Life and Teachings of Jesus . 141 Begining the Public Work .4. Teaching about The Father

141:4.1 While sojourning at Amathus, Jesus spent much time with the apostles instructing them in the new concept of God; again and again did he impress upon them that God is a Father, not a great and supreme bookkeeper who is chiefly engaged in making damaging entries against his erring children on earth, recordings of sin and evil to be used against them when he subsequently sits in judgment upon them as the just Judge of all creation. The Jews had long conceived of God as a king over all, even as a Father of the nation, but never before had large numbers of mortal men held the idea of God as a loving Father of the individual. 141:4.2 In answer to Thomas’s question, “Who is this God of the kingdom?” Jesus replied: “God is your Father, and religion — my gospel — is nothing more nor less than the believing recognition of the truth that you are his son. And I am here among you in the flesh to make clear both of these ideas in my life and teachings.” 141:4.3 Jesus also sought to free the minds of his apostles from the idea of offering animal sacrifices as a religious duty. But these men, trained in the religion of the daily sacrifice, were slow to comprehend what he meant. Nevertheless, the Master did not grow weary in his teaching. When he failed to reach the minds of all of the apostles by means of one illustration, he would restate his message and employ another type of parable for purposes of illumination. 141:4.4 At this same time Jesus began to teach the twelve more fully concerning their mission “to comfort the afflicted and minister to the sick.” The Master taught them much about the whole man — the union of body, mind, and spirit to form the individual man or woman. Jesus told his associates about the three forms of affliction they would meet and went on to explain how they should minister to all who suffer the sorrows of human sickness. He taught them to recognize: 1. Diseases of the flesh — those afflictions commonly regarded as physical sickness. 2. Troubled minds — those nonphysical afflictions which were subsequently looked upon as emotional and mental difficulties and disturbances. 3. The possession of evil spirits. 141:4.8 Jesus explained to his apostles on several occasions the nature, and something concerning the origin, of these evil spirits, in that day often also called unclean spirits. The Master well knew the difference between the possession of evil spirits and insanity, but the apostles did not. Neither was it possible, in view of their limited knowledge of the early history of Urantia, for Jesus to undertake to make this matter fully understandable. But he many times said to them, alluding to these evil spirits: “They shall no more molest men when I shall have ascended to my Father in heaven, and after I shall have poured out my spirit upon all flesh in those times when the kingdom will come in great power and spiritual glory.” 141:4.9 From week to week and from month to month, throughout this entire year, the apostles paid more and more attention to the healing ministry of the sick.

[Ancient-Awakenings] Our "Advance" over this past weekend

We had an amazing weekend Advance up here in the pines of AZ with 14 people in attendance and many more via conference phone. Our weekend was filled with lots of energy, love and wonderful messages and guided meditations from the Ascended Masters. We heard from Mother Gaia, Saint Germain, Sananda, Lady Nada, the Guardians and of course OWS and Ashira. Many questions were asked and answered in their inimical fashion and OWS #2 was hilarious at times even leading the group in singing "Let It Be". On Sunday we had our joint call with Hollow Earth Network which featured Sananda and The Guardians. This may or may not be the last call with HEN as Anne has now shut down her website. We will see as this changing situation continues to unfold. It is possible she will still host our show the first Sunday of the month on Blog Talk Radio if their continues to be a need. After we signed off on the HEN call, we have been deluged by requests for membership in Ancient Awakenings. It is now over 30 new members in just a day and we have gone over 600 members now! There will not be a transcription from our Advance as there is just too much there for someone to transcribe. There is however the entire audio files on our ancientawakenings.org website for you to listen to (which I highly recommend) at your convenience. If you would like to join us this next Sunday for our Prepare For Change group either in person or over the phone and have not yet RSVP'd, please do so as soon as you can so you will be able to join us. I want to thank everyone involved, both those who attended in person and all those who joined us via conference call, in making this a wonderful and unforgettable time together. And a big thank you to Sue for all she means to us as well as Moses for his continued diligence in keeping the website running as well as monitoring the phone calls and uploading the audio files. Also thanks go out to Mahendran for his help with the calls and for providing his home for our weekly Sunday groups. Enjoy and Be in joy and get ready for some amazing things beginning to happen leading to "The Event" and "Changeover"! Love and light, James www.meetup.com/ancient-awakenings www.ancientawakenings.org Believing Is Seeing! -- Please Note: If you hit "REPLY", your message will be sent to everyone on this mailing list (Ancient-Awakenings-list@meetup.com) This message was sent by Meetup on behalf of James from Ancient Awakenings. To report this message, please click here To block the sender of this message, please click here Set my mailing list to email me As they are sent | In one daily email | Don't send me mailing list messages