The Jesus Interview

By Mthulisi Samuel Ncube

"In the mindaEUR(tm)s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling timesaEUR"a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow me to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only, in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them. *

You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighboraEUR(tm)s motives and sentiments. It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being. If each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious. If each mortal could only become a focus of dynamic affection, this benign virus of love would soon pervade the sentimental emotion-stream of humanity to such an extent that all civilization would be encompassed by love, and that would be the realization of the brotherhood of man".

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781645697367

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The Jesus Interview

Mthulisi Samuel Ncube

Copyright © 2019 by Mthulisi Samuel Ncube

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Table of Contents

Here begins the Interview with Jesus Christ

The Gods are my caretakers, I shall not stray

Side by side they lead me in the beautiful paths

and glorious refreshing of life everlasting.

I shall not in the divine presence want for food or thirst for water.

Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or ascend into the worlds of doubt.

Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind

Though I triumph in the choirs of light or falter in the solitary places of the spheres

Your good spirit shall minister to and your glorious angel will comfort me

Though I descend into the depths of darkness or death itself

I shall not doubt you nor fear you, For I know in the fullness of time and glory of your name, You will raise me up to sit with you on the battlements on high".

When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth

Preface

"It is not in Heaven that you should say, who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it down to us that we may hear and do it, neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, who will go over the sea for us to bring the commandments to us that we may hear and do it.

No, the word of life is very near to you, even in your presence and in your heart that you may know it and obey it"

Come to me all who labor and i will give you rest and spiritual strength,

The Master’s yoke is indeed easy but even so he never imposes it, every individual must take this yoke of his free will.

If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

From the father above I bring to this world the water of life.

He who believes in me shall be filled with the spirit which the water represents

Those who receive this spirit shall never know spiritual thirst.

Here begins the Interview with Jesus Christ

(Jesus) Greetings, my friend! why so downcast on such a beautiful day? If something has happened to distress you, perhaps I can in some manner assist you. At any rate, it affords me real pleasure to proffer my services. I understand you come up in these hills to get away from folks, so, of course, you do not want to talk with me. I well know you wish to be left alone with your disconsolation, but it would be neither kind nor fair for me to unthinkingly go away from you without making the least effort to answer your appealing request for help and guidance regarding the best route to the goal of your destiny which you seek in your heart. As well as you know the trails of these mountains having traversed them many times, so do I well know the way to the city of your disappointed hopes and thwarted ambitions. And since you have asked me for help I will not disappoint you.

(Boy) Who are you?…

(Jesus) I am the light of the world, I am the desire of all ages.

I am the open door to eternal salvation, I am the reality of endless life.

I am the good shepherd, I am the pathway of infinite perfection.

I am the resurrection and the life, I am the secret of eternal survival.

I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the infinite Father of my finite children. I am the true vine; you are the branches, I am the hope of all who know the living truth, I am the living bridge from one world to another, I am the living link between time and eternity.

I am the bread of life. He that comes to me shall not hunger, and those that believe in me shall never thirst. I am the tree which has God planted, and those that are united with my roots shall blossom and prosper, but those that are not united with my roots shall wither. He that is thirsty, let him come to me and drink, for I am the spring of life.

(Boy) But—I did not ask you for anything—"

(Jesus) No, son, not with words but with longing looks did you appeal to my heart. My boy, to one who loves his fellows there is an eloquent appeal for help in your countenance of discouragement and despair. Sit down with me while I tell you of the service trails and happiness highways which lead from the sorrows of self to the joys of loving activities in the brotherhood of men and in the service of the God of heaven.

(Boy) Please help me and show me the way of escape from my world of personal sorrow and defeat.

(Jesus) My friend, arise! Stand up like a man! You may be surrounded by small enemies and be retarded by many obstacles, but the big things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your side. The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man on earth. Look—you have a strong body and powerful muscles—your physical equipment is better than the average. Of course, it is just about useless while you sit out here on the mountainside and grieve over your misfortunes, real and fancied. But you could do great things with your body if you would hasten off to where great things are waiting to be done. You are trying to run away from your unhappy self, but it cannot be done. You and your problems of living are real; you cannot escape them as long as you live. But look again, your mind is clear and capable. Your strong body has an intelligent mind to direct it. Set your mind at work to solve its problems; teach your intellect to work for you; refuse longer to be dominated by fear like an unthinking animal. Your mind should be your courageous ally in the solution of your life problems rather than your being, as you have been, its abject fear-slave and the bondservant of depression and defeat. But most valuable of all, your potential of real achievement is the spirit which lives within you, and which will stimulate and inspire your mind to control itself and activate the body if you will release it from the fetters of fear and thus enable your spiritual nature to begin your deliverance from the evils of inaction by the power-presence of living faith. And then, forthwith, will this faith vanquish fear of men by the compelling presence of that new and all-dominating love of your fellows which will so soon fill your soul to overflowing because of the consciousness which has been born in your heart that you are a child of God.

(Boy) If God is interested in me, then why does he not remove the cruel and unjust manager at my work?

(Jesus) Since you know the ways of kindness and value justice, perhaps the Gods have brought this erring man near that you may lead him into this better way. Maybe you are the salt which is to make this brother more agreeable to all other men; that is if you have not lost your savor. As it is, this man is your master in that his evil ways unfavorably influence you. Why not assert your mastery of evil by virtue of the power of goodness and thus become the master of all relations between the two of you? I predict that the good in you could overcome the evil in him if you gave it a fair and living chance. There is no adventure in the course of mortal existence more enthralling than to enjoy the exhilaration of becoming the material life partner with spiritual energy and divine truth in one of their triumphant struggles with error and evil. It is a marvelous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness. If you are more blessed with truth than is this man, his need should challenge you. Surely you are not the coward who could stand by on the seashore and