The Mortal Mind Is Not Subject to the Law of God, Neither Indeed Can Be.
To Be Carnal Minded Is Death." -- FATHER DIVINE

Our FATHER'S Message at the Banquet Table 1887-89 Madison Avenue, New York City
Monday, January 30, 1939 A.D.F.D., Time -- 2:09 P.M.


 

FATHER DIVINE'S Madison Ave. Residence

PEACE EVERYONE! That little Message just read a few minutes ago is well worth considering, since it has been transcribed. When it is printed in The New Day, each and every individual should read it! Not only read it, but take cognizance of the whole Message, for it is well worth considering.

 

Now, by self-experience and by what a good many of you have experienced since being with ME, as I mentioned in the Message -- how those who are in the adamic state of consciousness, actually hate GOD! I said,

'I AM visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children from the third to the fourth generation of them that hate ME, and showing Mercy unto thousands of them that Love ME and keep My Commandments!'

If you live in the adamic state of consciousness, you will hate ME, and you know it is true! That old Adam mind in you actually hates ME, and you know it is true! Then, if it is in you, then that Adam mind is you and you are the personification of Adam, in the adamic state of consciousness! That is the mystery!

'In Adam all die, so shall in Jesus Christ, all be made alive.'

 

To Be Carnal Minded Is Death

In that adamic state of consciousness, you unconsciously and unwillingly hate ME, for it has long since been declared and I re-declare the same, such as has been declared:

"You are made subject to vanity unwillingly," and

'The law of Life in Christ Jesus has made Paul" said he, "free from the law of sin and death; but to be carnal minded is death; it is not subject to the Law of GOD, neither indeed can be.'


It just cannot be subject to the Law of GOD! Then when these children around grow up, unless they are Born Again, they actually hate ME, as soon as they begin to get womanhood and manhood in them. That is what I AM talking about!

You all have seen the way those who have grown up right in and around ME have been! Fed from My Hands for years and years, and I have not even spoken a rude word to them, and as soon as that manhood and that womanhood began to rise in them, they actually hated ME, and you know it is true! Oh, it is something to consider! But their hate is against themselves, for I AM

'visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children from the third to the fourth generation of them that hate ME.'


Can you not see the mystery?

They are made subject to vanity unwillingly! That is why CHRIST said in the Person of Jesus:

'Ye must be born again.'

Unless you are born out of that adamic state of consciousness, if you are an infant three years old, that seed of that adamic state of consciousness is as much against GOD, and hates GOD as much as a man ninety years old. The only difference, it has not its expression in the infant as it has in the old of a ripe old age. That is the only difference!

 

Hate Without A Cause

That is why you see ME as I AM, and see ME do as I do; because I know they hate ME and you all know there have been several brought up around the Kingdom, and as soon as they felt womanhood and manhood -- that adamic state of consciousness or nature -- rising in them, they actually hated ME without a cause! Without a cause! I, not even as much as having spoken a cross word to them all of the many years they were with ME; and yet, as soon as they began to feel that adamic state of consciousness and human nature rising in them, that adamic state of consciousness actually hated ME -- descended from Adam! Even until now, through all of the ancestry through which I came! That is what I AM talking about!

So then, you need not think that I think any of these so-called children that are being brought up even in the connection of the Kingdom (unless they are born again) will inherit the Kingdom; for they will be against ME, the same as Clarence and Geraldine and all of them! Every last one of them rose up with resentment and an actual, open expression of resentment and hate and a desire to murder; but naturally, Adam cannot do a thing!

They go out and tell all sorts of lies, trying to undermine GOD; but they cannot do a thing! I will not allow them to do a thing! I would throw their bodies off personally before I would allow them to do a thing! You can see it in every one of them! As soon as old Adam rises in them, they hate ME! Get right rude and disobedient and angry. Naturally they go mad -- almost get wild! Those who are brought up in connection -- in the connection of the Kingdom, if they are not BORN AGAIN, they will hate ME!

'I AM visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children from the third to the fourth generation of them that hate ME, and showing Mercy unto thousands of them that love ME and keep My Commandments.'


Can you not see the mystery?

 

The Mortal Mind Hates GOD

That is why they are so hateful as they are. But remember, it is not to those who are called "children" alone, and brought up as I said, under the Jurisdiction and in the connection; it is every mortal-minded person! You will all hate ME, those who are mortal-minded! Every cursed one of you hate ME, who are mortal-minded. Your mortal mind hates GOD! Yes, it hates GOD, and you are looking for a flaw, to find something to condemn GOD for -- try to condemn GOD because you are cursed and cursed with Adam; and you are a curse to the land, and the land, yea, the ground is a curse to you!

Therefore, you are cursed wheresoever you go; hence you try to curse GOD if you can, as said the same spirit of Job:

'Curse GOD to His Face and die.'

That mortal mind in any of you, if you are mortal-minded -- you hate ME! The only way to get rid of that hate that is in you, is to get rid of that mortal mind!

'To be carnal minded is death, but to be Spiritual minded is Life and Peace.'


"The mortal mind is not subject to the Law of GOD, neither indeed can be."

It just cannot be! Now, the only way to be a lover of GOD and allow GOD to be an expressed Lover of your soul, is for you to be born again, out of that Adamic state of consciousness, and be a NEW CREATURE in reality and LOVE ME WHOLE- HEARTEDLY, by putting off the old man with his deeds, with all of his deeds, and put on the NEW MAN in Whom you should live! That is the only way!

 

Impossible to Love and Obey GOD

Then I know, mortality cannot LOVE ME! If you are the same old person characteristically; if you are the same old person dispositionally; if you are shaped and formed in iniquity and brought up in sin; if you are that one, it is a matter of impossibility for you to LOVE ME; it is a matter of impossibility for you to OBEY ME!

With all of the blessings, as the last speaker said, the blessings of splendor - - living in splendor and grandeur, with all of the fullness of everything your hearts can desire, sitting at the Banquet Tables such as the President of this Country sits at once in a while, when they pay one hundred dollars a plate -- you all are sitting here EVERY DAY! There have not been such Banquets on the earth plane, such as these! The only thing, we just do not have liquor, wines and beers and other intoxicating liquors. That is the only difference! But we have everything else that life can demand! Everything your hearts can desire to eat -- any child, and eat to your full supply, until your hearts and your minds are completely satisfied, and does not cost you one hundred dollars a plate!

"Where does HE get so much money from?" What do they do with the money when they pay one hundred dollars a plate for it? That money they get by charging one hundred dollars for a plate -- what do they do with that? -- when My followers sell plates for fifteen cents; and better than that, when you come and sit at these Banquet Tables, transcending all Banquets on the earth plane, just to be true and faithful and modest and respectable -- you can come and sit at these Banquet Tables and it does not cost you anything! Can you not see the mystery?

But those who are in the adamic state of consciousness, they hate ME and they always will hate ME according to the Scripture, for they are made subject to vanity unwillingly; they are made subject to the adamic state of consciousness by being born in it and have not been born OUT of it! Therefore, they automatically hate ME from their ancestry!

'I AM visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children from the third to the fourth generation of them that hate ME.'

You are obliged to hate ME unconsciously -- even if it is unconsciously, if you are living in the adamic state of consciousness; for that mind hates GOD, and I declared it through the Command in that particular Message as recorded by Moses:

'Showing Mercy unto thousands of them that Love ME and keep My Commandments.'

Then I say, you hate ME if you are in that adamic state of consciousness and have not been born OUT of that adamic state consciousness by the New Birth in CHRIST JESUS, or by living exactly according to Moses' teaching and being educated out of that adamic state of consciousness and out of that hatefulness against the ALMIGHTY!

 

You Could Be Educated Out of It

Theoretically, intellectually and scientifically, you could be taught OUT of it, if you would live it and express it! Morally you could become to be NEW CREATURES; but if that Adamic state of consciousness is within you, even though it is dormant beneath your advanced educational understanding, you will wait patiently until a flaw can be found in something GOD says according to your conviction or understanding, and then you will express your hate for ME; for it will rise up in you, even if it is lying dormant by education!

Therefore, education is not real Salvation, but it is a forerunner, teaching you theoretically, how you should live evangelically or live Righteously, according to the theories and doctrines of men, by Loving GOD and keeping His Commands! You keep them externally, but still, unless you are born internally from that adamic state of consciousness, it will eventually arise in you and attempt to condemn the Life of your Salvation and the Hope and the Redemption of all humanity! I thank you.

 


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