Dear Brothers and Sisters, and Friends
We first thank the Lord for each and every one of you and pray that the Lord’s Will and Desire would be fulfilled in your lives according to His Calling on you at this End Time.
The preparation for His Coming does not consist in doing many “good works”, but in getting to know Him in Truth, and for Him to know us (Matt.7:20-23 + Matt.25:1-12).
The Lord is directing us at this time to publish part 5 of the book “The Mystery of Reality” entitled “Faith and Will”, for the next series of mailings. It contains very practical points that are necessary to walk the narrow road that leads to Life (Matt. 7:14, Life = Christ – John 14:6) and that are essential to get to know Our Lord and soon Coming King.
May the Lord bless you and strengthen you in your inner man and make you ready for the Coming of the Son of God who has been patiently waiting for the Fruit of the Earth (James 5:7).
Amen!
br. Alain
On behalf of brother Hanola and all in MRM
Part 5 – Faith and Will – Section 1 – The Mystery of Reality
Today is November 15, 1991. This is Part V of the message “The Mystery of Reality”, which the Lord has been giving us graciously and faithfully for some time now. It is a rich food, it is a blessed food, it is deep, even though I believe that what the Lord is giving us is still comparatively shallow to what He could give us or will give us in the future. I’m personally looking forward to far greater depths of His Word, because when we talk about depth we talk about beauty; you are discovering the beauty of His Word, and the beauty of the Lord Himself because HE IS the Word (Jn.1:1). We should thank the Lord for everything He is giving us.
“I thank You, Lord, for this time again, and for all that You have given to us by Your Grace and by Your Love toward us. And you are giving it to us not just for our personal enjoyment, but that we may receive this Light and that it may be turned into Life within us, and that that Life should bring forth fruit unto You, and that that fruit should remain forever, and that that fruit should be pleasant to You. And, of course, that we should bring this Light and Life into Your Church, that other Believers may become Overcomers and fulfil the purpose for which we were called. We thank You, Lord, for it and we do praise You Lord. This is a true privilege to receive from You this beautiful Word. Amen.”
This Part V we might call “The Mystery of Faith”, which we mentioned as point twelve in our first sharing. I’m sure you all believe and can imagine that we can talk about this for a long time, especially about faith. I believe the Lord desires us to penetrate this mystery to whatever depth we are prepared to go, or able to go, and that we would see the beauty of faith, that we would see the root of faith, the basis of faith — what it is, where it is, what it does, how it is used, how it is misused, how it is abused, and all these things.
The Lord reminded me of two things. Firstly, you all remember when we were young Christians, when everything was a mystery to us, and faith was probably the first one in the row. We talked about faith, we prayed about faith, we sang about faith, and after all those years of doing that we still didn’t know what it was, where it was, whether we had it or whether we didn’t, whether we used it or whether we didn’t. In fact, we still could not observe it on other brethren, right? Well, at least, I speak from my own experience. I believe every new Christian has the same experience. And yet faith is perhaps the most important and basic thing in our life; especially in our new life, because without it we would not have the new Life which we have today. We would not be gathered here. We would not even be talking about these things. Faith alone brought us to this new Life.
Secondly, the Lord reminded me that the hallmark of a true revelation is that it always contains or brings with it simplicity. It always does. His light changes complexity into simplicity. And that is amazing because I believe that even this substance of faith and all the matters pertaining to faith are basically simple; in fact, so simple that it is unbelievable.
Now, as we did also in Part IV, I feel that Part V should also be divided into two parts, A and B. In Part A we will share that which God did, what God created for man; for human beings who seemingly have no faith. In Part B we will share that which God did or what God is doing for men who seemingly have faith, some faith; small faith, medium faith, great faith … any faith. What is important in this is also the word “seemingly”, and we are not going to explain it now but I believe that the Lord will bring us to it later on.
(A) Let us realize that God created all things in such a manner and fashion and way that they all first speak about Himself, His power, His wisdom; and also, secondly, they typify His purposes in the world which are not seen. And we know that, I believe, for a long time now, and we mentioned that many times during our previous fellowships, that God created all physical things so that we would have guidance as to how the spiritual things work and behave and are …that which we cannot see. Because otherwise, we would be lost; we would have no idea, we would have no guidance, no clue.
I gave you to read two chapters from the Bible, Genesis chpt.1 and Hebrews chpt.11. Now I would like to say just a few words about that. These two chapters have nothing in common. This may be surprising, but these two chapters have nothing in common. In fact, they are the two opposite ends of something which is like a long rod, a long rod of history. Genesis chpt.1 is about the creation of the physical for those who have no faith. Hebrews chpt.11 is the chapter of faith describing great men and women of God, living, acting by faith. So when you take Genesis 1 and Hebrews 11 they are two opposite chapters, and they have, in fact, nothing in common. It even seems contradictory, but this is a fact that I came to.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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