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Ham - The Kingdom - Truth - Q & A - Aug 27, 1995 - Nashville, TN
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Ham Gives a Great Lesson!
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AUGUST 27, 1995
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===Topic: ''The Kingdom, Truth''===
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===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Ham]]===
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===TR: [[Unknown]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Greetings everyone. I am HAM and again I thank you for coming today. We have always a time that we share together our understandings about time and space, mortal life. And then there is time for us to share with you our experience aft morontial beings, which transcend your limitation, and can aid you in understanding the bigger world. This essential awareness gradually increases in your lives so that you can also have the advantage of a wider view of reality and can share this with others.
 
Greetings everyone. I am HAM and again I thank you for coming today. We have always a time that we share together our understandings about time and space, mortal life. And then there is time for us to share with you our experience aft morontial beings, which transcend your limitation, and can aid you in understanding the bigger world. This essential awareness gradually increases in your lives so that you can also have the advantage of a wider view of reality and can share this with others.
 
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===Lesson===
 
Our Master said, "the kingdom of heaven is at hand," meaning that it is here, present now. The kingdom of heaven will be realized on earth through its establishment in the hearts and minds of the people. You who have a broader knowledge due to contact with morontia beings understand that the establishment of the reign of love occurs individually first and then collectively second. A time will come when love will reign in the hearts and minds of all your people.
 
Our Master said, "the kingdom of heaven is at hand," meaning that it is here, present now. The kingdom of heaven will be realized on earth through its establishment in the hearts and minds of the people. You who have a broader knowledge due to contact with morontia beings understand that the establishment of the reign of love occurs individually first and then collectively second. A time will come when love will reign in the hearts and minds of all your people.
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Today is a wondrous day, for today you will be baptized in the truth. You will be immersed in the truth and so transformed by the truth. Truth will ever be a possession, something you can never be deprived of, something you will carry in your hearts throughout your universe careers. And these truths are simply these, that you individually are the children of God. This is the most precious truth. From this truth grows the second truth, that you are all family, and not only family to your brothers and sisters of the flesh, but also to your brethren in the morontial and spiritual states. We are the children of God. A third truth, growing from the second is that the universe is a loving place, a friendly place, the place where you belong. And fourthly is the truth that your lives individually have a purpose in the great cosmos. This truth is powerful, and it will carry you far in this life if you embrace it wholeheartedly, completely. This truth levels all the world. It raises the humble, the poor, the meek, and brings low the arrogant, the prideful, and the sinful. Once you grasp the great truth that our Father loves us all, equally, then there is no place for human fear and cruelty. Yes, this truth has the power to transform the world and it will do so. Questions.
 
Today is a wondrous day, for today you will be baptized in the truth. You will be immersed in the truth and so transformed by the truth. Truth will ever be a possession, something you can never be deprived of, something you will carry in your hearts throughout your universe careers. And these truths are simply these, that you individually are the children of God. This is the most precious truth. From this truth grows the second truth, that you are all family, and not only family to your brothers and sisters of the flesh, but also to your brethren in the morontial and spiritual states. We are the children of God. A third truth, growing from the second is that the universe is a loving place, a friendly place, the place where you belong. And fourthly is the truth that your lives individually have a purpose in the great cosmos. This truth is powerful, and it will carry you far in this life if you embrace it wholeheartedly, completely. This truth levels all the world. It raises the humble, the poor, the meek, and brings low the arrogant, the prideful, and the sinful. Once you grasp the great truth that our Father loves us all, equally, then there is no place for human fear and cruelty. Yes, this truth has the power to transform the world and it will do so. Questions.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Q: Not a question, but a comment. What I like about what you are telling us about essential and transforming truth is that there is no prophet, no intermediary, no person we have to first believe in, in order to know truth. Unlike our religions of the past, each of us is related individually to God as our Father.
 
Q: Not a question, but a comment. What I like about what you are telling us about essential and transforming truth is that there is no prophet, no intermediary, no person we have to first believe in, in order to know truth. Unlike our religions of the past, each of us is related individually to God as our Father.
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Q: Changes in the geology of the planet are a matter of cause and effect on purely a physical plane of existence. The planet as a sphere will continue to evolve at its own speed. Events that occur in the spiritualization of our civilization have no relationship to the geological evolution of the planet. (Correct.)
 
Q: Changes in the geology of the planet are a matter of cause and effect on purely a physical plane of existence. The planet as a sphere will continue to evolve at its own speed. Events that occur in the spiritualization of our civilization have no relationship to the geological evolution of the planet. (Correct.)
 
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===Closing===
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It is important to view this greater world as existing concurrently with your everyday time-bound existence. Your earthly religions tend to view the wider scope of reality as being individually future, that the heavenly morontial worlds are waiting for you at you death, and in the meantime, this world of Urantia is isolated and separated from this future state, also that the heavenly reign will only come at some future time inaugurated through the Second Coming. Both these views place the heavenly realm in the future, both individually and collectively.
 
It is important to view this greater world as existing concurrently with your everyday time-bound existence. Your earthly religions tend to view the wider scope of reality as being individually future, that the heavenly morontial worlds are waiting for you at you death, and in the meantime, this world of Urantia is isolated and separated from this future state, also that the heavenly reign will only come at some future time inaugurated through the Second Coming. Both these views place the heavenly realm in the future, both individually and collectively.
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