In Acts chpt.15 Apostles and Elders were discussing how to treat Gentiles turned Believers. In verse 8: “And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us [this is Peter speaking]; And put no difference between us [the Jews] and them [the Gentiles], purifying their hearts by faith.” Now since faith is also light, it purifies the darkness of our hearts — that should be acceptable even to our brains.
In conclusion, I would like to come back and say again to those who are young and don’t know what to do. I say: “Go and buy all that you can get and the Lord will take care of the gold, silver, the precious stones and dispose of the dirt later on.” And if the heart is truly willing, it means also that the mind is willing. The heart may be willing. The mind and the heart are not exactly the same thing, but when the heart is willing and thirsty and desiring, then the mind follows and is willing too, usually.
Then if we decide and if we go, the Lord will take care of us in every aspect, and in every respect. And considering this willingness and this will, I would like to say this. Our will is the only thing that God gave us that is free from the beginning to the end. Our will may be under pressures, under temptations, under all kinds of temptations to make decisions. In fact, it can be influenced and is influenced by God, by the devil, by the world, by our own selves, and it has to make decisions all the time.
By God’s decree, our mind, even though it may be influenced and pressed and tempted, it also always has its freedom to make the last judgment. It is a “Supreme Court” for us. God cannot overrule it (by His choice), Satan cannot overrule it. Nothing and no one can overrule it. That is why we are responsible for our actions. This is a tremendous feature of our will, in that our will makes the last judgment! It is not God, it is not Satan, it is not the world, it is not our fathers, or mothers, or relatives, or friends, or anybody else, it is us.
We ARE our own will! And if that will were corrupted or feeble or whatever, the Lord can strengthen it. Unless we lost it through mental sickness or hypnotism, or by some other means, that will still has it’s own power of the last decision or judgment. Now whether or not we are able to perform that which we decide is another thing, but our will decides, and this is the last instance; there is no higher court than our will. And I want to underline this and clarify this, otherwise the Lord could not exact from us any responsibility or any accountability.
I thank the Lord for all this and I praise the Lord for all this, even though some things are not pleasant to our “old man”, but they are truth nevertheless. I don’t know how much gold is in that which I am serving, but even if there is only half, I say, buy it. Because if I serve one ton of dirt containing a half ton of gold, you would be foolish not to buy it. Do you believe that? And the Lord will sift out the dirt from the gold. But I believe I am serving gold also, and I thank the Lord for it.
I thank the Lord also personally for myself, because whatever I share is from the Lord and is beneficial to everybody.
“Thank You, Lord, very much for this, and I believe that this Light and Truth will produce fruit according to Your Will. Amen.”
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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