A Sacred Period

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  A  Sacred  Period

Bill Bahan   September 13, 1980

This evening I present myself before the LORD, and my soul feels totally inadequate. But I am not my soul. What a wonderful thing it is to stand before the LORD naked and unashamed, having one's mind filled with the LORD, unclothed with concepts as to what to say or what to bring forth, and allowing the mind to be used by the LORD with all of us participating collectively. I'm sure you are all familiar with these words which have been repeated and repeated and repeated for two thousand years:

After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

This is our LORD's prayer. It was His prayer that His will should be done in earth as it is in heaven. Human beings for these many thousands of years have been unable to allow His prayer to be answered in their living. Repeatedly there have been those who have been on earth to assist human beings to know the fulfilment of that prayer in their living, but strange as it may seem, they have been reluctant to accept the one who came in the name of the LORD to assist them in this fulfilment. Over and over again the LORD's servants have come on earth to assist human beings to know the truth and let His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And, as I say, there has been a gross reluctance to let it transpire. 

Our LORD and KING Himself came on earth in order to say it directly, but He was rejected. To our minds today it may be unimaginable that that Great One being present in form on earth should be rejected as the LORD, but He was. He did open the door for all of us, first of all through this prayer with the instruction, "After this manner ... pray ye," as to how we might allow His will to be done. There has been the need in the earth for leadership to assist human beings, even with their reluctance, to let His will be done. We know in our own experience that there has appeared a prophet of the LORD on earth, to those who were aware, to let His will be done and, in turn, to assist all human beings into this true consciousness. 

Today is September 13. This actually is the anniversary period. The 13th of September, 1932, was when the focus of enlightenment came into the consciousness of Uranda. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/08/from-focus-of-enlightenment-2-martin.html] In that outworking, in three successive days—September 13, 14 and 15—this enlightenment took place in his consciousness. He became aware of his responsibility on earth, and all of the questions which his mind had had before then were answered during that particular time. He became aware of the truth that heaven and earth are one, and how to let the LORD's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

Also this is the conclusion of the sixth year of this seven-year-cycle of the seventh cycle which we are in since that momentous experience took place in the consciousness of Uranda forty-eight years ago. When Uranda received his commission he thought that he could go and bring this good news to thousands and thousands of people. He said it was a lack of outer experience on his part which led him to believe that. He found out that human beings have a deaf ear to the truth. But he knew the truth. He accepted his commission, but the acceptance of that commission was not just for him. That commission was available to every man, woman and child on earth. He sounded the note of that commission; he went from one end of this continent to the other sounding the note of that commission, bringing the good news that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He found that there were those who did respond to that offering and some who came close, but when it got right down to cases and they had the responsibility of accepting the commission he had accepted, they went their own ways. But the LORD will out. Those who have accepted the commission of the LORD do not know failure. They may in their service see many fail around them, but failure is not included in the vocabulary of those who have accepted the commission of the LORD. So regardless of all the pressures and all the sadness experienced by him, he continued to sound the note, and we know what happened. 

Finally one emerged who would agree with him in that commission. A line was drawn on earth between two who had accepted the commission, and the time came in the evolving cycles when Uranda left this sphere of things. The commission, and the note of that commission, the mantle of it, fell into the hands of Martin. Since 1932, in an outer sense, that note has never stopped sounding; it has been consistent. You and I find ourselves here tonight because of the continuation of that note by Martin. What is our responsibility? Well, we know that Martin's responsibility is not the same as ours. Within the commission there is design; he has a particular design within that commission, and we have a particular design within that commission. Our responsibilities are not the same, even though we carry the same commission.

The two titles of Martin's services last Sunday indicate everything that is required. The morning service was entitled "Alignment With Original Cause"—that's the commission. The evening service was entitled, "The Responsibility of the Unified Body." Now, we know that the responsibility of the unified body is absolutely impossible without alignment with original cause, without the acceptance of the commission of the LORD. When that commission is accepted and is actual in our experience, in our living, we begin to find that we are a part of this unified body. To be a part of the unified body without accepting the commission of the LORD is an impossibility. We kid ourselves if we think we can do it. It is alignment with original cause which allows what needs to be done to be done. So where's the great problem in accepting that alignment? No problem at all! The kingdom of heaven is at hand; we're in it constantly as long as we are alive. All that is necessary is to stop violating the laws of the kingdom. Human beings have not been aware of the kingdom because they violate its laws.

You and I have had the finest spiritual education available, so we have been made aware of the laws of the kingdom. "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" Well of course! If the ordinances of heaven are broken in our experience it's something deliberate. As our love for the LORD and His ordinances is paramount in our living, so that they transcend anything in the personal sense, we keep the ordinances of heaven. In the keeping of them we know the truth that heaven and earth are one, and we may sound the tone of oneness so that others may come and live in the kingdom with us. How blessed we have been. And yet there does seem to be reluctance present amongst those of us who have had this great gift offered to us. If any of us in our experience find ourselves out of a consciousness of the oneness of heaven and earth, we are deliberately doing it. There is a deaf ear present.

When the commission of the LORD has been accepted the LORD is present because we are there; we're not looking for some representative of the LORD out there. We are there in His name; we are there to represent Him. Then the thing that means more to us is our representation of Him, not that circumstance. Representing Him is the thing that counts. If it counts in fact with us, and our agreement with the LORD is the vital thing to us, then the LORD comes into that circumstance because we're there. His spirit is there and, as has been emphasized recently, He is Almighty. 

One-pointedness, discipline, a challenge that's loved—this is the spirit that is actually required if the unified body is to be a fact on earth. If there was the spirit of one-pointedness in the LORD, the spirit of delight in the challenge that lies before us, what would our experience be? One of quibbling, one of doubt, fear and apprehension? No. It would be consistent with the LORD, consistent with His nature, so that we in fact exemplify His expression.

 

I have had opportunity before to approach this anniversary period, but never the experience like I have had, coming to this particular weekend. I am sure you share that with me. We may all recognize the absolute sacredness of it. It is a very significant time. There is a great shift taking place actually. This shift is pointed right at us. The LORD is expecting us to reveal the truth in fact, the revelation of the truth of human beings who have accepted the commission of the LORD. That is why, as I say, when I presented myself before you this evening I felt, as far as my soul was concerned, completely inadequate. Absolutely! What a wonderful feeling really. One recognizes the absolute nothingness of the human soul in and of itself. As long as the human soul still thinks that it can do it, that it can be the way, the truth and the life, we're lost without a doubt. But because you and I have been nurtured, yea, these many years by the LORD, we come to the point where we may in fact accept our responsibility. And in that acceptance of our commission we may do what we came on earth to do.

This body which has been taking form is an indestructible body. We saw that the body of our LORD and KING on earth was absolutely indestructible, regardless of all the things that were forced upon it. That body did not destruct. Now we may look back and recognize that it was our LORD and KING's body, and because it was His body it was indestructible. Well, whose body are we in? Whose body are we responsible for? It's the same body. It's the same body because there are those in it who accept the truth which our LORD and KING brought on earth. Then it is in fact an indestructible body. What a miracle to find this body at this particular stage strong and pliable in the midst of all the turmoil and strife in the world. The tone of the LORD is sounding on earth and those who are receptive are coming.

 

Recently we have been talking about the immovable mass. You know, in some respects it would appear that the immovable mass has been on earth for many years, immovable by the spirit of God! But out of that immovable mass have come those who are movable. You and I responded to the spirit of God that was moving and have come to the point where we recognize what is required. We have a particular opportunity for the fulfillment of God. In the acceptance of the truth we accept the reality of ourselves, which is in heaven. What is received from heaven on earth, the forms that appear on earth, are not separate from our doing. It is our doing, it is our expression, which allows that which would be given from heaven to be given; and our total concern is to allow what needs to come from heaven to come.

I speak to you tonight not of the earth but of the heaven, of that which is above. And we know that if that which is above is sounded on earth it is not heard by those who are earthy; it is heard by those who are responding to the heaven. So in our experience we can know in fact that we speak from heaven. The understanding that we know is from above. All of us who have had the privilege of sitting at the feet of the LORD know a great victory and have established our friendship with the LORD. We have come to the point where we may speak from above and we may handle the responsibility of the body of which we are a part. A lot of things have been said about friendship with the LORD. It's a beautiful thing we share, to allow that friendship to be a reality. We know that friendship with the LORD is impossible to human beings in human nature. It is agreement with the representation that allows the reality of friendship to appear. And how easy it is to find friendship with the LORD through His representation. That representation has faith in us.

Do you think that we can know friendship with the LORD and His representation, true friendship, if we don't accept our commission? It is in the acceptance of what the representative of the LORD accepts that we know friendship. Knowing friendship, we know the reality of faith. We know that what needs to be done will be done, and we know that in friendship we may come in the name of the LORD—but until the one who comes in the name of the LORD is accepted nothing transpires. The one who comes in the name of the LORD has come. We have all said, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." In that growing friendship which we know because of our recognition of that one, we come to the point where we stand with that one. If we ever distort that spirit which he represents, our friendship is broken. Heaven forbid!

In the days to come in our service, many things are going to present themselves. In the strength and the power of the LORD we will know what to do in any circumstance, in any moment. I'm sure that all who are here during this very sacred period, which calls forth the truth from all of us who have been moving, would recognize that no circumstance or situation could ever provoke us to distort the spirit. In our hearts and minds and, yea, all of our souls, we long to maintain our agreement in spirit, and in turn, our friendship with the LORD. I delight in what is going to be in the days to come. I delight that all of us have in fact—and don't say we haven't—come to the point where we know that we are responsible for the spirit of the LORD in form on earth. We know this, and we know His spirit.

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