Lord, we've been knowing your presence all day,
that's been certain, and you're the living person
here this evening, and you have your own
wonderful ways by which you speak by your
spirit and by your word and by human
lips to our hearts, and so you will
speak tonight, and Jesus Christ will be magnified.
Amen.
I've had an inner search for many years.
I felt I needed a more total understanding
and a more total experience of God, of
myself, of the ways of God.
I was always struck by that word in
Psalms where it says, many of God's people
know his acts.
In that one of the Psalms, he made
known his acts unto Israel, his ways unto
Moses.
I know a person's acts outside me and
can benefit by them.
I know a carpenter's acts, I can benefit
by his chair.
To know the ways of the carpenter means
I'm identified with the carpenter.
He and I are one inside, and I've
learned from him how to operate from inside
and produce chairs, that's another matter.
So it's one thing for us to start
by knowing the wonderful acts of God through
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It's another thing to become co-with God,
fellowship with God, cooperation, union with God, so
we act as God.
We know his ways and are going along
with God in his ways, that's what I
was after.
Something more total.
Paul's always used the word all, all sufficiency,
and all things, and bow down to every
good work.
All power to all wisdom and all longsufferings,
I can do all things through Christ.
He loved that word all.
Paul didn't say what he didn't know, he
didn't talk theory, he knew all.
So there's an all that we can know.
I needed an all this expansion of understanding
which could become an expansion of experience.
It could be an operating experience which met
my inner needs, meets my outer needs.
That's of course been the subject you precious
people have had every year as you've met
in the conferences.
I'm only echoing what you hear continually.
So that's been a kind of search with
me for years, maybe 30 or 40 years.
My basis always has been the written word,
that stood to me as the final revelation,
as you see all of us here.
So I hope all we say is based
on and is an explanation of the written
word, we can turn back to that at
any time, but I've been other sources.
I'd like a great deal for the mystics,
because they knew union.
I wanted union with God, they knew union.
Santa Teresa and John of the Cross and
Catherine Siena and John Roy's book and Richard
Towler and Micey Cart, wonderful men.
And to me the greatest of all, the
man who had the understanding as well, the
great rather unknown German Jacob Burmer, books are
difficult to get, and his English interpreter William
Law made a tremendous revolution in my life
when I began to feed on them about
a few years ago.
And other authors along the way and people
along the way have been helps to consolidate
in me some understanding which I hope has
become experience, because you live by experience of
course, live what you are.
So that's the kind of thing that I'm
seeking to share with you these days, so
you must understand please, I'm not a public
speaker, I don't have ever known how to
make a sermon of five points or something,
I forget the last point when it comes
or something, and so I just wander on,
and I shall wander on these days, mercifully
for me, I don't say mercifully for you,
I'll be given I think five sessions, and
so I just want to understand those sessions
will move from one to the other.
I should just begin to something today, this
evening, and pick it up again next time
I speak, pick it up again next time
I speak, and make a whole of it.
I think I should say also, therefore, what
I start by saying tonight may not mean
much by itself, it may seem somewhat floating
in the air, not down to earth, because
the gospel which isn't a gospel by Christ
expressed in human lives is not a gospel,
but you've got to get there first.
So I have to start, because I have
to start on foundations, and foundations aren't so
pleasant to look into as superstructure.
So I just say to you, if some
of you say, well I don't know what
you're talking about tonight, okay, Roland told you
one of the graces of the new man
is to have long patience, well have some
long patience then, and stick it out till
tomorrow, and the next day, and a few
more days, and some of it may tie
together, as the Lord spreads out his word.
So I just say those things in the
background.
I have the misfortune, or good fortune, to
be English, so I speak old-fashioned and
correct English.
Sorry.
I prefer the shortened form of the Americans
myself, but I'm only learning that one.
So people don't always find my language very
intelligible, and I usually talk too fast, so
if you get 10 percent, pretty good.
Maybe the background scripture word, that's how I
just repeat, curiously, it's out of the same
letter which we've been repeating all today, the
Ephesians, where Paul spoke about top-line Christians.
Ephesians were top people, of course, he's speaking
about the heavenly life in the Ephesian letter,
and to them he said, now I pray
to your eyes, you are understanding me, be
enlightened.
So they had more to find out, although
they were top people.
The eyes of your eyes say may enlighten
you, come a little more to understand what
it is.
To move into what?
To move, as he said that in his
prayer, his first prayer in the first chapter,
to move into what he ended up by
in his perhaps greatest of all prayers in
the third chapter, when he said that we
might be filled with all the fullness of
God.
That's some statement, isn't it?
Filled with all the fullness of God.
So I put those together, that the eyes
of understanding may be enlightened, which may result
in, I won't say discovery, I'd rather say
for the benefit of confirmation, the fullness of
God.
I don't believe really in teaching, because I
believe there's only one teacher and he's inside
us, because the Bible says so.
Bible 1 John 2 says, if you have
the Holy Spirit, you have the, that no
man need teach you, because you know all
things.
Because when you are in true tune with
him, everything is a product of his, so
in tune, you're in tune with everything really.
So the Bible says all teaching is really
inner confirmation.
It isn't without a word, so I understand
when we share together, I'll throw something out
and you throw something back, and between those
two, the spirit in me will confirm or
deny, confirm or deny, and say okay, okay,
or otherwise.
And so I say, oh yes, that's it,
there's nothing I like, I'm happy about that
when somebody comes to me and says, yeah
I always saw that, I just haven't seen
it put that way, I say, oh that's
it.
Because the light of the teacher is already
there.
So what we're talking about these days is
only really to confirm what, what is, what
he is, what we are, that's all.
I often put it under the terms of
questions of, what, who am I?
Because all I am is myself, all I've
got is myself, all you've got is yourself.
So I better know how I am and
how I function.
So I sometimes say, seeking to answer questions,
uh, what is life?
If I know what life is, how do
I live it?
If I know how to live it, why
do I live it?
They're pretty well covered, the kind of things
I want to have answered.
Now you're being blessed in these meetings, obviously,
by what perhaps is more, what suits better,
a direct practical application of daily living.
We had it in Larry this morning, we
had it in Roland and Marcia this afternoon,
the practical outworkings.
Mine will appear to you more like a
theory, but theory lies behind practice.
Theory becomes practice, as long as it's not
just theory but truth.
But I'm speaking more on that line, especially
as we begin.
So, from there I'll say, um, the first
great background discovery I've had, revelation, I won't
use the word careful, revelation.
By revelation I mean something which, nothing is
real to you unless it's inside you.
So the only way things become conscious, which
is yours, according to my gospel of St.
Paul, that insider.
So it's right to use the word revelation
as long as it's revelation of what's already
been given, not some new weird thing.
So when I say revelation, I mean, oh,
that's it, it's become mine now.
That's truth, isn't it?
That's what I mean.
In my search for some coordination, I felt
there are areas of life and meaning of
life that didn't fit.
I missed some more.
I've got a very simple illustration, but tremendous.
When I discovered that there's only one person
in the universe, I found something, that there's
only one person in the universe, that's it.
That's a startling statement.
There's only one person in the universe, and
the whole universe is his means of manifestation.
I saw that in the Bible, in the
beginning, God.
In the beginning, God, everything must be some
form of God, but we've got more than
God.
I had to discover that life isn't God
and, it's God only.
Get that?
It isn't God and, that's our trouble.
When life is God and, and you've got
a multitude of ands, that's our trouble.
Separation is our trouble, unity is our secret,
or unification, if you prefer that word.
It isn't God and, it's God only.
God, in the beginning, God, everything must be
a part of him, some form of him.
And there, when I move through scripture, I
find we're told the end.
We're told the final consummation, when the last
enemy has been destroyed, which is death.
The son, in 1 Corinthians 15, renders up
the kingdom of the Father, that God may
be all in all.
If he's all, he's not some.
If he's all, he's all there is.
And then, when I, when I saw what
Jesus had said, and, and it gave us
the inner, inner revelation of who this person
is, said he's spirit, I saw.
Jesus said that.
There are two great three-worded statements, which
are the keys to me.
This is the first.
Jesus said, didn't say some big theologian, say
it's a woman, with the woman of Samaria.
God is spirit.
Now, I understand why spirit is, because the
Bible also says we're spirits.
The Bible says he follows our spirit.
So, I, you know, our real self, our
I am is our spirit.
That's the unchangeable universal you.
Your in, I am, your I am, that's
your spirit.
It's expressed through soul and body.
Your I am, your, your knowing and desiring
and willing, that's what an I am is,
a knower and a desirer and a willer.
That I am must have a form of
expression which is meaningless.
So, our, our human I am, it is
expressed through our soul and body.
Our soul is our reasons which express our
claim to knowledge.
It is our emotions which express our desires.
And then the body is our expression.
So, spirit is only manifestable when he has
the, when he has his form of manifestation.
So, I know the spirit must be, must
be a manifested spirit, because we're spirit, we're,
we're spirits.
Created spirits.
This is a created spirit.
For instance, a very simple point is this.
I meet you, you meet me.
Maybe we never met before.
Suppose your name is Eleanor.
I don't always say, I don't always say
I met a body named Eleanor.
I always say I met a person named
Eleanor.
I didn't mean I met a person through
a body.
Oh, it's quite different.
I met somebody who began to express himself
or herself out through something and I caught,
not the body, but the person.
So, we're always really relating on, on spirit
level, if we understand it.
So, see that, that put me in focus.
God is spirit.
Oh, I said, I see.
Of course you know, but not all Christians
know.
The whole universe is his self-manifestation.
So, when my eyes open to him, I
see him everywhere and everything, good and evil.
Got to find God in the evil world,
we'll go on to that a little later
on.
There's nothing in the universe but God.
There's nothing in the universe but God, one
person only, and he's in myriad, myriad, myriad,
marvellous forms of manifestation.
So, to me, life is total worship.
As soon as we say I worship here
in the early morning, lovely, but life's total
worship to me.
Everything I see, a minute form, this wonderful
person, light form, colour form, this form, that
form, that form, marvellous.
So, I see one marvellous person expressing himself
through multitude, multitude, multitude, self-manifestation.
There is only one person.
I tell you, there's a key there.
Jesus said it very simply in Matthew 5,
where he said if your eye is single,
it radiates through your body.
This time your inner eye, of course.
Your eye is single, your body is full
of light.
Single, of course, is seeing one.
Then he added a curious statement.
He said, if your eye is evil, what
is through the darkness?
But the opposite of single isn't evil.
The opposite of double, why did he say
double?
Because to see double is evil.
To see anything God, even to see the
devil through God, or shall I, God through
the devil, to see anything except God, you're
in trouble.
Certainly, when you perfectly see a perfect God
in perfectly everything, you're there, in with him,
in his manipulating everything to that perfection which
Roland spoke and this afternoon, that beautiful perfection,
which is here now.
Let me see you clear.
All our troubles is seeing many things in
many people.
All our troubles is seeing one only in
all things, everything, everywhere, forever.
Some glory.
That's the one.
All in all.
Now when you see, though the universe will
see one day the all, now you see
the end, that God may be all, so
he's what all is, he's all, he's all.
In all, in his forms of manifestation.
You're a kind of peanut sized all in
all, you're a little all spirit, so you'll
live through your all body.
It's not very peanuts of a size, what
we call much of a cross, but that's
all.
This is the one.
It may not mean much now, or maybe
to you, many of you, it means a
great deal.
I speak to companies here, I know, who
do know these kind of secrets, but they
don't meet with everywhere.
It had to become a revelation to me,
a revolution, a revolutionising revelation too.
And the other simple fact, which settled it
up for me, was when I asked the
further question, well if this one is all,
like that sewing, weaving business, you express what
you are, you produce what you are, what
kind of person is he of whom this
is all?
And we know the answer, thank God.
If Jesus said God is spirit, John said
God is love, is, is and has, is,
is, is.
You're an iser, not a haser.
You're a being, not a becoming.
And he is, is love to me, that's
all he is.
There isn't one single thing about this, what
love, wrath isn't in him, wrath is in
the silly you, because you go wrong, not
in me.
There's no wrath in God, he's nothing but
perfect love, endless love.
Everything is that, but what's love mean?
Very simple, we know, put in simple terms,
love means for others, the love we're talking
about, love means for others, love means I'm
for you, we're so precious to others here,
I'm for you, in some way which I
can be a benefit to you, here I
am, if you're love, if you're a benefit
to me, you're here I am.
So love has this motivation, my joy, my
completion is if I'm a, by some means,
something for others, that's love, that's all it
is.
That's why I think I got that kind
of revelation topped for me, when I saw
in the last, the final simple given of
the one on the throne, I think twenty
times or so in revelation, the lamb on
the throne, well you know the Bible really
is rather funny, I mean, to call almighty
God a little bar lamb is some difference,
almighty God, every part of the universe is
this person in its self-expression, almighty God,
a lamb, some startling difference.
So I said to myself, why a lamb?
Well I think I saw at least an
interpretation, which maybe you see if it's clear
to me, I take the lamb to be
symbol of the most helpless little creature you
can think of, I have a nice pussycat
but he has got claws, which are annoying
sometimes, a lamb hasn't even got any claws,
not I know of, it's helpless, it's a
simple little play thing, a helpless thing, available,
do what you like with a lamb, play
with it, shear it when it grows up,
kill it, eat it, it's available.
So it's a symbol of a little creature
who's helplessly available.
What then I said to myself is the
difference between the earthly lamb and the lamb
of God, why?
This, this little lamb is helplessly available, this
one's purposely available, he means to be for
you, he exists to be for you, what
happened to him isn't the point, if you
go to hell for us, which he did,
he'll go to hell, if you shed his
blood for us, he'll shed it, anything, so
I may be perfected, I may be completed,
I may be as happy as I'm meant
to be through eternity, I may be as
available, as efficacious as I'm meant to be
through eternity, as perfected as I'm meant to
be, you know you're a God, don't you?
Bible says Jesus said we are God, you
know that, don't you?
Who has a starting statement?
In John 10, not he, we.
He quoted the Old Testament and said if
the word of God comes into you, you
are God.
So you see, we move to be co
-Gods, co-Gods is to be a co
-everybody, this is.
So there's something in us which seeks to
be totally what we should be, we should
have ability, we should have capacity, we should
produce the goods we should produce, we should
have the inner satisfaction, we should have the
happiness, there's something about we should be total,
that's the word glory, it means that, but
we're glorified also, it says Christ is glorified
in his people, so we're glorified, he says
the glory I have with you I've given
them, he says, so amazing we are, it
says we're already glorified, whom he has justified,
he's already glorified, we, what needs to lift
our sights, who we are, don't we?
In this Christ relationship, which we're talking about,
in this God relationship, what we are, but
I'm only saying there, that just bringing out
this fact, what a mendous fact, the universe
is a person who exists to perfect his
universe, not to perfect himself, his total satisfaction,
he can totally complete all his love purposes
in his total universe, starting with us, that's
all, he hasn't any other interest in him,
that's love, that's where we see the contrast
between the universe governed by God and it's
that, now if you see it, if you
see, you see total love in operation now,
when we get off our negative thinking, our
media and so on and see positively, you
find a perfect world now, yes you do,
in perfect operation now, it doesn't look like
it, as we've got to learn to replace
faith by sight, I think I got that
wrong, I mean replace sight by faith, in
simple form we've got to learn, as we
go, to change to be a see-etter
to a see-througher, got that?
Through the thought we see atter, at everything,
at, at, at, it's just, it's only temporary
phase stuff, temporary, not quite illusion, but just
passes by, things that are seen in a
temple, things that are not seen in eternal,
we live in gear, where we always see
through, not see at, you find Jesus always
saw through, always saw through, Paul always saw
through, they had to walk their way through
from one to the other, we're human, always,
so the key in life is when we
are see-throughers, instead of see-etters, I'm
saying all this, all this in relation at
this moment to this marvellous fact, this marvellous
foundation of the universe, a God who is
nothing but love, therefore this universe is built
on love, for love, to be completed in
love and nothing else, and that's why there's
a basic harmony, we have the word harmony
coming up today, because love is harmony, love
is everything should be in balance, in proportion,
so together, people and things, that's love, that's
love harmony, that's God, and we see the
startling contrast, because we live in a world
governed by people who are, who are self
-lovers, not other lovers, that's where we see
chaos, this world presents, it's meant to present,
we're meant to see the opposite in this
world, so it was torn apart, because people
always, in the end, want to get what
they can for themselves, all history has been
kings and tyrants, you had some business about
the 1776, if I remember rightly, and so,
all the, people want things for themselves, fighting
for themselves, because self has been the influential
power of those in power, so it's a
chaotic world, have, have nots, wars, jealousies, hatreds,
because the pull is, what can I get
out of myself?
So, in self-loving self, there's fundamental disharmony,
in self-giving self, there's fundamental harmony, and
this one is the person, the whole universe
is a self-giving person, look, look around
us, look at nature, look at what we
have been through today, look at sun, look
at flowers, look at, self-giving universe, we
can see it, can't we?
It's nice to see, and the whole world
is that when you see it, it's a
product, a manifestation of a self-giving person,
so we're in a marvellous world, which has
only one basic, which can never be changed,
we can fool around with it, and learn
by fooling, it can never be changed, it's
the expression of a person who fixed eternally
is nothing but love, and the whole universe
is, is moving into this, is now when
you see it, we're to know how to
interpret that now, uh, and into this eternity,
and we see this glaring contrast in persons,
precious persons, we can talk about them, who
turn it around the other way, with continualness,
we can't get out of it, we can't
when, uh, this, um, um, I mean, I'm
in some, uh, I'm in some touch with
Jimmy Carter, I know him, I mean, even
if you have a man who does love
the Lord, he won't, he won't change the
world, Jesus Christ will change the world, he
may help en route, bless him, I'm all
for a person who has a bit of
the Holy Spirit, but nobody can do it,
whatever you, because there's a fundamental virus there,
isn't there, we can talk about that, the
self-centered virus, but that guy's put out
in Jesus Christ, as we heard this afternoon,
and the, the other one's put in in
Jesus Christ, but we can talk about that.
So now, uh, that began to settle me,
oh, I can fit, I can see what
the universe is, where it fits, when I
see one person, the universe is a person,
there's nothing else but a person, things, things
are only outer expressions, the whole universe is
a person, and as we come to see
in Marlow's case, we is part of that
person, forms of that person, person, whole universe
is person and persons in one, that's all
it is, we don't talk principle terms, we
talk person terms, principles are dangerous, they become
its and things, person is, is the truth
of the, I am, we had it in
our course, I am the way the truth
of life is.
The next settling in I, I had, was
when I saw, which is, really I suppose
obvious, but in the, it's only a forgotten
sun, that, uh, it's a simple, a universal
can only be known in its manifested form,
a universal is everything, you can't know everything,
you only know when it comes out in
a particular form, then you know the universal
by its form, it can't be known any
other way.
For instance, electricity has been here a good
long time, I reckon, it wasn't discovered until
people began to see sparks coming out, Faraday
and Bell and so on, because these sparks
come, all these sparks, get to something which
is manifested, then it turns to light, turns
to heat, turns to power, now we know
electricity, not by electricity, but by its manifestation,
oh that's electricity, and that, that heat, that's
electricity, that's power, that's electricity, then we explore
further how to, uh, how to make good
use of, of, of this, of the universal
power.
I'm going over time, I do go on
forever, I'm afraid, I have to watch, um,
do I go on?
I don't know, all right, um, I'm going
to take you for a step further, which
at least begins to what I, begins to
bring what I'm saying down to earth, shall
we say, and that is a universal is
unknowable unless it comes out and forms, ever
seen an atom?
Atom's been here a long time, I reckon,
oh, this is atom, things are forms of
an immense power we call atomic power, oh
my, they're forms of something which is in
my form, let's move back from the forms
to the power, and let's learn, learn how
to, to, to fuse the hydrogen atom or
something, get some more power, so you see
the principle, you cannot see a universal fact
unless it manifests in forms, so the father
could never have been seen unless he manifested
himself in his only begotten son, so the
heart of the universe, the, the, the manifestation
of the universe is his son, right in
the centre of the universe is the manifested
God, the father is manifested by his son
and could not be known without him, that's
why we know his father, because we know
the Lord Jesus Christ is a son of
the Saviour, it's the Lord Jesus Christ, the
son of the Saviour, which introduces to him
as the father, and you'll find whether a
genuine faith trying to find the way, if
you don't know Jesus Christ, you've finally got
a vagueness about the God, because it happens,
it can't know, it's known as a person
through the person, the manifested Jesus Christ, well
you know him as a person of the
Saviour, oh he's my father, he's his father,
my father, now we've got there, and the
other supremely important purpose of, of manifested person,
this is the manifested person, we're moving on
to talk about persons, extremely important is this,
it's the next level of manifested persons who
enlarge and produce more and more the purposes
of the father, he's the kind of, the
reproducing level, I mean what I mean is
this, no great founder of a firm spreads
his firm abroad, Henry Ford starts it, he
can't continue it, he has to have another
level of sons and executives who takes the
Ford genius and the Ford resources and makes
a British Ford and a Dutch Ford and
a German Ford and a Canadian Ford and
so on, so the second level of sons
and executives take the resources of the father
and reproduce them in all kinds of new
forms, that's the purpose of sons, to be
the agent which the father comes out in
new manifested forms, that's the son of course
of creation, let there be light, that's the
first revelation given us in the Bible of
the word of faith, the word of faith,
we're going to talk more of it, it's
very simple, we'll talk more of it, he's
called the word isn't he, the word of
faith, what's that mean, you know best, you
know, it isn't faith, prayer, isn't trying to
get God down here to do something because
he's asleep and we're awake, do wake up
and come and do it Lord, the truth
of the universe is a living God who's
pressing himself through in love, he's the pressure
point, he's pressing himself through in love and
purpose and grace and perfection, pressing himself through,
the son's there to let him through, that's
all, let there be light, so when faith
is hard work it's off beam, when it's
fun and easy it's on beam, let there
be, why, because faith is saying you're on
the job God, go to it, I'm saying
you're doing it, that's all, you're only affirming
as the agent that God's doing a thing,
he's pressing on you that he intends to
do, not that you try to get him
to do, he's already doing and you're letting
him through, that's all faith is, simple as
can be, and this is the first manifestation
in history of the worldly operation, let there
be light, let there be so and so,
there's the sun operation, now what's the tremendous
importance of that, suns, suns, now there we
go beyond understanding, we might see how the
sun could let the father through as water,
sun, moon, vegetation, minerals, animals, persons, that's now
the like himself and the consummation of the
letting through was persons leveled up into spirits,
spirits unite with spirits, that's what we have
union with God, where he made his own
image, in his image and where it was
spirits, so there came into being the beginning
of a vast family of spirit sons, whose
real basis isn't their body, that's only out
of form, don't be a body son, be
a spirit affirmer, much better, the true spirit,
the I am in utter form, this came
to be, equal with God, leveled with God,
in his image, began to come into being,
that was the summit of creation, and just
to complete that understanding as I began to
fit these things together, I made a big
leap, I make a leap now for a
moment of the whole human history which is
what interests us of course, how we function
down here is what interests us, I'm jumping
at the moment, here we are, the birth
of a family, the creation shall I say
of a family, like God, made in his
image, who will unite with him, who will
be co-gods, co-brethren, co-saviours, co
-cooperators with him, with his son, kept, began
to come into being, now we're going to
talk a little further about the family and
how it functions, leaving all that, what do
we find at the other end, just to
put it in focus, what do we find
at the other end, we find the last
thing we're told is when we have come
into a redeemed relationship with the sons, our
Lord Jesus Christ, we are made co-heirs,
what's the meaning of that one, heirs of
God, joint heirs with Christ, now the word
heir is both an excitement and a privilege,
because the word heir means you've inherited something,
well it's rather a thrill when the old
answer has died at last, you've got twenty
five thousand or something, all right, whoo, there's
a new, twenty five thousand come to me,
it's a privilege and a thrill to be
inherited, it's a privilege, it's a responsibility, what
shall I do with it, of course if
you're a right person you get to camp
far south on missions, that depends on the
kind of person you are, but you see
what I mean, you're moving out of those
so-called jokes, you know what I mean,
you get this, an inheritor is privileged and
responsible, he's privileged, look, come to me, what
shall I do with it, can I get
this, that you and I are already inheritors
of the universe, can I get that, in
Hebrews chapter one, where it's, as no one
else could say to us, that the son
is the total manifestation of the father, the
brightness of his glory and the express image
of his person and all statements of that
kind, and then it says here, whom he
has appointed heir of all things, Hebrews one
two, so quietly this son inherits the universe,
fantastic of course, we're co-inheritors, now it's
too big even to be a thrill for
us, I think probably it's too advanced for
us even to catch him up thrill yet,
of the fact that we inherit his universe,
but um, a little touch, but responsibility, inheritance
is thrill, responsibility, therefore one thing is necessary,
if God's going to manage his universe by
his sons, he better have reliable sons, that's
sure, or they'll make a mess of the
universe like they have in this world, he's
got to get reliable sons, and he's provided
himself with reliable sons, and you're some of
them, if you're born again, yeah, I take
it, thanks God, perhaps everybody here is, what
I mean, very simple, very simple, what is
the, what is, I told you, what's the
basic drive of the father, why is he
a safe God, not only, why is he
a safe God, because he's a lover God,
he's a, not a loved, a lover father,
he's safe, because he exists for the universe,
what happens to him isn't the point, what
happens to the universe is a point, he's
harm, he's safe, he's harmonising everything, at any
price to himself, in the exercise of his
powers, wonder and glory, to that one end,
that's all, a safe father, you're a safe
son, if you're a lover son, not loved,
a lover son, it's a very, we had
it in Romans, the motivation we had, we
can't have, we must be for others, if
something's basically happened to us, that's what we've
got to get to, so the, our basic
drive is something for others, we may wibble
and wobble around a bit, but there's a
basic drive, a new man drive, the new
man drive, a basic drive, you're a safe
son, because you're, we're safe, when what we're
doing really is for the benefit of the
others, that's why one John's, one of the,
of course, it's a great, one John's a
great letter which interprets love to us, and
he speaks there, he says, you stumble when
you hate your brother, why?
Because when you hate your brother, you want
to do what pleases you, and you stumble,
if your attitude to your brother is, how
I see it, you stumble, if it's centring
around what you think it ought to be,
what oughtn't to be, you stumble, if you
are, if your motivation is him, you'll always
be right, however much you seem to stumble,
if you're doing what you see to be
best for him, it's your right, love is
for others, love is harmony, so you see,
God has his, his, his perfected universe, we
have a vast family, millions of sons who
are safe sons, because they're lover sons, because
they have a total basic motivation, they're here
to do what they can to bless and
complete that share of the universe for which
they've become responsible, speaking those terms, so isn't
it tremendous, that we've already been destined, fixed
and chosen and destined as co-sons with
his son, his son leveled himself down to
us up to him, so we're co-sons,
co-brothers, co-heirs, actually co-gods, because
we operate with all the forces of God,
as we talk about a little later on,
because a spiritual son has a father within
him, we have to go on that, you
know that, earthly, you see, we got so
used to earthly, earthly characteristics, that we always
see people outside, we fall into the outer
world, so a son's there, a father's there,
we seem to separate people, not in the
spirit, one's in the other, all this one
vast unity now, everything's easy to see it,
one vast unity, but a father's in his
son, so when Jesus was on earth, he
could say, it was significant, he'd say, they'd
say to him, show us a father, will
you?
They were living in the third dimensional separation
outlook, height, length, width, there's no height, length,
width in God, geography isn't in God, there's
no space, time in God, it's universal, and
so they were using geographic terms, oh go
to the father, where are you going to,
show us to him, oh no, he's got
it all wrong, if you've seen me, you've
seen the father, but he wasn't the father,
he was the son, he's walking about in
the flesh, it looked like a very common
man down here, doing a few miracles and
so on, of course a few saw differently,
he said, if you've seen me, you've seen
the father, seen him, seen the father, yes,
he says that, and John goes in, if
you've seen, you've seen the father, thank God,
that's how we know what the father's like,
isn't that wonderful, he's exactly like the son,
and the son to put it, a loving
person, he's pretty fierce on hypocrisy, he loves
everybody, he loves adulterers, and loves thieves, and
loves murderers, he doesn't like, doesn't like hypocrites,
that's the only one he can't stand, otherwise
he has a universal love, is that, if
you've seen the son, you've seen the father,
so you see, spiritually, fathers dwell in sons,
oh now we're going to get somewhere, fathers
dwell in sons, and the son is a
spontaneous manifestation of the father and his character,
when the father nature is a loving nature,
the son's nature is a loving nature, so,
by these means, I don't know what it
means to you, I began to first of
all get a co-ordinated outlook on the
whole eternal being, beady of being, tremendous, unfilled
with a universe that's only love, unfilled with
a universe which is a direct expression down
to his last leaf and last hair, where
he said even our hairs are numbered, well
his computer isn't inside his computer, it's because
he's inside the hair, that's why, because he's
inside everything, isn't Jesus wonderful?
A little sparrow doesn't fall together with a
father, isn't that wonderful?
Well of course, the sparrows are part of
the father, the sparrow falls with the father,
that's all, quite easy, wonderful, when I've seen
this one person expressed in this, in our
tore up world, in marvellous beauty, marvellous glory,
marvellous harmony, if there wasn't scientific harmony, you
wouldn't be having people running around on Mars
or something now, would you?
Unless every single millionth of a millionth of
a millionth was in order and doesn't change,
you wouldn't have people flying up on the
moon, would you?
We already see the harmony, the laws, the
perfection of God, which we mess up a
bit, oh we already messed up our part
of the surface, that's all, God's busy cleaning
up the mess, that's all, through Jesus Christ,
quite simple, and when I see this, so
I see this and then see that to
be manifested, he could only be manifested by
forms, because the universe has to be, he's
his beloved in the Trinity, he's the God
in the manifested son form, and the spirit
is the one who reproduces what faith, what
son does, spiritual reproducer, thought, word, deed, thought,
thought is the father level, word is the
son level, the word of faith, deed is
the spirit level, because everything is Trinity, because
the whole world is Trinitarian because it's forms
are in the Trinity, as if it's in
the Trinity, but then to get this, that
in this eternal purpose, which always was his,
and as his son began to let him
through as this and this, he was going
to let him through as people on his
own level, made in his image, like in
spirits, who would level up and unite with
the father and the son, and the Holy
Spirit, and be part of that family, be
equals, I always love the word where it
says of God, he wants fellowship, see we
are so trained because of our lost condition,
because of our guilt, and because of our
fears, of course the Bible says, you've not
got the spirit of bondage, you've got the
fear, but we've got so used to that,
that we have a kind of distant awe
of God, and often our very church postures
make us think of that, but you know
I love it where it says, God wants
fellowship, that's in 1 John 1, truly our
fellowship is not just for the son, with
the father, fellowship is fun isn't it, fellowship
is freedom, that's what we have here, levelling
up, we're not going to be sat on
our face for God, we're going to enjoy
him and have some fun with him, he's
going to have some fun with us, you
watch, he loves it, it doesn't love that,
it doesn't love equality, we older parents, it's
lovely to watch our children coming up, our
joy is when they equal up with us,
and they cease to be daughter and son,
become kind of fellows with us, going through
life, we love it then don't we, we
can share with our sons and then we
found the end, they become fellows, isn't that
beautiful, I don't know what beautiful statement made,
marvellous again, my God, this almighty person, when
he almost proudly said, oh Abraham is my
friend, and Moses is my friend, hasn't God
delighted to call two men his friend, and
then Jesus said, so are you, so are
you, I don't call you servants any longer,
you're friends, so we lift up our spirits
right up to this free level, we become
free, we'll talk about that later as we
go, we become free in this, when we
understand in reality the union relationship, we're free,
and so I, you see, I was just
seeking to see this amazing, he pans through
the ages, that person, all that is in
the universe is persons, you get that, the
universe is one person expressed in forms, the
forms are only expressions of the person, they
aren't expressed the person, they're the forms, same
with your body, it's a form of you,
it's tabula, you're the one inside, that's one,
and in marvellous purpose, he's himself come out
in a manifest form in his deity, his
own son, and he's linked us up with
his own deity, he says, I'll have a
few millions more sons, because he gets more
than we think, I believe in many sons
coming into glory, I believe there are all
kinds of ways in which many people we
don't know of are coming in there, I
won't talk about that now, and a vast
family of millions of sons, it's always for
this purpose, to have a vast family, who
couldn't be anything else, who become, I'm going
to talk about that, become fixed, can only
be self-givers, cannot any longer be self
-lovers, and so they've got this motivation and
their freedom, they retain their personality, they express
themselves as they are, a variety of personality,
and you have a whole family, a love
family, and this love family with this purpose,
somehow and way, ministering on in the universe,
whatever that means, as the universe, and we
are part of that, can you get that?
No wonder I laugh my way through life,
it's a joke and a glory, well, that's
the kind of background.
Now, I won't go on much farther, to
have mercy on you, but I'll touch a
little more, so as to give more little
time as we go on, um, there are
certain conditions which have to be settled.
See, here's a curious fact of life, curious,
it's a fact of life, life cannot be
manifested except by opposites, and all choice hangs
between opposites what faith is, a thing can
only be known by its opposite, you can't
know light unless it's dark, you can't know
sweetness as bitter, you can't know yesness as
no, you can't know lifelessness as death, the
words, they're two sides of one fact actually,
what we sometimes think of as positive, they're
one, but they must, they only become a
thing through the two, uh, you ladies who
cook, you can't make the thing sweetness is
first non-sweet, and the same kind of
non-sweet made sweet, you must have the
non-sweet material first, which you make sweet,
then that makes something sweet, it must have
a non-sweet to make sweet, isn't there?
You see, you've got to have both sides
of a thing to make it, to make
it an entity real, uh, you go to
bed and come to a bed here, well
you, you, you must start by a negative
wooden framework, uh, you, I hope you sort
out the framework by the mattress, the soft
mattress, you've got to have a soft mattress
to make comfortable bed, you've got to have
a hard bed to support it, you can't
have a bed without a combination of the
two, all life's combination of two, how to
combine, so the truth of all life is
all life is handling opposites, all our problems,
how to balance opposites, how to make them
work, opposites, all our problems are opposites, how
to handle them, how to make them fit
together, the actual way in which they fit
together is really the one swallows up the
other, the bible term is life swallows up
death, in other words, when we are in
eternal life, we should only know eternal life
because there was death, we're out of that,
see, there's always the, um, and, uh, sweet
swallows up bitter, light swallows up dark and
so on, that's, that's the process, now we
come right up against facing this if I'm
a person and finding my answer to it,
you cannot be a person unless you're conscious
of opposites and you have the capacity of
choice, you could have come here tonight or
you could not, obviously, all life is between
opposites and all life is knowing, knowing opposites
and knowing how to relate the two so
one eats the other up, swallows it up
and the choice makes the two into an
entity, you're, you're, you're coming here tonight to
swallow it up, no I won't, I'll stay
at home, you swallowed up the nose with
your ears and that's made a, here you
are, all life is that, now there's a,
just a, as a, as a tremendous basic
issue here which is the human, the necessity
of the human history, the fall of man
has been a necessity, God meant it to
be, no foolery, it wasn't just some uncomfortable
bitter luck, it had to be, we'll see
why, the fall is as necessary as salvation
and, and, and, and the resurrection is necessary,
to be a whole person, all I say
is this, did any of you ever see
that remarkable fact that there's a place in
the Bible where God's power is denied him,
where God says you've not got power there,
period, that's a bit of a strong thing
to say almighty God isn't it, isn't the
whole universe, God does exactly what he likes,
you would think so, the Bible suddenly says
no it isn't, in two verses the Bible
says there's something God cannot do, he cannot
lie, now the whole strength of the word
is the word cannot, that's in Titus 1
too, it's also in Hebrew 6, but where
you see, if it says it didn't, okay,
or shouldn't, or hadn't, okay, I can't, so
it confronts God, God does something you can't
do, that's something isn't it, why, because God's
the first person in the universe, he's a
person, a person's only a person because he
stands between opposites, he's chosen and become fixed,
he's fixed his opposites together, a person's only
a person, so he stands between choices, he's
made his choices and he's fixed them, and
then he remains a person on the level
he's fixed him, why can't God lie, because
a liar is a self-getter, if I
lie to you, I don't care about you,
I care about myself, I'm going to get
what I want, if you're hurt you're hurt,
period, but I'll get what I want, a
liar is, I'll get what I want, a
liar's a self-getter, God cannot be a
self-getter, he can only be a self
-giver, what happens to him isn't the point,
as long as we get what we need,
that's God, and that cannot is tremendous, it
means that right in the very heart of
the being of God, a fixation has taken
place, God cannot be the opposite, brother or
sister, if you're born again, you've begun to
have a fixation yet, a son of God
is a fixed son and can only be
what he is, I'll get on to it
a little later, you know the Bible says
you can't sin, some of you don't agree
with that, the Bible says so, I'll tell
you what, it'll later on, one just thinks,
I'm not sinning if you're born again, no
you can't, you can commit some sins but
you can't sin, there's a difference, but I'm
saying, you see, a safe person is a
fixed person, that's become part of his being,
and here you've got the beginning of the
universe, a person, God is fixed, he can't
be a self-getter, self-seeker, self-gratifier,
so he can only be a self-giver,
isn't that marvellous, that means whatever happens in
life, the only sin I can commit is
to say, well, what kind of person are
you to do that, if once you raise
your questions of what kind of person God
is, you're sinning, whatever the situation is, you
say, God, I can't account for that, but
you're always in love, you're in gear, so
if you've never doubted, everything that happens has
love in its background, you'll find out a
little later on, everything, so there's a fixation,
so the universe is a fixed person, now
then, we're persons, and the sun is a
person, through the sun we're persons, now then,
you and I are only safe persons if
we are eternally fixed, and God can rely
on us as much as we rely on
him, that's why one of the most precious
scriptures, statements I know, Paul made himself, in
1st Timothy, he said, he thanked God who
hath enabled me, for he counted me faithful,
putting me in the ministry, isn't that beautiful,
not because I count him faithful, that's it,
it's almost a joke to say, God, it's
full goodness me, what else can it be,
we're wasting time on that one, aren't we,
I think we crack a great many jokes
in God's sight, the kind of things we
say to him, God, but when God says,
I count you faithful, oh, isn't that wonderful,
he said, nearly, Paul says, he counts me
faithful, God a gutful, Paul was a caught
one, he was a born slave, so are
you, when you know it, you know it
already, but you perhaps need a little further
clarification of who you really are, who we
really are, now this is it, that God
has safe sons, now that's why, I'll be
stopping here in a moment, that's why we
had to come down and start in the
garden of Eden, we had to start with
a choice, because I can only be a
person, if I'm conscious of my ability to
choose between choices, and I make my choices,
and then certain things happen as a consequence,
so it had to be, that it had
to start by a fall, it's proved to
us, because 1 Peter 1, cardly says this,
speaks about the blood of Christ shed for
us, not that silver, we're not redeemed with
silver and gold, but the precious blood of
Christ, who as a lamb, without blemish, without
spot, listen, who verily was foreordained before the
foundation of the world, may have hit us
in the last time, so God foreordained his
sons to die for before the world was
to die for, that's upside down, oh, we
are, we have sinners first, they get a
saviour, God has a saviour first, they get
some sinners afterwards to get saved, but the
others were out, see, because in other words,
God always, this always had to be, we
had to go the following way to become
redeemed people, we had to go the last
way to be found people, and this is
the process we'll pick up a little more
tomorrow in the fall.
Put in simple terms, and with this I'll
close, it's quite obvious, most of us are
adult people who've got a position in life,
we either run a household, or we may
be expert cooks, or we're lawyers, or teachers,
or in business of some kind, now every
professional man has passed through a phase when
he's discarded the wrong way before he's settled
in the right way.
You cannot be proficient in a job until
you first learn how not to do it
before you do it, otherwise it's not safe.
The magnificent people who put up this magnificent
home, they knew how to put it up,
but before they knew how to put it
up, they knew how not to put it
up, they knew, don't make your measurements this
way, don't do it that way, they learned
by discarding the wrong ways before the right,
that's education, education is to learn, I don't,
a doctor said I don't use those meds,
I use this meds, that's what we pay
a doctor vast fees for, pay a lot
of money for one pill, we don't pay
for one pill, we pay, of course it's
thirty thousand dollars to find out which pill
to give me, why, it takes a long
time to discard, to say which is the
wrong pill and the right pill, that's education,
a person's safe because on the whole, oh
I don't use my tools that way, I
don't teach it that way, I don't cook
it that way, I don't make it that
way, then you're safe, this is how you
do it, do you see?
So you see, a safe, a safe human
is only a safe human if he's tasted
what it is to be a self-centred
hellish human and become a self-given hellish
human.
Unless you've first tasted what it is to
be a self-centred hellish human and be
a wrong kind of self, a misused self,
and then got disillusioned and found their way
through, you're not safe, you don't, you can't
safely become a self-confixed, a self-giving,
self-loving, self-giving, self-loving human, you
can't become a fixed lover until you cease
to be the other.
So we'll see how, we'll pick it up
again tomorrow, God had to take us humans
through some wonderful human processes, every one of
which was planned and necessary, to settle us
into this new quality of life we live,
so we live it at ease, live in
spontaneity, know how to handle it and handle
it, and know what the unified life is.
The unified life which we come into is
God and you are one and you know
it, because the only thing you ever have
is inner consciousness.
See, all I am is an inner person,
and all you ever have now is what
you know you are, that's all.
Yes, as I say, a person who knows
professionally, I know how to be a doctor,
I know how to teach, I know how
to play music, I know so and so,
you're safe, because you see, you've come to
know, you only have what you know inside,
not outside you.
And so, see, we humans have to come
through this process until we become fixed knowers
on the right level, living by fixed consciousness
at the right time, the unified level, when
this amazing fact has become, I'm not I,
I'm Christ in me, I'm not I really,
I'm Christ in me, you're not really you,
you're Christ in human form, oh, your real
self isn't you, it's Christ expressed through you,
and you know it, and live at ease
in that fact.
That's what we're going to move on to.
Thank you.