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Because Jesus was human, as well as divine, we now comprehend that everything He experienced in His human life/living is also possible for us. We are not to attempt to copy Jesus’ life. We are to follow His inspiration and teachings whereby He told us that we could come to KNOW our indwelling Paradise Father every bit as intimately and powerfully as He did. And this personal relationship with God will continue on as we journey to the Father in Paradise where one day we WILL see Him face to face, as it were.

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In this passage we see that Jesus has other brothers of His order of

being and that He was not anxious.

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141:7.11 It was on this occasion that Jesus intimated to Peter, James, and John that his work on earth was in some respects to be limited by the commission of his "associate on high," referring to the pre-bestowal instructions of his Paradise brother, Immanuel. He told them that he had come to do his Father's will and only his Father's will. Being thus motivated by a wholehearted singleness of purpose, he was not anxiously bothered by the evil in the world.

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When we choose to follow Jesus’ inspirations, teachings and aspirations we too can find ourselves “devoid of fear" and not terribly anxious by the evil we see around us. This is GOOD NEWS, indeed!

196:1.3 To "follow Jesus" means to personally share his religious faith and to enter into the spirit of the Master's life of unselfish service for man. One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose. Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it.

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Jesus knows that we can become equally devoted to KNOWING GOD and doing His will in our lives.

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196:2.7 You would be neither shocked nor disturbed by some of Jesus' strong pronouncements if you would only remember that he was the world's most wholehearted and devoted religionist. He was a wholly consecrated mortal, unreservedly dedicated to doing his Father's will. Many of his apparently hard sayings were more of a personal confession of faith and a pledge of devotion than commands to his followers. And it was this very singleness of purpose and unselfish devotion that enabled him to effect such extraordinary progress in the conquest of the human mind in one short life. Many of his declarations should be considered as a confession of what he demanded of himself rather than what he required of all his followers. In his devotion to the cause of the kingdom, Jesus burned all bridges behind him; he sacrificed all hindrances to the doing of his Father's will.

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We can become like Jesus as He was/is human. He showed us how

we can KNOW God as He knows Him.

120:4.3 “Christ Michael [Jesus] did not progressively become God. God did not, at some vital moment in the earth life of Jesus, become man. Jesus was God and man — always and even forevermore. And this God and this man were, and now are, one, even as the Paradise Trinity of three beings is in reality one Deity.”

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Our opportunity of free will choice is to experience the enhanced revelation of God

personally as He did.

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120:4.4 “Never lose sight of the fact that the supreme spiritual purpose of the Michael [Jesus] bestowal was to enhance the revelation of God.”

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If we follow the leading of the spirit, as seen in what Jesus did, we will enter His kingdom and find eternal life.​

146:3.7 "Every earth child who follows the leading of this spirit shall eventually know the will of God, and he who surrenders to the will of my Father shall abide forever. The way from the earth life to the eternal estate has not been made plain to you, but there is a way, there always has been, and I have come to make that way new and living. He who enters the kingdom has eternal life already — he shall never perish." ~ Jesus

Jesus came to give us truth. We must recognize that even Peter and/or Paul did not always teach what Jesus said.

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159:4.4 “The Scriptures contain much that is true, very much, but in the light of your present teaching, you know that these writings also contain much that is unrepresentative of the Father in heaven, the loving God I have come to reveal to all the worlds.” ~ Jesus

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The time is ripe for us to comprehend the spiritual Power and relationship our indwelling Father offers to us!

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Some questions to discuss:

1. Should Jesus’ purpose for His life on our world be similar to ours? If not, why not? If so, how?
2. What do you think God wants for your life? Why do you think this?

                              [All answers are okay as they are our own thoughts/feelings.]

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To aligning with Jesus in revealing the Paradise Father to all mankind ~ Marin DeJohn

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Now is a good time to say as a loving group The Lord’s Prayer all together. Please turn these sheets back in.
Write down any questions you may have and give them to your leader. Feel free to write down a prayer request and give it to your leader.

Next week we will discuss: Love: Wedlock

When men search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they have found everything. The search for God is the unstinted bestowal of love attended by amazing discoveries of new and greater love to be bestowed.