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==Session 1==

==Session 1==

*January 1, 2000

*January 1, 2000

BERTRAM: I am Bertram, here with all your teachers; MuriEL, Malcom, and a multitude of hosts, who are also here present, to welcome you now into this new year, this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_millennium new millennial age] of [[progress]] and [[correcting]].

BERTRAM: I am Bertram, here with all your teachers; MuriEL, Malcom, and a multitude of hosts, who are also here present, to welcome you now into this new year, this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_millennium new millennial age] of [[progress]] and [[correcting]].

Welcome children, welcome once more into this [[new age]] which has now fully begun to [[manifest]] itself into the thought concepts of all Urantians worldwide. May it be a new beginning, with renewed [[hope]] for a renewed planet progressing ever forward into the age of [[Light and Life]].

Welcome children, welcome once more into this [[new age]] which has now fully begun to [[manifest]] itself into the thought concepts of all Urantians worldwide. May it be a new beginning, with renewed [[hope]] for a renewed planet progressing ever forward into the age of [[Light and Life]].

<blockquote>" Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own [[self]] is greater than he who captures a [[city]]. [[Self-mastery]] is the [[measure]] of man's [[moral]] [[nature]] and the indicator of his [[spiritual]] [[development]]. In the old order you [[fasted]] and [[prayed]]; as the new creature of the rebirth of the [[spirit]], you are taught to [[believe]] and [[rejoice]]. In [[the Father]]'s kingdom you are to become new creatures; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how [[all things]] are to become new. And by your [[love]] for one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from [[bondage]] to [[liberty]], from [[death]] into life everlasting. ([[143:2|143:2.3]])</blockquote>

<blockquote>" Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own [[self]] is greater than he who captures a [[city]]. [[Self-mastery]] is the [[measure]] of man's [[moral]] [[nature]] and the indicator of his [[spiritual]] [[development]]. In the old order you [[fasted]] and [[prayed]]; as the new creature of the rebirth of the [[spirit]], you are taught to [[believe]] and [[rejoice]]. In [[the Father]]'s kingdom you are to become new creatures; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how [[all things]] are to become new. And by your [[love]] for one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from [[bondage]] to [[liberty]], from [[death]] into life everlasting. ([[143:2|143:2.3]])</blockquote>

<blockquote>" By the old way you seek to [[suppress]], [[obey]], and [[conform]] to the rules of living; by the new way you are first [[transformed]] by the [[Spirit of Truth]] and thereby strengthened in your inner [[soul]] by the constant [[spiritual]] renewing of your [[mind]], and so are you [[endowed]] with the [[power]] of the certain and [[joyous]] [[performance]] of the [[gracious]], acceptable, and [[perfect]] will of [[God]]. Forget not—it is your [[personal]] [[faith]] in the exceedingly great and precious [[promises]] of [[God]] that ensures your becoming partakers of the [[divine]] nature. Thus by your [[faith]] and the [[spirit]]'s [[transformation]], you become in [[reality]] the [[temples]] of [[God]], and [[Thought Adjuster|his spirit]] actually dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells within you, you are no longer bond[[slaves]] of the [[flesh]] but [[free]] and [[liberated]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:6._THE_FAITH_SONS_OF_GOD sons of the spirit]. The new [[law]] of the [[spirit]] [[endows]] you with the [[liberty]] of [[self-mastery]] in place of the old law of the [[fear]] of self-bondage and the [[slavery]] of self-denial. ([[143:2|143:2.4]])</blockquote>

<blockquote>" By the old way you seek to [[suppress]], [[obey]], and [[conform]] to the rules of living; by the new way you are first [[transformed]] by the [[Spirit of Truth]] and thereby strengthened in your inner [[soul]] by the constant [[spiritual]] renewing of your [[mind]], and so are you [[endowed]] with the [[power]] of the certain and [[joyous]] [[performance]] of the [[gracious]], acceptable, and [[perfect]] will of [[God]]. Forget not—it is your [[personal]] [[faith]] in the exceedingly great and precious [[promises]] of [[God]] that ensures your becoming partakers of the [[divine]] nature. Thus by your [[faith]] and the [[spirit]]'s [[transformation]], you become in [[reality]] the [[temples]] of [[God]], and [[Thought Adjuster|his spirit]] actually dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells within you, you are no longer bond[[slaves]] of the [[flesh]] but [[free]] and [[liberated]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:6._THE_FAITH_SONS_OF_GOD sons of the spirit]. The new [[law]] of the [[spirit]] [[endows]] you with the [[liberty]] of [[self-mastery]] in place of the old law of the [[fear]] of self-bondage and the [[slavery]] of self-denial. ([[143:2|143:2.4]])</blockquote>

The new [[law]] of the [[spirit]] endows you with the [[liberty]] of [[self-mastery]] in place of the old law of the [[fear]] of self-bondage and the [[slavery]] of self-denial.” For our lesson today, I have selected and as you have surmised from the quotation above is [[Faith|FAITH]] and CONFIDING [[Trust|TRUST]].

The new [[law]] of the [[spirit]] endows you with the [[liberty]] of [[self-mastery]] in place of the old law of the [[fear]] of self-bondage and the [[slavery]] of self-denial.” For our lesson today, I have selected and as you have surmised from the quotation above is [[Faith|FAITH]] and CONFIDING [[Trust|TRUST]].