That new birth also explains the opposition of believers less spiritual against those that are more spiritually mature. It is not pleasant to write about some facts, but we must look “straight into their eyes”. If we truly walk with the Spirit of God, there will be very many Christians which will not only “not understand” us, but they will understand us WRONGLY! Not only they could not walk with us, but they are convinced that WE are wrong! Then we will be meeting what also Apostle Paul was meeting wherever he ministered – disrepute (2Cor. 6:1-8-10). And this conflict between the less and the greater matured believers is a consequence of the fact that the Spirit of God Himself demands from us an unconditional, uncompromising devotion to His Purpose and Goal, also our faithfulness and cooperation. When He is not getting these from us, contentions, fights and conflicts continue. And wherever the life of Christians is marked by such conflicts, fights and contentions, it points to a significant EVIL in their own life and disobedience toward the Word of God. In my belief, it is almost impossible for the less spiritual believers to understand or even believe those more spiritually matured ones, and that chiefly due to their pride, stubbornness and a closed heart.
The best proofs of the above paragraph are my personal experiences how my brethren in Christ showed me a “double honor” for my ministry of many years and the work in the Word of God and in teaching (1Tim. 5:17). I really do not desire to express myself badly, yet, for the sake of truth and this Light by which the Lord illumines the whole Church, I must at least indicate that I did not know that this “double honor“ will include also “spitting, ignoring, pi… even poo…“ on me, using bad names and bad language of all sorts, rewarding evil for my good, kicking me away as a dog, separating themselves from me or ignoring me in a piggish manner without any explanation or reasons, hating me without a cause (Jn. 15:25) and similar goodies. Well, had I foreknown this, I would have been well satisfied with a “single honor” instead of a “double honor”.
What is here for me the most precious and also the most joyful fact is, that “My Highness” was in no way touched or offended over these manifestations of “love and honor”, nor do I have in my heart any bitterness, hatred or unwillingness to forgive and receive these same people and embrace them again (as before) at the very first sign of their repentance and remorse. THIS IS MY VICTORY! Unfortunately, this above paragraph describes also the state of today’s Christianity. And I am not surprised since many individual Christians and pastors, preachers, bishops even cardinals are the same and lead their sheep in the same way. The most recent case is from a Pentecostal pastor Stanislaw Gawel from Žilina, the chairman of the organization “Friends of Israel” to whom I sent in April 2015 a Judgment of the Lord concerning the speakers at their Conference in Žilina in August 2013. The Judgment, the description of the Conference as well as a “piggish response” from pastor Gawel are all available for reading. Also available is my letter dated May 30, 2015 to the bishop of the Apostolic Church in Slovakia Jan Lacho with all the documents attached, which illuminate this case of coarse Blasphemy against Christ Jesus! Also my second letter dated July 18, 2015, response of bishop Lacho dated July 25, 2015 and my response from July 31, 2015 to his response. All documents are available to anyone, who desires to read and see, what the Lord shows today about the worldwide church of the End of his world, because that church is ripe for Christ to spue her out of His mouth (Rev. 3:16,17). This picture includes Christians with their leaders in every worldly religious organization, which remain carnal and lukewarm, are not overcoming, not winning.
One of the main factors of our problems and hardships lies also in that we continuously trying to bring our earthly mentality and life into Heaven and bring Heaven down into our earthly mentality and life! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE! Heaven is far above us not only in space and distance, but in nature, character, morality, in the manner of thinking and judging of things. We ignore and refuse the ways of the Lord and want Him to walk on our ways and bless our ways. We also ignore or refuse His Purposes and thoughts and beg Him to bless our purposes and to follow the thoughts of our earthly mind. We simply pray for that which suits us and is logical to us, but these are all “selfish prayers”. We do not pray for what suits Him, His Purposes, His Goals, or what is spiritually logical for Him and thus spiritually beneficial also for us.
Hence, the Lord does not bring Heaven down to earth and into our life in the ways, which we prefer and understand. On the contrary, He calls us away from the earth into Heaven, where Our Heavenly Father had already seated us together with Christ (Eph. 2:4-6)! By His Spirit He is seeking how to reform us, reorganize, change, perfect us according to His Pattern in Heaven in order that we would be suitable and worthy to enter in. Well, but this is exactly that process of devastation, shaking, breaking, destruction, ruin, separation, mortification, crucifixion and change of our natural sinful being in which He is achieving His Purpose and Goal. And we, in our natural life, are unable to comprehend what is He actually doing, what does He want, how does He sees it, think and act. He lives morally, mentally and also spiritually in a totally different world than we are. And though we, after a time, grow up spiritually a little bit more and start to see that we are higher than just in a kindergarten, we are yet standing against astonishing things, which are absolutely beyond our comprehension, understanding or whatever ability to handle them or solve them. This is like if someone from the primary school would come to a university and would like to see and understand what is being taught and designed there. Perhaps, this example describes the reality the best.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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