Dearly
Beloved,
Our Lord Jesus
faced a great challenge that preachers face today. He had an audience who weren’t
growing in Wisdom (in The Spirit) as they grew in stature (in the natural - Lk.
2:52). Therefore remained shallow in spiritual understanding without the
exception of the Lord’s disciples who could hardly interpret every inspired
word Christ Spoke
It
may therefore interest you to know that many of the exciting faith messages of
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John where we easily relate with God’s Promises for The
Natural Life has to do with The Beginning or Foundation of Faith!
The
Lord started out by promoting an aspect of Faith
(Faith Towards God) via Carnal Ministrations,
i.e. via messages that men could carnally or
physically relate with. He had to leave the aspect of unveiling Spiritual Ministrations
(i.e. spiritual promise hidden in the Parables) to the apostles who later broke down his
parables into counsels that would Build Us Unto The End of Faith (1Pet.
1:9)
Jn. 3:12
‘If I have told you Earthly Things (i.e. things that take place on earth
including new birth), and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you
of Heavenly Things (i.e. things that take place in heavenly/spiritual
places which we meant to fellowship with while on earth, things that glorious
angels desire to know but can’t because its only given to man – 1Pet.
1:12/Heb. 2:6)?
Jn. 16:12
‘I have yet MANY THINGS to say unto you, but ye cannot BEAR them now’
(i.e. things pertaining truth which must be unveiled by the Holy Spirit)
The kind of Faith that Christ was promoting in the
synoptic gospels like in Matt. 11:29 was one which believers could
relate with from spiritual Childhood unto Teenage years, but this certainly
can’t take us into Adulthood (i.e. spiritual maturity/Sonship).
Young
believers in the early years of the Christian faith are mainly faced with Mountains/natural
Problems and there is a recipe of faith that empowers them to overcome such
challenges. This recipe is a Faith is found in The Milk of God’s Word,
an elementary or foundational aspect of the principles/doctrines of Christ,
please see Heb. 6:1-2
Mark 11:23 ….that whosoever shall say unto This Mountain,
Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his
heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass;
he shall have whatsoever he saith.
So, with all
the manifestation of gifts of the Spirit that made believers in the Corinthian
Church prosper outwardly, the intelligence of sin still hold them captive,
because sin was spiritual and it takes a transformed/spiritual soul to overcome
it. They were therefore at the mercy of receiving a more spiritual meal which
was a faith described as “THE FAITH OF THE SON”
This is why:
- John’s testimony in 1Jn. 1:1 was
that a saint who started initially with the Beginner Courses of Faith
but was later weaned from it and built by the Faith of The Son to an
extent that his soul could laid hold of very Thronic life resident in God which
our recreated Human Spirit partook of at New Birth!
- Apostles
Paul had to prepare the Ephesian and Colossian churches for a deeper Faith
through ministrations that reveal Christ after they cooperated with the
necessary initial faith weaning process. This was the legal ground for Paul to
pray to the Father to ‘Open The Eyes of Their Heart’ (Eph. 1:17-18)
The same God
that has been christened ‘Jehovah Sharp Sharp/Jehovah Now Now’ in my generation
is the same God that kept Father Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Zachariah, Hannah, Mary
e.t.c. waiting for decades, all because He actually wanted to give them
something beyond the natural, something beyond what the ‘average Christian’
would celebrate as ‘breakthrough’.
You
may therefore agree with me that ‘There is a Faith that would Build or lead
unto Perfection! When The
Church is United in this Faith, believers would attain a spiritual stature that
can ‘House The Father & The Son’ (Jn. 14:21/23) like we ‘Housed
the Spirit’ (Jn. 14:16) when we got born again. Until then,
there would be no clear distinction between what a believer and an unbeliever
seeks!
If not You, WHO? If not Now, WHEN? If
not Here, WHERE?
Bless You!
kindly forward to your circle of influence if you have been
blessed by this article
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