FATHER DIVINE
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The Mount of the House of the Lord
Those of the redeemed should give praises and thanks continually to their LORD and their Maker both night and day and rejoice in His Holy Presence that they have been counted worthy to be in that number that have been redeemed from the world of sin, vice and crime -- that they have been made new creatures by the renewing of their minds, and are now walking in the path of Righteousness, the Righteousness of GOD as exemplified on the earth plane.
These are they that have been changed mentally, spiritually and even physically from their former characteristics, dispositions and nature, to the Nature and Characteristics, the Disposition, the Mind and the Spirit of the Almighty GOD -- their great Creator! By this they are freed from lacks and wants and limitations, adverse and undesirable conditions of every kind, for they have recognized the Emancipator of all humanity. Thank YOU, Heavenly FATHER, for Thy great emancipation to and for the children of men! Thank YOU for Your condescension , Love and Mercy upon Your creation. Thank YOU, Sweet FATHER DIVINE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are again, in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose. Mentally and spiritually to you I come, that I might bring you and all mankind into the unity of the spirit of the consciousness of actions, of deeds and in your personal activities and of all of your needs.
It is a privilege to realize, the little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. I have presented Myself to humanity generally as a Sample and as an Example of that little leaven, to leaven the whole lump with which I come in contact, that they might be partakers of this great contagion and might be able to live in the unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose according to the Plan and the Purpose of the Almighty!
Jesus, the Great Love Master said,
'I pray not that Thou shall take them out of the world, but that they may be One even as We are One.'
It is a privilege to realize, in answer to Jesus' Prayer I Came! As one of the
speakers said a little while ago, I do not only raise the dead, but I stop men
from committing sin and vice and crime of every kind! I change their characteristics!
Hence automatically they are changed characteristically and their characters
are changed and they become to be new creatures. Aren't you glad?
I have often declared, one percent of a fraction of a grain of a percent of a fraction of a grain of one ounce of prevention, is worth more than ten million tons of cure, when you are lifted from vice and crime and from sin and debauchery of every kind. Hence the wages of sin is death! You are saved from sin firstly, but death will not come after.
Then it is more than raising the literal dead. The literal dead can be raised, but it is only a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the significance of men being saved from vice and from crime and from sin and debauchery of every kind.
When you are placed in a place in consciousness where you have victory over sickness and diseases, when you have that mental and spiritual vaccination, that mental and spiritual antitoxin injected, they will cleanse your spirit, your soul and your mind and hence purge your bodies of all corruption and of all sin. Why, there and then you know Someone has done something!
To raise you from the material grave, raise you physically from a sleeping state of consciousness as being termed death, is not the great significance of what I AM doing upon the face of the earth. Oh, how glorious it is to live in this Recognition where the very Name of GOD is a strong Tower and they are rescued as said the composition as a message and yet as a declaration, and yet as a request to the people --
'Rescue the perishing, care for the dying.'
The composer said,
'Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.'
Then I say, it is a privilege! Then this Name of Whom you say I AM, is a strong
Tower and the righteous run therein and they are saved! Aren't you glad? They
are saved from lacks and wants and limitations! They are emancipated from undesirable
conditions of every description, and emancipated from all of the past, the present
and even from the future depressions that are coming! For what said the Spirit
concerning the mystery as a Psalmic prediction of this dispensation and of this
Work and Mission of which I AM stressing?
'He who puts his trust in ME shall never be confounded.'
So far as yet, those who have fully trusted in the Name of GOD as exemplified
among you all, they are not confounded and they have not been confounded! They
have been blessed abundantly and the Scripture to them is actually fulfilled
as also the Psalmic prediction declares:
'I once was young, but now I am old; I have never seen the righteous forsaken, neither his seed begging bread.'
I do not have to go around begging, neither do My followers who are true and faithful, for the very Spirit of My Presence will develop in them the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence so vividly, until they will germinate and generate the very Spirit in their midst, wheresoever they are! And what said I in one of My original mottoes as a composition for the consideration of the people, in answer to the one eternal question: "Where does HE get so much money from? How does HE do it?"
'The Spirit of The Consciousness of The Presence of God Is The Source of All Supply And it Will Satisfy Every Good Desire .'
But to make it a little more explicit and universalize it characteristically,
I transposed that version -- in other words, I revised it and said,
'The spirit of the consciousness of the presence of god is the Source of all supply -- it is the source and it is the supply, it can and it does, satisfy every good desire.'
Aren't you glad? The amendments to the Constitution were a great thing, were
they not? Even so, condescendingly came I as a Person, bringing out My compositions
of mottoes and of expressions as though predictions. I revised them from time
to time as the conscious mentality of humanity advanced.
As they advanced scientifically and intellectually, I revised the version according to My Own interpretation even. Though I have declared certain things at times, the amendments I make to those things, as a revised version of My Own composition, that mankind might have something to feed upon continually after they have learned all they can through conscious thinking.
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a Recognition, to be lifted and saved from vice and from crime, from sin and debauchery of every kind, to know definitely you are living Evangelically, you are living soberly, righteously and godly and you are even living constitutionally and are declaring your independence constitutionally and according to the Declaration of Independence!
You are declaring it in your actuated words of expression by being absolutely independent according to My Teaching, and refusing to do any soliciting, begging, borrowing or stealing. By this My followers know within themselves and with themselves, man could not do what I have done for them! Aren't you glad?
Truly might have one declared,
'The 'other place' may rage and vent her spite, but GOD will save His Heart's Delight.'
Jesus predicted this mystery of which I just said, but in His Own version.
When they mentioned it by an assertion and by a statement, it was their version,
but Jesus said,
'Upon this rock I shall build My church, and the very gates of (what I call the 'other place') shall not prevail against it.'
If I AM right, I cannot fail! Then if I AM wrong, I need to go down! That is
the mystery! If you are building upon this Rock, the Rock CHRIST JESUS, according
to My Teaching, you need not fret nor worry, for I AM with you! My Rod and My
Staff, they comfort you. You need not fear and you shall not fear evil, for you
know definitely I AM with you!
When I say, "I", I AM not talking about matter, I AM not talking about materiality, I AM not talking about personality nor individuality, but I AM talking about just what I Am! I Am Well! I Am Healthy! I Am Joyful, I Am Peaceful! I Am Lively! I Am Loving! I Am Successful! I Am Prosperous! I Am Healthy And I Am Happy! I Am Successful! I Am Prosperous! I Am Healthy! I Am Happy from every angle expressible in Spirit, Body and Mind; therefore, the world can do ME no harm! Aren't you glad?
The little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, and as I AM, so can you be of you will trust in ME and rely on the Fundamental of Whom you say I AM. What a privilege to live in such a Recognition, where GOD Himself is with you, His Rod and His Staff, they comfort you. Can you not see the mystery? GOD as a Living Reality has been made real, tangible and practical, and has become to be a Living Factor in all of your activities and in all of your business and in all of your affairs. Therefore you shall not fear!
You know you often think and say you want to have a president that will bring about prosperity, one who will not lead the nation into war, who will not bring about lacks and wants and limitations by depressions and panics and other adverse and undesirable conditions. Well, when you get GOD, you get that ONE!
Truly might have David said,
'Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.'
When you do not take counsel of the counselors of unrighteousness, of debauchery
and dishonesty and falsity, when you do not walk in their statutes, neither observe
what the say -- when you walk in the Light of GOD both night and the same by
day --
'His delight is in the Law of the LORD, and in the Law does he meditate day and night; he shall be as a tree that is planted by a river of water that bringeth forth its fruit in its seasons and its leaves shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.'
Now what is the matter with the people? Why don't they be prosperous? They are
walking in the counsel of the ungodly; for what said I concerning the mystery
in the same song?
'The ungodly (or wicked) are not so; they are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.'
Can you not see the mystery? Walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, neither
stand ye in the way of the sinners, but delight yourselves in the Law of GOD,
and in His Statutes you should meditate day and night. You will be as the tree
that is planted by a river of water that bringeth forth its fruit in its seasons,
and its leaves also shall not wither! Then you can rejoice.
This is not applicable to those of My immediate followers alone, as GOD by Nature is Impersonal and Infinite in His Spirit and Mind! GOD'S Love goes out to reach all mankind and will redeem them all and claim them all as His Own, if they will but accept of HIM. Those who have chosen GOD -- GOD has chosen them! Aren't you glad?
Those who love GOD and will trust GOD, GOD will trust them. If you trust GOD with everything you have, GOD will trust you with everything HE has! You will have so much, you will not know what to do. Aren't you glad? What said the Scripture in the minor prophet's prediction?
'Try ME," saith the LORD, "and see if I will not open the windows of Heaven and pour you out such a blessing, you will not have room to receive it.'
And that is exactly the experience of these who are whole-heartedly, conscientiously
and sincerely trusting in ME. Aren't you glad? Then once again I repeat the Psalmic
prediction of David:
'Fret not yourselves because of the workers of iniquity, for they shall be cut off.'
I did say this afternoon, this morning whichever, some persons live a long time,
as wicked as they seem to be.
'It is not yours to question the judgment of the LORD.'
One day is as a thousand years with your GOD, and a thousand years as one day.
Therefore they shall be cut off! Aren't you glad? This is not a supposition.
Everything that has arisen in opposition shall be cut off. The Mouth of GOD has
Declared It, and I have declared it more distinctly than I did in reference to
same, that one day is as a thousand years with GOD, and a thousand years as one
day. I say, they shall be cut off!
At times your minds may observe wicked men and women who have arisen in opposition; they are not hindering. They have tried to hinder. But you may feel as if though they should be cut off at once. I heard someone say, "If I were GOD, I would destroy them immediately." That is why you are not GOD, because you would destroy. If you get so you will not destroy, and take on the Characteristics and the Nature of GOD, you may be as GOD; when GOD can see and know you will not destroy. But if you had your way, you would destroy them. I mean, if you could do it spiritually and from a mental and spiritual point of view without doing anything like a natural man would do -- the majority of you would kill them at once.
That is why you are not GOD! Because you would do it! Aren't you glad? The wicked shall be cut off! But GOD did not say exactly when. That is His business -- when, how and where -- but the declaration has been made just as I now declare; they shall be cut off. Oh, it is a privilege! You are in the actual Presence of GOD, where GOD is on active duty and at home at all times. Aren't you glad?
Then I say once again,
'Fret not yourselves because of the workers of iniquity, for they shall be cut off.'
They shall not stand! Every sword that is formed against thee shall perish,
but firstly it may slay the former who shall form such a sword and organize such
a band. I thank you!
PEACE EVERYONE! I do not wish to bore our visiting friends, those who have made themselves known and those who are not; but I know you, My immediate followers, co-workers and those of you who know ME -- it is a matter of impossibility for ME to bore you, for you say daily and hourly when I AM here, all day and all night long -- you are saying, "Give me more of FATHER DIVINE!"
I merely arose firstly to make this announcement to our visiting friends. You are welcome to speak by moving volitionally as we do if you care to. If you do not care to move volitionally as we do, those who did not or have not given the names, addresses and professions -- if you will give them, we will introduce you according to custom. I thank you.
GOD can only be to you as you see HIM to be. If you see ME to be a Good Man I will be a Good Man to you and no more. If you see ME to be a Prophet I will be a Prophet to you and no more! But as you see ME to be in every expression advanced from that degree of a Good Man -- so will I be to thee! I thank you!
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