We may ask reverently where was the “unconditional” Love of God, His Grace, His Mercy and His “longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance”? (2Pet. 3:9b) Can our natural human soul and mind understand or reconcile this above Word of God with Jn. 13:26,27? NO! The fact is that we MUST SEE IN SPIRIT to understand this as Our Lord sees and understands it.
Let us also note that the Word in 2Pet. 3:9b applies not only to pagans, as many believers and preachers may understand it, but also TO BORN-AGAIN, BAPTIZED BELIEVERS, WHO REFUSE TO REPENT AND CHANGE THEIR WAYS AS COMMANDED BY THE LORD! (Rev. 2:5,16,21; 3:3,19) Let us see, understand and believe that there may be many Iscariots in the Church today. The same goes for the New Testament Pharisees, Sadducees and also various “scribes” who may already be condemned to hell now (Mt. 23:1-33-39) and they may equally be unaware of their tragedy as the Old Testament ones were not aware. Unless Our Lord destroys our PRIDE, we have no chances!
Brother Hanola did not write the Word of God, he was only called to bring the Truth of the Word and bear witness of that Light before your eyes and hearts that you may SEE and believe It! I am doing my duty before the Lord; you are called by the Lord to do your duty before Him in prayerfully considering the above facts and truths because this is what the Lord desires at this time from all of us!
If I should now say: “Thus says the Lord…” would it make any difference to you? NO! Are you able to believe that the Lord speaks to you in this book? NO soulish believer can! Why? The Lord says that the children of Israel almost never believed their prophets, why should the children of God in the Church believe their prophets? But the Lord will never speak to your mind. Go on your knees before the Almighty God and go into your heart and conscience, if you know how to do it, and see and hear there whether the Lord is speaking to you or not. But the Lord is causing His true servants and prophets to speak His words also to those that will not listen to them, and to call on those that will not answer! (Jer. 7:27) Do you belong to such?
I believe that these examples should be very helpful for us to understand the natural soul, its abilities, or rather disabilities, and the associated dangers for any believer, who may keep his old natural soul for many years after his Redemption… even unto his death! And when such a believer teaches at a seminary or is put behind a pulpit and teaches, preaches and ministers, are not all his listeners in the same danger? We will be able to see and judge this when our soul is sufficiently renewed by the Spirit. Otherwise, we will not even see what the actual problem is. If we cannot SEE our own self as God sees it, we will never SEE and understand this TRAGEDY OF BELIEVERS.
So, our loving God can “kill us” or allow us to be killed, if He judges us worthy of death (Deut. 32:39,41// Acts 5:1-10; 25:11) whether we understand it or not, whether we approve of it or not, whether we believe it or not, whether we feel good or bad about it, whether we love God and His Judgments or hate Him and His Judgments. But for Him, our physical death is precious, (Ps. 116:15) it is not a tragedy, but our spiritual death is! He may sometimes prevent our spiritual death (for example, committing the sin unto death – Mt. 12:32// 1Jn. 5:16, or the like) by our premature physical death. He has the right to take away our life from us since we do not own it, He gave it to us.
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To be continued next week in chapter 3 – part 7
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