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John 5:39-42
You search the Scriptures, because you think you possess everlasting Life in them and these are the ones that bear witness of Me. But you do not desire to come to Me in order to possess Life.
I do not receive honor from men, but I know you, that you do not have the Love of God in you.
Loving God is the ability to become silent and to look like a witness at what is going on in your life right now, without wanting to evaluate and listen to what emerges from your innermost spirit, what energies, what feelings what inspiration, intuition or inspiration, what kind of pictures or ideas or finally thoughts.
If you stay connected to your innermost spirit for a while or permanently, then you are directly from spirit to spirit in conversation or in prayer with God, because this is the prayer that is most pleasing to God.
Then you may realize that everything that you are actually experiencing in your life right now is just a learning task that God gives you so that you can mature and grow and gain knowledge out of it.
37. Chapter – John 5:42
But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you
Scripture Explanations
Jesus’ exposition of several different bible passages
Written down through Jacob Lorber on the 27.02.1844
Revelations with extensive explanations and interpretations of many important Bible passages by Jesus Himself, which have been difficult to interpret up until now. An important book, especially for those who compare the new revelations with the Bible, to check, if they correspond spiritually and for those who want to understand the bible scriptures better.
Chapter 37
John 5:42: “But I know you; you do not have the love of God within you!”
1. “But I know you; you do not have the love of God within you!” – This verse fits the end of the addition perfectly.
2. I said the following to the Jews; in them lies the dead letter of the law. The works of the ceremony, the works of the shining, they meant more to them than the living one Himself, who said such to them.
3. That is why they were beaten with blindness and only saw a normal and ordinary human in the one who was alive, and might only be marveled at a remarkable miracle, sometimes even at a wise word, when they were around and managed to witness these things; and if they weren’t around, they wouldn’t believe it that I did these things or say these words, and looked for every possible way to be suspicious about it. Whatever they couldn’t reach with their naturalizing or denying, because of that they thought of me as a possessed one who works for the devil through his power.
4. Why did they not recognize the Lord of life, even though it was the will and intention of the Lord for them to recognize me? – The reason for this lays in the text, which says: “And the love is not within you!”
5. Why can one not recognize the Lord without the love? – One cannot do so without the love for the same reason why a blind person cannot see what’s around him, or why a deaf person cannot hear what his friend is saying!
6. The love is the life; however, the life, on its own, can only see and hear for itself, – because death is not able to do so. And so, the Jews could not recognize the Lord of life among them because they did not have the life of love within them, which is a free life out of God, while every other life is only a judged one, and, in comparison to the life of love, is death in its purest form.
7. Whoever does not have a life of love is nothing but a vain machine, which only works and moves because of the activities of the world, while his sight, hearing and feeling is purely mechanical, and thus, can never lift itself above the judged sphere of the judged limitations. Only the life of love is a truly independent one, and can therefore destroy all the barriers on its own, so that it can swing way up above to the one who is its innermost reason and basis.
8. Nobody can see what one has within oneself when he is in the natural sphere; how could someone see and recognize my being when he has nothing of it in his heart?!
9. That is why I say to you: Let everything go, – only keep the love, so you will recognize what the Jews did not recognize, and see what they could not see!
10. There are many in this world who have no life within themselves! Therefore, they think the shadow is reality, even though he is nothing; Me however, I who am always among everybody, they do not see and recognize, because they have no love!!
11. There are even people who search where there’s nothing to find; but wherever there’s life, being and shining, there they cannot see and recognize!
12. These people still weigh the diamonds together with the pebbles in a weighing pan! But why the pebbles weight right next to the diamond? Why marvel at the rubbish from afar, all the while neglectfully passing by the gold in ones own house?
13. It’s not enough to only know the value of the gold, – instead, one must also learn to vividly respect the gold before the rubbish, even if it comes from afar! Only the ones who have the complete love can do so; but whoever swifts back and forth in between, cannot do it and won’t be able to for a long time. He will fare like the Jews, who were also not able to distinguish the Lord from a regular human.
14. Therefore, I will tell you and thus remind you, that I have given a lot; but only the ones that have love within them will recognize it as a pure gift from me!
15. Whoever calculates in the love and counts what he does and what he gives, I will do the same to him, – and the calculator will not be free and the counter not legitimate before me, as long as he has not banned the calculating and counting from himself! So, the love must be free and should not get advice from the head for her inner activities!
16. I will reward the wise donor with wisdom; but for the free donor of life, I myself am the reward! Everybody who is not active in the free love will not see the face of the Lord, until he starts to do so!
17. This, I say, the eternally faithful, the true, the first and the last, as father in all love, in complete consideration, to you!
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27. I do not desire Honor, but Love
Written down through Jacob Lorber on the 05.02.1844
1. I do not receive honor from men.
2. This text declares with a few words, what kind of Covenant I have with men, namely… no Covenant of honor. Because men, in the way they are, are truly no honor to Me. I also did not create men, that they should honor Me.
3. But I do have a Covenant with men, and that is called ‘Love’, which means something completely different than honor!
4. Who are those, who let themselves be honored? – These are the rulers, princes and great ones of the world.
5. Why do they let themselves be honored? – Because they want to be more than men, even though their conscience does tell them, that they are not more than men.
6. What is the honor, which one shows towards another? – It is nothing more than the basic fear of the stronger and mightier one! Because the weaker one fears the blows and the relentlessness of the stronger one. Therefore, the weaker one crawls before him and honors him and worships him literally, so that the mightier one, bribed by such flatteries, does not strike him. The more reverent the weaker one gets towards the stronger one, the more overambitious and cruel the stronger one also becomes.
7. Question… Is such a tribute a fruit of a good or evil seed? – I mean… Like the fruit, so must the seed be as well!
8. So do you think, that I should take that from men, which is an abomination and an atrocious and nasty smell before Me?!
9. For what reason should I let Myself be honored by men? Because I am God, and the human beings are My creatures?! Because I am Almighty and all men are nothing compared to Me?!
10. Of what use would this honor be to Me?! Will I become even more God, and will My Omnipotence become greater?!
11. Could I become even more God through the tributes of men?! – I don’t think so, that is why I have not issued any law… ‘You shall honor the Lord, your God above everything!’ – Instead, only ‘Love Me above everything’. That is why it says in the present text, that I am not looking for honor from men. Because there is already One in Me, who truly honors Me from all eternity.
12. Oh what joy do I get from the ‘ad majorem dei gloriam-deeds’ (all for the greater Honor and Glory of God) or, as you’re used to say in the world… ‘All Glory be to God!’. You can easily recognize that in this text. Because whosoever does not honor Me within his heart like a bride who loves her groom with a burning passion, that honor is an abomination before Me!
13. Of what use is the thousandfold ‘Lord, we honor you!’, – all the while their hearts are full of filth? – Such an honor shall be pelted at from the entire hell!
14. Because all those, who honor Me in such a ceremonial way, are those, who call to Me ‘Lord, Lord!’ and they may sing to Me a thousand litanies and say… ‘Lord, we honor You and praise Your strength!’ – ‘Lord, we beg You, answer our prayers!’ and ‘Lord, have mercy upon us!’ and they may add to that a thousand times… ‘Honor be to God our Father!’ etc.
15. But I will never listen to such nonsense and answer it, and I will always say to all these ‘Lord, Lord!’ Sayers… ‘Depart from Me, for I have never known you! You have had a lot of honoring prayers and litanies, but why haven’t you come up with a litany, in which it does not say… ‘Lord, we honor you!’, but instead… ‘Dear holy Father, we love you!?’
16. One will surely intervene here and say… ‘God must be honored!’ For it is the noble fruit of the true fear of God; because if one does not fear God, he is capable of every evil deed.
17. But I say… Although the fear of God is better, than doing evil deeds, but such a fear of God will still not give anybody an eternal life, because a fearful disposition is already a judged disposition!
18. Because if someone only refrains the bad things out of fear from Me, he will have to master a difficult test, because by fearing Me, no human spirit is capable of feeling any bliss, and he will be stripped of any fear, and then it will be revealed, what he will do before Me without fear.
19. So, on this earth many criminals in jail are kept in a legal order by the fear of the punishment. But once they are released after their time in jail, they will be ten times worse than before.
20. All spirits of hell live and consist in the greatest fear of Me. If they only see Me from afar or hear My Name, that is the most horrendous thing for them! But which fool will assert here, that these hellish spirits are good therefore, simply because they have such a great fear of Me?!
21. I will give you an example… Lets say there is an extremely good person somewhere on this earth, who might be very wealthy, but at the same time full of the greatest love, meekness and courtesy, and every human being, that would come to him, no matter what social status, which nation, friend or enemy, he would welcome him affectionately and take him in. Question… What human being would have to be such a big fool and be more afraid of such a person than of an executioner?!
22. But which human being is better, more affectionate and more gentle than Me?! And still, people rather fear Me instead of loving Me with the greatest trustfulness!
23. But I still say… The ones who fear and honor Me, seem to do it for a good reason, because they know, that their heart has no Love at all. That’s why they want to replace that with the fear of Me.
24. But they feel thereby like a bride, who has become unfaithful towards her most trustworthy bridegroom, and they became a whore. Why did they become a whore? – Because they have given away all their love, they had within their heart for their bridegroom!
25. So, when the bridegroom will come, do you think He will look at this trembling and fearfilled bride in the same way and accept her, as if she had been running towards Him with a flaming heart? Will He not probably say to her…
26. How do you look? I have never seen you this way! Why do you tremble before Me, who loved you above everything? Truly, I cannot recognize you in this state! What have I ever done to you, that you fear Me? How could such a fear suppress your former love? How am I supposed to make you happy now, I, whom you do not love, but fear?! – Therefore, I must depart from you, out of love for you, so that your fear of Me in your heart may no longer torture you!
27. Look, in this example, the ‘I do not know you’ who say to Me ‘Lord, Lord!’ is clearly explained, and that is why I do not want the honor of men as the fruit of fear, but rather I want the faithful childlike love.
28. Strive for that in your heart, and I will come closer to you, but not in your honoring and fear! Be doers, that were made free through love, but not doers of My Word, judged by fear. Therein you will find eternal life and Me, your father! Amen.
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I do not receive honor from men, but I know you, that you do not have the Love of God in you.
Loving God is the ability to become silent and to look like a witness at what is going on in your life right now, without wanting to evaluate and listen to what emerges from your innermost spirit, what energies, what feelings what inspiration, intuition or inspiration, what kind of pictures or ideas or finally thoughts.
If you stay connected to your innermost spirit for a while or permanently, then you are directly from spirit to spirit in conversation or in prayer with God, because this is the prayer that is most pleasing to God.
Then you may realize that everything that you are actually experiencing in your life right now is just a learning task that God gives you so that you can mature and grow and gain knowledge out of it.
37. Chapter – John 5:42
But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you
Scripture Explanations
Jesus’ exposition of several different bible passages
Written down through Jacob Lorber on the 27.02.1844
Revelations with extensive explanations and interpretations of many important Bible passages by Jesus Himself, which have been difficult to interpret up until now. An important book, especially for those who compare the new revelations with the Bible, to check, if they correspond spiritually and for those who want to understand the bible scriptures better.
Chapter 37
John 5:42: “But I know you; you do not have the love of God within you!”
1. “But I know you; you do not have the love of God within you!” – This verse fits the end of the addition perfectly.
2. I said the following to the Jews; in them lies the dead letter of the law. The works of the ceremony, the works of the shining, they meant more to them than the living one Himself, who said such to them.
3. That is why they were beaten with blindness and only saw a normal and ordinary human in the one who was alive, and might only be marveled at a remarkable miracle, sometimes even at a wise word, when they were around and managed to witness these things; and if they weren’t around, they wouldn’t believe it that I did these things or say these words, and looked for every possible way to be suspicious about it. Whatever they couldn’t reach with their naturalizing or denying, because of that they thought of me as a possessed one who works for the devil through his power.
4. Why did they not recognize the Lord of life, even though it was the will and intention of the Lord for them to recognize me? – The reason for this lays in the text, which says: “And the love is not within you!”
5. Why can one not recognize the Lord without the love? – One cannot do so without the love for the same reason why a blind person cannot see what’s around him, or why a deaf person cannot hear what his friend is saying!
6. The love is the life; however, the life, on its own, can only see and hear for itself, – because death is not able to do so. And so, the Jews could not recognize the Lord of life among them because they did not have the life of love within them, which is a free life out of God, while every other life is only a judged one, and, in comparison to the life of love, is death in its purest form.
7. Whoever does not have a life of love is nothing but a vain machine, which only works and moves because of the activities of the world, while his sight, hearing and feeling is purely mechanical, and thus, can never lift itself above the judged sphere of the judged limitations. Only the life of love is a truly independent one, and can therefore destroy all the barriers on its own, so that it can swing way up above to the one who is its innermost reason and basis.
8. Nobody can see what one has within oneself when he is in the natural sphere; how could someone see and recognize my being when he has nothing of it in his heart?!
9. That is why I say to you: Let everything go, – only keep the love, so you will recognize what the Jews did not recognize, and see what they could not see!
10. There are many in this world who have no life within themselves! Therefore, they think the shadow is reality, even though he is nothing; Me however, I who am always among everybody, they do not see and recognize, because they have no love!!
11. There are even people who search where there’s nothing to find; but wherever there’s life, being and shining, there they cannot see and recognize!
12. These people still weigh the diamonds together with the pebbles in a weighing pan! But why the pebbles weight right next to the diamond? Why marvel at the rubbish from afar, all the while neglectfully passing by the gold in ones own house?
13. It’s not enough to only know the value of the gold, – instead, one must also learn to vividly respect the gold before the rubbish, even if it comes from afar! Only the ones who have the complete love can do so; but whoever swifts back and forth in between, cannot do it and won’t be able to for a long time. He will fare like the Jews, who were also not able to distinguish the Lord from a regular human.
14. Therefore, I will tell you and thus remind you, that I have given a lot; but only the ones that have love within them will recognize it as a pure gift from me!
15. Whoever calculates in the love and counts what he does and what he gives, I will do the same to him, – and the calculator will not be free and the counter not legitimate before me, as long as he has not banned the calculating and counting from himself! So, the love must be free and should not get advice from the head for her inner activities!
16. I will reward the wise donor with wisdom; but for the free donor of life, I myself am the reward! Everybody who is not active in the free love will not see the face of the Lord, until he starts to do so!
17. This, I say, the eternally faithful, the true, the first and the last, as father in all love, in complete consideration, to you!
Source:
27. I do not desire Honor, but Love
Written down through Jacob Lorber on the 05.02.1844
1. I do not receive honor from men.
2. This text declares with a few words, what kind of Covenant I have with men, namely… no Covenant of honor. Because men, in the way they are, are truly no honor to Me. I also did not create men, that they should honor Me.
3. But I do have a Covenant with men, and that is called ‘Love’, which means something completely different than honor!
4. Who are those, who let themselves be honored? – These are the rulers, princes and great ones of the world.
5. Why do they let themselves be honored? – Because they want to be more than men, even though their conscience does tell them, that they are not more than men.
6. What is the honor, which one shows towards another? – It is nothing more than the basic fear of the stronger and mightier one! Because the weaker one fears the blows and the relentlessness of the stronger one. Therefore, the weaker one crawls before him and honors him and worships him literally, so that the mightier one, bribed by such flatteries, does not strike him. The more reverent the weaker one gets towards the stronger one, the more overambitious and cruel the stronger one also becomes.
7. Question… Is such a tribute a fruit of a good or evil seed? – I mean… Like the fruit, so must the seed be as well!
8. So do you think, that I should take that from men, which is an abomination and an atrocious and nasty smell before Me?!
9. For what reason should I let Myself be honored by men? Because I am God, and the human beings are My creatures?! Because I am Almighty and all men are nothing compared to Me?!
10. Of what use would this honor be to Me?! Will I become even more God, and will My Omnipotence become greater?!
11. Could I become even more God through the tributes of men?! – I don’t think so, that is why I have not issued any law… ‘You shall honor the Lord, your God above everything!’ – Instead, only ‘Love Me above everything’. That is why it says in the present text, that I am not looking for honor from men. Because there is already One in Me, who truly honors Me from all eternity.
12. Oh what joy do I get from the ‘ad majorem dei gloriam-deeds’ (all for the greater Honor and Glory of God) or, as you’re used to say in the world… ‘All Glory be to God!’. You can easily recognize that in this text. Because whosoever does not honor Me within his heart like a bride who loves her groom with a burning passion, that honor is an abomination before Me!
13. Of what use is the thousandfold ‘Lord, we honor you!’, – all the while their hearts are full of filth? – Such an honor shall be pelted at from the entire hell!
14. Because all those, who honor Me in such a ceremonial way, are those, who call to Me ‘Lord, Lord!’ and they may sing to Me a thousand litanies and say… ‘Lord, we honor You and praise Your strength!’ – ‘Lord, we beg You, answer our prayers!’ and ‘Lord, have mercy upon us!’ and they may add to that a thousand times… ‘Honor be to God our Father!’ etc.
15. But I will never listen to such nonsense and answer it, and I will always say to all these ‘Lord, Lord!’ Sayers… ‘Depart from Me, for I have never known you! You have had a lot of honoring prayers and litanies, but why haven’t you come up with a litany, in which it does not say… ‘Lord, we honor you!’, but instead… ‘Dear holy Father, we love you!?’
16. One will surely intervene here and say… ‘God must be honored!’ For it is the noble fruit of the true fear of God; because if one does not fear God, he is capable of every evil deed.
17. But I say… Although the fear of God is better, than doing evil deeds, but such a fear of God will still not give anybody an eternal life, because a fearful disposition is already a judged disposition!
18. Because if someone only refrains the bad things out of fear from Me, he will have to master a difficult test, because by fearing Me, no human spirit is capable of feeling any bliss, and he will be stripped of any fear, and then it will be revealed, what he will do before Me without fear.
19. So, on this earth many criminals in jail are kept in a legal order by the fear of the punishment. But once they are released after their time in jail, they will be ten times worse than before.
20. All spirits of hell live and consist in the greatest fear of Me. If they only see Me from afar or hear My Name, that is the most horrendous thing for them! But which fool will assert here, that these hellish spirits are good therefore, simply because they have such a great fear of Me?!
21. I will give you an example… Lets say there is an extremely good person somewhere on this earth, who might be very wealthy, but at the same time full of the greatest love, meekness and courtesy, and every human being, that would come to him, no matter what social status, which nation, friend or enemy, he would welcome him affectionately and take him in. Question… What human being would have to be such a big fool and be more afraid of such a person than of an executioner?!
22. But which human being is better, more affectionate and more gentle than Me?! And still, people rather fear Me instead of loving Me with the greatest trustfulness!
23. But I still say… The ones who fear and honor Me, seem to do it for a good reason, because they know, that their heart has no Love at all. That’s why they want to replace that with the fear of Me.
24. But they feel thereby like a bride, who has become unfaithful towards her most trustworthy bridegroom, and they became a whore. Why did they become a whore? – Because they have given away all their love, they had within their heart for their bridegroom!
25. So, when the bridegroom will come, do you think He will look at this trembling and fearfilled bride in the same way and accept her, as if she had been running towards Him with a flaming heart? Will He not probably say to her…
26. How do you look? I have never seen you this way! Why do you tremble before Me, who loved you above everything? Truly, I cannot recognize you in this state! What have I ever done to you, that you fear Me? How could such a fear suppress your former love? How am I supposed to make you happy now, I, whom you do not love, but fear?! – Therefore, I must depart from you, out of love for you, so that your fear of Me in your heart may no longer torture you!
27. Look, in this example, the ‘I do not know you’ who say to Me ‘Lord, Lord!’ is clearly explained, and that is why I do not want the honor of men as the fruit of fear, but rather I want the faithful childlike love.
28. Strive for that in your heart, and I will come closer to you, but not in your honoring and fear! Be doers, that were made free through love, but not doers of My Word, judged by fear. Therein you will find eternal life and Me, your father! Amen.
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