SERMONS - January 2024

15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Ephesians 1:15-23

Brothers and sisters. Hear this parable.

There was a certain man of unclean lips who dwelt in the midst of a people of unclean lips and they all worshipped their Lord. And they thought that they were rich and had need of nothing.

But to this certain man was shown by a revelation of the Lord how wonderful it shall be clothed in the clean white garment of the Lord and to be with him, constantly in his presence, in the Lord.

And the man went and shared the precious revelation with others, taking a chance that some may be skeptical of these things, but they surely will recognize this one anyway because it is written about it in the scripture of truth. But two of them, teachers, said that what he experienced was from the unclean, and they even warned his daughter about him and against it. But the man, trying to reason with them, wrote to them, even with this question:

Will the unclean spirit say, "Let me reveal to this man how great and clean it is to be in the Lord, in his glory?"

And the teachers said nothing and replied not.

Even though in the writings of the Lord to his followers, it says that he will work with them, confirming the word of the Lord with signs following. Amen. But those teachers did not believe that these writings of the Lord were for them. And therefore they do not believe in the visions of the Lord to his brethren, even visions confirming the teachings of the Lord. And as such, they are teaching, practically "prophesying," that they cannot be any prophesies anymore. What is their reasoning? It goes like this: Do not ask, because it is not available now anyway, they say; so they don't ask, and such they do not get. So and as such they can say among themselves, See, I told you it is not available now!

(And what other things they teach? These same teachers say that the doctrines of the Lord which he - the Lord - taught while walking on the earth, and his disciples wrote, called the gospels, are not doctrinally for these teachers and they followers, they claim. And as such they introduced themselves a new thing and their new understanding of the Lord's writings. This is their grievous error.)

So again about the Lord's giving: he - the Lord - may not give them who do not ask and do not seek it, and do not believe. And even if they did ask and seek and not get, is it not of faith to believe in the Lord's writings? And so the Lord's writings would be true; he does give to those who seek and believe. To each what he ought to have. And the man prayed for them to the Father of the Lord to give them that revelation.

And another elder was more considering. He wrote back to the man, saying that what the man experienced was between him and the Lord, and asked him to come back because he was nothing but a blessing to them. The man was happy about the part that this elder did not label his revelation from the Lord as being of the unclean. But the man did not understand the elder's reasoning, when he said that it was just between the man and the Lord. Does the elder practice what he suggested here? Because it was the same elder who liked to teach that a pond of still waters will eventually stink. So the man thought, Does it not stink also here to keep the things of the Lord to yourself? And would not the same elder even attempt to defend himself against other elders or teachers if they warned his daughter against him and called him of the unclean?

So the man went out of the assembly of the unbelieving, but the Lord was with him. And it was shown to him that not only some teachings of his previous teachers, but, besides them, there are even more grievously wrong ways of teachings from the writings of the Lord, in so many assemblies of the Lord and his people, round about where the man lives and other places.

And it grieved the man, and he lamented, as to what assembly shall he and his family belong to and still be faithful to the truths the Lord is showing him?

And the man wrote again to his elders and teachers that he forgave them and that he understood that they may have concerns about the things of the Lord that are not always revealed in the truth of the Lord.

But also to not reject it all out, the manifestations of the Lord.

But they replied not.

So the man understood that they applied this particular judgment on him without the scripture of the truth, claiming only their personal interpretations thereof, without the understanding from the Lord.

May the Lord forgive them.

And the Lord gave the man understanding and showed him, among many other things, his writings about the blind man, who was blind from his birth, but when the Lord performed the miracle upon him, he believed that it was from God, even though his elders did not, and they expelled that man, who was healed of the blindness, from their place.

And so it was also with this certain man that the Lord found him outside of the elders' place, and the man worshiped him.

My brothers and sisters, may the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. Amen.

Christ be in you, the hope of glory.

-By Lubomir