Speaker 1: Christianity has to be conteined the deeds from secular history.
For Jesus, strife is the human imagination. As Paul tells
us in its first Letter to the corinthany were received,
not the spirit of the world, but the spirit. It
is from God that we might understand the gifts be
told upon us by God. So tonight we will show
you one of these gifts, if you really understand. To
Jesus christ is, I tell you he is your own
wonderful human imagination to death, This Christ, it comes when
you are shocked, when you prepare it. If you were
raised in the tradition so as to speak of one.
I was raised in a Christian home, and that's still
likely hundreds of millions of Christians. We were taught it
as tacked to the history. A little boy who was
born a woman who knew not a man, and that
his father was God, he was the son of God.
And that was a story as I was taught it.
But I was searching and seeking from the time I
think I can remember.
Speaker 2: I believe this story.
Speaker 1: If mother taught it to him, I did give it.
And I can't tell anyone the shock that was mine.
And sometimes maybe I wondered if it would not have
been better to turn back, like is real in the desert,
and go back in this label. But I couldn't anymore
than they could. They had to keep moving towards the
promised land. For when you are distilusion haven't been taught
to story as we all have been taught it to
this proper that he is not something in history.
Speaker 2: He is nearer than your breathing. In fact, he can't
even be there. He is your very self.
Speaker 1: He is your own wonderful human imagination. It comes with
quite a shock. Well, I can tell it there by
telling you a story. The year was nineteen thirty three.
Rosevelt was elected. I have been in the country for
eleven years. I never really wanted to go back to Barbada.
My parents came up in that year and they feely
with me to come to Barbados and join the family,
become a member of the family. And I declined.
Speaker 2: I said no.
Speaker 1: I saw them off at the vote, and strangely enough,
as they failed, and they were on the deck, and
I waved goodbye to him. A victoria feeling came over him,
and I had a desire that I never had in
eleven years. To vote to bother them. I had just
said goodbye to them and said no to their request.
They would have paid all extendees to dropped me back.
And everything was in third. Then from the vote, I
went to my old traying Abdullah he was born so
I am told in Ethiopia. He was a black man,
raised in the Jewish faith, but really understood Christianity as
few men that I ever met understood. He understood the law,
not the promise. He understood the Lord. So I went
to him and I told him. The peeliate came over
me that I wanted to go to Barbado. I had
waited my.
Speaker 2: Parents and a picture your feeling forest, and he said
to me.
Speaker 1: You are in Barbado. Well, that did not make sense
to me. I'm standing in his plate on seventy second
Street off Central Park, that's where he lived with the
thirty where seventy second Street, that I am in his
place and he's telling me that I am in Barbado.
Speaker 2: He didn't explain what he meant. So as the day.
Speaker 1: Went by, I take to him that I am known
mayor of the Barbados than I was when I told
to you.
Speaker 2: And he said to me, if.
Speaker 1: If you are in Barbado, you cannot discuss the mean
to get into Barbato.
Speaker 2: You must actually live in.
Speaker 1: Barbadd in your imagination as though you were there. I did,
I view the world from Barbating. If you sleep in
Barbado and view the world from Barbato, the means will
appear and you will go to Barbaden.
Speaker 2: But because I am concerned.
Speaker 1: You are already in Barbaded, because you desired it that intensively.
All you have to do is can be to enter it.
And you enter it now in New York City, even
though that's two thousand miles across water, and you aren't
going to walk across water, But you enter Barbades and
view the world from it.
Speaker 2: If you see the world from Barbabing, then you have
to be in Barbadd.
Speaker 1: He did not explain to me then, but I there
and later that men being all imagination, man is wherever
he is in imagination, and imagination is the God in man,
that is the eternal body of the Lord Devil tribe.
And all things are possible Togin and by him all
things were made, and without him was not anything made
that was made. That what is now proven was once
only imagine these things. I did not know then.
Speaker 2: These don't be talked in the overall picture.
Speaker 1: But I did my best, and I set man in
barbated in my mother's home. I looked at the world
and thought some barbaded. I saw New York City, two
thousand miles to the north of the north West. For
we are a certain attitude thirteen nor New York is
forty two nor.
Speaker 2: We are the fifteen ninth longitude New.
Speaker 1: York to the seventy four right right no to red.
As I could imagine it, I heard the topical noise.
We call this land topical. It really isn't propical in
the two really two cents of the world. When you
go into the tropics, it's something entirely different. I will
drawn in the tropics almost only equator. It's an entirely
different odor. Sun sets to go like this. You look
at the sun, and the sun that's the third Suddenly
a ball of red light becomes green. You're looking at
the sun, and suddenly, in a matter of a six second,
you're seeing a green sun. If you're seeing the complement
of brad so we have no highlight symbardating. The sun
goes down rappidle from a red ball to a green ball,
and you're seeing a.
Speaker 2: S The whole ap was their difference.
Speaker 1: Will I put myself into death and felt that my
mother and father were in their room, and that my
brother those who were not getting married were in the house.
The few big old horn about it, and they're like that.
This was now late October. When it came to the
end of November. I said to add I said, I
am no letter Barbated. He said, you are in barbatd
Then he turned it back on me and walked over
the bedroom and slammed the door, which was not I'm
invitating the politics.
Speaker 2: Did you understood that you were keeping me a lesson
the lesson of faith? If I am active teaving in Barbated,
no power in.
Speaker 1: The world to in the player with my journey to Barbata,
which is now great November. The last ship out of
New York City telling for Barbada was the sixth of December.
I wanted to get there by Christmas, and so I
could not raise the question anymore. But on the morning
of the fourth or the third of December, I got
a letter from my brother Victor. I did not ask
him or any member of my family to bring me
to Barbada. He wrote a letter and he justified the
content in this matter. He said, we are, you know,
a large family, nine brothers than a twict. We have
never been united around our Christmas table at Christmas. Think
we were family, for there was an Integrati team, my twister,
deputy and the last two boys of eight yield. By
that time, my oldest brother had left for the Marara
into the Siena, and and when he came back, my
brother Lawrence went off to McGill to study medicine. And
we were always moving around. But this time every one
was present. But your story and if I'm enclosing a
small little draft fifty dollars. But in nineteen fifty, when
there were seventeen and a half million unemployed and we
didn't have two hundred and four million silicon, we only
had one hundred and twenty odd billions, there was me
normal that you're not old.
Speaker 2: Enough to know it. Me I traded. It was really
a hollow.
Speaker 1: But I was numbered among the unemployed, and so he
knew that I could come if the tournament were there,
that I had bypathic paid. So we enclosed a fifty
dollars draft to buy a suit. Well, little buy a student.
Those days for twelve dollars ten dollars you could buy
a third cue mcan to to three dollars. And so
I went down to the team to company because in
the letter is that I've notified the company to issue
a ticket. And then the little fifty dollars you buy
what you need for the chip, and then sign the chip.
And when the ship comes in, I will meet the
ship and say all the things you have interred all
the day. But I went down to the ship, they'll
say to me, I'm sorry, mister daddad, but we do
not have a first test tactic for you. We can
accommodate your third plan. You have the third past accommodation
for meals, and you can have all the other areas
of the first class, but for sleeping you have to
go to the third plack.
Speaker 2: I said, thirty all right with me, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I went back to Abdullah and I told him you
know what he did when I said I am going
third test to doubt it.
Speaker 2: But I have the accommodation with the first for the daylight.
Speaker 1: Power you get who told you you're doing third class
you are already invard and you went thirst Tad again,
he told the doll on the I went down to
the ship the morning at sail on the fifth of December,
and the ticket able say to me.
Speaker 2: Mister Goddard, I have good news.
Speaker 1: Report we have a cancelation, and now you can go
thirsd path, but you'll share it with two others. The
three in the tatin carefully all right with thee And
so I went down thirdd Abdulla sat me, you know, Nevil,
when you return from Barbada, you will have died.
Speaker 2: Never explained a statement of that nature. You would have died.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back from Barbada, but I will have died,
he spoke with the man.
Speaker 2: Well I did. I went down to Barbados. I was
a fifth Arian.
Speaker 1: I had not eaten one piece of meat, or feet
or fowl in seven years, no voting, no alcohol. Note
that with a lit in my first marriage, and the whole.
Speaker 2: Thing was complete. I became a talibant.
Speaker 1: I came back from varbarated, and Invarbarated, I was the
same thing that.
Speaker 2: I was when I arrived, to the annoyance of my family, for.
Speaker 1: They made all their money in broakely telling me take
out of hall everything, and I am enjoying a tip
day to fund their effort. And here I am not
picking what they offer. On my way north, I did everything.
I had not dined in seven years.
Speaker 2: He would right.
Speaker 1: I died that fate of hunting, of died, that's what died.
Never is the immortal thing, Yet within a man is immortal.
I was locked in a state, the state I departed from.
Though I followed, I am in term I die to
that date. Do you see die? There's nothing more than
a hunger. The whole that world is a hunger and
their unnumbered take of conflictence