Excerpt from book:
Open Letter to His Majesty and Excellency Christ-Jesus
TRANSFORMATION – Part 3 (Open Letter pages 29-31).
| It goes without saying, that this further spiritual maturing of an outwardly grown up Christian should follow his outward growth as naturally as our intellectual maturing follows our physical outward growth. This further maturing is an inner “Transformation” of an already grown-up Christian! It is not outwardly observable. To truly observe this transformation, one has to have a spiritual eye to see, spiritual ear to hear, spiritual nose to smell, spiritual touch to feel and a spiritual mind (renewed in spirit – Eph.4:23) to really understand. Nobody else can see, hear, smell, touch or understand! Blessed be Your Name, Lord of Glory, for that is precisely why You spoke in the beginning and at the end of the New Testament: “… he who has an ear to hear, let him hear.” (Mt.13:9 etc.; Rev.2:7 etc.). In the Old Testament, You never said such a thing because Your Spirit did not dwell in people and the new spiritual man did not grow in anybody. But in the New Testament, even though all people still had two ears, You began to make such unusual statements. And we conveniently interpreted such statements of Yours as addressed to pagans! But You also closed the New Testament by repeating seven times to Your very own Christian churches saying: “… he that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches”! (Rev. chaps. 2 and 3). We should have noticed long ago that Your seven letters given to John to record have never been addressed to pagans or to the general public or to Israel – but to Your churches. “And unto the angel of the CHURCH in … write …”! And so I say: “He among us who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto us and the Church at this hour!” I greatly admire Your Wisdom and I greatly delight in Your ways, O Lord of Glory! 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! (To be continued) brother Hanola … < Link to book Open Letter > |