Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 281

A true sermon

16th March 1843

Oh Lord, my most loving, true, holy Father, hear me again! For, behold, I have a little modesty all to myself, do not know how to advise myself and not decipher what this should mean? The answer to this request came in a somewhat fierce tone:

[1] Good, good! What do you write on paper what you want, as if I did not know it any in any other way than until you put it on paper! I can see into your heart! Don't you know such things?! So write then:

[2] As for the preacher's wife who you are concerned about, I tell you – do not worry about this, because you have in Me a quite different preacher, who now already preaches to you every day for three years the innermost, great secrets of life and wants to keep on preaching to you – yes, up to the end of your life on earth ever brighter and brighter and then give you the wages of the servants, if you do so in love for Me, the true preacher, and will grow towards your brothers, as I grow voluntarily in you in the fullness of My living word, which is My love, mercy and grace in you as in everyone who will hear this and live accordingly.

[3] But when I now in this significant time here and there begin to call and awaken the dead from the graves according to My promise made to you, then such a thing is a good sign for you. But the best is your own light of mercy.

[4] For where I let great repentance be proclaimed, there I stand at the door as judge. But where I preach love, there the Father stands at the door!

[5] Therefore take care of nothing but Me, and you can be assured that you will not be ashamed forever before someone who walks in complete earnest on My ways.

[6] But he who will be angry with you, he will also be angry with Me. But let them be angry who want to be angry! In the end it will be shown what everyone will have achieved by his annoyance.

[7] Be assured, whoever always seeks and wants to achieve something other than to love only Me – the only Lord, God and Father – above all things in his heart and his neighbor seven times more than himself, he is either to go out empty, or I will nevertheless open the spirit-world to him, so that such a foolish seeker is then to be stultified by the spirits and to be caught and established in innumerable falsehoods!

[8] Verily, whoever loves Me for another purpose and not at the bottom of the reason completely for My own sake, he is not worthy of My grace.

[9] But whoever still scrutinize his brothers and wants to be wiser and better than them – and whoever still thinks himself like a lord and cannot yet pray for his enemies and cannot bless those who curse him, truly, he is still far from My lampstand of grace!

[10] But if a rich and handsome bridegroom knew that a bride who pretended to love him loved him only because of his wealth and prestige – indeed, he would say to such a bride: 'Get away from me! For you have never recognized my heart, but only my treasures bound you hypocritically to me! But I will give you according to your love which is dead in my treasury without me. But you shall never see me! And when you will have consumed death, then my treasury shall be closed to you forever!’

[11] But I am an omniscient bridegroom! Therefore I see it exactly how someone's heart is ordered! And I therefore say: Whoever wants to come to Me for Me, comes – and he will immediately find eternal reception. But let everyone check his heart carefully! For as long as only a spark of foreign love still dwells in it, I will not move in and let Myself be completely found!

[12] Every lover, however, if he is a true lover, is certainly jealous, and this so often because of a little thing, because he is a true lover. For love wants to be pure and to receive pure. But I am the greatest and most pure lover from eternities! Therefore I am also exceedingly jealous. And no-one is to have Me in My essence, but only he who loves Me alone above all things!

[13] Behold, this is a true word, a true sermon! Remain with this, and care not for another, and you will have enough of it for ever. For surely My mouth's word will be better than that of a raptured enthusiast! Therefore let her be! For I know what I do through such persons!

[14] But concerning the four serpents in your dream, of which in the end the largest bit you in top of your hand, such only has a relation to the present speech of the dragon in the Main work [Household of God was dictated in this time] and it says that this dictation will hurt you a little at first. But you will soon awaken from such injury.

[15] Behold, this is all you wanted today! Take heed, love Me and be calm. Amen.