even more than your neighbor, whom the Father requires you to love as yourself. Your brother, being of your own family, you will not only love with a family affection, but you will also serve as you would serve yourself. And you will thus love and serve your brother because you, being my brethren, have been thus loved and served by me. Go, then, into all the world telling this good news to all creatures of every race, tribe, and nation. My spirit shall go before you, and I will be with you always."
These Samaritans were greatly astonished at this appearance of the Master,
and they hastened off to the near-by towns and villages, where they published
abroad the news that they had seen Jesus, and that he had talked to them. And
this was the seventeenth morontia appearance of the Master.
The Master's eighteenth morontia appearance was at Tyre, on Tuesday, May 16, at a little before nine o'clock in the evening. Again he appeared at the close of a meeting of believers, as they were about to disperse, saying:
"Peace be upon you. You rejoice to know that the Son of Man has risen from
the dead because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also survive mortal death. But such survival is dependent on your having been previously
born of the spirit of truth-seeking and God-finding. The bread of life and the
water thereof are given only to those who hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness—for God. The fact that the dead rise is not the gospel of the kingdom.
These great truths and these universe facts are all related to this gospel in that
they are a part of the result of believing the good news and are embraced in the
subsequent experience of those who, by faith, become, in deed and in truth, the
everlasting sons of the eternal God. 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. 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. If professed believers bear not these
fruits of the divine spirit in their lives, they are dead; the Spirit of Truth is not
in them; they are useless branches on the living vine, and they soon will be taken
away. My Father requires of the children of faith that they bear much spirit
fruit. If, therefore, you are not fruitful, he will dig about your roots and cut away
your unfruitful branches. Increasingly, must you yield the fruits of the spirit
as you progress heavenward in the kingdom of God. You may enter the kingdom
as a child, but the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full stature
of spiritual adulthood. And when you go abroad to tell all nations the good news
of this gospel, I will go before you, and my Spirit of Truth shall abide in your
hearts. My peace I leave with you."
And then the Master disappeared from their sight. The next day there went
out from Tyre those who carried this story to Sidon and even to Antioch and
Damascus. Jesus had been with these believers when he was in the flesh, and they
