AC 7195
. . . the Lord is more present
in a a state of temptations than out of this state,
although it appears otherwise.
AC 7197
. . . the life which has heaven in it,
is a life according to the truths
and goods of faith
about which the person has been instructed.
Unless these are the rules and principles of his life,
in vain does he look for heaven,
no matter how he has lived;
for without these truths and goods
a person is like a reed which is shaken by every wind;
for he is bent by evils equally as by goods,
because he has nothing of truth and good
made firm within him whereby he may
be kept by the angels in truths and goods,
and be withdrawn from the falsities and evils
which the infernals are continually injecting.
In a word, the life of Christian good is what makes heaven;
not a life of natural good.
AC 7211
That the Lord's life is in heaven,
consequently that those who are there are in His life,
is because they are in the truth and good
which proceed from the Lord,
and the good which is in the truth
is the Lord Himself,
and the truth in which is the good
is the life from the Lord from which all live.
From all this it is evident
that they who are in good and so in truth,
as are all in the heavens,
are in the Lord's life.
Friday, August 30, 2013
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