"I AM PURIFYING unto MYSELF a Glorious Church Without a Spot Or a Wrinkle!"

"Come Up Higher and I Will Show You the Mystery, The Bride, The Lamb's Wife!"

An excerpt from FATHER DIVINE'S Sermon Given at The Circle Mission Church, Philadelphia, Pa., April 11, 1951 A.D.F.D.

 

 

"Peace, Everyone! That message as given then is just as operative and expressive today since nearly nineteen years have passed. I would just like to say that GOD is the SAME today, yesterday and forever, the GOD of every nation and the GOD of ALL Creation! Therefore I say to you today, Come Up Higher and I Will Show you the Mystery! Come Up Higher continues to echo in the Spirit of MY MIND! Come Up Higher and I Will Show you the Mystery, The Bride, The Lamb's Wife!

This is not confined to an individual! Individuality, personality and the individuals are not in MY consideration, but as an abstract expression and a sketch and a reflection of the Mystery, I reveal MY TRUTH to the people! Things are done in parables and they are spoken in the actuated words of expression so that the children of men might be able to observe them. To observe anything and to get the understanding and the interpretation, it must come through the light of your understanding whereby you might be able to understand them! Aren't you glad!

Now Scripturally I did say:

'Come up higher and I will show you the Mystery, the Bride, the LAMB'S Wife.'

You can see that the Scripture is fulfilled, not only individually or personally, which is the abstract personal expression of the Mystery that GOD is revealed, but remember, it is written that 'Man shall leave father and mother and be joined unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great Mystery, but I speak concerning CHRIST and the church.'

You can see the collective BODY of CHRIST as the unified BODY of many members coming up to the light of this understanding where they can see CHRIST and the BRIDE. They can see themselves incarnated and reincarnated into bodies that follow the LAMB whithersoever HE goeth and in their mouths is found no guile!

You can see I AM PURIFYING unto MYSELF a Glorious Church without a spot or a wrinkle! The Bride as depicted and described is explicitly portraying the Mystery! Aren't you glad!

Therefore, as you come up higher, I will show you the Mystery, the BRIDE, the LAMB'S WIFE; how you are changed from mortality, carnality and corruption to the glorious Liberty of the REALITY of GOD in PERSON and the reproduction of the characteristics and the nature and the Life of your SAVIOUR!"