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17th September 1916.
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
I was with you tonight at the meeting and heard what the preacher
said, and he declared some truths, and also said some things that
were not true. He said "only
those who have been converted are sons of God."
All men are the children of God, and His love and care are over
all, and they are very dear to Him, otherwise He would not have
rebestowed His love upon them and given them the privilege of becoming
inhabitants of His Celestial Kingdom.
The mere fact that they are sinners makes them no less His children,
who He is so anxious to redeem and fill with the Divine Love, and
when the preacher says "they who are sinners are not the sons
of God," he does not declare the truth, for they are all His
sons - some to enjoy the pure life and bliss which the purification
of their natural love will bring to them, and others to enjoy and
inhabit the Celestial Kingdom which the New Birth will bring to
them.
But all are His sons, though some have wandered and become strangers
to His Love, just as was the prodigal son who left his father's
house for a far country. This doctrine of the sinful not being sons
of God is a damnable and harmful doctrine, and will cause many to
give up hope of ever becoming anything else than the sons of perdition
- or as these orthodox say - of the devil.
The Father's mercy is for all, and if certain of His children do
not choose to seek and receive the Divine Love which, when possessed,
will make angels of them, yet they are His sons, and will in the
fullness of time, or before the time of the great consummation,
become pure and happy beings, as were the first parents before the
fall.
And while this preacher has a great amount of the Divine Love in
his soul, and is earnestly and in the right way seeking for more,
yet his beliefs and teachings as to the destiny and future condition
of those who may receive this love and become at one with the Father
are all wrong, and will tend to retard his own progress in the development
of his soul and in his advancement towards the Kingdom of God.
He, of course, is possessed of these beliefs because of his study
and construction of some of the declarations of the Bible, and therefore,
is not teaching what he does not believe, or what, to his own conscience,
is false. Nevertheless, it is false and he will have to suffer the
consequences of such false beliefs and teachings.
Ignorance, while it will not relieve him from its consequences,
and neither will it invoke the penalties of the law that apply to
the willful deceiver or teacher of false doctrines, yet neither
will it excuse him or relieve him from the penalties of that law
which demands the truth, and only the truth to be believed and taught.
He will have to get rid of these false beliefs, even though he may
have some of the divine in his soul; for whenever there exists untruth
in belief in the heart and soul of man, to that extent it interferes
with the inflowing of the love into and the progress of that soul
towards perfect unity with the Father.
Truth is of itself a fact. It can have no affiliation with untruth,
no matter that untruth is the result of ignorance, for all untruth
is the result of ignorance, and must be eradicated from the hearts
of men before there can be that harmony between God and man which
the very nature of truth itself requires. So that if no man could
be the son of God, who has not the perfect harmony which truth absolutely
demands, God would have no sons amongst men. The condition of the
sinner and that of the man who has experienced the New Birth differs
only in the fact that one has not commenced to have in his soul
the essence of Truth, while the other, to an extent, has that essence.
All may have that essence, and to a great abundance. Some may never
have the essence of Divine Truth, yet no man will be left without
the essence of the truth which leads to the perfect man. The truth
of the angel existence, and the truth of the perfect man are equally
truths, though the former is of a higher degree and nature than
the other.
Our first parents were the children of God - His own creatures
- good and perfect, and after their fall they became no less His
children, for His love was so great for them that in the fullness
of perfection of His plans He again bestowed upon them the privilege
of receiving His Divine Love, and sent me to proclaim the fact and
to show men the way to obtain that great love. The death that had
existed for all the long centuries was supplanted by life potential,
and I became the
way, the truth and the life, and immortality became a possibility
to men. So that, all men are the sons of God in one relation or
the other; depending in the one case whether a man will turn from
his sins and be satisfied with the perfection of his natural love
and the home that belongs to the perfect man, or seeks for the inflowing
into his soul the divine love which will enable him to enter the
Divine Heavens and have the certainty of immortality.
When God rebestowed this Divine Love on man, there was no man in
existence, or spirit either, who could be called His son, if it
were necessary that he had been converted as the preacher said,
because none had received this love which is the only thing or power
in all God's universe that can convert a man dead in trespass and
sin: yet God loved all His children and conferred upon them this
great gift, because they were His children. If God had loved only
the righteous there would have been no one who could have been the
object of His bounty. He would have had no sons or children of His
love. And now that He has rebestowed this gift, and some of the
sons of men have received and possess it, and are more in harmony
with Him, it is not true that those who were His sons and children
before its bestowal are any less His sons and children, because
they may not have sought and made this gift their own.
No, the Father's love is so great and broad and deep, that it goes
out to all the children of earth, waiting to bestow it upon them,
and the lost sheep is as much His child as the ninety and nine who
are safe in the fold, and although the lost one may never find or
enter the fold, where those are that possess His Divine Love are
sheltered, yet that sheep remains and is the object of His love.
So let preachers and others, who have assumed the responsibility
of teaching men the truths of the Father, cease from proclaiming
the doctrine that only those who have received the new birth are
the sons of God. They, of course, are not His obedient sons until
they have obtained either the Divine Love and Essence of the Father,
or the purity of the first parents before the fall, but yet they
are His, even though defiled by their own creations of sin and error.
God is love - and love knows no limitations in its heights or depths.
It exists in the highest heavens, and reaches to the lowest hells,
and will in its own way and in its own time work its own fulfillment.
All men will come into harmony with the will of the Father, which
is perfect, and even though some, and I may say the majority of
men, will not accept the invitation to become angels of His Celestial
Kingdom, which is not compulsory, yet they do His will by becoming
in the future, near or far, free from the sin and error of their
own creation, and pure and perfect as were they, whom the Father
first created and pronounced good.
Man's greatest enemy to man is he, who having received the assurance
of possessing the Divine Love, and thereby becoming as it were,
a divine son of the Father, and who believes in the errors of the
Bible and the misinterpretations of its truths, declares that all
others of mankind are hated of God, and are objects of His wrath,
and certain of eternal damnation and everlasting torment. It is
deplorable that such beliefs and such declarations should exist
and continue to be made, especially on the part of those who undertake
to lead the masses in the way to God's truths and plans for men's
happiness, and redemption from the evils and sins that cause them
so much suffering.
But all this shows the power and blindness of belief founded upon
error and untruthful teachings. And strange as it may seem, these
leaders of the ignorant may have some of the Divine Love in their
souls, and yet their mental and intellectual beliefs be so fixed
and unmoveable that the possession of this love will not cause them
to understand that the Father's love is for all, and that wrath
is not a part of His being, but a quality of sinful man that these
believers in error attribute to Him.
If God may be said to hate anything, He hates sin, but He loves
the sinner, who is the creature of His will, and who is so unfortunate
as to have created that which defiles him and to wander away, not
only from the Father, but from his own perfect and pure creation.
Well, I have written enough for tonight and I hope that what I
have said may prove beneficial not only to the sinner, but to the
man, preacher, or layman, who possessing some of the Divine Love,
proclaims that only he or others like him, are the sons of God.
As Paul said, "they see through a glass darkly," but then they
shall see face to face, and when they do, they will see such evidences
and manifestations of the Father's love that they will know that
they and their sinning brothers are all sons of the Father, although
one may be an heir to the Celestial Kingdom and the Divine Essence
of the Father, while the other may be an heir only to the pure love
of the Father, to bless and make them happy in the pure natural
love and perfect manhood which the so-called Adam possessed before
his fall.
I must stop now, but in doing so say, that you must not let what
any of these orthodox believers may say disturb your faith in our
communications, for they know only what the Bible tells them, and
you know the truths that we declare. I will soon come and write
to you a message of truth that I have been waiting sometime to write.Believe
that I love you and am with you, praying for you and helping you
with my influence.
good night, and may the Father bless you.
Your brother and friend,
Jesus
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