P2043:1, 191:5.3
"Peace be upon you. For a full week have I tarried that I might appear again
when you were all present to hear once more the commission to go into all the
world and preach this gospel of the kingdom. Again I tell you: As the Father
sent me into the world, so send I you. As I have revealed the Father, so shall
you reveal the divine love, not merely with words, but in your daily living.
I send you forth, not to love the souls of men, but rather to love men.
You are not merely to proclaim the joys of heaven but also to exhibit in your
daily experience these spirit realities of the divine life since you already
have eternal life, as the gift of God, through faith. When you have faith, when
power from on high, the Spirit of Truth, has come upon you, you will not hide
your light here behind closed doors; you will make known the love and the mercy
of God to all mankind. Through fear you now flee from the facts of a disagreeable
experience, but when you shall have been baptized with the Spirit of Truth,
you will bravely and joyously go forth to meet the new experiences of proclaiming
the good news of eternal life in the kingdom of God. You may tarry here and
in Galilee for a short season while you recover from the shock of the transition
from the false security of the authority of traditionalism to the new order
of the authority of facts, truth, and faith in the supreme realities of living
experience. Your mission to the world is founded on the fact that I lived a
God-revealing life among you; on the truth that you and all other men are the
sons of God; and it shall consist in the life which you will live among men
-- the actual and living experience of loving men and serving them, even as
I have loved and served you. Let faith reveal your light to the world; let the
revelation of truth open the eyes blinded by tradition; let your loving service
effectually destroy the prejudice engendered by ignorance. By so drawing close
to your fellow men in understanding sympathy and with unselfish devotion, you
will lead them into a saving knowledge of the Father's love. The Jews have extolled
goodness; the Greeks have exalted beauty; the Hindus preach devotion; the far
away ascetics teach reverence; the Romans demand loyalty; but I require
of my disciples life, even a life of loving service for your brothers in the
flesh."