SERMONS - BIBLE TEACHING - SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY - REVELATION
The Parable of the Two Brothers
Founding your own religion on someone else's faith is as:
Two brothers live in the same household. The younger loves to spend time with his father on a daily basis, conversating with him, and sitting in his presence. He then spends time telling the elder brother, who is rather about his own business, about their shared father.
"Oh," says the elder, "Father sounds like a great man indeed." "Yes," agrees his brother, "You should spend some time with him and get to know him better yourself." "Oh, no," replies he, "Father sits in his office all day, and I am far too busy a man to sit with him."
Yet no man can be busier than the Father who works tirelessly night and day! Oh, if we would only bring our work before him, that he might perform it all for us! Should the work be done in our little power, it is but in vain!
The elder brother knew of the Father only by the testimony of the younger brother. Let us not establish our own religion on the faith of someone else!
Our salvation is not in us, nor in others, but only in the person of Christ himself.
-By Veronica
The Parable of the Waiting Woman
There was a woman, and her husband was a far:
There was a woman in one town and her husband was a far. She said she longs for him and that he is in her heart, and she is missing him and thinking about him. Her husband's name is Jesus, she says. But while her husband is in a far country, she has another man in her house, just to keep the company and bread on the table. His name is World. She says that she does not love this one, the one she has in her house. Then comes her husband from the far country. He crosses the street, and behold, he is at the door and knocks. He came to take her, to where he came from. You don't have to answer, says World to her, you are saved, here!
The door is locked. The husband asks from the outside, Is your companion, Spirit, in the house? I gave him my key!
The house is us. Leave the World on the street. Let the Spirit be your companion in the house.
O, Holy Father, grant to them that they might see, that they might draw near to you.
-By Lubomir
The Parable of the Unclean
There was a certain man of unclean lips:
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
