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And now you should give ear to my words lest you again make the mistake of hearing my
teaching with the mind while in your hearts you fail to comprehend the meaning. From the
beginning of my sojourn as one of you, I taught you that my one purpose was to reveal my
Father in heaven to his children on earth. I have lived the God-revealing bestowal that you might
experience the God-knowing career. I have revealed God as your Father in heaven; I have
revealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my
word this fact becomes an eternal and living truth in your hearts. When, by living faith, you
become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of the spirit as children of light and life, even
the eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of
finding God the Father on Paradise.
―I admonish you ever to remember that your mission among men is to proclaim the gospel of the
kingdom — the reality of the fatherhood of God and the truth of the sonship of man. Proclaim
the whole truth of the good news, not just a part of the saving gospel. Your message is not
changed by my resurrection experience. Sonship with God, by faith, is still the saving truth of the
gospel of the kingdom. You are to go forth preaching the love of God and the service of man.
That which the world needs most to know is: Men are the sons of God, and through faith they
can actually realize, and daily experience, this ennobling truth. My bestowal should help all men
to know that they are the children of God, but such knowledge will not suffice if they fail
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personally to faith-grasp the saving truth that they are the living spirit sons of the eternal Father.
The gospel of the kingdom is concerned with the love of the Father and the service of his
children on earth.
―Among yourselves, here, you share the knowledge that I have risen from the dead, but that is
not strange. I have the power to lay down my life and to take it up again; the Father gives such
power to his Paradise Sons. You should the rather be stirred in your hearts by the knowledge that
the dead of an age entered upon the eternal ascent soon after I left Joseph‘s new tomb. I lived my
life in the flesh to show how you can, through loving service, become God-revealing to your
fellow men even as, by loving you and serving you, I have become God-revealing to you. I have
lived among you as the Son of Man that you, and all other men, might know that you are all
indeed the sons of God. Therefore, go you now into all the world preaching this gospel of the
kingdom of heaven to all men. Love all men as I have loved you; serve your fellow mortals as I
have served you. Freely you have received, freely give. Only tarry here in Jerusalem while I go
to the Father, and until I send you the Spirit of Truth. He shall lead you into the enlarged truth,
and I will go with you into all the world. I am with you always, and my peace I leave with you.‖
When the Master had spoken to them, he vanished from their sight. It was near daybreak before
these believers dispersed; all night they remained together, earnestly discussing the Master‘s
admonitions and contemplating all that had befallen them. James Zebedee and others of the
apostles also told them of their experiences with the morontia Master in Galilee and recited how
he had three times appeared to them.