CHAPTER 6 WHERE ART THOU? “…and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the Presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, WHERE ART THOU?” (Gen. 3:8b,9) Ever since that time, the Lord God has been seeking man and calling upon him… and ever...
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PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 17 – Mailing #157 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
u) REPENTANCE IS NOT DELIVERANCE. Repentance is our remorse, our willingness and decision to turn from our way and follow the light the Lord shows us. The goodness of God leads us to repentance (Rom. 2:4b) and it is the beginning of our deliverance, not the deliverance itself. How are we then delivered? After our repentance, the...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 16 – Mailing #156 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
Let us consider one important aspect of our ministry which also applies to our everyday life. We all know that we should speak truth and not lies. Yet, we may speak truth in various unacceptable ways and spirits and we either speak it that way purposely or unaware. To edify or build up any believer...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 15 – Mailing #155 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
t) OUR WALK on the narrow way or running our race set before us by the Father may be hampered or altogether prevented by two things: WEIGHTS that we carry and SINS that we commit. (Heb. 12:1) Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith enables us to receive from Him the necessary faith-light about both our weights...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 14 – Mailing #154 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
S) TRUE SPIRITUALITY of believers is another mystery and an important issue which is clouded in a thick deception and causes serious misunderstandings among true believers. What is the main basis of this deception and what is the true spirituality of a believer? When we see some one casting out devils from some one else, we...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 13 – Mailing #153 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
So, one may be perfect and yet wicked; one may be perfect and a “piece of stone” in place of his heart. True believers are commanded by God to love because they are born of Him, Who is Love. But those created by God and not born of Him were never commanded to love God with all their heart and...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 12 – Mailing #152 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
o) NOW WE MAY COME to Our Father and give Him the most true and heartfelt thanks for His Way of our Salvation! He created a way where there was “no way”… in the eyes of Satan, that is. Let us now consider the Greatest Mystery and Victory of God that there is or that there ever could...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 11 – Mailing #151 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
n) ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING and mysterious questions that we may ponder before Our Father is the following: What is our “old man”, our sinful nature, our sin all about? What is its true origin, its beginning, its essence, its character? Why it cannot be changed, abandoned or reversed? How can we understand it? I will...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 10 – Mailing #150 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
IT WAS NEVER OUR PART TO FIGHT OUR FLESH SINCE OUR FLESH CAN NEVER DESTROY ITSELF, OUR OWN SINFUL NATURE CAN NEVER DENY AND CRUCIFY ITSELF! It has always been God’s part to do, but always with our cooperation – our confession, repentance and consent to turn away from it and destroy it. That is why God first destroyed our flesh on the...
PONDERING DEEP SPIRITUAL ISSUES – Chapter 5 – Part 9 – Mailing #149 – excerpt from The TRAGEDY and GLORY of BELIEVERS
m) WE HAVE already declared in the previous Chapters what we have to overcome and how. The Lord desires that we also SEE and understand another practical side of overcoming our self, what the “denying of our self and taking up our cross and following the Lord” (Mt. 16:24) really means. What does it mean to say “I die daily”, (1Cor. 15:31) to “crucify my flesh” (Gal....