FATHER DIVINE ringing the bell
at The Unity Mission Church, Philadelphia, PA
It is written,
'HE Who comes bringing Salvation.'
Truly we can say, Blessed is our Savior Who has come into our conscious recognition and realization and brought us Salvation through making HIMSELF Real to us, and is now no longer a vision and no longer a dream, but Real! Real! Real! In this glorious Sermon, FATHER emphasizes the Reality of GOD and how such a recognition has changed not only individuals, but changed the various worlds of expression, and has actually made our everyday life and affairs a pleasure. Read this profound Sermon and apply it to your business and affairs and all your undertakings, and you will be super-successful and prosperous even as declared the Scripture when it said:
'I will bless your going out. I will bless your coming in.
I will bless you in your storehouse and in your baskets.
I will bless you in the fruit of your land and in the fruit of your kine.
'And whatsoever you lay your hands to, shall prosper.'
For Thy Words of Spirit and Life, Almighty GOD, we humbly thank THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following is the composition sung just before FATHER arose to speak:)
'GOD is Real, HE's Real in my soul;
God is Real, and HE washed and made us whole.
His Love for us is purer than gold.
GOD is Real, yes, GOD is Real; HE's Real in my soul!'
(FATHER Speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite! Good Manners, Good Behavior, All Success and All Prosperity! Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness! Righteousness, Truth and Justice, with Equity and a Square Deal for everybody! These are some of the Attributes, Qualities and Characteristics of GOD as Real in your soul! Not only Real in your soul, but Real in your life, in your business and in your affairs! That is the Mission for which I Came -- under the name of Religion! That is one of My Names! Aren't you glad!
The Name of Religion came disguised, unrevealed, but to reveal and to unconceal things that were concealed and hidden from the ages. Aren't you glad! I was just thinking of how marvelous it will be when humanity realizes GOD'S Realness to humanity and to all creation! In the name of Religion, I GOD, Came, trying to reveal Myself apparently to them in the Name of Religion! I Came again in the Name of Democracy, in the Name of Brotherhood and in the Name of the Golden Rule! Aren't you glad! I also Came in the Name of Americanism, speaking and expressing Myself to the children of men, one after this manner and another after that, speaking in the actuated words of expression according to the national origin of the person, (Aren't you glad) and according to their religious convictions and according to their teaching, doctrine and training; that is why I Came as I did!
GOD is Real and as Real as Real can be, but more specifically I can say, GOD is as natural as you are! For this cause we do rejoice at the naturalness of Myself among the children of men and making the Realness of GOD Real to them! By this, all mankind shall eventually know GOD is not a supposition. GOD is a Living Reality; and if Religion is anything at all that is worth while, it is to make things better for humanity on the earth plane. According to your imaginary heaven, we do not have to make things better in your imaginary heaven, (Can you see the mystery?) for you have declared imaginarily, yea, supernaturally, that GOD and heaven are good up there! But since you have declared you have to go through trials and tribulations, lacks, wants and limitations, adverse and undesirable conditions of every description, I Came to make things better down here! I AM not bothering about trying to make things good up in heaven!
In your fondest imagination and in your most simplest imagination, in your superstitious version of heaven, heaven was all right when you get there, but it is no need to try to make things right now. I Came down here to make things right. Aren't you glad! I shall make things all Right here just as you had imagined they were in your imaginary heaven, for they were not this way as they are today before I Came in your Consideration! Aren't you glad!
Therefore, GOD is Real in your business, in your profession, in your labor and in your trade! GOD is Real in all of your activities! GOD is Real universally! GOD is Real from every angle expressible because GOD is Universal and not only Universal as Omnipresent geographically, but GOD is Universal because GOD is Infinite, filling all space and is absent from none!
But I Came to make things right down here, to clean you up among and out of your slums and clear out your slum conditions in your respective vicinities and establish your going in the land of the living and cause you to live decently and respectfully and be successful and prosperous. That is what I Came for!
GOD is Real! The Realness of GOD is exemplified and materialized and Personified and is manifested among the children of men on the material plane, or else you do not know GOD is Real. I was just thinking how marvelous it is to have that which is deemed a religion that makes things all right, that makes things all right and adjusts matters satisfactorily and fixes it so you can get a-plenty to eat, to drink and to wear! A-plenty of comfort and convenience -- the Realness of GOD exemplified among the children of men! That is what I AM talking about!
GOD is Real! Real! Real! Real! Just as I have it right here in this Holy Communion Hall, better known to the world, those who are not of GOD, as the Banquet Hall, so shall I have it from shore to shore and from land to land and none shall lack in GOD'S Abundance who will accept of HIM!
I Came to break down every idol and cast out every foe and save you from superstition and bring into your recognition and realization that which was surmised and cause you to realize that which you once merely surmised! GOD is Real! GOD is Real! I Came to unite this people together universally and the kindreds of the earth shall be one big lineage universally! Not only as I have called for the unification of all of the United Sovereignties, but I shall unite all nations, languages, tongues and people and I shall cause them to be one Big Lineage Universally, and that which you have so long sought and of which you have so long taught, shall be made a living reality, for GOD Himself shall be your FATHER and all mankind shall be your brother!
The Universal Brotherhood of man and the consciousness of the Fatherhood of GOD I Came to establish and make the reality of GOD Tangible and Practical by letting the recognition of GOD'S Presence to be a living factor. Such a recognition will solve your every problem! Will adjust matters satisfactorily for you! Will prove that GOD is truly a Panacea for every ill! Aren't you glad!
GOD is Real! Real! Real! Real! For this cause the
'Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us,'
one said,
'And we beheld His Glory as the Glory of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth!'
Now aren't you glad! That which we beheld in HIM, as you vision it vividly, I
heard him say,
'And all of His fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace!'
It is a privilege to receive this Grace, for truly did one say:
"Righteousness exalts the nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."
I Came to Unite this nation and let there be no division! As I have it on My Immediate Staff at My Right Hand and at My Left, so shall I have it from shore to shore and from land to land and who shall hinder ME! You heard by inspiration a little composition sung, "We shall have the same rights!" That the Bill of Rights shall be enacted from the Capitol to the streets! Aren't you glad! And we shall have and every man shall have the Same Rights! No more merely a phrase used as the Equal Rights Bill, but we shall have the identical same Rights, and as we have the Same Rights, there will be Pace on Earth and Good Will toward men! GOD Himself will be in the midst of them, Ruling and Reigning and having His Way, adjusting matters satisfactorily for each and every body. Now aren't you glad!
They said in that little composition that the Bill of Rights shall be enacted from the Capitol to the streets! All shall have the Same Rights! Aren't you glad! It said something about, "If HE has to shake Creation!" To them I gave it as little children that shall lead them by inspiration before I gave the inspiration of the Atomic Bomb! And by the invention of the inspiration and the discovery of the Atomic Bomb. I did shake Creation! They are shaking now! Aren't you glad! All civilization, they are shaking now, but remember, in you I have that Atom! Aren't you glad! That mental and spiritual Atom that I have quickened, I have awakened and I AM changing the tides of governmental affairs!
By this mental and spiritual Atom, I AM changing the mentality of humanity! They are being awakened because I have awakened you, that Atom in you! I have Split the Atom in millions! Aren't you glad! It goes out from you through the mentality by mental telepathy and consciously or unconsciously it contacts the minds of the children of men, then it contacts humanity generally and they are changed characteristically and dispositionally and you do not know why! I AM cracking Atoms now! Yes, I AM shaking Creation now, mentally and spiritually, and they change their Minds! They do not know why! Aren't you glad!
GOD deals in the affairs of men and none shall slightly hinder HIM, for GOD is Omnipresent and Ever Present right here with them! Therefore, they cannot slightly hinder HIM!
Live in this recognition, realizing once and forever, GOD is a living Reality! GOD is Real! HE is not only Real in your soul, but in Business, Profession, Labor and Trade! GOD is Perfection and Expresses the Superlativeness of the Superb, and expresses the Supremacy of the Supreme ONE, for that is what and Who GOD is!
Let us live in this recognition and observe the Realness of true Religion as it may be termed, for it will clean up your communities! It will clean out all of the slums in your respective vicinities and eventually clean up all of your cities, states and your Country and your countries, and we will live in peaceful, clean, quiet and happy resting places and none can perturb neither disturb, neither cause you to be perturbed. It will cause every man to realize he is living in the Actual Presence of your GOD! Now aren't you glad!
That atom has been split! Get some old correspondence from the different papers to which I contributed My Message years back, some ten or fifteen years back; you will hear ME say then, I AM Well, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every ATOM, Fibre and Cell of MY Bodily Form! The atom has been quickened and also has been splitened, (FATHER laughs merrily) for I did split the Atom and quickened the Atom in you, that mental and spiritual Atom that was lying dormant.
When I send it out from you, through and by you, I will fulfill that of which Abraham Lincoln said,
'That this whole Nation might have a New Birth of Freedom under GOD, that Government for the people, by the people and through the people might not perish from the earth!'
Unless I quicken that ATOM in you and bring that Government of which I AM now
speaking -- by the people, through the people as well as for the people, the
Government may perish from the earth! But as you have the New Birth of Freedom
under GOD, that Atom in you is quickened! I have changed your disposition! I
have changed your nature! I have changed your characteristics! I have made you
New Creatures! I have caused you to put off the old man with all of his deeds
and caused you to put on the New Man, CHRIST JESUS in Whom you should live, that
Government by the people, for the people and through and others might not perish
from the earth! Now aren't you glad!
Then I say, GOD is Real! I would not have a religion that would not make things
better in our communities! I would not have a religion that would not make
things better for others as well as MYSELF Personally! Aren't you glad! A beautiful
religion, as it may be termed, but GOD Came in the Name of Religion to the
children of men! I thank you.
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