1996.10.06 - The Word of God at the Feast of the conception of St. John, the Baptizer, Lord Jesus [books to read for 12 year olds .txt] 📗

            The Word of God[1] at the conception of the saint John, the Baptizer

                                                                          (Translated by I.A.)

I come every day of feasting and I refresh you in My love, Israel, My child. I come son; I come, for you are My comfort. I come to teach you to worship in the Spirit of Truth, as the spirit of the world does no longer know what the Spirit of Truth is, but you believe into the Scriptures and become spirit and truth with your worshipping, as you, My people, have a true God.

Oh, Israel, I give you My peace, son, as My peace brings you a spirit of contentment in your true God. Peace to you, My blessed Israel, My Israel! Worship God, Israel. Receive son, Israel, the Spirit of Truth; receive Him and learn from Him to worship God. Amen. When I spoke at the Jacob’s well with the Samaritan woman, you know what I told her then. I told her that the hour would come when the true worshippers would neither worship in the mountain of worship, and nor in Jerusalem any longer, but rather they would worship the Father in the Spirit of Truth, in the Spirit of God, in Christ. This Scripture is big, and its mystery is difficult to understand even for God’s faithful ones. The hour has come, so that the Father may have true worshippers; the hour has come, so that I may choose a people and put the Spirit of Truth upon it and to worship the Father, as such worshippers Father wants. The hour has come to have you, My people, as I chose you to have you and to believe in Jesus Christ, Who came from heaven from the Father, so that you may worship the Father through Him, Israel. God is Spirit, spirit and truth is God, as the Spirit of God became truth on the earth, as it is written into the Scriptures, as this is written: «The Word became flesh and lived among people».

Oh, how wise was that Samaritan woman! How well we got together each other, as it is great the gift of wisdom, which comes from the faith in God, in the Spirit of God, Who spoke and speaks through the prophets. This is what she told Me: «Lord, our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you, the Jews, say that the place of worship is in Jerusalem». And I answered her: «Woman, the hour comes for the true worshippers, that neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem will they worship, but they will worship the Father in spirit and truth, as such worshippers Father wants. You worship that which you do not know, but we worship that which we know; for the salvation comes from the Jews, but the hour comes that the true worshippers will worship in truth and in spirit; for God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth». She was a wise woman and understood what kind of truth of the Spirit I was speaking about with her, and then she said: «We know that Messiah is to come, Who is called Christ, and when He comes He will teach us everything». Oh, and what a great joy she had when I told her: «I am He, the One Who speaks to you».

Oh, Israel, it is great the gift of wisdom which comes from the holy faith in God. Father such worshippers wants, worshippers who believe in truth, in Jesus Christ, Who is the truth, as God is spirit and truth, word and body, as it is written: «The word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw His glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth».

Oh, Israel, how beautiful was My speaking with you, as I have been speaking with you for a long time at this well, son, at the well of My word, Israel. I went out with this well before the woman from Samaria; I went out with My word before her, and how beautiful was My speaking with her! And then I gave her water from the well of My word; I gave her spirit and truth, and it became a spring of living water in her, as this is what I told her: «He who drinks from the water that I give him will never go thirsty, and it will become a spring of living water in him», My living water will become spirit and truth in him. How beautifully I spoke with that wise woman, that I liked her wisdom, her knowledge, her faith in Jesus Christ, Who was written about into the Scriptures that would come. I met with her at the well, and speaking about the well, I managed to make her know what the well is and what water is and what spirit and truth is, Israel; and I want to teach you too, Israel, the same way, to get used son, to know what it means worshipping the Father in spirit and truth.

Give Me, Israel, give Me, son, to drink and to be able to understand with you like with the Samaritan woman, son Israel. I told her: «Give Me to drink of your little wooden pale». And she said: «You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan, and the Jews are not friends with Samaritans; how comes that You say: „Give Me to drink?” And I answered her: «If you knew the gift of God, and who it is Who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink’, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water».  I was working upon her to open her wisdom and knowledge, for she was wise, and she replied to Me: «Lord, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. From where then have You that living water? Are You really greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, as did his children and his cattle?». Then I said to her this: «Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again and drinks again when he thirsts, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life». I was working upon her with the spring of My word, so that she may understand who I am, as she had power of faith and wisdom, and she understood My speaking and then she said: «Lord, give me to drink of this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw». And then I cleaned her of her sins that I spoke to her about, and she saw in Me a prophet and asked Me about the worship, as she wanted to worship God and to belong to God. This is what she said: «Our fathers worshipped in this mountain and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship». She wanted to understand who comes to worship the Father, and I revealed it to her the true worshipping and I told her: «Woman, believe Me that the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father; for you worship that which you do not know, and we worship that Whom we know, as salvation is from the Jews. But the hour comes when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be His worshippers». And when the woman was careful to the words of life, she remembered of the prophets and said: «We know that Messiah is to come, Who is called Christ, and when He comes, He will declare all things to us». And when I heard that she spoke about Me, I said: «I am He, the One Who speaks to you». I revealed Myself to her, so that she might know that I came and I taught her. And then the disciples came with food and saw Me speaking with her and marveled that I was speaking with the woman, but they did not tempted Me about what I was doing, and she left her little wooden pail there and went into the city and told to many to come to the well in Sihar (Sihem, r.n.) to see Christ. And then the Samaritans came to the well at Me, and I did not want to eat any more, as the disciples said to Me: “Lord, eat.” But then My food was to do My Father’s will, Who sent Me from heaven to do His will, and I told them about the work of the harvest and about the reward of those who reap, who receive a reward and gather fruit for eternal life; however, they rejoice together with the one who reaps, as the sower is one and the reaper is another one. He who reaps is not like the one who sows. He who sows works much, and he who reaps comes in the work of the one who sows and labors over the sowed crop field, and they rejoice together, as with God there is love; there is the reward for the reapers, for they finish their work and gather the fruit for eternal life; and the reaper rejoices with the one who sows, the sower with the reaper.

This is how the Samaritans received Christ, Israel. This is how My coming to them was; the same as to you, Israel, as I worked the word of life; I sown it upon that woman who came at the well in Sychar, and those from Samaria came there; they came because of the faith testified by the woman and took Me into their home, and they believed because of My word and not only because that faithful woman told them to do it. My word is a well of living water, and whoever drinks of it, it turns into a spring of living water in him, which flows into an eternal life. Oh, how beautiful was the faith of the Samaritans, as they believed by My word, not by seeing My godly power, not by seeing the signs and miracles, but through the word and through their faith in the prophets and in the fathers.

Oh, you should not get upset, My people. I know that you know the Scripture, but I come to clarify it to you so that you may know its word from Me, My word, Israel, as by this Scripture I was speaking then about of My word of today, which is upon you, about My well of today, as this is what I said: «Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life». I am the well of water, as the word is the well, as the woman said when she said: «We know that Messiah will come and teach us all things. Lord, give me this water so that I may never get thirsty»

Israel, Israel, God is spirit and truth. I am the Spirit and the Truth; I am He, who came from the Father, from the Holy Spirit and from the Virgin, and the true worshippers will worship Me, Who I am spirit and truth. I was speaking to My disciple then: «Whatever you ask from the Father into My name you will receive, as until now you did not ask into My