s) The spiritual explanation is a totally different kind of matter. It does not begin in our brain and substantiation. Then what is the function of our brain and substantiation and why had the Lord given to us our brain and the ability to substantiate? Had He not given to us this ability for that purpose? Is our walking in the Spirit destroying our brain and a logical substantiation? Definitely NOT! If you are not a spiritual man and the Holy Spirit cannot freely work in you, then all the things that I am saying here are for you hopeless, illogical things, a fantasy and a total nonsense. If you are a spiritual man walking through spiritual experiences with the Spirit of God, then all the things that I am saying here should come to you as a great help! How is that help coming to you? Well, it is not coming FROM your brain as a source or a spring, but it is coming THROUGH your brain and also THROUGH it’s abilities of substantiation and logical deducing or conclusions! You are not receiving that help through substantiating, reasoning or logical speculations, BUT through your spirit, your conscience and heart, through the school of your experiences with the Spirit of God and with His ways – and THIS bypasses the head! When you are in this school as an intelligent person, then you are not losing your intelligence, however, your brain with its abilities is becoming as it were a CHANNEL-CABLE-WIRE for the Spirit. We are yet here on the earth as human beings using our brain and its abilities for our earthly life. But when we are a double personality, then we must have a double intelligence and double understanding! Otherwise, our walking with the Spirit would bring us to a psychiatric hospital! True? In other words, here we are dealing with TWO intelligences at once, with our natural, which was created in our soul, and with our spiritual, which we received from Heaven and which was born into our spirit! The spiritual man recognizes both, the natural man can recognize only his own natural, earthly one; about the spiritual one he has no clue. (ex.: gravitational force is “nothing”, Job. 26:7)
t) When we talk about walking in the Spirit, many people find in their souls FEAR because they lose solid ground under their feet, they lose solid points as foundations for their soulish and physical senses. Anything spiritual seems to them as “walking on water”, it does not have logic! Our Lord, Man from flesh and bones, walked on the water so He may show to us, firstly, His pure faith by which He was always walking. For His disciples in the boat, it was a panoramatic picture of faith, not in theory, but in action. Secondly, He gave us an example that what is for us impossible and illogical, is possible and logical for everyone, who believes… even for Peter, who also walked on the water – man from flesh and bones! (Mt. 14:29) He believed, though only for few seconds. Walking on water represents walking by spiritual faith-trust, where we also lose logical explanations and where all our natural senses, including logic, are principally against it. Our fear, however, is not only due to „walking on water”, we have it also because of personal reasons. For example, fear will close our mouth and bind our tongue so we will not be able to speak truth! What will people think about us when we should speak truth? And how will they react when we should tell them truth into their face? Maybe they will jump on us as bears or we might also get a slap on our face. In such case, however, we base our salvation on the thoughts and emotions of other people, true? Isn’t that fear from the devil a stupid thing? We also fear to speak the truth about which we know that it could be very useful under the circumstances as no one else might know it, only us. If, therefore, we do not declare it, we will not move from that dead point. We fear that the truth will not be received by the others positively, in a good spirit, in “love”.
Fear comes from the Devil and not from the Lord “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, of a sound mind” (2Tim. 1:7). There are very few Christians, which use these three spirits from God in their lives. There are few of them because few Christians know what is love, and whether they love their neighbors or only their own selves. What governs in the Church is self-love and it limits or even excludes true love toward others; such love can never be perfected. Because “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment” (1Jn. 4:18). The believers, which suffer from fear, should turn to the Lord with a sincere request for help because Satan always tries to bring us into the slavery of fear and then keep us there as long as it is possible. The work of Satan is fear, which is lack of freedom and it is a wall on our way to salvation and perfection and to Our Heavenly Father. Further important Light of the Lord about fear is shown in Part 12, point 10.
There are also many believers, which feel in themselves that they have no capacity, or very limited capacity, that is, they have so called “inferiority complex”. They somehow settled the question that they were born “small” and will always remain small and insignificant. They do not mean much and never will mean much, nor do they believe that there is a hope for them to get ahead or be considered in the future as “somebody”. They do not realize that the spiritual capacity may have nothing to do with the natural capacity. On the other hand, there are those that have strong natural abilities of mind, controlling of others, directing organizations, etc. We call them “decisive, purposeful people with personalities and abilities”. However, let us look at the Lord and not only on the people. In God’s eyes the values are only the spiritual values and a spiritual value does not begin by what we are able to do, or what we know; it begins by what WE ARE! And this is shown only when we are in the “fire”, whatever the “fire” may mean in our case. “Fire”, and the alternative word may be “test”, will uncover us, expose us WHAT WE ARE, what exists in us in reality, what lives in us and governs us… and it may be a surprise to us.
What is exactly the focal point of every “test”, every “fire”, of every piece of our suffering? Faith! We will devote more time to faith in Part 12, point 7. What is necessary to add is the fact, which should be obvious and clear, but which we realize only rarely. Everything what Satan brought into this Universe must be brought out and destroyed by the Church! And the most prominent point, where Satan marked the greatest success and through which he conducted all his operations of evil and deception, was, and still is, UNBELIEF! It is rooted in every descendant of Adam and Eve. Unbelief as such is actually inability to trust God. When it is written: “And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony”(Rev. 12:11), these are the Overcomers from the Church, which will overcome Satan and all his hordes of evil and darkness by the testimony of their faith and experiences. This is not a religious phraseology, it is the POSITION OF AUTHORITY, which they gained and occupy in order to do the Will of their Heavenly Father.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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