December 2000

[Part Forty-seven]

“SEALS OF GOD”

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                How arrogant is the carnal mind in its ignorance of God! One would think that the lack of divine awareness would produce the most humble human populace ever imaginable; but instead, the very opposite is true! The two dominant factors in this world’s Babylonish systems are ignorance and arrogance! It is for good cause that it is written, “A man who thinks himself to be something (apart from Christ), when he is nothing (apart from Christ), only deceives himself!” (Ga 6:3) But the true Church would never condemn a man for his ignorance of God because their heart is so full of Christ’s unconditional Love, they can only feel Mercy for the pain that his ignorance inflicts. Also, their mind is so enlightened by Truth, they know that ignorance is indeed a state of death; and “The dead know nothing nor have they any more reward for the memory of them is forgotten!” (Ec 9:5) And “The dead cannot praise God!” (Ps 115:17) And who are these dead ones? God says “To be carnal-minded is death!” (Ro 8:6) Furthermore as, “The Knowledge of the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom He sent, is Eternal Life” (Jn 17:3); so ignorance (Dict. “To be unaware, unlearned, uninformed and destitute of knowledge”) is death! Thus if the true Knowledge of God was poured into the carnal mind, it would be defiled by that death!! Father illustrates this by saying, “You cannot put New Wine in old wineskins”! (Mt 9:17) What this means is that the fervent heat of the Fiery Presence of God would cause any natural container to expand and burst! For this reason, we are reassured that, “Our true Life is HID with Christ in God!” (Col 3:3) Since every lost soul is already condemned to death by his own unbelief, (Jn 3:18) he needs no further condemnation; but rather needs commutation by salvation which He receives in Christ Who knows that God, Himself, sealed every heart in evil unbelief to develop therein the Spirit of Humility! Now hear and consider:

TRUTH IS SEALED UNTIL TRUTH IS REVEALED!

                Carnal-minded ones claim to “know the truth”; but I decry all such claims as arrogant lies! Let them give evidence of the Presence of Truth in their lives! Jesus says, “I AM THE TRUTH” and “You shall know the Truth and the Truth will make you free”! (Jn 8:32) But free from what? Free from carnal-minded death! Ha! But Jesus says, “If satan (that carnal mind) casts out satan, he is divided against himself! And how then can his kingdom stand?!” (Mt 12:26) There is nothing more arrogant than that old serpent, the mind of the flesh! Consider this apt description of him.

Arrogance (Dict) means: “A feeling of superiority manifested in an overbearing mannerand/or by presumptuous claims. It is an exaggeration of one’s self worth, or one’s ownsense of importance, in a proud or haughty manner. To domineer, dominate, overpoweror overwhelm others with a mistaken sense of indispensability !”

                Non-spiritual men have no choice but for their hearts to be filled with ignorance and lies as prisoners of their own fleshly minds. The natural state is of darkened understanding, but it is much harder to deal with one another’s flesh if we display arrogance in our ignorance! Deep within the heart of every man is a God-given hunger to be free from the tyranny of these taskmasters. But not until God’s foreordained time to remove His Sovereign Seal from the Christ Nature in us, can each and every soul be set at liberty- and then it is for the glory of His Name’s Sake!

[TO BE CONTINUED]