Our judgment is always determined by our heart. If it continues in not wanting, after time it loses the capacity for wanting. If it does not want to see, after time it loses the capacity for seeing. If it does not want to hear, after time it loses the capacity for hearing. When we continue sowing the seed of unwillingness, we will reap the harvest of inability (Lk. 13:24). One of the important effects in ministering the revelations of God is to uncover the actual tendencies (willingness/unwillingness) of people towards their own judgments. Many time it may come to light that such ministry causes some believers to harden rather than get softer. The simplest way of seeing may be confirmed or witnessed on the basis of the fact that the character of man shows itself only in problems. If, therefore, you would like to know someone in a deeper way, what is in him, prepare problems for him and you’ll see what in normal situation you would never see. In this Part 7, we, however, talk about spiritual sight, which gives us incomparably wider, higher and deeper fields of vision and perception where man can perceive the spirit of another man even without the need to discuss or argue about anything, or to solve problems.
But the price for seeing and for revelations is very great. The purpose of the ministry of revelations is to show, bring to the surface what God sees in the hearts of men and that is many times not received in a good spirit or it may never be received. Sometimes the whole multitudes of Christians make it clear to me that what I am giving to them, they do not want either now or in the future and have no intention to even talk about it. It is very simple for them to be deceived and seduced from the way of understanding and faith by every little thing or foolishness. God’s servant has no choice since he has no power or authority to change man, or his character, or his faith, or his persuasions and desires, in fact, not even his destiny. I personally do not mind, because the Lord, Who called me to this ministry, knows all about it – and He has not changed my ministry in any way.
The ability to see is the birth right of every child of God. Let us not think that we have to live our Christian life long years, receive a mountain of teachings and reach a certain point or position in our spiritual evolution in order to start seeing. No. This spiritual sight is part of the birth of our New Man. The Lord answered Nicodemus: „Unless a man is born again, he cannot see…” (Jn. 3:3). He, in fact, told him: „When you are born again, you will see” and that immediately. Apostle Paul was sent to the Gentiles to “open their spiritual eyes” (Acts 26:16-18). Their physical eyes were open and saw, but the spiritual ones were closed. He was to open their spiritual eyes immediately after their redemption, not after 20 years. We all have had this spiritual sight since our redemption, except that we did not use it and nobody was leading us to it! The Life in the Holy Spirit is the Life of a continual enlarging, improving and sharpening of our spiritual sight and our vision. When even after years we do not see in spirit or we only see as a one month old baby, then we have to return where we left the Holy Spirit and went our own way!
We must also begin to SEE and understand that the New Testament is also known as the “Dispensation of Grace”. Dispensation means: (1) Granting of grace to those that believe, receive their Saviour and bring fruit, and (2) Granting of reprieve in the execution of the death penalty and condemnation to all the rest, which is to those, that do not receive grace now nor will they be willing to receive it in the future. The Lord foreknows it; therefore, He will not deal with such any more.
This Dispensation, this New Testament in the Blood of Christ (1Cor. 11:25) begins with an AXE (Mt. 3:10). The Church in Slovakia calls me “brother axe”. In the Scripture, people are compared to trees. Therefore, before Christ died and the New Testament began, John the Baptist clearly declared that the coming Grace will be applicable only for those, that will receive it and bring fruit. The rest will be cut off-damned and thrown to the fire! Since tree represents man then the axe also must represent a man (or a heavenly being) and thus the fact that the church calls me “brother axe” is for me a true privilege since the church does not even realize the truth, which it says about me and my calling with which the Lord called me for His Church. The “first axe” was, in fact, John the Baptist. The Word (Mt. 3:10) applies to every man, mainly to all pagans. Since Christ is the end of the law (Rom. 10:4), whosoever will not receive His Grace, including Christians, will remain under the law and its condemnation because the law does not recognize grace.
When we look at another Word of the Lord (Jn. 15:1,2) we will find out that the “axe” is here also the Heavenly Father, Who is the Husbandman in the vineyard, where the vine is Christ. He is cutting off the branches, which are not bringing any fruit! Here we are not talking about pagans since no pagan could ever be a branch in Christ. In verse 5, the Lord speaks clearly: “He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me ye can do nothing.” In verse 6, the Lord adds: “If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” This verse applies only to those Christians that refused to overcome their old man, which are not connected to Christ and thus cannot produce any fruit of the Holy Spirit. This sets a fact that whosoever does not receive the Lord’s Grace and remains either pagan or a carnal believer, cannot produce any fruit of the Spirit. The Christians whose hearts do not have a meek spirit within are equally unable to receive Grace from anyone; for such hearts grace is a degrading matter. A humble, meek spirit is the opposite of pride, so that proud Christians cannot produce any fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22,23). However, our Salvation, our merit to be considered worthy to enter the Kingdom and the New Jerusalem, our destiny and Life Eternal depend on our FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, which is also represented by the oil in the vessels (souls) of the virgins (Mt. 25:3-10).
If we in truth desire to step into our Salvation process, it is necessary to truthfully ask the Lord to forgive us our foolishness and self-love and earthliness and carnality right from the time of our Redemption and to enable us to start seeing in spirit. So that we would see Him and in His Light also ourselves, and not only how miserable we may be today, but how majestic we will be after our perfection. So we would want to see what work the Lord has to do in us and how we ought to cooperate with Him on our Salvation (Phil. 2:12) to become acceptable to Our Father in Heaven. So we would also want to see and indeed WILL SEE and UNDERSTAND that Christ had not paid for our Redemption with gold and silver, but with His Life (1Pet. 1:18,19). Jesus Christ INVESTED HIS LIFE INTO US and we, that truly received Him, are now to invest our life into Him – into His Body.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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