Workers In The Vineyard Of Jesus – Mission To Spread Word

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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Please take special notice of the fact that God’s Words addressed to us are non-denominational. The contents of the publication by no means intends to attract members of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into any other religious affiliation.

Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God .... accessible to all people. May this Word of God become a blessing to many people.

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

Dissemination of the word

5413 - Return present, which God demands: Spreading of the divine Word....

6868 - Mission of the lord to His servants....

3203 - Spiritual activity must precede earthly activity....

3304 - Mission of God's servants according to ability.... love life....

4502 - Presenting the divine word in love.... success assured....

4579 - Worker in the vineyard of the lord.... activity....

6073 - Living proclaimers of the gospel....

6774 - Defence of the word should not stop proclamation....

7734 - Unselfish distribution of the Word....

8153 - The word must also be brought to the people of the world....

8551 - Rescue work on the souls who are not unwilling....

Spreading the love teachings of Jesus

6268 - Task of the disciples: proclaiming the doctrine of love....

3946 - Opportunity for counter-expression in proclaiming the gospel necessary....

5095 - Preaching the gospel.... listener - doer.... doctrine of love....

6128 - Preaching the gospel to those who need spiritual consolation and to souls in the hereafter....

6129 - Preaching the gospel to those who need spiritual consolation and to souls in the hereafter....

6212 - The gospel is to be spread "in the whole world"....

8730 - Carrying out the divine love doctrine....

Education about Jesus Christ

8464 - God's instruction to educate fellow human beings about Jesus....

5867 - Jesus found little recognition on earth....

6797 - Every soul must find Jesus Christ....

7786 - The living witness to Jesus Christ....

8550 - Truthful education about Jesus and redemptive work....

Redemptive work

5294 - Task: cooperation on the work of redemption....

5477 - Support by forces of heaven in the redeeming work....

5584 - Salvation of erring souls is the work of the servants in the vineyard....

6818 - Redemption work presupposes own redemption....

7091 - Redemptive work requires restless activity....

7715 - Redemption work of the individual....

7763 - God's power mediation for redemption work....

3570 - Task of the recipients of the word....

5725 - Carry My Gospel into the world ....

Dissemination of the word

Return present, which God demands: Spreading of the divine Word ....

B.D. 5413 from June 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You are experiencing My love on a daily basis, My Spirit is constantly active in you, you hear My Word, you receive strength and grace in an extraordinary measure, you can always and constantly draw at the source of eternal life, I personally guide you on all your paths, I sustain your body so that it serves the soul for its maturing; I watch over you who love Me because you shall become My children, I send you My messengers of light for protection against evil; I will not let a day pass by without giving you a revelation of My love, for I am with you and will remain with you until the end of the world .... But how can you make this credible to your fellow human beings who experience none of this themselves, who have distanced themselves from Me and who do not recognize Me even if I move close to them? How do you want to prove My Being to them so that they can believe in Me and establish the bond with Me themselves? .... They don't notice My love because they walk along blindly and a spiritual light cannot be ignited in them against their will. And they do not live a life of love because the world and its pleasures only awakens and strengthens their selfish love. And therefore they cannot believe either, for faith comes forth from love. But I have given you the task to instruct your fellow human beings and to convey My Word to them. And with this instruction you will now learn that only My Word can be a testimony of Myself to them, for I address people Myself through My Word, and then they will no longer be able to deny Me either, provided they are willing to hear My Word. The unwilling will hardly come to believe in Me, nor can they receive proof of Me against their will. But you should take care of the willing, of those who were pushed away on their path of life into My adversary's kingdom, who stand in the midst of the world and, being completely devoid of light, can fall prey to him if a light bearer does not take care of these people and impart to them a small bright glow for the time being, which awakens them from a long sleep of death and (the glow of which) they now want to increase if they are willing to accept more light. Those you can now instruct on My behalf, and they will also feel addressed by Me in letting Myself speak through you, by imparting My Word to them which you yourselves have received from Me. The immense abundance of grace which My love has showered upon you shall take effect on your fellow human beings through you; you shall be the mediators between them and Me, because I Myself cannot influence them directly where it is still so dark that My light would thus blind them. But you receive the evidence of My love daily, you may daily accept from My hand what is of unspeakable value for the eternity, you hear My Word and receive strength and light in abundance, which you now ought to work with again for the blessing of your fellow human beings .... This is the return present from you which I demand, that you make use of the gift My love gives you, that you speak on My behalf and thus give Me the opportunity to influence people who have not yet found the path to Me and yet are not unwilling to take it. There is no bond between them and Me as yet, but it can be aspired to as soon as you let Me speak through you.

Therefore spread My Word, go out and teach all nations; do it by seizing every opportunity where you can proclaim My working in you, where you can pass on the spiritual knowledge you have received .... don't leave unused what is of immense value for the development of the Spiritual .... work with the pound I have lent you, be diligently active in My vineyard, proclaim the kingdom of God to your fellow human beings and receive My blessing for your activity .... Then you will make yourselves worthy of the unusual gift of grace, then My Word will make its way to people's hearts and resonate with all who are of good will ....

Amen

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Mission of the lord to His servants ....

B.D. 6868 from July 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only ever regard yourselves as My messengers who are to carry the gospel out into the world, who pass on on behalf of their lord what was imparted to them themselves. Receive and share out .... For this is the service you should render Me, because you have voluntarily offered yourselves to Me to work in My vineyard. People do not come to Me themselves in order to receive My gifts from My hand, they do not seek Me Myself because they do not know the path which leads to Me. Therefore you should show them the way, but you should also convey gifts from Me to them so that they will have the desire to seek Me themselves. And if you render this service to Me I will bless you. The fact that you have voluntarily placed yourselves in My service also obliges you to obey Me, which only consists of willingly carrying out My instruction to pass on My gospel .... that you don't self-willedly carry out work which does not serve the spreading of the gospel, or that you don't become complacent .... because then you would not be good servants to Me in the last days before the end. The seed has to be scattered in the fields which have not yet been sown .... and the seed can indeed fall on infertile ground, it can fall on stony ground or in sandy desert .... but a little seed can also sprout anywhere if the necessary water of love also flows to it to ensure its flourishing .... Only the little plant which is carefully nurtured and cared for can flourish and bear fruit, and you should also give this care to the seed .... Again and again you should deliver My word to them, simultaneously imparting good 'seed' and 'living water' so that the seed can flourish. If I admonish you again and again not to neglect this work of yours, you should realize from it how important it is, how necessary I need labourers in My vineyard and how diligently you should carry out this work so that a good harvest will still be achieved in the last days .... And you, who want to serve Me, you truly no longer need to attach importance to earthly activity, for this will be taken care of for you as soon as you only prioritize the work for Me. Consider, however, that you are already blessed by the fact that I have accepted you as servants in My vineyard, that you yourselves constantly receive gifts from My hand which not every human being can show .... consider that you are unusually gifted by the fact .... that you thus also have a sure sign of My love but also a sign of My mission which the lord gives to His servants: For what you receive yourselves you should not keep for yourselves alone but pass on in unselfish neighbourly love .... And you should always prove yourselves worthy of this great gift of grace and faithfully serve Me. I only require of you that you smooth the path to those who are still distant from Me, that you announce Me Myself so that they don't keep their doors closed when I come and knock. I need you as mediators, and your mediation also requires that you are not recognizable as My messengers through unusual radiance but that you walk along just as simply as your fellow human beings, whom no compulsion of faith may determine to accept My word. This is why you should speak to people as human beings, this is why your ministry is more difficult and first requires your complete dedication and readiness for Me in order to obediently fulfil your lord's command as His servants. You should only pass on My word, and only from My word can you draw the strength for your work. You should not let yourselves be held back by those who have not yet properly recognized your mission, even though they are no longer hostile towards Me .... you should unwaveringly take the paths which are shown to you by Me, which lead to where there is still barren, uncultivated land, where you should take up the spade in order to dig up the field and sow it with a seed which I Myself provide for you. Only with this shall you work, and you will be faithful servants to Me, whom I bless now and for eternity ....

Amen

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Spiritual activity must precede earthly activity ....

B.D. 3203 from July 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You must be fully active for the kingdom of God. You must not put earthly activity before spiritual activity but always bear in mind that you want to serve God and therefore should fulfil His mission first before you think of the world and its demands. Every hour you devote to this spiritual task will earn you more blessings than your earthly activity can ever achieve. But in this one you will find support so that you will also master it without difficulty. Time is hurrying by, the spiritual battle is becoming increasingly more difficult, the earthly adversity is growing, and people are increasingly falling away from God and must be made aware of the consequences, they must be admonished and warned, and God has called you to speak on His behalf, to enlighten people and to try to guide their gaze into the spiritual kingdom. And therefore you must be constantly active and not let anything hold you back but always remain in contact with God and receive instructions from Him. You should not fear that you will neglect another task, for beings of light are constantly at your side which guide your earthly work and enable you to carry it out without resistance. But spiritually they support you to a far greater extent, and you must pay attention to their wise admonitions and not resist them if they urge you to spiritual activity by causing other thoughts to arise in you in a flash which are to stimulate you to spiritual activity. Surrender yourselves daily to the care of the heavenly father and pay attention to what the voice of the heart urges you to do. Detach yourselves from earth from time to time and turn to Him in prayer, Whose servant you want to be .... Increase your strength by receiving His word, whether directly or through mediation, surrender yourselves to its effect, and then set about the day's work and it will be blessed ....

And even if you create and work on earth, without God's blessing nothing you start will succeed. But as soon as God blesses your activity it will be easy for you. But God's blessing is certain for you if you are first active for the kingdom of God, if you put your spiritual work before your earthly work, if you first consider your soul before you give your body its right. God needs you, who want to work for Him as His servants on earth, and He presents you with tasks whose fulfilment is incumbent upon you and dependent on your free will. And you should take this task seriously and not become lukewarm and lazy, for every day is significant and can bring great blessings to you and your fellow human beings if it is used spiritually in the right way. But if the world is put before this task then time will pass uselessly for the souls, for earthly achievements are worthless for eternity; earthly life, however, can end very quickly, and every earthly success is futile in view of death. Spiritual work, on the other hand, carries eternal values .... And you should always bear this in mind if you are undecided about which activity you should tackle. Use every hour and serve God by devoting yourselves to Him and accepting His word, by working for Him and for His kingdom, by instructing your fellow human beings and informing them of God's will .... And your spiritual as well as your earthly activity will earn you God's blessing, and you will be successful in whatever you start ....

Amen

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Mission of God's servants according to ability .... love life ....

B.D. 3304 from October 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The way you should be active will be made known to you as soon as your mission begins, and then don't hesitate to follow the inner voice, the voice of the heart, which will urge you to speak and act in this or that way. For you are guided by divine will, and you need only devote yourselves to it with complete faith, then your will will also strive towards the same, you will act according to your will and yet carry out God's will. Then you will only be God's instruments and able to administer your office on earth. For God places you in the place where you can work most successfully. And everyone who wants to be of service to Him will be used according to his ability, and he shall now work as his heart dictates. But everything should serve the spreading of the divine word .... The more people take notice of the pure word of God, which guides His love Itself to earth, the sooner they will penetrate the truth and the safer they can be rescued from their spiritual adversity. Without the word of God, however, they cannot penetrate the truth and the adversity on earth cannot come to an end. Spreading the word of God is your most important task which, however, you can carry out in all situations of life, at all times and in all places, for if you are unable to do so with words you can teach it by example, i.e. you can inspire your fellow human beings to imitate you through an unselfish life of love and thus demonstrate the teaching of love to them in deed and likewise achieve success; for as soon as the human being practices love his thinking will also become bright and come close to the truth. The word of God in its purity only teaches love, and it points out the consequences of a life of love as well as a life without any love .... All further knowledge is then the consequence of this required life of love. And therefore your task for the time being is to live in love yourselves in order to also prove to your fellow human beings the blessing of a life of love .... the knowledge of pure truth .... You will only be able to fulfil your mission if you make the divine commandments your own guideline for your way of life. For His servants must also live out His word, otherwise they are unfit to spread it, otherwise they merely pass it on as spoken word without any strength. For the power of the spirit does not animate this word, and thus it cannot bring it to life either. And thus the success of God's servants will always depend on the teacher's ability and willingness to love, and thus the task will also be assigned to him according to his willingness to love as soon as his mission begins. And therefore work on yourselves, make yourselves capable of being eager servants of the lord, live in love so that you will also be able to teach such, so that you yourselves will receive knowledge as a result of love which you can now impart to your fellow human beings, and strive for strong faith so that you can prove the strength of faith to your fellow human beings. Be active, strive towards the spiritual kingdom, so that this kingdom will also appear worth striving for to your fellow human beings, so that they will leave the world and turn to the spiritual kingdom, so that you will be successful in your work for the lord. And leave it up to Him what He wants to use you for, leave it up to Him what work He assigns to you, for He truly knows best where He can place you so that you will be successfully active. For every willing servant will be joyfully accepted, because they are all needed for the work of the soul, which will only begin on a large scale after God has obviously made Himself known, after He has spoken to people through nature .... Only then will the important work for His kingdom begin, and then you will have to be eager, for the time you still have until the end is short .... And therefore God calls His servants everywhere, and He prepares them .... He loosens tongues, He makes hearts communicative, He enlightens the thinking of those who are devoted to Him, and He guides people to each other who need strength and reinforcement so that they can draw it from His word, which is directly conveyed from Him to earth, which He has blessed with His strength and which therefore will be a source of strength, refreshment and revitalization in the coming adversity. And anyone who hears this word and faithfully receives it into his heart will be strong, remain faithful to God and also victoriously overcome the last battle, the battle against faith ....

Amen

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Presenting the divine word in love .... success assured ....

B.D. 4502 from December 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

It is truly not insignificant in which way My word is given to you, for the degree of love in which My word is offered is often decisive as to whether you accept or reject it. Everything that is handed out should be given with love, otherwise it does not speak to the heart but has to be accepted by the heart. A person filled with love gives in such a way that he awakens counter-love, and this is of utmost importance when My word is presented, because then full understanding is guaranteed as well as love is involved which brings about the awakening of the spirit. Without love My word remains dead and without understanding, it is spoken but has no strength because then it is just empty sound without life. If the human being wants to make his fellow human being happy, then love for his neighbour is already predominant, and what he then hands out penetrates the heart, is accepted there and, depending on his own will to love, felt as a valuable gift, as a gift of love. Where the giver's love is recognizable, the will to reject will be weaker, for then the word will already emanate a strength to the recipient which he cannot and will not close himself off to. Therefore, the representatives of My teaching must be willing and active in love in order to be suitable for receiving My word from above and to make My word with its strength accessible to their fellow human beings, because the mere transmission of the external word remains without impression, thus it can very easily be something formal, a professional preaching of My teaching without life and thus also without spiritual success. Then My word is without strength because it is only heard with the ears but does not penetrate the heart. For only the soul feels the power, and that in the state of loving feeling and its response. Impulses which the human being as such hardly notices can cause the soul greatest happiness and not be felt by the body, and if the soul now hears My word in such a loving feeling it stands in the midst of the emanation of strength whose source I am .... If it is not willing to love itself and My word is offered to it in love, then the strength will also penetrate it and it will let itself be permeated by it without resistance .... The degree of love of the receiver and the giver greatly influences the effect of My word, and therefore attention must be paid to the fact that the spreading of My teaching must never take place through coercion or violent measures, but My true representatives must be patient, gentle, loving and yet eager if they want to be successful and be faithful servants to Me on earth. It is not enough that My word is only read out or brought to people's ears with fixed phrases. It has to come alive if the preacher wants to help his fellow human beings with compassionate love, if he wants to guide them into truth and thereby into the right knowledge of Myself, and if his love opens the door of the listeners' hearts. Then My word will be received by people, it will be perceived as divine, as truth and accepted, because its strength benefits the soul which recognizes the divine origin and feels drawn to Me through My word ....

Amen

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Worker in the vineyard of the lord .... activity ....

B.D. 4579 from March 3rd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I have chosen you for spiritual cooperation in the last days before the end, I have assigned you an office which you can well administer according to My will if you entrust yourselves to Me, that is, if you completely place yourselves under My guidance. You should therefore not want it yourselves but let yourselves be guided, thus let everything come to you, don't worry, don't worry and don't look anxiously into the future .... you should only hand yourselves over to Me and let Me rule alone, and everything will come about as it is My will and as it is conducive to the work for Me and My kingdom, which you are willing to carry out. I want to arrange everything for you, I direct all your steps, I stand by your side with advice and action, and you will feel My will in your heart, i.e., if you devote yourselves to Me your will will also be Mine, you will think, speak and act driven by the spirit within you which will never ever teach you wrongly. I have chosen you because I know your will, that it will be subject to Me and thus My spirit can also work in you. Hence you can always be assured of My protection and care and speak without hesitation as My spirit imparts it to you, you can carry out every thought which arises in you, for you are now only the form which I have chosen for Myself in order to let My spirit radiate, you are in truth the labourers in My vineyard who only carry out their lord's will and only carry out every earthly activity in the interest of the mission which is incumbent upon you. You are constantly guided and bear no responsibility for your actions and speeches because you have offered yourselves to Me for service and now I, as your lord, assume all responsibility for My servants as long as they want to serve Me in love and faithfulness. And I possess this will of yours and bless you for it, for I need you for this mission on earth, because the end is near and you are to proclaim it everywhere, because you are to speak on My behalf to all people who are of good will so that they prepare themselves for the end which is imminent, as it has been decided since eternity ....

Amen

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Living proclaimers of the gospel ....

B.D. 6073 from October 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

A living proclaimer of My word will also be successful in his vineyard work, for he works with the strength of My spirit .... thus he is a servant who is equipped by Me with everything he needs for his work. He can distribute abundantly because he receives abundantly. And he can pass on the gospel, Christ's teaching of love, as I Myself preached it on earth, for I speak to people through My servant again, and such words are truly powerful and will speak to the hearts of the listeners and not just fall flat on their ears. But only someone who is always so united with Me that he feels the life-giving strength of My word can be a living proclaimer of My word, which now impels him to communicate to his brothers on earth .... Only a person who lives in love can be a living proclaimer of My word, otherwise he is not united with Me and can hear My voice. In order to be a living proclaimer of My word he must be permeated by love for Me and for his neighbour, he must want to be active for Me in his neighbour .... For this will is the entering into My will, the submission to Mine and the basic condition of the union with Me. Then he has given up all resistance, then he has already returned to Me, then he has passed his test of will on earth, and then he belongs to My own who hear Me Myself within themselves and who now have life within themselves. And now they feel inwardly driven to likewise awaken the dead to life and to impart the strength of My word to it, which alone can give them life .... Then their words will no longer touch deaf ears because it is presented alive and because every willing listener feels life and wants to participate in it and often even unwilling listeners feel the strength of My word and give up their resistance. The dead word of a dead preacher cannot awaken to life, for it does not touch the heart but only the ear which lets such words fall flat. The spirit first has to bring the word to life .... And therefore I Myself must be able to work through My spirit in every person who wants to successfully proclaim My gospel .... But this person will also be a true labourer in My vineyard, and his work will always be blessed ....

Amen

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Defence of the word should not stop proclamation ....

B.D. 6774 from March 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 72

Don't let yourselves be distracted by the rejection of those to whom you want to bring My word, but only lovingly present to them what moves you inwardly, for this is the urging of My spirit .... And if your fellow human beings remain defensive, then don't try to force the spiritual knowledge upon them, but go on and leave those with blessing thoughts. (3.3.1957) Every person has free will and even My word may not exert any coercion on him. And therefore it is brought to all people in such a natural way that he can freely decide himself to accept or reject it. And even the word directly conveyed to you by Me will not compel faith, because it can only be directly imparted to a person in a certain degree of faith, and thus only one task remains for you, who want to serve Me, to inform your fellow human beings of the treasure you possess, and their faith in it depends on their own degree of maturity and their own will. But where a strong will of love urges you to communicate you will also be more successful, for the fellow human being will feel the love and his will of resistance will no longer be so strong, he will reflect, and then much will already have been gained, because then My enlightened helpers will be able to intervene and often have a successful effect on him. In the last days before the end you will not be able to achieve many successes, for people cannot often be won over to spiritual words, they see too worldly and their eyes no longer recognize the light which shines towards them when My word is offered to them. They are blinded by will-o'-the-wisps which flash brightly and weaken their vision for the gentle light which My love radiates in the word. Moreover, they also don't want to seek their salvation outside of the places where they assume it to be but where it can rarely be found .... And if they would only seek My word there then I would also reveal Myself to them in the word in those places .... But external customs and traditions which they find there are enough for them; the giver of strength .... My word .... but they do not desire it, and therefore I send you, My servants, in their way to offer them what they lack and carelessly fail to fetch strength from My word for their ascent. But you, too, will seldom find hungry and thirsty people, for mostly they have already nourished themselves elsewhere with food that is unhealthy for their souls. And so it is necessary to make an attempt everywhere, so that no one can say that I have not knocked at his door and desired admittance. I Myself want to have addressed them once, be it through you or also by listening to My word in the usual way. Once they merely desire to hear Me Myself .... then I will certainly speak to them, and the strength of My word, of My address, will not remain without effect. For everyone receives if only he desires .... The time of grace is coming to an end and My words will sound ever more urgently and also call upon you, My servants, to increase your activity, for you, too, are unaware of how much I already care about the salvation of a single soul and that this salvation can succeed through the supply of My word .... And therefore the resistance and rejection of unwilling fellow human beings should not distract you or hinder you in your vineyard work or make you lukewarm .... Some seeds do fall on good soil, and they can sprout and bear fruit. But where you are met with hostility, there shake the dust from your feet. For these have been worked on by My adversary and their will still completely belongs to him, and there you will also achieve nothing despite good will to help them. For they will not let My word penetrate their ears, much less their hearts. But they, too, can still change before the end, for I will not give up a person until the last hour of this earth has come. Therefore you should also be tirelessly active and only ever work for Me and My kingdom, and your work will truly be blessed, for souls will always benefit from it, if not on earth then certainly in the kingdom of the beyond .... where the souls also require the strength of My word in order to attain life in bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unselfish distribution of the Word ....

B.D. 7734 from October 30th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

When you take part in the distribution of My Word you should only be motivated by your love for Me and other people. You should want to carry out the task I have appointed you to do, and you should try to lessen the other person's spiritual need which has prompted Me to endow you with gifts of grace abundantly, so that you share these where I cannot take action Myself. Your work for Me and My kingdom should only ever be inspired by love. Then success won't fail because love is a strength which is never without result. Although your spiritual work will be ridiculed by people who have no faith whatsoever because it is incomprehensible to them why someone would work without material gain .... but then you can be even more certain of My blessing which rests upon every selfless act of labour in My vineyard .... You have not understood the value of My gifts of grace until you regard them as spiritual values which alone can result in spiritual success. Only then are you useful servants to Me who do not serve their master for their own benefit but who seek to increase his profit .... And this consists of the acquisition of souls for the celestial kingdom.

One day you, too, will have to discard your body and you cannot bring your earthly possessions into My kingdom .... And yet you can enter it richly blessed because spiritual possessions follow you into eternity, which were disregarded on earth by those who did not become aware of the meaning and purpose of earthly life. They have acquired earthly goods for themselves on earth and consequently have already received their entitled reward for their actions and way of life. But they will have little to show for it at the gate of eternity because they took no notice of spiritual wealth. Those of you who want to work for Me and My kingdom should disregard earthly gain, only love should motivate you to do your work .... You should look around you and recognise the spiritual poverty in humanity's life .... You should want to help in the knowledge that humanity is approaching the abyss, and you should work untiringly because this is necessary in view of the end.

Then you will also understand why you become isolated from the outside world which can distract your attention from the task you should fulfil .... You will understand that time and again I will seek faithful servants to take part in the work, who want to bring the Gospel to their fellow human beings, because people ought to hear My Word which I repeatedly send to them through you .... And you will understand that I will knock on every door, that I send you before Me to announce the Lord, Who wants to come Himself, Who wants to take abode with them .... Since they cannot yet hear Me you have to go before Me so that I can speak to them through you, because they badly need to be informed of Me, of My love, which wants to save them before the end. And thus everything should be done to inform people that I work through My spirit in the heart of every human being who is of good will .... You should tell them with love and kindness of Me and My actions, you should bring them My Word which I have blessed with My strength, and you should not tire to take care of your fellow human beings' spiritual poverty by helping to spread My Word .... And I Myself will lead the people to you, I shall bless every selfless work done by you for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The word must also be brought to the people of the world ....

B.D. 8153 from April 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The whole of creation is probably a mystery to the human being who lives only in the world and rarely or never directs his thoughts into the spiritual realm. He regards everything around him as the products of a force of nature, about which, however, he himself gives no thought and therefore cannot be mentally enlightened either .... He lives in the world, and for him the world means everything .... Nor does he seek to penetrate the secrets of creation, its purpose or the cause of its emergence .... And these people also gain nothing from their earthly life, they are merely parasites because they claim and seek to exploit everything in the world for themselves and their physical comfort and are once called away without having achieved any advantage for their soul. And it is also difficult to preach the gospel to them, to introduce them to the commandments of love or to encourage them to live a spiritual life next to their earthly life. And yet, an attempt shall be made to present the great responsibility of their soul to such people as well .... They shall be informed of their long course of development beforehand, even if they don't believe these ideas. And they should be made aware of the fate of a new banishment which they will not escape if they do not change their way of life .... Much is already gained if those people are developed a picture of what lies behind them and what they have to expect again in the case of the last failure on this earth .... for even if they don't believe such ideas the thought of it will nevertheless worry them at times and cause them to think further. Then they will also start to look at the works of creation around them with different eyes and seek to get behind the secrets of creation .... And then they can also be given a small light which they now have to let shine in free will, since they are by no means forced to change their thoughts. And this attempt shall be made again and again to inform worldly people of the cause and origin of the works of creation, because hours will also come for these people where they are thoughtful and give space to such thoughts which will be answered by luminous forces .... as long as they devote themselves to those thoughts. And anyone who is in possession of truth himself, who has penetrated the mystery of creation, should seize every opportunity where he can speak, where he can pass on the truth and introduce fellow human beings to spiritual knowledge. For God also guides His own, who want to serve Him, to those who still oppose Him, who are still under the control of the one to whom the world belongs .... And He lights a little light which can chase away the darkness of the night, if the resistance of the light is not so great that its glow fades and is deprived of its luminosity .... For resistance will not be forcibly broken on the part of God, but all help will be given to him who strives towards the light .... Often the desire for light will no longer be found, yet you should not tire of carrying a light into the darkness, for you will always recognize it where it is possible, and you yourselves will be filled with great joy if you succeed in making your fellow human beings, who are still in the midst of the world, think .... if you can draw their attention to the great danger and they just listen to you .... For every day is significant for every person when he turns away from the world and lets his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom. Although the human being determines the time himself through his free will, nothing should be left undone where he can be helped into the right direction of his will, for it concerns the soul's fate after the death of the body, which corresponds to that will in earthly life. The world will pass away, and often enough people will also be confronted with the transience of earthly goods .... And time and again individuals will be found who detach themselves from the world when they are truthfully informed about everything and their thoughts now take the direction which leads to the right goal .... when they are turned towards the spiritual kingdom and are now also truthfully answered from there .... which always means spiritual gain for the human being because he has now escaped the great danger of new banishment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Rescue work on the souls who are not unwilling ....

B.D. 8551 from July 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Little faith will you find in your fellow human beings who are themselves too little in love .... These will reject all spiritual conversations, you will not have the opportunity to inform them of the delicious gift you offer them .... They will reject you and want to hear nothing of the kind because it could disturb them in their inner peace. For whether they also live an outwardly righteous life on earth .... As long as they are without love it is merely a certain fulfilment of duty and a subordination to worldly laws but not an expression of inner maturity, which can only result in a life of love .... And you will mostly have to deal with such people, for there are very few of those who strive spiritually or are to be approached with spiritual things .... But exactly these few I still gather for Me in the last time, and I still adjust them so that the danger of a sinking is eliminated for them, that they are certainly so far matured spiritually to be able to be received into the kingdom on the other side, where they can stride further up. But when you succeed to also win a soul for you from those men, then you can register a great plus, because every single soul is dear to Me, and every single soul return to Me I rejoice and help in every way. And where I still see such a possibility, I will also lead you there or send it in your way. You can then convey to them My delicious gift .... But the acceptance of them determines free will itself .... You can only pray for every soul, which is still on the wrong way, that it may find the right way, and ask you to be helpful to them for this. I hereby address you, who want to serve Me as faithful vineyard labourers .... Do not slacken in your efforts to spread My word, and know that this is spiritual knowledge of such great value that it will also not fail to have an effect if only a person is of good will .... if he lives in love and thereby will also be receptive to what you bring him .... And always know that I know men and lead them into the way for you, on whom you are to do vineyard work .... That you cannot often record success is not to let you get tired because it is the last time and only few are still to be won for Me and My kingdom. But all your efforts draw wide circles. Everyone who listens to you believingly, everyone to whom you impart My word from above, will also do vineyard work again of his own accord, because My word itself drives him to it .... And ever wider circles will take note of this word of Mine, the flow of My love will flow in all directions and be collected by thirsty souls who refresh and strengthen themselves with it .... And there are no limits for My word, it flows in all directions and fertilizes so many human hearts, which again draw strength and strive towards Me, because they recognize Me Myself as origin of that what makes them happy and strengthens them .... what they recognize as bread of heaven, as water of life, and therefore water their souls and feed them with food from above .... For I offer it Myself and call guests from everywhere to My table to partake of the lord's supper with them .... And even if you see little success through your spiritual work .... if you meet far more rejecting people than those who let themselves be given by you .... so do not become despondent, for My word works by itself .... The power of My word flows wherever it is desired, and I know about the human hearts that desire it .... And no work is done in vain, because even if men on earth are not to be won, so still innumerable souls are prepared to accept it, and you are to think of these souls especially, because also they no longer have much time, if they still stay in darkness .... that they have detached themselves from darkness until the end and strive towards the light. When you have achieved that through loving intercession that you are listened to by those souls, then you have a great profit to record, because then these souls are rescued from the lot of renewed banishment in matter, and their way up is already entered and will also lead further and further up. The word, which goes out from Me, is blessed with My power .... So it will also have an effect on those souls, which truly need power to be able to ascend from the deep to the height. Always bear in mind that I open up all possibilities in view of the near end to still bring salvation to quite a lot of souls, and it only depends on the free will of those that they accept My gifts of favour, and that is why you are to contribute to stimulate their will where opportunity is offered to you .... You should always regard your spiritual task as urgent and leave no stone unturned to pass on My word, for even the slightest success can mean salvation for a soul from greatest danger .... It can be spared the fate of new banishment, it can still take the right path to Me before the end .... For I still struggle for every soul before the end and supply it with strength and fortification if only it does not completely reject Me .... And every soul can still change before the end .... This certainty is to spur you on to untiring work for Me and My kingdom; because every soul will thank you eternally, which was protected through you from the abyss, which found the way to Me through you ...._>Amen

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Spreading the love teachings of Jesus

Task of the disciples: proclaiming the doctrine of love ....

B.D. 6268 from May 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

This is My commission to you, that you preach love which helps to attain eternal bliss .... I can only give this mission to those who are willing to listen to Me Myself first in order to then pass on what they have heard to their fellow human beings .... I can only send people out into the world with this mission who voluntarily place themselves at My disposal, who thus acknowledge Me as their God and father and now want to fulfil My will as My children .... otherwise they will not listen to what I have to say to them and what they should proclaim in My name. But they must also be able to hear Me .... This is the first prerequisite for a disciple chosen by Me, for what they are to pass on alive is not a human but a divine gift which they therefore have to receive from God Himself, because people do not possess it and therefore cannot distribute it. For the word only comes alive with My support, I Myself must be able to work in the human being if he wants to understand My word as it has to be understood in order to be able to pass it on again in a living way .... And this always applies, also to the people who receive it from My disciple .... Only when I Myself can also work in them through My spirit will it be understandable to them and awaken them to life .... Therefore it always has to be Me Myself Who speaks and wants to be heard, otherwise they are just empty words which do not touch the heart or are misunderstood, thus not interpreted meaningfully. Hence you shall spread the gospel throughout the world, you shall proclaim the teaching of love to people, and although you are familiar with the word 'love' you must first be made to understand the profound significance and urgency of a life of love according to My will, and you must know that beatitude only depends on the fulfilment of these commandments of love, which is why My eternal plan of salvation is revealed to you and you can now recognize why love is most important .... why I Myself descended to earth when humanity completely ignored love .... In order to be able to teach correctly the teacher has to be profoundly knowledgeable, and if I give you the task to go out and teach your fellow human beings I will also give you the necessary knowledge, and I will convey it to you through the spirit .... Therefore, everyone is able to carry out My assignment who allows My spirit to work by first shaping himself into love, by doing what he is also supposed to teach his fellow human beings .... For then he can also speak to them with conviction about the effect of a life of love, he can warn them of the consequences of a loveless way of life .... he can make known to them in a living way what his spirit gives him, and he will know that it is I Who speaks through him, and he will be a willing form for Me through whom I can reveal Myself .... The commandment of love is the first and greatest commandment .... Whoever fulfils this will also have heaven open to him, for his will also be the kingdom which is not of this world .... He will become an aspirant of this kingdom, and he will be eternally blessed ....

Amen

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Opportunity for counter-expression in proclaiming the gospel necessary ....

B.D. 3946 from December 28th 1946, taken from Book No. 49

Every spiritual exchange of thoughts is beneficial for the human being's soul, and therefore it is always more advisable to give a person the opportunity to express himself in return than to shower him with spiritual thoughts and make counter-questions impossible. The spiritual knowledge imparted to him will much sooner become his own thought knowledge, which can only ever happen through commenting on it until it also becomes a conviction in himself. Questions and answers facilitate the process of acquiring the mental knowledge, furthermore, a person's thinking is stimulated such that the beings of light can now intervene and guide the thoughts of people who are entrusted to them for spiritual guidance. Furthermore, errors can be corrected more easily, just as the desire to penetrate deeper knowledge is awakened in the fellow human being if he is truthfully enlightened and recognizes this by the kind of instruction he receives. Knowledgeable teachers will always find a larger circle of listeners, and people can only convince themselves of knowledge if they are given the opportunity to ask questions about the knowledge presented to them. For this reason the gospel should also be proclaimed in such a way that it prompts the listener to speak freely, he should be encouraged to speak back, so that it leaves a deeper impression, so that it is not only received with the ears but with the heart. Then it will come alive in the person, then the teacher will also be guided by the spirit of God, then God Himself will speak to people through him, He Himself will be in the midst of those who preach and receive His word. For His promise is: "Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them ...." He wants to speak to you Himself through the mouth of the individual, He wants to answer your questions and arrange your thoughts, yet for this you humans must also become mentally active yourselves, only then will the instructions be a blessing for you, only then will you derive the right benefit from God’s word, which is imparted to you at all times and in all places where you desire to receive it yourselves. And therefore seek frequent unity for the purpose of spiritual exchange of thoughts, seek clarification where you are still unclear by asking your fellow human beings questions, ask God for true teachers who can provide you with truthful information, and don't be satisfied with the presentation of the divine word in a form which gives you too little opportunity to express yourselves, for only through questions and answers can you increase in knowledge, because only then will what is imparted to you gain life and only then spur you on to follow the divine will. Let the eternal teacher always dwell amongst you so that He Himself can guide your thoughts and thus instruct you in such a way that it will be a blessing for you ....

Amen

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Preaching the gospel .... listener - doer .... doctrine of love ....

B.D. 5095 from March 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Proclaim My gospel to people and if they accept it all adversity will be remedied. However, they must not only be listeners but also doers of My word if it is to take effect on them and help them achieve peace of mind. But to be doers of My word means to live in love, to carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love, to overcome selfish love and thus change your nature so that it becomes pure love, as it was in the beginning .... Thus you lack love if you are in spiritual and earthly adversity, for then I will let the latter come over you Myself so that you will look within yourselves and also recognize your spiritual adversity. And thus proclaiming My gospel means conveying My teaching of love to fellow human beings and pointing out to them how extremely important a life of love is as long as the human being lives on earth. You will achieve everything with it, knowledge and strength already on earth and one day an eternal life in beatitude. My teaching of love is indeed known amongst people but it is not or only rarely followed. And therefore its effects cannot be recognized either, and the soul is in greatest distress because it sinks into the night of death when the human being ends his earthly life. As long as the human being lives, life after death does not cause him any concern. Nevertheless, he must already prepare himself on earth if he wants to awaken to eternal life, for earthly life was given to him for this purpose. Without love, however, his soul is already dead on earth, it lacks light and the constant darkness is equal to lack of knowledge. But light, i.e. knowledge about the eternal truth, comes forth from love. So how are people supposed to receive truth or recognize it as truth if they lack all ability to do so because they live without love .... Therefore teach them first that they should practice love, teach them that they must fulfil My commandments, teach them that they can only become blissfully happy through love, that only love opens up the knowledge of truth to them and that they can never come to Me if they don't shape themselves into love .... teach them that it is about the salvation of the souls and not about the well-being of the body and that only love helps the soul to ascend .... Then you will be active on My behalf as proclaimers of truth, and you will then work in a redeeming way if you yourselves exemplify a life of love to them and they can experience the truth of the divine teaching of love and its effect in you. You are unlimitedly empowered to introduce your fellow human beings to the knowledge which has its origin in Me, yet their capacity for this knowledge entirely depends on their way of life, for only love gives brightness of spirit .... thus only a loving person will have the understanding for the wisdom from above, which is why you should preach love to them first in order to then also be able to introduce them to higher wisdom, so that they will emerge from the state of ignorance into knowledge which will make them happy and let them strive for ever deeper knowledge. Love is the key to wisdom, wisdom is light that makes blessed. This is why the human being can only attain beatitude through love, whereas a life without love is a state of spiritual hardship which the soul only becomes aware of when it has to leave the earthly shell.

Carry My gospel out into the world .... Spread My teaching of love and exhort people to practice unselfish neighbourly love; then you will contribute immeasurably to the salvation of erring souls, then you will be My true disciples who are active on My behalf on earth in the last time before the end ....

Amen

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Preaching the gospel to those who need spiritual consolation and to souls in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6128 from December 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

Wherever you meet people who need spiritual consolation, there you should exercise your ministry .... bring them My gospel .... And they will gratefully accept it as soon as you lovingly offer it to them. But how will it become apparent to you that they need spiritual comfort? If you recognize from their speeches that they are desperate because they lack faith .... if they ask bitterly or despondently "Why all this? ...." if they do not know the purpose of their life on earth, if they do not find joy in the world and are unhappy due to all kinds of strokes of fate .... Then lovingly point out to them that they have a father in heaven Whose love also applies to them and to Whom they should turn in their hearts so that they may find peace and help in their adversity .... Just make them acquainted with the God of love .... for the awareness of not being alone and abandoned will comfort them and also motivate them to entrust themselves to the one Who loves them, and a turnaround can occur in their earthly life, the spiritual path can be taken which also leads to the aim. Love must be preached to people .... they must know that they are loved by their creator and father from eternity and that they should equally love all creatures which came forth from the same father .... their brothers on earth .... And if you impart this knowledge to them then you proclaim My gospel to them, then you work for Me and My kingdom, then you take care of those who need help in their spiritual hardship. And you should make an effort to live a life of love yourselves so that your words are alive, so that your fellow human beings can take you as an example. You must not forget for a minute that you are My children after all, that you came forth from love and therefore your nature must also be love if you want to count yourselves as My own, if you want to be true representatives of My teaching of love. Then your fellow human being's spiritual hardship will also be apparent to you, it will touch you and prompt you to help, and you will be happy to be allowed to bring him My word .... For I will bring people to you who are in need of spiritual comfort, and I will bless you if you are willing to carry out your missionary work for them. And if you succeed in bringing just one soul to Me you will already have done a blessed work for Me and My kingdom .... But don't grow weary, be diligent servants in My vineyard, for people are in great need, they require much love and encouragement and your guidance in order to come to peace in and with Me ....

Amen

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Preaching the gospel to those who need spiritual consolation and to souls in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6129 from December 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

And also proclaim the gospel to the souls in the beyond, for they urgently need it as long as they are not yet in the light and only attain the degree through My word that they can enter the kingdom of light. As long as the souls possess nothing they cannot work in love, thus they cannot hand over anything either .... But if they receive light and strength through you they can now also give light and strength .... And light and strength are only conveyed to them by My word, which is given to all who are of good will on earth as well as in the beyond. You humans can establish the connection with the souls who have not yet established the connection with Me yourselves .... who are not yet able to hear My word, even if it sounds in the spiritual kingdom .... And so carry this word of Mine to them .... Remember those souls as soon as you yourselves are active on earth for Me and My kingdom .... Consider that these souls can also participate in your vineyard work, that they are more inclined to listen to you, with whom they still feel connected through your remembrance, than when they are confronted by a being of light in the beyond which they don't recognize as such and therefore don't easily accept what they want to offer them .... You can now build the bridge, you can present the gospel of love to them and instruct them to such an extent that they will first think about themselves and then their spiritual friends will also find access to them more easily, because then they will discuss their state with them and also accept advice .... If you recite My word to the souls you will rarely work unsuccessfully, for the pure word of God exerts an inconceivable effect on the souls which willingly listen to it .... For they suddenly understand what was previously incomprehensible to them, and they also grasp the truth more quickly .... they find the context much sooner than they would have found it on earth, for imperfect souls lack light, and this light now shines towards them from My word, so that the word cannot remain without effect unless completely unwilling souls resist, but these are also deprived of the light as soon as they rebel .... Remember all souls which were dear to you on earth .... But also remember the souls in darkness who languish in unspeakable torment and pray for them so that they will become more compliant, so that they will feel the strength of your love and come to you to be taught by you .... Offer much love to these souls and you will thereby loosen their bonds .... Call them all to you and let them participate in the spiritual exchange .... Give them food, for they suffer dreadfully from hunger and thirst and can only quench it with the bread of heaven which I Myself distribute but which they have to receive through you because they still turn away from Me .... yet without this food they can never attain strength and light .... What I give to you in abundance, distribute to those poor and wretched souls and I will bless you .... For My love also wants to redeem the souls from the depths, and your love shall help Me in this ....

Amen

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The gospel is to be spread "in the whole world" ....

B.D. 6212 from March 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My gospel shall be spread to all nations, the work of the divine redeemer shall be proclaimed to all, and everyone shall be pointed to His teaching of love so that they will follow Him by also living a life of love as He did on earth. And all of you can contribute to the spreading of this divine message that there is redemption from sin and death. For as soon as you yourselves stand up for Jesus Christ .... as soon as you prove yourselves to be true christians you already bear witness to Jesus' act of salvation, which has already brought about your redemption, because your way of life is now in accordance with the will of Him Whom you confess .... because you are alive and no longer a slave to sin and death. Speeches alone do not reveal a living christianity, but a person's conduct reveals which lord he has joined. When I walked on earth I sent My disciples out into the world .... I gave them the command: "Go and teach all nations ...." but at the same time I said: "Wherever they do not receive you after you have given them the greeting of peace, there shake off the dust from your feet and go on walking .... For you should not throw the pearls to the sows ...." And you would preach My gospel to deaf ears if you wanted to speak everywhere despite rejection and counteraction, for there My adversary still has power over people which he uses to withhold the truth from them. But anyone who is permeated by My spirit will always and everywhere proclaim Me and My name, for the spirit within him impels him to offer his fellow human beings the same which makes him happy, and therefore he will not remain silent wherever he is heard .... And living christianity will also always have a stimulating effect on fellow human beings so that they themselves will feel the strength of the one Who is represented before the world .... so that they, too, will feel drawn to the redeemer and desire to be accepted by Him as well .... My gospel shall be proclaimed to all people .... yet you alone cannot fulfil this task, I Myself must guide it to places where it would be impossible for you if you wanted to take over the proclamation of My word alone .... And this transmission also takes place through messengers of light who are embodied on earth for the purpose of this very mission in order to proclaim Me and My act of salvation to people so that they will also attain beatitude. These messengers of light are also My disciples whom I send out into the world, for they, too, have received My teaching of love from Me and can therefore faithfully teach on My behalf according to the people's state of maturity in their environment .... And the fact that I can convey My word, the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and the knowledge of My teaching of love to people in direct speech is something you, who have been taught by Me yourselves and are still being taught, will now not doubt either .... My spirit works always and everywhere .... and if My kingdom were only built on the few pillars .... truly the gospel could not be proclaimed in the 'whole world' and My word could not be fulfilled for eternity .... But you humans cannot overlook and measure My rule and activity on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... But all My creatures are cared for by Me out of full love and every opportunity is made available to them to acquire eternal life .... I approach all people and knock at their heart's door .... I convey My word everywhere, albeit often in different ways, but I make sure that all people receive knowledge of what Jesus Christ has done for sinful humanity .... I make sure that everyone is informed of My will to fulfil the commandments of love .... And where this will of Mine is observed, there My light of love can also radiate profound knowledge, there My gospel is heard which bears witness to Me ....

Amen

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Carrying out the divine love doctrine ....

B.D. 8730 from January 19th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

That you are exposed to the attacks of My adversary is not to surprise you because exactly in you he sees the greatest danger for himself because you are active on My behalf and help the souls to free themselves from his power .... And therefore he will try everything to hinder your work for Me and My kingdom .... He would also have great success in his intention if you yourselves were not so devoted to Me that you carry out your activity in My vineyard full of earnestness and eagerness .... Only the undivided devotion to Me protects you from his attacks, because he is powerless towards you as soon as he recognizes that you want to belong to Me completely and are always only prepared for Me. And so you will now also understand why I shut you off from the world, because I want to reduce the possibility of temptations through the world; I want to give him no possibilities of attack, which can easily arise through worldly desire .... I want to protect you Myself from him, who cannot harass you as long as you belong to Me through your earnest striving to always only be active for Me and to fulfil the assignment, which you yourselves have taken on in free will. Nevertheless temptations approach you again and again, because as long as you are still in contact with the outside world, you cannot completely escape their influence, but I will always provide you with power to resist, because the assignment is too powerful, which is still to be fulfilled, to bring rescue to erring fellowmen. And that is why you need not fear not to be able to finish a work, because My power and My love constantly surrounds you and directs everything to the best .... And that is why you are just to always be eagerly active and always just ask for My protection and blessing, and with this request you push the opponent away from you, because he will never be able to be there where I am Myself, but I comply with every spiritual request of you. Souls are still to be rescued; men are to be stimulated to think, who have no faith, because no truth was offered to them yet, and who only need to be instructed right, to also then direct their thoughts right and to turn towards a God and creator, who is now only credible to them .... And this can only happen through the spreading of truth. And that is why I also still want to create many opportunities for you; I want to bring you together with people who let themselves be taught by you in fundamental questions and who think about it .... I still want to do everything that your work is successful, and everywhere I want to spin threads, so that connections come into being, which you do not think possible, because everywhere people are still to be found, who are thoughtful, who also cannot be called unwilling to believe, who just are not satisfied with what they are generally taught .... who need other food, which is tasty for them and at which they can strengthen themselves .... And as soon as you yourselves just possess the strong will to serve Me and the truth, I will also bless your doing and thinking and guide you so that you are successfully active. Because where there is still a possibility of rescue, everything will be done to bring rescue, and where there is only one man who asks, he will also be given an answer. But the commandment of neighbourly love is to be presented to all first, because a completely loveless man can muster no understanding at all for truth .... But where love has not yet completely grown cold there will still be success. And that is why My gospel of love is to be spread throughout the world, and you can inspire all your fellow human beings to love even if you do not yet feel able to initiate them into deeper wisdom .... But if love is already present then it will also be easy for you to enlighten your fellow human being, and he will gratefully accept every spiritual instruction .... Then you will be loyal co-workers with Me, and you will wrestle My adversary's following away from him, for anyone who merely endeavours to live in love the adversary will have lost his power, for love is already union with Me, and thus love will always prevail over the adversary ...._>Amen

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Education about Jesus Christ

God's instruction to educate fellow human beings about Jesus ....

B.D. 8464 from April 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Wherever the opportunity of mentioning the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ presents itself to you, you should speak of Him and emphasise His great significance for every single person .... Where possible, you should motivate people to remember Him, for everyone knows Him, everyone has heard of Him, yet only a few have a living faith in Him, and only they can partake in the blessings of the act of Salvation .... But they are precisely the ones who should try to invigorate their fellow human beings' faith in Him, Who alone can save them from spiritual adversity, which will only be perceptively felt after their body dies. You should not fail to make use of every avenue in order to steer the conversation towards Jesus Christ, even if the other person feels uncomfortable about it .... you should simply ask him what Jesus means to him, whether he has already thought about the doctrines regarding Him and what conclusion he has come to .... Even if they only want accept Him as a human being, Who advocated His own philosophies of life and sacrificed His life for these opinions, you can nevertheless explain to them that He was certainly a man who lived among people, but that He had to fulfil a spiritual mission and that every person can derive benefit from that mission if he wants .... Indeed, most people only regard their life on earth as an end in itself and don't believe in their souls' continuation of life .... Nevertheless, you should also try to unsettle these opinions and truly, I will place the right Words into your mouth if all you endeavour to do is kindle a small light for these blind people, if you want to help them fulfil their purpose of earthly life. If you are imbued by the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, you will time and again feel impelled to convey this knowledge to people and then opportunities will arise where it is possible for you, and I truly bless everyone who tries to persuade his fellow human beings to believe in Jesus, because Jesus must not be by-passed if the soul wants to attain bliss one day when it enters the spiritual realm after physical death. This faith in the soul's continuation of life is likewise lacking in most people, consequently, it is difficult to educate them, yet no stone shall be left unturned, for the misery such souls are approaching is indescribable and if you can help them spare such wretchedness they will be eternally grateful to you, for one day every soul will gain realisation, even if it still takes eternities ....

Everything relating to Jesus, His life on earth, His crucifixion and His ascension, is a myth for people which they certainly know, but cannot believe that these events, which are hugely significant for each individual still unenlightened soul, to be true. However, you humans live on this earth to attain the goal of releasing yourselves from every form and entering the kingdom of the beyond in a spiritualised state. But to do so it is crucial that you find redemption through Jesus Christ, that He helps you attain freedom, because only He can loosen the chains which still tie you to God's adversary. He alone can help you attain eternal life, and thus you must acknowledge Him and hand yourselves over to Him so that He will take your immense guilt upon Himself and so that He might have given His blood for you as well, which He shed on the cross for all people, past, present and future. If you accept Him and appeal to Him to take the immense guilt from you, you will also suddenly be able to think differently .... many things you previously were unable to understand will become comprehensible to you. For this reason you should at least accept information about Him when it is conveyed to you, for no-one shall go astray, but it is up to the human being himself whether he wants to let himself be saved .... Let yourselves be educated about Jesus and His act of Salvation, about the spiritual reason for it and about your past original sin, which you cannot atone for yourselves but can only be released from through the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... And don't walk past Him in earthly life, try to muster the understanding for the kind of mission He had to fulfil on earth and believe that every person must take the path to the cross .... believe that every human being must carry his guilt of sin under the cross, which means, that he must acknowledge Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world, in Whom God Himself became human in order to redeem humanity from sin and death ....

Amen

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Jesus found little recognition on earth ....

B.D. 5867 from February 3rd 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Don't be surprised that you are not listened to, that you are not believed by people when you bring them My word, but remember that I Myself also found little recognition on earth, that I preached My gospel directly to them, that I confirmed My word through miracles, that I explained everything to them in an understandable way and helped them to come to the right realization, and that they nevertheless saw their enemy in Me because I taught and advocated something different from them and because their unkind way of life deprived them of all realization. I had descended to earth in order to let My word have an effect on people; I spoke to them, as I also do today through My revealed word, I showed them the path upwards into My kingdom, yet people did not recognize My words as God’s word, just as they also believe today that you form yourselves into words what your thoughts enter into you .... And that is why they attach no value to these words and pass by the most delicious .... of the bread of heaven which is offered to them by Me through you .... just as they had Me Myself amongst them and could have received divine gifts in abundance if only they had been of good will. And thus today, too, only that beneficiary of My gift of grace is of good will. Only the one who does not reject you can be approached by Me Myself and provided with a delicious gift .... And only the one who listens to you hears Me Myself speak and is touched by My word. When I lived on earth I did My utmost to gain access to people's hearts, I showed them love in abundance, I healed their sick, I helped them in earthly and spiritual adversity, I demonstrated My might and My divinity to them through miracles, and I taught them that they could accomplish the same if they lived according to My teaching .... The word Itself dwelt among men but they did not recognize It .... And thus you will also find little faith, for humanity has sunk to the depths of the abyss and is in a spiritual darkness that it is hardly able to recognize whether a teaching is good and true or bad and erroneous .... It lives in error and does not recognize it, the truth is offered to it and it cannot recognize it as such either, and even miracles no longer impress it because it believes everything to be possible by nature. And yet, you should be active as My disciples and undauntedly preach My gospel, you should try to establish a bridge between the completely earthly-minded people and the spiritual kingdom, again and again you should convey spiritual messages .... My word conveyed to you from above .... among people, you should speak even if people are reluctant to listen to you .... For I Myself still want to have an effect on people through you, and the strength of My word can still take effect in a few people .... just as during My time on earth there were only ever a few who willingly listened to Me and then recognized Me as coming from above .... My direct work on the people of this earth before the last end is an act of grace equal to My descent at that time, and you should always mention that you are My representatives on earth, that you speak in Jesus' name and Him and His divine mission, His act of salvation, you should always emphasize that you don't want to bring anything else to people than His divine word which He Himself proclaimed on earth, that you only preach the teaching of love in order to show your fellow human beings the path again which leads upwards .... And you should only ever remember Me, Who preached the same on earth and was tirelessly active in order to help people in their spiritual adversity. The time is approaching its end and therefore your task is urgent and blessed by Me, for you can still bring help to all who are of good will. And for the sake of these few I will send you out into the world, and they will also recognize you as My messengers, they will recognize Me Myself in the word you offer them and accept it into their hearts .... they will believe in Me and therefore be saved from spiritual death ....

Amen

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Every soul must find Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6797 from April 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every soul thanks you, which was led through you to Jesus Christ as its redeemer from sin and death .... For He alone can open the gate to life for it, He alone can lead it into the kingdom of light to eternal beatitude. But as long as it has not yet found Him it wanders around unhappily when it has arrived in the kingdom of the beyond, its thoughts become confused, its surroundings are devoid of light and its own state is agonizing because it sorely misses the vitality it now lacks but feels the agony of its lack of strength and its state. For this reason it is the greatest work of love and mercy you can accomplish on a person while he is still on earth if you acquaint him with Jesus Christ, if you make it clear to him that he may not pass Him by if he does not want to endanger himself and meet an unhappy fate after the death of his body. All people you come into contact with know Him, yet their attitude towards Him leaves much to be desired, they know Him but do not evaluate this knowledge, they have certainly heard of Him as redeemer of the world but His act of salvation is not a true concept for them. They know about His death on the cross but only consider it in a purely earthly way and are hardly aware of its spiritual significance .... They also do not have the inner bond with Him and therefore do not take the path to the cross, they do not feel like sinners and therefore do not ask for forgiveness of their sins either .... They do not recognize the eternal deity Himself in Jesus Christ and therefore do not call upon Him in full faith either. And therefore they remain burdened by guilt and enter the beyond with this guilt, without light and without strength, for they have not yet attained the life which can only be given to them by Jesus Christ. And then their earthly life was also an idle one and did not bring them any success, it did not bring them closer to God, Who walked across earth in the man Jesus .... These souls will be unhappy when they arrive in the kingdom of the beyond, and they will not be blissfully happy until they have taken the path to Him on the other side. But even in the kingdom of the beyond they are often unteachable when it comes to the problem of Christ, and it requires a lot of love and perseverance on the part of those who want to help them, be they beings of light or people on earth who want to help the souls. But anyone who lovingly takes care of such a soul will also succeed in imparting so much light and strength to it that it will strengthen its will and that it will listen without resistance when it is informed about Jesus Christ, and that it will now no longer resist calling upon Him for love and mercy either .... It has to find Him in the kingdom of the beyond, and Jesus Christ can also be found .... He comes to meet every soul, but only if it has given up its hard resistance, if it looks around helplessly and begs for salvation, if it is aware of its weakness and now listens attentively to what is conveyed to it by beings willing to help or by people on earth .... Then Jesus Christ Himself will force Himself into its thinking and truly make it easy for the soul to believe in Him .... But the first step has to be taken by the soul itself, and in order for it to take this first step it has to be helped by people on earth or by beings of light in the spiritual kingdom through loving intercession or through everlasting instructions. It must find its way to Jesus Christ .... otherwise there is no beatitude for it .... But it is extremely grateful to those who helped it to salvation. And precisely the great hardship awaiting such a soul in the beyond, which has not yet found Him, should prompt you humans to repeatedly mention His mission on earth, so that fellow human beings will still find Him on earth and not pass over into the spiritual kingdom without light .... so that Jesus Christ Himself will now come to meet them and open the gates to paradise .... that they will only be relieved of their great burden of sin for the time being, but only Jesus Christ Himself can take it away from them and therefore He has to be recognized and acknowledged as God and redeemer of the world ....

Amen

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The living witness to Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7786 from January 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 81

You shall bear witness to Me .... i.e., you shall proclaim Me in Jesus Christ. When I once sent My disciples out into the world to proclaim the gospel to people they were to mention My act of salvation, for all people were to learn about what the father's love has done for His children .... And therefore My first disciples were witnesses who had experienced My way of life, My path to the cross and My suffering and death and thus were also able to give living testimony of Me .... And thus My name and My teaching were carried out into the world .... The disciples, who were constantly close to Me, I was able to initiate into the deepest secrets, which they also understood after the outpouring of the spirit. And thus they were enabled to teach, to proclaim of Me and to testify of the work of mercy I had accomplished for humanity. If I had not been able to initiate these disciples into My plan of salvation, they would only have mentioned the work of a man .... But thus they recognized Me, and only this realization gave them the persuasiveness of their words, for they believed in Me and My mission as the human being Jesus, and I Myself was also able to strengthen their spirit and put the right words into their mouths so that their testimony of Me was a living one. For people should all learn to believe in Me as the divine redeemer Who redeemed the world from sin and death. But they also had to be truthfully instructed, which My disciples were well able to do, for they were taught by Me Myself, they were trained for the teaching ministry, for the task with which I sent them out into the world. The knowledge of Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to redeem humanity's guilt of sin, must reach all people. And therefore I train disciples for Myself again and again who shall testify of Me and can do so vividly, because I Myself impart to them the knowledge of My life on earth, of the mission of the man Jesus and of the great significance of His act of salvation; for all people must find their way to Him if they want to enter the kingdom of light redeemed when their souls leave the body and the spiritual kingdom, which is their true home, accepts them again. Then the divine redeemer Himself can open the gates for them .... Then I Myself can accept My children into My kingdom again, which, however, is not possible without redemption through Jesus Christ. And thus it is your most important task to inform your fellow human beings of Jesus Christ as soon as you have received this knowledge from Me, as soon as I Myself have instructed you through My spirit about the significance of the act of salvation, about Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I Myself accomplished the act of salvation .... Only he who possesses this knowledge himself can pass it on .... Only someone of living faith can testify to Me, for My spirit works in him and truly instructs him from within and gives him the ability to pass on his knowledge to his fellow human beings. And thus he can testify of Me in Jesus, Who died on the cross for the sins of humanity. And thus anyone who can speak of Me in a living way will also truly be able to demonstrate spiritual success, for he will find faith with his fellow human beings, for they will feel addressed by Me Myself, they will have understanding for the act of salvation and want to belong to those for whom I shed My blood on the cross. For they will not be dead speeches, they will go to the heart and lead to Him, to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, Who was only the shell for Me because I wanted to redeem the great guilt of sin, because I wanted to take the guilt upon Myself and atone for it .... and this could only happen in the shell of a human being. And thus you humans should take notice of your father's overwhelming love and never forget what He has done for you .... And you shall always bear witness to His act of salvation, because I Myself introduced you to this knowledge through My spirit, for you can give a living testimony, as My disciples were also able to do when they experienced Me Myself when I walked across the earth .... For only someone who has a living faith in Me can also give a living testimony, for his thinking is enlightened, he stands in knowledge, in light .... and can therefore also radiate light and make his fellow human beings happy with it ...._>Amen

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Truthful education about Jesus and redemptive work ....

B.D. 8550 from July 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

You will still often have to deal with error because the raging of My opponent will become more and more obvious who can only confuse the thoughts of men through error and lie and therefore will also omit nothing what helps him to do it. Again and again he will attack truth and so want to undermine My work with you, but what he will not succeed because I have strong supports on earth, which do not so easily become unsteady because they are supported by Me Myself. And their strength already consists of the fact that they are able to recognize every error and therefore will also take action against it .... A knowing person cannot be deceived so easily and a knowing person now has the task to also give enlightenment to fellow human beings as far as this is possible .... And it will be the adversary's attempt to keep people ignorant of the value and importance of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ .... Because what they do not recognize as important, that they also do not strive for. And if the adversary only succeeds in portraying Jesus as a person who transgressed against the authority of the state and was therefore condemned to death, then people will not feel prompted to take the path to Him, to the cross, for they lack knowledge of His act of salvation, of His merciful love, and this is the adversary's endeavour .... To first refute this opinion to people requires a certain courage as an orator, for people only rarely want to engage in such conversations because they have a defence against Jesus as a result of the adversary's influence, to portray Jesus as a rebellious person .... That is why from My side the work of redemption of Jesus Christ is always emphasized; it comes to the fore because completely different connections lay the basis of this work of mercy and these are to be explained to fellowmen if possible to grasp his significant mission. And this is My counter work that I direct pure truth to earth, otherwise men would already long ago be in fullest ignorance about Jesus Christ and the significance of His work of redemption. Then this knowledge will be offered to you truthfully, then you will understand it and accept it, but if only that representation is supplied to you, then you will easily be inclined to consider Him as a secondary figure, but not as Him, in Whom I Myself became man, in Whom I as God have united Myself with Him. Jesus' deity is denied by the adversary's side but it is the most important problem which is to be solved for you, because you are to recognize and acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus .... And therefore I will reveal Myself again and again to a person who consciously allows these revelations, so that again and again the exact knowledge about the act of salvation and God's incarnation will be conveyed to people who willingly accept the knowledge, who are willing to follow Jesus and who want to turn to Me Myself in Jesus and unite with Me for eternity .... Anyone who has taken note of who Jesus is and what motivated His earthly progress will truly not walk this path of earthly life in vain, he will consciously strive towards the final aim, the final unification of his soul with Me, Who embodied Myself in Jesus on earth .... That is why this knowledge is of such great importance and the spreading of it is always an action against My adversary, who is more interested in nothing than to leave people in ignorance about it or to give them erroneous explanations about the man Jesus .... If Jesus is only portrayed as a man who has transgressed against the authority of the state, then this portrayal is intended to pass Him over as unimportant, and the purpose of earth life is missed .... But also an enlightenment corresponding to truth contributes little to perfection on earth when it is received indifferently, without living faith .... when a man does not seek to draw the benefit for the soul out of truth .... when men do not seriously think about what the work of redemption of Jesus Christ means .... And also this indifference, the form faith, is a work of My adversary to prevent that men earnestly seek Me, that they earnestly go the way to the cross to find redemption from their guilt, which was the cause of their existence as man .... And the adversary will do everything to prevent the redemption through Jesus Christ if the human being's will does not seriously strive for its perfection, so that I can mentally convey the truth about Jesus and His act of salvation to him, which he will then also use for his own and his fellow human beings' salvation. The will of man alone is decisive .... And the adversary seeks to subjugate this will to himself, and only Jesus can prevent him from doing so .... But that is why He and His work of redemption must be recognized and a truthful enlightenment must also be sent to man, which then will cause him to strive further and also let him reach his aim, because now his will always experiences more strengthening than grace of the work of redemption of Jesus Christ .... And so it will remain a constant fight between light and darkness, constantly My adversary will seek to condense the darkness, but constantly I will also let the light shine and send truthful enlightenment to men, and who gratefully receives My gift, he will also escape the power of My adversary and reach his aim on earth ...._>Amen

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Redemptive work

Task: cooperation on the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5294 from January 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 58

You have been given a task which requires all your willpower; a task which is certainly responsible but also beneficial and which can only be carried out if you have the firm will to be redemptively active on earth, thus to use yourselves as My co-workers where it is necessary for Me Myself to influence your fellow human beings through you, because a direct influence on My part would be detrimental to their souls. Thus you are, as it were, My auxiliary forces which I only need in order not to make people's will unfree, in order not to force them to believe. But this cooperation of yours likewise requires free will on your part, otherwise every person could be used for it and then no special willpower would be required from you. You have to cooperate of your own free will, and therefore you will also constantly be exposed to temptations on the part of My adversary who will influence your will in order to prevent you from carrying out the work of salvation.

And thus you will now understand why your office is full of responsibility, for it is up to you yourselves whether erring souls find the path to Me, it is given into your hands, no-one can force you to take part in the work of redemption, and yet, if you want it yourselves, you can give countless souls freedom and light .... You alone determine it, and this requires an exceedingly strong will which resists My adversary's activity, which cannot be influenced, which pushes towards Me all the more eagerly the more My adversary wants to prevent it. I Myself can only assist you with My grace and strength but I can never force you into activity for Me and My kingdom .... For this reason, however, all My love belongs to those who want to serve Me of their own free will, and I will obviously support them in the battle against My adversary, the enemy of their souls, and thus also the many still struggling souls on earth and in the spiritual kingdom, whom you can help if you let Me work through you .... It is indeed a difficult task full of responsibility, yet one day you will feel immeasurable bliss when the multitude of those you have liberated from their adversity surrounds you and cheers you on ....

You should loosen what the enemy of souls has put in fetters, and you should always recognize him as an enemy and not allow yourselves to be seduced by him ..... You should only strive towards Me with a firm will, you should long for light and strength and thus for Me Who, as the original source of light and strength, can provide you abundantly. You should always be ready for Me and consciously hand yourselves over to Me, then My adversary can never gain power over you, yet hordes of suffering souls cling to you for whom you should now be active, to whom you should show the way and whom you should commend to My love and grace. And they will be redeemed for the sake of your love .... they will be helped, for you give Me the opportunity to influence those souls Myself, you support My work of salvation and contribute as My co-workers to the salvation of those who are still in greatest need and urgently require help in order to become free from satan’s bondage .... And your work for Me and My kingdom will always be blessed ....

Amen

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Support by forces of heaven in the redeeming work ....

B.D. 5477 from September 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You only have a short time left to work in My name. Yet this time can still be well utilized because all the forces of heaven support you and therefore you will not carry out unsuccessful work. The spiritual community of those who want to be active in redemption will be increased from the spiritual side; each one of you will have helping forces at one’s side which the one cannot see but which will guide and direct him to those who are in spiritual need. Each one of you is spiritually cared for and influenced, as it were. His activity therefore does not only rest on his shoulder but it is carried by beings full of light to whom the will of redemption is inherent and who therefore determine every human being of equal will for the right and blessed work. There will be no standstill because you have the will to serve Me and to be co-workers in the redemption of erring souls .... And yet, you will have to overcome obstacles because My adversary will use every opportunity to prevent you from this work, to hinder you and make you tired of fighting. He will try but you are not alone, and he will be no match for the light beings protecting you, and therefore it may well seem as if your work is not progressing, yet in the meantime the beings of light will continue to work until you have overcome the obstacles and can reconnect to beneficial activity again. The work you are to accomplish in the last time before the end is too important for Me as that I would seriously let endanger it. You will always act in accordance with My will, because you carry My will within yourselves through your willingness to help, which you always demonstrate to Me, and thus you can calmly allow yourselves to be guided by your feelings, which instruct you correctly and are always placed into your hearts personally by Me, to you who want to serve Me .... Just for a short time your activity will be as it has been until now .... Soon, however, changes will occur which would seem not yet credible to you today. Soon you will become more public, that is, larger circles will have knowledge of your spiritual activity and desire information, and you will be able to give it to them in My name, and I will bless you and your work. But as long as you are still active in secrecy you should use every opportunity to inform your fellow human beings that they live in the last days .... As often as you can you should mention it, for people will soon remember your words when everything will happen as you have predicted .... But for the present all powers of heaven will move, and wherever but one willing soul is found it will be seized by their love, and My grace will likewise take effect on those who do not resist and allow themselves to be taught by you. The time is approaching its end .... The time limit for this earth will soon have expired, yet extensive work still awaits you. Yet you need not accomplish anything on your own, I am always with you with My power of love, and the beings of the light will carry out what I instruct them to do .... they will protect you in adversity and danger, they will support you so that your work will not remain unsuccessful ....

Amen

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Salvation of erring souls is the work of the servants in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5584 from January 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You should work with great zeal for the salvation of erring souls. The need is great and the souls need you, for they cannot find the path to Me on their own. People are always led into your path who are without faith and live into the day without thinking that they have to fulfil a task on earth. To inform these people of their task in life on earth, to lovingly point them to their creator and father of eternity, before Whom they will one day have to answer, to present Me to them as loving and merciful but also just and thus to lead them to faith, that is the work you should do if you want to serve Me as servants in My vineyard. What you therefore do to lead these people to knowledge is right before My eyes and is valued as redemptive work. Every person who believes in Me and wants to be of service to Me can accomplish such redemptive work by trying to transfer his own faith to his fellow human being, which already banishes the greatest spiritual adversity, which consists of blatant unbelief. But if you want to do more for Me and My kingdom, you should proclaim the gospel to people in My name .... that is, when you receive the commission from Me Myself .... And this commission will be given to you when you possess the ability to teach in My name .... For proclaiming the gospel means introducing people to the truth, to impart spiritual knowledge to them which completely corresponds to the truth and which you therefore only possess yourselves when you are taught by Me Myself. If you now feel an urge within yourselves to proclaim Me to your fellow human beings, only in order to help their souls attain bliss, then this urge, too, is a gentle sign from Me, a place for you where you can successfully work on your fellow human beings' souls. Then speak without shyness as it comes into your mind, for then you are driven by My spirit, and then the words are put into your mouth, then you can only speak as it is pleasing to Me, and then your words will not fail to make an impression, because you are urged by the spirit of love which wants to express itself through you, and then you will be doing redemptive work, for all people who accept your teachings and work accordingly will release themselves from their bondage, they will believe and then also find the right path to Me .... Everything you show to your fellow human beings with the will to love has a beneficial effect on them, and if you are now seized by the spirit of love yourselves, all your endeavours will be an emanation of love which will continue to work as strength, thus it will bring spiritual advantage again to those to whom you turn your love. Anyone with an open mind will recognize the spiritual and earthly hardship all around him and will want to help because he will also recognize why these people are in need, because he will recognize that it is unbelief which has caused their earthly hardship. He wants to bring them a ray of hope, he wants to introduce them to something hitherto unknown to them when I Myself am brought close to them as a being Which is supremely perfect, loving, wise and powerful. And as soon as you make it your business to bring Me close to your fellow human beings, to help them to believe in Me, you are redemptively active and faithful labourers in My vineyard to whom I want to assign an ever increasing field of work, because the adversity is great and much work is still to be done until the end .... For people have lost their faith, they live in the world and their souls have also anchored themselves in the world, that it requires great effort to liberate them and to show them the path which leads to their true home and which they have to take in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Redemption work presupposes own redemption ....

B.D. 6818 from April 29th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every individual can and should carry out redemptive work, i.e. help his fellow human beings or also the souls in the beyond to become free from bondage. But he must first have found redemption himself through Jesus Christ, Who alone can remove the chains from him and thus also enable him to be active in redemption again. And thus you can conclude that every person who wants to proclaim the gospel to his fellow human being must be completely filled by the spirit of Christ, that he therefore lives a true christianity and identifies himself as redeemed by Jesus Christ. To bring help to the bound requires strength and freedom, which no human being possesses who has not first been redeemed by Jesus Christ. Redemption, however, means to have become free from the power of God's adversary, who always only influences the human being in a negative way and also has power over him as long as he still stands apart from the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. And his power is expressed in an unloving way of life, in faults and vices of all kinds, in a visibly imperfect state, in which therefore everything unredeemed is found .... And such a person is not able to be redemptively active towards his fellow human beings. Nor will he want to help the unredeemed in the kingdom of the beyond because he cannot muster compassionate love for their hardship .... And such a person is also not suitable for proclaiming the gospel, for his words will have no strength and will never be able to awaken the dead to life. He himself is still unredeemed .... Successful redemptive work, however, can only be accomplished with the grace and power of Jesus Christ .... And therefore you humans should not be surprised that the bondage, the affiliation with God's adversary, is so openly apparent, for there is a lack of helpers who can be active in redemption .... There is a lack of followers and confessors of the divine redeemer who themselves draw knowledge and strength from their devotion to Him to also help their unhappy fellow human beings to salvation .... There is a lack of truly redeemed people .... For these now set to work themselves, because they are urged from within to also bring their fellow human beings the freedom which now makes them happy .... Anyone who has found the path to Jesus Christ himself and has consciously walked it will also lure and call his fellow human beings onto the same path, he will lead them to Jesus Christ himself, he will not rest until the signs of salvation are also recognizable in them .... And he will become more diligent in his work the more success he achieves, for the strength which flows to him for his work of salvation will always increase. God cannot be deceived by beautiful words and gestures, and no human being can feign redemption through Jesus Christ, for this also has an outwardly recognizable effect. And an unselfish work of love is the surest sign of redemption from the power of the adversary. But if this is not recognizable, then the human being is not fully committed to the work of redemption for his fellow human beings, for then he also lacks faith, even if he confesses it with his mouth .... He himself is still in sin, he is still under the power of the adversary, he does not know the bliss of redemption through Jesus Christ .... And he is and remains a dead proclaimer of Jesus who himself has not yet grasped the significance of His act of salvation. But again, anyone who has found redemption through Jesus' blood can do redemptive work himself without being privileged outwardly for it .... He can prove his freedom from the adversary through his way of life, he can vigorously stand up for Jesus Christ and His teaching, he can point his fellow human beings to Him, Who alone can loosen their bonds; he can work in silence and achieve more success than those who call themselves God's representatives on earth but represent His adversary far more .... He can contribute a great deal to the souls' redemption through his own example and intercession, he can already be an eager co-worker for God on earth and one day in the spiritual kingdom, because My love .... the sign of being redeemed .... incessantly urges him to bring help to those who are still unredeemed ....

Amen

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Redemptive work requires restless activity ....

B.D. 7091 from April 13th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

You must be restlessly active, for help still has to be brought to many souls, much redemption work still has to be done because time is pressing. And even if the success is not very great in terms of numbers, but every single soul will be eternally grateful to you for helping it to liberate itself from darkness. And every single soul is extremely dear to Me and its salvation an immense joy. You humans cannot yet understand that every soul is My emanated strength of love and that the love for it cannot ever fade away .... And what I have once regained cannot ever fall away from Me again, it remains intimately united with Me and shares immeasurable bliss with Me. For this reason I constantly admonish you, who want to serve Me, to be eagerly active, and I also provide you with access to those where your work is not entirely in vain .... Yet time is pressing towards the end .... whether you humans believe it or not. What will come afterwards for all those who have not followed your call is so dreadful that I would like to warn all people of it but cannot do it in any other way than through you, My messengers. And therefore your work urgently consists of pointing out the near end to your fellow human beings, of making the meaning of this end clear to them and of trying to persuade them to work on themselves so that they will escape the dreadful fate .... so that they may still change their nature and take refuge in Me in Jesus Christ .... Thus you must proclaim Me and My name to them, you must also mention the work of salvation, you must try to encourage them to live a life of love and thus do everything to lead their fellow human beings to faith in Me, but this faith must be a living faith .... For a dead faith is as good as no faith, and it will not protect them from this dreadful fate. Again and again you will have the opportunity to bring Me and My kingdom close to people, to convey My word to them, to preach love to them and to direct their thoughts towards the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself for the sake of sinful humanity. Therefore, whatever you do in My name will also be blessed, and every seed that falls on good soil will sprout and grow and bear fruit .... And you should also not let yourselves be discouraged by failures, you should always know that My adversary is also eagerly at work, and you should not give way to this but again and again test the strength of My name which truly achieves much. If you yourselves are driven by love for your unhappy fellow human beings .... if you want to banish the spiritual hardship you know about with a loving will to help, then you will truly also be able to achieve success, for then your love will be the strength which works and which can even touch unwilling hearts and make them receptive for what you offer them. Therefore, don't slacken in your activity for Me and My kingdom, always let your spiritual work be the most urgent, constantly request strength from Me, which I will truly not withhold from you, and make good use of the short time you humans still have until the end .... For the spiritual adversity is very great and can only be remedied through the loving help of all those who are willing to serve Me, be it on earth or also in the spiritual kingdom .... For all these are My co-workers who are only active in My will but .... as long as they still dwell on earth .... must want to help Me completely freely of their own accord, so that they will then speak to their fellow human beings in My stead and then their work of redemption will not be in vain either ....

Amen

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Redemption work of the individual ....

B.D. 7715 from September 30th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Each one of you has his task, each one of you will be given My assignment, providing he is willing to serve Me, as his father of eternity .... provided that he himself does everything to prepare himself for the work for Me, for his assignment, because I Myself want to work through him and this requires spiritual work on yourselves which you must voluntarily accomplish in order to then also be called by Me. And then I will guide each one of you and place him in the place where I need him. And then he shall only ever endeavour to carry out his master's will as a faithful servant, and he will accept My instructions and follow them. But then he will take part in the redeemer's work, for he scatters the seed, he prepares the fields .... the hearts .... to receive the seed. He distributes to them the word of God .... As a faithful labourer he always endeavours to introduce people to My teaching and to bring them to living faith in Me. And the seed will sprout, it will take root and spread, it will bring forth tender little plants which will grow and flourish with loving care, which will also bear fruit one day according to My will. And there are still vast stretches of land to be cultivated, many human hearts still need to be addressed and made receptive for My word, for where My word does not resound there is great spiritual hardship. On earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, however, much redemptive work still has to be done, for many souls have not yet heard My word, it has not yet penetrated them and thus it has not yet been able to take root either .... And therefore I instruct My servants to mention My word everywhere, for they will always be surrounded by souls which take part in every instruction, in every spiritual exchange, in every debate conducted by you humans who are impelled by My spirit. And you should pay special attention to these souls when you find little favour with your fellow human beings, when they close themselves off to My word if you bring it to them. The souls in the beyond hunger for food and drink, and they seek these from you because .... where My word resounds .... they feel good and are satisfied. Therefore never think that you speak My word ineffectually, but use every opportunity to also exchange with your fellow human beings in order to offer them My word, just as you have received it from Me yourselves. And remember those souls who willingly listen to you and are happy when they can fetch food and drink from you. For this is redemptive work which extends into the kingdom of the beyond and which every one of you can accomplish if only he wants to serve Me from within .... For you, who strive spiritually yourselves, all of you also have a host of souls around you, some of whom you were already united with on earth .... and your thoughts eagerly pursue them, and they, as it were, accept the spiritual knowledge which you yourselves absorb when reading or thinking about spiritual things. Anyone who seriously works on himself can do such redeemer work, and then he will also be able to count himself among My servants who are active in My vineyard, even if he has no obvious mission to fulfil .... But his redeemer's work will then extend more into the spiritual kingdom, where help must likewise be brought to the souls so that they will still reach the stage before the end, so that they can ascend in the spiritual kingdom. My love also applies to all of them, and therefore I bless all who are thus active for Me and My kingdom, who consciously want to serve Me and fulfil the mission they inwardly feel in their heart ...._>Amen

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God's power mediation for redemption work ....

B.D. 7763 from December 3rd 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Everything is possible for you if only you trust My strength, if only you use it to work for Me and My kingdom .... And you need never fear that I will let you lack strength if you want to use it for the salvation of your soul or for the redemption of the souls of your fellow human beings, the souls in the kingdom of the beyond. This work of redemption is My will and so extremely necessary in the last days before the end that I will truly bless everyone who makes it his business to do this will of Mine. And you will feel in your heart what you should do if you entrust yourselves to Me in thought or heartfelt prayer and ask Me for advice .... if you ask Me for guidance on all your paths. Whatever you do in association with Me will not be unsuccessful either, you will succeed even if you cannot see success straight away, but it is a blessed activity .... For I cannot grant people salvation against their will, and therefore you must be active as mediators. You must lovingly take care of those who are in spiritual hardship, and for the sake of your love I can now help all of them. I will impart strength to them to change their will as well as their nature, and success will not fail to come. Just don't leave Me out of your thoughts .... Know that I am the source of strength Who constantly wants to provide you with strength but that you have to request the strength yourselves .... And if I now give you the assurance that I want to provide you with unlimited strength, then accept this offer of Mine and you will truly no longer need to feel weak or unable to do the work for Me and My kingdom. And everything you need for this work will be supplied to you, for I am the lord, as Whose servants you offered yourselves, and the lord truly also takes over all their needs, and He also provides His servants abundantly, be it with earthly or spiritual goods .... they will never be in want of them. And you will always be guided to where you are needed, where you are to spread My seed, where you are to make human hearts receptive for My word, which helps to redeem the still immature spirit. For you walk all your paths under My guidance if you have entrusted yourselves to Me as your lord, for Whom you want to faithfully work the vineyard. For I know which souls need My help, I know which people accept My word when I offer it to them through you. And as long as I need your services you will also receive the strength from Me to do so, and you will not need to worry that you will not be able to fulfil your ministry .... For it is the time of the end and people do not have much time left. Therefore I also need you so that the time will be used well, so that you will help with the work of salvation, which will always be blessed by Me if it is your sincere will to serve Me ...._>Amen

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Task of the recipients of the word ....

B.D. 3570 from October 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

On My behalf you shall be active on earth .... You shall confess Me as your lord and customer before the world and stand up for Me and My name. This is your mission for which I train you, who are direct recipients of My word and who hear My word from the mouth of the recipient. Everyone shall work for Me in the coming time, according to his strength and his love for Me .... And you will all be given the opportunity to do so, each one will be able to be active in his place and proclaim My word again to those who are in greatest spiritual hardship and are in complete spiritual darkness. Bringing My word to them is a christian duty, it is a work of neighbourly love which is extremely significant, for it can save their souls from ruin. And therefore the offering of My word is to be valued even higher, it is to take precedence over all earthly duties, for the souls no longer have much time left to work on themselves. My word shall show them the path to Me so that they will then complete it with My help if they know My will and strive to fulfil it. Spreading My word is your most important task on earth, and you will feel it within yourselves when the time has come for you to speak openly and unabashedly to fellow human beings who are in spiritual hardship. You will feel impelled to enlighten people yourselves, for the great earthly adversity will be the reason for it, which you certainly recognize as a means of education used by My love in order to still save the souls from ruin, but which people cannot recognize as such and therefore despair and quarrel with their fate. And then give them clarification, speak to them of My never-ending love which wants to win them over, speak to them of their free will to which I don't impose any constraint, and admonish them to be lovingly active, advise them to establish the connection with Me, give them light so that the darkness of night will leave them, so that they will gladly and confidently entrust themselves to Me Myself and I can now influence them with My grace and My strength. Do not leave them to their state of darkness, have mercy on their souls and seek to win them for My kingdom .... And your work will be blessed. I Myself will be with you and speak through you as soon as you want to be active for Me, I will give you the strength to convincingly and understandably offer My word to your fellow human beings, I will guide you to those who are in need and their will alone will determine whether they will benefit from My word .... And therefore prepare yourselves for your ministry which will be assigned to you in not too long a time; constantly work on your soul yourselves, live in love and always remain intimately united with Me so that you will be able to work for Me and My kingdom, so that you will become suitable and serve Me as an instrument on earth. For the adversity is great and the time is short until the end, and countless souls need help which I want to bring to them through you. And therefore be diligently active and wait for My call in order to then comply with it if I need you. Hope and believe, and don't be anxious and despondent, whatever may come, for I know everything and direct everything according to My will, as it has been determined since eternity and as is best for people's souls. But I protect My servants on earth so that they become aware of My strength and fully trust Me and are therefore also able to carry out the work for My kingdom. And My blessing accompanies you on all your ways ....

Amen

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Carry My Gospel into the world ....

B.D. 5725 from July 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Carry My Gospel into the world .... You don’t realise how necessary it is that people are taught, that they hear My Word and thus discover My will .... Although they know everything you make accessible to them as My Word, they no longer consider it My Word, they are simply empty phrases which they do not take seriously, consequently, they do nothing to improve their soul’s maturity, they live for the moment without thinking about the purpose of their life on earth .... And now you shall take My Word to them anew, they will certainly recognise it as the same Word but it will seem more alive to them because you will bring them a gift which you had received from Me Myself and which will no longer appear dead to them, instead, it will appeal to them as soon as you offer My Word with love. Carry My Gospel into the world .... This is the only possible way to acquaint people with their God and Creator, with their Father of eternity, Whom they must get to know in order to establish contact with Him themselves. You should inform them of Me, of My love for My living creations, of My eternal plan of Salvation and of the approaching end which shall not find them unprepared. You should bring them the truth, the knowledge you have received from Me which is intended to help people attain beatitude. Try to direct their minds to spiritual spheres and, above all, draw their attention to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ; you should try to encourage them to look within themselves, to work at improving their souls, to strive for spiritual life, for the rebirth of their souls .... Try to convince them of the soul’s continuation of life and the responsibility they bear as human beings towards their souls, portray the soul’s fate after death to them and draw their attention to the fact that a Helper exists, that they should appeal to Jesus Christ for strengthening their will if it is too weak and, most of all, encourage them to be lovingly active .... Pass on everything I teach you Myself, and thus be true distributers of My teaching of love and work for Me and My kingdom, because people need explanations, they need My Word, and it shall be vividly offered to them, otherwise they will reject it and yet they cannot become blessed without My Word. Remember that time is running out, that your work does not allow for any delay, that you must work diligently because humanity is suffering great spiritual adversity. Remember that there is not much time left until the end and that you therefore must not be half-hearted or sluggish, but that you can also be certain of My blessing, of My support and constant instructions, that I will always and forever give so that you can pass it on again to those who are in need and depend on your help .... Therefore, be eager labourers in My vineyard, serve Me as faithful servants and guide people out of the darkness of night into the light of day .... Preach My Gospel of love to all people, so that they will attain life and become blissfully happy.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna