2004.03.14 - The Word of God on the third Sunday of the Lent, of the Holy Cross - Lord Jesus (chapter books to read to 5 year olds .txt) 📗

2004.03.14.

The Word of God on the third Sunday of the Lent, of the Holy Cross

With My heavy cross, with the cross of My coming, I settle down on your gentle shoulders, seized by awe and hardship on the way of My coming to the man, children under the cross. The way of the cross is very beautiful, the way under the cross, and blessed are and will be those who do not flee from it, and those who flee are those who do not recognize themselves in Me, the One broken and victorious under the cross, and neither I do recognize Myself in them. Amen.

I spoke clearly: «If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me», (Matt. 16:24) to follow Me and not to follow themselves, children from under the cross, crushed and victorious under it and by it, for there is no victorious man between earth and heaven but only through the cross. Amen.

I was together with My disciples when I called the crowd and I said: «If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for My sake and for the Gospel, that one will find it, and it will save him from destruction, for what will profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and he forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?» (See Matt. 16:24-26)

Oh, children crushed and victorious under the heavy cross of My coming after the man! You shall know and tell everybody by this spoken word that on earth there are two kinds of Christians: earthly or fleshly Christians, and heavenly or spiritual Christians, under the cross. You, little sons with a heavy-footed walking on your way with Me, you shall never cry for yourselves or for the man. However, you should cry for Me and with Me, and let the sons of the world cry for themselves. He who cries for himself is rebellious and unthankful, and he who loves Me and follows Me by self-denial, and does not have to and it is not nice to separate from God before the angels or before the people, for I am not a doll, as many people want to treat Me, but I am the One full of tears for every man who plays with God before the angels and before the people shaking off his cross, his faith, his stature and his steadfastness by any difficult thing, and I, the Lord and My saints, did and do not do such a thing, but we are rather long enduring on earth and in heaven for the life and for the salvation of the man, fallen from life. Amen.

The cross is My coming through the glory on the cross, as I worked two thousand years ago. The cross is the sign of My coming to the man, and the man without a cross does not have My coming in his body. The cross is the victory upon death, and I call blessed those that get under it and do no longer come out from under it, for the man without a cross is worldly and he is like a child who loves his toys and the life of his free will, and not a life with tears and with heartache to keep him alive and true on earth as in heaven. The cross is the life without sin, without pleasures, without self-will, for the kingdom of God in man is not like the one on earth in man, but it is like that one on the cross, for through the cross I was a King with a kingdom, which does not fall down. Amen.

One does not live a temporary life under the cross but an eternal life. The works of the temporary life are with pleasures, with sin, full of the shudder of death, and they are human and without the Holy Spirit as the guide of those who are faithful and holy. And the works of the eternal life are those who make the man like Me and keep him as in heaven on earth and separated from the earth, for many saints have watched to have only their clothes on them in order that they may flee from any pleasure, because they have loved their life and have not wanted to lose it and have not wanted to give it on anything else on earth.

Oh, too many people say that they have their self-denial, but who is the one who knows what this means? Oh, sons, who bring Me down on earth, I help you through any kind of sufferance you may go through to be like Me, for the people of My word to look at you and not to overthrow Me for them, because I am the humble One and the One Who humbles himself before the man’s power and even for his power, even if it is a power against Me, because the one that cannot do otherwise, that one can work by his own power, and when I give Myself to him as body and word, he gathers strength against Me, and I humble Myself, for a bowed head is not cut by the sword, which strikes in it to cut it.

Oh, My people, no one struggles on the cross, for it is the power which gives to the man peace, hope and life. Any other sign of humility a man may struggle on, he struggles for his own self, because this is how the man has been taught by his human nature. But no one asks anything else on the cross, but rather one waits for life, for resurrection, because it is on it that the man has the Lord within him, when the Lord, and not his self, is his love, and My word does not have to be misinterpreted, but it has to be well received and loved. Oh, My people, oh, sons, the cross is life embracing, and you should learn this teaching.

Teach the Jerusalem what I, the Lord, am, children set by Me as light upon it so that it may see the way. Open your little mouth into its midst, and I will pour Myself in you and we will hover with the heaven over the earth, over Jerusalem, sons and teachers, for the heaven on earth is the eternal life, which is shared through the faithful and supple man into My hand, because only the one who is flexible is the faithful man pleased to God. Look with My eye through your eyes to those who think by their mind together with the mystery of this coming of Mine near you. Those who are tired of themselves, of their own self, are these! I spoke that if they also loved the heaven as much as they love the earth, then I could make them into My dwelling from which I may know and believe and get supple according what the godly Spirit seeks in man and from man.

The one who forgets God for his own self, is the one who does not remain in God, and let him, who hears what I say, understand. The one who forgets God is the one who falls asleep when he goes to bed and when he gets up he does not blame himself because of the humility that would give his life, for the one without God is dead, it is him, and not God in him, because God is humble, He is the gentle and humble One by the spirit of humility, which makes God in man and man in God. Amen.

Oh, how easy those who want to deny themselves forget to take up their cross and to follow Me, and how easy do these forget not to worship other gods besides Me! Behold, these do not know what it means not to worship other gods and what it means to worship themselves against My dwelling in them, (See the selection topic: „About the graven image and the sign of the cross”, r.n.) for My Spirit is humility, because I am Son, and this is how I stay, and I do not exalt Myself in such a way that I may not listen to My Father, Who is in Me and Who teaches Me to be Son and to worship the Father, for He lives in Me and I in Him, and this should also be the humility of those who want Me with My face from the Father, with My humility of a Son. Amen.

Teach the Jerusalem what I, the Lord, am, children who teach from Me for him, for here it is how I speak about Myself, calling Myself Son, because the one who calls himself a son, that one has a teacher. Oh, let the sons of these people not speak, let them not speak with you as they would speak with one among them when they speak with you, but let them speak proving out that they are disciples and sons of the teaching. Oh, how beautiful I teach them through you, but this is felt only by the one who loves and wants longingly the teaching and its growth and the life through it. I tell them and to all on the earth who receive from My river of word of eternal life, (See the selection topic: „This word is the river of life”, r.n.) I tell to all of these that the man who goes wrong has to be exhorted to repentance, not to hope, for hope belongs to the saints, and repentance belongs to those who are wrong, and whose hope only by repentance is received by God and given by God to them. The one who is exhorted to repentance has to know where he had gone wrong and how wrong his mistake has been and what is wrong for the Lord and for the man’s living. That one cannot make peace with his own self and with God through his self, but only through others who are to cleanse him, for there is no any other order between Me and man, and I, the Lord, have not been working otherwise among the people and with the people. Repentance is for those who are wrong, and that only by repentance their hope is received, and it is not good otherwise with the hope of the sinful who do not repent and remain within a wrong condition with it. The hope of the sinful makes them always commit sin, and repentance is useful to them, not the hope first, not the hope, which cannot do anything, nothing without the repentance that comes before it, because it is in this way and not otherwise that the sinful have become saints, and many of them have given birth to saints by their example and teaching and who have drawn to them disciples for Me and not for them, and this is what it has proved them out to be saints, people who have denied themselves to have Me in them after that.

I spoke in the time of My body, seen by the man, that the kingdom of God does not come visibly. I spoke this for those who had it in them, to recognize it and to understand what it is and where it is and how it comes, and I also spoke about this for those who did not have it and do not have it but hope for it to