LAW OF LIFE vs. LAW OF DEATH. V2

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Part  1    –  The Beginning                                                                                   3

Part  2    –  The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus                                     8 

Part  3     –   What the Law of Life produces in us          16

Part  4    –   Important facts concerning the Law of Life       22

Part  5    –   The Law of Life and the Church  35

Part  6    –   The Law of Life in Fellowship and Family  41

Part  7    –   The Mystery of Spirituality and Carnality               51

Part  8    –   

Brother Hanola

The servant of Jesus Christ – The King of kings

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.                                                                                      

I will begin this extremely important brochure from the most unexpected place – from the Brazilian jungle! Yes, when I visited South America countries, and Brazil in particular, I also ended up few times in its jungles. Once we were visiting a small jungle village where, among other interesting things, they were showing us how they prepare exotic ingredients for their delicious baked products. They only use the roots of the plant called tapioca, which they clean and then rub into a powder, then mix with water into a mush. When the woman, who was doing this work with very primitive instruments, prepared a bowl of that mush, she brought it to our group and our guide. I was standing next to him when he dipped his finger into the mush and tasted it with his tongue. Then I tried to do the same… when he literally SCREAMED at me saying NO, NO, NO… I was quite puzzled and asked him why not? He said: “You might die!” I was puzzled even more and said: “How come you are not going to die?” Then he smiled at me and said “You may not believe this, but this mush is extremely poisonous! I may taste it because we, who are living in these jungles, have in our blood the antidotes against that poison, but tourists do not have it. So, you would not survive it. But wait until it is heated by fire and then it will be possible for you to taste it because “the poison will be destroyed by fire”. Then they poured the mush on a metallic plate under which there was fire and the woman was “frying it there” until it was done and we could taste it. That product then became the chief ingredient in the very delicious “tapioca cakes”. Isn’t this story interesting? And if you keep reading this brochure, it will get a much more valuable meaning.

The fact is that the Lord has given it to me as the most fitting foreword to this following work, which will be dealing with extremely important spiritual facts where we similarly will not be able to “taste just about anything spiritual that looks good” without risking our lives! As we all know, Adam and Eve were eating the fruit from the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” which was forbidden to them by God. And He gave them the same warning: “When you eat of it, you will surely die!” (Gen. 2:16,17) They disregarded God’s warning and ate of it and they died… not in body, but in their spirit. The poison (evil) in the fruit cut them from the Life of God to which Life they were connected through their spirit and thus what was left to them was just their earthly life which they lost when they died also physically. Why they ignored the warning of God? Had I ignored the warning of my jungle guide, you would never read this brochure. What is tragedy is the fact that we do not have to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree in order to be born spiritually dead – we inherited this spiritual death from Adam and Eve! The fact is that the whole mankind was born spiritually dead! Only One Man was born spiritually living, the Lord Jesus Christ, since He was not born from the seed of man poisoned with evil. Based on this fact, God cursed the serpent (Satan) and declared that He will put an enmity between Satan and the woman and between his seed and her seed (Christ); it (Christ) shall bruise thy head (Satan) and thou shalt bruise His heel. (Gen. 3:14,15) This Word of God was fulfilled on the Cross of Calvary.

Let us now come to the necessary depth of the spiritual reality concerning the Law of Death and the Law of Life since both these Laws apply to the whole mankind from its beginning to its end. That, of course, includes all of us whether we are pagans or believers.

From the time Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their spirits and souls were subjected to the Law of evil which results in the Law of sin and that results in the Law of Death, since evil produces sin and sin produces death (Ez. 18:4b). This Law of sin has been in their humanity since the Garden of Eden and no matter how much good they desired to do, evil was always present with them (Rom. 7:21, 23). What is the tragedy of the Israel and the Church is the fact that no Jew or Christian regards this Law and keeps doing “his best” producing fruit which is unacceptable to God. The question should be: Why?

Well, first I have for you the following very important spiritual shocks:

Shock #1 – For the past about 6,000 years, man has been not only spiritually dead, but also a total fool! If you do not believe me, consider the following facts:

                  Eve was deceived, and when you start reading Gen. 3:6, you will find out her foolish reasonings, no need to ask anybody any questions; in her foolishness she just took the fruit and ate it and gave also to her husband! Adam was not deceived (1Tim. 2:14) so he was a greater fool than Eve and he showed his stupidity while he was yet holy and sinless, before he ate the fruit from the hand of his wife! Isn’t it great? When a man is a fool before sinning, how greater a fool he must be after sinning? And there is no evidence that these two have ever repented to God and asked His forgiveness! Do you now believe me that the mankind has had a solid basis for becoming quite stupid?

Shock #2 – The man has never been aware of being a fool! How can a dead man be aware of his death and what may be coming out of it? The question is: Was Adam ever aware that he was a fool after he was thrown out of the Garden? Are we aware that we have inherited their foolish and also dead spirits? The whole mankind was plunged into hell in few seconds! Today, after 6,000 years, men and women behave exactly in the same way… as total fools… and are not aware of it!

Shock #3 – If any man is told this truth, he will become deeply offended! Any surprise? We all consider ourselves wise and would not admit any comments, accusations or judgments that would go against our most sincere (though quite false) convictions and self-appreciation. Is this true?  

Shock #4 – For the past about 2,000 years, the Church has not discovered what the salvation of man truly is! Hence, nobody is teaching it, preaching it or explaining it and thus nobody is leading anybody to his/her salvation! This is also the reason why the Church is DEAD and only few walk on the narrow road, which is the ONLY road leading to Life eternal… because only few find it! (Mt. 7:14) And who is responsible for that situation? 90% of church leaders or less! They are trying “their best” to bring spiritual death and foolishness to the church instead of spiritual life and wisdom!

Now that we have a deeper spiritual knowledge of a man and his character right from the Garden of Eden until today, we may continue. One important fact, which should keep us from horrible mistakes in our judgment and give us correct understanding, is the difference between our “body” and our “flesh”. Our “body” is our natural physical creation from the “dust of the ground”, and it is not sinful, but neutral. (Gen. 2:7) Hence, when “flesh” is mentioned in the Word of God, it should NOT mean our body, but rather a spirit in our natural soul, which we may call “humanism, human mentality, ability”, also “carnality”! (compare Rom. 8:5-8). Ever since the Garden of Eden it has its “good” part and its “evil” part which it received from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In my book “Life out of Death, chpt.2”, I call “our good flesh our enemy #1”. When you have a chance to read that chapter you will find there all the necessary details, which I will not repeat here. I will only mention here two basic facts concerning our “flesh”: a) its “good” part and “evil” part CANNOT be separated just as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil CANNOT be separated into a good tree and an evil tree! And b) our “good flesh” has nothing common with the Holy Spirit, though it may outwardly look good but inwardly its “evil” is always with it because EVIL IS ALWAYS IN IT! We cannot discern our good flesh from the Holy Spirit. This is where the danger lies and why our flesh is our enemy #1 and why Proverb 16:2 should be considered a fair warning from the Lord when using our “flesh” for good deeds.

Let us now look at the verses of the Scripture where Apostle Paul writes about himself and his problems of trying to do good and witnessing evil as being always present with him. We will have to review these verses for the reason mentioned above where we desire the correct understanding of the difference between our “body” and our “flesh”. In the book of Romans chpt.7, verses 18-22 are correct. In verse 23 “the law in my members” and “the law of sin which is in my members” may be unclear since only our physical body can have members. Our “flesh” being a “spirit” cannot have members. Here Paul clearly means his “flesh” and not his body as in verse 25 where he correctly says: “but with the flesh the law of sin.” Hence, “in my members” in verse 23 could have been written as “in the flesh of my members” since they are connected with the “law of sin”.

We must now realize that “the Law of sin” in our flesh is extremely important spiritual fact the true depth and meaning of which we may still be unable to realize just by reading the above quoted verses of the Bible. The most important fact is that man can do NOTHING with a LAW or against a LAW whether the LAW is spiritual or physical. All the Laws of God that He established in His physical creation as well as all those that He established in His spiritual creation (and had given 10 of them to us through Moses) are all typical examples showing that no man can change or ignore any of them; rather, they rule the man, his life and destiny. But then we must also readily see that in 2-3 minutes Satan had achieved a tremendous victory and success by putting into Adam and Eve his Law of Evil, and thus the Law of sin, and thus the Law of Death, and man can do NOTHING against them! When any Jew or Christian is trying to do his “best”, Satan is laughing. Satan was laughing after his victory over Adam and Eve being persuaded that even God could do NOTHING against his Laws and thus his victory was “eternal”. Do we realize that? Of course, this Grand Idiot did not know that God was laughing even more… because Satan was doing exactly God’s Will! And the destiny that he so successfully “prepared” for man, he had, in fact, prepared for himself! Of course, at that time the fact of the existence of the lake of fire and brimstone – Satan’s eternal “condominium” – was not yet known, even though this everlasting fire was already prepared for the devil and his angels… and not for men. (Mt. 25:33,41)

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Let us now forget the Law of evil, Law of sin and the Law of death and turn to God and His Will whereby He knew exactly how to reverse and totally destroy these Laws of Satan. How? By the LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, which is far more powerful then all those three Laws put together. Here we are at the beginning of Romans chpt. 8 (“8” also means “the new beginning”) where we will start talking and seeing and understanding the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus and what it can do for any man, who will be willing to subdue himself to this Law rather than remain under the three Laws of Satan mentioned above. You see, it takes another Law, more powerful and giving you life to destroy or annul the Law that is pulling you to hell and death and which you may desire to annul by your own desires or abilities – but cannot!

Let us realize that Adam and Eve, who were condemned by Satan, were the parents of all mankind and thus every man on this planet was principally condemned to the eternal death and suffering in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Rev. 20:14). Now, Romans chpt. 8 starts by declaring: “There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in Christ Jesus, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.” In verse 2, it continues: “For the LAW of the Spirit of LIFE in Christ Jesus hath made me FREE from the LAW of sin and DEATH.” This is the response of the Word of God to Paul’s cry: “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this death?” (Rom. 7:24) And then in verse (25) he continues to thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord…”So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

 Shock #5 – Paul knows well what he was writing in these verses of his letter to the Romans chapters 7 + 8. But he was not aware that the Church will not understand or obey his words, but will happily, and with time more and more deeply, continue in flesh! When Paul says that by his mind he himself serves God – that presupposes that his mind was sufficiently renewed by the Spirit (Eph. 4:23)… and we should believe that. But the minds of millions of believers around the world may not be renewed by the Spirit in any desirable measure; in fact, they may be “carnally minded”, which is death, because the carnal mind is enmity against God! (Rom. 8:6,7)

The above Shock #5 just adds more light to the Shock #4 and thus more understanding and more solid basis for the fact that the Church during those 2,000 years never discovered the true salvation, rather, during those centuries it had become a “carnal Church”, dead in spirit, not only in its pews, but also behind its pulpits! Are you able to believe this horrible but extremely important fact? If you cannot, will you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ – the Saviour of the Church Himself, will spue this church of Laodiceans out of His mouth mainly because it is lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, also because it is wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked? (Rev. 3:16, 17) And this church is #7 from the beginning, which also means that it is the last one before the end of this world, which is approaching quickly. Hence, it represents all today’s churches around this world! Lukewarmness also means “taking things lightly”, taking the Word of God lightly, preferring the reasonings and convictions of the brains, the mentality and carnality of the believers!

So, you may be sitting in the building with a cross on its roof, happy to be saved, with your way to Heaven “open”. Unfortunately, the reality is completely different. Strictly speaking, it all depends on what degree of spirituality or carnality is in you and clearly showing its fruit in your life and deeds. And the degree of spirituality or carnality depends on what Law are you subjected to and following in your Christian life, is it the Law of Death, which keeps you carnally minded, or is it the Law of Life, which keeps you spiritually minded (Rom. 8:6)? If you are a carnal believer, you cannot tell and will not be able to discern these facts in any way. If you are a spiritual believer, who is walking on the narrow road, you will be able to discern not only Death from Life, but also how much Death or Life may be yet in your own soul since your fruit will show it in your life and deeds and speaking and behaving. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal. 5:22,23). This fruit grows from the Life of Christ in your spirit into your soul where it changes your soul and then governs it. If you have no Life of Christ, you have no fruit of the Spirit, you are dead in your spirit and carnal in your soul and you are not aware of it! And if you will remain unaware of this important fact until your physical death, it will end in tragedy since a “born-again baptized believer” will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death! Why? Because his name was NOT found written in the Book of Life! (Rev. 20:15) Why it was not found there? Keep reading…

Shock #6 – Before you read this Shock, please, read again and ponder the true meaning of Shock#4 and Shock#5 since this Shock#6 goes hand-in-hand with the other two and concludes the facts mentioned in those previous two Shocks. The Church has not discovered, and to this day does not understand, the fact that the REDEMPTION IS NOT SALVATION!!! WHY? BECAUSE Redemption is just a DOOR to Salvation. You must first be redeemed before God would permit you to start walking on the road to your perfection-salvation, and the conditions to start walking therein are also clearly specified in the Word of God (Heb. 6:1-3). Is anybody preaching this? NO!

I have already written about this most important fact in Christianity and its many details in my previous literature which is all available on our website (www.cm-mrm.ca), hence, I will not repeat those things here as this article is not designed for such a large topic. I will only repeat one most important detail, which is the fact that a “born-again baptized believer” with the gift of the Holy Spirit in his spirit and his name written in the Book of Life (Rom. 10:9,10 / Acts 2:28) may be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death and his eternal damnation!!! Have you ever asked yourself, your congregation or your leaders a simple question: WHAT are we supposed to overcome? WHEN are we supposed to overcome? HOW are we supposed to overcome? In my 52 years of ministry, I have never met even ONE Christian who would have asked himself or any one else such a simple and yet the most important question in his earthly life! The reason for his damnation is simple and clear – HE KEPT REFUSING TO OVERCOME in his soul the EVIL which was there even after his water baptism and kept him full of sinful flesh and carnal mind and dead spirit! There are at least two Words of God in the Book of Revelation which prove this fact very clearly and definitely:

First Word of God (Rev. 3:5):

“He that OVERCOMES, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I (Christ) WILL NOT BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE...”! Do you, Doctors of theology and other preachers and pastors need an extra semester in your seminaries to understand this simple fact? In fact, I believe that even 10 extra semesters at any seminary would not help you because the teachers and professors at seminaries know nothing about spiritual facts and thus they prepare the next pastors and preachers and Doctors of theology to deceive millions of believers in their congregations and lead them to Death & Hell and not to Life & Salvation! And is your carnal mind able to admit that the Lord Jesus Christ, the loving Saviour of man, may eventually judge the same redeemed man to the eternal damnation in the lake of fire and brimstone? If you can’t admit it and understand this paragraph, you should submit your resignation from your position in the church IMMEDIATELY, if not sooner! You have been failing your basic duties in the Church of Jesus Christ, and you may have caused hundreds of believers in your congregations to be damned eternally because you have not taught them TRUTH from the Word of God, rather, you had followed the humanistic reasonings of your carnal brains received from the carnal professors at seminaries! So, their blood will be required from your hands by the same Jesus Christ Whom you never knew. You do not have to believe me – just believe GOD and His Word. The same Lord and King of kings Jesus Christ, Who IS THE WORD, has called me not to judge you or any Christian, but to declare His Truth to all of you, since you never knew it and your own teachers and professors at seminaries have equally failed you and are now also in hot water before their Judgment day! (Gal. 4:16?)

Second Word of God (Rev. 21:7,8):

“He that OVERCOMES shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son. But the fearful and unbelieving… and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”! Why God is not even mentioning His Son Jesus Christ, and baptism and faith and repentances, etc. in this extremely important Word where He qualifies you to be His son, who shall inherit all things? Why is God mentioning in this important place only one word: OVERCOMES? To all dear Doctors of theology and preachers and pastors and other dear brothers in Christ I say: Because here and everywhere in His Word, God “assumes” that we believers have at least brains, not carnal, but spiritual brains with spiritual logic, which may easily lead us to see and believe and understand that redemption is NOT salvation but it is just a door to salvation. How will you react if I should tell you that the Word of God in Mark 16:16 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” is NOT TRUE? How can the Word of God be not true? Because its FULL TRUTH is hidden, partial, time or action dependent on the believer or simply “it is written again”! Have you ever heard this expression before? When Satan tempted the Lord after his fasting in the wilderness, he brought Him to a pinnacle of the temple and told Him “cast thyself down: for it is written…” (Ps. 91:10-12) But Jesus told him: “It is written again” (Mt.4:6,7) and ignored His Own Word! How many times have you ignored what you read in the Bible and what may NOT BE TRUE because “it is written again”? Recently (July 18, 2021) this also happened to Dr. David Jeremiah, who on TV preached on Romans 8:1 and started by saying that “this is the most important verse in the Bible”. Of course, this is not quite true and thus it already proved that he was preaching from his mental mind something that is very “pleasant” for believers to hear. When he then tried to convince the congregation that there is now “NO condemnation to them because they are in Christ Jesus”, he deceived them perfectly – and his own self! Why? Because you may be in Christ Jesus and be condemned! Why? Because most of believers walk after the flesh and NOT after the Spirit! In fact, you may be cast out of Christ by your Heavenly Father and be burned! Why? Because “it is written again”… in John 15:1,2,6 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that bears not fruit He taketh away:…If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”!!! Well, Dr. Jeremiah? Shouldn’t you repent to the Lord first and then also to your congregation? Do you now see how you deceived them? Do you know how many multitudes of believers will be cast out of Christ and possibly burned in the fire? In my 52 years of ministry I have barely met a Christian who would display the Life of Christ or any fruit of His Spirit in himself or herself! And many of these believers were humanly very good and even pleasant people. I write this episode despite the fact that I love David and consider him the most decent and pleasant preacher on American TV. 

Do we realize that what is written in about two pages above may mean the eternal death or eternal life to multitudes of believers who may be sincere and devout, but are deceived by their leaders? Is every such believer and every such leader going to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone? NO! Because even here it will depend on their belief or unbelief, consciousness of their decisions, attitudes of hearts, lukewarmness, laziness, watchfulness, seeking or not seeking the truth or the Kingdom (Mt. 6:33) or the Will of God, living by faith or walking in flesh or in Spirit, or by carnal mind, judging righteously or unrighteously, etc. The danger of that eternal death or eternal life is there for many believers and if we are in the leadership of some church, we remain in the judgment of the Lord for our performance and there will be neither respect of any person nor of any of his university degrees! (I myself have three university degrees and I never showed them to anyone in this world since this would bring me to self-elevation, build my pride and diminish the truth that even here it was the Lord Who enabled me to reach such levels of extraordinary knowledge and not I myself – read also Gal. 6:3!). But all he Doctors of theology have their titles all over TV programs, in their books and everywhere else. Great Pride!

Unfortunately, the topics we are choosing in this article are so vast and deep in Spirit that we would have to write a book and not an article. I, therefore, keep asking the Lord to lead me to the most important points of any topic or fact and to the most acceptable brevity so that I would not derail into many subtopics which are always there begging for attention and publication. Now, I believe that we have written sufficiently about the Law of evil and sin and death and their possible dominion in our souls and their final effects… if we are not careful or lukewarm or lazy. As I am indicating above, we could write much more even about the evil, sin and death if we would desire and how the believer can or should deal with them. With this above method in mind, let us now turn to the most important and even the central topic of this article…

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THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS  

that can make me FREE from the Law of sin and DEATH. (Rom. 8:2)

Any Biblical Law is a principle which was established by God and no man can change it, modify it, bypass it or ignore it. This touches all the Laws that God has established either in His physical creation or spiritual creation. Since God has not only formed the light, but also created darkness, He made peace and created evil (Is. 45: 7), hence, He also established the Laws or Principles as touching darkness and evil. Since evil produced sin and sin produces death, God also established these Laws and Principles; for example: “the soul that sinneth it shall die” (Ez. 18:4). God also used this Law, in its reversed form “the soul that sinneth not shall live”, He used it when He was planning our salvation with Christ Jesus and the Life in Himself (see also later).

The Life and Death are two Principles on which the whole Bible as well as the salvation of man is based. The Law of Life is therefore the Principle where everything comes from God, because Life is in God and without God there would be no Life. Furthermore, God put His Life into His Son so that He would also become the source of Life eternal (Jn. 5:26). This was done also because of the process of the Salvation of man where the whole principle of Salvation also rests on Life as overcoming the Death. If we therefore desire to know Life and also live it in our being, we must know Christ and keep coming to Him, which is against our nature and thus needs our overcoming (Jn. 5:40). There are several other places in the Scripture showing to us that this Life we may apprehend by fighting a “good fight of faith to lay hold on eternal life whereunto we are also called” (1Tim. 6:12). Sometimes we must be literally redirected from a wrong choice to the choice of life as was the case with Israel and Moses (Deut. 30:15, 19). It should be clear to us that this Life Eternal is never exhausted and thus we must be acquiring it slowly and persistently as we keep going on with the Lord. And even when we finally arrive to Heaven and either become the New Jerusalem (which is the Bride of Christ) or begin our walking in the Light of the Bride (Rev. 21:9-23 + 24-26), there will be the Tree of Life for us all, which will keep producing not only 12 manners of its Fruit of Life every month, but also the leaves, which will be for the healing of the nations. Because Christ was made such an inexhaustible source of Life, God always moves toward His future goals and plans by bringing us into new “areas” of the Life in Christ, which we may then apprehend and experience and which is at this time most probably far beyond our imaginations.

How this Law of Life functions or what it produces in its various areas or aspects may be also discovered in the Book of Genesis. There are persons in this part of the Scripture which have experienced various potentials and areas of influence and accomplishments of this Life from the very first and “primitive” stage to these last and “glorious” stage. It may be most difficult for me to describe such stages of the Life of Christ with sufficient clarity and depth that they produce in human beings and how man goes through them. Nevertheless, the Lord is encouraging me to give myself into His hands and heart and mind and power “plunging myself” into the depths of His Spirit and Life. Being in His Spirit and Will, I am now able to write even things that seem absolutely illogical or bizarre and definitely impossible to imagine to anyone, who has never experienced them.

One such thing comes from my own childhood, when I was about 5 years old and for the first time I spoke to my Heavenly Father and He spoke to me. And I even smiled at Him because I was very happy and He smiled at me. And this happened in a Roman Catholic Church in Žilina, Slovakia, where I was undergoing the ritual of the “First Holy Communion” connected with my first confession of sins. I entered the confessional and confessed my only “sin” (though in that age I did not know what was “sin”). Nevertheless, it made me “light as a feather” and so I smiled at my Father and He smiled at me. Then we both kept talking as I was going to the front altar to receive my First Holy Communion. So, now I can also write the shock that follows…

Shock #7 – Now I am 84 years old and I am able to talk to My Heavenly Father without any confessionals or Holy Communion wafers. And the most unimaginable fact is what the Father has revealed to me after all those years: He used my spirit as a vessel into which He put His Divine seed of sonship before I was born! So, I was born already as HIS SON! It explains not only that very early childhood experience, but also His calling upon my life and granting me a ministry which I have been conducting 52 years. The first 20 years as a teacher, another 15 years as a pastor and the rest of about 17 years I have been in a prophetic ministry until now.

So, God the Father has used my spirit as a vessel for His Divine Seed to be His future son, and I was never aware of such a privilege and honor. I always thought that every Christian becomes a future son or daughter of God until the Lord showed me one day that every true Christian is a “child” of God, but what will grow out of it is questionable and only God knows. In fact, “the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Mt. 8:12). Do we truly understand this Word of God? I do sincerely doubt. In addition to this fact that God “had de facto begotten His son in the human spirit” before the man could become aware of it, there is another fact, and it is, that this Divine seed already contains the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus! This Law may thus begin its activities at the very early stages of that man’s life and he becomes something of a hidden mystery that people cannot explain. Such man may also go through highly mysterious and unusual circumstances and transformations in his life without any idea that God had already predestinated him – preordained him to be conformed–transformed – to the Image of His Son Christ Jesus! Why? Because God had already foreknown him when He put His Divine seed into his spirit (Rom. 8:29), so for God this was never a mystery, it is only for us until He reveals it to us.

Now, I want to declare two important points why I have written this page at all including the Shock#7, what was the true reason or purpose of it. Well, the very first true reason and purpose of it is that I wanted to truly PRAISE AND WORSHIP MY HEAVENLY FATHER and bring to Him as much true GLORY as possible! Simply I know that He is a Spirit, so, when I desire to worship Him, I must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. In fact, the Father seeks such to worship Him. (Jn. 4:23,24) It is My Heavenly Father that loved me before I was born, put into my spirit His Divine seed to make me His beloved son and even preordained me to be conformed to the Image of His Own Firstborn Son thus making me the Bride of Christ! Should I not give to My Father all my love, all my worship, all my thankfulness, all my obedience, even all my life? And I know that My Father is receiving my praise and worship because I write the Truth in the Spirit. The second true reason and purpose of it is that without writing this page, I could not continue writing what the Spirit will be putting in me, and you could not be receiving or even understanding what the Spirit desires to grant to us especially at this late stage of our Christian life and walk being called with the highest calling that an earthly man can be called with – to be the Bride of Christ! It is absolutely beyond any imagination, any understanding, even beyond any possibility to reach it unless we walk in His power and Wisdom and Spirit giving to Him our all life!

Also a very important point is to be added here since we will write and “submerge” ourselves into the depths of the LAW OF LIFE that is working or should be working in us. It will be good and important to realize that this Life always works out along the way of sonship! If we are not true sons (daughters) of God, the Life will not be able to work, and complete its work, in all its stages, areas, realms to the very glorious end – from our “poverty and misery to the throne”. I might almost compare it to the old story “from rags to riches”! In Genesis, I might compare it “from the misery of Adam – to the throne of Joseph in Egypt”! In our present cases it might be “from our misery in this world to our throne in Heaven”!

Let us continue with the LAW of LIFE and be prepared what the natural man cannot possibly be prepared for.

You see, a natural man does not truly understand what a “Law” is, and he does not understand what the “Life” is. So, here we are facing a double mystery. We might make some progress by declaring that “Law is an established and unchangeable principle that some person with authority wrote and then he forced it upon your life to obey it.” Right? Now, you have a free will from God, but when you disobey that Law that some other person wrote, you might find yourself behind bars where you would have plenty of time to ponder that situation and even come to the correct understanding of it. Concerning the “life”, the Lord said that “for whosoever will save his (present natural) life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his (present natural) life for My sake shall find it (the new spiritual life).” (Mt. 16:25) Now, may I ask you a simple question: When you physically die, you will lose your natural sinful life whether you like it or not. If you refused to lose your natural sinful life for the sake of the Lord during your earthly living, you will not find any new spiritual life. Right? Can you now tell me in such a case: WHAT life are you going to live when you lose your old natural sinful life and you will not find any new spiritual life? If you can answer this question correctly, it shall become the answer to the question: What Life really is! Do you agree? If you do not agree, we must continue to define “LIFE”.

You may say that when you see things outside of you with your eyes, and hear things outside of you with your ears, and touch things outside of you with your fingers, and smell things outside of you with your nose, and taste things in your mouth with your tongue – then you live! Not bad. But, you see, Life is something far more than what you just suggested. How about your soul? When you desire something and even know why, when you love or hate something or someone and you even know why, when you do something or do nothing and even know why, etc, etc… you also may say that you live, right? Again, not bad. Now, how about your spirit? When you are conscious of something that you cannot see or hear or touch or smell or taste, you also may say that you live, right? When your conscience tells you: “do not go to that midnight party” and you can hear it clearly without your ears, again, you may say that you live, right? Now, may I again ask you a rather simple question, which may have an illogical answer? The question is this: Can you be dead while you are living in pleasure? Before you answer rather hastily, please read the Word of God in 1Timothy 5:6 that says: “But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth” and ask God how is that possible??? Of course, here we are mixing two lives together – our natural earthly life and our spiritual life!  

In order to continue, we have to define what LIFE we are trying to define and understand. And the answer is: The SPIRITUAL LIFE. Because the “Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus” deals only with the spiritual Life, which has absolutely nothing to do with our natural, earthly, sinful life! This furthermore means, that our natural, earthly, sinful life must disappear and be destroyed to make place for the spiritual life. And that part of our natural life which is not sinful and contains no evil must be conformed to the requirements of this Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus! So, finally, I believe we can start…

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We might start with Adam and see how this Law of Life worked in him, how he reacted and what happened to him that we may not know about or what were the reasons for his ending. Now, some people, Christians or pagans, may say that during the Old Testament the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus could not exist and apply since Christ was not yet born. However, Christ was not just the Man that was born in Bethlehem. Before His earthly birth “He is the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (Jn. 1:1) “And the Word was made flesh (Man) and dwelt among us…” (Jn. 1:14), which is His earthly birth! But Christ as the Word of God, as the Son of God and as the Saviour of men has no beginning and no end and so He always existed and had His Life and Personality. His Father loved Him before the foundation of the world (Jn. 17:24) and God had chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4). That should suffice, right?

As we know, Adam was created by God as holy and sinless man and when God breathed into his nostrils His breath of Life, he became a living soul (Gen. 2:7) That God gave to Adam also a good measure of physical and mental abilities is clear from the next verses of Genesis where God asked Adam to dress and keep the Garden of Eden (vs.15) which was not a small job considering the size of the Garden. He also named all the animals and birds (vs.20) that God created and brought before him. God also planted the tree of life in the midst of the Garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (vs.9). “And the Lord God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (vs.16,17) Then the Lord God created the woman… (vs.22)… we know the story. We also know the story of Satan tempting Adam and Eve and how they ate of the forbidden tree and fell into sin and were driven out of the Garden.

What we may not know at all and should know and understand is the following:

1) The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus already existed also for the first two people since it was represented by the “tree of Life” and Christ and His Redeeming and Saving work was foreordained before the foundation of the world (1Pet. 1:20). However, before their fall into sin, this Law of Life had no work to do in Adam beyond God’s basic creation of his body from the “dust of the ground”, his “living soul” from His “breath of life” (Gen. 2:7), and his spirit in him formed by God (Zach. 12:1) connecting it to Himself. Why? There was no sin or death in him (Rom. 8:2) and he lived by the Life of God, which he lost after his fall.

2) Also, Adam and Eve experienced quite a lack of spiritual wisdom and knowledge and understanding. This had its effect also on their action and behavior during the temptations by Satan. For example: they had no clue what was evil or sin or death or deception or lies or suffering or work; they had no fruit of the Spirit and thus they also lacked the senses for obedience, responsibility, seriousness of God’s command, they suffered spiritual naivety and thus foolishness which is the fruit of naivety, etc. And none of these “things” can be created from the dust of the ground or from the breath of God! Adam clearly loved Eve more than he loved God, otherwise he would not have behaved as a fool greater than Eve by eating the fruit what she was handing to him without asking God any question. Eve was deceived by Satan, but Adam was not deceived (1Tim. 2:14), yet he started to put blame on Eve immediately after God asked him whether they ate of the forbidden tree (Gen. 3:11,12) showing his childish and highly irresponsible character right after his fall to sin.

3) Lack of the fruit of the Spirit shows chiefly in the lack of their true love for God (as also mentioned above) and the lack of true faith. Satan always tries to bring doubt into the souls of believers concerning the true love of God as well as the true veracity of God, which means, whether God truly loves you and whether He can always be trusted! Believers with weak love and faith can fall here very easily and Satan knows that. I believe that with Adam and Eve Satan did not have any difficult job to deceive them and make them fall into his trap. Of course, God foreknew it and it was His Will that they will end up in evil, sin and spiritual death! That was His chief reason why he planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and forbade Adam and Eve to eat of it knowing full well that they will ignore His command and will eat of it!...

Now, God was not surprised with anything He witnessed about Adam and Eve. But He clearly was not prepared to spend eternity fellowshipping and depending on such two naïve and stupid children. Hence, their fall into evil and sin and death they desperately needed to go through and learn and give the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus the necessary chance to perfect them sufficiently to be acceptable to their Heavenly Father. After all, this is the process through which we all have to go when we inherited from them their naivety, stupidity, childishness and a great lack of many necessary abilities especially spiritual senses and knowledge. This also explains why we ourselves, 6.000 years later, and just before the end of the world, desperately need the same treatment in order to become acceptable to our Heavenly Father! Today, Christians are also naïve and foolish, irresponsible, disobedient, unloving, unbelieving, lukewarm, proud, self-righteous, selfish, not seeking truth or the Kingdom, not desiring to see how the Lord sees them and thus how He will judge them, etc. Once man has been cut off the Life of God through his spirit, he has become independent of God and can make his own decisions and follow his own will. This is how Satan could achieve His goal and replace God with himself! And this is also the outcome of the spiritual death which turns you from God to your own self and independence. You now have the freedom to have your own mind, own judgment, walking your own ways, stubbornly clinging to your own understanding, own opinions, own desires, own conclusions and decisions, etc.

The above facts clearly show us the importance of the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus without which we could not even be saved and perfected. This Law alone has the power and ability to free us from the law of sin and death if we are willing to subject ourselves to its power and guidance. Our final destiny also depends on the time that this Law will be able to work in us and create in us our spiritual perfection. It would be worthwhile to mention at this place that when we talk about our “salvation”, which can also be called “perfection”, it is quite important to realize and also understand that, we are not talking about “one level of perfection” for all believers! There are four different groups of believers that will reach their salvation-perfection and Heaven. They are clearly mentioned in the Song of Solomon 6:8,9, they are 60 queens, 80 concubines, virgins without number and only one Dove, “My undefiled”, which represents the Bride of Christ. Each of them reached their particular level of perfection which depended on their love for the Lord (more in www.cm-mrm.ca).

We may now continue with something unusual but very important – I call it the Division Line between carnal and spiritual believers. It starts with Cain and Abel and continues until now! We might learn here the clearest example of the Division Line as well as how the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus worked, or failed to succeed in many believers, in this case.

First, the Division Line. Let us understand from the very beginning that both Cain and Abel were believers in God and so it is in all cases of the Division Line, we never speak about one believer and one pagan. They both believed in God, spoke to Him face to face; they both worshipped God and desired to please Him. As an act of worship, Cain brought to God the best that he had and what he considered as the most valuable. Judging outwardly, there was nothing in the mind of Cain which God might dislike, reject or not appreciate. Furthermore, Cain was not aware of the spiritual death which was ruling his soul and thus he could not relate death to any of the things that he offered to God. So, what was truly wrong and why God rejected his offer? Cain brought and offered to God the fruit of his natural sinful life… and that was the whole reason!

Even today, 6.000 years later, how many Christians are like Cain and are not aware of it? They try to please God with things and fruits of their own self life; they are full of “worship”, full of gifts for God, and these may not be just physical things, but also their carnal prayers and singing and preaching and teaching and playing? Even after learning that God had rejected his offering, Cain did not understand anything, did not accept God’s decision and did not repent to Him. This proves that Cain was carnal and death ruled his soul. Finally, his jealousy toward Abel, his brother whose offering of a lamb God accepted, culminated and he killed Abel, his brother though he did not understand why his lamb was accepted and why his “best and valuable products” were rejected! This also clearly shows the important fact that at the very moment the Life of God appears and acts somewhere in somebody, a conflict begins between his life and the death in any believer’s soul and that antagonism starts to be manifested almost immediately and without apparent outward reasons or understanding. Two believers – spiritual and carnal do not even have to start speaking and the “spiritual tension” is already there between them and nobody around them might notice any tension or anything unusual! I believe that Abel did not even speak to Cain any harsh, negative or judgmental words to provoke him to his murderous act. The hell in Cain was simply provoked by jealousy and it was so strong that he could not hold it.

Let me repeat this important fact that this Division Line is the result of the warfare between two kingdoms or two realms, one where operates anything from God and one where operates anything from Satan. Hence, it is not necessary that two believers – a spiritual and a carnal – would have to carry with them swords or machineguns to start a conflict. The very presence of two differing spirits – Life and Death – is sufficient to start a conflict without any words being spoken or any opinions being expressed! Have you not experienced such a thing in the various churches of this world, with various believers whom you already knew or did not know at all? And this is not a battle between God and Satan, this battle rages most fiercely inside of man, in his carnal self that is radically different from a spiritual self. What is worse, such men often do not know what to do with it since they quite often do not understand it. And Satan may use such occasion to “deceive the spiritual man” that his behavior is not from God, that he should be more “friendly” and not so negative and argumentative, or unloving, simply, that there is no God in him when he behaves that way. While the fact is that it is precisely opposite – because God with His Spirit IS in him so that his soul had become a battlefield and the Word of God proves it saying: “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other…” (Gal. 5:17).

So, the ACTUAL AND REAL BATTLE is between one man’s carnal soul and the other man’s spiritual soul! The one man’s carnal soul is ruled by sinful flesh (which is an evil spirit) and the other man’s spiritual soul is ruled by God’s Spirit. In other words, it is also a battle between man’s thought and God’s thought, man’s reasoning and God’s reasoning, also man’s feelings, desires and will against God’s feelings, desires and Will! This fact is also leading us to another very important fact where the true REASON OF THE FALL of Adam and Eve was the violation of their spirit by their soul! Their souls won the battle and thus gave Satan the place that belonged to God. How did they win the battle? Eve’s carnal soul decided that that tree of the knowledge of good and evil was “good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat” (Gen. 3:6)… though he was NOT deceived as Eve was (1Tim. 2:14)!!! They asked no question from God since they already knew “His opinion about that tree” and thus their soul prevailed and their spirit was separated from the Spirit and Life in God. And so it is with the whole mankind up till now! This may sound just like another interesting information from the Garden of Eden, but few believers see and understand the true dangers and seriousness of the fact that Adam ate of that tree though he was NOT deceived! So what are we here still truly talking about? After 6,000 years, most men, especially in the church leadership, may not be deceived concerning “God’s Words and His basic character” and YET, they keep eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, especially in their seminaries!!! They do not eat from the Tree of Life even if they would like to because one cannot eat from both trees at the same time!!! We all must have read and understood Genesis 3:22-24, have we not??? But do these church leaders also understand that if you do not eat from the Tree of Life (which also means, you do not even come to Christ, that you might have Life – Jn. 5:37-40), then you have NO Life to give to your congregations except your intellectual knowledge and reasonings! Thus you lead your "sheep” to Hell, not to Heaven… as in Adam all the future mankind headed into Hell and not into Heaven.

Under the above First Division Line title, we briefly described Cain. Now we can briefly say few important words about Abel. He was spiritual and had life in his soul. That life clearly showed him and he understood it, that “we must die to our sinful life in our soul in order to live the Life of God”. Because in ourselves, we have nothing that would be acceptable to God. Hence, when he offered to God a lamb representing his old life, God accepted his offering… though Abel did not lay down his own life. Perhaps, he had no time to make such a decision or did not walk sufficiently long with the Law of the Spirit of Life, but he had the right faith.

Second, the Law of the Spirit of Life. Even though the paragraph above should give us a clear picture also about the differences between Cain and Abel, yet, we should consider also the work of the Law of Life which clearly had no freedom or chances to work in the spirit and soul of Cain. On the other hand, it did work and produced life in the spirit and soul of Abel. Again, two believers with “equal” attitude toward God, “equal” desires to please God and bring Him acceptable offerings and, yet, so different in spirit! Isn’t the situation among believers today the same? Enter any church of any denomination with smaller or larger congregation and start noticing the spiritual differences among them. You will not find among them Cain or Abel per se, since the situation in their time and today is vastly different, no believer today is speaking with God face to face or offering to God anything on any altar, no one in the congregation is killing one another because of jealousy. And yet, many believers may be thinking and believing exactly as Cain was or as Abel was. So, the Division Line exists in the same way causing not only misunderstandings but also enmity among the believers though they are not “killing one another” physically as Cain killed Abel. But they may be “killing” one another spiritually!, where “killing” may also be interpreted as “separating themselves from one another.”

Why Abel had life in his spirit and soul, which made him spiritual, and Cain had death, which made him carnal? Now we are coming to recognize and understand some other important facts about the working of the Law of the Spirit of Life and the soul of man. We have to understand that the Law of Life always has the very same effect on the soul of every man guiding him in the same way and subjecting him to the same principles. You see, every step in the work of this Law of Life is in fact reversing all the works of Satan that he had done in Adam and Eve. What that Law of Life requires from the soul of every man is obedience to His ways and principles and willingness to follow its guidance and requirements because they all are AGAINST the nature of the man. In fact, walking on the narrow road is walking along with the Law of Life since its Spirit brings into the soul of man Life, Light, Wisdom and all the other virtues of God destroying death, darkness, stupidity and other virtues of the natural man, which are many. This is the process of overcoming in our Salvation. Any believer that stands in the way of the Law of the Spirit of Life stands in the way of his Salvation – perfection because that Law of the Spirit of Life obeys the Principle of God in respecting the free will that God granted to man at his creation! Hence, the Salvation of every man does not depend on the Will of God but on his own will! Redemption already required from man certain steps (confession of faith, repentance, water baptism) in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit into his spirit and writing his name into the Book of Life. Once such believer is redeemed, he has to continue to his Salvation exercising the same obedience and willingness to take steps into which he is guided by the Law of the Spirit of Life, which is the only way to Life Eternal (Mt. 7:14).

We may repeat that a carnal Christian is one in whom flesh – sinful spiritual power – is ruling his soul as well as his spirit and he is unable to overrule it and start receiving spiritual life by his own ability or power. The Holy Spirit, which such believer received at his water baptism (Acts 2:38), is NOT part of his spirit; hence his spirit is also dead as is his soul. The Law of Spirit of Life must start destroying the flesh both in man’s spirit and soul and this flesh may also be compared to and called – death as opposed to life. Furthermore, such a carnal Christian being dead in spirit is also dead (or filthy) in his conscience, hence, he is not aware of the death-flesh-carnality in his being because conscience is not a part of his soul, but of his spirit. Such carnal Christians may also be compared to “houses divided against themselves” and such houses cannot stand (Mt. 7:21-27). Also, they are usually so stubborn and such extremists that they will not allow anyone to interfere with their “dead religion” or be challenged with spiritual truth! Whenever you speak truth to them you hit an “iron curtain” as they are unable to pause and ponder what you say and admit that they do not know “everything” because “The natural (fleshly, carnal) man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1Cor. 2:14)

And when such carnal Christians are in the church leadership, pastors, preachers, teachers, the Spirit of God can do no useful work at that place and bring to God acceptable fruit. Why? It is the soul that rules and plans and is involved in a lot of activities. Such leaders do not understand, do not believe and are not aware of the simple fact that their “religious, natural life” is a FALSE life and it deceives them because it is deceived itself! No selfish life would admit that it is drawing everything to itself, to fulfill its own desires and own will. So, this natural religious life may produce lot of activities, emotions, sensations and plans, trying to do a “lot of good”, but the result is death! Will some Christians pay attention to these facts? Will they be willing to see themselves as the Lord sees them? Are they aware of the Proverbs 16:2 which says: “All the ways of man are (always) clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits”. Their natural soul-life will deceive them even in their worshipping!

What would be a proper and useful conclusion to the above paragraphs? We always end up with two sides, two facts: Spirit and soul, that which comes from God and that which comes from our sinful nature. Life and Death: How are we looking at them, what is our attitude toward them? If you are always expecting something good even wise from yourself every such time you are taking the ground of death. If you are always expecting something good and wise from God, by the way of His Spirit, you keep standing on the ground of life. The Law of the Spirit of Life always knows on what ground we are standing and whether our position is permanent or temporary. The Spirit also knows where our will and desire stand, what ground is attracting us more and what we are willing to do or not to do. Whenever our soul alone is choosing our activity and also its direction, we may quickly lose our perception of what is of God and what is not of God. Our natural life is a master in mixing up things together and thus making us totally unable to discern whether God is in it or not; and where God might be in something and where He cannot be in anything. This is a true tragedy of the current Christianity, of the current Church as well as of us ourselves. One result of this mixture is the fact that man tries to do and even govern the things of God, even though we all know that God hates mixture. That is why this Law of the Spirit of Life is leading us that we would be brought out of our nature, out of our carnal soul as soon as possible after our water baptism. That we would start growing up in His Spirit walking with God and not in our flesh, that it will not take us 20-30-40 years to start walking in the right direction and becoming useful to God in the hand of His Spirit. Thus we would be also delivered from our deceptions much faster. Deceptions are the greatest obstacle in our way to spiritual growth and maturing. Deceptions keep us in a strongly determined adherence to all our opinions and beliefs on any subject and any problem. We are absolutely unwilling to allow such opinions and beliefs to be judged as to their truth and correctness by anyone else except our own self. This also means that we are in a tunnel and refuse even to see a small light at the end of the tunnel!

When Christ after His crucifixion left hell, darkness and death, He was resurrected with a new glorified body and with a Perfect Eternal Life, clean and holy, just as He had before His birthday. His Throne in Heaven was already prepared and He had all power in Heaven and on earth (Mt. 28:18b). And this is the goal of the Law of the Spirit of Life to transform us into His resurrected Image as close as possible or as close as the Father may deem necessary for us to be judged worthy of the Heaven. Our resurrection life must indicate that we are out of this world, out of our nature and out of ourselves. Furthermore, we also should understand that this resurrected life is based on faith, that we will be standing on the ground of faith and being righteous and just, we shall live by faith thus also fulfilling the Word of God (Hab. 2:4/ Rom. 1:17/ Gal. 3:11 and Heb. 10:38) Whatever is not of faith is always of death and not life, in fact, whatever is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14:23b). Life and faith go together as life increases along the way of faith and the deeper the faith the stronger the life. Read also Heb. Chapter 11: “By faith Abel… by faith Enoch… by faith Noah… by faith Abraham…” etc., etc.

The truth expressed in the sentence underlined above (Our resurrection life…) is, in fact, applicable to many true servants of God from the most famous ones to the most obscure ones. But in each case, FAITH and obedience were playing their central role being the solid basis on which each such servant stood and acted. One famous example was Noah, when God commanded him to build an Ark (Gen. 6:4). In fact, He told him by that to “Get out of this world”. Another one was Abraham to whom God said: “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.” (Gen. 12:1). Why God wanted them to get out of their “home”? Because otherwise He could not change them through the Law of the Spirit of Life and make them suitable to fulfill His purposes for which He called them!

Shock#8 – I am one of the most obscure servants of God, yet, He subjected me to the very same principle. He never spoke to me “Get thee out thy country and kindred and father’s house unto a land that I will show thee”, yet, He did it for me exactly in the same, but more obscure way. In 1967 Czechoslovakia was under a communist regime and to get out to some western country was unthinkable!

Yet, the Lord led me the ways I could not imagine or foresee. One way was to go for a postgraduate study at a university. I managed to meet the requirements of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and even obtained financial support (bursary). I did not have to cross the border of barbed wire, just to show my special passport. In 1968 my wife and the first (5 years old) daughter came to visit me. In August, Russian tanks were moving across the country and so I knew I will “forget” to return home. Our second (about 2 years old) daughter had at that time to be left at home as a “hostage”, so we prayed that the Lord would bring her “somehow” to Canada. He did in 1971 as one of only 5 girls, who were allowed to move out of Czechoslovakia. Then my wife shared with me a true surprise. The Lord granted her a vision where she was able to see the Lord standing on the sea not far from the shore, which we immediately interpreted as the Atlantic Ocean. I was standing on the shore and the Lord was beckoning to me with His hand to come to Him. And I walked to Him on the water until I reached Him. The vision stopped there and we will never forget it because the Lord could not have showed us my miraculous getaway from my home and my father’s house to Canada more clearly than by that vision.

This Shock #8 is very fitting since in the Word of God “8” means a “new beginning” and a “new beginning” it definitely was, not just for me but for all my family. The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus started working on me almost immediately after my arrival to Canada. And then it started to work also on the members of my family, and then also on all the other members as my extended family grew to 11 members.

Shock#9 –  Again, in the Word of God “9” means “judgment”, and the Lord judged me as follows: When the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus started to work on me, it started on yet another miraculous way, which the Lord used on the very well known servant Saul of Tarsus. According to Acts 9:3,4, on his way to Damascus, there suddenly shined around him a light from Heaven and he fell from his horse to the ground and the Lord started to talk to him. It seems the Lord is also using this process to show something to the most deceived and foolish servants. Even though I was not His servant yet, but sufficiently deceived, I had a “foolish” question for Him. Sitting on my chair in dark living room at a window, looking at a large lighted cross on the hill of Mount Royal Park in Montreal, I asked the Lord: “Why You had to hang on that cross? Was there no better way to save us?” The Lord knew He could not possibly explain this to me, so the Light of His Spirit shined around me and knocked me from my chair to the floor. I was laying there and crying like a little baby saying: “Lord, just save me… please… I will give you everything, just save me.” So, this was my beginning and, in fact, this was the time of my calling to the ministry which I did not know yet.

Again, the Lord did not speak to me with His voice, but that He took my question seriously was apparent very soon. In a short time, though I was a young member of my new Pentecostal congregation, I was elected to the Board of Deacons for 4 years. And then, in May 1974, the Lord established a “small church” in my house that was growing in size and continues until now (2021)! His Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus was enabling me to teach that church, then to pastor that church and still later to do a prophetic ministry to that church and to feed many other believers in 70 countries around the world with books that the Lord enabled me to write (see website www.cm-mrm.ca) and which we mailed to those 70 countries of the world free and postpaid! If these are not the ways of the Lord, then I do not know what they are.

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WHAT THE LAW OF LIFE PRODUCES IN US

One fact that applies to all true believers is the so-called “new birth” and on that basis we are all called “born-again baptized believers”. During that “new birth” we all have received God’s Life, which cannot be related to anything else. And whenever we are dealing with this Life, we are dealing with the Holy Spirit Who is also the Bearer of this Divine Life. And we are then dealing with Jesus Christ as it is also His Life and that’s why the full name of that Law from Romans 8:2 is: The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Now, this Life has its own standards, manifestations, characteristics, forms and meaning, its own mentality, reasons, ways and, of course, its own mind. This also means that we can’t live this Life together with our natural life since it has nothing in common with it and thus cannot coexist with it. Once we acquire the Divine Life, it will demand its own direction, relationships and purposes since it also has different desires and goals in our life as a believer. Now, there is in us also certain relatedness to this worldly nature and seeking the counsels of fleshly reasonings and judgments being under the influence of the natural mind. Therefore, if the Lord chooses someone to be His special servant in a special way, the Lord must call him out of his country and kindred and father’s house and their strong worldly and natural influences in which the Law of the Spirit of Life could not work successfully and achieve its goals within him in a reasonable time.

Now, there are other things in us which must be dealt with by the Law of Life even after we are separated from the fleshly influence of our old homes or old families with old habits, old lusts, old ambitions, etc., which we may have acquired in our old countries. Two examples:

a) There are many believers including those in the leadership of the church that suffer from the symptoms of prosperity, acquisition of earthly things, drawing on their fleshly goodness to help other people, the world, their denominations, wherever it looks as needing help, etc. Such people may spend a lot of time and also finances to satisfy their longings, invite and lure many other people to join them in their “Christian effort” and also to help them by their donations to succeed. They do not ask God one simple question whether their efforts come from His Spirit or from their humanity. On one channel of a TV Program called “The Miracle Channel” one administrator of their church declared: “Our lifeline is your donations!” Fantastic! So, their lifeline is not the Christ, but the monies of the people, who either attend their “fastest growing church” or listen to their TV program. And their senior pastor (Leon F.) proclaimed that “they are going to help the world”. How and when was not specified, which would have been rather necessary to add… because God is going to destroy this world in few years and its end is evident even to pagans! So how they are going to help the world? These fleshly forces in their otherwise good souls are bringing their preaching and ministry into a “fundraising machine”! And they also showed some pictures from TBN TV programming showing “preachers” such as Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Meyers as their examples! This shows that they are all spiritually dead and have no spiritual discernment even between Christ and Satan! If they cannot discern that Kenneth Copeland is a servant of Satan, that is forgivable, but Joyce Meyer is a clear servant of Satan. And if she, and also Leon Fontaine and his brethren, could read English, they could easily find out that “women should keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak…” (1Cor. 14:34a)! Are we Christians really idiots? Is this not a tragedy of the Church? Also, on August 21, 2021 Leon Fontaine spoke on “heart” as our important organ claiming that it is “in our subconscious” and also it is set on an “autopilot” like airplanes are set. And that “autopilot” in his heart was set by his predecessors. But subconscious is a part of our spirit whereas our heart is a part of our soul, just as our brain is a part of our body and our mind is a part of our soul! We cannot mix-up our spirit with our soul on a Christian national television. Furthermore, our predecessors could not set any autopilots into our beings, but we could inherit from them some stupid spirits. If Leon’s heart was not yet sufficiently renewed before he began pastoring, then the “autopilot” in his heart may be still “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” (Jer. 17:9) and bring his plane to Fiji instead of to Oslo. And one more thing I would like to verify: They claim that their church is “fastest growing in Canada”. The question is: Is it fastest growing in the number of believers? Or is it fastest growing in the believers’ spiritual life? If it is the first meaning, then they are fast going in the wrong direction… and this is the answer from the Lord Jesus Christ.   

b) There may also be many believers, including those in the leadership of the church, who are under the fleshly force of ambition for success no matter in what area of endeavor this may exist. You can be just as ambitious in the work “for the Lord” as you are in your worldly work and both these ambitions may come from your fleshly nature. Every man on this planet at least sometimes desires something which is natural. The same applies to “religious persons” who teach, preach, pastor or otherwise govern the work of the church or the good that the church is doing. Now, do these people know what the source of their ambition truly is? I sincerely doubt. We may have plans which lead us to go somewhere, do something, and start something which promises results or changes according to our expectations. Do we know where these expectations are coming from? Most of the time we have no clue, because our “religious mind” cannot by far discern what our Lord expects and when and how. Simply said, the Law of the Spirit of Life is not successful in us as it should be and our “religious flesh” prevails! And we are NOT aware of it; and if somebody tells us something along this line, we may be quickly offended and always fail to come to the Lord and verify this fact with Him, Who knows all things that touch us and produce our ambitions. The Lord Jesus Christ also HAD AMBITION – to always know and do the Will of His Father in Heaven without Whom He could do nothing! (Jn. 5:19,30) Do you do likewise? You must be kidding! I am not saying this to blame you but to bring truth to you, because it is also written: “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (Jn. 8:32) Are you ready to accept this truth?

I believe that all God’s servants had some ambitions; some may have had too strong and great ambitions while others may have had just “logical” ambitions which might also be called “expectations”. In fact, I also believe that every Christian has some ambition even though he might not be aware of it or he might call it “planning”. Whatever is the case, the Lord through the Law of Life knows how to treat them. One way is that He may “modify” the ambitions so that they do not meet the expectations of the believer or He grant the believer something that he never expected. Another way, which may be even more common is, that the Lord delays His answer beyond any logical expectations. For example, God promised Abraham when he was about 85 years old that he will have a son of his wife Sarah. But then God disappeared from Abraham’s sight for about 13 years and nothing was happening! During this “little delay” Abraham harkened unto his wife Sarah and had a son with her maid Hagar and called him Ishmael – trying to “help God”! (Gen. 16:1-4) When God returned, He said to Abraham that his wife Sarai will be renamed to Sarah and she will indeed give him a son when she was 90 years old and barren, and Abraham was now 100 years old (and he laughed in his heart – Gen. 17:15-17). I do wonder how we would have behaved in such a situation. But Abraham did receive a son from Sarah whom he called Isaac and the whole future of Abraham’s family changed. Was this delay necessary? Absolutely! If we consider the future trial of Abraham’s faith, when God asked him to “take his son and offer him to God”; his old faith would not have been sufficient for THIS TASK!

When the Law of the Spirit of Life really works on the important aspects of our spirit and soul (like our faith) it will bring us even to the realm of faith where even the promises of God may be looking like suspended without any hope of timely fulfilment. These are usually tough tasks in building up of our faith, which was not on any sufficient level and strength before. After such building of our faith is finished, the Lord may delay or contradict His promises, but we will keep trusting Him! So, whether the things are working out according to our expectations or they are going against us or they are harder than expected or we may be feeling bad or any other obstacle may stand in the way… if our true objective is the Lord Himself, when our goal is God and not our joy or peace or satisfaction or even our blessing, then we are walking in the Life of Christ. Such testing or building of faith may sometimes be very painful and disappointing to us, but our true victory will be when we come to the Lord and say to Him – “never mind, Lord, because YOU ARE our ambition”.

In the middle paragraph on page 9, I declared the following: Life always works out along the way of sonship! To God, sonship is of course a very important object. I believe that when God was creating Adam, He was already thinking about him as a future son. Though he did not make it into this category, but God foreknew that from his descendants He will bring forth some sons (and daughters). The Word of God says: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” (Rom. 8:14)

This Word alone clearly speaks about the “Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus” since the Spirit of God is also the Spirit of Life and that Life is in Christ Jesus. And another Word of God says: “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son (Jesus Christ) into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore, thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if son, then an heir of God through Christ.” (Gal. 4:6,7) And finally the Word of God says: “My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” (Heb. 12:5b-8).

Clearly, the Life, which is in Christ Jesus, is brought to us along the line of sonship. Secondly, the working of the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is here shown to us in a rather unpleasant activity like chastening and scourging, however, these are, in fact, very important parts of its task. Very few believers are willing to go through this area of their spiritual development combined with their endurance without a lot of their resistance. The main part of this area of development is teaching believers obedience, since we know that in our natural creation we are disobedient and thus any procedure that destroys our disobedience is used by the Law of Life. What should encourage us in this area is the fact that even the Lord Jesus Himself, “Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things that He suffered; And being (thus) made perfect, He became the Author of eternal Salvation unto all them that obey Him.” (Heb. 5:8,9) Notice here that the most important word in this verse is NOT written: “He became the Author of eternal Salvation unto all them that BELIEVE in Him… but unto all them that OBEY Him”! Is there a great difference? You bet. This difference can be also observed in the small number of believers that walk in the Spirit compared to the large number of those that walk in flesh. For those that walk in the Spirit – sow to the Spirit and thus of the Spirit they reap Life everlasting. But those that walk in their flesh – sow to their flesh and thus of their flesh they reap death (Gal. 6:8). The congregations are growing up more and more “dead” and it is becoming difficult to find there any believer that would be living or at least manifesting the Life of Christ. This is also a tragedy of the Church.

Important fact concerning the sonship is that unless we are the sons of God, the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus CANNOT follow its true task in us until we become sons or daughters of God. Before we become ones, we are all dead and there is nothing to be done in us by the Law of Life except to keep showing us our complete death and the way out of it. This also applies to pagans in whom the Law of the Life also does not work except in waiting to show them their death. But since we all begin as dead, we might be wondering when this Law of the Spirit of Life starts working in us. It all depends on God and His foreknowledge, His Will and Grace. Since it is also written in the Word of God that: “For whom He (God) did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His Son…” (Rom. 8:29). In this case, God the Father speaks about those, which will be predestinated to be the Bride of Christ, the Dove, which is just One and is undefiled. She represents the Bride of Christ. But God did foreknow also all the other believers who will become queens or concubines or virgins without number (S.Sol. 6:8,9). Believers in general are divided into these four groups depending on their love for the Lord Jesus Christ. To what degree they loved the Lord, that same degree will determine the level of their perfection. This simply means and also proves the fact that believers will not be perfected to the same level of perfection, and that level will depend on their love for the Lord and not on their faith. The time when the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus shall begin its work is different for every human being depending on his living circumstances. Most of us as children were guided by our parents and also brought to the churches which they attended. They gave us the first contact with their church and their faith and we were assimilating it slowly or more quickly until we started to attend a school where we were exposed to a different world and beliefs. But the Holy Spirit always knew with every one of us when to start His work in us and how to continue. We may remember our past more or less well, but none of us was aware of the work of the Spirit in our soul until we reached some spiritual level in our conscience and started to recognize in us “something” that was not there before and had influence on us whether our parents kept leading us or not.

The Holy Spirit then continued His work with us and in us depending on our responses and obedience to His voice and leading and according to the foreknowledge of God. We also should understand that it is not only the Bride of Christ, Who is the purpose of God for us, because, not every son of God will reach the perfection of Christ, yet, he may please the Father even not being the Bride of His Son. Many details about this topic are written in my other literature on our website and thus I will not be repeating them. Reading chapters 21 and 22 of the Book of Revelation will also give the necessary details and give a clearer picture about these things.

Since in these paragraphs we are mainly speaking about sonship, it would be profitable to mention some other facts about sonship and the levels of perfection and future destinies that they may reach and under what work of the Law of the Life and the conditions prepared for them by the Law. Many believers do not notice anything unusual about themselves all their Christian life and thus they do not have any sufficient conscience or understanding about themselves and their future destinies. But it is not the Will of Our Father that we would walk through our life understanding nothing about ourselves, nothing about God and possibly even nothing about other believers. Understanding always points to wisdom and God desires wise and intelligent sons, not fools and dummies, also diligent sons and not lazy bums. Do we agree with this fact? It is always of a very great value to understand what is happening to us and why because it also points to the fact what God is doing with us and why. Because once the Law of the Spirit of Life starts working in us, or even around us, things will start happening with us and in us and to us, which never happened before and they will demand our willingness to understand and to go on. But not everybody will respond to His work in the same way, with the same understanding, same willingness, same enthusiasm or the same desire since various spiritual forces in his soul will stand in opposition. And so, it is far insufficient just to understand or even imagine how the Law of Life may work, if we do not see and understand ourselves and how “we may work” under His conditions and requirements. So, this Christianity and the process of our spiritual growing and maturing and of our perfection is not as simple as we would like to have it.

Before we understand ourselves, we also must realize how we actually become sons of God. The simple truth is that only the true God’s Apostles and Prophets are also born as sons of God. No one else is! All the other believers must in time decide to become God’s sons and daughters and decide to find and take the narrow road to get there! In Shock#7, I already mentioned how that God put His seed of sonship into my spirit before I was born! By that token, I was also born as a prophet and He put within me all that I needed to carry out a prophetic ministry according to His calling. Because in this world you cannot possibly study to be a prophet as there is no such schooling or education available, and the same for the Apostles. All people which were pagans and were brought to repentance and faith and baptism and thus became redeemed, they all became children of God. And when they later decided to continue with God and He foreknew that they will be willing to continue and receive Christ as Saviour and not just Redeemer, to them He gave the power to become the sons of God. (Jn. 1:12) However, in any case, every true son of God must be begotten of God whether before or after his natural birth. No man can become God’s son by any means without being begotten by God. Once the true sonship started from the centre of our being, the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children (Rom. 8:16) and future sons of God. This fact will be expressed in your life as a living reality and you will be able to notice it in the way of your speaking, your thinking, your judgments, your deeds and in all your ways. Hence, as you grow from a natural child to a natural son to your father, so you will grow from a spiritual child to a spiritual son to your Heavenly Father and you will begin to see a Divinely governed life where you will think differently, talk differently, understand differently, have different desires and plans, make different decisions; also go to different places and act differently, lose your old “virtues” like pride, self-righteousness, jealousies, fears, self-assurance, resistance, self-will, selfishness, bitterness, arrogance, laziness, stupidity, independence, etc.

We can say that the fullness of Life of Christ is before us, and we may reach its fullness by the steps that the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus puts in front of us or leads us into using such successive steps. Every servant of God, whether famous one or obscure one, had to decide in his own will whether to take the steps shown to him or he was led into by the Law of the Spirit of Life. If he followed those steps, he then achieved the fullness of Life foreknown for him by the Heavenly Father. There are some examples for such facts in the Bible, which we can read for ourselves chiefly in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Each such servant of God would teach us very valuable lessons how God works in us in order to achieve His goal and pleasure and not necessarily just our goal or pleasure. If we truly desire to serve the Lord, the first law of such service is subjection! If we are not subjected to the Lord in every part of our service, we cannot serve Him!

You see, something has to be done in us and with us before we reach that, which represents God’s Will for us and for our service. Even today, there are still plenty of pastors, preachers and generally leaders in churches and various missions or other religious establishments, which are full of self-energy, plans, desires, purposes and goals trying to reach them by their own will and carnal desires. The tragedy of such plans is when we know nothing about the fact that God’s plans and ends may only be reached by God’s power alone, and that resources for the accomplishment of God’s purposes are not in us or in our congregations, but only in God. And the Law of Life will not lead us in any other way because otherwise we are planning to accomplish things in the way of death. The same principle applies for the evangelistic efforts outside or within the existing churches. Many souls may be “redeemed” and then left to themselves. They may have been redeemed many years ago, but they have not progressed in their spiritual growth even one inch toward their true salvation!

In my original Pentecostal church, whenever there was a call from behind the pulpit for “testimonies”, it was always the same older lady who stood up and testified, “how happy she is that the Lord saved her and loves her”… She was sometimes followed by 2-3 others who had very similar testimony. The testimonies were, of course, good but very childish. After being in that congregation for 7 years, I never met even one believer who would have manifested the Life of Christ in his soul, or shown growth in his spirit. Every Sunday it was the same merry-go-round with children turning around in their seats and rejoicing in their redemption. God loves little children, but not eternal children, because as they should grow naturally after their birth, so they should grow spiritually after their baptism. True?

We also must see and realize that the natural life cannot provide spiritual fruit, which also means, no fruit unto God. Perhaps the best examples would be Hagar with Ishmael and Sarah with Isaac, in fact, nothing in this nature could produce Isaac, but God alone. And God made sure that Isaac could not be born naturally because he was chosen to live a supernatural life. Or Hannah with Samuel or Rachel where even their eventual children were produced by Divine intervention as nature could do nothing. Do these few examples show a clear picture showing this striking truth of the natural versus spiritual? One other example is given to us by Apostle Paul as he wrote to the believers in Galatia: “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” (Gal. 4:19) This may be the best Word of God typifying even the children in today’s churches, that are naïve (and thus also foolish) and unwilling to grow up in spirit even one inch. Why? The Law of Life has no chances to lead them anywhere because it has no suitable leaders, pastors, preachers or others willing themselves to do it and follow the required steps of the Law of Life that would free them from the Law of sin and death. So even with the new children of God, the leadership is failing to bring them to maturity.

Before we continue to immerse ourselves further and further into the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, we should realize that we could write a thick book since this Law and this Life touches literally every aspect of the believer’s life on earth as well as on his transition from earth to Heaven. It touches every change from our natural being to a spiritual being, from our earthly misery to our Heavenly glory. Let me add here few more changes in the names of some great servants of God. Abram was changed to Abraham because God has used the Law of Life to change Abram into a new man and make him a father of many nations (Gen. 17:5). Sarai, the wife of Abraham, was changed to Sarah because God blessed her and made her a mother of nations and kings of people shall be of her (Gen. 17:15,16). Jacob was changed to Israel because God declared that he was a prince having power with God and with men and had prevailed (Gen. 32:28). Jacob’s 12 sons formed the basis of the new nation of Israel which became a chosen nation of God and its Maker declared Himself as its Husband (Is. 54:5). These are few examples showing the incredible work of the Law of Life changing not only some people and their names but then making them fathers and mothers of nations. Every change that was necessary to be made in these, and many other people, was made by this Law of the Spirit of Life.

The most extraordinary work of the Law of Life was performed in Joseph, the son of Israel and Rachel, who, similarly as Isaac, was born supernaturally by the Will of God. As such, he was greatly blessed by God from his beginning and preordained for a glorious future. We know his great story from the Book of Genesis, but I just desire to mention these important facts…

His father Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because Joseph cared for his father and always desired to do his will. So, he was a true son and this is one important fact. Even though he discerned what was wrong with his carnal brothers, his desire and goal was to serve his brothers and help them. This is the second important fact. After that he was sold to Egypt by his brothers for 20 pieces of silver (Gen. 37:28); we do know that the Lord was also sold by Judas Iscariot for 30 pieces of silver (Mt. 26:14,15), This is the third important fact to consider. After coming to Egypt, he had to serve in Potiphar’s house and then suffer injustices and suffering in the dungeon. Then the Lord gave a dream to Pharaoh and Joseph was the only one who could explain it to him. That brought him to his throne where he was just next to Pharaoh in power and rulership. This is the fourth important fact. Then there arose a famine in Egypt and in Judea so his own family was suffering the shortage of food. They came to Egypt for food and Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and then helped his family to survive. This is the fifth important fact. These facts show the working of the Law of the Spirit of Life in Joseph who through his character and willingness to endure injustices and suffering was brought all the way to the throne of Egypt being just the second after Pharaoh. All this was possible because the Law of Life had a free way to achieve this in the soul and spirit of Joseph. So, Joseph was a type of Christ as he was also destined to the throne. Of course, just as Satan was against Christ reaching His Throne in Heaven, so he was also against Joseph reaching his throne in Egypt. In the case of Christ he summoned the help of the carnal Pharisees; in the case of Joseph he summoned the help of his carnal brothers. He failed miserably in both cases since he did not know the wisdom of God nor the ways of the Law of the Spirit of Life.

This example of Joseph shows us also that this Law of Life will eventually separate us from the world and give us power and authority. We will not have to abandon the world, the world will abandon us because it will see the impossibility to rule us or absorb us into its own life and system. The more Life of Christ we have in ourselves, the greater strangers we will become to the world. Eventually, if we give this Law of Life in us a free course of action, it will bring us to the throne – I do not mean the throne of Egypt, but the throne in Heaven where we will rule together with Christ. And that throne will apply to the whole new earth which our Father will create after the old one will be destroyed. It is true that the road to that throne is through suffering, rejection even humiliation, but this is the same way that our Lord had to take and He ended up on the Throne of Heaven with all power in Heaven and on the earth (Mt. 28:18). It is thus very important for us to realize, understand and accept the fact that if we suffer, we shall also rule and reign because of what such sufferings accomplish in us and prepare us for the throne.

It is also very important for us to realize, understand and accept the fact that the source of these sufferings and the greatest hindrances and obstacles on our way will NOT be by the world but by CARNAL Christians and by the CARNAL Church. If you haven’t experienced this, you will. You will be immediately considered as thinking yourself “superior and better and higher than anyone else”, even inhuman and deserving to be put out of the church, rejected and made an object of shame, reproach and suffering – just as Our Lord was! The people of Israel were not against Him but all the religious leaders were against Him, and so it shall be with you and me. The religious leaders in the churches of this world, and all those dead carnal believers who will believe them, will hate us and do unto us what they did unto Our Lord. If you do not believe me, read Matthew chpt. 23 and count how many time the Lord said to them: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (7 times?) And finally he asked them: “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” which means, that they were already condemned to hell for eternity! These were the religious leaders of Israel, the chosen nation of God! Are not the churches of today chosen of God? What about their leaders? Are they not the same or at least similar to the Pharisees? Have they ever considered that they may also be condemned to hell for eternity already today… and not be conscious of it?  

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IMPORTANT FACTS CONCERNING THE LAW OF LIFE

The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is an absolutely indivisible part of the Word of God since it is an indivisible part of the Mind of God, the Heart of God and the Will of God. Whatever God foreknew, decided, foreordained, whatever became His goal or purpose or objective, the very same thing has automatically become the goal, purpose and objective of the Law of Life for all those that were preordained for that goal, purpose or objective. Hence, there is never any discrepancy between the direction of the work of the Law of Life and the Word of God or between the believers preordained for that goal, purpose or objective and all the others.

When God was creating Adam, He already foresaw the Church which will become the Body of His Son Who will become the Redeemer and Saviour and the Head of all those that will form that Body. They will also form a Union with His Son and this is how Man and God will become ONE! They will rule the Spiritual Administration in the heavens and on the new earth together with Christ for ever and ever. What a huge “project”, what a huge task for the Law of the Spirit of Life, which no man can fathom or imagine incorporating believers without number with free will and living and growing into these foreordained heavenly beings – in the kingdoms of Satan on earth! And Adam was the first to begin that “crazy” journey… starting to walk with Satan! And Abel was the first that had to sacrifice his life because his mind and heart and will were correct, and thus his sacrifice was also acceptable to God. But Cain’s mind and heart and will were all wrong and stupid and his sacrifice was not acceptable to God. Then Cain killed Abel out of jealousy. And when Cain, the murderer, went out from the presence of the Lord, he did not even apologize or repent! (Gen.4:16) Great beginnings…

And then Noah undertook the “most mind-boggling” project that man had ever done even though it was not his idea, but God commanded him… and he did everything according as God commanded him. (Gen. 6:12-14, 22) To this day we do not know, who were “the sons” of God, which were so evil and disobedient and could come to the daughters of men and have children with them, which then grew and became abnormal giants. God gives us no explanation except that He saw how great the wickedness of men was, and that it repented the Lord that he made man and it grieved Him at His heart! (Gen. 6:2-7) After the Flood, Noah got drunk and was lying naked in his tent! And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his nakedness… and nobody knows why, by accident or purposely? Then Noah cursed Canaan (not Ham), and made him a servant to Shem and Japheth. Why? Nobody knows! I am not asking why Noah got drunk – after completing such a project and such a voyage he probably had the “right” to get drunk. I am asking why was Noah lying in his tent naked? Is this a “normal behavior” of such a servant of God? And even if this is pardonable, what right he had to curse anybody, who by chance saw him there naked? If anyone reads Genesis 9:21-27 and makes any sense out that part, I sincerely congratulate him.

What is also very interesting is that “as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Mt. 24:37) This, of course shall be at the end of this dispensation. And what is the main event of the end of this dispensation? It is the dethronement of Satan and all his hierarchy, and the enthronement of the Overcomers of the Church to begin to rule with Christ. This will also be the conflict between the Overcomers foreknown and foreordained by the Father to be the Bride of Christ (Rom. 8:29) and all the powers of evil and darkness that are still in the heavenlies and described by Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:12-17. And the Law of the Spirit of Life will have quite a “job” to do in every individual to lead him in the correct way and enable him to understand and perform all the tasks necessary to achieve the goal of the Father over the powers of evil and darkness and death in the heavenlies. What we may not know or understand is that NOT every Overcomer will be the Bride of Christ! Also, all Overcomers will reach a different level of their perfection (salvation) and that will not depend on their faith, but on their love for the Lord!

This will be the most serious issue to tackle for the Church and especially for the Remnant of the Church to break through the lines of the evil powers and establish our place of authority in the heavenlies. Because as the Church will come near the end of the world, it will be less and less able to continue its earthly work for the Lord since it will be expected and called upon to justify its existence more and more in the spiritual arena and including the heavenlies rather than the worldly arena. The believers will not be evaluated by the Lord as to how much they believe the truth or doctrines or how much they “work” for the Lord in this world. Rather, they will be evaluated and their ultimate value for the Lord will be as to how much they count in the spiritual scene and what are they able to achieve there in the unseen world.

The Law of the Spirit of Life will also undertake to show to us and to make us understand that the Lord was not born as a babe and grew up to a man because He needed that. He did not need to become a human being – WE needed that, He became a man for our sake otherwise He could not provide for us the Salvation that He did. He equally did not need to die on the Cross except for our sake. This whole cycle of experiences that He undertook including His resurrection, ascension and enthronement on the throne of Heaven was done FOR US and not for Himself! And He did it all as BEING ONE OF US and not for some strange believers with strange names from strange countries. And He did it all according to the Will of His Father. Now WE ARE to do a similar cycle of experiences by OUR WILL and according to the Will of Our Father. So we are a mighty important component of this future as foreseen and foreordained by Our Father. This fact should also change our thinking and understanding and willingness as well as our attitude toward this Heavenly project and operation.

The Law of the Spirit o Life is telling us already now that our warfare into which we are going is far different than the warfare of Israel in Egypt, or their warfare in the wilderness, but it may be somewhat comparable to their warfare in the Promised Land. You see, our “Promised Land” and thus our warfare is in the Heavenlies (Eph. 6:12). And the Law of Life has already prepared our victory though we may understand nothing about it as yet. Why? Because we cannot possibly know or understand what the Lord desires us to know and understand until we are out of the realm of our self-life, the carnal life, the personal interest life. This is the main preparation of us by the Law of Life and once we are out of this realm, we will be on thrones of Heaven with Christ.

Our high calling is not “just” to become the Bride of Christ! We might be shocked to realize that Satan may not care whether we are the Bride of Christ or just His menial servant or whoever we might like to be. Satan cares about his kingdoms! – and his power! – and here we find our main conflict! And here we also find the important element of our high calling – not just our present and future Union with the exalted Lord Jesus Christ, but also share His position of Power and Authority over Heaven and Earth including the coming Kingdom of God! And when Satan is finally cast down from Heaven to the earth, the voice in Heaven will confirm “Now is come Salvation and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the Power of His Christ…” (Rev.12:10-13) This will be the beginning of the end of Satan and of his hordes and of his power. He will lose everything, all his power and his evil plots – to prevent the Christ and now also us from assuming the power on the thrones of Heaven – all his evil plots will fail! The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus including our willingness and decision to walk in that Law will be responsible for that!

Shock#10 – There are two worlds: physical and spiritual… and God created both! The physical was created by the spiritual and never vice versa. And the spiritual world rules the physical world and never vice versa! This may not be a shock for some people of this world, but for multitudes, it still is.

The real shock is that those to whom it applies the most and every day, which means, the carnal believers, they are not conscious of it, do not recognize it and thus ignore it during all their so-called “Christian life”. Most of the churches in this world, irrespective of their “denomination”, are CARNAL; maybe even 90% of them or more. They are dead and thus have no consciousness of the spiritual world and its effect on them and on their destiny! The rest of believers are called “spiritual” and they have the spiritual sense and discernment necessary to grow up in spirit and mature to their salvation – perfection. Why is such a large portion of churches carnal? Because their leadership is carnal! Should the leaders be spiritual, their congregations would also be spiritual. Is this not even logical? This also means that they are not even conscious of the fact that for us, the earthy people, the spiritual world is UNSEEN, non-existent and thus whatever they cannot see or understand, they cannot believe! This of course includes faith, because “faith is the evidence of things NOT SEEN”! (Heb. 11:1) By believing only those things that they can see and understand, they put the whole Christianity upside-down!  

If we see this simple fact then we should also see and understand how God sees us, values us and judges us, because God judges us according to His spiritual Laws and not earthly laws. The real VALUE and effectiveness of any child of God is always determined by our value and effectiveness in the spiritual world, which means in the UNSEEN realm and not in this world! And this is also how the Law of Life is leading us. Its work is such that it always leads us to abilities that produce in us spiritual values and effectiveness. We may have values and be effective in this world and thus be appreciated by human standards, but before God we may have NO value and thus our earthly efforts, aspirations, ambitions, endeavors may before God be totally useless even if they are spent in the “work for the Lord”! One such example is Mr. Robison from TBN TV network who’s all Christianity is to dig wells and bring drinking water to African children and families. His humanistic effort is appreciated, but is it all we do for God? Do you church leaders understand this critically important fact whereby we may be spending a lot of time and finances for nothing? Will you continue in such activities which God never asked? Doesn’t this paragraph also demand that we all should be before Our God and Lord Jesus Christ in a certain definite spiritual position where the Law of Life would have the necessary degree of freedom in us to work its spiritual agenda? You see, the Holy Spirit cannot possibly get on with His work for which He was sent to us and start not only guiding us into all truths (Jn. 16:13), but also producing in us certain spiritual position with spiritual abilities, wisdom and spiritual capacity to produce spiritual values.

When Apostle Paul wrote the Book of Ephesians, where he probably reached the highest point of spiritual life, spiritual effectiveness and thus the spiritual value in believers, he firstly assumed that we all are out of Egypt! (of course, he takes Israel as an example) Secondly he assumed that we are all out of our wilderness, which also means out of our world. And thirdly he assumed that we are all out of our flesh, out of ourselves, which also means – out of our self-government! Therefore, he assumed that we all are at least sufficiently spiritual and our blessings are spiritual and our abilities and values are spiritual. Only then He will be able to show us our heavenly resources and spiritual evidences and bases of our absolute and total victory in the heavenlies! How many believers can God count into this above number, if there are just 60 queens and 80 concubines and the Dove, His undefiled, is only one? (S.Sol. 6:8-9), will this suffice? Our earthly mind cannot possibly tackle this. But let us not forget, that even the virgins without number are all Overcomers! Nobody can be saved and ready to enter the Kingdom of God on earth or Heaven Itself unless he/she is an Overcomer… just as nobody can inherit all things and become the son or daughter of God unless he/she is also Overcomer (Rev. 21:7). We thus must understand that all the believers from Song of Solomon 6:8-9 are Overcomers, all are spiritual, but everyone has a different degree of perfection in his spirit and soul. Hence, they also have different calling and responsibilities for their future tasks and actions, and that also includes the heavenlies.

Now we must come to another important understanding concerning believers and what the Law of Life must do in them and in what stages. The first fact we have to realize in our mind and spirit is the fact that the Song of Solomon 6:8-9 describes ALL believers that are SAVED and thus sufficiently perfected to become either the New Jerusalem (the Dove=Bride of Christ – Rev. 21:9-23) or the nations walking in Her light (Rev. 21:24-27). And before these believers became sufficiently perfected they also had their shortcomings and unacceptable features in their character, which is common to all believers, even those that shall not be saved. You see, believers are divided to two basic groups as we described them already above, namely, carnal and spiritual. However, they are additionally divided to other two basic groups, which has nothing to do with the first group. This time the division is along the lines of selfishness and not spirituality. There are multitudes of Christians who are rejoicing in their salvation and embracing it and even valuing it as something what they attained for themselves! For them their Christian life with all its features and aspects and experiences is, we may say, self-ward, just for themselves, it is theirs, they are saved (even if they are not, in case of carnal Christians), they are blessed and they are after more blessings, they want everything for themselves. This is the first group. The second group consists of spiritual Christians only; there is not even one carnal Christian. An important part of their Christian life, endeavor, ambitions and efforts is God’s Purpose, God’s Interest, God’s satisfaction and not only their personal joy, satisfaction or future bliss. They also understand that God desires for them not only some blessings, but His Own Fullness (Eph. 3:19). This may be rather difficult to understand, but we should be willing.

We may not need further description of the first group, but for the second group I take Israel as a very typical example. While they were slaves in Egypt they probably never even thought about God and most definitely they were not thankful to Him for their slavery. When God took them out of Egypt, they were glad for a brief period of time. Then they started their typical murmuring for anything that displeased them, for any smallest difficulty or anything that did not gratify them, etc. It never occurred to them that God took them out from their slavery for His purposes, His satisfaction and were about to lead them to their Promised Land also primarily for His satisfaction and pleasure and purposes and not just theirs! And when He showed them the Promised Land, they refused to believe that it is indeed the land flowing with milk and honey and refused to enter in. So then what happened? “The Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not”! (Jude 5) We will come back to this, but let me first add the episode with the Promised Land, because this is where the New Testament Christians are supposed to go. Israel – the chosen nation of God – would have never seen the Promised Land, never mind dwelling therein, if it was not for TWO MEN: Caleb and Joshua (Num. 14:30) God prepared every foot of that Land for His people and then he left there 7 enemy nations to stand in their way! Why? So, how did the Promised Land become Possessed Land? By the LAW of the SPIRIT of LIFE which found a suitable vessel to do that job – Joshua! (Josh. 5:13-15 + Num. chpt. 14)

Now, let us return to the previous paragraph and see where we, the Christians of the New Testament, really are in the eyes of Our God. The Lord Jesus took us out of this world where we were slaves to Satan and under his power (Pharaoh) and brought us into the spiritual wilderness of this world. Here He is educating us, teaching us to see and know ourselves and thus see and know and understand what HE has to do in us and through us to prepare us and make us suitable to go and possess our Promised Land – the Heavenlies. And let me say quite clearly and truthfully right at this place:  we are not much different from Israel! I am going to copy some words from the previous paragraph for you to see and believe, such as these:

When the Lord took us out of this world, we were glad for a brief period of time. Then we started our typical murmuring for anything that displeased us, for any smallest difficulty or anything that did not gratify us, etc. It never occurred to us that God took us out from our slavery for His purposes, His satisfaction and His pleasure and is about to lead us to our Promised Land – the Heavenlies – also primarily for His satisfaction and pleasure and purposes and not just ours! And should He show us our “Promised Land” – the Heavenlies – at this stage, we might equally NOT believe that we can possess that Heavenly Land! Because we might also see there some giants, the sons of Anak, and we might see ourselves in our own sight as grasshoppers, etc. (Num. 13:33) and the Lord might similarly destroy those of us that believe not! (Jude 5) And some Christian leaders might also say: We have no Joshua! REALLY? Are we the same idiots that the Israelites were? You should judge, if you dare! Consider two facts: (1) Joshua did not win the Promised Land for Israel! It was won by the Spirit of God but THROUGH Joshua! (Josh. 5:13) And (2), that same Spirit of God that fought through Joshua lives in every baptized Christian! How? The explanation may be very simple if you can read English, namely, Acts 2:38 where we all received the gift of the Spirit of God… into our spirit! Or have you received Him somewhere else? If so, then where? And He is more than Joshua. Do we know Him? NO! Do we want to know Him? NO! Do we want Him to guide us into all truth? (Jn. 16:13) NO! Do we want Him to lead us into our battles against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places (heavenlies-Eph. 6:12) NO! Do we at least want to come to Him and speak with Him? NO! Why would we want that, if we do not even want to come to Christ that we might have His Life? (Jn. 5:40) I do not say this, Christ said it. Then we say: We are fine, we do not need anything! Is this true? Do you know how the Lord looks at it? He will judge the church more severely than Israel! Here is the proof of it, which very few Christians are aware of…

The Church and Israel are two completely different entities chosen by God for different purposes and living under different spiritual conditions. The basic and deep difference between them is this: The CHURCH is not an entity of time but rather an entity of eternity; neither is it an entity of the world but the entity of Heaven! It was chosen in Christ Jesus and formed before time began. It is written: “According as He (God) hath chosen us in Him (Christ) before the foundations of the world…” (Eph. 1:4a). Furthermore, the Purpose of the Church has been to become the Body of Christ. On the other hand, ISRAEL is the entity of time and of the world and not of Heaven. Its chief Purpose was to become as it were a CHANNEL for Christ, from His birthday until His resurrection and ascension. Hence, there is a great difference in their existence according to the Purposes of God, the Church being the Body of Christ and Israel being the channel for Christ. Furthermore, the Church was gifted with the Spirit of God dwelling in the believers who were thus enabled by Him to be guided to all truth (Jn. 16:13), whereas Israel never had the Spirit of God dwelling in their members. This fact also makes a difference in God’s Judgment of the Church and Israel, on their functioning and carrying out their responsibilities. It should also be clear that the Law of the Spirit of Life had been working differently in the Church and in Israel. The Christians in the Church were supposed to serve God in the Spirit of God whom they received at their baptism and they were supposed to be living in the Life of Christ and from their innermost being were supposed to flow rivers of living water (Jn. 7:38). In Israeli believers, the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus was not working along these lines at all unless they at some point of time believed in the Messiah, were baptized and became de facto members of the Church.

For us today, the situation of the Church and Israel and how God looks at both and judges both may be quite confusing even when we understand and keep in mind the facts from the above paragraph. However, the Lord desires that we would also start seeing and understanding the spiritual situation in Israel after the Messiah was born and ministered and was crucified by His own people and was resurrected. The fact is that at that very time Israel ceased to be the channel for Christ and was supposed to start as it were “merging” into the Church, that is into the “Body of Christ” especially after the day of Pentecost, when also all the Jewish Disciples of Christ received the Holy Spirit and started “evangelizing” Israel bringing it to the sphere of the Church of Christ. The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus “turned the corner” and started to do the same kind of work in Jewish believers as It was doing in the believers of the Church. After His resurrection Christ is NOT A JEW any more and in Christ there is neither “Jew” nor “Greek” (which means non-Jew) since in Christ we are ALL ONE (Gal. 3:27). So, yes, in 1948 God brought back His people to the land that He gave them, and I was there in 1978 to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of that joyous occasion. So Israel still exists – ON EARTH. But there is NO ISRAEL IN CHRIST AND NO ISRAEL IN HEAVEN! And if you are not one in Christ, you do not belong to the people of God!

Let me enlarge the above explanation of the spiritual differences between Israel and the Church since the spiritual situation in both entities is more complicated. As you can find Jews that truly believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and call Him Messiah and call themselves Messianic Jews, yet, they may not be members of His Body. You may similarly have plenty of Christians in the Church, which had also believed in the Lord as their Saviour, but remained as “carnal”, they are not spiritual and similarly they are not members of His Body! The Law of Life deals with both these groups in the same way but differently than with all the other believers. The Law of Life cannot really start Its work in us for which It came to us until we are in a certain required position spiritually! While we exist down here on Earth in our flesh, live carnal life, walk constantly along our so-called “self-line”, whether we are Jews or Christians, the operation of the Law of Life has a different character altogether. It is doing what we might call a “negative” work in trying to get us OUT of that position until we finally start apprehending our heavenly spiritual position in Christ. This is usually a “dirty and painful job” of the Law of Life. But then Its work changes into a “positive” one where we are being made to see and realize and understand and be willing to start walking according to our calling with which we are called even though that calling may be different for every individual according to his willingness and desire. When we indeed start walking, that Law of Life starts to make us free from the Law of sin and death and starts to show us that the things and blessings promised by God start to materialize. In other words – the promises are being changed into possessions. This also happened to Israel with their Promised Land when, thanks to the Spirit of God and the willing man called Joshua, it was liberated from all enemies and changed from Promised to a Possessed Land! And I am purposely writing this fact also because our Promised Land is the Heavenlies, which we also have to Possess through the Spirit of God and our willingness after we are brought to the right (fighting) position by the Law of the Spirit of Life, which will cleanse us from all sin and death!

In the first phase, Israel had to be taken out of Egypt, so we had to be taken out of this world through our redemption. But then, Israel went through its second phase, which was wilderness where they were supposed to learn obedience, and be educated in all areas to be prepared to get to their Promised Land and possess it. So it is with us where we find ourselves in the spiritual wilderness of this world where after our redemption we are to start walking to our salvation on the narrow road! (Mt. 7:14) Also, start learning obedience and being educated in all areas to be prepared to get to the Heavenlies and possess it. Just as Israel was delivered from Egypt but not from themselves, so are we delivered from this world, but not from ourselves, from our self life, still being natural and carnal. We must begin our overcoming and exercising our new faith which is not unto salvation but far above it! Though we may be in Christ positionally through our faith, but we may still be living our natural life on earth trying to satisfy God. But this is NOT the WILL of God for us because our position in Christ in our “first” faith does not bring to us a new life – resurrected life – resurrected position in Christ which is, in fact, the position in the Heavenlies – it is the ascension union with Christ which also means death to our self-life, to our earthly life! Hence, the warfare of Israel in their Promised Land was different from their warfare in Egypt or in the wilderness. And our warfare in the Heavenlies (Eph. 6:12) will also be different than our warfare in this world or in the wilderness of this world after our Redemption. I must add here that we cannot know what the Lord desires us to know and understand and do until we are OUT of the realm of our SELF-life, out of our personal interest life.

Our calling is for the present and future Union with the Christ exalted in His Heavenly Position of all Power and Authority over the kingdoms of Satan! Hence, the Law of the Spirit of Life has always been seeking such among believers who will respond to the Heavenly calling to – leave the earthlies and possess their appointed places in the Heavenlies in Christ Jesus – where Our Heavenly Father had already raised us up and seated us together in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:6). Very few Christians understand or are aware of the fact that the true Purpose of Our Heavenly Father was not just that we would be saved, that we would just become good Christians and would thus become just good members of the Church and just escape Hell and get to Heaven . Of course, these things are all true and wonderful, but we were called by God according to His Eternal Purpose which is that we would be found in Christ Jesus and be chosen in Him from eternity to eternity as being ONE WITH HIM. The MAN Christ Jesus is thus not only representing us before God, but HE IS AS US before God and God looks at HIM as at US and God looks at US as at HIM! That’s why the Law of the Spirit of Life works in us to make POSSIBLE what is naturally absolutely IMPOSSIBLE – unimaginable transformation and ensuing difference between a natural man and an absolutely PERFECTED SPIRITUAL MAN – ONE with CHRIST.

This was the original thought of God which formed His Eternal Purpose for man before the foundations of the world and thus before God created the first man – Adam. Hence, His Eternal Purpose applied also to Adam! On page 18, paragraph 4 and 5, in the first lines, you will find these two important sentences: 1) the Life, which is in Christ Jesus, is brought to us along the line of sonship. And 2) the important fact concerning the sonship is that unless we are the sons of God, the Law of the Spirit of Life is NOT working in us as It should until we become sons or daughters of God. Of course, this means, that Adam was created as ”a son of God”! Right? If you don’t believe me, then believe the Word of God (Lk. 3:38). If you cannot comprehend this Word of God, then realize that Adam was “created” by God and not “born of God”, in which case, he would have not sinned (1Jn. 3:9) and lost his sonship – though I believe he lost it only temporarily. Now, if we are sufficiently courageous, we may go so far as to assume that when God decided to create His first man Adam as “His son”, He thereby extended this “spiritual fact” to all mankind – He offered His sonship to all men on this planet as their “free choice”! Otherwise, Tit. 2:11 would look ridiculous, if this fact of the sonship would be left out of the Grace of God that brings salvation and that appeared to all men as their “free choice”! True? Or not true?

I feel I need to say at this junction an important word concerning the absoluteness of the need for revelation by the Holy Spirit to know all that I am writing here and setting forth in words about God's thoughts and purposes. It is not the kind of knowledge we may know or obtain when we just read the Bible or go to church and listen to sermons. We do not come to the knowledge or understanding of God by studying the Scriptures! On the contrary, we come to know and understand the Scriptures first of all by the knowledge of God. But we have to be introduced into this spiritual realm with Divine capacity for knowing and understanding. The Holy Spirit Alone is that capacity of God in us for knowing God's thoughts. In order to support also this paragraph with facts from our Christianity, let me add the following…

Nothing in this world is more divided, more at odds, even more at war than the so called Christian establishments, denominations, sects and churches and what-have-you. There are countless movements and systems of teaching, institutions and organizations, very few of which harmonize, they are rather conflicting and bringing shame to God while they are all constructed upon the Word of God! Roman Catholics will quote the Word of God for their position (they probably never read the book “Roman Catholicism” by Lorain Boettner?) and Protestants will quote the Word of God for their positions, and what is true in their case is true almost in all denominations and sects and everything else in Christendom. The Word of God is behind their position, and how many of all those thousands of things are in harmony? They are all at variance, conflicting and at war. No ecumenical movement or effort will ever resolve these differences; this war shall never be ended before the Lord returns! That is a grievous thing to say, even among Christians who ought to know better. But leadership of those many churches and denominations makes sure that their position is always supported by some Scripture.

May I ask you three simple questions: Is it not the Holy Spirit, which is also known as the Spirit of Truth that was sent to us to guide us into all truths? (Jn. 16:13) Yes or no? And does this Holy Spirit have thousands of conflicting minds? Yes or no? And finally, does this Spirit work with us to make those who take the Word of God as their foundation to be at variance with one another? Yes or no? What are your answers? Listen to me doctors of theology, preachers, pastors, teachers, evangelists, professors at seminaries, even writers of mountains of theology books who never knew God. So why is this situation so catastrophic? Because ALL believers in churches, homes, seminaries and in leaderships need MUCH MORE than what is written in the Bible! Why? Because we all are so naturally able to go in all directions in our mental apprehension of what is written in the Bible! We may be in the most extreme deception with our minds putting our construction upon the Word of God. We may be wholly, completely and easily deceived as to our position and understanding and true meaning of what we have read. In fact, it happens quite often that we read something in the Word and we are “ready to do it” for the Lord as we comprehend it, and then we do exactly the opposite of how the Lord meant it... and never even be aware of it! The true servant of the Lord should be gentle and in meekness instructing those that resist the truth and oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will! So the devil has an easy job to deceive us and take us captive. (2Tim 24-26) Are we aware of that? NO! For centuries the Church did not know what Satan was doing to the Church and inside the Church! Hence, ever since the end of the Early Church, it has been sliding down the drain until now when the Lord will have to spue it out of His mouth as it is “good for nothing” (Rev. 3:16-18)! What do you – doctors of theology and preachers and other educated believers – say to this simple truth?  

Listen to me again, the church leadership: why you can be deceived so easily – at the will of the devil – and not even be aware of it? You are victims of at least two basic reasons: (1) Not all, but maybe 90% of you do not truly FEAR the Lord God… because “the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and He will show them His covenant”! (Ps. 25:14) And (2), maybe 95% of you are truly PROUD and not meek, you do not even know what meekness is! Because “The meek will He guide: and the meek will He teach His way.” (Ps. 25:9) There are innumerable Words of God (especially Proverbs) that speak about fear of the Lord, pride, meekness, wisdom, knowledge, etc., and how they depend on one another. So, the reading of the Word of God, no matter how useful and necessary, is not the main condition for understanding it and be guided by it or to guide others. Your spirit and soul must first be cleansed from the filth of the powers of darkness and evil, which are making you unfit instruments to bring spiritual truth, spiritual wisdom and the right – spiritual - knowledge to the believers, who know nothing and depend on you.

The Spirit of God and thus the Law of Life does not work in our souls nor in our minds, but in our spiritual understanding, which depends on our spiritual cleanliness and capacity to receive it and retain it in our spirit. It is very well known to the Holy Spirit and thus to the Law of Life what we already know and have spiritually recognized from the Scriptures and that there is yet enough to be revealed to us as unknown and unrecognized. Since the spiritual understanding is the ONLY TRUE understanding of the things and thoughts and ways and purposes of God, therefore, we must be truly spiritual with the Spirit living and acting in us and effectively guiding us to know God and His Word as God truly means it and understands it Himself. Then the door to our true perfection is wide open and the Law of Life is also free to do in us all the necessary work. If, therefore, most of the church leadership does not belong to this paragraph or does not satisfy it, the church has no way of growing up and satisfying the Lord or fulfilling the Eternal Purposes of God! Do we understand THIS? Once we start getting God’s meaning of His Word – it starts to become the very center of our oneness. And once we are one and also being rooted and grounded in love and comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height – then our final victory over Satan and all his forces of darkness and evil will be absolutely guaranteed and unquestionable! (Eph. 3:17-19) Where is the church from this destination? And when the church is nowhere in sight, who is responsible for that?

With respect to the above paragraphs, I feel led to ask a simple but important question: What is the real value of what you know and understand and do for God and for the church? What is the real fruit of your knowledge and understanding and actions for God, for the church and for the millions of believers that are redeemed, but not saved? And even if you have some kind of answer, specific not general answer, how would God answer this question? If we only take the knowledge, we should know and understand and even experience in our life that the “knowledge of the Holy Spirit” is living, which means it is working and has fruits in our Christian life and growth. If our knowledge and understanding are only mental, they are not living, they are dead and thus they have no fruit and no positive effect on our Christian life. This also means that during our Christian life we do not change! And if we do change, then it is more likely for the worse and not for the better.

Apostle Paul beseeched us to “walk worthy of our vocation wherewith we are called; With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” (Eph. 4:1-3) WOW! I ministered for 52 years in many churches, house groups, fellowships and other gatherings and that in many parts of the world! I had not met even one Christian, who would have followed the above advice of Apostle Paul in this Word of God. NOT ONE! Why? Because…

1) “lowliness” in other words means that in yourself “you know nothing!” (1Cor. 8:2), it also means that in yourself “you are nothing!” (Gal. 6:3) and thus you have everything to learn and understand in spirit. Have you ever met even one believer, never mind church leader, who would practice this Word of God? REALLY?

2) “meekness” in other words means that “you are able” to put up with a lot of garbage, stupidity, pride and arrogance, darkness and death from others without your immediate self-defense, arguing or kicking back.

3) “longsuffering” in other words means that “you are able” not only to live and practice what is mentioned in point 2), but “you are also able” to carry on the above living practice to all necessary lengths, which also means “as long as the Lord would require you to go” – while at the same time “you would be able” to give diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit! Again, have you ever met even one believer, never mind any church leader, who would practice the above two Words of God? REALLY? Maybe now you would believe me when I said above that: I had not met even one Christian, who would have followed the above advice of Apostle Paul in this Word of God. NOT ONE!

You see, you can be in Christ “positionally” through your faith for many years, reading the Bible and attending the church for many years and trying to satisfy God for many years and during all those many years living your own natural life on earth! This is NOT acceptable to God, this is NOT the Will of God and this is NOT God’s Purpose for your life and your destiny. You are heading to a fiasco and there seems to be no one to tell you that fact or warn you in any way and then guide you to the right way. You see, NO believer can safely and without consequences live a “church life and a private life” at the same time! In fact, he cannot mix these two lives in any way, form or shape! In the same way we can say that we just cannot mix and live a “heavenly life and an earthly life” at the same time! Can light and darkness exist at the same place at the same time? Can sweet and bitter exist at the same place and the same time? Can truth and lies exist at the same place at the same time? Is this difficult to understand? And if it is not, then why the whole church and all believers and even many church leaders are mixing these two lives in their earthly existence knowing what kind of disaster is waiting for them? (Is. 5:20,21) It should not be a “rocket science” for the church to understand that details of the spiritual life in every true believer, who has it, may have a definite and also immediate effect upon the greatest spiritual issues in the heavenlies! Because, everything in the life and behavior of the church on earth has a definite and even immediate effect somewhere in the spiritual and unseen world! Are we aware of it? NO! But this simple fact should clearly show to us that everything in the life and deeds of the church and its individual members is “taken up” or ascends into the unseen spiritual world and has there a definite meaning and value there, whether the value is positive or negative, whether it works for the church or against the church. Shall I continue?

Another important spiritual fact which may affect the destiny of the church and of each individual believer in it and which may also determine the final victory of the church and of each individual believer in it is the matter known as secretiveness in the church and in its individual believers. It may matter even very much how we behave in secret in our private lives, what we keep secret and why. In my 52 years of ministry I always found out that whatever was kept secret in our own souls and lives was always somehow associated with darkness, sin, evil, death and hell. That is to say, something totally unacceptable to God, something sinful that calls for His judgment. And so we may have a respectable knowledge of the Bible (like the leadership) yet, we somehow take even the most important issues very lightly and neglect to go to the roots of our problems and determine their sometimes very dangerous effects for our future existence and situation.

One example is Mt.10:26 where Our Lord tells us clearly that “there is NOTHING covered that shall not be revealed; and HID that shall not be made manifest.” There can be not only ugly or sinful things, but also very dangerous things in our souls or in the background of our life. And then the day may arrive when a big uproar starts from that “hidden issue”, when of all times it is absolutely necessary for us to be able to deal with that ugly issue effectively even before God and the church, and we CANNOT! We may stand there in deep shame because that hidden thing was manifested and it found us out in the hour of our deepest need. You see, when we come into a heavenly position – there is nothing that would have no effect there – everything counts there! This also reminds me of the Word of God that says: “Strive to enter in at the straight gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall NOT BE ABLE.” (Lk. 13:24) This above problem means two situations: 1) we have been aware of those ugly, sinful, evil things in our life but have always REFUSED to deal with them! Or 2) we were not always aware of them, but whenever the Lord desired to bring us to them and show us those things we again REFUSED to even see them. Some of the consequences of our unwillingness and procrastination may be found in Lk. 13:25-28. Even here we mention unwillingness, which, of course, is tied up with our will, and we will come to this greatest problem of our life in the very next section.

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The Greatest Problem of Every Believer

If you reread several of the above paragraphs, you might begin to see a Mountain of Light that the Lord would like to show you, which Light you may have never seen and comprehended before. Why? Because whenever we were walking in darkness, we could not be aware of Light, never mind comprehending it. True? Now we may also ask ourselves, why we ever walked in darkness and not in the light? Well, here I have to bring to the foreground the biggest WORD, which is the name of the most important and powerful organ of our soul. This organ is – OUR WILL!

Have you ever realized that once you make any decision in your will, there is no power in this entire Universe, including God Himself(!) that can change your decision outside of your will? WHY? Because God during His creation of the first man – Adam – had given to him and through him to every man a FREE WILL! This is the most important Principle that God established for His physical and mental creation. He equally established Principles for His spiritual creation and He will never go against any of His established Principles.

Firstly, why is our will such important principle, perhaps, the most important principle? And why is it also the greatest problem of every believer, as the title of this section above indicates? Well, both questions are answered with one answer shown in chapter 8 of my book “Life out of Death”, in the frame on page 120, as follows below:

God, Our Creator and Saviour, had NOT decided our destiny! Each man decides his destiny by his own choices and decisions of his own free will! *

Since man makes choices and decisions by his free will, God works in man to be willing and decide to do of His (God’s) good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). But there is also Satan, who works in man by deceiving him and the whole world (Rev. 12:9// 2Cor. 4:4// 2Tim. 2:26) so man will make wrong choices and decisions unaware that they will keep him from his Salvation and will finally destroy him in the lake of fire and brimstone (Rev. 20:14,15).

* God had decided that all men on this planet will have an opportunity to be saved by His Grace. This is clearly shown in Titus 2:11. However, God did not make His Salvation mandatory for every man, on the contrary, man that desires his salvation and life must choose it and the way to it by his own free will! (Deut. 30:15,19) But if our very future, our eternal destiny, depends on our free will and its decisions, then the above frame justifies the text of this section and the Law of the Spirit of Life will also give us the reasons for the title of this section. You see, the greatest problem of every believer grows out of the greatest problem of the pastors, preachers and teachers and other church leaders, who lead their sheep to their destiny! I give you two personal examples as clear proofs, which could have destroyed not only mine Christian life and destiny, but also that of the whole congregation of 3-4 hundred believers attending one Pentecostal church in LaSalle (within greater Montreal in Canada) more then 50 years ago.

The FIRST example is: After some believers were baptized in water, the next week the senior pastor came to the pulpit and declared: “Now that you are baptized, you are saved… and you do not have to move your finger!” The most stupid and dangerous proclamation and the greatest lie of any Pentecostal pastor that I have ever heard! So, Heb. 6:1-3 and many other Words of God do not exist for him! Of course, I started to learn the true depth of this lie and its utmost danger and idiocy only later on after the Lord took me out of that church.

The SECOND example is: Not long after the above dangerous declaration, I witnessed another set of declarations proclaimed from the pulpit by the same “senior” pastor with all sincerity and academic simplicity, which could have surpassed not only the idiocy, but also the degree of endangering our very salvation and destiny. During his sermon he quoted Apostle James (Jam. 2:20-22) and set him against Apostle Paul (Eph. 2:8,9) and claimed that “James could have learned some lessons from Paul… because Paul clearly defined that  we are saved by faith, which is the gift of God, and not by works, lest any man should boast. Yet, James claims that Abraham was justified by works!!!” VOW! I do wonder which seminary, that pastor attended before he was allowed to lead his congregation to hell? There was not one bit of spiritual understanding in that man. Now, if Pentecostal pastors and preachers and teachers are spiritual “dead sticks” while they claim that the Pentecostal church is at the “cutting edge” of Christianity, then what about the thousands of pastors and teachers and preachers in other denominations, which are supposedly not as advanced as Pentecostals, because they “do not speak with tongues”? And the above two examples are but “the top of the glacier” in the “overall tragedy of the church!” Before I go further, I need to explain the tragedy of the above 2 examples as follows…

The FIRST example – if you read any of my previous books or brochures, or if you just re-read page 5 of this brochure and if you have not lost your logic and common sense in the church that you attend, then it should be quite clear to you, that even after your water baptism your soul is THE SAME as before the water baptism and before you received the gift of the Spirit of God (Acts 2:38). In other words, you have the same pagan soul as you had before your baptism!!! And unless you overcome all evil in your soul, your name shall be blotted out of the Book of Life by the Lord Himself and you will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the so-called second death, and eternally damned! (Rev. 3:5 + 20:14,15) HELLO church leadership?

The SECOND example – if James was asked to comment Eph. 2:8,9 he would have found nothing wrong with it; and if Paul was asked to comment Jam. 2:20-22 he would have similarly found nothing wrong with it. Why? Because both Apostles were lead by the Holy Spirit and both wrote what they received from the Holy Spirit! Clearly, the Holy Spirit would not contradict Himself in any of His true servants. And most definitely, James had absolutely nothing to learn from Paul. In fact, chapter 2 of the letter of James gives us much more needed light concerning the faith and works, then all Paul letters put together! So, speaking humanly, Paul could have learned something from James, because not only is his text in Ephesians 2:8,9 bringing confusion about “faith and works”, but also his text in Romans 10:9,10 brings confusion concerning “salvation and redemption”.

Hence, the conclusion to this “artificial” discrepancy is that James gives very clear light concerning living and dead faith by stating that faith without works is dead being alone and thus it does not count and thus does not bring either redemption or salvation! (Jam. 2:14,17,18,20,22) On the other hand, Paul is not so clear and thus Eph. 2:9 could have been “Not of dead works of man, lest that man should boast, but by the works of his faith.” And there could have been added a note after this verse saying – James 2:14,17,18,20. Finally, Paul brings at the end of Romans 10:9,10 some problem by using the word “saved” and “salvation” while this text of his letter to Rome points to redemption. On the other hand, this kind of text with the same problem may have been purposely used by the Holy Spirit since He used the same problematic text in Mark 16:16 which verse may equally be true OR untrue for the same reasons that a redeemed man is not yet saved! The inner problem of this verse as well as Mk. 16:16 and even Mt.10:22b is that their truth depends on the time and also on further deeds of the believer (overcoming), which are not mentioned there. The basic unknown factors in these verses are that we do not know what we have to endure, when will be the end, when we shall be saved, how we shall be saved, under what conditions we shall be saved, etc. And just to add to these unexpected problems and difficulties in the minds of believers…

The BIGGEST example used and trusted by all Christians around the globe is 2Cor. 5:17 saying: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Is this Word of God TRUE? REALLY? May I ask you a simple question: Isn’t it written again in John 15:1-6 that there may be branches IN CHRIST that are dead sticks not bearing any fruit and Our Heavenly Father (Who is the Husbandman in Christ!) will cut them away? And if a man abides not in Christ, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned? Where is your logic now? And where is your faith now? Do you have any explanations? How can a “new creature in Christ be burned by men, which are outside of Christ”? Please, you do not have to write to me, the Lord would appreciate much more, if you could come to Him on your knees and tell Him this: “I verily thought that I knew many things, but I know nothing yet as I ought to know. Forgive me, Lord.” (1Cor. 8:2) Of course, the problem is NOT in the Word of God, but in human logic! Please, read also page 5 of this brochure.

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My dearly beloved brethren… firstly, forgive me, please, that I have to deal with you sometimes so harshly, but most of what I write does not come from my brain, but rather from the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Secondly, I do not write to pagans, not even to carnal Christians, rather to those that are supposed to be the sons of God… and thus His servants. And when it comes to such Christians, guess what passage from the Word of God the Law of Life prefers to use? You are right – Heb. 12:5-11. Hence, you should have not only some mercy for me, but also some thankfulness – you see, I also have the power to keep you from a premature death… or even eternal death! Because the Lord is right now leading me back to the very beginning of this brochure, to the first and second paragraph on page 3. As you will notice, I started this important work from the most unexpected place – from the Brazilian jungle! In the beginning I was wondering myself why the Lord chose such a place – instead of the Word of God, Brazilian jungle! And the story in the first paragraph is also very unusual, but now the Lord is shedding some necessary light also upon these two paragraphs.

The second paragraph starts with something very important as follows: ***The fact is that the Lord has given it to me as the most fitting foreword to this following brochure, which will be dealing with extremely important spiritual facts where we similarly will not be able to “taste just about anything spiritual that looks good” without risking our lives!*** If we just re-read the “BIGGEST example” above, the first light from the Lord must start penetrating our head and we must start seeing and also understanding that the Lord desired to even compare my trip to Brazilian jungle with my preaching in various Christian churches around the world. Example: since 2001 to 2019 I was preaching, teaching fellowshipping in regular churches, house churches and various home groups, etc. in Slovakia and Czech Republic in Central Europe. I was “tasting” various “spiritual mush” at those places, which was not yet exposed to the “fire of the Spirit” and thus was “poisonous” for me should I believe it or even hang my life eternal on it and follow it. Like Mk. 16:16, which for many believers is also not TRUE! You see, “it is written again” that if such believer does not “overcome”, his name will be blotted out from the Book of Life by his own Saviour (Rev. 3:5) and he will be cast into the lake of fire! (Rev. 20:15) Despite his faith and baptism, he will never inherit anything and will never become the son of God (Rev. 21:7,8). Do you start seeing our stupid logic and the spiritual reality of the Word of God? Now, I am NOT saying that the Word of God is a poison, but I AM saying that our stupid brain and logic filled with mental knowledge from seminaries and then from the leadership of the church may produce a POISON and if you believe it or hang your life eternal and salvation on such a poison… you shall surely die!!! Read also page 5 of this work.

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The title of this section was “The Greatest Problem of Every Believer” on page 30, and we related it to our human WILL! It may seem that I have derailed myself into some important examples of how we may easily poison ourselves by mixing the spiritual truth of the Word of God with our mental foolishness, mix a partial truth with the full truth, ignore the most important factor “it is written again”, and not be lazy to find “what is written again” and where and what impact it may have on our understanding and belief of any Word of God.

All these factors are intimately related to our WILL and how it will perform for us. Since our natural will is an enemy of God and is not inclined to do His Will, the Law of the Spirit of Life has to work in us, specifically in our will, so that we would be willing to do the pleasure of our Heavenly Father (Phil. 2:13,14). And since our will is at the same time free, the work of God through the Law of Life is not always successful since at every step it has to respect the free response of the free will. One more mystery is to be explained here concerning the process involving, on God’s side, the Spirit of God and the Law of Life, and, on our side, our soul. The task of the Spirit is to “guide you into all truth… and will show you things to come” (Jn. 16:13). It should be clear that He will show you plenty of NEW truth, which you never knew before. The first thing that should happen is that your heart should BELIEVE any new truth shown to you and understand it. This is the first very questionable factor. Very questionable, since, as we can also read in the Word of God, our natural heart is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9) Another questionable factor is whether your mind will also understand that truth or not. The third questionable factor is what shall your will do since its decision is the most important and final. What will happen to us and in us now depends entirely on the spiritual state of the above quoted three organs of our soul! In their natural state, they are all miserable partners to the Spirit of God and hardly able to take any step that the Law of Life is guiding them to. That is why at this stage, the work of the Law of Life is quite different and rather negative to get such a man out of his miserable spiritual state, and before that Law of Life may begin to change into a positive work.

One important note before we continue: the Truth comes to us also as Faith, because it is living and shows also the Way to that shown Truth. Why? It is written: “Christ IS the Way, the Truth and the Life” – all at the same time (Jn. 14:6). So, Truth cannot be shown without its Life and the Way how to receive that Life. Let us now assume that your heart is able to receive that truth and believe it as it believes any faith received from the Lord. Let us also assume that your mind is not yet renewed in its spirit (Eph. 4:23) and thus does not understand that truth and hence may not agree with it. I am adding your mind to this whole equation because, eventually, your will must consult not only your heart, but also your mind before it makes its final decision. We do not have to assume anything when we do not believe, do not understand and thus do no decide for that new truth. But, let us assume that your heart believed and that your will found that belief more acceptable or even realistic even though your mind might not understand and thus be against it. Hence, we additionally assume that due to the above situation, the will may neglect your mind and stand with your heart. Now your heart demands that the new truth would be confessed by will moving your tongue and saying: I believe! That deed would make your faith living by the works of that faith (confession) and the truth would become a “new living part of your soul”. (also Rom. 10:9,10) Complicated? Yes, but the fruit of that truth=faith would be sufficient proof of that process.

Now, let us imagine that someone is talking to you and tells you a “new truth”, which you do not know and nobody told you anything about it before. Of course, that someone is a servant of Christ and is spiritually able to teach you new truths, and you are a believer who may be carnal or spiritually not sufficiently grown up. What happens then? It ALL DEPENDS on your spiritual state as well as on the character and state of your soul. If you are a member of any church of any denomination, even a house church or a group that meets somewhere with someone, who is your “teacher”, then it is quite possible, in fact, in many cases absolutely certain, that you will NOT receive anything new from anyone who is new to you! Why? Because your soul has been programmed and occupied by powers of darkness that will NOT ALLOW you to even listen to any “new truth” never mind considering it, trying to believe it or, God forbid, even receive it and start living it in your old soul! And if you, per chance, believe that there is no darkness in you and thus you walk in light, then you have already lost your mind with all its logic. Because GOD is the only Person in this Creation in Whom there is no darkness at all! (1Jn. 1:5-7) Capito italiano?

But you have never even admitted that there may be some darkness in you and that you do not walk in light and, hence, have no fellowship with God. And even if you did admit to some darkness, you never asked yourself the question: Why darkness? Why no fellowship with God? Why no desire to seek and find the truth, why no desire to seek the Kingdom of God (Mt. 6:33)? Why so much pride, arrogance, stubbornness, unwillingness and no humbleness, meekness, willingness to hear, ponder and bring it before God, verify it in His Word? Well why? I will tell you why – because most of your church leaders are the same! They cannot give you what they do not have, and what they have is NOT truly from the Lord Jesus Christ! What they have is from their natural soul… programmed and occupied by powers that will NOT ALLOW them to even listen to the truth that may be “new” to them. This is the picture which the Lord Himself is sending to all such that either will hear and ponder or will not hear and not ponder anything, which is against their stubborn dark minds!

DO YOU BELIEVE THE ABOVE PARAGRAPHS? YOUR LIFE ETERNAL DEPENDS ON IT! WHY? BECAUSE IT IS CHRIST, Who IS TRUTH. It is your mind, your heart, your will, your leaders or sources, your decisions. And now I give you here the copy of the table from page 134 of my book “Life out of Death”.

LIES and TRUTH are the two most important FACTS of our earthly existence and eternal destiny. They determine our ETERNAL DEATH or ETERNAL LIFE! SATAN is LIES and DEATH (Jn. 8:44// Heb. 2:14). CHRIST is TRUTH and LIFE (Jn. 14:6) – AND WE CHOOSE (Deut. 30:19)!

Our eternal life or death hangs literally on what we BELIEVE – and on NOTHING ELSE! And that depends entirely on whether what we believe is truth or lies. And that depends entirely on whether we are deceived or not. And that depends entirely on whether we want to know the truth or not. And if we truly want to know truth, we ask questions, we seek, we verify. And if we don’t want to know truth or our future, then we do nothing! Is that clear and true? I leave this judgment to you.

If we do nothing – our WILL is leading us to HELL! Why? It lost its power to OBEY the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, which is in us and we ignore it. It also lost its power to OBEY YOU! Rather you are obeying your will and its decisions unconsciously, and it is dragging you along its chosen way by your nose. You enjoy great religious life…until you die. And then what? Then you will be shocked by the truth, which you did not want to know while you lived on this earth.

I can give many examples, which I experienced on my own skin in various churches of various denominations in various places of this world. That also included house groups with believers doubly deceived because now they also believed that they are closer to God and more acceptable to Him because they are out of the churches. But they were not more open to the truth I preached, but rather less because of pride and self-righteousness.

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THE LAW OF LIFE AND THE CHURCH

I have written about the church, its spiritual state, its decline, decay, recession, corruption and overall failure in the eyes of God in many of my previous writings, hence, it would not be useful to repeat any part of it. What we should focus on in this section is what the title suggests – the role of the Law of Life in building the church and preparing it for the final time, its final purpose and calling by God and what is the final result of this work.

We already know, or should know, that the true church is eternal, it does not start in Mt. 16:18. Here the Lord starts only to build its earthly representation, which has no name, no denominations, no sects, nothing of this sort, which were built and governed by men and has not been built and governed by Jesus Christ and through His Spirit. Also, the church is not any building with the cross on the roof, rather, the church are the people that are gathering in such buildings with the cross on the roof, but such buildings have no significance because many other believers are gathering in family houses, or even barns or garden sheds or parks. Another fact that is worthy of mentioning is that not all people gathering in such buildings or elsewhere are to be counted as the church. Believers are generally divided into two basic groups: (1) redeemed but not saved as yet, and (2) those that have already reached the required levels of “salvation”, which we may also call “perfection”. These are also called Overcomers. This is very important to mention here, because nobody that has not overcome during his Christian life on earth can be saved (Rev. 3:5 + 21:7,8) and thus be a member of the True Church of Christ. Do we understand this most important fact in our Christian life? Do we also believe in it and are we seeking the ways how to overcome, what to overcome in us and seek also help? NO! We do not care!

In general, there are four groups of Christians as clearly divided by the Word of God and they are: 1) 60 queens 2) 80 concubines, 3) virgins without number, and 4) My dove, “My undefiled” is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. (S.Sol. 6:8,9) Here, “My dove” means the “Bride of Christ”. All these Christians are Overcomers, they are all saved and thus only they form the true church of Jesus Christ! This is very important to realize and understand. Two more important notes are to be made at this point, namely: 1) the number of “virgins without number” obviously cannot be known or even estimated, but it is not infinite and cannot be in millions, 2) My Dove is undefiled and is but one; this does not mean that the Dove is just one believer. The fact is that the Dove is composed of all those believers that were transformed to the Image of Christ as also foreknown and predestinated by our Father (Rom. 8:29,30). This also means that only these believers reached the highest perfection in their salvation process, they reached the Image of Christ so they could be united with Christ – as Bride is united with the Bridegroom. In my previous writings I also mentioned that the level of our perfection is not determined by our faith, but by our love for the Lord! Even in our earthly existence, we may only be perfected in what we truly love. Isn’t that true?

ONLY these above mentioned believers form the true church of Jesus Christ, which we may call “heavenly” church. Of course, there are earthly churches which were built by men, divided into denominations and other sects which live separately and have nothing to do with the church of Jesus Christ. However, their congregations may be mixed up with all kinds of believers some of which may eventually be saved in the future. But normally, the true Overcomers from the above paragraph are not mixed up with carnal believers or any other unsaved believers as such would find it difficult, if not absolutely impossible, to grow up together and worship together having and living in totally different spirits. Overcomers live in the Spirit of Christ; all the others live in their carnal souls and thus the Law of Life is never guiding them together or forming various congregations because their spiritual life and growth would be compromised. Another very important fact in this area is that their organs of WILL in their souls are totally different. And here we are coming to the “crux” of the matter on which we are separating the congregations and their churches from one another based on their Spirit in which they live and which guides their Christian lives, or on their carnality and lack of their waking on the narrow road towards their salvation.

From the above two paragraphs we may see and begin to understand the reason why today’s churches are so divided and exist separately from one another; also, why their destinies will be different. If the Law of the Life could show us and describe its work in believers, it would also explain to us the situation rather clearly. It may show us clearly that the ONE and most important organ of our soul – our WILL – has the power to decide our spiritual state or carnal state, our walk in the right direction or wrong direction, our spiritual growth and thus spiritual life, or our complete lack of growth and our spiritual death! All earthly churches are spiritually DEAD and only the heavenly church of Jesus Christ is spiritually LIVING. And the “culprit” that causes this division is our WILL! Is this a “rocket science”? Or do we need just our “common sense”? Let us continue…

Our present “spiritual” state depends on our past “spiritual” state! And our future “spiritual” state will depend on our present “spiritual” state! Is that clear? Now, this applies to the whole church on this planet and thus also on every believer who is in it. The Law of the Spirit of LIFE in Christ was in every one of us from our birthday and tried to guide us and free us from the Law of SIN and DEATH right from our beginning. We were never aware of this Law of Life and its intentions and work in us for many years, hence, our progress was zero since our WILL was automatically and constantly deciding against any “work” in our soul, which we did not understand in our mind and did not like or trust in our heart either. Thus our will had no positive support to decide to allow the start of such a “renovation” work in our own soul in any way or shape! So, our past “spiritual” state was zero and it remained zero unless and until we started to receive some “news” from outside, which was not only new but also sufficiently “interesting” to our mind to ponder and wonder what to do about it. Our heart may have joined our mind in its curiosity about this “new stuff” coming out of our mind… and our will was just watching this “new stuff” circling around our soul without any intentions to move one inch. But even now, our spiritual state may still be zero and nothing exciting is happening to us. Yet… this is the moment when the Law of Life started to evaluate the strength of our constant sinning and the depth of our death in our soul and, perhaps, this Law of Life may have decided to start “chipping away” the Law of sin and of death which always tried to keep the sinning and the death in our soul intact and functioning to the satisfaction of Satan.

And if this original “news” did not stop but even increased, the “chipping away” continued to uncover possibly some areas of mind and heart and will to enable them to start receiving the news, which before was totally blocked by their death. This “continued chipping” also depended on the kind of news the soul was receiving, whether the mind considered it “the same old story” or, for example, a new “war with the catholic pedophile priests and the response of protestant churches”. If the mind was captured by this war, it could have been lead also to the Bible and shown that the true reason for it was the celibate law in catholic system. And then further, the Word of God could have been shown to such mind saying that “forbidding to marry and to eat some meals created by God are doctrines of devils” (1Tim. 4:1-3). It may have started a new wave of interest also for the heart and will. Such interest provided the Law of Life an opportunity to start freeing that mind and heart and will from their law of sinning and death thus opening it more and more to the light of the Bible. Eventually, the mind and heart decided that they will follow the news about their future destiny depending on their decisions to admit their sinfulness, repent and believe on the Saviour. This process than ended by their heart believing and persuading their will to move their tongue and confess the faith in the heart and later also to go and get baptized in water. (Rom. 10:9-10 + Acts 2:38). Thanks to the work of the Law of Life, which we were never aware of inside of our soul and spirit, we suddenly became redeemed! Excellent beginning, isn’t it?

Now, all that remains is to step on the narrow road to our perfection (Mt. 7:14 + Heb. 6:1-3) and continue unto our salvation. But this is a “horse of a different color" and so, the process does not continue automatically, if it continues at all! Our WILL may get “fed up” with news, which are getting more and more difficult and even illogical for our will, mind and even heart. So, our process stops and we are in the “middle of a wilderness” without food and water. But Satan does not sleep and he is ready to give us the “good news”, that after our redemption we are saved and need not to even move our finger!!! Isn’t that good news? And it started in various seminaries (cemeteries?) where the local professors swallowed up “hook-line-and-sinker-plus-half-the-boat-of-disciples” of this “good news” from Satan. And these new professors then sent hoards of new pastors and teachers and preachers to ALL men-made churches on this planet with that terribly “good news”. And this determined the “terrible state” of ALL men-made churches on this planet in this present time, yes ALL! It effectively stopped the salvation of their congregations at spiritual zero! Any wonder that the Lord will spue out the last seventh church out of His mouth? (Rev. 3:14-22) And it represents ALL those last men-made churches in this world at this time before the end of this world?

Now, of course, not every believer ended up that way and remained on spiritual zero for the rest of his earthly life. Those that did not swallow up Satan’s “good news” “hook-line-and-sinker” and were seeking more than just their current state of spirit and soul after baptism, started to find out the narrow road and the Spirit of God was guiding them to all truth. They thus continued in their process and eventually became Overcomers reaching the acceptable levels of their salvation. Again, it was their WILL that was continually deciding what part of the law of sinning and death was allowed to be destroyed in them by the Law of Life, and that then decided the level of their perfection and standing in the Heavenly position (see again the Dove, queens and concubines as well as virgins without number – S.Sol. 6:8-9).

So, this is the work and involvement of the Law of Life in our process of redemption and salvation – perfection even to the Image and Perfection of Our Lord Jesus Christ for those that desire to be united with Him for ever according to the foreknowledge of Our Father in Heaven (Rom. 8:29-30). This is the Bride of Christ – the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:9-23) and we wish that the whole church would be like that.

Unfortunately, the reverse is truth. Most of the general church including all denominations, sects and groups is dead and for God totally unuseful. Their leadership and thus also their congregations are on spiritual level zero. Why I am adding leadership to the congregations? Because they cause them to reject God’s truth being themselves deceived by devils’ lies and stupidities. The leaders bring to God’s people their mental interpretations of His Word, which are not true and thus they cause them to err and they that are led of them are destroyed! (Is. 9:16) None of them shows any desire to continue after their water baptism to their salvation. No one shows any desire to seek the truth about their state, to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness (Mt. 6:33) or to seek the truth in the Scriptures as well as the ways of God and His thoughts, which are not our ways and are not our thoughts. (Is. 55: 8-9) What dominates is pride, arrogance, stubbornness, self-righteousness, self-elevation and foolishness in their beliefs that they are doing the Will of God or are even able to do it while they do not know God, Who is clearly not their Father because they are not His sons. Nor do they know the Lord Jesus Christ and are afraid to come to Him so that they might have His Life (Jn. 5:38-40). Prophet Isaiah already cried to God saying: “Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.” (Is. 1:9) God foreknew all those believers, who never loved the truth and that’s why they did not receive it into their hearts, but they rejected it. And for this reason, GOD will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie! That they all might be damned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Thes. 2:9-12) Are you surprised? Truly?

For a moment, we are coming back to our WILL making it responsible for all our life on earth from our years of paganism to Christianity and then also for our eternal destiny. We may say that our will is our “Supreme Court”, which decides all our steps and moves and makes our decisions in all areas of our life. This responsibility of our will was given to us by God when He gave to our will its freedom. For that reason - God respects all the decisions of our will. And it is not just God, but Satan and all his devils must also respect and obey all decisions of our will! This organ of our soul is thus the focus of attention and the main factor influencing the work of the Law of Life since it also determines the freedom or obstacles for that work of the Law of Life. If that Law of Life cannot free us from our darkness, we cannot receive any Light from God, and if it does not free us from our death, we cannot receive any Life from God. Are we able to comprehend, or even imagine, the importance of our will together with all the problems and difficulties that it has to go through even trying to make the right decisions? It is the main point for God and His Powers as well as for Satan and his powers since the fact remains that whoever rules the will, rules the man who has it. That is also the main reason why God Himself has to work also in our will so that we would be willing to do His pleasure – His Will! (Phil. 2:13) Now, we may ask ourselves, why Satan is not working in us, as well? He also needs our will desperately, doesn’t he? No, he does not – he HAS our will on his side since our birthday! He also has our mind and our heart! (Jer. 17: 9) Has anybody ever told us this simple and maybe even devastating fact? NO, NEVER! All three organs of our souls were the enemies of God and thus they all have to be changed – renewed in their spirit.

An important note: Firstly, we do not have to change our souls as such because WE ARE our souls; we just need to be saved in our souls. Secondly, our soul is “hardware”, hence, we just have to change-renew our software, which are the spirits operating the hardware, and the spirits in our natural creation are all from HELL! (thanks to Adam and Eve). So, our salvation is to get that hell out of us since our redemption does not perform this delicate task; our redemption only brings us to it! How? One day we believed in our Saviour and made that faith living by confessing it with our tongue, which was the work of that faith (Rom. 10:9,10 + Jam. 2:14,17-20). And then we got baptized in water where we, as it were, agreed with the Will of God, who put us into Christ before He died for us, and thus the HELL in us also died in Him. This redemption was good enough to bring us to our salvation where that HELL, which died in Christ by the Will of Our Father must now, that we exist, die and get out of us by OUR WILL! That is also called “overcoming” ourselves and thus keeping our names written in the Book of Life (Rev. 3:5). Here, of course, our will has far greater job to do than for our redemption where it only moved out tongue for few seconds. Here it has to DENY itself and take up its cross and follow the Lord – for many years! Do we now see the huge difference between our redemption and salvation? Why the church with its leaders has not discovered this simple fact in the last 2000 years?

The leaders of the church with all their doctors of theology have not discovered this simple fact, which may cause eternal death and damnation to millions of believers in their congregations, because they do NOT see or understand spiritual things and movements. They can never see and understand mentally how our soul works, how our spirit works, what is happening in our natural or spiritual being, what “war” is going on between the forces in our natural and spiritual being and what our organs have to do and perform to keep us on the narrow road (if we ever found it – Mt. 7:14), because the leaders do NOT even know how to seek the narrow road. In fact, none of them seeks the Kingdom of God because they do NOT know where to seek it, when to seek it, how to seek it and His righteousness, and should they finally find something, they would NOT know whether it is the Kingdom and His righteousness or not! (Mt. 6:33). With their natural minds overloaded with mental knowledge, they try to understand and do the Word of God according to their understanding and will! And they also try to preach their mental knowledge to their congregations, which understand it even less. If this was not tragic, it would definitely be a tragic-comedy. It is like asking a seven year old boy to design and oversee the construction of a nuclear aircraft carrier! What is the root of this foolishness?

True difference between a mental and spiritual knowledge, understanding as well as the ministry was quite fitly described by Brother Watchman Nee, a truly great servant of the Lord from China. On page 86 of his book: “The Messenger of the Cross^[1]” he says the following:

“In seeking truth, many come with a wrong motive. If they are not seeking to satisfy their own lust for knowing, they are preparing messages (or writing books) to teach others. Their basic motive is to solve mental difficulties and not to cultivate their own spiritual life. Since such is their intention, they feel comforted if they are able, in the end, to understand. For they can now teach others (they believe). Clearly, they are not seeking for spiritual reality.”

And on page 135 of the same book he continues:

“If we try to edify saints on the strength of our mental knowledge of the Bible and our excellent speech, in God’s eyes we will be SINNING  WHILE  PREACHING!

The meaning of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is none other than being active OUTSIDE OF GOD, seeking what is good according to one’s own thought…”! The above is closely connected with our natural life and clearly shows the activities of our “good flesh” and how it sins against God whether we see and believe it, or not.

Do we comprehend the above truth in the frame? And do the preachers, teachers, pastors and doctors of theology comprehend that they ARE victims of the above truth? They all speak what they understand with their brain from the mountain of their theological knowledge, but in spirit they are dead and understand nothing. They also claim that they know the Bible from cover to cover, but to break any Word of God is no problem for them. One typical example is Dr. Stanley from the First Baptist Church in Atlanta. When my son-in-law was in his church at the end of service, Dr.Stanley was shaking hands of visitors standing in line. My son-in-law was there and gave him our book “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ”. He took it with a smile and said to him: “I will start reading it today… and I will come back to you!” No doubt he imagined that the book will prove his sermons and back his theology. After 15 years, he never came back and never answered our letters. His proud soul must have been deeply offended already with the text of the “Foreword”, hence, his sin against the Lord came easily and without his conscience, which is dead. The Lord says clearly: “That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform;” (Deut. 23:23). In my conscience this Word also applies to doctors of theology, doesn’t it? This pastor is also divorced but keeps preaching as if nothing happened. So, what he can give to his congregation? Mental explanations of the Word of God by his brain, its understanding and its logic. And the congregation hears it and understands it by their brains and logic and thus the spirit on both sides is zero! And what is even worse, when the “preachers” are too old or they die, their sons automatically take over and are worse than their fathers, and they are not aware of this sin against the Lord. When you start any ministry in any church and stand behind the pulpit and the Lord never gave you to His church (Eph. 4:11,12), and the Holy Spirit has never made you an overseer to feed the church of God, which He has purchased with His own blood (Acts 20:28) then you are sinning against the Lord every time you enter that church building and start preaching! Has anybody ever told you THIS fact? NO! If you do not know the Lord how can you lead anyone to know Him? If you are not an Overcomer, how can you lead anyone to overcome? If you don’t understand God’s Mind and His Ways, how can you lead anyone to understand God’s Mind and His Ways? HELLO?

In every group of believers, the spiritual powers from their past are manifesting in their lives one way or another. They also rule their lives and determine their future. These believers either started to overcome or had already overcome these powers on the way to their salvation. If they had not even started to overcome them, their salvation is “hanging on a thin string”. We will now focus only on those that had overcome since we desire to return to our will. We must realize that their overcoming was carried out by the willingness of their own WILL and NOT by the willingness of the Will of God! Here we must understand that we are not saying that God was not willing, because the willingness of God was shown to the whole world right from the very beginning (Tit. 2:11). Here the most important truth that we must understand is that the final decisions in any part of overcoming always had to be done by the will of every individual believer!... because God does NOT have the will of that believer to “help him out”! Therefore, here it is our will which is the root of the problem of overcoming or of ignoring all those powers from our past! It was our will which failed to deal with our past and thus it may easily continue with its failures to deal also with our present.

Why had our will failed and, perhaps, keeps failing to deal with our past and present? Our will is, in fact, our “Supreme Court”, which directs our whole being from its beginning to its end including our final destiny. So, when our life is “for the birds”, then the clear reason is that our will is “for the birds”! And the main reason why our will is “for the birds” is the fact that is has not chosen and is not supporting the living Christianity, but rather the “dead religion”, which is also “for the birds”. Why it has not chosen the living Christianity? Because it found there pain, suffering, little comfort and the need to follow some other will than itself. But in religion, it can find comfort, pleasure, joy as well as doing its own will without any pressure to limit or deviate from itself. We may understand this more readily and clearly when we start looking more closely at religion and Christianity. True Christianity is resting on spiritual basis and lives by the Spirit of God while religion is spiritually dead and it rests on mental basis and lives by its humanism, its preferences, its understanding and its life. This is also the reason why even the most educated teachers and preachers and pastors may be spiritually dead, because their will is holding on to their humanistic life, preferences, understanding, religion and refuses the spirituality as the basis for their life. This also means that they walk in their religious flesh and not in the Spirit. Since pride dwells in the flesh, they also think of themselves highly and thus are deeply deceived (Gal. 6:3). Also, the spirit of their mind is not renewed (Eph. 4:23) and thus they cling to religious philosophy and logical explanations, but the Word clearly warns us: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Col. 2:8)

One more word about the leadership of the church organizations on this earth, which were in their majority set up by men, organized by men and are governed by men. It seems that the Law of the Spirit of Life has had very little freedom to do any necessary work in the souls of these church congregations simply because the non-spiritual leadership will not allow it to do the necessary work and there is extremely small portion of the leadership which God may consider as spiritual. In my belief and experience of over 52 years, I would divide the leadership into three categories:

A) Typical carnal persons, who were never spiritual, they did not even think or dream about becoming spiritual at some point of time, and it did not even seem possible for them to ever become spiritual because of the construction of their soul and their human spirit. Even if they were exposed to some spiritual ministry or just a spiritual talk, there was absolutely nothing in them to respond to it or to even be interested in any area of it. All their life they were spiritually at zero! I met quite a number of them also in Slovakia and Czech Republic. One typical example was J.Sendecky, Baptist preacher for about 24 years who also received the degree of Bachelor of Theology, but never in his life has he come to the Lord Jesus even once! He was a dead stick and a strong enemy to anyone who did not do his will (that included myself). Whenever I ministered in various churches, house gatherings or even small fellowships, usually most of them were typically carnal. And when we had some discussion or just a small talk after the ministry, we could have a very friendly and interesting talk until I “derailed” away from it and injected a spiritual question or a topic, which required some spiritual thinking. A period of quietness usually followed and you also could see unease on their faces until we again returned to carnality. And had I continued in the spiritual topics, most of them would have left while 2-3 might have remained with me and at least tried to join in the talk by some remarks. This is a tragedy of the church and I do not see how it can be changed since there is such a short time left.

B) Persons, which were neither typically carnal nor typically spiritual. Here we might say that both, their carnality and spirituality were on a “low level” or limited or they were not their strong or dominant feature. However, their intellectual level of knowledge and wisdom may have been on a “very high level”! For example, they may start commenting on some spiritual topic, but soon they mixed it with their humanity, thus the result was a mixture, which had no spiritual value. When they talk about some Word of God, they seldom get its spiritual basis and thus they cannot bring up its true meaning as God meant it when He had inspired the Bible writers how to write it, rather, how they understand it and apply it in their own mind. One typical example I already quoted in this present work. Once I asked my fellowship the question whether the Word of God in Mark 16:16 is TRUE? They all, of course, nodded their heads in agreement and said: YES! Then I said: NO, strictly speaking it is NOT TRUE! You can imagine the quietness that followed and their confused faces. They were at the end of their logic and also at the end of their understanding and beliefs that the “Word of God is always true!” I had to explain to them that God’s Word is always true even if conditionally, but God did not give us His Word to “fit our logic” or even our university theological education! Then I explained it to them in sufficient details that sometimes you have to consider 2-3-4 or even more Words scattered across the Bible (“it is written again”) to properly interpret “that one Word” which alone is not true (see again the bottom of page 7 of this brochure). They started to laugh saying that they never experienced such a thing before.

C) Persons that are truly spiritual and went through years of spiritual training by the Spirit of God Himself. They are opened to the Spirit and to the spiritual ministry, they are opened to even the NEW truth spoken to them and they are never giving you an impression that they know everything, so, nobody has to tell them anything. You might imagine that the number of these persons is rather minimal. Here I must add that these are the only servants of God that understand and fully believe that God, though He had given to His church various servants (like apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, preachers – Eph. 4:11,12), yet, He has not given to them all the same revelations of His truth or mysteries, and has not set them up on the same level of holiness and responsibility. It is clearly written in the Word of God that “we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ being the Chief corner stone;” (Eph. 2:20). There are no other servants of God mentioned in this very important Word except Apostles and Prophets. This also means that evangelists, pastors, teachers, preachers or other servants called by God, no matter how knowledgeable or devoted, sincere, honest or genuine they may be, they are NOT building the foundation on which believers are built! Yet, I believe that this is exactly the effort, which all these other servants are trying to do even sincerely believing that their congregations are resting on the foundations built by their sermons! The same applies to the revelations of God concerning some of His mysteries that He only revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit (Eph. 3:5). Again, this simply means, that there are revelations which were never given to evangelists, pastors, teachers or preachers, but the most important ones were given only to His Apostles and Prophets. Yet, when in these days an Apostle or Prophet comes to a church with the Word of God, he is NOT received and his Word is not believed. This is also my experience from years of my preaching and ministry, which the Lord prepared for me. This also means, that the Law of Life was not permitted to do any work in those churches or congregations since the people are not willing or even able to receive into their souls the most spiritual and thus most useful truths and revelations which God’s Apostles and Prophets would bring to them since these servants of God are simply not received.

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THE LAW OF LIFE IN FELLOWSHIP AND FAMILY

On many above pages of this brochure I have mentioned the word “sonship” with its significance for God Our Father and how the Law of Life cannot, in fact, do real positive work in us until we become true sons or true daughters of God. Now, I would like to continue with similar aspects of our Christianity and the work of the Law of Life in us.

Let us first consider the fellowship. Fellowship also means to “be of one mind” which should also be logical since if we all are of different minds, it is pretty difficult to have a useful, effective, fruitful fellowship. Rather, it might be spoiled with many-sided divisions resulting in numerous misunderstandings and quarrels and a definite lack of agreements or progress in any issues discussed or shared. The chief reasons for such different minds or understandings are different spirits in our souls on one hand, and on the other hand, many different personal elements such as beliefs, desires, plans, convictions, persuasions, etc. There are many things that can limit fellowship or make fellowship outright impossible. Yet, all of them may be put into one category of problems, they are always personal problems, personal elements in our souls which differ from one person to another touching mostly our personal lives with earthly problems, desires and plans and hopes, etc. When we are Christians, they are combined with our different religious beliefs. Whenever there is an open or even some secret hidden concern for our own place, our own work, our own plan for our self or for any other person, for anything that is our own, it will get in the way of the Holy Spirit, it will weaken or limit or destroy our relationships, it will limit Christ and His work in all those that participate in that fellowship.

There are several places in the Bible where we are admonished by the writers saying: “Be of the same mind one toward another” (Rom. 12:16), which is quite impossible for natural man to achieve by his own power or even decision of his will. Further examples are just as important, like (Rom. 15:5,6// 2Cor. 13:11// Phil. 1:27// Phil. 2:2// 1Pet. 3:8). This is the time and place for the Law of Life to come and start working in our soul and spirit by slowly but definitely delivering us from the Law of darkness, sin and death that cover our souls. Every spiritual element unacceptable to God is destroyed and everything of a personal character of our soul is put aside like pride, arrogance, selfishness, self-righteousness, self-assurance, stubbornness, hypocrisy, independence, etc. Sometimes these personal forces, like strong humanistic love towards someone, will need a drastic step by the Law of Life. Example: Abraham and his long awaited son Isaac whom the father loved with a great and strong love. This was one of the reasons why the Lord God commanded Abraham to offer Isaac for a burnt offering to Him (Gen. 22:2) so that his strong love would be broken and his faith strengthened to go on to fulfill God’s purpose in him. The fact stands that God cannot bring any man chosen by Him to His Divine end without delivering him from all his personal elements and forces that always stand in the way of the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. And without a true fellowshipping, we can never achieve that state ourselves – this is the true significance of our fellowship in the Spirit of God.

Now, let us consider the family. We may not be aware of the fact, a very important fact, that when God was creating Adam and Eve, He already had in His Mind and Heart the thought of having His Own Family! And not just any family like we are planning in our earthly life, but a Family Ruling His Creation! God was to be the FATHER OF HIS FAMILY OF NATIONS and His Family would be in His SON, where the SON will be the Head and nations will be His Body. His first words to Adam and Eve: "Be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1: 28) already indicated His intention even though God had not revealed the inner desire of His heart to anybody for many centuries. When Adam and Eve failed, God chose for Himself one man from the Ur of Chaldees, but whom God foresaw as a suitable vessel. His name was Abram, today we know him as Abraham. God chose him while he was yet uncircumcised, that he might be "the father of all them that believe" though they be not circumcised (Gentiles); that righteousness might be imputed unto them also (Rom. 4: 11,12). So, “Abraham is the father of us all” and God had made him a “FATHER OF MANY NATIONS” (Rom. 4:16b,17a). As for us, we are told that “if  ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Rom. 3:29). And as for the Lord Jesus Christ, it is written “For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham” (Heb. 2:16). So, the Lord God will have a Family from many nations according to the desire of His heart and that will be the Family of “our father Abraham” since the Word says that he is the father of all them that believe (Rom. 4:11).

The Lord desires to conclude the above paragraph with facts that we may have never known and understood but we should consider having this picture clear before we talk about the foundations of the “Family of God” and the necessary work of the Law of Life to produce that Family. Originally, God chose one nation as His Family that would also rule this world and that nation was Abraham’s nation of Israel. However, Israel was chosen as a type or example for all the other nations of how to live and walk with God and rule according to His Will. As we know, Israel failed completely and totally this plan of God… and God was not surprised as He was not surprised with the failure of Adam and Eve. And God did not care in those days whether people saw and understood His ways or not, as He does not care even today, because, His ways are not our ways neither are His thoughts our thoughts. (Is. 55:8,9) But just as to Adam and Eve, so also to Israel, God gave an excellent chance to become His Heavenly Family, but they rejected it and cut themselves away from God and His Grace and Will! Now, when you reread at least the first half of Acts chapter 15, you will be able to see clearly that God had in his plan and heart also the Gentiles and He started to show His intention to His apostles and others  rather clearly. In fact, His Son, the Lord Jesus also predicted knowing very well that He shall be rejected by Israel, nay, rather killed. After the Lord passed through Jericho and had a dinner at the house of Zacchaeus, He told his disciples, and others that were following Him, a parable saying: “A certain nobleman (meaning Himself) went into a far country (meaning the earth) to receive for Himself a Kingdom and to return”. (Lk. 19:12) And then He continued: “But His citizens hated Him, and sent a message after Him, saying, We will not have this Man to reign over us”. (Lk. 19:14) And at the end of His parable of money, He concluded saying: “But those Mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them (be their King) bring hither, and slay them before Me.” (Lk. 19:27). So, many of them in Israel were slain and as a nation they became subjected to all other nations to which they were scattered. Their destiny was bound up with the Son – Messiah – King Whom they killed, but in their endless stupidity they even considered themselves as the “only chosen people of God” and called all the others, which were Gentiles, dogs! These were their sins and crimes. Hence, God judged Israel very severely; its effects can be seen even today despite the Grace of God which brought them back to their own land in 1948. Today, it is not only Israel but the whole world which failed to become one family but is broken and scattered. What remained for God are the various Remnants from some nations of this mankind, which have given their earthly lives to God and called Him “FATHER”. By doing that, and even they may not be aware of it in their conscience, but by calling God the Father, they claim allegiance to the “Family of God” and are the true members of His Family! However, not every believer that calls God “Father” is His true son or daughter, but only the Overcomers which are saved (see S.Sol. 6:8,9// Rev.21:7) and gave their lives to God.

Now, we may return back to the family as the basic structure for men to exist as God planned for them to exist. But family without fellowship cannot exist even though the Law of Life has to work here on a different level bringing together millions of believers (and even Gentiles) and uniting them in their minds and spirit. We cannot possibly imagine the kind and volume of work for the Law of Life to accomplish this huge task.

Even if we take just one family of few members as an example, their existence in peace and love and good relationships and mutual understanding depends on their spirits! If they are not of ONE spirit, they cannot be of ONE mind, and if they are not of ONE mind their happy and peaceful existence as mentioned in the first line of this paragraph is IMPOSSIBLE! Do we know it? Have we experienced it many times in our own earthly lives? If yes, and our life together is still quite outside of our desires, imaginations, good relationships, love, peace or plans, then the reason is usually very simple, it is our continued unwillingness to cooperate with the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Have you considered this fact? The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus is the only “thing” in this universe that can cleanse us and deliver us from the Law of sin and death – and bring us into the Family of God where God becomes our TRUE FATHER. It is He that had established all the Laws in His creation and the Law of Life is not only one of them, but the most important one.

Let us now get deeper into the spirit of the work of the Law of Life and see what it has to face in our life and correct or destroy in order to free the right spirit in us. Examples shown may happen in the fellowships in one family or in 2-3 or more families meeting together. There are probably multitudes of families that regularly attend various churches of various denominations on Sundays or Saturdays or even on Wednesdays (in so-called mid-week services) but these families never meet as one or two families before God and pray or read the Bible or meditate on the things written therein or what they heard in the churches during preaching, etc. Here I am not speaking about these families, rather, I am speaking about few families that usually gather together and meet in someone’s house since they do not attend any churches or never did or got out of their former churches for various reasons. I had a chance to minister to a good number of such “house churches” who sometimes had a leader or had no one in such a position. After ministering to them for several years, I was shown by the Lord quite clearly that these families were not really better than when they attended some churches, which they at some time started to consider “not being profitable” to their Christian life. It could be so in their own eyes, but in reality before the Lord, they did not show any Life of Christ, any fruits of the Spirit, any “rivers of living water” (Jn. 7:38), nobody was seeking the Kingdom of God (Mt. 6:33), nobody knew what gifts of the Spirit they received during or after their redemption, they equally had no idea what fruits of the Spirit they had  and how they appeared in their spirit and how they affected their souls, etc. Why was their situation so pitiful even though they believed that now when they are out of organized churches they are much better in their spiritual situation. I could not preach to them any spiritual truth since they were yet carnal. But I said at many such meetings that they got together based on their own human desires to meet and do what they considered as needful and profitable for their Christianity. I had many experiences at such “house meetings” mostly negative and on a primitive level of spiritual education.

Now, the Lord desires to inform the readers that the above is not only true, but that no man can correct or even improve their situation especially if such a “house church” has been going on for a long time and never experienced the Life of Christ or the work of the Law of Life in their souls. The Lord furthermore desires to explain that no church, greater or smaller, which He had not established by His Spirit, can continue and hope to grow up in Spirit and satisfy the Father or the Lord in their efforts no matter how sincere or honest they may be. Finally, the Lord desires to proclaim, that on May 1974, He had established by His Spirit His church in my house in Montreal, Canada -–and for some time I was not aware of it! That was about 5 months before He took me out of the Pentecostal church where He placed me at the beginning, so I was even surprised that I did not end up “on the street”, but I had already a church at home where I could minister! Wow. Some people told me: You jumped from a “mother ship” to a rubber dinghy on this large ocean… what are you going to do now? Well, the simple truth is that the “mother ship” did not sail for a long, the pastors soon abandoned it and after few years it was “sunk” – sold to “Seventh Day Adventists” (of all people!) while our little “dinghy” is like a small luxury yacht “furrowing the ocean after 47 years” until NOW, without stopping. We started with three families, at some point we were about 25 and then we began to diminish in number. In 2010 the Lord divided our body so that only my family of 11 members remained on the side of the Lord and continued with Him, while the rest were cut off from being united with us. Later on they found out why – carnality, hypocrisy, self-righteousness, secretiveness,  self-will, selfishness, pride, arrogance, insincerity, lying, outwardly appearing righteous but inwardly full of iniquity, etc. But this does not really applies to them all since there were few who were “good humans” with good intentions, ready to help when needed, but “good humanity” does not really exist in itself without any evil, or sin, or darkness or death mixed in, which at times may prevail. This may be understood rather easily when we remember that the humanity is founded on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which also explains some facts written by Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 7, especially verses 18-25.

In these passages of the Scripture, man can be very good in his humanity and so remain for the rest of his life as a Christian. Little does he realize or is even conscious of the fact that he is “wretched man and there does not seem to be anyone who could deliver him from the body of his death”! (Rom. 7:24) And little he may realize or be even conscious of the fact that in order to be considered a “spiritual man” and acceptable to God, he must get to Romans chapter 8 – and “the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus must make him free from the Law of sin and Death”! (Rom. 8:2) He must learn and be willing to walk by the Spirit, not by his “good humanity” and thus escape the realm of being condemned by God for his carnality. (Rom. 8:1). This is exactly where the others that were separated from us failed and were not willing to walk by the Spirit even after being with us many years before their separation. And this simple spiritual fact applies also to the whole Church with millions of its members. But here I am applying it to our “house church” with 3 families, which God kept for Himself to be transformed to the Image of Jesus Christ and be united with Him before even the Tribulation of 7 years will begin on earth. And it may begin in less than 3 years from now! The Lord had graciously granted to us the necessary wisdom and the signs according to His Word in Genesis 1:14, but the Lord is not leading me to any more detailed explanations of these facts since these are assigned strictly to the Bride of Christ by Our Heavenly Father.

Here I must mention one rather important fact which we were not aware of even before or during the separation process within our small “house church”. The true weight and importance of this fact started to “dawn” on us only some time after we were separated and when we started to see the true effects of it and with it its wisdom and necessity. Why? The answer may be rather simple, because it is our conscience that must “wake up” and realize what Our Heavenly Father is really doing and why and how. Once our conscience becomes living and going through such steps of Our Father, we see and understand everything we need! Praise the Lord!

Now, here I must mention YET another important fact, which we were not aware of even some time after our “house church” was divided! Aren’t the things getting interesting? Now, I am not doing this to tickle your curiosity or making your heartbeat faster, but I am strictly following the Spirit of the Lord Who designed everything in His Great Wisdom and according to His Purpose and calling. Everything must be done not only rightly in itself, but also in the right time and in the right spiritual conditions… and in His Grace! I cannot describe all the details that happened since our division in 2010, but the first 6-7 years the Lord was preparing our body of 11 members for a “rough time” since only He knew what cleansing and transformation we really needed before He comes to take us “out of the way” (2Thes. 2:6,7). You see, we were not separated so that we could enjoy a “heaven on earth” for the next 12-13 years, but rather to conclude our transformation to the Image of Christ to the satisfaction of the Father by “going through hell!” You see, every HIGH calling of God is opposed and resisted by Hell because it is highly dangerous to their power and kingdoms on earth. And that hell was IN some of us and covered to the degree which we never expected or were never prepared for. So, from 2010 to about 2020 the Lord had to do a very important spiritual work, which He could have never done with us before 2010 when we were still “fellowshipping” with our carnal brethren, which was not a suitable spiritual environment for such a work. The main reason for such a “rough work” was the fact that we were disunited in spirit and in fellowship… and we did not see the dangers of it and took it lightly! If we, and the Lord, desired to be ONE family, we had to be made ONE spirit and ONE mind speaking the same things (1Cor. 1:10/ 1Jn. 3:2,3, etc. ). Hence, in 2019 we went through HELL that we did not expect, but the Lord showed us clearly from what hidden filthiness we needed to cleanse our flesh and spirit (2Cor. 7:1). Afterward we saw it and praised the Lord for His Grace and work of the Law of Life in our souls and spirits.

During this time we also learned that without a true fellowship we cannot even dream about being ONE family with ONE spirit and ONE mind and even ONE love. The true fellowship demands us to be of ONE mind and it is based on eliminating and ruling out of all personal elements in everything and in every direction! That is the background and basis on which Apostle Paul makes his clear appeal: “Be of the same mind one toward another…” so we might have the true fellowship in Spirit (Rom. 12:16). Because the things which not only limit but may destroy and make a fellowship impossible are always personal elements! It is always “mine or our” own plan, desire, goal or other independent agenda, a hidden concern for our own work or for anything that is “our own” that will surely get in the way of the Holy Spirit. It will not only weaken or limit, but outright destroy our relationship, limit the work of the Law of Life and thus prevent the fullness of Christ and His work in all those that participate in the fellowship. And we may not be conscious of it! The Law of Life has been preparing us knowing what hell some of us had inherited from our parents containing a lot of these personal elements and were insufficiently conscious of it and of its dangers. And secondly, we did not know what to do with it because the Law of evil and sin and darkness and death can only be cleansed from us by the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:2) and by nothing else! Even the great Apostle Paul screamed: “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”

You see, the high calling demands conduct, and that calling is: The present and future union=oneness with the exalted Lord in His position of power and authority over the kingdoms of Satan! Now, that calls for a true and rough conflict with the powers of hell, who will oppose such Purpose of God with everything in their hands. What is the most important point in these two paragraphs above is that the facts described above are unknown to the multitudes of Christians and their leaders not only in all organized churches, but also in “house churches” and small groups where they believe that they may be much better than those attending large organized churches. The most important question of cleansing is clearly applicable to ALL Christians. What is even much more important is that this cleansing, its depth and effectiveness, is directly proportional to the kind of calling of every such Christian or group of Christians. The calling to be transformed to the Image of Christ the Lord is THE HIGHEST CALLING that any human being on this planet may ever receive. That will separate the future Bride of Christ from all other Christians on this planet! That’s why the Bride is only one Dove, His undefiled, Who is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bare Her – His Church. (S.Sol. 6:9) The final point is the fact that “His Church” that Christ built and governed, is not the sum of all churches on this earth as many Christians might assume. Rather, it is a small Remnant of true Overcomers. I do not know how big Israel was at the time of the Prophet Isaiah, but he defined the Remnant according to the Mind of God saying: “Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a VERY SMALL Remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.” (Is. 1:9) I am saying this same Word to the true Overcomers in “His Church” – because the Bride of Christ is a small part of this very small Remnant!

Let us now return to the fact that Our God and Creator had in His Mind and Heart to become the FATHER OF HIS FAMILY OF NATIONS. This fact alone should change our Christian mind and understanding and imagination of Christianity, which may be completely upside-down. We may believe that all we have to do on earth is to get redeemed and then somehow get saved and end up in Heaven bypassing the Hell. And then what? Any ideas? But you must realize that you will not end up in Heaven as pensioners having nothing to do! Hence, we are destined to work in Heaven, to rule the Creation of God and thus serve our Heavenly Father. But how you want to rule His Creation in Heaven when you probably cannot rule even the affaires of your own family on earth? Any answers? The Lord granted me one. We must start learning our Heavenly duties RIGHT HERE ON EARTH… preferable before we drop dead!!! This should give us at least a small glimpse of the Mind of Our Father, Who is not planning to bring to Heaven stupid and untrained creatures from earth! That it is also why Adam and Eve were not at all suitable for Heaven before they started to learn wisdom and obedience by going through hell! Now we should also see and understand why God created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and forbade them to eat its fruit… knowing quite well that they will not obey His command! Are we getting somewhere in our human mind, which is unable to understand even one thought of God? (Is. 55:8,9)

If we are getting forward, then we might start pondering why God had not started His Family right from Adam and Eve? Because they sinned? Well, this cannot be the reason since after them all people sinned! Or from Enoch who walked with God and so He took him to Heaven without any further explanations? (Gen. 5:24) Or from Abel? Not even from Noah, who was “perfect and righteous man” for he did according to all that God commanded him? (Gen. 6:22; 7:1,5) But for all above men it is – NO! In fact, God had chosen an idolater from the Ur of Chaldees, who had very little knowledge of God, if any, and can’t be outwardly compared with either Enoch or Abel or Noah by far! Furthermore, the Scripture always joins “faith” with Abraham and thus “…they, which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham” (Gal. 3:7). So, when he was called by God out of the Ur of Chaldees and out of his father’s house, he believed. But his understanding of the call was very questionable and thus also his faith… which means that he was not such a terrific believer as we may have assumed from the outset. Also, when it comes to his obedience, it was equally not so terrific. Abraham came out of the Ur of Chaldees, but stopped and dwelt in Haran since, apparently, he thought that it was sufficient to go only half-way. And then he wasted years until his father Terah died while God and the Law of Life were doing nothing! Here is another controversy, Abraham heard the call, but he became the follower of his father Terah, who did not hear the call, but was leading the way. So his father’s house that Abraham was supposed to leave at Ur, was bringing him to Haran leading the way! Interesting, isn’t it?

Despite the choice of God seems to us illogical and despite the initial chaos of the person chosen, as the above paragraph seems to portray, we will find out later on that God’s choice was perfect! He chose a perfect father Abraham, then from him a perfect son Isaac and then from him a perfect son Jacob, even though he showed his character already at his birth by holding the heel of his brother Esau who came out of Rebecca first. (Gen. 25:25, 26) All these three were chosen by God because they presented to Him characters that He needed to establish HIS FAMILY ISRAEL as the basis for the Family of the Nations. We know now that Abraham typified God the Father, Isaac typified the Lord Jesus Christ, Rebecca, the wife of Isaac typified the Church, which produced Jacob whom God loved, and Esau whom God hated (Rom. 9:13). Ever since that time God has in His Church those that He hates and those that He loves. If you do not believe this statement, it may be sufficient to recall the fact mentioned by the Lord that half of the virgins typifying the Kingdom of God on earth were wise whom the Lord loved, and half of them were foolish, whom the Lord did not even know. (Mt. 25:2,11,12) But we know that foolishness is sin, hence they were sinners and did not care about it all their earthly life (Pr. 24:9). We may also add others, whom the Lord did not know and called them doers of iniquities (Mt. 7:21-23). But now we should devote some time to see and understand how the Law of Life had to work in the three men mentioned above. Clearly, the task of the Law of Life was different in each man. We will now try to pinpoint the different work of the Law of Life in each of thee three persons so we could also try to see and understand which type of work is the Law of Life doing in our own soul and spirit even though none of us was called with the same calling as these three famous men of God. And yet, the Law of Life should follow at least some similar parts of his work also in us, if we desire that the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob would also be our God! True?

1) ABRAHAM

Abraham has been called “Father of faith” which should indicate to us that the basic work of the Law of Life in Abraham involved FAITH. Than we have to add LIFE since life and faith always go hand-in-hand, more faith brings more life and the deeper faith brings stronger life. Secondly, whatsoever is not of faith is sin! (Rom. 14: 23) That settles the work of the Law of Life – faith and life. Yet, there is another thing, which we could miss and it has its own importance – obedience. When God called Abraham, He said: “Get thee out of thy country …and from thy kindred and from thy father's house….” (Gen. 12:1) So, what happened to Abraham? He took the first step and he forgot to take the second and the third step, did he? Well, not really, but he had a poor understanding of God’s command and thus he had no clue that by taking the kindred and the father’s house with him, he will not get anywhere, but will come to a standstill! So now, until his father died, God and the Law of Life could take a prolonged “vacation”… so it seemed. But, fortunately, the Law of Life never rests while there is even a minimal chance of a positive and productive work. And so, It continued to “work” in Abraham preparing the depth and strength of his faith and life to be sufficient when he would need them once he starts moving again! So, after the death of his father, Abraham did not speculate and didn’t even think about staying in Haran for ever! He was made to see and understand that his natural life and ambitions cannot expect a friendly hand from the Divine Life of God! God cannot have fellowship with anything that is from the earth and Isaiah gives us a Word that is a sufficient proof of it. (Is. 55:8,9)

Another test waiting for Abraham was aimed at his earthly ambitions. When he came to the land that God promised to show him, he got nothing there, not even a foot of land. So, he had to move around and pitch tents for his dwellings. That was too much for him so he moved to Egypt! But if he hoped that his expectations will be met in Egypt, he was pretty wrong. When Christian workers obey God’s commands, they at least expect to receive from God what they need, right? If they do not get even that, they will very easily start questioning God “what’s the matter”? Very few believers realize that we have to trust God even if He would hang us on a cross, which He may, but on the cross for our soul (Mt. 16:24), not for our body. Hence, we must see that trust is the third important factor for Abraham. Without trusting God, he could as well pack his camels and go back to the Ur of Chaldees! But his earthly ambitions may have received a death blow because in the next test he triumphed when he offered to Lot the best, well watered and fruitful Plain of Jordan and they separated one from the other peacefully stopping the quarrels between their herdsmen. The work of the Law of Life showed its fruit as well as a sign of spiritual growth. As soon as Abraham came to this spiritual victory, God comes in and says “Lift up now thine eyes… all the land that thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth…” (Gen. 13:14-16) As soon as God sees that we abandoned our prosperity and success even in our Christian work or ministry, we have passed the test whether we are ambitious in this earthly life or not. The Lord can read our minds and hearts and wills. If we say that ambition is not going to set and govern my life course, it is a proof of our spiritual growth and victory.

But the most important and difficult work of the Law of Life was just on the horizon building the faith and life and hope and trust in Abraham’s soul to the depth and strength never before expected or found in a any man. None of us can even imagine what Abraham was heading into and that includes him himself. God had to bring him into a deep and painful ways of death in two senses of his earthly life, which were not experienced by man before and, in fact, even thereafter. The first one was God’s delay in His promise that Abraham and Sarah will have a son when Abraham was almost 86 years old and Sarah was barren. And then God disappeared for about 13 years! Great, isn’t it? When the Law of Life must work under such conditions, man has to be brought into the depth of faith and trust in God when even His promises become outright “crazy” even to a healthy mind and understanding. Abraham also had to learn that even “more crazy” thought was for him to offer to God a son delivered by an Egyptian handmaid and not by His Spirit! So, the longer the delay the deeper the faith and trust and understanding is developed in man no matter how man feels about it and whether he understands it or not. God works in this way, whether we like it or not because thus He achieves spiritual change in man which otherwise would be totally impossible. And God needed that depth and strength of faith and trust in Abraham before He subjected him to another test that was even more difficult and more “crazy” than the first one. You see, NOTHING, not good works, not service, not preaching His Word, not even doing His Will can satisfy God and His heart IF WE ARE the source of all such our actions. What satisfies His heart is only what HE DOES in us or through us, which means, that the source of all deeds and actions is His SPIRIT!

When God finally returned, Abraham was almost 100 years old and “good as dead” and Sarah was still barren. Yet, God did not change His mind and repeated His promise to both of them, which made them laugh, but God did not mind because He understood them completely because they did not laugh at Him but at themselves! In fact, He was glad since He saw in them the needed spiritual change. What was that main change that God saw? When He was leaving them for those 13 hears, He saw and knew that Abraham believed God and His promise, BUT, he also believed in himself so that in him there was the faith from God and faith from Abraham MIXED together. And here, the Law of the Spirit of Life had a difficult task to destroy the faith of Abraham while preserving the faith from God thus preparing Abraham for his most difficult test after God returns to him. Hence, when God seems to take His presence from us and stops speaking to us, it means that He is out to bring us to the end of ourselves, destroy our self-assurance and self-beliefs and thus bring us to a complete trust and confidence in Him. And thus when God after His return could see the result of the Law of Life, He could also say to Abraham: “I HAVE MADE THEE A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS…” because God quickens the dead and calls the things which are not as though they were. (Rom. 4:17-19) God never said the above Word to any man before or after Abraham. And since God waits until we have reached, as it were, an end of ourselves, then the way for Isaac is opened. So, Abraham and Sarah brought forth their own promised son Isaac.

And then, after 13 years, God comes back and submits Abraham yet to another test, the greatest test man was ever submitted to. Now, in James 1:13, the Word clearly tells us that God does not tempt any man, but even this Word of God is not wholly true in the light of this great test, because God made this great exception and admits, that He did tempt Abraham (Gen. 22:1). And in verse 2 we can read the famous Words of God when He was asking Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. It is definitely glorious to read also verses 3 to 18, which follow and show the wonderful change in that man, which concluded his ordeal and changed from an idolater from the Ur of Chaldees to a “Father of Many Nations” in whose seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed! No wonder God also called Abraham His Friend! (Jam. 2:23)

2) ISAAC

As we know, Isaac is between Abraham – his father, and Jacob – his son, and he cannot be compared to any one of them in any way! All three are the men of distinctive character, distinctive calling, distinctive approach to God and highly distinctive kind of work of the Law of the spirit of Life. Despite that, everything was working harmoniously to one and the same Purpose of God for all three of them in order to achieve His Family of Nations – His Final Goal from the creation of Adam and Eve. And God and His Law of Life continues working in the same harmonious way in all people called and chosen for His Grand Purpose until now and until the end of the Kingdom of God on earth and the Last Judgment. Multitudes of believers, called and chosen believers, may not be aware of this fact or sense any different work of the Law of Life in them because they may not even know what that Law of Life is and how it works in them. The best we may sense or discern is that we have been slowly changing in ourselves to better… or to worse. We may feel differently about ourselves though we may not be sure how we got there and how we are going to continue. But this is normal and not strange. Here I might also say that even these three men had different experiences and feelings and understanding of their walk with God and they could not share them with one another and understand one another.

The great difference, even a secret with Isaac, was not in working and striving and doing, but in receiving. We know that he represented Christ Jesus just as his wife Rebecca represented the Church. They both were of the same family and thus of the same blood. And we know that Christ and His Church are also of the same family, not of the same blood because we will have no blood, but of the same Spirit. And just as God the Father has provided for His Son Jesus everything He needed during His earthly ministry, Abraham also provided everything for Isaac so he did not have to strive and work, because he inherited everything from his father, who was rich. And it is pretty difficult to be poor when you are born in a rich house. So, Isaac was satisfied with everything the life brought to him, and that included his wife Rebecca whom he never knew until she was brought to him on a camel from a distant country. And the same with his offering on the altar as God asked Abraham. Abraham was not shocked, or even surprised, he did not say one word but started to prepare everything for them to go (Gen. 22:1-18, this will give you a very good picture). And Isaac knew nothing nor did he ask anyone any questions where they are going and why. He only asked his father one question when they reached the place for the altar: “My father…behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham’s answer and his next actions are described in Gen. 22:8-10. Isaac did not say one more word! Do you believe that we would behave the same way as Isaac? Really?

You see, strictly speaking I must say that Isaac’s father was not Abraham, but, in fact, God, and Isaac was His son before he was born. He was born in Canaan but dwelt in Heaven with His true Father! For him Christianity was not to get from earth to Heaven, but to get from Heaven to earth! So it was for Christ, Who was born in Bethlehem, but dwelt in Heaven with His Father. He came to earth as the WORD and became a man (Jn. 1:1, 14). Why? So that man can become the WORD and dwell in Heaven!!! Any questions? Have you ever met a Christian, who had become the WORD of God? The way through our Christianity is NOT by exercising our will to do things we cannot do, and live life, we cannot live, but rather be obedient to the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus and trust this Law of Life that it will bring us where the God of Abraham truly wants us. Hence, we must start understanding that the Law of Life demands from us that everything should be for the Lord and nothing for our personal consideration and influence of our earthly life. Otherwise we do not know what to do and how to get there until we find the God of Isaac!

Before I say few more important things about Isaac, I give you three passages of the Scripture that will give you a very nice picture about the true sonship of Isaac, namely: Rom. 8:2,14/ Gal. 4:5-7 and Heb. 12:5-7,9. They will also prove to us that the Law of Life works along the lines of sonship and its Life is brought to us in terms of sonship. We should understand quite easily that Isaac was an absolute impossibility to appear on earth on any natural grounds! He was wholly and utterly a miracle from God, he was not a fruit of nature. This gives us an absolute Principle: You cannot become a child or son of God by any means or resources outside of God Himself! No struggle, no striving no working no wrestling no praying, no fasting, no crying can bring such a thing or desire of your heart to reality! Just as flesh can never produce spirit, so spirit cannot produce flesh and the flesh is not really our “body”, so many times it is confused that way, rather, it is our natural ability… and its chief ability is to sin… even without our trying. Our body is neutral and does not sin. Cain talked to God face-to-face, he worshipped God and offered to Him only the best what he could produce believing that that will gain His favor. It never did. So he killed Abel, his brother, out of jealousy because God accepted his offering of a lamb. Isn’t this a perfect example of what we are talking above?

3) JACOB

This is a more difficult case and I will hope that the Lord will make it simple and clear since the kind of work of the Law of Life will basically remain the same, it will only differ because of the different character of Jacob compared to Abraham and Isaac. He was a clever man with very active nature, active chiefly in mind, brain, in wit, will, seeing, recognizing and discerning opportunities, always on the move, etc. He had a good perception of Divine things and their value… and the first example is his birthright. He understood very well its value and what it will achieve for him while his brother Esau had no clue about it. So, it was a very simple thing for Jacob first to buy his birthright from Esau for a plate of pottage (Gen. 25:29-34) and then cheat his father Isaac (with the help of his mother Rebecca) to pretend to be Esau and receive Isaac’s blessings (Gen. 27:1-30). And God did nothing against his trickery since this was also His Will for Jacob, because God loved Jacob and hated Esau (Mic. 1:2,3// Rom. 9:13) and desired that Jacob would rule the family and not Esau. So, the Law of Life permitted also this maneuver to be done by Jacob. The fact for the practical life of all believers is that whether we are aware of the Law of Life working in us or not, we do not need to look after the Law of Life in Christ Jesus how it will accomplish in us what was foreknown or preordained for us by God, because the Law of Life will look after us whether we will be conscious of it or not. Hence, whenever we experience difficulties in our life and we know that it is “not” the Will of God, or fail to reach the life that we know that it “is” the Will of God, we often try to use the Law of Life instead of letting the Law of Life to use us! And this we usually do unconsciously. Hence, there is a Law and the Law is always able to work, we do not need to help that Law. Why? Because that Law itself is guided by the Spirit of the Life in Christ Jesus! When I have in me the Life of Christ, I automatically have in me the Law of Life and all I have to do is to obey IT. The best example is Isaac for whom the Father in Heaven provided everything he needed while Jacob had to labor for everything he wanted including all those things that God was ready to give him anyway – but this was not Jacob’s character. You see, while Isaac was a man of calm, trusting and obedient spirit, ready and able to receive for what he did not labor, Jacob was a speculator, a foxy man whose heart was right going in the right direction, but the trouble was with his mind and will. Though the end of his intentions and thoughts and discernments were right, but the ways he wanted to reach them were all wrong. Something similar may be in us, who are honest and sincere and may sense what is the desire and Will of God for us, but there is something in us that stands against it without our conscience and that “something” may be nothing else but “Jacob”. That self-assurance, foxiness, wit, self-will, self-resource or assurance in our own ability to do anything what our understanding and knowledge permit us to do without the guidance of God – THAT must be crucified in us. Only then we will be able to see and understand that God’s end and Will can only be reached by God’s Wisdom and Strength and Resources.

And so, it should not be surprising that the main lesson that Jacob had to learn was subjection to God, which also means obedience to the Law of Life and its guidance. But this is NOT “a piece of cake” because it is not found in human nature since it requires suffering and every Christian prefers to live without it. BUT do we realize that though Christ was born holy and sinless, yet, He was NOT BORN PERFECT? He Himself had to learn obedience by the things which He suffered! And being thus made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that OBEY Him! (not just who believe in Him!) (Heb. 5:8,9) Is this true? So equally, when we learn obedience to the Law of Life sufficiently, we will also be able to see and understand what is it that is truly important for God and what is His heart truly set upon? And we will find out that that understanding was never in us either! Let us return to the 2^nd paragraph of page 42 and refresh our memory that “God desired to be the FATHER OF HIS FAMILY OF NATIONS”, which we may sometimes call “THE CHURCH”. I do not use this latter expression often because it carries with it a wrong understanding; we never mean the Church as the composition of all the churches on our planet based on the Bible, NO! Here I mean the TRUE CHURCH, which is the true Body of Christ; it has no name, no buildings with a cross on the roof, no organizations built and ruled by men. All the members are sufficiently perfected and thus are Overcomers (read also p.30).

The True Church of Christ is sometimes also called the HOUSE OF GOD, which is a corporate Body of Christ while He is its Head, and we may have a great difficulty to imagine or understand this by our human mind. It is something Heavenly and thus almost impossible to conceive, compare or even understand with anything on earth. But at this advanced stage of this brochure, we may finally say that the HOUSE OF GOD is the TRUE BODY of Christ and yet it is NOT THE BRIDE OF CHRIST! Just as the virgins without number, concubines and queens of the Song of Solomon (6:8) are all Overcomers and members of the true Body of Christ and thus of the House of God – but they are NOT the Bride of Christ, which is only the Dove! Only She is the HOLY JERUSALEM descending out of Heaven from God (Rev. 21:9-11) and all the other Overcomers belong to the nations of them that are saved and shall walk in the light of the Holy Jerusalem (Rev. 21:24). I doubt that there are many Christians who know this fact and even understand it simply because there are just few in the leadership of the Church who know this fact and even understand it. Let us never forget that the level of knowledge, wisdom and spiritual understanding is automatically transferred from the leadership to the congregations. Here we may also ask why those nations walking in the light of the Bride are not perfect as the Bride is? The answer is, because they are sick, and nobody who is sick can be at the same time perfect. True? How do we know this fact? Well, the leaves of the Tree of Life were for the healing of the nations! (Rev. 22:2)  

Now, another important fact which we must print in capital letters is that the HOUSE OF GOD in fact represents the FAMILY OF NATIONS to whom God IS THE FATHER. When you start re-reading the 2^nd paragraph on page 42, you will be reminded about this very same fact, which we have now enlarged and named also as the HOUSE OF GOD. But speaking again about the Family of Nations ruling the Creation of God, we are brought back to Jacob on whom the Law of Life had to start a rather serious and even painful work so that he would become a man whom God needed! And thus he had to learn many bitter lessons to become obedient and altogether a new person for God. I am not going into the too many details of his life of learning and suffering and overcoming difficulties before he even reached Peniel. The fact is that he reached it and there God reached also his goal to finally turn Jacob into Israel – “The Prince of God”. (Gen. 32:24-30) It is sufficient at this place just to say, that the work of the Law of Life had a totally different kind of work and responsibility to form Jacob into Israel than He had to form Isaac and Abraham. The twelve sons of Israel had become the “first nation” – the nation of Israel, which then became the first of the Family of Nations that we described and talked about in above paragraphs. Hence, Abraham, in fact, had become the Father of all Jews – the first nation of Israel. And when other nations were formed and joined together in one Spirit, God had finally become the Father of the Family of Nations and thus reached His Final Goal and Purpose.

Before we conclude the main points concerning Jacob, we shall take a look also at his offspring – his twelve sons. They were supposed to form the basis of the nation of Israel. Unfortunately, except Joseph and Benjamin, they were all carnal and failed to represent God and His Will to the other nations of this world. But the reputation of Jacob’s family was more than saved by his son Joseph. His carnal brothers hated him and one day when they all were in the field, in their hatred they threw him into a pit. Later they sold Joseph to Ishmaelites who were passing by going to Egypt (see more in Gen. 37). His brothers were very happy that they may not see Joseph anymore. Little did they know that in a short time he will become a Ruler of Egypt just next to Pharaoh! And they will see him again and beg bread from him! So, these are the ways of Our God that we cannot foresee or comprehend, we can only trust Him and walk on them.

Now, we may compare Joseph with Isaac since they both had a similar character but a different calling. So, the Law of Life had similar work in Joseph as in Isaac except that Joseph went through different type of sufferings, great sufferings in Potiphar’s house, in prison and dungeon, which required a very great test of his faith. But that eventually lead him to the throne of Egypt. He was the only Hebrew that ever ruled Egypt being just behind Pharaoh. But what brought him to the rulership in Egypt was not only his great faith, but no bitterness or rebellion or anger or resentment or revenge in his soul. But those spirits were found in the Egyptians who had accused him unrighteously and caused him to be thrown to the prison and dungeon. Also they were found in his very own brothers, who were dealing with him like gangsters and not brothers. In fact, he repaid their great evil with his great goodness. The Law of the Spirit of Life will not only bring us to a rulership in the world, but will at the same time separate us from the world and despite our rulership we will find that we are separate. So, we do not have to give up the world, but the world will give up us! We will become strangers in this world and the Law of Life produces this kind of mystery. In fact, the Law of Life will keep widening the gap between us and this world until we are finally taken up and will have nothing in common with this world! So, we may also say that Joseph was a type of Christ destined to the throne through sufferings in this world. Joseph and Christ also had one thing common – their sufferings brought them to their particular thrones. What may be necessary to mention at this point is the fact, that if you do desire to “walk with God” and accomplish His Will, you will experience plenty of sufferings… yet, not from the world, but far more from the organized church and carnal Christians! Why? Because the moment you stand against carnality you are deemed to be considering yourself proud and “superior”, hence you are “cut off” and rejected because carnality hates to be exposed! I have plenty of experiences in this area, fortunately, I never cared what people think about me or believe about me; I always cared what the Lord thinks about me and how He views me since I have been serving Him unconditionally.

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THE MYSTERY OF SPIRITUALITY AND CARNALITY

Let us now go into probably the most serious, most difficult and most important section of this brochure where we should immerge ourselves into the spiritual realm where all saved Christians are heading from their carnal realm and which is the least understood in the earthly life of any Christian saved or just redeemed, but unsaved. We may also say that this spiritual realm is, in fact, composed of two spheres or domains of reality where one is connected with and wholly based on the spiritual creation of God like the Heaven and all Heavenly creatures, and the other one is connected with and wholly based on the Person of God as Trinity (Father, Son and the Holy Spirit) and His Personal qualities, abilities, senses, virtues, plans, desires, purposes, principles, laws, wisdom, righteousness, judgment, His Mind, Heart and Will, which are not created, and indeed, cannot be created, but are possessed by God in His Trinity and used for and in His spiritual and also physical creation! And here we should repeat that God uses them all not only for and in His creation spiritual but also His creation physical.

The very first important thing that we should mention is a rather simple fact, that is, that no creature in Heaven or Earth is able to see, hear, understand, sense or experience any of these above mentioned Personal qualities, abilities, senses, virtues, etc., unless God desires to reveal some of them to whatever degree to some of His creatures in Heaven or men on Earth by His Spirit. For it is His Spirit that searches the deep things of God and is thus able to reveal them to us that we might also know the things that are freely given to us of God (1Cor. 2:9-12). Though this above paragraph is “technically” true, in reality there may be very few Christians who are truly ready and able to receive the revelations from the Spirit of God. You see, it does not depend on the willingness of the Spirit to reveal those Personal things of God to the believers; rather, it depends on the willingness of the believers to receive them, and even more so on their ability to receive them since for every revelation or other spiritual gift “from above”, we need a spiritual capacity to receive them. We will talk about the abilities or disabilities of believers as well as about their willingness or unwillingness later on, but it will be a very important part of this section.

Now, I must pray to my beloved Heavenly Father, to start granting me the necessary abilities and courage to go to a sufficient depth of all spiritual realities which I will be lead to by His Spirit and expected to explain so that all believers, who never had a chance to see and understand them will have it. And I have to pray also because whenever I am submerged into this spiritual work and have to interrupt it, I lose the “track” and have to come back and connect myself to the “loose end”. And such a moment is coming right now since in about 2 hours I will be baptizing a new soul in a pool. He is an Italian born from a roman catholic family and it took me some necessary time to explain to him and convince him that I know what I am doing because I was ALSO born in a roman catholic family an my baptism was also “illegal” before my Father because it does not follow the Word of God and His principles. So, we will have a very blessed baptism and a worship service welcoming someone whom we never knew before and to this day we do not know how the Lord brought him to us. But we are looking forward to this occasion prepared for us by Our Heavenly Father. And then, maybe tomorrow, I will try to find the “loose end” hoping that the Spirit of God remembers where I left it, and I will continue in my work which is getting more and more difficult and thus also more and more exciting!

Today is Sunday afternoon and I am back in my office pondering the sermon which I had a chance to hear before noon from a TV preacher who is a Doctor of Theology. Here, again, the Lord confirmed to me what He desires to show also to the Church at large, that His servants may be sufficiently educated in their intellect, but they had no one to educate them in spirit. This is the crux of the matter and the most important factor why the Church at large, which means, all the denominational churches on this planet, are in such a terrible spiritual condition because they do not have any spiritual leadership! (not 100%, but maybe 95%?) I am not including here any small churches or house groups which consist of few Overcomers, which found the narrow road (Mt. 7:14) and may be walking on it for years so their spiritual life and progress is obvious and evident. You might not find even one such Overcomer in the congregations of the denominational churches around the world simply because they could not exist in their spiritual environment. As soon as someone begins to live the Life of Christ, the Lord takes him out of that congregation and puts him to the group where he can continue growing up in spirit and not stagnate for other 10-20-30 or more years. How do I know this? It is very simple, because I was one of such Christians who after about seven years, and four years as a Deacon, was taken out from a Pentecostal church by the Lord and put “in charge” of a rather small church, which He Himself estabished in my family house! And I have been ministering in it since May 1974 without stopping, without attending any cemetery (…I mean seminary) and without any doctor’s degree in theology, which the Lord granted me only about 20 years later. And though this “job” was for me the most important one, yet, in reality, it was for me a “side job” since I was working full time as a director of engineering in two big companies: Canadian Vickers and Bombardier since the Lord granted me two other university degrees, one was Bachelor of Engineering and the other was Master of Engineering. So, the Lord equipped me for all jobs sufficiently and I always thanked Him for it immensely. And if I add to it my work in my house and garden and baptizing people in our pool, and…

Well, I do not want to continue, rather, I would prefer to tell you about my Heavenly “job”, which sometimes was rather a “hell of a job” especially with the carnal believers. During these 47 years, the Lord sifted our body few times and in 2010 he separated  the “eternally carnal” believers from the truly spiritual believers, who were “foreknown by God and thus also predestinated to be conformed (transformed) to the Image of His Son that He might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:29). In other words, the 11 members of our church, which were all members of my family, separated from the carnal believers, were predestinated by Our Heavenly Father to become the future Bride of Christ! This also means that we must be perfected to the Image of Jesus Christ and His Perfection! Let me say to every reader very honestly, that such a thing cannot be imagined or understood by any angel in Heaven or any man on Earth… including us! And since 2010, the Lord entrusted these brethren to me to bring them up as the Bride of Christ (Gal. 4:19). Since that time I see, believe and experience that with God anything is possible, and the process He brought us through proved it to us. Now you also should start to see and believe that the Lord also called me to write a brochure like this one and publish it without fear of being stoned by any carnal church or a carnal preacher. So, I continue with faith and hope…

Just to start coming to the true depth of the spiritual truth as compared to an intellectual truth, I must dissect the sermon mentioned above, which I heard this morning. It was touching the Word in Romans 8:28, which says: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” The Word was rendered and interpreted in a very attractive form and its effect was also clearly shown on the facial appearances of many members of the congregation, who applauded and smiled and clearly registered what the preacher tried to tell them. Intellectually the explanations were perfect and the believers also showed their intellectual understanding of what was preached and how it was preached. The emphasis were put chiefly on the words “And we know”, so we should have no doubts that this is the promise of God that cannot be changed. And on “all things” where we should also include things that may be even bad but their final results will be good. Then it was mentioned that this promise of God did not apply to everybody but to the Christians who love God and to them that are called according to His purpose. So, what was wrong with the sermon? Intellectually – nothing. Spiritually? We must be able to see what the Lord could see, and hear what the Lord could hear, and finally understand what the Lord understood in His Spirit.

FIRSTLY: When Paul said: “And we know”, he did not mean all believers around the world! Not even all believers in that congregation, not even all preachers or pastors in the churches. He meant himself and those few of his coworkers or brethren whom he knew in spirit that they knew in spirit “as he knew”. Also, it is possible that this Word of God was brought to the pulpit for the first time and thus many in the congregation may have never heard that such a Word of God exists and thus say “And we know…” And secondly, it is even more likely that that Word was never experienced in the life of anyone in that congregation and thus also understood how God worked out His promise in their spirit and what way. And this fact applies especially, if the organ of our spirit called “conscience” is not living or is not sufficiently clean to register spiritual world and actions that come from it, because this is the only member of our spirit that can register spiritual actions and also inform us about them. Carnal believers are carnal, because they are spiritually dead, which includes their whole soul and spirit, which includes their conscience and thus they are totally unable to receive the things of the Spirit of God (1Cor. 2:14). Hence, Paul could not speak to the believers in many churches as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ (1Cor. 3:1). Today’s churches are not better than those 2,000 years ago. And the church at Rome was still better than the church in Laodicea which the Lord will spue out of His mouth! (Rev. 3:14-17) And this church, being #7, the last one, represents all the churches around the world at this time of the end of the world! You should consider also this fact when you ponder “today’s churches”.

SECONDLY: Today’s believers do not love God as Paul loved God or as he meant it (Jn. 5:42). They may think so or assume so or wish so but they do not even know what a true love is! If you should ask any congregation that those that love God should raise their hands, there might be many hands raised. Then you would ask them that those who love God more than themselves should raise their hands! Do you believe that you would see any hands raised? And then you can continue asking: how about those of you who love God more than your father or mother or wife or children? Would you see many hands raised spontaneously and without any doubts? And you may ask: Do you love God with your human love or with the spiritual love that is the fruit of your Spirit? If you would see many hands raised, you would be very lucky and even surprised. Hasn’t the Lord said: “He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he that loveth son or daughter more then Me is not worthy of Me.” (Mt. 10:37) Great quietness might descend on the congregation. Finally, if they “love” God with their human love, it is not acceptable to God for He accepts the love being the fruit of the Spirit and very few believers have that fruit, or any other fruit of the Spirit. As they cannot tell you what gifts of the Spirit they received after their baptism or which gifts of the Spirit they used in their Christian life, so it is with the fruits of the Spirit. They just don’t know what fruits of the Spirit they have and live in their earthly life. How do I know? I asked many believers these questions in churches, home groups, everywhere I went and not one could answer positively, without deep thinking or their answer simply was: I don’t know!

THIRDLY: Believers in churches do not know what calling they received from God after their baptism, if any, neither do they know or are aware of the Purposes of God for them. Even if you love God to whatever degree, it does not mean that you are called by God and you may have no clue what calling you have. These spiritual things never came to their conscience and they never even considered them in their Christian life. In fact, this also applies to many pastors and preachers who were installed behind pulpits just because they had sufficient intellectual knowledge of the Bible and passed their exams at the seminaries, but their spiritual life has been either very minimal or at zero. Again, the true reason is that the level of spiritual knowledge and life at seminaries is zero. So, it should be also logical that when the seminaries are dead, than nobody should be surprised that the leadership coming out of them and the congregations are all spiritually dead as well! The true reason is that the whole church around the globe has been sliding down during the past century or so. Why? Nobody was STRIVING to enter in at the straight gate and walk on the narrow road! The Lord said: “STRIVE to enter in at the straight gate:  for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in (much later), and shall NOT BE ABLE.” (Lk. 13:24) And beloved readers, this was not written last year, but about 2,000 years ago! So, the church had plenty of time to neglect this Word of God and not getting on the road, which is the ONLY ROAD that leads to Life Eternal!!! (Mt. 7:14)

The above facts may be bitter and unbelievable, but this is how the Lord saw and heard and understood that sermon, and this is just a small example and many deep spiritual details are left out since the deep spiritual realities which are never part of any sermon are just waiting for us. The intellectually “perfect” sermons will never have positive spiritual effects on the believers and will not enable them to start walking on the narrow road toward their salvation and start changing their persons! Simply said, multitudes of believers are not given the spiritual facts about their own lives and spiritual states and are not guided to the spiritual ways especially how to get on that narrow road and learn to walk on it. Whether you believe these facts or not depends on your faith and on your spiritual state, but I write what the Lord gives to me. I dissected the above quoted sermon to be for us a small example or a template for treating tens of thousands of similar sermons which are preached in thousands of churches of various denominations around the world by thousands of preachers of various nationalities and educations and spiritual states of their souls and spirits. Yet, if we will grasp the inner realities of Christ and of our spiritual death or life in Him, we may be able to find out that there is a fundamental reality that applies to all sermons and all religious activities. A small part of them may be truly spiritual and very helpful for our spiritual growth and progress in our walk to our salvation and perfection. Unfortunately, the greater part of them grows from human mind and though they may be attractive and also “excellent”, as I have already mentioned above, yet they have no spiritual value.

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 A       Let us start with the most important basic fact where God showed His Will and plan to save the whole mankind by publishing His Word saying: “For the Grace of God that brings Salvation has appeared to all men…” (Tit. 2:11…14) In other words, God showed His Salvation to all men born to this planet thus making it accessible to every man without exception! This fact can also be seen clearly when you read the Word of God in John 3:15-17, the verses contain “whosoever” and “the world”. However, God has not made man’s salvation mandatory to any man; rather, He had offered it as a free gift to every man according to his free will! That is why God gave to every man the gift of FREE WILL by which man has the ability and also responsibility to choose or reject anything or everything that comes from God or is offered by God to man. This is an extremely important and basic fact between God and men and can enlighten many acts of God and of men, which may otherwise seem even illogical to us.

B       In order that God may execute His Salvation for all men, who all died in Adam, He put ALL MEN into Christ (1Cor. 1:30) that they may all be made alive and also redeemed! (1Cor. 15:21,22) No man that would not be resurrected in Christ and start living could be redeemed and saved! Now, some believers may ask: How could God put a Buddhist or a Muslim into Christ? This, of course, may be just an imagination of some believers. The truth is, that God put all men into Christ before they existed, hence, He could never put into Christ any Buddhist or Muslim. God did this before He created any man and thus before any man was born to this world and made his decisions. This goes from Adam and Eve to the last human being born to this world during the Kingdom of God until the Last Judgment. Again, believers may ask, how could God do this before Christ was even born? The fact in God’s eyes and also in God’s Word is that Christ – “…the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev. 13:8) since in the spiritual world, and thus also in the works of God, time does NOT exist! Most of the works, which God did for the world and mankind, were done before He created the world. Another interesting example that we may mention is that God had also chosen His Apostles and Prophets and Sons and Daughters and other servants before they were born! Since time in Heaven does not exist God also has “foreknowledge” so He can foreknow what will happen to whom, who will be willing to do what, etc. Typical example is in Romans 8:29 where God foreknew who will be willing to be conformed to the Image of His Son Christ and thus God could predestinate such a person to become the Bride of Christ! This is the highest calling that any man on this planet may receive from God. And to such believers that walk on this road and are pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:14), the Lord usually confirms His calling so you know towards what you are pressing. If you aren’t sure about yourselves where you are pressing, you should ask the Lord for such a confirmation. Of course, I am not speaking here about carnal believers but only about Overcomers because another fact is that not every Overcomer received such a high calling, not every Overcomer is the Dove (S.Sol. 6:8,9).

 C      In sections A and B, we started with deeper spiritual facts, which normally are not appearing in any biblical writings. Now I am asking the Lord to grant us perhaps the most important spiritual facts, which are the basic reasons for the sorrowful conditions in which today’s churches are found by the Lord, also by those believers who are able to discern and have spiritual capacity to receive His revelations concerning the spirituality and carnality. One such fact is rather simple: Spirituality comes from God, His Mind, Heart and Will and it all comes through His Spirit into our living spirit. Carnality comes from unrenewed human mind, intellect, logic, planning, imaginations, goodness or other human virtues. Though this fact is rather simple, the greatest difficulty is to discern these two realms of human knowledge and activity, how are they found in us and what is their fruit. Of course, carnal believers are unable to discern this until they become sufficiently spiritual. And to try to bring carnal believers into any starting level of spirituality is a “hell of a job”! Why? Well, they just cannot believe what is against their logic, mind and personal convictions, which are all based on their personal “religion”! That’s why to turn a pagan into a believer is far easier than to turn a carnal believer into a spiritual one. One good example? Here it is: Cain was not talking to God less than Abel, he was not worshipping God less than Abel, he was not offering to God some cheaper things than Abel, he did not appreciate God less than Abel, he did not respect God less than Abel… so? His logic failed him, it was impossible for his personal beliefs and convictions to yield and admit that God had to have a reason to reject his offering, which was beyond his logic and convictions and beliefs and even imaginations. That inability and stony unwillingness produced in him jealousy… and he simply killed his brother! Simple, isn’t it? Now, do you see the power of carnality? When I said it is a “hell of a job”, it is still a mild expression (Gal. 4:29). Try to turn any carnal believer into a spiritual one … and I will pay your funeral expenses!  

D       The very next great problem is: We are deceived and we are not conscious of it!!! And this fact brings in our carnality! This applies to all believers on this planet including the leadership – it is only the question of the degree of the deception. This simply means that we do NOT KNOW TRUTH – and probably more than 90% of such believers don’t even want to know the TRUTH! Why? Because they are convinced that what they KNOW IS TRUTH! If God cannot persuade them how can any man do it? But if we do not know the TRUTH and if we might even hate the TRUTH – WE CANNOT BE SAVED! Isn’t this a sufficiently serious factor in our earthly lives to be considered? I already mentioned the Word of God concerning those that do not love the truth (2Thes. 2:9-12 – page 37). And if we do not love the Truth, how can we love the Lord Who IS the TRUTH? And if we do not love the Lord, what waits for us? May I quote the Word of God that many believers should already know by heart, namely: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha (let him be accursed at His Coming!)” (1Cor. 16:22) So, how are we deceived? We believe 100% what our mind tells us though our mind is not dependable or renewed in Spirit, or what our heart tells us though we DO NOT KNOW what is in our heart! But…the PRIDE OF OUR HEART had deceived us! (Obad. 3) I prefer to believe the Word of God than the thoughts and logic of men.

Now that we talk about deception, we should bring here other Words of God, which could open our eyes even more. Examples: “…and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world;” (Rev. 12:9) Despite this clear Word of God, there are peoples without number, both pagans and believers who sincerely believe that they cannot possibly be deceived since it is against their “logic”. So, it is then logical to them that they are not part of this whole world! Also, they would recognize deception from truth in no time, right? I do wonder whether these peoples without number could ever admit that they may be rather easily caught into “the snare of the devil and taken captive by him at his will”? (2Tim. 2:26). This simply means that the devil has with them a rather short and easy job, doesn’t he? He puts into their mind a stupid thought, a stupid imagination, a stupid picture, he finds a verse in the Bible that mentally is absolutely logical, but spiritually it is not, (because “it is written again”), etc. And all believers that lack wisdom and any spiritual discernment swallow his foxy deceptions with “hook-line and sinker”! And the results of such deceptions will show later on when nobody is waiting for them! Here comes their “logic” and self-assurance that they cannot be deceived. And that above underlined deception applies specifically to teachers, preachers, pastors and other leadership in the churches who often have a mountain of intellectual knowledge of the Bible and thus they seem to be easy victims also of that little dangerous expression “it is written again” about which I already wrote on page 7. And so, they hang their life eternal on Mark 16:16, 2Cor. 5:17, Eph. 2:8,9 where they accept faith but reject all works, even the works of faith (Jam. 2:20,21), etc., because “it is written again” and they do not know nor care what that little expression really means and that it may change their eternal life to eternal death! What is much worse is, that then these teachers and preachers and pastors teach their congregations of thousands of believers the very same “dangerous truth” and subject them to the same deception whereby they may lose their life eternal without even knowing why! They may never be told about this dangerous deception and thus become even conscious of it.

At the end of the preceding paragraph, I mentioned PRIDE and the Word of God in Obadiah 3, but there is also pride in our mind which brings with itself stupidity, stubbornness, selfishness, self-elevation, self-righteousness and other “fruits” of evil and darkness and, of course, the same deception as the pride inside of our heart. This deception is far more plentiful than that from the heart because far greater majority of believers and their leaders are thinking, imagining, explaining, pondering, understanding and thus teaching, preaching, praying, even worshipping from their minds rather than from their hearts, because they are mostly carnal and cannot discern mind from heart as to their thoughts and knowledge. And they are not aware of it! This is the most dangerous part of this fact. And how can they be unaware of this deception? Well, we already said that carnal believers are dead in spirit. This also means that their conscience, being part of their spirit, is dead! It may also be sufficiently filthy not to be sensitive to the Spirit and His guidance. Many teachers, preachers and pastors may know the Bible “from cover to cover”, which may be an excellent factor making them able to speak and explain almost anything touching the biblical intellectual knowledge. Yet, there are at least three factors that may be not only negative, but outright dangerous and not considered by such clever persons. One is the fact that “intellectual knowledge does not make our conscience alive nor does it cleanse our filthy conscience”. The second one is the fact that “intellectual knowledge does not edify, (does not “build up”), but rather the love edifies, (builds up)!” Because intellectual knowledge puffeth up simply means that it builds pride in us! (1Cor. 8:1b) Hence, our knowledge may contain truth, but even hearing such knowledge with truth we cannot grow up into Christ in all things, it needs love! (Eph. 4:15) But, love and pride are enemies... they cannot coexist! It seems impossible to build intellectual knowledge in our mind and at the same time prevent pride to rise up with it! My knowledge does not rise up from flesh, but from the Spirit of God, hence, it does not permit pride to rise up with it. And the third factor is that “if any man thinks that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.” (1Cor. 8:2) Shocking? Who keeps it in mind before speaking to a church? Nobody.

E       In the above point D, I am talking about various types of deception that we are deceived by and are not even conscious of it. We see things, hear things, read things, do things or others are doing them, then we have imaginations, thoughts and hundreds of other things, which have the power to deceive us. The most important single “thing” that we are all victims of and which deceives us day and night without us being conscious of it is something, which I called “Our Enemy #1” and put it as title to chapter 2 of my book “Life out of Death”. Of course, it would be ideal if you could get hold of that book on our MRM website and read the whole chapter for yourselves since I am not going to repeat all the details of that chapter. I will only repeat few most important facts from that chapter, which will be like a source or basis for the factors that I plan to bring to your attention in this point E.

Now, this “ Enemy #1” I am calling “Our Good Flesh” And this “Good Flesh” is the “Good part of our SELF”… where our SELF is the ENEMY OF GOD! This is exactly the part of ourselves which God has to destroy in order to save us, not because it is “good”, but because it also contains “evil”. I can also say that GOOD FLESH IS A LAW whereby EVIL is always present when we try to do GOOD! After reading this expression you could say that this law is completely illogical since evil should be present when we try to do something bad or evil, not something good. True? So the above stated expression also proves that our logic does not lead to the truth of God! The logic will come to that definition of our good flesh when we realize that our flesh is like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which tree cannot be divided to a good tree and an evil tree, nor can its fruit be divided to a good one and an evil one! Hence, our good flesh contains evil which no man can separate. The Word of God, which could be linked with this Law of Good Flesh, and also applies to us all, is in the Book of Proverbs (Pr. 16:2). This Word, in fact, warns us of this Law of Good Flesh saying the following: “ALL the ways of a man are CLEAN in his own eyes; BUT the Lord weigheth (discerns, judges, assesses, verifies) the SPIRITS.” We never care for or discern the spirits in us in which we live, walk, talk, speak, teach, preach, do things, etc.! But the Lord does! Why? Because whatever we are doing or trying to do, like thinking, planning, speaking, teaching, preaching, praying, fasting, giving gifts or doing any works "for the Lord” or for the brethren and we do it from our GOOD FLESH – EVIL SHALL BE ALWAYS PRESENT! And in the eyes of the Lord, evil is always associated with SINNING! Because GOOD FLESH is never the HOLY SPIRIT! And we can almost never discern the Holy Spirit from our Good Flesh, unless we are very highly effective in our spiritual discernment, hence, evil is always with our good flesh, because evil is IN IT. Do we understand this very important subject? I already mentioned the book “The Messenger of the Cross” by Watchman Nee where, on page 135, he writes: “If we try to edify saints on the strength of our mental knowledge of the Bible and our excellent speech, in God’s eyes we will be SINNING  WHILE  PREACHING! (see the bottom and the table on page 38). Even this above statement from Watchman Nee is shocking, isn’t it? May I repeat the true meaning of it? So – a decent looking preacher may be standing behind the pulpit or running around the stage speaking and even reading from the Bible – and by doing that he may be sinning against God!... Stupendous!

Do not try to use your logic to understand the above fact. It was Apostle Paul himself and not Watchman Nee, who gave his personal testimony about this fact. If you read Rom. 7:18-25, you will see with your own eyes that Apostle Paul says: “I find then a law, that, when I would do good, EVIL is present with me.” In verse 24 he cries: “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” And in verse 25 he admits that with his mind he serves the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. We must be very careful when pondering this last verse about his mind as it is extremely important especially for all church leaders like teachers, preachers, pastors, elders, etc. DO NOT assume that you are Apostle Paul and thus you can serve God with your mind and “forget your flesh and law of sin”! Please! Paul further says: “we have the mind of Christ” (1Cor. 2:16b). Who “we”? The believers around the world? NO! The congregation in Corinth? NO! He just told them that he could not speak to them as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ (1Cor. 3: 1). True? And when he judges the whole congregation carnal and baby-like, it simply means that their leaders must also be spiritually carnal and baby-like, they cannot be spiritual and fantastic leaders and produce such congregations! Hence, by “we” Paul meant himself and the few of his colaborers that were spiritual and not natural-carnal. By “we” Paul did not mean even the congregation in Ephesus though he wrote to them his spiritually highest letter. Even to them he wrote “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind” (Eph. 4:23). Why? Because: “we speak not in the words which MAN’S wisdom teacheth, but which HOLY SPIRIT teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1Cor. 2:13) Hence, Paul’s mind was renewed by the Spirit of God and thus he learned the words which the Holy Spirit teaches and that man’s wisdom CANNOT teach. Now, you may claim, even believe, that your mind is also renewed by the Holy Spirit, but that would be a very dangerous assumption. Why? Well the spiritual state of the majority of churches on this planet with the majority of believers is carnal, thus spiritually dead! Is this any acceptable proof of renewed minds of preachers and other leaders with such spiritual conditions of their congregations? NO! My own experience is a proof for me. In all the churches where I had the privilege to speak, preach or just fellowship, I have not met even one preacher, who would have been spiritual and not natural-carnal. The Lord Himself is my Witness! However, at the same time…

I am absolutely sure that the great majority of preachers, more carnal or less carnal, more spiritual or less spiritual, are trying to prepare the best and most attractive sermons, which the congregation would understand, enjoy and which would prosper them. I have no problem believing this simple fact because I have also experiences in this area, even in house churches or smaller groups as well as on numerous TV religious channels. At this stage I am asking the Lord to extend to us His Grace and show us His own spiritual understanding and light concerning the facts contained in the previous two paragraphs even to comprehend the main reason for which He lead me to write them in that form. In order to do that, I must go to the Book of Ephesians where Paul firstly speaks to us – as former Gentiles starting in Eph. 2:11. You may, of course, read the rest of that chapter and see how Paul explains the situation of the Gentiles as well as their destiny. Now I have to come to the most important part of that chapter necessary for the explanation of the two above paragraphs. In the past several years the Lord has been sovereignly revealing to me by His Spirit the important facts that the “true saints and true household of God are built upon the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone! In Whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye (Ephesians) also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit” (Eph. 2:20-22) Then Paul starts again speaking to Gentiles in Eph. 3:1 trying to explain to us (the Gentiles, as pagans or the non-Jewish believers) that “we may understand his knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto His holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit”. And then finishes this portion of chapter 3 by verse 10 saying that now (when Gentiles and Jews have been made fellowheirs, and of the same body – in His church, verse 6) “now” unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.” Again, you may read all the verses 1-10 to get a better picture.

Now, what is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of the above are not the quotations about the Gentiles, but the quotations about Apostles and Prophets! The Lord is bringing to us the most important fact by stating in two separate places that firstly: we are built upon the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets, and secondly: the revelations that were not made known unto the sons of men are now revealed unto His holy Apostles and Prophets! The Lord desires to make us aware of His design that though He gave to the Church some apostles; and some prophets; and some evangelists; and some pastors and teachers-preachers (Eph. 4:11) YET, to the evangelists and pastors and teachers- preachers was NOT given the task to build the foundations of the Church and were NOT given the revelations of the mysteries of Christ! Keep your spirit and heart open…

The most important outcome of the above paragraph is that the evangelists, pastors and teachers-preachers given to the Church – for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ – MUST DO THIS MINISTRY ON THOSE FOUNDATIONS AND IN THE LIGHT WITH THOSE REVELATIONS, which the Apostles and Prophets received according to the Design of the Lord!

Do these ministers given to the Church minister according to these foundations and the revelations from the Spirit of God? NO! Do these ministers at least know what is the BASIC FACT of these foundations that they would be able to stand on it and follow it? NO! They may study the Bible from cover to cover, pass all the necessary exams at seminaries and have no clue what is the foundation of the Bible and thus also what is the salvation of man (I already declared in Shock #4 on page 4 the truth about this fact). The LORD HIMSELF must come down and tell us that the basic fact of His Word is DEATH to our natural LIFE and NEW LIFE out of our natural DEATH (which is also called resurrection)!!!  

Jealousy (as defined in the thesaurus):

(Envy, enviousness, covetousness, desire, resentment, resentfulness, bitterness, discontent, spite, grudge, suspicion, suspiciousness, distrust, mistrust, doubt, insecurity, anxiety, apprehension, rival’s possessiveness, protectiveness, defensiveness, vigilance, watchfulness, heedfulness, mindfulness, care, solicitousness, attentiveness)

@@ Life out of death pp.96-97

Pride leads to deception – Pharisees, etc.

Excerpts:

1) Everything of value to us, even our work for God or even the work God gave us to do, even our knowledge of His Will must go through death and resurrection! Otherwise they do not bring to God what He desires.

2) Nothing we do, good work, service, preaching the Word, even doing His Will cannot satisfy His heart – if we are the source of it! Only what God by His Will does in us or through us can satisfy His heart.

3) The secret of reaching any success in our efforts to do good had not yet been clear in our heads. We cannot reach success in any of our efforts, struggling, planning, trying even by exercise of our will, but only by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. You see, we may now know what God of Abraham wanted and how He goes about it, but we do not know how to get there and succeed until we have found and start understanding the God of Isaac! Our success, any victory, our own desirable life and even our salvation are not obtained or attained by our efforts, but are bestowed upon us by God as a gift.

4) The life of believer on earth is not “from here to there”, from earth to Heaven, but “from there to here”, from Heaven to earth. You see, Isaac received everything from God, while Jacob lost everything what he accumulated during his struggles on earth. He needed a lot of discipline of the Spirit of God so that the life of his nature would be reduced to zero – then only Christ could be displaced in him fully. We may also say that the work of God in Jacob was necessary to make room for the God of Isaac.

5) I must live on earth, which everybody understands, but I must also begin to live for God Who is in Heaven. So, the fact is that I must ascend to Heaven if I really want to live for God but that requires my death and resurrection and ascension. Can I do it? NO! So, what are my options? Well, we all have just ONE option…