1/22/65 A miracle is the name give by those who have no faith to the works of faith. So the important question is not did Jesus work miracles in Galilee, but is he miraculously present, miraculously potent now? The answer we give to the second question is the only important answer, really. If we cannot give to the second question a confident and adoring yes, it doesn’t really matter what we say of the…
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Worship The Creator, Not The Creature
11-10-1959 Here we believe firmly that imagining is God, that the Supreme Power of the Universe is one with human imaging. So when you read the Bible . . a fabulous, inspired book . . and you come to the word “God,” you can also use the word “imagining” and you will get a clearer understanding of it. Romans 4:20: “No distrust made Abraham waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong…
Read moreYou Are A Cosmic Being
05-02-1969 Tonight I want you to think of Christ as a cosmic being who contains everyone within him. Having died for all, this one being is in all, and will rise in all. Only one being can rise, for only one being fell. Having deliberately destroyed his temple in the fall, God, (this one being) is rebuilding his temple out of the redeemed, in order for it to become something far greater than it…
Read moreYou Can Forgive Sin
03-29-1963 “You Can Forgive Sin.” That, to most people, will be blasphemy as you will hear later on, quoting from scripture. It is so common among all of us to ascribe our ills and troubles to outward things . . like the present conditions of the world, to our environment, or simply to things. And these things may be things that are absent from our world, or things we have in our world, but…
Read moreYou Can Never Outgrow I AM
03-10-1969 A man can never outgrow or lose the God he knows in a first person, present tense experience. And when he finds this God he tells his brothers, saying: “If I had not come and spoken to you, you would have no sin, but now you have no excuse for your sins.” God reveals himself to man as his eternal contemporary, saying: “Unless you believe that I AM He, you will die in…
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