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The Model Woman - Gratitude Breeds Charity
The Model Woman - Gratitude Breeds Charity
Gratitude
(or Recognition of God’s Goodness)
Breeds Charity
A service of brotherly Love by:
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[3] The residents say: “We know that You are a wonder-
physician since the Pharisees told us today how through Your
mere will You made old Josa’s household completely well, and
that You are more than the familiar carpenter Jesus. And so
we beg You as our well known compatriot to make this raving
one well again.”
[6] Say I: “Very well, so go and bring him out, that he may
get well, together with all whom he infected as they caught
and locked him up!”
[7] Say the residents: “Oh Master, who is going to escort him
out? Whoever touches him is as good as terrifyingly dead!”
[8] Say I: “If you don’t believe and have no trust, I can help
neither him nor yourselves!”
[9] Say the residents: “Master, were You not able to help
Josa’s household, which was overtaken by similar evil, without
the sick having to be brought out?”
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[10] Say I: “Josa believed, but you yourselves don’t believe
and rather have cause only to see with your half-faith what I
would do with the raving one. Hence I say unto you again:
bring him out and him and you shall be helped. Because all of
you already harbor something similar that can break out
imminently; if however you believe and bring him out then the
satanic poison in you shall be destroyed for that very reason!”
[13] All were terrified, yelling: “Lord, now we are lost!” – And
the residents didn’t dare to do so for the screaming of the
other people together with the disciples.
[16] The raging instantly became quiet, his near negro black
face became natural again as formerly, and with grateful mien
he asked Borus to release the tight bands. Borus immediately
loosened the bands which were completely clean and free of
foamings. And the healed one went over to Me, thanking Me
most fervently for this unheard-of favor, begging Me that he
should henceforth be spared such evil.
[17] I said to him: “You and all the others who through you
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would unquestionably have lapsed into your evil, you are now
completely healed, but be friends of people and not of dogs in
future.
[20] Say I: “Oh ye of little faith! Do you not see that he whom
you brought has become completely well? If he was helped
then surely you will have been helped as well, since you had
nearly befallen by such raving. If I can call the dead from the
grave, then such evils surely shall not exceed death itself.
Time shall prove to you that you are fully healed. But now
depart to your dwellings in peace. Also, go over to the Elders
and Pharisees, showing yourselves as fully healed, and then
make your offering on the altar which Moses commanded for
the leprous after they are cleansed.”
[23] With these words they start off on their return reassured,
telling the Pharisees all that had taken place here, making an
abundant offering for it.
[2] I say to her: “Everything you will do to the poor for the
sake of My name will be considered as if you had done it to
Me.”
[3] The wife cries for joy and thanks, saying: “Lord, You truest
Master, given us from the heavens. I posses a great fortune,
half of it I want to let the poor have immediately whilst the
other half I want to hold in trust for them so that they can
always find something with me. For I believe that it is good
so, being aware of the poor not capable of managing large
wealth economically, usually spending too much at the start
and then having nothing in times of need.”
[4] Say I: “Do so, dear woman! So should all the rich act,
then the poor would never have to suffer need because
destitution is an evil thing, often leading the poor into greater
vice than wealth. The wealthy at least officially stay as within
his reputation before the world and rarely offends the world as
much as the poor, whose want often makes him ready for the
worst deeds; but the merciless rich, who often uses the poor
for carrying out his iniquity is, notwithstanding all his worldly
honor a thousand times worse than the poor. Because the
poor becomes depraved on account of his destitution, whilst
the rich is the creator of vice through his inconsumable
excess.
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[5] But the way you dear woman now want to, and also shall
use your wealth, same becomes a blessing from the heavens
and shall both temporally and everlastingly yield its stewards
the greatest profit. For which reason he who seeks to be really
virtuous, let him be always thrifty and economical, so that in
times of need he is enabled to support the poor and the weak.
[6] I tell all of you: Let your love for your children burn like a
light, but your love for the children of poor parents should be
a blaze. For no one in the world is poorer than a poor,
deserted child, be it a boy or a girl which makes no difference.
Whoever gives a home to such a poor child in My name and
cares for it bodily and spiritually like for his own blood, he
takes Me in and with Mine also Him Who sent Me into the
world and fully one with Me.
[8] After this lesson the woman rises with her children, they
thank Me once and finally she exclaims aloud: “O God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, how great, kind and holy You are
and how endlessly mighty and wise for giving us poor sinners
a man from Your heart who is capable of healing all our
maladies, physical and spiritual! To You, holy Father, be all
praise, all love, and all glory everlastingly! O You dearest
Father, how good You are to those who rely solely on You! You
do severely punish all who disregard Your commandment, but
when the repentant sinner entreats You: ‘Dear holy Father,
forgive me who am so weak’, oh then the holy, kind Father
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promptly grants his request and helps him with His almighty
arm out of every distress.
[12] Cyrenius noticed this and said: “Lord, what is it that You
are weeping?”
[13] And I replied: “Friend, there are not many little children
like this one on earth. Should I, as the Father Whom she
praised so fervently, not be able to be moved to tears for joy?
Oh, I tell you: More than any other father. Behold, all women
should be like this one, and she gives Me indescribable joy.
But she shall also realize what it means that I wept over her
for great joy.”
[14] After these words I wiped the tears from My eyes, saying
to the woman still in the glow of love alone for God, through
and through, and to her children: “You My beloved woman!
Since your love for God and your faith are so mighty as these
has rarely been before, I can’t let you go the way you are
now. Let your husband be sent for through your oldest son,
that he may come out, as I have quite a few important things
to discuss with him!”
[15] The boy at once runs off to town and soon returns with
the healed father.
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[16] I say to the two on arrival: “Friend, for the purpose of
your being healed fully not only physically, but primarily also
in soul, which shall live everlastingly, and for the purpose of
knowing where you stand in all that has taken place here, I
have had you summoned out here. Firstly you shall be My
guest throughout this evening together with your dear wife
and children, and second you shall see and hear quite a few
things from this you shall easily discern, as to Who is He that
healed you. After you and your wife shall become aware of
this you shall be also more at ease a thousandfold, and you
shall realize that you have truly been completely healed.
[17] But before dinner time comes we want to take the short
road to the new synagogue (built by Jairus, his wife, and his
daughter, her husband Borus, Cyrenius, Cornelius, Faustus,
Kisjonah), your wife and your children shall accompany us.
There you will be shown something that shall strengthen your
faith considerably.”
[18] Says the healed whose name was Bab: “Master, what
you wish shall be done in the way you wish it. I am willing to
follow you to the end of the world.”