FATHER DIVINE
As FATHER considered the apparent world conditions of today, and at the same time bearing record of HIS own prediction:
"Unless those days are shortened, there shall be no flesh saved."
HE again mercifully offered HIMSELF unto the nations universally, as their only hope of salvation from everlasting; destruction. If the executive powers of our own country and the powers that be, representing every other country, fail to hear the Voice of the Lord, this shall not hinder the sure completion of the plans and purpose of GOD. From the foundation of the world, these things were ordained and because GOD is true, they must come to pass, but woe unto him that rejects the Words of the Lord. In HIS Zeal and Power, FATHER arose and spoke dynamically to the great waiting throng of followers and visitors, who were compelled to still their roving minds while FATHER DIVINE, our LORD spoke from on High.
Oh! LORD of creation, we thank Thee.
FATHER sang this song prior to the Message:
"Now you can see what the Lord has done,
How to bring you all together in one,
One with the FATHER, one with the Son.
All can see what the Lord has done."
("That is exactly what the Lord has done.")
PEACE EVERYONE!
This is not an imagination; no longer merely an assertion, but in working cancelation on mortality, the reality of Christ is established. When mortality is completely cancellated and all of the mortal versions, the immortal state of expression will come forth and all adverse and undesirable conditions will be no more.
How marvelous it is to know all of these words are true! The Message there concerning the mystery of ridding yourselves of all mortality, of mortal's connection, mentally and spiritually, to get in a place spiritually and mentally where those things cannot torment you, that was the great thought I attempted to convey in that Message—how to get rid of the mortal connection, of antagonism and negative personalities with whom you have been connected ... You get rid of them by detaching yourself from your former characteristics and your nature and disposition and by becoming to be a new creature in reality, naturely and characteristically.
How marvelous it is to find a way where you can lose trace of all of your infirmities, where you can lose trace of all of your iniquities—the iniquities of your so-called fathers and mothers, - of which the Bible was speaking when it said:
"I am the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
That thought was conveyed and it has been handed down through the ages ... you find the visitation of the iniquities of the so-called fathers upon the children. You find them as I may term it to be, imposed upon them, in other words, the iniquities of the fathers and the ancestors and others imposed upon those who came after them, they have suffered many hardships, many trials and many tribulations. They have suffered many lacks, wants and limitations because of the iniquities of the fathers and those with whom they are mentally and spiritually connected. But when they detach themselves from such connections and such individuals by putting off the old man with all of his deeds and by putting on a new creature, the new creature, putting on new characteristics, it is a privilege to observe yourselves losing your identities, getting away from your former infirmities, being actually forgiven as well as being emancipated from them— being forgiven for all of those things which were imposed upon you in mortal consciousness that were undesirable.
How marvelous it is then to live in this recognition. If this is a question by MY hearers, stop and consider the millions of MY followers, and especially the thousands who are under the sound of MY voice tonight in this dining room and auditorium and dining room below, how they have been freed from those conditions by getting away from their former dispositions, getting away from their former characteristics, getting away from their former mannerisms, getting away from their former expressions of their former personalities and individualities.
By getting away from your individuality, your former manner of expression and all of your former expressions that identified you as the person that produced and expressed in such expressions, you will lose your identity even from a person, and much more so will you lose your identity from your infirmities, from your sickness, afflictions and your diseases. That is exactly what millions of MY believers have done. They have rid themselves of such conditions as they had been undergoing, because of putting off the former characteristics, the former disposition, because of putting off their former mannerism and their former expressions in words, deeds and actions ; therefore, they lost sight of, and caused their infirmities to lose sight of them.
They have caused their former iniquities to lose sight of them and lose the identity of them, for you carry within yourself your own identity in your words, your deeds and your actions and your daily expression. You are identifying yourself to others by producing and expressing such expressions that will be noticeable, and they are noticeable and identifiable as your expression. Your very expressions, your very emotions and gestures are identifiable for you as your very voice with which you speak.
Oh, it is a privilege to observe the mystery and to see how you can rid yourselves of undesirable conditions, by ridding yourselves of your former characteristics and your former disposition ... Your deposition is it of which has caused all of your misery, your sorrow and your woe. The reversal of such a characteristic, the reversal of such a disposition, in short, the conversion of such an individual by converting all of the individual's former characteristics and disposition, the individual will become to be a new creature. That is what the religions call Religion. Aren't you glad? When you are changed characteristically, dispositionally, when you are changed naturely, when you have become to be a different creature in expression, you become to be a new creature in reality, for it is not the person of itself that changes, it is the spirit, the mind and the characteristics.
I cannot stress a point too vividly when it is called to mind, for there are thousands at all times under the sound of MY voice and in the connection who desire to receive the message. I must stress it continually until they get it!
"Why is it FATHER speaks so much on one line?" That may be a question in some individual's mind, in other words, it may have been. I have answered that question by just what I said then; not only so, but if you stop to consider as it has been declared concerning this message, the reiteration of anything will cause you to commit such an expression to memory, and when it is committed to memory and you can establish it once and forever in your consciousness, then and there, you can forget about it.
Since I have established MY Name so vividly in the consciousness of millions, by the constant reiteration of these, MY true and faithful followers, it is so vividly and so distinctly established, it is a matter of impossibility for the Name to be forgotten. It has been established, no longer merely as a Name, but the very expression of the fame is a living reality, and mankind can feel the sense of the Presence of it when you speak of ME. Aren't you glad?
This is one of the great issues of life! But if you desire to produce any desirable expression and cause it to become to be a living reality, continue to reiterate and iterate it, and reiterate it until it becomes to be perfect—until you can commit it to memory—and when it has been committed to memory once and forever, it can never be forgotten! The undesirable has been iterated and reiterated, rehearsed and rehearsed over and over again, until the undesirable has become to be a universal standard of expression for the mortal minded children of men; but we shall continue to iterate and reiterate and stress these things in the minds of the children of men, until it becomes to be a part of them.
Then I say when I continue to stress apparently one subject so vividly, I AM doing it for the purpose of others getting it and for the purpose of it getting established in the memory of those with whom I AM in touch. If it is good for you, it is good for them ... As I often say, if there be a questioning concerning this Work and Mission, whether it is worth considering, I would ask MY questioners to visualize such an expression just once, and observe the mystery.
Oh, it is a privilege to observe it. When you retrace your thoughts back, if you could as I can, as it was with Jesus as a person, as a Babe of Bethlehem, observe the mystery of what He said:
"The birds of the air have nests, and the foxes have holes, but the son of man has not a place to lay his head."
If you could retrace your thoughts back to such an expression and measure yourself individually and personally with such a measure as I can, then you could observe the mystery of the Glory of GOD, of these limitless blessings which I have produced and AM manifesting for you all. Those of you who have always lived in splendor, you may not consider this much to be considered. Those of you who have always had a full and a plenty, you may not consider this much of a demonstration. But if I can only get you to observe the place where I can observe MYSELF, as if though I have been as the birds ... not as a bird in the nest, nor a hole to dwell in—then to behold the advancement of the increased unfoldment of the limitless blessings, such as we are now enjoying, it would be convincing to ME, apparently, even though I had not experienced it.
Oh, it is a privilege to observe what GOD has done! If it were only for the unfoldment of the limitless blessings, such as we are now enjoying, I say it is something to consider; for I might retrace MY thoughts back for you to the days when others among you—if you always had a full and a plenty— to the time and the place when others' food and their comforts and their conveniences were limited: when they did not have means to pay their expenses—if you did, someone else did not. If such, for a consideration, could be brought to your memory, apparently, it would be convincing to any individual. If it were only for the food and the raiments and the comforts and conveniences, just such as we have here daily, as this is a daily occurrence, it would be enough in MY consideration, for any person to be convinced.
Oh, it is a privilege to observe the mystery and see what GOI} is doing for you. If it were only to observe the great unfoldment of this glorious audience and observe it as a practical course in psychology and consider the mystery of visualization, I think I would take a course, if I were in lacks wants and limitations ... The course in practical psychology—the psychology of supply—would not be very expensive; all it will cost any individual is to enter this dining room and pay prayerful attention, and be open-minded, they may catch the contagion. Oh, it is a privilege to observe it. The original composition is fulfilled:
"The abundance of the fullness of the consciousness of good, no space is vacant of the fullness thereof."
Can you not see the fullness, the abundance of the fullness from every angle expressible? In each and every corner you can see the fullness. Through visualization in the practical course of supply—psychology, you will see the abundance in evidence wheresoever I AM. Is not this worth considering?
Through MY condescension I have allowed MY Spirit and MY Mind to reach all mankind in among those who are least in the sight of GOD, as being termed great in the world of men, for what said the scripture concerning the mystery?
"The least among you, the same shall be great."
Therefore, those who are great in the sight of men, they are least in the sight of GOD. Aren't you glad? This, in MY consideration, was not to come to those as functioning among men in the lofty and highly exalted places, they are most insignificant in MY consideration.
These Words will also be recorded and read hereafter. Aren't you glad? All of MY Words are according to the Gospel and every true and faithful Christian or religious follower of any religion who is devout, is an endorser. They all will endorse MY sayings, for I speak from the hearts and the lives of the children of men; therefore, the spirit of sincerity in them will be obliged to continue to verify MY sayings. Aren't you glad?
How marvelous it is to live in the Actual Presence of GOD. You all know you enjoy MY Presence. To get you to know you are in the Presence of GOD, it causes the sacrifice of the Body of GOD; but I meant to bring this conscious conviction and realization to millions, that those who were under-privileged, might be lifted and have their real emancipation that they might enjoy the actual Kingdom of Heaven. Aren't you glad?
It is a privilege to observe the mystery, as I said in that Message you heard read,
"And of his kingdom and of his increase, there shall be no end."
Why is it men are limited, and why is it their possessions diminish? It is because they are not representing the unadulterated Kingdom. When you have the Kingdom of GOD within you and in and under your dominion, "of your kingdom ,and of your increase," apparently, "there will be no end." It will not be yours, but still they will say it is yours. They say all of this property and everything else—say it all belongs to ME. It is not MINE as a Person, but because I AM representing the unadulterated Kingdom, because Christ has in Himself brought the Kingdom to the earth, all things under His jurisdiction and in His connections are under His domain, under His reign; and since they are all under His reign:
"Wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is."
Aren't you glad? GOD reigns on the throne of the minds of the children of men. Can you not see the mystery ? Was not that the prayer Jesus prayed—in other words, taught you to pray?
"Let thy kingdom come, and thy will be done."
When your prayers are sincere and your desires the same, if your requests are according to that prayer, commonly known as The Lord's Prayer, your desires and your prayers, which are the same, will be heard and answered, and when they are heard and answered, the Kingdom will be in you and in your affairs. And when the Kingdom comes in you and in your affairs, of GOD's Kingdom in you and in your affairs, there shall be no end, for GOD's Kingdom is under, your jurisdiction—in short—that which is termed yours. That which is termed your home, or whatsoever it is, that which is termed your business, your profession, your trade, or whatsoever it is, when GOD rules supremely on the throne of your mind, there and then the Kingdom has come, and of that Kingdom under His jurisdiction and of the increase, there shall be no end.
It is just as much a matter of impossibility for the apparent diminishing of this, MY expression to be, as it is for the sun to stop shining. It is a matter of impossibility for the blessings that I AM producing and manifesting, as being termed MINE, to diminish, for this is GOD's Kingdom. Aren't you glad?
If this little planet earth on which you live was to diminish and disappear completely, MY Words that I have spoken and AM speaking would stand firm forever. Aren't you glad? There are not enough powers on earth to hinder. All of the armies and the navies and all of the governments combined cannot prohibit MY access. There are not enough governments in the civilized world to prohibit MY Mission and MY activities and the advancement and the increasment of MY Kingdom. Aren't you glad?
"And of his kingdom, and of his increase, there shall be no end."
Stamp these thoughts down in your memory and allow Christ to come on the throne of your mind. When this is done the Kingdom in you has truly come for all things that were called yours, called your own, will be brought into subjection to HIM and will be GOD's Kingdom, where GOD alone shall reign; and of such an unfoldment and of such a Kingdom there shall be no end, for GOD, HIMSELF, alone, reign Aren't you glad? GOD reigns here!
"And of his kingdom, and of his increase, there shall be no end."
What said the Scripture concerning the mystery?
"Michael, the Archangel shall rise up in the defense of his people."
Oh, it is a privilege to observe it and to see the unfoldment of it. While it is expressed and openly manifested I AM still revealing it to others to whom it had not been revealed. Why is it? It is also in the promise:
"Of his kingdom and of his increase there shall be no end."
The increasement and multiplication of the outward expression of the Kingdom by the outward appearance of the increase in numbers of the masses coming, and of the increase of His Kingdom is in evidence and all will eventually understand it.
I have not stressed the Kingdom from a Personal point of view. I have stressed the Kingdom impersonally, even as GOD is Impersonal. I stress from that angle of expression that I might set before you an open door, that you and others might come in and enjoy the blessings. Truly might have one said,
"Behold, I set before you an open door."
I have not closed this door of prosperity to MYSELF, or to you, whichever. I have not closed this door behind ME. I have thrown open the door, as was given in the records in Congress the other day. They declared I wrote to the President of the United States of America and also to the Pope of Rome, and told them:
". .. even as I AM, I would that you might be, for I AM Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind, and in every organ, muscle, sinew, joint, limb, vein and bone and in every atom, fibre and cell of MY Bodily Form."
I throw the door open for them that they might be as healthy and as happy as I AM. I have declared in the Apostles' Creed, when you say and when you sing:
"I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into the `other place'; the third day He arose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence" (or from whence, which is the same—right from thence—) "He shall come to judge the quick and the dead."
And I had declared when an officer is sworn into office by the Bible, just an ordinary judge— a judge—a justice of the peace, Christ should rule on the throne of his mind. I have told them to be the Christ as well as I.
I set before them an open door that they might be even as I AM, and allow Christ to rule on the throne of their minds in their business, profession and in all their mission, and in all of their dealings allow Christ to rule on the throne of their minds, then and there the Kingdom has come. If GOD rules on the throne of the mind of the President unadulteratedly, then and there this country—if all of the other officials and all of the other executives will do accordingly—will be the real Kingdom of the Almighty.
"Behold, I set before you an open door," that everybody may partake of this, if they wish to. That is their privilege. I AM in no way jealous as far as that is concerned. I AM jealous of you, if you do not partake of the nature and the characteristics of the Christ and live and do thus accordingly. Aren't you glad? By this we can see we shall have a Righteous Government, and the very Christ Himself from the various angles of expression shall have all dominion in every expression, in and on and through and by the minds of the children of men. When Christ rules on the thrones of the minds of them, there and then He will be in a coroner, and physically judge the dead, as said the scripture, the Apostles' Creed, to verify that of which I have said,
"From thence, he shall come and judge the quick and the dead."
Aren't you glad to observe the Throne of G0D in reality being established, and the Kingdom having come and the Will being done on earth as it was in heaven? By this all of the nations of the earth collectively and universally will enjoy GOD'S Actual Presence when all of the other powers that be in opposition shall be brought into subjection to this great Fundamental.
How marvelous it is then to stand and withstand, and know definitely, with or without a person, the Words which I have spoken, they are Spirit and they are Life, and they sha11 be universally established throughout all of the civilized world just as they are among you here wheresoever I AM Personally. I thank you.
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