Letters 843-901, Volume 9 God's Word (2000/ 11/30 07:30~2000/ 12/13 14:40)
Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself!
From the 880th letter (December 8, 2000, 22:00)
I have taught you to 'Love your neighbor as yourselves'. But to what extent can you really practice this in your life? No matter how beautiful your plans and thoughts are, no matter how beautiful and ecstatic your words are, the strength of that love will be judged by how well you practice this teaching through your actions. All the people that wish to come to Me must live by practicing it in their lives. You are committing a sin if your words praising love, sharing and forgiveness are not put into practice.
Do you know what practicing love is? Do you know what giving is? You must not carelessly claim that you open your heart to all, that you practice love for others, that you do good deeds, and live lives without an ounce of shame. You must realize that there is no limit to love and good deeds.
Having understood this principle, if there are 10,000 cases of love that can come to Me, while you have shown love 10 or 100 times, do not carelessly claim that you have lavished love, mercy, and virtue on others. Do not boast about yourselves. Only good deeds done silently, without boasting, without showing off, can bring blessings to you. You receive as much as you give, so don't make the mistake of blowing everything away with words.
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Don't lie!
From the 896th letter (December 12, 2000, at 10:30)
The Ten Commandments say, ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbors.’ Therefore, deceiving people with lies is equivalent to murder, and an evil spirit lurks in the heart of those who can lie.
The reason you lie to others is not simply because you are trying to deceive others, but it also entails a desire to get something greater. The presence of dislike and jealousy in your wicked heart precedes your desire to deceive. It is because lying itself requires a more contorted heart than that necessary to commit murder. This is because lying represents all the wrong and wicked things in the World, and the basis for you to sin and to do wrong. So, lies are the foundation of evil preventing you from doing good deeds.
Do your religious leaders not tell you that because you are human, you can commit sins, and those who commit sins will be forgiven if they come to the churches and pray to Me, Jehovah? What is the source of such a huge false teaching? That is the same as saying that you can lie to others and deceive others.
People who cannot tell lies cannot commit sins. Thus, for those who cannot tell lies, the very idea that, because they are human beings, some can sin and ask for forgiveness from Me is irrelevant; they would not even dare to think or act in this way.
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Letters 843-901, Volume 9 God's Word (2000/ 11/30 07:30~2000/ 12/13 14:40)
Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself!
From the 880th letter (December 8, 2000, 22:00)
I have taught you to 'Love your neighbor as yourselves'. But to what extent can you really practice this in your life? No matter how beautiful your plans and thoughts are, no matter how beautiful and ecstatic your words are, the strength of that love will be judged by how well you practice this teaching through your actions. All the people that wish to come to Me must live by practicing it in their lives. You are committing a sin if your words praising love, sharing and forgiveness are not put into practice.
Do you know what practicing love is? Do you know what giving is? You must not carelessly claim that you open your heart to all, that you practice love for others, that you do good deeds, and live lives without an ounce of shame. You must realize that there is no limit to love and good deeds.
Having understood this principle, if there are 10,000 cases of love that can come to Me, while you have shown love 10 or 100 times, do not carelessly claim that you have lavished love, mercy, and virtue on others. Do not boast about yourselves. Only good deeds done silently, without boasting, without showing off, can bring blessings to you. You receive as much as you give, so don't make the mistake of blowing everything away with words.
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#Love #Neighbor #Yourself #Practice #Beautiful #Lives #Commiting #Sin #Principle #Good deed
Don't lie!
From the 896th letter (December 12, 2000, at 10:30)
The Ten Commandments say, ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbors.’ Therefore, deceiving people with lies is equivalent to murder, and an evil spirit lurks in the heart of those who can lie.
The reason you lie to others is not simply because you are trying to deceive others, but it also entails a desire to get something greater. The presence of dislike and jealousy in your wicked heart precedes your desire to deceive. It is because lying itself requires a more contorted heart than that necessary to commit murder. This is because lying represents all the wrong and wicked things in the World, and the basis for you to sin and to do wrong. So, lies are the foundation of evil preventing you from doing good deeds.
Do your religious leaders not tell you that because you are human, you can commit sins, and those who commit sins will be forgiven if they come to the churches and pray to Me, Jehovah? What is the source of such a huge false teaching? That is the same as saying that you can lie to others and deceive others.
People who cannot tell lies cannot commit sins. Thus, for those who cannot tell lies, the very idea that, because they are human beings, some can sin and ask for forgiveness from Me is irrelevant; they would not even dare to think or act in this way.
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#Lie #Ten Commandments #Evil #Spirit #Equivalent #Murder #Heart #Commit #Sin #Teaching