Paper 180 the farewell discourse after singing The Psalm at the conclusion of the Last Supper The Apostles thought that Jesus intended to return immediately to the camp but he indicated that they should sit down said the master you well remember when I sent you forth without purse or wallet and
Even advised that you take with you no extra clothes and you will all recall that you lacked nothing but now have you come upon troubless times no longer can you depend upon the Good Will of the multitudes henceforth he who has a purse let him take it with him when you go out
Into the world to Proclaim this gospel make such provision for your support as seems best I have come to bring peace but it will not appear for a Time the time has now come for the son of men to be glorified and the father shall be
Glorified in me my friends I am to be with you only a little longer soon you will seek for me but you will not find me for I am going to a place place to which you cannot at this time come but when you have finished your work on
Earth as I have now finished mine you shall then come to me even as I now prepare to go to my father in just a short time I am going to leave you you will see me no more on Earth but you shall all see me in the age to come when
You ascend to the kingdom which my father has given to me one the new commandment after a few moments of informal conversation Jesus stood up and said when I enacted for you a parable indicating how you should be willing to serve one another I said that I desired
To give you a new commandment and I would do this now as I am about to leave you you will know the Commandment which directs that you love one another that you love your neighbor even as yourself but I am not wholly satisfied with even that sincere devotion on the part of my
Children I would have you perform still greater acts of love in the Kingdom of the believing Brotherhood and so I give you this new commandment that you love one another even as I have loved you and by this will will all men know that you are my
Disciples if you thus love one another when I give you this new commandment I do not place any new burden upon your souls rather do I bring you new joy and make it possible for you to experience new pleasure in knowing the Delights of the bestow of your heart’s affection
Upon your fellow men I am about to experience the Supreme Joy even though enduring outward sorrow in the bestow of My Affection upon you and your fellow Mortals when I invite you to love one another even as I have loved you I hold up before for you the Supreme measure of
True affection for greater love can no man have than this that he will lay down his life for his friends and you are my friends you will continue to be my friends if you are but willing to do what I have taught you you have called
Me master but I do not call you servants if you will only love one another as I am loving you you shall be my friends and I will ever speak to you of that which the father reveals to me you have not merely chosen me but I have
Also chosen you and I have ordained you to go forth into to the world to yield the fruit of loving service to your fellows even as I have lived among you and revealed the father to you the father and I will both work with you and you shall experience the Divine fullness
Of joy if you will only obey my command to love one another even as I have loved you if you would share the Master’s joy you must share his love and to share his love means that you have shared his service such an experience of love does
Not deliver you from the difficulties of this world it does not create a new world but it most certainly does make the old world new keep in mind it is loyalty not sacrifice that Jesus demands the consciousness of sacrifice implies the absence of that wholehearted affection which would have made such a
Loving service a supreme Joy the idea of that signifies that you are servant minded and hence are missing the mighty thrill of doing your service as a friend and for a friend the impulse of friendship transcends all convictions of Duty and the service of a friend for a
Friend can never be called a the sacrifice the master has taught the apostles that they are the sons of God he has called them Brethren and now before he leaves he calls them his friends two the vine and the branches then Jesus stood up again and continued teaching his Apostles I am the
True Vine and my father is the husbandman I am the vine and you are the branches and the father requires of me only that you shall bear much fruit the vine is pruned only to increase the fruitfulness of its branches every Branch coming out of me which Bears no fruit the father will
Take away every branch which bears fruit the father will cleanse that it may bear more fruit already are you clean through the word I have spoken but you must continue to be clean you must abide in me and I in you the branch will die if
It is separated from the vine as the branch cannot bear fruit except it abides in the vine so neither can you yield the fruits of loving service except you abide in me remember I am the real Vine and you are the living branches he who lives in me and I in him
Will bear much fruit of the spirit and experience the Supreme Joy of yielding this spiritual Harvest if you will maintain this living spiritual connection with me you will bear abundant fruit if you abide in me and my words live in you you will be able to
Commune freely with me and then can my Living spirit so Infuse you that you may ask whatsoever my spirit wills and do all this with the assurance that the father will grant us our petition hin is the father glorified that the vine has many living branches and that every
Branch Bears much fruit and when the world sees these fruit bearing branches my friends who love one another even as I have loved them all men will know that you are truly my disciples as the father has loved me so have I loved you live in my love even as
I live in the Father’s Love if you do as I have taught you you shall abide in my love even as I have kept the father’s word word and everm more abide in his love the Jews had long taught that the Messiah would be a stem arising out of
The vine of David’s ancestors and in commemoration of this old and teaching a large emblem of the grape and its attached Vine decorated the entrance to herod’s Temple the apostles all recalled these things while the master talked to them this night in the upper chamber but great sorrow later attended the
Misinterpretation of the Master’s inferences regarding prayer there would have been little difficulty about these teachings if his exact words have been remembered and subsequently truthfully recorded but as the record was made Believers eventually regarded prayer in Jesus name as a sort of supreme magic thinking that they would receive from
The father anything they asked for for centuries honest Souls have continued to wreck their faith against the stumbling block how long will it take the world of Believers to understand that prayer is not a process of getting your way but rather a program of taking God’s way an
Experience of learning how to recognize and execute the father’s will it is entirely true that when your will has been truly aligned with his you can ask anything conceived by that will Union and it will be granted and such a will Union is affected by and through Jesus
Even as the life of the vine flows into and through the living branches when there exists this living connection between Divinity and Humanity if Humanity should thoughtlessly and ignorantly pray for selfish ease and vain glorious accomplishments there could be only one Divine answer more an increased bearing of the fruits of the
Spirit on the step of the living branches when the branch of the vine is alive there can be only one answer to all its petitions increased grape bearing in fact the branch exists only four and can do nothing except fruit bearing yielding grapes so does the True Believer exist
Only for the purpose of bearing the fruits of the spirit to love man as he himself has been loved by God that we should love one another even as Jesus has loved us and when the father’s hand of discipline is laid upon the Vine it is done in love in order that the
Branches May bear much fruit and a wise husbandman Cuts away only the dead and fruitless branches Jesus had great difficulty in leading even his Apostles to recognize that prayer is a function of spirit born Believers in the spirit dominated Kingdom three enmity of the world the 11 had scarcely ceased their discussions of
The discourse on the vine and the branches when the master indicating that he was desirous of speaking to them further and knowing that his time was short said when I have left you be not discouraged by the enmity of the world be not downcast even when faint-hearted Believers turn against you and join
Hands with the enemies of the Kingdom if the world shall hate you you should recall that it hated me even before it hated you if you were of this world then would the world love its own but because you are not the world refuses to love
You you are in this world but your lives are not to be world likee I have chosen you out of the world to represent the spirit of another world even to this world from which you have been chosen but always remember the words I have spoken to you the servant is not greater
Than his master if they dare to persecute me they will also persecute you if my words offend the unbelievers so also will your words offend the ungodly and all of this will they do to you because they believe not in me nor in him who sent me so will you suffer
Many things for the sake of my gospel but when you endure these tribulations you should recall that I also suffered before you for the sake of this Gospel of the Heavenly Kingdom many of those who will assail you are ignorant of the light of heaven but this is not true of
Some who now persecute us if we had not taught them the truth they might do many strange things without falling under condemnation but now since they have known the light and presumed to reject it they have no excuse for their attitude he who hates me hates my father
It cannot be otherwise the light which would save you if accepted can only condemn you if it is knowingly rejected and what have I done to these men that they should hate me with such a terrible hatred nothing save to offer them Fellowship on Earth and salvation
In heaven but have you not read in the scripture the saying and they hated me Without a Cause but I will not leave you alone in the world very soon after I have gone I will send you a spirit helper you shall have with you one who
Will take my place among you one who will continue to teach you the way of Truth who will even comfort you let not your hearts be troubled you believe in God continue to believe also in me even though I must leave you I will not be far from you I have already
Told you that in my father’s Universe there are many taring places if this were not true I would not have repeatedly told you about them I am going to return to these worlds of light stations in the father’s heaven to which you shall sometime ascend from these
Places I came into this world and the hour is now at hand when I must return to my father’s work in the Spheres on high if I thus go before you into the father’s Heavenly Kingdom so will I surely send for you that you may be with
Me in the places that were prepared for the Mortal sons of God before this world was even though I must leave you I will be present with you in spirit and eventually you shall be with me in person when you have ascended to me in
My universe even as I am about to ascend to my father in his greater universe and what I have told you is true and everlasting even though you may not fully comprehend it I go to the father and though you cannot now follow me you shall certainly follow
Me in the ages to come when Jesus sat down Thomas arose and said Master we do not know where you are going so of course we do not know the way but we will follow you this very night if you will show us the way when Jesus heard
Thomas he answered Thomas I am the way the truth and the life no man goes to the father except through me all who find the father father first find me if you know me you know the way to the father and you do know me for you have
Lived with me and you now see me but this teaching was too deep for many of the Apostles especially for Phillip who after speaking a few words with Nathaniel arose and said master show us the father and everything you have said will be made plain and when Philip had
Spoken Jesus said Phillip have I been so long with you and yet you do not even now know me again do I declare he who has seen me has seen the father how can you then say show us the father do you not believe that I am in the father and the father
In me have I not taught you that The Words which I speak are not my words but the words of the father I speak for the father and not of myself I am in this world to do the father’s will and that I have done my father abides in me and
Works through me believe me when I say that the father is in me and that I I am in the father or else believe me for the sake of the very life I have lived for the work’s sake as the master went aside to refresh himself with water the 11
Engaged in a spirited discussion of these teachings and Peter was beginning to deliver himself of an extended speech when Jesus returned and beckoned them to be seated four the promised helper Jesus continued to teach saying when I have gone to the father and after he has
Fully accepted the work I have done for you on Earth and after I have received the final sovereignty of my own domain I shall say to my father having left my children alone on Earth it is in accordance with my promise to send them another teacher and when the father
Shall approve I will pour out the spirit of Truth upon All Flesh already is my father’s spirit in your hearts and when this day shall come you will also have me with you even as you now have the father this new gift is the spirit of Living Truth the unbelievers will not at
First listen to the teachings of the spirit but the sons of Light will all receive him GL gladly and with a whole heart and you shall know the spirit when he comes even as you have known me and you will receive this gift in your hearts and he will abide with you you
Thus perceive that I am not going to leave you without help and guidance I will not leave you desolate today I can be with you only in person in the times to come I will be with you and all other men who desire my presence wherever you
May be and with each of you at the same time do you not discern that it is better for me to go away that I Leave You In the Flesh so that I may the better and the more fully be with you in the spirit in just a few hours the world
Will see me no more but you will continue to know me in your hearts even until I send you this new teacher the spirit of Truth as I have lived with you in person then shall I live in you I shall be one with your personal experience in the spirit kingdom and
When this has come to pass you shall surely know that I am in the father and that while your life is hid with the father in me I am also in you I have loved the father and have kept his word you have loved me and you will keep my
Word as my father has given me of his spirit so will I give you of my spirit and this Spirit of Truth which I will bestow upon you shall guide and comfort you and shall eventually lead you into all truth I am telling you these things
While I am still with you that you may be the better prepared to endure those trials which are even now right upon us and when this new day comes you will be indwelt by the son as well as by the father and the these gifts of heaven
Will ever work the one with the other even as the father and I have rought on Earth and before your very eyes as one person the son of man and this Spirit friend will bring to your remembrance everything I have taught you as the master paused for a moment Judas alfus
Made bold to ask one of the few questions which either he or his brother ever addressed to Jesus in public said Judas Master you have always lived among us as a friend how shall we know you when you no longer manifest yourself to us Sav by
This Spirit if the world sees you not how shall we be certain about you how will you show yourself to us Jesus looked down upon them all smiled and said my little children I am going away going back to my father in a little
While you will not see me as you do here as flesh and blood in a very short time I am going to send you my spirit just like me except for this material body this new teacher is the spirit of Truth who will live live with each one of you
In your hearts and so will all the children of light be made one and be drawn toward one another and in this very manner will my father and I be able to live in The Souls of each one of you and also in the hearts of all other men
Who love us and make that love real in their experiences by loving one another even as I am now Loving You Judas alfus did not fully understand what the master said but he grasped the promise of the new teacher and from the expression on Andrew’s face he perceived that his
Question had been satisfactorily answered five the spirit of Truth the new helper which Jesus promised to send into the hearts of Believers to pour out upon All Flesh is the spirit of Truth this Divine endowment is not the letter or law of Truth neither is it to function as the
Form or expression of Truth the new teacher is the conviction of Truth the Consciousness and Assurance of true meanings on real Spirit levels and this new teacher is the spirit of living and growing truth expanding unfolding and adaptative truth Divine truth is a spirit discerned and living reality
Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God you can know the truth and you can live the truth you can experience the growth of Truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its Enlightenment in the
Mind but you cannot imprison truth in formulas codes Creeds or intellectual patterns of human conduct when you undertake the human formulation of divine truth it speedily dies the postmortem Salvage of imprison truth even at best can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom static
Truth is dead truth and only dead truth can be held as a theory Living Truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind intelligence grows out of a material existence which is illuminated by the presence of the cosmic mind wisdom comprises the consciousness of knowledge
Elevated to new levels of meaning and activated by the presence of the universe endowment of the agitant of wisdom truth is a spiritual reality value experienced only by Spirit endowed beings who function upon supermaterial levels of universe Consciousness and who after the realization of Truth permit its Spirit of activation to live and
Reign within their souls the true child of universe Insight looks for the Living spirit of Truth in every wise saying the god- knowing individual is constantly elevating wisdom to The Living Truth levels of divine attainment the spiritually unprogressive soul is all the while dragging the Living Truth down to the dead levels of
Wisdom and to the domain of mere exalted knowledge the Golden Rule when divested of the Superhuman Insight of the spirit of truth becomes nothing more than a rule of high ethical conduct the Golden Rule when literally interpreted may become the instrument of great offense to one’s fellows without a spiritual discernment
Of the golden rule of wisdom might reason that since you are desirous that all men speak the full and Frank truth of their minds to you you should therefore fully and frankly speak the full thought of your mind to your fellow beings such an unspiritual interpretation of the golden rule might
Result in Untold unhappiness and no end of Sorrow some persons discern and interpret the Golden Rule as a purely intellectual affirmation of human fraternity others experience this expression of human relationship as an emotional gratification of the tender feelings of the human personality another mortal recognizes the same Golden Rule as the yard stick
For measuring all social relations the standard of social conduct still others look upon it as being the positive injunction of a great moral teacher who embodied in this statement the highest concept of moral obligation as regards all fraternal relationships in the lives of such moral beings the Golden Rule becomes the wise
Center and circumference of all their philosophy in the Kingdom of the believing Brotherhood of God knowing truth love lovers this Golden Rule takes on living qualities of spiritual realization on those higher levels of interpretation which cause the Mortal sons of God to view this injunction of the master as requiring them so to
Relate themselves to their fellows that they will receive the highest possible good as a result of the believer’s contact with them this is the essence of True Religion that you love your neighbor as yourself but the highest realization and the truest interpretation of the golden rule consists in the consciousness of the
Spirit of the truth of the enduring and living reality of such a divine declaration the true Cosmic meaning of this rule of universal relationship is revealed only in its spiritual realization in the interpretation of the law of conduct by the spirit of the son to the spirit of the father that
Indwells the soul of mortal man and when such spirit-led Mortals realize the true meaning of this Golden Rule they are filled to overflowing with the Assurance of citizenship in a friendly universe and their ideals of spirit reality are satisfied only when they love their fellows as Jesus loved us all and that
Is the reality of the real ation of the love of God this same philosophy of the living flexibility and Cosmic adaptability of divine truth to the individual requirements and capacity of every Son of God must be perceived before you can hope adequately to understand the Master’s teaching and
Practice of non-resistance to evil the Master’s teaching is basically a spiritual pronouncement even the material implications of his philosophy cannot be helpfully considered apart from their spiritual correlations the spirit of the Master’s injunction consist consists in the non-resistance of all selfish reaction to the universe coupled with the aggressive and Progressive attainment of
Righteous levels of true Spirit values Divine Beauty infinite goodness and eternal truth to know God and to become increasingly like him love unselfishness must undergo a constant and living readapted interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the spirit of Truth love must thereby grasp the everchanging and
Enlarging concepts of the highest Cosmic good of the individual who is loved and then love goes on to strike the same attitude concerning all other individuals who could possibly be influenced by the growing and living relationship of one spirit-led mortal’s love for other citizens of the universe and this entire living
Adaptation of Love must be affected in the light of both the environment of present evil and the Eternal goal of the Perfection of divine Destiny and so must we clearly recognize that neither the Golden Rule nor the teaching of non-resistance can ever be properly understood as dogmas or precepts
They can only be comprehended by living them by realizing their meanings in the living interpretation of the spirit of Truth who directs the loving contact of one human being with another and all this clearly indicates the difference between the old religion and the new the old religion taught self-sacrifice the
New religion teaches only self-forgetfulness enhanced self-realization and conjoined social service and universe comprehension the old religion was motivated by fear Consciousness the new gospel of the kingdom is dominated by truth conviction the spirit of Eternal and universal truth and no amount of piety or credal loyalty can compensate
For the absence in the life experience of Kingdom Believers of that spontaneous generous and sincere friendliness which characterizes the spirit born sons of the Living God neither tradition nor a ceremonial system of formal worship can atone for the lack of genuine compassion for one’s fellows six the necessity for
Leaving after Peter James John and Matthew had asked the master numerous questions he continued his Farewell discourse by saying and I am telling you about all this before I leave you in order that you may be so prepared for what is coming upon you that you will not stumble into serious error the
Authorities will not be content with merely putting you out of the synagogues I warn you the hour draws near when they who kill you will think they are doing a service to God and all of these things they will do to you and to Those whom you lead into the Kingdom of Heaven
Because they do not know the father they have refused to know the father by refusing to receive me and they refuse to receive me when they reject you provided you have kept my new commandment that you love one another even as I have loved you I am telling
You in advance about these things so that when your hour comes as mine now has you may be strengthened in the knowledge that all was known to me and that my spirit shall be with you in all your sufferings for my sake and the Gospels it was for this purpose that I
Have been talking so plainly to you from the very beginning I have even warned you that a man’s foes may be those of his own household although this Gospel of the Kingdom never fails to bring great peace to the soul of the individual believer it will not bring peace on Earth until
Men is willing to believe my teaching wholeheartedly and to establish the practice of doing the father’s will as the chief purpose in living a mortal life now that I am leaving you seeing that the hour has come when I am about to go to the father I am surprised that
None of you have asked me why do you leave us nevertheless I know that you ask such questions in your Hearts I will speak to you plainly as one friend to another it is really profitable for you that I go away if I go not away the new teacher cannot come
Into your hearts I must be divested of this Mortal body and be restored to my place on high before I can send the spirit teacher to live in your souls and lead your spirits into the truth and when my spirit comes to indwell you he will illuminate the difference between
Sin and righteousness and will enable you to judge wisely in your hearts concerning them I have yet much to say to you but you cannot stand anymore just now albe it when he the spirit of truth comes he shall eventually guide you into all truth as you pass through the many
Abodes in my father’s Universe this spirit will not speak of himself but he will declare to you that which the father has revealed to the son and he will even show you things to come he will glorify me even as I have glorified my father this Spirit comes
Forth from me and he will reveal my truth to you everything which the father has in this domain is now mine wherefore did I say that this new teacher would take of that which is mine and reveal it to you in just a little while I will
Leave you for a short time afterward when you again see me I shall already be on my way to the father so that even then you will not see me for long while he paused for a moment the apostles began to talk with each other what is
This that he tells us in just a little while I will leave you and when you see me again it will not be for long long for I will be on my way to the father what can he mean by this a little while and not for long we cannot understand
What he is telling us and since Jesus knew they asked these questions he said do you inquire among yourselves about what I meant when I said that in a little while I would not be with you and that when you would see me again I would
Be on my way to the father I have plainly told you that the son of man must die but that he will rise again can you not then discern the meaning of my words you will first be made sorrowful but later on will you rejoice with many who will understand these things after
They have come to pass a woman is indeed sorrowful in the hour of her travail but when she is once delivered of her child she immediately forgets her anguish in the joy of the knowledge that a men has been born into the world and so are you
About to sorrow over my departure but I will soon see you again and then will your sorrow be turned into rejoicing and there shall come to you a new revelation of the Salvation of God which no man can ever take away from you and all the worlds will be blessed in the same
Revelation of life and affecting the overthrow of death hitherto have you made all your requests in my father’s name after you see me again you may also ask in my name and I will hear you down here I have taught you in Proverbs and spoken to you in
Parables I did so because you were only children in the spirit but the time is coming when I will talk to you plainly concerning the father and his kingdom and I shall do this because the father himself loves you and desires to be more fully revealed to you mortal men cannot
See the spirit father therefore have I come into the world to show the father to your creature eyes but when you have become perfected in spirit growth you shall then see the father himself when the 11 had heard him speak they said to each other behold he does
Speak plainly to us surely the master did come forth from God but why does he say he must return to the father and Jesus saw that they did not even yet comprehend him these 11 men could not get away from their long- nourished ideas of the Jewish concept of the
Messiah the more fully they believed in Jesus as the Messiah the more Troublesome became these Dee rooted Notions regarding the Glorious material Triumph of the Kingdom on Earth paper 181 final admonitions and warnings after the conclusion of the farewell discourse to the 11 Jesus visited informally with them and recounted many experiences which
Concerned them as a group and as individuals at last it was beginning to Dawn upon these galileans that their friend and teacher was going to leave them and their hope grasped at the promise that after a little while he would again be with them but they were
Prone to forget that this return visit was also for a little while many of the Apostles and the leading disciples really thought that this promise to return for a short season the short interval between the resurrection and the Ascension indicated that Jesus was just going away for a brief visit with
His father after which he would return to establish the kingdom and such an interpretation of his teaching conformed both with their preconceived beliefs and with their Ardent hopes since their lifelong beliefs and hopes of wish fulfillment were thus agreed it was not difficult for them to find an interpretation of the Master’s Words
Which would justify their intense longings after the farewell discourse had been discussed and had begun to settle down in their minds Jesus again called the apostles to order and began the impartation of his fin admonitions and warnings one last words of comfort when the 11 had taken their seats Jesus stood
And addressed them as long as I Am with You In the Flesh I can be but one individual in your midst or in the entire world but when I have been delivered from this investment of mortal nature I will be able to return as a spirit indweller of each of you and of
All other believers in this Gospel of the Kingdom in this way the son of men will become a spiritual incarnation in The Souls of all True Believers when I have returned to live in you and work through you I can the better lead you on through this life and guide you through
The many abodes and the future life in the heaven of Heavens life in the father’s Eternal creation is not an endless rest of idleness and selfish ease but rather a ceaseless progression in grace truth and Glory each of the many many stations in my father’s house
Is a stopping place a life designed to prepare you for the next one ahead and so will the children of light go on from glory to glory until they attain the Divine estate wherein are spiritually perfected even as the father is perfect in all things if you would follow after
Me when I leave you put forth your earnest efforts to live in accordance with the spirit of my teachings and with the ideal of my life the doing of my father’s will this do instead of trying to imitate my natural Life In the Flesh as I have perforce been required to live
It on this world the father sent me into this world but only a few of you have chosen fully to receive me I will pour out my spirit upon All Flesh but all men will not choose to receive this new teacher as the guide and counselor of
The soul but as many as do receive him shall be enlightened cleansed and comforted and this Spirit of truth will become in them a well of Living Water springing up into eternal life and now as I am about to leave you I would speak words of comfort peace I leave with you
My peace I give to you I make these gifts not as the world gives by measure I give each of you all you will receive let not your heart be troubled neither Let It Be fearful I have overcome the world and in me you shall all Triumph through faith I
Have warned you that the son of men will be killed but I assure you I will come back before I go to the father even though it be for only a little while and after I have ascended to the father I will surely send the new teacher to be
With you and to abide in your very hearts and when you see all this come to pass be not dismayed but rather believe in as much as you knew it all beforehand I have loved you with a great affection and I would not leave you but it is the
Father’s will my hour has come doubt not any of these truths even after you are scattered abroad by persecution and are downcast by many Sorrows when you feel that you are alone in the world I will know of your isolation even as when you are scattered
Every man to his own place leaving the son of men in the hands of his enemies you will know of mine but I am never alone always is the father with me even at such a time I will pray for you and all of these things have I told you that
You might have peace and have it more abundantly in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer I have triumphed in the world and shown you the way to Eternal joy and everlasting service Jesus gives peace to his fellow doers of the will of God but not on the
Order of the joys and satisfactions of this material world unbelieving materialists and fatalists can hope to enjoy only two kinds of peace and soul comfort either they must be stoics with steadfast resolution determined to face the inevitable and to endure the worst or they must be optimists ever indulging
That hope which Springs Eternal in the human breast vainly longing for a peace which never really comes a certain amount of both stoicism and optimism are serviceable in living a life on Earth but neither has ought to do with that superb peace which the Son of God
Bestows upon his brethren in the flesh the peace which Michael gives his children on Earth is that very peace which filled his own soul when he himself lived the Mortal Life In the Flesh and on this very world the Peace of Jesus is the joy and satisfaction of
A god- knowing individual who has achieved the Triumph of learning fully how to do the will of God while living IM mortal Life In the Flesh the Peace of Jesus mind was founded on an absolute human faith in the actuality of the Divine father’s wise and sympathetic
Overare Jesus had trouble on Earth he has even been falsely called the men of Sorrows but in and through all of these experiences he enjoyed the comfort of that confidence which ever empowered him to proceed with his life purpose in the full assurance that he was achieving the father’s will Jesus was determined
Persistent and thoroughly devoted to the accomplishment of his mission but he was not an unfeeling and callous stoic he ever sought for the cheerful aspects of his life experiences but he was not a blind and self- deceived Optimist the master knew all that was to befall him and he was
Unafraid after he had bestowed this peace upon each of his followers he could consistently say let not your heart be troubled neither Let It Be Afraid the Peace of Jesus is then the peace and Assurance of a son who fully believes that his career for Time and
Eternity is safely and holy in the care and keeping of an all-wise all loving and all powerful Spirit father and this is indeed a peace which passes the understanding of mortal mind but which can be enjoyed to the full by the believing human heart
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