God Bless all who love the unshakable truth of our loving Creator.
                 THE SCOPE OF GOD'S GRACE                        by Dr. Wesley Swift---11-3-61 We are talking about a
subject that is related to the whole philosophy and thinking of
Christendom. We are talking about the
Grace of God to His Kingdom. Â We will
talk about the subject of Grace--one of the most unusual words in all the
English language. The word Grace
particularly related to the nature of our Father. There is no knowledge that you can know, more important, than to
know and to understand the nature of our FATHER. In the whole course of
such thinking and understanding, we are effected in part by things which we
have learned. And the major source of
the teaching of things which pertain to God has come out of the institution of
the physical organized church. Each of
you are a member of HIS church. And
that church is not only a visible institution but basically it is an invisible
institution. It is the spiritual center
of all the conscious worshiping children of the MOST HIGH who are identified by
Faith and by name with the Messiah in the earth. That is why it is referred to as the church of Jesus Christ --- a
Christian church. This is the reason
why Christ refers to His Holy Church. There is also no question about the fact
that the teachings of the Church in the church physical has not always been the
exact things which God has declared or brought forth from the lips of the Holy
Prophets, or Apostles. In many
instances their concepts have been effected by teachers who came in for
purposes of their own. And from the
inside have taught those things which came originally from the scriptures but
then they translated the scriptures to suit themselves. In this instance we have some of the texts
of the New Testament, and some of the ideas and philosophies of the Grace of
God. On the other hand there would be
those who would not understand what the values of Grace might be and they set
aside or ignore the vastness of what God's Covenant to them actually contained. Thus it is that we have many divergent
concepts inside of theology. We
virtually divide Protestant theology down the middle and it is classified as
those who believe in Grace and those who do not believe in Grace.  This includes all of Christendom which
contains all of Catholic concepts of thought, for we have what is known as the Armenian teaching, and the
Grace teaching. One is sometimes
classified as the teaching of Paul and the other as the teaching of the Monk
Armenian whose philosophy today still governs much of Christian teaching and
thinking. In fact the Armenian concept
is based upon certain things which the Monk Armenian saw contained in the
scriptures concerning law, its judgments, its chastisements, and then he added
to it things he had been taught in his church which were brought in by
Babylonians who came in to place in that church the power over the people which
the Priests wished to use for their own ends.Â
Under these instances then a great number of people have been
raised in the knowledge that :---- "Our Father which art in Heaven"
is a loving heavenly Father, but in order to instill obedience in His children
he has become a virtual ogre. The
concept of the relationship of HE to his people has become the most stupid of all
concepts. In fact with terrible
tortures and tremendous promises of ages of punishment and judgment they seek
then to force the children of God to obey --- especially obey their Priestcraft
and orders of their administration. But
after years of such things and translations slanted to establish its purposes
still there are those who are even coming out from under the teachings of such
things. Under the spirit guidance given
unto them, these ideas have been changed in part. That is why today in the Methodist church and others if they
remain orthodox to their original creed, and the interpretation of it in their
church, they still believe that the world around about them is open to the
message they have to preach. But upon
their teaching depends whether or not men will be reconciled with God, or whether
men will spend the endless ages in terrible tortures and pain, all of which God
was supposed to have put together and composed for the tremendous number of
people who supposedly disobeyed HIM.Â
That this obedience or disobedience was all a part of their duty to know
or not to know, for this is where their theology hinges in much of their
teaching. The people therefore must do
certain things, go thru certain processes, or their destiny of destruction is
before them. They hinge their thinking
upon the words, upon the thinking of their leaders, as to how the scripture has
been translated, and upon the background of the Episcopacy, and here they set. There are other things in
the church today especially this is to be noted in the areas which concerns the
teaching of Grace. This includes of
course Baptist churches, and others who have been raised within the same
structure of the same translation which still contain some of the same dreadful
tortures and like aspects, because they were there, but they have ignored part
of them in favor of some things they could not get around. That was that God was not taking anything
away from them today. That one who had
supposedly received the gift of Eternal Life from God --- it would not be taken
from them. And there would then e many
aspects of theology developed around these two points. But as to the Kingdom of God, great numbers
of the churches did not know what the Kingdom of God was, or what it was
composed of. They have thought that the
church itself was the full embodiment of the Kingdom. Therefore they face the fact which is included in their theology
that since the Church was all that they understood, they did not seek to
develop a Biblical kingdom in accordance with all the facts related to it. They did not make the necessary distinction
with all the facts related to it. They
did not make the necessary distinction between the capacity of races, their
various responsibilities in this Issue.Â
And all of them had just two destinies --- Christ by acceptance of the
churches teachings, or terrible destructions and damnation thru out all ages by
torture. Both the "Grace" and
the "non-Grace" churches brewed terrible tortures and inevitable
destruction to every individual who did not accept the administrations of their
message. There was then not another
alternative for the people of the world --- Just Christ or Eternal
destruction. But the program of the
church was supposedly to --- proclaim the glad tidings of Great Joy unto all
people.  And this Glad tiding of Great
Joy was
not this terrible story that some people had supposed.    This was to threaten men into the acceptance of Christ --- but
actually the church's mission was to make known who Christ was, why he came and
what He came to do, what work he accomplished.Â
The work of the literal kingdom is to bring reality into this physical
world of the administration of God --- what is designed to be
accomplished. He didn't have to take
anyone else approval into consideration when He determined to do it. For what transpired ages before you arrived,
for what you as spectators watched in the dimension of spirit --- this kingdom
of God which is today those of your race,Â
and the spiritual center of His Household before the world was framed. Having been spectators to
these things it must be remembered that the spirit is incorruptible. That in your existence with the Father
before the world was framed you were children of His spirit and were thus of
incorruptible spirit. And being born of
such a spirit --- were incorruptible seed in Celestial realms--- Children of
the Eternal spirit capable of seeing everything as only being right. You were thus unable to believe or were not
touched by error other than to look on with amazement as to there being
anything which existed that was in opposition to your father. Being children of His spirit you lived in
spiritual form but you had exact form, you were a being, ans entity of
spirit. Still utterly removed from the
areas of creation, from the physical arms of a physical world. Lucifers rebellion was now
deep seated having been thrown out of Celestial realms of power, having been
driven out of the Celestial except for certain courses of the Milky Way thru
which he came to earth. And Our Father
in HIS design, and according to the whole commission as to what was to
transpire, which was to bring a complete understanding not only to His
household but eventually to all the portions of HIS Universe, of the
essentialness of doing things right, thinking right, performing right. And the sovereignty of our Father, and the
infinite unlimitedness of HIS Grace, we might say the very nature of God was
bound up in this. God's nature as the
Master, author, creator is so righteous, so bright that we cannot foresee with
words how to frame it the description.Â
With all the Glory of HIS spirit and Celestial being with all the heart
and center of HIS Creative mind which holds the universe together, the purpose
of the Father for everything HE ever made, for everything which had life
because He existed --- was good for there was nothing made that was not
good. The fact that in the course of
time, by the process of commission, and the inclusion of thought which was
beyond that of the average finite mind to evaluate --- the catastrophe of
Lucifers rebellion was to become the educating force which God had released so
that those of His Universe would definitely know what righteousness really it. We use words and they are
words of semantics to indicate pinnacles of condition. Righteousness is one of those words, for it
is the very nature of everything right which comes from the MOST HIGH
GOD.  But there is a factor which
relates to Gods won nature, and that is his love toward HIS household, HIS
children. That same emanating force
which we classify as love out of the nature of spirit is the force which is
beyond the non-belief of emotion. And
Emotion as we know it is in the physical world where the senses have to develop
it, and nerves carry it thru out the structure of the human being. But in the dimension of spirit there is
still light and spiritual warmth and this does not fall in the classification
of raw emotion of a physical world but it is the sheer good element which moves
out of YAHWEH, out of HIS very nature with which he puts everything together. And out of the majesty of that Light and
Glory which was revealed in The Christ on the mount of Transfiguration was that
Celestial Light and emanating Glory which was YAHWEH'S being. We would point out that
the Eternal Father had a purpose, and a plan, and when HE does what HE wants to
do, then a great amount of the things which HE is carrying out, and that which
HE has promised to do for you is utterly dependent upon HE as God without any
condition, without any decision upon your part, without any ability on your
part to stop it. We would site that this is
something all theology must embrace and what God's Kingdom must learn to
understand. Were as the Kingdom is an
administration in earth headed by YAHWEH'S children. The Apostle Peter tells us that they are a Holy Priesthood, a
royal generation, a chosen society, a chosen generation. In fact to read what Peter has to say is to
reveal this mystery, to reveal part of HIS purposes in the earth as they are in
you. He Says:----"Ye are a Royal
generation, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a special people that ye shall show forth the praises of HIM who called
you out of darkness in His Glorious Light.Â
You are His household, His children, His people in the earth, and as
such the work of building His kingdom was to be delivered unto His own
Household because this was to be the Kingdom of God in earth. Not the kingdom of races of earth, but the
Kingdom of God In Earth over all human being, and over all created beings and
over all species. Hu-men are spirit men
--- spirit of his spirit --- Hu means Spirit, and spirit men thus are men of
His own Spirit.  Created beings were
created as races of people and his work toward them is also filled with love. Now, there are many things
we must understand. We look out over a
world torn by strife and we see the struggle, the war between the powers of
righteousness, and the powers of darkness.Â
And all of these things have been known unto God, and the powers of
darkness. And all of these things have
been known unto God from the beginning.Â
But Righteousness is going to triumph, but that does not separate you
from the struggles you are in, and the experiences thru which you pass. Remember there is no condition which can
come near you, no temptation, no pressure or strife, nor all the forces of
darkness hurled against you that God does not know about, and has not made you
able to bear. In all of these
situations he has made an escape for you and eventually triumph for His Kingdom. The Omniscience which He possesses
understands and knows all these things.Â
HE knows them as you know them and feels them as you fell them having
Himself taken a body of flesh just like you have, so as to be like unto His
Kinsmen. He thus can feel and know all
things as you felt and know them, and then was to triumph as the Eternal son,
the Second Adam without transgression --- the Lamb without spot or blemish. Let us then point out to
you that God knew all these patterns.Â
And we want you to know that what God has promised to do with you as it
relates to restoring back to you in the earth which is the great salvation for
His children--- is this Glory you had with HIM before the world was
framed. The Glory you came into the
world enveloped with as you emerged as Adamic children. And the great salvation which is for your
race --- this great salvation which requires a restoration to your physical
being now embodied in earth with all the Glory of Celestial children---- this
is something which you cannot earn. Now, I think this is
important to learn about Grace, because Grace is all the things God bestows
upon you because "Ye are Gods", but you didn't have anything to do
with this as far as determining whether you receive it or not. When you understand that fact then you
understand that God is sovereign and HE does as HE pleases, and He pleases to
do good. Grace is absolutely unmerited
LOVE, unmerited favor. Some say:---- the
blessings of God come because of my obedience to HIM, and my keeping of the
works of the law.  Absolutely not ---- none
of the salvation given to you as far as the restoring of Glory and the promises
of the Father come to you because of how you kept the works of the law. If that was the way you received all the
things God will bestow upon you, then you could say:--- "I earned
it."Â But from that standpoint you
haven't earned anything, for these are just things which you get by fulfilling
the law. There is covenants and there
is a covenant of the Law. This covenant
of the law was not given to China, it was not given to Africa, it was only
given to your race. And that was the
covenant for the way you were to live in earth to establish Gods Kingdom. This was the laws of administration and they
ruled from Moses unto Christ. And the
Apostle Paul tells us that the law ruled from Moses to Christ. There were many under
condemnation because of disobedience to the law. No man kept the law to perfection for the Apostle Paul also tells
us that "All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God."Â That includes the people who did not possess
the law, but they had no knowledge of sin until they gained a knowledge of the
law. For with knowledge of the law they
had knowledge of transgression. People
don't like the word sin but we might as well use it because it is the most
simple word to describe transgression of the law. It is violation of all the principals of morality, of ethics, of
the laws of sciences as well as the laws of conscious existence. When we deal with morality and ethics we
deal with conscious existence. And when
we deal with agricultural law, the chemical law of the things we digest, and
the things we take into our bodies, these are the laws of things as God created
them. They are fixed laws, laws of
facts, and when God gave the laws HE said it was good. But when we deal with
Grace--- then the Grace that God extends to you is not because of something you
have done. I want you to know that out
of the fullness of the heart comes a deep appreciation and more praise unto the
Father for what he has done for you, and this you did not earn, but HE did it
for you because of His own nature, and the full appreciation of all HE has done
will come when that is understood. For
is we were to look upon the fact of what we received and what God is about to
do with
us as something earned then we would fall far below the standard of what HE has
purposed for you. Now, we well understand
that in the discussion of these things, we do not realize the measure of
Grace. But this "Is" what God
wanted to do because He just wanted to do it.Â
There are some words spoken of in the book of Jude that points this
out. "Now unto HIM that is able to
keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His
own Glory, with exceeding joy". In
other words HE determined to do all these things --- to present you faultless,
to do this in the presence of His own glory, with great and exceeding joy ---
for Himself. God's Joy, His desire is
your elevation to the restored level of the Glory of your Sonship in the
spirit, and the majesty of your work in the earth. God says this is what HE is going to do. I want to call your
attention to this as I talk about salvation, for it is important for us to
understand that it is not conditions and judgments, and Hells, and imaginative
tortures which came out of medieval superstition and which descended out of
false religions of a pagan Satanic world.Â
This is not what you are to be saved from. It is a condition of being short of power,
short of life, short of Glory and short of accomplishing our destiny that is
the Salvation for which we wait. It is
being saved from transgression and error, turned to doing the things which are
right and constructive. These are the
important things. He came to save HIS
people from their sins not from Himself or from the imaginations of man
concerning his preferences. There is
different types of salvation and there is salvation which reaches out to the
ends of the earth. And we can show you
that there is a race upon the face of the earth which God's salvation doesn't
reach out to, or that He will not adjust.Â
He will reconcile all things to Himself but this does not change their
status of being. He does not mean that
they should marry and cross races, that you should join all races together and
say that everyone is the same, for they are not all the same. The reality of God's Grace
to His Kingdom is one of the most important things we can understand. If you were to turn to the book of John
these words become more valuable predicated upon previous statements Jesus has
made. He said:--- "I have come ---
Incarnate God, I have come as a shepherd would come, as a Father I come into
the world and now I am in a body of physical flesh. The book of Hebrews tells us He came thus. "In a body of flesh
like unto his children"Â --- who were
down here in bodies of flesh. And while
here HE said;--- "I have come for the Lost Sheep of Israel"--- The
lost sheep of the House of Israel, and this takes on significance because the
ministry of Christ's first coming was predicted upon the re-adjustment, the
restoration, and the redemption of the children of Israel. To be redeemed He had to posses them
before---thus HE possessed them before the fall of the Adamic race. And He redeemed them unto Himself by the
price of HIS own work. And HE paid the
price of redemption under the legality of the law by which their minds were
bound. Therefore the Eternal said:---
"I have come for the Lost Sheep of the Hose of Israel" not because
they were obedient and kept the law which He gave to us, not because of
anything but the fact that they were His children, this was HIS business
because they had nothing to do with their birth. This is something big which a child of God has to acknowledge. This is that they had nothing to do with
their arrival either in the heavens or earth.Â
The Father said:----these are my children and I come to empower, so that
they might have power in earth. And in
the Book of the Gospel of John HE tells you that they are HIS children, not by
the will of man, not by the will of the flesh, but by the will of God who begat
them to begin with. And the Father then
makes this statement and it is so important that we must understand as to who
we are. Jesus thus walked on Solomon’s
porch and he said:---"Therefore my sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
and they follow me.----"I give them Eternal Life, and they shall never
perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."Â I think this is very significant as well as
absolute authority, for this was God walking among men.-----"I call my
sheep by name, I give them Eternal Life"--- You didn't earn it or it
wouldn't be a gift. It wasn't something
that you did because he gave it to you.Â
It was because you are His sons--- His own children. It was because of who you are---because this
is HIS own purpose, HIS own choice. HIS
own establishment of destiny. By HIS
own nature HE did this. He came int to
earth to assume all transgressing so HE could do this. In the place where it may
be a little plainer we read:---- "HE was appointed unto this death. He was destined as this Lamb before the
foundation of the world. I can show you
in the book of Revelation that HE was this Lamb slain before the foundation of
the world. You will find if you go into
the writings of Isaiah, that this prophet also refers to The Christ as the Lamb
of God slain before the foundation of the world---for the transgressions of the
world. Thus HE said unto HIS
sheep----- "I Give them Eternal Life, they shall never perish"Â HE makes the same classification for this
set of statements and I only for this moment bring them in to show you that
there are people also who are not in this classification of sheep, who do not
come in this category. For He turned to
the Jews on
Solomon's porch and said:--- "Ye believe not because Ye are not my
sheep" as I have said unto you.Â
But I call my sheep by name I lead them out-----I Give them Eternal
Life. Thus the Grace of God to
His sheep was the giving to them of Eternal Life because, and they shall never
perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."Â I think this is very significant as well as
absolute authority, for this was God walking among men.---- "I call my
sheep by name, I give them Eternal Life"---- You didn't earn it or it
wouldn't be a gift. It wasn't something
that you did because he gave it to you.Â
It was because this is HIS own purpose, HIS own choice. His own establishment of destiny. By HIS own nature HE did this. HE came int earth to assume all
transgressing so HE could do this. In the place where it may
be a little plainer we read:---"HE was appointed unto this death. He was destined as this Lamb before the
foundation of the world. I can show you
in the book of Revelation that HE was this Lamb slain before the foundation of
the world. You will find if you go into
the writings of Isaiah, that this prophet also refers to The Christ as the Lamb
of God slain before the foundation of the world---for the transgressions of the
world. Thus He said unto His
Sheep:--'I give them Eternal Life. They
shall never perish.'Â HE make the same
classification for this set of statements and I only for this moment, bring
them in to show you that there are people also who are not in the
classification of sheep, who do not
come in this category. For He turned to
the Jews on Solomon's porch and said:--'Ye believe not, because ye are not My
sheep' as I have said unto you. But I call My sheep by name--I lead them
out--I give them Eternal Life.' Thus the Grace of God to
His Sheep was the giving to them of Eternal Life because the violation of the
principles of life He had given them had brought them death of the physical
body. Whether you like to accept this
fact or not, there was something that descended upon the nature of your race,
upon the physical bodies and their physical nature which then passed on to all
the descendants of Adam, and continues to this day, that has worked within the
members of the bodies of Adam's family which is called transgression. It is a factor which exists within you, a
certain condition that makes you leap toward the positive which does all things
right. We are told that with this
transgression, then both sin and death passed on to the sons of Adam and it
existed down to the time of Christ.Â
These two existed before the law and after the law. I want you to know that even in the midst of
the close proximity to that Divine structure that God the Father comes down and
talks to Adam. And HE promises Adam
that HE is going to lift him out of the condition he has put himself in. HE promises He is going to restore---to give
unto Adam the Glory which belongs to him.Â
That HE is going to crush the head of the serpent. This is destiny. And HE promises restoration which is God's business. Now, we have come thru the
processes of what the Apostle Paul says are some of the most significant things
men can know. In fact, in the
understanding of some of these deep hidden clues is the secret of God's
covenant purpose. We have the House of
Israel origination with the covenants God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
when changing their name to 'Israel', but still coming out of the Adamic race
which are HIS spiritual children now in bodies of flesh. HE has a covenant with them which reached
from Adam down to Abraham. And the
covenant made with Abraham concerning Israel, was before the giving of the law
to Moses. Then as He is talking to
Israel, we read these words:--'This is my covenant with them---when I shall
take away their sins.'---'All Israel shall be saved as it is written.'Â Â There shall come out of Zion (the Kingdom)
a deliverer who shall take away the ungodliness from Jacob. Thus we do not go along with the theological
confusion which exists today as churches outline their doctrines in error. One great Bible school in this city tells us
that there are three classes of people in the world---the Jews, gentiles, and
the church. But they do not understand
the fact of what they are discussing because the scripture is not talking about
the Jews when it talks about Israel. I
think you should understand that because Jesus said:--'I have come for the Lost
Sheep of Israel'. Then turning to the
Jews, He said:--'Ye are not my sheep.'Â
Thus, there are many classes of people in the world. And unfortunately there are Jews in the
world. But there are also Israelites as
well. God doesn't just have two classes
of people, for there are the Adamic race, and the great Covenant House of
Israel which has come forth out of that race.Â
There are people in the world today who did not come thru the covenant
house of Israel. But today they are
still of the household, still of the white race and they still respond to
truth. However, they are not the major
nations today of Christendom. Then
there are people in the world today who have accepted the truths of the Gospel
as far as they can understand, with the capacity they possess and they have
joined themselves to the functions of the church. But that does not make them, just because they joined the
physical church--just because they responded to the right God-----it does not
make them your kinsmen. Nor do they
comply to the full measure of being a part of a phase of that church which is
'One' with the kinsmanship of The Christ.Â
There are pagans in the world today who are descended from races who
were created here and who fell under Lucifer's rebellion. They have a salvation which God has
envisioned and planned for. He tells us
thru the lips of Isaiah, that 'All flesh shall be saved'. That this message can be proclaimed to the
ends of the earth, to the people of the earth.Â
This message is:--'LOOK unto ME, all ye ends of the earth and be
saved.'Â Â We find this discussion of
God's purpose as He makes this declaration:---'All flesh can be saved', and
another factor is that 'all flesh shall be saved'. But we will look at this another time. In this 45th chapter of Isaiah, you read:--'In YAHWEH, or the
Eternal shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall Glory.'Â Then the Apostle Paul was to say that 'all
Israel shall be saved, as it is written'.Â
Why? Because the Father willed
to do this, not because they did something or because they obeyed, or because
they earned it, but because the Father established Grace and said this is the
instrument. This is the process which I
created to put the world in the confidence of MY WILL. There is no doubt that it
is important for to get away from fears and superstitions, and found our Faith
and our concepts upon the Will of God and what He has said. We turn again in the Book
of Romans to read these words:.."The law was given to Israel"..the
law was codified, the law was good, make no mistake we believe that the law was
good. We believe that the keeping of the law is not something you do as a
condition for receiving salvation. We don't want you to leave here and think
you receive salvation, which is the spiritual restoration of Glory, the
entrance into the dimensions of spirit, and all God intends to do for you as He
makes you conform to His own image...not one part of that is conditional upon
the law. The law was given you as a mighty handbook of Divine Will. Only in
that hour in order to show the significance of the terribleness of error, and
give an understanding of the destructive forces of sin which were contained in
its judgments. You are living in 1961 and since Christ's resurrection all the
hand writing of every ordinance against you with its condemnations was taken
off you and nailed to His cross. That still does not mean that a fire doesn't
burn or the laws of gravity do not work, all it means is that all these are laws.
Nor does it mean, my friends, that if you violate social laws that you will not
get social repercussions. It does not mean that if you do it ethically that you
will not get ethical explosions of discord in your society. It does not mean
that if you do not have integrity in government and in administration, and in
personal relationships one with another that you do not have trouble. It does
not mean that you don't plant your food with agriculture soundness and rotate
the crop land that you won't have trouble. If you don't permit it to rebuild
you bleach out all the life from the ground, and that ground will not become
useless, turn into a dust bowl. It does not mean that if you violate the
mathematical laws of progression or do not understand God's laws which require
no usury, that you use just sets of weights and measures, if you don't do that
you get depression, famine, catastrophe, unbalance, all kinds of situations
with an economic result. Because the mathematical laws of precession do not
change. It means that all these factors which relate to instruction of how to
do things right will still have their repercussions on you by every natural
process if you disobey them, for God gave them to you because children of His
spirit synchronize with the capacity to think and to know, it is intended that
the law should move thru you. Eventually the whole world is to be governed by
the children of God and His Kingdom, with Christ Himself making this
institution work, and you will live by the authority of the law of God from one
end of the earth to the other. That doesn't get into Heaven or out of heaven,
it doesn't effect the fact that we are living in the earth. It just means that you want to see..."Thy
kingdom come, thy will be done", and you want to see people live in
earth as tho in heaven. Then you will see people who live right, who live in
adjustment with the LORD GOD who made all things. When we talk about the
processes of the law then remember that God bestowed upon you Grace, and as we
turn to the declaration of vastness of that Grace we understand from what the
Apostle Paul who makes this very clear...after it was explained to him... that
the whole plan of God's purpose for those who were His saint's, His believing
offspring, those of His household, by His own plan, this purpose falling in the
category of predestination, sovereignty, that this is what God determined to
do. He said:.."therefore we know that all things work together for good
to them who love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. For he
who he did foreknow he did predestinate to conform to the image of the son so
that he might be the First born among many brethren, moreover he did
predestinate them he called, and those he called he justified, and those he
justified he glorified."Â He
has already settled that, in the heavens before the world was framed. Now, you have nothing to do with what God said:.."I
am going to do"..for He predestinated things to be done, and you just
receive it and function within it. He wrote your name down in the Lamb's Book
of Life before the foundation of the world. He predestinated you to fulfill the
patterns of the image of His own Glory before you were ever born into this
world. These are facts, these are things God said. Grace is a part of the structure
of God's program, a part of the facts of the Christian Faith. The great
purposes of God are thus here unveiled and some of them are Mysteries. Back in the days of Moses
they were writing and adding to the things revealed. There was a great Book
called the 'Zohar', and this contained the philosophies of Israel. They knew
that the white race which was in the earth were Celestial children of God now
in physical bodies...they knew that. They knew also that God was doing a lot of
things for them that they didn't deserve. They did not have the
word...Grace...but they had a word for 'unearned favor' which had a Hebrew
origin. They also knew that the law was given unto them and that it contained
harsh judgments for disobedience, but the whole catastrophe to the society
might also be great, so they justified the judgment to what happened to the
society when they didn't fulfill the law given. But in all their writings they
did not nor could not understand...at that moment, the vastness of the Mystery
which the Apostle Paul was to say had been hidden from the foundation of the
world, but was not being made known unto you. That this Light and spiritual
story which had been hidden away which God is going to restore...is the Christ
in you which is the hope of Glory. This is also the hope of the entire world,
for it is in you and by you that God intends to fulfill His purpose. Someone said:...But Christ
is the hope of the world....Yes, and He is also the creator, the master, the
Eternal Father. He is the Light of Life in you. That is the hope of Glory and
Majesty which was on the face of Christ that is in you, the Apostle Paul said
this is a Mystery. I want you to see that within the circumstance of God's
purpose He said:.."I predestinated you." If my Father purposed
something while holding all the sidereal systems together, when everything
depends upon Him, then He is going to bring it to pass. Someone said:...but how do
I know that it work's? Well! You are here aren't you? Oh, some are not here in
this assembly or any other but God will reach them before He is thru. It
doesn't matter what means He uses to reach them but He is going to do it. I ran into a Clergyman the
other day who thought some people had not accomplished some things he thought
they should have accomplished if they had been doing what they were sent to do.
I said:...you shouldn't worry about them any more for they are right back in
the best laboratory to put them where you think they ought to be. They have
moved back into the dimension where there is no error. They went back from
whence they came into the Shekinah aura of the Father. In the purpose of His
plan they were to accomplish something which He sent them here for, because He
knew all the about it before He sent them. Knew all about it from the beginning
and more than that He not only predestinated it, but when He called them He had
already justified them. He has already glorified them in His purpose in the
ages to come. Sometimes we say there is
some merit to obedience, and obedience does bring certain rewards. But there is
no question of the fact that there are a great many things in the Bible that if
you obey them there is a reward, but there is no Grace attached to that, you
earned that pattern. But the Grace of God bestows on you things whether you
earn them or not. Things you did not earn but because God purposed it....you
will have to admit that the knowledge of the thing by which you came to the
process of working out the reward was Grace. You remember this man
Abraham, he was one of our great ancestors of destiny, as well as being marked,
positioned in the scripture for timing, and God told him all about what He was
going to do with the Race. Told him that He was going to multiply them,
increase them until they were all over the earth and that the increase of this
seed would be as the sands of the seashore and the stars of the heavens. Told
him by what process He was going to do it, for out of Isaac, the promised
child, He would bring this development. Abraham was a man of substance, a man
whose family had power. His father was Prime Minister and he had been raised in
a house of Nimrod's Court in Ur of the Chaldeas. When he went out of that city
God blessed him, increased his supplies, in all the natural things that he
might need. When God told Abraham to get out of that city, to turn his back on
the prestige of being the son of the Prime Minister of the most powerful city
on the face of the earth at that time, He told him what He was going to do with
him. He didn't make any condition rest upon this, He just said.....Get out of
this land and do these things, for I am going to do certain things with you and
your seed after you. These are the situations, and Abraham believed God. But
that measure of Faith Abraham had...God put in him. It is given to man a
measure of Faith, but without it you couldn't please God. Now, in the instance of this there are some who
say that Faith is not Grace, but it was the Grace of God which imputed it to
Abraham, it was not anything which Abraham did by the keeping of the law, it
was not anything he had out of Patriarchial backgrounds of law, it was just
that he believed God. So it was imputed
to him for righteousness. You and I are
the children of Abraham and if you believe God, you please God, for without
faith it is impossible to please him, but we have not in any way forestalled
HIS purpose. The Apostle Paul said:---
since He hath predestinated these things, HE has called you, and justified and
glorified you so what shall we say:--- "If God be for us then who can be
against us."Â For HE did not spare
his own embodied Life, but delivered himself up for us, so that He would be
able to freely give us all things. He
paid the price because the price of sin was death. I think this is significant because we should remember the facts
surrounding this price. "The wages
of sin is death" but "The gift of God is Eternal Life" In this instance he
declares that since He has accomplished this for us, since he did not spare
himself then who can lay any charge against you. Who can lay any charge against you after he has chosen you and
justified you by His Grace, who can lay any charge against His elect? And remember the Elect are the descendants
of the Father who came out of the heavens, who were with HIM before the world
was framed, the elect HE did foreknow.Â
We are told that if any one condemns it will be Christ who died then
rose again, and is He condemning-----no! In all these things we are
more than conquerors and I am persuaded that neither death or life, nor Angels
or principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come, neither
heights nor depth nor any creature can separate us from the love of God, which
has already been manifested in His own embodiment as Christ Jesus, and he
becomes Our Eternal One and there is none who can take this away. Now, there is a mystery
that is involved here----when Peter was writing his epistle one of the things
he was to say was concerning your origin, and your being here as the elect of
the Most High God, and as such he makes the statement:----"Ye are the
Elect according to the fore-knowledge of God the father who set us apart by his
spirit. He predestinated us under the
obedience of the sprinkling of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, Grace be unto
you and Peace be unto you when you understand this because this is the purpose
of the Eternal. Then Peter goes on to
talk about the blessed is the knowledge of this of the Eternal father who
purposed all these things in Himself. In the writings of the
Apostle Paul he makes it very clear as to what we have and what God is doing
for us by HIS grace----"Not works, lest any man should boast."Â You say that upsets the pattern of law---no
it does not. I want you to know that
Eternal Destiny, the final development into the Glory of God---the great and
tremendous purposes of what God has in store for you, are not something my
friends that you earned: but are things God bestows out of His Grace and out of
his love for you. This has not
separated you from the fact that He has written the laws in you heart. And one of the spiritual transitions of a
new era was to take the people who had the law before them as a pattern and put
it within them until they would understand, by the spirit, and they would want
to do the thing which is right. Not thru
fear, not just to earn a reward but because it is a part of their nature to do
that which is right. God would never be
satisfied with service thru fear. He
would never build a kingdom upon that foundation. There is a law more powerful than the law of fear and that secret
and great power, is "the law of the spirit of Life in Jesus Christ which
hath made me free from the law of sin and death."Â It is within this significance that we are
told of the mighty conquest to the climax of this age, in which the sons of God
thru manifestations are going to show forth Light and Life. And the vibrations felt by all the creatures
of creation are waiting with expectations for a better day. They are going to behold the manifestations
of the sons of God, as Gods Grace descends upon them and charges them with
Light and Life of Life when death is overthrown, laid aside, we know that there
is coming a great and tremendous hour which ushers in the greatest wave of
kingdom development, in the twinkling of an eye, when Christ Himself shall
rejoin His household, his family and
the Kingdom shall swing into place with tremendous power and there shall be no
more death. As far as the kingdom is
concerned that is the Climax, and in that hour we are going to find that each
of HIS children are going to think as He thinks and know as He knows. And while waiting for that time I want you
to understand your relationship with HIM.Â
God gave you the job of building His Kingdom. He hasn't changed that.Â
He put the church in the heart of the kingdom and it was not to set the
kingdom aside, but to give power and life to the work of the kingdom, for the
kingdom to do its work. the Life of the
kingdom is God's spirit, nothing else.Â
The secret is that the spirit of Celestial children here in physical
world----this spirit here in the nations of the kingdom shall accomplish God's
purposes. The reason why,
therefore---is that you are the children of His Grace, and have already been
changed by HIS mercy. It is not
conditional. HE is not taking back what
he has promised. He is not going to
throw aside His redemption because that is His possession and He redeemed
it. But He has given you an
understanding, He has written the laws in your heart, that in the fulfillment
of the laws you will create the conditions which are the keeping of a Holy Law,
and the Holy Commandment brings about.Â
The law is holy, the commandment is holy, but men my friends do not have
their Sonship and their Glory by obedience to that law which is Holy---It is by
the Grace of the Father who is holy and who gives it to you that brings HIS
sons and daughters their lost Glory. The thing I want you to
know is that you don't serve in fear.Â
That you don't go out and work in this nation as a son and daughter of
God---unchurched----with the idea that if I didn't do this I wouldn't be a son,
if I don't do this, if I fail in this there rests upon me judgment and
condemnation. NO ! ----- but when you
of intelligence become aware of the Majesty and Grace of your father who is
praying for the earth and for you then you become determined to carry out HIS
program. You do it not with fear but
security. Someone said:----Do you
believe in Eternal security?---Well there is no other kind of security when you
are dealing with this question. The
Eternal Father said:----"I have given you Eternal Life and you shall never
perish.---When you understand and know this part of the covenant and the
atonement then you have no fear. Your say:Â This is such a dangerous time, we have an
enemy out here who might kill us. But
they have been killing the people of the kingdom of God all thru the ages and
still the kingdom and our Father triumphs.Â
We have moved int an age where a greater demonstration of power is soon
going to be made. We are not my friends
going to back up thru fear, nor are we going to worry about the abilities of an
enemy for there is greater power for you than all the forces of darkness which
gather around the horizon of the Christian nations of this time. I am aware that they who
seek to save their lives will lost it,
and they who can see themselves expendable for God's Kingdom----find it. I am also well aware that
all the powers which have kept men from accomplishing good and sought to do
this by fear, because the theology they embraced hasn't given them a clear
vision of Times. Of the absolute
security of this individual, in the scope of God's purposes as His child. The background of fears,
of oppression, of condemnation which rested upon men, and the guilt complex
which Christ lifted as He became transgressor for you, and won atonement----He
assumed it all the condemnation, all the transgressions that had been
committed. He took it all upon Himself
and left you free. If you understand
grace---you will accept all that Christ has done. And you don't have any self-condemnation, self-judgement resting
on you. And you no more say:--I am not
worthy. I can't have it for it is not
for me.'Â Â This is not hinged upon the
thought of men. This is hinged upon the
promises of the Father which is always good, --the work of the Father which is
always good. I still proclaim to you
that whether some men understand it or not, the great moving force in a
physical creation, the whole physical Universe hangs on what happened. Every individual Christian, everyone of your
race, hangs on what happened in that one great event---in Christ's crucifixion
and resurrection---in that atonement---blood atonement---which bought the
freedom of everyone of the Adamic race--everyone of the children of God. For He took your place and you are free by
that work which He wrought. Not by
anything that you have earned. It is the responsibility
of the people of the Kingdom of God, with the knowledge they possess, not
because they are seeking to obtain that which is already obtained, but because
it pleased the Father to build that which HE wants built. Because they are a part of the very heritage
that He is building. And that you are
free by that work which He wrought, not by anything which you have earned. But it is the responsibility of the Kingdom
of God thru the knowledge they possess--to obtain that which has already been
obtained. Because they want to please
the Father, and they want thus, to build what HE wants built. Because you are a part of it and it is your
inheritance. You are the one receiving
it. And it is your field of life and
living that you are developing.Â
Therefore, let me point out to you that in this great nation of God's
Kingdom, we have a very conscious responsibility to our children to the family
which exists in the earth, to our household, to the fact that we are the
children of the Father, and this is our inheritance, that we are a Kingdom of
priests, that we are the progeny. And
as such, therefore, we want our nation to be occupied with people who are our
kinsmen. This may seem to some who do
not understand, the distinction between the world order and the kingdom and its
nation and its people, this race of destiny, this should be the message which
the church proclaims as the truth of God to the ends of the earth. Where as I want all men to come to the
knowledge of God, and someday all men will, when every knee will bow, and we
want every man to get into proper adjustment with HIM, but I don't design to
violate the principal of the holy law which you say is holy by a system of
mental gymnastics to try to transplant a new position on those who God created
by intermingling them with our race, by mongrelizing our society, and violating
the intent and principals of Gods economic laws by letting strangers who hate
Jesus Christ decide our economic destiny. There is no responsibility
resting upon a Christian because God in His Grace and His mercy has not only
reached the bounds to deliver him by the great acts of Calvary, having promised
redemption to all creatures of earth, by taking upon Himself the sins of the
whole world, but has not any instruction taken a new position between the
things which are right and the administration of His Kingdom in the plans of
God. The Kingdom was sent here to do
the very things you are going to do. `Every once in a while
some clergyman so hide bound with interpretations would deny God His own right
to be God. He will say I don't want my
people to hear that kind of a Gospel.Â
He would like to see his people still in the throes of Babylon thru out
the years to come. He wouldn't
understand why it is that a great nation, where more people worship then in any
other nation on the face of the earth, why you can be taxed with a great burden
to help people who hate your God, and you more than any other place on the face
of the earth, he would never correct that. Considering how blind we
have been in our destiny, and concerning the laws of God still He had dealt
with us with Grace and is protecting us in this hour. You see---having
maintained the principals of the law in its fullness we would never have
permitted strangers to come in here to begin with and settle. We never would have let them gain control of
our economy. We would never have
permitted them to teach in our schools.Â
If there was depravity and degeneration, if there is immorality and
disrespect for parents it is being sown into your race, and into your schools,
and colleges by the strangers who came in.Â
By these people who God told you not to let come in. Now, God isn't punishing
you because he is displeased, you punish yourself by violating the wisdom He
gave you. He by HIS Grace has kept His
spirit poured out upon you to keep you alive until a great percentage of the children
don't believe the people that teach them because the spirit in them is guiding
them further than the instructor. A
mother told me the other day about her sub-teenage child who came home from
school--our or this 8 or 9 year old class, and told his mother that the teacher
said:--'I don't believe in God'.  Â
Imagine.  Teaching us
that????  Even at 8 or 9 years of age
there is something in them that can sense untruth. This comes back into the responsibility of the parents, of the
household where they keep the children in contact with the true church with the
spiritual law, and with spiritual truth until something develops which is like
a wall against evil. A lot of people
think they have no responsibility to assemble or associate themselves with spiritual
things, or to raise their children completely outside of spiritual veil
protection which would descend upon them to develop naturally.  Oh, not beyond the Grace of God to deal,
but because they have not grown up with proper nourishment or this portion for
their soul life development wherein even as a youth, they will know error when
it comes from an adult. Unfortunately, we have
today, the catastrophe which exists in some fields of theology where they can
be sent to church and not be instructed
properly. But this is also a part of
the prophecy of our day, in the falling away first which has taken place. We are thus close to the restoration where
the great and mighty purposes of God are going to be demonstrated thru His
awakening sons and His charged and powerful children. You have been going thru
some unusual and prophetic incidents which many people don't even realize. But God made this very clear that there is
only one set of weights and measures and just standards. He made it very clear that we are not to
evaluate the life and the blessings and the creative wealth He has bestowed
upon us by the standards of Babylon.Â
The economic and degenerate philosophy of the powers of darkness
symbolized by that term Babylon has sought to maneuver you and draw all men
into the 'love of money' which is the 'root of all evil'. They therefore have tried to make money a
commodity. They use this. And God knew they would use this method and
He warned you that this is their strategy. I want to tell you
something which is a matter of fact.Â
When you formed this constitutional nation, when with the articles of
confederation you lent to the states now accepting the constitution those same
powers, you laid out the laws to govern your society and you established the
power of the Congress to coin money and fix its value,--it was with one set of
weights and measures. But from the very
beginning the enemy was trying to worm their way in and get hold of your
economy and your nation. He did get
that hold and still holds it to this day. One of the great mistakes was
in the time of President Wilson, when in that Administration, Col. House, a ½
Jew helped sell the Senate to turn over our monetary system to the Federal
Reserve System. Jacob Schiff then told
Col. House:--'you have done a great service to your mother's people. You have turned over to us the control of
the American economy. You can write a
blank check all over the world because of this.'Â Â From that time on, America
has had more and more Babylonians manipulation, more usury, and seizing control
of 60% of production. Babylon continued
to emerge in the days of F.D.R.  And
remember the day when suddenly he said we are going to take America off her
present monetary standard and he took over the gold? He raised the price of an ounce of gold from $20 to $35. Then he said:--'you Americans can't have any
of it.' Everyone else in the world
could have it but Americans. And your
gold was confiscated. We had reached
the point where we were not a free people, for Babylon controlled our economy. All because of the strangers you let come
in. Then they put you on the
silver standard but that was fixed at 91 ½ cents per ounce. the content of your dollar was fixed as you
went to the silver dollar because you didn't protest and change it. Did you know that this past
week the President (Kennedy) if he can get the authority of congress is taking
you off silver. Babylon is going to
fall, but it first took your gold and now is taking your silver, and it will
inflate your dollar and take away your purchasing power.  Gold and silver will jump in their value
per ounce but you can't have it. You
will be on F.R. paper, but you can't get the gold or the silver. This is just a sign of the control of
Babylon. Now I am not going to
discuss now the full significance of the impact of this thing, will do that
later. That is where the big news has
been this week, not in the headlines but back on the financial page. But I want you to know that in this
manipulation man has been trying to gather masses of metal whether gold or silver
and no one ever ate any of it in their whole life. If you have a whole sack of it at home in the closet it won't do
you any good. You could make some film
out of the silver but you wouldn't know what to do with the gold. God tells you that it is not to important
anyway because we are going to pave streets with it anyhow. Lets get this thing clear,
gold or silver has no value except as a coin, and that value is only what men
impute to it. But the great strength of
God's blessings, in the things men produce, with standards which readjust, must
be able to exchange thru out the times to come, when you have economic
trouble. These are laws, the things
that govern this are all tied up in the laws of the Universe. All these depressions and economic problems,
all this strife and your lack of accomplishment is because you let the children
of Satan in violation of the principals of law, move in on your society and
leave these burdens on you.      Oh, you say what has this to do with the
Grace of God and the Kingdom? Well, you
should be thankful that God has given you intelligence, initiate as well as
other things. That he has given you the
bounty of the land which he delivered into your hands, that you have been
developing with such a vastness of resources that you still have been able to
give more to yourselves, produce more for yourselves under His bounty, than
anyone else on the face of the earth, even while the parasites were taking more
from you than from anyone else. Now, I want you to
understand that this is not the restoration of Your Glory, this is not the
manifestation of His sons with Great power---supposedly a miracle. This is the operation of the kingdom which
has to operate on the basis of truth.Â
And his dedicated sons and daughters are going to bring it back. You are
going to see in the proper time how the Grace of God changes his sons for their
own benefit, for the work of the kingdom. One of these days there
will be no strangers in our nation except those who come to visit. There will be no Cainanites in the house of
God. There is going to be no
depressions. You won't have to worry
about your sons being marched off to war, to battles which bring only benefit
to the enemy. You are going to see the
earth ruled over by righteousness. And
Righteousness will move out of His innermost being. I want you to know this afternoon that you don't have to hinge
your eternal life, the constant eternal salvation of good, or developing glory,
of the purpose which the Father has had for you from the endless ages, on
anything now that you are going to do or not do --- it is fixed in the
'finished' work of Calvary. No one can
add to or take away for it was finished in the plan of the Father before the
foundation of the world. When that even
was consummated in His intent purpose as it took place. No one can say to you that
the Gospel of the Kingdom does not believe in Calvary. We believe more full in Calvary than those
round bout who criticize the kingdom, for we know that it is absolute.  We know that with it there is no loss, and
we know its climax. But that does not
eliminate us from our responsibility, from our racial self respect. It has not separated us from the destiny which
God has decreed, and for the kingdom we are going to build. From one end of the earth to the other, and
never let go of it again. That is your
destiny, and under that flag and behind that cross which gives it vital life,
and under the promises of Gods covenant----for the world there is nothing but
good. The processes of evil will be
chastised if obstructive, and eliminated if they would destroy, but not beyond
the Grace of God to deal with each in their own sphere. So if there is anything we can rejoice in
this afternoon it is that---what the spirit does for you, because 'His spirit
bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.' When we look up into His
face we can say---Our Father. If
Yahshua----Jesus was  to walk into
this auditorium every one of you could stand and look Him in the Face. It would not please him if you could not,
because as you look Him in the face you can say:--'Father I am justified by
your works.' With that in mind let us
do the things which God has ordained for our development. Which is:---In earth establish HIS Kingdom.  (end of message)
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