The Kingdom of God: The One Body

When one is called into the divine assembly and incorporated into the body of the risen Lord, he then is sent; and the purpose is to re-interpret the Christian mystery in terms of his own experience and its true and abiding meaning. For over the years traditions and the false concepts of men bring barnacles upon it as it were. So he is sent to re-interpret the great mystery as he will experience it, and then to give it its everlasting meaning…refresh it as it were.891 ¶1

Tonight we will take the statement that you’ve all heard, “the kingdom of God,” and you think, naturally, of a sphere, of a realm. But here now we turn to scripture, “Unless you are born from above you cannot see the kingdom of God.” You’ll find that in the 3rd chapter of the Book of John. Then you read it in the 9th chapter of the Book of Mark, and he’s speaking now of seeing God, that you cannot see God, see the kingdom of God. And yet he said, “Truly I say unto you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God has come with power.” And then he adds, “After six days he took Peter, James and John into a high mountain; and was transfigured before them.”891 ¶2

Now, you read it and you think of a man taking three friends into a high mountain on this earth of ours. It doesn’t mean that at all.891 ¶3

I tell you what I have experienced, and then I must share with you that which I have…not only my experience but share with you my body. I must give you my eyes and give you my ears and give you my tongue, and give you my body. But in the giving I still keep it and it grows in the giving. In the Spirit I must share it, so I tell you exactly what’s happened to me, and then tell you that there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see what I have told you…until they see the kingdom of God come with power.891 ¶4

The kingdom of God is the transformed man, the transfigured man. What follows on the heels of the statement reveals what is meant in that first verse of the 9th chapter of Mark, “There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come with power.” Then he takes them into the high mountain and becomes transfigured before them and they see a transfigured being. This is a metamorphosis, this is a complete change of form that he shows them, and that is the kingdom of God, that is the power. It is not a realm; it’s a power of a transformed body. For wherever it is, that is the kingdom of God, it is power. And he promises that there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that transformed being who tells you that he was sent, sent by one, and when you see him you see the one who sent him. That’s what he is telling you.891 ¶5

Well, who sent you? The one you call God, but I call him Father, and he and I are one. When you see me you will know I am he. And so, the first one to see will be the one who will see me clothed in power; thereafter, you’ll see me clothed just as you saw me clothed in light. You’ll see the regal light…call me a prince or call me the king. Or you will see me clothed in love. But you will see me, just as I told you he is when he sent me. So the kingdom of God is not a realm, it’s the transformed being. It’s a metamorphosis of a being, therefore, a change of form.891 ¶6

Now, what else did he tell me? He said, “All that I told you, you will experience.” Now he asks the question, “Can a strong man’s house be plundered unless he is first bound and then his goods may be plundered?” You wonder what it is all about. These are the words of the risen Lord, “Can a strong man’s house be plundered?” Well, who is the strong man whose house can only be plundered if he is first bound? You must bind him and then you may plunder his goods. The strong man in this statement stands for Satan, the doubter in man, and then the risen Lord will plunder his house because he will now exorcise everything that he holds in bondage. And this is answered in the statement when John the Baptist sent his disciple and said to him, “Tell me, are you he who is to come, or should we look for another?” “He said, ‘Go and tell John all that you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, that the lame walk, that the lepers are cured, they’re made clean, that the deaf hear, that the dead are raised up, and that the poor have good news preached to them.’” You go and tell them all these things are taking place and let him judge whether this is he who is to come.891 ¶7

Well, I tell you this takes place in me. In the speaker back in 1946 sailing through the Caribbean when suddenly, unexpectedly, certainly I did not expect it, I was lifted up on high into that body that performs all these things. As you are told, “Come, O blessed of my Father, enter into the inheritance prepared for you from the foundation of the world” . Then we’re told, “I, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me” . Well, that night I was lifted up into that inheritance which is only a body, the transformed body. I can only describe it as a body of light, a body of power. It was self-luminous and it didn’t need any external light, no sun, no moon, no stars…simply light…it was radiant light. And a heavenly chorus sang as I was lifted up, “Neville is risen. Neville is risen.” As I was lifted up into this state, I simply floated, just floated over the earth, and a sea of human imperfection—there were the blind, the lame, the lepers, the deaf, the dead, everything mentioned in this statement—and as I walked by every one was transformed into the perfection that they sought, every one. And I did nothing but simply be. I was only a being of power. I didn’t stop to ask this one what you want or that one. I felt no compassion. My very being was all that was necessary to transform every one as I walked by…and I simply floated by. Everyone was made perfect as I floated by. And when this chorus came to its end, it sang out in exultation, “It is finished!” Then I felt myself condensed and returned to this little world in this little garment once more.891 ¶8

So the question that John asked, “Are you he who is to come or must we look for another?” Well, go and tell John what you have seen and what you have heard. And then you tell him all these exorcisms that you have witnessed, and tell him if that is not the one that should come, well then, tell me of another one.891 ¶9

So the kingdom of heaven is not a realm. The kingdom of heaven is the transformed body. I can say it safely this night that if I drop now, this very moment, I have witnesses to the fact that that body has been seen by those who have been present in this audience.891 ¶10

One departed two years ago when I was in San Francisco, and she saw it before she departed; she saw it clothed in power. She stood amazed. She was an eyewitness to the power in which it was clothed. Peter is made to say that we saw his majesty, clothed in power. He said, “When I told you these things, we were not deceived by some myth, but we were eyewitnesses to his majesty” clothed in power in Peter’s 2nd letter. She saw it and then soon after, maybe a month or two months, she departed. But she fulfilled the statement, “There are some standing here who will not taste death ‘til they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.” He knew that much would come with power. I’ll go beyond and say it will also be seen come with love, and come with light, and clothed in these things.891 ¶11

For I’m telling you what I have experienced, and what I have experienced everyone in the world will experience, but everyone. It’s only God who reproduced himself in us and now must unfold himself in us. So all that is God is man and man is everything that God is. For having reproduced himself in me, he has to unfold himself in me and I be cast in the central character in a first-person, singular, present-tense experience.891 ¶12

So when I read scripture, I see myself unfolding within it. And so, “Unless you are born from above, you cannot see the kingdom of heaven” . That is, you will not see the form of God—not the realm in which it operates—it’s the form. For whatever he is, that’s the kingdom, that’s the body. Everything is possible to such a transformed body.891 ¶13

So here, when you read “the kingdom of heaven,” do not think of some sphere where you’re going to go in collectively. Think of the body that was yours, prepared for you before that the world was…from the foundation of the world this body was prepared for you. It’s a transformed being…and you enter that body. I can’t tell you the glory that it is when you enter that body. When you walk by, anything that was unlovely ceases to be unlovely. You walk by and anything and everything is transformed into beauty. Everything is made perfect because you are perfect. You are the perfect one in that body for the body is perfect…even though you return to this level.891 ¶14

And you tell it in the hope that many will hear it and many will believe it. But you cannot swear that they all will believe it. But they will hear it—some reject it and some believe it. But you can say boldly, “I tell you there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power,” knowing in your heart the kingdom of God is the transformed body that you are wearing and fully conscious of it, though they cannot see it.891 ¶15

And you know in the world of Spirit you must now share not only what you know—which is called “the good news” so that the poor will have good news preached to them—but you will share your eyes and your ears.891 ¶16

Now, the word translated “eyewitness” in scripture—“we are eyewitnesses of his majesty”—by definition means “to gaze with amazement as at something remarkable.” It’s not a passive sight. It’s not the mechanical sight that I’m now using when I look at you; it’s something that I’m seeing and it’s remarkable. Can you see a being before your eyes suddenly transformed, and you know the being, you recognize the face, but the face is a heavenly face now. It’s not marred, it isn’t scarred, it isn’t aged, it isn’t anything that you know here. It’s completely perfect and yet it shines like the sun. You don’t see a weak body, you don’t see a little body; you see a being that is completely transformed.891 ¶17

The face is human and if it speaks to you the voice is human. Should it gesture, the hands are human. But don’t go beyond that, for you aren’t going to see anything beyond that. You’re going to see a glorious being of light if he’s clothed that moment in light, and you will know him to be the prince of light. If he is clothed in love, you will know him to be one wearing the human form divine which is love. If he’s clothed in power, you’ll know it is power, it’s infinite power. Nothing is impossible to him clothed in power, clothed in wisdom. Because everything said of God is now going to be said and discovered by some still standing who will not taste of death until they verify the truth of what he has said.891 ¶18

Then one day he will depart the world and others will tell the story, for the four gospels were written by the eyewitnesses…those who told it. No one knows who Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are. They were the compilers, the recorders of the eyewitnesses. No one knows who they really are.891 ¶19

A friend of mine who is here tonight wrote me this letter in which she said, “I saw in vision John; it was the John who wrote the gospel of John. He was dressed in a toga-like gown, white hair, white beard, seated with a Bible on his lap, and next to him were two dressed in the same manner. I didn’t have to ask him if he was John, I knew he was John. On the lap was this black book, it was the Bible, and it was the story of Christ, Jesus Christ.” But she knew that this was the true gospel. It was not the other gospels, the other Bibles recorded in the world…that this was the true, true gospel, the true message of Christ. She said, “I couldn’t tell you how I knew it, I simply knew it.” Because wisdom from above is without uncertainty and she knew it.891 ¶20

Well, may I tell her, the Interpreter’s Bible, which is called by the modern scholarly critics of the Bible the grandfather of all criticism of the Bible; and that the scholars who worked upon it and worked upon it for years are considered the outstanding scholars of biblical criticism. And in this volume they say concerning John, that the gospel of John before it was printed was dislocated either by accident or by design. Today, they believe it was not by accident, but the early fathers in the 2nd or 3rd Century deliberately dislocated it. It was not the intention of the author and they have tried to rearrange it in what they believe to be the true arrangement of that gospel.891 ¶21

So I can say to her, your vision is true. You saw the book as it should be: it wasn’t open. You saw it as it should have been printed instead of the printing as of today. Today’s printing is dislocated. I can take that book and rearrange it and make—I wouldn’t change one word of it—but when you rearrange it, it reads more simply. It flows when it’s rearranged. Take the 5th chapter and the 6th and completely reverse them. I can take the 3rd that I quoted tonight and go on to the 21st and jump to the 36th; and then go back to the 22nd and finish with it, and rearrange the entire book, and it comes out more beautifully.891 ¶22

So you saw correctly when you saw the one true book upon his lap and the John who wrote it. But today we do not know who Matthew, Mark, Luke and John really are. They are the anonymous writers of the eyewitnesses. As Peter says, “It was not cleverly devised myths that I told you, for we are eyewitnesses of his majesty.”891 ¶23

He said, “I am the light of the world. I am the wisdom. I am the power. I and my Father are one. And there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom”…’til they see the body of which I speak.891 ¶24

And so when they saw it, they saw the majesty of God clothed in mortal form here. But after that form is taken off, that being of light, the being of love, the being of wisdom is clothed forever. You will meet him. But he will inspire you until the very end because he’s your brother, he is one with you, and he is the Father as you are the Father, too.891 ¶25

So you are not a little pygmy here suffering as you do, ignored as you are, shunted as you are. You are not that! You’re clothed with this garment of flesh and yet you are the God of the universe! You are the being spoken of in scripture as God the Father, you are the Christ of scripture, and you are this pattern man.891 ¶26

And unfolding within you is this being. You can’t rush it, it is all on time. As she said in her letter to me, “It seemed as though you were the captain of the ship, waiting, and you could not leave until everyone was called and incorporated into this state. You could not leave and would not leave until they all were called. And strangely enough, they were all called in order, not one before its time. It was called in order. And there you stood like the captain of the ship waiting for everyone to be called, patiently waiting…for it’s all yourself anyway calling.” And she wrote this voluminous letter of the vision.891 ¶27

So I tell you, she is the incurrent eyewitness. An eyewitness is one who sees with his own eyes and can report what he saw and become a witness to that occurrence or that fact whatever it is. But the eyewitnesses of scripture are the incurrent eyewitnesses—those whose eyes had opened inward into the world of thought, into eternity. It is to her that I gave these eyes of mine. In giving, I shared. She in turn gave, and therefore, she shared.891 ¶28

And it comes on sharing and sharing these immortal eyes that we may see the kingdom of God, which is nothing more than the transformed form of man.891 ¶29

And don’t let anyone tell you of any realm. It’s not a realm. You create at will. You don’t go into a realm. It’s not the sphere in which it operates; it is the kingly ruler that you are. It takes the power of the body that you wear that commands everything in the world. No matter where you are, that is it, that is the kingdom of God, that’s the kingdom of heaven.891 ¶30

So when you enter this body which was before that the world was, “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” , that is the body that is waiting for you to enter. Strangely enough, like a child growing, you enter it, and you are amazed. You stand amazed at its power. You do nothing to transform people…and as you walk by they are transformed—the blind see and the deaf hear and the lame walk and the leper is cured and the dead rise. Everything in the world returns to perfection. And you did nothing…I mean not consciously…you simply…because your body did it. That is the kingdom of heaven and heaven means harmony…everything must be in harmony, must be perfect because you are perfect. When you come to the very end you simply glide, that’s all that you do. As you glide through everyone is made perfect and a heavenly chorus sings out, “It is finished” the last cry on the cross. And it does come from the Book of John, “It is finished” .891 ¶31

Then you return to tell it and some believe it and some will not believe it. It doesn’t really matter to you who believes and who does not believe. You’ll do no more than tell it. Those who believe it, you can say to them boldly, I tell you there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God come with power. You can state that boldly.891 ¶32

For power will be revealed first as it was in the book of the law. He came clothed first as power, and then he comes after that clothed in his name. But he first appears as El Shaddai, “God Almighty” . So when Marta saw it, she saw only power and the expression of power, yet she knew the face that expressed that power was the one she knew as a friend on earth. And she knew him as such a friend. But she had to witness power and before she departed this world she had witnessed the truth of what I said.891 ¶33

Since that, others have seen me clothed in light. You must see me clothed in love. You must see me clothed in all the garments. She saw it in power, my friend Sharon saw it in light, my friend Marge saw it in that glistening light, but you will see it clothed in love.891 ¶34

For, you stand in the presence of love, and you will answer correctly, and he who wears the garment of love will embrace you. For, all the others are but expressions of love. Power is an attribute, wisdom an attribute. All of these are attributes of love, and the fundamental state is love.891 ¶35

When you see him clothed in love, he will embrace you, incorporate you into his body, and then you’ll be sent. Then you’ll have all the experiences as told you in scripture concerning the Lord Jesus.891 ¶36

It’s the only true story in the world. There is nothing but the Lord Jesus Christ. Were he not within us, we could not breathe. Were he not within us we are only clay, but because he is within us you are immortal. And one day you will wear the body of which he spoke and that body is the body of God. There is nothing but the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing. Everything else fades into nothingness.891 ¶37

So “Christ in you is the hope of glory” . And when he wakes within you, there’s only one Christ. You are the same being as the being in whom he awoke who seemed to be another. You’ll find that we really aren’t others, just one…one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God, one Father of all .891 ¶38

So here, when you are called and sent, you are never sent save by the one who is love. Power yes, you will see him, but not until you are first incorporated into love. If you have power without love, you could destroy the earth. You’ll never have that power until you’re first clothed with love, because love is everything. There is nothing but love, and power is but its attribute, as wisdom is its attribute, light is its attribute…everything but love. Love is its reality: God is love.891 ¶39

And whenever you meet a being clothed in love, it is because you have been called. Your name then has come up and it’s in the book, all in order. Not one before the other…it comes in order. You will see her look into that book and she will check it off. You’re right, and then you go before the risen Lord clothed in love and he will embrace you, and then you are sent and all said of him you experience.891 ¶40

Then you say exactly what is said in scripture that he said, “There are those standing here who will not taste of death ‘til they see the kingdom of God come with power.” You need not go beyond that. They’ll see it clothed in power and you’re the one who voiced it. They’ll see you. It’s your face, only transformed…a face that you never saw on earth…there’s no blemish to it…there’s nothing but perfection in it.891 ¶41

And the body of power is power that could destroy the earth if it so desired, but it wouldn’t because it was first clothed in love. They hadn’t yet seen you clothed in love, but they saw you clothed power. And then others will see you clothed in light and know you to be the prince of light. But the day will come they will see you.891 ¶42

And she describes John quite as you will see the wearer of the garment of love. For, when you meet him he is snow of hair…that lovely face. It is the most heavenly face. You could describe it…how could I describe it? It is blond, yes. The eyes are heavenly eyes and they’re blue. The hair is snow white yet he’s not old, and yet he’s the Ancient of Days. Nothing seemed to come before him…nothing preceded him. He’s all love…and he stands before you.891 ¶43

And how it happens I couldn’t tell you, but when he embraces you, you mingle and you aren’t two. At that moment you are one, you are the being who embraced you. You are now the being of love who is God himself.891 ¶44

Then he’ll send you into the world to experience all that is recorded in scripture that he experienced only you experience it now. Then you say exactly what is said in scripture and now they are your words. You tell anyone in the world exactly what happened and it happened to you.891 ¶45

Every child born of woman, regardless of their race, regardless of their nation, regardless of the pigment of their skin will have this experience. And when the curtain comes down on the whole drama, we will know and understand what it’s all about.891 ¶46

So when you are sent you are sent to re-interpret the great mystery of Jesus Christ in terms of its abiding meanings, for all the meanings have been lost. They speak of a Christ that never existed. They do not know the true Christ, the true Lord Jesus Christ…and there is no other, no other being.891 ¶47

So in the end, you will awaken as the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet, may I tell you, without loss of identity. That is the mystery: I will know you in eternity. Your form transformed, yes, into a body of love, a body of light, a body of power, a body of wisdom, and yet the face I know it in eternity. And the face is so beautiful! You can’t describe the beauty of your face when you enter into that which is called in scripture “the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”891 ¶48

This is not some emergency thinking on the part of God; this was before that the world was. The whole thing was plotted, the whole thing was planned. You dwell upon it.891 ¶49

And I can’t tell you when you go to bed at night and dwell upon this rather than the problems of the day, what it means to your night, what it means to our tomorrows.891 ¶50

All these things will be taken care of, because your heavenly Father and you are one and he knows your earthly needs. He knows everything you need in this world. You need money, certainly you do, you need clothing, you need shelter; you need everything that man needs in this world. But you dwell upon this rather than the needs and the needs will come fulfilled. Everything will come into your world—the money that is necessary, the clothing, the shelter, everything will come. I am telling you from experience that out of nowhere it comes.891 ¶51

So here, the kingdom of God is within you and that kingdom is your transformed, transfigured body.891 ¶52

So he took them into the mount. It doesn’t say what mount and scholars speculate as to which mount, Mount Taber, Mount this, and it hasn’t a thing to do with any mount on earth. He took them into a high place, it’s all within himself, and there before them he became transfigured. And one appeared representing the law, Moses appeared, and then Elijah appeared representing the prophets.891 ¶53

And then when the eyes were completely opened and became incurrent eyes, when they saw clearly, it was Jesus only . The law was fulfilled, the prophecies fulfilled, all fulfilled in Jesus. There’s nothing but Jesus. Everything was completely gone but Jesus himself…and that’s you. You are the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other reality in the world, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the God who created it all.891 ¶54

So the Lord God Jesus Christ reproduced himself in us and must unfold himself in us. As he unfolds himself in us it’s the identical being. One being fell and became fragmented. All are gathered together one by one into the one being, one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God, one Father…and you are that. You dwell upon it.891 ¶55

I can’t tell you the hour and I can’t tell you the day. I wish I could say to everyone here tonight, may it be tonight. Because what else in the world is worthwhile? If it could only be tonight!891 ¶56

No, you’re not going to lose your love of people…in fact it increases. Your love of people, your love of things will increase. You don’t become disinterested. No, you become more in love. I don’t care what it is, you just love people all the more. It’s something peculiar that happens to you…you simply love. You don’t lose interest in the lovely things of the world such as a good dinner. No you enjoy it. Your capacity to love and to enjoy is increased a hundredfold.891 ¶57

You’re not ashamed to shed a tear if you’re moved. The shortest verse in scripture, “Jesus wept.” So you aren’t ashamed to shed a tear if you’re moved emotionally by something that you’re seeing.891 ¶58

I went to see a picture last night, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and there was only one little moment that called for a little tear. I knew I was watching a picture, I knew it’s all acting before me…and the news came that she was killed. They changed the plot, because I saw the original with Robert Donat, where she died in childbirth. But this time she doesn’t die in childbirth; she is killed by some German bomb as it fell on London. The news is brought to him that she has been killed, and then one boy in his class comes in and tells them all that Mrs. Chips is dead, killed. Of course, he knows it…no tears drop upon his face, but they must have put something in his eyes to show you the welling of the tears in the eye, a bloodshot eye. It’s all in color. Well, it would be impossible to watch it and not drop a tear, yet I know I’m watching a picture.891 ¶59

But you are comforted, because the part you are destined to play is the part of Jesus Christ and he dropped a tear when his friend Lazarus was dead. So he came…and the shortest verse recorded in scripture is “Jesus wept.” So don’t be ashamed to drop a tear.891 ¶60

So your destiny is to completely fulfill the story of Jesus Christ. That is your true Spiritual biography. You wrote it and you’ve come now to play it. It’s all within you and it will unfold within you.891 ¶61

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *891 ¶62

Now are there any questions, please?891 ¶63