Circle Mission Church Annex
'A City that is set on an hill cannot be hid!'
This is indeed a true saying, for the Great and Mighty Works of FATHER DIVINE, GOD Almighty, are going forth conquering and to conquer, for all the criticism, accusations, slanderous remarks and lawsuits have all proven to be blessings in disguise, for they have publicized the Holy Name of FATHER IVINE in every hamlet, town and village, thus causing millions to know of His Tabernacling on the earth plane to emancipate them from the hedges and the highways of materialism where they have been mentally, socially, politically, spiritually, financially and religiously halt, maimed, lame and blind, to this CHRIST Consciousness of Righteousness, Truth and Justice.
Thus millions are being emancipated daily, and are finding solace in His Counsel, for HE alone comprehends with all saints, as HE knows the secrets of every heart. Though, at times, many come to the different meetings, and try to convey the thought that GOD is up in the sky, once they hear the profound Works of FATHER DIVINE, HE confounds their minds; thus, "many who come to scoff, remain to pray."
Omnipotent Savior we humbly thank Thee!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following are FATHER'S Words verbatim.)
PEACE EVERYONE! Just a little while ago, when the speaker was testifying over here at My right and mentioned what you would not do, and what you would do concerning cosmetics, I thought what one said concerning My followers some time ago. Of course that person has gone on since that time, but they said that My Teaching in New York City had eliminated about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars yearly from the world of cosmetics, and I thought how marvelous it is when the critics could say it there in New York City in reference to one article, I might term it to be one issue, cosmetics; and I said then, My followers do not spend their money on those things, but they spend their moneys for houses and land, automobiles and airplanes, for food and raiments that are necessary, and for the necessary comforts and conveniences, otherwise, to keep them healthy spiritually and lively.
So it is a wonderful thought to realize what GOD has actually done and what GOD is presently doing in the act of bringing about a Righteous Government and establishing the spirit of equilibrium in the hearts and in the minds of the people to show them how to live, what to live for, how to be economical and how to be industrious, how to be faithful, and how to be true, and to be absolutely independent wheresoever you go. Not a true follower of Mine would take up a collection for the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST. Jesus said,
'Go without price (or without purse) and without scrip and take nothing for your journey.'
So it is a privilege to live in such a recognition and build upon such a foundation as this one where you can compete with every issue of life that is legitimate, evangelical, modest, moral and respectable, where you can lift up a standard second to none; but the Highway that I have thrown up in the wilderness, none but the redeemed can walk therein! That is what it is all about!
So then the speaker mentioned that, of course, I do not have time to preach of these different habits and customs, forms and fashions; but the preaching of the CHRIST effectively will adjust matters satisfactorily when the people are truly converted and born out of that Adamic state of consciousness, as the speaker said down there.
You will be a new creature and you will put off the old man completely and put on the new man CHRIST JESUS, even though you have been subject to vanity unwillingly; you are changed from nature to grace! You are made new creatures! You are changed from your preconceived ideas and opinions and you will walk in the newness of life with CHRIST!
It is a privilege to live in this recognition! I do not tell the people, "Do not steal!" Even the Ten Commandments: I need not especially relate them commandment by commandment as a demand upon the people, since GOD has a way supernaturally to reach the masses and bring them into subjection. The Epistle of the Apostle has the record of the Spirit as it was given,
'Behold we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn the whole body about.'
Not a true follower of Mine would smoke a cigarette! Not a true follower of Mine would drink intoxicating liquors, and I do not have to tell them not to do it. And not a true follower of Mine would commit adultery, married or single! Not a true follower of Mine would hide behind legality, the law of matrimony, to commit adultery. That is what I AM talking about! They would live soberly, modest, and express morality and demonstrate the Virginity of Mary and the Holiness of Jesus, married or single. Aren't you glad?
Truly might have John seen, and said, as he looked:
'And lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with Him was an hundred and forty and four thousand having their Father's Name written in their foreheads.'
I AM talking about Holiness now! I AM talking about how you are Holy by living soberly from sex and human affection, from lust and passion with or without legality; live and express it accurately, and then you are expressing your Savior!
'Lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with Him was an hundred and forty and four thousand that follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.'
You see the Mystery? You do not believe Jesus did those things, do you, even if you do not know Who I AM? But I heard you say by inspiration as a compositionic message as a declaration,
'If I follow Jesus, am I right?'
I heard you say it and I heard you sing it. If you follow Jesus, you are right; if you live the Life of CHRIST. That is what I told you to do.
I AM not bothering about anybody else, regardless to what you may think about any person or persons; if you are one in that number that "I John saw", that number that was with the Lamb, in other words, on the mountain with the Lamb of GOD, that one who was with Him mentally and spiritually and characteristically; that one who was with Him dispositionally and followed Him according to the Teaching of the Christian religion, why then you need not bother about what people say. You need not worry about what people say about you. You need not worry about what people say about anybody else, and you need not care what people say or do so long as you know you are following the Lamb whithersoever He goeth; for in that number John saw, of which I AM now speaking, "these are they that were not defiled with women, for they are virgins; these are redeemed from among men," and I have often illustrated it and depicted it. Those who are redeemed from among men, as women, they follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, and these are they which are not defiled with women; as men, they follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, for they are virgins.
Then I say, it is a privilege to observe the Mystery, to see how you take on the Nature and the characteristics of Jesus by living soberly, righteously and Godly, and by following your Savior implicitly and sincerely.
Oh, how glorious it is to live in such a recognition and to have a clear conscience as the speaker said down there, "to be free from sin!" That is all right! Just live free from doing wrong! Free from that Adamic state of consciousness and free from the nature and the characteristics and the disposition of Adam, but let the Mind of CHRIST JESUS be within you and be governed by His Spirit and kept by His Power! That is what I AM talking about!
And those who followed the Lamb that way, they have the Nature of CHRIST. Follow the Lamb on the Mount Zion! As I have often said, it does not merely mean, follow ME Personally from place to place especially; unless you follow ME mentally and spiritually, you are not truthfully with ME. But if you follow the Lamb mentally and spiritually, and characteristically and dispositionally and naturely, you are with ME now, henceforth and forever, for My Spirit will be your spirit and My Mind will be your mind!
Oh, how glorious it is to live in such a recognition, to build upon such a foundation as this one that cannot be shaken! Then you know definitely, you are in that number who have the real spirit and the virginity of Mary and the Holiness of Jesus. That is the reason a good many of the people, when they get I mean, get truly sanctified; I mean really sanctified sure enough, men and women don't want them, lots of times, because they can't use them like they have been using them.
'Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Living God? and God has said, I will walk in them and dwell in them!'
When this is done, you are living Epistles seen and read by men. They know you when you live it and express it. In your mouth is found no guile. In your actuated words of expression, you are not polluted with the custom and system of beguileation, trying to beguile a man and trying to deceive a woman trying to deceive and beguile each other. Your actions will no longer do it; as the speaker here said, you will try to do and be and act as GOD would have you, and show others just what you are by not trying to disfigure yourself to make yourself look like what you are not. But I need not say a word about it, especially. I know if you get ME effectively, it will work automatically and My Spirit will adjust matters satisfactorily, and I need not Personally tell you. That is what GOD will do for you.
Jesus prayed in the seventeenth chapter of Saint John and I speak this point for the consideration of the true Christian, and especially to those of you who are sanctified and know the Truth. He said,
'I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.'
The people were not kept from those things in Jesus, a good many of them; but in the FATHER, from those things I have kept them! They do not even have a desire to live like they once lived. That appetite is taken away; for truly did He say through the mouth of the Apostle in one of the Epistle-ic predictions concerning the mystery:
'Abstain from all appearance of evil, and the very God of Heaven sanctify you wholly.'
By abstaining from those things continually, eventually you will be purged from the appetite and the tendency of your prenataled influence and those things that were handed down hereditively, that lurked within you until now. But when you fast from those preconceived tendencies and pleasures you will eventually get rid of them, for such kind will come out with fasting and with prayer.
I need not say more. I believe I have said enough to stir up your pure minds as an endorsement of the words of the two last speakers concerning the sanitary system as pertaining somewhat to the Teaching of GOD through Moses in the Leviticals. Aren't you glad?
Cleanse yourself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit; but I need not Personally tell you to do it. My Spirit will do it, and will cause to do it, and you will automatically do it by My Spirit. All you have to do is to love GOD, and love GOD aright, and you give GOD all of your love, all of your mind and all of your attention, all of your ideas and all of your opinions; have them all concentrated on the Fundamental, why, naturally the problems will be solved automatically for you, and you need not worry, for GOD Himself through His Spirit, will do it. That is the Mystery!
So live it and express it if you wish to, for Love if the fulfilling and the fulfillment of the Law, as was said by the Word of GOD. Truly might have Jesus said:
'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God will all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the first and the great commandment, and the second is like unto it; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.'
You can see definitely, the Mystery is fulfilled for you.
GOD has solved the problem when you love GOD whole-heartedly. Now some will use that phrase, impostically, as imposters will use that word, "Love is the fulfillment of the law"; and a good many of them are talking about, just saying you love, calling human affection, human tendencies and pleasures and selfishness, love. But the Love of GOD will change you, the same as one would be changed from one thing to the other. Definitely you will be changed completely if you love GOD whole-heartedly.
The things to used to love, you will not love, and the things you used to do, you will not do any more. That is what I AM talking about! I do not mean for you to jump up and say, "Well, God is the fulfillment of the law; all you have to do is love", and just go around and do everything you want to do drink liquor and tell lies, and do everything you want to do. If you get the right love, if you get the Love of GOD sure enough, you will not have to do those things. You will not have the desire to do it!
All your anxiety, all of your tendencies, fancies and pleasures for those things will leave you, and you will be a New Creature in reality, and will no longer express affection from a human point of view, but you will love GOD whole-heartedly, and your love will be true. That is what I AM talking about, so take these thoughts to consideration.
A tree is told by the fruit it bears. Real Love and undefiled Love would not be for the appeasing of your human affection, lust and passion, human tendencies, fancies and pleasures; but it would be for you to deny yourself of such tendencies completely, and you would be going in a different direction altogether. That is the way all the true and the faithful go and the way those who love ME, do. That is what I AM talking about!
But some will run along with you and try to pick up some words I say, at times, to appease themselves and justify the situation through self-indulgence, mortal tendencies, fancies and pleasures, and think GOD will justify them. I say nay!
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition where GOD is no longer a stranger and no longer a supposition, but the conscious recognition and the realization of millions, where HE has been actually established in the hearts and in the minds of the people.
Now whatsoever you believe Mary did before Jesus was born, that is the way CHRIST will rise in your soul, just the way He was conceived in her womb. You must have that kind of Mind, that kind of a Nature and Characteristics she had before Jesus was born, as women. And as men, according to the fourteenth chapter of Revelation,
'Be not defiled with women!'
Have the same Nature and Characteristics Jesus had before the Crucifixion. Live it and express it accurately; then transcend that degree of expression and get on this side of the Cross where CHRIST is Life, where CHRIST ascended to Heaven! I thank you!
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