I stand above upon the cloud with the saints and with the angels of My coming and I await the entering into the book, that I may shepherd on a day of Sunday and give life from My life to those who choose Jesus Christ over their life upon the earth, for the life is the light of men, so I said; and where this light does not show itself men do not know about this way and they all live in sin against God, the Maker of man, and they live worldly; and I, the Lord, said for those who give themselves to come after Me with their life, I told them of the denying of self for the cross carried, for to take your cross and to walk upon My track means to deny the world for God, oh, and therefore I draw near to men upon the earth with the voice of My word so as to give them of My life, shepherding them with a tender spirit and calling them to follow Me; and My way is holiness, and My saints upon the earth are those who take from Me the counsel of a Shepherd, that they may then be Mine.
Peace and holy longing I leave over those of the Christian kindred upon the earth! Peace to you, Christians of My flock! Peace to Christian Romania, and then to the whole earth of the flock of orthodoxy! My flock is orthodoxy, they are all those who have not turned aside from the church ordering of the beginning of My church among men two thousand years ago through the saints and the fathers of the teaching of Christian life, unchanged until the end of time.
Therefore, it must be made clear for all those who do not know what sin is, which parts man from holiness and from his share with Christ between heaven and earth; and on this Sunday I shepherd My flock with the teaching about sin, for if you speak to one who is a stranger to life with Christ about holiness, oh, he does not like it, he does not understand you and does not listen to you if he is a lover of sin; and therefore we must speak about sin to him who is accustomed to sin, that he may then know what the fruits of sin are and their place afterwards, and the place of him who commits sin over his life; and behold, the fruits of life with Christ are in eternity, and therefore man must have holiness that he may be able to enter there where the fruits of righteousness are gathered. But the sins make man a place in hell, and therefore man must not do sin which would gather with its fruits there where the lovers of sin upon the earth go.
Oh, we must speak about sin, not about holiness first, for the fruits of sins bring over the lovers of sin punishments upon the earth also, and then the lover of sin goes there where the sinners go, that is, into hell. Sin is a bitter fruit, a fruit which is cast into the fire, where the man who lives in sin then has his place also. Therefore those who join themselves to the life of a Christian must learn what sin means and what it is and what its fruits are, and only then learn how to choose and to keep their holiness, for holiness is not worked, it is chosen and that is all; and it is contrary to sin, and so does man choose himself to be a Christian afterwards.
Oh, one must not work at the bearing, but at the thinking; at the mind one must work. The bearing and its habits are what show the sickness of man, and all these are because man has no counsellor to tell him about the sin of his pride of every kind and about its bitter fruit, punishing afterwards the man who works with this sin; and this happens because man believes that he knows, that he is, that he can, that he desires himself with a position and with a deserved place, that he is capable, that he is more than the others; only that at the smallest test he proves his unsoundness and that God is missing from him, and this because the Lord does not fit in him; and behold the sin of Cain, in whom the teaching and the counsel from God did not fit, and he rebelled unseen against his brother and hated him and gave over to death the one meek and humble of heart, as I like him to be who chooses the life of a Christian; and if he does not prove such a bearing, in vain does he believe himself a Christian, but he is an enemy to his fellows, though they are worthy of the love of God.
Oh, Christian, son, My place, the place of the Shepherd of the sheep, was upon the earth under guilt, under the cross and upon the cross, oh, and I often look at you, how much you give yourself to come out from under guilt at any price, how much, and far too much! Oh, why, then, do you do so, and so much, when you ought to see your guilt also and no longer struggle to show yourself innocent, as though it were not quite as is said and as is believed? Oh, why, then, do you do so, and so much? When, then, shall it be that you also can as I, the Lord, could for you, for your life for which I stood upon the cross that you might not stand there? Oh, when shall it be that you also want to be known as guilty, not innocent, but only guilty, and without making your guilt smaller? Can it be said, then, that man is innocent, or that he is only half guilty? Oh, what am I to do, then, with you and for you, you who do not like to be under guilt? Am I to ask the Father forgiveness for you, that you do not know what you want and what you do? Oh, Father, forgive him, for he knows not what he does! Can I speak so to the Father about you? Oh, I cannot. I would be unjust with the Father because of you.
Oh, sons, it is a day of teaching about the cunning sin, for behold, the evil spirit lends itself to you that it may work you, that it may work through you with its pride, when you do not give yourselves to be worked by God for the cleansing from guilt and for your holiness through the forgiveness of the guilt. Some of you the devil catches and guides your mind and your words and the spiteful outbursts of the tongue against Me and against My work tender after man; and then the devil makes himself room with doubt and shakes your faith even to unbelief toward My words and toward the mystery of the carrying of My work between heaven and earth, for your mind is narrow and you do not know with it on which side you choose to work.
Oh, son narrow with the understanding of your mind, your place is under guilt, there where I stood, and where you do not want to stand. You choose to be discontented because of the sin of pride and of self-opinion, and you tell someone your discontent, and that one pities you and grows cold toward the one about whom you are discontented, and it goes as far as scorn and even as far as doubt and unbelief and parting from the brothers and from Christ. Oh, behold how the sin of discontent works; and you, beginner son, take no care not to weaken your brother toward yourself and not to raise him toward coldness for the one about whom you are discontented.
I counsel you, son, for behold, you err from a lack of wisdom for holiness, oh, for you cannot be holy if you work so among brothers. There is no way that those should not err who speak with themselves and within themselves, and then with others about their discontent and their murmuring at the way of those who choose themselves for holiness; and all these things worked at the edges, not in the brotherly meetings, where the errors are searched out that those may be freed from them who err as men do.
Oh, sons, sad and so sad because of those who have not a humble spirit and are not tender, oh, there is no way that those should not err who are not content with you for their own selves; and therefore I, the Lord, have kept urging all not to speak of you either of good or of ill, and this so that they may not err against the work of the Holy Spirit which I work among them supported by you, because the Holy Spirit works with divine power and man is not bound to it, but only the Lord; as a tree which does not grow of itself, but only from God, and it shades the one scorched by the sun and serves man with its fruits and with its shade.
Oh, they do not know, sons, the Christians do not know how My work is, for if they knew they might be able not to err against the Holy Spirit, with Whom I work in the midst of this people; and behold, doubt leads to the losing of faith drop by drop over the murmurers, as also over the hypocrites and flatterers, for whom what they are is not enough, and who want themselves more than they are, poor of them, oh, and therefore teaching from above is needed, that man may know what he is and how much he is, and what the sin does which he knows by its bitter fruits; oh, and behold how little care and far too little there is among Christians for the training of Christian bearing; and we are at the middle of the fast for the Holy Passover, and the Christian does not want to cleanse himself of himself and of the fruits which are against his own self; and therefore I give notice that you shall take the book again and again and shall call to mind from it the sins which a man can commit, and which the kindred that has passed of every Christian kept committing; and come, let us work the cleansing and let every Christian humble himself for his own self and for his forefathers unto the thousandth kindred, and for those fallen asleep from Adam until today, and let us make their washing, sons; for if Christians could see with their eyes how many of those departed from the earth gather and how they come together at the memorials for those fallen asleep from the ages, and how they rejoice and are refreshed and rise step by step toward the resurrection which comes, oh, they would greatly prize the work of My word and the setting through which the binding of heaven with earth is made for the resurrection of the dead and of the living and for the fulfilment of the Scriptures which are still to come and to be seen; and behold, notice must be given about the sins which part man from God and from his eternity with God, and holiness then comes of itself over the Christian, oh, for the Lord has need of a people clean of sin and full of the love which heals all sinners and makes them holy for heaven; for two thousand years ago I stood upon the cross, and that cross united Me with mankind, sons, oh, and those upon the earth do not know how to love My sacrifice for them and the cross and the walking with it as I, the Lord, walked for every man of all the times under heaven, oh, sons.
Now I feel much relief that I have been able to unleash My longing and My word for the punishing of the sin in man, for until man knows what sin is and what it does and what its bitter fruits are, punishing the everlasting life with the Lord and with the saints, oh, he cannot part himself from this enemy clothed beautifully on the outside and full of a sweetness which turns into venom, and of foul-smelling filth within, and which man can overcome once he knows that it is an enemy full of the venom of a serpent which bites in hiding without pains, until man falls wounded by this rottenness hidden within himself as the fruit of the spirit hostile to God and to man.
And I have shepherded the people of My word, from whom counsel is taken also by those who give themselves to join My walking with the word over the earth for a life with holiness over those who choose to love with love from above, for in heaven it is not as upon the earth, and upon the earth it is not as in heaven; and those of the Christian kindred upon the earth must bring heaven with them here, into their day-to-day life, oh, for I long and keep longing to have a place and to stay upon the earth with those who love Me as those in heaven do, for the work of My word binds heaven with earth, and God with men; oh, and I leave My name upon My teaching of today and it is shared out everywhere and works the choosing to the right and to the left; and therefore I come as word upon the earth, and I come with longing and I come from heaven and I give you from heaven, and I have a wonderful name, oh, sons, and I am to you a sweet and tender Shepherd, and My name is called The Word of God. Amen, amen, amen.