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Of Love for The KING
We are really here to minister to the KING. This relates to the first
great commandment, and when we actually do minister to the KING
we find ourselves capable of ministering to His people, the second
great commandment. But the first must come first; otherwise there
is no second. If we do minister to the KING it is not because we are
trying to please Him. Some human beings find themselves trapped
in a state where they are constantly trying to please other people—
they never succeed too well—but the attempt always brings them
into subjection to other people. Other people control the way they
behave. So we are not trying to please one another, rightly. I have
had quite a number of people who try to please me. They never
succeeded, because the very attempt is not pleasing to me! This is
not a sound motivation: trying to please other people. There are
those who utilize such tendencies in others to exercise control over
them: “You please me or else I’m not going to be happy; and if I’m
not happy I’m going to do this, that, and the other thing.” Go right
ahead! The KING cannot be bought, neither can His Ministers.
What is it that has been lacking on earth? I am sure that you could
all give an answer to that, pointing to the fact that there has been
no true, manifest point of heavenly focus within the consciousness
of mankind. There was one, of course—maybe more than one, but
one we certainly know about. That was the focus that was provided
because of the incarnation of our KING. Clearly it was not accepted.
As is the custom with human beings, they throw away their greatest
blessings and then try to get them back later, imagining that they
have awakened to the value of what was thrown away. But you can
never get it back, because the blessing is in the moment, not in the
past. You cannot extract it out of the past. This is the attempt that
has been made by Christianity, for instance, and by virtually all
religions. The focus that has been lacking has been available in the
past—I pointed to this one occasion—but whenever it did appear,
obviously it was rejected. Otherwise things wouldn’t be the way
they are now.
Those who become aware of the reality of that point of focus are
those who participate in its expression, not those who do not
participate in its expression—they cannot know. We may on
occasion have been inclined to look around and wonder why people
are so dumb as not to realize the truth, but perhaps one of the
reasons they haven’t realized the truth is because it wasn’t really all
that vividly made evident. And that comes back to our
responsibility. However, if it is vividly made evident, is it to be
anticipated that it would be received by all concerned with open
arms? It never has happened in all the history of mankind.
There must be a point of focus. All that human beings have been
able to produce is a most unpleasant dragon with—so we are told—
seven heads, ten horns, all this, but a multi-headed beast that
raises hell. What has been lacking is the factual presence, first of
all, of a real point of focus representing the KING, actually the KING
because His is the spirit of the point of focus. Here is the spirit of
the KING, and if that is rejected the KING is being rejected. No one
can reject the KING with impunity, as is being found out and will be
found out increasingly in the days to come. All this can happen,
however, only because there actually is the point of focus,
something which is absolute.
The first aspect of that ministry is to love Him. Well there are lots of
people in the world who claim to love the Lord, love God, love Allah,
whatever. It doesn’t seem to have made all that much difference,
because it is something that cannot be proven out, the way things
have been. One can make claims: “I love God!” Well whom are you
loving? Where is He? “I love Jesus!” Okay, fine. Where is He? What
does it mean? People delight to fool themselves. It is only when
something appears in form in expression on earth that is a true
revelation of the KING that things prove themselves out. And all the
claims in the world mean nothing in face of a rejection of
the manifest point of focus. This is the one thing that is essential
on earth. Yes, I suppose there is a little human hesitancy to really
accept the idea that one might be associated with that point of
focus. “Perhaps so-and-so would do it well, but not me. I am too
humble.” Well who is going to do it then? Those whose minds and
hearts become aware of the Minister of the LORD.
Perhaps tonight I seek to make even more clear than it has been
heretofore what the one element that has been lacking has been,
and how that relates to us. It relates to others too of course, but we
can only assume responsibility for ourselves. The Ministers of the
LORD take form in expression on earth to provide this fused point of
focus for all people. Now this fused point of focus, as it becomes an
increasing reality, is found in the consciousness of some people—
not all people yet, by any manner of means, but some people. And
there is what might be referred to as a ripple effect: according to
the reactions of some people so will the influence be exerted upon
the rest. Factually, as this is true that there is this point of focus, it
is present in the consciousness of mankind, because the
consciousness of mankind is One. People think of it in terms of little
individual minds and hearts, but factually it is One.
So we are here to let this job be done because we know the truth.
Knowing the truth by reason of the Word in our expression in
living, we come to experience love—love for the KING, love for each
other. And it is that love which allows for the close communion that
is the fire of fusion. You could no more betray or criticize or put
down another than you could obliterate yourself. Love! The
unknown quantity, because the truth has not been known. But now
the truth begins to be known and love begins to be known, and
there is what we have called union. And this union, to become
unified radiation, requires fusion, so that there is a conscious
awareness of inseparability: the fire of fusion, the fire of love,
known because of the truth. Then there is easy communion, and
then there is fitting communication.
There has not been very much fitting communication yet, because
there has not been all that much experience of communion, because
there has not been all that much experience of love, because there
has not been all that much experience of the truth, because there
has not been all that much experience of the expression of the Word
in living. Something, obviously—and I thank God for that
something, but let us not fool ourselves that it is enough. We would,
I am sure, all long that it should be enough. The way it is now,
there is too little communion and still too much of the idea that if
we communicate we will develop communion. It doesn’t work that
way—that is backwards. To live the truth, to know love, to
commune one with another and to communicate. This business of
running from one side of the boat to the other—that is the way to
capsize the boat. Let’s stay in the middle where there is the balance
and rejoice in the privilege and the opportunity we have to be
Ministers to our KING because we love Him. And we prove our love
for Him by our love for one another. That is the way it is.