The Impersonal Life

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====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1937 ==
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==== THE SOUL ====
=== By Sterling E. Nicholson ===
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GOOD morning, friends. We want to talk to you this morning about the Soul. We desire to lead every listener to an understanding that there is much more to life than just coming here for a few years and then passing into eternity.

Most theologians tell us that we are manifest on this plane of existence generally less than one hundred years, and then we go to a place called heaven or hell. They tell you that the wicked will suffer and burn throughout all eternity for the mistakes that they have made in this short life-time here. Such doctrine as that is based on a false understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again. Jesus did not say that he would possibly be born again, or that he might be born again, but Jesus said that he must be born again. So can we say to many souls that dwell on the earth plane, that they must be born again, and not only must they be born again, but they will be born again. For every soul that was back in the loins of Adam must some day return unto the Father’s House.

It is every minister’s duty in this age, as it always has been every minister’s duty, to be willing to cast away every pre-conceived idea and supposition, so that they can declare the TRUTH unto ears that are listening for the voice of God for this age. It is the TRUTH that sets men free from error, and to have the TRUTH, we must accept the Lord Jesus Christ as He is for this age. He is a Quickening Spirit, for Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

When we have learned that the Lord Jesus Christ has come into His temple to abide therein, and we know that we are a temple of the Living God, then, and not until then, are we prepared to tell mankind the Way of Salvation. When the Holy Spirit begins to reveal and unfold God’s Eternal TRUTH unto us, generally we find that many of the things that our natural minds accepted as TRUTH, begin to fade away.

I can speak for myself, and say, that I had to be willing to un-learn all I did know, so that I might understand the program of God for this age. I have found that in Him is all wisdom and knowledge.

I want to read you a Scripture contained in Second Corinthians, chapter Five, verse One, “We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, ETERNAL in the heavens.”

I want you to notice that this house in the heavens is an ETERNAL house. You never reach this house by going through the grave, for those in the graves know not anything. This house in the heavens has no beginning nor end, for it is an ETERNAL creation of God. This house is in the heavens, yet not far from the earth. John dwelt in this house while on the isle of Patmos. Paul was caught up into the third condition in this house, yet Paul was standing on the earth.

I don’t believe they had any balloons in that day, neither do I believe that man needs some gospel-ship to come and take him to this City of God, but I do believe that any man can be lifted spiritually into this ETERNAL creation of God. Further I believe that any man that is not lifted into this creation of God in this life time, will have to be lifted there at some future time.

You were created at the beginning of time a living soul, but in Adam all have died, but in Christ shall all be made alive.

Some men attempt to explain that God is a trinity, but if the word trinity is used at all it should be used for man. God is ONE, but man is a trinity composed of body, soul and spirit. God’s Spirit “descends” into man, and lifts man from the dust of the earth, and the mortal puts on immortality. The spirit, soul and body become one, and then that temple can say that, “I and My Father are One.”

Man casts aside his body because of sin. Man goes to the grave because of sin. But if you do put your body in the grave, then you must be born again, for some time you must redeem your body.

Man is a soul, and man has always existed. If you had a beginning then you will have an ending. Did you ever stop to realize that there are always about the same number of souls on the earth and allied planes? Did you know that there are always the same souls on these planes? Did you know that you have always existed? Did you know that you have been on this earth many times before?

The Father’s House is Eternal in the heavens. You were one time in the Father’s House, and if you are not in the Father’s House today, then you have fallen from that condition. When you have learned the lessons of life, and when you have become disgusted with earthly wisdom, then God breathes upon you, and He lifts you spiritually into His Eternal House.

What Jesus said is true, that “No man cometh unto Me, unless My Father draw Him,” and “No man has ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven.” When all the false doctrines, and all the false beliefs pass away, then you will find yourself in the Father’s House again. God is no respecter of persons, so in due time every soul will pass through the veil and enter the Holies of Holies, and that soul will understand that God is Spirit.

Every soul has come down from the heavens. Many descend into the lowest pits of life, but God is there to lift them. It takes many births and re-births before we regain our right to heaven and to enter the New Jerusalem, which is the City of God, Eternal in the heavens.

What you or I call heaven is un-clean in the sight of God, for all of man’s heavens pass away with a great noise. And praise God when the heavens of man have passed away, for then we find ourselves in the Eternal City of God.

Regardless of what a man might say, no man goes to heaven or hell when he goes to a literal grave. Truth is Truth, and it matters little what men say, for God’s plan shall come to fulfillment anyway.

You were not created when you came to earth this time. You always have been, and always shall be. Hell and heaven are ever-present spiritual truths. Heaven and hell are not reached by going through the grave. There is a great gulf fixed between heaven and hell, and it takes the Baptism of the Holy Ghost to lift you from hell and put you in heaven. Then you have just started on your upward journey. Many heavens will you pass through, and some day, praise God, you will awake in His likeness, and you will find that you are in the stature of the Perfect Man. The heavens contain the Lord Jesus Christ until every son of man has entered the heavens; and when every son of man has been brought back home, then shall God be ALL IN ALL, and the earth shall be as the heavens.

—Broadcast over WEXL, Jan. 31, ’37.
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