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How do I act correctly towards my neighbor? How can I come closer to God in my neighbor? How can I change my life, in order to become peaceful, balanced and dynamic?  Simple rules for life, like: "Whatever you expect of your neighbor, do this first yourself." - The person who puts this into practice will experience the revolutionary positive effect in his life.

Christ says: "The Sermon on the Mount is th Inner Path to the heart of God, which leads to perfection."

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 in Universal Life  In His divine work of revelation "This Is My Word. A and W . The Gospel of Jesus. The Christ-Revelation which the world does not know" Christ explains through His prophetic word His teachings as Jesus of Nazareth as they are contained in "The Gospel of Jesus. What happened 2000 years ago?" Despite the many imperfections in the word that was passed down, the Christ of God chose this gospel, which is not part of the Bible, as the basis for "This Is My Word," because there is much truth contained in it regarding the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Following are some excerpts from "This Is My Word":

Reach agreement with your adversary quickly, while you are still on your way with him, lest one day your adversary hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the guard, and you will not come out until you have paid the last penny.

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

"Reach agreement with your adversary quickly, while you are still on your way with him” means: Do not let the sin that you have committed against your neighbour linger. Clear it up as quickly as possible, for he is still with you on your path through life in the earthly existence. If his soul has left the earth, you may have to wait until you can meet him again and can ask him for forgiveness.

Recognize: The judge is the law of sowing and reaping. If it becomes effective, the person will not come out from under it until he has paid the "last penny” - that is, until all that he has caused and not repented of in time is atoned for.

For this reason, use the chance to ask your neighbour for forgiveness and to forgive him as long as you are still on your path over the earth with him and the sin has not yet engraved itself into the soul and become a cause... 

For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? For sinners also love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what reward will you have? For even sinners do the same, too. And if you greet only your brethren, what more are you doing than the others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

Therefore, accept and receive your neighbour in your heart, even if he does not love you, even when he does not stand by you and ignores you, by refusing to greet you. Do love him! Do stand by him selflessly and do greet him - even if it is only in thought, when he does not wish to be greeted with words. Even a greeting from the heart, which is given in thought, enters the soul and brings good fruit at the right time.

Make sure that you act like the sun that gives - whether the person wants to see it or not, whether he wishes for rain or storm, whether he desires the cold or the warmth.

Give selfless love, as the sun gives to the earth, and respect all people, all Being. Then you will receive your reward in heaven.

Do not flatter people. Do not discriminate, like people who associate only with those who think and act the same way and condemn those who think and act otherwise...

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, your Father in heaven will not forgive you your trespasses...

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

The commandment to forgive and ask for forgiveness holds true until all that is not in accordance with the eternal laws is atoned for and cleared up. The commandment to forgive and ask for forgiveness belongs to the law of sowing and reaping. It will be rescinded when all humanness has been expiated and every soul has become a pure, immaculate spirit being.

And so until then, the commandment holds true: Forgive and you will receive forgiveness. If you ask for forgiveness and your neighbour forgives you, then your Father in heaven has also forgiven you. But if you ask for forgiveness and your neighbour does not yet forgive you because he is not yet ready to do so, then your eternal Father will not forgive you either. The one who has sinned against his neighbour must also receive forgiveness from his neighbour. Only then does God take away the sin.

The eternally just One loves all His children - also those who do not yet have the strength to forgive. If He were to forgive only the one who caused a sin to be committed and were not to forgive the one who was led by him into sin and cannot yet forgive - where would the justice of God then be? Both of them can enter heaven only when their sins are cleared up.

For this reason, be careful of what goes out of your mouth and pay heed to your deeds, whether they are in accordance with the eternal law, that is, whether they are selfless! Something negative is said or done very quickly - but it can take a long time until it is forgiven...

Therefore, I say to you: Do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat and drink; not even for your body, for what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? And what shall it profit a man, if he would gain the whole world but lose his life?

Look at the birds in the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father nourishes them.

The person who worries about his personal life, about his well-being - for example, what he will eat and drink or clothe himself with tomorrow - is a poor planner; for he thus thinks only about himself, about his own well-being and about his property. Thus, at the same time, he also plans in his pain and woe.

On the other hand, the one who fulfils the will of God is a good planner. He will plan both his days and his future. However, he knows that his planning is only a guideline that rests in the hands of God.

He lays his plan in the hands of God, works with the powers of God and lets himself be guided by God during the events of the day. For he knows that God is the all-knowing Spirit and the wealth of his soul. The one who entrusts himself to God, who places his day's work in the light of God and who fulfils the law "pray and work” will receive his just reward. He will have everything that he needs.

If God, the Eternal, adorns nature and clothes the lilies of the field, how much more will He feed and clothe His child who fulfils His will! Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, but plan and commit your plan to the will of God - and God, who knows your plan, will fulfil for you what is good for you...

Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. For you will be judged in the same way you judge others; and with whatever measure you measure, you will be measured again in turn. And as you do to others, so will it be done to you. 

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

You have read that thoughts, words and deeds are magnets. The one who judges and condemns his neighbour in thoughts and with words will experience the same or similar things on himself.

Recognize that your negative thoughts, words and deeds are your own judges. "With whatever measure you measure” - whether in thoughts or in words and actions - so will you yourself be measured. Just as you belittle your neighbour, in order to exalt yourself, so will you be valued: You will know and suffer your own worth. And if you say, "What the one has is sufficient for him - the other one should receive more”, then one day you will possess only as much or even less than the one to whom you have conceded less: Just as you treat your neighbour in thoughts, words and deeds, so will you yourself fare some day...

How is it that you see the splinter in your brother's eye and are not aware of the beam in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother that you want to take the splinter out of his eye? And see, a beam is in your eye. You hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye; only then will you see clearly, in order to be able to take the splinter out of your brother's eye. (Chap. 27:2)

   I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

Only the person who is not aware of the beam in his own eye talks constantly about the splinter in his neighbour's eye. Only the one who does not know his own way of thinking and living busies himself with trying to extricate the splinter from the eye of his brother. The one who does not know himself nor his beam - the sins in his soul which are reflected in his own eyes - has no eye for the truth. His eye is clouded by sin. Thus, he sees in his neighbour just what he himself still is: a sinner. Only the one who works on the beam in his own eye perceives more and more clearly. Then he will be able to recognize the splinter in his brother's eye more and more clearly and, in accordance with the law of love for one's neighbour, will help him to remove it.

Therefore, the one who speaks negatively about his fellow men, who belittles and slanders them, does not know his own faults.

You should recognize them by their fruits. Each one shows who he is, that is, his fruit. The one who becomes upset about his fellow men and makes fun of them shows who he truly is.

The one who first discards his own faults is also able to help his neighbour. This is why each one who speaks adversely about his brother's faults - and in so doing does not notice the beam in his own eye - is a hypocrite.

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. 

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

Only the person who has not yet entered into his inner being, into the kingdom of love, asks, seeks and knocks at the gate to the Inner Life. The Kingdom of God is in the soul of every person.

The first step on the path to Inner Life, on the way 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, the love and justice of God in the commandments of life, which are signposts on the way within.

A further step is to knock at the inner door, in the little chamber of one's own heart. This gate to the heart of God opens itself only to the one who has sincerely prayed, searched and knocked. The inner gate does not open to the intellectual who seeks only outer values and ideals. The doubters will not be received either.

Therefore, the one who asks, seeks and knocks must do it out of love for God and not in order to test the love of God.

Recognize that the person who just wants to test whether the love of God really exists will himself be put to the test very soon. The gate of the heart is 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 into the heart of God has already received in his soul. This means that the fullness from God shines more intensively in his soul and radiates through him, through the person. The one who has entered into his inner being no longer needs to seek - he is at home in the kingdom of the inner being. And the one who consciously dwells there 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 within their soul, they bear what makes them truly rich: the love and wisdom of God.

Whatever you want that people should do to you, do it likewise to them, and whatever you do not want them to do to you, do not do it to them either; for this is the law and the prophets.  

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

Recognize that you should not demand from your fellow man what you yourself are not willing to give.

When you expect your neighbour to do something for you, ask yourself the question: Why do you not do it yourself? The person who expects, for example, money and property from his neighbour, so that, in his laziness, he himself will not have to work, or the person who expects faithfulness from his neighbour while he himself is not faithful, or the one who wants to be accepted and received by his neighbour, yet neither accepts nor receives his fellow man - is selfish and poor in spirit.

Whatever you demand of your neighbour is what you yourself do not have in your heart.

It is unlawful - out of an attitude of expectation - to force one's fellow man into acts, statements or ways of behaving, which one, of oneself, would not be willing to do.

If you have recognized your expectant attitude in wanting something from your neighbour, turn back quickly and first do yourself what you demand of your neighbour.

All coercion is pressure, which produces in turn coercion and counter-pressure. Through such extortionary behaviour towards your fellow man, you tie yourself to him and make of yourself - as well as of the one who lets himself be blackmailed - a slave to a baser nature. Coercive methods such as: "I expect of you and you expect of me - each gives the other what the other demands” lead to binding.

What is bound has no place in heaven. Both the persons tied to one another will meet again one day, either in the fine-material life or in further incarnations.

This form of binding does not apply to one's place of work. When, in your professional life, you have freely taken a position in a certain field of work, and the responsible person gives you duties that you should carry out within the framework of your job, you have already given your consent to that upon joining the enterprise. You have freely taken your place in the field of work and on the work team, in order to do what is assigned to you. Thus, when you choose a job, you should also carry out what is assigned to you in accordance with the field of work you yourself have chosen. The statement "Whatever you want that people should do to you, do it likewise to them ...” therefore, does not apply to a self-chosen profession or field of work.

"Whatever you do not want them [the people] to do to you, do not do it to them either” means: If you do not want to be laughed at and ridiculed, or do not want to be robbed or lied to, or do not want to be deprived of your belongings, or do not want to be led by the nose, or do not want to be robbed of your free will, or do not want to be beaten or insulted, then do not do that to your fellow man. For what you do to the least of your brothers, that you do to Me - and to yourself. What you do not want to be done to you, you should not do to any of your neighbours either - for everything that comes from you returns to you. Therefore, examine your thoughts and guard your tongue!