1997.07.13
if it is caught by haughtiness, then it becomes a judge over the one who wore it, and killed its holy gift by haughtiness, as Adam did in the old time.
Do you really know, My loved people, what the devil is? Behold, I tell you a mystery, holy sons: it is bad of the man, who serves another master without knowing his master in his face. It is bad of the man, who serves the devil without knowing the master he serves. How comes such a thing, holy sons? The man, who does not know God’ s blessings, the promises and the Lord’ s rewards, that one does not serve God, on the contrary, he serves the devil and does not know his master in his face, and many of this kind of people recognize God as God, but they do not recognize the devil that they serve.
Do you really know, My loved people, who the devil is? Get down learning and growing up, My people, as I gave no one such a growth, as I gave you. When the man was created by God’ s hand and by God’ s Spirit, he was made to have the sense of good and evil, so that I might not make him a slave, and rather to make him a free man, sons. If I had built in him only the sense of good, he would have been forever a slave, a man without any merits, a man without any work. But I also put in him the sense of evil, so that the man might be free, as this is the freedom from Me, and not other. Then I told the man to gather only obedience, only what is good, and to nourish his sense of good, and to overcome with it and to condemn the sense of evil. If I had built in him only the sense of good, it would have not been necessary to warn him against eating of the tree of disobedience. But what did the man have to do, so that he might not fall from the life? He had to condemn the sin from his body, as I did when I became flesh of the Virgin as the Son of the heavenly Father. What did I do? What is written into the Scriptures? « He condemned the sin in His own body, nailing it to the cross ». Sons, disobedience wakes up the evil in the man, and the evil is no longer condemned in the man, and obedience to God makes the man condemn the evil in him and not to allow it to work, as I did. I condemned the sin in My body, and then I nailed it to the cross, by My death on the cross. I made the man after God’ s image and likeness, and not otherwise, but the man did no longer condemn the evil in his body, and the evil woke up in him by disobedience to God, by not recognizing his Master and the face of his Master. Behold, the man should have not forgotten his Master. The man should have got God as his Master instead, but he came out from under His dominion and used his freedom to sin.
Sons, sons, I have taught you what the devil is. The devil should not have been free in the man. God should have been free in the man. When one is free, the other is no longer master. When the evil is woken up by the man in his inside, then the good is crucified in the man. When the good is always awake, always master in the man, then the evil is crucified in the man. The little child knows neither the good, nor the evil, and that is why is carried in the arms by the big brother, and the child is calm and in peace and in comforting arms. Oh, what pain on Me, when I see the children growing up and that there is no one to teach them what good and what evil is, what God and what the devil is! The man is a house for good and for evil, and these two are not without man. When the man was not, these were not at work, for God works together with the man, and He created everything for the man, as he created the obedience only after the man was created.
Oh, My people, oh My people, oh, My loved people! The apostles wonder at My teaching of today, that they neither knew, nor lived it in the time of My body and their body. In the time of My body, and then in their time, My church was taken by storm, and everybody wanted to be My Christians and their Christians, and it was hard for the man to understand well the face of Christ in man. Oh, My people, it was hard and it still is hard. It has been hard in all ages to receive the full face of a man, extremely hard, My people. From now on, My apostles see My time with you,
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