FATHER DIVINE
purchased the Porgies here
This beautiful Sermon, given from the Wellspring of Salvation, is indeed well worth considering, for herein FATHER, our Beloved Savior, reveals the Universality of His Infinite Love to the children of men. HE reveals the significance of His Uniting Mankind Together in an Inseparable Bond of the Unity of Spirit, Mind, Aim and Purpose of GOD Himself, and also how HE blesses one and all who believe sincerely and live this Teaching, to have all Success and all Prosperity, wheresoever they may be on this globe!
Read, therefore, these marvelous Words of Spirit and Life, and understand how you too may enter into this glorious Consciousness of GOD'S Actual and Ever Presence, and how through gaining this Recognition and Realization you have the Key to the Mystery of the Hidden Treasures of both the material and spiritual worlds of expression.
Almighty GOD, we thank THEE for Thy Bounteous Goodness!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is firstly recorded the inspirational song sung just before FATHER arose to speak.)
'See that we love YOU more, see that we love YOU more, See that we love YOU more and more, see that we love YOU more!'
(FATHER sweetly sings with us:)
'See that I love you more, see that I love you more, See that I love you more and more, see that I love you more!'
(FATHER then speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition just sung is well worth considering, for if you have put in that petition to see that I love you more, or see that you love ME more, it's marvelous to behold the reality of that which was once merely imaginary. Those who are living in that world of materiality, they cannot realize the significance and reality of true spirituality.
I was just thinking about what some have said, what would become of you and what would become of some? GOD'S Presence has been made Real, Tangible and Practical. GOD is Incorruptible, Undefiled and Fadeth not Away. If it would be possible for the Visible Expression of all My Creation to go into oblivion, the Spirit of My Presence and My Infinite Love universally would be just as Operative and just as Expressive! That's why you can rest in Peace and Blessed Assurance, knowing this that once you have been born into this Truth, you are no longer living in mortal consciousness; no longer observing things from a materialistic point of view, neither do you observe things from a national or national origin-al point of view, but you observe things as they are; so shall they be throughout eternity!
And when I have brought you into this At-one-ment by the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, it's a matter of impossibility for you to be divisible. The Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose has united you together so effectively it is a matter of impossibility to be severed! That is the mystery. For you are One Spirit, One Mind, One Aim and One Purpose Personified, yet Universalized! And therefore, when you realize the Truth, you do not think on terms of materialism, mortality, racism, or any such abomination, for GOD is a Living Reality! (Loud applause sanctioning this, rings out.)
That is why I spoke Scripturally so explicitly and said,
'Out of One Blood GOD formed all nations of men to dwell upon the face of the Whole Earth!'
Out of the One Blood! And to make it a little more explicit to My hearers, I
say, "Out of One Spirit I created All Creation!" and by the Spirit
in which I created you, I have brought you into that great At-one-ment so that
you might live in the Recognition and the Realization of GOD'S Actual Presence
when I AM Personally absent as when I AM Personally Present. And this is the
mystery! No man can tell you better, for the Spirit of the Consciousness of the
Presence of GOD is truly the Source of all Supply and it will, as it does and
eternally shall, satisfy every Good Desire!
My Adherents in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and in all of the South American countries, wheresoever they assemble together, believing sincerely, conscientiously and Evangelically, as I have brought you together here, you are living the Abundant Life I say, you, for you are they, and they are you! Jesus, the great Love Master, said:
'I pray that they may be One, even as we are One!'
We are happy to show and to assure you, you can be so United Together it will
be a matter of impossibility for you to be severed in life or in what man would
call death! GOD is the Same and just as Operative and just as Expressive! Therefore,
as you are conscious of My Presence and know I AM Everywhere, it is One Eternal
Merry Christmas and One Eternal Happy New Year! Knowing this, that GOD is Eternal,
Operative and Expressive, and GOD is the Same Today, Yesterday and Forever; therefore,
to those who may think anyone can be severed from the Truth I have given you,
it is as much Impossible for you to be severed from It as it is for you to be
severed from the Life you live! (Loud applause bursts forth.)
It is a privilege to know that you are shaped and fashioned and formed out of the Words I have Spoken. My Words are Spirit and they are Life! They are Incorruptible and Undefiled, and you have become to be the Reproduction and the Personification of that which I have Spoken! Aren't you glad? ("Oh, yes, so glad, LORD!" came the joyous exclamation.)
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a Conviction, where you are conscious of GOD'S Presence; and the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence is not a supposition. It is not something just imaginary! No longer a vision, no longer a dream; GOD is Real, REAL, REAL! Just as real, invisible, as anything you have seen; and just Real, visible, as anything you have seen or have not seen! GOD is the Same Invisible, as Visible, for in the beginning of the creation, according to the historians, G O D was invisible , d i d n o t have a Body. And yet, GOD FORMED BODIES OUT HIS SPOKEN WORD! After GOD had shaped and fashioned the first one, HE also formed another one, according to the historians; and GOD did not have a Body then! You do not know how GOD looked, as far as a Personality or the Personages are concerned! At that time GOD was not seen GOD was invisible but GOD was as Real as HE is Visible! GOD is the Same, Visible and Invisible, Tangible and Intangible, and just as Operative and just as Expressive. That is why we can speak Positive without fear of Contradiction! Then I say, by composition, as a Motto for your consideration an original Message I have given:
'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all Supply!'
Where they are conscious of My Presence visible or invisibly, tangible or intangibly,
GOD'S Presence will automatically satisfy every Good Desire! for the Spirit of
It as creative and as operative and as expressive, GOD is the Same Invisible
as Visible, as afore said, but to be conscious of GOD'S Presence, it makes the
Reality of GOD as Operative and Expressive as you are! GOD is as Real as you
are! Aren't you glad? ("So glad!" came the reply.)
Then I say, live in this Recognition, and where you are Conscious of My Presence individually, severally or collectively, nationally or internationally, or universally or infinitely, I AM making the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence a LIVING REALITY for your satisfaction in every manner, from every angle expressible, to every individual and to all humanity universally! (Loud applause resounds.)
My True Following know within themselves where I AM Personally absent I have the Abundance of the Fullness, even as where I AM Personally Present, for My Personal Presence is not doing anything! Can you not see the mystery? ("Yes, GOD Almighty!" declared the adoring Congregation.) But My Impersonal and Infinite Presence, with or without My Person, is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, and has the Omnilucence of all Creation! From an Intellectual point of view, from a Scientific point of view, GOD is the Expresser of His Own Omnilucence, and establishes your going, and goes before you with a Light HIMSELF that outshines the glittering sun! (Loud applause, sanctioning this, rings out.)
Now this is a wonderful Place in which to live, and I do not necessarily mean geographically, but it is a marvelous Place in which to live, in this State of Consciousness where GOD actually lives and GOD to you is actually REAL and you are conscious of GOD'S Actual Presence as HE was in the beginning of the Creation, according to the theories and doctrines of the religions, coming all the way down through the ages from and through Judaism by believing in GOD as Infinite and yet Supernatural, and yet Natural! GOD said, "Let dry land appear!" All who believe that GOD spoke into outer expression and into visibility the earth that was void and without form, you can speak in your own Conviction that GOD is Present EVER and through ETERNITY; can and will do the very Same Thing HE has already done! (Loud applause rings out.)
If you want, if you desire houses and lands, yachts and airplanes, and any monetary thing on the material plane, GOD'S Presence will bring it into Outer Expression just as you need it, and as you reckon His Presence and are Conscious of it! And when this is established within, it brings about that Infinite Love, that the Bible has long since spoken of. You know how you feel! It Unites you Together causes you to Love One Another and gives you that Foretaste of Glory Divine, in the which no other love or imagination has ever done. ("So true, LORD!" came the prompt sanction.)
So-called family love will have no longer an existence when you recognize the Presence of your GOD! (Loud applause rings out.) And with or without My Personal Appearance, I will be Operative and I will be Expressive in this Eternal Love, Once and Forever, for each of you one for the other and it will be a matter of impossibility to be severed, for you are not united together by mortality's version not by origin, by racial abstraction, or any such cursed abominations, but you are United Together by My Spirit and by My Mind and by My Love, which is Incorruptible and Undefiled; Something that fadeth not away! (Thunderous applause resounds.)
It matters not where you may think I may be Personally, or matters not where you may think I may go; I AM here throughout eternity to remain! (Thunderous applause and cheers burst forth.) And if I would happen to be absent from you today, or tomorrow, going to some other city or any other place, I AM just as Operative HERE as I AM THERE! just as Expressive, with the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good and no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!
Now isn't this a wonderful Place to be? To fix you up so you are the Same Today, Yesterday and Forever and you can always feel My Omnipotent and Omniscient Presence with all understanding, as afore said; Omniscient Presence to unfold the mystery of All Success and All Prosperity; and yet you may not understand it. You don't need to understand it! If you be Conscious of GOD'S Presence, you are blessed abundantly, once and forever and throughout Eternity, so long as you are Conscious of GOD'S Presence and live thus accordingly; for the very Presence of GOD is Operative and Expressive and Creative by Nature! Everything that is necessary, if it is not in evidence, GOD'S Presence will Create it! See the mystery? ("Yes, LORD!" came the reply.) Create islands in the mid-sea where there was none! Aren't you glad? ("Yes, so glad, GOD Almighty!" came the response.) "Yes, YOU are the Mystery Guy around here!" the man said. "Get fish and everything else YOU want where there is none!" That's all right! He said that because he thought it was true. I may have seemed a little mysterious then, but when he found out it was ME, he did not comment more than to say that. (Merry laughter resounds as FATHER sweetly joins in.)
That was out in Sayville, about thirty years ago, and I used to go down to the ship to get fish, at times, and get them off of the boat when they would bring them up. The fishers would come up with fish on the boatloads. We did call for some porgies, and he would say, "We did not get any today." He thought they did not. And I went down on the boat, while others were gathering up the fish, and got about twenty-five or thirty pounds a half basket; for the family at that time was not so large; and when he saw them, I brought them up to him (FATHER sweetly demonstrates bringing up the basket of fish) and handed him the basket to weigh the fish and he said, "Where did YOU get all these porgies from?" I said, "I got them off of the boat. There were PLENTY of them down there" words to that effect. "Oh!" he looked up and saw ME, and he said, "Oh, YOU are that Mystery Guy around here, Who gets everything YOU want where there is none!" (Thunderous applause and cheers resound.)
And as it was, so it is! You have seen fish on the Table today. They came for the comfort and convenience of you all, with the Abundance of the Fullness of all other delicious food. And we have Plenty of Comfort and Convenience, and we have Plenty of Warmth in the Home and Hotel and Dining Room so none need lack in GOD'S Abundance! And just as it is right here, so shall it be Universally, if you live the Life and take ME along with you and be the same at My Personal Absence as in My Personal Presence, ever recognizing the Ever and Omnipresence of GOD, and be at Peace with All Mankind! Cast out of your system, by casting out of your Consciousness, all preconceived prejudices, human tendencies, all envy, malice and strife, and all of those detestable tendencies; then I'll hear your simplest Prayer that you pray in My Name, in Jesus' Name, through which you came! I thank you!
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