Do NOT keep company with the gentiles

Source: The Gospel according to Spiritism, chap. XXIV, items: 8, 9 and 10. and Matthew, X: 5 and 7.

SYNTHESIS: 8) - These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying; the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand (Matthew, 10: 5-7). 9 )- On many occasions Jesus shows us that His vision was not confined to the Jews people alone, but rather embraced all humanity. If He told His disciples not to go to the pagans, it was not that He disdained conversing with them, which would not have been at all charitable ; rather it was that the Jews, who already believed in one God and were waiting for a Messiah, were already prepared through the laws of Moses and the Prophets to accept His word. With the pagans, where even the base was lacking, there would have been everything to do and the apostles were not yet sufficiently enlightened for so difficult a task, This is why He said to them: Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel, (). 10) - These words can also be applied to the adepts and disseminators of Spiritism. The systematically incredulous, the obstinate mockers and the profit-seeking adversaries are today what the gentiles were to the apostles. So to follow their example, go first to make converts amongst those of goodwill, those who desire enlightenment, where a fertile seed may be found and where there are many, without wasting time with those who do not want to see or hear, where they resist all the more out of pride the greater the importance that is put upon their conversion. (). CONSIDERATIONS: Jesus is bearer of a new doctrine, the Father's doctrine Who sent Him. (John, 7: 16, 17). Jesus, to separate of the doctrines of Earth spoke that the kingdom of Heaven has arrived and that it is near. Jesus taught love to the neighbour and the charity and He developed the doctrine in this base, that is, of love and charity, also taught that the soul is immortal; He taught on the laws of causes and effects, on magnetism and healing fluids, when teaching to place the hands on the patients so that they may be cured; He also taught about the multiplicity of worlds. Jesus, also taught on reincarnation, although not clearly as we wanted, He always encouraged that we should have faith in God and that we should allow His will to be made, as well as of Jesus the spiritist doctrine tries to teach not so much having, but being, and it encourages the interior transformation. Jesus taught that we should have the kingdom of Heaven in the heart, that is, freedom in the spiritual things, the spiritist doctrine also tries to teach the dependence of God, and to emancipate ourselves, in other words, to be grown and adults in the spiritual things; St. John had this feeling when he said: He must increase, but I must decrease. (John, 3:30) And St. Paul annoyed with himself, and he used to say: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do, (Romans, 7: 15- 19) Jesus was three years preparing His disciples before sending them to the Jews, we ourselves also need plenty time with Jesus for us to learn how to love, for us to learn to be spiritual, for us to learn how to have faith in God, to deposit our trust in God and for us to learn how to leave our pride and to abandon our selfishness and say with faith and good will to God: Dear Father may Thy Will be done".(Matthew, 6: 9-10; 13) The spiritist doctrine studies the natural laws of God as well as inspired teachings to help us free ourselves from our selfishness and to trust God; Who reveals Himself in His laws and examples which Jesus gave us and that on coming to an understanding more mature, we could give ourselves more and more to God, on praying: Lord thy Will be done". And, thanks we give Him for granting us more than one life so we may develop and progress, with progressive access at the superior levels of the spirituality, as well as to thank Him for the patience He has in waiting for our spiritualization, moralization, as well as intellectualization on our coming to the use of reason and of the understanding of ourselves and the purpose of God to have created us. God be with us, as formerly, today and forever.
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Studied at Joana dArc, on 02 /03/ 1999.