2017.04.23 - The Word of God on the second Sunday after the Holy Passover, of the apostle Thomas - Lord Jesus (good books for high schoolers txt) 📗

The Word of God[1] on the second Sunday after the Holy Passover, of the saint apostle Thomas[2]

Christ has risen! I Myself am speaking over the earth the greeting of My resurrection from among the dead:

Christ has risen! Two thousand years ago it began to be given this news of the greeting among those who believed that I, the Lord, was God-Son and that I came from heaven on earth and I set Myself at the message of angels in the womb of a Virgin and I was born and grew up and as a man I let Myself be laid down on a cross like one who was guilty, as those who crucified Me told about Me, and thus I was put on the cross on behalf of those who were guilty of death; however, I came to life again on the third day as I had said that it would happen to Me, for I had told My disciples ahead of time and those in Jerusalem that I would come to life again, and I fulfilled as it was said, and then this news was born: Christ has risen!

Oh, peace to you, sons! This is what I also told those with whom I spent two thousand years ago in order to leave the truth for them that I had come down from heaven and I appeared before people as a Son of man. Peace to you, I am saying this to you, too, as I said to My disciples! I would say everywhere and upon all this heavenly greeting and then I would appear resurrected as I appeared after My resurrection before My disciples as long as forty days from time to time, and after that I went up to the Father, to My place from eternity.

My disciples needed comfort, they needed quietness and peace from above after the way of My cross and after all their mourning, for after I had let Myself caught in the garden of Gethsemane to give them My protection and after I was taken to the cross, My disciples were full of heaviness and confusion, they were full of fear, oh, and how well it was with them when I went to appear among them without opening the door, for they locked the door with a latch for their protection, and then I appeared among them and I said: Peace to you! Oh, this was what I told them and then I sent them on to the earth as My Father had sent Me when He sent Me, and I said to them: «Peace be to you! As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you». (John: 20/21) And breathing on them I said: «Receive the Holy Spirit! Whoever’s sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever’s sins you retain, they have been retained». (John: 20/22, 23)

Oh, what a great mission I gave on that day to My disciples! I clothed them with heavenly powers, and I filled them inside and outside with the Holy Spirit, and their work was mysterious and it was to be fulfilled over those that were to believe and to be baptized in My name, the name of Jesus Christ, the One crucified and resurrected. All those who want to be Christians are baptized into this name, but those who baptize the people are strangers from the heavenly powers, and they are not like My disciples anymore, who were leaving behind them from place to place a Christian people after the truth, full of faith and zeal for the way and the Gospel of peace and full of life with God in men. (See the selection topic: „About baptism”, r.n.)

On the second Sunday after the Holy Passover, I came near again with My disciples to prove that I was alive to Thomas, too, first to him and second to My other disciples, and then they went all over the earth and preached about My divinity as I proved it to them. This Sunday and this moment we have as a memorial on this day and we are sharing its living, which proved the Lord as resurrected, and on this holy day I want to strengthen the faith and to work with My teaching at the mystery of the man’s resurrection, for the Christian man is foreign to this mystery, and that is why he does not appear resurrected, as a new man, born from above.

Oh, people of My word, I have been feeding you for many years with My teaching. I have always put on your table My building word. I want to clothe you with the heavenly powers like My disciples of that time, to be able to do My will with them, God’s will, sons of the teaching from above. I taught My disciples and I told them how to work in order to bring to life the people who would believe in Me through them. I told them to deal with their sins in order to be able to examine them together with them and to forgive them together and then to give them to Me cleaned, whitened, and cleansed, as some who were brought to life from the dead, and no longer to die after that, for sin is the man’s death, oh, and the mystery of the cleaning from sins of the man who wants to seek after his salvation is great!

Oh, the sins of the people who were coming to the faith in Me by the preaching of My disciples were not forgiven anyhow, and this is known from the Scriptures. My disciples were not able to cleanse from sins those who were hidden in themselves and those who wanted everything ready-made, and these were punished instead because of their hiding in themselves, because of their unbelief or because of their greed to receive the Lord as a benefit for them. Oh, not every man knows and can to give himself to God when he comes to do this between God and him. At that time many understood and others did not, and those who understood were proven as well as those who did not understand, and there were some of those who understood: the immoral woman, Zacchaeus, the tax collector, the Samaritan woman, the Ethiopian eunuch, Paul the apostle, and many other, and, on the other hand, there were some of those who did not understand such as Judas, the Iscariot, Ananias and Sapphira, Demetrius, the silversmith and all those to whom it was not given to understand.

About the forgiveness of sins one should speak clearly, for there is no clear understanding for this, but the Scriptures of that time have to be examined, and only after that man is to seek to give himself to God or not, for otherwise he deceives himself as though he dedicates himself to the Lord, but actually he does not dedicates himself if he does not know how, oh, and many have not known how to come and they came and stayed for a while and used their hidings and were not able to remove from them their sins so that they may be forgiven and freed from satan who denounces the hidden man before God and draws him to his work.

Oh, your sins are not to be confessed to anyone, and you cannot tell them anyhow and to give them to be forgiven. If you do not speak about them properly they are not removed from you, and nor when you do not know where to go for your forgiveness. I clothed My disciples within the Holy Spirit and the powers from above when I sent them to forgive the sins of those who had sinned, but first I tested them by trials and they overcame the temptations, and then they became witnesses of My resurrection, and My word was upon them and sealed them with the work of the forgiveness of the sins of those who repented to give them away from them and who dedicated themselves to God and to His works.

Oh, man with sins on you, the sins that need cleansing and forgiving are not to be told, they are not to be told to anyone but only to those tested by God and who are full of victory against the devil, because if they are told to those who are not informed or not clothed within the powers from above, oh, then you can make them weak, you can shake them. However, the sins of your brothers, oh, sons nourished with My teaching, you should never make bold enough to hum, to take care of them, for this calumny would cost you much, and the devil would catch power to tear you down, for this is what the tempter wants you to do, to commit the sin of denigration against those who have been tested by themselves or by the devil, or even by you, the one who denigrates, believing that by so doing you get honor.

Oh, how dangerous it is for the one who denigrates his brother using bad talk, because this one sells his brother, and he sells him from one to another by his calumnious and contemptuous slander against his brother in the heart of the one who receives evil words against the one of the same faith as his, or against the shepherd of his soul, when he does not like the work of the shepherd. Oh, if you are a brother according to the truth, then protect your brother so that he may not go wrong, so that he may not swerve from the holy way and watch upon him and pray to the Father for him, as I prayed when I said: «Father, keep those I have kept in Your name, for I am coming to You». (See John: 17/11, 12)

Oh, behold what I did for My brothers! I gave them the Father to be their protector, and I did not get upset because they left Me, or because they fell asleep when they should have watched. Oh, no, I was not upset, I did not complain, I did not grow cold to them; on the contrary, I asked for protection and watch from heaven through the evil world for them, for they were not of the world, as I also was not of the world, because I had chosen them to be Mine, and I am saying this to teach the Christians who believe in My word, and so that they may not commit the sin of brother betrayal by so called righteousness of the things or by their view, which they say that they have.

Oh, great care is needed for love and then for forgiveness, and that is why I am saying that not every man knows or can dedicate himself to God when he comes to do this between God and him, between him and My brothers and his, too.

However, I am exhorting you, those who are nourished with the food of My word, I am exhorting you to ask yourselves and to find out if your sins are forgiven or if they are kept, for the sins committed cannot be forgiven anyhow, or those who are still made with the hope of their forgiveness in a such an easy way as one may believe. I laid down My life to draw man to his release from sin, but if he does not appreciate properly My sacrifice for him, oh how can he believe that will get away from the burden of his sin?

I have put before you an occasion to knock