Message 38
Jesus Comments On A Spirit Who Believes He Has Lost His Soul
Helping Others Find The Divine Love Is The Greatest Work That God Has Given Any Of His Creatures To Do
Jesus Comments On A Spirit Who Believes He Has Lost His Soul
Helping Others Find The Divine Love Is The Greatest Work That God Has Given Any Of His Creatures To Do
I am here, Jesus;
(Padgett inquires about a spirit who believes he has lost his soul.)
Well, he was so overshadowed by the results of his confining all his thoughts when on earth to his mental development, that his soul was permitted and compelled to starve, and, as he now believes, to have left him. Of course, he has his soul and only needs an awakening of his spiritual perceptions to realize the fact. But as long as he remains in the mental condition that he is now in, he will never find his soul, as he says. The only thing that will get him out of that condition of mind is an opening of his spiritual nature and then a belief in the love of the Father.
Your grandmother is now endeavoring to bring about this awakening, and she will succeed, for she is a very wise, as well as highly developed, spirit in her soul qualities.
The spirit is not what you might call a wicked one - he only committed the great error of believing that the mind was everything in existence and, as he said, the soul and all spiritual faculties were myths. Many a spirit is in this condition of mind overshadowing the soul to such a degree as to cause the soul, so far as the knowledge or belief of the spirit is concerned, to be lost. He is not one that will find much difficulty in recovering his soul as soon as the soul faculties are awakened.
The unfortunate spirit is one who knows that he has a soul and that that soul is all filled with sin and error and has no apparent way of becoming cleansed. I know of no spirit more to be pitied or who needs more of the influence and help of both spirits and mortals.
Let me tell you right here that when you help a spirit to find the way to salvation and God's love, you are doing the greatest work that God has given to any of his creatures to do; and when that spirit through your help finds that way and realizes the truth and receives this love, he is forever your most thankful friend and worker in forwarding the interest of your own spiritual being. So when the Bible says, "for every soul saved there is a new star added to the crown of the one who is the instrument in saving such soul," it only declares a truth which exists and which never changes. So in your work of helping these poor, sinful and darkened spirits, you are laying up spiritual jewels which, when you come over into the spirit world, will form a part of your soul's existence.
Of course, there are no jewels as such, but they represent great qualities of happiness and love which the Father will give you. Men do not realize of what momentous importance the saving of a soul is, and what results come to him who is the savior.
So I will now say good night and may the love of the Father be with you and in you this night. I will give you all my love and help you to obtain your desires, spiritual and material.
Your true brother, Jesus
(Padgett inquires about a spirit who believes he has lost his soul.)
Well, he was so overshadowed by the results of his confining all his thoughts when on earth to his mental development, that his soul was permitted and compelled to starve, and, as he now believes, to have left him. Of course, he has his soul and only needs an awakening of his spiritual perceptions to realize the fact. But as long as he remains in the mental condition that he is now in, he will never find his soul, as he says. The only thing that will get him out of that condition of mind is an opening of his spiritual nature and then a belief in the love of the Father.
Your grandmother is now endeavoring to bring about this awakening, and she will succeed, for she is a very wise, as well as highly developed, spirit in her soul qualities.
The spirit is not what you might call a wicked one - he only committed the great error of believing that the mind was everything in existence and, as he said, the soul and all spiritual faculties were myths. Many a spirit is in this condition of mind overshadowing the soul to such a degree as to cause the soul, so far as the knowledge or belief of the spirit is concerned, to be lost. He is not one that will find much difficulty in recovering his soul as soon as the soul faculties are awakened.
The unfortunate spirit is one who knows that he has a soul and that that soul is all filled with sin and error and has no apparent way of becoming cleansed. I know of no spirit more to be pitied or who needs more of the influence and help of both spirits and mortals.
Let me tell you right here that when you help a spirit to find the way to salvation and God's love, you are doing the greatest work that God has given to any of his creatures to do; and when that spirit through your help finds that way and realizes the truth and receives this love, he is forever your most thankful friend and worker in forwarding the interest of your own spiritual being. So when the Bible says, "for every soul saved there is a new star added to the crown of the one who is the instrument in saving such soul," it only declares a truth which exists and which never changes. So in your work of helping these poor, sinful and darkened spirits, you are laying up spiritual jewels which, when you come over into the spirit world, will form a part of your soul's existence.
Of course, there are no jewels as such, but they represent great qualities of happiness and love which the Father will give you. Men do not realize of what momentous importance the saving of a soul is, and what results come to him who is the savior.
So I will now say good night and may the love of the Father be with you and in you this night. I will give you all my love and help you to obtain your desires, spiritual and material.
Your true brother, Jesus