Credit1.1)"The Power of Imagination: A Journey of Faith and Transformation"

"The Power of Imagination: A Journey of Faith and Transformation"

  Christianity has to be continued, redeemed,conceptual history For Jesus Christ is the human imagination. 

As Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians, we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God that we might understand the gifts bestowed upon us by God. 

Now, tonight, we will show you one of these gifts If you really understand who Jesus Christ is, I tell you he is your own the truth. 

I was raised in a Christian home And actually, like the 100 of millions of Christians, we were taught it as secular history. 

A little boy who was born, a woman who knew not a man And that his father was god. He was the son of god. 

And that was the story as I was taught it But I was searching and seeking in the time I think I can remember. 

I believe the story if mother taught it to me. I did believe it And I can't tell anyone the shock that was mine And sometimes maybe I wonder if it would not have been better to return back. 

Like this, we're in the desert and go back into slavery But I couldn't any more than they could. They had to keep moving towards the promised land But when you are disillusioned, having been taught the story, as we all have been taught it, to discover that he is not something in history. 

He is nearer than your breathing. In fact, he can't even be there. He is your very self. He is your own wonderful human imagination. It comes with quite a shock. 

Well, I can tell it best by telling you a story The year was 1933. Roosevelt was elected. 

I have been in this country for 11 years I never really wanted to go back to Barbados. 

My parents came up in that year and they pleaded with me to come to Barbados and join the family, become a member of the family. 

And I declined, I said no, I throw them off at the boat And strangely enough, I say fell. And they're on the deck, and I waved goodbye to them. 

A peculiar feeling came over me And I have a desire that I never had in 11 years to go to the other room. 

I have just said goodbye to them and said no to their request. 

They will have paid all expenses and dropped me back, and everything has been perfect Then from the boat, I went to my old friend, Abdullah. 

 He was born, so I am told, in Ethiopia He was a black man raised in the Jewish faith But really understood Christianity as few men that I ever met understood it. 

He understood the law, not the promise, He understood the law, Not the promise He understood the law. 

So I went to him and I told him the feeling that came over me That I wanted to go to Barbados. I just waved at my parents and I peculiar feeling possessed me. 

And he said to me, you are in Barbados Well, that did not make sense to me. 

I'm standing in his place on 72nd Street of Central Park West, That's where he lived With the 30 West 72nd Street, where I am in this place. 

And he is telling me that I am in Barbados. He didn't explain what he meant So, as the days went by, I say to him as I am known more as a Barbados than I was when I spoke to you. 

And he said to me, if you are in Barbados, you cannot discuss the meaning to getting to Barbados You must actually live in Barbados in your imagination as though you were there. 

Just as it And view the world from Barbados If you sleep in Barbados and view the world from Barbados, the means will occur and you will go to Barbados But as far as I am concerned, you are already in Barbados. Because you desire it. 

But in principle, all you have to do is simply to enter it And you enter it now in New York City even though that's 2,000 miles across water. 

And you don't want the water across water. But you enter Barbados and view the world from it If you see the world from Barbados, then you have to be in Barbados. 

He did not explain to me then, but I learned later, that man being all imagination, man is, wherever he is, in imagination And imagination is the god in man that is the eternal body of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

And all things are possible to him. And by him, all things were made And without him was not anything made that was made. 

 That what is now proven was once only imagined. These things I did not know then He simply kept in the overall picture. 

But I did my best, and I slept mainly in Barbados in my mother's home. 

I looked at the world and saw it some Barbados, I saw New York City 2,000 miles to the north of North, the northwest For we are a certain latitude, 30 north, New York is 42 north. 

We are the 59th longitude, New York is at 74. So I thought, northwest I I could imagine it, I heard the tropical noises. We call this land tropical. 

It really isn't tropical in the 2 really true sense of the word When you go into the prophets, it's something entirely different. I was born in the prophets. 

Almost on the occasion. It's an entirely different order. Sunset go like this You look at the sun and the sun disappears suddenly. A ball of great light becomes green. 

You're looking at the sun, and suddenly, in a matter of a 6 seconds, you're seeing a green sun You're seeing the complement of gray. So we have no light in Barbados. 

The sun goes down rapidly from a red ball to a green ball And you see the green ball. There's a whole atmosphere difference that I put myself into that. 

And felt that my mother and father were in their room and that my brothers, those who were not yet married, were in the house with 2 big old home of ours. 

And there I stood. This was now late October When it came to the end of November, I said to Ed, I said Ed, I am no nearer Barbados. 

 He said you are in Barbados Then he turned his back back on me, walked over to bedroom and slammed the door which was not an invitation to follow-up. 

 If you understood that He was teaching me a lesson. The lesson of faith If I am actually seeking invalid, there's no power in the world but in the field with my journey to vibrator. 

This is now late November. 

The last ship out of New York City for Barbados was the 6th December. 

 I wanted to get there by Christmas And so I could not raise the question anymore But on the morning of 4th or 3rd December, I got a letter from my daughter, Victor. 

I did not ask him or any member of my family to bring me to Barbados He wrote a letter, and he justified the content in this manner. 

He said we are, you know, a large family. 9 daughters and a sister We have never been united around our Christmas table at Christmas since we were a family. 

Father was an integral between my sister, Daphne, and then last two boys, a By that time, my oldest father had left for the in. 

And by then when he came back, my brother Lawrence, doctor McGill, to study medicine. And we're always moving around. 

But this time, everyone was certain but yours truly And if you're having a thousand, a small little drop, $50, but in 19 cases. 

Then there were 17 and a half 1000000 unemployed. And we didn't have 204,000,000 citizens We only had a 120 odd 20 odd million. It was me north. 

If you're not old enough to know it, and I've told you it was really a horror But I was numbered among the unemployed And so he knew that I could come if the term were there. 

That I had my package paid. So we enclosed a $50 debt to buy a suit Well, he could buy a suit in those days for $12, $10 We could buy a pair of shoes, mccain shoes for $3. 

 And so I went down to the team ship company because in the letter east that I notified the company to issue a ticket. 

And then the little $50, you buy what you need for the trip and then sign the ship and when I the ship comes in I'll meet the ship and pay all the things that you have incurred all the day. 

But I went down to the ship They say to me, I'm sorry mister Goddard, but we do not have a 1st pass package for you. 

We can accommodate you 3rd class You have the 1st class accommodation for meals, and you can have all the other, uh, areas of the first class. 

But for sleeping, you have to go to the 3rd class. I said, perfect. You're alright with me? 

I'll get it. I went back to Abdullah and I told him. You know what he did? 

And I I said I'm going to take that to Darth Vader but I have the accommodation of the first for the daylight power. 

He said who told you you're going to take that? You are already in Barbados and you went to 3rd class. 

Again, he closed the door on me. 

I went down to the ship the morning it fell on the 6th December And the ticket agent said to me, mister Goddard, I have good news for you. We have a translation. 

And now you can go first half to share it with 2 others that's free in the cabin. 

That's really alright with me. And so I went down first line. 

 Abdul said to me, you know, Neville, when you return from Barbados, you will have died. 

 Never explain a statement of that nature. You would have died I'm coming back from Barbados, but I will die. He's told me he's quick, uh, man. 

Well, I did. I went down to Barbados. I was a strict veterinarian I had not eaten one piece of meat or fish or fowl in 7 years. 

No smoking. No alcohol. No sex. 

This delusion in my first marriage and the whole thing was simply I became a felon. 

I came back from Barbados And in Barbados, I was the same dean that I was when I arrived to the annoyance of my family. 

For they made all their money in groceries selling meat, fish, alcohol, and I am enjoying a trip based upon their effort, and here I am not quick what they're offering. 

On my way north, I did everything I had not done in 7 years He was right I died That state of consciousness died That's what died. 

Never is the immortal being, that is, in a man, is immortal. I was locked in a state. 

The state I departed from. So as far as I am concerned, I died to that state You see, life is nothing more than a hunger. 

This whole vast world is a hunger. And there are a number of states of consciousness So.

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