BD 0481    on  23.6.1938

Wrong relationship with the Father

Acknowledging Jesus Christ ....

Jesus walked on earth in the fullness of His Divinity .... Nothing but His exceeding love for mankind has moved the Lord, and it is precisely this love that you must recognize, and then you will also commit yourselves to the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only true way to eternal bliss.  In endless struggle you await the grace of embodiment on earth .... you were close to the Godhead in the beginning .... you can only come close to the Godhead again by uniting with Him .... you cannot receive God into yourselves if you reject the same Godhead .... and God the Father and Jesus Christ are one .... But how can you call God your Father and at the same time reject Jesus Christ? ....

Try to assimilate the following explanation: A father conscientiously sets aside an amount of money for his child, which he wants to use to train this child in all arts and crafts .... and now this child suddenly feels a dislike for the father ..... Can it then probably still demand to be further lovingly considered?  Will it not rather, if it thinks legally, either have to try to overcome the aversion or renounce any support by the father's grace? ....

Now if the heavenly Father wants to bestow all graces on the earthly child in order to procure eternal bliss for him .... and the earthly child rejects the One who acquired this bliss for him on earth, .... then he will either have to completely renounce all glory, or he will have to overcome himself and learn to love the Lord God and try to establish a heartfelt relationship with the Father ....

The conscious rejection of Jesus' Divinity, however, establishes a hostile relationship to Him, and God can never repay such a person for his deeds on earth in the hereafter as the earthly child expects, because he does not feel himself to be a child of the Father. .... It does not accept what it could receive from the hand of the Redeemer .... it cannot become a partaker of the blessings of the work of redemption and thus also cannot reap where it has not sown.  The earth life has only become what it should be through Jesus Christ .... the station of knowledge.  But whoever fears knowledge and consciously remains in darkness, earthly life will not be able to bring him success either, for the Lord promises such through His teaching alone .... but who wants to accept the teaching and reject the teacher? ....

And so, without faith in Jesus Christ, life on earth can be pleasing in the eyes of the people, but it will not stand before God, because God Himself came to earth for the people and gave Himself to them through His Word ..... Those who hear it and accept it will be blessed, but those who reject the Lord Himself will never be able to receive His Word, and their part will be a terrible struggle in the hereafter, until they have found the knowledge there and also finally through it, their Divine Savior and Lord ..... Jesus Christ ....

Amen

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