2Corinthians 4:13, and this verse we have already quoted once or twice, but I would like to repeat it again because there is a great principle involved. It says: “We having the same spirit of faith [which means the same spirit which produces reality], according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken;”. We also believed and therefore speak. “I believed” simply means “I have seen the reality, I have found the faith, I have bought it and I am acting on it.” When you act on it there is no other way but to speak. You cannot find faith and accept it and cherish it and live it or act on it and be quiet for the rest of your life. This would be a contra­diction, and is impossible! 

And so, you speak, you produce new grains which fall, and this cycle then continues. That produces fruit in your heart; when you buy it (that reality, that faith) you water the Word of God in you. In fact, you can read the Word yourself at home and that faith in you, combined with this Word, will bring forth life out of it. That life in you will produce living water so you can share it. You speak Words which fall into other hearts and this is a chain reaction. This is how it should go. So that this faith produces its own fruit, its own grains, which are capable again of produc­ing the same in others. 

There is so much in the Word of God that it is astonish­ing, and impossible not to mention a lot of it. We would go to the parables, for example. You remember the parable about the two men who both had five talents and they traded with one another and made them another five talents (Mt.25:16). So it was not one man a loser and another a winner. They traded and they made themselves another five. This is the kind of economy this world never knew, and never will. This is a process by which, if I have faith and you have faith, I have five talents and you have five, we speak to one another, we trade our faith and we both increase in faith. So we increase these talents. Not just me but you, too. It is impossible for two who have faith and who fellowship or speak and one would lose some­thing. It is impossible. Both gain, and this explains this parable.

The parable of the sower is maybe the best example (Mt.13:18, Mk.4:3). Of course, the Lord spoke in parables whenever it was a question of speaking about spiritual realities. He had to speak in parables, He had no other way to explain things (Mt.13:­34). “But to you it is given because you have the ear to hear.” (see Mt.13:11, Mk.4:11, etc.)  In other words the Lord put within their spirit the ability to understand this and compare it with the faith which He put within them, so they could grasp it. 

The parable of the sower, how he had sown the grain and some fell onto good ground and some fell onto the wayside, some fell on stony ground, etc… this is the same as what we just spoke about concerning the Word of God. The Word of God falls onto good ground, onto stony ground, on the wayside, etc. This is exactly the same thing. 

So we may say also that the true life is always a hidden thing. Looking at any dead seed, you should realize that there is life inside, hidden, and nobody can see it except if you water it, then life comes forth. You take any egg, it’s dead. In fact, if you break it you won’t find any sign of life. You eat it. But all it needs is just to apply warmth to it, right? What the chickens do is sit on it, and lo and behold, a miracle happens. A life, new life starts to emerge. It breaks the hard shell and a new life emerges. Now isn’t this the same miracle as with the grain?  It’s exactly the same. 

So if chickens can do it, then surely we can. The Lord  can do it with us by bringing new life into us, “dead eggs”, dead grains, which are hard, or with a hard shell, which are dead, with no sign of life whatso­ever. But what it needs is a touch of God, warmth, faith… water. And something is born within us which is a new life and it starts to grow immediately against all the powers of our old nature. 

Let us go to Galatians 5:17, Paul writes: “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would”, or that you “otherwise” would. But this verse also testifies to the fact that this new life in us always grows against the flesh, which is the power of our earthly creation, of our Adamic nature. Just as this new life of the grain grows against the power of gravity which is the power of this physical creation, this earthly nature. This fits perfectly, this Word of God. This is beautiful. This is how it always goes. 

You also remember that the Lord mentioned a number of times after speaking or during His speech, “He who has an ear let him hear.” (Mt.13:9, Rev.2:7,11,17,etc.) Now we know that we all have ears, and the Lord saw that everyone there had two ears. But He knew that nobody could hear. Of course, the ear that He had in mind was a spiritual ear, it was the ear of our spirit. So that, if we listen by our spirit, by our con­science, by our intuition, (by our spirit we are able to hear) we are able to buy the Truth which is being said, which is being served us by the Lord. 

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To be continued next week

brother Hanola

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