"Come up hither, I will show you the Bride, the LAMB'S Wife!"

"I speak concerning CHRIST and the CHURCH!"

An Excerpt from FATHER DIVINE'S Sermon Given at The Circle Mission Church,
764-772 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa., July 31, 1946 A.D.F.D.


Sayville, Long Island, N. Y.

Sayville, Long Island, N. Y.

 

 

"...by the Grace of GOD as the Tangibilator and the Materializer, GOD materialized that Something that was intangible, and visibilated and made visible the invisible! Aren't you glad! And you have declared I AM HE the Intangible and Invisible and Impersonal GOD of All Creation and the GOD of Every Nation! Can you not see the mystery? And as you recognize such in your present experience and have made such a Declaration known, be it known unto you and unto all of the inhabitants of the earth, other things that were intangible and invisible, GOD as the CREATOR, the AUTHOR and the FINISHER, is the TANGIBILATOR for those things that were intangible!

"Think it not strange when GOD declared through the revelationic prediction of John and said:

'Come up hither, I will show you the Bride, the LAMB'S Wife!'
If GOD is Tangibilated, Materialized and Personified, HE will materialize or has Materialized and Personified HIS BRIDE! GOD is the Materializer and the Personifier of Immaterial things and Intangible things and Invisible things for you! Since I have made MYSELF Visible and caused you to be the Reproduction of the Invisible, I Visibilated that of which was predicted in the revelationic prediction of the Apostle! Aren't you glad! From whence cometh this unfoldment then? GOD as the Tangibilator is the Materializer and the Personifier of the Intangible and Invisible! GOD was Invisible once, as SPIRIT and SPIRIT Alone, moving out upon the face of the waters, and said, 'Let dry land appear!'started HIS Tangibilated CREATION by bringing into outer expression the Tangibilated Earth that is now tangibilated!

"Some could not understand and some cannot understand it now; but what said the mystery concerning this of which I AM now speaking? The Apostle spoke on thus wise:

'It is written that man should leave father and mother and cleave to his wife (or be joined unto his wife) and the two shall be one flesh!' 'This is a great mystery,'
said he, HE was not speaking about mortality! 'This is a great mystery!' It would not have been a mystery if he would have been speaking of mortality and self- indulgence and sex indulgence, but he was NOT speaking of it!
'This is a great mystery,'
said he,

'I speak concerning CHRIST and the CHURCH!'