 Hi everybody, hello. Good morning. Welcome to our all day movie workshop. I'm Peter. I'll be the host today. And yes, thanks for joining us. This is our third God's Not Dead movie week. And I'm looking forward to seeing this one. I haven't seen it. So I can just let you know how the day is going to flow. We'll have David showing the movie this morning. And then afterwards we have a 10 minute break. And we have breakout rooms for you to express any emotions that came up during the movie. And we have a 45 minute break and the Q&A session with me. So I'll pass it over to you now David. Thank you. Thank you, Pete. Welcome. Welcome everyone. So grateful to be here with you. Another beautiful opportunity to dive deep into the miracle. It's interesting that after 2000 years have passed since Jesus was here that he would bring a book to us to study and to practice called A Course in Miracles. And there's been a lot of people who received the book who said that is a very strange name. A Course in Miracles. They said, of all the titles you could give it, why would you call it a Course in Miracles? But I think today, as we go through this movie today, we're going to see how important miracles are. That that's why he gave us a Course in Miracles because the mind needs a lot of mind training to be a miracle worker. He was a miracle worker obviously 2000 years ago. He seemed to heal the sick and he raised the dead and there were miracles around him all the time. And even if you look at a miracle as kind of a supernatural experience or is a very rare out of pattern experience on earth. Jesus had so many of those patterns going on that were not explainable and had really a lot of them had not been seen or witnessed on earth before. Much less the volume of them. There were so many of them. And clearly, we could say that Jesus was a very obvious miracle worker. Most of us had grown up and we think of ourselves as human beings as persons with with parents with families with countries with languages, you know, with sometimes different jobs or careers and so on and so forth. But, but usually the two words that we do not think of ourselves with our miracle worker. I mean, most of us did not grow up with our parents telling us you'll grow up to be a miracle worker, you know we just have to admit that that that seems way beyond of what is common for this world. But what Jesus is teaching us is that when he said I am the light of the world. He was teaching us that we're all the light of the world, but we can't really identify with being the light of the world until we get pretty proficient until we become pretty consistent miracle workers. And then suddenly we we start to open our minds up to this light of the world thing. Our personality self is definitely not the light of the world. You can take that from your parents, you know, try that one on with your mom and dad, am I the light of the world, they would say no definitely not. You're a good, you were a good kid, maybe or a decent kid but you're not the light of the world but, but we have to actually learn how to let our mind be used in miracle working. And that's why Jesus gave us a course of miracles. He does tell us it's a, it's a practical course. This is, he tells us in a course of miracles this course is not a course in the play of ideas. He's not wanting us to just have an intellectual experience with the course. He's not wanting us to just memorize the theology and do workshops and, and teachings are whole earth life he wants this actually to do the workbook and go into the experience of directly knowing God through forgiving illusions. And so it's a very practical course. And that's what I like about these movies I'm showing this is my third God's not dead movie. This movie is is subtitled a light in the darkness. And if you enjoyed the first two, you're going to really enjoy this one because this one's going to go after all of the egos hiding places. Sometimes the ego likes to hide in a family identity. Sometimes the ego likes to hide in a spiritual or religious identity. Sometimes it, it tries to believe that it has human rights and things that it has to stand up for. Sometimes the ego tells us you need to defend yourself, you're going to be, you're going to be hurting. You're going to lose unless you defend yourself. And 2000 years ago Jesus taught us he said the meek shall inherit the earth. What's your experience of meek and meekness to me that is very gentle, soft and gentle. When we say someone is meek they're very soft and gentle, and he's saying the meek shall inherit the earth. Wow. That's amazing. And in the course of miracles he says the meek will inherit the earth they will literally overcome it with their strength. But when he's talking about strength he's not talking about physical strength. He's talking about the strength of your Christ vision, the vision the light that God gave you the way to truly see is through spiritual vision and the spiritual lie is the Holy Spirit. So he's teaching us that as soon as we align with the Holy Spirit, we will become so strong in our awareness of who we are that we will overcome the world. We will inherit the real world, we will inherit the happy dream. That's what he meant by the meek shall inherit the earth is the meek the gentle, the lined up with the Holy Spirit the ones that are following the guidance of the Holy Spirit will really overcome the ego's perception and will inherit the happy dream of the real world, which is the forgiven world which is a world seen without judgment or condemnation. So this is quite a movie because this is going to show us how there are many sincere believers in God who who have been very sincere their whole life they've read the Bible they've tried to practice the teachings of Jesus from the New Testament. They've, they've tried to live the teachings as best they can. And then they seem to find that when they're trying to practice the teachings of Jesus on planet Earth, that it can be pretty difficult at times and challenging. When you're, let's say a Christian family and you're raising your children to be Christians and this movie. There was two parents they, they raised their two boys to be Christians one of them became a Christian minister Reverend Dave. If you remember Reverend Dave from the last two movies he grew up to be a Christian minister. The other son named Pierce, he doubted he started to doubt some things in Christianity that he couldn't put together he couldn't figure out how they fit. And so he went off to become a lawyer in Chicago in the big city. In this movie we're going to see Pester Dave or Reverend Dave going through some of the most intense trials and tribulations of his life, because his father was a minister, his father had a church called St. James. He grew up in that church with his brother Pierce, then, then Pierce went off to the big city to be a lawyer and kind of left Christianity, really kind of tended to go more towards atheism he just couldn't reconcile certain things. And then Pierce, Pierce went off and then Reverend Dave continued on in St. James church where we've seen him in his capacity as a minister, the first two movies. Now in this movie, his, his church is going to be vandalized, his church is going to have a gas explosion in the basement, and his church is going to burn. It's, it's, it's a real undoing of his identity, because when we identify a church as a building, or even as a tradition is in my family my father was a minister. It's just all ego self concepts, and we know how Holy Spirit works with us he helps us undo our identification with false concepts so that we can realize the truth, which is that we are the Christ. Christ is not a man or a woman the Christ is not a personality. Jesus was just a symbol who who demonstrated the Christ light and Christ love, but as it says in the course the man was an illusion. So it's, it's definitely not trying to hold the man up on a pedestal of what a man was or did 2000 years ago and make something special out of it it's just saying, Oh, his body was just a symbol. Your body can become a symbol of the Christ light to if you let the Holy Spirit use it to smile through it laugh through it be friendly kind meek sweet. Then your mind can wake up to the Christ light that everyone is. There's nothing special about Jesus but we can say that Jesus certainly is is extremely helpful as a role model as an elder brother for will say the entire universe, because it's an example of what is possible. If you forgive, and you hold no grievances and you hold no judgments, it's a beautiful witness it's an example for everyone. So, in this movie we're going to see there's going to be a young woman named Keaton, who basically she's, she's been raised Christian but she's doubting. She's having a struggle in her faith. She has had a boyfriend, Adam, who he had some very difficult experiences when he was a child is with his mother being kind of ex communicated from the church, and, and he turned away from the church. So we've going to have, we're going to have quite a few people in this movie, instead of coming to Christianity, they're going. Some of them have gone like Reverend Dave's brother peers he's gone, he is a lawyer, he's left Christianity entirely. And we have Keaton who's wondering if she can't hear God's voice are you still there she's going through a crisis of faith, her boyfriend is turned away he's very angry at the church. And we're going to start to see that this is a movie about a church called called. I think it's called St. Yeah. St. Something here. It's, it's a handy university. It's St. James. So it's a, it's a church called St. James a building on heavily university, which is a public university. It's been there for many years and there's going to be a friction between what seems to be a church on a public university. And this is the way it is with the world families often split apart based on their beliefs beliefs around education and religion can sometimes clash. It's societal clashes clashes in all aspects of this world. Some of you may have noticed this world has a few clashes going on. It's, we could, I call it the distraction bill but we could call the world clash bill. It's just one clash, after another clash, after another clash, after another clash. And this is teaching us is he's teaching us that you look like the Bible said in Corinthians you're looking through a darkened glass and and when your perception is darkened. You see a dark world, and you see the clash of of your in your own consciousness of believing that it's possible to separate from God believing in the ego. The clash is the clash is if God created you perfect. It is eternal child of God and you believe you can be something else. That's a that's a clash. That's an internal clash, but the world was made by the ego to deflect that clash and hide that clash and see the conflict as if it's in the world. So we have conflicts and relationships and families between churches and universities we have clashes between groups of people. And Jesus is telling us, well, if you'll let yourself be a miracle worker and let me perform miracles through you, your mind will come back into alignment with the Holy Spirit. And then you'll realize that the problem wasn't anything that you thought it was. It was just a perceptual problem you were looking through a darkened glass, like it says in the Bible. Now, to do that, we have to be willing to be a miracle worker. One thing that's important about being a miracle worker is once you discover that that's your vocation, like I'll say your vocation is healing or being a miracle worker. You really have to let go of all the other vocations. You can't maintain two different selves you can't be a career person and a miracle worker you can't be a father mother sister brother and a miracle worker. It starts off that way but but what I've learned in my life of mysticism, and I've taken the course like all the way so when I tell people, yeah, you can compromise you have to ultimately let go of everything you've believed you are from the past in to enter the holy instant. And I've gone into revelatory experiences and gone into the light three times and I, I was like, ah, of course of course of course this is it. Everything now comes around when you're in the light. You, you realize that's everything. The world's nothing, but until you go into the light directly. It seems like the light is the big unknown. The light is the big question mark, and your personality self seems to be the real thing. And the light seems to be the big question mark, it will flip it will flip around but, but you have to be willing to really be used in a full way and and give your heart to miracle working. At first you have to accept that it's possible, obviously. And then once you accept it's possible you have to be convinced. And then you finally have to be thoroughly convinced before you're ready to let go of the world. So, I really like this movie because I feel like it's an excellent teaching device for all of us, because we're just going to watch Pastor Dave and his brother, and his, his, some of his dear friends who are in the ministry and some people that are close friends of the day that are, they're going to turn on each other. Has anybody ever experienced that in this world where people just turn on each other. They were friends for years 10 1520 years and suddenly they get into a fist fight. And it's like, my God, how did that happen that you know it's bizarre when friends and family start to fight and that and attack each other. It's absolutely bizarre it doesn't seem to have any love in it at all when that when you perceive it. So as usual, we put out the polls, and we said what themes and topics would you really like to look at, and the number one topic and I mean this came in number one by a huge margin by twice as much as the second one. And this is it. The main topic you voted for the 74 votes was surrender to God's holy plan for me. There's the surrender word. Wow. If this is your only topic, and you give your whole life to surrender to God's holy plan for me. It's the only topic you ever need you, you won't need another topic, because God's holy plan for us is simply to come to the Holy instant in the present moment, and to have direct contact with God. And God is pure light. So when we say I want to know the truth, we're really saying I want to know God, I want to know heaven, or Nirvana, whatever you want to call it. I want to know the light. I want to know eternity is basically when you say I want to know the truth. And the truth is, Jesus says the truth cannot be described, and it cannot be explained. So let's keep that in mind today. There is no theology that's better than another theology. I mean, I was starting to talk about this last week where I've actually had people tell me actually the theology of the course is much better than the Bible, or better than Buddhism, or better than Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita, that's ridiculous. Theologies are belief systems, and heaven is is what's true. And all belief systems start with the ego, because there are no belief systems in heaven. And then the ego invented comparisons so it could play comparison games with these theologies but I will, I'll guarantee you the course in miracles theology is no better than the Bibles. Like I said last week, what do all the Christian mystics have in common. They have in common, none of them were course and miracle students. So that's very humbling for people who believe they've been studying the best theology in the world, and they actually feel like, Oh, this is better than that. And, and I've heard teachers say, Jesus have the Bible and Jesus have the course. There's one Christ. There was one Jesus symbol, the man and that symbol was for all of us. And there is no Jesus of the course and Jesus of the Bible that's ridiculous. That's a projection of the error. And, and you cannot forgive if you see two Jesuses. In fact, if you see two of anything that's double vision. That's distorted vision that's distorted perception. So being in number one surrender to God's holy plan for me. Number two, being a demonstration of God's love. Oh, that's great. Just just to be happy. You don't have to think like, Oh my God, how am I going to be a demonstration of God's love. That's too much pressure. I mean, no, it just means to be happy, you know, if you're happy, then you know, you're in God's love, because God created you happy. If you're peaceful, God created you peaceful. If you're joyful God created you joyful to be as God created you. That's the one lesson Jesus will repeat in the workbook over and over I am as God created me that's where our happiness and joy is. Allowing the unconscious up for healing. That's never pretty. That is never pretty everybody who's ever been through any experiences on planet Earth know it is not a happy time when those unconscious dark thoughts and dark emotions come into awareness. That's what Jesus says. This too shall pass. You know, this is just, I had to go through this too. It's just, it's par for the course. That's just how it works. You have to let it up and then let it go. Don't cling to it. Don't hang to it. Don't analyze it. Don't try to figure it out, but, but let it up and let it go. Keeping the altar of my heart clean. This is another pure of heart, where they shall see God. I was talking about this yesterday on UCDM universal that that in this world we seem to have many desires. And what Jesus is basically saying is it's safe to take those desires off of the altar of your heart and leave just one and let that be the desire for God. That's what a mystic is a mystic is simply one who's devoted to God. And apparently we start to realize that desire is like our prayer, and if our desire is splintered, and we want many different things from this world, we find we're not we're not happy, because we forgot who we are, and we don't know who we are with with multiple desires. So Jesus tells us in the course that he says when your desire is single, like, like in the Bible let that I be single. When your desire is single you return to creation, which is your natural God given ability you God is a creator and God created you to create in spirit. And then form manifesting is not creation manifesting is projection and trying to get rid of something that you don't want but but in spirit when you created spirit, then you create like God creates and that's, that's when you realize I am as God created me and I share the same function that God shares which is spirit, eternity and and creation. So, so ultimately what we're really seeing here is that that you can't have many things on your altar that the Holy, you don't have to worry about how you're going to get them off of your culture, as the Holy Spirit is the one that is going to guide that. The Holy Spirit will give you all the directions and all the instructions, all you have to do is show up in prayer, and say Holy Spirit guide me Jesus guide me. And you go, yeah, that's my job. Thank you. Thank you for asking. That's my job to purify your heart, you don't have to figure it out you just have to be willing for it. And in the end, our will is to know that our well is one with God's which is for pure happiness so we, we've been, we've been hanging on to wishful thinking too long. I wish I wish I may wish I might have a body of flesh tonight. Sorry, that's not God's will. I wish I may wish I might have a long career on planet Earth tonight. No, listen, we don't need genies. We don't need the Holy Spirit, we don't need three wishes, we only need one desire and that's to forgive. We don't need multiple wishes because we don't need multiple things where we're a pure whole being as the Christ and we don't need anything. He came after David in the Bible King David some of you heard about that guy, the Psalms he liked, he liked music as much as I did he seemed to be a king and I had a friend who was Jewish she said he really wasn't a very good king but his, his brother was a good king. But, you know, one of the Psalms you might have heard of is the 23rd Psalm and the way it starts out is the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. There it is right away I shall not want. I shall not have multiple desires, just the beginning of the 23rd Psalm has the key to awakening the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. The difficulty with believing in the personality self and the ego is the ego said, hell with that. There's plenty of things to want and you can have them all. I'll give you the whole world and you can have it all you can have as many ones in this world as you want. And it's a trick. It's been a big trick. The people said hold no graven images before the Lord thy God and the problem with the human condition is the human condition is, is got these physical eyes that are growing big, and it wants a lot of idols. It wants to listen to a lot of idols it wants to touch a lot of idols. It wants to possess a lot of idols. The ego is the possessing the getting mechanism in the mind and idols are not just golden calves or totem poles idols are any image that you value more than the light. Anything a twig, a toothpick, if you value a toothpick more than the light that's enough to keep you asleep asleep and dreaming. And when you value idols you have unconscious guilt and when you have unconscious guilt, you don't want to leave earth you want to just reincarnate and come back. And then you get your exit and you say when can I go back again and try to some more idols on and then you exit and then you come back again, and it just goes on and on until you finally go Oh, the Lord is my shepherd. Oh my gosh I shall not want. Why if I'm the Christ why would I want anything of this world because this world was made as an attack upon God, and a place where God could enter not so why would I go for idols when I could go for the Christ, wake up to my true reality. So this movie is fantastic because our main character I think in this movie is is basically Reverend Dave now he's, he's coming front and center. And anybody who's even thought of being a minister. He's going to show you to this movie, all the pitfalls of trying to be a human minister. And what does Jesus say in the workbook of a course of miracles he says the salvation depends on me the salvation of the world depends on me. He's not talking about the personality self me. He's going to be quite arrogant, but he isn't saying that your mind, which misused God's power to make the ego and believe in the ego and this time space cosmos that that mind that believes in the ego is also the mind that can dispel the ego with the Holy Spirit and and Jesus says the secret of salvation is but this you are doing this to yourself and doing it to yourself means if you believe in the ego, you draw forth conflicting witnesses. If you put your faith in the Holy Spirit and forgiveness, you quit drawing forth conflicting witnesses. So you realize your mind is whole and complete. How beautiful. I mean, I, I'm discovering course of miracles is it seems like a big book but it's actually just, it's, it's just like the, it's just like the serenity prayer. It's just the serenity prayer that's all course of miracles is it's serenity prayer. It's not even complicated. Now, what can you control, you can control the direction of your thinking and you can control your ability to line up with the Holy Spirit. What can't you control the world. It's the ego's world. Why would you want to control the ego's world, you know it, it made it up. So, I think we're going to have a great experience today. I think if you just sit back and, and enjoy the flow of this movie you're going to see some very sincere Christians that are doing the best that they can, based on what they believe to follow God, and they're going to get hit left and right they're going to get hit from the front they're going to get hit from the back. And I know a lot of you that have been identified as course of miracles students you feel the same way. You've been hit from every side. You've been hit. You've been blindsided. There's been events and occurrences that happened in this world where you go, I did not see that coming. These metaphysics did not prepare me completely for that. I am having to let go of something that I never thought I would in a million years have to let go of. And this is what the, these Christians are going through. They're just trying to love Jesus and, and live simple loving lives and they're going to get hit from every side. And that's because of projection. And until we get touched with the unconscious mind and we, we say Ali Ali income free. Come on, let's, let's come free here everything everything to start let's come free, come free don't hide anymore, you're welcome. Until we get to that point, it's going to seem like there's external events that are horrific that are devastating. It's only our ego interpretation that they're devastating, they are devastating. Our ego interpretations are devastating because the ego is a death wish so what would you expect out of the death wish devastation right of course. Death devastation they go together, but Jesus is saying please stay with me and please be lifted up. And, and I will show you there's much more to to God's will then this world. In fact there's a, there's a section in the course called the justice of heaven. God creating is perfect. Well now that's just. And then in this world. I have found that the only justice is, is forgiveness of illusions. I've looked. I was an activist. I, I was all standing for certain human rights and women's rights and I'm standing for the rights of this country and the rights of these people. The rights of David I, I would even say I have rights. And now I've come to see that I only was playing a game of ego when I was battling through all these rights that the one thing I had the right to was to forgive the world. And I finally said are you, are you finally willing to drop it and and find some peace of mind and I said yeah, please show me how to do that. So he quickly activated the miracle in my, in my psyche in my mind in my heart. And I suddenly went from being an activist in the world to I turned kind of meek, you know, I was really meek. I wasn't protesting anything. I just turned into a happy, a happy learner. When I started to finally realize how simple it was that I had been fighting for illusions. I've been trying to take sides. And Jesus said what book are you reading. Where, where do I say take sides. I don't say that in the course. And I'm, I'm, I'm asking you to just line up with the Holy Spirit that's, that's it I'm not asking you to jump in and take a side. But this movie gives us a lot of forgiveness opportunities, because there seems to be the, the illusion of sides, going at each other and, and really kind of intense ways at times. So enjoy the movie. I will come in and be with you through the movie and we're going to have a great time for giving today, for sure.