False Gods

That truth embodied in a tale shall enter in at lowly doors, for that is the story of Scripture.

The Old Testament is a prophetic blueprint of the story of Jesus. A prophet's vision is foreshortened, and they see as present what really is the future. So we open the book of the Old Testament, and here you're looking at a prophecy. It's not history, not secular history. It's a prophecy. The man is not aware of it. is a rabbinical principle which states that what is not written in Scripture is non -existent. The story of Jesus follows this principle. But as the poet said, it's embodied in a tale that it may enter in at lowly doors. So you and I hear the story like a little tale.

Now listen to these words. They are from the end of Luke, the 24th chapter, the last chapter of Luke. He had just explained Scripture. Beginning with the law of Moses and all the prophets and the thorns, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. And then they say to each other, did not our hearts burn within us while he opened to us the scriptures and their eyes were opened and they recognized him and he vanished out of their sight.

Now you would think a man appeared to those walking along the highway and they didn't recognize him at first and then he explained the scripture and their hearts began to burn within them as he offered to them the scripture. And then their eyes were opened, they recognized him and he vanished out of sight. This one is called the truth, that I am the truth, I am the way, I am the light. If I succeed in offering up the scriptures to you, then whatever you hold now as an image called Jesus Christ will vanish out of sight. The only enemy of Israel is a false god. There is no other enemy for any man in this world.

A false god. If I could now take Scripture, I'm so interpreted that I could show you who God really is. For then, anything you hold down in your mind's eye concerning an external God would vanish out of sight. Can I take the Scripture and do it? I think I can. But it's one of the most difficult things in the world to change a fixed idea. it comes back time and time again so you simply repeat the story from different angles until finally you get through and the man discovers who he is it is in us as persons that God the Father reveals himself he comes to us as one unknown yet one who in the most ineffable mystery lets man experience who he is.

When we experience who he is, all thoughts God -fearing. For in that experience we discover we are the Lord. And there is a definite way for the discovery, a definite plan. the whole thing was plain before that the world was. But we are children in this world of darkness. We came out from the world of light and purposely came into this world of darkness and took upon ourselves the form of this thing called man, the restriction, the contraction that is man. And one day in the fullness of time, it unfolds, the mystery unfolds in a man. And that man in whom it unfolds tells it to as many as will listen. Some will agree and some will disagree.

Those that agree and really see it clearly, their eyes are open, they recognize not the man talking to them, they recognize the truth.

For he said, I am the truth. So they recognize the truth of Scripture. And then an external being that they turn to and worship vanishes out of their sight. There is no more external God in their world. They find him within themselves. That's the story. Everything said in Scripture concerning Jesus is taken from the Old Testament. and most of it you will find in the words of David.

Now let us take a look in the 10th chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. You will find verse after verse taken from the 40th Psalm which is credited to David, a Psalm of David. In the volume of the book It is all about me. That's what David is saying. I delight to do thy will, O my God. These same words are used in the 10th chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews concerning Jesus. I have come to do the will of him who sent me. That's my food. just to do the will and to accomplish the work he gave me to do. These are the words of David. In the volume of the book it is written of me. That's the unknown author speaking of Jesus. Yet in the 40th Psalm these are the words of David. These are prophetic. It's fulfilled in a man. Who is the man? nor we give a name. We call it Jesus.

They say he was a carpenter. You think of a carpenter as one with a hammer and a saw and a chisel and things of that nature working in wood. That's not the definition of a carpenter in the Bible. The word carpenter in the Bible means to produce from seed as a mother as a plant Like the earth. That's the word carpenter. To bring forth. To be born. To be in travail. To be delivered. The time has come. For this thing to be born. That seed. That was the seed of God.

And now it unfolds within a man. That man in whom it unfolds. Tells what happened to him. him, he relates his own experience. But he's up against a wall. For man, being a child, he was told the story that it may enter in at lowly doors, for truth embodied in a tale shall enter in at lowly doors. So they heard it as I heard it, as you heard it. As my mother taught me, and then I went to school, and they confirmed what mother had said, then that I grew into manhood still believing the story that I heard as a child, until one day, in the fullness of time, the story erupted in me, and then I knew who Jesus is.

Then, and only then, did I really know who God is. And I am telling you, it would erupt in you, and then, they got you now, if you are still holy, that is external to yourself will vanish out of sight. You can no longer turn to an external God and pray to an external God when that which is in you unfolds like a flower. And it's you.

Now let us take these passages from the book of Samuel, 1 Samuel. And you note it carefully as I quote these passages. I am quoting the last four verses of the 17th chapter of 1 Samuel. Prior to that, to make it clear for you, is a battle about to take place. And the battle is now the battle between the giant Philistine, Goliath, a man of war from the cradle, a giant. He is faced by a youth who has no armament for he cannot wear the armament that King Saul gives him. He takes it off and says, I'll go in the name of the Lord of Israel. I will have not a thing to do with the armament of man.

I will go in the name of the Lord of Israel on this day. He will deliver the Philistine into my hand. He takes five stones. Well, that's not five little stones. It means grace. It's a gift. Five is the number of grace in Scripture. The only armor that he takes. Well, I think you're familiar with the story. He brings down the giant with the first blow into the folly. Having no sword, he takes the sword of the giant and severs his head. And then he comes back with the severed head of the giant. The king turns to his lieutenant Abner. He said, Abner, whose son is that youth? Abner answered, As thy soul liveth, O Lord, I cannot tell.

He said, Inquire, whose son the stripping is. And then comes David with the head of the giant, holding it in his hand, and Abner brings him before Saul and presents him before Saul. And Saul turns to David and he said, Whose son are you, young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse, the Bethlehemite. You will note in all of these passages that Saul is inquiring not about David, it but about David's father. Whose son are you, young man? Inquire whose son the youth is. Inquire whose son the stripling is. Now the word youth, young man, stripling, lad, are all from the same word in Hebrew, "elam." That's the word, but it also means to conceal, to hide from view.

To veil, a secret. The words are right. It's a youth. It's a lad. It is a young man. But it's something veiled. Something concealed. It's a secret that is hidden. Something out of sight. He placed him in man. That in the fullness of time, it is that that is hidden in man that will reveal man to himself as God. For no one knows the Father but the Son. And no one knows who the Son is but the Father. So without the Son you will never know that you are the Father. So then you start reading Scripture. So he takes the book and he begins with the law of Moses. Then he comes through the prophets.

Then he comes into the psalm. And he interprets to them him in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. And he shows them exactly what was said in scripture, that this is the great rabbinical principle, that what is not written in scripture is non -existent. He is not interested in what Caesar's world does. He makes no attempt to change the pattern. If there were slaves in the day in which a man walks, when it happens in him, he leaves it just as it is. He is not concerned with changing governments and changing things as he finds them. He leaves them, but he tells the eternal story for the Old Testament, which is that prophetic blueprint of the story as told us in the New Testament, is simply a shadowy intimation or I would say intimations for there are many shadowy intimations of of this eternal reality.

It's something that is timeless. It is taking place forever and forever and forever. It didn't take place once and forever, two thousand years ago. It is taking place in the unexpected breast of man or woman. And when it happens, he is awed. He is stunned. He goes back and he searches the Scripture and he finds it. It's there. It was always there, but he didn't see it. It was always in Scripture, but man saw it differently because he was told it as a story, that it may enter in at the lowly door, because of his consciousness, a way down on this level.

So as the poet said, All was foretold me, not could I foresee. But I learnt how the wind would sound, after these things should be. Yes, the whole was foretold. Well, if the Bible is, as it claims, thousands of years old, and I read it after the event, and having experienced the wind, the unearthly wind, that accompanied the series of events, then I go back and I, but it's all in Scripture.

But I didn't see it. I have had one severe beating in my life, and it was for scripture. In Barbados where I was born and raised we are allowed to be beaten by the schoolmaster. And in his eye I misquoted scripture which I did not. I said take up thy bed and walk which is quoted in the gospel when he said to the cripple take up thy bed and walk. And he who was crippled from his mother's womb took the bed up and walked. And he said to me bring your Bible. Well, I could not produce the Bible. I am one of ten children, and you don't have ten Bibles. And I simply said that I didn't have the Bible with me this day. My other brother, Cecil, he had it. He had another class in another school, and he said, I don't care if your brother goes down the gap with a dunce cap on his head. You aren't leaving here with a dunce cap on your head. Well, he was allowed to beat students because his translation said, take up thy couch and walk. And I said, take up thy bed and walk. All depends what Bible you have. It means the same thing. Take up the litter on which you were placed when someone brought you here. Take it up. And then you don't need it anymore. Get off of that. You're not crippled anymore.

Well, you went in and you got a cane that long. and knocked on the bench for me to get over. I had to kneel on the bench and bent it this way to see that it wasn't injured because we, knowing what was in store for us, when he was out of sight, we would go in with our little pen eyes and screw these little things and simply got them all so that the first blow would smatter the whole thing all over the place. So he would bend it right over so it would meet and as it met, then he knew he had a good one. And he beat me unmercifully.

I was bleeding from my buttock to my knees. When my father saw that night, my brother Victor said, Daddy, come and see what Neville looks like. And Daddy came in and said, How did this happen? So I told him. He took the next door neighbor, my mother, and all my brothers to restrain my father from going up and had he gone up, he would have killed them. He really would have killed them. That was the temper of my father. But they restrained him. Next day I was taken out of that school. Never to go back. ¶And a year later, the man was a sadist. Complete sadist. He blew his brains out. He just simply couldn't live with himself.

He beat the boys unmercifully. Well, that was my one beating in this world. And that was for seemingly misquoting Scripture. So I read my book from beginning to end, over and over and over. But I didn't see it until it happened in me. When the whole thing erupted in me, then I went back and I could see the whole pattern was there all along, just as the poet said. All was foretold me, naught could I foresee. sea, but I learned how the wind would sound after these things should be. And there they were. Everything was there. David and his father were set free, for the promise was made, the man who destroys the enemy of Israel, I will set his father's house free in Israel.

and the father's name was Jesse and Jesse simply means Jehovah exists that's the literal translation of the word Jesse any form of the verb to be in other words I am God's eternal name so you discover you yourself are the father of the youth who destroyed the enemy of Israel and the only enemy of Israel is a false god as long as you worship a false god you have an enemy and that enemy must be brought low and it takes daily to bring him low so in the New Testament his name is called Jesus Christ and he brings the true God and he said, I am the truth, what true he reinterpret scripture in the light of of his own experience.

He experienced Scripture and it ceased to be a dead coal and became a living, living book. And he was the book. He was the word. So as he explained it, they said, did not our hearts burn within us when he opened to us the Scriptures? And their eyes were opened and they recognized. And then he vanished out of their sight. Recognize what? A man? No. They recognize the truth of what one was talking about, the one who had experienced the truth. So they recognize the truth, for he said, I am the truth. They recognize the truth of a man, and therefore a man vanished out of their sight. No longer can you worship a man.

This thing speaking to you now has experienced it, but don't turn to me for any worship, it would be the most horrible thing in the world. But take the truth that I'm telling you, for I have experienced Scripture. And the day will come, you will experience Scripture, and you and I will be one in eternity. Just one, one body, one spirit, one God, one Father of all, and we are that one. ¶So here he comes to me, as he did to me, as one unknown. known. I hadn't the slightest idea of the promise until it happened. I never read it with understanding. I never heard it. No one ever spoke one word about the promise to me.

I read it in the Bible, but I didn't recognize it. I did not see it there. Only after it happened. Well, then, I had been commissioned. Go and tell them. ¶When I was told 30 years before the event that that I must go into the world, standing in the presence of the Ancient of Days, embraced by him who was infinite love, and then sent. I didn't know what I was sent for, hadn't the slightest idea. What on earth am I going to do? Uneducated, no background, social background, intellectual background, financial background, but nothing. And what on earth would I talk about? Or what would I say to anyone? one. If I open my mouth it will say, well, what has he to say?

Then I went back into Scripture to study. It was also said of this one who is the character of Scripture, how did this man have such learning seeing that he has never studied? And then he makes the confession, my teaching is not mine, but he is who sent me. You go, I will put Put words in your mouth. Go. I will give you everything that you need to tell the story. And so he did. I didn't go back to school to learn any more. It just simply happened within me. My interest was aroused in things beautiful, like poetry, and above all things, the Bible. And I read it daily, by the hour, and every day it seemed fresher and fresher and fresher.

is a constant eruption of the great revelation. There is no limit to it. The things that I do, you will do, and even greater than these, because I am going to my Father. I came out from the Father, and I came into the world. Again, I am leaving the world, and I am going to the Father. Therefore, you will follow, but you will do all that I have done, and even greater. While you still remain here, the Holy Spirit will outpour himself all from within you in one revelation after the other and it's all there in Scripture. But you will find it after the event. So the poet said, I learned how the wind would sound after these things should be.

And it is, the words are perfect. It's the wind. And the word wind and spirit are one and the same both in Hebrew and in Greek. And so we are told you must be born of the Spirit, born of the wind. Same thing. So when one is born from above, he is born of the Spirit. He is born of the wind. It comes in the form of an unearthly wind. And that's the story. So here, you and I have been told the story. And it's a glorious story until man can actually accept the truth of that story, let him continue in the belief of an external God to whom he turns. But it is his enemy.

And that enemy one day must be destroyed when truth rises within him and there is no external one to whom he can turn. To whom will I turn? Thou hast the word of eternal life. So when they say these are hard things to say, there's the sixth chapter of the book of John, and he tells them the strangest things possible. And in the end, many left him, never to walk with him again. And then he turned to the few who remained, and then he said, Wouldst thou go also? And Peter became the spokesman for the twelve who remained. And he said, To whom would we go? So, thou hast the words of eternal life. So where would I go if what you've said is true?

Then where would I turn? I'm telling you what I've told you is true, for it's based not on speculation. I'm not speculating fine to set up some workable philosophy of life. I have no interest in setting up any school of philosophy. No interest in founding a church. That's the one thing that the boys said to me when I was sent. Dung with the blue blood. Dung with all church protocol, all external ritual and ceremony. Dung with it. Don't go and destroy it. Leave it as it is on the outside. But don't you set up one. Therefore I resisted every attempt at ordination. I've been offered it time and time again. in. To join this church and that church or the other church, I'm within twenty -four hours they'll give me my degree, that I may do all the things that any priest could do.

I said, No, I want no part of it. I will go alone, and he who sent me is with me, and what is necessary he will provide. I am one with the one who sent me. Only in the office of the one that is sent I seem inferior to myself the sender, but are not inferior to my essential being, the sender, only in the present office as the sent. And to him, the sender, I will return when I take off this garment. So in the meanwhile, while I must still wear it, until the end, I share with you what I have experienced. And that is Scripture. For the whole thing unfolds within us. Therefore in the New Testament because the words are now put into the mouth of Jesus when you read the chapter you wonder why on earth did he bring this up they brought up a certain argument concerning marriage and the Sadducees said to him master which they did not believe he was a master or anything great because they represented what we call today the agnostic or the atheist.

They were the scientific mind, the intellectual mind. So we speak of the Sadducees and then the Pharisees. But the Sadducee was the intellectual mind, the agnostic of the day. If they remained within the synagogue, they did it only for business reasons, not because they approved or believed it. So they thought they'd trip him up. And they said to him, Master, Moses in the lost bed, the little man married, and dies leaving no offspring, that his brother should marry the widow and raise up seed for his brother. Now there were seven brothers, and the first one married and died leaving no offspring. And then the second one took her, and he died leaving no offspring, and the third took her, and find the seventh married her, and yet she had no offspring.

Then she died. Now in the resurrection, which they did not believe in. As it's stated quite clearly, they did not believe in the resurrection. So, in the resurrection, whose wife will be that woman? And he answered, In this age, the sons of God marry, and they are given and married. But those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age can neither marry, nor are they given in Mary, for they are sons of the resurrection, and cannot die any more. Implying therefore, until this resurrection takes place in man, he is only restored to life, to die again. But those who have the experience of the resurrection while they are here, they can die no more, for the sons of the the resurrection, being now sons of God, not belonging anymore to the world of flesh and blood.

Now, there was no reason to follow that wonderful expression of his with what follows. And then he turns to the people around about him. He said, whose son is David? Now, it doesn't fit. And yet, he asked the question, whose son is David and they replied the son whose son is Christ and they said the son of David so why then did David in the spirit call him my Lord if David in the spirit called him my Lord how can he be his son yet the New Testament begins on those words this is the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ son of David son of Abraham so here we are in the midst of a mystery now how can he be the son of David when David calls him my Lord my Lord is an expression of a son about his father he calls him my father he is trying to get man to go back into the only scripture known in the day, which is the Old Testament and date.

And you'll find in the 89th Psalm that David does call the Lord my Father. Read it carefully. And I have found David, and he has cried unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation, in fulfillment of the earlier Psalm, the second Psalm. and I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee. These are the words of David. All attributed in the New Testament to Christ. Therefore, who then is David? And who is Christ? Jesus is the Lord. The word Jesus means Jehovah. Same word. God here above begins as the root of both words. And then we are told in Revelation, the 11th chapter, And the kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ.

They do not put the two words together and call it Jesus Christ, but our Lord and of his Christ, the Father and his Son. Now, you, I tell you, as you are seated here, you are the Lord, and you have a son, and you will not in eternity know you are the Lord until that Son and only that Son appears and calls you my Father. And when he appears, there will be no uncertainty in you concerning the relationship between the two of you. And then you'll know you are the Lord. And if Jesus is the Lord, then you know who you are. If Jesus is Jehovah, then you know who you are. And then you will see how altogether marvelous marvelous the Bible is.

It's completely concealed, just as told in Scripture. Here, something hidden, the youth, something concealed, something veiled, a great secret and yet a youth. And that's the one that is hidden. He is the stripling. He is the lad. He is the young man. and here it's completely concealed buried in man so I tell you that a thing in this world could happen to you comparable to the eruption of the story in you for then all false gods vanish and you will never again lose your way in this tangled tangled confusion that passes poor religious truth. You pick up the Saturday morning paper. I am embarrassed to look at it when I look at the religious paper.

One is coming through the air, flying through because it's Halloween. A huge big ad she took in the paper. Come and see Miss So -and -So how she is going to come flying through the air to her million or two million dollar super substantial something altar. Well, I get so embarrassed because after all, occasionally I do put an ad on that page. Well, they wouldn't see my ad on any other page. So I've got to confine myself to that page. And when you read the nonsense that goes in the name of religion, and people do it, they're far -fetched hook, line, and thinker. But when this happens to you, You will simply lose all false gods.

And the only enemy you will ever have is a false god. You have no other enemy. Now may I tell you, your own wonderful human imagination is God. It's the eternal you. And by that all things were made. and without that was not anything made that is made you are the immortal God and one day you will awaken and I can't tell you the thrill I think in the morning when I get up I'm awake I look at my familiar objects on the wall in the room I know I am awake but the awakening of which I speak you can't compare that to any waking you've ever had in this world. It's something entirely different.

Memory returns. The great Holy Spirit brings back memory. He is the remembrancer. And we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. And then he releases himself within us. It's memory. And our memory returns. And I, in the 20th century, have lost my memory so far back that someone who supposedly lived 1, 000 B. C. stands before me and there is a complete collapse of time, there is no such thing as 3, 000 years difference. I am his father. And he preceded me by 3, 000 years. Isn't that a complete lapse of memory? Isn't that complete amnesia? But let the whole vast world, it suffers from amnesia. And when it happened, you wonder how on earth this could have lasted so long.

And yet at that moment it seemed like this. Just a short sleep and then waking to eternity. And the experience you had called death, death is no more. and the only thing that dies then is death itself. As Paul tells us in the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians the last thing to be conquered is death and death dies because you are the living God and you seem to die and you will seem to die but you can't die and in the end you are completely awakened and you and I are one one in the sense we are the same father and we have the same son and therefore there is only God and his son and that's the story of scripture so it is in us as persons that God the father reveals himself and when he reveals himself he reveals himself as the one in whom he awaits but not a thing can be seen of him until the son appears then the son appears and reveals that one in whom he awoke 139 days prior to this moment as God the father he still didn't know it between his awakening and the birth of the child which was the sign of his awakening and his birth from above for 139 days then comes daily and then he tells you who you are and then you know it and then all thoughts of God vanish you may fail in application but you cannot go back you can't get back into that small little thing that contained you prior to that awakening can't go back can't turn to any God nothing on the outside yet you are living in the world of Caesar and you will render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.

Render it completely. Taxes? Pay the taxes. The money will come. You'll do everything that Caesar demands. But you're not of this world. Entirely different being has awakened within you, which is your true being. When you read Scripture, take the Old Testament as a prophetic blueprint. print. Just a rough sketch. Vague intimation of eternal reality. Then comes the moment in time when these things erupt within you. And you experience these things. And then having experienced it, you can't deny it, you then tell it. To as many as will listen, doesn't matter how many, as many as will listen, you are sent to do it. And to accomplish his work. Then you are the carpenter. You brought forth from seed.

You didn't build anything on the outside. You simply found who he is. And then you vanish. Who vanishes? All outside objects vanish, because now you have found the truth. And your heart will burn, as you are told. and as we are told in the 20th chapter of the book of Jeremiah, if I say I will not mention it or speak any more in his name, then there is as it were a fire in my bow and I am weary with holding it in and I cannot you've got to talk about it no matter where you go, you talk about it, and you tell it to anyone who has an ear to hear. But not everyone has the ear to hear because you've got to go through fixed ideas and their eyes are not open, ears have not yet been dubbed for them.

So you're up against the wall that has been planted in them because they heard it as a child would hear it. Truth embodied in the tale shall enter in at lowly doors. And that's how it comes through until one day it happens within you.

Now let us go into the silence. Thank you.