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AS WE TAKE UP THE SUBJECT OF HEALING A SICK AMERICA we are not talking about people being ill from time to time, or the necessity of them applying themselves to their health problems. Because if we could make America as aware of the sickness of our nation as they are to their physical health then we would be well on our way to recovery. We recognize that there are two factors which may contribute more than any one realizes, to the structure of our society. For we have well been told that sin is a sickness because it operates out of the error of human concept, and then out of the disobedience of the violations of Divine Law, through that error in human thinking. The results then is the catastrophe which descends upon a society and a nation or a race; and comes out of the violations of these great laws of things, as they are, as the Almighty created them.

When we turn to this great nation of ours we are proud of our beginnings. We look back on the heritage which was ours, of a great society. The great Spiritual moving force of God’s selecting out of the nations of His people, and out of their great desire for religious freedom and spiritual liberty; the selecting of those who in their inspiration and in their hope for new freedoms, had applied for the right to settle in a new land, and establish colonies around their faith. Even though the hand of Destiny was moving according to Divine timing on this Household and race from which you had come, still this nation was originally founded by the children of God’s Kingdom moving into this nation for religious freedom.

WHEREVER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES LIVE, wherever they carried out the activities of their faith, their thoughts somehow converge around a pattern of events which is very vital to historical Christianity. It is very vital to you and I, the children of the Kingdom, the sons and daughters of God, to realize that in this period which has been classified as the Lenten period, that we are participating in what is known as Palm Sunday throughout Christendom. This of course dates back to those historic events and conditions in the life of Christ, and were a prelude to the events which were quickly to follow.

Those events led up to His trial, crucifixion, and His resurrection. So we also would think upon some of these events, especially as they relate to us, because throughout one end of Christendom to the other, as they think and discuss the acceptance of the Christ by the people who desired to Crown Him King, they remember that these people shouted Hosanna to the Son of David, Blessed is YAHSHUA who comes in the name of YAHWEH. This was there declaration, and of course it was an acceptance of the mysteries of the embodiment of God. It was an acceptance of the declaration made in the Book of Isaiah chapter 43. ‘I YAHWEH am thy YAHSHUA. I the Lord God art thy Saviour.’ Here He was saying: you are my people, you are to know that I am thy Saviour, that I am thy redeemer. These are the declarations recorded by Isaiah, and recorded just for you.

AROUND THIS RESURRECTION DAY WE SEEK TO REMEMBER THE GREAT EVENTS in the life of Christ. And this event we think upon. It is important that we keep alive in our life time, the great pageantry of that hour, the mighty and majestic events which transpired. It is more than a discussion of theology. It is a matter of history. This it is an understanding of the events which had taken place. Last Friday evening, we discussed the places for the coronation of Christ which had preceded by one week the day we now celebrate. The organization of the many who wanted to crown Christ, King, from the forces of Barabbas who had formed this army of Christ, to the Essene Priesthood who had prepared this crown of Christ as well. They had received from John the Baptist, as he came from Spiritual plains; he had told them that Christ would take the Chalice and the Cup.

It is here in our thinking on ‘Good Friday,’ of the events which surrounded this hour in the Garden of Gethsemane. For one moment I would have you go back to these events in the Garden. Except you understand the events in the Garden, you have not caught the vastness or the joy of this day.

AS WE DISCUSS THE SUBJECT ‘THE GREAT SPIRITUAL TREASURES’ OF YOUR RACE we would like to pick up again the Biblical scene which relates to you as to your origin, and your Destiny. We spoke on this subject last Sunday afternoon and we dealt with a great number of facts which go back into the Antiquities. Into situations relating to earth before your race ever rested upon it, conditions which transpired before even the world was framed. We would like to recount a few of these facts and predicate the continuation of these remarks upon them: that you are the children of the Most High God, and we literally mean that you are the children of the Most High God.

We turn to the writings of the Apostle Paul in the Book of Romans 8:16, and he refers to the revelation of God’s Spirit which bears witness to our spirit that we are the children of God. His Spirit bears witness with out spirit from THE WORD that he has spoken. From the facts that were revealed in the course of the Scriptures concerning the patterns of history of which we are the Household of the Most High. All through the writings of the Apostle Paul and the records of the Old Testament and its Patriarchs is the confirmation of this fact: that the essence of the Spirit which resides in your physical body was begotten by the Father, before the world was framed. It was a Spiritual life, Celestial life, and a Spirit of begetting, and thus you are the Children of the Spirit of the Eternal.

TODAY WE ARE DISCUSSING THE ‘MARKS OF ISRAEL’ for there are more important things than that which we have found filled for today. For there are identities that can never be cast aside in a process of interpretation. It is a most important thing in this turbulent hour that men know who they are and this relationship to this book which we call the Bible. Because there has never been a great period or greater problems for your race. This is designated as the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble.’ And if you were not related to Jacob, then this would not necessarily relate to you. — but it does.

Never have we had a period when the forces of darkness were waging a war more relentlessly, than they have against your civilization and the nations of God’s Kingdom. Nor have we had such a period where men’s minds seem to be bound by the forces of darkness, and in the processes of this conflict, they do not seem to think clearly. And also, they diametrically oppose the great program of God’s Kingdom. We were in San Francisco this week and saw the Troop Transport ships heading for Asia. And we openly listened to the discussion going on in almost every hotel. The hotels were filled with families of those who are to be shipped out, and they know that they are on their way to a war. These things are not taking place.