09-20-1966 You may ask how can a mortal man, born as we were born and who will die as we all will die, know that God only acts, but I tell you I know it from experience. I have experienced the Word of God and tonight I will tell you how I know that God and God only, acts. The name of God is the key to understanding the biblical doctrine of God. In…
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God Speaks To Man
01-18-1968 “In a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds, he opens their ears and seals their instructions.” (Job 33) Tonight you may find yourself in a terrestrial world like this one, and you feel just as real to yourself as you do here. And when you return with its memory you may think it was a dream, but it was a vision. You are…
Read moreGod the Protean Being Becomes Humanity
1/26/68 We claim that God, the creator of the universe, the creator of everything, is in Man that Man may become God. Now in this I do not mean he became a, one, little man; he became humanity and therefore he’s playing all the parts. Therefore, God is a protean being with the power to assume all shapes and play all the roles. In becoming Man, I speak now of myself, the individual, well…
Read moreGod’s Almighty Power
12-02-1968 God’s almighty power and wisdom expresses itself most characteristically in the acceptance of what the world calls weakness or foolishness. Matthew tells the story of one who . . Knowing himself to be the personification of God’s creative power and wisdom . . questions himself, saying: “If you are the Son of God, turn this stone into bread.” (Matthew 4) Then he quoted the 8th chapter of Deuteronomy, saying: “It is written, ‘Man…
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02-09-1968 We are told in the Book of Exodus: “God said to Moses, ‘I AM the I AM. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name I AM I did not make myself known to them.’” And if you read the 1st chapter, the 24th verse of 1 Corinthians, you will discover that the I AM . . the creative power of God . . is…
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