Excerpt from book:
Open Letter to His Majesty and Excellency Christ-Jesus
TRANSFORMATION – Part 4 (Continuation from Part 3) (Open Letter pages 31-33).
(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 aforementioned 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.
(To be continued)
brother Hanola
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