Lamsa Bible Study Group - LoC 880 *

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~Truth vs. Falsehood, p.383

 

Rejoice in our Lord always; and again I say, Rejoice.

Let your humility be known to all men. Our Lord is at hand.

Do not worry over things, but always by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.

Philippians Chapter 4, 4-7  

 Paul the Apostle

Jesus said, Therefore pray in this manner: 

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven so on earth.
Give us bread for our needs from day to day.
And forgive us our offences, as we have forgiven our offenders.
And do not let us enter into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

(wrong, wickedness, error.)
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever.
Amen.

 

How to pray:  Ask God for His Presence, Communicate, and then say Amen.
Learn the Lord's Prayer completely.

(Dr. David Hawkins, Doubt, Skepticism and Disbelief 8/9/08)

Doc-Prayers - "Live your Life like a prayer"

I love the 91st Psalm.
You only need one psalm in your life, and that’s the 91st.

David R. Hawkins

   Psalm 91-God's Protection

...He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you shall trust;
his truth shall be your shield and buckler.

The suffering of mankind, I remember that’s what blew me out, you know I was a very strict religionist, one day I was walking through the woods, and out of nowhere came the knowingness and the presentation of the totality of the suffering of mankind throughout all of time. The whole dimension of the agony of the human condition through all of time. How could I believe in a God who would allow that or created that? Because as a naive religionist I thought God was the cause of everything, I didn't realize that what I was looking at was the totality of suffering of the human ego. It was the denial of God that was bringing about all this agony.  I saw it but did not re-experience it.
Jesus Christ re-experienced it [suffering of the human ego] and by that earned the right for the salvation of all of mankind. Thank you, oh Lord, thank you Jesus Christ for doing that.

Sedona Satsang Q&A, disc 2 of 2, transcribed by Jon Kalman, Estland, 10. January 2007
 

That which gives up its life for a higher life earns the karmic merit to become that higher life. The Native American who took an animal life understood this. (Native American spirituality calibrates very high.) They could see the attractor field of the animal, killed it for the sake of a higher life, and sanctified it. By virtue of its sacrifice, it earns the merit to become the higher life. As we sacrifice our personal lives for the sake of the world, we sanctify the life of the world. This is personified in the life of Jesus Christ. As we support that energy, we are serving life. (Calibrated it: “That’s a fact, O Lord.”)

Lecture 2004, “Witnessing and Observing”

"As revealed by kinesiologic spiritual research, Jesus had never had previous human lifetimes, but instead had actually descended from Heaven. His purpose was to reveal the truth of the Reality of God and Heaven, and his mission was the salvation of mankind. .."According to the same research methodology, a savior is necessary for all who calibrate below level 600."

I, p. 103

Christ took the sins of the world on his shoulders. When you reach a very high level of consciousness you pick up negative karma from the collective human karma. This is what Christ did. He held all of the suffering of man in mind ("please forgive them for they know not what they do”). Jesus could die for all of us because he could feel our collective suffering.

Sedona  Satsang, Q&A, 15. March 2006

For those of you who are Christians, we have to give up worshiping the god of the Crucifixion, the Christ of the Crucifixion and move onto the Christ of the Resurrection. The message was not of death and sin and suffering. People who identify themselves as a body, the strict materialists looked at the Christ on the cross as a body and came out with pain, sin, guilt and suffering.
Was that the message? Is that what Christ died for? To teach everybody that we are a physical body? Or was his message the direct opposite?
His message was the direct opposite – that we are not limited. That we are not THAT. And so we have to substitute our confused ideas and begin to look, move toward lovingness, to a higher state of consciousness to get what the message was – the Christ of the Resurrection.

Archival Office Visit Series Pain and Suffering, A-8, CD / DVD disc, 1980s

For God so loved the world that he even gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal Life.

(St. John 3:16  Lamsa)

The witness of of John the Baptist

John witnessed concerning him and cried and said, This is the one whom I said, He is coming after me, and yet he is ahead of me, because he was before me.
And of his fulness we have all received, grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses; but truth and grace came into being by Jesus Christ.
No man has ever seen God; but the first-born of God, who is in the bosom of his Father, he has declared him.

The Lamb of God

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one of whom I said, The man who comes after me is yet ahead of me, because he was before me.
And I did not know him; but that he might be made known to Israel, I came to baptize with water.
And John testified, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it rested upon him.
And yet I did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
And I saw and testified that this is the Son of God.
The next day John was standing with two of his disciples;
And he looked at Jesus while he walked, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God!

Lamsa Translation - John Chapter 1, 15-18, 29-36

Lamsa Translation - Matthew Chapter 7

The chapter is the final of three chapter that comprise the Sermon on the Mount (LoC 955).

Judging Others

JUDGE not, that you may not be judged.
For with the same judgment that you judge, you will be judged, and with the same measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you.
Why do you see the splinter which is in your brother’s eye, and do not feel the beam which is in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your brother, let me take out the splinter from your eye, and behold there is a cross beam in your own eye?
O hypocrites, first take out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get out the splinter from your brother’s eye.
Do not give holy things to the dogs; and do not throw your pearls before the swine, for they might tread them with their feet, and then turn and rend you.

Ask, Seek, Knock

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
For whoever asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door is opened.
Or who is the man among you, who when his son asks him for bread, why, will he hand him a stone?
Or if he should ask him for fish, why, will he hand him a snake?
If therefore you who err, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

The Narrow and Wide Gates

Whatever you wish men to do for you, do likewise also for them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Enter in through the narrow door, for wide is the door, and broad is the road which carries to destruction, and many are those who travel on it.
O how narrow is the door, and how difficult is the road which carries to life, and few are those who are found on it.

A Tree and Its Fruit

Be careful of false prophets who come to you in lamb’s clothing, but within they are ravening wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Why, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
So every good tree bears good fruits; but a bad tree bears bad fruits.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruits, neither can a bad tree bear good fruits.
Any tree which does not bear good fruits will be cut down and cast into the fire.
Thus by their fruits you will know them.
It is not everyone who merely says to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
A great many will say to me in that day, My Lord, my Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out devils, and in your name do many wonders?
Then I will declare to them, I have never known you; keep away from me, O you that work iniquity.

The Wise and Foolish Builders

Therefore whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, he is like a wise man, who built his house upon a rock.
And the rain came down, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; but it did not fall down, because its foundations were laid upon a rock.
And whoever hears these words of mine, and does them not, is like a foolish man, who built his house upon sand.
And the rain came down, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; and it fell down, and its fall was very great.
And it happened when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were stunned at his teaching.
For he taught them as one who had the power, and not like their own scribes and Pharisees.

 
The entire Sermon on the Mount