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January 24th, 1915.
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
You are now in condition, and I will give you a short message.
When I was on earth I was not worshiped as God, but was considered
merely as the son of God in the sense that in me were imposed the
Truths of my Father and many of His wonderful and mysterious powers.
I did not proclaim myself to be God, neither did I permit any of
my disciples to believe that I was God, but only that I was His
beloved son sent to proclaim to mankind His truths, and show them
the way to the Love of the Father. I was not different from other
men, except that I possessed to a degree this Love of God, which
made me free from sin, and prevented the evils that formed a part
of the nature of men from becoming a part of my nature. No man who
believes that I am God has a knowledge of the truth, or is obeying
the commandments of God by worshiping me. Such worshipers are blaspheming
and are doing the cause of God and my teachings great injury. Many
a man would have become a true believer in and worshiper of the
Father and follower of my teachings, had not this blasphemous dogma
been interpolated into the Bible. It was not with my authority,
or in consequence of my teachings that such a very injurious doctrine
was promulgated or believed in.
I am only a son of my Father as you are, and while I was always
free from sin and error, as regards the true conception of my Father's
true relationship to mankind, yet you are His son also; and if you
will seek earnestly and pray to the Father with faith, you may become
as free from sin and error as I was then, and am now.
The Father is Himself, alone. There is no other God besides Him,
and no other God to be worshiped. I am His teacher of truth, and
am the Way, the Truth and the Life, because in me are those attributes
of goodness and knowledge which fit me to show the way and lead
men to eternal life in the Father, and to teach them that God has
prepared a Kingdom in which they may live forever, if they so desire.
But not withstanding my teachings, men and those who have assumed
high places in what is called the Christian Church, impose doctrines
so at variance with the truth, that, in these latter days, many
men in the exercise of an enlightened freedom and of reason, have
become infidels and turned away from God and His Love, and have
thought and taught that man, himself, is sufficient for his own
salvation.
The time has come when these men must be taught to know that while
the teachings of these professed authorities on the truths of God
are all wrong, they, these same men, are in error when they refuse
to believe in God and my teachings. What my teachings are, I know
it is difficult to understand from the writings of the New Testament,
for many things therein contained I never said, and many things
that I did say are not written therein. I am now going to give to
the world the truths as I taught them when on earth, and many that
I never disclosed to my disciples or inspired others to write.
No man can come to the Father's Love, except he be born again.
This is the great and fundamental Truth which men must learn and
believe, for without this New Birth men cannot partake of the Divine
Essence of God's Love, which, when possessed by a man, makes him
at one with the Father. This Love comes to man by the workings of
the Holy Ghost, causing this love to flow into the heart and soul,
and filling it, so that all sin and error, which tends to make them
unhappy, must be eradicated.
I am not going to tell tonight just how this working of the spirit
operates, but, I say, if a man will pray to the Father and believe,
and earnestly ask that this Love be given him, he will receive it;
and when it comes into his soul he will realize it.
Let not men think that by any effort of their own they can come
into this union with the Father, because they cannot. No river can
rise higher than its source; and no man who has only the natural
love and filled with error can of his own powers cause that natural
love to partake of the Divine, or his nature to be relieved of such
sin and error.
Man is a mere creature and cannot create anything higher than himself;
so man cannot rise to the nature of the Divine, unless the Divine
first comes into that man and makes him a part of Its Own Divinity.
All men who do not get a part of this Divine Essence will be left
in their natural state, and while they may progress to higher degrees
of goodness and freedom from sin and from everything that tends
to make them unhappy, yet, they will be only natural men, still.
I came into the world to show men the way to this Divine Love of
the Father and teach them his spiritual truths, and my mission was
that in all its perfection, and incidentally, to teach them the
way to greater happiness on earth as well as in the spirit world
by teaching them the way to the purification of the natural love;
even though they neglected to seek for and obtain this Divine Love
and become one with the Father.
Let men ponder this momentous question, and they will learn that
the happiness of the natural man, and the happiness of the man who
has obtained the attributes of Divinity, are very different, and
in all eternity must be separate and distinct.My teachings are not
very hard to understand and follow, and if men will only listen
to them and believe them and follow them, they will learn the way
and obtain the one perfect state of happiness which the father has
prepared for his children. No man can obtain this state of Celestial
bliss, unless he first gets this Divine Love of the Father, and
so becomes at one with the Father.
I know it is thought and taught that morality and correct living
and great natural love will assure a man's future happiness, and
to a degree this is true, but this happiness is not that greater
happiness which God desires His children to have; and to show the
way to which I came to earth to teach.But in some hearts and minds
my truths found a lodgment, and were preserved to save mankind from
total spiritual darkness and a relapse to worship of form and ceremony
only.
I have written you this to show that you must not let the teachings
of the Bible, and what men wrote or professed to have written therein,
keep you from receiving and understanding what I write.
I shall write no more tonight, but I will continue to tell you
the Truths which will be "my New Gospel to all men," and when they
have heard my messages they will believe that there is only one
God, and only one to be worshiped.
With my love and blessings I close for this time.
Jesus
This message is a composite of two, being published
in Volume I on page 317 and Volume III on page 69. For more details
see this page. The correction suggested
by Judas has been applied.
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