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==CHAPTER 23==
==CHAPTER 23==
Jesus continued to teach the twenty-four, saying:
Jesus continued to teach the twenty-four, saying:
*"The heathen are not without excuse when they rage at us. Because their outlook is small and narrow, they are able to concentrate their energies enthusiastically. Their goal is near and more or less visible. Wherefore do they strive with valiant and effective execution. <u>You who have professed entrance into the '''kingdom of heaven''' are altogether too vacillating and indefinite in your teaching conduct.</u> The heathen strike directly for their objectives. You are guilty of too much chronic yearning. If you desire to enter the kingdom, why do you not take it by spiritual assault even as the heathen take a city they lay siege to? You are hardly worthy of the kingdom when your service consists so largely in an attitude of regretting the past, whining over the present, and vainly hoping for the future. Why do the heathen rage? Because they know not the truth. '''Why do you languish in futile yearning'''? Because you obey not the truth. Cease your useless yearning and go forth bravely doing that which concerns the establishment of the kingdom.
*"The heathen are not without excuse when they rage at us. Because their outlook is small and narrow, they are able to concentrate their energies enthusiastically. Their goal is near and more or less visible. Wherefore do they strive with valiant and effective execution. <u>You who have professed entrance into the '''kingdom of heaven''' are altogether too vacillating and indefinite in your teaching conduct.</u> The heathen strike directly for their objectives. You are guilty of too much chronic yearning. If you desire to enter the kingdom, why do you not take it by spiritual assault even as the heathen take a city they lay siege to? You are hardly worthy of the kingdom when your service consists so largely in an attitude of regretting the past, whining over the present, and vainly hoping for the future. Why do the heathen rage? Because they know not the truth. <u>Why do you languish in futile '''yearning'''?</u> Because you obey not the truth. Cease your useless yearning and go forth bravely doing that which concerns the establishment of the kingdom.
*"In all that you do, become not one-sided and overspecialized. The Pharisees who seek our destruction verily think they are doing God's service. They have become so narrowed by tradition that they are blinded by prejudice and hardened by fear. Consider the Greeks, who have a science without religion, while the Jews have a religion without science. And when men become thus misled into accepting a narrow and confused disintegration of truth, their only hope of salvation is to become truth-coordinated -- converted.
*"In all that you do, become not one-sided and overspecialized. The Pharisees who seek our destruction verily think they are doing God's service. They have become so narrowed by tradition that they are blinded by prejudice and hardened by fear. Consider the Greeks, who have a science without religion, while the Jews have a religion without science. And when men become thus misled into accepting a narrow and confused disintegration of truth, their only hope of salvation is to become truth-coordinated -- converted.
====[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_155_-_Fleeing_Through_Northern_Galilee#155:4._ON_THE_WAY_TO_PHOENICIA On the way to Phoenicia]====
====[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_155_-_Fleeing_Through_Northern_Galilee#155:4._ON_THE_WAY_TO_PHOENICIA On the way to Phoenicia]====
They paused for lunch under the shadow of an overhanging ledge of rock, near Luz.
They paused for lunch under the shadow of an overhanging ledge of rock, near Luz.
====[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_155#155:5._THE_DISCOURSE_ON_TRUE_RELIGION The Discourse on True Religion]====
====[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_155#155:5._THE_DISCOURSE_ON_TRUE_RELIGION The Discourse on True Religion]====
Jesus made it clear that the great difference between the '''religion of the mind''' and the '''religion of the spirit''' is that while ecclesiastical authority upholds the former, the latter is wholly based on human experience.
Jesus made it clear that the great difference between the '''religion of the mind''' and the '''religion of the spirit''' is that while ecclesiastical authority upholds the former, the latter is wholly based on human experience.
*"Go now apart by yourselves, each man alone with the Father, and there find the unemotional answer to my question, and having found such a true and sincere attitude of soul, speak that answer freely and boldly to my Father and your Father, whose infinite life of love is the very spirit of the religion we proclaim."
*"Go now apart by yourselves, each man alone with the Father, and there find the unemotional answer to my question, and having found such a true and sincere attitude of soul, speak that answer freely and boldly to my Father and your Father, whose infinite life of love is the very spirit of the religion we proclaim."
====[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_155#155:6._THE_SECOND_DISCOURSE_ON_RELIGION The Second Discourse on Religion]====
====[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_155#155:6._THE_SECOND_DISCOURSE_ON_RELIGION The Second Discourse on Religion]====
After continuing their journey, they paused in the shade of the hillside, and Jesus continued to teach them regarding the religion of the spirit, in substance saying:
After continuing their journey, they paused in the shade of the hillside, and Jesus continued to teach them regarding the religion of the spirit, in substance saying: