10-04-1966   Tonight’s subject is a mystery to be known only by revelation. It is a secret that has been kept hidden from the beginning of time. Where there is no mystery, where there is no end from the beginning there is no challenge, no place for imagination or any room for faith or hope. But when it pleased God, in the fullness of time, to make it known to his apostles, those whom he…

  Every natural effect has a spiritual cause and not a natural. A natural cause only seems. It is a delusion of the perishing, vegetable memory. We do not remember these moments in time when we imagined certain states. So when that imaginal state takes form so we can see it with the outer eye, we do not recognize our own harvest and deny that we had anything to do with these natural effects that…

11-18-1968   In the 13th chapter of 2 Corinthians, Paul urged his people to “Examine yourselves to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourself! Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? . . unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” Tonight we will discuss this test. I will start with a true story. One day a nurse and her little eight-year old charge were on the beach watching…

05-28-1971   To unravel the mystery of Christ from all the interpretations put upon it is quite a different task. We are up against all kinds of misunderstandings of the mystery. Most people believe that it is secular history, and the story has something to do with some historical occasion; and it isn’t. It is salvation history. The whole thing is taking place in you, the individual. It’s not taking place on the outside at…

07-22-1968   The Bible defines faith as “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1, Revised Standard Version) What is seen is made out of things that do not appear. Faith does not give reality to things that are not seen. It is loyalty to reality that makes things appear. Can I see the facts the world sees and still believe in the unseen state? If I can remain…