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Is it Blasphemy…or Simple Truth? (Being Jesus Part XIII)
Is it Blasphemy…or Simple Truth?
(Being Jesus Part XIII)
The answer to the title question depends upon whether we are willing to embrace something Jesus said, or prefer to hang onto religious tradition in spite of what Jesus said …or is yet another perspective possible?
I’m about to share what came to me yesterday morning while walking and praying rather intensely about something which may or may not be related. The words that issued forth from my mouth aloud were startling to say the least.
“Before there ever was a Jesus Christ, I AM.”
I have shared several times something that was given to me while walking and praying on Shugar Beach near my home, at the time, in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii about fifteen years ago that, likewise, startled me. It also has had a significant impact on my life and of others who also began saying it several times daily.
“I am in and of the will of God; Your presence and power are upon me; I want and have nothing else and no other thought or feeling shall have a permanent place in me. I AM”
You see, the foregoing only raises the specter (I just now felt nudged to look up the meaning of “specter” –a ghost– interesting, what?) of a possibility of being blasphemous and, at the time I received it, I was certainly concerned about that aspect.
Unless and until we pay attention closely to what Jesus said about what anyone could become and the things he or she will do in a newly acquired identity when they believe enough – we will listen amiss to the cries from the religious of “sacrilege” and “blasphemy.”
Back in the good old day's, they would have put Brad in his place!
It is clear in the original language that Jesus said we would not only do the very same things he did, but we would actually metamorphosize into being who he was. I will provide chapter and verse for everyone seriously interested in being transformed into being Jesus, in the sense of being joint heirs with him, as “manifest sons of God.”
Caveat: You have to be willing to give up certain core beliefs (or at least be willing to look at them from a different perspective) in order for the metamorphosis to take place. These core beliefs, however, were programmed into us by religious teachers and are a shadow of the reality of who we are to become – so we needn’t be overly concerned.
Check it out directly with our SPIRIT-PARENT to see if this isn’t so.
I’m being led to write a brand new book and here is an excerpt from it that came to me while writing in the fourth chapter the other day:
What’s Next?
What prompted me to begin this little journey (writing yet another book) was to check in with Dad about an article Ryan Bruce had asked me to write. Since I didn’t have a clue as to where to start, I began telling our SPIRIT-PARENT, whom I refer to as, “Dad,” that I wanted to sense “His” presence and I started “knocking,” tap, tap, tap, tap with my open hand on my desk, declaring that the brain of this body bag I occupy was subject to our SPIRIT-PARENT SOURCE.
…and, since I was feeling something was missing, I started going through my little ritual of literally and figuratively beating on my chest and admitting that I was missing Him.
I heard the word “focus” and immediately asked, “Focus on what …the topic about which Ryan asked me to write?”
“No, focus on I AM.”
To which my response was to knock and demand more of His presence.
“Do you want to get beyond where you are?”
Startled, I stammered, “Yes, of course!”
“You are approaching I AM as being separate from you. You must begin focusing on your unity, your oneness with Me.”
“Remember that Jesus said ‘I and the Father are one, you have seen me, and therefore, you have seen the Father.’ You are still caught up in looking at your relationship with Me as a son in the physical, separate sense. You must get beyond this so that you can effectively communicate to others how they too will get beyond. Because this is who you are, that is, one with I AM …will you see this?”
“Focus,” remember, is the key word here. I am only to share this with those who have the ears to hear it. I had to stop at this thought and ask, again, how do I make that judgment? What I “heard” gave me some rather deep understanding:
“You needn’t concern yourself with that, by focusing on oneness with I AM, you immediately put yourself out of the range that those who don’t have ears to hear can even tune in.”
You're just in time to watch Brad get Stoned for Blasphemy!
This is not implying that if it doesn’t fit with what you are being given to say by our SPIRIT-PARENT that either of us is “wrong.”
I do feel compelled, however, to exhort those of you whom are currently sharing a focus on “sonship” with Dad and being part of the “bride of Christ” may want to check in with Him to see if either or both of those terms need not be thought of in a separate sense, but rather as merely singular perspectives of the whole of oneness with I AM.
As I hinted at the beginning of this little treatise, it may well be only a matter of perspective. I admit to tenaciously holding onto any number of things which I know to be true in one sense, but draw me into defensiveness and reacting to those who cannot understand from whence I cometh …instead of listening (and thereby growing from) what they have to say which is not separate from what I am saying, nor separate from I AM. We are ONE.
Before there was a man called Jesus (or, if you prefer, Yeshua) I AM …now I see it, can you?
Still not clear? listen to this…Podcast 75 Being Jeus Is it Blasphemy