6.3. The Mystical Kingdom of the Lord with His Chosen People; His Teachings, in the Spirit of Obedience
sons, sons, you shall have Me richly in you, so that you may be able to give Me to one another for your building up and that no one of you may by without the holy work.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the three holy hierarchs: Basil, Gregory and John of February 12, 2004
Oh, Jerusalem, oh people fed with the word of God and with the spirit of prophecy, which has become a great gift into your midst by My power and grace! I want to see the work of a disciple within you, the work of the Holy Liturgy, My Body and Blood, united with you in all of your sons who are disciples, that I may be able to tell the Father with longing and joy: «I in them and they in Me, so that the world may know that You have sent Me to them, Father». Amen, amen, amen.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the three holy hierarchs: Basil, Gregory and John of February 12, 2004
Oh, My people of My word of today, which speaks upon you and grows you up to be for My coming! You should stay, son, at your making, for he who is not made does no longer remain. The Father is the One Who knows to teach you, for you saw the older son of this parable how he wondered about the celebration because of his younger brother’s return to repentance, who had worn himself out in sexual immoralities. Father taught him and told him that he was the heir upon everything he had, but because this young brother came to life from the dead of this age, it was right for the father to celebrate and not be sad, for it is written: «There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting». Amen. Behold, wisdom is to be learned and then the man has wisdom from God, the Teacher of the man. He who wants to receive teaching, let that one learn with humility and let him start with humility, for this bears fruit of wisdom, because the Lord, gives grace to the humble, and He gives them wisdom, and no one is able to have grace unless he has wisdom by which they may be able to work grace after grace, and teaching from God. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of the memorial the prodigal son’s parable of February 8, 2004
And as for you, Jerusalem, you should love Me sweetly, and you should get used to My moralizing teaching, for I speak so much to you and I give you wisdom to have from My teaching, and as for the others, however unrepentant they may be, I speak to them in parables, for this is how I said that I would work, and each one will harvest with God, either for his condemnation or for his salvation. However, I have come, as two thousand years ago, to save the world, and I do this only with the consent of the man’s will. Amen, amen, amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of the memorial the prodigal son’s parable of February 8, 2004
Oh, My people, who I speak in My last days with, those who have been seeking to know the time of the saints and their living, it is not possible for them not to believe in God and in His power by the man who prophesies and prays with thankfulness and loves fulfilling My love in him. The Pharisee’s prayer of thanks was considered as pride and the tax collector’s was counted as repentance and baptism for the forgiveness of his sins. Pride is debauchery, for whoever does not love the Lord, but himself, by everything he does and feels and shares, that one commits fornication by everything he does, as I have taught you to speak to the people of My word, children who have learned from Me to spread My teaching on every side then. The anger at one’s own self is fornication outside the man’s body, for the man does not have Me as His God when he does so, because it is written: «Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body».
He who loves pride, that one is not a peacemaker between him and God, for the one who does not make peace, cannot make a greater peace than the peace in his works between him and God, between him and his neighbor, and this kind of peace is self-love and it is not on behalf of God. If the man is true in prayer when he asks Me to forgive his sins as he also forgives the one who does him wrong, then I am also as real as in everything he tells Me by what I have taught him to speak in his prayer, and this is how the man is with all his prayer that he brings before God.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of the memorial of the parable of the tax collector and of the Pharisee of February 1, 2004
Oh, My people, you should not be a Pharisee, but rather you should be pleased to God and to your neighbor by everything you are and do, for he who seeks to do his own will, that one remains with his own works, not within My works, and I said by My words of that time and of this time: «Remain in My love». Seek for the life with a teacher son, for this is what this Scripture means, because the teacher always brings the words of life before you, and let your life stand for My love. Amen.
Oh, My people, you should not remain in your love, but rather you should remain in My love, for you have to know what your prayer is and where its power comes from and what your life is and where its love comes from. Your speaking with those who carry Me into your midst and to you has to be a speaking of the Holy Spirit, for if you do not do so, the evil spirit tries to mark you down with a wrong doing against the Holy Spirit, Who is from Me in those who carry you to Me and Me to you, and of whom He works upon your church, upon your assembly. Otherwise the church would not have any life of Holy Spirit, but it would rather have something else, which does not mean the spirit of life, the spirit of church. I spoke through those who are teachers from Me for you that the man has to smile only for God and not for man; that the man has to be joy only for God, and only then to be joy for the man who becomes godly out of this joy. Amen.
The useful brotherhood for Me has to be seen in the fulfilled prayer. When the prayer is not answered and when the brothers who have come together in prayers do not receive the answer at their requests, it means that they were not one in their prayer. It is written in Psalms about those who stay in the Lord’s house, in the Lord’s courtyard, the Lord’s servants to praise the Lord and to raise their holy hands at night, and the Lord, Who made the heaven and the earth, the Lord from Zion will bless them. Amen.
Oh, sons, learn from the spring of My word; the prayerful man’s raising his hands to God is embracing God, for he is careful then of My union with him and he is just the union, for the heart prays and it makes the hands to be raised. The same is also with the reaching the hands among the brothers into My name for forgiveness, for reconciliation, for love between brother and brother and for My peace among the brothers.
Oh, sons, if in your hard times or difficult shortcomings only one is absent from the supplication brought before Me, that one is not accomplished because of the one who does something else than praying, which asks for the church. When Moses chose his people for Me out of the people for the spirit of prophesy, the power of his spirit was also seen over those who were not there, for his spirit also came down upon those who were named, where they were. Oh, let you not be found together only in number, and not at your place of meeting sons, but let you be found one in your prayer, sons. When the priest carries Me into his hands (At the Holy Liturgy, r.n.), and he has not got Me in him, this is for Me a greater pain than that on Golgotha, where I suffered for the man’s separation from Me. However, there were so many hearts there that were carrying Me in them just as a priest carries Me, who is on Golgotha when he has Me into his hands leading Me with his pain in him on the way to the cross, crying for Me, the One Who was forsaken by the man’s heart, which was careless of God, Who keeps the heaven and the earth by His love for the man.
Oh, sons who are set by Me as guides for My people, tell to the sons of Israel (To the Romanian Israel, r.n.) that it is one thing for the man to do miracles with God and it is another thing for the evil spirit to do miracles through the man, for life without God turns the man into a devil, and the man becomes a Pharisee near God. Tell the sons of Israel not to boast themselves that they pray, or fast, or do My commandments, but tell them to boast with My praising in them instead, and let them reach out their hands to Me, so that I may give Myself with My life in them. Amen.
I look at the churches from the world when the priest does not understand what he is, when the Christian does not understand what he is and that they do not have to forget whom they have into their hands when their hearts do not prove the same thing, or whom does he receive in his body when his deed does not prove that his God is with him then. Oh, guiding sons, I am the wonderful One within and among the brothers, and that is why I come and tell you to teach My people and My servants to say when they pray, to speak about the Lord, Who is wonderful within and among the saints, for in whom the Lord is wonderful, that one is a holy and wonderful man. Amen.
Jerusalem, I want to hear the whole word into your midst, so that you may also be holly and entirely and in debt, son. I want you to say this: „Save us, Son of God, You Who are wonderful within and among the saints, Halleluiah, Halleluiah, Halleluiah, have mercy on us.” Amen.
Oh, My people, the hidden things are not good, no matter what they might mean, and that they are good only if they are confessed. Those who are not confessed bring idleness in virtues and in lovingness after the heaven and after the fulfillments in heaven, and these have to be received and fulfilled with gentleness and humility, just as I worked before the Father as a loving and obedient Son. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of the memorial of the parable of the tax collector and of the Pharisee of February 1, 2004
Behold, it is necessary to be a guide so that carelessness may not have room for those things from above from heaven, and also for those from below on earth, because if the Christian says that he serves with his hands to the running of those things, which are for God, I, the Lord, tell him that he does not help by his hands for those from above, but rather he helps with the spirit and with his union in Christ among brothers and in the work of the Holy Spirit in the time of any work done by hand, and otherwise the work done by hand is for the body, if the one who does his work by his hands does not become spirit. The idleness for the work by hands is seen in the idleness for the work with the spirit, for if the one who goes wrong gets upset with the one who shows his mistake, then his work by his hands is for the body, since he does not become spirit from the body.
On the land of the sinners, the one who goes wrong rejoices over someone else’s mistake and he covers his own mistakes with it, and even he if does not rejoice, at least he does the mistakes in the same way, either because of revenge or because of his weaknesses of going wrong, and a man like that forgets that the works and the mistakes are different from man to man. But on the land of the holy people those who go wrong are helped for their repentance by those who are knelt down in order that many may walk on their foot before and behind them. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of the memorial of the parable of the tax collector and of the Pharisee of February 1, 2004
Oh, children who are My gates, always, always teach My people and those who want to be born of My life giving Spirit, teach them what it means those who are written from the foundation of the world into the Book of the life of the Lamb. Teach them to always love the spirit of repentance, and the spirit of prophecy, the word of this life, which prophesies the end of the ages and the visible beginning of the kingdom of God on earth with the people. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the Saint John, the Baptizer of January 20, 2004
Oh, My people, I open the heavens and I set the Holy Spirit as word upon you and I make you known that you are My people, and you should bear fruit within Me and that I may be able to tell the Father: Father, this is the one who I am well pleased with and I was well pleased with and for whom I labored being wounded in order to bring it to You as fruit, and to bring it to You by patience and by love with a wound, Father. Amen, amen, amen.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Baptism (The Epiphany) of January 19, 2004
Oh, Jerusalem, this has to be on earth: the spirit of repentance and the spirit of prophecy. Amen. All the prophets have worked that way, for without a spirit of humility and of effective repentance in man and from the man, it cannot come upon the man the spirit of the prophecy, the Spirit of God, Who gives birth again to the world by the word, from the earth, from the waters and from the man, so that it may be a new heaven, a new earth and a new man on earth. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Holy Hierarch Basil, the Great of January 14, 2004
My people, you, who believe in My coming to you, I want very much to see you suffering after Me, to see this beauty on your face always, always, child of My kingdom with which I give Myself to you when you speak, opening your little mouth to take Me in you from the cup, saying: «Blessed is He Who comes into the name of the Lord! God is the Lord and He has appeared to us». You should say this while seeing Me, and you should see Me in the one who is united with Me, once with you, and to be able to appear to you in the one near you who is united with Me, and to show Me to him, in you after you unite yourself with Me saying: «God is the Lord and He has appeared to us». Amen.
The full joy of your union with My pain and that of My mother for the sufferings, which become a spring of the love of God in man, let this be your power and My kingdom in you, New Jerusalem, born of My word from the end of the time. Love is a spring for its pain and pain is the spring for its love and let these both become one to another a spring in your heart for Me in you, child born of My coming as word on earth. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Birth (the Nativity) of January 7, 2004
I feed you, son, because you also feed Me with your longing after My kingdom in you, only for you to hold it dear to it with My great pain in you, for without My pain you cannot love God. The body dies because of its severe wound, and love comes to life by its deep wound, My people.
I, the Lord, being all over a wound full of longing, want to stay in all the sons of the New Jerusalem in order that you to be able to have Me, sons, but for such a kingdom in you, you do not have to be content with what you see and to love in this way, for those which are seen pass, like the man without God in the works of his life, in his heart and in his mind, but I, the One, Who dwell invisibly near the man, am eternal. However, the man does not love his eternity as well as his temporariness if the eternity is not seen with the eyes of the body, if he does not feel it with the power of the love of the Holy Spirit, Who becomes love of eternal life in man.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saint Hierarch Nicholas of December 19, 2003
it hurts Me when I see the man and even the Christian, as he does not understand at all that the kingdom of the heavens does not come in a visible way for the man without any sight for it, but it comes for those who have it in them, because it is a mystery and it is hidden inside the man. Oh, your body hurts you and your bosom hurts you as well because of its heaviness; it hurts you because there is no joy or kingdom with joy as on earth when I dwell with it inside the man. It is power, sons, and it is God in man, and that is why it is called the kingdom of the heavens, and now, in the end, it is My great pain, My pain in man,
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saint Hierarch Nicholas of December 19, 2003
The man gets drunk with wine and he longs after the wine, but the longing after the wine is a snake in his soul, because the wine is a snake and you know this mystery, because I have spoken about it to you. And now, I tell the man again that the man makes the wine into a serpent and he blames Me when he does so, and he says that the wine is blessed by Me. However, I say: No! And again, I tell him: No! No! I know what I have blessed. I have blessed My cup not the man’s cup, and My cup is My Body and Blood, Who hanged on the cross.
I have asked the man who says that it was I who I blessed the wine and I told him: «Can you, man, turn My blood into wine?». And if you cannot, then be silent and do no longer speak foolish things; keep silent and do no longer commit sins by speaking about the mysteries of the Son of God, which are not from the earth, but which are rather from haven, for the water that was turned into wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee was a mystery from heaven, the wine of the miracle and not as you try to mock the mysteries of the heaven, for wine is debauchery, as it was with Noah when he made wine, which made him curse his son. Do no longer speak foolish things and say that the wine is holy when it is written in the Scriptures that it is debauchery. You say that the wine is holy, and I said that only My Blood is holy when I turn the wine into blood, and My Blood is in the cup. I turn wine into blood, and you turn wine into sin, you turn joy into death and do not turn sufferance into life as I turn wine into My Blood for the man’s life. I blessed My cup, the cup of My sufferance, not the man’s cup, and the man speak foolish things when he says that the wine is holy and it hurts Me that the man speaks like that.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saint Hierarch Nicholas of December 19, 2003
The man is ugly without the cross, without this glory by which I appeared with the glory of My Father before the people. The man is ugly without glory. The one who is only a man and does not have God’s glory upon him and from him, that one is an ugly man, an unproductive man, who knows nothing but his self-love, and I said: «Whoever wants to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me and so to resemble Me!». Amen.
Oh, My people, listen to the guide, for without the heavenly spirit into your midst, you cannot go with the light on the way. The guide sees and knows from Me and shows your way, your truth and your life, from Me, as I, the Lord, was also showing the way to Israel, after I took it out of Egypt. However, he did not love the truth and the life upon it, and it rather loved itself, and instead of entering Canaan at the right time, it staggered. Oh, who does not have a cross, let him have obedience with love at least and let him have happiness by his love and longing after Me, for My saints did not have only these, but they all carried a cross as well, and for the sake of its joy that came after it, they took no account of its shame, for they knew by their faith and by the longing of their love to deny themselves and to let Me with My face and with My life in them, and with My will in their being and work. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of all the saints. The feast of Saint Virginia’s birth of June 22, 2003
My Spirit is hovering over the garden. The Spirit of the saints rests in the glory of My word, and those that are asleep in their body still have to make a stop here, in the place that is prepared for them in their way to the greatest resurrection. Now they are waiting, like all the other saints from the invisible heaven, to hear My whisper over you and to receive comfort from it. The Spirit of those that are asleep is boiling from longing and love after My word, which flows in your time from Me down to earth, for two thousand years ago I prophesied this: «The hour comes in which all that are in the tombs will hear the voice of God’s sons and will come out to life».
excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, (Whitsuntide or Pentecost), the third day of June 16, 2003
Seek sons, not to come at grumbling among you when it is about dinner for God with the man in My gardens with you, for there is much work and you need to have your time to be like Martha and to be like Mary. You should not weigh down Martha’s labor when you want to be like Mary, and you should not weigh down Mary’s work when you want to be like Martha. However, you all should be like Martha and Mary at the same time, because it is possible, sons. Seek to love like Mary and love the longing in it and then you will be like Martha in your sacrifice for Me and one for another; and seek to watch like Martha and like her care for the ministry with holiness and diligently and then you will be like Mary in your love for Me and for each other, like Mary when she loves being always busy and like Martha when she sacrifices for love. Amen. Love and sacrifice are those things that keep awake the one who is consecrated to the Lord, and let these two work together inseparably in you and out of you, for I do not have others for the work with the hand and, again, I do not have others for the work with the spirit and with love, sons.
excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, (Whitsuntide or Pentecost), the third day of June 16, 2003
Oh, My people, I have always told you not to go without any guide, for the walking of the one who has no guide is seen, if you want to walk that way. Nothing is done without light, Jerusalem, and without love and its warmth the man cannot listen to those that come from heaven upon those that are on earth. Be humble, for your life is hidden in God, and you have been taught by Me to have the foundation of humility, for he who forgets his evil deeds that one does other things, and he who does not forget, does no longer do other things, for repentance is not otherwise. Set yourselves apart within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, who teaches you to walk in light and to work under a guide, that is, in the light, sons, for the man cannot see another man in the darkness, and neither do I look into the darkness when the man stays like that. Woe to the one who has no guide! And you see that it is so, and look on earth and see. However, it is not in this way that you have learned God, but, on the contrary, I have told you that those who stay in the light, they become the light of the world, the light from the light and again, from one another to the man, light. Amen.
Oh, how beautiful is the man who has the grace of the Holy Spirit in him! This kind of beauty I love in man and the man is attracted to the man among those who have the grace of the Holy Spirit, working and shining among them. The satisfaction in My work, according to each one’s natural grace and according to the grace of each one’s sacrifice, this satisfaction in you helps those that have among you the grace of the Holy Spirit, Who works with power and much glory for you, only to be hospitable always and to be always illuminated by your light, which searches those in you and those outside you, sons.
excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, (Whitsuntide or Pentecost), the third day of June 16, 2003
Bring Me sacrifice, My people. You are the one who have been taught by God and you should know that the humble spirit is the sweetest and most pleasant sacrifice to Me from you, and the one, who does not do this, should not think that he will receive something from God, for woe to the one who thinks about himself at a higher level than he is! The humble spirit does not justify itself in the man and you speak like David who said that he was not concerned with great matters too wonderful for him, but rather he stilled and quieted his soul, like a child weaned with his mother, as a reward for his soul.
Be holy with My love in you, for woe to the man who has his love in him and not Mine! My love in man does not stop for itself and does not come to a stop and it comprises in it all God’s sons, for great is the mystery of God’s sons, My people.
excerpt from The Word of God on the fifth Sunday after Passover, of the Samaritan woman of May 25, 2003
I come to you, Romanian Jerusalem, with My second coming, and the word of My coming prepares you, the one who believes, and which dressed you in a garment of bride to meet Me as you meet the Bridegroom Who comes in the middle of the night, and Whose bride watches for His coming. Amen.
You should not be slow in your watch, when I, the Lord, speak sweetly and patiently to you. You should not believe that you are worthy for Me if I shepherd you and I grow you in faith and in the fulfilling of My coming as word into Your midst. However, you should watch and be alert all the time for your wedding garment and for the great meeting of the resurrection of the dead, which will be soon, soon, at My last word, My word of their resurrection. You should wait for this resurrection, as you also bear witness that you wait for the resurrection of the dead and for the life that is to be. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the third Sunday after Passover, of the myrrh-bearing women of May 11, 2003
Oh, Jerusalem, oh, New Jerusalem, I call you this because My first people did not want to be My son, but rather he wanted to be My heir, but the greatest heir is the child. Oh, Jerusalem, I teach you in a birthday celebration to be a child as I am, as I have listened and lived, and even if I stay invisibly with My body in your eyes, as I was staying with the man built by My hand, My word is with you as it was also with him in Paradise, and I hold your little hand as a child who is obedient, for only the obedient children stay with their father, My people.
Oh, great and wonderful is the mystery of the child, the mystery of sonship! My prophets knew about this mystery and carried Me to the people in submission to Me, as My mother Virgin submitted to My Father, Who sent Me on the earth to be born a baby out of her and to be the Son of the Man. My prophets were sons, because they knew and know the mystery of sonship. The same is with you, the Lord’s little and tiny people, listen to Me, the Lord and your God, and stay this way, obedient, so that you may remain a son, son.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Nativity (the Lord’s Birth) of January 7, 2003
I have taught you to live in obedience as I lived, My people. In the day of the celebration of My birth I dedicate the mystery of the sonship to learn it, to love it and to follow it like Me, the Son. As a son of the man, I bow to you to see what the son is, to see through My bow, sons. This is how I will be from beginning to end, an obedient Son, for the greatest heir is the one who listens to his Father, to his Creator. Amen.
Oh, My people, God has made the man twice. When He made him at the beginning, He made him in His image and after His likeness, an adult, and He could not have the man as a son. When He made him the second time, He made him in a body of child, as the child-man, for the child needs a nurse and then he is under guardians and stewards and is a child of his father and an heir, but he is obedient to his father like a servant. And when his time has come, he perfectly knows the obedience to his father and receives him completely upon him, as a mature man who has over him the one that is greater than him, and through him he works and is.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Nativity (the Lord’s Birth) of January 7, 2003
Sons, you should tell to all human kind what My mouth speaks to you, which says this: I was resurrected in the first day of the week and I showed My hands and My side to My disciples when I came in to them through locked doors, the same was as I got out of the grave, sealed and locked by the Jews. And for a greater confirmation of My resurrection from the dead and My coming from the Father, man and God on earth, I appeared again to My disciples on the first day of the week, the eighth day after the resurrection, when Thomas was with them this time, but they were hidden and locked because of the fear of the Jews. Behold the day of the Lord, the day of resurrection, the first day of the week, the day which He gave it to the Christians to be called the Day of the Lord and of the God, Who is resurrected from the dead. Amen. Let everyone who wants to be Christian come into the rest of the day of the Lord’s resurrection, for it is the day of victory. And as for the one who does not want to be Christian, let him do whatever he wants, for this is what the Jews did and remained in their law and did not take Christ on them with His day of resurrection. If all the Law and the Prophets were fulfilled in Me, if this is what I fulfilled, what else would the man need in order to understand and take My day of victory on him as a day of his rest from everything that is his and from everything that is Mine? It is true that I rested from everything that was Mine on the seventh day when I made the world, but after that the world has given Me so much work for its salvation! And when I came to Israel through Moses and reminded him of My rest from the beginning, I told him to keep My rest in him, for he had departed from Me completely. But I had worked again and again over him, and he did not enter My rest and rather remained with those that are dead and with their rest, with the man’s rest and not with the Lord’s. Then I came and gave to the man the day of My resurrection from the dead, for it was on Saturday that I went to the dead to raise them up for the day of My resurrection, and on Sunday I went to those who were alive to prove out that I was the Christ, the Son of the Father, and the world, believing, to have life into My name. Amen.
The first day is My resurrection, and the eight day is the new age, and «blessed are those who are worthy of this age and of the resurrection from the dead, for they are God’s sons and are like angels from heaven, being the sons of resurrection», as it is written. Amen.
My Jerusalem people of today, My Romanian people! I, the Lord and your God, tell everybody: Christ is risen! And I tell them that the Saturday is the day of the dead, and the Sunday is the day of the living, and it is the day, which I, the risen God, gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, when I was in the grave, and I came to life together with them and I gave them My day from the end of the time as their rest, the first day of the week, the beginning of the resurrection through Christ. Amen. Israel became stiff-necked and the Christian people stood up for the resurrected Christ and stood on their feet and believed and were baptized into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, as I put this work over My apostles to take it with them to the margins over the nations on earth. Amen. The one who loves oneself says that he knows it, but he who wants Me takes from Me, as I worked and showed for the salvation of the man.
excerpt from The Word of God on the second Sunday after Passover, of the Saint apostle Thomas of May 12, 2002