Beloved,
I
realize that many have an insufficient idea of what God is really asking His
saints. Like an employer would hardly ever agree to share his employee with
another employer and like a sincere wife would hardly ever agree to share her
husband with any other woman, so also the
lord God will not share the soul of any believer! Satan knows the value of the soul much more
than many and that is why he would stake the World for it (Mark 8:36) which
gives rise to some salient questions like:
·
What really is The World and how does it get men spotted without them
discerning it for decades?
·
Why did the Lord Jesus and His Holy Apostles have
to appraise themselves before departing to heaven as having Overcome The
World with a particular kind of Faith? Jn. 14:30/1
Jn. 5:4
·
Why did they track and brand as Wicked, the
wisdom of the world that once Crept into the Church during their days
but is now Celebrated in some cycles of Churches? Jude 1:4/Jn. 2:26/5:19/Gal. 1:4
·
What
insightful knowledge did Apostle John have about the World that made him
summarize its three fold operation as The Lust of The Eyes, The Lust
of the flesh and The Pride of Life? 1 Jn. 2:16
Human
language and vocabulary has always been very limited in explaining spiritual
issues, but I can deduce from the epistles that:
·
The World
is anything traceable to the enticing tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,
i.e. any wisdom not traceable to the Tree of Life which Adam failed to eat, but
later raised in Christ Jesus. Gen. 2:9/Jn. 6:53/2 Tim. 4:10
·
The World
is an enlightenment (a light called darkness) that makes men self-sufficient
and falsely fulfilled without God. Matt. 6:23/2 Cor. 11:14/Jn. 3:19
·
The World is that which Satan presented on a
platter of gold to Jesus in the wilderness as Lusts of the Flesh/Eyes and the Pride
of Life, the same glories he has sold to everyman that have ever seen the sun
from Adam to infants today, while the only few who have escaped this snare did
so to the degree in which they submitted to the Leading of The Spirit. Matt. 4:1-10/1 Cor. 12:2/Rom. 8:14
·
The World is that subtly packaged Hope that
drives both men of High and Low degree. Ps.2:9
·
The World
is the fruit of a perverted Cherubic Wisdom of Satan which we can only defeat when
we attain spiritual Wisdom (Trees of Righteousness) Isa. 61:3/Lk. 2:52/1 Jn. 3:2
·
The world
was the wisdom used by Satan in building the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and
Priest into religious structures of unbelief that veiled many from ever knowing
the New and Living Way. Mark
6:6/Heb. 10:20
·
The World was the intelligence employed by the
likes of Nimrod in crafting an alternative path/civilization that stifled the
Life of Faith and thereafter moved a generation of Souls from the sight of Ararat
where they earlier drew inspirations of God from where Noah’s Ark rested unto Shinar
where he built kingdoms like Babel. Gen. 10:9-10
·
The World is
a weight that daily influences men to despise God’s kind of life (ZOE) through lustful
choices made when we gratify the cares of life (BIOS).
·
The World
is that school master that instructs men in the Art of Compromise, making men
to trade Things to Come (Spiritual/Eternal) for
Things Present (Carnal/Ephemeral). Mark 8:36/Heb. 11:20/12:16
·
The World is that which may sometimes fail to stop
an unbeliever from the new birth experience but would fight such tenaciously
from growing FROM FAITH TO FAITH via Doctrines of men, philosophies and
traditions of men, all skillfully used to turn many away from truth/sound
doctrine unto fables. Matt. 15:6/Col. 2:8/Col. 2:22/2 Tim. 4:3-4
·
The world
is that which keeps men busy with religious activities that can’t reveal Christ, leaving believers
with stunted spiritual growth and the gates of hell unperturbed.
·
The World is that which fights Christians
either with ease or lustful ambitions after making them assume that they have
sighted and entered the Kingdom at new birth when only their human spirit did
and their souls was only granted the potential to do so after obeying faith. Jn. 3:3/3:5/2 Pet. 1:11/Rom. 1:5/Heb. 5:9
·
The World is Satan’s boast, having scented
everything that perishes with use with lusts.
·
The World
is that which a true preacher of the Gospel would passionately and skilfully confront
like the Apostles did, while preparing the flock for true holiness and
righteousness Acts
20:28/Eph. 4:24
· The World was the wisdom which Christ judged on
the cross via the Wisdom of Meekness, via the foolishness of God that is
wiser than all the wisdom of men. Jn. 16:33/James 3:13/1 Cor. 1:25
· Before the unveiling of the beast (the man of Sin) the World
would remain Satan's the greatest weapon to steal, kill and destroy the souls of men. (Jn. 10:10/Rev. 17)
·
The World
is that which can ONLY be discerned after we have fulfilled the Faith and Love precepts
(Eph. 1:15) and
after the Eyes of Our
Understanding has been Enlightened. Eph. 1:17-18
This
list is endless! As the population of the earth have been on the increase, so
also have the victims of The World’s Wisdom been on the increase
-
With all
the increase in the Military/Scientific/Economic might of Nations today, there
have also been an increase in confusion! Creation have been groaning for a
deliverance from the bondage of the corruption (The World) and this can only
take place by the Manifestation of The Sons of God! Rom. 8:19
We need to be raised, built, established
and
this can’t take place by The Faith provisions of the Milk of The Word
but by The Faith provisions of The Meat of The Word, i.e. by The
FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD!
(Heb.
6:1-3/5:12-14/Gal. 2:20/Acts 26:18
The
True Church (individually and corporately) must therefore
walk from Faith to Faith (i.e. from the hearing to the receiving of the end of faith, the salvation of
our souls), because thereby would we complete our obedience and commit
God to avenge every disobedience that can be traced to the 1st
Adam/fall of man. (Rom. 10:17/Rom. 1:16/1Pet.1:9)
Then
would we bear the image of the heavenly like we once bore the image of the
earthly and we would encounter a Superior Wisdom ordained from the foundation
of the world, hidden in the face of Christ, destined to raise
Sons!
Then
would God judge unrighteousness which has been fostered by this World, close
this age and summon the New Heaven and Earth wherein Righteousness dwelleth. 2 Cor. 3:18/Eccl. 1:16/1 Cor. 1:21/2:7/Eph. 3:10/2
Pet. 3:10-13
Bless You!
