Jesus: I Speak to You Again
Chapter 128
The Dead Rituals and Dogmas Are the Biggest Obstacles to Your Relationship with the Father
When I lived two thousand years ago, I chose a path that fit the conditions of that time. Today, while material development and communication have advanced greatly, your spiritual growth faces more challenges than it did in my time. Back then, I struggled against the most progressive Jewish religion, which had enslaved the Jews with its dead rituals, superstitions, and dogmas.
Overcoming rituals and superstitions is incredibly difficult. But it was easier then than it is today. Now, instead of one religion, you are bound by the rituals and dogmas of many. Each religion holds you as spiritual slaves, and the grip is so strong that you don’t dare to free yourselves. You don’t break free because you do not know what it means to have belief without rituals, not because you find fulfillment in them. No one explains to you—at home, in school, or in church—how to live a life of belief without clinging to these dead rituals.
Even when you believe in God, you continue practicing rituals and professing dogmas, yet without having a living experience with the Father. It is this living experience that is true faith, and it is this that the world is missing. There are many religions, but there is little faith in them. As a result, you do not experience the Father’s presence. You cannot feel His love within yourselves. This shows that you remain orphans, even with the Living Father near you.
You comfort yourselves by saying you believe because you attend church services. But even those leading the services are orphans of the Living Father, for they too perform empty rituals without having a true relationship with Him. They neither pray from the spirit nor help you establish a spiritual bond with the Father during the service. The dead rituals themselves block the way to that relationship.
To keep you distracted, your attention is drawn to the outward show—the colorful vestments of the clergy, the ringing of bells, the incense, the kneeling and standing, and the movements of the priests. None of this has anything to do with the Father or with me, for both the Father and I speak to you only through your opened soul, not through external actions or sights seen by an unawakened soul.
These rituals, no matter how elaborate, do not lead to the living faith that comes from an open, heartfelt relationship with the Father. True worship comes through opening your soul to the Father, communing with Him from your inner being, not through external motions or rituals. It is your soul’s genuine love vibration directed toward the Father and all your brethren, present or not, that matters. This love extends to all creation, for no act of love is ever lost. It illuminates the universe.
When you truly open your soul and worship with a sincere heart, you will begin to feel a living relationship with the Father within yourself. You will feel the creative energy of a living faith. After this type of worship, you will not leave anxious or sad but filled with the Father’s love and peace. You will radiate that love to others, sharing it freely without needing to wish peace to anyone—for peace will flow naturally from within you, strengthened during your time of worship.
This living faith, this deep connection with the Father, is what the world truly needs. It cannot be found in rituals or dogmas but only in the sincere, opened heart reaching out to the Father in love.