FATHER DIVINE
The second beautiful Message given by our precious SAVIOR, FATHER DIVINE, at the banquet table on this glorious afternoon in Sayville, made all those present conscious of the very great blessing and privilege they had to be sitting in the actual Presence of the LORD HIMSELF , protected by HIM.
After singing the little composition recorded below, FATHER arose again to give the message contained in these pages.
SONG
'The great big Family, the Family Of the LORD
The great big Family, the Family Of the LORD
The great big Family, the Family Of the LORD
Have you been adopted in the ROYAL FAMILY?
DEAR SAVIOR, WE THANK THEE.
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Lecture follows.)
PEACE, EVERONE!
It is wonderful! That little thought came forth as a composition for your consideration and also as a question put forth to those who have been considering
'It is the great big Family
It is the Family of the LORD,
For you have been adopted
In the Royal Family.'
That little thought I AM conveying, and also questioning those who recognize
MY ACTUAL PRESENCE and declare My Majesty to this people.
'Have you been adopted into the Royal Family?'
It is a privilege to be adopted into a Family where you are honored above measure!
As I was saying the other day, insignificant as I may apparently be, it is the
most significant place of all creation to be with Me where you are actually protected
mentally, spiritually, physically and otherwise, by the recognition of GOD'S
ACTUAL PRESENCE and by being adopted into the Royal Family. That is the mystery.
As I have often said, there are those who would even attempt to try to get My stenographers and immediate secretaries and Co-workers to think they could be more highly honored by condescending from the lofty place, after the manner of men, from the confidential, private, secret and Personal Secretaries of GOD and immediate Co-Workers of this Majesty to the insignificant, finite servitude as employees of men.
And I thought and I considered and I spoke these words sometime ago, "There is not an office a person could describe you have declared I AM filling." If then, this is the SUPREME OFFICE of all creation and of the fondest imagination and the most significant place in consideration, of all of all consideration, how these who are immediate co-workers and participators in this great scheme of things? You are filling such an office that parallels with the Office I AM filling, if you are co-operating with Me harmoniously, and especially if you are filling some office connected with the Office I AM filling. Can you not see the mystery?
Then, if you would be seeking something from a selfish point of view, the honor and praise that you would be given, all of the fondest imagination of the honor of the children of men, for theirs is of the earth earthly, but but yours is with GOD in and from Heaven. That is the mystery.
So it is a privilege to observe this mystery and to realize the Presence of GOD! As you recognize GOD'S PRESENCE, you know, if you are with Me, there could be no such position to be filled under Heaven so great as that with which you are concerned, the Office connected with GOD HIMSELF, the great CREATOR of all the universe, if it is true what you say concerning Me.
If your testimonies are true, if what the Spirit has revealed to you and you have declared, if those things are true, then there is not an office nor a place anywhere in consciousness or in the subconsciousness could be so honorable as the Office I AM filling. Then there would be no place anywhere in the great creation of others to fill that could by any means compete with or make any comparison with the office those are filling who are connected with Me, in filling these Offices.
Then I say, it is a privilege to observe such though your insignificance may have been such that it could not have been considered without you being lifted, could not have been considered even in a moral way of expression among the fine offices of men, their official duties may have been so far superior to yourself and so far superior to you before I came, they would not even so much as consider you to shine their shoes. But think of how you have been lifted to the loftiest place in consideration of all GOD'S creation, as was Jesus of Nazareth!
What said the Apostle in the Epistle concerning the mystery?
'Be it known unto you and unto all of the people of Israel, that as by the Name of Jesus Christ Whom you crucified. Whom GOD raised raised from the dead, even by Him does this man stand before you whole; neither is there satisfaction in any other, for there is none other name given under Heaven whereby man can be saved!'
Then the Name of JESUS CHRIST, the most insignificant according to the mortal
version at that particular time, was the Name above every other name that is
in Heaven and above every other name that is in the earth or on the earth; therefore
GOD HIMSELF imparted the Name unto Him, imparted and contributed such honor upon
Him that He might be called the Son of GOD, the Office of CHRIST, the Chief Executive
of all creation. Can you not see the mystery?
Then I say, it is a privilege to be in close relation, yea, in close fellowship and relationship with your CREATOR, to be united together in the unity of the spirit, of mind, of aim and of purpose, where GOD HIMSELF from every angle of expression is your real PROTECTION! In comfort and convenience, in food, in raiment, in houses and shelter, in the abundance of the fullness for the sustenance of your body, for the comfort and convenience of your whole existence, GOD HIMSELF, in LOVE and MERCY came, and He is proving HIS Mission. Aren't you glad!
Then I say, when you can live in such a recognition, be lifted from depressions, lacks, wants and limitation, from adverse and undesirable conditions and be healed from all of your sickness, afflictions and diseases, be healed from vice and crime and from sin and the characteristics and disposition of mankind that are detrimental to the advancement of your happiness and your peace, when you are emancipated from those things, you know it is something to consider!
And as with you as an individual, so can it be with all creation: for,
'in Adam all die, so shall in Jesus Christ all be made alive.'
Then you feel good! For it is free for everyone, but you must know it is applicable
to you as an individual as well as it has been to and for others. But remember,
since it is IMPERSONAL, it is as applicable for others as it is for you. Even
your JOY, your HAPPINESS, your PEACE and your PLEASURE, as I said last evening:
why, even your LOVE and your DEVOTION you have for anybody if it is a man or
beast or animal or whatnot even if the LOVE you have is for GOD your FATHER,
the LOVE is IMPERSONAL: it is as much others's as it is yours.
You cannot confine nor bind any IMPERSONAL expression of life any more than you can the breath of life you breathe. You cannot confine it to yourself as an individual. You cannot bind it to yourself as a person. You may breathe in, inhale the breath of life, and suppose you think to yourself, "Why, this is my breath I'm drawing." It is only loaned to you! It is not yours: it is as much other's as it is yours but so long as you do not live selfishly, you will always have the breath of life to draw, you will have the breath of life to exhale, you will have the breath of life to inhale. Aren't you glad!
When you get selfish sometime, you get that which the folks call "asthma". you cannot get your breath! But if you do not claim a thing, even the breath of life you inhale and the breath you life you exhale, you will always have another one to inhale as well as you exhale it, and you will always have plenty of them to expel both to inhale and to exhale plenty, as it may be termed, a breath of life in expression, and they will come forth freely and you will not be bound. It is wonderful!
But if you allowed yourself to think you have something I mean, like a breath of life, or love or kindness or anything of that type, claim it as your own, why, then GOD may let you see you do not even have the breath you want. You cannot get your breath! Isn't that wonderful! You cannot get your breath, you see, because you have claimed it! But if you inhale it and exhale it and let it go on about it's business and let someone else inhale it and let someone else exhale it, and know it is as much there's as it is yours, every breath, why, then you will always be able to get plenty of them. Aren't you glad! It is wonderful!
You are not your own! As I explained, even your five physical senses are not your own. They are only loaned to you transmitted, reincarnated and repersonified: but the same sight you see with has been the sight which others have seen with and it is the sight of GOD transmitted and placed in the eyes to see with. It is wonderful!
So when you see the nothingness of self as a person, you can see the allness of GOD as the INFINITE! You can Harmonize with him, and by so doing you are partakers of GOD'S Nature and characteristics and you will get victory over every limitation, every difficulty, every trial and every tribulation.
But bringing you back it is the Personal contact with your SAVIOR. You are personally blessed! You can have comfort and convenience when you would have none personally! Can you not see the mystery? Is not this something to consider?
Then I say, you should praise GOD continually, for GOD's Mercy is from everlasting to everlasting, His TRUTH endurest to all generations, His PEACE is without an end.! When you think along those lines and keep your mind filled with scientific and unselfish, spiritual, GODLY thoughts in the act of giving GOD all of the praise and the honor for what you are, why, then you can feel the Presence of GOD and you will be protected from all hurt, from all harm and from all danger: for naught will be able to harm you, according to the Gospel, according to the Epistle, according to the religions and according to the prophecies and according to our LAW: for they all predicted that of which we are now refilling, and that of which we are experiencing. I thank you.
It is wonderful! You know the LAW, such as those chapters I gave you to read in the other message the LAW prophesied as well as the prophecies. The LAW was prophesying in the Book of Deuteronomy, concerning the mystery of what we are not fulfilling, of your daily experience and your daily experiences as you go on in this way, whether you are righteous or unrighteous. Humanity must fulfill the Scripture, but the wicked and the unrighteous, as well as the righteous, they are the fulfillers of the Scripture, for the things that have been predicted concerning them will be fulfilled even as the things that have been predicted by the Law and by the prophecies concerning GOD and His People, are being fulfilled. Each of these is equivalently the same.
When GOD predicted things through the Law and through the prophecies, they were predictions, it is true, of the righteous, but they they are also predictions of the wicked and each of us must fulfill all of the Prophecies of the Law and the Prophets, whatsoever it is that has been predicted concerning the mystery. Therefore, we are the actual fulfillers, matters not who you are.
I know, once upon a time, you thought the righteous would be the only ones to fulfill the Scripture thought they were going to fulfill the Scripture: but the wicked have to fulfill the Scripture, too. It said that they would persecute! It was in the Law! It was in the Law! The Law prophesied it just what has been going on in Germany and other countries. It said they would plant vineyards and would not eat the grapes thereof. They would not enjoy them! They would buy houses and they would not live in them, and all those things they would not enjoy. Others would come in and possess them! It said they would marry wives and others would take them. All of those things are fulfilled!
All of those things are being fulfilled. Hence, the wicked are the fulfillers of the wicked things that would come upon the people, as well as the as well as the righteous are the fulfillers of the righteous things that will come Can you now see the mystery/ So we are the fulfillers in this dispensation both of the righteous and of the wicked. We are the fulfillers of the prophecies of the Law and of the prophets, yea, the Law and the Prophets.
Whatsoever they predicted, we are the fulfillers of both it and them. Aren't you glad! But you feel good when you know you are fulfilling the good part: but when you are fulfilling the part where the wicked would fulfill when they did not obey GOD and keep and His Commandments, why, then you see it is said,
'Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of they land, the increase of thy kine, and the flock of thy sheep.'
Then I say, it is a privilege to live with Me! It is a privilege to be in harmony! It is a blessing beyond measure! It causes you to feel pretty good, does it not? It is unbelievable, but yet it is true. Now you can turn out to be just whatsoever you want to be. As someone said once, "if anyone has ever known the TRUTH, I cannot see how they can do wrong." Why, you can do wrong if you want to.
The Children of Israel in the land of Egypt, when they were brought out of the land of Egypt, they went back and did wrong and they died in the wilderness too, some of them never did see the Promised Land. You all are blessed to see it! Lots of them never did get a chance to see it though, did they? Lots of them were cut off! It is wonderful! Even some who flew high they thought they would be great, you see. They never got a chance to see the promise land they died before they saw it? See the mystery?
Since then I thought about many preachers and some who looked upon Me as insignificant many years ago when I went south. Mr. Joseph can remember it. Some great preachers they thought they were great they never got a chance to see the Promise Land. Even with all of their raptness, according to the mortal version, they have been cut off, have not enjoyed heaven until now; but yet you have! So it you keep on, why them, you will keep on enjoying it and it will be alright. It is wonderful! Yes, it is wonderful! Yes, it is wonderful! So many blessings! It is wonderful! It is wonderful!
I thought about the one who came to the Kingdom here sometime ago, by the name Miss Elizabeth White used to be called Mrs. Biggins. Oscar Biggins and Lizzie Biggins used to be called Lizzie Biggins from the South: and she came to the Kingdom and was telling about Stafford and how he died. It is wonderful! Many of those!..and he was a great Bishop, don't you know. He said,"Where were You converted and where did You get the Holy Ghost?! He passed on! Sure! He died like a dog! And yet he was so great in his thoughts, you know. Was Bishop of a church. It is Wonderful!
He tried to persecute Me and said I was insane. He could not get anything against Me otherwise. It was wonderful! Thousands of others! You know when you look back at what others have done and how they have stood high in mortal consciousness with men and how they came down by disrecognizing GOD and trying to fight against His Mercy. Not only His MAJESTY, but trying fight against His MERCY: for the Scripture did say,
'Behold the LAMB of GOD! The meekness of GOD, His Mercy, His compassion endureth to all generations.'
Therefore, HIS MERSEY was the great thing to be considered!
So many men that were called great! Miss White she goes by the name of Miss Elizabeth White now. I know we used to call her Lizzie Biggins. She was such a wonderful preacher! It is Wonderful! And Mr. Oscar Biggins! It is Wonderful! but Stanford, he died and had a terrible time. So many of them! So many of them! and then they looked upon Me as insignificant, you see, and still they would like to do that now if they had bodies but they do not have bodies to look at Me now, you see, the majority of them!
And I was thinking how you could be protected by being meek and lowly in heart and being obedient and you live right on. It is wonderful!
Then I say, PRAISE GOD! Give THANKS at the remembrance of His Holiness, for His TRUTH is everlasting and His MERCY endureth to all generations. I thank You.
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