FATHER DIVINE ringing the bell
at The Circle Mission Church, Philadelphia, PA.
Shortly after the assembly listened to another surprise wire recording direct from one of the Peace Mission Churches in Australia, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all, our Beloved LORD and Savior delivered this very significant Sermon. Firstly, however, an inspirational composition was enthusiastically sung by one and all, and this also helped to prime the Wellspring of Salvation!
This marvelous Sermon is indeed well worth considering, for in it are revealed many mysteries which mankind previously have not understood; yea, mysteries which they have not been able to fathom before because of the narrow-mindness of mortality and the blindness of selfish desires for gain! But it took GOD Who came as a Free Gift to the world, Gratis to Mankind, to reveal unto man the great Mystery of the Abundance of all Good Things and how such abundance is attained Universally under His Jurisdiction to and for the benefit of one and all!
Read, therefore, this Masterful Sermon, and find in its simplicity the Truth of the mystery of Success and Prosperity and the Abundance of all Good Things as revealed by GOD, FATHER DIVINE, the Benefactor of all mankind!
Thank YOU, Almighty GOD and Savior of the Universe!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which are firstly recorded the words of the inspirational composition sung just before FATHER arose to speak.)
'We want the whole world to love YOU just as we say we do!
We want the whole world to be blessed by YOU,
To eat with YOU, to be with YOU, to have an interview!
We want the whole world these blessings to share,
The comfort and convenience, food and raiment everywhere!
We want the whole world these blessings to share,
For this is a Universal Love!'
(FATHER Speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will, a Good Appetite; Good Manners, Good Behavior, all Success and all Prosperity; Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness; all Wisdom, all Knowledge and all Understanding! These and all other Blessings to you I bring!
At this particular instance I have arisen to say, the little composition just sung is explanatory in itself and it is an inspirational declaration from the hearts and minds of millions: "I want the whole world to love ME" -- you say YOU -- "just as we say we do!" Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the immediate response.) These Blessings to share, of comfort and convenience everywhere! For just as it is right here, some day it shall be all over this wide extended plane, and none shall lack in GOD'S Abundance for there is a-plenty for each and everyone! Aren't you glad! ("Oh, so glad, GOD Almighty!" came the joyous exclamation.)
Why go around in lacks and wants and limitations when GOD is here with you? I have declared by composition as a Motto in an answer to one eternal question: "Where do YOU get so much money from?" and "How do YOU do it?" -- I declared inspirationally, yet predictionally, and declaring the TRUTH as it Is, as it Was, I have said,
'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all Supply and it will satisfy every Good Desire!'
I AM making all nations of the earth conscious of My Presence and conscious of
My Personified Deity; conscious of My Omnipresence and conscious of My Ever Presence;
and with such a conviction none need lack in GOD'S Abundance, for we want the
whole world to share this comfort and convenience and pleasure everywhere! ("So
true, GOD Almighty!" came the unanimous declaration,)
I have taken you out of lacks and wants and limitations! I have taken you out of adverse and undesirable conditions! I have established your going in the Land of the Living and I have set the prisoners free, if you will but accept of ME and recognize the Ever and Omnipresence of GOD now, henceforth and forever!
By such a Recognition GOD by Nature, as creative as HE is, will Create and Re-create everything necessary for the sustenance of your bodies, for your comfort and for your convenience! Then you say in reality, "I want the whole world to share these Blessings; Comfort and Convenience -- and the Abundance of the Fullness everywhere!"
Just heard a little while ago from one of our Churches in Australia, telling you about the Abundance of the Fullness Some can't understand it; because I AM there and AM creative with or without My Body, and just as operative and expressive, I AM bringing the Abundance of the Fullness there even as I do here!
At our Churches in Germany, at our Churches in Switzerland, at our Churches in New Zealand and all parts of Australia; at our Churches in Panama; all over this wide extended plane, when they recognize GOD'S Presence, the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the fullness thereof! They are lifted out of lacks and wants and limitations! They are lifted away from depressions, panics and famines! Those conditions have no longer an existence when they are conscious of My Actual Presence! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, LORD!" came the earnest reply.)
The Consciousness of the Presence of GOD -- such a Consciousness solves your every problem -- it adjusts matters satisfactorily for you! For the Consciousness of GOD'S Presence in the Name of the Spirit of the LORD moved out upon the face of the water before there was a day, whichever, and said, "Let there be light!" and light came forth into the expression because the Spirit of GOD was the Consciousness of His Presence! See the mystery? ("Yes, FATHER Dear!" came the answering declaration.)
As you hear them say, in Australia, in New Zealand, in Switzerland, in England, in Germany, in Japan and all over this wide extended plane, some day it shall be just as it is right here! The Consciousness of GOD'S Presence is Blessing and Blessing and BLESSING and BLESSING and giving and GIVING Everywhere I Go! ("So true!" came the verification from one and all.)
As I just said of a very recent date, someone said, "Some people, they go around panhandling, begging and soliciting." I said, "Every time one begs another or solicits from another he is making that one Richer and making himself Poorer!" I never ask anybody for anything, but millions and millions are asking ME! I said, "That is the mystery the world cannot understand!" You think going around getting something for nothing, you are helping to enrichen yourselves in substance; but just to the Extreme Reverse; you are making yourselves Poorer and making those whom you are begging and getting something for nothing, Richer! That is what I AM talking about!
Look about yourselves and see the way it is with ME! (As the Power of the Holy Spirit permeates the atmosphere, FATHER speaks forth dynamically in tongues. Then our LORD says:) Every time you help a person in any way whatsoever, so long as you do it conscientiously and sincerely, with a contrite and sincere heart, you are helping that person, if he is in graft and greed, to be Poorer, and helping yourself to be Richer!
The Gospel plainly says,
'It is more blessed to Give than to Receive,
(can you not see the mystery?)
for that which you have given will He pay you again!'
GOD will pay you! See the mystery? And you will get an hundredfold more!
Therefore, of this and of such a Kingdom and Peace and such an increase there shall be no end! That is the mystery! That is the mystery! THAT IS THE MYSTERY! I AM giving and GIVING! I AM blessing and BLESSING -- for, It is more blessed to Give than to Receive!" (As FATHER says this HE throws back His Head and laughs merrily.)
People don't know the way to Success and Prosperity! The way of mortality is just the Extreme Reverse to that of the Way of GOD! As I have illustrated from time to time, "There is a morsel for every person; there is a berry for every bird!" If you get the Birds the Berries must come, and if you get the Persons to be fed, the morsels must come! Aren't you glad! ("Oh, so glad, GOD Almighty!" exclaimed the joyous congregation.) They come in the abundance and you are obliged to say with ME according to My original Composition:
'The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!'
You see, we have no vacant space in this Holy Communion Hall, better known as
the Banquet Hall, tonight! No space vacant! ("So true, LORD!" came
the joyous verification.) But since the Persons are here the Morsels must come
forth, and a - plenty of morsels to satisfy everyone, because GOD is the Author
and the Finisher and the Beginning and the End! GOD is a Panacea for Every Ill,
for Every Ailment and for Every Complaint! GOD is the Satisfier of Every Good
Desire! I thank you! I thank you! I thank you!
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