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(THE TEACHING WHICH IS BRINGING NEW LIFE TO A SPIRITUALLY DEAD WORLD)
LESSON NO.8
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BY
DR. FRANK B. RCBINSON
Fellow Am.,kon Sodely P.ych;col R .. eo"h, Autl,o. "AMERICA AWAKENING" "THE GOD
NOBODY KNOWS" "CRUCIFIED GODS GALORE." "LIFE STORY OF FRANK B.
ROBINSON" "WHO AND WHAT GOD IS" "IS THE STORY OF JESUS FACT
OR FICTION" "THE NAME OF THE BEAST" Ed;lo. "PSYCHIANA" Quoel .. ly, Foun-d.,
"PSYCH lANA" B,oll, .. hood, and oul!'o, and found" of "PSYCH lANA."
JESUS--WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE CAME TO DO--(Cont.)
In this lesson we continue the study of the Galilean Carpenter. Many
people ask me why I do not allude to him as "Jesus" instead of "the Carpenter."
Well--I'll tell you why. There has been so much superstition and misrepresentation
around the name Jesus, and, while to me it is the sweetest name on earth,
to my students it may savor too much of the "religious," and I do not want to
be classed as a "religious" man. There are thousands of Jesus' s in the Spanishspeaking
countries, and as far as he himself went, his name might as well have
been George or Paul or William.
The name itself means nothing, my friend--it's the man who counted. And,
then again, the use of the word "carpenter" brings out the human side of this
man. And if he was anything at all, he was a human being. Was he also God?
--Form your O'Rn opinion when you have finished the course, although the last
lesson gave you the answer to that. I will just say this much here, however.
If he were God, then, JUST AS MUCH AS HE WAS GOD WAS HE MAN ALSO.
At this point I want to say to you, as I have hinted earlier in the course,
that the answer to "prayer" or "desire" is an absolutely immutable law. Furthermore,
let me say to you that the answer ALWAYS COMES IMMUTABLY AND SCIENTIFICALLY.
Any other explanation of the answer to prayer is false. Many Psychologists,
alluding to this great power as "mind," advocate the use of the
"mind" by making "mental pictures" of the things you desire. They claim that
this will help these needed things to manifest themselves. Well--dealing in the
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term "mind" I am not surprised that they have to resort to "mental picture-making"
in order to "help" the desire to manifest itself. The Living God, however, needs
no assistance from any other source than himself, and I do not advocate the mental
making of any pictures at all. In fact, I counsel my students emphatically
not to attempt it. This great, immutable God of ours works only by his own fixed
and immutable law established ages ago. He very seldom changes them. In the case
of the birth of Christ he may have done so. But I think you will agree with me
that it is immaterial whether he did or not. THE VITAL FACT INVOLVED IS THE FACT
THAT THIS CARPENTER WAS BORN OR MANIFESTED ON THIS EARTH TO DEMONSTRATE THE FACT
THAT THE ENTIRE RESULT OF ADAM'S SIN MIGHT BE COMPLETELY WIPED OUT, AND HE DEMONS7RATED
THIS BY RAISING THE DEAD--SOMETHING WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BY ANYONE,
AND SOMETHING WHICH HAS NEVER SINCE BEEN DONE BY ANYONE.
There is no authentic record anywhere of anyone ever having raised a dead
man outside of this Galilean Carpenter. THERE WILL BE SUCH RECORDS, HOWEVER,
IN THE NEAR FUTURE. The vital fact about the whole message he preached was the
fact THAT THE SPIRITUAL EYE OF MAN WHICH WAS CLOSED WHEN THE PHYSICAL EYE WAS
OPENED, MIGHT BE AND SHOULD BE OPENED AGAIN, HE CAME TO DEMONSTRATE THE FACT THAT
THIS PHYSICAL EXISTENCE AND DEATH WAS NOT PERMANENT--BUT ONLY TEMPORARY. Do you
see that? AND JUST AS SURE AS YOU ARE ALIVE THIS SAME POWER THAT THIS CARPENTER
MANIFESTED 2000 YEARS AGO, CAN, AND WILL, BE MANIFESTED BY THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE
JUST AS SOON AS THEY LEARN THE LAW OF THE LIVING GOD AS THE CARPENTER KNEW IT.
AND THAT LAW IS--THE BELIEF AS OUR FOREFATHERS HAD IT BEFORE THEY LISTENED TO
SOME ONE WHO SUGGESTED THAT WHAT GOD SAID WAS NOT SO.
And you and I cannot put any limitations on the Power of the Living God
any more than Jesus did, AND YOU MUST NOT SAY TO ME THAT THERE IS ANYTHING IMPOSSIBLE
RIGHT HERE ANND NOW, AS FAR AS THE LIVING GOD IS CONCERNED. I KNOW
BETTER.
I shall ask you to pardon me for alluding to a personal matter, and I only
mention it to prove the truth of the above statement. The incident can be verified
in its entirety by Mrs. Ellsworth, the proprietor of the hotel, or her sister,
who was living with her at the time.
I was in the little town of Gervais, Ore., about 18 months ago on business.
While there I stayed at the Depot Hotel, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth.
One morning early I was awakened by the loud barking of a dog, and the terrified
cheeps of something, I knew not what. On looking out of my windo'H, I saw, on
the lawn across the street, a little mud-hen, laid on its side, with a fox terrier
standing over it and attacking it. A feeling of intense pity for the little mudhen
swept over me, and hastily dressing, I went over to the lawn and drove the
dog away from the mud-hen. A pool of blood lay on the grass, and I knew the
little creature was injured.
On picking it up and examining it, I discovered, and felt that it had a
broken leg--the leg was hanging limp and I could fel the broken bone. As I held
the helpless little thing, a feeling of intense pity for it crept over me, coupled
with AN INTENSE DESIRE to heal the broken leg. I have already alluded to moments
which occur in my life in which the power of the Living God makes itself known in
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an unmistakable manner, and as I carried the little creature into the hotel, there
stole over me a sweet peace, coupled with the assurance that God himself could heal
that br'oken limb. So, knowing that He WOULD heal it, I thanked him FOR HAVING
DONE SO.
Taking the hen into the hotel kitchen, I showed it to Mrs. Ellsworth and her
sister, who, by the way, had seen it all from their own window and I asked them if
I might make a nest for it in the barn. They granted me this permission, and I
made the nest, put the little thing in it and returned to the kitchen with the remark
that in a few moments it would be all right again. Both of these ladies saw
the broken limb, and what is more wonderful, within a few minutes, THEY BOTH SAW
THE MUD-HEN WALK OUT OF THE BARN PERFECTLY WHOLE, and without the slightest signs
of the accident, evident.
I stayed in the hotel probably two weeks after that, and from that day to
this have not seem them since. Here was a case where an INTENSE DESIRE TO HELP,
COUPLED WITH THE FAITH NECESSARY TO BRING THE ANSWER, PERFORMED WHAT WOULD PROBABLY
BE TERMED "A MIRACLE." But THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS MIRACLES WITH GOD. When
Christ cursed the fig tree, on passing the next day, the disciples called His attention
to the fact that it had withered up. The text states that a miracle had been
wrought. NO SUCH THING. THE MIRACLE WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD JESUS ORDERED THE TREE TO
WITHER UP, AND IT HAD NOT DONE SO that is where the miracle would have been.
But let me say to my students that such happenings as this, or similar ones,
are DAILY BEING MANIFESTED by Psychologists and Psychotheraptists the wide world
over. Remember, please, that the science of the New Psychology is only yet very
young, and still, such manifestations as this, and far greater ones in the healing
of so-called "incurable" diseases are happening. THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS AN
INCURABLE DISEASE WHERE THE LIVINNG GOD IS--THERE CANNOT BE.
Now, what is the answer? Here it is: The New Psychology has found something
of the power of the Living God, AND HAS NOT KNOWN THIS POWER AS SUCH. It has
applied the immutable law of the Living God, gotten the results, AND CALLED THE
POWER MANIFESTED BY SOME OTHER NAME, NOT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT THE POWER WAS.
It makes no difference, however, just what this Power may be called--IT IS
THERE. Personally, I choose to call a spade a spade, and call this mighty, wonder-
working power by its proper name--THE LIVING GOD. Jesus knew exactly hO'N
to call it into operation. And the means by which He called it into operation
was to RECOGNIZE ITS PRESENCE AND ITS LIMITLESS ABILITY TO DO WHATSOEVER WAS
NECESSARY TO BE DONE.
I shall ask you to tarry here with me a little while, and we shall review the
raising of Lazarus from the dead. And let me repeat to you that I believe it to
be entirely possible FOR YOU OR ME TO REPEAT THIS SEEMING MIRACLE, AND I BELIEVE
WE WILL BE ABLE TO REPEAT SUCH MIRACLES AS THIS ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE--IN THE
VERY MOMENT THAT WE BELIEVE WE ARE ABLE TO DO IT. THE LIVING GOD NEVER CHANGES,
AND IF IT WERE A FACT THAT THIS POWER RAISED LAZARUS 2000 YEARS AGO, I believe
that THE SAME POWER CAN RAISE JIM OR JACK, RIGHT HERE AND NOW.
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Now follo'R me, please, closely, step by step and we shall see just exactly
how the Carpenter of Galilee raised up Lazarus, Follo'Ning the record as John
gives it to us, we find that a man called Lazarus died, They sent for this famous
Carpenter, presumably because they believed that He could raise the dead. Where
they received their information we are not told, as up to this time there had been
no dead men or women raised to life again by Jesus. But they HAD FAITH THAT HE
COULD OR THEY WOULD NOT HAVE SENT FOR HIM.
The first thing worthy of note is that when the Carpenter heard the news , HE
ABODE WHERE HE WAS FOR TWO DAYS. One would think that this was not very considerate
of Him, but it is exactly what He did, and I believe I have an idea as to just why
He did it. But He finally went to the house, and was informed by the weeping sister
that IF HE HAD BEEN THERE, LAZARUS WOULD NOT HAVE DIED. And then the record reads:
"HE GROANED within himse lf"--or to be exac t , "in the spirit." NO WONDER HE GROANED.
Here he was, preaching the LIVING power of t he LIVING GOD, and not enough faith
manifested on the part of the religious relatives of the dead man to do a single
solitary thing for the dead man. NO WONDER I REPEAT, THAT HE GROANED.
Then He asked them where the dead man was. Did it ever occur to you that had
this man called Jesus, this Carepnter man, been "divine , " as He is supposed to
have been, that He would automatically kno'R just where the dead man was? But He
didn't. He had to be sho'Nn. We are told here that some Jews that were in the
crowd wanted to know if this MAN--not God--mark you well, could not have caused
that Lazarus had not died. And at that the Carpenter groaned again. And it seems
to me that I now know why He groaned this second time also. But we will pass over
that.
Arriving at the grave, He commanded them to take away the stone, and now watch
what happened--and watch carefully, as the point seems to be universally missed by
those who preach sermons on the raising of Lazarus. After the stone was taken
away, Jesus, we are told, lifted up his eyes and said: "FATHER, I THANK THEE THAT
THOU HAST HEARD ME." Now, remember, this was before He had commanded the dead man
to get up, and yet, here He was, THANKING GOD FOR SOMETHING HE HAD DONE--BEFORE
HE HAD DONE IT. (I mean, of course, before God had done it.) And then He goes
on and states that He KNOWS that God always hears Him, and further states THAT IT
IS UNNECESSARY FOR HIM TO PRAY ANY SPOKEN WORD AT ALL, as far as He was concerned,
"but because of the people which stand by, I said it." In other words, in order
that these interested bystanders may know that it is YOU, MIGHTY LIFE SPIRIT, who
are doing this raising--and not me.
I said a little while ago that BELIEF ITSELF WAS THE ANSWER TO THE PETITION.
Now, mark me--HAD JESUS, AT THIS POINNT, HAD ANY DOUBTS AT ALL AS TO HIS ABILITY
TO CALL A DEAD MAN BACK TO LIFE AGAIN, you can safely depend upon it that Lazarus
would NOT have been raised. But He had NO DOUBTS at all. He had the courage of
His convictions. He depended utterly on the pO'Her of the Living God--and the
same immutable Law which did not fool the geese, and the same immutable Law which
did not fool the robins, and the same immutable Law which does not fool the Idaho
farmer, DID NOT FOOL JESUS--AND LAZARUS WAS RAISED.
Now let me take another example of the same power, only this time from an en-
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tirely different angle. The man in this case was alive--but seriously deformed.
He had a withered hand. This man, being alive, they brought to the Carpenter, weo,
after looking him over, asked him a question. Just one question He did ask him ,
and that question was: "WILL YOU BE MADE WHOLE?" Just as if there were any question
about that. But there was a very big question involved. The question so pertinent
here was whether or not the man WANTED to be made whole. Was there a DESIRE
on the part of the afflicted to be made whole. And had there been no DESIRE to be
made whole, then under no possible circumstances could Jesus ever have healed him.
This remarkable statement is proven, as the record tells us that there were cities
IN WHICH JESUS HIMSELF COULD NOT HEAL. Why?--was His power or the p07Ver of the
Life Spirit on the wane? No--not that. The reason, as given by the record, is
that it was BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF .
And oh , WHAT A SUPERHUMAN THING IS IT GOING TO BE, TO DYNAMITE THROUGH THE
UNBELIEF OF THIS PRESENT DAY AND AGE! That, by the way, is always the reason for
not obtaining anything from the Living God--THEIR UNBELIEF. It all goes directly
back to the first creation and ITS unbelief. Don't you see it?
This man who had the withered hand, however, stated that he was willing to be
made whole, and now I want you to pay special attention to the manner in which the
Caprenter healed him, or rather, in the manner in WHICH HE HEALED HIMSELF, for that
is exactly what he did. You will note that after the question as to whether he
wanted to bE made whole or not, JESUS DID NOT LAY A FINGER ON THAT MAN--but here
is what He DID do--HE TOLD THAT MAN HIMSELF TO DO SOMETHING THAT HE THOUGHT HE
HAD BEEN UNABLE TO DO FROM BIRTH, "Stretch forth your hand," said the Carpenter,
and in asking him to do that, I repeat, He asked him to do that which he had come
to have the Carpenter do, for HIM. No·,v what happened? The man made AN ATTEMPT TO
DO THE THING HE WAS ASKED TO DO--AND WITH THE ATTEMPT CAME THE CURE. He stretched
forth his hand, and it was immediately restored as the other one.
There is the secret of all healing. That one instance proved the absolute
po.,,'er of this mighty Life Spirit to do WHATSOEVER THE ONE DESIRING IT WANTED. If
this man Jesus ever used any "supernatural" power, that YOU AND I MAY NOT USE,
then I am utterly unable to find any record of it in the entire canon of the scriptures.
But He did not. All He ever did was to try to "put across" the message
that THE POWER OF THE LIVING GOD IS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE, and
that ACCORDING TO THEIR FAITH IT SHOULD BE DONE UNTO THEM. And in preaching THAT
message, HE PROVED THE TRUTH OF IT BY ACTUAL DEMONSTRATIONS. Do you see that? At
no time in His entire career did He ever claim to be possessed of any p07Ver THAT YOU
AND I CANNOT HAVE. Oh, that I might only be able to drive this mighty truth home
to my students! They will slowly grasp it--because it is the TRUTH, but .what a
world of power is going to waste because this doctrine of the EVER-PRESENT POWER
OF THE MIGHTY, IMMUTABLE, LIVING GOD HAS NOT BEEN PREACHED AS JESUS PREACHED IT.
One of the things that used to puzzle me in past years, and that still puzzles
hundreds of thousands of honest inqur'ing souls, is that word "believe." We are
told by the preachers on every hand that if we "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
we shall be saved," and I question very much if there is a single preacher in the
country that can define that word "believe." I have explained that if you believe
on me, you do not believe on my physical body, because you have never even seen
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that, and you cannot believe on or in THAT. But if you believe on me, then you
can only believe WHAT I SAY.
And yOU can believe with your "head" that Jesus was the son of the Living God
for a thousand years if you want to, and such a belief as that will never get you
one single solitary thing from this great Life Spirit. That sort of a "belief" is
not a belief at all IN THIS GREAT CARPENTER OF GALILEE--it's only a belief ABOUT
HIM--that's all . And that sort of a belief can never get you anYNhere.
And if you ever come to know this mighty Life Spirit I am teaching you about,
you wil l go farther than just to believe that He was the son of God--depend upon
that. Millions believe that today, but the same millions are utterly impotent when
it comes to manifesting that belief, or to giving some concrete evidence that they
kno'R the first thing about Him. Sermons are preached by the hundred, ALL AROUND
THIS CARPENTER. You can get accurate data proving that He was born, etc., and can
get almost any fact ABOUT Him that you want to get. BUT IN MIGHTY FEW CHURCHES CAN
YOU GET VITAL, LIVING TOUCH WITH THE POWER HE CAME TO DEMONSTRATE. There may be
such a power in the church, but if there is, after years of honest, consistent, intelligent
effort to find, I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO DO SO.
It has been quite a while since that Galilean Carpenter was here on the earth,
but the spoken words of very few men have endured as His words have. That is because
they were living, vital truth, and truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
Two thousand years of false teaching and mysticism has only buried the truth temporarily
for that length of time, but just as sure as you are studying these lessons,
THESE SAME TRUTHS, staggering as they may seem, ARE RAISING THEIR HEADS AND
COMING TO LIGHT AGAIN. May the Living God hasten the day when the last iota of
superstition surrounding His name shall once and for all time be banished, so that
we may see and know Him as He actually is.
I was informed by a Presbyterian minister that the Presbyterian denomination
is including in its curriculum at its theological seminaries, A COURSE IN THE NEW
PSYCHOLOGY. I make the prediction to you that if this statement is a fact, THIS DENOMINATION
will be among the FIRST TO SEE THE REAL LIGHT AS IT BREAKS. Study the
New Psychology--a thousand times, YES! Swim in it--learn every truth it teaches-practice
it--and it will not be long till the theological seminaries which are turning
out unbelieving preachers by the thousan~ will be TURNING OUT INTO THE PULPITS
MEN WHO CAN TEACH THE LIVING GOD HIMSELF to their congregations. And it's coming-never
doubt that. There will probably have to be a few martyrs lose their jobs
first but what of that? TRUTH IS TRUTH, AND WILL ENDURE FOREVER.
This lesson has been somewhat prolonged, and I must bring it to a close, much
as I should like to talk further on this marvelous character. You have been spending
your "silent hour" for the past week in listening to what the Living Go:l. has
to say to you and waiting for Him to speak to you. Now, for the next week, use
this affirmation of truth please: "I BELIEVE IN THE LIVING GOD--I BELIEVE IN THE
LIVING GOD." Let this thought day and night, be the one predominating thought you
have. REPEAT IT--REPEAT IT--REPEAT IT, and as you repeat it, realize that it is
rapidly becoming an absolute fact.
"I BELIEVE IN THE LIVING GOD."
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