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Keep the Commandments – Only Then Teach

9. The one who breaks one of these commandments, which He gives and teaches the people to do the same, will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the one who keeps and teaches them, the same will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:

The Ten Commandments that God gave to His human children through Moses are excerpts from the eternal law of life and of love. Whoever violates these commandments, who only teaches them to his fellow man but does not keep them himself, is a false teacher. He sins against the Holy Spirit. This is the greatest sin. This counterfeiter uses the love of God, the law of life, for his own purpose. Thereby, he misuses the eternal law. Every misuse is thievery; and every thief is a hunted and hounded person who, sooner or later, is caught and convicted by his own deeds, by his own causes. For God is a just God; everything will be re­vealed through Him, the good as well as the less good and the evil.

However, the one who keeps the law of love and of life, that is, who fulfills it in his daily life, and teaches the people what he himself has actualized is a true spiritual teacher. He offers the bread of the heavens to the people and will thus satisfy many. The one who gives out of his own fulfillment is filled by divine wisdom and strength and, when the time has come, will shine like a star in heaven. For the God-filled person draws from the stream of salvation and gives selflessly to those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Recognize: Through such righteous men and women, the eternal law of love and of life comes into this world. And so, the one who keeps and teaches the eternal law will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven; this means that he will harvest a rich reward in heaven.

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