All-Powerful Human Words

Passion. And that's music. He graduated from the New England Conservatives of Music, but felt that he was not equal to the concert field. He was highly competitive, and he really felt he was not right of that timber. He was born and raised in poverty, extreme poverty. He was an orphan when he was simply a little child, a little baby. Well he came west, got a job when he came to my meetings after about two years I met him, I rather liked him and I asked him if he would like to do what I am doing, and he said yes, I would, but I'm not qualified. I said, you've only answered correctly; if you felt you were qualified, you'll be no earthly good.

Today I would say I am not qualified. If you ask me for my intellectual background, I couldn't qualify. Ask me for any background and I couldn't qualify. I once met Damrosch in New York City at the Bohemian Club. At the Harvard Club they met once a month. And when I was introduced to him by this most outgoing person, he asked me what was my background. Was it Germanic as far as my teaching? Was it Germanic? Was it French? Was it English? And I said, no, it all came by revelation. And the old man turned his back on me as though he was talking to the sum of the earth. Here was a social gathering. He judged you by your background based upon were you trained in the Germanic school, the French school, the English school, and he named it.

Well, I could not have answered in the affirmative to his questions, so that he turned his back. So I said to Freedom, you do not need any background. You trust me. I like you. I think you're honest, and you will not deceive anyone. You'll go north, and you will teach. So he went north and he's been teaching successfully. He bought himself a home in Cambrian, as I say, between, midway between Hale and San Francisco. It's a modest home, but at least it's his home. It's all Clare. But there's one consuming passion that he has, it's music. He loves music. And he had this lovely grand piano. But something was needed. He had to have it not repaired, but something must be done.

And there was a modest charge of $400 to do to it what he thought should be done. But they could only do it if he sent it back to the factory. It was sent to the factory. They would not ship it to him unless he first came down and tested it and tried it out. Everything ought to be just right as he thought it to be right. So he came down, played on it, and he loved it. Then they gave him a date of delivery. So he waited home, and there was no piano. The next day, no piano. Then he called them. They said, well, we were waiting for a full load. But now there is a full load, and so you will get your piano.

Wednesday of last week. Not this week, Wednesday of last week. He waited in all day and there was no piano. So when he called, they said, strange Dina, our driver and the truck and its contents have disappeared and we cannot locate him or locate the truck or the contents. The next day when he called, no trace of the driver. So in desperation he called D. He said, I know, I teach this law, but never every penny that I have is really locked up in my piano. I have my home but I have no income at the moment and my one outgoing thing is simply to play. And it's only insured for $2 ,000 and I could not replace it for $4 ,000.

But long before I could get the $2 ,000, if ever, here I am strapped and I'm calling you to help. you're the only one to whom I can turn so thank you for the confidence and then that was it before I hung up or right after I hung up I heard him play that piano I could put my hands upon his shoulder and I could feel freedom I could feel the piano and I heard this lovely music then that night I turn on, as I quite often do if I'm up, between 8 and 10, there's a lovely program that comes on, and KFAC, and it's usually piano music, but it's lovely music all through the day, 24 hours a day.

So any time of the day I can turn that on, which is really turned on all the time anyway. And I heard this glorious concerto, and I imagined freedom was playing it. And I simply put my hands upon him and thanked him for the joy he gave me in the playing of this concerto, and that I could feel the piano. Yesterday morning at 11 o 'clock, he called. I was not available, but my wife answered. He said, I would have called you at 4 .30 this morning when the piano was delivered, but I thought it unwise to disturb you at that hour in the morning at 4 .30. But now I'm going to call you because you must be up.

he said I'm going to give you all the details eventually, I can do it now over the phone, the strange strange thing, he did say this much, the driver was arrested in San Luis Obispo he refused to give anything concerning the whereabouts of the truck and its contents only the past week I read in the paper that our banks banks lose from men who hold up the banks, oh, maybe $7, $8 million a year. But the investment that goes on within the banks from trusted employees runs into tens of millions. And then this enormous hundreds of millions between our ports, airports, and, well, warehouses, in lost cargo, all stolen. A man takes off and everything disappears, the truck and its contents.

And it runs into hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars a year. But I don't care what I write in the paper. I am remaining faithful to principle.

There is one infallible statement concerning the unforgivable sin. The unforgivable sin in the Bible is the sin against the Holy Spirit. Every sin in the world is forgiven, but the sin against the Holy Spirit. What is that unforgivable sin? Doubt. He who created the universe and sustains it, and you doubt his power to do anything in this world? That is the one unforgivable sin. For heaven reached the end of God's plan for all of us. I will not doubt. I did not ask freedom anything beyond his request. He wanted his piano. And all that I did, I simply heard him play it. I put my hands, my mental hands, my imaginary hands upon his shoulder, and thanked him for the joy I got from hearing him play.

And then when I turned on KFAC between eight and ten, and heard this delightful piano concerto, I assumed it was freedom playing it. And I so enjoyed the master who played it, that I thanked him for the joy of having heard it. And then I dropped it. Now, I'm waiting for the details, but I do not really concern myself with how it happened. In spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars that are lost every year and never recovered, that did not please me for one moment. He had his piano back. That's all that mattered. And so I simply lost myself in that act, and that was it. We forget what we do. A lady who was here tonight, she has forgotten.

About two or three months ago, she said to me, "Look how fat I'm getting, bursting out of my clothes." I said, "You aren't too fat at all." Then she said, "I want to be thin." I said, "Well, you are thin. You are as thin as you want to be, or even thinner." And she left. She returned tonight and said, "Look, I can't stand it, how thin I am." I said, "Do you recall that two months ago, or maybe three months ago, you said to me, "How fat you are?" And I couldn't say it, but to you it was fat, and you despised yourself for the fatness." And these are the words of Blake: "Oh, what have I said?

What have I done?" Done. All all -powerful human words. All -powerful human words. Yes, because man is God. God's word cannot be turned unto him void. It must accomplish that which he sent it to accomplish. It must actively fulfill its purpose. Well, God is man, and man in his idle moments makes makes all kinds of statements, then he reaps it and he doesn't recognize his own harvest. So she comes back and she's thin. Yes, she is thin, obviously very thin. For a small little lady, it is quite a loss of weight. But she herself put it into, I would say, into the rhythm that brought about this loss of weight. You can do it with anything in this world.

Now what is the statement concerning Moses? Moses, show me thy glory. And the Lord said to him, "I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen." That is in the 33rd chapter of the book of Exodus. You'll read it in the verses, the 18th through the 25th verses. And you ask, what on earth does it mean? Well, if you know the meaning of the word Moses, which means to be born, there is something that is planted in the rock, in the cleft of the rock that is to be born.

When that is born, on, then God has brought his purpose to a climax. From then on, and this is a strange thing to tell you, but I mean every word of it, you do not go forward from that moment on. You go backward. You go all the way back to the source. He brought you towards the climax. And then you only see the back now until you go all the way back. When you come all the way back, you see the face, the glory of God. As we are told in the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians, the fourth chapter, I think it's the sixth verse, to behold the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Christ. You will never know your faith until you see it in your son's face. So in that poem of Browning, called Saul, now Saul in Scripture was demented. He was the choice of humanity, the king of Israel, and he was mentally deficient. He wanted this lad to to play him on the harp and to soothe his spirit. And Browning, by experience, wrote this beautiful poem. And Browning now calls it Saul, based upon the 17th chapter of 1 Samuel. And David turns before Saul, telling him of the coming of Messiah. And these are Browning's words. And David said, O soul, a face like my face shall receive thee, and a man like unto me thou shalt love and be loved by forever.

A hand like this hand shall throw open the doors of new life to thee. See the Christ stand. David stands before him now Saul's name was changed to Paul Saul was of the tribe of Benjamin in the Old Testament of Abraham's descent Paul of the New Testament was first called Saul and when he confronted the risen Lord his name was changed to Paul and he tells you so the poem is called so and here standing before the demented humanity who does not recognize his own offspring like amnesia that here a face like my face shall receive thee a man like unto me thou shalt love and be loved by forever A hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee.

He, the Christ, stand. Here is David, the Christ. He is the Christ, the anointed of the Lord. So we speak in Scripture of the Lord and his Christ. His son, David, who reveals him as the Lord. So Moses cannot see the face until now he moves backward. See the back. You shall not see the face. So when divine history comes to its climax in what is known in Scripture as the resurrection, then comes these four majestic acts which is culminating in the descent of the Holy Spirit in bodily form as a dove. Now, the Gospels all begin the missionary, the message of Jesus with the descent of the Holy Spirit at baptism. They all begin it.

Because the last shall be first. That is the end. That's the climax. So they all begin it. In the earliest Gospel is Mark. He begins it with the story of the baptism when the dove descends upon Jesus. John, the most profound and the most mystical, he begins it with this descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus. We come now to Luke, and then Luke makes a statement concerning the descent of the Holy Spirit in bodily form as a dove. Then he goes right in, and he has Jesus declare that he is the fulfillment of that which was announced in Isaiah 61. And the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for he has anointed me to preach good news, glad tidings to the afflicted, to the poor, and to proclaim liberty to those who are captive, and to open the prison doors of all that are bound.

Here is one. He proclaims that he is the fulfillment of that announcement in the 61st chapter of Isaiah. Daya. Now he goes back. Read the story, and all the events now go back. Why? As he disappears from life, he is buried in us. Now he tells us, I have told you all these things before they take place, that when they do take place, you may believe. And now your hearts are troubled, because I said unto you in a little while I will leave you. Again in a little while I will return. And so your hearts are troubled.

But I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away.

For unless I go away the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth cannot come. But if I go away, I will send him to you, and he will lead you into all knowledge, and bring to your remembrance all that I have told you.

And who then is this Holy Spirit? He is called the Spirit of Truth. And Jesus said, I am the Truth. It is the spirit of the Lord Jesus who comes into man when the visible Lord disappears from man. He disappears completely. He is the teacher, and he disappears. He tells you what happened to him, and he disappears.

Where could he go? Back to the Father. There's no other place to go but to the Father. So I came out from the Father, and I came into the world. Again, I am leaving the world, and I am returning to the Father.

But where is the Father? The Father is in you. No, he is the Spirit in man.

Now, the Spirit of truth, called the Holy Spirit, against which you must not, really, not doubt its power to do anything in this world, he will bring to your remembrance all the things that I have told you.

Therefore, who is the spirit of truth other than the remembrance self? He remembers. The whole thing is done. That's why I can say boldly, salvation is accomplished. Redemption is perfect. No one can fail because the spirit, the remembrance, is now buried in man. And he can take you forward. To God, the Father, he takes you backward. So he rises at a point called the awakening in you. The moment he awakens in you, you are born from above. The two sides of the same coin.

Then he takes you backward. And when he gets all the way back, now you will see the face of God. In the face of Christ, his son David. David is the anointed of the Lord.

and you will know what you look like by looking right into the face of your son called David. And David is Christ. You are the Father, but you came out into the world.

Now he makes the statement, I and my Father are one. He who sees me sees him who sent me. He has never left me. Yet he makes this statement, which has confused all the priesthoods of the world. My Father is greater than I. You'll read that in the 14th chapter of the book of John. In the 10th chapter of the book of John, he makes the statement, I and my Father are one.

Now he makes the statement, My Father is greater than I. The Lord is not inferior as to his essential being, but as to his office, as the saint. He and the sender are one. But when the sender sends himself into the world to tell the story of redemption, the position of the saint is less than the sender, yet they are one.

So here, the Lord, Jesus Christ, is not inferior as to his own essential being, but as to his office, as the sent in this world. So he makes the statement, he who sees me, sees him who sent me. I and my Father are one. Yet in this statement, he shows you the difference between playing the part, the office of the saint, as against that of the sender, and yet the sender and the saint are one. Because here, O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one. They aren't two, but they are different offices that the one fulfills. So in the office of the saint, he is left. He seems to be left. But he is not truly in his essential being left than God the Father.

So I came out from the Father and I came in unto the world. Again I am leaving the world and I am going unto the Father. And now your hearts are sad because I have told you this. But I tell you it is expedient, and it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Holy Spirit cannot come. But if I go away, I will send him. Now he becomes the sender, and he sends still himself, but this time it's called by a different name. He sends himself, and you may know him as John, you may know him as Mary, but still the same sender, now you know him as never, the same being that was sent.

And while I am in the world as the sent, I play the inferior office to the sender. But before I was sent, I was incorporated into the body of the sender. And forever I am one with him. For he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. but in the world where I am now sent, I am subject to all the weaknesses and the limitations of the sent. I must subject myself to all the weaknesses of humanity. But on the dissolution of this little garment, I am not then restored to life. I am one with the Father, one with the center. Those who have not yet experienced what I'm talking about will be restored to life in a world just like this, in a body that is new, gloriously new, unaccountably new, in a world terrestrial just like this, to continue their journey until they reach the climax, which is resurrection.

For you are buried in the cleft of a rock. You were that Moses, something to be born. So in the cleft of the rock I will put you, and I will cover your body, your face with my hand, until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face shall not be seen. It cannot be seen until my Son reveals it, and my Son is dated. No one will know the faith that he truly wears until he sees it reflected in his son David. For David is the image of the invisible God. David is the reflection of God and bears the exact image of the invisible God.

You are the invisible God. So here, this is what I mean by the most profound truth, and yet the most practical application of it. Do not think for one moment, even though you are innocent of what you are saying, that it is an idle word. Because why? You are God, and God's words cannot be turned unto him empty. They must accomplish that which he purposed, and prosper in the thing for which he sent it. So even though you are ignorant of the law, you are the operant power operating that law, of which you may be totally unaware, but there is no excuse. You will still reap the results, as my friend reaped the results of the loss of weight which he could ill afford.

forth. And my friend Freedom, distracted as he is, but what is a friend in this world for if you can call to him and ask him and stretch out your hand for help when that is necessary? So Freedom teaches this law, and may I tell you, he teaches it beautifully. And he has been tremendously successful in helping a number of people in the use of this law. But then came a test for Freedom, for his one consuming passion is music. He loves music. Give him music that you've given him the whole day and he can sit in his little place in Cambria and play that piano all day long and forget meals. He is so completely carried away with music.

He just loves it. Then the one thing to express it is gone. And here, the very week, comes the story in the LA Times of the hundreds of millions of dollars that we lose every year through theft between the wharfs of our country, the airports of our country, and the interior areas where merchandise is placed upon vans for delivery. And there is a syndicate of stealing, but it runs into a numbered million. Well, when you read that, even though you teach it, and it's so near and you cannot replace it, The average person who has money would say, all right, I'm underinsured for $2 ,000, but I will go out and buy another. Well, he could not go out and buy another.

He didn't have the money. He was born a very, very poor boy, and Freedom has never really made money an object in life. He's never really. He loves beauty. He loves music. He loves all the lovely things of life, and he's enjoyed them. But he's never really made money a goal in life. So he could not go out and replace the $4 ,000 instrument. But I heard it clearly, with the aid of KFAC. And I heard this beautiful concerto, and I simply used my imagination to see him. I could see him seated there, and playing this lovely, lovely piece, and then put my hands upon his shoulder, and thank him for the joy I got out of having heard it.

and then felt the solid, solid loveliness of his piano, and he called yesterday morning at eleven. Now he's going to give me a detailed account as to how. The man was found, and at least the piano, whatever contents the truck held, I do not know. But really, I'm not really interested in that. I go to the end, and as far as the man goes, he too is God, although he played the part in this little incident as a thief. He may be working for a syndicate. I'm not concerned. He's still behind that mask of the thief. He is my brother. That one who played the part of the thief is my brother. There's nothing but brotherhood in this world.

Go tell my brothers. I am ascending unto their father, unto my father, unto they God, and my God. So we're all brothers behind these masks. We're all one. There's only God. So if there is in this world today, because of imagining and the misuse of imagining, these horrible things in the world, may I tell you, God turns them all, like the great artist will take discord and turn them into dissonance, and eventually into beautiful harmonies. So he will take every discord of the world, like stealing or murder, and everything in the world, and resolve it, because he is the great artist. And in us, everything is forgiven. given. If the one who played that part tonight, or the one who stole the truck and the contents to embarrass my friend, who has no money to replace his great love, suppose that one, in the physical sense, was my brother.

Do you know what I would say? Set him free. I wouldn't care what he did. I so love my brothers, if they were caught in any act, I don't care what it was, the most violent act, I would ask the judge to set him free. That's what I would do. And I would mean it because he's my brother. Well, behind the mask is my brother. Every being in the world is my brother. And all my brothers together form God. They all form the Elohim, a plural word. One made up of others. This is God. So we are here to learn a lesson. One of the great lessons is God. repentance. How to change my attitude towards a seeming fixed, unalterable state.

It's unalterable. And yet, I want what that, if it could be changed, would produce. Now, learn to change it. Ignore it completely and go to the end where it has been changed. Like, so he took the piano. Maybe he sold it. Maybe he burned it, but I'm going to hear him play the most glorious instrument and so enjoy it. So I ignore the facts of life, completely ignore the facts, and go in my imagination to the end as I want it to be. And there I will see it. So I tell you, this is profoundly spiritual and so directly practical. So he comes into the world and tells the story that the world does not understand because he has reached the climax of God's plan of salvation.

And having reached the climax, he tells you he must go. He must disappear as a teacher. But where could he go save to the Father? And where is the Father but in you? Now he's going to send the Spirit of truth. But he said, I am the truth. Therefore, who is he going to send but himself? But when he comes now, he's going to be bearing a different name. He'll bear a different name. He is one with the Father in control of the whole. But he was self -send, self -bearing a different name to continue the teaching and tell the whole vast world of God's plan of redemption. For there's only God. It was God himself who came down into the world of humanity and buried himself in man.

And only God can be redeemed and God planned the process of redemption before that the world was. This is not an afterthought. This is not some emergency thinking. This was before that the world was. This is how it's going to be. You're going to go straight to the end until you reach the climax. The climax is resurrection from that little cleft in the rock. And you come out, and then you're going to go back. So the evangelists, the four of them, they begin the story of the ministry of Jesus with the final act, which is baptism, when the dove descends upon him in bodily form as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. And they all begin it that way.

And then they go back. John, being the most profound, he goes back to the grave and he tells it in symbolism. And all the signs are really, all the signs that he uses in that wonderful picture of the grave, they're all, well, signs. They're all figures. But the things that they signify are literal. So he tells the story of the birth by using the sign of a napkin, which means the afterbirth, the placenta. He tells you what took place in that concrete state called the tomb. That when you found that little napkin, then a birth took place. But this was a different kind of a birth. This was the birth from God. God was born in this state.

So he ends it with the very first act. For the four mighty acts. And the first act is the resurrection. A few moments later, it's followed by the birth from above. John ends it with that. But he begins it with the descent of the dove. So the whole thing is showing you it's going to be backwards now. So we bring it to its climax and then divine history is over. And now the great spirit of God called the Holy Spirit takes us backward. Not forward, but backward to where? Backward to the source, which is yourself, who is God the Father. It takes you all the way back. And when you go back, only one thing in the world can convince you that you are God the Father.

When you see your glory reflected in the face of Christ, and Christ is David. That's the story. Now you dwell upon it tonight. You have recorded it, played over and over and over. I am not making any prophetic statement concerning when I will depart. Personally, I can't believe it can be too long. But I have no day, no month, no year. I have no, because no one knows when he will take off this garment. Only when I finish doing what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to tell it over and over and over. Because in my case, it's been finished. It came to its climax with the descent of the dove upon me and it remained there and it's still there the symbol of the Holy Spirit loathing itself with me to tell it for he has all the knowledge not the knowledge of how to go to the moon but the true knowledge of the mystery of God he's not concerned about all the things of earth he's only concerned about God's purpose and God's plan and so he will reveal to me as he has all the things concerning his word in Scripture.

And he reveals it by allowing me to experience it. For he came to me seemingly as someone unknown. And then in some strange, mysterious way, he allowed me to experience who he is in a first -person, present -tense, singular experience. So the whole story is myself going back towards it all. Or it was in the beginning this way. But you come forward to the climax. Then it stopped. Time stops. And then you move backwards to the source. And there you are, God the Father. But on the way back, you tell it while you still wear a garment that is in contact with garments in this world. Because when you shed this garment, you've lost the contact.

Because I will not be in contact. For my garment tomorrow is that garment that is perfect. And wherever I am, everything is perfect. There's no reason for any argument for that body that you will wear in the resurrection is a perfect body. And nothing is dead in your world. Nothing can be imperfect in your world. Everything is perfect wherever you are. That is the resurrection body. And that is spoken of in Scripture as the kingdom of heaven. So the kingdom of heaven is not a place. It's not a realm. It is a body. So wherever you are clothed in that resurrected body, everything is perfect. But those who die before the resurrection here, and all will be eventually resurrected, they are clothed in a similar body to the one that they've discarded.

Only that body is young, unaccountably new, in a world terrestrial just like this. And they continue their journey.

I do hope you will not forget. For the one grand sin against it is to doubt the power of this rememberer. For when he comes into your life, he is the rememberer. He remembers all that God has accomplished. So then when he actually remembers all that God has accomplished in you, he takes you back, and you are the God who accomplished it. because the whole thing re- enacts itself in you because of his indwelling presence. That's the story.

Now let us go into the silence.