p) Let us pay attention when the Word of God gets into the hands of the Devil as he can easily sway us onto the ways, which lead to destruction. Faith never experiments with God, nor with the questions whether God is with us! To pray for or request from the Lord certain assurance while we are children or youth is one thing. But to test God or doubt His faithfulness by those to whom He already gave assurances saying: “…lo, I am always with you even unto the end of the world” (Mt. 28:20b)is a totally different thing. Then who are those that will receive from God their inheritance? They are those, who believe God even though there is a wilderness all around. Man does not have to go far in order to find wild­erness, you can find it at home, in your job, in your personal life, even in your own selves. And it may be just there where you will be tempted to do something by which you will be able to “prove” God. Be very attentive and cautious! Your life may hang on that moment, on the manner in which you act at that time, on the words, which you are saying. And it seems that many accepted devil’s offer and preferred doubts and unbelief and they rather take from the forbidden fruit. They succumbed to his pressures to receive his attraction, charm, glamour, seduction, delight, temptation, lies, deceptions even to fear him in a bad sense, to manifest their admiration of him, to consider him someone important, power­­ful. When we are cleansed vessels containing Truth and faithfulness to God in all circumstan­ces, then we have in ourselves power and authority over the Devil and we can tell him very clearly: “Get thee hence, Satan” (Mt. 4:10a). And he must go! Because “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Pr. 18:21) and in the authority, which that tongue expresses.

r) There exists a system of teaching which makes the process of Salvation mechanical and automatic. You are saved and shall be automatically glorified; you will find yourselves perfect at the end of your earthly life. This, of course, is a farce which leaves out all the work of God and our cooperation with Him in faith (Phil. 2:12). This is as if we would tell the Lord: Well, I believe that God has truth and I give myself to God and receive all His Will and Purposes. And now, Lord, I am sitting down here and You do it all for me! Of course, nothing will happen. There is a great difference between teaching and instructions in the Scripture. Teaching has no demands on us, it does not require from us anything except to listen and learn. Instructions, on the other hand, have demands on us, they always require from us action and many believers hate them (Pr. 12:1)! They usually go against our nature and our will because we normally never wish or desire to make any effort to cooperate with God in the area of our spiritual perfecting or in gaining wisdom through instructions which we usually also despise (Pr. 1:7).

Preachers know the Scripture; they can quote many verses from the Scripture by heart. When others quote the Scripture, they can finish the verses for them; hence, they are fa­mi­liar with the Scripture. However, spiritually, many of them are dead, inaccessible to the Light of the Lord, because they do not follow, do not do those instructions and their carnal knowledge of the Scripture are a wall against His Light and their spiritual perfecting.

The Church is the stage on which God works out this drama in front of the principalities and powers in this Universe and WE are a vitally important part of this drama! The aim and the conclusion of this drama are no smaller than that God would be lawfully esta­blish­ed and justified outside of any accusations and suspicions, and that Satan would be in the mouth of two witnesses judged and destroyed on the battlefield of OUR FAITH and testi­mo­nies! It is im­poss­ible for our proud brains to understand that in this Universe, there may exist such un­imaginable problems, questions and legal matters related to and con­nect­ed with the test­ing of OUR FAITH. When finally the mutual faith of the God’s elect, that is the Remnant, shall be perfected and declared, Satan’s kingdom will disintegrate into dust and it shall not exist any more! Only then shall come the Salvation and strength and the King­dom of Our God and the power of His Christ (Rev. 12:10). The testimony of CHRIST Alone will NOT BE SUFFICIENT; God the Father needs TWO WITNESSES (Mt. 18:16/ 2Cor. 13:1). The second witness acceptable to God will be THE BRIDE OF CHRIST!

This faith we can only gain by learning to walk in the Spirit of God. And this is learning of everything again and again on a completely different road. It is learning to walk as we never walked before, never passed this road before and we absolutely do not know it. We are in it simply as children which learn to walk. We are falling here and there and we often quit. But no child will ever give up waking just because it falls after every few steps, nor will it aban­don this amusement and say: This is surely impossible, far beyond the limit of human ability, it is apparently someone’s fantastic idea this matter of walking. I quit, I will never again try it again; this simply does not work. Oh NO, every normal child will stand up and will continue in walking and falling learning this strange thing, which is for that child so new. When we are born-again, our walking in the Spirit is the same, and it is the same to the end of our earthly life! In our earthly life we will, in fact, never come to the point where we will walk with the Spirit perfectly. Why? Just a small pride, some self-assurance, some self-righteousness – and down we fall as a bag of potatoes. Hence, walk­ing with the Holy Spirit is for us a totally new world. But only this way we are being changed and becoming worthy of God and of the Kingdom of Heaven (Rev. 3:10), which is coming to this world very soon (in few years).

I will include here a fitting Word of God which says: “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man”(Lk. 21:34-36). Nothing will be done for us automatically, and if we remain deceived by many of our leaders, we will end up in the horrors, which are coming upon this world and we will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and will not be worthy of God’s Presence. Do we believe that? Are we then willing to walk by this faith and bring its fruit?

We can also ask some believer this question: How far do you want to walk according to your mind and its logical reasoning? If you are a person, who wants from the Holy Spirit an explanation for every problem, which you are facing, and before you will decide to continue, then you belong to the family of Hagar, which was according to the flesh and in the slavery of it. Does this mean that during walking with the Spirit we have no expla­na­tions, we are always in a fog, we never see anything and we are always uncertain? NO, abso­lutely NOT. Spiritual interpretations and explanations are very different from natural, logi­cal, rational explanations. We may come to a perfect peace of our heart concerning the things of the Lord without necessarily His coming and explaining to us every little problem and every difficulty. We know when our heart is satisfied, without worries, with­out fears, because the thing is explained to us internally, in the sphere of our spirit. But if we try to explain to someone that he may understand what we see, what came to us, where we go, why, and what is the basis of our assurance, then we will find out that we are unable to express it with any logical words and we will be in a dilemma how to explain that thing.

If someone would have stood on the road from Haran and saw the caravan of Abraham leaving the City and would have asked Abraham: “Where are you going?” He would have to answer truthfully: “I don’t know” (Heb. 11:8). And how long will you be there? “I don’t know”. And what will you do there? “I don’t know”. Who will wait for you there? “I don’t know”. How long will you stay there? “I don’t know”. Will you ever come back? “I don’t know”. Abraham, do you know anything at all? “Yes, I do know, God is sending me – and I trust Him”. Do you call THIS “logic”? Or a “rational explanation”? This is either a pure lunacy or it is a pure faith! And we are the seed of Abraham! (Gal. 3:29) And not only that, but the Lord Christ Himself had not put on the nature of angels, but He put on the seed of Abraham! (Heb. 2:16), so He would walk on the same way as Abraham, because Abraham walked fundamentally according to the guidance of the Spirit of God. Our head clearly does not play any role here. We must receive the Light from the Lord and in that Light we shall see and understand things by our conscience and by our heart (see also the point below).

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To be continued next week

brother Hanola

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