Part 1 – INTRODUCTION
This Mission and this fellowship before the Living Christ Jesus should be comparable to the “invasion in Normandy” in the Second World War, which was the beginning of the end of the Nazi empire of evil. It took less than a year to get from Normandy to Berlin, to destroy the German army and the Nazi empire of evil. Our “invasion” should similarly destroy the spiritual kingdom of Satan in our soul with all its powers of darkness and evil. And if you think, or, perhaps, do not even believe that your soul is similarly occupied by powers of darkness and evil, which must be destroyed by force through our decisions and the power of the Holy Spirit, then all your future hangs in a balance. This fellowship will thus be similar to the beginning of the end of the kingdom and power of Satan in our soul. It will also be the beginning or continuation of our change into the Bride of Christ and of our preparation for the Coming of Christ the King for His Bride. Whether it will happen like that or not will not depend on the Lord, nor on Satan, but ON US – in what spiritual state is our heart, what does it desire, how it hungers after freedom, peace, joy, after the final victory, after the Light and Truth of Christ and after His Coming. How desperately are we waiting for the coming Kingdom of Heaven, our New Life in It and our ruling with Christ. How definitely are we decided in our heart to finally get rid of the slavery to the powers of darkness and evil, fear and death and their continual effect upon our life and destiny. This Living Christ desires that His future Bride would see this Light and Vision prepared for Her by Her Bridegroom at this time. That She would not only begin to ponder the Light, but She would receive it, believe it and understand in Her heart that this is the Will and the Plan of Her Bridegroom for Her, which He wants to accomplish in Her, that is, in us, so that by Her own will She will either start or keep marching toward the Kingdom as the time is very short. We will also find out during this fellowship that “nominal or casual” Christianity has thus far brought us nowhere and will bring us nowhere and we will HAVE TO face reality, which the Lord will be giving to us, if we want to survive or be protected from what is coming upon the whole world.
The letter to Ephesians by Apostle Paul is probably the deepest and most outstanding document which was ever written by man on this planet. There is nothing deeper, more splendid, more astonishing, more essential or more remarkable for the Church of Christ, than this letter and its contents, excepting the Light and Truth expressed in the Gospel by Jesus Christ Himself. The Holy Spirit granted to Paul the freedom to dip into such spiritual treasures which he sent to that church because their situation demanded it. They were hungry and thirsty and perceived their needs in the fight against the powers of darkness and evil. The traditional religion failed and there was a great need of spiritual food. Hence, for them it was truly the question of life or death. This is also our situation. That’s why the Lord Christ Jesus sent to them the spiritual munitions and food so that they would be able not only to defend themselves, but to prevail and overcome the powers of evil and darkness inside as well as outside of themselves. And the munitions and food was that LIGHT, which shines on us also today and shows us clearly what we are to do to take a firm stand on our spiritual feet and remain standing during the coming flood of the powers of darkness and evil and thereby fulfill the Word of Our Saviour and King where He promised, that “the gates of hell shall NOT prevail over us”(Mt. 16:18).
Spiritual food is vitally important for our spiritual existence, growth, health, work and for our spiritual fight. In every military campaign, food was always a strategic material and the enemy always tried to sabotage not only the supplies of ammunition but also the supplies of food to the front line. An army may be armed with the most modern weapons, but if it has no food, it will perish and lose the war. The same is happening in our spiritual war with Satan and his powers of darkness and evil where the church is lamentable not only as a consequence of her pride, blindness, faithlessness and lukewarmness, but has no appropriate or required food. Today, there is a great scarcity of a good and nutritious spiritual food, hence, Christians are dragging themselves through their earthly spiritual life hungry and thirsty and pose for Satan no danger whatsoever! Spiritual weapons and munitions are just as important and needful as spiritual food. In spiritual fights, the WORD of God is not only a high quality food, but it is equally the best ammunition that we can possibly have. Today, the Lord desires to arm us, feed us and give us drink in His Word and Life. Our mouth should speak mercifully and peacefully with our true friends and brethren, but with our enemies, a sharp double-edged sword should come out of our mouth (Rev. 1:16/ 2:16/ 19:15) because we do not live in Heaven and do not meet God’s angels, rather we live in the kingdoms of Satan and meet his angels and powers and thus we must discern them one from the other and deal with them accordingly.
The Lord’s Glory and Honor are intimately connected with the spiritual conditions in His Church, therefore, His desire and goal is to have His Church well fed, healthy, flourishing, strong and able to stand face-to-face against His enemy. We do not fight FOR the victory, we fight IN the victory! The victory has been ours and it was won by Our Lord, and we stand and must stand and fight for maintaining His and our victory and for the Testimony which we have in Him and about Him, that HE IS the Victor, the King of kings and Lord of lords (1Tim. 6:15,16). The ministry of Apostle Paul was mainly in “building” His Body and that chiefly in ministering a healthy and rich spiritual nutrition for the Church of Christ. That’s why Paul’s ministry was attacked, criticized, set for destruction, traduced by the powers of darkness and evil on every side, accompanied by misrepresentations of reality, defamations, lies and bad reputations on every side. That’s why my own ministry is also attacked, defamed and surrounded by bad reputation for the same reason, which for me is a very good sign. When the people of Christ are victorious, the devil is furious, but he has no chances.
The Lord does not always give us what we want, but always what we need in His eyes for our earthly life mainly in the spiritual realm. He is giving us as much as we are able spiritually to receive, to drink, eat and digest so it would benefit and strengthen our spiritual life. So it would not be just another pile of information, which would wear us out even more than we were before and strengthen our death! In other words, the measure of freedom for any servant of the Lord and the scope of ministering the Light of the Lord depend entirely on the capacity of the recipients (Jn. 16:12). I could not declare any Purpose of the Lord to any fellowship, where the people are not prepared for that Purpose not only to see it, but also to understand it, receive it and be willing also to do it. The Lord limits the Light to be revealed or granted according to the shortage of the spiritual life in the recipients (Heb. 5:11-14). In any case, it is desirable to start to open the way into our soul, chiefly heart, so that the Life of Christ from our spirit might start flowing therein washing all filth, darkness, sinfulness and evil out of there, whether we are aware of them or not. What the Lord has prepared for us today is for us a very great privilege as it will enable us to participate in His Plan of the End of the world and of the beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven where we will play an important role.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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