ELECTRONIC MINISTRY – Part 6 (Open Letter pages 153-160).
Let me now turn, Lord, to another servant of Yours, who has also been teaching and preaching for many years. He has not attempted to build an enterprise like unto the other enterprises, nor was he attempting to beg for money.
There are few such ministries that made it their policy not to appeal publicly for funds. This ministry is one of them – and this is also where the “good news begins to end”.
I feel very, very sad, Lord, when I write about this servant and the form of religion that he and his followers practise. He seems to have been born on Mt.Sinai – and never to have come down. He is living, and yet, without a drop of true life. He is saved by Your marvellous Grace, and yet, without a drop of true joy. Your Spirit is dwelling in him (somewhere, I hope), yet, if I had a full-sized oil-drilling rig, I could not find one drop of oil in “his vessel” (Mt.25:3,4).
O Lord, a true picture of agony. If this is what Your Salvation produces in a man, then it is the most unappealing way out of Hell into the most unappealing future in Heaven!
True, he uses biblical stories and references for his illustrations and teachings; he tries his best to convince his listeners about the particular truths in his analogies. Now, forgive me, O Lord, but I have to say what is in my heart: Though he is my brother, he would be an excellent professor of theology at any religious establishment, even an excellent director of any funeral parlor. And … I think I love him.
I now desire, Lord, to tell him in his own words: It is written! “Who (God) also hath made us able ministers of the New (not Old) Testament: NOT of the letter, but of the Spirit: for THE LETTER KILLETH, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE” (2Cor.3:6).
He has been ministering plenty of letters – but a terrible spirit! Hence, his followers display plenty of death – but no life! Was not the book of Galatians written also to them, Lord? And to anyone else who tries to put his neck into the yoke of the law, who tries to be cursed??? (Gal.3:10).
You, Lord, are saying to them simple but warning words: “… ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days (whether it is Sunday or Saturday), and months, and times, and years, I (the Lord) am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor (through Paul) in vain” (Gal.4:9-11).
Dear Lord, my own spirit testifies against them, for their leaders and many of their followers have been deceived and bewitched to the degree that they judge other Christians very unrighteously, very severely, even arrogantly.
This servant of Yours, and many of his followers, have elevated the Sabbath “above all things” contrary to the New Testament Spirit, His Truth and precepts – while they have been “happily” neglecting and breaking the most important and fundamental commandments of Your New Covenant!!!
They have also been boasting of their dietary practises, refusing to eat that which You have created as food for us, including meat. They say that meat is “garbage”, but soya beans are good food for a Christian. Is there a limit to the deception and to the foolishness of Your people, Lord?
Is not Your Spirit speaking EXPRESSLY that “in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry (Catholics), and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and KNOW THE TRUTH. For EVERY CREATURE OF GOD IS GOOD and NOTHING to be refused, IF it be received with thanksgiving: For IT IS SANCTIFIED by the WORD OF GOD and prayer”! (1Tim.4:1-5).
Their minds will immediately say: “Shall we then eat spiders, scorpions, bats, snakes?” Poor souls, in their deception they cannot even tell the creatures of God from the creatures of Satan. Will they ask You for the truth?
Now, I want to say this: Is it wrong to eat herbs and soya beans? No. Is it wrong to abstain from meat? No. BUT it is wrong, yea, sinful to judge or despise those that do eat meat! (Rom.14:2). Is it wrong to go to church on the Sabbath? No. Is it wrong to go to church on Wednesday? No. Is it wrong to go to church on Sunday? No. BUT it is wrong, yea, sinful to judge and despise those that go to church on any other day than we do! (Rom.14:5,6).
How shall Christians judge me should I tell them that I do not have to “go to church” at all? Why not? Because the “church” is in my house AND because the Ark of the New Covenant, which is Christ the Lord, which is You, IS in the midst of my house IN ADDITION to being in the midst of my heart.
I do not have to go to a special building for any particular hour to “meet the Lord” or, at least, to “attend a service”. Why? Because I AM a walking perpetual service to You always and everywhere! You sup with me ALWAYS, You cannot depart from me as I cannot depart from You – Sunday or no Sunday, Sabbath or no Sabbath! YOU ARE MY SABBATH – MY REST!!!
In the New Testament You had not given us a DAY to rest – You had given us YOURSELF to rest! (Mt.11:28). But we must come to You, then we can understand and enjoy the true Sabbath. To “go to church” should only mean to meet and have fellowship with other Christians – and to bring in and share You with them, if we have You. Is this not simple enough?
How long will these blind leaders and their followers cling to their utter darkness and utter unrighteousness? How long will they despise, even hate, in their hearts and minds those brothers and sisters that “keep” Sunday? How long will they condemn in their hearts and minds those brothers and sisters that eat meat, even pork meat, and that drink beverages which these “people of God” do not touch? How long will these blind leaders of the blind stay away from Your Truth in Romans chapter 4 and 14, 1Tim.4:1-5, Gal.chpt.2,3,4 and 5, and other scriptures?
How long will they REFUSE TO SEE that “Christ hath redeemed us from the CURSE of the law…” (Gal.3:13) which includes the CURSE of “Sabbath keeping” or “Sunday keeping” or “any-other-day keeping”?
Sabbath keeping is the law – is it not??? So that, being redeemed, we are FREE to worship You any day, any time, any place with anyone who believes likewise!
When will these blind leaders open their hearts to Your Word, and see and realize that NONE of them keeps the law? (Jn.7:19). That NONE of them shall ever be justified by Sabbath keeping or Sunday keeping? (Rom.3:20). That a man is justified by faith alone, WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE LAW? (Rom.3:28). That their “beloved law” is not destroyed through faith, but rather established – FOR THEM THAT HAVE NO FAITH! (Rom.3:31).
How long a time will You, O Lord, apportion to them, to wake up, search their hearts, and REPENT in tears?
Behold, I am not condemning them, You are not condemning them – Your Word and their conscience shall condemn them in the last day! Yet, I want to tell them on Your behalf the following:
You eat herbs because even the faith you had in the beginning has been weakened or destroyed. You go to church on Saturdays, because you HONESTLY believe that this is the SIGN of the true people of God. Along the way, though, you easily despise and condemn all other Christians, because you are blind and do not see that THEY TOO ARE a part of the same Body with you – and you cannot separate yourselves from “Sunday worshippers and meat eaters and wine drinkers” and many others.
Indeed, in God’s eyes, you are NO BETTER than they are!! You might be worse!! When you gather in your church auditoriums, the Lord Christ Jesus does not look at the calendar … He looks at your hearts, minds and souls and, behold, He sees the same dung as in multitudes of others!!
Pride … terrible pride, terrible self-righteousness, terrible stubbornness, arrogance, temper, hypocrisy, darkness … humanism, flesh, flesh and more flesh.
Tell me now, you leaders of this fast growing denomination, you whitewashed tombs full of dead mens’ bones, you generation of Protestant vipers – shall your Sabbath save you from the Judgement of God??? Shall your diet save you and your followers from the Judgement or, at least, shall it become an extenuating circumstance???
What shall be your EXCUSES at the Judgement Seat of Christ??? What will you and your followers tell Him??? You will tell Him: Lord, Lord, we kept the Sabbath … we ate no meat … and we have done many wonderful works in Your Name. Right? BUT He shall profess to you: “Depart from Me, ye workers of iniquity … I NEVER KNEW YOU”! (Mt.7:23)
But what shall be your EXCUSES at the Judgement Seat of Christ??? Your sincerity? Your good intentions? Your plausible doctrines? But you were not even saved because of your sincerity, good intentions or plausible doctrines – you were saved because you REPENTED in tears and humbly received His Grace (IF you did that, otherwise you are not even saved!)
Now, I say to all of you that judge unrighteously and arrogantly, those who are self-righteous and proud, knowing nothing, and who do this evil; I say to all of you in the Holy and Righteous Name of Christ Jesus the King: “Unless you all, leaders and followers, REPENT in tears of all your evil, NOT ONE of you shall see the Kingdom of heaven! But you shall be thrown to outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And publicans, and harlots, and beggars, and sinners that you despise shall go into the Kingdom in your place!” (Mt.21:31,32).
Lord Jesus, so be it – for so it seems good and righteous in Your eyes and, thus, it seems good and righteous in my eyes. Blessed be Your Name. I do not condemn them or despise them, I feel compassion toward them and I love them, knowing whose victims they are. I love them because You died for them, and they were washed in the same precious Blood in which I was washed, and all true sons and daughters. But, they also MUST BE redeemed with Judgement, and their converts with Righteousness! (Is.1:27).
(To be continued next week in part 7)
brother Hanola
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