Message 2

A message concerning authority, received Tuesday, January 9, 2007.

1. The laws of nature possess authority to rule over all elements, and the elements cannot rebel, neither would they, because nature is not an interpretor of the law but the law itself, standing in simplicity, purity and perfection.

2. All things which have been created, whether man or woman, creeping thing, fowl, fish, tree or herb, yea, the waters of the sea, the earth, the sun, moon and the stars, are subject to the law;

3. Even I, God, the greatest of all, am subject to the law, and all of these abide it perfectly, for it is as it is, and any living thing, being made of these elements can say I AM, for this is the testimony of perfect existence.

4. Unto all of these also it is given to choose between good and evil. It has been said that when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. My people are a people of rejoicing, for they stand together in my authority, which is in righteousness.

5. I have given to priests, bishops, presidents, evangelists, seventies, apostles, prophets, high priests and kings a stewardship which is theirs to uphold and to keep. Their duty is to keep the people which I have given them, and to lead them in the ways of truth and righteousness, but to all men I am giving a personal stewardship to stand in righteousness. It is more needful that ye should stand in righteousness than to follow one of my stewards who has erred in judgment, but it is more desirable still that ye should bring back the one who has erred, to stand in righteousness with you.

6. My authority can neither be exercised nor taken away in unrighteousness. It is not to be tossed to and fro by the philosophies and moral sense of man, but tempered by the application of a pure reflection of that order and beauty, the eternal law which abideth in all things. Amen.