Dear brothers, sisters, and friends,
Last week’s mailing completed Part 5 of the book The Mystery of Reality. If you haven’t already, we strongly encourage you to read the whole book, especially chapters VII (The Perfecting of the Saints), chapter VIII (New Beginnings) and chapter X (Be Ye Perfect). We will not mail out these chapters at this time but you can access these chapters in the book Mystery of Reality on our website as a free download.
Starting with this mailing, we will now publish the rich spiritual food which the Lord granted us through brother Hanola, contained in the publication Basic Spiritual Facts 2017.
May the Lord bless you, strengthen you in your inner man, and enable you to eat and digest this rich food and grant you the necessary spiritual understanding at these End Times.
Amen!
brother Alain
BASIC SPIRITUAL FACTS EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY – TATRY 2017
In our Christian life, theory is brilliant, practice is miserable! Our desires are brilliant, the reality is miserable! Is it possible that, some day we will live that brilliant theory? That our brilliant desires will come true? The Lord says: YES… if you will follow Me.
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION
Before the Lord gives us His further Light in this Fellowship of 2017, He desires to again bring us to the “Light about us”, which he gave us on August 15, 2016 and which touched our spiritual state as well as our approach, our privilege and our responsibility towards the Light of the Lord from years 2013 and 2015. I sent this letter to everyone who was present in the Fellowship of 2015 in order that in this “Light about us” he may see himself, judge his own situation, his spiritual needs and the way how to bring that Light of the Lord from the Fellowship of 2015 into his own life. Because, this is that most important step in our present earthly life without which our present Christianity would lose its value, its objective and purpose as well as its ability to fulfill the Will of Our Saviour and Lord and by that also our high privilege and calling in Christ Jesus.
SOME POINTS FROM THE LETTER „LIGHT ABOUT US“ (from August 15, 2016)
1) As we approach the first „anniversary“ of Lomnica 2015, The Lord started to show me His view on how He sees us, why He gathered us into Lomnica, what is His calling upon us and what is His Purpose. He did not have to gather us into Lomnica, did not have to give us anything and therefore ask from us anything. In such a case, we would not know today one another and every one could continue on his own old way. However, the Lord is well aware of what He is doing, why He had gathered us here, why He had given us such a precious Light, which He is not giving to just about “anybody anytime“. In fact, He did not give this Light to anyone else in the whole world! This is an incredible privilege, which He did not give to anyone whom we know in the whole Church and that not only in Slovakia, but anywhere in the world where we were sending our literature to 70 countries of the world and where I was ministering personally or through correspondence. This points to our high calling in Christ Jesus. In His Light He has thus given us an unusual and unique opportunity to be prepared for His Coming and for the entry to the Kingdom of God into which the majority of the Church will not enter! Are you aware of this privilege? Even one year after Lomnica 2015? Even in difficult situations of your Christian life? I am asking this because it is difficult for man to realize such a super spiritual opportunity even such an incredible Grace of the Lord toward us and our families.
2) The Lord is giving to us also this „Light about us“, so that we may start seeing what we have never seen before in our entire life – our own selves on the narrow road!… walking or sitting. There we can see what we love, what we hate, what makes us joyful, what makes us angry what we receive and what we reject, what is according to our will and what is against it, what we are willing to do for God and what we are not, where we trust God and where we do not, whether we are proud, fearful, lazy, selfish, closed, meek or pressing our own opinions, whether we can discern our own heart from our head, and our spirit from our soul, that is, whether we are carnal or spiritual, to what degree we are carnal or spiritual, etc. This whole page could be covered with similar features of our character. Basically, without the knowledge of our own selves we will not be able to make even one step in our Salvation! I repeat this important fact: Without the knowledge of our own selves we will not be able to make even one step in our Salvation! Once we see our own self then we will understand and be willing to give to the Lord our consent for the work, which He shows us at every step on this narrow road about every unacceptable part of our character, which He has to remove from us! Every part of our character, which He is showing to us on the narrow road is spiritual, it springs from our human spirit. That is why the Lord reminded us that our preparation for His Coming and our entry into the Kingdom of God is solely spiritual. The preparation of His Bride is spiritual; She and Christ will be of One Spirit at His Coming (though not quite 100%).
3) If the Lord would not show us in His Light our own selves, we would never know what is in our heart, what spirits govern it. If our heart is still deceived, it can lead us in the opposite direction than what we may desire in our head and we may not be aware of it (Jer. 17:9). That’s why the Lord warns us in His Word that we should observe His Wisdom and incline our ear to His Understanding (Pr. 5:1) lest we should say one day: „How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof! And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.” (Pr. 5:12-14). Therefore, let us see that this Light is very important! Without this “Light about us” as well as our understanding and faith, the Light of the Lord from our fellowship in Lomnica would be ineffective, and the living Body, which He desires to build, would never materialize.
4) The Lord says that you are not able to work that Light from Lomnica into your own life by your own power, wisdom or ability and begin to walk on the narrow road without problems. Why? Because from that Light, you understood spiritually very little. Why? There are two reasons:
The first reason is: You have not yet begun to live the Life of Christ in a measurable rate. Why? Because on the narrow road, which alone leads to the Life of Christ and which only few believers find (Mt. 7:14), none of you was walking in the past, none of you has any practical experiences and everything on it may even look terrible. The Lord could have given you some Light on the narrow road already in 2013, but He put you on it practically only in 2015 (except JS) when He gave you the Light HOW we are saved. Only on this road we are dying = losing our old life and as we are losing it so we are gaining the New Life of Christ. There exists no other road and no other way!
Thes second reason is: “When anyone hears the Word of the Kingdom and understands it not, then comes the wicked one (devil) and catches away that which was sown. This is he which received the seed by the way side.” (Mt. 13:19). That is why, for example, Ivan Szabo had not even given thanks to the Lord for the Light received at the end of our fellowship in Lomnica in 2015 because in his heart he had NOTHING to thank for! What was given by the Lord that was taken away by the devil so that after Lomnica, he found himself in the same spiritual darkness as he was before Lomnica. The others from among you received in Lomnica according to how fertile your heart was compared to the side of the road, whether it was full of spiritual weeds or stones or not (Mt. 13:3-9). This I cannot know since this is shown later on according to our walking and actions and reactions on the narrow road, where the “fruit of the spirits”, which is in us, is manifested.
5) Right from the beginning of the narrow road, the Lord started to show you your true characters, which live in your soul. For example, two brothers from this fellowship showed their characters and their unacceptable features quite quickly as they passed on the narrow road only 1-2 steps and fell down. Today we know that to fall on the narrow road is not a tragedy, it is a norm-standard for every believer, who walks on it! The tragedy is to stay down and refuse the hand of the Lord, which He is offering to us… even smiles at us!… as father on his small children. Everyone of you started to get some first lessons of a practical walking on the narrow road and no one was prepared for it. Even today, you are “merrily falling” and the Lord is not nervous or upset or surprised, He expects it. No man on the earth learned to walk without falling down… and getting up! And in the spiritual world, it is precisely the same! In Lomnica, you have not received everything or every detail. The details we usually learn on the narrow road (examples: the judgment of Jan Lacho and Stan Gawel, arrival of Matúš and Dominik to Canada, etc.)
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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