Dec. 12, 2023
Final Words of Jesus
From Paper 193 we read the last words Jesus spoke to his followers before departing. We know those final words had to be pretty important, and so we look at the last four times he spoke to his Apostles and his general believers.
What can we learn from these final words?
Let's examine them and see.
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Welcome to another edition of
the Arrancha Radio Podcast.
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I'm your host, Jim Watkins,
longtime student and reader of
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the 5th Epochal Revelation, The
Arrancha Book.
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And because Jesus is the reason
for the season, I thought it
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would be great to have an
episode where we take a look at
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the final words spoken by Jesus
as he's about to depart this
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world of his bestowal and the
words that he says to certain
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groups over the appearances that
he made just prior to his final
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departure.
And it's very interesting when
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you look at the last few things.
You know, when you and I, when
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we know we're about to leave for
vacation or we're about to go
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off on a new adventure, we
choose our words very carefully
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when we know that they're going
to be the last final words.
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And when you think about the
fact that here is this man, this
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man, God really, who knew that
his time was short and this is
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the master of the universe, this
is the create creator son.
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And he had some final words that
he wanted to express before he
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departed.
And this occurred to me that,
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you know, because of the
importance of them being his
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final words, I went and I looked
and I I looked at the different
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people that he chose to
associate with in those final
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moments and the things that he
chose to say not only to general
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believers in one part of of
Israel but in another with his
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apostles and his disciples.
And then He goes and He's visits
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other believers that are
scattered about.
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And it's amazing to read these
final words and compare what he
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said to each of the different
groups.
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And we'll do that in just a
moment here on The Ranch Radio
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Podcast.
Welcome to the Your Rancher
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Radio Podcast.
It is the reason for the season
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we're going to focus on.
Jesus and the final words that
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He spoke to those around him
during those final days and
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hours of His life.
This was after His resurrection.
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These are the words of the
Master Son after he had been
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resurrected on that Sunday
morning from the tomb of Joseph.
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And he began to appear before
His apostles and disciples and
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fellow believers in that region
where He was.
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And I took to paper 193 and
began to examine the last four
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or five times that he appeared
before the assembled believers
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and the words that he chose to
use in each of those situations.
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And I and I think it's
appropriate and and I know that
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it'll be inspiring for me to be
able to share these words with
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you.
So why don't we just dig right
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in and talk about the final
appearances before His apostles
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and his disciples?
And it reads from paper 93.
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On this evening, the Jerusalem
believers had made their first
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attempt to get together since
the resurrection.
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Assembled here at this time were
the 11 apostles, the Women's
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Corps, That's the Women's
Evangelical Corps and their
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associates, and about 50 other
leading disciples of the master,
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including a number of Greeks.
This company of believers have
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been visiting informally for
about 1/2 an hour, when suddenly
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the Maracha master appeared in
full view and immediately began
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to instruct them.
Said Jesus, Peace be upon you.
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This is the most representative
group of believers, apostles and
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disciples, both men and women,
to which I have appeared since
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the time of my deliverance from
the flesh.
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I now call you to witness that I
told you beforehand that my
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sojourn among you must come to
an end.
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I told you that presently I must
return to the Father, And then I
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plainly told you how the chief
priests and the rulers of the
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Jews would deliver me up to be
put to death, and that I would
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rise from the grave.
Why, then, did you allow
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yourself to become so
disconcerted by all of this when
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it came to pass?
And why were you so surprised
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when I rose from the tomb on the
third day?
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You failed to believe me because
you heard my words without
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comprehending the meaning
thereof.
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And now you should give ear to
my words, lest you again make
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the mistake of hearing my
teaching with the mind while in
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your heart you failed to
comprehend the meaning.
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From the beginning of My sojourn
as one of you, I taught you that
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my one purpose was to reveal my
Father in heaven To his children
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on earth I have lived the God,
revealing bestowal that you
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might experience the God knowing
career.
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I revealed God as your Father in
heaven.
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I have revealed you as the sons
of God on earth.
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It is a fact that God loves you
His sons.
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By faith in my word, this fact
becomes and eternal and living
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truth in your hearts, when by
living faith you become divinely
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God, conscious.
You are then born of the Spirit
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as children of light and life,
even the eternal life wherewith
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you shall ascend the universe of
universes and attain the
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experience of finding God the
Father on Paradise, he
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continued.
I admonish you ever to remember
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that your mission among men is
to proclaim the gospel of the
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Kingdom, the reality of the
Father of God, and the truth of
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sonship of man.
Proclaim the whole truth of the
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good news, not just a part of
the saving gospel.
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Your message is not changed by
my resurrection experience.
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Sonship with God by faith is
still the saving truth of the
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gospel of the Kingdom.
You are to go forth preaching
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the love of God and the service
of man.
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That which the world needs most
to know is this.
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Men are the sons of God, and
through faith they can actually
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realize and daily experience
this ennobling truth.
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My bestowal should help all men
to know that they are the
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children of God.
But such knowledge will not
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suffice if they fail personally
to faith.
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Grasp the saving truth that they
are the living spirit, sons of
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the Eternal Father.
The gospel of the Kingdom is
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concerned with only the love of
the Father and the service of
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his children on earth, he
continued.
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Among yourselves here you share
the knowledge that I have risen
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from the dead, but that is not
strange.
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I have the power to lay down my
life and take it up again.
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The Father gives such power to
his Paradise Sons.
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You should there rather be
stirred in your hearts by the
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knowledge that the dead of an
age entered upon the eternal
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ascent.
Soon after I left Joseph's new
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tomb, I lived my life in the
flesh to show how you can,
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through loving service become
God, revealing to your fellow
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men, even as by loving you and
serving you as I have become
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God.
Revealing to you, I have lived
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among you as the Son of Man,
that you and all other men might
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know that you are all indeed the
sons of God.
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Therefore go you now into all
the world preaching this gospel
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of the Kingdom of heaven to all
men.
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Love all men as I have loved
you.
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Serve your fellow mortals as as
I have served you freely.
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You have received freely gift
only tarry in Jerusalem, while I
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go on to the Father.
And until I send you the Spirit
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of Truth, he shall lead you into
the enlarged truth, and I will
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go with you into all of the
world.
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I am with you always, and my
peace I leave with you.
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And when the Master had spoken
to them, he vanished from their
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sight.
So then, a short time later, a
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final appearance before General
believers.
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At about 4:00 on Sabbath
afternoon, May 13th, the Master
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appeared to Nalda and about the
75 Samaritan believers near
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Jacob's well at Socar.
The believers were in the habit
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of meeting at this place near
where Jesus had spoke, spoken to
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Nalda concerning the water of
life.
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On this day, just as they had
finished their discussions on
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the reported resurrection, Jesus
suddenly appeared before them,
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saying, Peace be upon you.
You rejoice to know that I am
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the resurrection and the life.
But this will avail you nothing
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unless you are first born of the
eternal Spirit, thereby coming
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to possess by faith the gift of
eternal life.
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If you are the faith sons of my
Father, you shall never die.
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You shall not perish.
The gospel of the Kingdom has
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taught you that all men are the
sons of God, and this good news
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concerning the love of the
Heavenly Father for his children
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on earth must be carried to all
the world.
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The time has come when you
worship God neither in Gerizim
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nor at Jerusalem, but where you
are as you are in spirit and in
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truth, it is your faith that
saves your souls.
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Salvation is the gift of God to
all who believe they are his
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sons.
But be not deceived.
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While salvation is the free gift
of God and is bestowed upon all
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who accepted by faith, there
follows the experience of
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bearing the fruits of the Spirit
life as it is lived in the
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flesh.
The acceptance of the doctrine
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of the fatherhood of God implies
that you also freely accept the
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associated truth of the
brotherhood of man.
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And if man is your brother, he's
even more than your neighbor,
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whom the Father requires you to
love as yourself, your brother
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being of your own family, you
will not only love with a family
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affection, but you will also
serve as you would serve
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yourself.
And you will thus love and serve
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your brother, because you, being
my brethren, have been thus
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loved and served by me.
Go then into all the world
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telling this good news to all
creatures of every race, tribe,
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and nation.
My spirit shall go before you,
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and I will be with you always.
And then the masters. 18th
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Marantia appearance was a tire
on Tuesday, May 16th, at a
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little before 9:00 in the
evening, again he appeared at
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the close of a meeting of
believers, as they were about to
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disperse, saying, peace be upon
you.
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You rejoice to know that the Son
of Man has risen from the dead,
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because you thereby know that
you and your brethren shall also
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survive mortal death.
But such survival is dependent
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on you having been previously
born of the Spirit of truth
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seeking and finding.
God.
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The bread of life and the water
thereof are given only to those
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who hunger for truth and thirst
for righteousness for God.
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The fact that the dead rise is
not the gospel of the Kingdom.
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These great truths and these
universe facts are all related
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to the gospel, and that they are
part of the result of believing
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the good news and are embraced
in the subsequent experience of
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those who by faith become in
deed and in truth the
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everlasting sons of the eternal
God.
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My Father sent me into the world
to proclaim the salvation of
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sonship to all men, and so I
send you abroad to preach the
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salvation of sonship.
Salvation is the free gift of
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God, but those who are born of
the Spirit will immediately
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begin to show forth the fruits
of the Spirit in loving service
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to their fellow creatures and
the fruits of the Divine Spirit
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which are yielded in the lives
of spirit born and God knowing
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mortals.
And here are their qualities,
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loving service, unselfish
devotion, courageous loyalty,
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sincere fairness, enlightened
honesty, undying hope, confident
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trust, merciful ministry,
unfailing goodness, forgiving
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tolerance, and enduring peace.
If professed believers bear not
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these fruits of the Divine
Spirit in their lives, they are
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dead.
The spirit of truth is not in
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them.
They are useless branches on the
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living vine, and they soon will
be taken away.
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My father requires of the
children of faith that they bear
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much spirit fruit.
If therefore, you are not
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fruitful, he will dig about your
roots and cut away your
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unfruitful branches.
Increasingly, you must yield the
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fruits of the Spirit as you
progress heavenward in the
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Kingdom of God.
You may enter the Kingdom as a
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child, but the Father requires
that you grow up grace by grace
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to the full stature of spiritual
adulthood.
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And when you go abroad to tell
all nations the good news of the
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gospel, I will go before you,
and my spirit of truth shall
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abide in your hearts.
My peace I leave with you.
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And then the Master disappeared
from their sight.
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And now we're at the final
appearance of the Master to His
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apostles at the same place by
the way of the Last Supper,
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Mary, Mark's House, it reads
from paper 193, chapter 3.
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Early Thursday morning, May
18th, Jesus made his last
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appearance on earth as a
Marantia personality.
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As the 11 apostles were about to
sit down for breakfast in the
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upper Chamber of Mary Mark's
home, Jesus appeared to them and
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said, peace be upon you.
I have asked you to tarry here
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in Jerusalem until I ascend to
the Father, even until I send
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you the Spirit of truth, who
shall soon be poured out upon
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all flesh, and who shall endow
you with the power from on high?
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Simon Zelitz interrupted Jesus,
asking.
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Then, master, will you restore
the Kingdom?
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And will we see the glory of God
manifested on earth?
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When Jesus had listened to
Simon's question, he answered.
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Simon, you still cling to your
old ideas about the Jewish
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Messiah and the material
Kingdom, but you will receive
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spiritual power after the Spirit
has descended upon you, and you
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will presently go into all the
world preaching this gospel of
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the Kingdom.
As the Father sent me into the
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world, so do I send you.
And I wish he would love and
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trust one another.
And then, when he had thus
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finished spoken, he beckoned
them to come with him, and he
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led them out to the Mount of
Olives, where he bade them
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farewell preparatory to
departing from our world
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Urantia.
This was a solemn journey to
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Olivet.
Not a word was spoken by any of
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the apostles from the time they
left the upper chamber until
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Jesus paused with them on the
Mount of Olives and in his final
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appearance with the apostles.
It was about 7:30 Thursday
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morning, May 18th, when Jesus
arrived on the western slope of
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Mount Olivet, with his 11th
silent and somewhat bewildered
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apostles.
From this location, about 2/3
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the way up the mountain, they
could look out over Jerusalem
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and down upon Gethsemane.
Jesus now prepared to say his
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last farewell to the apostles
before he took leave of Urantia.
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And as he stood there before
them without being directed,
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they knelt about him in a
circle.
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And the Master said, I bode you
to Terry in Jerusalem until you
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were endowed with the power from
on high.
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I am now about to take leave of
you.
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I'm about to ascend to my
Father, and soon, very soon, we
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will send into this world of my
sojourn the spirit of Truth.
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And when he has come, you shall
begin the new proclamation of
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the gospel of the Kingdom, first
in Jerusalem, and then on to the
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uttermost parts of the world.
Love men with the love wherewith
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I have loved you and serve your
fellow mortals, even as I have
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served you by the spirit fruits
of your lives.
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Impel souls to believe the truth
that man is the son of God, and
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that all men are brethren.
Remember all I have taught you
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and the life I have lived among
you.
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My love overshadows you.
My spirit will dwell with you,
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and my peace shall abide upon
you.
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Farewell.
When the Marancha master had the
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spoken, he vanished from their
sight.
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This so-called ascension of
Jesus was in no way different
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from his other disappearances
from mortal vision during the 40
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days of his career in spirit
form the Morontia form on
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Urantia.
So in summary, as Jesus was
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speaking to the Apostles, his
emphasis has always been to
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reveal God as a Father and that
we are the sons of God on earth
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and that he loves us and that
through this process it means
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nothing unless we're born of the
Spirit.
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And what is being born of the
Spirit about recognizing sonship
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with God.
And in doing so, Jesus taught we
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would have eternal life by
accepting this truth with the
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second group, who are perhaps a
little less aware of the full
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teachings of Jesus.
He simply proclaimed the gospel,
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which is God as your father and
you are spirit brothers of the
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same Father and that the Kingdom
belongs to all children who love
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gods and serve each other.
At Tyre he says he introduces
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the concept more fully of being
born of the Spirit.
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The intellectual approach to
religion is useless unless you
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can be born of the spirit and
understand the spiritual import
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of your faith and that is what
connects you to God.
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And then his final words of
dissertation to his apostles.
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Love each other as I have loved
you.
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Serve each other as you would
serve yourself, and remember the
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gospel, the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man.
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And that remains to this day the
gospel that is the gospel.
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Now, whatever else we've managed
to add to it all these
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centuries.
Well, but let us remember in
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this Christmas season the words
of Jesus on those final days.
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And that's it for this episode
of the Rancho Radio Podcast.
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I hope you enjoy it, prayers
with you and hope you have a
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great Christmas season.
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Welcome to another edition of
the Arrancha Radio Podcast.
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I'm your host, Jim Watkins,
longtime student and reader of
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the 5th Epochal Revelation, The
Arrancha Book.
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And because Jesus is the reason
for the season, I thought it
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would be great to have an
episode where we take a look at
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the final words spoken by Jesus
as he's about to depart this
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world of his bestowal and the
words that he says to certain
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groups over the appearances that
he made just prior to his final
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departure.
And it's very interesting when
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you look at the last few things.
You know, when you and I, when
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we know we're about to leave for
vacation or we're about to go
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off on a new adventure, we
choose our words very carefully
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when we know that they're going
to be the last final words.
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And when you think about the
fact that here is this man, this
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man, God really, who knew that
his time was short and this is
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the master of the universe, this
is the create creator son.
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And he had some final words that
he wanted to express before he
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departed.
And this occurred to me that,
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you know, because of the
importance of them being his
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final words, I went and I looked
and I I looked at the different
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people that he chose to
associate with in those final
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moments and the things that he
chose to say not only to general
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believers in one part of of
Israel but in another with his
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apostles and his disciples.
And then He goes and He's visits
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other believers that are
scattered about.
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And it's amazing to read these
final words and compare what he
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said to each of the different
groups.
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And we'll do that in just a
moment here on The Ranch Radio
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Podcast.
Welcome to the Your Rancher
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Radio Podcast.
It is the reason for the season
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we're going to focus on.
Jesus and the final words that
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He spoke to those around him
during those final days and
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hours of His life.
This was after His resurrection.
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These are the words of the
Master Son after he had been
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resurrected on that Sunday
morning from the tomb of Joseph.
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And he began to appear before
His apostles and disciples and
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fellow believers in that region
where He was.
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And I took to paper 193 and
began to examine the last four
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or five times that he appeared
before the assembled believers
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and the words that he chose to
use in each of those situations.
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And I and I think it's
appropriate and and I know that
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it'll be inspiring for me to be
able to share these words with
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you.
So why don't we just dig right
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in and talk about the final
appearances before His apostles
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and his disciples?
And it reads from paper 93.
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On this evening, the Jerusalem
believers had made their first
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attempt to get together since
the resurrection.
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Assembled here at this time were
the 11 apostles, the Women's
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Corps, That's the Women's
Evangelical Corps and their
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associates, and about 50 other
leading disciples of the master,
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including a number of Greeks.
This company of believers have
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been visiting informally for
about 1/2 an hour, when suddenly
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the Maracha master appeared in
full view and immediately began
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to instruct them.
Said Jesus, Peace be upon you.
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This is the most representative
group of believers, apostles and
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disciples, both men and women,
to which I have appeared since
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the time of my deliverance from
the flesh.
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I now call you to witness that I
told you beforehand that my
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sojourn among you must come to
an end.
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I told you that presently I must
return to the Father, And then I
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plainly told you how the chief
priests and the rulers of the
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Jews would deliver me up to be
put to death, and that I would
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rise from the grave.
Why, then, did you allow
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yourself to become so
disconcerted by all of this when
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it came to pass?
And why were you so surprised
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when I rose from the tomb on the
third day?
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You failed to believe me because
you heard my words without
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comprehending the meaning
thereof.
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And now you should give ear to
my words, lest you again make
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the mistake of hearing my
teaching with the mind while in
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your heart you failed to
comprehend the meaning.
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From the beginning of My sojourn
as one of you, I taught you that
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my one purpose was to reveal my
Father in heaven To his children
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on earth I have lived the God,
revealing bestowal that you
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might experience the God knowing
career.
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I revealed God as your Father in
heaven.
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I have revealed you as the sons
of God on earth.
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It is a fact that God loves you
His sons.
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By faith in my word, this fact
becomes and eternal and living
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truth in your hearts, when by
living faith you become divinely
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God, conscious.
You are then born of the Spirit
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as children of light and life,
even the eternal life wherewith
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you shall ascend the universe of
universes and attain the
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experience of finding God the
Father on Paradise, he
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continued.
I admonish you ever to remember
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that your mission among men is
to proclaim the gospel of the
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Kingdom, the reality of the
Father of God, and the truth of
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sonship of man.
Proclaim the whole truth of the
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good news, not just a part of
the saving gospel.
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Your message is not changed by
my resurrection experience.
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Sonship with God by faith is
still the saving truth of the
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gospel of the Kingdom.
You are to go forth preaching
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the love of God and the service
of man.
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That which the world needs most
to know is this.
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Men are the sons of God, and
through faith they can actually
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realize and daily experience
this ennobling truth.
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My bestowal should help all men
to know that they are the
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children of God.
But such knowledge will not
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suffice if they fail personally
to faith.
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Grasp the saving truth that they
are the living spirit, sons of
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the Eternal Father.
The gospel of the Kingdom is
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concerned with only the love of
the Father and the service of
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his children on earth, he
continued.
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Among yourselves here you share
the knowledge that I have risen
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from the dead, but that is not
strange.
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I have the power to lay down my
life and take it up again.
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The Father gives such power to
his Paradise Sons.
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You should there rather be
stirred in your hearts by the
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knowledge that the dead of an
age entered upon the eternal
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ascent.
Soon after I left Joseph's new
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tomb, I lived my life in the
flesh to show how you can,
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through loving service become
God, revealing to your fellow
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men, even as by loving you and
serving you as I have become
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God.
Revealing to you, I have lived
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among you as the Son of Man,
that you and all other men might
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know that you are all indeed the
sons of God.
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Therefore go you now into all
the world preaching this gospel
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of the Kingdom of heaven to all
men.
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Love all men as I have loved
you.
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Serve your fellow mortals as as
I have served you freely.
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You have received freely gift
only tarry in Jerusalem, while I
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go on to the Father.
And until I send you the Spirit
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of Truth, he shall lead you into
the enlarged truth, and I will
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go with you into all of the
world.
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I am with you always, and my
peace I leave with you.
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And when the Master had spoken
to them, he vanished from their
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sight.
So then, a short time later, a
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final appearance before General
believers.
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At about 4:00 on Sabbath
afternoon, May 13th, the Master
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appeared to Nalda and about the
75 Samaritan believers near
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Jacob's well at Socar.
The believers were in the habit
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of meeting at this place near
where Jesus had spoke, spoken to
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Nalda concerning the water of
life.
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On this day, just as they had
finished their discussions on
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the reported resurrection, Jesus
suddenly appeared before them,
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saying, Peace be upon you.
You rejoice to know that I am
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the resurrection and the life.
But this will avail you nothing
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unless you are first born of the
eternal Spirit, thereby coming
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to possess by faith the gift of
eternal life.
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If you are the faith sons of my
Father, you shall never die.
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You shall not perish.
The gospel of the Kingdom has
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taught you that all men are the
sons of God, and this good news
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concerning the love of the
Heavenly Father for his children
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on earth must be carried to all
the world.
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The time has come when you
worship God neither in Gerizim
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nor at Jerusalem, but where you
are as you are in spirit and in
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truth, it is your faith that
saves your souls.
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Salvation is the gift of God to
all who believe they are his
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sons.
But be not deceived.
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While salvation is the free gift
of God and is bestowed upon all
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who accepted by faith, there
follows the experience of
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bearing the fruits of the Spirit
life as it is lived in the
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flesh.
The acceptance of the doctrine
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of the fatherhood of God implies
that you also freely accept the
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associated truth of the
brotherhood of man.
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And if man is your brother, he's
even more than your neighbor,
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whom the Father requires you to
love as yourself, your brother
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being of your own family, you
will not only love with a family
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affection, but you will also
serve as you would serve
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yourself.
And you will thus love and serve
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your brother, because you, being
my brethren, have been thus
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loved and served by me.
Go then into all the world
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telling this good news to all
creatures of every race, tribe,
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and nation.
My spirit shall go before you,
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and I will be with you always.
And then the masters. 18th
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Marantia appearance was a tire
on Tuesday, May 16th, at a
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little before 9:00 in the
evening, again he appeared at
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the close of a meeting of
believers, as they were about to
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disperse, saying, peace be upon
you.
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You rejoice to know that the Son
of Man has risen from the dead,
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because you thereby know that
you and your brethren shall also
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survive mortal death.
But such survival is dependent
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on you having been previously
born of the Spirit of truth
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seeking and finding.
God.
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The bread of life and the water
thereof are given only to those
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who hunger for truth and thirst
for righteousness for God.
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The fact that the dead rise is
not the gospel of the Kingdom.
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These great truths and these
universe facts are all related
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to the gospel, and that they are
part of the result of believing
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the good news and are embraced
in the subsequent experience of
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those who by faith become in
deed and in truth the
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everlasting sons of the eternal
God.
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My Father sent me into the world
to proclaim the salvation of
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sonship to all men, and so I
send you abroad to preach the
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salvation of sonship.
Salvation is the free gift of
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God, but those who are born of
the Spirit will immediately
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begin to show forth the fruits
of the Spirit in loving service
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to their fellow creatures and
the fruits of the Divine Spirit
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which are yielded in the lives
of spirit born and God knowing
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mortals.
And here are their qualities,
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loving service, unselfish
devotion, courageous loyalty,
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sincere fairness, enlightened
honesty, undying hope, confident
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trust, merciful ministry,
unfailing goodness, forgiving
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tolerance, and enduring peace.
If professed believers bear not
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these fruits of the Divine
Spirit in their lives, they are
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dead.
The spirit of truth is not in
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them.
They are useless branches on the
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living vine, and they soon will
be taken away.
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My father requires of the
children of faith that they bear
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much spirit fruit.
If therefore, you are not
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fruitful, he will dig about your
roots and cut away your
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unfruitful branches.
Increasingly, you must yield the
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fruits of the Spirit as you
progress heavenward in the
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Kingdom of God.
You may enter the Kingdom as a
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child, but the Father requires
that you grow up grace by grace
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to the full stature of spiritual
adulthood.
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And when you go abroad to tell
all nations the good news of the
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gospel, I will go before you,
and my spirit of truth shall
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abide in your hearts.
My peace I leave with you.
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And then the Master disappeared
from their sight.
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And now we're at the final
appearance of the Master to His
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apostles at the same place by
the way of the Last Supper,
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Mary, Mark's House, it reads
from paper 193, chapter 3.
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Early Thursday morning, May
18th, Jesus made his last
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appearance on earth as a
Marantia personality.
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As the 11 apostles were about to
sit down for breakfast in the
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upper Chamber of Mary Mark's
home, Jesus appeared to them and
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said, peace be upon you.
I have asked you to tarry here
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in Jerusalem until I ascend to
the Father, even until I send
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you the Spirit of truth, who
shall soon be poured out upon
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all flesh, and who shall endow
you with the power from on high?
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Simon Zelitz interrupted Jesus,
asking.
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Then, master, will you restore
the Kingdom?
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And will we see the glory of God
manifested on earth?
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When Jesus had listened to
Simon's question, he answered.
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Simon, you still cling to your
old ideas about the Jewish
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Messiah and the material
Kingdom, but you will receive
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spiritual power after the Spirit
has descended upon you, and you
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will presently go into all the
world preaching this gospel of
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the Kingdom.
As the Father sent me into the
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world, so do I send you.
And I wish he would love and
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trust one another.
And then, when he had thus
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finished spoken, he beckoned
them to come with him, and he
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led them out to the Mount of
Olives, where he bade them
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farewell preparatory to
departing from our world
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Urantia.
This was a solemn journey to
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Olivet.
Not a word was spoken by any of
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the apostles from the time they
left the upper chamber until
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Jesus paused with them on the
Mount of Olives and in his final
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appearance with the apostles.
It was about 7:30 Thursday
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morning, May 18th, when Jesus
arrived on the western slope of
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Mount Olivet, with his 11th
silent and somewhat bewildered
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apostles.
From this location, about 2/3
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the way up the mountain, they
could look out over Jerusalem
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and down upon Gethsemane.
Jesus now prepared to say his
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last farewell to the apostles
before he took leave of Urantia.
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And as he stood there before
them without being directed,
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they knelt about him in a
circle.
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And the Master said, I bode you
to Terry in Jerusalem until you
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were endowed with the power from
on high.
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I am now about to take leave of
you.
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I'm about to ascend to my
Father, and soon, very soon, we
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will send into this world of my
sojourn the spirit of Truth.
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And when he has come, you shall
begin the new proclamation of
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the gospel of the Kingdom, first
in Jerusalem, and then on to the
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uttermost parts of the world.
Love men with the love wherewith
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I have loved you and serve your
fellow mortals, even as I have
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served you by the spirit fruits
of your lives.
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Impel souls to believe the truth
that man is the son of God, and
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that all men are brethren.
Remember all I have taught you
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and the life I have lived among
you.
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My love overshadows you.
My spirit will dwell with you,
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and my peace shall abide upon
you.
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Farewell.
When the Marancha master had the
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spoken, he vanished from their
sight.
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This so-called ascension of
Jesus was in no way different
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from his other disappearances
from mortal vision during the 40
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days of his career in spirit
form the Morontia form on
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Urantia.
So in summary, as Jesus was
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speaking to the Apostles, his
emphasis has always been to
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reveal God as a Father and that
we are the sons of God on earth
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and that he loves us and that
through this process it means
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nothing unless we're born of the
Spirit.
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And what is being born of the
Spirit about recognizing sonship
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with God.
And in doing so, Jesus taught we
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would have eternal life by
accepting this truth with the
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second group, who are perhaps a
little less aware of the full
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teachings of Jesus.
He simply proclaimed the gospel,
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which is God as your father and
you are spirit brothers of the
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same Father and that the Kingdom
belongs to all children who love
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gods and serve each other.
At Tyre he says he introduces
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the concept more fully of being
born of the Spirit.
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The intellectual approach to
religion is useless unless you
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can be born of the spirit and
understand the spiritual import
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of your faith and that is what
connects you to God.
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And then his final words of
dissertation to his apostles.
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Love each other as I have loved
you.
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Serve each other as you would
serve yourself, and remember the
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gospel, the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man.
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And that remains to this day the
gospel that is the gospel.
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Now, whatever else we've managed
to add to it all these
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centuries.
Well, but let us remember in
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this Christmas season the words
of Jesus on those final days.
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And that's it for this episode
of the Rancho Radio Podcast.
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I hope you enjoy it, prayers
with you and hope you have a
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great Christmas season.
