FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
If all the world could and would but receive the Truth as expounded by FATHER, our Maker and Savior, men and women would become samples and examples of the CHRIST in all perfection. Words are inadequate to summarize this Glorious Message, for the Words herein are Pearls of Great Price. There is enough said in this Message to save the whole world, if they will but take cognizance of what is said.
Therefore, every living creature should let his or her word be their bond and let their bond be their security, and by so doing, every world of expression in profession, business, labor and trade would move in one harmonious rhythm, and all discords and inharmonious conditions would be done away with.
O Dean of the Universe, we thank Thee for such profound Teachings!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite; with Good Manners, Good Behavior, all Success and all Prosperity; Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness; with all respectability. These and all other Blessings I AM putting forth into expression, if you will but accept of them. Through the impregnation of My Spirit and the Mind of My Spirit, all should be the re conceivers of such as I AM expressing, and the reproducers of the same; for that which I convey and reincarnate, I also Materialize, and that which I Materialize I also Develop and bring to fruition and Personify; for the Personification of the mental and spiritual conception, I make it a living Reality through and by the True and the Faithful.
While sitting thinking of competition and oppositions, it is needful that competition and oppositions should come. It is needful that you should have competitors in every field of activity and in every walk of life. The competitors will cause you to put out the best that is within and endeavor to compete and surpass them. Therefore, competition through and by the competitors and the oppositions through and by those who are in opposition are good. Those things work as said the Scripture,
'All things work together for good to them that love the Lord, and are called according to His Purpose.'
Therefore, competition and opposition through competitors and opposers, work
to your best advantage, if you are persistent in your ambition and determined
in your resolve; if you desire to produce and bring to fruition the best of Good,
of the Good of GOD in yourself for the benefit of others. Therefore, oppositions
and competition work scientifically according to nature.
If there was no opposition, there would be no resistance, and humanity would not be persistent in their ambition to accomplish things they may endeavor; nevertheless, opposition may come as a detriment to the person or persons who are unjust and do not do and give the best; but if you adhere to the Golden Rule, and observe the truth of what I have said to you,
'Give to the world the Best you have, and the Best will come back to you,'
if you adhere to this little statement and take it as a message and do it, the
Best will be produced in you, without opposition, and without competition, without
opposers and without competitors; but it is good to have the advancement of life
to be represented within and then the advancement of life to be represented without,
through competition of life and opposition, it causes you to be persistent in
your ambition, if you are courageous, determined and resolved to overcome.
It is a phrase quite often used, "Each victory will help you some other to win." A Victory will help a courageous and ambitious person to win another Victory; therefore, oppositions, conflicts and conflictions and competitors in opposition creating competition, all of these things work for the good of the person to whom those oppositions and the competition of the competitors come. So it is a wonderful blessing to observe the Truth and walk in the Light that has been given.
If you are determined in your resolve, you will do your very best in all things, whatsoever you may be doing, it matters not who you are; and you will use every ounce of energy and your ambition, and let it be exercised and put forth into expression to do your best in every endeavor. These thoughts are well worth considering. Competence is the keynote to Salvation.
It is a phrase quite often used; at least, years ago it was used quite often in the world of phraseology,
'My word is my bond, and my bond is my security; and before my word shall fail, I shall fail myself.'
If you are not competent in business, profession, labor and trade; if you are
not competent in all of your endeavors and activity; if you are not competent
in all you tell ME Personally, and what you tell any other person; if you are
not reliable, you are a failure already.
Competence is the Keynote to Salvation. By being competent, persistent, ambitious and true and reliable, you will be able to stand against all competition and all oppositions, all trials and tribulations; for you have overcome the worst enemy, that is, self within you. Can you not see the mystery? Therefore, every person should be persistent in his or her ambition and determined in their resolve, and be competent, reliable and true, and consider if you say anything or make a promise to do anything, you should do it, as if though it was a promise to do it, or die; if you fail to do it, you should feel as though you will die,
'Your word is your bond, and your bond is your security.'
You have no security other then the Truth of your word, upon which you are founded.
Then I say, be True, be Faithful, be Competent and Reliable; and if you are,
you need not fear, you need no fret, you need not fall, for GOD is with you and
is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent wheresoever you are and will work effectively
and carry out His Plan and Purpose according to the agreement you make with another.
These thoughts are well worth considering.
Your word should be your bond, and your bond is your security; hence, if you are not trustworthy in your word, in your promise, the security has failed you. Can you not see the mystery? The average person makes light of his or her own word -- makes light of it, does not consider it is a contract. They do not consider on your word, your soul and your life are founded, and without your word, why, you are a failure; that is if your word fails you; for your word is your life.
Your word is the essence and the substance of your life; therefore, competence is the great essential, and when you are competent, honest and true and reliable in everything you say and in everything you do, and give to the world the best you have, and let the best come back to you, competition and oppositions and the competitors and your opposers will not worry you. It will be immaterial to you who they are and what they may do, for greater is He that is within you, in all Competence and in all Truth, than all they that could be against you. So that is the thought of it. Knowing within yourself, that your word, being your bond, and your bond being your security, your word being Truth to you, which is to say, it should be CHRIST to you -- your word,
'I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life.'
Then if the Truth is in you, and your word is the Truth, your word is the CHRIST
to you. Can you not see the mystery? If you do not fail your CHRIST, your CHRIST
will not fail you; for greater is He that within you, the CHRIST, the Truth,
than everything that could be against you.
It is a matter of impossibility to be a failure with all the oppositions of life and the competitors in competition, if your Word to you is the CHRIST and you make the CHRIST true by dying to that which you have testified, and relying on your word, and be consolidated, substantiated and unshaken in your resolve. Your Word is your GOD. How marvelous it is to think along those lines.
People nowadays do not train their children that their word should be their bond, and their bond should be their security. You should feel as if though you would be sentenced to the electric chair if you fail to do what you say. That is what I AM talking about.
It is as important and as precious as if though you would be sentenced to the electric chair, if you failed to do what you have said you would do; for you have not made your word the Truth, and the Truth your security, which is CHRIST; for the Truth is CHRIST; matters not wherever He is. Then let the Truth be in you and be your guide and stand firm by being competent, reliable and true; and make promises only when you are necessarily required to do so, by necessity required to do so -- in a way of speaking; and when this is done, it should be on condition and let your word be your bond, and your bond be your security, and your security be the Truth of GOD within you and you should stand firm to the Truth, as you endeavor to convey the Truth to others when you are talking; then you are the producers of the CHRIST in expression; in Competence, in Reliableness, in Honesty and in Truth; you produce the CHRIST in active and in practical service.
Benjamin Franklin handled the lightening, did he not? And you should handle the Truth. You should let the Truth be as practical and scientific to you in words and actions as you have seen and do see the invention of electricity is practical to humanity. Oh, how glorious it is to observe the scientificness of all things that I have said to you!
Competence and Truth, Reliability, Honesty and Trustworthiness should be your portion in words, deeds and actions; and when this is done, and you consider your word as your Life, as your CHRIST, as your GOD; and let your word be brought to fruition in the actuated words of expression according to your promise you are making in words you have spoken; stand to your promise and your promise will stand to and for you.
Competitions may arise and opposers may come and oppositions, trials and tribulations with all competition in business, profession, labor and trade, it would be immaterial to you, matters not what may come, or what may go; for greater would be that in you to carry out that which you have been allotted to do than anyone else could dare to do. That is the mystery! Then I say, live in this recognition!
It is needful that offenses come, as I said through the mouth of Jesus, but woe unto that man through whom they come. It is needful that competitors and opposers - - on the other hand, on the other side, need come that you might be persistent in your ambition and determined in your resolve; but woe unto that person through whom they come,
'Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.'
One of the Ten Commandments -- you all have read, "Thou shalt not covet"; it is needful that covetousness should be in evidence as opposition to cause you to be persistent and determined in your resolve, in your ambition to overcome every opposition, but thou shalt not covet. I say woe unto that man through whom offenses cometh, and woe unto that man, or that spirit, or that person, through whom oppositions come through covetousness.
You know I have often spoken of how some of the Jewish people, considering themselves to be Jewish people, consider themselves to be law keepers; at times they covet their neighbor's house, covet the neighbor's wife, the neighbor's man servant, the neighbor's maid servant, and other things just exactly what GOD said thou shall not do, and yet they claim to be keepers of the Law. I mean those who claim to be Jews, claim to be keepers of the Law. So it is with some among you who claim to be Followers of your GOD and the keepers of His Law -- just what GOD said not to do, that is the thing you will do lots of times, because you are in opposition to ME and oppose ME and MINE. But it is detrimental; for it is woe to that person through whom these offenses come who wilfully and consciously -- in short, knowingly, violates the least of these Commandments. For if you do the whole Law and yet offend in one point, you are guilty of all when you wilfully and consciously and knowingly offend in some of these points; for you know, thou shall not covet.
Even though you may desire to produce the best, yet thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thy neighbor's position, thy neighbor's place in life, or gift, or talent, whatsoever thou covet -- even though it is needful that covetousness should be in evidence until perfection in consciousness shall have been attained; yet it is woe unto that person through whom covetousness and selfishness come, for those things come through and by the selfish mind and unjust mind trying to get something for nothing.-- get something that belongs to the other person.
These thoughts are well worth considering, but in all of your getting, get understanding, and live in the recognition of GOD'S Actual Presence; for GOD watches over you, sees everything you say and hears everything you do. Take cognizance of this Message and consider, competition will help you on if you are persistent in your ambition, and oppositions and trials and tribulations will win for you the victory, because you will gain energy and ambition to overcome the opposition and the competition; you will be able to compete with it and surpass the conflicts and condemn the competitors in opposition to what you are endeavoring
Oh, how glorious it is to know the Truth! I call for competence and honesty among you in words, in deeds and in actions, as well as in anything else. If you are not honest to your word, you are not honest; you are not honest to ME. If you are not true to your promise, you are not true to ME. That is what I AM talking about. Whatsoever you may promise to do, you should be true to that which you have promised; for your word will justify you or your word will condemn you.
A man's word is his burden, and he must be his own burden-carrier. You must carry your own burden, and bear your own burden in the heat of the day in opposition to your personal feeling, in opposition to competition, in opposition to all of the oppositions. You must be able to carry your own burden, and be true and as persistent in your ambition with all oppositions as you would be without any opposition, or competition whatsoever. Those thoughts are well worth considering, if you jot them down in your memory and consider them -- in keeping with them, I can and will be with you, and give you the victory over every opposition, and your competitors and opposers cannot harm you, but rather to the extreme reverse, will help you to win the victory, surpass all oppositions; and you should put out the best that is in you for the benefit of humanity generally.
In business you should sell everything for as little as possible, and find out how little you can sell merchandise for. Not to see how much you can get out of it; but see how little you can sell it for, and yet you will see the mystery of getting in giving in the return through the small commission you are receiving. Can you not see the mystery? It is more blessed to give than to receive. That which you give, GOD will pay you again. Hence, it is a matter of impossibility to lose by giving, for that which you have given you must reap the same; it must return in some way, if not in a way you see and know, it must return in some way unseen and unknown.
Then I say, live in this recognition and be more competent and more reliable in every word, deed and action, and express GOD in words, for there is where your GOD lives. I say your GOD lives in Your Word, and especially in your promises. If Your GOD is the Truth, why then, GOD to you is True, and if your word is proven to be untrue, GOD to you and to them with whom you are concerned is untrue. Can you not see the mystery?
If you say you know ME, and then you are untrue in words and in deeds with mankind with whom come in contact daily, to them I AM untruthful and unreal, and so will you be; for whatsoever you are, so AM I to them. The tree is told by the fruit it bears, and if you say you are My Offspring and then if you are untrue in deeds and in actions and incompetent, or unreliable, or anything of that sort, you are telling them with whom you are concerned that it is untrue, and I AM untrue. That is what you are telling them in the actuated words of expression.
Truly did I say, actions speak louder than words. Take these thoughts to consideration. Hereafter, build upon a Foundation that cannot be shaken; for your word should be your bond, and your bond should be your security; and you should take a stand that before your word would fail, you would fail yourself willingly, and go down in defeat personally, never to rise again. I thank you.
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