About fasting and almsgiving
what God and His good work for man mean and what man means ! Behold , there is no wisdom on earth as it was in John , the Baptizer . Man thinks that he is wise that he does the man ’ s will well , that he comforts his neighbor , that he has right against another man or that he is wronged , as one who stands well in all things before Me . However , he does not know , poor of him , that I like the humble one to be as I was , that I like the despised one , the patient and forgiving one through love as I was and who cannot punish or envy the one who is hostile to him . Oh , I like the one who tries to wake up the man to repentance , to humility , to reverence , and all these to the man ’ s salvation , as John , the Baptizer , was working for man . Oh , I like the one who works like Me with man because of the lack of God in man . Mercy does not have to be shown to the one without God in himself , but he rather has to be woken up to spiritual inclination and then to the cleanness of himself , for woe to the one who has got friends who join him when he does not stand well with God ! Woe to the one who is overlooked for his lack of order , for a man like that dies , and the one who justifies himself from the sides is dead and kills the life of those whom he draws to the same thought that he has ! Oh , I did not do something like that and I did not teach the man so by what I did for man , and that is why I often said : “ My people , read My Gospel of two thousand years ago to see what the Lord has done and do likewise , to see what the Lord means and what a Pharisee means before Him .”
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Oh , Herod did not want to receive from John , My Baptizer , his forgiveness and the salvation from his sin ; he did not want it and as a result he remained on the side of the sinful lust , which always killed him , until it pushed him to make a bad promise , in which he was caught unknowingly and then he had to respect it and thus he cut John ’ s head . Oh , the man has to shudder , for his lust becomes sin and it comes through the gates in his body and it brings him to the sin of pride after that , sin that leads him to make promises while he is drunk , and then his soul falls in fetters and hardly does he receive Me when I have to come and save him somehow , for man hardly knows Me and hardly receives Me to believe and to follow Me . He is used to knowing the sin and to receiving it upon him , because man is from beneath .
Behold , Herod did not receive his neighbor , the one who tried to do him good , and because of the sin that he loved , he did not love God , and Herod loved himself instead and that is why he loved to lust and to rejoice in this way . Oh , woe to the one who lusts , because this one comes to die on this way ! Man lusts in his heart and then in his body , and man lusts another man because of his weakness against which he does not come to stand . The streets are full of lustful people after man and after sin . There are no longer any places cleaned from the sin in man . At all crossroads the sin lies in ambush from man to man , and the devil gets rest because he has made the people to work for him . Man falls into the trap of another man and there are many who pretend that they have God and that are the saviors for the sinful people , but God ’ s people do not walk like that , God ’ s people do not walk alone , as I also did not walk alone when Father had sent Me to walk on earth after man and to turn him back to the Father . Man has to walk alone only when he is alone , and when he walks among people , he needs to have companions doing of miracles , miracles from heaven , not from him , for the man who serves his lust has the devil as his God and the devil also makes false signs , not real miracles but only some of his fakes to deceive those who do not know his work , and then man falls into the trap of another man because of his lust , which joins his body and then man becomes a devil . However , I come on earth and let it known that it is the time for great iniquity on earth ;
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