Behold the Beauty and the Virginity Materialized and Personified — FATHER DIVINE

FATHER DIVINE'S Sermon Given at the Nazareth Missions Home for the Aged, Church and Training School of Pennsylvania,
1600-1614 Oxford Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sunday Afternoon, April 29, 1951 A.D.F.D., Time: 1:35 P. M.

 

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

 

Peace Everyone! Here we all are again. There I sit and stand, in the Unity of Spirit, Mind, Aim and Purpose. I AM bringing mankind together universally and all that will but accept of it, they too as well as you, can be partakers of this great Contagion!

As in the beginning of creation, when GOD as Spirit and Spirit alone moved out upon the water without Flesh, Body, Blood and Bones and spoke into outer expression light that was not in evidence according to the historians and thence said, "Let dry land appear", dry land came forth into expression as a pre-evidence of the tangiblization of GOD'S tangible Creation that HE had created, for it was void and without form; the tangible creation was void and without form. It is written:

"The earth was void and without form, but GOD said, let dry land appear."

God is the Tangibilator, Materializer, Reproducer and Personifier of things that are invisible! That is why you hear men say at times, "I thought to do this, that or the other, but it did not materialize!" Things will materialize for ME, because GOD did say to that earth that void and without form, "Let dry land appear!" The appearance of dry land according to the historians, was a prediction of the tangiblization of things that were invisible and of how GOD can speak into outer expression your every need that is necessary for your person.

Then why live in lacks, wants and limitations when GOD is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent? When GOD is Infinite Love and Mercy?

While sitting and listening to the songs of praise and the joy of the fellowship of the children of men, I thought how marvelous it is to realize GOD in the midst of them has brought about a Perfect Sanitation, a Clean Bill of Health — one of which you are not ashamed, for the apostle declared on one occasion:

"I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the Power of GOD unto Salvation to everyone that believeth."


Such belief as exemplified among you will bring into outer expression every desirable blessing among you, for as it is written:

He that believeth shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be— (you know what)"

Through your belief and through the belief of many others, came One known to you as MOTHER, from another land— not so far distant as some of the lands are, but coming as though from another country, declaring her conviction of MY DEITY! Not only as a Belief did She declare it but She said, "I know YOU are GOD!"

She is not the only one that had made this declaration known, but as One that was chosen from the foundation of the world, for the establishment of this of which we are representing, I brought Her from afar! She declared Her deliverance, "I know THOU art GOD!" And what did I say? I declared to the children of men, as they increased and multiplied in such a conviction, "I AM Married to that belief, 'I know YOU are GOD!'"

Firstly having married that declaration, yea that conviction, I cause you to Realize MY Spotless Virgin Bride in Her Virginity as a Sample and as an Example for all humanity! Why can you declare it? For I saved your body and I changed your mind! I have made you incorruptible and undefiled! I have, by the same virtue of the fact, purified your hearts and purified your minds! I have caused you to refuse to steal and declare you will no longer kill! I have caused you to realize:

"The wages of sin is death but the gift of GOD is eternal life."

When I declared, I married that belief I know YOU are GOD, that belief was that of MY Spotless Virgin Bride which actually symbolizes MY Church without Spot or Wrinkle and the Expression of GOD'S Infiniteness in Her Holy Virginity! I married that belief and that Church, for it was declared by the Apostle in the Epistle:

"This is a great Mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church."

For this cause you all should rejoice and be glad and observe the Sample and the Example of the Virginity of GOD Personified and the Holiness of Jesus in Person! By this you can observe the Church that was spoken of without spot or wrinkle— the Church that would be Pure and Spotless; but firstly it was as in the experience of John when John came down to Jordan, or Jesus came down to him to be baptized of him, he tried to forbid Him , but Jesus said:

"Suffer it to be so, John, for thus it becometh us to fulfil all Righteousness."

This Spotless, Virtuous Marriage was for the purpose of Reproducing, Reincarnating and Repersonifying the Righteousness of GOD as Personified in the Body of MOTHER DIVINE! For Cause, this, the twenty-ninth Day of April, has been set apart by Proclamation as a National, International and Universal Holiday Commemorating the Marriage of Christ to His Spotless Virgin Bride— the Marriage of Christ to His Church!

The time that has been will be no more, for the children of men all over this wide extended plane, they are awakening into the Righteousness of the Truth as exemplified among you so that you might be able to observe what GOD has actually done for you!

Look at the Cleanliness exemplified among those of you, My adherents! Look at the Purity materialized and personified in MY Spotless Virgin Bride!

(FATHER gently takes a-hold of MOTHER'S arm as She rises from Her seat and stands by His Side, expressing the picture of Purity in Her saintly countenance; and the congregation cheered and shouted for joy. As the joyful noise subsided, FATHER continued speaking:)

Behold the Purity, Virginity and Holiness I have exemplified, and behold it now Personified!— Virginity! Purity! Honesty! Competence and Truth! If you vision it vividly, that is exactly what I will produce among you to give you the victory over every difficulty, over every trial and every tribulation!

As She does not live in lacks, wants, nor limitations, neither will MY Spotless Church nor Children live in lacks, wants, nor limitations, for as it was with Jesus, so with the people! Jesus was the first born among many brethren and many came after Him, reproducing His Nature and Characteristics and being imbued with the Glory and the Power of GOD from on High that they might be partakers of HIS very Life!

Then I say, Vision the Glory of GOD as materialized; you will be able to Reproduce the Reality of the materiality of that which you have observed abstractly!

So then I say, live in the recognition and lo, I will be with you, producing and reproducing the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, and finding no space vacant of the fullness thereof, for the very Spirit of MY Presence is creative in itself and operative and will operate automatically by the Spirit of the Consciousness of it! I thank you.

Peace Everyone! While you all behold the Beauty and the Virginity materialized and personified, I want you to deny or verify the fact if you are satisfied!

(Tumultuous applause resounded as the audience simultaneously expressed their approval and satisfaction of their Spotless Virgin MOTHER, and many fell prostrate as they were overcome by the purity and virtue as it emanated from the Holy Lamb and His Spotless Bride. FATHER speaks as follows:)

Then if you desire to continue, or visualize and reproduce— reproducing is in the making, if you continue to visualize MY Spotless Virgin Bride, as you have heard ME declare in the conclusion of all of MY Letters of Correspondence, MY Attributes so depicted and so explicitly propounded, these are MY Attributes reproduced and personified so that you all might realize that which I have declared and be partakers of the same from shore to shore and from land to land, and the abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space will be vacant of the fullness thereof; and all will eventually live in peaceful and quiet resting places, for I have contagionized the atmosphere in which we are living!

You shall be free from barriers, depressions, panics and famines, and the time cometh that we will not even have a panic or a famine; will not have destruction by the cosmic forces of nature, for the cosmic forces of nature will work sympathetically and harmoniously with you. I thank you!



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