June 13, 2025
Father's Day
Father's Day is an excellent opportunity to look at the spiritual value of fathers in mortal life, and how human fathers shape our view of the greatest father of all, the Creator Father.
Prayer is the method through which we can attain a connection with our father in Paradise because he has sealed within each of us a fragment of his spirit, which provides a living personal connection to and with Him during our mortal lives.
Happy Fathers Day to all of those dads who make such a profound difference to our children, in service to the Father who has made life possible.
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Coming up on this edition of the
Urantia Radio podcast where we.
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Explore the 5th epical.
Revelation of new truth that we
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were going to be talking about a
lot of things in honor of the.
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Father Father's Day, Some
thoughts about our Father.
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And the spiritual connection
that we could all make, plus
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some new information from the
Urantia Foundation on global
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growth of the Urantia book and
so much more.
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So and thank you for joining us
on your Rancher Radio.
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Well, we are together.
Again, and it's good to be here
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and I call.
This episode Father's Day
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because.
For many of us, it.
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Is of.
Course, the weekend where we
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celebrate fathers and there's so
much to say about fathers and I
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want to make an introduction
that I am a father and.
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I've said before.
Maybe even on.
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These podcasts that.
Be becoming a father really
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revealed to me what it is.
Like for the father?
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And the way that he treats.
Us as we are and where?
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We are, and there's a lot to
say.
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About the fact that.
In today's.
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Society, fatherhood is is.
A vague concept.
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To a lot of people who have.
Been raised in broken homes and
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in my own experience there was a
period of my life, my early
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years.
Where?
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Through circumstances beyond my
control that I was not able to
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see my dad, but.
Later I was.
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Fortunate enough to form a
wonderful relationship with him
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that lasted well into my
adulthood and I'm so.
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Grateful for that.
He died at a somewhat early.
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Age but I.
Miss him terribly, and I think
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often about his gentleness and
his kindness and his giving.
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He didn't have much, but he
gave.
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What he could to try to provide
a stable.
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Environment and it it's a
terrible thing, so many.
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People have had.
No fathers and the Urantia book
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talks about the the where the
formation in the ideation of a
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father is is almost impossible
to attain if you have not had
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the earthly experience of having
a loving father.
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And this I think why is we were
just talking about this with a.
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Psychiatrist.
On.
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A radio program that I do that.
The lack of fatherhood.
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Has created anxiety for a lot of
young people and that it has
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forced them to.
Try to.
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Figure it out on their own.
So imagine.
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How beautiful a.
Revelation.
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It is when we are.
Told.
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In the Arantia book, and
certainly in in the greatest
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religions, Christianity.
That the father is really the
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basis of brotherhood.
And.
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Without that fatherhood.
Connection.
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The How can you possibly have a
global world of brothers and
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sisters without the father?
Concept the the.
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Idea of brotherhood.
Is simply what is it based on?
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And today, more than half of the
marriages end in divorce, which
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means someone has to pick up the
pieces and try.
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To put it all back.
Together again, and we wonder
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why.
They're so sad.
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So much sadness.
So this weekend we celebrate
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fatherhood.
We celebrated because we should
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celebrate fatherhood and.
I wanted to just talk a.
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Little bit about.
Ways that we can communicate
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better with the father and I'll
I'll let you know that I'm going
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to be a guest on a podcast with
Santiago Nealon and Santiago and
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some of the.
Folks over at.
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Center for Unity, You know
Gabriel?
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Reinberg's great project
introducing Christ to through
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through the.
Urantia Book.
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Teachings to the Masses.
Gabriel, by the way, I I hope
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he's well, It's of course.
Over the weekend, we.
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Heard that, Israel.
Launching attacks into the
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nuclear.
Sites.
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Taking out military leadership
in Iran.
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To stave off.
A potential nuclear race and.
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And so this puts Israel.
Again, in harm's way something
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they're they're.
Sort of used to so our prayers.
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Go to the people all over the
middle.
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East.
We hope that they.
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Can get through this with the
least amount of bloodshed.
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By the way.
If you look in the Urantia book,
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Iran and Israel have had a long
contentious relationship, even
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going back.
To Zoraster, who was the I guess
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he was.
It was from him that the
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Mithraism was the religion of
Persia during the times of
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Christ and.
In fact, we get our.
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Religion from Mithras.
Or we get our.
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Christmas Day of December 25th
from Mithras and during the
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early Christian conversions many
of the Mithraic peoples.
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Are people whose.
Whose religion was Mithraic
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eventually won over.
We're won over to Christianity.
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It's a it's a shame that
Christianity didn't stick in in
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Persia.
Things would.
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Be a lot different if they had.
So our prayers go out to the
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folks over.
In Israel, and particularly
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anyone in harm's way from these
battles of the kings.
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All right, so.
I want to read to you something.
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About fathers something.
That Jesus said.
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To his apostles and this comes.
From paper 157 where Jesus is
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standing, and he says to his. 12
Apostles.
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This is early in the beginning.
Of the public.
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Preaching, he says to them, You
are my chosen ambassadors.
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But I know that in the
circumstance, you could not
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entertain this belief as a
result of mere human knowledge.
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This is a.
Revelation of the Spirit of the
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Father, my Father, to your
inmost.
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Souls.
And when therefore you make the
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confession by the insight of the
Spirit?
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Of my father which dwells.
Within you I am led to declare
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that upon this foundation.
Will I build the Brotherhood?
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Of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Upon this rock of spiritual
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reality will I build the.
Living Temple.
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Of spiritual fellowship.
In the eternal realities of my
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Father's Kingdom.
All the forces of evil.
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And the hosts of sin shall not
prevail against this human
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fraternity.
Of the Divine Spirit.
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And while my.
Father's spirit shall ever be
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the.
Divine guide and mentor of all
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who enter the bonds of this.
Spirit fellowship to you and
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your successors.
I now.
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Deliver the keys.
Of the outward Kingdom, the
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authority over things temporal,
the social and economic.
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Features of this.
Association of men and women as
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fellows of the Kingdom.
And again he charged them for
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the time being that they should
tell no man that he was the son
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of.
God, Jesus was.
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Beginning to have faith in the
loyalty and integrity.
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Of his apostles.
The master conceived.
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That a faith.
Which could stand what his
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chosen representatives had
recently passed through would
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undoubtedly.
Endure the fiery trials which
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were just ahead.
And they would emerge from the
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apparent wreckage of all their
hopes into the new light of a
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new dispensation.
And thereby.
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Be able to.
Go forth to enlighten a world
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sitting in darkness.
On this day, the Master began to
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believe in the faith.
Of his apostles.
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Save one, and the beginning of
it is marked by the relationship
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establishment.
Of the Father.
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And we, I'm going to be on this
program as I mentioned in a
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couple of days and, and, and if
you're listening to this.
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Podcast over father.
'S Day weekend, Santiago and I
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are.
Going to talk about prayer.
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And it's come up on these.
Podcasts that.
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We're at a time in human history
and again, this relates to the
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breakdown of the family in many
Western cultures, particularly
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in the West, where broken homes
have resulted in broken dreams
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and people have been cut off
from the.
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Spiritual circuit that the
father provides to each of his
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children who were.
Born with his image to be able
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to communicate with their inner
spirit, That inner spirit light
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that allows them to connect this
enormous gulf, this enormous
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bridge between paradise and we
out here on this lowly blue
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planet.
Far out at the edge of Jesus's.
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Domain of Nebadon and yet we are
able almost like in the
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possession of Bluetooth.
Or a cell.
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Phone, we can get the signal,
but in order to get the signal,
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you have to turn on your cell
phone, right?
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So that's a.
A very.
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Bad metaphor, but.
It sticks.
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Because in order.
For us to.
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Contact the father.
We need to be able to.
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Call the.
Father and I firmly believe if
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there's any teaching that.
Overrides every other.
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Teaching in the Urantia book,
it's the importance of
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establishing that connection
between the child and the
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parent, and it is that redeeming
quality of being able to
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connect.
With your earthly father.
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Just for me as it was.
As it is.
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Also to connect with our
Heavenly Father, most of the
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teachings that came from.
Christ were centered.
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Around the relationship between
the father and the.
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Child.
The child has a right.
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To petition the father.
The child has.
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Many rights endowed to him
because he.
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Is a child.
Of a loving father.
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But how do you teach?
This to young people today.
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Who are the?
Results of broken homes where
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perhaps they never.
Saw their dad or.
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Maybe they had a tragedy happen.
With their father.
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And fathers and and sons need
each other, just like fathers
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and daughters need each other.
But this has been downplayed in
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the current trajectory of our
culture.
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We seem to assume that children
will be fine if they just at
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least have their mother and the
mother takes on a great role and
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has to compensate.
For the the father who's not.
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There and she doesn't even
realize the value and then it it
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is so truly unfortunate that so
many young people when they get
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involved in relationships and
they don't think what kind of a
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father is this person going to
be?
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They're more focused on what
what kind of husband he's going
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to be, but they should be
thinking about long term.
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Is this the kind of of man that
I want to raise my children and
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rear them in discipline and
maturity?
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And it doesn't end when they
turn 18, by the way.
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I know that for a fact.
And many of the listeners to
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this program will will say the
same thing, you know,
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fatherhood.
Is is.
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Equally valuable not only to the
children, but to the father.
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I've learned so many valuable
lessons and I'm grateful for all
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of the lessons that my father
taught me that I'm even.
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More appreciative of the the
security.
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And the faith and the stability
that I get from my spiritual
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Father and I and.
Truth is, I.
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I don't call him enough.
I probably could call on God a
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lot more and I I most likely
don't.
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Because I just feel that there's
other.
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People who who are in much
greater need than me and I try
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to carry on as the ambassador.
The ambassador.
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Of the Father.
And it's an interesting concept.
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Go up to someone, a secular
person that you know, and ask
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him do you believe?
That God is a.
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Father and you, you might.
Be surprised at what they tell
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you.
Many people.
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Will will act as if you.
Just introduced a foreign
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language to them and and it's
mainly because.
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Our society has.
Downplayed the fatherhood
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element of God and they look at
him only as a creator who can
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either lessen or increase.
Pain.
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The number one reason people
don't believe in God?
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Is because if there was a God,
why is?
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There so much pain in the.
World.
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I've heard Jimmy Gervais say
that.
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Many a time Ricky Gervais, I
mean atheists are often
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conflicted by this.
Idea that if there is truly a
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loving.
Father.
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Why would he allow us to suffer
well as the.
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Arantia book explains.
It's about free.
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Will You cannot have free will
without the potentiality of
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evil.
Because it's the free will that
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gives us exercise over whether
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Way but.
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Experiences with us.
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Spirit fragment.
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He can offer us an alternative
and this is where the.
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Power of prayer.
Really kicks in because when
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you're in a life changing moment
and you feel that you don't have
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an option and you take that
moment at that time and it
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happened so many times.
Where the pressures of life are.
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So insurmountable and you're
forced and back into a corner.
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You don't know what to do.
What is the right?
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Decision God please help me make
the right decision and it is
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that personal spiritual
motivation to.
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Find the truth that allows.
The connection to occur between
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the father fragment and the
father himself.
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Prayers are answered.
It just happened a few days ago.
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I was in a situation where I
really didn't know what to do.
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My backup was was up against the
wall and I went to my father and
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I said what can I do?
Give me show me the road map.
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I'm open to any suggestion you
might have and within a couple.
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Of days I I I could clearly see
that God had delivered.
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On the answer and it was a very
natural occurrence and I was.
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Actually quite surprised.
And I'm sure that.
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Jesus would have said why?
Why were you surprised?
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And he'd be.
Right, so we.
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Spent a few minutes talking
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Of fathers.
And it also tied into that.
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Is the.
Importance of prayer.
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So here's what I'll suggest.
To you if you have an
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opportunity.
The podcast that I will be.
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On with Santiago.
Who's Who's a great Your answer
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book reader?
We're going to be talking about.
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Prayer, but we're.
Also going to spend a little bit
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of time talking about.
The podcast that.
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That you've been kind enough to
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Rancher radio.
Podcast So if you have a.
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I can.
I can certainly bring them up
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during the interview with Mr.
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any question you like.
You have a question about the
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program.
How we got here.
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My favorite stuff about.
Anything that you feel like you
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want to just e-mail me
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Take a quick.
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Break then I want to spend a
little bit of time talking about
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the latest numbers on the
Urantia book from the the most
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recent.
Update I suppose.
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From the Urantia Foundation, so
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Quick break and.
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We'll just spend a few minutes
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doing.
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again to e-mail me Jim Watkins.
And that is Urantia.
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Well, thanks to MO Siegel,
president of the Urantia
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Foundation, he has issued out
the latest comprehensive report
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on how the Urantia book is
doing.
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I'll give you a.
Couple of notes on this printed
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2010. 1200 copies of the Urantia
book in English, Portuguese and
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Spanish.
This year held the first town
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hall meetings for the Spanish
speaking readership.
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Which is.
Huge and growing, they've also
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initiated the first round of the
2025 Mustard Seed Grants
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program, which you should take
advantage of if you're an artist
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or you're a content producer and
you have a.
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Deep, deep.
Love for the Urantia book and
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you feel?
Compelled to do.
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Something the Mustard Seed
program will provide funding
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for.
Projects so.
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You might want to look into
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I always like to know.
Like where it's.
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Growing What's the online
because to me, I think from this
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point on moving forward, we have
to admit that the.
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Urantia.
Book is probably most likely
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going to be spread online more
so than although I.
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Think it's great to have a copy
of the book.
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I have 5 I think I have. 5 But
let's look at some of the
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statistics. 7% growth downloads.
Over 2020. 4.
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Sales of the Urantia book
totaled 4. 1650 Books.
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For the quarter, that's down.
Slightly from.
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The first quarter.
Of 2020. 4 total book.
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Distribution came to 16,000,
that's down 36%.
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That's total book distribution.
Downloads were down 43% from
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2024 and donated.
Books totaled 5. 122, that's 10%
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down from 2020. 4 so.
This was not a good.
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Year for growth.
Of the Urantia book based on.
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Just quarterly reports.
What could that be?
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I wonder what the what do you
think it?
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Is what gets.
In the way of growth
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distractions, perhaps?
Maybe things have become so
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political and divisive and
heated that people aren't
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looking.
For spiritual truth.
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A breakdown and and I know that
we've.
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Heard stories about the
breakdown of.
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Church attendance and.
I have a perspective.
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About that, I think that most
church attendance, if it's down,
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it's.
Because the church itself has,
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sort of.
Lost its ground.
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For lack.
Of a better term, it's become
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woke we we spend more time
trying to fix.
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Our ails, our spiritual ills
through.
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Medicine and noise and there's,
there's a lot more noise now
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than there used to be.
If you notice everybody's
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staring into their smartphones
skimming through the news and,
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and it gets, you know, rather
time consuming.
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I like to spend my time as much
as I can when I can, just
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reading passages from the
Arantia book.
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I want to close with this.
Particular paragraph since we
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are celebrating Father's Day
with this.
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It's from the nature.
Of the Father.
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In the first.
Papers.
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And I'll close with.
This it says.
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As we see the universal.
Father revealed throughout.
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His universe as we discern him
in dwelling the myriads of
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creatures.
As we behold.
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Him in the persons of His
sovereign sons, as we continue
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to sense His divine presence
here and there near.
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And afar let.
Us not doubt nor question his
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personality primacy.
Notwithstanding all these
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far-flung distributions, he
remains a true person and
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everlastingly maintains personal
connection with the countless.
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Hosts of his creatures scattered
throughout the.
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Universe of universes.
The idea?
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Of the personality of the
Universal Father is an enlarged
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and truer concept of God which
has come to mankind.
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Chiefly through revelation.
Reason, wisdom, and religious
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experience all infer and imply
the personality.
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Of God, but.
They do not.
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Altogether validate it.
Even the indwelling.
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Thought adjuster.
Is pre personal the truth and
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maturity of any religion is
directly proportional to its
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concept of the infinite
personality of God and to.
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Its grasp of the absolute.
Unity of Deity.
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The idea?
Of a personal deity becomes then
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the measure of religious.
Maturity after.
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Religion has first formulated
the concept of the unity of God,
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and again as a child.
You have a.
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Right to engage.
With the father.
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Every rule in the book in the
universe.
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Is.
Shrouded in this truth and the
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universe works.
Together we have.
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Not only the Spirit of the
Father in us, but we also.
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Have the spirit of truth, the
Holy Spirit.
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We have the Spirit Son, we have
the seven Adjutants, and then we
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also have the Mother Spirit.
Plus the service of the angels
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by our side.
So that tells you that the
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universe is a friendly place.
So trust Him and that's the
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message.
You've been listening to the
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Urantia Radio Podcast where we
explore the 5th epical
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Revelation of New Spiritual
Truth.
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This program is independently
written and produced by Jim
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Watkins.
If you have a question or want
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more information on the Urantia
Book, send us an e-mail at
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urantiabookradio@gmail.com or
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Coming up on this edition of the
Urantia Radio podcast where we.
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Explore the 5th epical.
Revelation of new truth that we
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were going to be talking about a
lot of things in honor of the.
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Father Father's Day, Some
thoughts about our Father.
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And the spiritual connection
that we could all make, plus
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some new information from the
Urantia Foundation on global
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growth of the Urantia book and
so much more.
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So and thank you for joining us
on your Rancher Radio.
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Well, we are together.
Again, and it's good to be here
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and I call.
This episode Father's Day
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because.
For many of us, it.
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Is of.
Course, the weekend where we
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celebrate fathers and there's so
much to say about fathers and I
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want to make an introduction
that I am a father and.
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I've said before.
Maybe even on.
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These podcasts that.
Be becoming a father really
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revealed to me what it is.
Like for the father?
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And the way that he treats.
Us as we are and where?
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We are, and there's a lot to
say.
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About the fact that.
In today's.
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Society, fatherhood is is.
A vague concept.
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To a lot of people who have.
Been raised in broken homes and
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in my own experience there was a
period of my life, my early
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years.
Where?
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Through circumstances beyond my
control that I was not able to
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see my dad, but.
Later I was.
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Fortunate enough to form a
wonderful relationship with him
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that lasted well into my
adulthood and I'm so.
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Grateful for that.
He died at a somewhat early.
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Age but I.
Miss him terribly, and I think
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often about his gentleness and
his kindness and his giving.
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He didn't have much, but he
gave.
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What he could to try to provide
a stable.
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Environment and it it's a
terrible thing, so many.
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People have had.
No fathers and the Urantia book
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talks about the the where the
formation in the ideation of a
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father is is almost impossible
to attain if you have not had
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the earthly experience of having
a loving father.
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And this I think why is we were
just talking about this with a.
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Psychiatrist.
On.
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A radio program that I do that.
The lack of fatherhood.
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Has created anxiety for a lot of
young people and that it has
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forced them to.
Try to.
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Figure it out on their own.
So imagine.
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How beautiful a.
Revelation.
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It is when we are.
Told.
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In the Arantia book, and
certainly in in the greatest
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religions, Christianity.
That the father is really the
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basis of brotherhood.
And.
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Without that fatherhood.
Connection.
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The How can you possibly have a
global world of brothers and
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sisters without the father?
Concept the the.
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Idea of brotherhood.
Is simply what is it based on?
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And today, more than half of the
marriages end in divorce, which
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means someone has to pick up the
pieces and try.
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To put it all back.
Together again, and we wonder
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why.
They're so sad.
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So much sadness.
So this weekend we celebrate
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fatherhood.
We celebrated because we should
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celebrate fatherhood and.
I wanted to just talk a.
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Little bit about.
Ways that we can communicate
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better with the father and I'll
I'll let you know that I'm going
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to be a guest on a podcast with
Santiago Nealon and Santiago and
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some of the.
Folks over at.
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Center for Unity, You know
Gabriel?
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Reinberg's great project
introducing Christ to through
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through the.
Urantia Book.
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Teachings to the Masses.
Gabriel, by the way, I I hope
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he's well, It's of course.
Over the weekend, we.
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Heard that, Israel.
Launching attacks into the
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nuclear.
Sites.
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Taking out military leadership
in Iran.
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To stave off.
A potential nuclear race and.
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And so this puts Israel.
Again, in harm's way something
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they're they're.
Sort of used to so our prayers.
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Go to the people all over the
middle.
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East.
We hope that they.
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Can get through this with the
least amount of bloodshed.
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By the way.
If you look in the Urantia book,
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Iran and Israel have had a long
contentious relationship, even
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going back.
To Zoraster, who was the I guess
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he was.
It was from him that the
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Mithraism was the religion of
Persia during the times of
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Christ and.
In fact, we get our.
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Religion from Mithras.
Or we get our.
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Christmas Day of December 25th
from Mithras and during the
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early Christian conversions many
of the Mithraic peoples.
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Are people whose.
Whose religion was Mithraic
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eventually won over.
We're won over to Christianity.
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It's a it's a shame that
Christianity didn't stick in in
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Persia.
Things would.
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Be a lot different if they had.
So our prayers go out to the
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folks over.
In Israel, and particularly
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anyone in harm's way from these
battles of the kings.
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All right, so.
I want to read to you something.
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About fathers something.
That Jesus said.
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To his apostles and this comes.
From paper 157 where Jesus is
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standing, and he says to his. 12
Apostles.
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This is early in the beginning.
Of the public.
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Preaching, he says to them, You
are my chosen ambassadors.
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But I know that in the
circumstance, you could not
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entertain this belief as a
result of mere human knowledge.
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This is a.
Revelation of the Spirit of the
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Father, my Father, to your
inmost.
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Souls.
And when therefore you make the
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confession by the insight of the
Spirit?
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Of my father which dwells.
Within you I am led to declare
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that upon this foundation.
Will I build the Brotherhood?
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Of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Upon this rock of spiritual
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reality will I build the.
Living Temple.
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Of spiritual fellowship.
In the eternal realities of my
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Father's Kingdom.
All the forces of evil.
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And the hosts of sin shall not
prevail against this human
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fraternity.
Of the Divine Spirit.
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And while my.
Father's spirit shall ever be
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the.
Divine guide and mentor of all
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who enter the bonds of this.
Spirit fellowship to you and
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your successors.
I now.
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Deliver the keys.
Of the outward Kingdom, the
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authority over things temporal,
the social and economic.
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Features of this.
Association of men and women as
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fellows of the Kingdom.
And again he charged them for
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the time being that they should
tell no man that he was the son
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of.
God, Jesus was.
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Beginning to have faith in the
loyalty and integrity.
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Of his apostles.
The master conceived.
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That a faith.
Which could stand what his
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chosen representatives had
recently passed through would
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undoubtedly.
Endure the fiery trials which
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were just ahead.
And they would emerge from the
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apparent wreckage of all their
hopes into the new light of a
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new dispensation.
And thereby.
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Be able to.
Go forth to enlighten a world
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sitting in darkness.
On this day, the Master began to
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believe in the faith.
Of his apostles.
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Save one, and the beginning of
it is marked by the relationship
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establishment.
Of the Father.
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And we, I'm going to be on this
program as I mentioned in a
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couple of days and, and, and if
you're listening to this.
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Podcast over father.
'S Day weekend, Santiago and I
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are.
Going to talk about prayer.
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And it's come up on these.
Podcasts that.
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We're at a time in human history
and again, this relates to the
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breakdown of the family in many
Western cultures, particularly
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in the West, where broken homes
have resulted in broken dreams
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and people have been cut off
from the.
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Spiritual circuit that the
father provides to each of his
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children who were.
Born with his image to be able
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to communicate with their inner
spirit, That inner spirit light
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that allows them to connect this
enormous gulf, this enormous
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bridge between paradise and we
out here on this lowly blue
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planet.
Far out at the edge of Jesus's.
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Domain of Nebadon and yet we are
able almost like in the
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possession of Bluetooth.
Or a cell.
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Phone, we can get the signal,
but in order to get the signal,
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you have to turn on your cell
phone, right?
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So that's a.
A very.
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Bad metaphor, but.
It sticks.
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Because in order.
For us to.
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Contact the father.
We need to be able to.
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Call the.
Father and I firmly believe if
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there's any teaching that.
Overrides every other.
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Teaching in the Urantia book,
it's the importance of
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establishing that connection
between the child and the
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parent, and it is that redeeming
quality of being able to
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connect.
With your earthly father.
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Just for me as it was.
As it is.
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Also to connect with our
Heavenly Father, most of the
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teachings that came from.
Christ were centered.
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Around the relationship between
the father and the.
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Child.
The child has a right.
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To petition the father.
The child has.
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Many rights endowed to him
because he.
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Is a child.
Of a loving father.
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But how do you teach?
This to young people today.
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Who are the?
Results of broken homes where
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perhaps they never.
Saw their dad or.
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Maybe they had a tragedy happen.
With their father.
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And fathers and and sons need
each other, just like fathers
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and daughters need each other.
But this has been downplayed in
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the current trajectory of our
culture.
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We seem to assume that children
will be fine if they just at
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least have their mother and the
mother takes on a great role and
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has to compensate.
For the the father who's not.
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There and she doesn't even
realize the value and then it it
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is so truly unfortunate that so
many young people when they get
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involved in relationships and
they don't think what kind of a
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father is this person going to
be?
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They're more focused on what
what kind of husband he's going
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to be, but they should be
thinking about long term.
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Is this the kind of of man that
I want to raise my children and
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rear them in discipline and
maturity?
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And it doesn't end when they
turn 18, by the way.
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I know that for a fact.
And many of the listeners to
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this program will will say the
same thing, you know,
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fatherhood.
Is is.
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Equally valuable not only to the
children, but to the father.
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I've learned so many valuable
lessons and I'm grateful for all
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of the lessons that my father
taught me that I'm even.
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More appreciative of the the
security.
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And the faith and the stability
that I get from my spiritual
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Father and I and.
Truth is, I.
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I don't call him enough.
I probably could call on God a
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lot more and I I most likely
don't.
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Because I just feel that there's
other.
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People who who are in much
greater need than me and I try
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to carry on as the ambassador.
The ambassador.
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Of the Father.
And it's an interesting concept.
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Go up to someone, a secular
person that you know, and ask
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him do you believe?
That God is a.
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Father and you, you might.
Be surprised at what they tell
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you.
Many people.
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Will will act as if you.
Just introduced a foreign
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language to them and and it's
mainly because.
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Our society has.
Downplayed the fatherhood
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element of God and they look at
him only as a creator who can
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either lessen or increase.
Pain.
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The number one reason people
don't believe in God?
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Is because if there was a God,
why is?
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There so much pain in the.
World.
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I've heard Jimmy Gervais say
that.
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Many a time Ricky Gervais, I
mean atheists are often
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conflicted by this.
Idea that if there is truly a
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loving.
Father.
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Why would he allow us to suffer
well as the.
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Arantia book explains.
It's about free.
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Will You cannot have free will
without the potentiality of
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evil.
Because it's the free will that
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gives us exercise over whether
we choose the Father's way.
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Or the material.
Way but.
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Again the father.
Goes through these.
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Experiences with us.
And through his.
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Spirit fragment.
Tries to coerce.
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In a gentle way, can't push us,
but he can guide us.
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He can offer us an alternative
and this is where the.
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Power of prayer.
Really kicks in because when
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you're in a life changing moment
and you feel that you don't have
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an option and you take that
moment at that time and it
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happened so many times.
Where the pressures of life are.
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So insurmountable and you're
forced and back into a corner.
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You don't know what to do.
What is the right?
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Decision God please help me make
the right decision and it is
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that personal spiritual
motivation to.
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Find the truth that allows.
The connection to occur between
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the father fragment and the
father himself.
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Prayers are answered.
It just happened a few days ago.
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I was in a situation where I
really didn't know what to do.
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My backup was was up against the
wall and I went to my father and
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I said what can I do?
Give me show me the road map.
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I'm open to any suggestion you
might have and within a couple.
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Of days I I I could clearly see
that God had delivered.
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On the answer and it was a very
natural occurrence and I was.
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Actually quite surprised.
And I'm sure that.
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Jesus would have said why?
Why were you surprised?
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And he'd be.
Right, so we.
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Spent a few minutes talking
about the importance.
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Of fathers.
And it also tied into that.
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Is the.
Importance of prayer.
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So here's what I'll suggest.
To you if you have an
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opportunity.
The podcast that I will be.
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On with Santiago.
Who's Who's a great Your answer
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book reader?
We're going to be talking about.
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Prayer, but we're.
Also going to spend a little bit
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of time talking about.
The podcast that.
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That you've been kind enough to
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Rancher radio.
Podcast So if you have a.
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Question and you would like me
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I can.
I can certainly bring them up
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during the interview with Mr.
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You have a question about the
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program.
How we got here.
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Anything that you feel like you
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Take a quick.
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Break then I want to spend a
little bit of time talking about
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the latest numbers on the
Urantia book from the the most
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recent.
Update I suppose.
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From the Urantia Foundation, so
we'll take a.
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Quick break and.
We'll come back.
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We'll just spend a few minutes
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doing.
And in the meantime, feel free
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again to e-mail me Jim Watkins.
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Well, thanks to MO Siegel,
president of the Urantia
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Foundation, he has issued out
the latest comprehensive report
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on how the Urantia book is
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I'll give you a.
Couple of notes on this printed
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2010. 1200 copies of the Urantia
book in English, Portuguese and
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Spanish.
This year held the first town
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hall meetings for the Spanish
speaking readership.
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Which is.
Huge and growing, they've also
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initiated the first round of the
2025 Mustard Seed Grants
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program, which you should take
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Deep, deep.
Love for the Urantia book and
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you feel?
Compelled to do.
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Something the Mustard Seed
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for.
Projects so.
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I always like to know.
Like where it's.
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Growing What's the online
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point on moving forward, we have
to admit that the.
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Urantia.
Book is probably most likely
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going to be spread online more
so than although I.
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Think it's great to have a copy
of the book.
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I have 5 I think I have. 5 But
let's look at some of the
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statistics. 7% growth downloads.
Over 2020. 4.
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Sales of the Urantia book
totaled 4. 1650 Books.
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For the quarter, that's down.
Slightly from.
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The first quarter.
Of 2020. 4 total book.
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Distribution came to 16,000,
that's down 36%.
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That's total book distribution.
Downloads were down 43% from
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2024 and donated.
Books totaled 5. 122, that's 10%
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down from 2020. 4 so.
This was not a good.
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Year for growth.
Of the Urantia book based on.
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Just quarterly reports.
What could that be?
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I wonder what the what do you
think it?
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Is what gets.
In the way of growth
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distractions, perhaps?
Maybe things have become so
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political and divisive and
heated that people aren't
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looking.
For spiritual truth.
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A breakdown and and I know that
we've.
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Heard stories about the
breakdown of.
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Church attendance and.
I have a perspective.
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About that, I think that most
church attendance, if it's down,
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it's.
Because the church itself has,
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sort of.
Lost its ground.
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For lack.
Of a better term, it's become
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woke we we spend more time
trying to fix.
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Our ails, our spiritual ills
through.
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Medicine and noise and there's,
there's a lot more noise now
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than there used to be.
If you notice everybody's
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staring into their smartphones
skimming through the news and,
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and it gets, you know, rather
time consuming.
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I like to spend my time as much
as I can when I can, just
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reading passages from the
Arantia book.
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I want to close with this.
Particular paragraph since we
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are celebrating Father's Day
with this.
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It's from the nature.
Of the Father.
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In the first.
Papers.
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And I'll close with.
This it says.
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As we see the universal.
Father revealed throughout.
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His universe as we discern him
in dwelling the myriads of
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creatures.
As we behold.
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Him in the persons of His
sovereign sons, as we continue
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to sense His divine presence
here and there near.
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And afar let.
Us not doubt nor question his
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personality primacy.
Notwithstanding all these
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far-flung distributions, he
remains a true person and
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everlastingly maintains personal
connection with the countless.
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Hosts of his creatures scattered
throughout the.
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Universe of universes.
The idea?
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Of the personality of the
Universal Father is an enlarged
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and truer concept of God which
has come to mankind.
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Chiefly through revelation.
Reason, wisdom, and religious
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experience all infer and imply
the personality.
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Of God, but.
They do not.
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Altogether validate it.
Even the indwelling.
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Thought adjuster.
Is pre personal the truth and
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maturity of any religion is
directly proportional to its
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concept of the infinite
personality of God and to.
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Its grasp of the absolute.
Unity of Deity.
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The idea?
Of a personal deity becomes then
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the measure of religious.
Maturity after.
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Religion has first formulated
the concept of the unity of God,
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and again as a child.
You have a.
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Right to engage.
With the father.
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Every rule in the book in the
universe.
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Is.
Shrouded in this truth and the
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universe works.
Together we have.
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Not only the Spirit of the
Father in us, but we also.
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Have the spirit of truth, the
Holy Spirit.
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We have the Spirit Son, we have
the seven Adjutants, and then we
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also have the Mother Spirit.
Plus the service of the angels
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by our side.
So that tells you that the
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universe is a friendly place.
So trust Him and that's the
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message.
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Revelation of New Spiritual
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