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I AM HERE. Jesus.
I was with you to-night at the meeting of the Christians, and saw that you were thinking of several things that I had written, and wanted to tell the preacher of my truths--but of course you could not. He took a text from the Bible which I am credited with having uttered, and I did, but it did not mean exactly what he explained it to mean. When I said "he that liveth and believeth on me shall never die," I meant that the man whose soul was not dead in sin and believed the truths that I declared, that is that God's Divine Love was waiting to enter into and fill his soul with its essence and substance, and that man by faith received that Divine Love, he should never die. That is he would become immortal as God is immortal.
NO MERE BELIEF IN ME AS JESUS THE MAN, OR AS THE SON OF GOD, IS SUFFICIENT TO GIVE A MAN ETERNAL LIFE, FOR WHILE HE MUST BELIEVE THAT I WAS SENT BY THE FATHER TO PROCLAIM THE GREAT TRUTH THAT HE HAD AGAIN BESTOWED ON MAN THE POSSIBILITY OF OBTAINING THIS DIVINE LOVE BY HIS PRAYERS AND FAITH, YET, UNLESS HE RELIEVED THIS AND BECAME THE POSSESSOR OF THIS DIVINE LOVE, HE COULD NEVER CLAIM ETERNAL LIFE.
I wish that the preacher would pay more attention to the truths that I taught, that is, those truths which showed men the Father's love waiting to be bestowed and the way to obtain it, than, to my personality.
I, JESUS, AS THE SON OF MAN OR OF GOD, DO NOT SAVE ANY MAN FROM HIS SINS AND MAKE HIM AT ONE WITH THE FATHER, BUT THE TRUTHS WHICH I TAUGHT, AND WHICH WERE TAUGHT ME BY THE FATHER, ARE THINGS THAT SAVE.
I know the preacher's attempt to explain these things by the Bible as he understands that light, but it is so often obscured that instead of preaching from light they preach from darkness.
FOR THESE REASONS, AMONG OTHERS, I AM SO ANXIOUS TO DELIVER TO YOU MY TEACHINGS OF THESE TRUTHS, THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW WHAT TRUTH IS; AND WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL MUST DO IN ORDER TO OBTAIN ETERNAL LIFE OR IMMORTALITY.
I know that you are anxious to do this work, and that your soul is trying for the inflowing of this Great Love and the enjoyment of a close communion with the Father. So keep up your courage and trust in the Father, and the end of your worries will soon cease.
I will not write more to-night.
So believe in my love and desire for your success.
Your brother and friend,
JESUS.Vol. II, p. 208
