“Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” - Matthew 28:20 (KJV)
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” - Matthew 18:20 (RSV)
Never once let yourself think that you are alone. It is nonsense for you to think that I am not with you. You have asked. I have responded. We are in communication. That is the way it is. And that is the way it will be until the end of all illusion. Peace be unto you always. Amen. - wom, lesson one
I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all doubts and fears are overcome. We walk together. [CE W-Re.5.In.6:1-3]
Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. [CE C-4.4:6]
If you want to be like me, I will help you, knowing that we are alike. If you want to be different, I will wait until you change your mind. [CE T-8.III.10:1-2]
If it helps you, think of me holding your hand and leading you. And I assure you this will be no idle fantasy. [CE W-70.9:3-4]
Jesus/Yeshua as the Teacher of the Course
(From: Manual For Teachers 23.6) - [CE M-23]
Does Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing?
God’s gifts can rarely be received directly. ²Even the most advanced of God’s teachers will give way to temptation in this world. ³Would it be fair if their pupils were denied healing because of this? ⁴The Bible says “Ask in the name of Jesus Christ.” ⁵Is this merely an appeal to magic? ⁶A name does not heal, nor does an invocation call forth any special power. ⁷What does it mean to call on Jesus Christ? ⁸What power does calling on his name confer? ⁹Why is the appeal to him a part of healing? We have repeatedly stated that one who has perfectly accepted the Atonement for himself can heal the world. ²Indeed, he has already done so. ³Temptation may recur to others, but never to this one. ⁴He has become the risen Son of God. ⁵He has overcome death because he has accepted life. ⁶He has recognized himself as God created him, and in so doing he has recognized all living things as part of him. ⁷There is now no limit on his power, because it is the power of God. ⁸So has his name become the Name of God, for he no longer sees himself as separate from Him. What does this mean for you? It means that in remembering Jesus, you are remembering God. The whole relationship of the Son to the Father lies in him. His part in the Sonship is also yours, and his completed learning guarantees your own success. Is he still available for help? What did he say about this? Remember his promises and ask yourself honestly whether it is likely that he will fail to keep them. Can God fail His Son? And can one who is one with God be unlike Him? Who transcends the body has transcended limitation. Would the greatest teacher be unavailable to those who follow him? The name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods you pray to. It becomes the shining symbol for the Word of God, so close to what it stands for that the little space between the two is lost the moment that the name is called to mind. Remembering his name is to give thanks for all the gifts that God has given you. And gratitude to God becomes the way in which He is remembered, for love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and thankful mind. God enters easily, for these are the true conditions for your coming home. Jesus has led the way. Why would you not be grateful to him? He has asked for love, but only that he might give it to you. You do not love yourself. But in his eyes your loveliness is so complete and flawless that he sees in it an image of his Father. You become the symbol of his Father here on earth. To you he looks for hope, because in you he sees no limit and no stain to mar your beautiful perfection. In his eyes Christ’s vision shines in perfect constancy. He has remained with you. Would you not learn the lesson of salvation through his learning? Why would you choose to start again when he has made the journey for you? No one on earth can grasp what Heaven is or what its one Creator really means. Yet we have witnesses. It is to them that wisdom would appeal. There have been those whose learning far exceeds what we can learn. Nor would we teach the limitations we have laid on us. No one who has become a true and dedicated teacher of God forgets his brothers, yet what he can offer them is limited by what he learns himself. Then turn to one who laid all limits by, and went beyond the farthest reach of learning. He will take you with him, for he did not go alone. And you were with him then, as you are now. This course has come from him because his words have reached you in a language you can love and understand. Are other teachers possible, to lead the way for those who speak in different tongues and appeal to different symbols? Certainly there are. Would God leave anyone without a very present help in time of trouble; a savior who can symbolize himself? Yet do we need a many-faceted curriculum, not because of content differences, but because symbols must shift and change to suit the need. Jesus has come to answer yours. In him you find God’s Answer. Do you, then, teach with him, for he is with you; he is always here.
Jesus – Christ
From the ACIM “Clarification of Terms”
There is no need for help to enter Heaven, for you never left. ²But there is need of help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs of your identity, which God alone established in reality. ³Helpers are given you in many forms, although upon the altar they are one. ⁴Behind each one there is a thought of God, and this will never change. ⁵But they have names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols, being itself unreal. ⁶These names are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the course itself employs. ⁷God does not help, because He knows no need. ⁸But He creates all helpers of His Son while he believes his fantasies are true. ⁹Thank God for them, for they will lead you home. The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man, but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. ²So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. ³The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. ⁴Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? ⁵Jesus remains a savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. ⁶And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions. In his complete identification with the Christ—the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and one with Him—Jesus became what all of you must be. ²He led the way for you to follow him. ³He leads you back to God, because he saw the road before him and he followed it. ⁴He made a clean distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. ⁵He offered you all a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God’s Son, nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear, or death. ⁶And therefore all your sins have been forgiven you because they carried no effects at all, and so they were but dreams. ⁷Arise with him who showed you this, because you owe him this who shared your dreams that they might be dispelled—and shares them still, to be at one with you. Is he the Christ? ²Oh yes, along with you. ³His little life on earth was not enough to teach the mighty lesson that he learned for all of you. ⁴He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. ⁵And when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of Christ are shared. ⁶Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. ⁷Some bitter idols have been made of him who would be only brother to the world. ⁸Forgive him your illusions, and behold how dear a brother he would be to you. ⁹For he will set your mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God. Is he God’s only helper? ²No indeed. ³For Christ takes many forms with different names until their oneness can be recognized. ⁴But Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ’s single message of the love of God. ⁵You need no other. ⁶It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. ⁷Yet he would help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God. Yet still it is his lesson most of all that he would have you learn, and it is this: “There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. ²Nothing you can do can change eternal love. ³Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God’s Son. ⁴And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for, as I care for you.”