Workbook · Part I
Lesson 76
I am under no laws but God's.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “I am under no laws but God's.” In ordinary English: You are not under the laws you made — luck, revenge, ‘I must.’ God’s law is kinder and actual.
You are used to building a self from parents, work, the glass, the mood, the ranking of other people. This lesson says what you are was given, not achieved: as God created you, and so are they. That is not a compliment. It is a fact you practice when the other self-image is loud.
You do not have to believe it first. You use the words on one real judgment — of someone, of yourself, of a situation — and then you take the next ordinary step.
This is not saying
This is not a self-esteem project and not a claim that you are more powerful than God. You will not lose your personality. The sharp edges — the attack on you, the attack on them — can go.
Why this can change a day
If you are a private, failing self, then of course you must defend, compare, and prosecute. If you are as God created you, so is the one who irritated you, and the war has nothing left to stand on.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
A delay that ‘proves’ the world is against you — traffic, a wait, a plan that stalled.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am under no laws but God's.” You have invented the meaning, not the asphalt. Take that invented law off for one hour. Speak to this day, not to the theory.
Toward yourself
A thought says someone else is the problem — and it feels like a report from reality.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am under no laws but God's.” The thought is not a report from God. Let it pass. If something useful must be said, say only that.
At work, at home, or in a situation
A family member’s tone, a look, a holiday remark — and the old file opens.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am under no laws but God's.” The event can be remembered. The verdict can wait. One uncluttered look. Then speak as you normally would.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
I am under the laws of this place: luck, other people, money as worth, aging as doom, punishment as order.
Jesus’s way
I am under no laws but God’s. He is not asking you to break civil law. He is asking you to stop worshipping it as God.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #274
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 76
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- I am under no laws but God’s.
- The other laws — aging as doom, money as worth, punishment as order — are training.
- He is not asking you to break civil law.
- He is asking you to stop worshipping it as God.
How to sit today
Part I · Function
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- Two longer sittings plus frequent practice
- How long
- Ten to fifteen minutes
How
- Begin with a short review of the “laws” you think you must obey — body, medicine, friendship, reciprocity, even religious bargains with God.
- Then set them down. You are under no laws but God’s. Rest in that.
Longer sitting
Two sittings — ten to fifteen minutes
- Today’s idea is: “I am under no laws but God's.”
- Begin with a short review of the “laws” you think you must obey — body, medicine, friendship, reciprocity, even religious bargains with God.
- Then set them down.
- Say, slowly: “I am under no laws but God’s.”
- Rest in that.
Short / hourly
Frequent practice
- Say, slowly: “I am under no laws but God’s.”
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
I am under no laws but God’s. The other laws — aging as doom, money as worth, punishment as order — are training. He is not asking you to break civil law. He is asking you to stop worshipping it as God.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
This lesson is practice in polarizing with the person in front of you. Service to others is not a slogan. It is whether you treat them as the same being you are.
Open streamRueckert
A wanderer on Earth does not need a different lesson. She needs this one, done with her hands. Carla's whole archive is the proof: contact follows a life, it does not replace it.
Open stream