The Word of God in Romania 2000.02.27 - The Word of God on the Sunday of the

2000.02.27
The Word of God 1 on the Sunday of the remembrance of the Prodigal son’s parable 2
I am the Good Shepherd, for I laid down My life for My sheep and I have been shepherding
them. Amen, amen, amen.
The good shepherd is the one who gets into the sheepfold through the door. The gatekeeper
opens to him and the sheep listens to his voice and he calls them by their name, and when he takes
them out, he goes in front of them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. Amen.
I am the One Who shepherd Israel, and Israel is the one who lets himself be shepherded by Me
knowing My voice. When I was speaking in the midst of Israel about My shepherding over the
sheep given to Me by the Father, the Jewish people were taking stones into their hands and throw-
ing them into Me, for they said that I was blaspheming God, but I was speaking the truth and
saying that they were not of My sheep, for My sheep listened to My voice and came after Me.
However, they were saying that I had a demon and that I was out of My mind.
I come to shepherd those who listen to the voice of My word, for I am the Shepherd of
Israel. I have come to always refresh the water and to exhort to My spring with My voice of Shep-
herd. I stay near the spring and make a pasture of it for those who come and make it into living
water for those who seek life. Whoever drinks of this water has eternal life. Amen. And the eternal
life is in all who deny their own lives and take Mine, and I call them by their name and get out
with them to the pasture, and they follow Me wherever I go, for it is written into the Scriptures:
«These are those who are clean and follow the Lamb wherever He goes, for they were redeemed
from among the people, as the first fruits of God and of the Lamb, and in their mouth there was
no lie found, because they have been blameless».
I come down on the earth as a Shepherd. Let all those who want Me to be their Shepherd
come to Me, for those who established themselves as shepherds do not shepherd, because they do
not enter the fold through the door but rather they jump over it and they butcher and do not shep-
herd; they eat and drink and do not shepherd and do not teach the sheep to follow Me for they are
engaged in another work, other than shepherding. However, I come to become the rest and light
of the man’s heart, tired of running and waiting, for the man is wondering about without master
and without father on the earth. The man is the son prodigal of life. He took his life from Me and
then he went with it into pleasures and debauchery and into death. He took it and spent it, and
every man wanders away hungry, and his wondering away is great and he falls under it. However,
I come with the spring of life giving and calling out everywhere to be heard by every man who
wanders away without a shepherd and I say: He who drinks of this water has eternal life. He
who takes Me from this spring denies himself and takes Me as his life and comes back to the
Father after having a life wandered away without any price. (See the selection topic: „This
word is the river of life”, r.n.)
Today the parable of the prodigal son is being read in churches; the son who took his life
away from God’s hands and went with it and spent it, and then, being hungry under a foreign
slavery, he had pondered on going back to his Father as a slave; as a slave and not as a son, for
this is right, because the son is the worthy son and stays as a son before the Father.
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God’s Word in „Holy Citadel New Jerusalem” monastery, Glodeni – Romania, redactor note.
Translated by I.A., r.n.
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