Excerpt #1 from book: Open Letter to His Majesty and Excellency Christ-Jesus
The Narrow Way and the Broad Way (Open Letter p.21-22)
I do praise You for that, beloved Lord, for without Your Grace and revelations I could have never seen anything, I could never have understood anything. And even after having seen and having understood, I could yet do nothing. I greatly praise You, beloved Lord, for without Your further Grace and Mercy and Patience and Wisdom and Love, I could never do anything of eternal value, I could not even find the narrow road, let alone walk on it. And that straight gate with that narrow road is also secret, for it is HIDDEN! That is why we, Christians, must find it! And very few do … You said it Yourself (Mt.7:14). And I was just about to begin to experience this great truth in my own heart and on my own skin.
Have many eyebrows been raised when reading about this narrow road? Then let me, Lord, come back to it for a moment and write the following truth. Whosoever does not seek the narrow way will never find it (Mt.7:7), and whosoever does not find it shall remain on the broad way with many others walking alongside. But is not this “broad way” reserved for pagans? Not at all! Pagans do not have a “…Father which is in heaven…” (Mt.7:11), only Christians have. Furthermore, You Yourself have called us Christians EVIL, in the same verse. You knew why – and today I also know why. Because, though having our heavenly Father, WE ARE EVIL! And that EVIL shall be exposed and judged in this letter.
And that EVIL must be destroyed. Therefore, the narrow way leads to life eternal because if we walk on it, the evil within us is being destroyed and thus at the end of this narrow road – the life awaits us. The broad way leads to destruction because if we walk on it the evil within us is covered up and preserved and thus at the end of that broad road – its destruction is still awaiting us! We cannot truly obtain and enjoy eternal life before the evil within us is completely destroyed! I admire Your Wisdom and Your Beauty, O Lord.
Your Word is Truth, and if we continue in Your Truth, and let It work in our hearts, then that Truth shall set us free (Jn.8:31,32).
Let me now turn the page, O King of kings, and testify about Your Truth, about the narrow road and about YOU being that Truth and Life!
The 3 groups of Christians (Open Letter p.30-34)
So now, we are at the point where we can say that out of the multitudes of Christians, out of Your worldwide Church, since Pentecost until now, three groups are always distinguishable. They are the following:
(1) A large majority that has never even outwardly matured into young spiritual Christians. The power of sin was not all broken in them, they still serve the power of sin. They still commit adultery, fornication, idolatry, they still lie and steal, follow gross heresies, have little or no idea about Your Word and are not really distinguishable from pagans. Their spiritual man is yet in an embryonic stage and seems to be continually on a death bed being rolled between the emergency room and the resuscitation room. They have not even started the commandment contained in 2Cor.7:1. What a tragedy, O Lord!
(2) A minority that has grown up into young spiritual Christians. The power of sin was broken in them, they have a limited or quite an extensive mental knowledge of Your Word, of biblical History and Geography. They pray, sing, teach, preach, counsel and many use the gifts of Your Spirit, chiefly tongues. Some of them interpret and some prophesy, some have the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, some perform healings, various miracles and others cast out demons. YET, none of them have gone on into that transformation process. None have been transformed into whatever degree of Your image! Because none had made these conscious decisions nor were willing to pay the price of that transformation.
Their new spiritual man has grown and is not wheeled from the emergency room to the resuscitation room. Yet, he is still in the same “hospital”, in a comfortable ward, on a comfortable bed or in a wheelchair. He is yet quite blind, deaf, without smell or touch, with unrenewed mind, he is yet paralysed partially or totally. Some may see a little, some hear a little, touch a little, move a little, understand a little. And some are total quadriplegics. Even this is a tragedy, Lord! Is it not?
Let me insert the following in this place. Are these teachers, preachers, counsellors, evangelists, revivalists, miracle workers and prophets, even those that pray and sing in tongues, are they not all wonderful Christians? Honoured, admired, followed? Yes, outwardly they all are and their works do follow them, and many people follow them. But let Your Spirit “insert a needle” into their heart, mind and soul – and a PUS comes out – the pus of pride, jealousy, rebellion, fears, doubts, arrogance, malevolency, in some cases even the pus of viciousness!!!
These and many other spirits, as venomous snakes, rats and scorpions are hidden, as it were, under stones and boulders of their soul, heart and mind … and these Christians may not even know it until a stone is overturned. THIS IS THAT EVIL IN CHRISTIANS!!!
So I repeat, Lord, this is still a tragedy. This is still not a conclusion. These Christians have been cleansed from the filthiness of their coarse flesh, delivered from their corrupt flesh, BUT they have not continued to be cleansed from the filthiness of THEIR SPIRIT and delivered from their GOOD, RELIGIOUS FLESH! (2Cor.7:1). They do not fear You, therefore, they are not perfecting their holiness nor are they beginning to acquire the true wisdom nor the true knowledge of You (Ps.111:10; Pr.1:7).
Hence, the conclusion to all the evil in us and to all the works of evil through us comes only in the third group described below. It is also true, Lord, that some of these dear brothers and sisters do see a little, do hear a little, they do discern a little here and a little there for You were able to grant their spiritual organs some sensibility. Many, many of them are also very sincere, well-meaning, diligently serving You as best as they can – who dares to be their judge? Yet, the aformentioned powers, the spirits, chiefly fears, doubts, pride, jealousy and self-righteousness prevent them from breaking through that straight gate and stepping onto the narrow road and becoming the Overcomer – and obtaining what they themselves, perhaps secretly, yearn for in the depths of their hearts.
(3) A few that have not only outwardly grown up but stepped on that narrow road (Mt.7:14) and have been or are being transformed into Your image (Rom.8:29). Transformed from smaller glory to greater glory (2Cor.3:18). Transformed slowly and painfully – but transformed. They alone are Your true Overcomers! The stones and boulders, which are fortresses of Satan in us, are being overturned and destroyed … and the venomous snakes, rats and scorpions killed and burned one by one! No wonder, Lord, that these Christians are recipients of unexpected shocks, sledgehammer strokes, stresses and strains … and then they burn all over their being as if thrown into a furnace. And we, indeed, are thrown from one furnace to another, that all the snakes and rats and scorpions and spiders and bats, even mosquitos that can suck the other brother’s blood, may all be burned within us and we may be refined as pure gold. Only thus shall we come forth without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish (Eph.5:27). Only thus we shall be able to work out our OWN salvation, that is to say, the RENEWAL of our very OWN SELVES, our OWN SOULS.
Only thus You, Lord, will be able to work in us both to will and to do Your good pleasure. That is to say, we will start to be willing and we will start to be doing that which will finally and truly please God! (Phil.2:12-13). Only thus shall we be able to tailor our OWN robe of righteousness (Rev.19:8), which is our OWN wedding gown, without which nobody shall enter into Your Kingdom (Mt.22:11-14). Only thus shall we be filling our OWN vessels, that is to say, our OWN souls with oil, which is Your Spirit (Mt.25:1-12), and replacing the old man with a matured new man.
Salvation has 3 stages (Open Letter p. 34-35)
Behold, the complete Salvation has three stages. Because we sinned in our tripartite being, spirit, soul and body, therefore, each part must be saved, renewed, re-created separately. That is also why You had to suffer and die in spirit, soul and body! You, Lord, first died in spirit (Mt.27:46, where death means “separation from God”), then in soul (Mt.27:50) and then in body. That is why we are first renewed, re-created in our spirit, then in our soul and then in our body. That is the complete Grand Salvation! Blessed be Your Beautiful Name, O Lord of Grace and Glory!
Salvation equals Renewal, Re-creation. At our conversion, only our spirit is reborn, renewed, re-created – NOTHING ELSE! Our soul and body remained as before, untouched as to their renewal. Ecstasy in our soul, physical healing in our body that may have accompanied our spiritual rebirth – do not constitute the renewal of soul and body! But after our spiritual rebirth, also our soul is to be renewed, re-created and, finally, our body will be renewed, re-created, which is commonly called “resurrection”.
The first stage – spirit, and the third stage – body, are free re-creations, they are gifts from our God the Father without any price tag. The second stage – soul, is very costly, the oil in the vessel must be bought! (Mt.25:9). The price is – our old life!
Now, the new spiritual man in these Christians – the Overcomers of the third group – has not only grown up as he began to cause the soul to be healed from blindness and deafness and over-all paralysis and as the mind began to be slowly renewed, that soul was, as it were, “discharged from that hospital” into a glorious freedom. He began to see what only the Spirit can show and what our physical eyes cannot possibly see. He began to hear the Spirit, touch the Spirit, understand the Spirit, even smell the fragrances of the Spirit … and much later he even began to OBEY the Spirit. Well, is that so, Lord? You know it is so. But who can truly understand and believe all this and appreciate all this except the one whom You brought thus far?
I sincerely praise You, Lord Christ Jesus, and I lack words to express my true thankfulness; for in Your Grace, Love and Patience You have brought me thus far! That is why I can write about it, and that is why I testify about it even by this letter.
brother Hanola