"It Is a Privilege to Live in the Actual Presence of God and Know it.

"Consider How Marvelous it Will Be When All of the Kindreds of the Earth from Shore to Shore
and from Land to Land, Shall Study War No More."

Excerpt from FATHER DIVINE'S Message given at the Banquet Table Unity Mission Church Inc.,
907 N. 41 Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1947 A.D.F.D. Time: 11:55 P.M.

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FATHER speaks following the inspirational composition, "FATHER DIVINE is Calling for a Righteous Government":)

PEACE, EVERYONE!! Good health, good will, good appetite, good manners, good behavior, all success and all prosperity! Life, liberty and the reality of happiness, for we Actually have it and we have them! Aren't you glad! That last number just sung is well worth considering, for when you adhere to the truth of the CHRIST Teaching as exemplified among you, we will have the very same rights! Not only equal, but the same, and none will lack in GOD'S abundance, for with you GOD will be a living reality right here and now on the earth plane!

Both of these last numbers sung, they are well worth considering if you will but stop and consider them. They are explanatory in themselves by the actuated words of expression of what you see and hear.

A little while ago I thought of having the same rights; thought of also having it just as it is right here all over this wide extended plane! I considered how marvelous it will be when all of the kindreds of the earth from shore to shore and from land to land, shall study war no more, nor will they try to learn the things that are detrimental, destructive and deteriorating, but they will learn the Golden Rule, Brotherhood, Americanism, Christianity, Democracy, and Judaism as synonymous, for all of these expressions of Life shall be effectively unified and there will be no division, for they shall be melted into the melting pot of Democracy, of Christianity, of humanity and of Brotherhood as synonymous! And all will learn to live as we are presently living and express the fullness of the abundance of GOD'S Actual Presence in love, in mercy and in compassion and none will lack in GOD'S abundance, where this of which you have seen will be looked upon as a play toy of an infant child! Aren't you glad!

You marvel at what you see. You do not see anything yet! This is only a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of a percent of a fraction of a grain of a percent of a fraction of what it shall be! Aren't you glad! For all nations, languages and people shall live in the abundant Life as exemplified among you; for this, these limited few, these look great in number to those who are not international, to those who are not interracial, to those who are not universal and to those who are limited in their concept concerning things with the finite minds of men and do not have the Infinite Mind to observe the Infiniteness of GOD in the midst of them!

You may look far beyond your best imagination, but this -- being the Sample and the Example of the future world in which we shall live (aren't you glad!) where a man is a man and not a color, creed, nor a race! All such abominable foolishness shall be completely erased and the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose shall be established effectively and shall be impregnated in the hearts and lives and business and affairs of humanity! Aren't you glad! There will be a time when the former things shall have passed away! John in his revelationic prediction of this of which I AM now speaking, declared he saw a

'New Heaven and a New Earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away!'


Aren't you glad! Saw it

'Coming down from GOD out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband!'


This is just the beginning of the passing of the first heaven of which John was speaking! Aren't you glad! I AM eradicating it and I AM dispelling it from your fondest imagination and I AM bringing into your conscious recognition and into your realization the reality of that fondest imagination made real, tangible and practical!

You have had wonderful visions and imaginations of a mythological heaven far beyond the sun, the moon and the stars and above all of that which is deemed the sky, but oh, how glorious it is to realize, your fondest imaginations can be tangibilated, materialized and personified! "How can those things be?" some may think or say to ME.

' In the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with GOD and the WORD was GOD and


the WORD did not just remain as something suppositional, neither as something invisible, but

'the WORD was made FLESH and dwelt among us!'


Aren't you glad!

I know you are glad the WORD was made FLESH because as the WORD was made Flesh and dwelt among us, the writer declares:

'And we beheld HIS Glory as that of the Only Begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth.'


It was full of Grace and of Truth!

'And of all of HIS Fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace.'


Verifying that of which I have long since declared, the thing you vividly visualize, you tend to materialize! When you beheld HIS Glory as that of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth, you visioned it vividly, conscientiously and sincerely and the time came when it was materialized by the materialization of that ONE that made HIMSELF FLESH!

So then it is a privilege to live in the Actual PRESENCE of GOD and know it! It is a privilege to live in this standard of understanding where you can see as well as say, the future world of perfection exemplified in this that you have realized! Aren't you glad! I cannot stress these thoughts too vividly because when the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld HIS Glory, one declared:

'As that of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth",


from thence, and

'Of all of HIS Fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace,'


because you saw it. It was stressed. It was made FLESH; in other words, in the FLESH it was exemplified and materialized and visualized, and from that was reproduced and re-materialized and re-personified!

We shall have a Righteous Government because we are bringing that Dominion of GOD in heaven from your fondest imagination to the earth plane to establish a Righteous Government in the midst of the children of men, for what said I concerning this Mystery:

'Righteous exalteth the nation, while sin is a reproach to any people.'


We realize that as you live in the realization of Righteousness, you will exemplify it! You will materialize it! You will reproduce it and personify it and from thence and from that point, you will find Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of HIS Throne! You will find that Righteousness and Judgment materialized -- in other words, exemplified in the personnel of humanity will be a resting place and a place for the establishment of the Kingdom of GOD on earth among men!

'Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of HIS Throne.'


With this Righteous people, I have established a Foundation upon which CHRIST shall reign as LORD of LORDS! CHRIST is reigning now! Aren't you glad! This is not a supposition. When you prayed vividly, conscientiously and sincerely and called for the Kingdom to come and the Will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, you were calling for the Government of Heaven to come to the earth plane and for Righteousness to be enthroned in the hearts and lives and business and affairs of the children of men!

You were calling for those things to take place in your present life and so your prayers have been heard and answered, for the Kingdom or Dominion of GOD has truly come from that imaginary heaven to the earth for which you prayed!

You prayed for it to come! You prayed vividly, conscientiously and sincerely, but oh, how glorious it is to realize, that which you once merely surmised, you have now come into possession of it! It came not with observation! As the sap rises in the spring, even so have I come in the hearts and lives and business and affairs of the children of men and have been enthroned therein -- upon the Righteous minds of men!

Righteousness, I said is the foundation of the Kingdom of GOD! Can you not see the Mystery? When righteousness is established in one and in all, they are there and then prepared for the coming and for the establishment of the Kingdom of GOD!

New Day: September 20, 1947 A.D.F.D. Pg 11-12

 

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