"In His Holiness and His Virginity you will find Life Everlasting
and Protection and Redemption.

"CHRIST Died That We Might Live." --- FATHER DIVINE

Office Talk by FATHER DIVINE to some of His Secretarial Staff in His Private Office, Peace Center Church and Home,
122-126, Howard St., Newark, N.J., Saturday, June 1, 1946 A.D.F.D., Time -- 6:30 P. M.



Peace Center Church, N.Y.C.

Peace Center Church, N.Y.C.

As FATHER deemed it necessary to reiterate the Crucifixion of Jesus for the redemption of the world, HE Condescended to give this beautiful Office Talk to some of His secretarial staff. As HE spoke, in the Beauty of Holiness, these Priceless Words, we are assured that these seeds of Righteousness fell on Fertile Soil in our hearts, the Good Ground of which HE is, that we, the children of GOD Universally, might spring up Trees of Righteousness to His Honor and Glory, for what HE says to one, HE says to the universe at large.

For Thy tender Love and Compassion to save all humanity, Almighty GOD, we humbly thank THEE!

(The foregoing statement is that of the transcriber, and the following is the Office Talk with FATHER speaking as follows:)

Jesus died that you might live. He did not die that you might die, but that you might live and no longer be subject to death, for in Adam all die under the curse; but Jesus died that you would not have to die and return to the dust. Therefore, glory in it and rejoice all ye people, that CHRIST has taken upon Himself all of your infirmities and has borne your diseases -- humanity's diseases -- and fulfilled it in His Holiness and in His Virginity, that such might not be fulfilled out of His Holiness and out of His Virginity; for out of His Holiness and out of His Virginity you will find corruption and destruction, but in it you will find Life Everlasting and Protection and Redemption of many.

So Jesus died that you might live! But He died in His Holiness and in His Virginity! He was conceived not in iniquity, neither was He shaped up in iniquity! He was not conceived in sin! He was conceived in the Virginity of Mary by the Holiness of His FATHER! Therefore, He was not conceived in sin and shaped up in iniquity! That is the way mortality had been. They had been conceived in sin and shaped up in iniquity, but Jesus was conceived in Virginity by the Holiness of His FATHER!

Hence, the Personification of His Holiness and of His Virginity developed and grew up as a Sample and as an Example for all humanity and spoke on thus wise, saying,

'Who touched ME?'


When the women touched the hem of His garment, He felt Virtue went out from Him. It was not lust and passion, because He was conceived in Virginity by the Holiness of His FATHER! Therefore, it was not anything to go out from Him but Virtue and Holiness! Therefore, the woman was healed; and then He said:

'Go in peace and sin no more, thy faith has made thee whole.'

 

A Man Could Not Have Done It

He would not have said such and could not have done such as that had He not been conceived in Virginity by the Holiness of His FATHER. Had He been conceived in sin through lust and passion as mortality and all in Adam, He could not have felt Virtue go out from Him when the woman touched the hem of His garment, because He would not have been Virtuous within; therefore, there would not have been Virtue to go out from Him to save her and heal her from her sins. But because of His Holiness and because of His Virginity and because of the mechanism of Himself as the Redeemer and the Savior, He felt Virtue as it went out from Him!

Hence, He took upon Himself their infirmities and bare their diseases. In the Sonship Degree He could not fulfil it for He was functioning as the Son, not in the fullest measure as a FATHER would do and as a FATHER has done; He must need come in the FATHERSHIP Degree as the FATHER fulfilling the things that were predicted by the Son! THAT WAS THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH I CAME! He did say:

'My FATHER and I will come and make our abode with you!'


Therefore, truly, the FATHER did come, and when the FATHER Came, the FATHER was obliged to do what the Son had not done and could not do, for He did say:

'My FATHER is Greater than I!'

The Son, as a child He came and was sacrificed as a Lamb, but it developed from that degree of unfoldment into the FATHERSHIP Degree of expression. Therefore, in the prediction, in the making, it was bespeaking the dispensation when the FATHER would take upon Himself the infirmities of humanity. As in Adam all were dying, it was essential for the FATHER to fulfil that which was in Adam as though HE was dying or would die, that they might live; therefore, the experience of Jesus, as the Crucified Savior, was bespeaking and depicting in the Mystery of taking upon Himself your infirmities and bearing your diseases.

 

GOD Does Not Wish Any to Perish

Jesus died that you might live! So why will ye die, O House of Israel? It was a question, why will ye die? GOD did not Will or does not Will that one of His little ones should perish, but that you might live in HIM; for in Adam all die, but in JESUS CHRIST all are made alive! So you can see the changes that take place, for there is no comparison; for it was predestined ONE, and ONE to be throughout all eternity with or without a Body or with and with as many, just as HE chooses to take to fulfil His Purpose. It only takes GOD HIMSELF to do it! No one else can do it!

Coming through forty-two different generations in the Sonship Degree, it is written: He fought through death and won the Victory." It was essential for the recognition of the CHRIST, the Redeemer and the Savior, Victorious Conqueror in every generation, thought it was essential for Him to come through all of those different generations to accomplish His Purpose for which He was coming; therefore, it was fulfilled! It is Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

Forty-two generations! It was necessary to go through forty-two or fifty-two or a hundred or more bodies, IT WAS JUST THE SAME, and the Spirit of the consciousness of the Presence of GOD is just as operative and expressive! It is only ONE could do it! It is wonderful! Through the forty-two different generations, it was CHRIST, the ONE and ONLY ONE! IT WAS NO OTHER ONE TO COME, for when He went in one generation or one dispensation and it was ONE to Come again, IT WAS THE SAME ONE EVERY TIME! Can you not see the Mystery? SO IT IS NO OTHER ONE!

 

The Allness of GOD in ONE

So the Mystery of GOD is revealed that the Allness of GOD is summed up in the ONE in the allness of the adamic state of consciousness, summed up in the one, for as in Adam all die, so shall in JESUS CHRIST, all be made alive!

So that is the Mystery. So the LORD taketh pleasure in His people and beautifies the meek with Salvation -- the meek and the lowly; and HE brings them into His Holiness by the recognition of their AT-ONE-MENT with HIM and with them. Therefore, there is no division, for they are all ONE if you can observe it as it is. That is the Mystery. So it is Wonderful!

But if there is a selfish concept, a mortal-versionated idea and opinion -- want to do something in self in the Kingdom -- it is a matter of impossibility to remain and get the rightful inheritance predestined to and for the true and the faithful; for it is as it was, yea, as it has always been, that which is of GOD is by Nature impersonal and Universal, interracial and interdenominational; therefore, you cannot confine, neither bind HIM, for it is for the common good of all humanity!

All cannot at all times fulfil the legalisticness of an issue, but while one fulfils it, all enjoy it, for it is all the same, ONE for all and all for ONE; therefore, the Work has actually been done.

CHRIST died that you might LIVE, so that you might not have to die! CHRIST apparently bound Himself that HE might set everybody else free, that they would not have to be bound! I thank you.


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