Divine Providence #123

Topics covered:

• Explaining point # (7) It is the continual endeavor of the Lord’s Divine Providence to conjoin a person with Himself and Himself with the person, in order to be able to impart to him the felicities of eternal life—which is possible only to the extent that evils with their lusts have been put away
• Who does not see that conjunction with God is eternal life?
• Use your rationality and freedom and you will see truth in its own light
• Only grant first the existence of God and heaven, and of eternal life
• Divine love acts only in accordance with its Divine wisdom

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #122

Topics covered:

• If he looks only to God the Father he cannot be purified
• The Holy Supper confirms the remission (sending-back) of sins
• Because in that Communion everyone is kept looking to the Lord alone

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #121

Topics covered:

• Simply believing what the church teaches purifies them (they think)
• Others believe that doing good is what purifies them of evils
• Others think it’s piety that purifies
• Others, that it’s universal confession of sins
• None of these purifies a person of evils unless…
• Yes, you should condemn yourself on account of specific sins
• All of this he must do as though of himself
• Hypocrites are like apes in human clothing
• How to have camaraderie with angels

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #120

Topics covered:

• A person knows nothing at all of the interior state of his mind
• The elements in man’s spirit are even more numerous than those in his body
• When a person puts away an evil (seemingly a single thing) the Lord puts away the infinite elements present in it

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audiobook of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #119

Topics covered:

• (6) The Lord then purifies the person of the lusts for evil in his internal self and of the evils themselves in his external self
• For they block the way and close the door
• The Lord continually urges and presses a person to open the door to Him (“Behold, I stand at the door and knock”)

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audio book of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #118

Topics covered:

• Point (5) from this chapter’s outline: Therefore a person has to put away evils from his external self as if of himself
• Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem 92-118

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audio book of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #117

Topics covered:

• Many people do not know that they are impelled by evils
• So lusts for evil remain like polluted waters
• Let them examine their thoughts and intentions and they will discover these lusts, provided they know what sin is

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audio book of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #116

Topics covered:

• Without that appearance the person would be incapable of any reception of Divine truth
• …or any determination to do good
• …or any incorporation of love and wisdom
• …or any conjunction with the Lord
• Will you not acknowledge as a consequence that a person must do good and think truth as though of himself, and yet recognize that he does so from the Lord?

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audio book of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #115

Topics covered:

• A person is justified by faith apart from deeds of the law (Romans 3:28)
• It is apparent from this what blindness has been introduced by this one passage wrongly understood
• Do we then make void the law through faith? Far from it. Rather we establish the law (Romans 3:31)

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of this audio book of Divine Providence beyond what appears in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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Divine Providence #114

Topics covered:

• On the same day they hear the necessity of repentance, they hear the preaching of faith alone—that they cannot do any good that is not merit-seeking, and thus that their works have not a whit of salvation in them
• these same people return home with their earlier confession completely forgotten
• Which, then, is true—the first or the second? Two propositions contrary to teach other cannot both be true.
• It must be true either that without… repentance, forgiveness of [sins] is not possible… or that these things contribute nothing to salvation
• People who lack faith for want of repentance are on the road to hell
• Those who have faith simply, trusting it to be so, and having confidence in the imputation of the Lord’s merit, are without sins (they think)
• Think with some understanding, and if you have any religion you will see that repentance from sins is the way to heaven

Point (4) Evils in the external self can be put away by the Lord only through the agency of the person

From Chapter 5: “It is a Law of Divine Providence That a Person Put Away as If of Himself Evils as Sins in His External Self, and That the Lord Be Able Only Then to Put Away Evils in His Internal Self and at the Same Time in His External One”

To hear the rest of Divine Providence audio book that doesn’t appear in your podcast player, visit the website (link in show notes description or via globe icon).

Angelic Wisdom regarding Divine Providence is a work of the Heavenly Doctrine penned by Emanuel Swedenborg. First published in the Latin language in 1764. Translated by N.B. Rogers for the General Church. Used with permission. Read by the Rev. Judah Synnestvedt.

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