About the carved image ( icon ) and the sign of the cross
come upon the sons of men and many will come to you then and will receive comfort from Me through you in their great sufferance , for it will really be great .
Moreover , behold what I am saying in a day of the feast of the cross : You , those who believe through those who are faithful to Me and to My word of today , you will be happy , soon , soon , when My glory will appear to many by this word ! And to those who stumble against Me and against those who are faithful to Me I am telling this : Oh , you would have been happy if you had not stumbled against Me , the One Who lives in those who carry Me to the man ! Oh , it would be better for you to stumble against yourselves and then to open wide your eyes and look well face to face with yourselves and wonder of your conduct to your repentance and salvation , and not to stumble against those who can hardly carry Me to be on earth with the people .
I have glorified Myself now in you before the people , oh , sons of My word of today , and I will glorify Myself in them before you by My work with you , for many will raise up from their sins and they will renew their life and will take from the river of My word from you and will wash in it , and they will see with their own eyes the salvation from Me , and happy are and will be those who believe My word of today through those who are faithful to Me , the word of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit , in Whose name they , who believe through those who are faithful to Him , worship God . Amen . This name , the Father , the Son and the Holy Spirit , is the name in which those who believe are baptized , and this is how the name and the sign of the holy cross has been put on the earth the name and the sign of the holy cross on the body of the faithful ones , who dedicate their body by this name , with their right hand , with its three fingers , on the forehead , on the chest , on the right and then on the left shoulder , marking themselves with My death and resurrection by the cross . Amen .
I am Who I am and I have stayed with you into the midst of the people , and My name upon you is called the Word of God , the name of Jesus Christ in the end of the time . Amen , amen , amen .
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Oh , what is the cross , sons who have come to take from Me the word from the teaching from above ? It is the death of the old man , the man who has been corrupted by sin . It is the sufferance and the resurrection by sufferance , for only those in sufferance seek after God and find Him , the Shepherd with a cross , the One Who trampled with death upon death and gave the people their resurrection by His resurrection . Oh , you will not find any love of word as sweet as it is in My word upon you , the word spoken from heaven and not spoken from earth . Oh , do not step back from the way with the resurrection on it , for the way with a cross kills the sins in man , and the man is no longer dead by sin , for there is no other death upon man besides sin , and whenever man gets a cross , he nails the sin in him to it and thus he comes to life ; then the one who tastes of the sufferance of the cross becomes a bearer of God , and those who love the cross for them become My brothers . I teach you sweetly everything that I teach you , for sufferance makes the man as sweet as I am and sin makes him bitter , it makes him My
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