FOREWORD
It pleased the Lord of Heaven and Earth to call me to be His servant, to reveal Himself to me in a very gracious and loving way, to deposit in this vessel of clay His treasure and charge me with the ministry of His Judgments, of the Full Truth of His Word and of the ensuing necessary spiritual preparations and cleansing of His people especially those that truly desire to follow Him, (Mt. 16:24) know Him, love Him and, as His Bride, be prepared for His Coming as their Bridegroom. (Mt. 25:6)
This has become the most important ministry in His eyes for this time of the end of the world. No other ministry has for Him any greater importance, at this time, since it is to prepare His Bride to HIS satisfaction for the time is at hand. This is the only reason why this brief work was undertaken to bring before us the most important spiritual issues of believers that are to be diligently considered, seen, understood, believed and performed for Our Lord.
This work may be considered as a sequel to the book “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ[8]”, published in 2006 by Montreal Remnant Ministries (ISBN 0-978226-0-3). The quoted book presents the WORD OF GOD as touching the present spiritual state of the Church and spiritual ministry to the Church in a general form.
The above quoted book was not written to please believers or give them an appealing, but false, picture about their spiritual reality. Rather, it was written to present ALSO THE BITTER PART OF THE FULL TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS NEVER PREACHED OR EXPLAINED. There was limited space in the book to deal with any particular issue in an extended way or to a more desirable depth.
This present work is devoted to THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE which has been causing the TRUE TRAGEDY in the Church of Jesus Christ from the very beginning until now. It is a singular issue that affects the life of every born-again believer from his redemption on, determines his spiritual state, progress or regress and his destiny. In this respect, it deserves to be called THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE for all believers and thus for the Church as a whole.
This MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE touches our SPIRIT and SOUL as TWO DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR BEING, THEIR DIFFERENT SALVATIONS, different life or death, their differences in thoughts, understanding, intelligence, intents, goals and power. It also touches different roles of spirit and soul in the life of believers and their influence in the final destiny of every individual believer.
Some basic facts concerned with this MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE of SPIRIT and SOUL are to some extent discussed and declared in our above quoted book, “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ[8]”. Also, our brochure “Truth about Salvation[9]”, published in 2003 by Montreal Remnant Ministries, gives a more detailed picture about the transformation of the whole personality of a believer and the way it is done by the Spirit in cooperation with the believer. This brochure also shows and briefly discusses the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR REDEMPTION AND SALVATION. Hence, some parts in this present book will be a repetition of some of these basic facts, but from a different angle of approach and with some added definitions and details.
Seven times have I reviewed, refined every word of this book before the Living Christ so that He might burn out all dross (flesh) (Lev. 14:7; 16:19// 2Ki. 5:10,14// Ps. 12:6// Pr. 24:16// Lk. 17:4) that there should not be anything contrary to His Holiness and Righteousness and Truth. That it might be as pure and acceptable to Him as is possible under the circumstances and my spiritual state before Him. That it may serve His purposes alone for I do not seek my own will, goal or purpose in any part of this book, but His Will. (Jn. 5:30) This paragraph is a repetition from the above quoted book[8], as the Lord was leading me through the very same process also for this book. Here, I desire to attach a few important notes concerning this review before Him.
The seven-fold review of this book does not include the basic editing, which is normally done with every book before it goes to print. This review is done before the Lord and for the purposes of refining the text before or after the normal editing has been done. It touches solely the spiritual side of the text and its meaning. In each revision, I had to come “closer” to the Lord, be with Him in my conscience and ask Him to review with me every word written herein and any particular aspect of the book to make it whole, truthful and thus acceptable to Him. This does not mean that this book is absolutely faultless in His eyes! But I asked Him to lead me to weed out parts, even whole paragraphs, which in themselves may have been correct, but in spirit they would have complicated matters rather than present a clearer picture; or to add any parts that were necessary to fill in the picture.
Then I had to ask the Lord to go through the book with me using a “fine comb” where my nature would have inserted “new and thus far unseen” spiritual facts just to “show off” my knowledge, but which were unimportant for the present purpose of the book. Natural human mind has a tendency to write “everything it knows”. Such a review is usually very painful and difficult since the primary purpose of why many authors write books, is to succeed with publishers, to produce “bestsellers”, get a reputation, glory and monetary gains. Clearly, none of this has been the Lord’s goal or mine.
In the first Chapter, I write that not everything I wrote was a direct revelation to me from the Lord, but that I had also received light from other true servants of the Lord (chiefly, Watchman Nee from China and Austin T. Sparks from England). The light they had received was made yet deeper and wider in its spiritual meaning by the Lord. This deeper spiritual meaning is what had to be recorded and revised under the careful supervision of His Spirit. Another revision had to be done to incorporate the true spiritual meaning of many of my personal experiences some of which were very painful indeed, but rich in hidden spiritual meaning. Also, a fine comb of the Spirit was used to go through every word of the book to see that the reader would get the right interpretation of what is written and would not be confused in any way due to a wrong wording, double-meaning, word order or other features of the text. In order to achieve this, the brethren from our Body of Christ, who are sufficiently mature in spirit, have also proofread the book being “independent readers” uncovering any parts which I understood, but were not written in the way that others would also understand and see the same spiritual picture and its meaning. Sometimes the change of one word would change the spiritual meaning of a whole sentence, paragraph or section.
This kind of review is very exhaustive indeed for any human heart and spirit even more than for the human mind. Yet, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that the text of this book would not be solely a product of a religiously educated mind or human imagination and reasoning and that it would not contain only the intellectual knowledge that has been accumulated during the previous years of study. Despite this careful and exhaustive review of the text before the Lord Himself, I feel that the Lord purposely left in it the “features” and weaknesses of this vessel of clay.
This should give a sufficiently practical picture of the seven-fold review of this and also of my previous book[8].
May it therefore please the Lord to use this written testimony and work of faith for His pleasure and purposes. Since many believers are called, but few are chosen (Mt. 20:16) and since believers are predestinated according to His foreknowledge and His Purpose, (Rom. 8:28,29) then HIS PURPOSE IS GOVERNING ALL OUR LIVES AND ALL OUR DESTINIES.
May the LORD enable all readers to open their heart, mind and will to Him, believe His whole Word and trust in Him. May He also enable them to believe and truly receive the very essence of this MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE declared and discussed in this work of faith. May this Light and Truth from the Lord benefit and strengthen every believer to PRESS toward the prize of his/her high calling of God in Christ Jesus, (Phil. 3:14) which means, toward his/her perfection. (Heb. 6:1) The Word of God stands for ever and we have the freedom to use and trust HIS WORD or ignore IT. The LORD of Heaven and Earth will always honour His Word and He will grant to those believers that believe and honour and keep His Word, all that they would need both now and in their entire future. AMEN.
On behalf of the King of kings and Lord of lords:
brother H a n o l a
N O T E:
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT READERS WOULD VERIFY THE BIBLICAL REFERENCES QUOTED IN THE TEXT, READ THEM CAREFULLY AND PONDER THEM IN THEIR HEART, AS THEY READ THE TEXT OF THIS BOOK. THIS WILL RICHLY MULTIPLY THE BENEFITS IN READING AND ACQUIRING THE LIGHT AND TRUTH FROM THE WORD DECLARED AND DISCUSSED IN THIS BRIEF WORK.
IT IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT THAT READERS CONTINUE TO READ AND PONDER EVEN THOUGH SOME PASSAGES MAY NOT BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD OR EVEN IF ONE’S FAITH AND UNDERSTANDING MAY CURRENTLY DIFFER. WE ARE GENERALLY UNABLE TO GRASP ALL THE TRUTHS THE LORD GIVES US RIGHT FROM THE START (JOB 33:14). THE LORD DESIRES THAT WE WOULD NOT THROW AWAY ANYTHING BEFORE WE EXTRACT FROM IT HIS NUGGETS OF GOLD.
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To be continued next week in chapter 1 – part 1
brother Hanola
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