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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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About James E. Padgett
 Born August 25, 1852, Mr. James Edward Padgett
practiced law in Washington, D.C. Subsequent to his wife's, Helen,
passing in February, 1914, James learned from a psychic that he had
the gift of automatic writing. Based on the promptings of the
psychic and with a desire to reach his dearly departed Helen, he
commenced take messages from the spirits in the spirit world. At
first, James denounced the messages as merely coming from his mind,
driven by a strong desire to reach his departed wife. Eventually,
however, James could not deny the fact that information he was
receiving could not have possibly come from his own mind - for the
content of the messages surpassed his own education and knowledge.
Before his passing in March, 1923, James had accumulated hundreds of
messages from spirits and celestials in the spirit world.
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