Bearing witness of this truth through forgiveness of the belief in separation from God is how salvation is brought to the Son of God and we recognize Him in All of Creation.
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Lesson 318
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In me salvation’s means and end are one.
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1. In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to save the world. ²What could conflict, when all the parts have but one purpose and one aim? ³How could there be a single part that stands alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? ⁴I am the means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. ⁵I was created as the thing I seek. ⁶I am the goal the world is searching for. ⁷I am God’s Son, His one eternal Love. ⁸I am salvation’s means and end as well.
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2. Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. ²For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You.
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(ACIM, W-318.1:1–2:2)
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* “⁶I am the goal the world is searching for.”
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* As is all that I am able to see and not see. Accepting the Atonement allows me to take my place in the Sonship as well as be in the presence of all that is and God, Himself.
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Lesson 319
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I came for the salvation of the world.
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1. Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. ²For arrogance opposes truth. ³But when there is no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies. ⁴Only the ego can be limited, and therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. ⁵The ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. ⁶And yet it is the Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.
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2. Father, Your Will is total. ²And the goal which stems from it shares its totality. ³What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? ⁴And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with You?
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(ACIM, W-319.1:1–2:4)
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* There is a part in the Course that seems to reject this “1. Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains.” because we understand that those who take on bodies have accepted the idea of separation however I am suspecting that we take this too literally. We all have the ability to be a part of salvation by accepting the Atonement.
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* “ ³What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me?”
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* When another door closes I lean into forgiveness and remember that separation in any form has nothing to do with truth. This gives me stability when really there seems like there would be none.
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* I will note here that salvation does not happen without the allowance of God in the equation. God justifies our existence because of His desire to have a Son.
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Lesson 320
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My Father gives all power unto me.
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1. The Son of God is limitless. ²There are no limits on his strength, his peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation. ³What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. ⁴His holy will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the strength and love in earth and Heaven. ⁵I am he to whom all this is given. ⁶I am he in whom the power of my Father’s Will abides.
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2. Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as well through me. ²There is no limit on Your Will. ³And so all power has been given to Your Son.
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(ACIM, W-320.1:1–2:3)
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* I am so grateful to know that I am a part of the Sonship of Christ. I stand in whatever form or situation I must and I know that I am the Father’s Son and I am so grateful for this and for all who will eventually come to understand this.
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* In my corner of the world and my place of influence I can testify that the Father Loves His Son and wants to bless Him. No circumstance takes this opportunity away from me
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Lesson 321
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Father, my freedom is in You alone.
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1. I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. ²Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. ³Now I would guide myself no more. ⁴For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. ⁵But I trust in You. ⁶You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. ⁷Your Voice directs me, and the way to You is opening and clear to me at last. ⁸Father, my freedom is in You alone. ⁹Father, it is my will that I return.
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2. Today we answer for the world, which will be freed along with us. ²How glad are we to find our freedom through the certain way our Father has established. ³And how sure is all the world’s salvation, when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone.
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(ACIM, W-321.1:1–2:3)
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* How can people think they can take the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit out of the Course and have a message at all?
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* The Voice from Father that directs us is the Holy Spirit.
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* Because we are ONE SON before God each one of us brings the whole Sonship into remembrance of the Father. This is not going to be seen in the world around us immediately because all things must be fulfilled to bring all of us into this awareness.
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* The Holy Spirit will give you the witness of this truth within your own heart as you walk in faith and trust in the reality of a Heavenly Father.
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* “²How glad are we to find our freedom through the certain way our Father has established. ³And how sure is all the world’s salvation, when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone.”
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Lesson 322
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I can give up but what was never real.
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1. I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. ²And as illusions go I find the gifts illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in readiness to give God’s ancient messages to me. ³His memory abides in every gift that I receive of Him. ⁴And every dream serves only to conceal the Self which is God’s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.
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2. Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. ²And so I cannot sacrifice except in dreams. ³As You created me, I can give up nothing You gave me. ⁴What You did not give has no reality. ⁵What loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into my mind?
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(ACIM, W-322.1:1–2:5)
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* Nothing can separate the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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* I give up only what I never had. A dream that this world could bring any type of satisfaction outside of reminding me of the Heavenly Father that created all that is.
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* I trust that there is a God more than I trust in my own existence and because of this I understand that I have existence because God exists.
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To God be all glory, in the Name of Christ, amen.
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Till next time, God bless, debi.