{"id":4265,"date":"2012-08-17T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2012-08-17T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T02:00:53","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-414\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 414"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is the Fulfilling of the Law<\/span><\/h2>\n

ON LOVE; PART VII<\/span><\/h2>\n
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GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/span><\/h2>\n
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For the last two posts we have looked at some of the established doctrinal documents of various Christian denominations and sects. We posted the Confessions of Faith of the Methodists, the Articles of Faith of the Mormon Church and the Apostle’s and the Nicene Creed of the Catholics. Each of these sets forth the basic beliefs of the particular denomination and similar statements of belief are published by most all of the thousands of different denominations. There are additional documents as well that go toward the formation of the doctrine and the general and organizational order of each of these but we are only looking at the beliefs as they are stated in regard to the teaching of the Master and His apostles here in these posts. As we read through these we can see the differences in the approach of each and can find, based upon our own beliefs, areas of both agreement and disagreement within each of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

This look at the variety in the presentation of these statements of faith\u00a0<\/em>brought us back to a topic that we have spent much time on in past essays and this is faith<\/em> itself and the allied term of believe<\/em>. We ended yesterday by our noting that there is an apparent difference in the approach to these ideas by the Master in the verses that we presented yesterday and the approach of His apostles and we must note here again that if the simplicity of the apostle’s approach were as it is believed to be today, there would be many in the world who could move the mountain or cast the tree into the sea. It is fortunate for humanity and for the world that this is not true. When we look at the words of the apostles as that they are intended for disciples eyes and not for the general public, we can make a bit more sense of their approach and their words and we will use this as a working premise as we proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Master’s comments on faith<\/em> and on believing<\/em> are certain, there is no ambiguity in His pronouncements at all. He tells us clearly that if we have the RIGHT faith<\/em> and that if we believe<\/em> and DOUBT NOT, that we can do these dynamic things of which He speaks. We should try to understand that these ideas that He gives us are by example and it is in the\u00a0strength\u00a0of the\u00a0example\u00a0that we should get the message that the mountain and the tree are but symbols of the heights of the power of the man in form through whom the fullness<\/strong> <\/em>of the Christ Within flows. As we begin we again note the words of the Master and His apostles on our relationship to the Christ to which we add that this relationship is through the Christ Within and His realization by the consciousness which is of the Soul and used by the form.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • The Master tells us that: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father<\/em>” (John 14:12). Here we should understand that the idea of believeth on is as we have said previously, keeping His words<\/em> and following Him<\/em>. These ideas are properly framed for us by Vincent whose words we repeat here again:\u00a0to believe in, or on, is more than mere acceptance of a statement. It is so to accept a statement or a person as to rest upon them, to trust them practically; to draw upon and avail one\u2019s self of all that is offered to him in them. Hence to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is not merely to believe the facts of His historic life or of His saving energy as facts, but to accept Him as Savior, Teacher, Sympathizer, Judge; to rest the soul upon Him for present and future salvation, and to accept and adopt His precepts and example as binding upon the life<\/strong>.<\/em>4<\/sup>. The most important part of this is of course the last statement which is in the doing, the action of a man who Truly believes in<\/em> or believes on<\/em> the Christ; that he will keep His words<\/em> and will follow Him<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  • In our understanding of the relationship between the Father and the Son as it corresponds to the\u00a0relationship\u00a0of the Spirit and the Soul or the Christ Within of a man, we can look upon this next saying with a bit more understanding as it relates to the prior point. The Master says: “For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth : and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel<\/em>” (John 5:20). When we can see in this saying the reality of another which tells us that “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God<\/em>” (Luke 18:27), we can begin to see the reality of the mountain and the tree in a different Light. The God Within, through the Christ Within can affect ALL things through form. Can we see that the God Within is the Power that operates through the Love that is the Christ Within and that when these are operating through the consciousness in the form and the personality we can come under that same saying from the Apostle Paul which tells us that:<\/span><\/li>\n
  • “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily<\/em>” (Colossians 2:9) which is the Apostle Paul’s testimony that the Power of God was active in the Life of the Christ. Speaking to the Corinthian disciples Paul says “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?<\/em>” (1 Corinthians 3:16) and this is a statement of fact albeit one that is only realized by the disciple. This shows us that the same God that is in the Master is in the man in form; it is in the fullness<\/em> <\/strong>of this presence in consciousness and everyday occupation that is the goal of man. To the Romans Paul says “….if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,<\/em> he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you<\/em>” (Romans 8:11) and in this we should understand that same Truth and see that in this quickening<\/em> is the fullness<\/em> <\/strong>that we must seek.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • For our last point in this series we go to John who tells us of our similarity to the Master, no, our sameness with the Master, and this should be understood in its own fullness as a statement of fact that tells us that ALL things can be accomplished by the man who is the True disciple and the KNOWER of the things of God and Man and that in this word KNOW we find the fullness<\/strong><\/em> of which speak above. John tells us that: “as he is, so are we in this world<\/em><\/strong>” (1 John 4:17).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Although it may seem as though we have gotten off track here we have not; this is True because ALL of these things are related. The Master links for us the idea of doing as He does and then even greater to both faith<\/em> and believing<\/em>; this we can see in our understanding of keeping His words<\/em> and following Him<\/em> as we derive these from Vincent’s words. If this is not enough we have the Master’s own words that we discussed yesterday also and especially in the words we find in the sayings from Matthew’s Gospel. We have to put these ideas together and we should likely KNOW that this is the way that this is intended to be. The Master says:<\/span><\/p>\n