This Is Your Future

Suppose you heard the most incredible story in the world, the story of Jesus Christ, and someone said to you, “I have told you the most fantastic story, and now let me tell you — this is your future.” Would you believe it? For that is the story you are destined to play the part in, in detail, of Jesus Christ. Forget the crucifixion — it is over, that’s over. You are now crucified on the tree, the travailing way [...], of Blake’s saying: “Teach me, O Holy Spirit, the testimony of Jesus. Let me comprehend wondrous things out of the divine law.” He is asking for all the testimony, for we are told in Scripture the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. He poured out doctrines as prophecy unto all the ages, forever and forever. So his story is your story. Christ in us is the hope of glory. You could not breathe were he not within you. So the story as told in the Gospels is your future. So listen to his story, and everything said by him you will yet experience, for his is all prophecy of thee.1127 ¶1

He said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. Henceforth you know my Father, and you have seen him. For if you see me, you have seen the Father. Believe I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves, for he who believes in me, the works that I do he will do also, and even greater works than these, for I go to the Father. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and I am in you, and you are in me. In that day you’ll know it.”1127 ¶2

Now, what are the works? Then listen to all the statements that he made. He inspired the prophets — therefore you inspired the prophets. “The book is all about me” — before it is all about you. In the volume of the book it is all about me. “I have come to fulfill Scripture” — therefore you are here for one purpose: to fulfill Scripture.1127 ¶3

Tonight, at some party, if someone is present and they claim they can read the future, everyone becomes so excited. What does he do, or what does she do? Suppose they all set up their hands, or read tea leaves, or coffee grounds, or maybe the stars, or maybe something else — that’s not your future. Your future is to fulfill what you foretold to your servants the prophets, what you would come to do — you came. Yeah, you are the Word of God, for we are told the name by which he is called is the Word of God. And the Word of God is — “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “The word that goes forth from my mouth shall not return unto me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purposed, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” You sent yourself; there was no one else to do it but you.1127 ¶4

You foretold it, and you came into this world to fulfill what you foretold. But you had to completely forget that you had done it. You couldn’t pretend; you had to completely forget that you had foretold all that you are going to fulfill. Then came that moment in time where a new self erupted [...] — and the eruption is taking place, and it will continue to take place, and the identical story will repeat itself in every one. So it was you who inspired the prophet to write, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord,” he said. “He said unto me, thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.” It is you who dictated the word; it is you who have come to hearing, confirming; it is you before whom he will stand and call you Father, and call you my Lord. The very thing written in Scripture is all about you.1127 ¶5

So the real prophecy is not — you’re going to have this debt or the other, what does it matter? Read the obituary column this morning: here, those who are making all kinds of plans for their future, they called that a future. One man dropped dead at forty-nine, a very brilliant mind, doing a wonderful job in this world, head of the Urban League, only forty-nine, swimming in the sea on a tour in Africa, and then his heart gave out. His true task was to play the part of Jesus Christ, not what the papers will tell you. Everyone must play the part of Jesus Christ, and it is not, as I stole from our pulpit — Jesus Christ is actually buried in every child born of woman. He will rise in every child born of woman, and everyone in whom he rises will express the entire story of Jesus Christ. He’ll be born in the same manner that he is supposed to be born — from above. He will rise in that tomb, and unaided he will come out of that tomb. He will encounter the one that he foretold to be his David, which is the sum total of all the parts of humanity, for David simply symbolizes humanity — he became humanity, and playing all the parts, the essence of all the parts is David, and that’s the Son who calls me Father.1127 ¶6

So everything told of him, and all of his doctrines — he poured out doctrines as prophecy unto all the ages, forever and forever. He doesn’t differ from himself in you; that’s not the greater Christ and thee the lesser — there’s only Christ. But don’t think for one second there is one child in this world that is more important, or will be more important, for what man accomplishes in this world, whether he be a president or a dictator or a king — that’s not important, that’s all rubbed out, it has nothing to do with the reality of your future. Your future is to fulfill Scripture. Your future is to completely play the part of Jesus Christ, and he is not seen by mortal eye. Had you known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him, and you have seen him, for he who sees me has seen the Father. Have you seen me? And he told them, no, you haven’t yet seen me, I had not yet displayed myself to you. One day I will, and you will have the same form, and you will display to another, and to another, for in the end we’re all transformed into the one body, the one spirit, we will be the one Lord, we will be the one God and Father of all — so no one will be greater than the other, all equally great, all begotten of the Father.1127 ¶7

So that is your future. Dwell upon it, instead of dwelling upon what the world holds for you concerning dollars and cents. Everyone in this morning’s paper — say, this one gentleman who died, everyone who got any notice in the obituary column was because they left money, this one did so much, this one that much — it’s all money, not their accomplishment. But they left money, they can’t take it with them. So don’t you think for one second your future can be seen in the palm of your hand, or the tea leaves, or in the stars — it is not there. Your future is in Scripture, and you came here for one purpose: to fulfill what you yourself dictated through the prophets. You were the God who inspired the prophets; you prepared a way for your own return, you prepared it, and that preparation was all mapped out in the light, as defined for us in the story of Jesus Christ.1127 ¶8

So your future is the fulfillment of the gospel. When you read the story carefully, find out what he’s talking about. He tells you that he told me, and I told it to myself, because I was the one dictating it. “You must be born again, you must be born from above, and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. All that I’m telling you, you must eat” — and he calls it my flesh, calls it my body — drink my blood, make it alive within you. And then, as you accept it and you believe it, it will unfold within you. Well, I’m talking to myself — I had to come down and completely forget it, and then hear the story from below and have faith in what I have heard. His own memory is returning, for he tells me, “I will send” — now the Holy Spirit, called the Comforter in some translations, called the Counselor in others, but it’s the Holy Spirit, he is called the Spirit of Truth. “When the Spirit of Truth comes, he brings to your remembrance all that I have told you.” He is bringing to my remembrance all that I told myself that I would do — it’s memory returning. I can’t explain it to you in any better way, in some strange way, but it happened. But I’ve always known it, the thing actually comes back. You’ve always known who you were, but you forgot. I suffered complete and total amnesia, and all of a sudden the whole thing is coming back.1127 ¶9

Who could tell a man in this century, the twentieth century, of a child born three thousand years ago that is down as part of history, great history, that that child is alive, and you promised that child that you were raising from the grave and not leave him in hell — and that is your child? You, born in this age, in the twentieth century, and one born three thousand years ago, and that you are his father — who, for one moment, would accept it? An incredible story, and it’s a true story, that here is something coming out of the nowhere, untouched, untarnished, not corrupted, the same beautiful creature that he was when you declared to him, “You are my son, today I have begotten thee.” But now I must sleep and dream the dream of life and go through hell in order to bring you out, bring you back as my son, and then you and I play all these parts, and we played all the horrors of the world, and you’re still playing. And then in the end he comes up, and here he stands before us, and we fulfilled what we ourselves predicted that we would do, and that was for a purpose — self-expansion. God is forever expanding himself.1127 ¶10

He placed himself on this plane for one purpose: to expand God beyond what he was prior to the conceiving of the flame [uncertain], and he needed to propel himself to the limit of contraction — the human form, this body — and the limit of opacity, a complete, complete forgetfulness, darkness. And then, playing all these parts, he breaks the shell and he comes out of that tomb. As he comes out, all that he said he would experience, he begins to present — everything unfolds within him.1127 ¶11

Night before last, I seemed to go from one teacher to the other in this country — there were those who are teaching what is called New Thought, and I said to them, one after the other, “You call it new thought” — there is no such thing as new. You have a great, great shock in store for you, that a thing is new that you’re talking about. I mean, I tell you, it’s all false, that you’re talking about — this is not what you’re here for. Don’t for one moment think that you came for this purpose, this little ism and that little ism and the other little ism — all this we’ve forgotten. You only came to fulfill Scripture. You’re all my brothers, and you’re asleep — listen to one who is awakened from the dream of life. They could only smile, no, they could not for one second accept it, going about their own little business, making a dollar, making a dollar, and teaching nonsense to the whole vast world, if the world will listen to them — only a matter of moments, just a matter of moments, when you all, before you find yourself, restored in the same grand illusion that you are now lost in. And then I went from one to the other, and then returned to this state.1127 ¶12

I can see their faces before me now, some most — almost still here, a few were gone, to find themselves still in the same grand illusion, but they could not see me. They heard, they saw me, but not the being that I am — the transformed body. They could not see it; you cannot see it until it actually erupts within you. And then, as it erupts within you, you’re clothed differently, in your new glorious body [...].1127 ¶13

[The following passage is heavily garbled in the source recording and could not be confidently reconstructed; it is rendered here close to the raw transcript, lightly punctuated:] The being that you were before, that the world — for the being buried in you is God. You are God. “I am,” they say — in me, and I, and I — and now we need that, for it dwells in us. So if God is in me, God is in Christ; Christ in me is not other than me. Where would I go? That I’m going to God the Father — when I depart, I’m only returning to myself. But I can’t return to myself until I reach the limit here and explode; then I can return to the source of my being, and then I reach them. I could only reproduce the pattern; I am to restore myself to light in a terrestrial world. I have to first reach the limit and break it, and when I break the shell and come out, then I return to myself, who is God the Father, return to the source. But I can’t return to the source until I am born from above. I cannot enter that state called heaven, I can’t be clothed in that body that makes everything perfect, as I walk — my clothes in that body — until I am born from above.1127 ¶14

So I’m telling you who you are, your real future. Let no one hold your hand and tell you your future; don’t go to any mediums to find your future. Your future is in Scripture. You are the Lord Jesus Christ — that’s who you are. You have already been crucified, and I tell you, it was ecstatic, it was joy beyond measure, far from pain, as the world thinks it was — it wasn’t pain at all. You deliberately did it, no one took away your life, you laid it down yourself, because you knew you had the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again. And it is just as though six points, as you’re told in Scripture — the hands, the head, the right side, and the two feet — and they are vortices, they’re not nails, each is a vortex. When you are nailed by the six vortices, it is sheer ecstasy, that I know from experience. And then you forget, as you enter this, having the nail purposely nailed by your own self.1127 ¶15

I will say, I came for the purpose of which I’ve just told, and now you’ve come in, having foretold it, you come to fulfill it, for no one in the world could fulfill it but God himself. So God became man, and then he raises himself out of man, bringing with him the written experiences of man. Therefore, in a way, your age is the nature of man, transformed into that which is God himself, because it is God begetting himself. For “like” is simply the principle upon which we depend for sameness — self-same, transmitted light. Therefore man transmits man, man transfers man, God begets God. And so, when you come out of the tomb, it is simply God begetting God, bringing yourself out once more, plus the experience of having been man in this world, magnified beyond your wildest dreams [...].1127 ¶16

So tonight, dwell upon your future as Christ Jesus, not some little thing you’re going to leave behind you — they’ll all be rubbed out, all the accomplishments of man will become pretty deeply forgotten, completely wiped out, another thing will be left, but you are immortal, and your future is the fulfillment of your own prediction. You predicted the Word, because you are the Word, and you foretold it through your prophets, your servants. Then, finding no one who could fulfill it, you came down yourself. You are the Word, and the Word is God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt within us, and now the Word is flesh, and you’re going to fulfill your own prediction, and everything said about Jesus you are going to experience, and you’ll know exactly who you are. This very moment, dropped before you, is not to bother you for any purpose whatsoever. I could not, because you’re great beyond the wildest dream of man. You’re not some little pygmy, no matter what part you’re now playing — you are the Lord God Jesus Christ, you are. And the day will come you will know it. You will not always be playing a little part of John, or Peter, and this and the other — you are the Lord Jesus Christ.1127 ¶17

So your future — all right, forsake this world, assume a dignified state for yourself. Why shouldn’t you, if you’re in need today, because you are truly the Lord Jesus? Rise, assume that you have what you need, because it’s yours for the assumption, yours for the appropriation [...] — it is all yours. You don’t go to steal it, you simply appropriate it. What would a feeling be like if we dared to appropriate it, by simply tapping the feeling? That would be yours. You aren’t stealing it, in a way that no one knows. Everyone must play his part; I’ll bring to you what you’ve assumed. What garment in this world could be used to play the part, to bring it here, bring it? But I would not make money my goal — but if you want to make it your goal, may I tell you, it’s perfectly all right, no condemnation at all. But whatever you want in this world, dare to assume it, that you have it, and live as though it were true, and walk in that as something that is true, sleep in it.1127 ¶18

But don’t forget the story that is your true story — you are the Lord Jesus Christ, don’t be ashamed of it, don’t be embarrassed, there’s no need, it doesn’t make a difference. Get this — this little thing called Neville, roughed up [...], all right, but the being that is wearing it, you can’t touch that thing, you cannot offend God, he knows who he is. So this little thing, related to some physical little background — I’d be that stupid to react because of some remark about the physical background of the thing called Neville. No — but the thing that I really am, you do not know; that being, I know, and that being — why talk about it? Because who would believe it?1127 ¶19

This morning’s paper — some lady, prominent through her very prominent brother, came to defend her parish, and she was offended because someone spoke at one of the colleges, and she went up and made an attempt to slap his face, because it affected her concept of the Virgin Mary. And you look at this thing and you wonder, what on earth — a woman, prominent, associated with a very wealthy family, that she could react in this manner of violence because someone made a statement concerning the Virgin Mary from the platform of a college in our country, and she dared to become violent about it. And here is the one who is speaking, now, nothing but doubt and the forgiveness of all things, and he’s going to defend the Virgin Mary — if she only knew who the Virgin Mary really is. [The following clause is garbled in the source and rendered close to verbatim, not confidently reconstructed:] If I childres a man I am Mary and birthed the God — not muskie — if I have given birth, and don’t look outside to see where he is, I gave birth to myself. God only gives birth to himself.1127 ¶20

She will then possibly jump up here and stop me, but I am telling you who you are, and I do hope that you will actually accept it and dwell upon it. Your dreams will change, your visions will change, your whole nights will change, and get you alert when you wake in the morning.1127 ¶21

Your teaching, as Paul said: “My gospel, that no one — even if I myself changed it, do not believe me, for this came by revelation.” So let no one change it. And he was writing these words before we had four Gospels — his message came all by revelation. “So I preached only Christ, and him crucified. I came before you knowing nothing but Christ and him crucified,” and he’s talking to you, because he makes the statement, “And I have been crucified with him. If I have been united with him in a death like his, I certainly shall be united with him in a resurrection like his.” So he admits the crucifixion is over, the union with him is over.1127 ¶22

Look at it this way: Christ is a pattern, God is buried in Christ the pattern; God, in the Father [...], buried in man — the person fulfills himself by fulfilling it, God is doing the work. So, buried in the pattern, and in the fullness of time, the pattern unfolds — like a seed is a pattern, and then in the fullness of time the seed breaks, and then the pattern unfolds. So Christ is a pattern, the pattern man, buried in men, and in that pattern is the author of it all — it is God the Father. So he unfolds within the pattern, and it is a definite pattern, and you cannot change the pattern, and it begins with resurrection.1127 ¶23

[The following clause is garbled in the source and could not be confidently reconstructed, rendered close to verbatim:] And the second, that same night, please birth, mobile, then the discovery of his promise to David: “You are my son. I’ve got now to actually fulfill what I tell you that I am. I’m your father, I’m humanity’s father, and you are the symbol of humanity, having played all now — you were sustained before me, and actually fulfilled my prophecy, and call me father,” and he does — he stands before, he calls you Father. I know — I, who became man and came out of it, and I live for the Son of Man.1127 ¶24

Now, the Son of Man was risen as a servant into heaven, just as I foretold it through my servant Moses, but he only had a copy of the reality, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, not the letter — it’s the spirit of prophecy. You read it in the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation: his testimony is the spirit, for the letter kills, the spirit makes alive. So he comes to give type and to make real — for not only the way and the truth of the light, I am the true and living way, I give light and reality to the dead letter, for my testimony is the spirit, not the letter. So, “Teach me, O Holy Spirit, the testimony of Jesus, let me comprehend wondrous things out of the divine law,” because — if he is the student of truth, well then, let him find it. But he comes from within, he can’t come from around; as he comes from within, he interprets the letter in terms of his own living experience, and then he tells them, and those who believe his testimony, believe in him.1127 ¶25

Then, from one to the other, it carries on, and in them the same thing happens, proving there’s only Christ. So the one pattern is in all — it’s not a different pattern, it has to be duplicated in every one, and the one who is working it is God, as we’re told: “who began the good work in you, he will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” So at that day you will know, “I am in my Father, and I am in you, and you are” — that’s what he tells us.1127 ¶26

And then what — it happens in a man, I can’t tell anyone before — the thrill! Here he’s been waiting and waiting, turning to the outside, listening to words on the outside, and all of a sudden you realize it’s all on the inside. They were always all about you. You foretold, and then deliberately became contracted and lost all consciousness of what you foretold, but you wrote it through your servants, and there was the written record of what you would foretell, that will come now to make it alive, and then within you the whole thing becomes alive. So you reinterpret Scripture in the light of your own experience, and those who have not had the experience, they can’t believe it — that’s not what they were looking for, they were looking for a savior to come from without, not knowing he was buried within, that the crucifixion was over before the whole thing began, that the whole thing began with a crucifixion, and then the resurrection is the beginning of the interpreting of the word, and you are the word.1127 ¶27

And you dwell upon your greatness, and may I tell you, all other things will fall into place. You don’t have to sit down there working on this problem and that problem, the other problem — dwell upon who you truly be, and memory begins to return, and then you walk every day in an entirely different state of consciousness. You don’t brag about it, you don’t talk about it, for the simple reason everyone that you meet in the world is also going to have the same experience. You see them asleep, sound asleep, but buried in that sleeping being is the Lord.1127 ¶28

And then you know the words in the song: “Rouse thyself, why sleepest thou, O Lord, do not cast us off forever, awake,” and calls to God in man to rouse himself and awake, and the minute he arouses and awakes, the pattern unfolds, and the pattern is the identical pattern as told in Scripture — there is no other pattern.1127 ¶29

So your greatness is not in any physical accomplishment in this world, it is only in the fulfilling of your own word. You uttered it, so to be, and then you came in to fulfill it — or there’s no one to play the part. God only acts and exists in beings, or men — he is the actor in man, and that acting in man is your own wonderful human imagination, and it’s a person, I tell you, there’s not an intangible something, it’s a person, a real person. And lain awakened and clothed in his glorified body, no mortal eye to see it, no mortal could ever even conceive of it, the glory of that body. And wherever it is, everything is made perfect — “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfectly one,” as told us in the seventeenth chapter of John.1127 ¶30

So the one speaking is in humanity, and the one speaking, God, is in him directly — bear in mind, it’s the pattern. And when you hear the word Christ, think of it as a pattern, it’s the pattern man; it’s the only way to the Father, and until that pattern has unfolded, man cannot find the Father in his search for him, forever — he cannot find him save through the pattern, and the pattern has to become alive and unfold, awakened, within man, and as it awakes within him, he discovers himself as God the Father. You’re not going to find it outside of self, and you aren’t going to find him as something on the outside looking at you — you only find him when you fulfill your word.1127 ¶31

Today, they knew — told, saying, “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee” — not in eternity will you ever know you really are, down the fall [...], until you fulfill that word to David. You are the God who inspired the boy to write those words, and you’ll keep your word, because thy word is truth, and you’ve got to fulfill your word today, and only when David stands before you will you know why it is stated in the gospel: “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal.”1127 ¶32

So until you fulfill your word to David, you will not know who you are, but you will fulfill it, for your word in yourself — for in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and that word became flesh, in your flesh. So you will fulfill your own word, because your word cannot return unto you void, but shall accomplish that which you purposed, and prosper in the thing for which you sent it — and so you’ll send yourself to fulfill it, and the day will come you will stand before him, and you’ll fulfill your word, you kept your promise, that he is your son, and he calls you Father, and then you know you are not the Father alone, and then you will tell it to your brothers, and you will say to your brothers, “I am going unto my Father and your Father, I am going unto my God and your God” — my brothers, for we are all brothers, the way of sons to return as God the Father has been prepared, and that was the grand scheme [...], calling one person who is God, Son, and your son. And so you predicted that he would call you father, and then came the day he called you father, and then memory returns, and you know who you are.1127 ¶33

I can tell you the feeling when you see him. I trust my two wives implicitly — I’ve been married twice. My first wife bore me a son, and my second wife bore me a daughter. I do believe one hundred percent I sired them, that they are now my son and my daughter, that they are really my offspring, but I know when I see David, with such certainty, there is no uncertainty when he stands before you and calls you Father — none whatsoever, not that there has ever been one moment of doubt in my mind that my two children are my children. When it comes to this Son, there is no uncertainty. I can’t describe the feeling of certainty when you stand before him and you have fulfilled your promise, for you were the one who dictated those words.1127 ¶34

It is you who inspired him to write it down, when he said, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord, he said unto me, thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.” You inspired those words, you came upon David, and you’re going to fulfill it, for you dwell this night on your true being, your essential being, and whatever bothers you will not bother you anymore, because if you really know and feel you are the Lord Jesus Christ, accept no challenge from any person in the world to convert stone into bread, and cast yourself down to satisfy someone’s curiosity — do nothing for it, you do not accept any temptation whatsoever to prove your identity. You walk in the knowledge of who you are, and you do not have to prove it to anyone in the world.1127 ¶35

The day will come, the pattern will unfold, and you will know it. I am telling you what I know from experience, and I am not different — there’s only one Christ in the world. I would not have it otherwise, I would not have for one moment the feeling that I would transcend my brothers — we’re brothers, all one. My earthly mother is my father, my earthly father is my brother, as told in Scripture: “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?” — those who hear the word of God, and keep it, these are my mother, and my father, and my brothers, including all — we would here be all one. So let no one feel superior.1127 ¶36

Then, when they asked who would be the greatest in the kingdom, “it is not mine to give,” he hushed that down right away, when the mother insisted that James and John be placed at the top of the list. “It is not mine to give, we’re all brothers, we have a common father, and we’re moving towards fatherhood, and so we’re moving toward being the Father himself,” and he could only meet the one need.1127 ¶37

So when tonight you dwell upon it, I hope when you go to bed you always have some pleasant thoughts, rather than the tears of the day. They will occupy the mind as to who you truly be, for I’m not lying to you, I’m telling you who you are — you are the Lord Jesus Christ, and the pattern is the being that you truly be, your God the Father, and one day that pattern will unfold, and at a certain point of unfoldment your promise has been kept to your son, who is the only one that can be beheld, for no man has ever seen God but his only son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. That’s how much you actually completely forgot, when you came down and assumed this garment of flesh and blood.1127 ¶38

Now, if you think this is not practical, may I tell you, it was the most practical night you could have, but while you are taken away from the cares of the day and listening to who you really are, some great, great work is taking place within you, for your Father knows your needs far more than your conscious reasoning mind knows. He knows your needs, and while you listen to his word as it came to you through one in whom he awoke, the work was going on, so your needs will be met — he knows all, far greater than your rational mind knows what you really need. Now that is going to the silence.1127 ¶39