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136:8.1 The next great [[problem]] with which this [[God]]-[[man]] wrestled and which he presently [[decided]] in [[accordance]] with the will of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]], concerned the question as to whether or not any of his [[superhuman]] powers should be employed for the [[purpose]] of [[attracting]] the [[attention]] and winning the [[adherence]] of his fellow men. Should he in any [[manner]] lend his [[universe]] [[powers]] to the [[gratification]] of the [[Jewish]] hankering for the [[spectacular]] and the [[marvelous]]? He [[decided]] that he should not. He settled upon a [[policy]] of [[procedure]] which eliminated all such [[practices]] as the [[method]] of bringing his [[mission]] to the notice of men. And he consistently lived up to this great [[decision]]. Even when he [[permitted]] the [[manifestation]] of numerous time-shortening ministrations of [[mercy]], he almost invariably admonished the recipients of his [[healing]] ministry to tell no man about the benefits they had received. And always did he refuse the taunting [[challenge]] of his enemies to " show us a sign "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_mark#Chapter_8] in [[proof]] and [[demonstration]] of his [[divinity]].

136:8.1 The next great [[problem]] with which this [[God]]-[[man]] wrestled and which he presently [[decided]] in [[accordance]] with the will of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]], concerned the question as to whether or not any of his [[superhuman]] powers should be employed for the [[purpose]] of [[attracting]] the [[attention]] and winning the [[adherence]] of his fellow men. Should he in any [[manner]] lend his [[universe]] [[powers]] to the [[gratification]] of the [[Jewish]] hankering for the [[spectacular]] and the [[marvelous]]? He [[decided]] that he should not. He settled upon a [[policy]] of [[procedure]] which eliminated all such [[practices]] as the [[method]] of bringing his [[mission]] to the notice of men. And he consistently lived up to this great [[decision]]. Even when he [[permitted]] the [[manifestation]] of numerous time-shortening ministrations of [[mercy]], he almost invariably admonished the recipients of his [[healing]] ministry to tell no man about the benefits they had received. And always did he refuse the taunting [[challenge]] of his enemies to " show us a sign "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_mark#Chapter_8] in [[proof]] and [[demonstration]] of his [[divinity]].

136:8.2 [[Jesus]] very wisely foresaw that the working of [[miracles]] and the [[execution]] of [[wonders]] would call forth only outward [[allegiance]] by overawing the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind]; such [[performances]] would not [[reveal]] [[God]] nor save men. He refused to become a mere [[wonder]]-worker. He resolved to become occupied with but a single task—the [[establishment]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven kingdom of heaven].

136:8.2 [[Jesus]] very wisely foresaw that the working of [[miracles]] and the [[execution]] of [[wonders]] would call forth only outward [[allegiance]] by overawing the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind]; such [[performances]] would not [[reveal]] [[God]] nor save men. He refused to become a mere [[wonder]]-worker. He resolved to become occupied with but a single task—the [[establishment]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven kingdom of heaven].

136:8.3 Throughout all this momentous [[dialog]] of [[Jesus]]' communing with himself, there was present the [[human]] element of questioning and near-doubting, for [[Jesus]] was [[man]] as well as [[God]]. It was [[evident]] he would never be received by the [[Jews]] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism the Messiah] if he did not work [[wonders]]. Besides, if he would consent to do just one unnatural thing, the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 human mind] would know of a [[certainty]] that it was in subservience to a truly [[divine]] mind. Would it be [[consistent]] with " [[the Father]]'s will " for the divine mind to make this [[concession]] to the [[doubting]] [[nature]] of the human mind? [[Jesus]] decided that it would not and cited the [[presence]] of the [[Personalized Adjuster]] as sufficient [[proof]] of [[divinity]] in [[partnership]] with [[humanity]].

136:8.3 Throughout all this momentous [[dialog]] of [[Jesus]]' communing with himself, there was present the [[human]] element of questioning and near-doubting, for [[Jesus]] was [[man]] as well as [[God]]. It was [[evident]] he would never be received by the [[Jews]] as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism the Messiah] if he did not work [[wonders]]. Besides, if he would consent to do just one unnatural thing, the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 human mind] would know of a [[certainty]] that it was in subservience to a truly [[divine]] mind. Would it be [[consistent]] with " [[the Father]]'s will " for the divine mind to make this [[concession]] to the [[doubting]] [[nature]] of the human mind? [[Jesus]] decided that it would not and cited the [[presence]] of the [[Personalized Adjuster]] as sufficient [[proof]] of [[divinity]] in [[partnership]] with [[humanity]].

136:8.4 [[Jesus]] had traveled much; he recalled [[Rome]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]. He knew the [[methods]] of the world—how people gained their ends in [[politics]] and [[commerce]] by [[compromise]] and [[diplomacy]]. Would he utilize this [[knowledge]] in the furtherance of his [[mission]] on [[earth]]? He likewise decided against all [[compromise]] with the [[wisdom]] of the world and the [[influence]] of riches in the establishment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_God the kingdom]. He again chose to depend exclusively on [[the Father]]'s will.

136:8.4 [[Jesus]] had traveled much; he recalled [[Rome]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus]. He knew the [[methods]] of the world—how people gained their ends in [[politics]] and [[commerce]] by [[compromise]] and [[diplomacy]]. Would he utilize this [[knowledge]] in the furtherance of his [[mission]] on [[earth]]? He likewise decided against all [[compromise]] with the [[wisdom]] of the world and the [[influence]] of riches in the establishment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_God the kingdom]. He again chose to depend exclusively on [[the Father]]'s will.

136:8.5 [[Jesus]] was fully aware of the short cuts open to one of his [[powers]]. He knew many ways in which the [[attention]] of the [[nation]], and the whole world, could be [[immediately]] [[focused]] upon himself. Soon the [[Passover]] would be celebrated at [[Jerusalem]]; the [[city]] would be thronged with visitors. He could [[ascend]] the pinnacle of the [[temple]] and before the bewildered multitude walk out on the air; that would be the kind of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism Messiah] they were looking for. But he would subsequently [[disappoint]] them since he had not come to re-establish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_Line David's throne]. And he knew the futility of the [[Caligastia]] [[method]] of trying to get ahead of the [[natural]], slow, and sure way of accomplishing the [[divine]] [[purpose]]. Again the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] bowed [[obediently]] to [[the Father]]'s way, the Father's will.

136:8.5 [[Jesus]] was fully aware of the short cuts open to one of his [[powers]]. He knew many ways in which the [[attention]] of the [[nation]], and the whole world, could be [[immediately]] [[focused]] upon himself. Soon the [[Passover]] would be celebrated at [[Jerusalem]]; the [[city]] would be thronged with visitors. He could [[ascend]] the pinnacle of the [[temple]] and before the bewildered multitude walk out on the air; that would be the kind of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism Messiah] they were looking for. But he would subsequently [[disappoint]] them since he had not come to re-establish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_Line David's throne]. And he knew the futility of the [[Caligastia]] [[method]] of trying to get ahead of the [[natural]], slow, and sure way of accomplishing the [[divine]] [[purpose]]. Again the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] bowed [[obediently]] to [[the Father]]'s way, the Father's will.

136:8.6 [[Jesus]] [[chose]] to [[establish]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_God kingdom of heaven] in the [[hearts]] of [[mankind]] by [[natural]], ordinary, [[difficult]], and trying [[methods]], just such [[procedures]] as his [[earth]] [[children]] must subsequently follow in their [[work]] of enlarging and extending that heavenly kingdom. For well did the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] know that it would be " through much tribulation that many of the children of all ages would enter into the kingdom. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.14] [[Jesus]] was now passing through the great [[test]] of civilized man, to have [[power]] and [[steadfastly]] refuse to use it for purely [[selfish]] or [[personal]] [[purposes]].

136:8.6 [[Jesus]] [[chose]] to [[establish]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_God kingdom of heaven] in the [[hearts]] of [[mankind]] by [[natural]], ordinary, [[difficult]], and trying [[methods]], just such [[procedures]] as his [[earth]] [[children]] must subsequently follow in their [[work]] of enlarging and extending that heavenly kingdom. For well did the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] know that it would be " through much tribulation that many of the children of all ages would enter into the kingdom. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.14] [[Jesus]] was now passing through the great [[test]] of civilized man, to have [[power]] and [[steadfastly]] refuse to use it for purely [[selfish]] or [[personal]] [[purposes]].

136:8.7 In your [[consideration]] of the life and [[experience]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man], it should be ever borne in [[mind]] that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_God Son of God] was [[incarnate]] in the [[mind]] of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!st_century first-century] [[human being]], not in the [[mind]] of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth-century] or other-century [[mortal]]. By this we mean to convey the [[idea]] that the [[human]] [[endowments]] of [[Jesus]] were of [[natural]] acquirement. He was the product of the [[hereditary]] and [[environmental]] [[factors]] of his time, plus the [[influence]] of his [[training]] and [[education]]. His [[humanity]] was genuine, [[natural]], wholly derived from the antecedents of, and fostered by, the actual [[intellectual]] [[status]] and [[social]] and [[economic]] conditions of that day and [[generation]]. While in the [[experience]] of this [[God]]-[[man]] there was always the possibility that the [[divine]] mind would [[transcend]] the [[human]] [[intellect]], nonetheless, when, and as, his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] [[functioned]], it did perform as would a true [[mortal]] mind under the conditions of the human [[environment]] of that day.

136:8.7 In your [[consideration]] of the life and [[experience]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man], it should be ever borne in [[mind]] that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_God Son of God] was [[incarnate]] in the [[mind]] of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!st_century first-century] [[human being]], not in the [[mind]] of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth-century] or other-century [[mortal]]. By this we mean to convey the [[idea]] that the [[human]] [[endowments]] of [[Jesus]] were of [[natural]] acquirement. He was the product of the [[hereditary]] and [[environmental]] [[factors]] of his time, plus the [[influence]] of his [[training]] and [[education]]. His [[humanity]] was genuine, [[natural]], wholly derived from the antecedents of, and fostered by, the actual [[intellectual]] [[status]] and [[social]] and [[economic]] conditions of that day and [[generation]]. While in the [[experience]] of this [[God]]-[[man]] there was always the possibility that the [[divine]] mind would [[transcend]] the [[human]] [[intellect]], nonetheless, when, and as, his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] [[functioned]], it did perform as would a true [[mortal]] mind under the conditions of the human [[environment]] of that day.

136:8.8 [[Jesus]] portrayed to all the worlds of [[Nebadon|his vast universe]] the [[folly]] of creating [[artificial]] situations for the [[purpose]] of exhibiting [[arbitrary]] [[authority]] or of indulging exceptional [[power]] for the [[purpose]] of enhancing [[moral]] [[values]] or [[accelerating]] [[spiritual]] [[progress]]. [[Jesus]] decided that he would not lend his [[mission]] on earth to a repetition of the [[disappointment]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabbees reign of the Maccabees]. He refused to [[prostitute]] his [[divine]] [[attributes]] for the [[purpose]] of acquiring unearned popularity or for gaining [[political]] [[prestige]]. He would not countenance the [[transmutation]] of [[divine]] and [[creative]] [[energy]] into [[national]] power or international [[prestige]]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] refused to [[compromise]] with [[evil]], much less to consort with [[sin]]. [[The Master]] triumphantly put [[loyalty]] to his Father's will above every other earthly and [[temporal]] [[consideration]].

136:8.8 [[Jesus]] portrayed to all the worlds of [[Nebadon|his vast universe]] the [[folly]] of creating [[artificial]] situations for the [[purpose]] of exhibiting [[arbitrary]] [[authority]] or of indulging exceptional [[power]] for the [[purpose]] of enhancing [[moral]] [[values]] or [[accelerating]] [[spiritual]] [[progress]]. [[Jesus]] decided that he would not lend his [[mission]] on earth to a repetition of the [[disappointment]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabbees reign of the Maccabees]. He refused to [[prostitute]] his [[divine]] [[attributes]] for the [[purpose]] of acquiring unearned popularity or for gaining [[political]] [[prestige]]. He would not countenance the [[transmutation]] of [[divine]] and [[creative]] [[energy]] into [[national]] power or international [[prestige]]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] refused to [[compromise]] with [[evil]], much less to consort with [[sin]]. [[The Master]] triumphantly put [[loyalty]] to his Father's will above every other earthly and [[temporal]] [[consideration]].

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[[Category:Paper 136 - Baptism and the Forty Days]]

[[Category:Paper 136 - Baptism and the Forty Days]]

[[Category: Attention]]

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[[Category: Miracles]]

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