At The Mount of the House of the Lord
These Words of our adorable Savior and Emancipator as they are poured into the hearts and minds of humanity daily, are giving birth to new qualities within them.
They realize that by imbibing and absorbing these Precious Gems that are incomparable, the world will be able to obtain that long-sought-for and long-fought-for Peace and Victory. To some, Peace and Victory seem to be unobtainable, but once and for all, O ye aggressive ones, listen to the Majestic Ruler and King, FATHER DIVINE.
Read these wonderful Words of Spirit and Life, for they tell how to fight through destruction mentally and spiritually and how to set a firm foot on the Solid Rock of Instruction, Construction and Production and most of all, secure our world Peace and Victory.
Dean of the Universe, we truly thank THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows. The song FATHER refers to precedes His Message.)
SONG:
"You can tell the world about this; you can tell the nations I'm blest.
Tell them what FATHER has done, tell them that the Comforter has come,
And HE brought joy, joy, joy to my soul!FATHER has done just what HE said; Yes, HE did! Yes, HE did!
HE healed the sick and HE raised the dead! Yes, HE did! Yes, HE did!Oh, you can tell the world about this, you can tell the nations I'm blest.
Tell them what FATHER has done, tell them that the Comforter has come,
And HE brought joy, joy, joy to my soul!"
PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition just sung tonight is a message to someone: "You can tell the world about this." When Bishop Stokes was speaking and mentioned what he did and how he believes now and mentioned, "You can tell the world about this", I thought of that little composition so often sung among us,
'You can tell the world about this; you can tell the nations you are blessed!'
You can tell it more than what you could have told them had you not fulfilled
that part of the Saul disposition and mission. When Saul was going down to persecute
GOD, there was a light shone around him, as you all know as you have read, and
the Bishop's experience was similar to his, hence, you can rejoice and I AM glad.
However, as I often say, I allow the Spirit to do it. I do not try to let you know Who I AM and if the Spirit does not tell you, you will not know. I suppose in this week's issue of The New Day, which, no doubt, will be late coming out on account of it being so much matter for this week's issue, but I suppose you all will hear just as the Bishop said; I did not tell him Personally, I AM GOD! As I told him, if I would tell him that, he would not believe it unless he could get the witness within himself, but oh, how glorious it is to put every man on the right line, and that is what I have done and am doing. Aren't you glad?
Matters not what your religious conviction may be and it matters not with ME where your religious affiliation may be, and it is immaterial to ME what you think of ME, but if you want to know the Truth, I will direct you to your GOD, and if you are conscientious, sincere and true, your GOD will tell you the Truth. Aren't you glad?
I AM not going around trying to get people to believe ME. I told the Bishop in the interview. I said, it is immaterial to ME whether you believe in ME or not, but the way you do know GOD, and from that spiritual lineage, in other words, nationality or denomination wherein you were born religiously, you petition your GOD according to your own understanding, and ask HIM.
That is what I say to any person, Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Mohammedan, or even Buddha or Buddhist: it is immaterial to ME what you may be, be true to your own GOD until you find ME. And if you are true to your own religious conviction, and especially if you have been dug up by the Plough shares of the Gospel, if you have been set free by the Holy Ghost, pray to your GOD; the Holy Ghost will tell you as I told the Bishop; I said, "In your own spiritual language wherein you were born, GOD will speak to you and answer you if you ask HIM." Didn't I do it? But to you at that time it would be, did HE not do it you see? Because you did not know ME, until the Spirit revealed ME to you. That is what I AM talking about! Now you can tell the world about this! That is why the Bishop could dance so freely tonight. That is why he could dance so volitionally and so enthusiastically, because he told the truth, and he continued in the Truth until the Truth set him free.
I need not say more. I will say more a little later on. If not in Person, I will through someone. We still have our regular midnight Communion Service to serve. Our midnight Communion Service usually is served by the Spirit when others are sleeping in the early morning hours. The Spirit never sleeps, nor slumbers, and when you are all with one accord, the Holy Spirit apparently descends at times in response to your inner urge and your inner request. For this cause, I need not go out into the deep to explain more, for you have seen and you have heard.
The Spirit of GOD'S Actual Presence is no longer a supposition, but a living reality made real, tangible and practical, and the universality of the Spirit of your Savior shall be established. It is no longer a supposition, I say! It is no longer merely something from the imaginary realm. Every imaginable blessing for which you have been praying, they are at your disposal, or service, or My Command. Aren't you glad!
So far as yet, I have not taken up a collection and I AM not expecting to take up one, yet, I mean to have a-full and a-plenty and to spare as I have been having, both mentally, spiritually and materially.
When the Bishop said that the Senior Bishop had sent for his credentials, I said, the field is large, is broad. You need not worry. I mentioned just today how there are those who have been with ME for years and years; they have not been hungry. They have not been hungry! One writer declared:
'I have been young, and now I am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, neither his seed begging bread!'
You need not worry! Live the Life! And as I mentioned in My interview I gave
the Bishop: it is not to be considered a personal issue, but as GOD is impersonal,
if you observe the Mystery and recognize GOD Supernatural and ever present, GOD
will be with you from that angle of expression and you do not need to depend
or look to HIM Personally, but GOD will bless you. Aren't you glad!
Just think of limitless blessings -- unlimited blessings, whichever, are flowing free for one and for all who will trust and obey. That is what I AM talking about! And at times when I hear some say they do not believe in ME, it is immaterial to ME. If they choose to believe, it is up to them. If they are spiritually minded and true to their own religious conviction , of every religious abstraction under civilization, if they will be conscientious and sincere and pray to their GOD and ask HIM concerning ME, they will know whether they should believe, or whether they should not believe.
Nevertheless, those of My followers and coworkers and friends and millions of others who are not followers, coworkers and friends, will be blessed by your Humble Servant whether they believe in ME or not. Look in the pages of The New Day under "Righteousness -- Marches On", you will find letters from the world of business, profession, labor and trade, to ME, explaining what I have done for them by believers of Mine paying them back bills that had been outlawed years and years ago, and a good many of them had been forgotten, never to be remembered again, and yet, My Spirit goes back into the minds of the children of men and carries them back to all of their wrongs they have committed to men, and causes them to go back and adjust matters satisfactorily and right their wrongs where they have wronged mankind. For it happens to be, they are doing those things to and for, as a rule, those who do not believe in ME; for those who do believe in ME, as a rule, they have adjusted matters satisfactorily themselves, but those who do not believe in ME, as a rule, are the ones you knew and others knew before you knew ME, therefore, you are going back righting your wrongs and adjusting matters satisfactorily because of the Spirit of GOD'S Actual Presence as the Adjuster of your spirit and your mind.
But that is not all! To think about the transformation of the minds of the children of men, and how they are transformed completely by the renewing of their minds -- how they become to be new creatures with new characteristics and new dispositions, to live Soberly, Righteously, Holy and Godly.
'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.'
To My hearers and friends and those of you who have just begun, you need not fear! You need not fear losing your prestige, your profession, your gift or your calling! CHRIST IS RICH AND ALL YOU NEED! In this righteous Life that I AM exemplifying among the children of men, as you live this Life sincerely and conscientiously, it will exalt you above your highest imagination concerning your prospect of an exalted place in consciousness. Just think of the blessings from a natural point of view -- unlimited Blessings!
There are those who could not have come into some of the homes they now own, but through the cooperative system and by harmonizing with ME. Some of them could not have even come in some of the places in the back door, but now they are owned by some who could not have come in the back doors, or some of the places some of My followers own.
Righteousness will exalt not only an individual, but Righteousness will exalt the nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Live the Life and be not dismayed whatever betide. Realize, GOD will take care of you and will fight your every battle even though HE may not even say word at times. I delight in thinking of this place and other places such as this one, this place here, this hotel, restaurant, dining room and church auditorium, a couple of church auditoriums, but now one is used for a school room; this is owned by just a limited few of My followers. It is not owned by the church. This is not church property. Those who own this property, it is their personal, real and personal property. That is what I AM talking about! They are independent! And the most of those places and many others that are not pictured on that folder are owned by individuals.
I AM just showing you how through the cooperative system, through harmonization and through living Soberly, Righteously and Godly, you can be blessed economically, socially and otherwise, and have victory over depressions, limitations and all adverse and undesirable conditions. I will lift you up where you were cast down. You can plainly see, GOD is a Living Reality, bringing capital and labor together! Bringing an abolition to all segregation and discrimination.
Oh, how glorious it is to live in the Actual Presence of your GOD. Bringing Peace on earth in fulfillment of the inspirationic revelationic prediction that was given to the Wise Men by the Angels,
'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth Peace, Good Will to men!'
This is the way we shall have it over this wide extended plane! I AM working
cancellation on all discrimination, segregation and races, creeds and colors,
and I AM uniting the people together according to My Plan and Purpose.
As you heard ME say, there is but one division I will tolerate, and that is the division between man and woman, or male and female; but all shall be united together just as I have it here and everywhere I AM represented, and we shall have One Nation, One Language, One Flag and One Speech. Only One Division, That of Sexes
By this, we will bring an end to all wars, race riots and confusion, and the nations of the earth will unite together and bring an abolition to all sense of selfishness and division, then there will be the long-sought-for Kingdom for which you all have prayed,
'Let Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'
As it was in your fondest imagination, you know you had some wonderful imaginations;
you had a heaven in your imagination of no segregation. You did not think when
you got to heaven you would think you were a so-and-so, and someone else was
a so-and-so, and you be divided and set apart on one side of the city and the
like. You had no such thoughts. I mean those who were religiously truly converted;
matters not what so-called racial abstraction you may have been supposed to be.
You thought when you got to heaven, you would be converted, you would be all
right then. I AM making you all right now! Truly might have Malachi declared:
'Behold my messenger, my elect in whom my soul delighteth!
'He shall sit as a Refiner and as a Purifier of silver.'
You shall be like fuller's soap that will clean real heavy clothes, men's wear.
I AM cleansing you here, there and everywhere! I AM purging you of all your preconceived
ideas and opinions, of human fancies, pleasures and tendencies, of all lust and
passion and human affection, and replacing the Love of GOD in their places.
I would like to say to our visiting friends who do not know ME Personally, and those who may have not have heard very much of ME: if it was not something more than mortal to command, how would millions of women, as you would call them, and young girls, as you would call them, and even men, as you would call them, and young men and young boys, sacrifice all of their would-be pleasures, human fancies, tendencies and human affection for ME, if it was not something more than mortal to command?
Humanly speaking, Personally or physically, I could be deemed very insignificant, but just think about how millions and millions of so-called men and women -- I mean those who are healthy and strong physically, mentally and spiritually -- will sacrifice all of their lust and passion, human affection and pleasure for the Love of your Holy Savior. Aren't you glad! You would not believe it was something more than mortal to command, if haply some insignificant woman would love a man more than she would another man; but look over the vast audiences wheresoever I AM, and think of the millions even in Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and some even in Germany who have denied themselves of all human affection and other hobbies of human tendencies, fancies and pleasures; even being thousands and thousands of miles away from ME Personally, they live Righteously, Soberly and Godly. Now what could change them and cause them to do that?
Men, young men, as it may be termed, on their first legs, willing to sacrifice all of their would-be pleasures for the Love of GOD they have for ME, and consider it an honor to deny themselves of all human affection, lust and passion, and all human tendencies, fancies and pleasures for the sake of your Loving Savior! Aren't you glad!
Such a Love you never heard of, saving this Love of Whom you say I AM. I think I had better stop! Truly might have the inspirationic composition come through and by the "Rosebuds", saying:
'FATHER'S Love will get you even if you watch out,
And when it gets you, it will make you sing and shout!'
IT WILL! You heard tonight, one of our modern bishops of today. You heard how
he said My Love got him, and you see and you could hear him sing and shout in
every way that is termed shouting, both by lifting up his voice loud and shouting
to the top of his voice declaring his religious conviction concerning your Humble
Servant, and by shouting, by rejoicing and dancing, as I call it, but a good
many consider the Holy Dance to be a shout, and so it may be termed.
'FATHER'S Love will get you even if you watch out,
And when it gets you, you will sing and shout!'
So these thoughts are well worth considering, for I will get many more of you
in this city, yet it is immaterial to ME if I get you, or if I do not get you.
I heard one say by composition, "I got mine!" You know it is wonderful!
You feel happy when you know you are in love! Aren't you in love with GOD? Some
of you are in love with GOD, but you may be ashamed to tell it. I know you are
in love! You feel good when you are in love with god!
In conclusion, I stress your mind once again with the song we sing:
'FATHER'S Love will get you even if you watch out,
And when it gets you, you will sing and shout!'
Why? Because it will lift you. It will cause you to feel supernatural; no longer
natural, but will cause you to feel supernatural. You will lose all of your natural
feeling and you will feel so supernatural, you will sing and shout, for you are
truly lifted!
Live in this recognition! Build upon this foundation if you wish to, and if GOD gets you aright, any of you, if you get the Holy Spirit aright -- I mean have it resurrected within aright -- you will be the same as the Bishop and all others who have My Spirit effectively. You will love it and you will tell it!
Truly might have Paul said,
'I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of GOD unto Salvation to everyone that believeth.'
It is Power, the Gospel of CHRIST! If you believe it, it is Power! It will heal
your physical bodies from sickness and diseases! It will heal your sin-sick soul
from sin, vice and crime, and cause you to be new creatures characteristically
and dispositionally; you will be changed in heart and in mind! This is not a
supposition!
You know, I like to talk about the Holy Spirit because it is electrifying. That is why you love ME so; because the Holy Spirit has come and has quickened you and you feel the witness in your souls. You have taken on the Nature of CHRIST. That is the way GOD transmits His Nature to the children of men, through the Holy Spirit; in other words, the Holy Ghost, as it may be termed, and it comes within, the Nature of CHRIST will reproduce the Characteristics of CHRIST, and you will have the Disposition of CHRIST when the Nature of CHRIST has free access in your life.
I need not say more. You will begin to act like CHRIST and think like CHRIST. The things you used to do, you do not wish to do. As I was saying today, some place, you will not even desire to do the things you once did, although you may have a will to do them, but you will not desire to do them. I will cause you to be made subject to Righteousness, even if it is unwillingly. People may not want to be made subject to Righteousness. The "other fellow" made you subject to vanity unwillingly. At times you would go ahead and do things you did not want to do, but I will cause you to do things that are right, maybe you did not wish to do. Therefore, young men, as they may be termed, and young women, as they may be termed, and women of all ages, men and women, who would be living in sin, vice and crime, and self-indulgence of every kind, I have caused you to sacrifice those things just to get a chance to look at Me, and live this Holy Life! I thank you.
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