Home of the Soul, Sayville, L. I., N.Y.
FATHER DIVINE speaks as follows:
You know there is a contract that is signed by the followers of CHRIST, and in the contract the policy reads the exact words, line by line and word by word, that Jesus said, the life and Teachings reflected or brought into expression is the contract that all have made to follow ME; to follow the CHRIST. If you will live exactly according to the Teachings of CHRIST as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, it is the insurance policy!
Most of the insurance policies have so many clauses in them that you overlook, and most of them have some clause in there that the majority of the people overlook and do not read every word, and it is fixed so, as a rule, that you cannot get away so well with the insurance company. The contract that is made with GOD and mankind, the contract that I have brought into actuality and into fruition in this last time, is the renewal of this contract for the modern age, the Life and Teachings of CHRIST exactly as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John! Both the Life, but first the Life and Teachings of CHRIST exactly as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. I stress that as recorded thereby, because there may be someone who realizes and has gotten to that place in consciousness that they know that CHRIST was not limited to the Christian world; and thereby say that CHRIST did not say this or did not say that. But you are bound to your vows by the contract as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
CHRIST was expressed or manifested in many different individuals and there may be those of you that have developed that place in consciousness and in spiritual understanding that you may know that there are some things that Jesus said directly that CHRIST did not say directly in some other expression of CHRIST, as Buddha and as many of the other representatives of the CHRIST consciousness. And to keep you from having any loop-hole to get out from being governed by the Spirit of Life, the Government of the Kingdom of GOD, don't you see? I stress that, and you are contracted to that and that is your contract exactly according to the Life and Teachings of CHRIST as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John!
Now do you know that is a very close walk? It is not merely to be talked but it is a very close walk! He advocated it, emphasized it, lived it and demonstrated it and duplicated it the identical Life as was in the Body called Jesus! You know, if I were an infidel, or if I were a bandit or anything that would seem to be mean, with the stressing and advocating of this Truth the work would be effective, for it is founded on the Life and the Teachings of CHRIST and not on ME as a Person, from a human standpoint of view. There is no way for them to get away from it! If I were a failure, it matters not what I would be the manifestation of this Truth in perfection as brought into expression through CHRIST in the person of Jesus, they that would follow the Copy and the Sample thereof, it would be an impossibility for them to make a failure!
The apostle put it on one occasion,
'Follow me even also a I follow CHRIST'
and if you, the followers of CHRIST, will walk worthy of your vocation wherewith
you are called, you will X-rayly behold the Life of CHRIST as brought into expression
by Jesus and recorded by the apostles. You will see it through every avenue of
life and through every adverse and every undesirable condition or appearance,
whatsoever it may be; and that would be your guide, your sample and your example,
and that would be your protection! It is indeed wonderful! Facts and figures
that are too stout to be denied; incorruptible, undefiled and fadeth not away,
for the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all
supply and will satisfy every good desire! Therefore, I cannot be denied! I stress
that point of view of living exactly according to the Life and Teachings of Jesus
the CHRIST as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Then it is wonderful!
Now then, that is where you are the inheritor and the inheritors of the Kingdom of GOD; both the material and spiritual and mental things in life that I have at My disposal. On such terms you are the heirs and joint heirs with the CHRIST Consciousness and not only that, but of all of
'His Fullness have all we received, grace for grace!'
Do you know some of the Life and some of the Teachings of CHRIST? Do you know
that you can very readily and very easily break your contract with HIM that liveth
forever and forever when you violate the contract that you have made with your
GOD, even before you knew ME? The contract you made with GOD to follow Jesus,
to live exactly accordingly, even whether you knew ME or not; and you sang the
song,
'Where HE leads me I will follow, I will go with HIM all the way!'
you made up your mind to do that before you ever got an evidence of the Spirit
reflected manifestedly, expressing that which is called conversion, or being
converted in parts of the religious world that you have been coming through,
and it brought you through those different expressions. It is wonderful!
The Life and Teachings of CHRIST is what you have said and have declared would be your guide through all of the ages, since the coming of Jesus and the Resurrection of Him nearly nine- teen hundred years ago. Eighteen hundred and ninety-nine years of time has expired, but the Life and those Teachings have been recorded as the IDEAL for the world that is to be redeemed, or they that were to be redeemed. It is wonderful! That Life and those Teachings, then, when you live accordingly, it is a close walk!
Some of the main points of view stressfully expressed by the Master in the name called Jesus you quote:
'Therefore, I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment?" (St. Matthew 6:25)
'And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also." (St. Matthew 5:40) V "But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." (St. Matthew 5:39)
But before I get away from suing it at the law, I stress the point of view that
if he sue you at the law and take away your furniture, let him have your house!
and if he take your house, let him have your land also! That is the Life and
the Teachings of the CHRIST and there is no redemption other than that! It is
wonderful!
'Then said Jesus unto His disciples, if any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow ME!" (St. Matthew 16:24)
'And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My Name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and inherit everlasting life." (St. Matthew 19:20)
This is recorded in the Gospels as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John except
you HATE them!
'If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." (St. Luke 14:26)
In other words, one writer explained it a little more in another way and said, "except
you forsake them", and one said, "except you leave them". So that
was making it plain! One said it, and another explained it in another distinct
way. Jesus said nineteen hundred years ago, when they came to Him saying,
'Behold, Thy mother and Thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with Thee."
But He answered and said unto him that told Him, Who is My mother? And who are My brethren? And He stretched forth His hand toward His disciples and said, "Behold My Mother and My Brethren! For whosoever shall do the Will of My FATHER which is in heaven, the same is My Brother, and Sister, and Mother." (St. Matthew 12: 47-50)
That one, whosoever will live and think and act simplicitly like unto the CHRIST
in the person of Jesus, ye are walking in the Light; ye are the Child of GOD!
I have said, "Who is My Mother?" Jesus said that. The Sonship Degree said that as a sample and as an example, which is recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and that is one of the requests to be fulfilled in your day. It is wonderful!
Now there are those who claim to be sanctified, claim to be CHRIST'S, claim to be holy, claim to be in the Truth, claim to be many expressions of the religious world as followers of the CHRIST; yet, thousands of them vary so far from that and would not think of advocating the Life of CHRIST as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and yet would desire to lay hold on Eternal Life and inherit the Kingdom of GOD. It is wonderful! Now it said, except you do that, you cannot be My disciple. Now if that is not right, why, you see, the word being recorded there, and those of the governments of the world allowing that to be left on record as the Bible and as being the identical word of GOD, especially as being the direct message of CHRIST, it has brought you under the jurisdiction of fulfilling that, even if at the sacrifice of your own life, or else you cannot have any hope of Eternal Life. You know you can only have it by being what He says, with or without a body! Your spirit and your mind must be willing to accomplish these things, dear ones; and unless you are willing, you have no right not one time to have and receive and maintain this wonderful Life for which CHRIST died. It is wonderful! I have said in this Body in practically all of your meetings,
'Try to bring into your conscious realization the fruition of the Consciousness of GOD, that you might develop the real Conscious ness of GOD in your own lives and the Allness of GOD and the nothingness of matter!'
I have stressed for your sakes, so often, that GOD is your FATHER and you never
had another! Now if you say, or think, or act in any other way, from henceforth,
you are disputing what I have said in words, in deeds, or in actions; what I
declared in Words, in Deeds and in Actions: that GOD is your Father and you never
had another! GOD is your Mother and you never had another! GOD is your Sister
and your Brother, your relatives and your kin, and all of your friends and every
other thing, and you never had another! for Christ is all and in all! I have
spoken! It is indeed wonderful!
Now when that has been developed in your consciousness and you are open-minded and ready to receive the Truth according to the Teachings of the CHRIST, Salvation is yours, wheresoever you may be, when you live in conformity to the same!
Have you, or any of you here and when I say "you", I mean any of you ever seen ME say that such-and-such-a-one is my flesh brother, or my flesh father, or my flesh mother, or my flesh sister? ("No, LORD!" emphatically exclaimed the multitude.) Your promised to follow ME whithersoever I go! I AM traveling on in spiritual understanding, leaving the material behind, according to the version of the human mind; and I have told you that GOD is your Father and you never had another, and GOD is your Mother and you never had another!
You subject yourselves to all of the ailments, complaints and sicknesses and diseases mentally, physically, spiritually and otherwise, that they were heirs to, by prenatal influence, by recognizing your at-one-ment with any mortal limited expression as being called "mother", "father", "sister", "brother", "race", "color", "creed", or any other mortal limited expression. You are subject to all of the infirmities that they have had and that they are under, for you are mentally attached to them, and transmute to yourself the condition of that which was in the system of that to which you are attached mentally, spiritually and physically, and bring it in your own experience, and say, "My mother died with the heart disease and so when I get a certain age I will die with the same." "My father was subject to such-and-such a kind of complaint and I am subject to the same." That is the significance of your expressing in words, in deeds and in actions and reproducing the same in your lives, of that belief concerning yourself and those that you are connected with.
I AM connected with life and more abundant life, and more abundant life, and I came to reproduce such things in ME as were manifested in those that have seemingly gone on, that are the perfect expression of the Truth. The perfect is the only thing that I claim, and psychologically I bring into My experience as I claim them! It is wonderful!
From henceforth, this, as in all other lessons, will go down on record, and will be universally broadcast from shore to shore and from land to land; and thousands shall hear this, the Word of GOD, through the Voice of GOD that is proceeding out of the Throne and out of the Lamb through this great at-one-ment! It is wonderful! I thank you.
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