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The Parable of the Sculptor

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Atlanta – August 30th, 2009

Good Morning everyone. The text for the sermon is Volume 4, of the Poem of the Man-God.

Jesus says let us go near the river while waiting for our food there and let us be frugal and sparing because food is to serve the body not be the aim of the body. I will evangelize. Anyone wishing to hear me or ask questions may come with me. I can say that the entire village follows him. Jesus gets into the boat beached on the gravel bed and from that improvised pulpit he speaks to his listeners who are sat in front of him in a semi-circle on the bank and among the trees. He takes as a starting point the question asked by a man, Master, our law seems to point out as struck by God those who were born wretched in fact he forbids them to serve at the altar. How can they be guilty? Would it not be fair to consider guilty their parents who gave birth to wretched sons, mothers in particular, and how are we to behave with those born unfortunate?

Jesus says, Listen. A great perfect sculptor one day carved a statue and he made such a perfect job that he was pleased and he said, I want the Earth to be full of such marvels. But by himself he could not cope with such a task. He therefore called other people to help him and said to them, On this model make for me one thousand ten thousand statues equally perfect. I will then give them the final touch instilling expression into their features. But his assistants were not capable of so much because besides being much inferior to their master in skill they had become somewhat intoxicated eating of a fruit the juice of which brings about delirium and dullness. The sculptor then gave them some molds and said, Mold the material in them. It will be a perfect work and I will complete it enlivening it with a final touch. And the assistants sat down to work.
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