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One, Who sent Me ». Oh, let the man deny himself and then take up his cross and follow Me, as if he does not deny himself, he cannot follow Me. What does it mean, son, that the man should deny himself to have his way with Christ? Behold, I took up My cross and I follow My Father, after My Father’ s will, not after My will. This is what it means for the man to deny himself. This is what I said: « I do not do My will, but the will of the One Who sent Me ». He, who wants to follow Me, let him deny himself, and if he does not deny himself, he does not want to follow Me; he cannot be My will if he does not deny himself. Solomon spoke the word of the wisdom but he did not deny himself. He did not listen to God. He listened to himself, and he did not take up his cross to follow Me. This is with every man who worships himself, the idol, his carved image, his own self, sons.( See the selection topic: „ About the graven image and the sign of the cross”, r. n.) If Solomon had loved Me, He would have followed Me, he would have taken up his cross and would have loved Me if he followed Me, but he loved himself; he listened to his own self, and prayed to God to give him wisdom to judge his people.
Israel, dear son, how beautiful is the man who denies himself, how beautiful! There is no greater wisdom than this wisdom. He, who does not deny himself, does not have any cross, and the cross is the man’ s denial of himself. Woe to the man without cross! That one is not, and he has no one to be through. He, who is, is through the cross, through the denial of himself, son. I have come to you with the wisdom from above, as Verginica prays to Me to build a house of wisdom in you, so that you may be. I have spoiled you with the light of My word, so that I may ask for your obedience, My people, and that I may help you to deny yourself and to stay through Me; to stay in obedience and to have a cross as I had. I did not do My will. Not I, but My Father wanted to come as Man on the earth, to be crucified and to do His will; My Father’ s will, not Mine. Behold, Israel, this is the wisdom and it is one: the man to deny himself. Who is he that denies himself? It is the one who takes up his cross and goes on the way with God. The one, whom you do not see under his cross, is not denied himself. I, the Son of God, denied of My own self and I did the man’ s will, as the man’ s will was to be crucified on the cross. This is what the man asked; to be put on the cross, and I submitted as the one who denies himself. I promised that I come to you with a lesson of wisdom from above, and I came, My people. I stay on the clouds of archangels; I stay on the sky of angels and speak My wisdom upon you. I was the One, Who denied Himself taking up His cross and following in obedience, and he, who wants to be like Me, let him come to Me, deny himself and to come taking up his cross, taking up with him his self denial. The self-denial is the cross, for the cross is nothing else. There is no greater wisdom to call out among the sons of the people than this wisdom.
The man’ s will is called sin; it is called the sinful man. He, who sins, is an ugly man, a man with a gloomy face, a hidden man, a defeated man, an inward man, who knows that is guilty. What is a hypocrite man? A hypocrite man is the Christian who sins, as that one hides himself with his sin, and his face becomes gloomy. The Christian with a clean heart is beautiful in his face and in his heart; he is calm in his voice and has brotherly love; he is calm in his behavior and clean in his heart.
You should beware, Christian, of the Pharisee’ s yeast; you should beware of hiding into yourself, of hiding your sins committed in the darkness, that is into hiding, not into the open like the world, which sins shamelessly. Keep away of hiding into yourself, son, as this kind of hiding is called hypocrisy; only for the Pharisees, only for Christians, sons. The world sins openly and the Christian does it secretly. Not so, My people. The Pharisee’ s yeast is not good; it is no good for a Christian to be a Pharisee, but rather he should deny himself.
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