MOTHER DIVINE
at the Circle Mission Church.
Virtue Lights the Way
I heard the last speaker say that she came to FATHER DIVINE after having been a Follower of Jesus CHRIST. I'll tell you why I'm a Follower of FATHER DIVINE! I found, after I contacted FATHER DIVINE, that HE brought me back, through Jesus CHRIST, to the GOD of my fathers, ABRAHAM, ISAAC and JACOB!-the ETERNAL, IMMORTAL and INVISIBLE GOD that I worshipped as a child in ORTHODOX JUDAISM!
That may sound strange but it is positively the reason why I am today a Follower of FATHER DIVINE! You see, I'm not a lecturer or a teacher or a minister of the Gospel where I'm standing here to tell you why you should be a Follower of FATHER DIVINE. I'm telling you why I'm a Follower of FATHER DIVINE!
FATHER DIVINE impressed upon us, in fact, it is an absolute necessity for every Follower of FATHER DIVINE to live exactly according to the Life and Teaching of Jesus CHRIST as recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. FATHER DIVINE Followers are not only expected to read the Sermon on the Mount, they are expected to study it verbatim and live it exactly accordingly! It is that, that I found through following the Teachings of FATHER DIVINE, through the Son, that I got back to the FATHER! And I found -that the same GOD I worshiped as an infant child in Orthodox Judaism is the same GOD that is walking on earth today in a Body, in the Name of FATHER DIVINE! That is why I am a Follower of FATHER DIVINE! Strange? It is not strange that GOD should have a Body and is walking on earth. HIS Son had a Body and walked with the children of men, and He said He would come again. And that is not the second time that GOD is on earth!
It is little considered that way back there in the time of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob there was one walking on the earth and HIS Name was Melchizedek. If you know your Hebrew, Melech means LORD and Zedek or Zadek means PRIEST! HE was LORD and PRIEST- Melchizedek! HE was without father, without mother, without the beginning of days and without the end of life; and it said of Jesus CHRIST that He was Prophet, Priest and King after the order of Melchizedek! Read it in Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. Right, Reverend?
In Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews he tells you about Melchisedec -without father without mother, without the beginning of days and without the end of life-and Jesus CHRIST the Son was Prophet, Priest and King after the order of Melchisedec!
So that is not the first or the second time that GOD was walking on earth in a Body like unto the children of men!
How could GOD be on earth in a Body if HE did not come in a physical body after the manner of the children of men? The physical earth known to science and to scientists has a certain gravitation of the earth, and it is essential, if GOD was to come on earth in a Body, that HE would have to come in a physical Body after the manner of the children of men. HE could not exist in a celestial Body.
I would like to tell you how FATHER DIVINE has brought together Judaism and Christianity. HE said in a little excerpt from one of HIS Lectures, "The Atomic Age"-that is the age we are living in now, you know. We are no longer living in the kindergarten age! The Atomic Age, as it may be called scientifically or by the sciences, but by ME as the FATHER'S or the SPIRITUAL, is the amalgamation of all religions and the unification of all nations, languages, tongues and people-for this FATHER'S Age or SPIRITUAL Age embraces and envelops the Jewish Faith, the Christian Movement and all religions; those of the old world as well as this one, and of our past as well as our present civilization; which by those who know ME and of ME have learned, this is commonly known as FATHER DIVINE'S PEACE MISSION MOVEMENT through which Peace shall be established throughout the universe, and the UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD of man shall be realized!
It is a wonderful thing to understand the mystery of the Advent of GOD in these last days among the children of men! FATHER DIVINE came, you might say, in disguise. HE came in the Meekness of a Lamb. That's the reason the world is so confounded. "Who is this? This, the Son of GOD? Why, that's Joseph's little boy! I saw Him when He worked in His father's carpenter shop! He can't be the CHRIST!" Isn't that what they said about the son? "CRUCIFY HIM! He's just as an impostor! I knew Him when He was in His father's carpenter shop-Joseph's carpenter shop. He's just a carpenter! He says He's the CHRIST! CRUCIFY HIM!" That's exactly what is going on today when they hear the Name of FATHER DIVINE! "HE GOD?" HE came in the MEEKNESS of a LAMB to confound the proud and the prejudiced, because this is Judgment Day, and if the proud and the prejudiced would come to HIM and be blessed, which they would, because everybody who comes to FATHER DIVINE is blessed! You are automatically blessed if you just walk in HIS Presence in a harmonious attitude-but if you don't deserve to be blessed, HE won't even let you walk in HIS Presence! That's why he veiled HIMSELF in the Meekness of a Lamb. That is the mystery!
Not just one time in the Book of Revelation have you heard about the Lamb, have you? You talk about FATHER DIVINE and HIS Virgin Bride, the Marriage of the Lamb and the Bride is plainly depicted in the Book of Revelation.
Again and again I heard testimonies in Oakland, California. I heard of a testimony from one who was in the very last stages of TB. I won't describe her condition as she describes it, but it was the same type of a testimony, that she was instantaneously and miraculously healed when she called on the Name of FATHER DIVINE after the doctors had given her up!
Book of Revelation speaks of the Lamb! One time he looked and he said, "Lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Sion, and with Him was an hundred and forty-four thousand. In their mouths was found no guile. They were redeemed from among men; not defiled with women, for they are virgins. They have their Father's Name written in their foreheads and they were without fault before the Throne of GOD." If you know a Real True Follower of FATHER DIVINE, you will see him as one in that number. His life is exactly like that! He is redeemed from among men-she is-and he is not defiled with women!-and they have their Father's Name written in their forehead and they are without fault before the Throne of GOD because they are living exactly according to the Life and Teaching of Jesus CHRIST as recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which is Perfection in a Bodily Form!
Jesus said,
'I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life! No man cometh unto the FATHER but by ME,'
said He. He was the Wayshower to the FATHER! Sure, it is not easy to live the
CHRIST Life! Who can live it? FATHER DIVINE said,
'I will preach CHRIST in Words but more so in Deeds and in Actions, and I will put MY Spirit in the people and cause them to walk in MY Statutes!'
That is the only way they can live the CHRIST Life. GOD has to put HIS SPIRIT
in you and cause you to walk in HIS Statutes or else humanity cannot walk in
the Statutes of GOD. It's too strict a Life! The temptations of the world are
too great! But when GOD puts HIS SPIRIT in you as HE did in this angel, and makes
you get up and confess your sins and empty out, then HE can pour HIS Spirit in
you! You see what I mean? And when GOD puts HIS Spirit in you, it's no longer
you, it's the Spirit of GOD; and then you can live a Life of PERFECTION! You
can deny yourself and then you can live exactly according to the Life and Teachings
of CHRIST.
Another time he saw a Lamb-he saw a Book up on Mount Sion, with seven seals, holding the mysteries-and he wept because he saw no man in Heaven or earth worthy to open the Book! And he looked again-I'm talking about John in the Book of Revelation. Reverend, you know what I'm talking about! He looked and he saw a Lamb-the second time he spoke about a Lamb!and He was found worthy. I'm talking about the LAMB of GOD that taketh away the sins of the world! I'm talking about why FATHER DIVINE came in Meekness and in Humility, disguised as a Lamb!-not coming like they expected HIM to come; the big Messiah-Meshiach- with a long white beard, looking like Moses, in robes and in great glory! HE veiled HIMSELF in the MEEKNESS of a LAMB! It is Wonderful! And all the prophets, the sages and the seers, they saw HIM coming as HE came!
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