FATHER DIVINE at Rockland Palace, N.Y.C.
Some marvelous points for consideration are dwelt upon by FATHER in this significant Message. His Words are Spirit and Life, and when read aloud by one who has imbibed His Spirit and Mind, they are not only understandable to the general public at large, but penetratable and stressful to the minds of all who listen to them with unbiased minds.
Take cognizance of this Message for it opens up the Door of Salvation to everyone who will but put into practice these ideas and suggestions of Positiveness made by our Condescending Lord.
Thank You Sweet Savior !
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER
DIVINE speaks as follows:)
Peace, Everyone: Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite; Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness ! These and all other blessings, we have them, and we are endeavoring to impart them to others all who can receive them by living Evangelically and making room for them.
At this particular instance I have arisen to further convey the thought of the mystery of what I conveyed in the public auditorium.
'I will preach Christ in Words but more so in deeds and in actions, and I will put My Spirit in the people and cause them to walk in My Statutes !'
I thought to say for consideration, there are many ministers of the Gospel, professors
and teachers and philosophers who write many manuscripts to preach, to lecture
and give addresses and speeches ; but I thought to say, I do not speak by manuscripts
Personally but I give manuscripts to the world at large daily !
As a thought came to Me through correspondence, even yesterday, a person said they desired to hear Me speak but they did not or do not come to these meetings to hear others rattle My Sermons or Lectures or Addresses off to see or hear My co-workers and others read My Messages ; but if they would but stop and consider the Words, the Words that they read, as being classed as Mine, from the New Day, they are supposedly verbatim, but transcribed as manuscripts that cannot be criticized. Hence, as I say, if I do not or would not preach in Words more than what I have said and more than what I AM doing I would be preaching Sermons and Messages transcending the average person's.
But, whether or not, when I preach in deeds and in actions and others catch the Message, as the party said they could read My Words, they could read it themselves. It is quite true, but there are those who will not concentrate in the positive direction long enough to read a Lecture unbiasedly. For this cause, when they are read, both My Lectures, Addresses and Letters of Correspondence, they are read with My Language, they are read with the emphasis as I stress them, and it carries the understanding of what I AM conveying when someone reads My Messages with My Spirit and with My Mind.
But whether or not, I wish to say, in the last week's issue of the New Day, I have preached and I AM preaching in deeds and in actions. The Manuscripts of My Addresses, Lectures and Sermons, Interviews and Letters are there. They are there to be seen and read by men, and if any person or persons will but read them with the spirit of sincerity, open-mindedly, My Spirit will bless them according to the faith they have, as much as I would speak in Person to them. That is the Mystery !
So I AM speaking in deeds and in actions. When I AM not speaking Personally it is your privilege to take up The New Day and read My Messages such as I have conveyed to you and to others through the pages of The New Day.
Then I say, live soberly, righteously and Godly and be unbiased minded. Just have an open mind, as have often said, and I will lead you I will guide you and I will direct you. I will cause you to see and know definitely whatsoever you desire to know concerning ME, for
'The Spirit maketh intercession for the Saints according to the Will of GOD.'
You may not know, but GOD knows when you seek information. Your prayer as delivered in words may not seemingly be heard, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession in groans which cannot be uttered, but the Spirit reaches the Throne of Grace and maketh intercession for you.
Your prayers are heard and answered speedily when you live soberly, righteously and Godly and abide in My Spirit with the Spirit of sincerity. And, as I say, the outward expression of each and every demonstration, in every activity and all of My divers actions I AM speaking and preaching. Some can understand better in actions and deeds than they can in Words.
For this cause we rejoice and we are exceedingly glad ! joy without a tear and joy without a fear! Then I say,
'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice! Let your moderation be made known unto all men" as you go, "the Lord is at hand!'
I know there are those who will attempt to shame you, and some will say, "Aren't
you ashamed to call that M... GOD ?" But I heard the Apostle Paul say by
his Epistle transmitted:
'I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto Salvation to everyone that believeth.'
This Gospel happens to be applicable to you as it is transmitted. Although it
was to Paul firstly as far as you are concerned personally, nevertheless, it
is transmitted, for he said,"... to everyone that believeth.", and
you happen to be a believer. In this dispensation it is the Power of GOD to you
who sincerely believe.
What said Jesus concerning the Mystery concerning this Power of which I AM now speaking ?
'You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come unto you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Samaria and in Judea and into the uttermost parts of the earth.'
Because the Power of GOD has come into you and you will express the Power as
demonstrated, as exhibited to you. Through your concentration upon it you swill
reproduce it and demonstrate it as these, the Rosebuds, and others who are demonstrating
the Power of GOD unto Salvation. Aren't you glad !
Then, I say,
'Ye shall receive Power,'
Said He, and truly the Holy Ghost has come unto you, and this Power over unclean
spirits and to cast them out the Power over prejudice , over bigotry, the Power
over jealousy and maliciousness; the Power over dishonesty, over incompetence
and untruth; the Power over all those unclean spirits that will tend to fill
you with the filthiness of the flesh and the spirit (Aren't you glad!) ; the
Power over the love of filthy lucre ; the Power to demonstrate the mastery over
the fear of old age and depression (Aren't you glad !) ; the Power to consolate
you in the time of would-be disconsolation when you would be disconsolate. Oh,
how glorious it is to have this Power of GOD by believing as said the Apostle
concerning the mystery:
'Ye shall receive it.'
And so you have ! And again I wish to say, the Power over division, over strife
and confusion ; the Power to give you your real emancipation from every barrier
and from all undesirable conditions !
This is a slight sketch of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the mystery, but I will explain it more explicitly in deeds and actions in the future than what I AM doing presently. Aren't you glad !
I retrace your thoughts back to the time some years ago before the general public knew Me as they do now. The places wheresoever we would have meetings, people would come around and send around to try to stop the meetings. The Spirit moved the offenders out and moved them away ! The Spirit has given you your real Emancipation to serve GOD according to your own conscience's dictation, to be governed by your own highest intuition, and yet do it without fearing and trembling. GOD makes the way for you, and as said tonight in part, how marvelous it will be when all humanity universally will be just as these jurisdictionally all who are under My Personal Jurisdiction and living exactly according to My Teaching, by the recognition of My Personal Presence as being the Personification of the Infinite One. By such a recognition you are classed or deemed to be under My Personal Jurisdiction.
By the recognition of My Presence with you in Person from time to time you are copying after the fashion that the Spirit has shown you and you are gaining victory and growing stronger daily. You are becoming to be victorious conquerors of your foe ! Aren't you glad !
Then I say, live in this recognition, build upon this Foundation and be not dismayed whatever betide ; GOD will take care of you.
As I have often said, if you praise GOD for the blessings you have and praise Him from a sincere heart and a sincere mind, those blessings will be increased and multiplied ; and praise a little more, you will get some more. Aren't you glad !
Hence you can see the outward expression of what I AM telling you. The blessings are infinite, they are limitless and they are astounding to the conscious mentality of all humanity. Consciously they are astounding to humanity' consciousness. The conscious mentality cannot take it, cannot stand it so well without it being astounding to it, because it will say, "How can these things be ? How can this be ?" But those who can feel it, you can taste it and you can see it is not merely a supposition but a living reality. Once you may have dreamed or could have dreamed of something like this all in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, but now you see it and you know it definitely. It is no longer a dream, no longer a vision and no longer an imagination. I have made your imagination your conscious recognition and the realization of millions, real, tangible and practical.
Hence, by this GOD to you is a living factor and you are living in the Presence of GOD now, henceforth and forever ; for you can see it, you can feel it and you can taste it ! Live it and express it and put it in every activity. Everything you think, think GOD into it. Let GOD be a reality in everything you think, and then you will make those things real, and the Kingdom shall have come on the earth plane among men, for which you have been praying !
Now, I say, let GOD be in everything you think, everything you say and everything you do. Then GOD is on earth; for He rules in you, rules in your mentality, riles in your activity and rules in your vocabulary. When this is done the Kingdom has come in the conscious mentality of the children of men; for,
'Wheresoever a king reigns there is where his kingdom is,'
and there is none other to come ! I thank you !
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