Father Divine

Once there was a little lamb, and he happened to be a little he-lamb, and he grew up to be a great ram. He was on the mountain side one day grazing, and he came in contact with some goats. The great big billy came after him, and the ram just – – (Father demonstrated how the ram butted the goat to the great delight of all).The goat did the rushing up and jumping up and jumping back, but the ram stood his ground and just let him come every time, and the ram would just sock him, or ram him.

I said he would just sock him or ram him, whichever, and after a while the male goat found out he was not quite as tough as the ram was. “The ram’s head was a little bit harder than the goat’s, so the ram had grown up to be hard-headed too. So the story goes, the ram licked the goat and the goat went off.

Now we believe in a passive method of overcoming every opposition. We can and we will overcome them, but I AM here to say, the he-lamb grows up to be a ram. His head is getting pretty hard now. We shall have a Righteous Government and we shall not go out and seek a fight and we shall not contend in the act of violence, but of course, if we happen to be on the job and anyone comes upon us, why, we may just – – (Father again demonstrates how the ram butted the big billy, and the children shouted with glee.)

FATHER DIVINE

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So when I sit as I sit at times, by being in a harmonious and sympathetic surrounding and by crating pleasant and inspiring atmosphere, I bring out inspirations to the world that are hid. There and then the mysteries are revealed.

When I stop and sit, it is as though a flowing steam, and in the end of the stream there is something built to catch the water which flows in before it fills the flow up to the top until it gets to the overflowing so it may start flowing again.

So it is a pleasant thing to be in the unity of the Spirit. David caught the glimpse of the mystery of this which I AM now speaking and said:

“How good it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

It is like a precious ointment.”

FATHER DIVINE

New Day 6/30/73; p5, cl,3

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You know, in the winter, if your automobile is out in the cold for a while, it is quite hard to start it, isn’t it? You may step on the gas, and continue to step on the starter and yet at times it will not start readily. But if you have a car that has run all heated up and the coil is in good order, and all of the spark plugs firing and the spark is set right, all you must needs do is to get the gasoline and step on the starter and it will immediately start.

So it is with the spirit and the quickening power in your hearts. The reason you do not start is because you are cold. Every cylinder in the automobile should explode. Every cylinder should fire. If it is hitting on every cylinder it will run smoothly, will it not? But if it is only hitting on one or two, if it is a six or an eight cylinder car, it will not run smoothly. At times it is hard to get it to start unless it is hitting on each cylinder.

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Do you think within yourselves a person can say anything to do ME any harm? Did not Jesus, the great Love Master say: “When you shall be persecuted and said all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name’s sake, rejoice and be exceedingly glad!” “In that day, leap for joy.” You will leap as I do. That means a long, or high leap, not merely a short or low jump. It is indeed wonderful. That is the Bible. . “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad.” “In that day leap for joy,”. . . for great is your reward in the heavenly state of expression, better known as the Kingdom of Heaven.

So you can plainly see, the more they say about ME in a negative way, they are producing negation in their consciousness, and chaos will be their portion forever, but peace and pleasure and success and prosperity will be Mine. They will do more to themselves than you can try to do to them, and get by at it.

In the first place, you should love your enemies; rejoice and be exceedingly glad when you are persecuted and prosecuted and ridiculed all falsely. “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad.” When it is all done falsely, do not think within yourselves and say: “I know these folks told lies. Well, I will get up there and I will get even with them.” You do not have to get even with any man. “Would you try to deteriorate and degrade your standard of expression, lowering your standard to get back and get even with them?

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Physically you cannot tell GOD from man

GOD formed man, in other words, created man in His own likeness and image. Externally and from a visible point of view if you would have seen Jesus whom you declare to be GOD, even as you see ME, you would not or could not have told Him or tell Him from any other man from a physical, material point of view, but one is of the earth earthy among you, and the other is the Lord from Heaven.

There is just as much difference between GOD and man, though you cannot see the difference with your physical eye and you cannot tell the difference with your physical hands by feeling them, but there is just as much difference as there is in electricity and something that is just like water.

Fill one of those bulbs with plain water or any other matter-like expression, it would be quite a difference from that of the light that is in those bulbs, would it not? That is the difference. And there is just as much difference in GOD’S Body as it is in a bottle of water, or a jar of sand from the bulb that is filled with electricity, with a thousand watts of current in it. That is the difference. Though these electric bulbs are bottles.

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