The Word of God in Romania 2004.03.14 - The Word of God on the third Sunday o

2004.03.14.
The Word of God 1 on the third Sunday of the Lent, of the Holy Cross 2
With My heavy cross, with the cross of My coming, I settle down on your gentle shoul-
ders, seized by awe and hardship on the way of My coming to the man, children under the cross.
The way of the cross is very beautiful, the way under the cross, and blessed are and will be
those who do not flee from it, and those who flee are those who do not recognize themselves in
Me, the One broken and victorious under the cross, and neither I do recognize Myself in them.
Amen.
I spoke clearly: «If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take
up his cross, and follow Me», (Matt. 16:24) to follow Me and not to follow themselves, children
from under the cross, crushed and victorious under it and by it, for there is no victorious man
between earth and heaven but only through the cross. Amen.
I was together with My disciples when I called the crowd and I said: «If anyone desires
to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever
desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for My sake and for the
Gospel, that one will find it, and it will save him from destruction, for what will profit a man,
if he gains the whole world, and he forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for
his life?» (See Matt. 16:24-26)
Oh, children crushed and victorious under the heavy cross of My coming after the man!
You shall know and tell everybody by this spoken word that on earth there are two kinds of
Christians: earthly or fleshly Christians, and heavenly or spiritual Christians, under the
cross. You, little sons with a heavy-footed walking on your way with Me, you shall never cry
for yourselves or for the man. However, you should cry for Me and with Me, and let the
sons of the world cry for themselves. He who cries for himself is rebellious and unthankful,
and he who loves Me and follows Me by self-denial, and does not have to and it is not nice to
separate from God before the angels or before the people, for I am not a doll, as many people
want to treat Me, but I am the One full of tears for every man who plays with God before the
angels and before the people shaking off his cross, his faith, his stature and his steadfastness by
any difficult thing, and I, the Lord and My saints, did and do not do such a thing, but we are
rather long enduring on earth and in heaven for the life and for the salvation of the man, fallen
from life. Amen.
The cross is My coming through the glory on the cross, as I worked two thousand years
ago. The cross is the sign of My coming to the man, and the man without a cross does not
have My coming in his body. The cross is the victory upon death, and I call blessed those that
get under it and do no longer come out from under it, for the man without a cross is worldly
and he is like a child who loves his toys and the life of his free will, and not a life with tears and
with heartache to keep him alive and true on earth as in heaven. The cross is the life without
sin, without pleasures, without self-will, for the kingdom of God in man is not like the one on
earth in man, but it is like that one on the cross, for through the cross I was a King with a
kingdom, which does not fall down. Amen.
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God’s Word in „Holy Citadel New Jerusalem” monastery, Glodeni – Romania, redactor note.
Translated by I.A.
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