All Things Must Be Made New — Everything!
October 31, 2014
I have been doing all that I could to
prepare you for that which is needful in the days before us. I emphasized the
point of the necessity for honesty, so that you are really honest with
yourselves and do not attempt to deceive yourselves with respect to your
motivations, the reason why you speak or act thus and so. How easily human
beings do deceive themselves in that regard, persisting in self-deception.
Obviously there must be honesty in the Holy Place, because if there isn't,
there would be the making of a lie, and that, if it is a part of anyone,
prevents them from entering into the Holy City.
There is a need, then, for true honesty,
and there is the need for the development of a true sense of the fitness of
things. That which is fitting in the Holy Place is very different to that which
may seem to be fitting in the world of man. The wisdom of men is foolishness
with God, and human beings have judged the wisdom of God to be either foolish
or unfitting. We remember the words, "Behold, I make all things new."
That certainly indicates a complete change, for that which is in the Holy Place
must be fitting in the sight of God, regardless of what human beings think
about it. And you will find that, while you have undergone a change of
viewpoint and you see many things in a different light to the way it used to
be, the new vision and new understanding, the new sense of the fitness of
things, the new recognition of values, is yet to come.
I was wondering tonight if I could begin
to speak to you a little about these things, perhaps we might say the
characteristics of divine men and women as they serve God from the Holy Place,
that you may have an increased understanding of what is fitting there, what is
right and proper and what is not. We cannot lay down any rules and regulations
as human beings try to do in the world of man. They establish a pattern of some
sort and then they say it just is not done, to behave otherwise. Well of course
there are those things that are simply not done in the Holy Place, but the
correct function is based in something the individual knows from within himself
rather than on something which is imposed from outside.
The Ten Commandments were given a long
time ago as a basis of regulation for those who at that time had not reached a
point where they had any true spiritual perception, no real sense of the
fitness of things yet. There is that within the Ten Commandments which we have
already recognized as being of value in helping to develop a sense of the
fitness of things, but as commandments in the ordinary sense, they are left
behind. As guides to the fitness of things and to an understanding of the
divine pattern and the ways of God, they have their value. And when we come
into the Holy Place we discover that truly all things must be made new. Everything! And all the old patterns of
belief, concept, all the old regulations, dos and don'ts, no longer have any
effect. Yet, as we have seen, there is an absolute control insofar as the
kingdom of God is concerned. It is not as though all controls were taken off
simply because nothing is imposed from the outside. The outside controls cannot
properly be taken off until the individuals concerned have learned how to
accept the inside controls. And it is those controls which spring from within
the individual that operate in the Holy Place.
To attempt to come into the Holy Place
on the basis of some outwardly established and accepted code of ethics, for
instance, would end in failure, because the outer control would interfere with
the inner control. As long as a person has the two—partially controlled by that
which is coming from outside or is imposed from outside, and at the same time
seeking to be governed by that which is established from inside—there is a
certain amount of conflict, and the individual is not quite sure whether he
should be governed by this or by that.
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