“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.”
Philippians 1:9-11 KJV
The fervent, effectual prayer of An apostle AVAILS much. When holy men and women pray as the Spirit gives the utterance, the carnal minded say it is foolishness. They cannot receive it. They cannot understand it. Because the spiritual things of God are given only to spiritual men and women in Christ.
This is the refreshing. The rest where the weary can rest. Worshiping and praying in the Holy Ghost, building up and encouraging themselves in their most holy faith in the Blood, "shed for many for the remission of sins"
"With stammering lips and another tongue I will speak to these people."
Yet they will not hear. "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us BY HIS SPIRIT"
What new tongue is this? These are drunken with new wine because the old ways have become abhorrent to them. They love not their lives unto death. The body is denied with the lusts of the flesh, because no provision is made to fulfil it's desires. The lust of the eyes have been plucked out. The carnal mind seared as with a hot iron, "always resists the Holy Ghost".
Can you hear the Voice of the Bridegroom? It is no more heard in the church of captivity. Whose prisoners have succumbed to "all deceitfulness of unrighteousness". There is no tongue with interpretation, no knowledge of God retained, or revelation of Jesus Christ remaining. "Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, MAKING VOID THE WORD OF GOD". Yea, they are blind leaders of the blind. "having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof"
Hath God said? Yea, the Spirit expressly says that in the latter days some shall depart from the faith, even denying the Lord that bought them. AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DECEASED, FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD MAN'S BONES.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost 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. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 KJV
EKKLESIA. 175
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