CHAPTER 35 "I have spoken these things to you, that you may have peace in Me. In the world you will have affliction; but trust, I have conquered the world! "(John.16:33) [1] "I have spoken these things to you, that you may have peace in Me. In the world you will have affliction; but trust, I have conquered the world! " [2] This text belongs again to those who are very transparent, and anyone can catch the spiritual sense already in the letter at first grasp. So I want to show you the meaning of this text in a few words, and you will recognize in these few words the perfectly correct spiritual meaning of this text; so listen! [3] All that I am speaking to you right now is also of this kind, that in every situation of your life it must give you the true, inner peace of heart in the love for Me, if only you observe the said thing only somewhat actively. [4] The world also wants to oppress you from all sides; but it cannot, because I have overcome it. But if you have Me in you through your love, then you also have the Eternal Overcomer of the world in you. But the world has experienced My power; therefore it must not and cannot bend a hair of those who truly holds My peace in their hearts. [5] But as soon as someone wants to step out of this peace, and even throws the glove to the world unto battle, then he only has himself to blame if he is captured and maltreated by the world. But whoever truly remains in My peace, is saved for eternity, and no worldly whisper will do him any harm.
[6] Of course, many will say, "O Lord! Behold, the apostles, and Your disciples, and so many of the early Christians, and even later on, zealous martyrs for the pure gospel, have become martyrs, and the world has become viciously avenged on those who are filled with peace! Why, O Lord, have Your peace not protected them from the claws of the world? For You Yourself have spoken before Your suffering, that the prince of the world is judged! How then could the judged have the power to horribly outrage the world against your peace bearers?" [7] This question is vain enough, and whoever is well versed in history will find it clear that all the martyrs, from the apostles to the later times downwards, have voluntarily, and not by any compulsion or by any permissible provision of Me, passed through love-heroism into the martyr's death because I, their Master, were crucified Myself! [8] I tell you, every martyr could have spread My Gospel without becoming a martyr. But the spreaders knew Me, had eternal life before their eyes, and so they had no great desire to go around in the world for a long time, but could hardly wait for the moment when their flesh would be taken from them so that they might get there where I went before! [9] John had the greatest love for Me; therefore he did not shy away from the persecutions of the world, and would rather consume them to the last drop than to beg some time off from Me of his determined earthly life. He was thus completely satisfied with My order, while many others were beggars and would rather submit to the most shameful love-martyrdom, than to work for a few more years for My kingdom. [10] But since everyone in Me can have it for what he earnestly and faithfully begs, I could not take back My word from these first witnesses, which says: "Whatever you ask Me to do, it will be given unto you!" [11] It is clear from this illumination that My Word did not need the martyrs; for I have promised the one, eternally valid witness, My Holy Spirit Myself to all those who will accept My teaching and live according to it, and this witness is the Abiding One, while the blood of the first martyrs has long, even historically, lost its mark for all later times. [12] But if this Spirit is an eternal witness, why should I ever demand the blood testimony of My followers? He who wants to become a martyr himself, he should become so; but no one should believe that he thereby does a service to Me, but everyone who does that, does it for his own, but not to My advantage! [13] It is like when a father said to his children, whose clothes are still good, "I will give you wonderful new clothes, if these are worn!" Some children, however, allow themselves to be tempted by the hope and preference for the new clothes and do not spare the old clothes in the least. When the clothes are soon worn, the father, of course, creates for them the promised clothes; but some of these children, who love the father more than the clothes, wisely spare the old ones, so as not to bury the father in the expenses ahead of time. [14] Although there can be no question of certain expenses with Me, there are, however, other expenses to consider, namely to bring My order in disarray. For I have set for every man a definite goal in life according to My order, and this is not in the sword, nor in the fire; because death by sword and fire is a judgment. But whoever in this way willingly and unilaterally anticipates My order in any way, must of course accept a small judgment insofar as he has pre-empted My established order. [15] Daniel did not want to die; therefore he was kept in the lions' den, and so were the youths in the furnace, and several similar examples. And behold, no hair was bent to all of them, and no hair of many thousands of those who love Me were ever bent, because they received the undisturbable power of My peace in their hearts. But anyone who wanted to get beyond this peace, also had to taste the world's strife. [16] It will of course also be said here: "If so, then it is best to let the world be the world in all its shameful works, and every better man should live on in his own peace quite unconcerned about the world; and if they all do, will not the world soon be filled up to the stars with abominations?! [17] Good, I say; calculate that back! Since the times of the apostles there have certainly been a myriad of zealots who, in a certain way, wished to improve the world with a glowing sword in their hands! Streams of blood were shed! Question: yourselves, with what success ?! Then look out into the world, and it will give you the sun-clear answer from all sides! [18] Except for your times, the great number of zealots should have left such an obituary that, according to them, the whole world would obviously have to be a paradise, and yet the world is ten times worse in this time than it was in the days of Noah! [19] Why does David say, "O Lord, how all human beings are against nothing, and all humanitarian aid is of no use!?" David said that because he knew Me; but you speak differently, because you do not know Me as David knew me! [20] Do you think I do not know what the world is doing and that I am too lazy to punish the world for its misdeeds? - I tell you: Believe something else, and leave the leading of the world to Me! [21] Whoever draws the sword will also be killed by the sword. With open violence, no one will ever do anything about the world; for wherever the world sees violence, it meets it again by force, and in this way one nation continually chokes the other. [22] But whoever wants to fight the world must fight them with secret weapons, and these weapons are My Love and My Peace in you! But everyone must first conquer their own world with these weapons; Only then will he be able to use these weapons victoriously against the outside world. [23] Verily, whoever is not inwardly a master of his world, will be even less so outwardly! But anyone who feels a curse-like zeal in himself is not yet finished with his own world; for this zeal still derives from the secret duel between My peace and the world in man. [24] For the world is the one who zealously directs and calls forth fire from heaven, pretending to strive for My cause; But My Spirit and My Peace do not strife, but only work powerfully and silently and fully unnoticed by all the world, and have no other external sign than the works of love and the face of humility. Since the time of My John, nobody has ever been judged by the world because of true love and humility. [25] See, in that there is the true inner peace and therein also the mighty victory over the world which I Myself have gained! Take therefore notice of this explanation, then you will defeat the world in you and all other always, and always in My Name and through My peace! Amen. (Explanation of Scriptures, chap. 35)
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