The Shrine to Life
FATHER speaks as follows:
Peace, Everyone! Here we all are, just as we have been; but yet at times we see again; it seems as though it is, it seems as though it was, but so it is throughout all eternity.
At this particular instance, I have arisen to say, it is a privilege and a pleasure to be here, and what I AM going to say, I want some opposition and criticism to what I said.
It is a privilege and a pleasure to be here through MY Condescension, being Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, yet in Love and mercy and tender compassion I AM here with the human race.
While listening to the reading of that Message as published in the last issue of the New Day, I thought how marvelous it is to realize what GOD has actually done and what GOD is ever doing, I thought of how men in their finite minds, in their limited, human intellect, at times will rise in opposition to the Infinite and try to make comparison with GOD concerning His diction and concerning His Work and His Mission. But I retrace your thoughts once again to the great creation as could be termed the invention of all things.
GOD, according to Biblical history, through His Condescension is the Creator as the Master Inventor and as the Master Discoverer, discovering all things and causing all things to come forth into expression; and yet some finite mind of some limited, even unintelligent, tries to rise in opposition in the act and expression of criticism against the Omniscient, the Omnipotent and the Omnipresent!
I would like to say, at times and hereafter I may come in contact with some who may try to weigh and survey the Infinite Mind, His Spirit, His Omniscience and His Presence, whether it is Omnipotent and whether it is Omniscient or not.
The advanced light of this civilization has striven to get communication with the divers planet that they have discovered and have heard and read of, but they have not been able to get direct communication with the different other planets for they are too far from them until their understanding advances in this civilization, whereby some invention from GOD's Omniscience can come forth into expression that can make the contact for communication with the other planets.
So it is with the finite minds of men who come to ME from time to time and try to survey ME, MY Work and MY Mission and even try to diagnose MY Omniscience with their limited human intelligence, which is but a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of GOD's Omnitional thought transmitted!
Oh, how glorious it is to observe the mystery! GOD is Omniscient, GOD is Omnipotent, and yet your apparatus may not be qualified, and they are not qualified to reach or make the contact with other planets to get information by getting in connection and having communication with them. Truly might I have said through the mouth of the prophet,
'Your ways are not My ways neither
Are your thoughts my thoughts, says
The LORD. As high as the heaven is
Above the earth, even so high are my
ways above your ways and my thoughts
Above your thoughts.
The communication cannot be made, therefore GOD cannot be surveyed! that is the
mystery!
Hence, those who are critics and desire to analyze GOD's Omniscience, (I AM talking about out of this Tabernacle), they had better first make communication with all of the other planets by some advanced, scientific invention in this civilization that they can make the rightful contact with the planets and get first hand communication; but they have not done it yet. So it is something to consider. And as much as a person can readily make communication by some advanced civilizational invention at this advanced stage of our present civilization, if that person can communicate with other planets distinctly and give all information definitely by language so we all can understand it when we hear them talking over the transmitted broadcasting system from the other planets, why, then you can make connection with ME and get information from GOD's Omniscience and Understanding!
High as the heaven, as being termed the heaven I could say, as high as the planets are above the earth, any of them you have ever heard of even so high is GOD above you and so high are GOD's Ways above your ways and GOD's Thoughts above yours!
Now when men or mortality in the form of man or woman, attempt to criticize ME or try to minimize ME, such a man or such a woman in their finite minds are limiting themselves, for I do not have to seek wisdom, knowledge nor understanding, for GOD is Omniscient without any informational giver, without any instructor and without any emancipator; GOD is His Own Instructor and Emancipator and His Own Emancipation for all of the nations!
These thoughts are well worth considering. Then as one mentioned, how can one come along and give anyone emancipation and freedom when they do not have it themselves ? You must have something in order to be able to give it to another,
Show ME the man or the person who is free, then I will show you the real emancipator! As I explained the other day, there are those who are so bound in traditional versions by dictation and the ideas and opinions of men, for fear they might make some grammatical errors or something of that sort! They are bound hand and foot and they cannot speak for fear of feeling their way. They cannot speak volitionally and move volitionally because they are afraid they will stumble from a linguist point of view!
Oh, it is a privilege to observe the mystery, to stand in the liberty wherewith Christ has actually freed you! As I said, I will make all of the grammatical errors, as mortality calls them, I choose, for I am free and I came to free you, especially you who are bound by tradition, bound by conventionality and bound by theories and doctrines of men; I came to free you and give you your real emancipation, to give you a chance to stand and go with ME.
You cannot give ME anything. I AM not asking a letter of the English alphabet, I AM not asking a phrase in the English dictionary! If I choose to speak from an angle of such a language at times it is through MY Condescension, for GOD's Language is not understood by the present human race living upon the earth's face.
When you speak in an unknown tongue you speak unto GOD and GOD alone, and GOD alone can understand unless through His Condescension He gives someone by inspiration the gift of interpreting what GOD is saying through man. Can you not see the mystery ?
Now where is the wise and where are the scribes? Where are those who have known so much and have taught wisdom and let you out? Tell them I said come forth and free themselves and let ME see who made them!
Oh, it is a privilege to live in this recognition! Then I say, through oppositions, through criticism, through accusation through prosecution and even through persecution in the name of prosecution, I glory in such expressions, for great is MY Evidence in such an experience, and I will put it forth into expression. I will cause them to see and know ME better.
How glorious it is to live in such recognition. When all oppositions have exercised themselves from every angle expressible effectively and all earth shall have opposed you wholeheartedly, there and then GOD will show HE is Almighty as I have been doing in the time of depressions, in the time of oppressions, in the time of pestilences and adverse and undesirable conditions; I have proven to you and to the great nation universally, GOD alone is the Victory and has overcome victoriously!
I need not say more; I believe I have said enough to stir up your [pure minds. But as you live and realize GOD is Omniscient and GOD is Ever Present not only Omnipresent but Ever Present with you insignificant as you may apparently be, even if you are absolutely illiterate completely, GOD is Omnipotent for you; will instruct you and will guide you, and will lead you and give you Victory, Health and Happiness too, for Christ is rich and all you need and will your every hunger feed. That is the mystery!
As I often think of the little lizard in the reptile kingdom; he crawls on wood and leaves and other things and he turns according to the color of the thing on which he is crawling.
GOD is rich and all you need and can and will your every hunger feed! He will adjust matters satisfactorily for you if you will allow Him to and will satisfy every desire; and the greater the opposition the more expressive will GOD be in evidence for you, for
'Man's extremity is GOD's Opportunity.'
I AM glad, I through MY Condescension came extremiated as a Person among the
nation and as One representing the Valley of the Nation in this present dispensation,
even as the Jews represented the Valley of the Nations nineteen hundred years
ago.
If you will retrace your thoughts back to the prediction of Isaiah,
'Every valley shall be exalted.'
I will not say more, but from any and every point of view you may try to describe,
the more insignificant you are the more limited you are as a person or as a nation,
the more expressive will be your GOD to fill the low and the unoccupied, the
unnoticed places! I thank you, I thank you, I thank you!
Peace, Everyone:
At this instance I would just like to say, we have visiting friends with us as usual. If any of our visiting friends care to speak they are welcome to do so even as we do by moving volitionally if they care to. If they do not care to move volitionally as we do, if they give us their names, addresses and professions or if we have them, if desired, we will introduce them according to custom. I thank you.
(At this point Reverend R.D.Griffith of the Coptic Church of America was introduced and spoke briefly concerning his conception of the practicality of GOD and the manifestation of His Spirit in one's daily activities. After he finished speaking, FATHER again invited visiting guests to speak and Rev. Dr. Walker was introduced and spoke briefly. Shortly thereafter the Banquet Service came to a conclusion.)
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