The Lord's Sermons
Epilogue
Now these 53 sermons are completed and you have before you a treasure which - although you may value it highly - you cannot fully comprehend, since My Words hold an infinite meaning. Taken as individuals, you, too, differ infinitely, and as a result, spiritual comprehension, even though it is already spiritual, always allows a still higher level.
The Word is like a mustard-seed which, during its growth, keeps bringing forth something new, developing from one wonder another one. Thus also this book is meant to show you wonder upon wonder the more you progress in knowledge.
Therefore, read each Sunday the respective sermon and celebrate - at least you among thousands of people - the Sunday and day of rest in a way worthy of Me and you!
Then peace and contentment will flow into your heart, and in some instances you will experience how one or the other sermon from My mouth is appropriate for certain circumstances and suitable to re-establish the spiritual equilibrium within you, which you would otherwise probably not achieve.
Man must have a source of comfort! The world with its events and the complications in social and family life often rob him in one moment of long-cherished hopes, and leave him disillusioned. Where is a person, pursued by all kinds of sufferings and troubles, to find better comfort than in the words that flowed from My mouth?
Behold, My children, each day has its own troubles, each week brings you - at least from the outside - more bitter than pleasant things. Where is the already half-broken little flower of trust and love for Me to find better support and stronger nutrient than in My Word, through your loving Father's comforting words He had destined for you already almost two thousand years ago?
They are contained in the Bible before you but, short sighted as you are, you do not recognize what is shining forth from its words. That is why I condescended to help you lift the veil. Poor children, why do you often gaze so disconsolately into the distance, up into the endless, blue sky, when heaven with its splendour and light is so close?! Reach for these sermons, read first the Gospel from the Bible quoted therein, ponder the meaning of the quoted text, and you will soon become aware of the light and warmth flowing towards you from these words of fatherly love. If quite often you take these words to heart and are even alarmed at your own within, when you realize how distant you still are from that which for a long time you believed to have achieved, take comfort in the fact that every mistake can be corrected once it is known. If the sermon has uncovered for you this mistake, thank Me for drawing your attention to what is wrong with you. Then it is solely up to you to carefully avoid this error, which formerly you did not even regard as such.
The words put down here will always give you peace and comfort, although, perhaps, not instantly. They will often give you the incentive and serve as a guide to how peace can be gained.
These sermons are meant to be like steps which by and by will teach you to know Me, My Words and yourselves ever better and enhance your insight; for eons of time would not suffice to explain all that is contained in My sole two commandments of love.
And you, My dear scribe, who have completed this work with great perseverance, and not always under the most favourable conditions, since outwardly and inwardly many a storm has caused you to slip, - be comforted! The reason why I sent you bitter things was that the best healing can be achieved only by harsh means.
You will be healed, and through that which I had you write down for others, also they will come closer to their healing and self-knowledge. You have accomplished two things in one and the same work. You have, indeed, written it under bitter circumstances, but therefrom blessings will arise for you; for you have given something sublime and divine to others, which will bring also to them blessings, tranquility and peace in troubled moments. Thus you have fulfilled your task.
The living and future generations will find in this book the key to a better understanding of their mission and destination, and for this I shall give My fatherly blessing to everyone, everywhere. Amen.