Easter Message On The Kingdom Of God: The Power Which Causes Recurrence
Neville Godard said it oh, so well when he said that the present does not recede into the past, but proceeds into the future to confront us there. Gregg Braden said as much when he explained the Seven Essene Mirrors (forgive the mullet) What we say, think, and do becomes the life which envelops us. What we have said, thought, and done has become the world we live in. It takes some perception to see it, but there it is.
The heart and soul of the Gospel is Exodus 3:14a, usually translated as "I AM THAT I AM." That was the very beginning of the Bible -- is the core of the Bible. The rest tries to explain it. God announced to Moses not his name but his nature, the kingdom of God. ‘Kingdom,’ by the way, means “the rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; dominion; monarchy; kingship” — which make a person a king (according to the archaic definition of 'kingdom' in Webster’s Dictionary). Christ is the power and the wisdom of God: i.e., he is God's kingdom, YHWH. The kingdom -- the natural power of God -- causes specific, appropriate manifestation in recurrence of what is done. Life is like a recurring echo: what goes around comes around just as it has come around. Nothing ever really goes away (we are ever the residual), BUT IT CAN BE CHANGED.
Do you want to know why Jesus wrote no books? He is counting on the recurrence of what he did. It must work -- the kingdom must be being manifested. “Truly I tell you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God” = this will recur. The kingdom of God, which he is, is that which makes recurrence of acts. Everything is an image of the past. The Anointing's act, his work of love, has to recur, for this is the very nature of the Ineffable.
Take this back to Exodus 3:14. The subject was not God but Jethro. Jethro means excess: good, abounding excess which remains. Success, superiority, more than enough — that state of being, and the power which causes it. "I am THAT ‘I am’" says that this beneficence, to use Rehnborg's term, proceeds from God, from the imagination. What imagination causes such beneficence? Love. We have heard that the secret to manifestation is feeling. Love is the secret to feeling. Neville stood on the deck of a ship in his imagination and in "bittersweet sorrow" felt such love for the family he was leaving and love for his home in New York. “Before I had broken the spell, they called to offer me the passage.”
Neville REJECTED New Thought teachings for their wrong emphasis. There is no new thought, he said, we are destined to fulfill the scriptures. The past (before the Beginning in Genesis 1:1) is going to manifest in recurrence. The past that must manifest is the Ineffable which started the whole deal, whose nature we share. His kingdom "must be being restored" (Fenton).
Exodus 3:14 in the ancient Aramaic says exactly the same thing. The absolute intent of the one who becomes to become himself is the cause of Jethro. For he is love.
Do you want the secret to the E-ticket in life? Love. Love your enemies; love those who mistreat you; love those who despitefully use you. Forgive. Pray for others. Hear good news for your friends. Bless the people you see. Convert bad input to good — i.e., refuse undesirable images and mentally represent them to yourself as good images — “better than the best.” Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS. Let the outpicturing -- recurring manifestation -- of your life only be goodness, life, and love. For what we do will recur in manifestation -- it’s the very name of God. Repent, and believe the Gospel.
The heart and soul of the Gospel is Exodus 3:14a, usually translated as "I AM THAT I AM." That was the very beginning of the Bible -- is the core of the Bible. The rest tries to explain it. God announced to Moses not his name but his nature, the kingdom of God. ‘Kingdom,’ by the way, means “the rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; dominion; monarchy; kingship” — which make a person a king (according to the archaic definition of 'kingdom' in Webster’s Dictionary). Christ is the power and the wisdom of God: i.e., he is God's kingdom, YHWH. The kingdom -- the natural power of God -- causes specific, appropriate manifestation in recurrence of what is done. Life is like a recurring echo: what goes around comes around just as it has come around. Nothing ever really goes away (we are ever the residual), BUT IT CAN BE CHANGED.
Do you want to know why Jesus wrote no books? He is counting on the recurrence of what he did. It must work -- the kingdom must be being manifested. “Truly I tell you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God” = this will recur. The kingdom of God, which he is, is that which makes recurrence of acts. Everything is an image of the past. The Anointing's act, his work of love, has to recur, for this is the very nature of the Ineffable.
Take this back to Exodus 3:14. The subject was not God but Jethro. Jethro means excess: good, abounding excess which remains. Success, superiority, more than enough — that state of being, and the power which causes it. "I am THAT ‘I am’" says that this beneficence, to use Rehnborg's term, proceeds from God, from the imagination. What imagination causes such beneficence? Love. We have heard that the secret to manifestation is feeling. Love is the secret to feeling. Neville stood on the deck of a ship in his imagination and in "bittersweet sorrow" felt such love for the family he was leaving and love for his home in New York. “Before I had broken the spell, they called to offer me the passage.”
Neville REJECTED New Thought teachings for their wrong emphasis. There is no new thought, he said, we are destined to fulfill the scriptures. The past (before the Beginning in Genesis 1:1) is going to manifest in recurrence. The past that must manifest is the Ineffable which started the whole deal, whose nature we share. His kingdom "must be being restored" (Fenton).
Exodus 3:14 in the ancient Aramaic says exactly the same thing. The absolute intent of the one who becomes to become himself is the cause of Jethro. For he is love.
Do you want the secret to the E-ticket in life? Love. Love your enemies; love those who mistreat you; love those who despitefully use you. Forgive. Pray for others. Hear good news for your friends. Bless the people you see. Convert bad input to good — i.e., refuse undesirable images and mentally represent them to yourself as good images — “better than the best.” Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS. Let the outpicturing -- recurring manifestation -- of your life only be goodness, life, and love. For what we do will recur in manifestation -- it’s the very name of God. Repent, and believe the Gospel.
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