BD.8463
April 9, 1963

JESUS SUFFERED IMMEASURABLY

Again and again you should think about how the man Jesus suffered for you, for His Love wanted to help you to be free from the fetters of Satan. HE took on all your guilt, and suffered superhuman afflictions as atonement for this guilt, and finally paid for your guilt with the most dreadful death on the cross.

And though you are reminded again and again of the magnitude of His Sacrifice and the extent of His suffering, it is not possible for you to even feel this pain. However, you should remember it often, so as to be able to comprehend His immense Love for you that moved HIM to His Redemption-Work.

His soul was clean and without blemish. It came from the highest spheres of Light into the dark sinful world; it came to mankind that had erred through the ancient apostasy from God and that had also continued sinfully through its earthly life under the influence of My opponent who drove it relentlessly to loveless ness; for they could not resist him in their weakness due to the burden of the ur-guilt. People were in dense darkness and so could not recognize the enemy of their souls; they were in a state of the greatest spiritual distress and could never have liberated themselves with their own force.

And Jesus had Mercy with this humanity - they were His fallen brethren, who would have been eternally separated from the FATHER, and therefore HE wanted to bring them help and show them the way that would bring them back to the HOUSE of their FATHER. Jesus offered Himself voluntarily to an Expiation-Work that cannot be measured by you. HE suffered physically, and in His soul. What torture could be done to HIM - in order to inflict pain and suffering - was done, by people who were followers of the opponent, who wanted to hinder the Redemption-Work with all his force.

But what the soul had to bear in the grasp of the prince of darkness, exposed to his servants and helpmates - that is inconceivable to you humans, because it came from a divine, lightful sphere and descended into hell, into the sphere of God's opponent, where it was dark. The soul had to endure immeasurable tortures, because all sinfulness and darkness offended it painfully; because all the un-spiritual clung to the soul and tried to pull it further down into the bottomless abyss.

But the soul resisted, and used the Force out of God - for Jesus' soul was filled with Love, and this Love was the Force that enabled it to accomplish the Redemption-Work. - Jesus saw the unhappy situation of humanity on Earth. HE saw their weakness and their blindness and with His Love HE challenged His opponent, who had humanity under his sway, who had pushed them into unhappiness and hindered them from finding a way out of it. Jesus countered his hate and wickedness with His Love. And this Love was stronger than the hate, and overcame the opponent. Love suffered Itself for the fellow-men, and Love bought men freedom from their bondage by His death on the cross.

The price has been very high. Jesus gave His last for the sin-guilt of mankind. HE sacrificed HIMSELF. He proved to the opponent that Love is stronger than hate; that Love can accomplish all, and that it even does not fear death when through it, the prisoners can be set free - when it wants to guide the dead back to life again, and wrench the fettered-ones from their prison-guard. No pain or torture was too great for the man Jesus to abandon His Redemption-Work. His compassion for sinful mankind was so deep that HE recoiled from nothing, that HE faced His death willingly and obediently, and before His death suffered superhuman pains for the sins of man. And when you think of it, you must strive with intense Love toward HIM; you must hasten under the cross in order to belong to those for whom the man Jesus has shed His blood.

You must be so penetrated by the force of His Love that you return it from your deepest heart and devote yourself to HIM fully and sincerely, to be and to remain His in all eternity. You cannot hold His suffering and death before your eyes too often, for in this way you will always draw nearer to HIM - when you are filled with the thought that all the suffering that HE met actually was yours to bear in order to expiate the great guilt from which HE redeemed you. This was only be done through the LOVE within HIM. And this LOVE was GOD HIMSELF that was flowing completely through the man Jesus and gave him the Force to accomplish the Redemption-Work and to over-come the opponent, because Love is the Force that even God's opponent had to submit to; so that he had to desist from his hold on those souls that walk the path to the cross, those that recognize JESUS CHRIST as the divine Redeemer and that pray to HIM that HE may forgive the guilt.

AMEN