BD 4816 11.1.1950

Justice of God ....
Guilt and Atonement ....
Bondage - Redemption ....

All creatures that are in the state of free will have reached a certain level of cognition, i.e., they are able to receive a certain knowledge. But whether it is comprehensible to them, whether it really puts them into the state of cognition, depends on how the human being uses his free will. For the state of knowledge is the sign of the human being's ascent development, it is a degree of maturity of the soul which the human being's free will should strive for and which is therefore not arbitrarily assigned to him.

But ascent development is the result of a way of life according to God's will, and God's will is a life in love. Consequently, only a person who is active in love can stand in knowledge, thus higher knowledge can only be acquired when the person makes an effort to live a life of love. But then he will have understanding for everything, he will only need to occupy himself with a question in thought, and the right answer will also come to him in thought .... he will think truthfully and gain rich knowledge ....

However, there will also be problems whose solution requires divine support, because the human intellect in itself would never be able to cope with them, for they require the human being's spiritual rebirth, they require a degree of maturity which is not often found in people. Yet God never refuses to answer such questions if they are seriously put to Him. He alone can also present what is incomprehensible to people in such a way that it becomes comprehensible to them if they sincerely ask Him for it, yet a certain faith is always necessary which also accepts what seems incomprehensible as long as the human being's spirit is still unawakened, for everything is comprehensible to the awakened spirit.

(13/1/1950) Nothing exists which would not let God's love be recognised, which would not have God's love as its reason. But the righteousness of God cannot be eliminated, because the perfection of God requires it. And this already clarifies a major problem: the redemption of humanity through Christ .... On the one hand there was a great guilt, on the other hand the eternal Godhead, to whom the spiritual became guilty. But the guilt was so great because the spiritual possessed knowledge and did not sin as a result of a lack of knowledge.

This sin also challenged the justice of God, because the perfection of God can never depart from His fundamental principle ..... Atonement for every violation of the divine order, which took place with the apostasy of the spiritual from God. But the atonement was unspeakably heavy, because sin was endlessly heavy. The distance from God resulted in the weakening of the spiritual. The spiritual beings lost all strength, they could no longer walk uphill on their own but sank deeper and deeper until a being of light took pity on these spiritual beings, until this being came to the aid of the weak, sunken being before it completely lost itself in the depths.

The being of light wanted to atone for the guilt, it wanted to sacrifice itself for the unfortunate beings who, after an endlessly long course of development, now threatened to fail in the human stage because they were powerless. And this being of light descended to earth .... a child of God embodied itself as a human being in order to help its fellow human beings. The being of light was in contact with God and knew about the wretched state of the beings who lived on earth and forgot their actual purpose ....

But the being of light also knew a way out of this wretched state. It knew everything that was happening in the spiritual kingdom, on earth and under the earth, i.e. the fate of those who dwelled in the depths. And as coming from the kingdom of light Itself, It wanted to provide people with the same enviable condition. But It encountered great resistance .... A being of darkness worked against the being of light with word and deed. It bound where the being of light wanted to loosen, i.e., the being of darkness had great influence on people and impelled them to think, want and do.

But the latter did not correspond to God's will, thus the being of darkness worked in a God-opposing sense, and the human being would have had to resist its influence if he had wanted to make up for his past wrong against God. But the human being was too weak to do so, he was, so to speak, bound by the will of God's adversary .... If man was to be redeemed from God's power, a being had to confront him which had strong willpower, which consciously stood by God and made use of His strength and power in the battle against Him.

And this being was Jesus Christ, He was the being of light embodied as a human being, Who was exceedingly strong in will and opposed the adversary with a weapon against which he was powerless..... The love which united Jesus with God and made Him the recipient of strength from God .... And thus He was superior to the adversary and delivered countless people from the yoke of the dark power .... (14.1.1950) But the yoke consisted in the fact that man, as being able to decide upwards or downwards, felt the greatest incentive downwards through the influence of Him to Whom he owed his state of imperfection, that he thus took pleasure in everything that was contrary to God, that he strived for everything that pleased the body and dragged down the soul.

The adversary of God sought to win over man's thinking, feeling and willing, and in doing so he met with little resistance, because all the drives that were the adversary's principle were found in man. Thus man was to a certain extent in bondage to that power which did not give him freedom but always pressed him more and more so that he always carried out its will and distanced himself more and more from God. The human being was a weak creature whose will was bound, which is why he was unable to defend himself ...., which would certainly have been very easy if he had used love as a counterforce, against which God's adversary is powerless.

For this reason One had to come as Saviour Who proved to people for the first time that a detachment from the adversary was indeed possible but only through love, which gives people the strength to resist, thus results in strength of will. Furthermore, he had to enlighten people about their task in life because they lacked all knowledge due to the influence of God's adversary. The redeemer from spiritual adversity therefore had to bring light to people and impart strength .... He had to help them to become free, He had to loosen the chains of the bound people from which they were unable to escape on their own.

The redemptive work of Christ only extends to people's spiritual state which was so indescribably low that it was impossible for them to rise up by their own strength .... precisely due to the lack of love .... And therefore Jesus Christ first instructed people and gave them the commandment of love as the most important thing, so that people could gain possession of strength and light themselves. But then He acquired a spiritual fund through His death on the cross, i.e. a treasure of grace which every person who believes in Him and His act of Salvation can draw from. He purchased for the weak of will the strengthening of their will and the forgiveness of their guilt ....

God looked favourably upon a human being's work of love, and He granted Him fulfilment of the request which the man Jesus presented to Him for His fellow human beings .... He was content with the death of one human being Who wanted to save His fellow human beings from spiritual death. The love of the God-Man Jesus was so strong that it satisfied the eternal Deity, Who yearned for the love of all people. He gave His blood for humanity's sins, He redeemed the guilt with His blood, but mind you .... only of those who acknowledge Him and His act of Salvation and want to belong to the flock of the redeemed, otherwise all spiritual beings would already be redeemed but then they would not be able to reach the state of perfection which requires the free test of will ....

Amen

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