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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:24:21 CDT
From:         Michael Million <MM24681@UAFSYSB.BITNET>
Subject:      Comments on the teachings of Jesus

   On earth, there are only two levels of organization which can rightly
 claim to be 'sovereign.'  These are 1) the individual who is sovereign
 in the eyes of God and 2) the whole aggregate of living mortals on earth
 -- the individual and......the planet's total population of humans.  The
 constant flow of ever changing groups, institutions and organizations
 are transient and non-critical to eternal values.  The sum total of an
 individual's freewill moral decisions and the sum of human evolution are
 ever under watch by God and His legions.  The church Jesus refers to is
 the church of all persons.  His teachings are about **LIVING** a life
 infused with recognition of high spiritual values.  Can someone tell me
 were he said that texts written by his apostles were to follow his life
 and that we should consider them revelations?  True, he must have known
 such works would manifest, but he told us to use his LIFE not just as
 an example but as an *inspiration* of how to live our lives and how to
 relate to our fellows; therein was the revelation!  He knew that the
 twelve he had chosen as his personal ambassadors had imperfect (human)
 understanding of his teachings.  He asked them to show others by
 *living a life* as clean and true to God _and_ their fellow brothers as
 the one he had lived.  He did not ask them to write books.  But write
 or dictate they did and I am certainly glad; the last two millenia have
 benefited tremendously from them; however, they are in serious need of
 refreshment in the living stream of the life of Christ.
    Learning to do the will of the Father is, as we know, the foundation
 of Christ's life as well as his teachings.  His life was an inspiration
 of how we men and women can find the voice of God in our hearts and
 minds and do His will.  Friends, it is about as simple as that.  When
 we pray, we should be asking for guidance to do the will of the Father.
 If we pray for forgiveness, we are forgiven before we ask; so how does
 God want to see us when we ask for forgiveness?  He wants to see us
 *forgive others* in our lives....that is the simple rule.  Treat others
 even better than we treat ourselves; forgive so that we can be forgiven;
 have mercy so that we may be shown mercy; be UNSELFISH just as God is
 so unselfish with us.  He and His divine children have provided us with
 a planet, the biological lifeforms we indwell, the minds with which we
 think, the spirit of life which courses through our beings, our person-
 alities are the Father's gift and we have even been given our individual
 sovereign freewill as mortal universe sons.  All we can offer in return
 is faith and the freewill choice to do the will of the Unseen Father. We
 each have ALL WE NEED to find God for he lives within us; do you think
 Jesus was just using a metaphor?  Our pilot is within, literally.  You
 can find God without church, preachers, books...without anything except
 a normal mind and body.  God will flood into your heart the instant you
 ask him to do so.  Do you think Jesus had to find books, learn from a
 church or recite ritualized prayers?  Jesus showed us how to find the
 voice of God within ... and that is how mortals should align themselves
 with God - from within where He is ever so close.  Jesus showed us how
 to relate to our fellow citizens; we treat them with the utmost respect
 and consideration and sincerity for *each* of our brothers and sisters
 is indwelt by the common-to-all Universe Father. God has not shown
 favor to any select group of peoples, no ethnic group, nor socio-
 economic group, nor religious organization; NO choosen peoples for we
 have ALL been asked to join Christ as a Sons of God as well as sons of
 men.  Men can only judge each other by their acts; God alone can truly
 judge mortals for he intimately knows their hearts.  The Father
 fragment harbors a plan (predestined) for each of us should we *choose*
 to pursue it; to have faith that such a plan, such help and guidance
 exists, is a mighty beginning.  To discern the Father's will is our
 task. The voice of God is our constant companion and yet we are so
 often mentally at the sway of the electro-chemical currents which are
 inherent in the physical host of our bodies (the so-called mark of the
 beast - referring to our animal/evolutionary origins).  Live a life
 of sincerity, sincerity and more sincerity.  We will grow or perish
 with each decision of moral value.  We begin building or destroying our
 spiritual body in the small and large decisions we make concerning our
 relationship to God and our earthly brothers.  These I feel are truths
 Jesus taught.
                                 a brother in Christ,    Michael
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