The Desk, Divine Lorraine Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
During the Holy Communion, several guests were present, including some from Australia and Africa. Some gave beautiful testimonies bearing witness to FATHER's great Work and Mission abroad. Also we were blessed to hear some recordings from the churches in Australia, of praises and thanksgiving to FATHER for HIS Infinite Love and Blessings. At the conclusion of same, FATHER arose and blessed humanity with this priceless Sermon, the Gems of Salvation, that they might get a glimpse of the Universality of HIS Work and Mission and arise, and walk out of the darkness of misunderstanding and walk in the newness of GOD'S Omniscience and have access to this more abundant Life HE so freely came to give.
This sermon is well worth considering for it truly obliterates in your conscious mentality that mythological version of heaven and GOD far up in the sky and makes both GOD and Heaven a Reality within you. Therefore, consider the Words of GOD and Live, for fools die for the lack of understanding.
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following is FATHER's profound Sermon, with FATHER speaking 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! These and all other blessings, we have them and we are happy to impart them to others. Aren't you glad! ("So glad, FATHER Dear!" came the happy response.)
A little while ago you heard recordings from Australia. You have heard the testimony of some of our visiting friends from both Australia and Africa. I would like to say, as I have declared, all over this wide, extended plane some day it shall be just as it is right here! In far away Australia, in New Zealand, in Switzerland, in Germany, in Italy, in Nigeria, Africa and in the South American countries, the Spirit of MY Presence by the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose is bringing Peace on Earth and Good Will toward men !
As no doubt you have heard very recently of the independence that has been given to many of the different nations and different republics, but oh, how glorious it is to realize that not only the different republics that have received their independence as nations, but all of the people of the earth, eventually shall receive their freedom and peace and shall have Peace on Earth and Good Will toward men!
While sitting and listening to the recordings, you heard them say that they have the abundance of the fullness in Australia! Why do they have the abundance of the fullness in Australia? Because I AM there as well as here! This is the evidence the Sample and the Example portrayed in the City of Brotherly Love, the Cradle of Democracy and the Country Seat of all countries. Aren't you glad! ("Yes LORD!" came the response). Where there is the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of the Presence of Good and where there is no space vacant of the fullness thereof! The reason MY Followers and the members of our churches praise GOD so vividly, it is because the consciousness of MY PRESENCE has saved them from hunger! It has saved them from lacks and wants and limitations! It has saved them from division, inequality and racism! It has given them their real emancipation and given them their real Freedom! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, GOD Almighty!" exclaimed the happy throng.)
For this cause, rejoice and be glad for your Salvation draweth near! We have pictures and we have shown them heretofore in Australia, in Germany, in New Zealand and in Africa there are those of MY believers blessed with the Abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good and find no space vacant of the fullness thereof! Just as it is right here, so it is there. So then I say, you have something to praise GOD for! I have not taken up a collection as yet and I do not expect to do it! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, LORD!" came the happy response.) I Came as the poorest among men, yet making many rich! And those who recognize MY Presence Personified, they shall also realize the Abundance of the Fullness of the consciousness of Good and shall find no space vacant of the fullness thereof
Then rejoice in the LORD always, and again I say, rejoice! Let your moderation be made known to all men, the LORD is at hand! Realize,
'GOD is not a God afar off, But GOD is a GOD at Hand!'
The Commission of Christ in the Sonship Degree was to preach Good News and glad
tidings to the children of men and to let them know that GOD Himself was with
them! What said the prophet concerning the mystery?
'His Name shall be called Immanuel, Which is being interpreted, GOD is with Us.'
When you are conscious of GOD's Presence, your problems are solved once and forever
and the Abundance of the fullness of all good things are at your disposal mentally,
spiritually and physically, for GOD Himself is the Creator! The very Presence
of GOD carries within Itself the creative forces of nature that will create all
good things automatically and will adjust matters satisfactorily! Aren't you
glad! (So glad, Almighty GOD! So glad!" came the eager reply.)
For this cause we are rejoicing and we are glad, and I AM happy to know that all of the opposition, all of the criticism, all of the accusation and every persecution, and all prosecution all of those things have helped to advance MY Work and MY Mission, for I did say Scripturally:
'Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed.'
Therefore the opposition and criticism and accusation and persecution, if you
, please, all of those help ME to the unfoldment of MY Actual Presence so that
mankind might see and know definitely, it is truly Glory to GOD in the Highest
and on Earth Peace, Good Will toward men!
What said I concerning this mystery?
'GOD is not a God afar off, but GOD Is a GOD at Hand.'
GOD is not far beyond the twin Plaskett stars, somewhere about fifty eight quadrillions
miles away, which is only a short distance in the infinite space to some distant
stars that are much more far away! But even those Twin Plaskett stars, it would
take light rate speed, going at one hundred and eighty six thousand miles per
second, ten thousand years to ascend to those stars or to descend from those
stars!
Then if that be true according to science, where is heaven? And where is your GOD that you have been reckoning the GOD of your imagination in the suppositional heaven far beyond all of the planets, the stars and all of the comets and everything else up there? And I have heard some say: "My GOD is in the sky!" I am here to tell you with GOD's own Omniscience, the sky is nowhere and is nothing, but everywhere where there is nothing! Why be silly? Look in any direction you may look, if there is no obstruction in the way to prohibit you from seeing straight out into space, into any direction if it is up or down, why, you will see that which appears to be the sky; therefore I say, the Sky is Nowhere and is Nothing, but Everywhere where there is Nothing! And those who have their GOD in the sky, far above all of the suns and all of the moons and all of the stars, why, that god is nowhere and is nothing, for
GOD is not a GOD afar off, but GOD is a GOD at hand! (See Jer. 23:23)
What said I concerning this Mystery? I said, HE dwelleth with you and shall be
within you! I AM putting HIM in you now! Aren't you glad! ("Oh, so glad,
Almighty GOD!" shouted the enthusiastic throng.) I AM calling HIM from the
silence of your hearts and your minds to rise to HIS Feet and declare HIMSELF,
for GOD, the TRUE and the LIVING GOD IS WITH YOU, and SHALL BE IN YOU! Aren't
you glad! ("So glad!" shouted the masses.)
Truly might have John caught the glimpse of the Mystery in his revelationic prediction when he said he saw a New Heaven and a New Earth, for the first heaven an the first earth are passed away! And I, John, declared he saw the Holy City and the New Jerusalem coming down from GOD out of Heaven, prepared as a Bride adorned for her husband! Was coming down, coming out of that imaginary heaven, the imaginations of men in the suppositional sky and in that suppositional heaven, and that suppositional God was coming down, no longer suppositional, but made a Living REALITY!
Rejoice and be glad, for your Salvation draws near! GOD is Here with His Holy Angels, as it is written by Jude, the apostle and servant of GOD, in the book of Jude where he said, He Shall Come! Aren't you glad! ("So glad LORD!" came the happy reply.) Shall come with ten thousand of His Saints to bring judgment upon the wicked and those who hate GOD! That is why there is so much retribution now, because I AM bringing judgment upon those who dispute ME! I AM bringing judgment upon those who dispute ME the high and the low, the great and the small, the mighty and the lofty! Matters not who they are , if they dispute ME and deny ME, I bring judgment on you! Aren't you glad! ("Yes LORD! So glad!) Exclaimed the assembly.)
This is GOD's Administration and GOD is Reigning now, for John declared in Revelation, and he saw that a new Heaven and a New Earth was coming down, coming down out of that imaginary Heaven! GOD Himself shall be with you! Didn't say that GOD would be some place up in the sky! The Tabernacle of GOD is with men and HE shall dwell with them and GOD Himself shall be with them and shall be their GOD and they shall be His people! I AM here now! I AM here now and here to stay! I AM with you now! GOD Himself shall be their GOD and shall be with them! GOD shall wipe all tears from their eyes! There shall be no more sorrow and no more crying and no more death, for the former things are passed away!
There will be no such thing as those to them who recognize MY Presence and live according to MY Teaching!
Aren't you glad! ("So glad LORD, so glad!" exclaimed the eager throng.) There shall be no more pain and no more death, I say! No more grieving! No more sorrow and no more crying! Read Revelation twenty one, from one to six, and you will see the Mystery of what I AM telling you that was predicted by the revelationic prediction of John in the Book of Revelation and I AM fulfilling the prediction!
You never see a true follower of MINE going around grieving and crying! Aren't you glad!
You never see a true follower of MINE going around in lacks and wants and limitations! You never see a true follower of MINE going around in sorrow! You never see a true follower of MINE going around in poverty!
You never see a true follower of MINE going around begging and stealing! MY true followers will express their independence individually and severally and collectively even as our country declared her independence as a nation! That is what I am talking about! Anyone who is going around in those conditions in lacks and wants and limitations, they are not true followers of MINE! If they are sick and begging, it is because they are not true followers and members of MINE! One writer declared:
' I once was young but now am old, yet Have I not seen the righteous forsaken, neither His seed begging bread.'
Aren't you glad! ("So glad GOD ALMIGHTY!" Came the happy response.)
Live this Life and take ME in your consciousness and be conscious of GOD's Actual Presence now, henceforth and forever and you will die, no never; for
'If a Man Keep MY Saying, He Shall Never See Death"!
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is Eternal Life through JESUS CHRIST our LORD!
Some say in a great measure, "How does HE do it? Where does HE get so much
money from? "And where does HE get this, that and the other from?" Where
do I Get So Much LOVE From? Aren't you glad! ("So glad, GOD!" echoed
the enthusiastic assembly.) Those who are called men and those who are called
women, if they see me the second time sympathetically, conscientiously and sincerely
and think harmoniously, democratically and evangelically, they will love me better
than they will their fathers and their mothers!
Those who are called men, I say and those who are called women, love me better than they do any of their companions, because It Was Predestined that they should love the Lord Thy GOD with all their heart, with all of their mind and with all of their strength, and they must do it even if they do not want to do it! They must love ME better than they love themselves! Now where do I get so much love from? Why do the people love ME so as they do? Can you not see the mystery ? They love me better than they do their wives and their children, their mothers and their fathers and sisters and their brethren! They love me better than all others! I thank you. I thank you. I thank you.
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