Jesus: I Speak to You Again

Chapter 114

Verification of the Spiritual Teaching by One’s Experience

It is crucial for you to understand one important truth—never accept a teaching merely because it comes from a trusted friend or teacher if your soul cannot feel its truth. Remember, no genuine spiritual teacher will ever offer you a part of the truth that your opened soul cannot accept. If your soul is in harmony with the teaching, it means that part of the spiritual truth is suitable for the current stage of your soul’s development.

However, if your soul feels resistance or discomfort towards the teaching, it may mean that the teaching is either too deep or too shallow for you at that moment. In such cases, your soul might feel anxiety or conflict. Sometimes, you may find that the teaching has already been experienced by your soul in the past, and therefore it feels unnecessary. But in every spiritual teaching, there are often points of common understanding. It is wise to hold on to these shared truths while leaving any conflicting elements aside, awaiting a teacher who can clarify them at a later time.

Thus, never be quick to dismiss a spiritual teaching simply because it doesn’t align with your current understanding. Use the guiding principle of the Father’s love to measure the teaching—whether it fosters goodness, freedom, and a willingness to choose the path to the Father of one’s own free will, without coercion or fear. This is the essence of any genuine spiritual teaching.

Another vital aspect of spiritual teaching is that it can be verified through experience. In this life, you can test the teachings by applying them and observing how they affect your daily life. As you cultivate a living relationship with the Father within you, your soul will begin to feel a profound joy and desire to align more fully with the Father’s will. This deep sense of bliss and connection is a glimpse of what awaits after your resurrection, a foretaste of eternal life. No two souls experience this in exactly the same way because each soul’s bond with the Father is unique, yet every soul knows the feeling of that divine joy, even if words cannot fully describe it.

Through this experiential process, you can verify the truth of the spiritual teachings that speak of the Father and eternal life with Him. You will also experience the impact of the teachings on your present life, as they guide you to live in alignment with the Father’s will here and now.

I explain this to you so that you can assess where your soul is on its spiritual journey—how deeply it desires truth, how much it has freed itself from the control of the material mind, and how much influence your higher soul-mind has over your lower, mortal self.

Learning and teaching should be a joyous process for the soul. While it requires effort and energy, it enriches both the individual and the whole community. Teaching and learning are pathways to deeper communion with the Father, driven by love rather than fear.

My teachings are meant to help you grow richer in love, to experience the Father’s love that permeates all of creation. The more you experience and share this love with others, the more your soul grows. In this way, you enrich your brethren, not just in your immediate surroundings, but throughout all of creation.

This is the purpose of my teachings: to help you experience the truth of brotherhood, a reality that brings you closer through the Father’s love. I do not withhold anything from you, but rather invite and encourage you to taste the reality of this teaching for yourself. Experience it, and you will come to know the joy and truth it contains.