From The Gospel of God’s Love, page 175, by Jesus.
“When I came to teach the truths of my Father, the world was almost devoid of a spiritual conception of the true relationship of God to humans, God was seen primarily as a being of power and wrath. The Jews largely envisioned Him as a God who was interested in their material welfare, and did not realize that He was a God who wanted them to know Him as their spiritual father and as their savior from sin and evil.
“Consequently, when I came, they looked upon me (those who accepted me as their Messiah) as one who would redeem them from the slavery which their Roman conquerors had placed them in, and make them a great and independent nation, more powerful than all nations of the earth and fitted to rule the whole world. They had no conception of my true mission on earth, and even my disciples, until shortly before my death, looked upon me merely as a savior from the burdens which the Roman yolk had placed upon them.
“The only one of my disciples who had a clear realization of what my teachings meant was John, and that was because of the great amount of love that seemed to be a part of his nature and being. To him I explained my real mission, and the spiritual truths which I had come to teach. Hence, only in John’s Gospel is written the one necessary requirement to the full salvation and redemption of humankind – I mean the declaration that mortals must be Born-Again in order to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the only way by which a person can become a true child of the Father, fitted to live in and enjoy His Kingdom to the fullest.
“The other disciples had a more or less accurate conception of this necessary truth, but not a full comprehension of what it involved. Excepting John, Peter was more possessed of this love than were the others, and with it he also understood that I was the “true son” of my Father. (He never declared that I was God.) He was a man filled with zeal and ambition, but his development of love was not sufficient to enable him to fully realize that my kingdom was not to be an earthly one – until after my death.” To be continued…