I am only a son of my Father as you are, and while I was always free from sin and error, as regards the true conception of my Father’s true relationship to mankind, yet you are His son also. And if you will seek earnestly and pray to the Father with faith, you may become as free from sin and error as I was then, and am now.
No man can come to the Father’s love, except he be born again. This is the great and fundamental truth which men must learn and believe, for without this new birth men cannot partake of the divine essence of God’s love, which, when possessed by a man, makes him at-one with the Father.
This love comes to man by the workings of the Holy Spirit, causing this love to flow into the heart and soul, and filling it, so that all sin and error must be eradicated.
Let not men think that by any effort of their own they can come into this union with the Father, because they cannot.
No river can rise higher than its source; and no man who has only the natural love and filled with error can of his own powers cause that natural love to partake of the divine, or his nature to be relieved of such sin and error.
Man is a mere creature and cannot create anything higher than himself; so man cannot rise to the nature of the divine, unless the divine first comes into that man and makes him a part of its own divinity.
– Jesus
Adapted from an Excerpt of a Message from the Spirit World
Received by James E. Padgett – January 24, 1915
Read the complete original message HERE