His Choosing His Sending
Martin Exeter July 27, 1977
There is something new emerging—an angel who is going to take charge of you as you have thought yourself to be in the external sense. So as charge is taken, you find that what you thought yourself to be has been dissipated to that extent and what has taken charge is what you are, because that is what you are expressing—and you are what you express, fundamentally. It is not what you take into your belly; it is what comes out of you that gives you value and meaning, and gives you a sense of self. Most people try to gain a sense of self by stuffing themselves and they may have the experience of a big, bloated condition, whether physical or mental, but it is not the truth, not what the individual really is. What you really are is what is expressed by you out of your heavenly heredity, and when it is expressed you know that—that is what you are. If it is not expressed you do not know it and no amount of information will cause you to know it.
As you abide in the tone of life, the design of life becomes apparent and you know what you need to know in the moment, as if by magic. You are not depending anymore upon the information which was seemingly usable by your human ego in times past. There are those who have been functioning on this basis, who suddenly begin to find that what used to work does not work anymore. And they are left desolate until they say, “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Blessed is the One of heavenly heredity who finds expression. Then you begin to know the truth of yourself, amongst other things. But you are not self-centered—you are not peering around to see if you can see yourself somehow. You can’t. There is no way by which you can see yourself. Anything that you can see is not you. All we need to do is to be ourselves in expression. That is all that is necessary. Somebody else may see us. That is their good fortune, we trust.
I can say in this moment, “I have yet many other things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them until you do a little more living”—and in any case, all that is necessary is present for each one. You stay home and the world comes to you. From the standpoint of angelic consciousness, you are waiting for the world. You are waiting for human beings to come home. You do not sit around on your backside, hopefully expecting them to come home. The waiting is waiting upon the Lord so that you might be in position to offer what is needful as the world passes by you, which it will, and out of that which passes by will come elements of response that can be brought home. This is your greatest joy.
You also know that there are elements present that are going to pass on by. Seeing that the creative movement is a spiral, maybe some of those elements that pass by once will come around again. It is interesting to observe that on occasion. Never try to hold on to anyone. Let them pass on by if that is what they are doing. Do not run after them—if you do, you leave your place where you belong, because you do not belong running after people. The Lord never ran after anyone. The Lord just holds the door open for those who will come through, and He offers help in that regard. But a person who is moving away, let him move away. Your welcome is to those who will not detract from your lightness. So we stand where we belong, in the moment, allowing the birth of whatever it is that should appear in the moment, whether it is in a word or an action. We begin to discover what it is that complements the spirit which we express.
All learning is self‑learning—one is never taught anything by somebody else. We learn through our own experience. This is the education in which we are properly interested. It is a giving forth. You can't really learn anything that is of any value without your own expression in living. Unless the person lets it find expression in his own living he has learned nothing. So be willing to learn as you go. You will find that you actually know a lot that you didn't think you knew. And when you speak, you learn just as much as anybody else. The spirit of truth in expression through you is living and serving. It enables you to handle everything that is present with you at all levels and in all departments. That is not a clear‑cut thing right off the bat, but gradually it emerges. As it does so, you know it and you are not just swallowing something that someone else said. Let what is of the spirit of truth move through you, and in your experience of living, and you will find that all that is necessary is present. Do not imagine that we all have to know everything. You can think of many specific fields where you have not developed too great an understanding as yet, and perhaps in some of the fields you do not need to.
Let's not become structured in our view of the way things should be handled. Let us be open so that we can let it move in whatever way it should. There is fluidity in our experience and in what we offer others. Nothing is set. Various aspects of the world will be coming to you, will be presented to you, as the opportunity for offering what is right and fitting out of the holy place. You stay in the holy place—you stay home. What a wonderful thing to stay home and be anywhere.
You are being sent, in the sense that you came into the world, but you are here now. “And he shall send his angels.” We begin to realize what that means in relationship to our own experience. We have been sent. We are here. And we gratefully accepted the opportunity of being here, the privilege above all privileges, of serving the LORD in these special days. There have been angels who have come on earth and found themselves able to emerge to some extent through human consciousness in days gone by, and we read about some of them in the Bible. They were always looking toward something that was not yet in point insofar as they were concerned. Except on the occasion when the Master was present, nothing ever finally did come to point. It did come to point insofar as He was concerned, but nobody else seemed to know it. He was there and He could have done what needed to be done if anyone else had been willing that it should.
Now in these days, toward which it may be said that all the prophets of old looked, we have the privilege of actually being here. Of course we may have been back there too, and those times may have seemed to be a little more discouraging than the way things are now, yet most people see discouragement wherever they look. But this is the fulfilment—and we are here to make sure that it is. And if we were chosen to be here at this time, are we going to impute a wrong choice to the Lord by saying, “Oh no, not me, Lord.”
Somebody said, “Why me?” Who else? Who else begins to understand? Who else begins to share the consciousness of the angel? We know why we are here. “And he shall send his angels”—He has sent His angels—“with the great sound of a trumpet.” The tone is sounding loud and clear for increasing numbers, the great sound of a trumpet—Gabriel's trump. Human beings have been anticipating this—something to do with the second coming of Christ, cocking their ears for the sound. But it is here! There are not too many hear it, but increasingly there are those who do hear it without realizing that they are hearing it. We hear it and realize that we hear it, and we can invite others to share that realization.
I am sure that many things have been said to you that you had not heard before, but when you did hear you said, “Of course! Yes. I knew that all along; I just couldn't put it into words.” One is aware of many things without having consciously allowed them to come to point as to what they are. You are aware of far more than you think you are aware of, because you have not allowed it to emerge yet into your own expression adequately. But as you do you may say, in one sense, “Oh, how did I know that?” But in another sense you knew it—obviously—because you expressed it. You woke up to it yourself. While you were expressing you woke up to it yourself, in the sense of your human consciousness. Seeing that you have been identifying yourself with the human consciousness heretofore, it emerges into your awareness on this basis; but what it really is, is the expression of the truth of you coming forth into human consciousness.
So the angels have been sent with the great sound of a trumpet. This is a fact now! It is not a futuristic thing insofar as we are concerned. It may be futuristic insofar as many others are concerned, but not to us. “And they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” From one end of the heaven to the other—our field of operations is the heaven. Those who awaken out of their dream state awaken to the heaven, and we are right there. And we find people from one end of the heaven to the other. There is quite a spectrum insofar as the heaven is concerned, and it takes all of us and many more to encompass it.
The elect—whoever they are. You may say, “Well who are the elect?” Let's find out! Don't try to define it with the mind, as though that would mean anything. Let us discover what the truth of the matter is in our own experience because we gather the elect, and when they are gathered, there they are. We know who they are. Gather the elect from the four winds—this has something to do with the creative working of the Four Forces. We will not violate those Forces; we will not violate the working of the Law. It is on this basis that the elect come. They either come on this basis or they don't come at all. It is the only way, and we are here to administer this. We are stewards and administrators—as the angels of God in the flesh on earth—and you find yourselves in this position with such consciousness of it as is now true of you. This is not the ultimate, obviously.
The spiral has been going around, presumably a little higher. There is something new to be known, some participation in a way that wasn't open to you before. Now it is, and the adventure, the delight, of letting this new experience come so occupies the consciousness that the old experience simply vanishes without regret. Human beings spend so much time regretting things. It is so much easier to let everything go when the time comes for it to go, because it leaves ample space for the welcoming of whatever is to come. Fundamentally this happens each moment. We learn to do it in each moment—in the larger wheels of the various cycles we do it just as easily. I trust there is no weeping or wailing or knashing of teeth.
As angels of the Lord you know we have ample time. We don't have to fit everything into a few short years. There is plenty of time. We also realize that there are very specific creative cycles for which we are responsible here on earth, and we are concerned that these should be handled with effectiveness to the Glory of God. In a particular sense, to the Glory of our LORD and KING who chose us—and sent us into the world—and because it was His choosing and His sending we can conceive of no greater honor; no greater honor than to be here now to get the job done. Praise the LORD!
His Body His Spirit
Martin Exeter May 31, 1987
Here are the words of the King. “I have chosen you to be my body.” Those in whom the substance of mind and heart is free enough to resonate with the love of the King compose His body.
We are the ones who participate in this particular evidence of His body. We are aware, I’m sure, that while in our self-centeredness we may have thought that we chose to be present, we are in fact present only because we have been chosen, because there has been whatever measure of resonant substance in our hearts and minds so that we are here in a very particular and specific sense.
If we still imagine that we chose to be here, we are not here. Only those are really present who have been chosen because the substance of mind and heart was sufficiently resonant to the radiance of love. That is a compulsion which could hardly be resisted. This is the case when the substance of resonance is of sufficient quantity and quality—then we begin to become humble.
We may say, “My mind, my heart, my body are here because they heard the King’s command.” No longer is the attitude taken: “I’m so important and capable that I can choose whether I shall be present or not.” That is human nature speaking, isn’t it? If any such view still persists, to that extent there is an absence of resonant substance, there is what may well be described as a holdout—“I am still going to retain my concept of separation.”
We come physically, mentally and emotionally, because there is the substance which resonates with the radiant love of the King. In all honesty we would never deny that, because if we do we deny the King. If we say, “I’m here of myself, I made the choice,” that is saying, “I’m still a very important human being.”
Body, mind and heart are brought in response to the radiation of the love of our King. And it is the substance of our love, present in mind and heart, that brought us. With this awareness it is so easy to be deeply thankful. If as human beings we still imagine that we are in command and can do as we please, come or not come, we simply fool ourselves and deny the King. So we understand these words: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.”
That magnetic power is strong and, in spite of the kicking and squealing, if there was sufficient resonant substance, heart and mind came: they couldn’t help themselves. I’m sure we have reached a point where we are willing to acknowledge that, so there is no more human arrogance which says, “I came of myself. I chose to come.” No, you didn’t. If you think you did, you didn’t come. Only those have come whose resonant substance has been adequate to bring them. If this substance does not prove to be adequate, then that heart and mind haven’t really come.
We come to compose His body on earth. It is His body. It is His spirit. His thinking, His feeling, His action. As human beings we have no input. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you to be my body, ordained to bring forth life and to bring it forth more abundantly. The radiance of the King pouring forth through His body engenders resonance in any substance throughout the body and the consciousness of mankind which is free enough to resonate. One might recognize this as a very foolproof system.
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