(You may listen to this article read out loud by playing the video at the end of the article)Exactly 33 years ago today...
April 7 1977 was Holy Thursday. I was living in Valhalla, New York. Around 6:00 p.m., on that Thursday, I was sitting on my couch in my living room – meditating prayerfully. I was meditating on all kinds of things that were related to my immediate situation.
My immediate situation was that I was on my way to court that evening, to face serious charges that could result in the revocation of my parole. I absolutely refused to make any deals with the prosecutor because I knew that my parole would be revoked if I pled guilty to any charge at all. The charges against me were resisting arrest and possession of 300 hits of LSD.
My meditation was a review of everything that had occurred up to that point. All of the content of my meditation was focused through an incredible experience that happened to me five days after I was arrested. The date of that experience was May 21, 1976. I was sitting on the floor in the hallway of a locked hospital ward with my back up against the wall. I was very depressed. My depression was aggravated by the trauma and injuries that I sustained in the process of being arrested. I was thinking that I would have to go back into prison and lose the life that I established when I got out of prison in August of 1975. I hurt in my being so bad that I prayed to God that He would take me back to Him out of this life.
All of a sudden, a great calm came over me and I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit. It was dark to my sight but then I heard a voice talking to me and asking me what the matter was. It was the voice of the Holy Spirit – It was God Himself coming to me. I replied to God in my mind about all of my worries about losing my family and going back to prison. Then God said to me, “You are not going to go to jail, and you can tell your family!” Then God said to me “You are the father of all mankind!”
Back to April 7, 1977 - I am thinking about what God had said to me about not going to jail, but I am still afraid of what might happen in court. I started to think about the different “crimes” that I was accused of and then about things that I had done that were considered “wrong”. As I was sitting there in the middle of a reverie of my supposed “sins”, Jesus Christ appeared vividly in front of my eyes, carrying a large cross of wood on his right shoulder. With his head towards me over his left shoulder, He looked directly at me and said, “PUT IT ALL ON ME – I’M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY”.
Wow! I had never understood Christ like I did at that moment. I had never thought of his crucifixion and death from such a viewpoint. Not exactly like that! I was enlightened and amazed at the same time. I had also never before experienced a colorful vision of such intensity and reality while I was wide awake and cold sober. I immediately obeyed Jesus and looked at all the things I was worried about and I visualized putting the responsibility for those actions onto Jesus Christ. I visualized blaming him for each thing that I did. I said to the universe - "He did it" and pointed to Jesus carrying the cross. I put everything I ever did onto Jesus Christ as He carried that cross to His death. I also blamed Jesus for the bad things that others had done to me. I put so much on Jesus Christ, I had nothing left and I found myself changing places with Christ and becoming Him now. I was the resurrected Christ going to court and I owed nothing to anyone; as a matter of fact every one in the world owed me! It was like a variation of The Prince and The Pauper. I was going to court as the resurrected Christ, the Prince of heaven on earth.
When I went to court that evening a miracle happened! The Prosecutor got up in front of the whole court and announced to me that not only had all charges been dropped against me but also that the record of the charges had been erased from the system including physically erasing the police book entry of my arrest. Furthermore, they gave me back my arrest photos and negatives and they gave me back my fingerprint card. They told me that it never happened.
When I walked out of that court my family, my lawyer, and my parole officer were all completely "blown away" especially because I had told everyone about God coming and speaking with me and telling me that I wasn't going to go to jail. What a miracle for Holy Thursday 1977. And what a wonderful thing for all people to know about.
When Jesus spoke to me he was speaking to all of mankind. God is showing everyone the solution of how to make the action of Jesus Christ work for everyone. We can let
Jesus of Nazareth take responsibility for all of creation and thus all of the sin and suffering. It is true that ultimately God is responsible for everything that happens. It is logical and intelligent and true to understand God and to blame everything that you did wrong in your life and everything that anybody did wrong to you in your life on Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago. Visualize Christ carrying the cross and visualize giving up the responsibility for all of your "sins" by imagining them being piled onto Jesus Christ's back. Once you put all of your sins on Jesus they are "washed away" and gone forever. For your own peace of mind you must always remember that your sins have disappeared from God's mind so you must let them disappear from your mind. Remember to be thankful to Jesus everyday for taking all of your sins away! We can have peace within ourselves and freedom in our lives by obeying Jesus when he says to us about all of our sins "Put it all on me - I'm going to do it anyway!"Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus Thank you Jesus
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