{"id":11137,"date":"2015-03-27T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=11137"},"modified":"2015-03-27T15:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:26:58","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/27\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-1258\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 1258"},"content":{"rendered":"

ON LOVE; PART\u00a0DCCCXCVII<\/span><\/h2>\n
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GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n
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FIRST IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS: “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these<\/em>” (Mark 12:29-31).<\/span><\/p>\n

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WHAT THEN IS LOVE? In a general sense love is benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men. While this IS from an older definition of Charity, which IS rendered in the King James Bible from the same Greek word agape<\/em> which IS generally rendered as Love,\u00a0we should amend our own definition here to include the idea that in the reality of Love a man will accord to ALL men ALL things that he would accord to himself and to say that Love IS our thoughts and attitude\u00a0of the equality of ALL men regardless of their outward nature or appearance…that ALL ARE equally children of Our\u00a0One God<\/span><\/p>\n

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PLUS THE EVER IMPORTANT AND HIGH IDEAL TAUGHT TO US BY THE CHRIST: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them<\/em>” (Matthew 7:12)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We ended the last essay with the beginning of the Apostle Paul’s words on Love and we should remember here that this IS a carryover from the previous topic\u00a0that he had been writing about….the gifts<\/em> of the Spirit. In the reality of his words we should see that his transition IS not only one of subject but IS also to show the deeper ideas of the importance of Love as the expression<\/strong><\/em> of the man in the world. The view that the apostle IS speaking about these gifts<\/em> as that they ARE of True significance IS the way that doctrines DO approach his words\u00a0while they leave off the reality of His words on Love as well as the significance of the transitory idea that tells the reader: “But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way<\/em>“. While it IS likely True that the ideas behind the apostle’s words on these gifts<\/em> ARE important in the Life of the man who Truly seeks God, we should realize here how that there IS a duality at play….the same type of duality as IS at play in ALL aspects of spiritual Life. And this IS the point of the apostle’s idea that interjects both Love and the reality that without Love\u00a0ALL us for naught into His dialogue on these gifts<\/em> which we read again saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

“But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.\u00a0<\/em>Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.\u00a0And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.\u00a0And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing<\/em>” (1 Corinthians 12:31, 13:1-3).<\/span><\/p>\n

The duality here IS in the apostle’s words that show that the man who DOES have such gifts<\/em>, such abilities as are called the gifts<\/em> of the Spirit, DOES NOT have them on a spiritual level if these ARE not a part of that Love that he must express<\/em><\/strong> to the world of men. We should see here how that what Paul claims IS True for himself IS True for ALL men and while this shows us that such things ARE possible for men in the absence\u00a0of Love, we should see that these ARE NOT the reality of the “spiritual gifts<\/em>” and that the appearance of these gifts<\/em> in one’s Life IS then carnal. When we remember here that Love IS the reality of keeping His words<\/em> as the apostle also tells us saying that “love is the fulfilling of the law<\/em>” (Romans 13:10) and again that “all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself<\/em>” (Galatians 5:14), we can then better understand the complexity of our own spiritual reality. In this view we can see that the appearance of these gifts<\/em> in the Life of the man who DOES NOT keep his words<\/em> or strive<\/em> to DO\u00a0so ARE but psychic powers\u00a0that ARE NOT necessarily under the control of the Soul….these ARE NOT Truly “spiritual gifts<\/em>“.<\/span><\/p>\n

We should see here that the apostle goes beyond psychic phenomenon however as he includes such things as constitute the outward appearance of Love in giving and forsaking as well as the rites and the rituals of religion which ideas should be taken from his reference to giving his “body to be burned<\/em>“. While many doctrines see this idea as Paul’s support of martyrdom, this IS an illogical reference as ARE the references to men who burned themselves alive in those days. We should remember here as well that the apostle IS speaking to men who DO strive<\/em> to keep the words of the Master<\/em> through Paul’s teaching to them and while it IS likely that the ALL DO NOT DO\u00a0so, this IS his target audience. It is to these men who strive<\/em> to keep His words<\/em> that Paul shows the reality of these gifts<\/em> and it IS this view that IS supported by his words above on Love as it IS in Love that one DOES keep His words<\/em>. It IS this reality, the reality of keeping His words<\/em> as the precursor to the True “spiritual gifts<\/em>”\u00a0that Paul shows us that IS the message of these words to the Corinthians and we should try to see how that the apostle goes on to define such Love in words that are similar to his words to the Galatians on the “fruit of the Spirit<\/em>” (Galatians 5:22).<\/span><\/p>\n

It IS these ideas of\u00a0the reality of Love\u00a0that ARE important to the man who Truly seeks God as these ARE his own measure of His success; it IS by the measure of one’s expression<\/em><\/strong> of this Love, one’s expression<\/strong><\/em> of the\u00a0“fruit of the Spirit<\/em>“, that one can have a measure of the True “spiritual gifts<\/em>” and we should try to see in these gifts the deeper meaning of the grace<\/em> of God. It IS this grace<\/em> that IS the revelations<\/strong> and the realizations<\/strong><\/em> of a man in this world whose focus<\/em> IS upon the things of God and it IS this grace<\/em> that IS those\u00a0“spiritual gifts<\/em>” which ARE expressed<\/em><\/strong> to the world as\u00a0the\u00a0“fruit of the Spirit<\/em>“. And ALL of this must be resolved into the reality of the Presence of God in one’s Life; the reality that the Soul, the God and the Christ Within, ARE become the guiding Light of the conscious Life in the world. This IS the reality that we have been discussing in\u00a0Jesus’ words from the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John where we should clearly see how that the Presence of God comes to the man who keeps His words<\/em> and in this we should ever see the man who Loves as the Master teaches us. We read Jesus’ words again saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.\u00a0And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;\u00a0Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.\u00a0I will not leave you comfortless:a I will come to you.\u00a0Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.\u00a0At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.\u00a0He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.\u00a0Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?\u00a0Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.\u00a0He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me<\/em>” (John 14:15-24).<\/span><\/p>\n

In these words we have the reality of the unction<\/em>\u00a0of which the Apostle John tells us\u00a0and which\u00a0IS alternately rendered as the anointing<\/strong><\/em> and, as we have discussed, this Greek word chrisma<\/em> is the noun which should be seen in the same way as christos<\/em> which IS rendered as Christ and which IS literally translated as anointed.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0While this idea is confounded in the doctrinal approach to Jesus as the Christ, the greater reality can be found in the apostle’s usage of these words: Jesus IS the anointed<\/strong><\/em> and we have this same anointing<\/strong><\/em> as the Christ Within. It IS the realization<\/em><\/strong> of this anointing,<\/strong><\/em> the realization<\/em><\/strong> of the Christ Within as\u00a0the guiding Light of the conscious Life in the world, that IS the Presence of God that comes to the man who will keep His words<\/em>. We should remember here how that the apostles DO NOT understand the way that the Master presents this idea of His Presence and it IS in Jesus’ answer to Judas’ question that we see only a repetition of His words which clearly say that the Presence of God comes to the man who will keep His words<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For us it IS this the realization<\/strong><\/em> of this Presence that the Master shows us as this Presence IS that unction<\/em> and IS ever the True man, the Soul, the God and the Christ Within whose Truth is obnubilated by the vanity<\/em>, by the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour,<\/strong> of Life in form in this world. And this IS the Master’s teaching: it IS by Repentance<\/em><\/strong> that we come to see the reality of the Kingdom and the Truth of the Inner man and it IS by Love, by keeping His words<\/em>, that a man comes to realize the Kingdom and the Inner Man which becomes the expression<\/em><\/strong> of\u00a0his conscious Life in this world. This brings us back again to the duality with which we started this essay and we should try to see that while this IS similar to the duality that the aspirant and the disciple faces as he sees in both directions, as he sees the carnal Life and the spiritual Life, this duality IS on a lower rung. This sense of duality IS that which we see in Paul’s ideas where a man may believe<\/em> that he has found such realization<\/em><\/strong> as the Presence of God and the grace<\/em> and\u00a0“spiritual gifts<\/em>” but has NOT yet come to that point\u00a0keeping His words<\/em> and of Love which ARE the KEY to such realization<\/em><\/strong>. This sense of duality sees the carnal as the spiritual and IS founded in the ideas behind the Apostle James’ words saying: “be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves<\/em>” (James 1:22).<\/span><\/p>\n

These ideas go back again to Paul’s words\u00a0on strongholds<\/em> which we have been discussing over the last several posts. In this view we should see that it IS the thoughts and the attitudes that are developed in the absence of keeping His words<\/em> that become the strongholds<\/em> of many and which pose as the Truer spiritual ideas, that pose as the True\u00a0“spiritual gifts<\/em>“. In this sense the duality IS NOT seen by the man as he mistakes the psychic and carnal powers for the True\u00a0“spiritual gifts<\/em>“. Conversely, in the sense of duality that is the Life of the aspirant and the disciple, there IS an awareness of the duplicity of thoughts, attitudes and actions. This higher sense of duality is framed for us by our Tibetan brother who tells us of the disciple saying: “He has tasted the joys of life in the world of illusion and has learnt their powerlessness to satisfy and hold him. Now he is in a state of transition between the new and the old states of being. He is vibrating between the condition of soul awareness and form awareness. \u00a0He is \u201cseeing double\u201d\u00a0<\/em>“**.\u00a0The duality that we find however on the lower rung IS the result of one’s own thoughts and imaginations<\/em> as this IS rendered in the King James Bible, a duality\u00a0that IS NOT recognized by the may. This IS what we see then in the apostle’s point: duality; a duality that expresses<\/em><\/strong> itself as carnal strongholds<\/em> which pose as that they ARE the things of God. We read the apostle’s words again saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

“the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;\u00a0Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ<\/em>” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).<\/span><\/p>\n

As the apostle IS speaking to the aspirant and the disciple, the man who has the higher duality at play in his life, he IS showing how that it IS by spiritual discernment that one can KNOW that whatsoever imagination<\/em>, that whatsoever “high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God<\/em>” must be captured and made to be in accord with the Master’s words which IS to bring “into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ<\/em>“. It IS this\u00a0view\u00a0of the sense of duality that can be the stronghold<\/em> of the aspirant and the disciple and it IS in one’s own measure of revelation,<\/strong><\/em> one’s own measure of spiritual discernment, that he has such weapons<\/em> which ARE “mighty through God<\/em>“. Here then we can see more clearly the plight of the man whose focus<\/em> IS NOT yet Truly on the things of God, the man who IS NOT striving<\/em> to keep His words<\/em> and we should understand that this afflicts ALL men who DO NOT yet see the Truth of keeping His words<\/em> as the KEY to ALL spiritual realities, the KEY to ALL revelations<\/strong><\/em> and realizations<\/em><\/strong> of the Presence of God in one’s Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this IS our point about the strongholds<\/em> that doctrines create in the minds of men as they pose as the Truth of the Master’s words. Here the man IS faced with the same carnal or\u00a0doctrinal imaginations<\/em> and thoughts but here the man DOES NOT have the weapons<\/em> that come to the man who keeps His words<\/em>, the man DOES NOT have the reality of spiritual discernment as he IS yet the “natural man<\/em>“. And this IS the rub: this man believes<\/em> through these imaginations<\/em> and thoughts, that he IS in accord with the Master’s words by way of his doctrine which he has built into that stronghold<\/em> and which IS become his castle in the sky. This man DOES NOT see that he DOES NOT have the weapons<\/em> because the doctrines that he relies upon tell him that he DOES; this man DOES NOT see the deeper reality of the Master’s words that tell him clearly that he must be in True accord with the words of the Master….that he must be keeping His words<\/em>. This man DOES NOT see the reality that \u00a0keeping His words<\/em> IS the\u00a0ONLY cause for\u00a0his being\u00a0“mighty through God<\/em>“; that this IS the precursor\u00a0for the realization<\/em><\/strong> of the Truth of the Presence of God which IS the True and ONLY\u00a0weapon<\/em> and the armour<\/em> upon which he can stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such men then remain in bondage<\/em> while they believe<\/em> that they have found the Truth; they\u00a0remain imprisoned by their own strongholds<\/em> of belief<\/em> while their doctrines tell them that they ARE free<\/em>. And while the Master teaches us about the reality of the Kingdom, how that it IS in DOING “the will of my Father which is in heaven<\/em>” that one “shall enter into the kingdom of heaven<\/em>“, most doctrines have diluted this Truth to the convenience of the imaginations<\/em> of men.\u00a0And it IS to the point of this delusion<\/strong> that comes in the illusions<\/strong> of Life in form that the Master completes His words saying “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?\u00a0And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity<\/em>” (Matthew 7:21-23). We should see here how that this IS ALL related, how that Paul’s comments on the worthlessness of what IS presumed to be “spiritual gifts<\/em>” show us the reality that it IS only in keeping His words<\/em> that these gifts<\/em> ARE real. We should see as well how that the Master’s words cut to the same conclusion: that men may have the presumption of gifts<\/em> and that\u00a0they may DO what they perceive as “many wonderful works<\/em>“; but ALL is for naught if that man IS NOT\u00a0DOING “the will of my Father which is in heaven<\/em>“.<\/span><\/p>\n

This IS the reality behind these other words from Jesus as well; these words that paint for us the nature of the disciple and which also paint for us the reality of Truth and of being made free<\/em>. It IS in keeping His words<\/em> that these things come to a man; it IS in keeping His words<\/em> that one is the True disciple and it IS in keeping His words<\/em> that one “shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free<\/em>“. This Truth IS the realization<\/strong><\/em> of the Presence of God in one’s Life and this freedom<\/em> is one’s deliverance<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0“from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God<\/em>” (Romans 8:21)….and this IS ALL seen in that\u00a0spiritual discernment that comes by measure \u00a0to the man who strives<\/em> to keep His words<\/em>. We repeat again the Master’s words on this:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;\u00a0And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u00a0They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?\u00a0Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin<\/em>” (John 8:31-34).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Center where the Will of God IS KNOWN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Son, The Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Note on the Quote of the Day<\/span><\/h2>\n

This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n Live in joy, in health, even among the afflicted.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n Live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n Live in joy, without possessions.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n Like the shining ones.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The winner sows hatred because the loser suffers.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n Let go of winning and losing and find joy.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n There is no fire like passion, no crime like hatred,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n No sorrow like separation, no sickness like hunger,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n And no joy like the joy of freedom.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Quote of the Day is from the Dhammapada (on JOY)5<\/span><\/sup>; a collection of the sayings of the Buddha. These words and ideas ARE much the same as those\u00a0we discuss in our\u00a0In the Words of Jesus essays. And what is this freedom but the release of our hearts and minds from loving this life in this world and attaining the Presence of God. This word Joy has many meanings as DOES the idea of Love, but in the context that it IS used here we should see the idea that Joy IS Love, Joy IS health,<\/em> Joy IS peace<\/em> and that Joy IS without the burdens placed on a man by the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour<\/strong> of\u00a0the ways of the world. We should try to see that it IS the antithesis of these ideas in hate<\/em>, in affliction<\/em> and in troubles<\/em> that ARE among the possessions<\/em> of the carnal man, that ARE among the “evil treasure of his heart<\/em>” (Luke 6:45) according to the Master.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it IS in the second stanza above that we see the basic psychic ideas that can eliminate the harm caused by\u00a0such\u00a0“evil treasure<\/em>” as a man looks past himself and at the welfare of others which IS the greater reality of Love as the Master teaches us. It IS in losing such possessions<\/em>, losing such carnal thoughts and attitudes, that one\u00a0can truly find the “joy of freedom<\/strong><\/em>“….this IS the Truth of deliverance<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the peace of God rule in your hearts<\/span><\/h2>\n