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RESPONSIBILITY
OF DISCIPLESHIP Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â by Dr. Wesley Swift---1-1-69 Â Â Â Â Â Â As we look at our subject The
responsibility of Discipleship we turn to the book of Isaiah, to the eighth
chapter, for it tells us something about disciples and discipleship. Many people confuse the disciple with
Sonship. I want to point out to you that disciples are those that follow a
leader. A disciple is one who coordinates
with HIM, whereas, the family does not always move in the area of discipleship. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thus, a person may be a son of God, a
member of this white race and not be a good disciple. For a disciple is one who follows after the Master, one who
coordinates his words. One that agrees
with his words, one that advocates his words.Â
And the disciple never disagrees with the Master. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now, I want to point this out to you
however. For the disciple is found in
the race of Israel. And then HE speaks and says, 'Behold all of the children
that God (Spirit) hath given me, all are for signs and wonders in Israel, and
they are from YAHWEH.------To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.---(or they are
not my disciples.)Â Now my disciples are
to be found in Israel and they are to proclaim the word and they are to be of
Israel.’ Now, there is one factor that is
quite significant. For there are some
people who think that disciples are just someone who became converts to Christ
and became his disciples. But they were
of the house of Israel, children raised up to testify as to signs and wonders
before all of the nations of the world. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now, I want to point out to you over
here in the book of John, and again we see these words coming forth from the
lips of Christ. “If ye continue in My
word then art thee my disciple indeed." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now today there is a great question
about disciples, for there are a lot of people who call themselves disciples,
and they are found in every denomination of the church and they call themselves
disciples. In fact, today there is one
church known as 'The Disciples of Christ.'Â
Altho 508 of the ministers in that church do not believe in the divinity
of The Christ. But I tell you that they
are like those over in the book of Isaiah who are not his disciples, for they
have no light in them. Thus, we have here in the book of John, this admonition
that if they continue not in my work, they are not my disciples. For ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Thus the areas of
discipleship maintains that this is one who follows Christ. Thus, this is the
difference between discipleship and Sonship.Â
For the entire white race is the household of the Most HIGH GOD. They can be good sons and bad sons. They can be prodigals and sons who stay in
God's Grace. They can be those who walk
in the center of His light. Sonship is
eventually going to establish the power of God over all people. And God says that all Israel shall be saved. There is no doubt of that. But all Israel is not necessarily a good
disciple. And does not walk in the path of discipleship at this time. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â We want to point out to you also that
God says that 'All Israel shall be saved.'Â
And he says that eventually all flesh shall be saved also. And this ultimate purpose of God is a great
perspective for tomorrow. But as God speaks of His household, his family, it is
true that he has predestinated them conform to His own image. He has promised
that he will unite everything in heaven and in earth all things in Christ. And all of these things shall be brought to
their fulfillment.           Now turn back to the disciple. And he is not only a follower of the Master,
but he is a coordinator of the word. He coordinates his life to the word. He testifies and he speaks the word. He has the testimony of the word of God.           Now we may argue with the defense of
the Word. But we do not argue with the
word itself. The Disciple coordinates himself with the word, and does not
change the pattern of truth. Thus we understand as we read:---"Ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall set you free." Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now over in the book of Acts, chapter
11, and 26th verse, we read:--"The Disciples were called Christians first
in Antioch."Â Thus as the disciples
came together, they were called Christians there in Antioch. Thus, Christians are disciples. And at large they are the maintainers of the
word of God. They testify to the word
of God, they utilize the word of God, and they carry forward all of the truths
that God has unveiled. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now we see that Christians have been
told not to leave off the assembling of themselves together. This was an edict of the Old Testament by
the Most High God. And it was the
assemblies in the Old Testament. And in
the New, it is the congregation. In the
New Testament it is also called the Ecclesia or the called out and assembled.
And then the word Ecclesia was translated as Church. So we have the word Church in the New Testament which is the same
word as Kehilla was in the Old Testament.Â
Thus, this is the word for this gathering to carry forth the testimony
of HIS Word. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now the Word says that they are to
gather together so that I can pour out my spirit upon them. And when two or
three are gathered together in My Name, there is greater power. And when five or six are gathered together,
there is even greater power. The mighty
catalyst of the spirit of God upon Christians or disciples when they gather
together, is not just doubled or tripled, but it doubles and increases as more
and more gather together and meditate on the word of God. And they activate
their spiritual level of consciousness, and it increases over the
congregation. And then the congregation
becomes stronger and more powerful, not only because they gathered themselves
together, but because they read the word of God. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â This also tells the disciples that they
are to pray without ceasing. And this does not mean, of course, that they are
always to be talking and never listening.Â
This does not mean that they are always telling God. But in their
thinking and living, they coordinate their lives with the knowledge of God. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now the word for prayer is sometimes
the same word used for meditation and thinking. Thus it means that you are to have a concept of the kingdom that
is a part of your life. You are to think the pattern of His Word. And the news has to fit into the pattern of
his word. And the things round about have to fit into his Word. The news has to
fit the word of God. And as Paul says:---'For me to live is Christ.'Â Therefore this disciple was coordinating the
pattern, the word of God, and the process of God. And was utilizing the blessings of God for power. Thus we are to
understand that there is no process that divides a disciple from the word of
God. Today we have a vast number of
churches wherein the minister standing in the pulpit says, --'Yes, I am a
disciple. But I do not believe that
Jesus Christ is the son of God.’ The
World Council of Churches said that over fifty thousand of their clergymen do
not believe, or no longer held to the old position that Jesus Christ was the
son of God. Altho, they believe in his
examples and should follow him in Peace and works. I want you to know that
those ministers do not speak for disciples of the Christ. Because they are not
his disciples and they do not carry the light of his disciples. More than this, if they do not agree with
the Word of the Most High God, then they are not his disciples. The
most important thing that they can know is who they are and who God is. They
would agree with the Old Testament and the New Testament that this is the word
of God. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â More than this, as God speaks
concerning his church, his household, and he speaks concerning the people whom
he has for disciples, then he said that they are out of the household of
Israel. One of the most important things today for discipleship is to know who
the people are for discipleship, and who the Messiah is after HE came. For Christ is the fullness of God dwelling
bodily. For that is the declaration of
HIS Word. Jesus said, “He who hath seen
me hath seen the Father (spirit).†And turning to his disciples, he said, 'Why
would you say show me the Father after you have been with me so long.'Â And by this declaration then Christ also
acknowledged his divinity. He acknowledged that before Abraham was, that HE
existed. And also, he declares that he
is the same yesterday, today and forever.Â
(In the book of Hebrews.) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now the Word of God declares the
divinity of the Christ. And if a man therefore declares that he is a disciple
of the Christ and still does not believe in the divinity of the Christ, then in
no way can he be a disciple of the Christ.Â
Why?---Because he does not continue in the word. In fact, my friends, this does not only start
out with an acknowledgment of who the people are and an acknowledgment of who
God is, the whole pattern today of the problems that are affecting our society
is this getting away from the word of God.Â
All because the disciples have not been instructed as well as they
should in the advocacy of the Word of God.Â
Discipleship requires the Word. Discipleship is dependent on the
word. Not Sonship. For Sonship does not come to a recognition
of that Sonship until a certain time of divine quality. But a discipleship is a follower that
coordinates his life with his master. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now today they tell us that if we do
not accept this idea of discrimination and accept this idea of all races and
all colors, as equal and the same, then you are a bigot. And as such you have no part in the
Christian church. So where does this
come from? It comes from false
disciples. But a disciple is going to coordinate his life with the word of God.
And that calls, not, my friends, for integration, but for discrimination and
separation. And it calls for a careful
selection. For God says, 'I have chosen you. Oh, you did not chose me. I chose you and I ordained you so that your
work and your fruit should remain.’ And over in the book of Matthew, we
discover again that discrimination is the work of the Word of God. In fact God discriminates so completely that
it shocks some people to come to this realization. In the book of Matthew in the 13th chapter, he even
discriminates, theologically, with his household. And he demonstrates that they, as a race, have theological
capacities, or they do not have theological capacities. And he speaks unto them
(his disciples), ‘It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of
God, but to them it is not given.’ And therefore, God even
discriminates in this also, for unto him who hath been given, and to the other even
that which he hath, shall be taken away from him. Thus to the children of God who hath the spiritual capacity to
understand and have receive the Word of God, more shall be given. And he that hath not, who rises up in power
to take advantage of the situation and is ruling today in all parts of the
world order, even that which he hath shall be taken away. Then Jesus makes the statement that
'Blessed art thee, for your eyes see and your ears hear.'Â Then God makes this statement.--'I call my
sheep by name, I give them Eternal life, and they never perish.’ And he talks about his sheep. And in the book of Matthew, he talks about
separating the sheep from the goats.Â
And to the sheep he is going to say,--'Receive this kingdom which has
been prepared from before the foundation of the world,’ and the goats will be
ruled under this kingdom, and shall be ruled with a rod of iron. HE talks about the events that shall arise
until he comes and then he will separate the nations, separating the sheep from
the goats. And then they will rule over
the goat nations with a rod of iron. This the inflexibility of the righteous
law.           Now this is the word of God. And in this coordination of the word of God,
the disciple places all of his hope and his expectations. And God not only
speaks in this manner, but he has ordained and declared that because his
children have the capacity to understand and to receive, is because they are
children of his spirit. Jesus said,
'thine they were in the heavens,'Â
talking about the majesty of fulfilling the glory of the heavens and the
earth, and how they came down out of the heavens. And now he says, ‘Since they
are here in earth 'mine they are in earth.'Â
And here embodied in earth, none of them are lost, except the children
of the son of perdition. So Jesus talks about
preexistence. HE says, ‘I will pour out
my spirit upon you.’ And HE says, ‘I will come unto you. I will bring all things to your remembrance. I will guide you to all truth. Whatsoever I
have ever spoken unto you, I will bring back to your consciousness.’         And
in the mind of the Apostle Paul, he brought out the divine promises and the
things spoken unto you from before the foundation of the world. In his message, the Apostle Paul says that
you existed with the Father before the foundation of the world. Therefore we understand these things as
disciples, for they are the word of the Living God.           Now Jesus makes these statements. And concerning his household, he has
redeemed them and identified them as his own.Â
And he does not want to take them out of the world. For they are the spiritual power in the
world. And he says that they are the
‘salt of the world.’ And if the salt
hath lost its savor, wherein would the world be salted? This is the word of the Living God. And the disciple testifies that God
is. He testifies that the white race
are the children of the Most High God. He testifies that the embodiment of
Jesus the Christ is the fullness of God dwelling bodily in the earth. He
testifies that God has not only signified as to where he came from but that he
is also in the world. He says that he is told that God will pour out his spirit
upon his children, and that the consciousness of the world will expand unto the
knowledge of the Most High God. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Then
Jesus also said, ‘If ye be my disciples, ye shall love one another.’ He said, ‘As I have loved you and my Father
hath loved me, --in the fullness of the spirit--and in the embodiment of the
Most High God---so shall ye love one another.’           Now of course, this is not an emotion
that is turned on and off. Today a lot
of the false disciples of the church want you to turn on an emotion, telling
you that we should love everybody. But
that, my friends, is not the meaning of this passage. For you are not told to love your enemies as that passage
was---for those who spitefully use you inside of the kingdom and out of your
own race. But in this instance, they
want to be able to turn on an emotion and call it love. They do not have it in their hearts, but
they have it as they speak to others.Â
And this, my friends, makes up this strange and unusual passage of
loving everybody. But when Jesus thus spoke, he spoke
with the appreciation that the household of God, the children of God, must be
thought of by the disciples as a mighty family of the Most High God. They are to recognize that among all
Christians there is a deep spiritual understanding, because they can understand
the thought of God, better sometimes, than they can understand the thoughts of
their own relatives. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now I think that you may have found
this out. That the children of God, in
their understanding, may have a deeper feeling for those of the kingdom who
have the same understanding than they have for others, maybe, of a closer
association, such as relatives. This
then has been woven like a mantle over the Christian church. The ancient book
of Enoch contains some of this ancient mystery. And this may explain it somewhat. And you may not 'realize this, but as you associate with
Christians everywhere and from one end of the country to the other, but all
begin to realize that they all came down out of the heavens. And according to
the book of Enoch, then God declaresÂ
that he interwove the pattern of the lives of his children to produce a
great and mighty tapestry of light, to bring about the strength of his
kingdom. Also he tells Enoch that those
who were working in the heavens, in the plains of spirit, in the program of the
Most High God, have been transplanted into the earth. And that they move together as they move in and out across the
patterns of light in the earth. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now the exact words as he tells Enoch
this. ‘That every child of God, who is
sown into earth, is eventually brought into contact with those whom he was
closely associated within the plain of spirit.’ Therefore you can move across
the continent and still find people with which you have a deep infinity. Thus, God speaks out of the eons of
the past and says, ‘I have sent from heaven to earth, this interwoven society
which are my sons and daughters and they form a separate congregation---my
church--my sphere of my called-out ones.’Â
This, my friends, is exactly what he means when he says, ‘as my
disciples, you should love one another.Â
You should help one another when in need. You should move to the defense
of one another, just as the enemy moves together.’ The general trend of the enemy is
that they stand together to fight the church.Â
And they stand thus together to fight the kingdom. And over in communist Moscow, they may cut a
lot of throats, but they also still move to destroy the church. And they move
together because they are of the father and the lusts of their father they will
do. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now by the same token, the church is a
dynamic force. It has the light of
God's presence. It has the power of
God's presence. It has the greatest
power the world will ever see and will ever know. And now God calls on them to stand by and recognize the great
spiritual truths that God by his redemption power has removed their
transgressions and their errors and has predestinated them . . . everyone to
conform to his own image. And the true
church is what we are talking about.Â
Not the denominations. And as this ends, HE will give to himself, a
perfect and responsible people. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now for this cause, then we want to
point this out. For when Jesus returns,
you are not the ones who come before the judgment seat of Christ. For you are already in Christ. And HE gives every man 'as his work shall
be' not as it has been, but as his work shall be. And Jesus says, ‘this is my reward, to give every man (every
child of God--Adamite), My reward not for what he has done, but for what he
shall do.’ Or not for his work that has been, but for what his work shall be.
So under this measure we can well understand this. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â You know, the Apostle Paul revived
this. For he was like a bishop moving
around thru the churches. And
everywhere there was a little difference in thinking. And when he came, they
would go up to the Apostle and say, ‘You look out for this person over there
for he is saying such and such. And
look out for this one over here, for we are not too sure of this one.’ And finally, the Apostle Paul said, ‘Now
listen.--I am determined to know nothing among you than that Jesus the Christ
has been crucified. I see every last
one of you as sinners saved by Grace, but children of the Most High God,
predestinated to conform to His own image.’Â
Thus, the Apostle Paul said, ‘I do not want to know anything among you
except that Christ be crucified.’ This then is the pattern that Jesus
called for when he called for his disciples to love one another, and to stand
side by side, united, to produce the solidarity of the Church. Which would, by
testimony and strength, triumph over all things.           Yes, my friends. There are a great many people today who
think they are disciples, but they no longer believe in discipleship. Thus they
say that they no longer believe in this error that the church has taught for so
long, that Christ was coming back again, and that the world would be delivered
from the powers of darkness. They now say that we have to deliver the world by
ourselves and the church has to revise its pattern of darkness. Now this is not the church of Jesus
Christ. And this is not the disciples
of Christ. For the disciples of Christ
will continue in His Word. And I want you to know that the Old Testament and
the New Testament contain more truth and more stated about the coming of the
Messiah, and the reign of the Messiah and the conquest of the Antichrist, and the
overthrow of the kingdom of darkness.Â
And there are more facts that show that our God shall return and that
you, his kinsmen, shall recognize HIM.Â
And that he shall lead the armies of heaven and unite the forces of God
in heaven and earth. And shall cleanse
the earth and triumph over every area of darkness, and take every spirit which
is his, to his side. And you and I are
going to enjoy this day like no other day we have ever experienced. All because we are his disciples and we
support this plan. Â We work for this
plan and for the conquest of Christ over America, and for the conquest of
Christ in the world. But as far as the enemy is concerned . . . we have no
plans to appease the enemy. In fact the
only time I take a part is when someone appoints a Secretary of State who does
not want to get along with us. Because
the time they say they are appointing a Secretary of State that is honeying up
to the Soviets, then we oppose this.Â
For we are going to fight the battle of Armageddon with the Russians and
their hosts the Communists rulers. This
man they are talking about, says that he does not believe that we can trust the
Russians . . . and I concur. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I tell you today that this 'pray
without ceasing' is prayer without the word of God. This belongs to the disciples.Â
And if the disciple believes the Word of God, then he believes
everything the enemy states concerning his design, concerning his strategy, and
his overthrown, that he works for it, and he sees no other end. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now turning to the words of
Jesus:--'If ye continue in my word, then ye are my disciples indeed. And ye
shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.'Â Â So as we see all of these situations
coming to pass, then let us remember that America needs disciples in the name
of the church, in the church. And these disciples need to congregate and not
leave the church. It is not only necessary that you be a son, but you need to
be a disciple. And of course remember when the manifestation of your race dawns
upon the world, this will be a great and mighty day. But it is then important that you be a good disciple. Defending the word. Not arguing with the word, but defending
it. For we can tell today who are
disciples by their wording of the Word of the Most High. People might make a
misinterpretation, or not understand what they are talking about, but they
still believe in the Word. And they do
not denounce Jesus Christ as the embodiment of God. They do not denounce the Grace of God. And in all things, they continue in the Word. Today the true church, the church is
a mighty institution that exists today in the midst of God's kingdom. It is
found in the nations of God's kingdom. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Oh, some say the church is the
kingdom. No, my friends, the church is the spiritual heart and the light of the
Kingdom. Disciples make up True Christians, and they were first called
Christians at Antioch. The Christian
church is the most powerful force ever seen among the nations and among men. Therefore, continue in the Word,
therefore, ye might be called "MY disciples." End of message.
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