able to recite. The Holy Trinity is the quintessential perfect example of love, and of unity, and of
cooperation, and of humility, and of all of the virtues. And our Lord Jesus Christ came down to earth in
order to make us capable of being one, even as He is One with His Father.
if we live with virtue, with purity. Only the pure in heart shall see God. The Lord has made us capable!
Eternal life is not just that you are going to go to heaven or that you are not going to go to hell; eternal life
is to be one with God! WeÁ-?re just flesh, how can this be? No, we can never be in the Essence of God, but
we will be sharing in all that He wishes to give.
perfection. So much that goes on every day is so temporal, and will go away. But the Lord came so that we
could have permanence. The only way to achieve this permanence is to enter into the life of virtue, to
struggle to follow the LordÁ-?s commandments.
together, we pray together, with the same kind of prayers all over the world. We have dogmas which it is
imperative to believe -- else we are not Christians -- that are defined in our Symbol of Faith. And there are
many other dogmas as well, that we must believe if we are to be one with God. For example, if we donÁ-?t
forgive our brother, we will not be forgiven. That is a dogma as well. There are many, many dogmas, and
all of them have moral significance. If we believe in the Trinity and if we dare to call God our Father, then
we had best be His sons and daughters in how we live!
perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect. He has commanded us to become perfect. Nothing that the
Lord said was false. Nothing was hyperbole. Perfection is possible for us. If He said and commanded it,
then certainly it is possible. He will provide us with the ability. We must struggle in the path of virtue, and
then weÁ-?ll know Him. Eternal life is to know God.
was saying, Á-°Well, I know itÁ-?s wrong, but he just doesnÁ-?t understand and weÁ-?re going to be married in a
year or two, and then God will forgive us.Á-? And then, in another conversation on the same day, we were
talking about the end times Á-? I think some book by Hal Lindsey had just come out; and she said: Á-°Well,
IÁ-?m not worried about becoming deluded or anything, because it says that if anyone says Á-?He is there,Á-? or
Á-?He is there,Á-? itÁ-?s not the Christ. The Lord is going to come like a lightning flash, itÁ-?s going to be
instantaneous, and so if anybody is reporting that Á-?Here is Christ, there is Christ,Á-? as the days go by, that
obviously canÁ-?t be Christ. I wonÁ-?t be deluded.Á-? And I remember thinking, Á-°How foolish you are. Perhaps
the Lord will allow you to be preserved, but delusion can come upon all of us if we donÁ-?t live a life of
virtue.Á-?
have intimate knowledge of and participation with God, and His Grace. Eternal life is to know God
intimately. You likely wonÁ-?t gain eternal life on your deathbed by saying youÁ-?re sorry! It is possible for that
to happen, but it is rare, very rare. And the reason it is rare is because at the time of death, a person who
has not lived virtuously and struggled will be so taken up with the stuff of dying and the terror of it all that
they wonÁ-?t be able to turn to God! It isnÁ-?t that God would not receive them; itÁ-?s that they canÁ-?t turn to
Him!