The Urantia book presents many discourses not generally recognized by the Christian community at large. Some of these
were considered to be special instructions mentioned to only a few of the apostles, namely Peter, James and John.
Jesus was fully aware that his apostles were not fully assimilating his teachings and hoped with a little more instruction
they would be able to clarify the ideas of their associates. So, in a four hour discourse summarized in the Urantia book, (a
summary that will be summarize even further by our own limited hubristic extrapolations), we will attempt to reduce these
conferences down to a twenty minute report (all of which can be read on pages 1578 -1583), and offer this condensed
version to our readership. This original four hour conference embraced issues concerned with: 1. Following the Father’s
Will, 2. Political attitude, 3. Social attitude, 4. Economic attitude, and 5. Personal attitude.
One thing in particular that caught my attention and something that will be elaborated on later was Jesus’ statement to the
three that: (quoted from the “Book”): “He made it clear that indiscriminate kindness may be blamed for many social evils.”
What did he exactly mean by “indiscriminate kindness”? We will get to this later. This four hour discourse followed many
hours of discussions presented on several previous days. During this week of rehearsing for their public administration
Jesus many times repeated to his apostles the two great motives of his post baptismal mission on earth:
l. To reveal the Father to man.
2. To lead men to become son-conscious to faith-realized that they are the children of the Most High.
When Peter and James approached to announce that they were ready to go forth and take the kingdom, Jesus replied:
“May your wisdom equal your zeal and your courage atone for your ignorance.” Though the apostles failed to comprehend
much of his teaching, they did not fail to grasp the significance of the charmingly beautiful life he lived with them.
While Jesus saw that some of the features of the idea of a spiritual kingdom were being grasped by the apostles these
concepts were by no means thoroughly understood – this demanded further instruction, which in part is conveyed in the
following:
1. Doing the Father’s will. Jesus encouraged the exercise of prudence and foresight. What he preached against was not
forethought but anxiety, worry. He taught the active and alert submission to God’s will. He sought to make it clear that the
world is not to be regarded as an enemy; that the circumstances of life constitute a divine dispensation working along with
the children of God. Jesus had great difficulty in getting them to understand his personal practice of nonresistance. He
taught them not to resist evil, not to combat injustice or injury, but he did not teach passive tolerance of wrongdoing. And
he made it plain on this afternoon that he approved of the social punishment of evildoers and criminals, and that the civil
government must sometimes employ force for the maintenance of social order in the execution of justice. He warned
against the practice of retaliation and made no allowance for revenge. He deplored the holding of grudges. He never
ceased to warn his disciples against the evil practice of retaliation; he made no allowance for revenge, the idea of getting
even.
He summarized his instructions up to that time regarding these matters as:
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES – remember the moral claims of human brotherhood.
THE FUTILITY OF EVIL – a wrong is not righted by vengeance.
HAVE FAITH – confidence in the eventual triumph of divine justice and eternal goodness.
A FOUR HOUR DISCUSSION WITH JESUS
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