Hi, and welcome to another episode of Mystery School.
I'm your host, Jacob Cox.
And tonight's topic is Christianity
with a little bit of a spin.
Um, we also wanted to kind of make a series out of this
and call it resurrecting Christianity.
Not that it's dead or anything like that,
but there's definitely a sense out there now that
some people are straying away from, from this topic,
this religion, um, this idea.
And I think that's probably
because it has been hijacked a little bit.
There are people who are using it for their own means,
their own, their own good, and, um, are not so good.
And I think that has played a big part in how people are
seeing the whole story.
But it's not the whole story.
It's, you know, it's about these people putting a certain
person on a pedestal
and then putting themself as the middleman.
You know, that they're the father.
There's someone in between us
and Jesus that they can help us get to the, to God,
or they can connect us to God or Jesus.
And I think Jesus's teachings who's completely the opposite
of that, you know, that he was saying
that we all have connection to the Father.
And, um, I think
that's what's super important about his teachings,
is the most important things about Christianity to me,
in my, in my opinion, is, is the words written in read.
You know, the one, the actual things that Jesus said,
and the things that he was talking about,
and these parables that he was giving,
because it's obvious
that they were much more than cute little stories.
They were, you know, really stories about ourselves,
our own stories of who we are and our journey.
And, um, you know,
these parables really were almost like quantum physics of
how the universe works and how we play a big part of that.
So I think that's really important.
So we wanna take tonight this resurrecting,
resurrecting Christianity to bring it back to life,
to bring it back to what Christ was actually teaching, what,
you know, 2000 years ago, what I believe that he would hope
that we would be talking about what the,
what we would be sharing,
how we would be having this relationship with,
with him and with God.
Because that's what, that's who we are.
We are literally the children of God,
and we don't need someone to be our middleman.
We can definitely, you know, when it says, go into a room
and to pray, you know, go by yourself.
You don't need someone to go in there and be your middle man
and to, you know, tell you how to pray
or, um, connect you to, you know, I'm, I have a father
and I'm a son, so I don't need someone to go talk
to my father for me, or, or,
or play a, you know, ask someone
to go send a message to him.
I know him directly. I know him very well.
So there's no reason for me to ask anybody to go, you know,
send a message to him or whatever, ask him his opinion.
Like, I, I can go to the source
because I came from that source.
So, yeah, we wanna, we wanna make this tonight.
Um, you know, many episodes will come at this in the future.
Different, um, you know, similar but different.
Tonight we're probably gonna mainly focus on Matthew.
But, um, before we go any farther, I definitely want
to go ahead and for the first time ever, I'm very grateful
to share the screen with my beautiful friend,
uh, Mike Wazowski.
He's with us tonight, the creator of Ascension Works tv.
And I'm just wanna say thank you to him and,
and allow him to say a few things right now.
He's definitely a guy I've known for several years now,
and I'm, like I said, grateful to be on this, uh,
Ascension Works TV just literally
because he enjoys what I have to talk about.
So I want to throw it over to you for a second.
Mike, thanks for being here.
Thanks for joining us and helping us
with this incredible topic tonight.
Thanks, Jacob. Yep.
We've been talking about this subject for a while now,
and we, I, there's actually like three different recordings
we've done that I'm gonna have
to post up in the same place I probably like,
called a resurrecting Christianity podcast.
People can find all the conversations we're having
because I very much appreciate Jacob's familiarity
with the Bible
and the interpretations, which seem to be sometimes, um,
under emphasized or not, not known by, you know,
mainstream Protestant Christians, um,
or not appreciated properly in the, in the bigger context of
what, what the power of the teachings of Jesus actually
represent in, in our society, um, as it kind of gets,
has gotten distorted and lost.
But I, as for some disclaimers, I wanted to start out saying
that, uh, you know, both me
and Jacob we're, we're not trained Bible scholars.
We're just offering our opinions.
This is strictly just opinions.
And if you, if you think that, you know,
we might've got some details wrong,
we're happy to be corrected.
If you, if you know
of any mistakes we're making, please, please let us know.
Um, and if something doesn't resonate with you,
if you feel like something's off, don't let it bother you.
Um, but you're free to ignore it.
You're free to disbelieve us and just let us know.
Um, if you, if you feel like we need to be corrected, um,
and we, we have our own unique beliefs, me and Jacob.
Um, we haven't had a chance to talk about everything yet.
We're, we're happy to be able to talk more
and figure out what these differences are,
but we're all on different paths, uh,
different points on the journey,
and everybody's path is gonna be different.
Everybody's beliefs are gonna be different.
That's totally fine. But we do believe
that there is generally one great way, one path to love,
or the logos that, that Jesus was pointing us towards.
And that's ultimately what the point of this is,
is becoming, um, sort of representatives of that, of
that great path, which is the path of unconditional love
that is becoming more appreciated,
hopefully more appreciated on earth, thanks
to Jesus' teachings, and thanks to the work of many,
many people like Jacob
and others who are trying to be a humble servants of the,
of this path, this way to love that we feel a part of now.
Um, and so we just feel like we're very small part
of a much larger movement, whether
or not it's called Christianity.
This is the path that, that we are, we are trying
to represent, to fulfill the mission of Jesus
as we understand it, um, to, to return in humble service,
to, to sharing unconditional love
and in greater light with humanity.
And, uh, and to some degree,
we're all still hypocrites on this journey.
We're all still like the Pharisees
that we're probably gonna talk about, I think.
And, uh, we can't say that we're, that we're perfect.
We have it all figured out, and we're just,
we're just trying our best to try to get back to, to
what this, what this deeper meaning really is
that Jesus was trying to teach to us.
Um, and, uh, with that said, uh,
I did wanna make one other comment here on
what you were saying, Jacob, um, about no, no middlemen,
because I think that the, the, the natural tendency
of human, um, corruption
and human control, me mechanisms to try to, you know,
get more money and more power, more influence,
it naturally will lead to people
and groups wanting to have authority systems in place.
And the way it, the way it seemed
to have proceeded since the time of Jesus was, you know,
you had the Roman Catholic Church, um, eventually trying
to take control of all the different separate movements.
And then once that became sort
of the biggest player in town, then you had
the Orthodox Church split away.
'cause they didn't like the way that the Roman Catholic
church was trying to declare unified authority,
and they wanted to have separate authority systems.
That's my understanding of why that split happened,
you know, many, many hundreds of years ago.
And then the Protestant church a few hundred years ago
was split from the, from the Catholic, Catholic church also.
And it seems as though what, what happened then was, um,
a lot of people decided, we're gonna say the authority now
is the Bible, and it's not the Roman Catholic Church.
But the same issues kind of happen again
with now we have a situation in our society where
everyone is pointing to Bible scholars as the authority
and whatever that person says about the Bible,
because I, I trust what they're saying the most about the
Bible and their interpretations and what they say Jesus is.
So we end up having people who are in theological
institutions being the middleman now representing all sorts
of different sects of, of, uh, you know,
denominations of Christianity.
And it's, it's just gotten way out of, out of hand.
And that no one, no one could kind
of not fight over beliefs in inside of the Christian Church.
Everyone's just kind of at each other's throats,
which is essentially, um, what,
what I would call a work of the flesh.
It's divisions, dissensions rivalries, which were spoken of
by Paul, which are contrasted against the works, the,
you know, the, the fruits of the spirit, which are love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness,
faithfulness, self-control.
And the fruits of the spirit
to me represent the spirit of truth.
What Jesus talks about pointing us to the spirit of truth,
and that we will know the truth
when we have the spirit of truth.
The spirit of truth is known by having the fruits of love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness.
So that's the, that's the sort of foundation
that I would say for, uh, how I, I like
to evaluate truth is, is this, is this bearing the fruit
that we're seeking of, of the love of Jesus.
Hmm. Man, that's good stuff. Yeah. Mention the Bible.
You know, it's, it's interesting
because most people say you're a Christian if you read the
Bible and you know about the Bible.
And, um, really honestly, Christianity is, is
by far the least amount in there.
I mean, you know, the, I guess mostly Matthew, mark, Luke,
and John, um, the gospels
and, you know, some of the later stories, obviously
after crisis already came and, uh, been crucified.
And that's what most people would claim to be Christianity.
But if I was to ask, you know, most people right now
who claim to be Christian, we have about what,
2 billion people claiming to be Christian, uh,
today on the planet.
I think a lot of them would point me to the Old Testament,
old Testament to the 10 Commandments
and say, thou shall have no other gods before me,
or thou shall not make, um, un you know, any,
make any engraving images
or Grammy images, you know, any idols or whatever.
And people would say, those are
like the first two commandments.
And I'm like, actually, no, that would mean you are Judas,
you're, you're, you know, you're, that's Judaism, you know,
you're, that's like kind of the Jewish, the Torah,
the old books of the Bible.
But really when Christ was, when he was here,
when he was on the planet, when he, you know, he said, um,
according to him, he said, love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your mind.
This is the first and the greatest commandment.
And the second is like, it love your neighbor as yourself.
All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments,
literally the first two commandments are about love.
They're not about graven images
or having any other gods before me.
That's like kind, that's Judaism, that's,
uh, in the old Torah.
And, but that's where, as a, as a young person growing up,
that's exactly where anybody that I would've talked
to would've said, you know, what are the commandments?
Were the first two commandments,
and that I would've been pointed
to the Old Testament 100% every time.
So that's interesting that we have this incredible book
and really, you know, just deciphering where it came from,
how it came about, found in these temples hidden away in
different books, and they're really honestly
not put in a lot of particular order,
some major points after, came after.
But there's a lot of stuff, especially in the Old Testament,
that is probably way outta order.
And, um, you know, there's no verification on that.
So, you know, it's just interesting how we look at this
and have to kind of really take with a grain of salt
and knowing that there is, there was a council of
that really took it
and said, oh, well, y'all got, y'all found that?
Well, give it to us. Let us decipher it.
Let us tell you what books are good
and which ones you can keep in.
And books like the Book of Enoch, let's,
that's probably a little too much for you guys.
So we're gonna keep that out. And you know, why not?
Why not keep all of it in there? Let us read all of it.
Let us, if, if if it's not all true, then none
of it's true to me.
So I wanna read all of it, you know?
And I wanna know why in Genesis, Enoch was the first,
you know, one of the big patriots that we learn, um, uh,
Patriots, one of the patriarchy that we learned about
and, you know, said he lived for 365 years
and that he didn't die, um, that God took him up.
So I wanna know about those things,
but you know, again, I wanna stick to Christianity.
So it is incredibly humbling to know
how much information is in that book, how much is there,
and you know, how much we have of Jesus' life,
because the majority of his life, he is gone.
He is, um, you know, 13 to 30 ish where we're missing.
And unless you read some of these other books out there
where it looks like he's traveling around, um, to Tibet
and other places
and kind of learning different mysteries,
learning different sects
and everything like that to gather up the information, um,
yeah, there's a, there's a big chunk of that missing
of this, you know, figure who's really the whole red
and butter of the entire religion.
Um, but like Mike was saying earlier, a lot
of this stuff has been hijacked.
It's been used in a certain way.
Um, I mean, a lot of, I mean, let's be honest, a lot
of people in our, in our planet,
on our planet have been killed in the name of Christianity.
And I have stood in the Yucatan, um,
where there is a big Catholic church, literally on top
of a Mayan temple, and you can buy a ticket
and go in the temple, and it's right up underneath it.
And, um, and from my experience, when I walked up
to this temple, and there were several,
looked like homeless people who were very low energy.
They were begging for money, and they were all standing
and sitting right in front of the church.
And I, you know, felt really like down and low grade energy.
And so I just kind of peeked my head in
and looked around for a second,
and then I walked down the side
of the church and turned the corner.
And the backside where this other temple was,
as my temple was, was these people dancing and smudging and,
and, you know, uh, praying.
And it just much more high, vibrant energy.
And it was just like, wow. Like these little,
these people literally came
and like built these buildings right on top of temples
that were literally already there and
been there for a long time.
So I could see how a lot of people would honestly,
um, you know, really be hurt by this, be triggered by this,
be traumatized by Christianity over the years, especially.
'cause I am a person who does totally
believe in reincarnation.
And, um, you know, that we, we live many lives.
And, um, so you could have been someone
who definitely affected by these, uh, these things
that were going on in the past to bring about this religion
that was obviously, definitely not about the
teachings of Christ.
'cause the teachings are definitely very different.
But I feel like my purpose for this, and I,
and I, I wanna let Mike speak for himself,
but I have like this Judas complex
where I feel like I let him down some way somehow.
But over the course of my life for many years now,
I've had many visions
and dreams of being in a room with him, with Christ
and having him divulge these parables to me.
And I've been in the waking day mostly by myself,
but a couple times even with my parents,
where I felt like a nudge on my shoulder
and then a, a whisper, you know, into my ear,
and knowing a whole parable just downloaded
right there at that moment.
And so, I feel like it is true that Christ is here,
there is a energy in that is with us all the time,
and that we can truly have a relationship with Christ.
And it's not about saying,
because I say the words, Christ is my Lord and Savior,
and he is in my heart, save me.
So I'm good. I'm going to heaven.
I believe there's much more than that.
The kingdom of heaven is a mystery,
and whoever shall know themselves shall find it.
And we really have to know ourselves,
and we have to get to know God and the universe
and who we are and have that relationship.
And when we do, I think the same way, he was,
you know, kind of tucked away,
told these parables out in the open,
and then they went behind these closed doors tucked away
from society to di to divulge the secrets of what these,
these parables were about.
Um, is how you can literally be today.
You can literally be in your own house, in your own room,
praying to God, and God literally divulged these secrets
to you of the universe.
Mike, do you have something for that?
I mean, yeah, I think that it's, it's appropriate for us
to appreciate that the, you know, what,
what the Bible was pointing us towards is a kind
of mystical connection to a divine source of information,
which is sort of beyond the words on the page.
And, you know, the word logos is kind of, I think,
mistranslated to word,
or at least the word word is, is insufficient to,
to talk about when, when the Bible, many, many places,
for example, the Book of John, the most famous example is in
the beginning was the word in,
in the beginning was the logos, is the, is the correct word.
And that word logos is essentially referring to like the,
the Greek philosophy, that there are many different branches
of the Greek philosophy where they were
using that word logo.
So it's kind of a unifying symbol.
But to see the love of Jesus manifest as this person,
and also manifesting as the logos
and for example, the, the law of one books,
the raw contact books describe the logos more as like the,
the mind or the heart of the galaxy that inspired all
of the, all of the creations within our galaxy.
Um, and, and every galaxy on, on a, on a higher level,
it's like this, this hierarchy of the loving intelligence
of God coming down and manifesting through everything
that we are always connected to
and we always could tap into.
And we have that same power
and potential with, with the, you know, the,
the unlimited intelligence of, of God that we could tap into
with, with connection with that divine love.
And also, um, the, you know, the, the ability to be
of just greater service through,
through continuously submitting ourselves back again
and again to that, to that divine source,
which we're always connected to,
Right? Yes, we're
always connected
to it whether we know it or not, right?
And that's, that's what's
important, and whether we know it or not.
But I, what I, I love what you said there,
and what I want to add is, to me, Christianity is
so different than what I grew up with, but up.
But I'm glad that I grew up with what I did
because now I got this incredible contrast
because I don't think that Jesus was sitting there
with 12 disciples in a room judging everybody on them.
What did you wear today?
You know, did you wear your Sunday best to come in here
and listen to what I have to talk about?
You know, that's not what they were doing.
Doesn't care about that. Let's get down to the nitty gritty.
Let's talk about what these parables mean
and what these, you know, these, these stories
that I'm trying to tell, what I'm trying to incite in you.
And I can, you know, and I imagine, I imagine so many times,
and I've envisioned it
and to the point where it's like, you know, like I said,
it's become a vision for me.
It's become dreams for me.
Um, it's become my waking reality
to have a parable just divulge to me.
So, but it's, you know, it's really incredible
that we do have this relationship.
Um, Christ is, you know, with us all the time,
I think it is with us all the time.
And, and it's not something that, you know,
died out 2000 years ago.
And it's gone. I mean, even the story goes, even when he,
uh, was put into the cave or whatever
and came back three days,
and then he was here on the planet for 40 days after that.
And like, that's, I mean, that's mind blowing to know
that there was this being who died and came back
and was here for 40 days.
And now I've heard other stories of, of resurrecting stories
where people died and,
and they went, they walked up into heaven
and their clothes fell down, shining GLIs,
glimmering lights and stuff.
And they, or they come back after a couple days,
but you don't really ever hear a story about
where somebody was actually here back on the planet for, uh,
uh, any length of time after that resurrection.
Um, usually it's like they, they kind
of fade into heaven or something like that.
But, um, but yeah, again, I think these people were,
they weren't caring about what people were wearing.
They weren't caring about, you know,
singing hymns and stuff.
And I think that's all great and stuff.
But I think, you know, they, they were really
behind these closed doors.
And to be honest, it, a lot
of it resonates with what's going on today.
You know, you got these people who co will cancel you,
you know, uh, cancel culture.
If you say something the wrong thing,
you say something people don't like,
and all of a sudden they'll cancel you back,
then you could lose your life for saying the wrong things.
You could say, you're, you could say something
that was against what religion had, you know, going
for the day and you said the wrong thing,
so you broke the Sabbath.
You could be punished severely, you know, nowadays
that doesn't really happen.
But we are getting to a point where you could,
you could lose your job, you could lose all your money,
you could lose your podcast.
You could lose all kinds of things
by saying the wrong things.
And so it makes sense that he had
to speak in these parables out, you know, not just
because people didn't understand them,
but he gave, you know, these, these parables
to people out in the, in the everyday world.
But then he had to go to everybody what the,
what the meaning of those parables were behind closed doors,
because he couldn't just say that stuff.
He couldn't just say, you know, I am God.
And, um, and all, all the things that he was saying,
'cause eventually they did get him killed.
He was, he was martyred for saying these things.
And, and I think that's what's really important.
But I, I tend to think these people were much more like,
kind of modern day people like today.
I mean, you look at a lot of the old Christian artwork,
and there's mushrooms
and stuff, like all over these paintings.
And I tend to think that they are putting it out there.
They're showing you,
but they're not saying it out in the open
because it'll get you killed.
So you, you have to be careful.
But they're putting what, you know, I, I believe
that they probably were, you know, teachings, uh, about,
I mean, some people even think Jesus was a mushroom.
I don't think that he was, I think he was a real person.
There's too many accounts. There's too many stories.
Um, not just the books of the Bible,
but other around the world where, like I said, they,
you know, they meet up with ua, he's going around
and learning different things, and he's described in the
same way, in the same time period.
So I think, you know,
there's more than enough ample evidence that he exists.
But, um, I do think these people probably were, you know,
like us, just like us today, you know, people
who are doing mushroom, they're searching for truth.
They are trying to expand their mind.
And, you know, um,
and that was against what was, um, you know, the modern day,
the modern time, you know, was, was to take these kind
of things and to alter the mind state.
And, um, these people were doing things they
weren't supposed to be doing at the time.
But honestly, it's something you should be doing.
You should be sitting in, sitting in darkness to, um,
to see great lights and, you know, trying plant medicines
and things that obviously our, our planet makes naturally
as opposed to the things that are made in factories.
And, um, and convince that some chemicals
that people mix together in a factory is better
for you than a plant that grows naturally on the planet.
So I, you know, I think that there's a lot to that.
And I think, you know, getting away from this, having
to dress up in a certain way and look a certain way and,
and be judged at church is, is what Jesus, I don't think
that's what he was hoping would be happening in 2000 years.
He probably saw it,
but he definitely, I don't think what he was saying,
the meat of what he was saying, the Sermon on the Mount
and all these things, um, that got him killed,
I don't think was, you know, what he was hoping
for would come from what he was saying.
But I think what he did was so loving, was
so incredible for 2000 years.
Nobody's forgot it, you know,
we all know what happened in that.
And I don't necessarily think that he died for our sins,
but he definitely died because of him,
because we didn't stand up and say, Hey, that's not right.
That guy hadn't, does any, hadn't done anything wrong.
You know, the crowd had not that Barabbas deserved
to die either for whatever he did,
but, you know, certainly Christ,
you know, many people say was perfect.
And, you know, everything he was doing was beautiful
and great, and helping people and, and healing people.
And, uh, it's incredible
that he taught this group of people.
He's like, go in the cities and heal people up.
And I mean, you know, like, I feel like more than anything,
you know, I've talked to many people.
If I had one superpower in
the whole world, that would be it.
It would just be, you know, incredible to help people,
especially in a time like this, when, you know,
because of these chemical medicines
and stuff, people are sick and people hurting
and chemicals in our food, in our water.
And now is the time more than ever
that we're kind of coming back to.
There's some serious disease on this planet.
And if we could learn these technique techniques again,
of healing, then I would, you know, that's
what I wanna do more than anything, is I throw down my life
and follow him and,
and do these things that they were doing.
Yeah. That's, there's a lot we could unpack there.
But I also think, you know, maybe we could just,
we could just start going into the,
into the text now, if you wanna get into it.
Yeah, yeah. You wanna, let's do that.
I'll pull mine up right now. Yeah.
Um, yeah, this is, feels like this is valuable to just
spend more time just talking about what he said
and starting there. And we'll
Let, I'll just let everybody know kind of where we're at.
Um, tonight, Mike and I will only be in the book of Matthew.
That's just where we're gonna be for the sake of time.
Um, so tonight we're just gonna start up with Matthew five.
And we've, we're on this not every single page,
but most pages where there's a lot of good things we are,
we're going to, um, read from that.
So if you, anybody wants to follow along,
if you got your Bible with you, feel, feel free
to get it out and let's do it.
So first off, we're in Matthew five.
This is literally the induction, um,
the introduction to the Sermon on the Mount.
And I just, I highlighted this first line
because I felt like it was so important
and it was blessed outta the poor in spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
I love it because, you know, I didn't know what that meant
as a kid, but I'd heard that many times,
and it makes sense now because you are blessed.
If you're poor in spirit, to me, it means I'm so poor in it
that I, I'm a beggar of it.
I need more spirit. I need, I've had these, um,
incredible experiences where I've been completely engulfed
by the Holy Spirit, and it was so amazing and so incredible.
I feel like I want to have more of those experiences.
So I'm constantly digging deep
and, uh, listening to my intuition, um,
and my connection to God in order to have more
spiritual experiences to kind
of gather up and more that spirit.
Yeah. The, the way I view this also is
all these beatitudes seem to relate to hu humility
and appreciating that, you know, life circumstances, um,
that, that lead us to challenging situations are usually
there to first spiritual reason that, that this is,
this is teaching us about the nature of heaven as we,
as we humble ourselves,
and as we become more, more open to the fact that we are,
we are not better than everyone else.
You know, that, that, that's really what
where people get tripped up on, is when they start to,
you know, think that they, they have something special
or that they are separate.
Uh, it's, it's the, it's the, you know, it's the specialness
that emphasizes the separateness from God
that ends up being the downfall of a lot of people.
I think when they don't, they don't have the circumstances
that bring them back into the, the, the poor spirit
or the, the humble spirit, um,
which is also represented here by, I think, you know, those
who mourn, uh, those blessed are the meek, um, right.
Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Yeah. I mean, he literally says in different parts,
especially Matthew, that if you want to become first,
you know, the, then you need to become a last, you know,
whoever humbles himself as little children,
you become the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
So that's exactly what this whole Paige really is about.
You know, the me will inherit the earth, um, blessed those
who are hunger and thirst for righteousness.
And that's kind of what I was saying again earlier,
but definitely blessed are the peacemakers
that doesn't get said enough at all, you know,
for they will be called the children of God.
Like for peacemakers, I don't, I'm sorry,
but there's no side of any war
where there's anybody who's being a peacemaker.
And I think that's super important.
You have to take ourselves out of the fight, surrender,
take ourselves off of the polarization of being on one side
or the other, and be a peacemaker.
I'm totally a peacemaker. I'm here for peace.
That's what I'm here for. And I think that's
what we really have to read this as, and say this again,
because if you want to really be a Christian, I mean,
there's no side of any war
that you could justify, I don't think.
Yeah. But yeah, as is a whole, you know, bunch
of mind programming that lets people
think that war is justified.
But if you can appreciate
that there's like metaphysical laws around the nature of,
of seeking peace,
and that, you know, pursuing peace leads to peace,
and that, that you will be divinely
blessed as a child of God.
If you're, you know, you're the peacemaker,
lets throw the peacemakers, they
will be called the children of God.
You know, you, you, you have a certain kind of protection
around you automatically when, when you are, I mean,
just like in examples of, you know, in in war situations
where, um, somebody is known to be, uh, you know,
doing very good as, as a healer on a battlefield,
you will not go after the healer
because everyone kind of knows you don't,
you don't shoot the healer.
Um, Um, yeah.
And then that, that, that's also like well emphasized by,
you know, turn the other cheek, is another kind of idea
that it's just, um, it, it's so, it's so hard for people
to really sit that into their actual philosophy of life
because of how, how, how much.
It's almost like there's a, there's a, there's a desire to
take on a, a higher level of wisdom that no, no, you can't,
you can't turn the other cheek in this circumstance
because you wanna make more money.
Mm-Hmm. There's all these different
ways, or, or, or something.
And, and of course, you know, if,
if we can be truly trusting this's something we'll get into
later, I'm sure with mm-Hmm.
Versus about the birds,
and they don't have
to worry, don't have to worry about tomorrow.
I think the, the peacemaker is somebody
who can trust in the value of peace without having to worry
that there's some consequence
of pursuing peace too strongly.
Some negative consequence.
Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
You, you're, you're not gonna be faulted
by pursuing peace too, too much.
Um, and I like the last part here, bless are you,
when people insult you, persecute you
and falsely say all kinds of evil against you
because of me rejoice in me.
Glad, because great is your reward in heaven.
For, in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were
before you, just like,
the same way they martyred many people, uh, like Antipas
and, and John the Baptist
and other people who lost their lives
because of their spirituality.
And I would even go as far as to say, like some
of the people who the modern day witches, which a lot
of 'em weren't even really witches,
but, um, that spiritual concept of wca
and stuff was really right on with a lot of things, uh,
being in nature and stuff that Christ was talking
about in very similar ways.
And probably in the same way, this guy's put up on a cross
and crucified and other people are martyred.
I think even, you know, the witches and wizards
and stuff were, were burned at the stake as well.
And because of the same kind of spiritual understanding
that they may have had that other
people just didn't understand.
Yeah. And,
and we can never forget that Yeah, Jesus was killed
and we, we can, we can put him up on a pedestal.
And, but it's like, what is it about our society
that just automatically thinks that, that this kind
of person should be, should be a threat?
Should you be seen as a threat?
Um, and there's a lot of reasons,
but I, I do think authority is one of the reasons,
and if, if you're showing a certain degree of power,
even if your power is promoting peace, that
that's still seen as a threat.
Yes. Yeah. Because it,
it blows away everything establishment has to for control.
Yeah. When everyone, when people are living in peace,
when they're, when they're free, when they have time
to think about things and, and relax
and meditate, you know, you realize, I don't have any,
you're my brother, you're my sister.
I have no reason to hate you.
I have no reason to wanna hurt anybody.
Um, but as long as we're polarized to be democrat,
Republican, you know, light-skinned, dark skin, uh,
whatever it is, then we'll constantly
be fighting, killing each other.
And it's, there's no need for it when we're all,
when we're all one, and we realize we're all brothers
and sisters, and we should literally love our neighbors
and love our enemies too.
Because there's no, any enemy you have,
there's nobody you can find out there
that has more differences than,
than, than you, than they do.
Um, similarities. Everyone has by far more things
that were alike than we could ever be different.
Yeah. So the next one here was, um,
Matthew five 14.
Yeah. You go to the light of the world,
A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.
Instead, they put it on a stand,
and it gives light to everyone in the house.
In the same way. Let your light shine
before others that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your father in heaven.
Now, to me, this is one of those parables
where it's directly talking about you,
and it's probably mostly referring
to the pineal gland being at the top
of the head being you being the lampstand
and the pineal gland being at the top of the head.
Yeah. And if the nature of light here is also kind
of veiled teaching because,
and also the nature of salt right above it.
What, what is, what does the salt,
what does salt mean to us?
You know, it's, it's giving things flavor. Mm-Hmm.
And, and the light is giving illumination to the things
that we're in shadow or darkness.
Um, so there, there's a lot of shadows in our society, a lot
of misdirection and mistruth, you know, um, misinformation.
And, and I think light, light is ultimately really the, the,
the nature of God that we are, that we're seeking
to become more like and to radiate.
Um, yeah. That, that can be interpreted in a lot of ways.
I think the nature of light. Mm-Hmm.
Yeah. And, uh, again, that light go, you know,
really going in with the pineal gland
and look at this picture behind me,
and, you know, kind of focused on Jesus' pineal gland right
here in, in the center of his head.
And, and that's why probably these people, you know,
back in the day saw without the chemicals
and the crap in the food and the water,
people probably saw these lights around people
and these auras around people a lot more,
more commonly than we do today.
The distortion that's in the world today definitely,
probably makes it a lot harder for us to see those things.
I think we will, um, as we start
to turn back on our pineal glands start to open back up, um,
we'll probably be able to see these things a lot more
than we have in the past.
But, uh, you know, I definitely think that, um,
it's really talking about that in the lampstand part
of this, and then the fulfillment of the law.
Um, you know, like I said, to get through this tonight,
we're gonna have to skip some things,
but there's definitely good things in all this.
But the thing that I really love the most was basically
before I tell you that
unless you're righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees
and the Sadducees and the teachers of the law,
he will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
So that's what I was talking about earlier, that
you don't need a father
or some kind of, you know, uh, preacher
or something who knows more about this law,
who can tell you, don't worry.
I read this book, I can tell you exactly what it means.
No, no, no, no. That's, that is to your detriment by far.
You need to do righteous. You need to be righteous.
You need to have this connection with God.
You need to, you know,
don't blame on anybody else for your suffering.
It's your responsibility. It's your connection.
It's your, it's your father, mother,
God, whatever you wanna call it.
Um, but it, it, it's, it's on you.
And, and, and you need to take responsibility for it
and not believe that someone in some church who's standing
and getting paid up there is has any more connection than,
than anybody who's sitting anywhere in the entire place.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it's, it's, it's fair to assume that a lot
of us have a lot more work to do than,
than we tend to put on.
I think that's kind of the emphasis is that,
that the Pharisees were the seen
as the most religious people,
and they're just not, not fully getting it.
I think 5 21. Uh, so again, I'm gonna skip a little bit.
Um, he says, you know, you've heard it said
that you're not supposed to murder anyone.
And, and, and murderers will be subject to judgment.
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with the brother
or sister will be subject to judgment.
Again, anyone who says to a brother
or sister raca is answerable to the court.
And anyone who says,
you fool will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Like literally saying the things that you say,
the judgements that you hold,
holding a grudge against someone
puts you in the danger of fire of hell.
And to me, just personally, I do believe the
hell is a place here, it's a feeling, it's a state of being.
It's, I've held onto grudges
before in my life in, you know, my first yoga class, do the,
the backend, and had like this euphoric release, um,
that I knew all of a sudden that
I had held grudges against people and held onto them
and didn't ever forgive them, and just kind of held onto it
and didn't think anything about it.
You know, just years and years later.
But going to my first yoga class, I was like, oh my God,
I held a grudge against this person,
and it had, I had back pain because of it,
or this, this physical problem
that I have is because of that.
Um, and it was a euphoric release when I
did that yoga move that point.
And I realized that, that I had literally held grudge
against people, and it hurt me physically.
Um, and that's, that's crazy to think that the things
that we think, the motions that we feel, the the hate
that we harbor, we harbor in our own
bodies, in our own temples.
I
Think it's probably fair for me to make a quick note here
for people who've never heard this, that the,
the word hell here is
certainly the word hell is taken from different, different,
uh, Greek words that were kind
of combined into one concept over generations,
over centuries, since this was originally written.
And the, the word here was gehenna in the Greek,
which means valley of Hanno.
And that's referred to in the Old Testament also,
but it's not called hell in the Old Testament.
It's called the Valley of Hanno.
Um, and that is a place where, uh, Jeremiah, the book
of Jeremiah talks about the, the sacrifice of, of children,
like, like human sacrifice
of children in, in fires.
And that's, it's, and it's,
I think it's clearly why Jesus was invoking this word,
kahna is because the, and,
and there, there's, there's many layers of the theology
around this, but the fact that it's glossed over,
that Jesus was talking about the Old Testament here, and,
and the, the intensity of what can happen in, in, uh,
in situations where people are, are, are sort
of giving themselves over to idols to a degree,
giving them over to, to the demonic influences of our world
that will be seeking these kinds of sacrifices and,
and injuries upon upon ourselves, even to the point
of killing children.
I think that's, that's the deeper meaning of, of hell here.
And it definitely is something going on on earth right now,
even though it might speak of sort
of demonic dimensions at the same time.
You see, that's why I love you, man.
That's why, because you know, that that made,
that made everything I said just ev you know, better.
And yeah, that's so great.
Um, and so we move on down
and it talks about the altar again, doesn't, um,
and then saying, settle matters quickly with your adversary
who is taking you to court.
Do it while you are still together on the way,
while your adversary may hand you over to the judge,
and the judge may hand you over to the officer
and you may be thrown into prison.
So, you know, and, and, and not necessarily in this one,
but it says, if someone's trying to grab your coat,
give them, give them your shoes
and your shirt, everything, whatever they're trying to get,
give them that and more.
But don't ever take anyone to court.
Don't let anyone take you to court.
Give them more than they're asking for so that they feel,
um, that they've got what they need.
If someone, you know, whatever it is, you know,
someone is a part of the universe.
Someone is the universe. So, you know, if someone's trying
to take something from you, let 'em have it,
give 'em more than they, than they're asking for.
Get 'em off of your case.
Don't let anybody have these kind of
negative intentions about you
that you've done them wrong and that you owe them.
It's, it's good to settle matter so that you don't have
these energetic, you know, kind of ties with people.
Um, we need to cut those. And the best way to cut those is,
oh, you want that here, give it, take it whatever you want.
You know, they're treasures of the physical anyway.
And later on they'll talk about, you know, we should really,
our treasures should be that of the things that are unseen,
not these cloaks and shirts and pants and shoes and cars
and monies and stuff like that.
That stuff is temporary.
We're looking for the things,
and we should wanna look for the things that are, you know,
infinite and, uh, you know, love, kindness,
compassion, those kind of things.
Yeah. Jacob, I'm totally fine with, uh, not trying
to cover everything, not doing part two.
'cause this is, this is such great stuff
to get into, and I, I think, I know you feel
Like you gotta rush through it. Yeah.
I feel like the, the, the, the, the, the, the core
of this, that it's like a theme through, through some
of these teachings is really about having
an open heart towards people.
Because you, you can't really look at your quote unquote
adversary and, and not have love
and also have this desire to settle matters quickly.
It's the same thing as when Jesus
says to pray for your enemies.
Yes. It's like, if you see yourself as having an enemy,
what, what is your prayer really?
If, if they, if you think of them as an enemy, you have
to think of them as a friend to want the best for them
to open your heart up and,
and really truly, um, um, see what it is
that's needed in their life
and empathize with where they're at.
And I think that's what's, what's going on right here
with the idea of, um, just if you're going on the way to,
to settle a dispute, just settle it right where you're at.
Just don't even wait. Um,
It kind of goes along with that, um,
Abraham Lincoln quote too.
And he goes, well, he is kind of, what's the best way
to defeat an enemy?
Turn 'em into a front. It's gotta be the easiest.
And, and honestly, just the most powerful of,
of anything you can do to anybody.
I mean, 'cause honestly, to me, everyone comes back.
But you know, when you turn someone into an enemy,
into a friend, now you have someone against you.
You turn 'em into someone who's for you.
And I've had those people in my life.
I've had those enemies that people that absolutely hated.
And then I finally gave 'em a chance
and heard 'em out and talked to them.
And the next thing you know, they became my biggest fans
and the work that I had done for many years, you know,
they shared it and talked about it, and,
and I just couldn't believe
that they were even into that kind of stuff.
But you just have to give people a chance.
'cause I'm telling you, everyone is more like you than they
could ever be different anybody directly in your life.
I guarantee you it's more like you
than they could ever be different.
And it's just this illusion that people
who speak a different language,
or people who have slightly different skin colors
or wear different kinds of, you know, coats and jackets
and clothes, that they're these evil people
that are so much different than we are.
Yeah. Yep.
And this next one here might be a
can of worms for some people.
Um, the, the idea that, uh,
that, uh, lust could be, could be seen as a, as a sin
before, before it turns into an
action, which just remains a thought.
Um, and I actually, I've done, I've done a, a,
a study on this word, um, to see, to see
what are the other bible translations say about this, uh,
where it says, I tell you that anyone
who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed
adultery with her in his heart.
Mm-Hmm. And some, some Bible translations talk about,
um, uh, possession.
The concept of possession. A desire is, is a,
is a translation for this word.
It's called lust. And it's like a desire for possession.
And one of the ways I I see this is that, um, you know,
sexuality can be expressed across different chakra levels is
something the, the law of one books talk about.
And, and if you're, if you're in the, in the mindset
of possession or desiring in like the,
the lower natures, you will, you will look at a person not
with a fully open, unconditional, loving heart
that would ask what is actually the best thing
for this person in this situation?
You know, when, when your society where there,
where there's clearly, you know, marriage agreements,
the best thing for people is to, to honor their agreements,
to be an unconditional love with one another.
And, and possession is, is a way of, uh, of, uh, sort
of invoking something that is, that is,
that is less than the purified love
that I think sexuality is calling us towards on some level.
Mm-Hmm.
Um, yeah. And that's, that's, I totally agree with that.
And then another thing that, um,
reading upon this many years ago,
I was also learning about like HeartMath Institute
and how they were, you know, realizing
how intelligent the heart was
and the heart actually sent more energy
to the brain than the brain sent to the heart.
And you know, that when they hooked people up to computers
and showed 'em images, the heart even picked up the images
and started to beat faster, you know, create people
to su um, uh, perspire more.
But what was interesting is that if, if you hook someone up,
hook someone's brain up to, uh, you know, a computer,
and you run a race when you sit down
and you imagine when running the same race, the same parts
of your brain light up.
And I would imagine I'd never heard this from the heart
method too, and I was always looking for it,
but I never could, never found it.
I would imagine if you were to watch,
and especially in today's society, when we have a lot
of pornographic, uh, influence coming at us, um,
I would imagine the same parts of your brain
that light up when you're, when you're watching a race
and when you're just imagining,
I would imagine when you're watching pornography,
the same parts of your heart probably turn off
as if you're actually doing it
because it's not, you know, in the lustful way.
You know what I mean? We're not, when we're not loving
someone, when we're literally there to, to get 'em,
you know, to uh, do this in a, in a, in a negative
unloving uh, unpassionate way, when it's just about
what I can get from somebody.
Um, there's many beautiful people out there and,
and we, many, maybe some of us experienced that,
where you've gone after someone
because you're lusting over them.
And then usually after it's over,
it's not very fulfilling in the same way it is with someone
who you really have a connection with someone that,
that the reason that you, you know, you are having sex
with them is because you really
care about them and you love them.
Uh, it's much different. So yeah,
I would think that, you know, just
by thinking about those things, you know, does things
to your heart and to your brain,
and probably very detrimental to your physical body.
I mean, heart diseases
by far the number one kill around the world.
And I would think it's not just
because our hearts are, you know, muscles that pump blood,
but they're intuitive, intelligent with neurons,
connected muscles that, that do a lot.
And when in their electrical systems,
and when we do things against those
electrical systems, it shuts down.
Yeah. And it's interesting when you're talking about
something like pornography here we have,
if you Right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out
and throw it away, um,
I think it's easier for people to recognize.
And if your computer's causing you to stumble, you can,
you can find a way to to to cut it out of your life in some
Way too. Throw it in
The trash. Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think that's, that's a,
that's a much deeper teaching here that, um,
it's really about, for me, idea,
I'm strengthening your will too, to do what it takes to,
to create the life for yourself that you're wanting by,
by being very disciplined. Mm-Hmm.
Yeah. I mean, he's really serious about, I mean,
you cut your hand off if it's, if you're gonna make excuse
and say, it's my hand doing it,
or this, you need to cut it off, then get rid of it.
'cause it's, you know, that is detrimental
to your spiritual evolution, you know,
and that's what's the most important here it sounds like, is
that we really are spiritual beings having the human
experience, not human beings trying to have a spiritual,
we're human, we're spiritual beings.
And, you know, that's what we're, we're here for, you know,
is to have this spiritual experience in the, in the flesh.
Um, and to, you know, become these, the son of man,
you know, become, um, you know, the actual children
of God to become perfect.
'cause we really are.
Yeah. Next one,
Next one. Uh, well, I
guess we, he mentioned divorce here. Yeah.
Um, and then oaths, which is funny
how there's a kind of connected
Mm-Hmm. Yeah.
Right, because you usually ha make
that oath to, to get married.
Yeah. Um, of course, it's, it's a,
it's a cultural thing very much too,
the way people view marriage and Yes.
Yeah.
Right. But I mean, at the end of the day, to me,
marriage is marrying up with somebody else, you know?
Um, it's not necessarily a ring
that you put on their finger, but when you have sex
with someone, when you, you know, uh,
you marry up your energy with them.
I don't know if you guys have, you know,
dated multiple people or you had that one person,
but you realize like when you, you know,
when you're married up with someone, the things
that they're good at, you can almost kind
of like balance yourself out with the things
that they're good at and the things you're good at.
Vice versa, they can kind of balance themself out.
Like someone who's introvert oftentimes will date someone
who's an extrovert, and they both kind
of balance each other out and it feels good.
And when they break it off of that person, you don't have
that same feeling inside of yourself.
And so I feel like, um,
it's not necessarily about the rings on the finger,
but this, this, uh, marriage of who we are
with our energy and, you know, just going around having sex
with people, um, you know, and,
and being adulterous, I guess is, is the word.
Um, it's really not that great for people.
It definitely has in our society, obviously has
some real appeal to it for a lot of people.
And I was definitely someone
who was stuck in that trap as well.
But I feel much more happier as a person by, by cutting that
and not, and being with one person than,
uh, multiple people.
In my, in my perspective, in my view, in my feeling, um,
it's much more easier with, there's a lot of energy.
Everybody has a lot of energy.
When you have sex people, it's almost like you're uploading
and downloading energies from back and forth to each other.
Um, so just doing that in general, um,
I feel like can be very, you know, crazy to your system
to upload and download those things from people.
And when Christ says, you know, if you really want
to end into the kingdom of heaven, you be like little kids.
And I hang out with little kids regularly.
I hang out on the playgrounds, I hang out in daycares.
And I tell you what, man, when these kids are playing
with each other, none of them care about that kind of stuff.
They don't care about what someone looks like
and how pretty they are.
But when you go, you wanna go to a bar or something
and everything is, you know, um,
just centered around what someone looks like.
You're gonna get somebody free drink 'cause they look good.
These people are gonna get to come in, this,
come in the door because they look good.
And, um, it's,
our whole society's completely different than that.
But as little kids, it's genuine and fun.
It's like, I just wanna play with you.
I just wanna hang out with you. I want to, I wanna love you.
I want to, you know, do things with you.
And that's, that's the beauty of it.
And that's, to me, what that heaven must be like is that,
you know, everyone doesn't want to just take from you
and get from you as is.
They wanna play with you and they wanna bill
with you and they wanna create with you.
Um, but we'll go down to Oath.
Um, again, you have heard that it was said
to people on oath, do not break your oath,
but fulfill the Lord, the vows that you have made.
But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all, either
by heaven or it is godstone
or by earth for it is his footstool
or by Jerusalem for the city of the Great King.
You know, basically saying, don't swear about anything.
Do not swear by your head,
or you cannot make, keep it one hair, white or black.
All you need to say is simply yes or no.
That you don't need to swear any oath.
You don't need to swear on the Bible.
Um, I just thought this was something cool
because it is something that we talk about a lot
and people say, oh, I swear by it.
I swear by the Bible, whatever.
And, you know, here's Christ saying,
dude, you don't need to swear by anything.
Yes or no. That's it. That's all too much. You know?
And, um, it's probably worse to say, yes,
I'll do something and not do it
than, than to do it.
Wait, it's probably worse to say you're gonna do something
and not do it than, than not.
Say you're gonna do it and do it. Um, yeah,
I I why say you're gonna do something
and lie about it A as opposed to, okay,
maybe I'll do that, maybe I won't.
But yes, you know, yes or no,
but there's no reason to get down and swear by things
and make 'em law, I guess.
Um, it seems to be, in this case, it just makes sense.
Like simply yes or no is all you need. Yeah.
It's kind of a tool for manipulation
and control too, that you kind
of avoid sidestep some of the Yeah.
The power games that people play with one another when they,
they try to, you know, force people into agreements with
some, some extra certification on that agreement,
then simply agreeing in the way
that they can is just a normal human
who can't know the future.
We can't know the future, what's gonna happen.
Right. And he's probably obviously aware of society,
secret societies and taking oath
and, you know, just like we were talking about
that JFK speech where he is like, you know, where there,
there are secret societies who take secret oath and stuff.
Um, which obviously after not too long
after he gave that speech, he, he did not,
uh, live very long.
But in Jesus, probably the same way at the same time,
people were still obviously aware of the oath that, that,
um, certain people took who had prestige and power.
It's like, you don't need to, you don't have to do all that.
Yeah. Yeah.
This is a big one because this is the one
that we see in our world today so much.
And eye for eye, you have heard that it was said
and eye for eye, tooth, bird, tooth.
But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.
Even if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn
to them the other cheek also.
And if anyone wants to sue you
and take your shirt hand over your coat as well,
if anyone forces you to go one mile, you go with them too.
Give to the one who ask
and do not turn away from the one who wants
to borrow from you.
Man. And I know that last part is probably hard for a lot
of us, but, you know, everyone's sitting there saying,
this person shot at me, so we gotta shoot 'em back.
We gotta, we should defend ourselves and we should do this.
And it's like, actually anyone who claims to be a Christian,
which 2 billion people out there,
you should be turning their cheek.
And anyone who did anything wrong to you, you should,
you know, offer them whatever they want
and not be engaging in these wars.
And this makes, you know, a lot
of sense if you're supposed to be peacemakers.
Yeah. Same thing with the, with the,
um, going to court as well.
He is like someone trying to sue you and take from you.
Again, don't, if they want your shirt,
give 'em hand over your coat, your jacket,
money in your pockets.
Don't let people take you to court.
Don't people let you waste your life saying they're arguing
over, over material possessions and things like that.
Yeah. And this, it's also just to me, just explains again
that you just have to have an open heart.
And, and it's, it's very hard for people even just to do
what they're asked but to, but to,
but to have it as a, as a rule in your head,
if somebody's asking for this amount,
sometimes you can do it as like, with homeless people,
for example, some homeless person asks you for $10,
you should give 'em 20 because they know that you love them
and you care about them, and you'll be Christ to them
because you gave them 20
instead of the 10 that they asked for.
And in all honesty, when Christ talks about giving,
I don't know if it's in this Matthew part that we have
or not, but he actually says to give with your left hand so
that your right doesn't know.
So it's like to go digging in your pockets and pull it out
and just hand it over whatever
you got without any attachment.
Was it a 10? Was it a 20? Was it a 30?
And in my experience with that direct situation,
when I've given to people without attachment to it,
when I've given, you know, more than people expected,
somebody say, Hey man, you got a couple bucks.
And I'd handed 'em a 20.
And I was, I gave these people that I knew,
these homeless people that I knew, you know,
a big hug and told 'em I loved 'em.
Said, here's some, here's
something first tonight in tomorrow.
Um, I was able to sell things
that I couldn't sell, I couldn't give away.
And then all of a sudden someone offered me
premium price to buy them.
I'm like, absolutely sure. And I, and I knew
after getting off the phone with them that it was
because I gave to other people in a way
that the universe was now giving back to me.
That when I hold back treasures and riches
and things that people need from the people that I,
that I know the universe holds back from me.
But when I give wholeheartedly to people without attachment,
and I'm grateful to be able to give and,
and make people happy and give gifts to people,
the universe is gonna give to me.
And it's, and people are gonna give back
to me in the same way that I give to others.
That's why it says, you know,
how you judge is how you're judged.
How you give is how you get, you know?
Yeah. And as we mentioned earlier, the,
this is almost like another reversal here.
You've heard it said, love your enemy
and hate your an, uh, love
your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I tell you, love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
Um, that you may call,
you may be children of your father in heaven.
Um, and that, that to me, that's just central
to appreciating the heart of what Jesus is trying to get us
to do, is to stop, stop seeing it in terms of
the ingroup and the outgroup.
And, and which is what Christianity often is,
is we have these belief systems
and those people have those belief systems
and they're now our enemy on some level.
But it's like to, to see everyone as worthy of,
of being a part of your circle, we're praying for everyone
regardless of whether or not we, we see them as, as hostile
or friendly to us.
And from their perspective, we can see them as worthy of
that, of that, of that love from us.
Hmm. Yeah.
And, uh, be perfect, therefore,
as your heavenly Father is perfect,
is it's kind of a challenge.
You want people to understand.
Maybe that's, uh, I mean it's almost like,
you know, we're being asked to, to, to think in, in terms of
the completed work o of of, of who we are and,
and see ourselves as, as capable of being fully perfect
and loving by, by this.
Um, and, and just seeing that, that as a possibility
that we can see ourselves, ourselves as perfect
and like Jesus recognizing that's a way that we can go in
and, and see ourselves as
that I think is pulling us towards that.
But what's your take on that verse, Jacob?
They love your enemies. So yeah. Very similar.
Be perfect also, um,
Oh, be perfect therefore, as your Heavenly Father's.
Perfect. Yes. I do think that this is the challenge,
you know, that our, that God the universe is perfect,
that everything is happening the way
it's supposed to happen.
And we should emulate that.
That's what makes Jesus the only son of God, is
because the only Son emulates God in the exact
same way that God is.
And therefore, we are capable of doing that same thing.
We're capable of loving, giving others people free will
and allowing people to be themselves and,
and still, you know, loving them, helping them,
healing them, you know, giving them our jacket
and realizing like you don't have to be in lack, you know,
uh, one of the verses says, you know,
doesn't your father love you and give you good gifts?
And doesn't your heavenly Father know
you even better than that?
And give you better gifts than that if you allow it?
And it's like, all you have to do is know who you are,
who you are, like I am.
I'm a child of God. I am royalty. I am entitled.
I mean, at the same time as I'm, I'm humble,
but I realize I have to realize too, that I am, you know,
uh, important as, as anybody
who ever has come or anybody will come.
And that being perfect, uh, as our heavenly Father
and emulating that perfection, it's not something
that we should say is impossible,
but all things are possible with God.
And that means we can do it too.
Yeah. And we should be doing it.
And imagine it's such a tall order.
But imagine if we were all doing it
and really working on, I mean, those first two commandments,
which is, you know, love you of Lord your God
with all your mind and body and soul.
And then learning to love others too.
And then learning to love your enemies.
'cause it's easy to love, you know, people that you like
and your friends, but learning to love your enemies, man,
there's something about that that's even more challenging
because that in itself, getting over those things,
walking into work that day
and throwing up the flag of surrender
and talking to somebody and finding out, Hey man,
what is it you know, that you have against me?
Or what is it you think that we could do
to bury the hatchet?
Man, there's something magical in that moment that
will be freeing for anybody who has an enemy at work
or at school or, you know, whatever.
Like you, you know, the father would be perfect and,
and heal that relationship.
And so that's what we need to do too.
You know, don't go to work every day and be miserable
and have to turn the turn the other way
and constantly try to avoid somebody.
'cause that's gonna end up being worse than if you just go
in there and say, man, I apologize from my end of this
and you know, I love you and I care about you,
and I don't want anything bad to happen to you.
And, you know, that's when you'll find this magical moment
where this person is more like you
than you could possibly ever imagine.
Absolutely. So it looks like we've been going
for about an hour, Jacob, and we're
through all the chapter five, so
I know, man.
So we, we could,
we could promise people we'll keep on going
through this in future session. We
Had good intentions.
Yeah. Yeah.
But we were, we were gonna go up to what,
like 25, 26 even. So yeah,
There's a lot to cover. Obviously
That's gonna more, so maybe we should just stop it there.
Yeah. I had up to Matthew 25, the Sheep and the Goats.
So we're not gonna be anywhere close to that.
So I mean, we definitely have a good stopping point here at
the Love, love for enemies.
So, um, maybe we could just close it out
and then, uh, have our discussion here at the end.
Yep. So let
Mike, yeah, feel free.
Go ahead and, and you know, since we are gonna end it here,
you have anything else you wanna share on this topic and,
and, um, you know, share with our viewers for tonight?
Well, I guess there's a lot to share on this,
but I just wanna sh remind people that, uh,
if you wanna join the, the live streams, you can go
to Essential Works TV and find mystery school on, on there
and find the, it's basically a Zoom link right now,
but we're gonna try to expand this into more
platforms, more ways to connect.
Um, um,
but uh, yeah, I'm, I'm very excited
to keep keep having these conversations
because it, it, it definitely feels like you've said
that there, that there, there's, there's a yearning in my,
in my soul also that there is, there's, there's a lot of
division in our, in our society around people who are sort
of, uh, in the materialist
or, uh, mainstream views that,
that haven't been raised as Christians.
And then there's the Christians who don't know how
to integrate, um, a lot of what they were raised with, with,
with, uh, culture, which seems to be pushing away from, um,
certain kinds of mystical
or, um, spiritual thinking in terms of, um, you know,
why are things happening the way they are?
It's not just about physics and science.
This is about kind of spiritual science
and metaphysics that is causing things
to unfold the way that it is.
And so I think having a larger, more coherent, uh,
perspective of these, these teachings is, is very, very
critical for people to come, come more into coherent
perspective of, of what's really going on with our reality.
And really, this is still the same,
it's the same lessons Jesus was teaching
that are the lessons that are most needed.
If we can just come back into this concept of praying
for your enemies, loving people doing what it takes
to open your heart as much as possible towards everyone you
meet and be that, be that change on the earth that's needed,
become Jesus to other people as it's needed.
That's, that's really the, the, the main lesson that,
that is still so important for everyone right now.
Mm-Hmm. Thank you Alex. That was beautiful.
And I, you know, I just wanna end with
how grateful I am to be able to, to sit in the country
where we're able to talk about these things as of yet.
Um, but I wanna let people know too, you know, that as much
as it said that Jesus is loving, you know, beautiful,
truthful person, he was a quite bit
of a badass himself, you know what I mean?
He turned over the money tables that, um, at the synagogues
because that's
what they had turned it into a money exchange.
He didn't like that. And he was done with that.
And like, he really questioned
and he really, um, pushed the authority away
and said, you guys don't have any authority over me.
You don't have any authority over these people.
And you know, it's like he was this free man.
He was the, this organic, raw free human,
and he was given every single one of us the permission to be
that exact same thing you can do all the miracles
that I'm doing in greater things than that.
He gave us permission to do more
and greater things than he ever did.
And he walked on water supposedly, and he healed people.
And he, you know what I mean?
So how is this guy is the only son
of God giving us permission to do all the same things
because we're the sons and daughters of God too.
And by being the only son, we have to be perfect
as our heavenly Father is, and how our, how God is,
and it's gives us free will to be
who we are and make those choices.
But to know that the parable is, we are all the parable
of the lost sons and the lost daughters.
And it's okay to go out and do the things you gotta do
and eventually forgive yourself and go back.
And when you go back to the Father, it,
it is killing the fat of Cal for you.
It is loving you. It is arms wide open, no questions asked.
'cause you had to go out and you had to go do those things.
And you learn about who you were
and what, what you came from and who you are.
And it's a beautiful story, man. It is a beautiful story.
It's a beautiful parable.
And we are just missing the point, I think overall
by putting somewhat on,
on a pedestal and not really hearing.
He said, you know, for those who have ears here
and those who have eyes to see, to perceive, to know
what he's saying is important.
And that's what, and that's what we need to know is what is,
what is the message that's coming from this messenger?
And not just putting this message him
on the, on the pedestal.
Um, 'cause I think he did love us.
And I think that we are incredibly beautiful
human beings, and we live in the Garden of Eden right now,
and we just don't see it.
And we're constantly fighting
and hurting and killing each other.
And it's just, it's unneeded. It's totally unneeded.
And we don't need to find polarization in a certain religion
and certain politics.
There so much that we're gonna make fun of people
or hurt people's feelings or say mean things when we realize
we're all really literally brothers and sisters
and we're all one race of the human race,
it makes no sense what's at all at all.
And so to me, going back and really reading these things
and, and diving into it myself, I feel free.
I feel free from even the belief of
what Christianity is supposed to be,
but the organic meat of of the matter that's in there
for me, the proof is in the pudding.
What he's saying, it, it frees me and empowers me.
And I feel like that's all we're trying
to do tonight is trying to bring back, resurrect this,
these teachings that Christ gave us, um, to know
that we are all powerful.
That we are all one, that we are amazing beings,
and that we should learn to love each other as ourselves
and learn to love yourself too.
You're part of that equation, each one of us.
And if we learn to do that, no one can manipulate us
and to fighting each other, hurting each other,
killing each other because we're all,
we're all one human race.
And the hurting anybody is hurting ourselves.
And so tonight, I, I wanna say thank you guys all
for joining us on Ascension Works.
If you're watching live on YouTube right now, um,
I'm extremely grateful.
I think now more than ever, realizing that each
and every single one of us doing the work
literally is changing the world.
That an eye for an eye literally leaves the world blind.
But when we love each other and we care about each other,
we do the work that's necessary.
We, we are changing the world one by one.
And that resonant energy is creating something
that means no longer control for a few,
but it means freedom for all.
And I think that's what's most important,
that we can be free, that we can live on this planet in an
amazing, incredible way that we once did.
And people right now are living in
that amazing, incredible free way.
And if we only resonate with that, we can change the world.
So I just wanna say thank you every single one of you
to tonight that is watching with us
and the ones that we'll watch later on, please like,
and subscribe, share, and do your work, do your inner work
because it's so important and it's so needed this time.
The light in me sees honors
and recognize the light that's in every single one of you,
that divine, that nature
that's in every single human being out there.
You're a love more than you possibly know, and I love you
and I honor every single one of you. Namaste,
NA.