MOTHER DIVINE speaking
at The Unity Mission Church Annex
This soul-stirring Sermon, directly from the Holy Lips of FATHER DIVINE, GOD Almighty, should be taken cognizance of by each and every living creature, for it is of utmost importance that everyone get the Mind and Spirit of GOD and let it be impregnated WITHIN to lead and guide them to perfection!
Read therefore our LORD'S Words of Spirit and Life, for HE is His Own Interpreter and HE has indeed made it plain; HE will enlighten all who do not understand, if they will but listen to HIM as an Intutor within themselves to direct them in the right way.
O Blessed Redeemer, we truly do thank THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is firstly recorded the revised version of a composition often sung in Christendom, and to which FATHER refers in His Sermon.)
'I come to the Garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses,
and the Voice I hear falling on my ear, the Son of GOD discloses.
And HE walks within me and HE talks within me, and tells me I am His Own.
And the Joy we share as we tarry here, such Joy you have never known!
He speaks and the sound of His Voice is so sweet, the birds start their singing,
And the melody that HE gave to me, within this heart is ringing.
And HE walks within me and HE talks within me, and tells me I am His Own.
And the Joy we share to tarry here, such Joy you have never known.'
(FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition, "HE walks within me and talks within me and tells me I am His Own", if you would stop and consider the significance of GOD being within you, living within you and talking within you, you would realize, as with others so it can be with you, and as with you so it can be with others!
You know, the Scripture plainly says,
'When HE the Spirit of Truth is come, HE will teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance.'
A good many people think you have to teach people. My Spirit and My Ever and
Omnipresence is the Teacher! (Loud applause rings out.)
I do not tell you to teach the Sermon on the Mount. I do not tell you to teach any parts of the Scripture, but I do say, if you search the Scripture and learn what it says, be able to commit even the Old and the New Testament -- commit it to memory -- it is all right!
The Sermon on the Mount has been requested as a means to build you up in the identical Teaching of CHRIST. That's why you have been requested to read the Sermon on the Mount, to study the Sermon on the Mount; but who can teach you? Learn to read it verbatim, and any other parts of the Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, and let this Mind be in you that was also in CHRIST JESUS. The very Spirit of My Presence will be your Intutor! (Loud applause resounds.)
I do not tell you to study or to teach the alphabet. If you learn the alphabet you can say the alphabet, but it does not necessarily say you would be required to be taught the alphabet. When you learn the alphabet, to be able to commit them to memory by heart, to rehearse them; in other words, repeat them, it is a blessing, it is true. But why should anyone set themselves up to teach you something you already know? (Loud applause rings out.)
'Search the Scripture, for in them ye think ye have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of ME!'
When you search the Scripture and when you shall have learned to read the Scripture
and read it verbatim, you may not have the same interpretation that someone else
has on certain passages of the Scripture. But whether you have the same interpretation
or not, if you can read it accurately and know what it says, My Spirit will teach
you the meaning, and will give you information that is hid! (Thunderous applause
rings out.) It is Wonderful! ( "Truly wonderful, FATHER Dear!" came
the joyous response.)
It is a privilege to live in the Actual Presence of GOD and it is a privilege for ME to live in the HEARTS and MINDS of you all! When this is true to you, the Scripture can be read and can be understood by your Intutor -- the One within you that teaches you! (Loud applause resounds.)
It is good to get together and read the Bible, the same as it is to rehearse or to repeat anything. As you read it, relax your conscious mentality and let the Spirit of MY Presence inspire you. As I was saying today, at times there are those who cannot even read, would desire to lead -- would desire to teach -- and would especially desire to try to read to others. You watch My Steps and follow after My Precepts! I have readers to read, you may say, read to ME and read to us all; that can read and understand the word verbatim! But to have someone to read and cannot read -- the blind will try to lead the blind! There and then, the Scripture, yea, the Gospel, is fulfilled in your hearing -- the blind trying to lead the blind -- and they two fall in the ditch together! That is the Mystery.
So then, in all of your getting, get understanding! We do not tell you NOT to read the Bible; we tell you specifically and stressfully it is essential to KNOW the Scripture -- know what the Bible says in the Written Word, and take Cognizance of what it says -- and if there is an understanding in it to be revealed that the actual reading does not give, My Spirit and My Presence can give it! It may bring it out through different individuals; it may bring it out through yourself as an individual. But read the Scripture, if you desire to read it; read it with Faith, doubting nothing, but know within yourselves the reading of it is the great essential!
I mentioned your alphabet a little while ago. If you can say your alphabet you would be repeating the letters. You may repeat the letters or reiterate the letters over and over again, but yet you may not know exactly what each letter means. It is not for you to know which letter means this or that, saving as it is revealed. It is for you to know your letters and be able to repeat them VERBATIM! But someone may say it means one thing and someone else may say it means another. As I have explained heretofore, in past times, how people split in churches -- bring about so many different denominations -- all because one has a version and another one has a different version. He says, "GOD did not mean for you to drink wine." One will say it did mean for you to drink wine -- "that represents the Blood of Jesus!" Another one will say, "It was not wine in reality." One will say, "I will open up me a Church so all of those who believe as I do can agree with me!" The different little simple points of view may be brought to consideration, to bring about a separation. (At this point FATHER laughs, the Laughter of GOD -- then HE says:) But with ME, the people cannot understand why and how all of My following are United Together and WILL NOT BE SEVERED! I mean, My Real Followers! (Loud applause and cheers ring out.)
When personality is out of the way and individual aggrandizement shall have disappeared and individuality is no longer considered, you may live in Peaceful and Quiet Resting Places, without the consideration of division! (Loud applause rings out.)
So then I say, let these thoughts go home with you, and let ME speak more Explicitly and Profoundly in your HEARTS and in your MINDS than what I have spoken in Words orally, such as you are now hearing -- for I have long since declared by composition, "If you take cognizance of My Message, a greater Picture of ME can be reproduced in you, in your likeness!" Then and there you will have ME explicitly depicted, reproduced and personified. You will not have an occasion to look for another, for a Greater Picture of ME in Thoughts and Mind, in Ideas and in Opinions, in Spirit and in Power, in Love and Dominion -- a Greater Picture of ME in you should be Reproduced in YOUR LIKENESS! And when I appear to others from you, and from your likeness, I will be in the EXACT LIKENESS of you as you are MENTALLY and SPIRITUALLY in the LIKENESS of ME! (Thunderous applause rings out.)
You should be the mold! I've heard you sing down in Christendom,
'LORD, mold me and shape me in THINE Own Way! THOU art the Potter and we are the clay.'
But suppose you would Vice Versa-late it and declare, "LORD, we are the
mold, now mold and shape YOURSELF in my likeness!" -- and that is the way
the earth will be replenished, multiplied and increased in the Likeness of the
PERFECT ONE! (Again thunderous applause rings out.)
In the beginning of the Creation GOD formed man out of the dust of the ground, but in His Likeness and Image, Scripturally speaking, according to the historians. Now let GOD shape and form HIMSELF in your likeness and you will be in HIS!
'Behold what Love the FATHER has bestowed upon us that we might be called the Sons of GOD, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when HE shall appear, we shall be like HIM, for we shall see HIM as HE is!'
It is your privilege to let GOD be shaped and fashioned in your likeness and
you will be JUST LIKE HIM Characteristically and Dispositionally! -- and all
of your mortal, carnal disposition, ways and actions will be eradicated and GOD
in you -- in your likeness -- will be developed and brought to FRUITION, and
you will see ME as I AM! (Loud applause resounds.)
I need not say more, for it is better revealed than told! I had striven to refrain from speaking as there were many others desired to speak and I do not wish to bore you, even if some of you could bore ME!
From now, henceforth, let GOD be in you to guide you! (Loud applause rings out.) If you are One with ME, you will Think Systematically and Harmoniously with ME, and this Mind that was in CHRIST JESUS will be in THEE, and THOU SHALT BE IN ME! I thank you!
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