Forty Days
Forty days of
quotes from the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus
The Urantia Book
April 9 through
May 18
April 9
"Peace be upon you.”
from many appearances
April 10
“I come to call you to the service of the kingdom. Join
earnest hands with your brethren and follow after me."
Third Appearance
April 11
“How could you doubt? Why have you lingered so long before
choosing to follow the light of truth with a whole heart?
Come, therefore, all of you into the fellowship of the Spirit of Truth in the
Father's kingdom."
Fourth Appearance
April 12
“In the fellowship of the kingdom there shall be neither
Jew nor gentile, rich nor poor, free nor bond, man nor woman.”
Fifth Appearance
April 13
“You also
are called to publish the good news of the liberty of mankind through the
gospel of sonship with God in the
kingdom of heaven. Go to all the world proclaiming
this gospel and confirming believers in the faith thereof.”
Fifth Appearance
April 14
“And while
you do this, forget not to minister to the sick and strengthen those who are
fainthearted and fear-ridden.”
Fifth Appearance
April 15
“Do you
not perceive how great a salvation has come upon you?"
Seventh
Appearance
April 16
“No longer
should you be concerned with what you may obtain from the kingdom but rather be
exercised about what you
can give to those who live in dire spiritual poverty. Gird yourself….for the
battle of a new day, the struggle with spiritual
darkness and the evil doubtings of the natural minds
of men."
Eighth Appearance
April 17
“How long
will you doubt my words and refuse to believe my promises?”
Ninth appearance
April 18
“Have
faith in God; have faith in one another; and so shall you enter into the new
service of the kingdom of heaven.”
Ninth appearance
April 19
“You all
know that we have one Father in heaven, and that there is but one gospel of the
kingdom -- the good news of the
gift of eternal life which men receive by faith.”
Tenth Appearance
April 20
“As you
rejoice in your loyalty to the gospel, pray the Father of truth to shed abroad
in your hearts a new and greater love
for your brethren.”
Tenth Appearance
April 21
“You are
to love all men as I have loved you; you are to serve all men as I have served
you. With understanding sympathy
and brotherly affection, fellowship all your brethren who are dedicated to the
proclamation of the good news…”
Tenth Appearance
April 22
“You are
all the children of light; therefore stumble not into the misunderstanding
entanglements of mortal suspicion and
human intolerance. If you are ennobled, by the grace of faith, to love
unbelievers, should you not also equally love those who
are your fellow believers in the far-spreading household of faith?”
Tenth Appearance
April 23
“Remember,
as you love one another, all men will know that you are my disciples.”
Tenth Appearance
April 24
"Go,
then, into all the world proclaiming this gospel of
the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men to all nations and
races and ever be wise in your choice of methods for presenting the good news
to the different races and tribes of mankind.
Freely you have received this gospel of the kingdom, and you will freely give
the good news to all nations.”
Tenth Appearance
April 25
“Fear not
the resistance of evil, for I am with you always, even to the end of the ages.
And my peace I leave with you."
Tenth Appearance
April 26
“Again I
tell you: As the Father sent me into the world, so send I
you. As I have revealed the Father, so shall you reveal the
divine love, not merely with words, but in your daily living.
I send you forth, not to love the souls of men, but rather to love men.”
Eleventh Appearance
April 27
“You are
not merely to proclaim the joys of heaven but also to exhibit in your daily
experience these spirit realities of the divine
life since you already have eternal life, as the gift of God, through faith.
When you have faith, when power from on high, the
Spirit of Truth, has come upon you, you will not hide your light here behind
closed doors; you will make known the love and
the mercy of God to all mankind.”
Eleventh Appearance
April 28
“You may
tarry here…for a short season while you recover from the shock of the
transition from the false security of the
authority of traditionalism to the new order of the authority of facts, truth,
and faith in the supreme realities of living experience.”
Eleventh Appearance
April 29
“Your
mission to the world is founded on the fact that I lived a God-revealing life
among you; on the truth that you and all other
men are the sons of God; and it shall consist in the life which you will live
among men -- the actual and living experience of loving
men and serving them, even as I have loved and served you.”
Eleventh Appearance
April 30
“Let faith
reveal your light to the world; let the revelation of truth open the eyes
blinded by tradition; let your loving service
effectually destroy the prejudice engendered by ignorance. By so drawing close to
your fellow men in understanding sympathy
and with unselfish devotion, you will lead them into a saving knowledge of the
Father's love.”
Eleventh Appearance
May 1
“That
which my Father sent me into the world to establish belongs not to a race, a
nation, nor to a special group of teachers or preachers.”
Twelfth Appearance
May 2
“You shall
love one another with a new and startling affection, even as I have loved you.”
Twelfth Appearance
May 3
“You will
serve mankind with a new and amazing devotion, even as I have served you.”
Twelfth Appearance
May 4
“And when
men see you so love them, and when they behold how fervently you serve them,
they will perceive that you have
become faith-fellows of the kingdom of heaven, and they will follow after the
Spirit of Truth which they see in your lives, to
the finding of eternal salvation.”
Twelfth Appearance
May 5
"And
now you should give ear to my words lest you again make the mistake of hearing
my teaching with the mind while in
your hearts you fail to comprehend the meaning.”
Sixteenth Appearance
May 6
“From the
beginning of my sojourn as one of you, I taught you that my one purpose was to
reveal my Father in heaven to his
children on earth. I have lived the God-revealing bestowal that you might experience
the God-knowing career. I have revealed
God as your Father in heaven; I have revealed you as the sons of God on earth.”
Sixteenth Appearance
May 7
“It is a
fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact becomes an
eternal and living truth in your hearts.
When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of
the spirit as children of light and life, even the
eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain
the experience of finding God the Father on
Sixteenth Appearance
May 8
"I
admonish you ever to remember that your mission among men is to proclaim the
gospel of the kingdom -- the reality of the
fatherhood of God and the truth of the sonship of
man. Proclaim the whole truth of the good news, not just a part of the saving
gospel.”
Sixteenth Appearance
May 9
“Your
message is not changed by my resurrection experience. Sonship
with God, by faith, is still the saving truth of the gospel of the
kingdom. You are to go forth preaching the love of God and the service of man.”
Sixteenth Appearance
May 10
“That which the world needs most to know is: Men are the sons
of God, and through faith they can actually realize, and daily
experience, this ennobling truth.”
Sixteenth Appearance
May 11
“My
bestowal should help all men to know that they are the children of God, but
such knowledge will not suffice if they fail personally
to faith-grasp the saving truth that they are the living spirit sons of the
eternal Father. The gospel of the kingdom is concerned with the
love of the Father and the service of his children on earth.”
Sixteenth Appearance
May 12
“You
rejoice to know that I am the resurrection and the life, but this will avail
you nothing unless you are first born of the eternal spirit,
thereby coming to possess, by faith, the gift of eternal life. If you are the
faith sons of my Father, you shall never die; you shall not perish.”
Seventeenth Appearance
May 13
“The
gospel of the kingdom has taught you that all men are the sons of God. And this
good news concerning the love of the heavenly
Father for
his children on earth must be carried to all the
world.”
Seventeenth Appearance
May 14
“It is
your faith that saves your souls. Salvation is the gift of God to all who
believe they are his sons.”
Seventeenth Appearance
May 15
“My Father
sent me into the world to proclaim this salvation of sonship
to all men. And so send I you abroad to preach this
salvation
of sonship. Salvation is the free gift of God, but those
who are born of the spirit will immediately begin to show forth the fruits of
the
spirit in loving service to their fellow creatures.”
Eighteenth Appearance
May 16
“And the fruits
of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and
God-knowing mortals are: loving service,
unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty,
undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry,
unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring
peace.”
Eighteenth Appearance
May17
“Increasingly,
must you yield the fruits of the spirit as you progress heavenward in the
as a child, but the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full
stature of spiritual adulthood.”
Eighteenth Appearance
May 18
“Love men
with the love wherewith I have loved you and serve your fellow mortals even as
I have served you. By the spirit fruits
of your lives impel souls to believe the truth that man is a son of God, and
that all men are brethren. Remember all I have taught you
and the life I have lived among you. My love overshadows you, my spirit will
dwell with you, and my peace shall abide upon you.
Farewell."
Nineteenth Appearance
Approximately five hours later, the Spirit of Truth was
bestowed.
The “Forty Days” references were assembled by
Vicki Arken and are quotes from the text of The
Urantia Book.
All quotes are used with the permission of the Urantia Foundation.