On this supreme Resurrection Day, as we were assembled together around the Holy Banquet Table of the LORD, great was the blessing in storehouse for us, for our FATHER rose to His feet and delivered a Mighty, Magnanimous Message of Truth that rent the veil of darkness forever in twain, and caused the Light of GOD'S Omniscience to shine brighter than ever o'er all this earth.
Truly, HE is that blessed Light to all who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death; HE guides our feet into the way of PEACE; and so precious ought HE to be in our sight that nothing but His Will and His Good Pleasure would be our eternal aim and purpose for His Love and Unbounded Goodness to us all.
Let us, in our deeds and actions, give thanks and give praise for His wonderful Condescension in blessing us with such infinite Pearls of Wisdom, as have never before been given to mankind. Everlasting FATHER, we thank YOU!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! ("Peace, FATHER Dear!" echoed the great gathering.) Here we all are again, and yet it is this very same time; the same today, yesterday and forever, as GOD never changes!
I have arisen to say, it is a glorious privilege to realize your GOD wheresoever you are. When you are saved and saved indeed, and saved to the uttermost, why, death and nothing else has a dread for you. How glorious it is to realize, if you know your GOD you can relax whole-heartedly regardless to the consequences, regardless to the circumstances. You can rely on the Fundamental, the hope of your redemption, with or without the sense of feelings, with or without the sense of hearing, with or without the sense of knowing; for the Spirit is Perfection in every direction, and wheresoever you may be, if GOD is with you, you are abundantly blessed.
Until your faith and your life shall have been tried, until you shall have been tried to the very limit, yea, to the fullest degree, and still stand firm, substantiated in faith and unshaken in confidence, your faith is not complete in ME. You cannot say in reality, "I am in perfect harmony with HIM." Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness! Whilst not any of these things you should fear; for if GOD is for you, GOD in you will give victory, give power and will give access to go on, even though all earth oppose.
Then I say, it is a marvelous privilege to live where GOD is! Live in the actual Presence of GOD and let GOD live actively with you. Allow GOD to be on active duty and at home with you at all times. That is My Mission to the earth plane, to co-operate and work with mankind. Build upon this foundation! You will not have an occasion to fret nor worry. For Greater is HE that is within you than all powers or expressions that can be against you, realizing once and forever, as I said the other day, if you have faith, OK. If you do not have faith, just say it is OK and let it be OK. Faith without works is dead, being alone; nevertheless, if you do not have faith, have a body! And present your bodies as living sacrifices! That is the requirement, that you might represent that something that has victory. By you representing it, you will get it.
I thought how I would go from place to place years ago when I used to drive My own car. I drove all over the country. I would not carry a spare; I would not lock My car. I do not lock My cars, in other words, those that are called My cars. Those who entrust them to ME, they must trust ME, even as I trust My Spirit, for I do not lock them.
What I AM going to say is this: there would be those who would come to ME from time to time and say: "Aren't you afraid someone would steal that car or steal something out of the car?" I would say from time to time: "If they can and if they do, I AM willing to sacrifice it for righteousness' sake." This does not speak as if though I were expressing so much faith! Whether I express faith or express not faith; in other words, whether I do express faith, or do not express faith, the sacrifice MUST BE MADE! You must be substantiated in confidence in your GOD! If you do not have faith sufficient, you must be substantiated in confidence and unshaken in it to know GOD will take care of the situation; for Job did not say HE would not slay him. Job did not say he had so much faith he knew he would not be slain. But what said he concerning the mystery?
'Even though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.'
This is the place in consciousness where you should be. As I have often said,
'Faith or no faith, I will do what I have endeavored to do! Body or no Body, I shall do it!'
So there is the place in consciousness where you should be. Be substantiated
in confidence and unshaken in it, and know that which is just and right and good;
if you fail as person, you cannot fail as a Spirit. Take these thoughts to consideration.
Whilst you are building, build upon a foundation that cannot be shaken, for you
go beyond the barriers of limitations. Your thoughts, your mind should go into
infinitude; you cannot vision the things that you desire, for faith is blind
itself! Even if you have faith, faith is blind, faith cannot see. Faith is all
right in its place, but whether you have faith or do not have any faith, be substantiated
in your resolve, be unshaken in your confidence, yea, confidence in your GOD.
If you do, GOD will be with you and cause you to do just what you desire to do.
If I can lose, then let ME lose; but I will lose for righteousness' sake. I mean
to say; that is what I used to say!
When you leave your home in the care and keeping of Divine Providence, and can have substantiated confidence to know GOD will take care of the situation, if the Spirit, GOD, desires that home to be destroyed, rejoice in the destruction of such, rejoice and be exceedingly glad, do not be sad! It is indeed wonderful! Faith is the victory that overcometh, said one; nevertheless, you may not call it faith if you are willing to die for that for which you stand, or you may not call it faith to say, "Well, if I can die" that would be an assertion as if though you were somewhat doubtful. Naturally, it would not be substantiated faith such as you should have; but if you do not have faith, why, just trust your GOD! That is the thought of it. Faith is a great thing, but faith is blind, it does not know. It does not understand. You cannot see, you are in the dark by faith; for faith is the substance of the things to hope for; nevertheless, the thing to hope for, it is the evidence of things not seen. You cannot see that which really is by faith, for you do not run by sight but you run by faith.
Faith is at the place in consciousness in some individual where it must come to its
destination that hope might come forth into expression according to the vision of John Bunyan. When Faith was burnt, from Faith's ashes came forth Hope, and Hope was the real, it typified the inner, and faith at one time typified the outer, but you hold hope within. And as Pilgrim Traveler from the city of destruction to the Celestial City, Faith in Christian carried the roll in his bosom. Hope, that was brought forth into expression after Faith had been consumed; for faith was not perfection, it was the evidence if things you hope for, it was the evidence of things not seen.
But it is a privilege to come to this place in consciousness where you will transcend the mere borders of faith. You will go on to perfection, into a place where you can relax your conscious mentality completely and rely on the Fundamental, by seeing and knowing your GOD! You have faith until the knowledge of the Truth shall have come. When you know anything, you do not merely have to have faith in it to believe; in other words, to believe in anything that your faith might come forth into expression. But as faith is the foundation of your Redemption, you build upon faith and you come through faith until you get to that place in consciousness where you can see things as they are, and no longer have merely the evidence of things not seen.
Build upon this foundation, and faith in you will go on to perfection. As with an egg, so with you in your faith. To produce and bring to fruition the fruit of such eggs, eggs must be changed to chickens. When they are changed from eggs to chickens, they are no longer eggs. But it was essential to have eggs to get chickens, very much essential; for without an egg there could be no chicken. But with the eggs you can get the chickens, and when you get the chickens, you do not need the egg to get the chickens unless you want some more chickens. If you want some more chickens, you need more eggs, and they should be real, fertile eggs. Faith without works is dead, being alone. Eggs without the fertility of the egg are dead, being alone. The fertility of the egg must be there to cause the egg to germinate and to be developed from an egg to a chick. When this is done, the egg is no longer an egg but a chicken.
Faith is a great thing. It is good to have it, but let us go on to perfection, and after having gone on to perfection and having been developed and formed, let us go on and be brought to fruition in our hearts and in our minds, that we may not lean on the works of repentance, on the foundation of faith; but that we might continue to go on from one degree of grace to another, until we shall have developed and brought to fruition perfection, that others might copy after the fashion and come on in the way we are going.
Then I say, faith is a great thing in its place, but I AM lifting you above that limited degree of faith, that you might attain a degree in consciousness where you can have HOPE, the evidence of things that are not seen! But why should you hope for anything when you have it? I shall bring into expression that even a hoping state of consciousness will no longer be, for why should you hope for things when you have those things? You shall go on to perfection! When perfection shall have been attained, you will be in the glorious place where CHRIST said, through the mouth of the Apostle
'leaving the principles of the doctrine of CHRIST behind and go on to perfection, no longer leaning on the works of repentance";
for those things are for those who have not the reality of that which is greater,
that which is better than that of faith.
Perfection must be developed in and through by faith, it is true. But you must remember, your faith cannot be developed into perfection unless it has the fertility of its Life-Giver in it, that it might be quickened and germinate, and be brought to fruition; that you might no longer lean on the works of repentance, and on the foundation of faith, but that you might go on to perfection producing fruit that is meet for the Master's use.
It's a glorious place to be! It is immaterial to ME whether I have faith or not. Aren't you glad? Perfection is the thing now you should attain, and should bring perfection to fruition, the HOPE of the thing. Aren't you glad?
Build upon this foundation so that you cannot be shaken, and continue then to go on, on and on to perfection; for GOD is Infinite by Nature, without a beginning and without an ending. Those who are partakers of GOD'S Nature, they will walk in His Footsteps and Characteristics, and will express in His Expression, in His Words, in His Deeds and in His Actions; for the tree is told by the fruit it bears. Therefore, they will express and will reflect GOD'S Characteristics, if they are true followers of the Savior, going on to perfection; and when oppositions arise continually, knowing once and forever, if you are with the Infinite, you have victory over every difficulty, over all oppositions, for GOD by Nature is victorious.
It is immaterial to ME whether you call it faith or no faith, that which I have declared, I shall perform! It is immaterial to ME whether faith is under consideration, for that which I know, I need not have faith to know. Aren't you glad?
Then I say: go on to perfection, leaving the principles of the doctrine of CHRIST behind. When this is accomplished, then you will be able to revel into the glorious liberty of the Sons of GOD, having Victory over all things wheresoever you are.
Just to think along this line harmoniously, you get a foretaste of My Glory! Whether it is faith or no faith, it is immaterial to ME, as I say; you get a foretaste of My Glory! It is Glorious! It is Joyous! It is Pleasant! It is Soothing! It is Satisfying! It is heart-inspiring and mind-instructive; it is instructing your mind with information; it is causing you to be governed by your highest intuition. Your Intutor will teach you intuitively and tell you what you should do and show the way you should go.
Aren't you afraid someone will break in your home, or aren't you afraid someone will steal your property? Aren't you afraid someone will destroy your property? You must be willing to make a sacrifice of every visible substance of expression of life and recognize the Ever-presence of the CHRIST. You need not say GOD will not allow it to be, unless you wish to. You need not try to prohibit it; let what will, come or go; allow it to come or go. But if you have substantiated confidence or are unshaken in it; that which is coming forth into expression will not disturb you, for greater is HE within you than all things that could be against you.
And again, what I have said through the inspirationic Epistle:
'All things work together for good to those that love God.'
All things work together for good to them that love the LORD. Those of you who
love your GOD: oppositions, trials and tribulations, accusations, criticisms
and condemnation it matters not what manner of expression may be or come forth
into expression, they all will work for your good if you love your GOD!
Build upon this foundation, and you will see in reality, every failure will help you some victory to win. You will glory in failures as much as you will in a success or victory. You will glory in each and all expressions equivalently the same the mystery of GOD among you, yea, that is the mystery of GOD in man. What said the inspirationic Epistle concerning the mystery?
'Glory in tribulation; knowing this, that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience'
it did not say experience faith, but experience hope
'and hope maketh not ashamed.'
I AM carrying you on to perfection! Aren't you glad?
In this experience you are gaining hope and faith is waning; for it is not necessary to be put forth into expression when hope is in evidence and you are substantiated in it. You will glory in tribulation. You will not say tribulations will not nor cannot come especially; you may have faith at times that such things cannot come; they cannot come if you have faith that they cannot come. But greater and better will it be when you can rejoice in them and say when they do come, let hem come and let them go if they please. If they can come, whatsoever will, or whatsoever may, it is immaterial to ME, for GOD is victorious and is all power, and is the Master of circumstances and conditions, or else GOD, HIMSELF, should be a failure. Aren't you glad?
Do you have faith? Have faith it is OK. But faith must hatch out hope, that hope will not make ashamed. I said,
'Have faith; it is OK, but faith must hatch out hope, that hope will not make ashamed.'
For the Love of GOD will be shed abroad in your heart. Aren't you glad?
Build upon this foundation! Be not dismayed, whatever betide. Do not merely think or have faith that GOD will take care of you, but you hear ME stress positive words continually, knowing that GOD will take care of you. Knowing and knowledge surpasses faith. Faith is the hope of something. It is a sense of a belief that it may be, but knowing is the substance of that which was to be; for it is, and it is real to thee. Aren't you glad?
Then I say, rejoice and glory in tribulations; glory in all oppositions that may arise and have arisen, knowing this, that those oppositions will carry you on to perfection if you will let them. Why should you try to shun oppositions, conflicts and conflictions? For all oppositions and adverse and undesirable conditions are but expressions to help you on to perfection, that you might develop and bring perfection to fruition over oppositions. There and then, you are telling the people by such and by so doing, lo! I AM with you!
I say, glory in tribulations. knowing this, that tribulation worketh patience. Every opposition and every criticism, every accusation and if there could be condemnation, glory more in such expressions than you would in the positive. Glory in them to see your GOD bring you out of them. Aren't you glad? That is the way you know GOD by rising above all oppositions, and having plenty of them. Aren't you glad? I have not done anything yet to what I will do. I may bring more oppositions for you. If tribulations worketh patience, why not get them? I said: if tribulations worketh patience, why not get them?
I said: glory in tribulations! I do not have the faith that tribulations worketh patience, but I said: knowing this, that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience and experience hope. I did not say a thing about faith; I had gotten away from faith. Aren't you glad? Then I say, continue to glory in them; for if you actually glory in them, you delight in them, you are glad to see them come so you can have a little fun! Aren't you glad?
Just as you see the emotionated expressions in My Gestures at times, I AM giving a knock-out blow; I AM giving a knock-out blow to the opposite minds that have arisen and are rising in opposition I AM giving a knock-out blow to them. There is nothing can stand against GOD. Just the Name of GOD with substantiated faith, or substantiated confidence behind it, is a strong tower. The Name of GOD is Omnipotent; it is all Power, you cannot hinder it, for it is Infinite!
Build upon this foundation! Realize once and forever; if there is any reality in the Universal Mind Substance, that which I have spoken into consideration, I stress again: glory in tribulation, for you will have victory over every difficulty, over all undesirable conditions if you will but glory in tribulations.
I need not say more at this time. I AM speaking in the hearts and minds of men. I shall continue to speak in them, but more so in deeds and in actions, for I AM transmitting My Spirit and they shall be the reincarnators of It, and they shall express It scientifically and accurately even as I express it, and prove to the world conclusively once and forever, I AM OMNIPOTENT.
Upon this foundation, if you stand, and even if you do not stand, it is immaterial to ME. The immateriality of the reality of GOD I bring, that you all might understand: all things to ME are immaterial, and I build upon this foundation that cannot be shaken. I can always glory in tribulations, for tribulations are My Makings! I thank you!
PEACE EVERYONE! ("Peace, FATHER Dear," responded the vast audience.) You all can see definitely, I thrive on oppositions, conflicts, trials and tribulations. There is where you will find your hotbed of praises. Aren't you glad? I need not say more. I have said enough to stir up your pure minds, and to stamp MYSELF on your minds once and forever. I AM that Something that is on your minds, and you just cannot get ME off. I will stay on your minds as a leech on the tree. The winds may blow and the storms may rise, but nothing, not anything can move ME. I AM closer to your minds than a leech on the tree. Aren't you glad? I AM not only on your minds as My immediate followers, but I have arisen on the minds of men universally. If they are with ME, or if they are against ME, it is immaterial to ME. I shall ride their minds! They just cannot get ME off! I shall fill all spaces though the spaces be many, and I shall be absent from none continually, for GOD is INFINITE. Aren't you glad? Upon this foundation if you will lean even if you do not stand, if you will lean I will give you victory over all adverse and undesirable conditions and I will fill you up with enthusiasm, and cause you to glory in tribulations, and then to be with ME now henceforth and forever! I thank you.
PEACE EVERYONE! ("Peace, FATHER Dear," again replied the assembly.) There is not any such thing as time in the great Universal Mind Substance, so long as you revel into the glorious liberty of the Infinite Sons of GOD; but that which is termed time according to the mortal version, seems to be quite well expired. I must say or do what you may desire to see ME do. I AM not going any place, for I AM Ever present, and I AM Omnipresent! Then, where can I go? You may think it queer and strange at times, but to whom shall you go? Where can you go that GOD is not? I will be THERE, HERE AND EVERYWHERE; therefore, you cannot go away from ME, and I AM not trying to go away from you.
I heard one say:
'Even though I take the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, Thou art there.'
This must have been a Psalmic, inspirationic prediction of this dispensation
in which we are now living, when men would take the mechanical wings of the morning
and soar through the ether, and go from one place or one country to the other
and find GOD with them, wheresoever they may go. This Psalmic, inspirationic
prediction, as though it was David, whilst just one person speaking, it was applicable
to each and all of the people; if not in that dispensation, it is in this one!
I thank you.
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