“Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts:” (Ps. 51:6). This was declared by King David because his sin of fornication was a sin of blood-guiltiness and thus it was a sin unto death where no grace existed at that time, but it was punished by death. Hence, David begs God for his life, for a new heart, a new spirit and for the continuation of God’s Presence in himself (Ps. 51:9-14). When King David begged God for a new heart and a new spirit, how much more we should beg the Lord for a new heart and a new spirit? (see also Acts 13:22) At our redemption we received neither a new heart nor was our spirit cleansed. We received a “new spiritual man into our old spirit”. The process of Salvation brings to us a new and clean heart and a new and clean spirit (2Cor. 7:1), it is not our redemption. Only then we will be able to say that in us there is no deception, falsehood, lies, mockery, pretense, hypocrisy, unrighteous judgments, that we don’t walk as if there was everything alright while nothing is alright, that we do not sit at meetings and pray while our inward part are not truthful before God. Any religion, which creates only the outer appearance of man and covers his inward life by rituals, ceremonies or a religious “show”, is false, there is no truth in it, and for the Lord it is absolutely unacceptable and vain.
Therefore, God has to break, destroy, dig deep in order to get to the roots and bring us up from our self-deception and the darkness of our soul. If we have any illusions about ourselves, they will all disappear when God is finished with His work in us. If we are governed by any deceptions and lies about ourselves, our position and status, about our work, all this will disappear when God is finished with His work in us. Our Inner Spiritual Man will revolt more and more against our own falsehood and darkness, which covers frauds and lies. Any false statements will hit us hard and we will know that we did not speak truth! It is stunning and also frightful to fall into the hands of the Holy Spirit. David also declared: “Through Thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way”(Ps. 119:104). We must be, or become, great lovers of Truth because this love will accompany us even to the marrow of our life in ourselves, so we would not be deceiving our own selves or anybody else. We should always see, know and understand before God what exactly He thinks about us and how He is judging-assessing us and others. This way, we will always see and know where we stand in His Light. This love of the Truth will accompany us into our life at home, in our social life, in the life of our employment and in all our Christian life on earth.
God says to Abraham: “…walk before Me and be thou perfect” (Gen. 17:1b), do not walk before a human “model”, which tries to walk by his comprehension, do not follow his arguments, reasoning, thinking, convictions, ponderings, explanations, his beliefs – NO… walk before Me. We must get this Word into our heart and spirit and deep into our inner-spiritual man because this is deeper than our moral standards, deeper than our intellect, deeper than our reasoning, understanding, imaginations even our deepest convictions. We cannot arrive at God’s criteria, God’s standards by any of our senses or abilities. Were we ever able to arrive at God’s standards by our senses and abilities, by our intellect, then it would not have been necessary for Jesus Christ to send us His Spirit and declare: “…when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth:” (Jn. 16: 13). During our walking toward our perfection, it is very useful to keep in mind also the Word of God found in Ecclesiastes 7:16, which says: “Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself?”
4) Nobody is able to make people see in spirit. I was discovering it more and more as I was continuing in ministering the Light of the Lord to the Church. Many times it was clear to me that words alone were not sufficient and the need to see was most desirable. To see the spiritual things of the Word of God is for our natural mind absolutely impossible! For a natural mind they are, in fact, foolishness and it is precisely this natural mind that creates chaos whenever it comes into the things of God. That’s why there exists this great chaos in today’s Church because natural mind comes to speculate about the things of God. After a certain time I stopped trying to do what I could not do anyway when I discovered that it is SOLELY the Holy Spirit, Who is able to open our spiritual eyes so they may see and we may understand (Lk. 24:31,45).
One of the main reasons for the chaos among Christians and in the Church is the fact that after their redemption when believers were born-again by the Holy Spirit, they, without any problems, continued using their natural mind for the interpretation of God’s truths. This created an endless chain of Biblical schools, seminars and other religious institutions, every one teaching something different and explaining the Word of God according to their mentality, understanding and purposes. This has brought an absolute catastrophe into the Christianity of the New Testament. And this is precisely what Satan wanted and achieved. Because today you cannot possibly talk about any unity in the Christianity. And every house, which is divided, will fall! The unity cannot be achieved by any human effort.
In general, a great majority of Christians up till now have NO VISION from the Lord! They have no unified foresight, a view into the future, no picture, no imagination or even anticipation about anything spiritual, in fact, they don’t even know what that vision really is. Because they have no vision, they have no spiritual fellowship, since VISION is FELLOWSHIP of the mystery, which is hidden in God. And all God’s children should have ONE VISION. Well, and what is that fellowship, which is hidden in God? Is it somehow mentioned in the Scripture? Well, yes…
“That, which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes (mainly John, Paul and Peter), which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the WORD OF LIFE; (for the LIFE was manifested and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that Eternal Life, which was with the Father and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have FELLOWSHIP with us; and truly OUR FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE FATHER, AND WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST”(1Jn. 1:1-3). This means that…
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY HIDDEN IN GOD IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF LIFE. It is NOT the fellowship of Truth, but the fellowship of Life. It is extremely important for us to clearly discern this fact and understand it. If we had a fellowship of truth, we might discover rather quickly that Satan is able to attack it. But the fellowship of the Life of the Son, Satan cannot attack, he cannot even come near it! The LIFE, which the Son of God JESUS CHRIST as a MAN lives together with His Father, is the same LIFE, which we also live and we should live it NOW, here on earth, and also in eternity!
This is the miracle of our new birth, spiritual birth, since this birth is not only our own birth, but it is also the new birth of Christ, as it is also written: “Thou Art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee”(Acts 13:33b/ Mk. 1:10,11). His baptism meant His decision to die on the Cross and execute our Salvation. And at His resurrection, Christ became a New Man. Therefore, it is not only our personal new birth, but at the same time, it is the birth of Christ in Whom we are united, made ONE. This is the Fellowship of the Mystery. It is also necessary to say that this Life of our new birth is not only our own personal life, which we possess for ourselves, it is the Life which we share with Christ and with the others, which are in Christ. Hence, egoism-selfishness is finished, since we cannot live this Life eternal outside of the Body of Christ. Even this is the Fellowship of the Mystery.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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