6.1. The Life of the Newly Chosen People: Holiness, the Foundation of the Christian Life

Oh, sons, do not seek, oh, do not seek justification to work, for the love of her sons does not seek this, the one who has the love of work is not proud, the one who has love does not seek his own, but suffers for others with holy patience. Self-contempt can help you to do so, and this lowers you and raises your brother if you have value for him. Oh, may there never be heard in eternity a love like that between you, a fruitful love for heaven, sons, and for which I, the Lord, so much shepherd you and hold you by the hand, shepherding you from above and below, and may you not be careless of advice, sons.

Here is how you should work for the mistakes in the love between brothers: The mistake is not forgiven in the process, but only through confessed humility, My children. At the moment of the mistake in the love, remove from among you the one who disturbs the love and its rest between the brothers and set him aside, so that he may be ashamed and understand his unworthiness, and he must no longer work, but stand aside, as the Scripture says, for otherwise the devil will be proud in him and will not allow him to bow down and then to become good.

One must be vigilant against the one who disturbs love and its work, and therefore you should not deliberately seek to be and remain alone, except after you have sinned against love and been set aside, so that your sin may be punished and your correction to confessional repentance may then be vigilant, after repentance settles in the heart for the raising up again and for the correction of love.

Son, son, do not think yourself too close to the watchman over you, do not trample on his word, do not seek him boldly so that you too may wish to be great, for love is not proud, oh, son guided and shepherded so much by the word of My mouth and by the watchmen over you. Be small, so that you may be great, for only the one who stands small works for himself greatness, not the one who is bold in his word and in his work, and otherwise you cannot enter the wedding of the Son of God, where only those who stand small have the joy of this miracle, because of the purity of their hearts.

Do not forget the parable of the wolf and the dog, do not forget, sons! Learn from this parable that speaks to you of obedience and disobedience, of remaining obedient and in control of yourself, or of wandering around restlessly, and you will be those taught by God, if you prove great note and wedding attire, sons.

There is no truer death than sin, than man’s departure from the hand of God to be greater than God, the Maker of the world and of man, this great dishonor brought upon God by man created by the hand of God, and brought to life by the breath placed by the Lord in the body of earth created, in My image and likeness.

Oh, sons, I had received great dishonor from My creature and enmity settled between man and Me, after he wanted to be greater between Me and him, and sin was born then on earth and settled between man and Me, and God has been watching from then until today with all the angelic retinues, with all the incorporeal heavenly powers, lest one may wander in the realm of eternity from man greedy for power over earth and over heaven, as he dreamed in the beginning of his greatness over God, oh, but then man fell, he fell from heaven and I hid heaven and all the unseen creation of God from him, I placed a covering over man’s eye, and only the creation seen by man has remained for his sight, from then until today, and the unseen things of God’s creation have remained in secret and await their Maker for their work, and man entered under sin, under the separation between him and God through the sin in him.

Here is a mystery, unfathomable by the mind of man, who deals with sin over his life in the flesh, for man subjects his soul under the dominion of sin, under death, for there is no death, but only sin is what separates man from life all the time, oh, and man always submits to the sin he was left with, after losing God.

I have raised up the mind of man from God so that he may not tremble under fear in his life on earth. He does not know with his mind that sin is the death that separated him from God, and behold, man commits sin and feels pleasure in committing it and runs after sin, poor man, for man has given the mind from heaven to sin. For seven thousand years, I have been coming out in the way of man in every way so as not to leave him under the pain of sin, oh, and I am full of compassion for the one who has been lost from God for seven thousand years, since sin overcame man.

Sons, sons, the sin committed by man has set up the curtain of separation between the seen and the unseen of God’s creation, and man no longer sees the realm of God and the heavenly beauty of eternity in which the Lord and all the heavenly powers have their abode.

So, what do those who follow Me have to work for the life of paradise? They must do what man did not listen to at the beginning and fell from paradise. I have set up the law of paradise little by little for those who have chosen Me in these days and I have told them to eat the food of paradise, fruits, greens, seeds, vegetables, and all that is for the food of paradise. I have told them to listen to God, and not to themselves. I have told those who follow Me: «Be holy, for I am holy!» Holiness is the law of paradise, and with it is piety, it is humility, and all through self-denial, all of this worked out with great care, because the mixing of the human, the earthly and the natural makes man fall from paradise, as it was two thousand years ago, oh, how difficult it is, sons, it is difficult for man to understand completely and then want to be for God with his life on earth. However, I, behold, stand among you, speak to you, bring you from heaven, give you My body and word and leave My power among you for you, for your protection, sons, for beyond the border is satan with his dirty and black hell among those who serve him, and I hide you in Me, I am with you, I carry you by the hand, I correct you if you incline to error, I give you from heaven, and I always add to your garment and keep you in My secret, and I stand with you in the Father, for I am in the Father, oh sons.

Oh, sons and daughters of Jerusalem, the Lord is with Jerusalem of above upon you, the holy homeland, the one for the saints. Do not cease to have in mind and heart the holiness above, the one for the above, for people on earth work sin, seen and unseen all the time, and the Lord has willed a holy people for Himself day and night, to have before Him a word on earth for His coming. Therefore, love paradise, be as in paradise, build paradise on earth day and night, for it is always to be built on this bed, and it is always to be adorned for the saints and angels, so that those in heaven may be with those on earth, and only thus may it be in all the places where the Lord has the souls given to the holiness of the Lord on earth.

Oh, Lord, let all my word today be fulfilled upon them, and always. This is how I am bowing and thus I am praying to You. And even if I were to remain in word with them, I would give them the same exhortation: holiness, bowing, humility, poverty of spirit for the Lord’s pleasure in them, and You will give them more and always, because there is much to clarify and strengthen for their fulfillment upon them, and from them to You, Lord.

All who wish to become true worshipers of God, here is a lesson for this holy miracle: Separate yourselves, children, as completely as possible from worldly life, from what resembles the life and occupations of the children of the world. Oh, do not take from them to do what they do. Be afraid of such separation from God. Flee, flee in fear from the likeness of the world, from being in the world, from the customs of the children of the world, for man needs God and the things left from heaven upon him and with him, and man absolutely does not need the things brought out by the children of the world on earth, for behold, the devil of today has placed before and in the minds of Christians the spirit of the world and the wandering school of heavenly time with man.

Woe, and woe again, children, oh, that My Spirit and His heart are broken when I look and see My Christian resembling the world and the children of the world, that he takes from them, that he cannot do otherwise, and I, the Lord, send punishments and damages, because of the pain that ascends to Me through the evil angels, with what the Christians who know My coming word on earth, the food from heaven, the teachings for the Christian and angelic life do.

Oh, Christian divided in two, oh, son, the more you want not to make yourself known to whom you belong with the service with which you learn from the children of the world, the more you will lose yourself, the more you will separate yourself from the Lord. The more you try to take and resemble the world and its children, the more you will be pulled to the left and the wandering from God, and the soul will seize you, for the love of God will no longer be your work, you will no longer pull with heaven for the truth, you will no longer seek the light without evening that will carry your steps of life to the heights of victory that is soon coming on earth over those worthy of it through love from above, through the life of heaven on earth.

This is the work that those in My courts today have to accomplish, and this is how I teach them, starting from them and up to you, those who know yourselves to be the people of My word: Oh, do not waste the holiness by which you are the sons of God and of His coming now word on earth! Do not fall asleep in this great care and work, with which those who stand in My presence serve Me day and night, for you alone have chosen to be among My people and you are obligated to listen for the sake of standing close to Me, near My spring that flows from above over My citadel of word.

Therefore, sons of My citadel, let those who seek you know that there is no need to speak to you from their side, and they have to follow My word over you, believe in it and then fulfill it by those who give to seek you. The animal destined to stay next to man seeks a master to serve him, and the master to take care of him for his faithfulness, for his love for the master.

Those who want to belong to Christ all the time, I teach them this way again and again: Sing, My sons, sing a lot, that is, all the time, sing, so that your mind may be beautiful, pure, holy, working, praying to the Lord or glorifying Him, and you will be saved from the sins of the mind, from the temptations that strike through the mind in you so that you may choose for yourselves to be My tested sons! Do this obedience that I give you. Cherish and love singing and a lot of singing. May it accompany your mind and the work of your mind and hands and the humility of your heart, My sons, and thus you will be able not to waste the holiness that holds you near the Father and the power for submission with the obedience for holiness, My sons, for you are not just any people, and thus you will not go astray or lose God.

Oh, this is what God means, and those who are God’s, understanding who I am and who they are! A few days before My death on the cross I gave Myself to My disciples and I said to them, giving them bread and wine: «This is My body and My blood, take the Lord and eat!» (Matthew 26/26) I gave Myself to them completely so that I might remain with them, and so that they might remain in Me, and after My resurrection I said to them: «It is I Myself, touch Me!» (Luke 24:39)

Oh, this is what God means, and those who are God’s! From God Who was from eternity, I passed into the womb of the Virgin Myself, and then I passed into bread and wine Myself, I whole, and then I pass into you Myself whole, with all My members so that you may be Myself, children, and in all Myself, I, Who am from the beginning and to the end, forever and ever I am today. Amen.

Sons, sons, beware of the leaven of hypocrisy and cleanse each other from this cunning enemy, who scatters your holiness and My Being within you. Do not scatter yourselves in the things without God. Gather yourselves in Father, sons. Father has forgiveness for you if you will hate the darkness and the things hidden in you, and hypocrisy, sons. Oh, this is the teaching of this holy day and you will be able to keep away from you the work without God in it, and you will remain and work as sons, whether you will bear fruit or you will be fruit yourselves, if you do not seek more to want and to work and to be able, and the fruit is pure, sons, and therefore it helps you to be able.

Now, I am giving you the word that keeps Me with you and near you and in you: Peace to you! Any storm does not harm anything in front of this word of peace from Me upon you.

Do not waste holiness, keep it whole and you will be able to do with peace in all things, with peace to yourselves, so you will be able, always, always like this, oh, sons! Amen, amen, amen.

The righteous are not those who seek and do justice for themselves. Oh, those are not the righteous ones, but the humble are righteous, and who can always say before a word of rebuke: „I have done these and greater things than these.” And again, I am saying, Christian son, for under the guise of those near you, I am coming and giving you advice, rebuke or work to do, and this says a lot, only to have your mind from God, not from yourself, for you are accustomed to seeking justice for yourself and they drive the Lord away from you when He comes near to work on your making.

The fulfillment of My word, with which I give to raise up and shepherd a people for Me, which I want to be greater and greater, is very weak, but Christians do not come to Me, oh, not the Christian does not like holiness, but he likes free will and rest, not the toil for salvation after this life, not the life with Christ.

Oh, how beautiful, how beautiful is life with Christ! It is beautiful like Christ, it is heavenly life on earth, it is the way to heaven, but who is able to love such a life? Few come to Me, very few at all. What should I do with those who do not come? What will I do with them but give them the suffering through which man seeks God and with God with his life.

Oh, Christians, oh, sons, make the cross straight and mark with it the dwelling place of your soul and make it appear to be straight, for otherwise it cannot seal the body of your soul and the devil overcomes you when he sees that you do not have a righteous and crucified life towards the world.

Behold, sons, what ascension means! It means the fruit that remains and its kingdom in it, but My work, worked from the earth and up to heaven, is not understood by man, and not even by the Christian man. Man always sins. Man has got used to sin. He knows about the heavenly mystery for man, but very little does he want to know, because man loves sin and the taste of sin and for sin he separates from God. Oh, what shall I do to him? He says that he cannot do otherwise, and he is right if he is only a man and that is all, if he is not a son of God by love.

You cannot be God’s son but only by love, man, for love heals the man from sin. There is no one to tell you this, but I, the Lord, am telling you. Love does not leave any time for you to sin, it does not let you die unless you separate from it in order to sin, to indulge yourself with your lust. I, however, bring before Me a people and teach it to do My will like those in heaven, because otherwise man falls under sin, after he has known that sin is his death whenever he gives in to sin and dies through sin.

He who comes after Me is the one who does no longer turn to sin, and I greatly suffer for the man who does not know to keep himself in God after he has joined himself with the Lord through His body and blood, and through it, the man may have life, and to have it forever then.

And if I have spoken about the mystery of My ascension at the end of My work on earth two thousand years ago, behold, sons, We are sitting in a council with you for the work of the meeting of the great holy days of Pentecost and of My trumpet, Virginia, celebrated now in a special way in heaven and on earth in the midst of the people, with which, I say, that I have remained, because even some of them are stopped on the way at some of the customs, which they do not want to pass, just as souls cannot pass customs when they have nothing to compensate for the sins committed on earth. (The twenty four customs of the air – see “St. Theodora’s journey through the aerial toll-houses”, – aerial toll-houses, r.n.) I, however, go on with the preparation of the remaining people and encourage them on the way on which I have set them to fulfill My whole will, My word upon them, and We are making a counsel and working according to it, We, those from heaven, and you on earth, and We are bringing before the Father the fruit worked by the counsel, sons.

behold, crucifixion must be in order to take after the Shepherd that laid down His body to be nailed to the cross as a sign of the holiness of the spirit and body, oh, and this is how God’s sons have to work so that they may be holy like their Shepherd, and they have to keep their hands and legs in nails so that they may not commit any sin, for those who are without a cross always commit sins.

Behold, sacrifice is needed, because I said: «If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me». (Matt: 16/24) And the carrying of the cross means crucifixion so that man may no longer commit any sin in his body. Someone who is crucified has his hands and legs nailed and is in God’s image and after His likeness, like his Shepherd, and this means the man who does no longer sins and who is forever with the Lord.

Oh, how beautiful are those who choose Me as an example for their lives, how beautiful! These have sufficiently understood the word I said for those who want to follow Me with a cross, and not without a cross. Oh, how few are those who choose to be as beautiful as God, beautiful through the cross, and how great would be this flock of Christ, these beautiful people of the heaven on earth! For almost seventy years I have been staying over the earth as word in order to build a little hand of people, beautiful like God, oh, and how hard it was My progress with this word, and I humbled Myself very much to bring beautiful forth fruit to the Father. However, man is used as on earth and that is why it is hard for him to understand what God means and what a man should do before God then.

Behold, man always commits sin, and he does this because he does not know what God mans and what man means. My Virgin mother understood this and lived her life only in God, only with God in her little and clean heart, and then she was My mother and went to the temple forty days after My birth to bring the sacrifice of cleaning according to the tradition, but she was as clean as heaven and remained that way, only because the Lord does according to the laws set on earth so that it may be fully understood that the Son of God became a man and grew up, and then He was crucified for man in order to bring him to repentance and then to the forgiveness of his sins, for I was resurrected after My crucifixion to perfect the whole man’s way to God and so that the man may be free though Me, by all that I did for his life, and that is why I am a Shepherd and man has to learn because I showed him by My own life and walk on earth.