About the carved image ( icon ) and the sign of the cross
not lie on the cross , puts Me to lie on it in his place , because the man , who does not crucify himself on the cross , always sins , and I lay on the cross with My clean body . What man stops any longer in front of the cross , on which I lie crucified , to cry for Me that I lie on the cross for him and for his life full of worldliness and lusts ?
Oh , sons of the people , God lies on the cross and you lie in your sins . Why do you not come to My cross to cry for Me and for your sins for which I lie on the cross ? Why do you not take your cross and follow Me ? Oh , sons of the people , do you want God only on the cross ? Only on the cross do you want Me to lie ? Answer Me !
Oh , no one , no one answers , no one . No one knows to give this answer . They who call themselves “ theologians ” make crosses everywhere , and put Me crucified on it , and then they worship all these crosses , but they do not worship Me . Every man keeps Me on the cross ; every man sins and no one can be My apostle , for the apostles have to be saints like Me . I took My apostles from their own things , from those that belonged to them before , and I cleansed them and taught them and made them holy , and they never went back to their own things , but they remained within Mine instead , and the world knew this , for they had My power by their work , and this means to be apostles with grace and with the Holy Spirit in their work .
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Oh , how shall We do after the man has got used so much to the things that he does , and not I ? How shall We be beautiful on earth for the man to see this happiness of Mine in man and not long for it ? How shall We do , sons , for the man to know My longing after him and My day , which comes close to the man to give him from it , and he to receive ? I have told you , My people , that I will call you beyond your birthday ; I will call you beyond the day of resurrection . I have told you by the sons through whom I have been shepherding you that you have to be the new people that has Me otherwise than the man has had the Lord until now . The Christian or pagan man likes to have Me and to see Me on the cross and to worship Me as He puts Me before him to see Me , crucified . Oh , if this is what he wants to see Me and if this is how he puts Me into view at all the crossroads , why does he really not follow the parable of My life ? Why does the man not cry when he sees Me on the cross ? Why does he not come to a stop and rather passes by making the sign of the cross , saying to Me : “ Lord , help me !” or “ forgive me !”? I am on the cross , seen by his eyes , and he wants Me to help him from the cross , but I am the living One and I do not know how to tell the man how much alive I am , before My resurrection from the dead and then after the resurrection . I do not know how to make the man see Me or believe that I am living in My body , and that I can hardly stay unseen after that the time has come near so much that every living being may see , for it is written : « Every eye will see Him , even those who pierced Him ». Amen .
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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
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