The Real Jesus Christ Message

As the Truth, or true Being, we were never made subject to a mental sleep nor dream. As the Truth, we cannot be mesmerized nor tempted to believe other than that we are perfect Life, Truth and Love. When we find a teaching which does not propose to add anything to us, nor to subtract anything from us, but teaches us that we are the Truth, then we have heard the real Jesus-Christ-Message. Do you suppose that what was true about Jesus is not true about us? This could not be so, for he definitely stated, “Thou hast loved them as Thou hast loved me.”

Jesus admonished us to “seek.” When one seeks for health, for wealth or for happiness, can it be said that he is “seeking” truly? Is he not searching for that which he feels he lacks, something which he wishes to have added to him? And if one seeks for knowledge, what would be the knowledge which finally would completely satisfy him? Surely, nothing but the established-from-the-beginning fact that he himself is the way,the Truth, and the Life! The real Jesus Christ teaching must someday be seen and accepted as the only actual one there is or can be. The facts which Jesus taught about himself must be the facts which we are to see as true of ourselves, else of what advantage would they be to us?

We know that millions and millions of people on earth are faithful readers of the Bible, and perhaps, the great majority of them desire to follow Jesus’ teachings. He prayed, “That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us.” Now how could we all be “one” when there are so many conflicting religious beliefs and practices among us? So long as we consider ourselves students of differing forms of religion we can never be one in thought. Only when we see that we are the Truth, the very same as Jesus, can we genuinely lay claim to oneness with each other, and unity with God. Surely, you can see this for yourself, can you not?

As the Truth itself, as the one and only Way, and as the Light of the world, we may truly lay claim to oneness with each other. But in no other way! As the Truth, we are the same Being. As the Truth, we all stand on the Rock which is the Christ. We are therefore neither teachers nor students of Truth. Nor Masters.

Inevitably, a New Day dawns. The teachings of Jesus shall be accepted as he gave them. They need no embellishment, nor any peculiar or extraordinary translations. Jesus spoke plainly and clearly, but how complicated and confusing man has made his simple teachings!

As “students”, we are continually being sinful and in need of forgiveness; continually striving to let go some disorderly tendency and cultivate some better traits, in fact, our state of consciousness is ever fluctuating. Formerly, we were taught to deny our failings and failures, and to say of a discordant or distressing circumstance, “It never happened.” But many find it hard to affirm what they are told is the fact since to them it does not seem logical. Something in them insists upon looking back and feeling that a certain unhappy event did really happen in their life. But when one shifts his position from student to Truth, he will have no difficulty in asserting what is so, and his heart and mind will agree when he exclaims, “It never happened; no evil has ever entered my Being!”

“Who convinceth Me, (the Truth), of sin?” demanded Jesus. Could a mistake enter into mathematics? Could some darkness find its way into the light? No more could nor did a mistake ever enter into you, the Truth. Jesus never taught any system of healing sickness or sin. He taught that he was the light, and we know that to light there is no darkness whatever. Moreover he demonstrated that he possessed sovereign power and divine authority to speak the Word and have it come to pass; and thus the vital question for us to ask ourselves is this: Am I going to accept Jesus’ teachings as he gave them or not? Reader, have you ever studied the New Testament very carefully to see for yourself exactly what he said and did at the times he performed his “miracle?” Did he ever pray to God to do the healing work? Not once. Did he speak with innate power as though he himself were the only authority to be considered in the case? He did; for the people-said of him, “Thou makest thyself God.”

When Jesus was told that a man was blind, deaf or diseased, do you suppose he believed it? Surely he knew everyone to be the same as himself – Changeless Perfection, by virtue of the fact that we are all the same Life and Being. Knowing the person before him to be as himself – the Truth – then, of course, it was a fact that his sight and hearing were part of his Changeless Perfection. Thus Jesus commanded, See! Hear! Walk forth strong and well!

The way Jesus regarded himself in his relation to God or Truth, should be the way for us to consider ourselves, else why call him a “Wayshower?” Why should Jesus call himself the Truth, the Life, the Alpha and Omega, and we call ourselves images or reflections, ideas, or students of the Truth? Why should Jesus claim himself to be the Way, and we that some particular church, organization, sect or person is the way? He said, “Ye are gods;” but we have made ourselves apart from God. Is this not so? Unless we see ourselves exactly as he saw himself how do you suppose we shall ever be like him and do the works that he did? Surely these are searching questions we are called upon to answer for ourselves. Jesus never taught that we were perfect man, nor that he was perfect man. He taught only that he was Life and Truth, and that we are all one. How long before the religious world, which claims to pattern after him, will open its eyes to this tremendous reality?

When the scales drop from our eyes and we see ourselves as we are, we shall no longer be bound to church, person, creed nor custom. Mrs. Eddy spoke truly when she wrote in her original textbook the following: “We have no need of creeds and church organizations to sustain or explain a demonstrable platform that defines itself in healing the sick, and casting out error.” (page 166). “We have no record that forms of church worship were instituted by our great spiritual teacher, Jesus of Nazareth. The time now is when they that worship the Father should worship in Spirit, and no longer in Jerusalem, (the wealth and learning) of our temples; a magnificent edifice is not the sign of Christ’s church.” (page 167).

It has been said that “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” When one ceases to labor or strive-, pray or treat as man, an image, dependent upon an outside God, then and there he has made room for the God within him to act and succeed. Of mine own self, as man, I shall never reach the goal; but all Power in Heaven and earth is given unto me as the Life and Truth! “The Father is greater than I (as a man or person). If ye had known Me (as I really am) ye should have known my Father also.” How blind we have been! But praise God we may now “see him as he is” and “be like him!” Nor should we hesitate to spread this astonishing new revelation. No longer should we accept or teach that we are anything other than the one Jesus said he was, since Jesus came for no other reason than to tell and show us the truth about ourselves, – that we are not “fallen man” but “are gods:” we are all the same Life and Being.