be shared and loved, and to serve the man for his life and that he may serve Me on My right side, for obedience is on My right side, the way with God. Amen.

I am the way, man! I and not you! Do no longer wrap yourself up with those around you. Bow down to hear the spirit of My teaching, with which I shake Myself over the earth that every man may hear Me, for I share Myself with those who share Me and who are My messengers to you, disciples with a sigh that resembles Mine for the man who has got his free will on his right side, his will for himself, but I remind you again and I tell you: those who have their own will, they get lost by it, and those who have My will, they live and they are. Amen, amen, amen.

excerpt from The word of God at the feast of the devout Parascheva of October 27, 2006

All those who are holy within their spirit, soul and body, they have already judged the world, and they are no longer in the world, when they stay within its midst.

The world is judged within the man’s body itself. Everyone who takes away the spirit of the world from him, that one has already judged the world. However, there still is a greater judgment of the world. You and I and all the confessing saints, who have spoken out by their mouth the sins of the world, were then to fall into agonies, for the world has been killing the saints for its sins, although it was already judged when it judged You and when it gave You to the cross to die, but no one knew this at that time, of those from the world, that You were their salvation then and now when You have come and You have set Your church on its first stone, and when you set to work the mystery of the resurrection of the dead and a persistent work for the forgiveness of the sins of the creature, from its beginning and to those little of Yours by whom You have testified about Yourself far and wide by the word of Your coming for the resurrection of the dead, for a new heaven and a new earth, and for the justice that will be the gift of Your saints then, and who will have overcome the world within them. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the Saint John, the Baptizer of January 20, 2006

The feast of today embraces you in the light of its teaching, for the martyr Catherine was My light upon those in the darkness in which the man perishes, and she gave Me the fruit of the work of My light in her, and I gave her a crown of holy love and she worked on earth under the glory received by the gift of her love, for this is how are being crowned those who love with My love in them, My people. Amen.

— My crown, that which is put by Your hand on my head, Lord of Your saints, I put it before Your people, bowing to it for Your love from it and lifting it up to the work of the glory of the crown of the saints, who confessed You by their blood, by their confession, Lord and Bridegroom of Your saints. With reverence I am speaking to Your people of today the word of the Scriptures, which says that within Your kingdom the flesh and blood cannot inherit but only if they confess for God becoming love only for You in man, and not life of the man in man, Lord.

Oh, people of the grace in which the Lord protects you to have you and to make you after His likeness! The flesh and blood do not inherit the kingdom of God, but they rather dwell in man as sinful flesh against the heavenly love inside the man. This wisdom by which I am speaking to you, people of the mysteries of above, has great depth. The flesh and blood need to have confessing work before God, as I worked against the ruler of the darkness in which the man perishes. When the body lusts against the spirit, the flesh and the blood start this war, for the fleshly man does not lust after the Spirit of the Lord inside him, and the satanic spirit does not have to wage war against the fleshly man, which has his helm in his flesh and blood, in his fleshly nature, by which it will have his will against the Spirit of God in man. Such wisdom I have overflowed by my confession in the spirit of the wise people of the earth, who have their wills and their minds as their masters, and they, receiving fire and longing in them by the wisdom of my spirit, they gave up the fruit of lying and fought for them even against their own self by my confession about the kingdom in which the man settles after he overcomes his flesh and blood, the corruptible nature, which has always tried to reign in man, always preventing him from self denial, which the Bridegroom, Christ, has required from all those who have wanted to go on the way of the new life by confession. The way of the Lord is a way with confession in it, and he who does not have it and does not work out the spirit that confesses, that one has not reached to self denial, the measure which Christ, the Bridegroom of the saints, asks from those who love the mystery and the work of the eternal life on the way of this kingdom.

Oh, sons of God and of His word, you should know that the devil does not make war against those who put away God’s will for their wills, but he is caught in the trap of those who love God with much faith and great humility of their spirit before the Lord and before His coming forever. We, the great and the small saints, have prevailed against the devil by the faith and by the confession of Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom of His saints, and there where the devil does not find any work against him, then he can work there by man’s will, who had not prevailed against his own nature and has nothing to fight against. However the saints have chosen the Lord’s will by the confession of their faith, which the spirit of the devil could not stand, that is the adversary of God in man. The one who does not confesses God, that one confesses his own dwelling in him, but the Lord is confessed by the saints, just as I, the disciple, and then the martyr of His name, removed from their thrones those who were great and many, who until my confession upon them, had reigned in them not giving any work to the devil, the ruler over those who are kept in the darkness by which the man perishes. However, I had strengthened them in the confession of their faith until they could overcome, escaping from the gehenna of the eternal perdition, and longingly I gave them to my beloved Lord, after He, with great love and longing, was well pleased with Me, by giving me the gifts of His grace, which is a crown for the saints. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the saint martyr Catherine of December 8, 2005

I cannot make for Me a heaven of saints from men, who do not have My love in them, and neither can I make them saints. The one who lives for his self-love cannot hide in himself, but rather he is seen by everything he does and proves. Love is a big power and I come down into hearts and minds, discerning of My mysteries among people, and I remain confused in those who are haughty within their spirit, and I also remain in the darkness towards the one who loves oneself and I cannot share Myself with anyone through the one who is self-confident.

Love is power either for good, or for evil upon man, because there are two kinds of loves and they go on two sides, either to destroy or to save the man’s life. One of them is self-love, that by which the blind does not see his to be able to keep away his life from destruction, and the other one is the love from above, from heaven, from God, put into the service of the heavenly works among people, for those who are being saved.

Behold My people, godly love means God and God’s work on the earth, and human love means man and man’s work on the earth. These two kinds of love never meet, because they reject each other and are against each other by their work itself. And the saints loved with power the heavenly wisdom of love and they became saints on earth for it and they saved their lives and went full of life into heaven and are the sons of life forever and ever, and I, the Lord, come on earth with those who are alive, and I come with the saints, with those who found on earth the mystery of love and lived within it. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of all saints of June 26, 2005

The work of God upon man is too great compared to the man’s work worked before God, but I do not have the man at My school to teach him the mysteries and the works of God on earth with the man. God’s people live in the Spirit of God on earth, and the Lord comes to them, to their earnest prayer for God’s works, prophesied in the Scriptures, and He brings them a heavenly mind, a prophetic mind, that is put by the Spirit of God in man, for God makes His servants on earth and He fulfills His works in due time.

Oh, My people, the man has covered his mind and does not know to give it to God. If the man knew how to sit and how to stand before the Lord, he would see God as prophet Daniel saw Him, when this one came with a great sigh before the Lord, asking with repentance and praying for the entire nation of Israel in his time and up to his time. And because he was greatly loved by God, the Lord worked with him on earth and gave him a sharp wisdom for Himself, because God saw him with zeal for God and for His people. Behold the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, forever and ever at work upon the man, with a great mystery, with heavenly wisdom! However, the people on earth are great and cannot bow before the Holy Spirit, Who perfects all God’s works and reveals all those things that belong to the people. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Holy Spirit’s Descending – the second day. The Feast of the Holy Trinity of June 20, 2005

Be wise, My people, for the Holy Spirits needs His wisdom in man, and My apostles continued steadfastly in prayer and in breaking of bread, and then they received the Holy Spirit sent from heaven upon them. The prophet Daniel prayed earnestly to Me in the lion’s den, and he was a bloodless sacrifice, for the lions had not eaten him for three days, the same as I, the Lord, had remained with the whole body during those three days, from My laying down into the grave and until I was resurrected like a true God that I was. Amen.

The Holy Spirit is the answer at the earnest prayer, which has faith, pain and earnest prayer within it, and God’s angels come and put the understanding of the Holy Spirit over the one seized by the love of God, by the mercy and pain, which are from God.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Holy Spirit’s Descending – the second day. The Feast of the Holy Trinity of June 20, 2005

I come in as the word of man’s making, and I come into the book, and My book is the true book by which the man has to learn knowledge, for if the man has knowledge and has no life, then he is not a learned man, but is a man without a way, because I told him: «I am the way, the truth and the life, and who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but he comes from death to life». Amen, amen, amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at feast of the Saint Martyr Demetrius, the myrrh-streamer of November 8, 2004

The man does not have to teach Me how to love him, but he has to let Me teach him how to love Me. The man loves himself and this is how he tries to love Me, for himself and not for Me, but I have spoken to him by My Gospel of two thousand years ago, that he who loves his life will lose it, and he who lose his life for Me, for God’s preaching among the people, that one will have life, and he will have it in abundance, for life has been taught from God and not from man. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at feast of the Saint Martyr Demetrius, the myrrh-streamer of November 8, 2004

I am the Lord of glory! My glory covers Me within it for no one on earth can bear the sight of My glory when it is heard coming that I may become word upon the earth, being covered by My glory. Amen.

When I appear to the man, chosen by Me for My glory, to announce Me then with it by word of sending, that one lives and does not die under the work of My glory, but when He announces My glory, which he says that he sees it and that it speaks with him, that one dies as it is written, because he is filled up with pride and with the desire for glory and joy and he does not know that My glory is dreadful upon the man, and I can hardly keep the man under it when I come on earth for the people to know Me and to know My glory and My life in them.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Transfiguration of August 19, 2004