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193:0.1 The sixteenth [[morontia]] [[manifestation]] of [[Jesus]] occurred on Friday, May 5, in the [[courtyard]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus Nicodemus], about nine o'clock at night. On this evening the [[Jerusalem]] [[believers]] had made their first attempt to get [[together]] since the [[resurrection]]. Assembled here at this [[time]] were the eleven [[apostles]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_150#150:1._THE_WOMEN.27S_EVANGELISTIC_CORPS the women's corps] and their [[associates]], and about fifty other leading [[disciples]] of [[the Master]], including a number of the [[Greeks]]. This company of [[believers]] had been [[visiting]] [[informally]] for more than half an hour when, suddenly, the [[morontia]] [[the Master|Master]] [[appeared]] in full view and [[immediately]] began to [[Teaching|instruct]] them. Said [[Jesus]]:

193:0.1 The sixteenth [[morontia]] [[manifestation]] of [[Jesus]] occurred on Friday, May 5, in the [[courtyard]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus Nicodemus], about nine o'clock at night. On this evening the [[Jerusalem]] [[believers]] had made their first attempt to get [[together]] since the [[resurrection]]. Assembled here at this [[time]] were the eleven [[apostles]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_150#150:1._THE_WOMEN.27S_EVANGELISTIC_CORPS the women's corps] and their [[associates]], and about fifty other leading [[disciples]] of [[the Master]], including a number of the [[Greeks]]. This company of [[believers]] had been [[visiting]] [[informally]] for more than half an hour when, suddenly, the [[morontia]] [[the Master|Master]] [[appeared]] in full view and [[immediately]] began to [[Teaching|instruct]] them. Said [[Jesus]]:

193:0.2 " [[Peace]] be upon you. This is the most [[representative]] [[group]] of [[believers]]—[[apostles]] and [[disciples]], both [[men]] and [[women]]—to which I have [[appeared]] since the time of my [[deliverance]] from the [[flesh]]. I now call you to [[witness]] that I told you beforehand that my [[sojourn]] among you must come to an end; I told you that presently I must return to [[the Father]]. And then I plainly told you how the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol chief priests] and the [[Sanhedrin|rulers]] of the [[Jews]] would deliver me up to be put to [[death]], and that I would [[Resurrection|rise]] from the [[grave]]. Why, then, did you allow yourselves to become so disconcerted by all this when it came to pass? and why were you so [[surprised]] when I rose from the [[tomb]] on the third day? You [[failed]] to believe me because you heard my [[words]] without [[comprehending]] the [[meaning]] thereof.

193:0.2 " [[Peace]] be upon you. This is the most [[representative]] [[group]] of [[believers]]—[[apostles]] and [[disciples]], both [[men]] and [[women]]—to which I have [[appeared]] since the time of my [[deliverance]] from the [[flesh]]. I now call you to [[witness]] that I told you beforehand that my [[sojourn]] among you must come to an end; I told you that presently I must return to [[the Father]]. And then I plainly told you how the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol chief priests] and the [[Sanhedrin|rulers]] of the [[Jews]] would deliver me up to be put to [[death]], and that I would [[Resurrection|rise]] from the [[grave]]. Why, then, did you allow yourselves to become so disconcerted by all this when it came to pass? and why were you so [[surprised]] when I rose from the [[tomb]] on the third day? You [[failed]] to believe me because you heard my [[words]] without [[comprehending]] the [[meaning]] thereof.

193:0.3 " And now you should give ear to my [[words]] lest you again make the mistake of hearing my [[teaching]] with the [[mind]] while in your [[hearts]] you fail to [[comprehend]] the [[meaning]]. From the beginning of my [[sojourn]] as one of you, I taught you that my one [[purpose]] was to [[reveal]] [[the Father|my Father]] in [[heaven]] to his [[children]] on [[earth]]. I have lived the [[God]]-[[revealing]] [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|bestowal]] that you might [[experience]] the [[God]]-knowing [[career]]. I have [[revealed]] [[God]] as y[[our Father]] in heaven; I have [[revealed]] you as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons of God] on [[earth]]. It is a [[fact]] that [[God]] loves you, his sons. By [[faith]] in my [[word]] this [[fact]] becomes an [[eternal]] and [[living]] [[truth]] in your [[hearts]]. When, by [[living]] [[faith]], you become [[divinely]] [[God-conscious]], you are then [[born]] of the [[spirit]] as [[children]] of [[light and life]], even the [[eternal]] life wherewith you shall [[Ascension Career|ascend]] the [[universe of universes]] and [[attain]] the [[experience]] of finding [[God]] [[the Father]] on [[Paradise]].

193:0.3 " And now you should give ear to my [[words]] lest you again make the mistake of hearing my [[teaching]] with the [[mind]] while in your [[hearts]] you fail to [[comprehend]] the [[meaning]]. From the beginning of my [[sojourn]] as one of you, I taught you that my one [[purpose]] was to [[reveal]] [[the Father|my Father]] in [[heaven]] to his [[children]] on [[earth]]. I have lived the [[God]]-[[revealing]] [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|bestowal]] that you might [[experience]] the [[God]]-knowing [[career]]. I have [[revealed]] [[God]] as y[[our Father]] in heaven; I have [[revealed]] you as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons of God] on [[earth]]. It is a [[fact]] that [[God]] loves you, his sons. By [[faith]] in my [[word]] this [[fact]] becomes an [[eternal]] and [[living]] [[truth]] in your [[hearts]]. When, by [[living]] [[faith]], you become [[divinely]] [[God-conscious]], you are then [[born]] of the [[spirit]] as [[children]] of [[light and life]], even the [[eternal]] life wherewith you shall [[Ascension Career|ascend]] the [[universe of universes]] and [[attain]] the [[experience]] of finding [[God]] [[the Father]] on [[Paradise]].

193:0.4 " I [[admonish]] you ever to [[remember]] that your [[mission]] among men is to [[proclaim]] the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]—the [[reality]] of the [[fatherhood]] of [[God]] and the [[truth]] of the [[sonship]] of [[man]]. [[Proclaim]] the whole [[truth]] of the good news, not just a part of the saving [[gospel]]. Your [[message]] is not changed by my [[resurrection]] [[experience]]. [[Sonship]] with [[God]], by [[faith]], is still the saving [[truth]] of the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]. You are to go forth [[preaching]] the [[love]] of [[God]] and the [[service]] of [[man]]. That which the world needs most to [[know]] is: Men are the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons of God], and through [[faith]] they can actually [[realize]], and daily [[experience]], this [[ennobling]] [[truth]]. [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|My bestowal]] should help all men to know that they are the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:6._THE_FAITH_SONS_OF_GOD children of God], but such [[knowledge]] will not suffice if they [[fail]] [[personally]] to [[faith]]-grasp the saving [[truth]] that they are the living spirit sons of [[the Father|the eternal Father]]. The [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] is concerned with the [[love]] of [[the Father]] and the [[service]] of his [[children]] on [[earth]].

193:0.4 " I [[admonish]] you ever to [[remember]] that your [[mission]] among men is to [[proclaim]] the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]—the [[reality]] of the [[fatherhood]] of [[God]] and the [[truth]] of the [[sonship]] of [[man]]. [[Proclaim]] the whole [[truth]] of the good news, not just a part of the saving [[gospel]]. Your [[message]] is not changed by my [[resurrection]] [[experience]]. [[Sonship]] with [[God]], by [[faith]], is still the saving [[truth]] of the [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]]. You are to go forth [[preaching]] the [[love]] of [[God]] and the [[service]] of [[man]]. That which the world needs most to [[know]] is: Men are the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons of God], and through [[faith]] they can actually [[realize]], and daily [[experience]], this [[ennobling]] [[truth]]. [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|My bestowal]] should help all men to know that they are the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:6._THE_FAITH_SONS_OF_GOD children of God], but such [[knowledge]] will not suffice if they [[fail]] [[personally]] to [[faith]]-grasp the saving [[truth]] that they are the living spirit sons of [[the Father|the eternal Father]]. The [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] is concerned with the [[love]] of [[the Father]] and the [[service]] of his [[children]] on [[earth]].

193:0.5 " Among yourselves, here, you [[share]] the [[knowledge]] that I have [[Resurrection|risen]] from the [[dead]], but that is not [[strange]]. I have the [[power]] to lay down my life and to take it up again; [[the Father]] gives such [[power]] to his [[Paradise Sons]]. You should the rather be stirred in your [[hearts]] by the [[knowledge]] that the dead of an age entered upon the [[eternal]] [[ascent]] soon after I left [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph]'s new [[tomb]]. I lived my life in the [[flesh]] to show how you can, through [[loving]] [[service]], become [[God]]-[[revealing]] to your fellow men even as, by loving you and serving you, I have become [[God]]-[[revealing]] to you. I have lived among you as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] that you, and all other men, might know that you are all indeed the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons of God]. Therefore, go you now into all the world [[preaching]] this [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] of heaven to all men. [[Love]] all men as I have loved you; serve your fellow [[mortals]] as I have served you. [[Free]]ly you have [[received]], freely give. Only tarry here in [[Jerusalem]] while I go to [[the Father]], and until I send you the [[Spirit of Truth]]. He shall lead you into the enlarged [[truth]], and I will go with you into all the world. I am with you always, and my [[peace]] I leave with you. "

193:0.5 " Among yourselves, here, you [[share]] the [[knowledge]] that I have [[Resurrection|risen]] from the [[dead]], but that is not [[strange]]. I have the [[power]] to lay down my life and to take it up again; [[the Father]] gives such [[power]] to his [[Paradise Sons]]. You should the rather be stirred in your [[hearts]] by the [[knowledge]] that the dead of an age entered upon the [[eternal]] [[ascent]] soon after I left [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea Joseph]'s new [[tomb]]. I lived my life in the [[flesh]] to show how you can, through [[loving]] [[service]], become [[God]]-[[revealing]] to your fellow men even as, by loving you and serving you, I have become [[God]]-[[revealing]] to you. I have lived among you as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] that you, and all other men, might know that you are all indeed the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE sons of God]. Therefore, go you now into all the world [[preaching]] this [[gospel]] of [[the kingdom]] of heaven to all men. [[Love]] all men as I have loved you; serve your fellow [[mortals]] as I have served you. [[Free]]ly you have [[received]], freely give. Only tarry here in [[Jerusalem]] while I go to [[the Father]], and until I send you the [[Spirit of Truth]]. He shall lead you into the enlarged [[truth]], and I will go with you into all the world. I am with you always, and my [[peace]] I leave with you. "

193:0.6 When [[the Master]] had [[spoken]] to them, he vanished from their [[sight]]. It was near [[Dawn|daybreak]] before these [[believers]] [[dispersed]]; all night they remained [[together]], earnestly [[discussing]] [[the Master]]'s [[admonitions]] and [[contemplating]] all that had befallen them. [[James Zebedee]] and others of [[the apostles]] also told them of their [[experiences]] with the [[Paper 192 - Appearances in Galilee|morontia Master in Galilee]] and [[recited]] how he had [[three]] times [[appeared]] to them.

193:0.6 When [[the Master]] had [[spoken]] to them, he vanished from their [[sight]]. It was near [[Dawn|daybreak]] before these [[believers]] [[dispersed]]; all night they remained [[together]], earnestly [[discussing]] [[the Master]]'s [[admonitions]] and [[contemplating]] all that had befallen them. [[James Zebedee]] and others of [[the apostles]] also told them of their [[experiences]] with the [[Paper 192 - Appearances in Galilee|morontia Master in Galilee]] and [[recited]] how he had [[three]] times [[appeared]] to them.

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[[Category: Paper 193 - Final Appearances and Ascension]]

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