II Corinthians 4:5-7
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
February 22nd
"...I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified...." Leviticus 10:3
Now, unto every one of you for the here and now: this has been my supreme problem as to how to put it across to you, that Jesus Christ must become sanctified within the human heart (yes, I mean yours); then can He (and must) become glorified before all the people (...whosoever knows you).
...God is in control of every moment, and every factor impinging upon, as well as the forces operating in every individual's life.... God is a loving Heavenly Father Who has foreseen and preordained everything to that individual's utmost good.
What means this "sanctification" within (the) heart? That Christ our Lord...takes on an absolute and irreproachable perfection in the capacity of the individual's Guardian and Controller of the person's fate. In the person's mind or heart, Christ our Lord must take on the same relationship to the individual as is the attitude of the finest good and normal human parents, in relationship to their much desired first-born...there is not a thing conceivable which those parents would not do for that infant's good, and to their utmost ability, they do.
...similarly with the individual who fails to sanctify Christ within the heart: he has failed to fathom the Father's wisdom and love and power of directorship that has brought about situations which in the far-seeing mind of God, and in the fullness of Christ's compassion, were decreed for that individual's greatest and ultimate good.
Chat 9/1974 (continued tomorrow...)