Symmetry of Soul

Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 8)

Jesus instructed the twelve: "Discern the truth clearly; live the righteous life fearlessly; and so shall you be my apostles and my Father’s ambassadors.  If you would guide others into the kingdom, you must yourselves walk in the clear light of living truth.  In all the business of the kingdom I exhort you to show just judgment and keen wisdom.  Present not that which is holy to dogs."
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The reading starts in Paper 140, Section 3, Paragraph 12.

Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 7)

Just before noon on Sunday, January 12, A.D. 27, Jesus called the apostles together for their ordination as public preachers of the gospel of the kingdom.  At last the long-waited-for hour had come!  They were thrilled to be going apart with the Master to participate in some sort of solemn ceremony of personal consecration and collective dedication to the sacred work of representing their Master.
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Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 6)

It required tact, ability, and patience, as well as painstaking devotion, to manage the financial affairs of such an idealist as Jesus, to say nothing of wrestling with the helter-skelter business methods of some of his apostles.  Judas Iscariot really was a great executive, a farseeing and able financier.  The apostles loved Judas; he was really one of them.  None of the twelve ever criticized Judas. 
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Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 5)

The other apostles held Jesus in reverence because of some special and outstanding trait of his replete personality, but Thomas revered his Master because of his superbly balanced character.  It was this matchless symmetry of personality that so charmed Thomas.  He probably enjoyed the highest intellectual understanding and personality appreciation of Jesus of any of the twelve.
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Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 4)

The presence of Matthew among the twelve was the means of keeping the doors of the kingdom wide open to hosts of downhearted and outcast souls who had regarded themselves as long since without the bounds of religious consolation.  Outcast and despairing men and women flocked to hear Jesus, and he never turned one away.  It was the Master’s forgiving disposition which Matthew most appreciated.
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Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 3)

Those characteristics of Jesus which John Zebedee most appreciated were the Master’s love and unselfishness; these traits made such an impression on him that his whole subsequent life became dominated by the sentiment of love and brotherly devotion.  He talked about love and wrote about love.  This "son of thunder" became the "apostle of love", instructing: "My little children, love one another."
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Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 2)

The outstanding feature of James Zebedee’s personality was his ability to see all sides of a proposition.  Of all the twelve, he came the nearest to grasping the real import and significance of Jesus’ teaching.  He, too, was slow at first to comprehend the Master’s meaning, but ere they had finished their training, he had acquired a superior concept of Jesus’ message, the gospel of the kingdom. 
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Jesus Goes Public—Preparation and Preaching (Part 1)

The twelve apostles represented many different types of human temperament, and they had not been made alike by schooling.  But do not make the mistake of regarding these men as being altogether ignorant and unlearned.  All of them, except the Alpheus twins, were graduates of the synagogue schools, having been thoroughly trained in the Hebrew scriptures and in much of the current knowledge of that day. 
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 18)

Jesus made plain to his apostles the difference between the repentance of so-called good works as taught by the Jews and the change of mind by faith—the new birth—which he required as the price of admission to the kingdom.  He taught them to preach the forgiveness of sin through faith in God without penance or sacrifice, and that the Father in heaven loves all his children with the same eternal love.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 17)

Said Jesus: "My kingdom and the gospel related thereto shall be the burden of your message.  Be not sidetracked into preaching about me and about my teachings.  Proclaim the gospel of the kingdom and portray my revelation of the Father in heaven but do not be misled into the bypaths of creating legends and building up a cult having to do with beliefs and teachings about my beliefs and teachings."
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 16)

Jesus directed the six to go forth, two and two, to teach the glad tidings of the kingdom.  He purposed to make their first tour entirely one of personal work.  No initial public preaching was something of a disappointment to the apostles, still they saw, at least in part, Jesus’ reason for thus beginning the proclamation of the kingdom, and they started out in good heart and with confident enthusiasm.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 15)

Said Jesus: "Be not deceived by those who come saying here is the kingdom or there is the kingdom, for my Father’s kingdom concerns not things visible and material.  And this kingdom is even now among you, for where the spirit of God teaches and leads the soul of man, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven.  And this kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 14)

To James, Jude, and his apostles, Jesus said: "My kingdom is not to come with noise and glamor, but rather must it come through the great change which my Father will have wrought in your hearts and in the hearts of those who shall be called to join you in the councils of the kingdom.  But do not entertain false hope; the world will stumble at my words.  Be patient, be gentle.  Be ever obedient to the Father’s will."
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 13)

Of all persons present at the marriage feast of Cana, Jesus was the most surprised.  Others had expected him to work a wonder, but that was just what he had purposed not to do.  Mary and the six apostles were greatly rejoiced at the supposed miracle which they thought Jesus had intentionally performed, but Jesus was sorely perplexed and retired for a season to the housetop that he might think it all over.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 12)

In the presence of the first four apostles, Philip led Nathaniel to Jesus, who, looking benignly into the face of the sincere doubter, said: "Behold a genuine Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.  Follow me."  And Nathaniel, turning to Philip, said: "You are right.  He is indeed a master of men.  I will also follow, if I am worthy."  And Jesus nodded to Nathaniel, again saying, "Follow me."
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 11)

We can hardly imagine what would have happened on our world had the God-man, Jesus, in potential possession of all power in heaven and on earth, once decided to unfurl the banner of his local-universe sovereignty, to marshal his wonder-working battalions in militant array!  But he would not compromise.  He would not serve evil that the worship of God might presumably be derived therefrom. 
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 10)

Jesus chose to establish the kingdom of heaven in the hearts of mankind by natural, ordinary, difficult, and trying methods, just such procedures as his earth children must subsequently follow in their work of enlarging and extending that heavenly kingdom.  Jesus was now passing through the great test of civilized man, to have power and steadfastly refuse to use it for purely selfish or personal purposes. 
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 9)

Above and beyond selfish satisfaction and sensuous gratification, there are higher values in mortal existence—intellectual mastery and spiritual achievement—which far transcend the necessary gratification of man’s purely physical appetites and urges.  Man’s natural endowment of talent and ability should be chiefly devoted to the development and ennoblement of his higher powers of mind and spirit.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 8)

The forty days in the mountain wilderness were not a period of great temptation but rather the period of the Master’s great decisions.  During these days of lone communion with himself and his Father’s immediate presence—the Personalized Adjuster—he arrived, one by one, at the great decisions which were to control his policies and conduct for the remainder of his earth career.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 7)

After his baptism Jesus entered upon the forty days of adjusting himself to the changed relationships of the world and the universe occasioned by the personalization of his Adjuster.  This was a season for thinking over the whole career of his Urantia bestowal, and planning for his ensuing public ministry.  Jesus also thought over the whole span of human life on Urantia, starting from the days of Andon and Fonta.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 6)

When Jesus was baptized, he repented of no misdeeds; he made no confession of sin.  His was the baptism of consecration to the performance of the will of the heavenly Father.  At his baptism he heard the unmistakable call of his Father, the final summons to be about his Father’s business, and he went away into private seclusion for forty days to think over these manifold problems.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 5)

Said Jesus to John‘s disciples: "Tell John that I have not forgotten but to suffer me also this, for it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness.  Tell him what you have seen and heard—that the poor have good tidings preached to them—and, finally, tell the beloved herald of my earth mission that he shall be abundantly blessed in the age to come if he finds no occasion to doubt and stumble over me."
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 4)

Extolling Jesus, John proclaimed: "For this cause came I out of the wilderness to preach repentance and to baptize with water, proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.  And now comes one who shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.  And I beheld the divine spirit descending upon this man, and I heard the voice of God declare, 'This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.'"
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 3)

John came from the herdsmen, like Amos.  He was dressed like Elijah of old, and he thundered his admonitions and poured forth his warnings in the "spirit and power of Elijah".  It is not surprising that this strange preacher created a mighty stir throughout all Palestine as the travelers who were crossing the river carried abroad the news of his preaching and baptizing along the Jordan.
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 2)

It was the influence of the Prophet Elijah that caused John to adopt his methods of direct and blunt assault upon the sins and vices of his contemporaries.  John was not illiterate, he did well know the Jewish sacred writings, but he was hardly cultured.  He was a clear thinker, a powerful speaker, and a fiery denunciator.  He was hardly an example to his age, but he was an eloquent rebuke.  
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Jesus Goes Public—Precursor and Prelude (Part 1)

John the Baptist was born March 25, 7 B.C., in accordance with the promise that Gabriel made to his mother, Elizabeth, in June of the previous year.  For five months Elizabeth kept secret Gabriel’s visitation; and when she told her husband, Zacharias, he was greatly troubled and fully believed her narrative only after he had an unusual dream about six weeks before the birth of John.
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Purpose and Destiny—Universal Unity (Part 5)

The chief pursuit throughout the era of light and life is the quest for a better understanding and a fuller realization of the comprehensible elements of Deity—truth, beauty, and goodness.  This represents man’s effort to discern God in mind, matter, and spirit.  And as the mortal pursues this quest, he finds himself increasingly absorbed in the experiential study of philosophy, cosmology, and divinity. 
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Purpose and Destiny—Universal Unity (Part 4)

The Unqualified Absolute and the Deity Absolute are unified in the Universal Absolute.  The Absolutes are co-ordinated in the Ultimate, conditioned in the Supreme, and time-space modified in God the Sevenfold.  On subinfinite levels there are three Absolutes, but in infinity they appear to be one.  On Paradise there are three personalizations of Deity, but in the Trinity they are one.
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Purpose and Destiny—Universal Unity (Part 3)

The steady progress of evolution in the time-space universes is accompanied by ever-enlarging revelations of Deity to all intelligent creatures.  The attainment of the height of evolutionary progress on a world, in a system, constellation, universe, superuniverse, or in the grand universe signalizes corresponding enlargements of deity function to and in these progressive units of creation.
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Purpose and Destiny—Universal Unity (Part 2)

Personality inherently reaches out to unify all constituent realities.  Such unifying creativity of all creature personality is a birthmark of its high and exclusive source and is further evidential of its unbroken contact with this same source through the personality circuit, by means of which the personality of the creature maintains direct and sustaining contact with the Father of all personality on Paradise.
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