The Interraciallity of GOD'S Mission Has Been Established ---FATHER DIVINE

Our FATHER'S Sermon Given Whilst at the Holy Communion Table, Palace Mission Church and Home, Inc., of New York,
155th Street & Eight Avenue, New York City, Sunday Evening, July 28th, 1946, Time: 10:30 P.M.

 

Unity at the Holy Communion Banquet Service,
Unity Mission Church, Philadelphia, PA.

Unity at the Holy Communion Banquet Service, Unity Mission Church, Philadelphia, PA.

 

This glorious Sermon given by the Omniscient ONE of all creation, shines forth as a light of hope to those who seek to live Righteously, Soberly and Godly in this present world, for in it our Lord explains that if those of the law makers, yea, those of the world of politics, do not desire to do that which is Just and Right, HE shall accomplish HIS Work and Mission without the legal passage of the law to enact it. In other words, GOD'S Righteousness shall be instituted without legality, for HE needs not a one to help HIM and there are none that can slightly hinder HIM!

Read this marvelous Sermon, for the Universality of GOD'S Work is becoming to be a Living Reality and the actuated facts and figures of HIS Accomplishments are ample proof of this! Despite all oppositions, Righteousness in Government and Government in Righteousness shall be established, for the mouth of GOD has declared it and in deeds and actions HE is proving it!

Thank YOU, O Glorious King!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is firstly recorded the song sung just before FATHER arose to speak:)

 

Wherever YOU go, YOU are a Blessing to the people;
Wherever YOU go, YOU are a Blessing to all;
Giving and giving, blessing and blessing,
For Your goodness to all YOU are worthy to be praised!
YOU've taken us out of limitations, lacks and wants;
YOU've made us happy, prosperous and free;
Wherever YOU go, YOU are a blessing to the people;
You are the Blesser, praise YOUR Holy Name!

(FATHER Speaks as follows:)

Peace! Everyone!: Here we all are again! There I sit and here you stand! Here you are and there I AM, those of you who are ONE with ME even as I AM! Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the reply.)

That little composition is well worth considering. for truly I have taken you out of lacks and wants, I have taken you out of limitations and if all government will permit ME I will take them out of lacks, wants and limitations! Aren't you glad! ("Oh, so glad, Lord!" responded the congregation.) For truly every where I go, I AM a Blessing to the people, and this is not a supposition, it is the conscious recognition and the realization of millions and demonstrated so that they can see it! Aren't you glad! ("Truly glad, GOD Almighty! exclaimed the assembly in one voice.)"

Can you not see, there are no lacks and wants and limitations here? Can you not see that there is Unity, Tranquility, Brotherhood and Democracy— what our national documents have been calling for from the early days of the drafting of the Constitution and of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence! They have taught you to be independent and have spoken of these Blessings you are now enjoying, such as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, but you actually have them! Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the joyous reply.) And by this all mankind shall realize God is no longer a supposition, God is Real! Real! Real! I AM talking about Natural!

You have been taught that GOD was Something suppositional and supernatural; only mythological, to be discerned metaphysically; but oh, how glorious it is to realize the tangiblization of GOD HIMSELF; as HE Personified HIMSELF on earth you find Blessings and Blessings are flowing free, and you will find giving and giving here and there and everywhere will surely be, because it is written:

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with GOD and the Word was GOD, and the
Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory as that of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of grace and of Truth, and of all of His Fullness have all we received Grace for Grace!"

Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the response.)

The Fullness of GOD

When it was seen in the flesh, all of the Glory of GOD, all of the fullness of GOD in the flesh, and you visioned it, you received of it— of it and its fullness, Grace for Grace— and that is what it is all about!

Now none need lack in GOD's Abundance for there is a-plenty for all! The time is not far distant when all shall live in splendor, with A-Full and A-Plenty, even as these do! That is, if they live!

I know these are hard sayings. I know it is radical to say it, and fanatical; but oh, how glorious it is to see the abundance— to see the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, and no space is vacant of the fullness thereof! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, GOD Almighty!" exclaimed the joyous congregation.) Why? Because the Word was made Flesh— Because the tangiblization of It was made a Living Reality! "The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His Glory as that of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth," and of all of His Fullness have all of you right here received! I will not stop until that line of demarcation be broken from shore to shore and from and from land to land! Aren't you Glad! ("Truly glad LORD!" enthusiastically replied the vast assembly.)

We shall have a Righteous Government with or without the politicians! With or without the politicians!No ballot put this into action, did it? ("No Sir"; verified the masses.) GOD HIMSELF put this into action, and all of the politicians were against it! They don't want this put into action, but I have put it into action! I have instituted it in society! Aren't you glad! I have instituted it in business, I have instituted it in labor, I have instituted it in trade over and above all of the politicians wishes! That is what I AM talking about! Aren't you glad! ("Yes, so glad." responded the Congregation.)

 

None Shall Lack

No politician did this, just what you see here! This has been going on right through the depressions, through the panics, through the famines, and will be going on if there continues to advance an expression of inflation! None shall lack in GOD'S Abundance!

So, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition, for GOD'S Actual Presence is actually doing it! Remember, when you behold it and vision it vividly you tend to naturalize it and reproduce it, for of all of HIS Fullness have all of you— you can say —"all we received, Grace for Grace"!

Look at the honor you are getting! —honor to have the Abundance of the Fullness in the time of depressions, in the time of lacks, wants and limitations, in the time of adverse and undesirable conditions. In the time of all of the oppressing and opposing forces, GOD is giving you the Abundance of the Fullness and you are conscious of GOOD and find no space vacant of the fullness thereof!

I need not say more. I believe I have said enough to stir up your pure minds, but I merely arose in the beginning to say that it is true as to you it was given by inspiration: taking us out of lacks, wants and limitations (aren't you glad!); out of misery, disappointment and failure; out of the slums; out from among those who are living in vice and crime and sin and debauchery of every kind; made you self-respecting and law abiding citizens; caused you to live Soberly, Righteously and Godly in this present world! I have caused you to be desired by all mankind. They shall desire you, for I have permeated you with the Desirableness of the Desirable! Aren't you glad! ("Truly Glad!" came the response,) They all shall desire to have your presence as you live Soberly, Righteously and Godly and Recognize the Presence of the Almighty!

 

Abolition to All Division

For this cause you should rejoice to know, as it is here so shall we have it in the furthest parts of the South— in all parts of the world— in the lynch-mob-mad South! We shall have it right there just as I have it at MY right hand and at MY left! That is, if you will live! Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" exclaimed the enthusiastic and adoring assembly.) I shall bring an abolition to division, all segregation and all discrimination and I shall establish MY going in the Land of the Living and GOD'S Presence shall be reckoned among the people!

Just think!I thought just then about telling the underprivileged to come out of the South, come away from the South, as long as you are downtrodden, mistreated, underprivileged and non-privileged, but they would not take heed!

One of the most hideous crimes you have heard of in recent years, happened the other day. I know you all heard about it. Now no doubt Uncle Sam will step in with a mighty hand and bring about Righteousness in Government where there was none!

I know these are hard sayings and they don't want to hear them, but I said when they refused to pass the Anti-Lynching Bill, "I will institute a bill MYSELF!" Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the response.) I will institute Righteousness in Government and Government in Righteousness and break that line of demarcation and bring an abolition to racism and a complete abolition to racism and a complete abolition to nationalism. Aren't you glad! ("So glad !" responded the multitude.)

The Internationality of GOD'S Work and Mission shall go on! The Interraciallity of GOD'S Mission has been actually established! All shall see and know, GOD deals in the affairs of men and none can slightly hinder HIM!With or without a person, that which HE endeavors HE will carry out to the letter!

Therefore,

"Fret not yourselves because of the workers of iniquity, they shall be cut off!"

This is good, is it not?— When you have a-full and a-plenty and to spare of comfort and convenience and everything else that life demands! Talking about housing shortage, MY followers have so many houses they don't know what to do with them! Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" replied the congregation in one voice.) That's right— doing nothing! The Blood, as it is termed, which is the Life, has paid it all and bought the rights to Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness; not only to pursue it but get it and have it!

So then I say, MY fellow citizens, hearers and friends, live in this Recognition and build upon this Foundation and lift up a standard of Brotherhood, Democracy and Christianity as synonymous, and bring an end to every sense of division among you! The more the savages of America rage, the more persistent you should be in your ambition to bring about Brotherhood and One Lineage Universally!

Now look at this big family! This is MY lineage! You all are MY Family! You are My Family, indivisible; if it is only while you are here at this Banquet Table, you are MY Family, Indivisible! All are eating the same and drinking the same and All are fed from MY Simple Hands! That is right!

You say in your Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag over and over again that you are "One Nation Indivisible," and before you sit down you are talking about some "race", some "color' and some "nationality" right here among us! But I mean to make that Pledge a Reality! We are On Nation, Indivisible! — not only One Nation Indivisible but we are One Race, Invisible! We look like it do we not? ("Yes. Lord" replied the congregation spontaneously.) Not only One Race but we are One Family, Indivisible! I will put this through if it costs a billion dollars a day! I thank you! I thank you! I thank you!

 

 

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