The desire of the heart is determined by the love therein because the heart yearns only for that, what it loves! Love for the Lord in our heart originates or is being gained through knowing the Lord. In order that you would love anything you first have to see it and know it. The knowledge of the Lord is received or gained through the Reality of His Word. HE IS the Word (Jn. 1:1) and its Reality is given or gained by obedience to the Word! I don‘t just speak about reading the Word. There were times when we were glad when we read at least one chapter from the Scripture, and it was good, it was a beginning. However, now we are closing this message, we do not begin, we close, this is the FINALE. Hence, the Re­ality of the Word is gained through obedience to the Word. That’s why also the Word declared a while ago ends with “obedience”. And this is also the reason why in the Church there exist those four groups, that fourfold spectrum. These groups differ in obedience to the Word, hence, they differ in the Reality of the Word, hence, they differ in their know­led­ge of the Lord, hence they differ in their love for the Lord and hence they also differ in their desire for perfection. This is a chain, which we cannot break. I could quote here many more arguments from the Scripture, but at this point it would not be beneficial for anybody. Instead, I am led to show several examples, which should speak loudly to every­ ­one, who has “ears to hear”.

From the beginning of the existence of the Mission “Montreal Remnant Ministries” (MRM), the Lord allowed us to touch a part of His Body, which means, part of His Church in many (70) countries of the world beginning with Canada, USA, some countries in South America and Africa and Europe, even in the Middle East, in India, Nepal, Pakistan, in the faraway Australia and New Zealand. We sent there thousands and thousands of books in English (also in Slovak language in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Australia). The results, which the Lord showed us were pathetic, which means, for weeping. The part of the Church which we touched in Canada, USA as well as in the majority of the countries of Europe and in Africa were shown as completely spiritually DEAD! Canada, USA and Australia are, per­haps, the largest spiritual cemeteries of this civilized world. There was no answer from almost anyone in the Spirit, only a deep quietness. We received only one response with thanks from the Evangelistic Association of Billy Graham in the USA. And if any answers came our way, they were all full of poison and arrogance and an unbelievable darkness; the veritable “valley of the bones” (Ez. 37:1-14). Wherever you have bones, you have cemetery. Yet, there were countries where the apearance of the Bride of Christ was flound in few individual believers and they have been apparently willing to keep grow­ing and keep being perfected, namely, in Nigeria (Africa), Canada (North America) and in Slovakia (Europe).

I do not want to say by the above paragraph that there are no other individuals or house groups, which live in a fellowship with the Spirit of God or behave like the Bride of Christ. I am only saying that the part of the Church and those thousands of believers, chiefly the leaders with whom we came in touch showed themselves to be totally spiritually dead. I believe that for many sincere believers this may be quite shocking even startling because they might believe that North America is the most blessed part of the world and that the Church in North America must be the most living with all those evangelization efforts and tongue-speaking and prophesying congregations. However, we do not talk here about reli­gious activities or various outer forms of religious life, we talk about the spiritual Life in Christ and thus about a spiritual cemetery.

Let us look at two other examples. The Lord Himself led us to distribute our book “Open Letter” to two congregations, namely, in the Apostolic Church in Verdun and the Pente­cost­al Church in Lasalle, both in the Province of Quebec, Canada. In both these congrega­tions the Word of God was preached, the Lord was praised with music and singing. Every Sunday there were given a number of prophecies in the Apostolic Church and a tongue-speaking was quite evident in the Pen­te­costal Church. Both congregations appeared so living, so exemplary and nice – until the Lord showed their true character in their spirit; in their disobedience toward His Own Word and in their hatred toward their own brethren; until the Lord unveiled their death and darkness (1Jn. 2:9, 3:14, etc.). How did the Lord do it?

After our book was given to some people which were coming out of the Apostolic Church, the opposition of the enemy was quite visible in their attitudes, in an unbelievable fear of their leaders as well as in the behavior of some of the “worshippers”. Few weeks later, one of the members of this congregation testified that the leaders asked the congregation that all copies of our book “Open Letter” be brought to the church to be burned or other­wise destroyed! Well, so much for the “brotherly love, goodness, meekness, understand­ing or learning obedience”. We, which were in that same congregation praising God and where the Lord gave me personally several prophecies given from the pulpit, have sud­denly become hated enemies just because we dared to speak and prophecy to them also the bitter truth (Gal. 4:16). A little later after the distribution, one of the elders of that con­gregation was ready to sue me in the court (undoubtedly according to 1Cor. 6:4-6). Why? In my book I described one proud and arrogant elder of that congregation and this first elder assumed that it was about him.

Regarding the Pentecostal Church, where I also served God for few years and was in the Board of Deacons, the Lord arranged it so that we became ready for the distribu­tion on the Sunday when the congregation celebrated their 60^th anniversary. Furthermore, the Lord arranged it so that all exits from the building were under repairs!… except the one where we were standing. When the congregation and their leaders saw us from inside the church, chaos began. Some people came out, took the book and even greeted us, well, we knew one another for years. Others just passed by. One devil possessed black woman took the book and before our eyes she tore it in half. This was the proof that she was devil possessed because a woman in her old age could never do such a thing by her own power. One young and arrogant pastor came out of the church infuriated demanding to know who we were and how do we dare to give out books to “his” congregation. The lead­ers inside were disoriented, full of fear. Among the participants of the celebration inside the church, there were also two former pastors with their wives, which traveled for the celebration from other places.

Finally, it must have been the current senior pastor of the congregation, which apparently could not handle his own fear and anger any longer and so he called Police! When the two policemen came, they behaved toward us much better than our “Pentecostal brethren“. I am truly wondering whether those Pharisees realized at that time that the Lord had made a “panoramic video recording” of that described scene, recording not only their shame­­ful deeds, but also their thoughts and He will project that film to the whole world when they will stand before His Judgment Seat! (Rom. 14:10) Well, even had we been “bad“, no true Christian should have resisted us! (Mt. 5:39). Even had we become their “enemies“ for speaking truth (Gal. 4:16), every true Christian should have loved us and blessed us (Mt. 5:44). The fact that the OPPOSITE of the Word of God happened to us testifies of a simple reality, that none of those who behaved toward us so shamefully, especially the leaders, is obedient toward the Word of God! And if they do not obey the very same Word, which they dare to preach, then they have no clue about the Reality of the Word. Consequently, they have no true knowledge of the Lord Personally and thus no true love for Him. This also implies that they have no true desire for their own perfection, nor any ministry, which the Lord would call them to do.

Are these two examples not sufficiently clear for all simple and faithful brethren?

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To be continued next week

brother Hanola

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