6.1. The Life of the Newly Chosen People: Holiness, the Foundation of the Christian Life

Oh, sons, oh, sons, man, and especially the one who wants himself a Christian, treads day and night upon the word of his prayer toward God and walks so until his separation from God for sin; and he then lets himself be led by sin knowingly, for sin is beside him, is in him and with him; and God is not near, he says to himself. Oh, I am always and I am everywhere. I do not sleep as the man eager for sin would believe. The one who sleeps is he, and he sleeps his sleep of sin, which he believes unseen, unknown from anywhere, for this is what sin does in man, this is the work of sin; and man sleeps his sleep of sin, oh, and there is no one to tell men that sin brings into man a sleep of death, and by no means that God sleeps and that He does not see and that one is not seen by God; oh, and therefore I come as a Shepherd upon the earth, I come out of mercy for the man who sleeps the sleep of sin, out of mercy for the one who gives himself to keep putting God to sleep within him so that the Lord may not see him, so that He may not trouble him from his own wills, from the sins of death; and behold, I come upon the earth as a word of Shepherd and I urge all those who sin toward their separation from God and I tell them to look toward weeping for sin, so that the Lord may see their awakening from sin and their coming out from under guilt; for behold, death reaps busily the men upon the earth and does not ask them about the cleansing of their sins.

We now seat at a shepherd’s table the citadel which has come on this Sunday for the examination of their walking with the Lord as sons of the people of My word; and we have to set in the book the manner in which all those must have their spirit and their behaviour and their faith and their watching who enter the rank of those who are to Me a new people of New Jerusalem, and upon whose table I, the Lord, am word and body; and I Myself sup with them at the table of the new Passover, promised by Me that I shall take it with those who are Mine at the end upon the earth, and at which supper I come down with those from heaven, as I promised.

You who come now and then to the spring so as to drink, oh, take care that it may be of profit to you and that you may fulfil what I give for working to those at My table from here. Oh, stay on the way with Me, but seek to understand clearly the walking on the way with Me, for I see here and there a walking mixed with the things from outside, with those from the world, who are the sons of the world; but the step from darkness to light must be made entirely, and then you must remain within Me, so that I too may be able to remain within you, oh, sons. Therefore I bow down and I beg you to take care of your mind and of My staying in your spirit, for otherwise your mind is a beggar at doors and you mix Me in it with the things with which you walk wherever you walk; and those who work so lose the gift of faith and then fall from holiness and no longer remain within Me and come to forsake Me from the table, as Judas did, who after he took from My new Passover went out from Me and went as a beggar at doors straight to those with whom he caroused, when he ought to have stayed within Me with his mind and with his spirit. I say this so as to beg you not to forsake your union with Me all together as brothers, oh, sons, for today a little, tomorrow again a little, until your wandering becomes a habit, and the separation from Christ becomes an occupation of the spirit of your mind, sons.

This day here and now in the citadel is a day of whole teaching, and let all the people take and learn, so that it may be known who those are who can be with My walking of today and with the people prepared through My word of Shepherd.

And those who have not learned and have not grown accustomed to the walking in the flock with a Shepherd, those should stand aside, for My light makes plain those who are not prepared after so many years of counsel from above, and after all the time they have stayed as beggars at doors here and there and have not loved obedience and the walking with a Shepherd, oh, for they have obeyed neither with the spirit nor with the body, neither with the grace nor with the fulfilment.

Behold, now also I give holy counsel, that the calling alone is not enough, but you must then also be chosen, and then with much faithfulness and with a life known by the shepherds of the church set by Me over the people, that they may search out closely the walking of the flock for a table of the Passover, lest the wolf eat the Lamb, as I have said before, and lest someone burst in who is not known and searched out closely for a beautiful walking in the flock; and that there may be full healing in those who give themselves to God with their life, with their love, with the longing within them, for I long for the longing after Me in you, sons who have gladdened Me so much that I might eat the Passover with you, that I might fulfil with you this Scripture in the kingdom of My Father with you upon the earth.

Behold, you take care of everything else, my Christian who hear and know from My word the God Who knocks at your door; but as for thinking about what shall become of you and with you after so long a time in which God has awaited you to choose yourself at His right hand for your rescue, behold, it is as though you sleep and keep sleeping as if you do not hear when I speak to you and invite you toward life and toward its truth which is from God for man.

In all the time of the seventy years of shepherding of the people who took My word, these Christians have not taken care not to put God away from over them with all His counsels for them. Oh, he who wants himself so free for his own wills cannot be a fulfiller of My word which is over him; and what shall you do, Christian shepherded by Jesus Christ come from heaven to you through the word, what shall you do if you have lived and live and work only for yourself, and do not seek to fulfil His calling?

I have left over you the spirit of holy love, and it has gathered you and washed you within, oh, sons. As the mother who bathes her child and dresses him afresh with clean little clothes, so has My holy love worked over you on this day, that you might feel to the full its taste, without compare with other kinds of love; and I call to your mind now My word spoken to you many years ago, once and twice, and I told you that love heals man of sin, and this is the holy love, which cannot be set with its holy name upon other kinds of love, oh, and only sinful man takes this holy name to set it over the loves with which he is accustomed, since he does not love the truth of all things and above all things for himself.

When you make prayers toward God and begin with the sign of the holy cross and with the beginning prayers, behold, sons, so do you say: “O heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, Who are everywhere and fill all things and share out good things and life over us, come and make Your dwelling in us and make clean in us and save us, O Good One!”

Oh, sons, men do not love the truth of all things and therefore they are not true. The spirit of truth is with those who sanctify themselves and cleanse themselves and make themselves afresh always for the Lord, for it is written in the Scriptures that the Lord does not let Himself be found by those who tempt Him, but He uncovers Himself only to those who have faith; but not faith in any manner whatever, for the wisdom which is from God cannot be in a cunning soul and does not rest with its riches in the man who enslaves his body toward sin. Behold how empty man is, how uncovered, poor of him, how poor, because of the sin in him!

Oh, read the Scripture and learn from it, sons. There is no way for the sons of the world to be wise if they do not take from the Scriptures understanding and their own making. Therefore ask for the Spirit of truth over you, for from Him the faithful one grows accustomed to the love which is for God, from Him he takes always life and understanding from heaven, and all things come from Him and are.

And now, sons who have gathered at My calling, behold, just as you have said today with the voice of your mouth at the hearing of the sins which have shown how many things a man can do in his life, and you have said for yourselves and for those before you “so I have done”, I, your Lord and Shepherd, teach you now to say at the teachings which I give you after the meeting between Me and you, to say now “so I shall do”; for I set between Me and you a book for what he must know and fulfil who wants to be numbered and sealed among the sons of the people of My word of this time, and with whom I build true Christians for this time before My visible coming, according as I promised that I would come again; and behold, I grow you in this longing after Me that I may come as soon as possible, sons, oh, for I long, I long greatly to come soon, soon, if only I may have you ready in all things so that I may be able to show Myself with you and in you with My brightness, and that the world may see God with you upon the earth, sons.

Behold what the sons of this word, come from heaven upon the earth that I may shepherd with it a people and have it on My side, at My right hand, must know from Me and fulfil before Me day and night:

Oh, son, the inward things of your fulfilment must be the faith and its face and its work, kept from the longing and the taste of sin, from the snare wrapped in honey so that man may not know it; and then there must be the spirit of truth, the spirit of holy love, the spirit of those who sanctify themselves and cleanse themselves through love, for this love is My dwelling in you, sons.

Wherever you are and wherever you go, let the man of the world have how to see God in your life and let him also then desire Me through your visible bearing, the one which enchants and draws toward the Lord, oh, for it is a sin not to show the Lord in your day-to-day life, in your beautiful bearing and speaking, and which calls and urges man toward your beauty with God.

Keep the health of your body and of your soul through the fulfilment of the commandments of life, and bow beneath the tests which come to you for the trying of your faith and of your love for God, guarding yourself from the wave and from the spirit of the world, which tempts through itself the way of the cross and those upon this holy way.

Oh, do not seek to see the sin of the world, lest you lust with the body, My child. See that you do not lay down your weapons, see that you do not fail to make your prayers in their Christian order, and above all the one at midnight, your most precious gold for God.

But the outward things also of your fulfilment as sons of this people with so mighty a name upon the earth, a people of New Jerusalem, oh, these also are the fruits of the inward things of the life with Christ, so that you are not to resemble in your garments those of the world; and rather turn your face toward the mighty dress worked from clean linen and cotton cloth of the forefathers of the Romanian people, and bring it to the light and adorn yourselves with this Romanian greatness, and which shall draw the eyes toward the good teaching from you toward them; and the forefathers and the voivodes of this people, holy once upon a time in speech, in dress, as the poet says, shall thank you; and whether it be winter or summer, whether it be cold or hot outside, be you beautiful for the angels, whether you are children or young or older, for you must keep the angels near you, oh, sons, and you must bear yourselves after their pleasure, lest you drive them away from beside you by going about with the head uncovered or with the body not covered in a seemly manner, and not after the fashion of the world foreign to God between earth and heaven.

Oh, but neither in your little house seek to have luxury which is of no use to you and does not suit you and God; and seek only the things useful for your life as a Christian, lest you resemble the sons of the world and the Lord may not tell you apart from among them, for they are not beautiful, oh, they are not, because of their occupations which are without God, according as their life also is.

And now behold holy counsel for your holiness at all times, Christian child of My word of your time with Me: Oh, do not buy for yourself food made by the sons of the world, by unwashed hands and full of the sin which you touch and eat if you take from their hands. Everything you use for food must first be passed through water, you must first wash, and only then make food of it. Wash everything and always, wash and sprinkle with sanctified water everything you use, oh, and let it not be hard for you to listen so, for water cleanses and sanctifies and has its holy mystery, it has its work within and without the man who seeks to be clean for God, oh, for many are the mysteries upon the earth, and all have their ordinance which is from God for the service of the man pleasing to God; but the sons of men are strangers to God and to all the mysteries from above which serve upon the earth for man.

Therefore, you who desire to be the sons of this word and a people with a heavenly table apart, you, sons, feed yourselves with vegetables and with fruits, with roots for food and with seeds of every kind, with grains of every sort for the food of man, with greens and nuts of every kind, with all that you can first pass through water. All that you buy for food, let everything be washed first, washed and blessed and sprinkled with sanctified water and blessed through prayer with the sign of the holy cross, and only then make of them the food which is for you. Oh, eat nothing prepared, use nothing, for the world does not work cleanly, nay, it even makes offerings to the devil, and it also smokes, and it also curses and defiles itself and defiles everything; and therefore everything must be cleansed and washed and then prepared by you, and above all the bread, oh, sons, for those of the world have hands unwashed of their sinful body and they put into the bread unclean things of their own and they do this on purpose to defile everything and everyone; and behold, this I, the Lord, ask of those who want to stand beside the people of My word, a people prepared by Me how to stand beside Me and at My table of today, for I come to My table with it with My heaven of saints and of angels, sons.

Oh, from the very beginning of My word in the year 1955 I have kept seeking to urge and to accustom him who drew near to My spring of word, and I counselled him beautifully and tenderly to wash himself and to stand clean beside Me and then to feed himself cleanly, and to love cleanly, to love prayer and not to live without it between himself and God. To fast according to the ordinance I taught him and accustomed him; and therefore every son who wants himself of this word and people has to fulfil at all times the fast of three days in the week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, without oil and wine, apart from the days marked for a loosening among the church feasts; as also on the other days, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, adding oil and wine and monastic food, vegetables and fruits, grains and seeds, roots and nuts of every kind, food with greens, as I told the man of the beginning to listen and to live, feeding himself so; but he did not listen, neither he nor his followers; but now, at the end of time, I must build Myself a people who shall feed themselves after the ordinance given by Me now for him who stands near with his walking after My will; and if he cannot, he chooses to stand aside if so he chooses to do; but if he does not like being aside he must obey exactly, lest, not obeying, he draw upon himself the things of disobedience, which then speak their word, drawing him aside, as happened with those who did not obey and lost the walking with Me and wanted marriage, loved to sin and set aside the clean ordinance if they went toward marriage; and all that is apart from the birth of sons was sin to them and was written down to them as fornication, pleasure and bodily taste, for they did not want to love heaven and the Lord, Who paid upon the cross the sin of man.

Therefore, it must be made clear for all those who do not know what sin is, which parts man from holiness and from his share with Christ between heaven and earth; and on this Sunday I shepherd My flock with the teaching about sin, for if you speak to one who is a stranger to life with Christ about holiness, oh, he does not like it, he does not understand you and does not listen to you if he is a lover of sin; and therefore we must speak about sin to him who is accustomed to sin, that he may then know what the fruits of sin are and their place afterwards, and the place of him who commits sin over his life; and behold, the fruits of life with Christ are in eternity, and therefore man must have holiness that he may be able to enter there where the fruits of righteousness are gathered. But the sins make man a place in hell, and therefore man must not do sin which would gather with its fruits there where the lovers of sin upon the earth go.

Oh, we must speak about sin, not about holiness first, for the fruits of sins bring over the lovers of sin punishments upon the earth also, and then the lover of sin goes there where the sinners go, that is, into hell. Sin is a bitter fruit, a fruit which is cast into the fire, where the man who lives in sin then has his place also. Therefore those who join themselves to the life of a Christian must learn what sin means and what it is and what its fruits are, and only then learn how to choose and to keep their holiness, for holiness is not worked, it is chosen and that is all; and it is contrary to sin, and so does man choose himself to be a Christian afterwards.

Oh, one must not work at the bearing, but at the thinking; at the mind one must work. The bearing and its habits are what show the sickness of man, and all these are because man has no counsellor to tell him about the sin of his pride of every kind and about its bitter fruit, punishing afterwards the man who works with this sin; and this happens because man believes that he knows, that he is, that he can, that he desires himself with a position and with a deserved place, that he is capable, that he is more than the others; only that at the smallest test he proves his unsoundness and that God is missing from him, and this because the Lord does not fit in him; and behold the sin of Cain, in whom the teaching and the counsel from God did not fit, and he rebelled unseen against his brother and hated him and gave over to death the one meek and humble of heart, as I like him to be who chooses the life of a Christian; and if he does not prove such a bearing, in vain does he believe himself a Christian, but he is an enemy to his fellows, though they are worthy of the love of God.

Oh, they do not know, sons, the Christians do not know how My work is, for if they knew they might be able not to err against the Holy Spirit, with Whom I work in the midst of this people; and behold, doubt leads to the losing of faith drop by drop over the murmurers, as also over the hypocrites and flatterers, for whom what they are is not enough, and who want themselves more than they are, poor of them, oh, and therefore teaching from above is needed, that man may know what he is and how much he is, and what the sin does which he knows by its bitter fruits; oh, and behold how little care and far too little there is among Christians for the training of Christian bearing; and we are at the middle of the fast for the Holy Passover, and the Christian does not want to cleanse himself of himself and of the fruits which are against his own self; and therefore I give notice that you shall take the book again and again and shall call to mind from it the sins which a man can commit, and which the kindred that has passed of every Christian kept committing; and come, let us work the cleansing and let every Christian humble himself for his own self and for his forefathers unto the thousandth kindred, and for those fallen asleep from Adam until today, and let us make their washing, sons; for if Christians could see with their eyes how many of those departed from the earth gather and how they come together at the memorials for those fallen asleep from the ages, and how they rejoice and are refreshed and rise step by step toward the resurrection which comes, oh, they would greatly prize the work of My word and the setting through which the binding of heaven with earth is made for the resurrection of the dead and of the living and for the fulfilment of the Scriptures which are still to come and to be seen; and behold, notice must be given about the sins which part man from God and from his eternity with God, and holiness then comes of itself over the Christian, oh, for the Lord has need of a people clean of sin and full of the love which heals all sinners and makes them holy for heaven; for two thousand years ago I stood upon the cross, and that cross united Me with mankind, sons, oh, and those upon the earth do not know how to love My sacrifice for them and the cross and the walking with it as I, the Lord, walked for every man of all the times under heaven, oh, sons.

You, sons of My word which is for you, keep the saints near you and give them work over the earth through your prayers toward them, and send them toward Me with your requests, sons, for I work through them for you and for those of today struck by the palm of antichrist, who now rules over My church, over My house known by many as the house of God. Make many prayers and always, and set them upon the table that they may be heard by Me and by the saints; and be strong for the first faith, that of My saints, the right one, sons.

I am with the great saints of My flock from the beginning, and I am at the table with them and with you here on this day, and their spirit is in great happiness for My word over you, sons. Oh, how despised they were by the servants of antichrist in their time! Oh, how right they remained in faith in the midst of so many heresies which overspread the flock and the power of the faith of the Christians tried so hard through the ages, and from whom their shepherds were taken and the comfort shared out to them through the signs and the wonders which I, the Lord, worked through those pleasing to Me over those troubled and powerless and threatened by the wind of unbelief, oh, sons!