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Jesus
Is Anxious That Mankind Should Stop
Worshiping Him as God. God Alone Can Forgive
Sin. Jesus Corrects a Passage in the New
Testament Dealing with Forgiveness.
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I AM HERE. Jesus.
You are my dear brother, and I will tell you what I desire you to do
at this time. You must not let the worries of your business life
keep you from giving your thoughts to God in worship and in prayer,
and from believing in me and loving me as your friend and teacher,
for I am. And I wish to have you do only those things which will
make you more at-one with the Father and love me more.
You must try to let all your thoughts turn to the mission which I
have selected you to do, for I have chosen you and you must do my
work. As I am the one that God selected to do His Work when I was on
earth, so you are the one that I now select to do my work by giving
my messages of Truth and Love to the world. I will soon commence to
write them and you must preserve them until such time as you shall
be in condition to publish the same, which will not be very long.
For I have already told you that the means that will enable you to
give your whole time to me will soon be at your command.
I do not want you to think that you are not worthy to do this great
work. If you were otherwise, I would not have selected you. And this
fact alone should be sufficient to make you not doubt that you are a
suitable person for the work.
Let me tell you now that, no matter what you may think will happen
to your business affairs and work, I will look after you and remove
all obstructions so that, as I say, you will soon be able to
commence your duties.
In my teachings, I want to show that I am only my Father's son, as
you are His son, and that I am not to be worshiped as God. He is the
only God, and the people who are worshiping me in all parts of the
world are not doing what I desire. They are putting God in the
background and making me their object of worship, which is all wrong
and which I am so anxious to have ceased.
They must look upon me only as a son of God and an elder brother who
has received the Father's Love and Confidence, and which I am bidden
to teach to others. You are not to let anyone tempt you to let your
love of God be displaced by any love that you may have for me. Your
love for me must not be the kind that you have for Him. He is the
only God, and you must worship Him, Alone. So, be careful and make
this distinction or you will make a most egregious mistake.
I am your own dear brother and teacher, and love you with a love
that I have for very few mortals. Why? Because I see that you will
be a true follower of me and will love God as I love Him. Only I do
not want you to think that you are now in a condition that leaves
you free from sin or from the necessity of appealing to the Father
with all your heart for an inflowing of His Love. You must get all
this Love that is possible, and that can be gotten only by prayer
and faith.
So, in your prayers, have faith, and the time will come when you
will become very close to the Father and enjoy His Love to a degree
that few have obtained so far.
Yes, it is possible and, as I say, it will take place. Only do as I
have told you. Yes, I will help you with all my power and love, and
you will succeed. Only try to believe and you will realize before
you come to the spirit world that God is your Father to a degree
that will enable you to live very near Him, as I am living. Your
faith is now very great, as I know. And notwithstanding the fact
that you have doubts and get despondent at times, yet, your faith is
there and it will grow in intensity and become so strong that it
will never again be broken.
Yes, there are many things in my life, as written in the Bible,
which are true and many that are not true. I will tell you of these
things when I come to write my messages, and you must wait until
then. Yes, I did, but not in the sense that it is taught. To forgive
sin is only to let the true penitent feel that, just as soon as he
prays to God to blot out his past offenses and truly believes that
He will do so, the sins for which he would otherwise have to account
are no longer held against him. I could not forgive sin myself, for
I was not God. But I could tell them truly that God would forgive
their sins if they repented. Later, I will tell you in detail what
real forgiveness is and what it consists of.
As for the healing act which I performed at the pool of Bethsaida, I
am reported to have said, “Is it easier to say, ‘Take up thy bed and
walk,’ than for God to forgive your sin?” Well, that is the way it
is recorded, but that is not what I said. Actually I said, “That
thou may know that the son of man through the Power of God can
forgive sin, I say unto you, take up thy bed and walk!” It was only
as God's instrument in showing man the Way to His Divine Love that I
could bring about forgiveness of sin, and not by any power of my
own. If God did not forgive, I could not, and neither can any man.
I know that a church claims that authority, but it is not correct.
It has no power to forgive sin or to grant any favor or indulgence
to mankind. And its assertions of that power is a mere usurpation of
what God, Alone, has the Power to give.
May God's Blessing and mine rest upon you tonight.
JESUS.
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