*** UNLESS SOULS ARE SAVED, NOTHING IS SAVED; THERE CAN BE NO WORLD PEACE UNLESS THERE IS SOUL PEACE. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of modern men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul. During World War II, His Holiness, Pope Pius XIII said that postwar humanity would be more changed than the map of postwar Europe. It is this postwar frustrated human or the modern soul, who interests us in this volume.

Such a person is, as the Holy Father predicted, unlike the people of earlier periods. For one thing, the modern soul no longer looks to find God in nature. In other generations, man, gazing out on the vastness of creation, the beauty of the skies, and the order of the planets, deduced the power, the beauty, and the wisdom of the God Who created and sustained that world. But modern man, unfortunately, is cut off from that approach by several obstacles.

He/She is impressed less with the order of nature than he is with the disorder of his/her own mind, which has become his/her main preoccupation; atomic and nuclear [warfare] has destroyed his awe of a nature that can now manipulated so as to destroy other people or even to commit cosmic suicide; and, finally, the science of nature is too impersonal for this self-centered age. The old approach not only makes a man a mere spectator of reality, instead of its creator, but also demands that the personality of the seeker after truth shall not intrude itself in investigation. But it is the human personality, not nature, that really interests and troubles people today.

This change in our times does not mean that the modern soul has given up the search for God, but only that is has abandoned the more rational - and even more normal - way of finding Him. Not the order in the cosmos, but the disorder in themselves; not the visible things of the world, but the invisible frustrations, complexes, and anxieties of their own personality - these are modern humanity's starting point when people turn questioningly toward religion. In happier days, philosophers discussed the problem of man; now they discuss man as a problem.

Through his scepticism the modern man/woman is thrown back upon himself/herself; his/her energies flow toward their source and wash to the surface those psychic contents that are at all times there, but lie hidden in the silt as long as the stream flows smoothly in its course. How totally different did the world appear to medieval man! For him, the earth was eternally fixed and at rest in the center of the universe, encircled by the course of a sun that solicitously bestowed its warmth.

Men/Women were all children of God under the loving care of the Most High, who prepared them for eternal blessedness; and all knew exactly what they should do and how they should conduct themselves in order to rise from a corruptible world to an incorruptible and joyous existence. Such a life no longer seems real to us, even in our dreams. Natural science has long ago torn this lovely veil to shreds. That age lies as far behind as childhood, when one's own father was unquestionably the handsomest and strongest man on earth.

Formerly, humanity lived in a three dimensional universe where, from an earth one inhabited with one's neighbour, one looked forth to heaven above and to hell below. Forgetting God, a person's vision has lately been reduced to a single dimension; one now thinks of one's activity as limited to the surfaced of the earth - a plane whereon one moves nor up to God or down to Satan, but only to the right or to the left. The old theological division, of those who are in the state of grace and those who are not, has even way to the political separation of rightist and leftist. The modern soul has definitely limited its horizons; having negated the eternal destinies, it has even lost its trust in nature, for nature without God is traitorous.

Where can the soul go, now that a roadblock has been thrown up against every external outlet? Like a city that has all its outer ramparts seized, a person must retreat inside himself. As a body of water that is blocked turns back upon itself, collecting scum, refuse, and silt, so the modern soul (which has none of the goals or channels of the Christian) backs upon itself and in that choked condition collects all the sub-rational, instinctive, dark, unconscious sediment that would never have accumulated had there been the normal times.

People now find that they are locked up within themselves, their own prisoner. Jailed by self, they now attempt to compensate for the loss of the three dimension universe of faith by finding three new dimensions within their own mind. Above their ego, their conscious level, they discover, in the place of heaven, an inexorable tyrant whom they call the superego. Below their consciousness, in place of hell, they substitute a hidden world of instincts and urges, primitive longings and biological needs, which they call the id.

This conception of the human person as consisting of three layers or regions has been emphasized by Sigmund Freud. It forms an essential element in the psychoanalytic doctrine of human nature. The most important feature of this doctrine is the belief that one's conscious mental life, one's experiences, and one's conduct are determined, not by what one knows, feels, or intends, but by forces largely hidden from one's consciousness. The ego, or consciousness, is only the battlefield where an incessant war is fought between a person's biological, primitive urges and the powers embodied in the superego.

These power take the place of conscience, they originate, not in an awareness of a natural law and of a person's obligation in face of the divine law, but from social pressure, environmental influences brought to bear on the plastic mind of the small child. Because the fulfillment of the primitive urge is placed under control by society (as in the training of toilet habits), this urges become "frustrated."

Their original aims cannot persist in our consciousness because of their intolerable conflict with environmental standards. Thereby, they become "repressed." The child thus takes over all laws, viewpoints, and values of the adult world when he accepts these standards as his own. He does this by identifying himself with the person whom he would view as an antagonist in a primitive society. Thus, the superego arises and acquires its contents - the rules, taboos, and ideals that happen to be those of the child's surrounding world.

According to such a modern conception of the subjective life, the human appears as a captive within his own mind and as a victim of forces that he or she cannot recognize. To free themselves, if that be possible, the person must know more about their prison. This is one reason for the great popularity psychiatry enjoys today. This science promises to explain humans to themselves, to enable them to cope better with their tragic situation. A certain type of psychiatry tries to explain man by a theory that the conscious is devoid of value, that only through the unconscious may modern man/woman hope to discover a way out of his/her unhappiness.      

*** BY  VENERABLE  FULTON  J.  SHEEN 

God has made Himself known to all people everywhere in the marvel of nature and in the human conscience which is able to distinguish right from wrong, truth from false and sin, because this knowledge is universal and continuous, by it God has displayed His glory to everyone. "The heavens declare the glory of God, the vault of heaven proclaims his handy works; day discourses of it to day, night to night hands on the knowledge. No utterance at all, no speech, no sound that anyone can hear; yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their message to the ends of the world. High above, he pitched a tent for the sun, who comes out of his pavilion like a bridegroom, exulting like a hero to run his race. He has his rising on the edge of heaven, the end of his course is its furthest edge, and nothing can escape his heat." - Psalms 19:1-6 -

Some Christians think that only believers can see God's revelation in nature, but the Apostle/Saint Paul/Saul said that the unbelievers, the unrighteous and sinful man/woman know the truth about God too and they 'clearly see' it but they 'suppress' the truth; knowing God, hence, they fail to worship Him as God; they alter the truth; they do not retain God in their knowledge and knowing the righteous judgment (moral law) of God, they preferred to disobey it. The reason the ungodly are 'inexcusable' before God's righteous judgment is that they possessed it but rejected the truth which God gave them. 

- God's anger against the pagans - The anger of God is being revealed from heaven against all the impiety and depravity of men/women who keep truth imprisoned in their wickedness. For what can be known about God is perfectly plain to them since God himself has made it plain. Ever since God created the world his everlasting power and deity - however invisible - have been there for the mind to see in the things he has made. That is why such people are without excuse: they knew God and yet refused to honour him as God or to thank him; instead, they made nonsense out of logic and their empty minds were darkened. The more they called themselves philosophers, the more stupid they grew, until they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for a worthless imitation, for the image of mortal man/woman, of birds, of quadrupeds and reptiles. That is why God left them to their filthy enjoyments and the practices with which they dishonour their own bodies, since they have given up divine truth for a lie and have worshipped and served creatures instead of the creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen!

That is why God abandoned them to degrading passions: why their women have turned from natural intercourse to unnatural intercourse practices and why their menfolk have given up natural intercourse to be consumed with passion for each other, men doing shameless things with men and getting an appropriate reward for their perversion.

In other words, since they refused to see it was rational to acknowledge God, God has left them to their own irrational ideas and to their monstrous behaviour. And so they are steeped in all sorts of depravity, rottenness, greed and malice, and addicted to envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and spite. Libellers, slanderers, enemies of God, rude, arrogant and boastful, enterprising in sin, rebellious to parents, without brains, honour, love, and pity. They know what God's verdict is: that those who behave like this deserve to die - and yet they do it; and what is worse, encourage others to do the same. - Romans 1:18-32 - 

- The Jews are not exempt from God's anger - So no matter who you are, if you pass judgement you have no excuse. In judging others you condemn yourself, since you behave no differently from those you judge. We know that God condemns that sort of behaviour impartially: and when you judge those who behave like this while you are doing exactly the same, do you think you will escape God's judgement? Or are you abusing his abundant goodness, patience and toleration, not realising that this goodness of God is meant to lead you to repentance? Your stubborn refusal to repent is only adding to the anger God will have towards you on that day of anger when his just judgements will be made known. He will repay each one as his/her works deserve. For those who sought renown and honour and immortality by always doing good there will be eternal life; for the unsubmissive who refused to take truth for their guide and took depravity instead, there will be anger and fury. Pain and suffering will come to every human being who employs himself/herself in evil - Jews first, but Greeks as well; renown, honour and peace will come to everyone who does good - Jews first, but Greeks as well. God has no favorites. - Romans 2:1-11 -

God's universal revelation makes it clear that God exists and that God, the Creator of heaven and earth and of the mountains, oceans, vegetation, animals, and mankind is wise and powerful. People aware of their own moral responsibility who know the difference between right and wrong conduct and who have a sense of guilt when they do wrong, reflect the requirements of God's moral law that is written on their hearts.     

- Hymn to the lord of the storm - Pay tribute to Yahweh, you sons of God, tribute to Yahweh of glory and power, tribute to Yahweh of the glory of his name, worship Yahweh in his sacred court. The voice of Yahweh over the waters! Yahweh over the multitudinous waters! The voice of Yahweh in power! The voice of Yahweh in splendour! The voice of Yahweh shatters the cedars, The Yahweh shatters the cedars of Lebanon, making Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild bull. The voice of Yahweh sharpens lightning shafts! The voice of Yahweh sets the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of Yahweh sets the terebinths shuddering, stripping the forests bare. The God of glory thunders. In his palace everything cries, 'Glory!' Yahweh sat enthroned for the Flood, Yahweh sits enthroned as a king forever. Yahweh gives strength to his people, Yahweh blesses his people with peace. - Psalms 29:1-11 -

- The majesty of God - Yahweh is king, robed in majesty, Yahweh is robbed in power, he wears it like a belt. Yahweh have made the world firm, unshakeable; your throne has stood since then, you existed from the first, Yahweh. Yahweh, the rivers rise, the rivers raise their voices, the rivers raise the thunders; greater than the voice of ocean, transcending the waves of the sea, Yahweh reigns transcendent in the heights. Your decrees will never alter; holiness will distinguish your house, Yahweh for ever and ever. - Psalms - 93:1-5 -     

- The glories of creation - Bless Yahweh, my soul, Yahweh my God, how great you are! Clothed in majesty and glory, wrapped in a rope of light! You stretch the heavens out like a tent, you build your palace on the waters above; using the clouds as your chariots, you advance at the wings of the wind; you use the winds as messengers and fiery flames as servants. You fixed the earth on its foundations, unshakeable for ever and ever; you wrapped it with the deep as with a robe, the waters overtopping the mountains. At your reproof the waters took to flight, the fled at the sound of your thunder, cascading over the mountains, into the valleys, down to the reservoir you made for them; you imposed the limits they must never cross again, or they would once more flood the land. You set springs gushing in ravines, running down between the mountains, supplying water for wild animals, attracting the thirsty wild donkeys; near there the birds of the air make their nests and sing among the branches. From your palace you water the uplands until the ground has had all that your heavens have to offer; you make fresh grass grow for cattle and those plants made use of by man, for them to get food from the soil: wine to make them cheerful, oil to make them happy and bread to make them strong. The trees of Yahweh get rain enough, those cedars of Lebanon he planted; here the little birds build their nests and, on the highest branches, the stork has its home. For the wild goats there are the mountains, in the crags rock-badgers hide. 

You made the moon to tell the seasons, the sun knows when to set: you bring darkness on, night falls, all the forest animals come out: savage lions roaring for their prey, claiming their food from God. The sun rises, they retire, going back to lie down in their liars, and man goes out to work, and to labour until dusk. Yahweh, what variety you have created, arranging everything so wisely! Earth is completely full of things you have made: among them vast expanse of ocean, teeming with countless creatures, creatures large and small, with the ships going to and from and Leviathan whom you made to amuse you. All creatures depend on you to feed them throughout the year; you provide the food they eat, with generous hand you satisfy their hunger. You turn your face away, they suffer, you stop their breath, they die and revert to dust. You give breath, fresh life begins, you keep renewing the world. Glory for ever to Yahweh! May Yahweh find joy in what he creates, at whose glance the earth trembles, at whose touch the mountains smoke! I mean to sing to Yahweh all my life, I mean to play for my God as long as I live. May these reflections of mine give him pleasure, as much as Yahweh gives me! May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked exist no more! Bless Yahweh, my soul. - Psalms 104:1-35 -

Sinners who were not subject to the Law will perish all the same without that Law; sinners who were under the Law will have that Law to judge them. It is not listening to the Law but keeping it that make people holy in the sight of God. For instance, pagans who never heard of the Law but are led by reasons to do what the Law commands, may not actually 'posses' the Law, but they can be said to 'be' the Law. They can point the substance of the Law engraved on their hearts - they can call a witness, that is, their own conscience - they have accusation and defense, that is, their own inner mental dialogue. .....on the day when, according to the Good News I preach, God, through Jesus Christ, judges the secrets of mankind. - Romans 2:12-16 -

What is the result of divine revelation in nature? If anyone lived up to that knowledge by loving and obeying God everyday of his/her life, he/she would be right with God and would not need salvation. However, no human beings loves God absolutely with his/her whole being and his/her neighbours as himself/herself. With the only exception of Jesus, truly man and truly divine. Generally, people worship and serve things in creation rather than the Creator. The problem does not lie with the revelation which like the Law is holy, just and good; the problem is with the sinfulness of human lives. The best human being (other than Jesus Christ) comes short of the uprightness God requires. The Law is sacred and what it commands is sacred, just and good. 

Does that mean that something good killed me? Of course not. But sin, to show itself in its true colours, used that good thing to kill me; and thus sin, thanks to the commandment, was able to exercise all its sinful power. - Romans 7:12-13 -

The reason, therefore, why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. God has done what the Law, because of our unspiritual nature, was unable to do. God dealt with sin by sending his own Son in a body as physical as any sinful body, and in that body God condemned sin. He did this in order that the Law's just demands might be satisfied in us, who behave not as our unspiritual nature but as the spirit dictates. - Romans 8:1-4 -

When Christians defend justice, honesty and decency in schools, homes, neighbourhoods, businesses and governments, they do not impose their special belief upon others. They merely point to universal principles that all sinners know but suppress in the unrighteousness. In other words, the Lord Jesus Christ has 'declared' God to us personally. 

The anger of God is being revealed from heaven against all the impiety and depravity of men/women who keep truth imprisoned in their wickedness. - Romans 1:18 - 

As valuable as general revelation is for justice, honesty and decency in the world today, it is not enough. It must be completed by the Good News of God's mercy and His gracious gift of perfect righteousness. Nature does not show God's plan for saving those who do evil, wicked and sin: that Jesus was the Son of God that He died for our sins and that He rose again among the dead. The message of salvation was seen dimly throughout Old Testament sacrifices and ceremonies. It was seen more clearly as God redeemed the Israelites from enslavement in Egypt and as God disclosed to prophetic spokesmen the redemptive significance of His mighty acts of deliverance. The full and final revelation of God has occurred in Jesus Christ. 

God who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds. - Hebrews 1:1-2 - To see Christ is to see the Father. - John 17:8 - At the cross Jesus revealed supremely God's self-giving love. There He died, 'the just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. - 1 Peter 3:18 -

- The Day of the Lord Jesus Christ; the prophets and the apostles - My friends, this is my second letter to you, and in both of them I have tried to awaken a true understanding in you by giving you a reminder: recalling to you what was said in the past by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ, our  'Saviour' which you were given by the apostles. We must be careful to remember that during the last days there are bound to be people who will be scornful, the kind who always please themselves what they do, and they will make fun of the promise and ask, 'Well, where is this coming? Everything goes on as it has since the Fathers died, as it has since began at the creation.' They are choosing to forget there were heavens at the beginning, and that the earth was formed by the word of God out of water and between the waters, so that the world of that time was destroyed by being flooded by water. but by the same word, the present sky and earth are destined for fire, and are only being reserved until Judgement day so that all sinners may be destroyed.

But there is one thing, my friends, that you must never forget: that with the Lord, 'a day' can mean a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord is not being slow to carry out his promises, as anybody else might be called slow; but He is being patient with you all, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to change his/her ways. The Day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then with a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire and fall apart, the earth and all that it contains will be burnt up. 

Since everything is coming to an end like this, you should be living holy and saintly lives while you wait and long for the Day of God to come, when the sky will dissolve in flames and the elements melt in the heat. What we are waiting for is what He promised: the new heavens and the new earth, the place where righteousness will be at home. So then, my friends, while you are waiting, do your best to live lives without spot or stain so that He will find you at peace. Think of our lord's patience as your opportunity to be saved: our brother Paul, who is so dear to us, told you this when he wrote to you with the wisdom that is his special gift. He writes like this when he deals with this sort of subject, and this makes some points in his letter hard to understand; these are the points that uneducated and unbalanced people distort, in the same way as they distort the rest of scripture - a fatal thing for them to do. You have been warned about this, my friends; be careful not to get carried away by the errors of unprincipled people, from the firm ground that you are standing on. Instead, go on growing in the grace and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory, in time and in eternity. Amen. - 2 Peter 3:1-18 -      

I saw that there was no temple in the city since the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were themselves the temple, and the city did not need the sun or the moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God and the Lamb was a lighted torch for it. -Revelation 21:22-23 - Nothing unclean may come into it: no one who does what is loathsome or false, but only those who are listed in the Lamb's book of life. - Revelation 21:27 - Then the angel showed me the river of life, rising from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing crystal-clear down the middle of the city street. On either side of the river were the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month, and the leaves of which are the cure for the pagans. The ban will be lifted. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in its place in the city; his/her servants will worship him, they will see him face to face, and his/her name will be written on their foreheads. It will never be night again and they will not need lampstand or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. They will reign for ever and ever. - Revelation 22:1-5 -

The angel said to me, 'All that you have written is sure and will come true: the Lord God who gives the spirit to the prophets has sent his angel to reveal to his servants what is soon to take place. very soon now, I shall be with you again.' Happy are those who treasure the prophetic message of this book. - Revelation 22:6-7 -

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I had heard and seen them all, I knelt at the feet of the angel who had shown them to me, to worship him; but he said, 'Don't do that: I am a servant just like you and like your brothers and sisters the prophets and like those who treasure what you have written in this book. It is God that you must worship.' - Revelation 22:8-9 -

This, too, he said to me, 'Do not keep the prophecies in this book a secret, because the Time is close. Meanwhile, let the sinner go on sinning, and the unclean continue to be unclean; let those who do good go on doing good, and those who are holy continue to be holy. Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man/woman according to what he/she deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and last, the beginning and the End. Happy are those who will washed their robes clean, so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through the gates into the city. These others must stay outside: dogs, fortune-tellers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone of false speech and false life.' - Revelation 22:10-15 -

- EPILOGUE - I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations to you for the sake of the churches. I am of David's line, the root of David and the bright star of the morning. The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come'. Let everyone who listens answer, 'Come'. Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free. This is my solemn warning to all who hear the prophecies in this book, God will cut off his/her share of the tree of life and of the holy city, which are described in the book. The one who guarantees these revelations repeats his promise: I shall indeed be with you soon. Amen: come, Lord Jesus. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. - Revelation 22:16-21 -  

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Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!

Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -

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Dear Holy Spirit, our Almighty God, Lord Jesus Christ, teach us to talk well and act wisely. Let us avoid sinful and useless conversations. Help and guide us to speak often for You and of You. Grant that our words and actions may never hurt people of goodwill. May our words always bring consolation to those in sorrow, guidance to those who are confused, light to the ignorant, hope to those who despair, comfort to those who are troubled, and good advice to those in need. Take our lips and make them Yours. Take possession of our mind and make it an instrument of Your goodness, love and a channel of Your truth. We hope to become, that is, one who prefers the kingdom of God. In our human conversations, may we always bring You closer to them and them closer to You. Amen.

You and I will ask and wanted to know, and cross-examine God? In that case, how can God ever blame anyone, since no one can oppose His will? But what right have you and I, a human being, to cross-examine God? The pot has no right to say to the potter: Why did you make me this shape? Surely a potter can do what he/she likes with the clay? It is surely for him/her to decide whether he/she will use a particular lump of clay to make a special pot or an ordinary one? - Romans 9:14-21 - Daniel 9:8-10; 1 Timothy 1:12-16; Ephesians 2:4-6 -

The moment we desire anything too much, we lose God's gift of peace and compassion. Hence, the proud and the covetous are never at peace and satisfy. Whereas, the poor in spirit, the humble person, enjoys a heavenly peace of soul. To set our life in perfection, we must begin from within. True perfection is based on God's word and His grace. With God help, we can gain a self-control far beyond anything dreamed by secular and worldly peoples. It is necessary even in things which are good and holy in themselves.

Therefore, we must look first to our duties and obligations. Any holiness which makes us neglect these, is not from God. As a result, you and I should always pray to God: and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills our heart, mind, thoughts, and grants us: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control and may God blessing be upon us, always. Amen! If it is otherwise, it diminishes our recollection and interior peace, and makes us more subject to impatience, anger, rash judgment and over eagerness brings anxiety, fear and nervousness. Bear in mind: Uncontrolled desires and intentions can makes us fall into grievous sin. - Galatians 5:16-26 - Since the Holy Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Holy Spirit. We must stop being conceited, provocative and envious. Amen!

Besides, everybody likes to follow his/her own way of thinking, and prefers to associate with those who always agree with his/her ideas. Yet, it is foolish for us to think highly of our own opinion and way only. Nobody knows all the answers. The person who is always talking only does not advance much in knowledge. A good listener will always learn more than the one who talks too much. In other words, it is not always necessary to point out the mistakes of others. Even when we know better, we need not always express our opinion. The key word to practice is self-effacing, think highly of others too, and remember to be humble, always. In fact, many discussions are unnecessary and unimportant. So often, too, opinions depends on people's likes or dislikes.

To those who know how to control their tongues for God sake, God's grant the grace of interior peace. It is better not to love our own opinions too much. Be humble enough to seek proper advice when we need it. Do not try to be independent of all other opinions. Different opinions may bring us a broader understanding of ourselves as well as of others. At times we must hold our tongue for the sake of love, peace, because it is always our pride that makes us want to correct people at the slightest opportunity.

Of course, corrections are necessary in many things, but we should not place too much confidence in our own sentiments and opinions. By keeping silent and listening to opinions which do not agree with us in petty matters bring us no harm. It takes a deep humility and a delicate charity/love to act in this way. As a result, think before we speak, and we were never regret our words because spoken words cannot be recalled. It is not always possible to undo the harm caused by thoughtless talk.

Many saints have avoided the company of people whenever possible in order to enjoy a closer union with God. One of them once remarked: 'As often as I have gone among peoples, I returned less a man/woman.' Isn't this true of us when we talk too long and did not think before we speak? It is easier to keep silence altogether than to stop talking when we should. In silence God shall speak to us with less distractions and interruptions. God's words will come in the form of ideas, desires, intentions, and resolutions within our soul. If we must, love and appreciate silence and learn to use it well. Then we will draw closer to God, as He is close to us. Amen! Peace be with you.

Peace/Meek/Silence is truly a virtue and in developing an authentic love, we experiences a deeper wisdom, a broader outlook on everyday life, and a brighter vision of God's nearness and agape love. During human conversations, we were learn more and make fewer mistakes. People will appreciate and respect our judgments more because we think first before speaking. Each time we open our mouth, we should do so for a definite purpose, a good purpose. God's wisdom will take the place of our human folly, and our words will help those who hear us.

According to Apostle/Saint Paul, all promises of God are "Yes" and "Amen" in Christ. "The Son of God, the Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you - I mean Silvanus and Timothy and I - was never Yes and No: with him it was always Yes, and however many the promises God made, the yes to them all is in him. That is why it is 'through him' that we answer Amen to the praise of God. Remember it is God himself who assures us all, and you, of our standing in Christ, and has anointed us, marking us with his seal and giving us the pledge, the Spirit, that we carry in our hearts." - 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 - 

Apostle/Saint Paul's used the metaphor of the temple to express the unity of the new people of God that God is bringing about, through the preaching of the Gospel. The believers and followers of this new race are Jews and Gentiles who formerly were separated by the 'middle wall of separation' and the 'ordinances' that forbade them to mix. Jesus abolished those ordinances in order to create one single New Man in himself out of the two of them and by restoring peace through the cross, to unite them both in a single Body and reconcile them with God.

- Reconciliation of the Jews and the pagans with each other and with God - "Do not forget, then, that was a time when you who were pagans physically, termed the Uncircumcised... "I say, that you had no Christ and were excluded from membership of Israel, aliens with no part in the covenants with their Promise; you were immersed in this world, without hope and without God. But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have been brought very close, by the blood of Christ. For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, actually destroying in his own person the hostility caused by the riles and decrees of the Law.

This was to create one single New Man in himself out of the two of them and by restoring peace through the cross, to unite them both in a single Body and reconcile them with God. In his own person he killed the hostility. Later he came to bring the good news of peace, peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near at hand. Through him, both of us have in one Spirit our way to come to the Father. So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God's household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit." - Ephesians 2:11-22 -

In a similar way, Apostle/Saint Peter used the word spiritual house to describe baptized Christians as of a new spiritual temple. Once you were not a people at all and now you are the People of God; once you were outside the mercy and now you have been given mercy. - 1 Peter 2:4-10 - The Lord Jesus Christ is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be the living stones making a spiritual house. As scripture says: See how I lay in Zion a precious cornerstone that I have chosen and the man who rests his trust on it will not be disappointed. That means that for you who are believers, it is precious; but for unbelievers, the stone rejected by the builders has proved to be the keystone, a stone to stumble over, a rock to bring men down. They stumble over it because they do not believe in the word; it was the fate in store for them. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people set apart to sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people at all and now you are the People of God; once you were outside the mercy and now you have been given mercy.

In addition to understanding the Church as the new spiritual temple of God on earth that replaced the temple of Jerusalem, the New Testament alludes to a heavenly temple in whose life the Church participates. Saint Paul and Saint John, both allude to the heavenly temple, can be found, and it is the most developed in the Book of Hebrews and Book of Revelation.

You will see greater things than that. And then Jesus added, 'I tell you most solemnly, you will see heaven laid open and, above the Son of Man, the angels of God ascending and descending.' - John 1:51 - "There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too." - John 1:14:2-3 - "The Jerusalem above, however, is free and is our mother, since sacred scripture says: Shout for joy, you barren women who bore no children! Break into shouts of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour. For there are more sons of the forsaken one than sons of the wedded wife. Now you, my brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise, and as at that time the child born in the ordinary way persecuted the child born in the Spirit's way, so also now. Does not sacred scripture say: Drive away that slave-girl and her son; this slave-girl's son is not to share the inheritance with the son of the slave-girl, but of the free-born wife." - Galatians 4:26-31 - "For us, our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes the saviour we are waiting for, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He will do that by the same power with which he can subdue the whole universe." - Philippians 3:20-21 - 

The author of Hebrews was concerned to demonstrate that Christianity is better than Judaism. Among other things, Christians have a better Covenant, a better Sacrifice, a better High priest, and a better temple/Church. The Temple in Jerusalem was only a copy and shadow, a type, of the true temple which is in heaven. Therefore the true, heavenly sanctuary into which Christ has entered on our behalf is better than its earthly copy. Because Christ Jesus our High Priest dwells in this heavenly sanctuary, we can enter the heavenly Holy of Holy and participate in the worship of the heavenly temple. The author appears to define the heavenly temple as 'the Church of the first-born.' 'But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in which everyone is a 'first-born son' and a citizen of heaven.' 

According to Saint John, the author of the Book of Revelation, there is a celestial Mount Zion, a heavenly Jerusalem, and a heavenly temple. Christians who overcome temptation and trails are made pillars in the heavenly temple of God. From this heavenly temple God will issue His judgments on the nations during the Tribulation. The martyrs of the Tribulation will serve God day and night in His [heavenly] temple. The temple in Jerusalem will be measured and judged during that time.

In the New Jerusalem there will not be a temple because 'the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.' In that perfect city [The City of God] nothing will come between God and man, and we shall see God face. In the new heaven and earth 'the tabernacle of God' will be 'with men/women, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.' 

'Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, and the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, as beautiful as a bride all dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'You see this city? Here God lives among men. He will make his home among them; they shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone.' - Revelation 21:1-4 - 

"But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and fornicators, and for fortune-tellers, idolaters or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur." - Revelation 21:8 -

Saint Paul identified the new temple with the Church, but Saint John identified it with the heavenly realm where Christ dwells. [The City of God] Further more, just as there was no temple before the fall, so Saint John anticipated a new heaven and a new earth without a temple. These different ways of understanding the relation of the temple to the new 'People of God' are complementary, not contradictory.

In accordance of the Sacred Scripture / Holy Bible - New Testament - According to Saint John, the author of the Book of Revelation, John saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared. And in the Old Testament - Prophet Isaiah saw vision from God - Isaiah 1:1 - Prophet Ezekiel saw vision from God - Ezekiel 1:1 - And God favoured these four boys with knowledge and intelligence in everything connected with literature, and in wisdom; while Prophet Daniel had gift of interpreting every kind of vision and dream. - Daniel 1:17 -

- Shiloah and the Euphrates - Yahweh spoke to me again and said: because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah which flow in tranquility, and trembles before Razon and the son of Remaliah, the Lord will bring up against you, the mighty and deep waters of the River and it will overflow out of its bed bursting all its banks; it will inundate Judah, flow over, pour out, flooding it up to the neck, and its wings will be spread over the whole breadth of your country, O Immanuel. - Isaiah 8:5-8 - He will destroy Death for ever, The Lord Yahweh will wipe away the tears from every cheek; he will take away his people's shame everywhere on earth, for Yahweh has said so. That day, it will be said: See, this is our God in whom we hoped for salvation; Yahweh is the one in whom we hoped. - Isaiah 25:8-9 - They will come to Zion shouting for joy, everlasting joy on their faces; joy and gladness will go with them and sorrow and lament be ended. - Isaiah 35:10 - Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy corn without money, and eat, and, at no cost, wine and milk. - Isaiah 55:1 - 

- Against Gog, king of Magog - The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows, 'Son of man, turn towards Gog and the country of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. Say, "The Lord Yahweh says this: I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. I will turn you round, fixing hooks in your jaws, and drag you and your troops along, all the horses and well-armoured horsemen, and all that great army carrying shields and bucklers, and wielding swords. Persia and Cush and Put are with them, all with buckler and helmet; Gomer and all its troops, northernmost Bethtogarmah and all its troops, and many nations with you. Be ready, be well prepared, you and all your troops and the others rallying round you, and hold yourself at my service.

Many days will pass before you are given orders; in years to come you will march against this country. Its inhabitants will have been living undisturbed, remote from all other peoples, since they escaped the sword and were gathered in from various nations, here in the long-deserted mountains of Israel. Like a storm you will come up and onwards, and cover the land like a cloud, you, your army and many nations with you. - Ezekiel 38:1-9 - 

I will punish him with plague and bloodshed and sent torrential rain, hailstones, fire and brimstone against him and his hordes and against the many nations with him. I mean to display my greatness and holiness and to compel the many nations to acknowledge me; this is how they will learn that I am Yahweh - Ezekiel 38:22-23 - 

I shall make my home above them; I will be their God, they shall be my people. And the nations will learn that I am Yahweh the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary is with them for ever. - Ezekiel 37:27-28 - 

This was the horn I had watched making war on the saints and proving the stronger, until the coming of the one of great age who gave judgment in favour of the saints of the Most High, when the time came for the saints to take over the kingdom. This is what he said: "The fourth beast is to be a fourth kingdom on earth, different from all other kingdoms. It will devour the whole earth, trample it underfoot and crush it. As for the ten horns: from this kingdom will rise ten kings, and another after them; this one will be different from the previous ones and will bring down three kings; he is going to speak words against the Most High, and harass the saints of the Most High. He will consider changing seasons and the Law, and the saints will be put into his power for a time, two times, and half a time. But a court will be held and his power will be stripped from him, consumed, and utterly destroyed. And sovereignty and kingship, and the splendours of all kingdoms under heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His sovereignty is an eternal sovereignty and every empire will serve and obey him." Here the narrative ends. 'I, Daniel, was greatly disturbed in mind, and I grew pale; but I kept these things to myself.' - Daniel 7:21-28 -  

- Daniel's vision - In the third year of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one originally appeared to me. I gazed at the vision, and as I gazed I found myself in Susa, the citadel in the province of Elam; gazing at the vision I found myself at the Gate of the Ulai. I raised my eyes to look round me, and I saw a ram standing in front of the river. It had two horns; both were tall, but one taller than the other, and the one that rose the higher was the second. I saw the ram thrust westward, northwards and southwards. No animal could stand up to it, nothing could escape it. It did as it pleased and grew very powerful.

This is what I observed: a he-goat came from the west, having covered the entire earth but without touching the ground, and between its eyes the goat had one majestic horn. It advanced towards the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the river, and charged with the ram, it knocked it down, breaking both its horns, and the ram had not the strength to resist; it felled it to the ground and trampled it underfoot; no one was there to save the ram. Then the he-goat grew more powerful than ever, but at the height of its strength the great horn snapped, and in its place sprouted four majestic horns, pointing to the four winds of heaven.

From one of these, the small one, sprang a horn which grew to great size towards south and east and towards the Land of Splendour. It grew right up to the armies of heaven and flung armies and stars to the ground, and trampled them underfoot. It even challenged the power of that army's Prince; it abolished the perpetual sacrifice and overthrew the foundation of his sanctuary, and the army too; it put iniquity on the sacrifice and flung truth to the ground; the horn was active and successful.

I heard a holy one speaking, and another who said to the speaker, 'How long is this vision to be - of perpetual sacrifice, disastrous iniquity, of sanctuary and army trampled underfoot?' The first replied, 'Until two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings have gone by: then the sanctuary shall have its rights restored'.

- The angel Gabriel interprets the vision - As I, Daniel gazed at the vision and tried to understand it, I saw someone standing before me who looked like a man. I heard a man's voice cry over the Ulai, 'Gabriel' tell him the meaning of the vision!' He approached the place where I was standing; as he approached I was seized with terror, and fell prostrate. 'Son of man,' he said to me 'understand this: the vision shows the time of the End.' He was still speaking, when I fell senseless to the ground. He touched me, however, and raised me to my feet. 'Come,' he said 'I will tell you what is going to happen when the wrath comes to an end; this concerns the appointed End. As for the ram that you saw, its two horns are the kings of Media and of Persia. The hairy he-goat is the king of Javan, the large horn between its eyes is the first king. The horn that snapped and the four horns that sprouted in its place are four kingdoms rising from his nation but not having his power.

'And at the end of their reign, when the measure of their sins is full, 

a king will rise, a proud-faced, ingenious-minded man.

His power will gather strength - but not through power of his own -

he will plot incredible schemes,

he will succeed in what he undertakes,

he will destroy powerful men

and the people of the saints.

Such will be his resourcefulness of mind

that all his treacherous activities will succeed.

He will grow arrogant of heart,

take many unawares and destroy them.

He will challenge the power of the Prince of princes

but, no hand intervening, shall himself be broken.

This explanation of the vision of the mornings and the evenings is true,

but you must keep the vision secret, for there are still many days to go.'                  

At this I, Daniel, lost consciousness; I was ill for several days. Then I got up to discharge my duties in the king's service, keeping the vision a secret, and not understanding what it meant. - Daniel 8:1-27 -

- The Book Of Revelation Prologue - This the revelation given by God to Jesus Christ so that he could tell his servants about the things which are now to take place very soon; he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John, and John has written down everything he saw and swears it is the word of God guaranteed by Jesus Christ. Happy the man/woman who reads this prophecy, and happy those who listen to him, if they treasure all that it says, because the Time is close. - Revelation 1:1-3 -       

- The beginning of the vision - My name is John, and through our union in Jesus I am your brother and share your sufferings, your kingdom, and all you endure......... 'Write down all that you see in a book, and send it to the seven churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.'... a figure like a Son of man, dressed in a long robe tied at the waist with a golden girdle. His head and his hair were white as white wool or as snow, his eyes like a burning flame, his feet like burnished bronze when it has been refined in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of the ocean.... When I saw him, I fell in a dead faint at his feet, but he touched me with his right hand and said, 'Do not be afraid: it is I, the First and the Last; I am the Living One, I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld. Now write down all that you see of present happenings and things that are still to come. The secret of the seven stars have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp-stands is this: the seven stars you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp-stands is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp-stands are the seven churches themselves. - Revelation 1:9-20 -

In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne and the animals and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands upon thousands, shouting, 'The Lamb that was sacrificed is worthy to be given power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing'. - Revelation 5:11-12 -

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and voices could be heard shouting in heaven, calling, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever'. The twenty-four elders, enthroned in the presence of God, prostrated themselves and touched the ground with their foreheads worshipping God with these words, 'We give thanks to you, Almighty Lord God, He-Is-and-He-Was, for using your great power and beginning your reign. The nations were seething with rage and now the time has come for your own anger, and for the dead to be judged, and for your servants the prophets, for the saints and for all who worship you, small or great, to be rewarded. The time has come to destroy those who are destroying the earth.' 

Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake, and violent hail. - Revelation 11:15-19 - 

Then a second sign appeared in the sky, a huge red dragon which had seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet....... And now war broke out in heaven, when Archangel Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had deceived all the world, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him.

Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Victory and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the persecutor, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the witness of their martyrdom, because even in the face of death they would not cling to life. Let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, trouble is coming because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that his days are numbered. - Revelation 12:2-12 - 

- The dragon delegates his power to the beast - I was standing on the seashore. Then I saw a beast emerge from the sea: it has seven heads and ten horns, with a coronet on each of its ten horns, and its head were marked with blasphemous titles. I saw that the beast was like a leopard, with paws like a bear and a mouth like a lion; the dragon had handed over to it own power and his throne and his worldwide authority. I saw that one of its head seemed to have had a fatal wound but this deadly injury had healed and after that, the whole world had marvelled and followed the beast. They prostrated themselves in front the dragon because he had given the beast his authority; and they prostrated themselves in front the beast, saying, 'Who can compare with the beast? How could anybody defeat him?' For forty-two months the beast was allowed to mouth its boast and blasphemies and to do whatever it wanted; and it mouthed its blasphemies against God, against his name, his heavenly Tent and all those who are sheltered there. It was allowed to make war against the saints and conquer them, and given power over every race, people, language and nation; and all people of the world will worship it, that is, everybody whose name has not been written down since the foundation of the world in the book of life of the sacrificial Lamb. If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen: Captivity for those who are destined for captivity; the sword for those who are to die by the sword. This is why the saints must have constancy and faith.

- The false prophet as the slave of the beast - Then I saw a second beast; it emerged from the ground; it had two horns like a lamb, but made a noise like a dragon. The second beast was servant to the first beast, and extended its authority everywhere, making the world and had been healed. And it worked great miracles, even to calling down fore from heaven on to the earth while people watched. Through the miracles which it was allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, it was able to win over the people of the world and persuade them to put up a statue in honour of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and still lived. It was allowed to breathe life into this statue, so that the statue of the beast was able to speak, and to have anyone who refused to worship the statue of the beast will be put to death. He compelled everyone - small and great, rich and poor, slave and citizen - to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead, and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he/she had been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name. There is no need for shrewdness here: if anyone is clever enough he may interpret the number of the beast: it is number of a man, the number 666. - Revelation 13: 1-18 -                 

Then I saw the beast, with all the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight the rider and his army. But the beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had worked miracles on the beast's behalf and by them had deceived all who had been branded with the mark of the beast and worshipped his statue. These two were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur. All the rest were killed by the sword of the rider, which came out of his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh. - Revelation 19:19-21 -

- The reign of a thousand years - Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the Abyss in his hand and an enormous chain. He overpowered the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and shut the entrance and seated it over him, to make sure he would not deceive the nations again until the thousand years had passed. At the end of that time he must be released, but only for a short while.

Then I saw some thrones, and I saw those who are given the power to be judges take their seats on them. I saw the souls of all who had been beheaded for having witnessed for Jesus and for having preached God's word, and those who refused to worship the beast or his statue and would not have the brand-mark on their foreheads or hands; they came to life, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection; the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over. Happy and blessed are those who share in the first resurrection: the second death cannot affect them but they will be priests of God and of Christ and reign with him for a thousand years.

- The second battle of the End - When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive all the nations in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, and mobilise them for war. His armies will be as many as the sands of the seas; they will come swarming over the entire country and besiege the camp of the saints, which is the city that God loves. But the devil, who misled them, will be thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beasts and the false prophet are, and their torture will not stop, day and night, for ever and ever.

-The punishment of the pagans - Then I saw a great white throne and the One who was sitting on it. In his presence, earth and sky vanished, leaving no trace. I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of his throne, while the book of life was opened, and other books opened which were the record of what they had done in their lives, by which the dead were judged.

The sea gave up all the dead who were in it; Death and Hades were emptied of the dead that were in them; and everyone was judged according to the way in which he/she had lived. Then Death and hades were thrown into the burning lake. This burning lake is the second death; and anybody whose name could not be found written in the book of life was thrown into the burning lake. - Revelation 20:1-15 - 

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Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -

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