Message from Jesus, published in The Godspel of God’s Love, pages 221-222.
“I desire to write in reference to what the preacher said, that ‘Christ may be in you.’ I know it’s almost universal among preachers of Christian Churches to teach that the way to salvation is to “get Christ in them,” and thereby be enabled to come into unity with the Father and cease to remain subject to the effects of sin and evil.
“Well, this teaching is the true foundation of salvation for the Celestial Heavens – provided it be understood by the preacher and the people, what the true meaning of “Christ in you” means. Unless this meaning is comprehended, the fact that the preacher or people merely ‘believe’ that they have Christ in them will not work the results they may suppose or desire.
“Many, and I may say most, of these professing Christians have ideas of what this expression means that are not in accord with the true meaning of this condition of soul. They think that all that’s necessary is to ‘believe in Jesus’ as their savior, and that in so believing, they have “Christ” in them, and that nothing else is required. They have no conception of the distinction between Jesus, the man, and Christ, the spirit that manifests the existence of God’s Divine Love in a person’s soul.
“Christ is not a man, in the sesnse that he is Jesus, the son of the Father, but Christ is that quality of Jesus that came to him after he fully received into his soul, the Divine Love and was transformed into the very essence of the Father in this Love. Christ is thus not a man, but is the manifestation of this Love, as bestowed upon Jesus (in answer to his sincere longings and prayers) and made part of God’s very existence. So when humans use the expression, “having Christ in you,” if they could correctly understand the true purport of the same, they would know that it only means that the Divine Love of the Father is in their souls.
“The indiscriminate use of the word “Jesus” and “Christ” is the cause of much misunderstandings among Christians as to a number of sayings in the Bible. The Christ principle is one that all humans may possess, with the result that they will become at-One with the Father in his Substance of Love and Immortality. Amen