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Me because he did not listen to Me . After the man does not listen to Me , he does not love Me either , for love means obedience , and love does not mean anything else .
Behold , I set before you , people of My word , a mystery that is not understood . Man does not need wisdom , but he needs obedience instead . If the man comes after Me and does not take his cross , that is his obedience , by which he is supposed to follow Me in My entire word upon him , then he becomes My enemy , and he becomes his own enemy too , and this is a greater enemy than before his coming to God , for whoever loses his obedience , also loses his wisdom and the protection of his life , for the lack of man ’ s obedience draws the devil to him , and the devil comes with the man ’ s fearless spirit of God , then he comes with the spirit of doubt and then with the spirit of unbelief , if the man does not come back to repentance and with humility on the way of obedience to God on the way of God ’ s commandments . Oh , read every day , once with your prayer , read God ’ s commandments , son . Make a small note and make it hard so that it may not be broken , and write on it and read from it God ’ s commandments , so that they may not be altered in you , son taught by God , so that God ’ s dwelling in you may not be spoiled , for the hell is on earth , and from everywhere it steals man ’ s watchfulness for God in man , and if he who promises himself to Me does not stay firm , he is overcome by the devil ’ s bait , by the devil ’ s whisper , by the devil ’ s will , which tries to pull the man away to disobedience to God , to the violation of God ’ s commandments in man and between man and man .
It is the feast of the cross , My people . The cross on which I was nailed has come to testify ; it has been testifying before the people to the witness of My divinity , for God died on the cross for man , My people . Oh , take care , have mercy on the Lord , for the Lord died for man . Take care of your life , of your salvation from Me ; take care not to lose it , for I paid for it two thousand years ago , but you should not lose it , son , but you should struggle to earn it more and more , day by day , and then you will be able to do this only by obedience to God ’ s commandments , son , and which the man crushes in his own body even from his beginning , because man did not listen to God , but he rather listened to the angel of death , which came into being once with the man ’ s disobedience , for man brings forth evil spirits from his mind and heart and from his body , spirits opposing to God and the man forgets about the cross , he forgets about life , for the life is kept in man only by the spirit of obedience , only by the fulfillment of God ’ s commandments for man . When I told the man to listen to Me , I also told him that if he did not listen , he would surely die , and behold , disobedience is the death by which the man dies in his spirit and which brings on him the death of his body then , but who gets up on earth to tell the man that he surely dies by his disobedience to God and that the sin he has committed goes before his death ? Behold , I have told this to the man . I have also told him at the beginning and I tell him now too , in the end , and that is why I have had to come again on earth as word upon man . I am the beginning and the end , and after the end there is a beginning again , for I am without the end and I exhort the man to listen as I listened to God , the Father , and I am without the end . Amen .
Oh , the man does not want to believe that he can listen to God if he wants . Oh , the one who does not listen , how to believe ? Oh , the one who does not believe , how to listen ? Oh , how is supposed to listen he who does not believe ? However , you , My people , listen to God , for His commandments are life and victory only for the one who believes in them inside of him and they are faith in the one who fulfills them in his body , in his soul and in his spirit . Amen .
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