The Reality of His Majesty's Government is Here
Acknowledging The Presence Of God
Uranda August 30, 1953
As I was preparing this morning to come here to the Chapel and acknowledge your presence, it occurred to me to wonder, how would it be if I were to walk into the Chapel and act as if I saw no one, act as if you were not here? How would it be if I were to come into your presence and fail, by my attitude and by my word, to acknowledge your presence. And I wondered how you would feel if, in such a pattern of ignoring your presence, I gave no heed to our agreement to serve together before our LORD and KING, to come here perhaps for a little time, maybe notice Martin and talk to him for a few minutes, wander about—and then wondered if perhaps he might ask me a question, “Do you not realize these people are here? These people are here; your congregation has gathered. Have you not noticed?” I wonder how you would have felt. I wonder, too, how God feels when sometimes you walk about without acknowledging His Presence. I wonder what happens in the vibrational realm of being when you act, thoughtlessly—but when you act as if God either did not exist or as if He were far away. To acknowledge the Presence of God!
Last evening in our pattern of meditation we gave thought to that step in illumination which comes when the individual at last realizes that the Kingdom of Heaven is here—how the mind accepts a certain idea. [https://greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/09/you-are-manifest-government-of-king.html] The Master said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand," and the human being says, "Well, yes, I believe that; I accept it; that is my belief, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” And one hears it in so many different ways and says, “Yes, I believe that.” Then finally the responding one comes to the point of awakening, as it were, “Why, yes, it is so. The Kingdom is at hand, it is right here. I have had that idea but it is, it really is!” And in that wave of illuminating light and perception and wonderment that the Kingdom is at hand, one finds one’s whole attitude changing. And having acknowledged in actual fact the presence of the Kingdom, the individual begins to speak and act, yes and to think, on the basis of that realization.
But then another step follows. Once we have really begun to see the Kingdom and see that it is here, that we are not just talking about a belief, an idea that is more or less acceptable to the mind, we awaken to the fact that, yes it is, it is right here, right here on earth; and that God’s government extends into our lives. We begin to realize that if there is a Kingdom—and it is—then there is a KING; and there is another step in illumination wherein we begin to acknowledge His Majesty the KING; wherein we begin to recognize within ourselves the reality of His Majesty’s Government, and that that Government is here—that that Government extends into our hearts and minds, our very lives, to the depths of our beings. His Majesty’s Government, and the reality of the KING. And when these things become vivid realizations to heart and mind, there is a deeper change in attitude so that our thoughts up here, on the basis of that change, the thoughts which take form as words and deeds—and we are familiar to some degree at least with the process of how thoughts take form as a word or a deed. Thoughts—something in the outer sense, intangible; something to the human vision, invisible. And yet, though you may not have given much thought to how it is that thought takes form in word and deed, you let that process have meaning every day. There is a thought recognizing physical thirst, and steps are taken and the hand reaches to pick up the glass—observation is made with respect to the fact that water is in the glass; observation is made to recognize that it is clean, and one drinks the water. And so a thought has become a deed.
Likewise, thoughts become words. And this movement of something from the invisible realm to the visible, we recognize, perhaps taking it for granted most of the time, but we recognize it in relationship to our daily activities, whatever we do, something is taking form—out of the invisible. Invisible thoughts become words and deeds. And when we begin to meditate upon it we begin to realize that here is a part of the process by which the invisible things of God take form in our lives. If there is an invisible Kingdom at hand, it is supposed to take form in our lives. If there is the invisible word of God, it is supposed to take form in our lives. And that thought reminds us of the Master’s answer at the time of the test, or temptation—when the devil tempted Him to act on the basis of the devil’s suggestion—and the Master, from the tranquility of His soul and His deep attunement with God, answered, regardless of the things which sought attention in His body: His hunger. He answered, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” And if we see that in the illuminating light, there is another burst of amazement which penetrates to the depths of our being. For we look at the Bible, the Book, and with all due regard for all the wonderful things it contains, and all the revelations of God and His Will, and the fact that these very words are contained in it, we recognize that this little book could not possibly contain every Word of God—that God’s Words are far greater in number than the words contained here. And our Master said, “And man shall live by every Word of God,” not just some of the words of God which happened to get into the record and be printed for our use. And the Master said it. He must have known what He was talking about.
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” And there comes a dawning realization that all the Words of God are not contained in this Holy Book, that there are Words proceeding out of the mouth of God today which are supposed to come into our awareness as thoughts, to be translated into words of our lips, that the Words of God today might appear. Did God cease speaking nineteen centuries ago? Has God been dumb through these nineteen centuries? No. And the Master said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proeeedeth out of the mouth of God.” And so we begin to have a deepening realization that there is a Kingdom, a KING, and that that KING has Words to speak today. It is by His Words that we live, and for nineteen centuries man has limited himself to the Words that were spoken more than nineteen centuries ago. Now the Words that were spoken nineteen centuries ago are very important. They help us to have a means by which we can clearly distinguish between the Words that are proceeding out of the mouth of God and the words that come from the vain imaginings of men's hearts, but for nineteen centuries man has ignored the continued Words of God. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word which proeeedeth out of the mouth of God.”
We need to start giving heed to the Words of God today. We need to let them begin to come into our awareness. And having acknowledged the Kingdom and the KING, and having acknowledged the presence of the Kingdom and the KING, we begin to realize that since these things are taking form from an invisible level—at least as high as man’s own thoughts, from that invisible level—and taking form in word and deed, and that the Words of God are supposed to take form and appear through our lips, a question begin to take form in our minds. A question. And as this question begins to form we remember something of our meditation of last evening: What is it that is greater than I am? What is it that is greater than you are? We found there were four things greater than we are: God, the KING, the Kingdom and the purpose of the Kingdom. These four things are greater than I am. These four things are greater than you are. But in that pattern of meditation we noted that if we truly know this and acknowledge it, realize it, then nothing out here in the world is greater than we are.
I do not acknowledge anything out here in the realm of circumstance, in the world sense, or in a more limited sense, to be greater than I am. What is out here that is greater than you are? That which is greater than you are, and which you acknowledge to be greater than you are, is that to which you are subject; and if you are subject to that, you are not subject to God, to the KING, to the Kingdom, or the purpose of the King. And so we review these things in thought while this question takes form in our minds, and it is a most interesting question: With what, then, do I agree? With what do I agree? God is greater than I am. It is obvious then that I should agree with Him. The KING is greater than I am and so it is obvious that I should agree with Him. The Kingdom itself is greater than I am, therefore I should agree with the reality of the Kingdom. The purpose of the Kingdom is greater than I am, therefore I should agree with the purpose of the Kingdom.
When it comes down to this business of practical living in daily life, with what do I actually agree? With what do you actually agree? If you are a part of these four things, then you are greater than those problems and difficulties and situations which arise before you. But if you fail to acknowledge the presence of God, the presence of the KING, the presence of the Kingdom, and the presence of the purpose of the Kingdom, if you fail to acknowledge the presence of these four things, and something begins to appear over here, someone speaks a word, presents an attitude, does a deed, and you find yourself tending to agree with that which is less … With what do I agree? Some ill circumstance arises and immediately there is a certain amount of pressure, a certain amount of distraction; your attention is called to that which has arisen—well and good. We are not to be blind; we need to see, but having seen, do we forget the presence of the KING, the Kingdom, and the purpose of the Kingdom—and ignoring the presence of God, agree with the ill condition, agree with the word that was not spoken in harmony with the Divine Design, agree with the concept, the belief, agree with the suffering, the tragedy, the ill thing, whatever it may be? With what do I agree?
Would it not be well for each of us this morning to ask that question of ourselves, seriously, earnestly? With what do I agree? As we meditate upon the point, we are reminded of the Master’s words, “If two or three of you should agree on earth”—right here on earth, “If two or three of you shall agree on earth as touching these things, it shall be done of my Father which is in Heaven.” Agreement. Perhaps in the illuminating light we can perceive more clearly the significance of what the Master said. People have tried to say, then, “Let us get together and agree about some certain thing and God will do it according to our desire.” It does not work quite that way. But there is something else here which begins to come within the range of our comprehension, something else to be seen—for we remember that there is no power but God’s power.
There is no power but God’s power. What then is the power of evil? It is God’s power taken by self-active human beings, misshaped, misused, violated—God’s power. We do have the ability to perceive something of this without stretching the imagination, without trying to have blind faith, for what is the life in your own body but God’s power? Where did your life come from? I expect anyone here in this room, answering that question, would say, in one way or another, from God. Then the light that is in you is a part of God’s power. Has that power of your life, always without a single exception, been used according to God’s Will, purpose, design? Has there ever, in any moment, been any evil thing come forth by reason of the working of the power of your life? Would anyone here dare stand up in this moment and say, “The power of life in me from God has never brought forth any evil thing?” Not one of you would dare to stand up and make that statement. Then God’s power in you has, in some times past, been caused to bring forth evil. It has been made manifest as an evil power, an evil force. And yet it came from God.
It came from God—all power comes from God, and if any power brings forth evil it is because human beings have distorted it, misused it and abused it, making something from God to bring forth that which is contrary to God. This then being true, is there anything done upon the face of the earth that is not in actual fact, God’s action—if man by his evil imaginations of heart and mind has caused God’s power to do evil, is it not in fact, whether it be supposedly good or indifferent or bad—can you point to one thing done on earth that is not done by the power of the Father? Name me one thing, good or bad, good or evil. Is there any evil thing that is not done by reason of God’s power, which, in effect, is a matter wherein man makes God’s power to do evil? Name me one thing.
When two human beings agree to the doing of something evil—and it takes some agreement, does it not, one way or another—then is not the evil which appears caused to appear by the working of the Father’s power, by the working of the Father’s life, by the working of the intelligence, the mind, the heart, the capacities of being which God gave you? Did your capacity of mind come from someone other than God? I think not. Did your capacity of the feeling realm of your heart, the capacity to have the awareness of love, come from someone other than God? I think not. On this basis then, we begin to see that whatsoever is done, is done of the Father—not necessarily according to the Father’s Will. Oh, no! For God’s Will never produces any evil thing. But whatever is done is done by reason of the Father’s power, the Father’s power of life in you, the Father’s gift of mind and heart in you, the Father’s gift of Spirit to you—and whatsoever takes form on earth in relationship to life appears through man, man and woman, every evil thing, every good thing, whatsoever it is, it appears through men and women.
Everything that takes form, every word that is spoken, every deed that is done, it appears through men and women. And human beings have caused the Father to do it, whether it be good or bad. For if man be centered in God’s Will and let God’s Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven, then man, by that very centering has caused the Father to do good things on earth; but if man, ignoring God’s Will, refusing to be governed by His Majesty’s Government, causes evil things to appear, then He has used God’s life force, he has used God’s gift and capacities, that person has then caused the Father to bring forth evil things on earth. Human beings cause God the Father to bring forth good things, and human beings cause God the Father to bring forth evil things, on the basis of the individual human agreement—and the human being tends to agree with that of which he is aware.
Did you ever, thoughtlessly, tend to agree with some idea or action and then suddenly remember, “Oh, I did not think, I forgot, I cannot agree with that. I cannot do that.” You start to agree, “Yes, I will do that with you this afternoon. I will go to town with you.” And then you remember, “No, I cannot. I agreed something else already.” You started to agree with that of which you were aware but you had forgotten for the moment something with which you had already agreed. And what was the result? You started to agree and then being reminded, you said, “Oh, I forgot. I have a previous agreement. I am sorry. I cannot go.” All right—you became aware then of that which had passed from the awareness for the moment, but being aware of your previous agreement, you either made different arrangements with respect to it, on an honorable basis we trust, or you kept your previous agreement. You said, “No, I cannot go.” You tend to agree with that of which you are aware in the moment. Did anyone here ever have to say, “I did not think. I am sorry. I did not think. I forgot?” Did you ever find yourself in a position of having to admit it—if you had agreed with something of which you became aware, in a moment when a further expansion of awareness brought to your mind the fact that you should not have agreed, that you had already agreed to something else? Did you ever? I wonder.
You tend to agree with that of which you are at the moment really aware. And when we begin to be distracted by the circumstances out here in the world, by the things which we face in daily living, there is a tendency for the human being to start agreeing with those things and to forget his agreement with God, his agreement with the KING, his responsibility to His Majesty’s Government in the Kingdom, his agreement to discharge his personal responsibility according to the purpose of that Kingdom—tending to forget the real agreement. With what do I agree? In any moment, when the pressure appears, when the distraction appears, do you forget everything but the distraction and say, “Well, I guess I cannot help it?” You are going to agree with the distraction, you are going to agree with it, with the ill thing, with the hurt—you are going to agree with it. And when two agree, someone over here starts producing something evil, using God’s power to do it, he starts producing something evil—it comes into your awareness. Perhaps in your attitude you do not like it, and yet you tend to agree with it, tend to become a party to it, and then you have joined in agreement with that person to produce evil, to cause God the Father to produce evil on earth, because God the Father gives freely of the power of life, the gift of mind and heart, the privilege of intelligence.
These things God gives freely, and they come from God. What do we do about them? Do we use them to establish agreements with evil and with the doers of evil? Or do we, under the pressure of distraction when these things come into our awareness, remember first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, remember first our agreement with God, with our KING, and with His Majesty’s Government—and then shape our attitudes towards these things which arise, whatever they may be, on the basis of our true agreement? Our attitude toward what someone has said or done, some circumstance, some ill condition, some fact of suffering or tragedy, some economic problem—are we agreeing with the problem or are we remaining true to our agreement with God? And if two or more agree on earth as touching the things of God, true to our agreement with God, then that which is of the Kingdom is made manifest. It takes form out of that invisible realm. It begins to manifest as thought, which turns into action, word and deed; and the things of God take form. Instead of shutting off the Words of God, we begin to live right here on earth, in this hour, by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And if we dare to live, right now, not just the Words that God spoke two or three thousand years ago—as important as those Words were, and are—we can begin to live now, by the Words that are proceeding now, out of the mouth of God.
“Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” But if we are going to be in agreement with God we must acknowledge His presence and not ignore it. If we are going to be in agreement with the KING we must acknowledge His presence and not ignore Him. If we are going to be in agreement with the Kingdom of Heaven at hand we must acknowledge the presence of that Kingdom and not ignore it. If we are going to be in agreement with the purposes of that Kingdom, we must not ignore the presence of those purposes, so that we agree with something contrary to those purposes. Are we agreeing with the purposes of evil or the purposes of the Kingdom? What is it? With what do I agree? Let each one ask himself that question, honestly, with deep integrity, before God. With what do I agree? And that with which you agree will determine the nature of that which takes form in your life, by reason of the gift of God’s power of life, of mind and heart.
What shall be brought forth through us now and in the days to come. Shall we glorify our LORD and KING? Or shall we agree with that which opposes Him? With what do I agree? Let us not ignore the Presence of God, nor the Presence of the KING. Let us never ignore the Presence of the Kingdom. Let us never forget the reality of His Majesty’s Government that is right here at hand. Let us never ignore the purposes of the Kingdom. When we agree on earth as touching anything, let us never agree with anything that disregards the purposes of the Kingdom. Let our agreement be true to the purposes of the Kingdom, and then shall we find that it is truly true that we begin to live here and now by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And so let it be, in our lives, and in the lives of all who turn to God, whosoever, wheresoever they may be.
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