To: Grandk who wrote (11459 ) 3/3/2002 7:32:16 AM From: Frederick Smart Respond to of 28931 Very Beautiful.... >>Matthew 11 (Jesus Christ) 28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Romans 13 (Paul) 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature. To go a step further, we see that Christ claimed to do nothing on His own accord but only what the Father tells Him. John 8:28 (Jesus Christ) So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am [the one I claim to be] and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. Therefore, we have an example of how to live our lives. I have Christ as my example and I do nothing on my own but speak just what Christ has taught me.>> Thanks for sharing J! Being "in Christ" is the same as being "in God". When mankind nailed our Lord to the cross on April 7th in 30 AD the unwitting evil which so many have been duped into receiving and manifesting to this day is to worship the claim of keeping him there. Hence, in this sleight of hand deception, mankind's religious spirit of division and separation could then claim, possess and control Christ - taking His mantle for ourselves, hence this "carrying the cross" crap has been turned upside down by these claims. And when the lies of these claims are propagated into this world we simply see all the resultingly inevitable harvest of blame, shame, anger, frustration, fear, hatred and war. Hence there's been a total devastation of the Christian Church which Swedenborg goes into documenting in great detail as the fallen Babylon. This is what Revelations refers so in the Apocalypse as "the stars falling from the sky" and the sun - ie. truth - being blotted out. This whole cycle unfolded during the Age of Pisces which was the age of fishermen fishing for souls. But the hooks became barbs and the inevitable fight ensued for the spirits of Hell which held dominion over this world prior to the birth of our Lord know that the gates of Hell are, bit by bit, being closed. And as more and more of the old claims of mankind's religions become exposed this worldly spirit of power claim simply jumps to the next platform where it has been building while hiding out in this new version of the same claim, blame and shame model in which - indirectly, directly - we give up the energy of our Lord and unwittingly worship the claims of these states, institutions, corporations and governments. But this has nothing to do with the truth of the message of our Father that already exists in our souls which were all made in His image which is the image, mind, body and soul of Christ our ONE Lord in Heaven who as God Himself - "the source/end" - a direct conjunction between "the cause" which is spirit conjoined itself with "the effect" which is the Son. Hence, 1) the End - Father; 2) Cause - Holy Spirit and 3) Effect - the Son become ONE in this world. Note, that Christ wasn't a receptical as we are for what is Holy, He was the Divine End itself conjoined with with the spirit and the son in the manifested presence in this world. Our Father who art in Heaven's perfect plan will be done here on earth just as it is in Heaven. His yoke is light and full of peace. He bestows wonderous energy and feeling and ideas and radiant streams of LIFE to all those who humbly walk into the light of their own souls and acknowledge who they already really ARE!! A Divine Child of our ONE Lord God in Heaven!! This statement is really incredible when you begin to understand it. A child of God?? YES!! God, the creator of ALL the universe?? YES!! This is the true Father of us all!! An He is inside, around, above us, carrying, supporting, threading, presenting, guiding, helping and serving us. He does this through others, through nature, through anything possible so that we may eventually come to the point where we finally come to grips with this Divine Presence that's already inside of each one of us!! This is the Father!! This is God!! And there doesn't have to be anything special or mysterious or smokey, firey or crazy about it. It just IS!! And we ARE!! And every child of the living God has the divine right to proclaim "I AM" and not have anything more to say which defines, labels, restricts or limits this truth. Thanks again J!! 119293!! .