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 Go Into Your Inner Being
4. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you; for every one who asks will receive and the one who seeks will find, and to those who knock it will be opened. (Chap. 27:4)
Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:
Only the person who has not yet entered his inner being, the kingdom of love, asks, seeks and knocks at the gate to Inner Life. The Kingdom of God is within, in the soul of every person.
The first step on the path to Inner Life, on the pathway to the gate of salvation, is to ask God for help and support. The next step is to search for the love and justice of God. The pilgrim finds the life, God’s love and justice, in the commandments of life, which are the guides on the way within.
A further step is to knock at the inner door, in one’s own little chamber of the heart. This gateway to the heart of God opens itself only to the one who has sincerely prayed, searched and knocked. The inner door does not open to the intellectual who seeks only external values and ideals. And the doubters will not receive either.
Therefore, the one who asks, seeks and knocks must do so out of love for God and not to test the love of God.
Recognize that whoever just wants to test whether God’s love actually exists will himself be put to the test very quickly. The heart’s gateway stands open to the one who lives in God. He need not ask anymore; he has already received, for God knows His children. The one who has entered the heart of God has already received in his soul. This means that the wealth from God shines more intensely in his soul and radiates through him, the person. Whoever has entered his inner being no longer needs to seek – he is at home in the kingdom of the inner being. And whoever has consciously taken up dwelling in Him no longer needs to knock; he has already entered and lives in God, and God lives through him.
Only those will ask, seek and knock who still stand on the outside and do not yet know that, deep in their soul, they bear what makes them truly rich: God’s love and wisdom.
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As Jesus of Nazareth, Christ gave us the Sermon on the Mount and He explains and deepens it today through His prophetic word in His great work of revelation: "This Is My Word, Alpha and Omega, The Christ-Revelation, which all true Christians the world over have come to know."
Also available as a book, "The Sermon on the Mount"
from Verlag DAS WORT.
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