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Before Pentecost, the apostles had given up much for Jesus. After Pentecost, they gave themselves to God, and the Father and Son responded, giving themselves to man by sending their Spirits to live within them.
The material spirit of selfishness has been swallowed up in this new spiritual bestowal of selflessness.
Jesus and revelation
Jesus lived a life which is a revelation of man submitted to the Father's will.
The religion of Jesus does not seek to escape this life--rather it provides the joy and peace of another and spiritual existence to ennoble the current life in the flesh.
Mankind has passed through the ravages of great and destructive wars from which there emerged but one victor--Jesus of Nazareth with his gospel of overcoming evil with good. The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master's teachings of the brotherhood of man, and the good will of love and mutual trust.
In Rome, Christianity came with refreshing comfort and liberating power to a spiritually hungry people whose language had no word for unselfishness.
Religion is the revelation to man of his divine and eternal destiny. It is designed to find those values that call forth faith, trust, and assurance--and culminate in worship. It discovers supreme values--superhuman insight that can be had through genuine religious experience.
A lasting social system without a morality predicated on spiritual realities can no more be maintained than could the solar system without gravity.
When there is so much good truth to publish and proclaim, why dwell upon evil?
Experiential religion
In religion, Jesus advocated and followed the method of experience--even as science pursues the technique of experiment. We find God through spiritual insight, but we approach God through the love of the beautiful, pursuit of truth, loyalty to duty, and worship of divine goodness. But of all these values, love is the true guide to real insight.
No matter what the conflict between materialism and the teachings of Jesus may be, eventually Jesus' teachings will fully triumph.
In reality true religion cannot become involved in controversy with science or materialism as it is in no way concerned with material things--only with things of the spirit.
Freedom or initiative in any realm of existence is directly proportional to the degree of spiritual influence and cosmic mind control; that is, in human experience, the degree of actuality of doing 'the Father's will'. And so, when once you start out to find God--and seek to do his will--that is the conclusive proof that God has already found you.
The religion of Jesus stands as the transcendent spiritual summons, calling to the best there is in man to rise above all these legacies of animal evolution and, by grace, attain the moral heights of true human destiny.
Doing
Modern culture must become spiritually baptized with a new revelation of Jesus' life.
Religion is only an exalted humanism until it is made divine by the discovery of the reality of the presence of God in personal experience.
Jesus' religion is based on personal spiritual relations with the Father and wholly validated by the supreme authority of genuine personal experience.
The Faith of Jesus
Jesus' faith was so real and all-encompassing that it absolutely swept away any spiritual doubts and effectively destroyed every conflicting desire.
Jesus' personal faith, spiritual hope, and moral devotion were always correlated with the keen realization of the reality and sacredness of all human loyalties--personal honor, family love,
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