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Scripture Explanations – Jesus’ Interpretation of several different Bible Passages 1. Chapter – Introduction… Thus says the Lord: 2. Through frequent reading, you have probably crammed your memory full; but ask your spirit what it has gained from all this, and its dull reply will be as follows: 3. “I am indeed surrounded by all manner of building materials in a chaotic jumble, with beams and stones piled up like mountains; but not even a single shabby hut has been built from all these materials in which I could live freely! You keep piling up the building materials, nothing but precious stones and the finest cedar wood lie in clumsy heaps before me, but I cannot bring myself to organize them! And even when I’ve started here and there to create a bit of order, you bring in another colossal amount of new materials, so that I inevitably grow weary in my efforts and, in the end, shudder at the sight of the sheer volume of materials to be organized, thinking wistfully: When will all this material ever be arranged into a dwelling!?” 4. Behold, this is a thoroughly profound answer from the spirit, which every man who has read even a little must find within himself with the utmost clarity! 5. If one such as this has read through a few thousand books over the course of his life, what chaos must reign in his memory by the end! And if all goes well, after such extensive reading he will, with great difficulty, be able to produce just enough to realize only then that he knows nothing. 6. But what is this confession? It is nothing other than one and the same wistful lamentation of the spirit, which thereby seeks to say that, with this immense quantity of building materials, it has not even managed to construct the most rudimentary dwelling for itself! 7. Thus, there are those who know the Old and New Testaments by heart, word for word; but ask them about the inner meaning of even a single verse, and they will know just as much as those who cannot recite a single verse by heart, indeed, who often barely know that the Holy Scripture even exists! So what use is this magnificent material to them? 8. The spirit dwells only in the spiritual; if not even a poor little hut can be built for him from this material in the inner Spirit of Truth, where then is he to dwell, where is he to conduct his affairs, and from what point is he to begin organizing the material?! 9. Would it not be better to possess less material and use that to immediately construct a small, respectable dwelling for the spirit, so he may thereby have a secure and free space from which to plan his next steps and use newly arriving material accordingly?! 10. What will a field look like when, despite having the best soil, you sow a thousand different kinds of seeds, mixed together in the greatest disorder, all at the same time? The seeds will certainly sprout, but what good will that do for the sower? Truly, the yield of this field will scarcely be fit even as poor fodder for the livestock! The stronger plants will choke the weaker ones, weeds will run rampant, and the wheat grain will appear only here and there, sparse, stunted, and withered! 11. From this, however, it follows that wherever you wish to derive benefit, order must be established; without it, you will grow thorns, thistles, weeds, and turnips all jumbled together, which can never be of any use to you. 12. But what does this order consist of? 13. If you have purified wheat, sow it in a clean and good field, and you will reap a clean and good harvest. 14. Anyone who has a good building site and the necessary materials should not wait until he has first gathered a surplus pile of building materials before he begins to build his house; for in the end, that large pile of building materials will fill up the entire construction site! 15. And when the master builder comes and asks him: “Friend, where exactly do you want the house built?” what will he answer? Surely nothing other than: “Right there, friend, where that huge pile of building materials is!” 16. And the builder will say to him: “Why did you have these materials piled up on the construction site before we drew up the plans and dug the foundation? If you want the house built on this spot, you must first move all these materials aside and clear the site completely; only then will I come, measure the site, draw up the plans, have the foundation dug according to them, and finally inspect the materials to see if they are indeed suitable for building your house!” 17. Behold, from this parable you can already see quite clearly how little use extensive reading is to anyone if he does not proceed with it in the proper order! 18. But what does this true order consist of? Simply put: One must immediately begin arranging every new load or delivery of materials into a dwelling, not reaching for a second batch until the first has been processed. In this way, he will make rapid progress on his construction and will always have enough free space around it to neatly stack a sufficient supply of new building materials. 19. To put it bluntly: Everyone must take immediate action after reading, organizing their life accordingly, for only then will what they have read benefit them; otherwise, it will only harm them. Indeed, let none be mere listeners to the Word, but doers of it! 20. More of these recollections shortly! |

