from
The Lord of Truth’s Commission
Summer Session
— Sunrise Ranch
Uranda Tuesday, September 10, 1946
Tonight, I do not speak to you as a man.
Tonight, I do not speak to you as the Representative of the
LORD of Lords,
although I am that.
But tonight, I speak to you in my own Right,
in my own Place.
I have been looking
forward to this night for fourteen years. This is the 10th of September, 1946.
On the 14th, 15th and 16th of September, 1932, my outer mind
received consciousness of my Commission at the hands of the LORD of Lords and
KING of Kings. Under that Commission and by His Decree, regardless of
obstacles, regardless of all the things that seemed to conspire to prevent, I
have been moving forward with an irresistible force. That which has come into
contest with that force has inevitably gone down. Those who have responded have
found, under that same force, that they have been lifted up and established
upon the Rock; they have been brought into the realms of peace.
The law is absolute.
The workings of God are without respect to persons, as human beings judge, for
God is no respecter of persons. He works through those who respond to Him; He
cannot work through those who respond not. Step by step, as you have learned to
respond in love to the Lord of Love, you have been drawn to this hour in this
place. Truly, you have been drawn from the lands, from the east and the west
and the north and the south and, under the direction of the Spirit, the Lord
has led you forth by the right way. And now, that cleansing Current of Divine
Love is opening in the earth more powerfully, more vividly, more certainly,
than ever before. Now is the accepted time.
We are concluding a
twenty-two year cycle in which the wonders of God have been made manifest—and
the Victory which the LORD of Lords established in the earth nearly two
thousand years ego has been extended to you, that you may share in it, that you
may be a living part of it on earth, that through you He may accomplish those
greater works by which the world must be healed, by which the darkness of the
world must be dispelled. The power of truth has been acclaimed by man down
through the ages, but man was trying to work with only a part of the Current,
and an incomplete comprehension of the truth. You have come to know the power
of love and the power of truth which, when combined and working together,
provide a focalized manifestation of the absolute power of the Cosmos. That
same power by which the worlds were brought forth, which holds the sun in its
place in the universe, which holds this earth in its orbit, is great enough to
meet every adversary and every adversity that may manifest by the workings of
man.
Step by step, you have
been coming into a realization of the absolute nature of that power that is,
and you have been coming into a realization of the fact that your
responsibility is not just for yourself, not just for a few people here or
there, but you are members of a unit which carries with it, by the grace of God
and through His Power, responsibility for the salvation of the whole world. You
can no longer consider anything on the basis of personal interests, personal
preferences, personal desires, personal ambitions; or the consideration of any
few persons, or one person, in the world.
We are in the Service,
or out of it, for the time is at hand when we must rise above the limited
conditions of the world and subjection thereto, and function, not according to
the chaotic pattern that man has made and maintained, but according to the
symmetry of the Divine Pattern established by Almighty God, which no man can
alter or change; and except we dare, in His Name, through His Power, and by His
Grace, to move forward according to that Divine Pattern, how can we expect
anyone else, anywhere else, to do so. We cannot ask anyone to do that which we
will not do. We cannot ask anyone to dare that which we will not dare. We
cannot ask anyone to accomplish that which we cannot accomplish. If we cannot
do it, we cannot expect others to do it.
The simple fact is that
any individual on the face of the earth who had responded sufficiently to be
drawn to this hour might share in this moment just as surely as you share in
it. There are others in the world who are earnest and sincere, and who have
tremendous capacities for service to the Lord. But you heard the Call of the
Voice from Heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins," and you came. Except you had come, there had been
none to lead the way. Someone must always lead the way. Someone must march at
the head of the column. Some company must be the first company, that other
companies may come from the four quarters of the earth, equipped to stand
beneath the Banner of our King, the Lord of Love, the Prince of Peace. If,
during nearly two thousand years, someone else has not done it, that is no sign
that we should not do it, and no sign that we cannot do it. If the world is to
know salvation, it must be done. If all that our Master did is not to be in
vain, it must be done.
I have called you, and
chosen you, and drawn you to this hour, not because you were especially worthy,
not because you were exceptionally righteous, not because you were free from
the limitations of this world, not because you had achieved something great
according to the standards of this world, but because you were willing to come
just as you were. That is all that was required, all that was asked—that you
hear the call—that you respond—that you come, as you were. And so you came.
It is not that you
would gain some great place in the Kingdom, that you have come. It is not
because you have been promised anything that you are here. It is simply because
you are willing to love the Lord, in pure devotion to our King. And you are not
the only ones who share in this hour, for there are many who are closely with
us in Spirit, and all those responding ones whom you and they represent, have a
share in this hour.
The time is at hand
when it shall be revealed as to whether the Lord of Love came into the world
and finished His work in vain or not. The time is at hand that shall prove as
to whether the achievements of the twenty-two years that now come to a close
have been in vain. I think that they haven't been in vain. You who are gathered
here within the sound of my voice have learned not to depend upon the broken
reed of man, the concepts of man, the methods of man, for you have been
learning of God. It has been revealed throughout history—certainly for six
thousand years, if anyone questions the length of history—that he who depends
upon man depends upon a broken reed, but he who puts his trust in God finds
that God never fails; His hand is not shortened that it cannot save. You have
come to know that the Lord He is the God—the
Lord He is the God; the Lord He is the God—and the power of the Living God
is a reality in the earth; not something hoped for in some vague and distant
future, but something that, here and now, is accomplishing His will on earth.
It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
"What went ye out
into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" Behold, in the
days of Israel, when they dwelt in Egyptian darkness under bondage, they
finally came to the point where they determined to go three days' journey in
the wilderness to worship God; and finally God brought them forth, with a Great
deliverance, across the Red Sea, the sea of the physical limitations that
seemed to prevent the release of those who are in bondage to the Egyptian
darkness of this world. And when they came into the wilderness, instead of
worshipping Him in spirit and in truth, they began to murmur, divisions began
to appear, human reactions began to assert themselves and, finally, they doomed
themselves to wander forty years in that wilderness, when all they would have
had to do was to cross it, to move into the Promised Land. The perversity of
the human mind that thinks that it knows more than God does!
The perversity of the
human will which undertakes to contest the Almighty! They paid the price in the
wilderness, and that price was death. They learned the hard way to obey the
Word of the Lord; but even that was not enough, for after they were in the
Promised Land, still they murmured, still divisions appeared, and they turned
to false gods and tended to depend upon human agencies until, finally, they
clamored for an earthly king, to be like unto the nations round about them. To
be like unto the nations round about them, they wanted a human king. They were
not concerned so much about conforming to the Living God, as they were about
conforming to the nations round about them, to be like unto their neighbors, to
be like unto that which was manifest in the world. The price was terrible, but
they had to pay it. Finally, although the Lord lifted them up out of their own
destructions time after time, and brought them to the height that they achieved
under David and Solomon, they straightway established division; instead of one
nation, they became two nations with two kings; and from then on there was war
and chaos and strife and, finally, captivity.
They
were given another chance, even after that, but they did not stay steady in
their recognition of Almighty God, and the great dispersions came. Finally,
when the cycles changed and when the New Age began, the LORD of Lords Himself
came into the earth. He walked among men; He revealed the Way, the Truth, and
the Life. He gave instruction and training. The world rejected Him—that was to
be more or less expected—but even that nucleus of disciples whom he had called
and trained and who had seen Him perform the wonderful works, failed to carry
through, according to the vibration which He established. They decided that they
knew more than He did about how to use the power of God, and they spoiled it
and doomed the world to the Dark ages, and all the misery, suffering and death
that has been for nearly two thousand years.
Once
more, the way is opened; the provision of the Lord is made manifest; and,
regardless of pain or suffering, sadness or heartache, regardless of world
reactions, rejections, denunciations, oppositions and criticisms, we have come
to this hour. All that was offered to the children of Israel, all that was
offered to the disciples of Jesus Christ when He was on earth, is offered to
you tonight. What will we do with such opportunity, such privilege, such
responsibility?
Three
times within the scope of five thousand years man has been given an
opportunity, through the Love of God—three times in five thousand years—and you
share tonight in the third time. All that was offered the first time, all that
was offered the second time, is offered the third time, and the last time.
"My spirit will not always strive with man." The third and last time
is offered to the world through you.
These are not things to
be lightly considered. They are not to be weighed in the balance with personal
things or desires. They cannot be evaluated by human standards. Those to whom
the offer came the first time did not have the background of human history, and
previous opportunity to tell them what it was that was at stake when they
received that opportunity. It was not so with the disciples; they knew; they
had the opportunity to know what was at stake, what was involved. You, however,
more than any others who have shared in the opportunities before you, are
utterly without excuse, if there be any failure to recognize that which is
involved in the outworking of the Plan of God on earth.
Why have you come to
this chapel in this little valley, from so many distant places? Was it just to
hear another preacher, just to attend another study group, just to satisfy the
desires of your human mind, to get knowledge? I think not. I think not. You
have come because you have begun to truly recognize and know, beyond the shadow
of a doubt, that the Lord He is the God. You are truly beginning to open
yourselves so that the King of Glory can come in. "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; (and ye everlasting truths) and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in." What are the gates? They are the
gates of your human mind. What are the everlasting truths? They are the realms
in you that we classify by the word "heart," that capacity in you to
feel and to know Love, if you let it be so; and if you do not you will use it
to feel and to know the things of hell. And so it is with all the world. The
capacity to feel is always used either to feel the things of Heaven, or of
hell. You cannot keep from using your capacity to feel, for you will feel that
to which you are attuned, that to which you respond, that to which you give
your attention. These are the everlasting truths that must be opened up and, as
the gates and the doors are opened, the King of Glory comes in. "Who is
this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory."
As you open yourselves
to the Lord of Love and abide in attunement to Him, you have nought to fear
from the Lord of Truth, for perfect love casts out all fear. But the Lord of
Truth carries a sharp, two-edged sword, and the unreal will be cut away if it
means the cutting off of every man, woman and child upon the face of the whole
earth. The unreal is doomed to oblivion, where it belongs; and tonight I stand
before you, not so much the Representative of the Lord of Love, but as that one
who carries the sword, and with the Word that gives assurance that the unreal
is doomed if it means the damnation of the whole human family. God is no
respecter of persons.
The Sword of Truth will
accomplish that whereunto it is sent, whether in the body, or out of the body.
It matters little in that fulfilment if the human family chooses oblivion.
Though the world might destroy this body, it cannot destroy me. But I can destroy the world, and
I will if it is necessary in order to destroy evil from the face of the whole
earth. Michael and his angels have fought in Heaven, and Michael and his angels
now fight upon the planes of this world. The same Victory is assured. There has
been a long period of waiting. There has been a long period in which the Lord
of Love has opened the way, and in which the Lord of Truth has shared, and by
intercession, giving man every opportunity. God is not slack concerning His
Promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to usward, not
willing that any should perish. Peter never wrote or uttered truer words than
these.
I have carried the
polarization for you for this cycle that closes. I cannot do it in the cycle
that opens. Your own polarity in unified love response to the Lord of Love must
sustain you, if you are to be sustained. On two commandments hang all the law
and the prophets; on the fulfilment of the two commandments you are sustained;
and without the obedience to these two commandments, there is nothing in the
world that can hold you up. It is a case of either—or else. And remember, you
cannot disobey the second commandment if you obey the first one; so if you obey
the first commandment—just one commandment—victory through you is absolutely
certain, as certain as the rising and setting of the sun, as certain as the
movement of the stars in their courses, as certain as the sound of my voice. My
voice has sounded in the world down through those thousands of years many
times, in many ways, and the world has been inclined to take little heed. Human
beings are such forgetful creatures. They think the signs of God should be
repeated unto them every ten minutes, to keep them polarized for nine minutes.
Tonight, I do not speak to you as a man. Tonight, I do not
speak to you as the Representative of the LORD of Lords, although I am that.
But tonight I speak to you in my own Right, in my own Place.
You know how I love you, and have loved you, how I have
ministered unto you in the Way. No service has been too small for me to render
to you; no time of waiting has been too long as long as I secured results
within the time limits of the Cosmos itself. But tonight, I speak to you the
pure word of Truth, and if it be filled with Love, it is because you are
attuned in Love to the Lord of Love. That does not mean that there is no Love
in me, but it does mean that there is nothing harder than the Rock of Reality.
Human beings have been pushing themselves to pieces upon that Rock down through
these thousands of years, and it would seem there should be a spark of intelligence
that would cause them to begin to realize they cannot break the Rock.
Whether I appear in this form or some other matters little
to me, except that I would love, more than I can tell you, to see you whom I
have loved share in the Victory. But there is not any question about the
Victory. The only question is as to who is going to share in it, and I cannot
make you share in it. I am capable—and I think the history of the past five
thousand years proves it—of doing my part. The LORD of Lords certainly is capable
of doing His part. Under His Love, attuned to our King, you are capable of
doing your part. But without that attunement, it is hopeless for you, not for
me. I have come to you and opened to you, for your consideration, the Word of
God that is called the Bible. I have explained it to you from cover to cover. I
have talked to you about it. I wrote most of it. There is not an important era
of history recorded there, but what I shared it with the children of men. The
Word is being fulfilled, and shall be fulfilled, either through human beings,
or in spite of them.
With God, it is not a question of maybe. In the outworking
of the Cosmic cycles, man has been given every possible opportunity. Under
those Cosmic cycles that are set and ordained by the GOD of Gods, there can be
no more unnecessary delay. The time is running out, and the LORD of Lords
cannot, even if He would, (and I speak not for Him in this) but He cannot, even
if He would, extend that time. He would not, yea, could not, within the scope
of Reality; and He is not going to violate that by petitioning the GOD of Gods
for any further delay. Mankind has continued blindly in his path of
self-activity until he is very near the final wall. If human beings knew how
close they are to oblivion, they would not sleep very comfortably tonight,
unless they knew the Peace of God. The atom bomb is terrible; but it is not as
terrible as the wrath of God; it is not as sure and certain as the Sword of
Truth.
Before God and man, I
can say that under our King, through those thousands of years, I have done
everything possible to open the Way of Salvation for man, so that man might
walk therein. I have gone through such
life cycles for the last time. I have no regrets with regard to any of
them. Each time I have come in Love. But
it is not my doing when I say for the last time, and it is with all the
Love and Reverence for God that can be expressed in words that I say it, for
the Cosmos moves in its appointed cycles. If man wishes to move with it, he
must attune to it.
The earth in going to
be cleansed of evil. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all
should have everlasting life. It is for this cause that our King Himself came
into the world, He Whom I love more than all else. And I have seen Him suffer;
I have seen Him rejected and crowned with thorns; I have seen Him stagger under
the cross; and I have seen Him hanging there in that awful hour of darkness,
when the world sealed its own doom. But I saw Him come forth from that tomb the
Victor. He who holds the Sword
of Truth will see to it that the world that responds not to Him receives
according to the judgment wherewith it judged. Every knee shall bow before Him,
and every lip shall acknowledge Him.
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