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136:7.1 Having made his [[decisions]] regarding such matters as [[food]] and [[physical]] ministration to the needs of his [[material]] [[body]], the [[care]] of the [[health]] of himself and his associates, there remained yet other [[problems]] to solve. What would be his [[attitude]] when confronted by [[personal]] [[danger]]? He decided to [[exercise]] [[normal]] watchcare over his human [[safety]] and to take reasonable precaution to prevent the untimely termination of his [[career]] in the [[flesh]] but to refrain from all [[superhuman]] [[intervention]] when the [[crisis]] of his life in the flesh should come. As he was formulating this [[decision]], [[Jesus]] was seated under the shade of a tree on an overhanging ledge of rock with a precipice right there before him. He fully [[realized]] that he could cast himself off the ledge and out into [[space]], and that nothing could happen to harm him provided he would rescind his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:5._THE_FIRST_GREAT_DECISION first great decision] not to invoke the interposition of his [[celestial]] intelligences in the prosecution of his lifework on [[Urantia]], and provided he would abrogate his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:6._THE_SECOND_DECISION second decision] concerning his [[attitude]] toward [[self-preservation]].

136:7.1 Having made his [[decisions]] regarding such matters as [[food]] and [[physical]] ministration to the needs of his [[material]] [[body]], the [[care]] of the [[health]] of himself and his associates, there remained yet other [[problems]] to solve. What would be his [[attitude]] when confronted by [[personal]] [[danger]]? He decided to [[exercise]] [[normal]] watchcare over his human [[safety]] and to take reasonable precaution to prevent the untimely termination of his [[career]] in the [[flesh]] but to refrain from all [[superhuman]] [[intervention]] when the [[crisis]] of his life in the flesh should come. As he was formulating this [[decision]], [[Jesus]] was seated under the shade of a tree on an overhanging ledge of rock with a precipice right there before him. He fully [[realized]] that he could cast himself off the ledge and out into [[space]], and that nothing could happen to harm him provided he would rescind his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:5._THE_FIRST_GREAT_DECISION first great decision] not to invoke the interposition of his [[celestial]] intelligences in the prosecution of his lifework on [[Urantia]], and provided he would abrogate his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_136#136:6._THE_SECOND_DECISION second decision] concerning his [[attitude]] toward [[self-preservation]].

136:7.2 [[Jesus]] knew his fellow countrymen were [[expecting]] a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism Messiah] who would be above [[natural law]]. Well had he been taught that [[Scripture]]: " There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he shall give his [[angels]] charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands lest you dash your foot against a stone. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_91] Would this sort of presumption, this defiance of [[Universal Father|his Father]'s [[laws]] of [[gravity]], be justified in order to protect himself from possible harm or, perchance, to win the [[confidence]] of his mistaught and distracted people? But such a [[course]], however [[gratifying]] to the [[sign]]-seeking [[Jews]], would be, not a [[revelation]] of [[Universal Father|his Father]], but a questionable trifling with the established [[laws]] of the [[universe of universes]].

136:7.2 [[Jesus]] knew his fellow countrymen were [[expecting]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messianism Messiah] who would be above [[natural law]]. Well had he been taught that [[Scripture]]: " There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he shall give his [[angels]] charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands lest you dash your foot against a stone. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_91] Would this sort of presumption, this defiance of [[Universal Father|his Father]'s [[laws]] of [[gravity]], be justified in order to protect himself from possible harm or, perchance, to win the [[confidence]] of his mistaught and distracted people? But such a [[course]], however [[gratifying]] to the [[sign]]-seeking [[Jews]], would be, not a [[revelation]] of [[Universal Father|his Father]], but a questionable trifling with the established [[laws]] of the [[universe of universes]].

136:7.3 [[Understanding]] all of this and knowing that [[the Master]] refused to [[work]] in defiance of his established [[laws]] of [[nature]] in so far as his [[personal]] [[conduct]] was concerned, you know of a [[certainty]] that he never walked on the water nor did anything else which was an outrage to his [[material]] order of [[administering]] the world; always, of course, bearing in [[mind]] that there had, as yet, been found no way whereby he could be wholly delivered from the lack of [[control]] over the element of [[time]] in connection with those matters put under the [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Personalized Adjuster]].

136:7.3 [[Understanding]] all of this and knowing that [[the Master]] refused to [[work]] in defiance of his established [[laws]] of [[nature]] in so far as his [[personal]] [[conduct]] was concerned, you know of a [[certainty]] that he never walked on the water nor did anything else which was an outrage to his [[material]] order of [[administering]] the world; always, of course, bearing in [[mind]] that there had, as yet, been found no way whereby he could be wholly delivered from the lack of [[control]] over the element of [[time]] in connection with those matters put under the [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Personalized Adjuster]].