49._ Collaboration

There will be someone who he had tried, in his good heart, to save God from God. He will receive one lasts recrimination: "move away, Satan". That one is not the way. What he must do is to collaborate with God in the accomplishment of His will, implying himself also, without denying Him, until giving his life --and he will be able to find it truely--, dying like Him if it is necessary, but "head down, because he is not worthy to undergo the same death of his Lord". Thus he will have demonstrated the love that was in his heart: "You know that I love you".
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Prophecies

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, says Yahveh.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there,
but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud,
and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return to me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
(Isaiah 55, 8-11)

Letter

Since all the children share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it,
so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the devil,
and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

For it was not the angels that he took to himself; he took to himself the line of Abraham.
It was essential that he should in this way be made completely like his brothers
so that he could become a compassionate and trustworthy high priest for their relationship to God,
able to expiate the sins of the people.

For the suffering he himself passed through while being put to the test
enables him to help others when they are being put to the test.
(Letter to the Hebrew 2, 14-18)

Gospel

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me.
Remain in my love.

If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you
and your joy be complete.

This is my commandment:
love one another, as I have loved you.

No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business;
I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
(John 15, 9-15)

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