FATHER DIVINE as the Great Avatar or Logos, Creator of our Solar System, Personified in the Fathership Degree

Harmony No 36 Divinity of Father Divine

On September 10 we Re-member: I AM Life

I AM known as Alpha and Omega. Before time was, I AM. I encompass the Universe. It is My Habitat, and yet, I AM the heart beat of every man. I caused the mist to roll away and lo, eons of years ago a world appeared, but, even at this very moment, I AM here. And when all is done in My Infinite Plan, It is I Alone Who will remain because I AM eternally the same.

I A M L I F E !

I AM felt in Happiness. I fill the air. Life in all its exuberance is Mine to share. Youth, effervescent and unrestrained is My Domain. Still, in the contentment of the sage, I AM the same. Enjoy My Fountain of Energy, it's boundless, it's free! Let it saturate you endlessly.

I A M L I F E !

I AM seen in Nature. I AM the rush of the wind in the trees, apple blossoms, autumn leaves, the snow-covered crest of the mountain peak, all living creatures that be. I AM the fire that gives warmth and cheer. I AM the seasons of the year. I AM the ebb and flow of the tide; the fury of the storms that rise. I AM the gravity that holds all things to this Paradise on earth I bring. I AM also the Magnetism that suspends the spirit of man in ecstasy, world without end.

I A M L I F E !

I AM heard in Conscience. I speak where no other can, deep within the heart of man. By inner unction I demand to what is always the right stand. But to hear the whisper of My Command man must know that I AM. By constant use and motive sincere and pure, My Whisper, increasingly amplified, is more easily heard.

I A M L I F E !

I AM expressed in Liberty proclaimed throughout the land, I AM the Voice of Freedom that cries out from every man willing to pay for his God-given birthright, generation after generation sacrificing his own life. This relentless surge to be free comes from the very Nature of ME for nothing restricts and nothing binds the movement of My Infinite Mind.

I A M L I F E !

I AM balanced by Equilibrium. From My Veins runs the blood of every nation: in My Sight all are the same. I weigh on the Scale of Justice every act. My Price is just: My reward exact. By ME every man is judged, not by what he says, but by what he does.
The upright do not fear to come before ME. Justice is My Scale: Truth My Creed.

I A M L I F E !

I AM moving in Progress. I never stand still. My press, always onward, My Plan to fulfill. And as man progresses to the Perfection of ME a new dimension to explore, he will begin to see where he can push back frontiers of a new world seen, yet unseen; heard, yet unheard where every challenge is to the perfection of man -- spirit, body and mind where at last he is lost in My Will Divine.

I A M L I F E !

I AM, in essence, the Word made Flesh. I AM the Law of Moses magnified. I AM the Law of the Spirit of Life Personified. By My Spoken Word I AM and in My Word undiluted I remain. Nothing is relevant to the Reality of ME. I Alone Am Absolute. Unrestricted and free I have decreed to be. Through forty-two generations of Biblical history I AM come; through thirty-two lynch mobs in this dispensation every battle I have won. I cannot be separated from the Allness of ME -- Spirit, Body and Mind the same.

I AM LIFE -- I AM ETERNAL -- GOD FATHER DIVINE IS MY NAME !

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I Thank You, Father

For ABUNDANT LIFE !

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Take Your Burdens to the Lord

Our FATHER'S Message given in
Day Star Baptist Church, New York City, N.Y., Monday, May 23, 1932

(After singing the song, "Take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there", FATHER spoke as follows:)

Take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there. Aren't you glad? Now there are many verses to that song and I did not repeat the verses because I did not want to get it out of tune and I knew that if I repeated the verses, it would have further got out of adjustment, but the great point of view is that you can take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there.

Now as far as your heart is concerned, the song says, "Come, guilty sinner, in whose breast a thousand thoughts revolve." The Word says,

'I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.'

I was talking to some parties this morning quite early in proportion to the time I turned in last night, and I was saying to them that so often -- and I heard a party say it the other day -- it was hard for a preacher to confess his sins to GOD. Then I said to them,

'It is harder for GOD to save a god or gods than to save all the sinners in the world.'

It is hard for GOD to save even an ordinary preacher but when you come in contact with gods, why, it is harder to save gods and they are living in sin, living in materialism, living in mortality and living in debauchery of all kinds every day. They will not come to ME that they might have Life. They would rather die in their sins. But a heart and a mind like unto those that testified recently, those that think they are great sinners, those that think they are the least of the least and the worst of the worst; when you come like that, why, then you are a fit subject to make preparation for the Kingdom of GOD.

When you are self-righteous, when you are Holy -- CHRIST did not come to save anybody that was Holy anyway. Aren't you glad? And I AM sure He did not come to save gods, for GOD is saved always. HE didn't have to be saved. When a sinner -- when one feels as a wretch undone -- when one, I say, that feels as though he is a wretch undone, then he makes his mental and spiritual contact, when he is delivered from that sin, when he finds that CHRIST, the Heavenly Lamb, has taken all his sins away -- the sacrifice of a nobler Name and richer Blood than that of male cows, pigeons and goats that were offered up as a living sacrifice -- when he finds that out, then he can say, "How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ears! It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds and dries away his tears." It breaks the power of cancerous sin and sets the prisoner free. Imputedly you see His Blood, better known in the spiritual realm of spiritual understanding as Love. His Love falls over them. Now aren't you glad? Now you feel good now, don't you? Now don't you feel nice? You feel just as though you can hardly sit on the seat. It is lovely, isn't it? Isn't it sweet? Oh, it is Wonderful!

So I just wanted to say that this mighty Love, this mighty Love, it is Wonderful! It is Wonderful! I was moved to say a word or two at that particular juncture when the speakers said about their hearts were so black that they did not want to bring ME their hearts. Well, I don't want you to bring ME your righteousness! I don't want your righteousness! Your righteousness can take care of itself. If it is gold, you can throw your pure gold ring or anything, you can throw it on the dump or any place and let it stay out there for years and it will be the same. Your righteousness, if you have the Righteousness of GOD, will take care of itself and it will also take care of you if you have the Righteousness of GOD. But if you are a sinner, GOD will then need you to cleanse you from your sins and free you from all condemnation.

For this cause and for this purpose came I into the world -- Aren't you glad? -- to stop you and free you from those things that you believe and your conscience told you were wrong. To set you free from the claim of condemnation; for if you are led by the Spirit of GOD as it is brought into expression through this ministry, you are freed from condemnation and I came to bring you into your conscious realization of the Presence of GOD and of His Majesty, His Divine Inspirations or Inspiration as being called inspirations whilst it is imparted to many. Then when you are led by this Inspiration, the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD, you will find that it will satisfy your every desire. You will find that it will free you from all condemnation and it will set the prisoner free, physically, mentally and spiritually. It will set you free in every way. It will free your conscience. It will free you in body from every kind of ailment and complaint. It will free you from all misery and from all woe. Aren't you glad?

This Word and this Truth and the Spirit of this Truth will set you free and free indeed and it will guide you into all Truth; for HE puts it through the mouth of the Apostle:

'There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in CHRIST JESUS, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit; for the Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS has made us free from the law of sin and death.'

Now aren't you glad? Do you not feel free? I know you feel FREE, for the Spirit of Life that is in CHRIST JESUS here has made you free and he that the Son sets free is free indeed. Sets you free, I say, free in every kind of way, every imaginable way, free from all barriers, free of lacks, free of wants, free from all limitations, free from all denominations, free from all races, free from all creeds, free from all colors and free from every abomination that spells condemnation. Then you are free indeed. Aren't you glad? You have never been free until you are freed from those conditions. As long as you think you are some abomination, some denomination, religious denomination, political denomination, social denomination, family denomination, or any kind of denomination, you are not free; for he that the Son sets free is free indeed. Free from every limitation, hence from all denomination and hence free from all the condemnation that denomination brings and you can walk and talk with GOD. Aren't you glad?

All denomination is not just religious denomination. The majority of you are intelligent people and realize that it is not just religious denomination but it is every denomination that brings division and limitation. Now that is what is the matter with this world. That is the lost chord that was lost until GOD condescended to put on a Body. CHRIST was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. They had barred Him out through creeds and denominations, divisions and all kinds of abominations; for

'where there is division there is strife";

therefore the CHRIST could not be brought to fruition in their lives. That is the only reason why you have not seen CHRIST before. Aren't you glad? He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. They could not see Him because they were not pure in heart!

The Word says,

'Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see GOD.'

I AM just purifying humanity's understanding now, which is the heart. I AM just beginning to purify your understanding, I say, which is your heart, so you can see GOD. Aren't you glad? Your understanding has been in a chaotic condition. It was a matter of impossibility to see GOD if you had a thousand eyes. If your eye be single your whole body is full of light, but if your eye be evil, your whole body is full of darkness. In that verse there in that quotation, "If your eye be evil", it could have said, if your eye be double or if your eyes be many. In short I could have said, if you have many eyes and look in many different directions, your whole body is full of darkness, but in short I said, "If your eye be evil." It is evil to see and to look in many different directions and not keep your eye on the bright and Morning Star, the Lily of the Valley, and not keep your eye single to see the oneThing and the one Thing alone, having a single eye instead of having thousands of different eyes. Your whole body now is full of darkness as the collective body of mankind. It is full of darkness.

But I have come to light up your understanding. I came to light up your Understanding and it is written in a composition of modern old times,

'The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin, but the light of the world is Jesus.'

Aren't you glad? I know you are glad because you realize that the Light has come and that is why humanity generally is rising and is shining for the Glory of GOD has risen upon them. Then I said,

'You that think your hearts are black, if you take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there, wheresoever you believe HE is, you will be free.'

Leave them there! Take your burdens to the LORD, I say, and leave them there! If you trust and do not doubt, HE will surely bring you out. Take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there. Aren't you glad? Leave them there! The song says,

'If this world from you withhold, of its silver and its gold, don't forget that GOD from Heaven answers prayer. Just remember from His Word how HE feeds the little bird. Just take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there.'

I know you feel lovely. I know you feel lovely, because this mighty Love is emanating from the Heart of GOD. Aren't you glad? I said this mighty Love; not only this mighty Love but this Almighty Love, this Omnipotent Love, this Love that transcends all limitations. It is Infinite. This Love, I say, that is emanating from the Heart of GOD. It is saturating your very body and your soul. It is making you new. It is making you over new right now. This mighty healing Love! Truly might have one said,

'There is a Fountain open in the House of David for all sin",

and it is this mighty Love. One writer said, "There is a fountain filled with blood", but transposedly I say, "There is a fountain filled with Love." This Mighty Love! It is drawn from Immanuel's Heart! It is drawn from GOD in man! GOD IMMANUEL'S HEART! Aren't you glad?

Remember that these words and poems and songs and praises, they have been praising figuratively. They were figurative when they said,

'There is a fountain filled with Blood.'

That was only a symbol of the Fountain that is filled with Love. In reality, when you read of the blood that saved you and sanctifies you, the interpretation of that blood is Life and Love; so I can say in reality, you all taste this Love, don't you? There is a Fountain filled with Love. It is drawn from Immanuel's Heart. "Sinners plunged beneath this flood, lose all your guilt and shame."

I don't care how black your sin may be if you have not sinned against the Holy Ghost. I want to say that there is a Lawyer that can plead your case and get you out of any sin you ever did if you did not sin against the Holy Ghost. Any sin you ever did! Your Counselor can plead your case and free you from all condemnation and set the prisoner free from every condemnation and from every sin that you have ever committed unless you have sinned against the Holy Ghost, and that is not in the Constitution; for there is a clause in the Constitution -- there is a clause in the Constitution of the Kingdom of GOD, I say, wherein that HE can free every person from all of their sins unless they have sinned against the Holy Ghost. Aren't you glad?

Aren't you glad there is a Counselor somewhere and somehow, here and now, willing and ready to free you from all sin and from all condemnation; for he that the Son sets free, is free indeed! Now we rejoice because we know that it is true and as I have been saying, with or without a Body, the Gospel of CHRIST, of it I AM not ashamed, for it is all Power in this Mighty Name. It brings Peace out of confusion, Health out of sickness and brings Life out of death; for they that are dead and are in the grave shall hear this Voice and they that hear shall live. It is Wonderful! Have you ever HEARD until you saw ME? "My sheep hear My Voice and a stranger they will not follow."

'Out of His Mouth goes a two-edged sword high on the mountain top." Jeremiah spoke of it, "And out of His Mouth came fire to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.'

Now aren't you glad? I know you feel good for this mighty Love is emanating from the Heart of GOD and is saturating your body and your soul and has filled you and thrilled you, therefore we will declare in the melody as in a transposed melody, "My soul has something that is new." You never were so happy before, were you? Such a mighty healing Love because this Love consumes everything adverse. Aren't you glad?

Therefore I say,

'Fear not little flock, it is your FATHER'S good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.'

Firstly, the Kingdom of GOD is not meat and drink; firstly the Kingdom of GOD is invisible. It cometh not with observation, but secondly the Kingdom of GOD is brought into materialization in your conscious realization and it will be no more imagination. It is Wonderful! It cometh not by observation, I say, and I said that it is firstly not meat and drink but it is righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost.

When you seek righteousness, when you seek peace, when you seek the Holy Ghost and shall have found it, then and there and here and now, you have made preparation for the materialization of your conscious realization. You are conscious that you have the Kingdom of GOD within. You are conscious that you have this righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost but as was in the beginning with the Word, that Word was with GOD firstly invisible and you found that this Word was GOD. After you found out that it was GOD, it came a little nearer to your conscious realization. It began to materialize itself and the Word was made flesh. The Kingdom of you are visible, the Kingdom shall also be visible; by HIM that liveth forever and forever. The Kingdom of GOD is not material until it has been made material or materialized by the Materializer and HE that materializes things.

I came to materialize the things that you thought not to be. Once upon a time you were invisible but today you are visible and because you are visible, the Kingdom shall also be visible; for it is written,

'As HE is, so are we in this present world.'

We are now materializing the things that we realize and bringing into conscious realization the materialization of things that have been hid from generations. That is where we are. The Kingdom of GOD on earth here and now, for it has been declared that the Kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of our GOD and His CHRIST and HE shall reign forever and ever. Aren't you glad?

Now we are rejoicing because we know that these are facts and figures that are too stout to be denied and we do not care anything about what the mortal mind says. What can mortal man or mortal mind do? Aren't you glad? What do I care about what mortality says? What do I care about what it is trying to do? There is no power given except that which comes from the Body of GOD! Tell mortality wheresoever it is, there is NO POWER GIVEN EXCEPT THAT WHICH COMES FROM THE BODY OF GOD! It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful! GOD is reigning now! It is Wonderful! I SAY GOD IS REIGNING NOW! GOD IS REIGNING! The kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our GOD and HE shall reign forever and ever and EVER! The Mouth of the LORD hath spoken it! Aren't you glad?

Aren't you glad that you elected your GOD, your LORD and your KING! "HE rules the world with Truth and Grace and makes the Nations prove the Glory of His Righteousness and the wonders of His Love." I know you are happy because you have GOD on your side! Not only on your side but GOD is in you! Once upon a time HE dwelt with you but now HE is in you and you are in HIM. Wheresoever HE is, you are. Wheresoever you are, GOD is your GOD! GOD is your King! GOD is your FATHER and you never had another!

'Fear not little flock, it is your FATHER'S good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.'

Then I say, take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there. Don't carry any burdens that will cause you to go astray, but march into the City of this Eternal Day! We are marching, we are marching, we are marching, I say; here and now we are marching! Truly might you have heard the Voice crying out, "Swing wide, Golden Gates and let the victors in!" We don't have to get the victory, we have the victory. We don't have to put anything over, it is over now and we are over. We don't have to put anything over, I have put it over! I Have the victory! Aren't you glad? And you have the Victory in yourself, for faith is the Victory that overcometh, or, "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith." This faith has overcome every mortal version of the human mind.

Now you can declare in the language as verifying the language of the Prophet Isaiah in chapter 32:1 and 2:

'Behold a King shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment, and a man shall be as a hiding place.'

Reign too! Reign in Righteousness! And Princes shall rule in judgment and a man is as a hiding place and a covert from the winds and doctrines of men, hiding from the winds and doctrines of men and the spiritual tempests that blow. The winds of trials and tribulations! A man is as a hiding place from such things and will set the prisoner free. Aren't you glad? That is the reason I said,

'Rejoice in the LORD always and again I say rejoice! Make your moderation known unto all men, the LORD is at hand",

here and now and remember that there is no power given any man except that same power which proceeds from the BODY of GOD. It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful! >

Truly might have CHRIST in the Name called Jesus said,

'Come unto Me, all ye ends of the world and be saved.'

Aren't you glad? To realize the Omnipotence, the Omniscience, and the Omnipresence of GOD with all of the fulness of His attributes, here and now, in this Divine Omnipresent Life in which you all live, move and have your being, and you in which CHRIST and GOD lives, moves and has His Being. Then we should rejoice, for it is truly vice versa. In HIM you live, move and have your being and in you HE lives, moves and has His Being. The LORD has never told you to do anything that HE wouldn't do for you.

'Behold, I stand at the door and knock and if any man opens unto ME, I will come in and sup with him and the feast will be an everlasting one.'

Then if you will stand at the door and knock, GOD will open unto you and the feast will be an everlasting one. Then I say, you can rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of great Glory and the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD will satisfy every good desire.

Now why did you push ME out like that? It is Wonderful! You must have thought I could swim! You push ME out into deep water and if I can't swim I have to swim anyway!

Just now I only rose to give a foundation to those speakers that thought their hearts were so black and give them a happy admittance into the Kingdom of GOD, and you pushed ME out into deep water and if I didn't know how to swim, I had to learn. Although I did say, launch out into the deep and let the shorelines go. Launch out into the deep, out into the Ocean Divine where the full tides flow. I told you to do that and you pushed ME out. As I say, whatsoever I tell anyone else to do, I mean to do that what I tell them to do, and if I told you to do it and you happened to push ME out into the deep anyway, why, it is good for ME!

Now I wish to say another word about what was sung about, "Lift Him up." I recall when that song was composed about twenty or thirty years ago and I transposed that song then, because along about that time they were trying to lift ME up illegally. Illegally then they were trying to lift ME up. Illegally, where now they are trying to lift ME up legally. Then they were trying to lift ME up by mob violence. Aren't you glad? Then I said I did not come to be lifted up from that version of that human mind as it was then. When Jesus said,

'Lift Him up";

JESUS CHRIST said in that body,

'I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.'

He was speaking concerning the crucifixion and death that He must suffer on the cross and that they would lift Him up on the cross and through the death and the suffering, supposedly, of the Body of Jesus, why, all men would be drawn unto Him. I transposed that song in those days and I said, "Do the Will", for I did not come to die this time. Aren't you glad? Then in the place of "Lift Him up", I replaced, "Do the Will, do the Will, while He speaks through eternity. And I, if I will do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me."

There is a phrase in that song; I don't personally know when it was composed but I transposed it. It says,

'Don't exalt the preacher, don't exalt the purse, but preach the Gospel message full and free, and I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.'

Now I said, "Don't exalt the preacher, don't exalt the purse, but preach the Gospel simply full and free, and I, if I do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me." It is not your FATHER'S Will that one of His little ones should perish and you have been taught to pray to,

'Let Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.'

I venture to say that those, My supposed opponents, better known as enemies, are convinced that I AM doing the Will of the LORD in My Home, here, there and everywhere, and I, if I do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me. It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful!

It is true, as was said,

'The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and when Shiloh comes, the gathering of the people shall be unto Him";

and I, if I will do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me, for wheresoever the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together! Wheresoever it is, they shall be gathered. Marvel not that I say unto them that they will come unto Me. Aren't you glad? Now that is not in some way different than what you should be. You are even also as I AM if you will only let it be. Every fertile egg has a chicken in it. If it is not a vegetarian egg it has a chicken in it, but this egg must go through incubating or setting and go through some kind of process and have the right even temperature and have the right process to form and develop the chick. It may get chilled after the chick begins to form. It may not be exactly a rotten egg but it may be chilled and the chick will not hatch out.

I heard churches say before I came out to the public, out into the ecclesiastical world as I stand today expressedly, when from 1914 up until last year sometime I stayed in quietness -- I heard them say that the churches have grown cold; said that were chilled; they had grown cold; then how can they hatch out any Sons of GOD? When the eggs are chilled, how can they hatch out the Sons of GOD? They cannot hatch even if they be good eggs, if they get chilled; they cannot get hatched. But I came on the scene to warm up the churches, and if they will warm up to ME, I will warm up to them. Aren't you glad? The chicks as it seems to be now, are not any more as Jerusalem was in A.D. 33 and 32 when it was declared, "Oh, Jerusalem, oh, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered thee as a hen hovers her brood but ye would not!" I feel and I say that the churches have been cold. They are coming unto ME that I may warm them up; that I may incubate them; that I may hover them as a hen hovers her brood; that they may

'offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness as in the days of old, and as in former years.'

Do you not see the eggs beginning to be hovered? The eggs are beginning to be hovered now under the Will of GOD in this great Incubator of Life, these wings of Love. They are beginning to be hovered and I see the eggs beginning to develop and beginning to form into the chick. Aren't you glad? Some beginning to pick their way through! Through the shells of mortal limitations! I see that mortality is being swallowed up into immortality. The egg is coming to conscious life; conscious expression of the Life of GOD as the mother chick. It will soon be in the likeness of the FATHER-MOTHER-GOD. Now aren't you glad? Truly might have one said,

'Behold, what manner of Love the FATHER hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of GOD, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.'

You begin to see now! You begin to see them beginning to come out. They are proclaiming the Name of GOD, the Life of CHRIST. They are beginning to be hovered under the Spirit of Life, the wings of My Love, to be hatched out like unto the Father and Mother chick, GOD your Heavenly FATHER!

'How great and marvelous are Thy Works, oh, GOD, for Great and Holy is Thy Name!'

Aren't you glad?

I know you never tasted of such a Love. It is emanating and it is saturating. It makes you feel new. It makes you feel new! It gets all in your sinews and your joints and you say, "I yield, I yield! I cannot hold it any longer for I know HE is risen in my soul!" Now aren't you glad? You can taste a little taste of this Love can't you? This mighty healing Love that transcends all limitations; yea, it transcends gravitation. The gravitation of the earth has no power over this Love for it is incorruptible, undefiled and fadeth not away. Aren't you glad?

Take these thoughts in, dear ones, and if you can sing that song and remember what I say, it will be Wonderful! Just remember, if you will, "Do the Will"; that is applicable to you as well as I; and

'If I will do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me.'

Now aren't you glad? You know you are happy! You never had such a happiness before, did you? Aren't you glad that you can part with the mortal world and have been filled with the Love of GOD instead of the world! Now GOD has taken away the first that HE may establish the second and that you can be a burning light; for as I said, I came to warm up the churches and incubate them, or, in other words, hover them as a hen hovers her brood. >

It is written,

'Our GOD is a consuming fire",

and not only that, but,

'GOD makes His ministering spirits Angels, and His ministers flames of fire.'

Here and now and here and there in this Omnipresent Life, I AM gathering the good wheat in the garner and the chaff I AM burning up with unquenchable fire. We are getting this Glorious Church which is called the Kingdom. Some of the writers saw it and caught the reflection, seeing it as

'A Glorious Church without spot or wrinkle.'

Aren't you glad? They saw this! They saw this! They saw these being purged of all fleshly affections, of worldly pleasures, and everything like that; all lusts and passions, and saw them coming up through great tribulation, washing their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. If they could only have seen it as it is, they could have said, "It is a glorious Kingdom of GOD." It is a glorious Kingdom of GOD without spot or wrinkle. It is without spot and it is without wrinkle because all materialism has been purged out. All of it has been purged out and all of those passions, fancies, tendencies and mortal pleasures; lusts and pleasures of the world that the Churches have striven so hard to get you not to do, in their way, but could not do it. Aren't you glad?

You know, so many times the preacher would tell you to stay away from the bar rooms and speakeasies and all such as that, but they could not keep you away, could they? But I have something that can keep you away! You don't care to go, do you? It satisfies your every desire and it sets you free from all wants. Then and there and here and now, you can declare, even as the Psalmist did when GOD spoke through the mouth called David and in the name called David,

'The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.'

You don't want a thing because you are satisfied in GOD! Hallelujah to the Lamb! You are satisfied in GOD! Hallelujah to the Lamb! Aren't you satisfied? CHRIST is rich and all you need and your every hunger, your Savior satisfies, doesn't HE? Satisfies you in all the fulness and takes away all lacks and wants. Aren't you glad?

You can be free of all undesirable conditions, of dissatisfying thoughts and tendencies, absolutely free! You don't even feel like going to the movies tonight, do you? It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful! You don't feel like going to the Coney Island tonight, do you? I have Something and I AM Something that satisfies your every desire. Truly might the Apostle have said,

'Show us the Father and it sufficeth us.'

As the song in this last time said,

'I shall be satisfied when I see Him, satisfied when I see Him face to face, and tell the story, saved by Grace, I shall be satisfied.'

Now aren't you glad? This Mighty Holy Name! The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD, your Heavenly FATHER, with the conviction of your observation of both It and HIM, it has satisfied your every desire. It has set the prisoner free from all limitations, from lacks and wants; even from all adverse conditions and even from all gravitation. With the Spirit of the Consciousness you can ascend from place to place, and eventually your body will receive that ascending Spirit. I thank you.

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Father Divine Speaks to Washington

"PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will, and a Good Appetite for all of the Inhabitants of Washington City, the same as for New York. All of these blessings are for you, if you will live Evangelical, but you cannot come into possession of them unless you bring your bodies into subjection to the Life and the Teaching of CHRIST, the Author and the Finisher of all of these good blessings.

"...I need not say so much in Words, as I have long since said, and still AM Saying, I will preach CHRIST in Words partially only, but more so in deeds and in actions, and I will put MY Spirit in them and cause them to walk in MY Statutes. For this cause we will be speaking to you in our very Invisible Presence. By the Presence of GOD, transmitingly, to you as to others, this Presence is Sufficient to speak silently and secretly, when you are sleeping in your dreams. It can and will speak, when you are sleeping, when you are not dreaming. When you arise in the morning you will be thinking somewhat differently.

"I Said the other day, in coming to Washington, D.C., MY endeavors were, to create an atmosphere of enthusiasm, and stir the spirit of merriness in the hearts and lives of the people, that they might be partakers of the CHRIST'S Characteristics,--and also to contagionize the atmosphere of Washington, D.C., with the very Spirit of GOD'S Presence, that this great contagion might catch the White House on Fire, that the Spirit of GOD'S Presence might speak in the President, and act in the officials. It is indeed wonderful!

"Why do I Say, that it might speak in the President and act in the officials? It is because it is transmittable! It is because it is reincarnatable! It is because it is personifiable! Therefore, this Truth and this Mind, shall be universally Personified. By its being universally Personified, it will bring all nations, languages, tongues and people together, that they might

'Love ye one another.'

"This is a Sample, this is an Example, I have brought to Washington, as a Sample for all of humanity, as the Personifier of the Brotherly Love of the Universal Brotherhood of Man. When this shall have been established in the Capitol of our great Country, then and there, there will be no more race-riots and wars, among the people. "

Excerpt from FATHER DIVINE'S Sermon

Given at the Murray Casino, Washington, D.C., December 18, 1934 A.D.F.D.

Father Divine indicates that a Universalist Faith is Coming

Father Divine speaks:

Someone brought up this morning the subject of the Pope's recent appeal for one religion and one church and his demand that the Protestant churches return to the Church of Rome. FATHER said, 'It has been brought to MY notice to do that, and there are some that believe it can be done- -a universal religion and a universal language to be taught in all of the schools, and there are some that believe if I will do certain things and establish it legally, there will be a universal language taught in all the schools that will be a real language wheresoever you may be, and all will learn this language which will be set apart as an international language and there will be an international religion. It has been spoken of and it has been put before ME for consideration, and naturally someone will speak of it and someone will desire to bring it about, but it cannot be Catholic or Mohammedan, or could it be especially Christendom or any special religion, for it will cover the whole universe--an international religion and an international language and an international people.

"That is a step towards bringing all into the unity of spirit and mind and body as one. The cancellation of these things has been accomplished by the Spirit from a spiritual point of view and under MY Personal jurisdiction there is one language, there is one people, there is one religion, from a spiritual point of view, but it is being thought upon to be recognized and legalized. As I said years back, I AM working cancellation, I AM canceling the nationalities though they be many, and I have and AM canceling the races, though they be supposedly five; I have canceled them down to the two races and from the two races to the one race which was and it is the human race. And now I AM canceling the human race and recreating in the cancellation of the human race, the angelic race.

"Then there will be no more human race, nor the Adamic nature that has existed in the bodies of the children of men, but the angelic nature, the Divine nature transmuted from the individual expression or individual expressions of GOD to individuals in the form of man. And it thereby reflects and manifests the angelic nature, bringing them into subjection to the Divine Mind, and hence we will have the angelic race reproduced from and materialized from the spiritual realm of the unseen and the visibilization and materialization of this expression in the flesh. And here and now we have begun to unfold and it will be brought before the international courts to be recognized and enforced from a legal standpoint of view. They will find it after awhile, the same as when MY Message was transmuted through Mr. Lanyon nearly a year ago, and through his fame and through MY Name in him, the message of the Kingdom of GOD here and now and of this universal brotherhood of man and Fatherhood of GOD is being conveyed to the Orthodox Church and the Catholics. They accepted that, many of them, but through the lack of perfect love and in spirit and also in authority, they rose up with spirit of revolt and with the spirit of violence through lack of love but caught a glimpse of their liberty, their freedom, their rights to be free, and they stood to free themselves from the king as I have conveyed the message of deliverance through the name of Mr. Lanyon and by the fame of the Spirit of the CHRIST Consciousness. And in Spain they rose up to dethrone the king to drive him out as soon as I conveyed MY Message through the fame of Mr. Lanyon and through the name of the CHRIST Consciousness and they rose up to dethrone the king and drive him out. And as MY Spirit turned in a different direction towards Italy, even before the body arrived, the Spirit had arrived in Italy to dethrone the Pope."

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Our Father Speaks on the Importance of PRESENCE

FATHER'S Message given in
the Auditorium of the
Philadelphia Hotel
764-772 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
July 15, 1942 A.D.F.D.

This beautiful Message stresses the vast importance of recognizing GOD'S Actual Presence daily and hourly and getting rid of the old doctrine which has been taught and preached for centuries that GOD is absent from the children of men and that HE rules and reigns in a Kingdom far beyond the sun, moon and stars.

In this present world dilemma the Presence of GOD is sorely needed by every nation, language, tongue and people, and vainly their prayers are sent to an imaginary GOD in an imaginary heaven. But oh, how glorious it is to realize that GOD Almighty is on earth among men in a beautiful Holy Body and millions and millions have been made cognizant of this great news and glad tidings. Millions are daily being lifted from lacks, wants and limitations; their bodies healed; their minds cleansed; their souls renewed, by calling on the Precious Holy Name of FATHER DIVINE, the Redeemer and the Savior of the universe!

Men and women of the political, social, religious, industrial, professional and all other worlds of expression are coming from far and near, telling of the marvelous things that have been accomplished for them, simply by calling on that Holy Name -- rejoicing as they declare to the world at large that they have found GOD Almighty! Thus it was on this occasion that as usual a large number of visiting friends were present and accepted of the invitation extended them to speak. Several of their speeches are transcribed herein for your benefit and enjoyment.

Thank YOU, FATHER Dear!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is recorded the song sung by the audience just before FATHER arose to speak.)

'I know the LORD has come, I know the LORD has come.
Glory, Glory Hallelujah! I know the LORD has come!'

FATHER speaks as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition is much in harmony and in keeping with the Mission of Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago. Nineteen hundred years it has been a living reality to those who can perceive it and sincerely believe it. Aren't you glad!

It is written:

'They shall call His Name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, GOD with us!'

That was the Mission of the coming of CHRIST in the Person of Jesus: to bring into the realization of the children of men GOD'S Actual Presence, so that they might realize GOD is no longer in that imaginary heaven according to the suppositions of men, but GOD Himself is with them.

Now this is not strange. Because of the Mission of CHRIST you should not feel as though it is strange in this Gospel country and Bible land, for you have been taught from your early existence, GOD is Ever Present, but not so distinctly and so vividly as the teaching of the present day, bearing witness to GOD'S Presence with and without a Person.

Then I say, when you sing those assertions, you have the witness in yourself. If you sing it sincerely, if you sing it in all sincerity GOD has truly come to you for what said Malachi concerning the mystery?

'The LORD Whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His Temple!'

That recognition, that realization would solve every problem; it would adjust matters satisfactorily for you if you could but know once and forever, GOD is actually Present!

I retrace your thoughts back, those of you who have heard and know ME, to one of My original Compositions as a motto for your consideration, in keeping with that particular quotation:

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD
is the Source of all supply and it will satisfy every Good Desire!'

As the light shines more and more and you observe the Truth concerning the mystery by what you are presently experiencing, you can say with ME, ". . . it is the SOURCE of all supply; it can, it will and it actually does satisfy every Good Desire!"

As the light dispels darkness, even so GOD'S Presence dispels and eradicates undesirable conditions. For this cause it is essential to keep GOD in consciousness according to the Scripture in the fulfillment of that prediction, and have your religious conviction according to the standard of that particular composition.

The LORD has truly come and is with men and always has been but they did not know it. But since calling your attention to the original composition and prediction of the coming of CHRIST:

'They shall call His Name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, GOD with us!'

If the preachers of the Gospel and representatives of the cloth could have, and would have taught this simple Truth since nineteen hundred years ago, GOD would have been REAL among you! GOD would not have placed by preaching and by teaching, some place in the sky geographically, neither far away from the children of men, and would not have given the "other fellow" a chance to come in. But because men teach the absence of GOD and preach the absence of GOD and not the Presence of GOD, the absence of GOD has been made real to the children of men, for GOD hides His Face from them. They live in misery, they live in sin, they live in disappointment and they live in failure because they disrecognize GOD'S Actual Presence to adjust matters satisfactorily for them.

But this Truth to you is real! It is real according to your conviction because you realize and have seen the actual demonstration of GOD'S Actual Presence in evidence in your experience, therefore, it is a reality; it is made Real, Tangible and Practical, for the Word has been made FLESH and dwells among you and you are convinced in reality GOD has been made Tangible and Practical!

To the average religious person GOD is not more than a supposition, but to those of you whose minds have been lifted, GOD to you is a REALITY and you recognize GOD'S Presence even if you do not see HIM. By believing it so vividly, GOD was obliged to materialize it and reproduce it and Personify it so that you might realize the Truth concerning the mystery!

The earth was real even though void, but to the conscious mentality that is, it would not have been real to the conscious mentality of men when that consciousness would have come, had it not been made material; tangibilated, materialized and personified!

I would not be real as a Person to you if you did not know the Truth concerning the mystery, if I had not brought this Message and explained it so explicitly.

The earth was mentally and spiritually real in GOD'S Recognition and Realization, but in the conscious mentality that was to come the earth would not have been real to them, because it was essential for GOD to materialize the earth and cause the earth to be Tangible as matter, as something that could be discerned and made a reality, because the conscious mentality does not observe realities saving as they are tangibilated, materialized and consciously realized.

But oh, how glorious it was to observe the mystery in the making yea, in the creation, making ready, in a way of speaking, for the making of the things that were very desirable. GOD said,

'Let dry land appear!'

It seems like I AM obliged to take you back to the beginning of the creation to bring GOD into your conscious recognition and into your realization, for the children of men do not realize GOD unless you bring them back where HE was in the beginning, as in your personal religious experience. Many times a good many of you are obliged to go back to Conviction's Wharf. Aren't you glad! When I take you back down there where your dungeons shook, why, then you are getting right for the making of the contact with your religious career and travel on from there to here. Aren't you glad! Going back to Conviction's Wharf in your religious and spiritual infancy, when your dungeons shook and your chains fell off in the old-fashioned way of getting religion!

There was a great spiritual awakening in the original system of the common custom of getting converted, as being termed getting religion. A great change in those days took place and you felt good. It was something more than mortal to command and you actually felt as though it was a mighty Hand that had reached low and lifted you; a good many of you felt it. It was a Supernatural Touch according to your conviction and according to the original and former teaching of the religion under which you had been christened. Aren't you glad!

But that is the mystery; because under whatsoever religious conviction or religious creed you are christened, you speak mentally and spiritually after that respective religious conviction, and you get an answer to your sincere prayer according to that birth under which you have been mentally and spiritually born, to that degree. Therefore, it is a blessing to observe the mystery. But bringing you into a more perfect manner of expression, it is a glorious privilege to realize GOD is actually Present; GOD is no longer merely a supposition.

You have imagined many things. Those things you once imagined were not real in reality, saving as they were made tangible and practical and you left that world of imagination in consideration and brought it into your conscious religious conviction by the realization of something better in evidence in your experience. GOD healed your physical body. GOD clothed you and fed you when you were hungry. Then it was bringing that religious conviction into a more recognized state of consciousness where you could realize GOD was not merely surmised, GOD was not just a supposition but a Living Reality!

So, live in this Recognition and lo, I will be with you; and as you think, so will it be, for

'According to your faith so be it unto thee!'

I did not arise at this instance to speak at length, I merely arose especially to give our visiting friends a chance to speak. I delight in meeting and having visiting friends of those who are Christians and those who are non-Christians to participate in these meetings. You are welcome to come if you care to come, and you are welcome to speak and sing and be led by the Spirit within if you are so led to do it. Therefore, those of our visiting friends as ministers of the Gospel, teachers and preachers of religion and professors and teachers and lecturers of social service and other works of righteousness, you are welcome to speak. Anything you wish to say as giving cooperative information such as you have according to your conviction, you are welcome to speak; but do not feel as though you must necessarily speak according to ours. You are welcome to be governed by your highest intuition and we should be governed by ours.

Let this Spirit and this Mind be in you that was also in CHRIST JESUS, and the development and the unfoldment of that particular Mind of which I AM now speaking will eventually be brought to fruition within you as well as in others, for it is written,

'Be ye therefore perfect even as your FATHER which is in heaven is perfect!'

It is your privilege to do it. Now I need not say more at this particular instance, but I AM refraining from speaking to give our visiting friends a chance to speak. If they desire an introduction according to custom, we are pleased to introduce you whensoever you give us the necessary information. I thank you.

(As a card was passed up to FATHER, our loving Savior arose again to say:)

PEACE EVERYONE! We have with us the Reverend Doctor Griffin. If Doctor Griffin would like to have a word to say he is welcome to come forward to the platform and speak, if he is led to do so. I thank you.

(At this instance Reverend Griffin, Assistant Pastor of the Umbria Baptist Church, came forward and spoke as follows:)

Beloved: It is a wonderful pleasure for me to have the privilege for the first time, meeting FATHER DIVINE, at which time I was seeing HIM in New York on the street and I was not able to get close by HIM because HE was in a parade. The greatest of all was when I heard such Gospel that HE was preaching. There is no other Gospel under the sun that can stop it! That is the onliest Gospel there was in the world! Any time the Truth is told it is Gospel. It is really surprising to me for some things that HE did say, because you hear things that are not actually the truth, but when I came and heard it for my own self, then I can witness that as preaching the Gospel.

HE is worth every word that can be said about HIM! I could have sat and listened to HIM for all night; and I believe HE preaches the same Gospel I preach. I tell the people that they must be born again. They must be born again!

I could say more but I am so filled from the very, very fine way I was introduced to you until I hardly know what to say; but I wish it would be that I could come back some other time and explain myself to you just the way I do feel.

I know, this thing -- you know, religion, you can't tell it all at once anyway. It takes some time to tell it. But I can say I want to live so GOD can use me at all times; and when we live so righteous that GOD can use us, then you can never lose anything!

If I should speak no more ever in your presence, you love FATHER DIVINE! I believe myself, HE is wonderful; I always longed to see HIM Personally. Many miracles have been done by your FATHER DIVINE; many miracles have been done, and whether you know it or not, but the majority of the world is trying to get what HE got. No longer than today, I don't know why, I did not know I was going to be here tonight. There was a "w---" gentleman talking to me. He said to me, he said, "What do you think of FATHER DIVINE?" What do I think of FATHER DIVINE? I said, "Well, I think HE is about the wonderfullest Man' that ever was." He said, "I think so myself." He said, "If the whole world could get what HE has," he said, "what would the world be?" He said, "It would be a heaven right here, wouldn't it?" And so he said it is so strange until I put my hand on my head and I said, "I believe you are right." And on and on we talked.

And tonight my main reason for being down in this vicinity is because there is a quartette I used to sing with in Norfolk, Virginia, that happened to be at the Tindley's Temple, and I came down to hear them sing. I used to broadcast with them over station WTAR, and by getting here I saw this car and I knew I had seen this car in the parade in New York. I said, "Oh, my Lord, the One that I have been wanting to see here a long time is here now and I will go over." And I thank you for this little space you have allowed me to speak. I could say more. May GOD bless you and may you ever pray that I may be blessed too, that HE can get the glory out of my life and that I may ever be the man GOD wants to use in this glorious day. I thank you!

As Reverend Griffin concluded, FATHER arose to speak again as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are, in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose to contagionize others with this which we are now experiencing, for we are going on!

If any of our other visiting friends in our midst desire to have a word to say, you are welcome to do so. Do not feel obligated to speak as we speak, neither as the last speaker, Doctor Griffin, but feel free to speak according to your own religious conviction. If it happens to be Mine, it is all right; if it does not happen to be Mine, why, it is all right too. Paul said:

'Let every man be persuaded by his own opinion.'

I say in this modern age:

'Let each person be governed by his highest intuition and move volitionally. Be conscientious and sincere and he will bring forth the CHRIST within to fruition that will give him the victory!'

Remember, Paul said on one occasion:

'The Law of the Spirit of Life that was in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death.'

The same Law will free you because it is impersonal. Aren't you glad! To each and everybody it is applicable. You can apply it to your life. By bringing your body into subjection it will give you the selfsame emancipation that Paul was speaking of when he said:

The Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death!'

Now, I say, be governed by your highest intuition and be not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST! Some people are ashamed to speak, only in their own congregations, but I rejoice and much appreciate the last speaker because he is not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST. I believe he realizes this is a Power because this shall sweep the universe. It shall envelop the world, and all nations, languages, tongues and people shall eventually be universal believers! I mean, and I believe the same thing just like you and I believe in the Actual Presence of GOD, that shall satisfy every good desire! I thank you.

(At this point another gentleman arose volitionally to speak as follows:)

Peace: I want to say that I traveled from coast to coast, and since I have been here I have tried to get up and speak in some of FATHER'S places. Now I want to say here that I see that FATHER DIVINE is the onliest Real GOD there is. You can say what you want to say. I have been right there in Youngstown, Ohio, in the Baptist Church, and they charge you ten cents when you go inside the church and then watch over you while you go out. But this is no gambling den. There is no gambling den in FATHER'S place, but every church you go to, it is a gambling den!

I do believe that FATHER DIVINE is GOD Almighty. I don't understand very much but as far as I can see, HE is GOD. I believe HE is GOD and I am going to follow HIM!

It was after this speech that FATHER arose to speak once more as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! This is not a systematized and an organized class meeting as we usually have in our Methodist Churches, but I move, I speak volitionally to endorse the last speaker; and at times we move volitionally in the actuated words of expression, doing just what others may do by custom, but when the Spirit does it, it is just the same as if it was done by custom.

Class leaders lead the class and instruct the speakers. I have arisen to endorse the speaker in his religious conviction, in his determination to live the Life and keep the Faith and do that which is Just and Right in the act of serving GOD according to his own religious conviction.

If there are any other visiting friends desire to have a word to say you are welcome to do so. If you contact ME harmoniously the reaction of the harmonious touch will bring you your desired results. I thank you.

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