--- type: BookChapter work_id: '308' book_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/books/3065 book_markdown_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/books/3065.md language: en position: 2 canonical_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/8932 markdown_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/8932.md markdown_source: converted translations: de: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/7334.md en: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/8932.md --- # Circular Letter May 1979 ## Circular Letter May 1979 CIRCULAR LETTER May 1979 I greet you all warmly in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ with the words from Col. 1, 9-14: "Therefore, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in the way worthy of the Lord, to His complete good pleasure. Yes, may you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God! May you be equipped with all strength, according to the power of His glory, for all steadfastness and endurance, and give thanks with joy to the Father who has made us fit to share in the inheritance of the saints in light! For He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. In this we have redemption, namely the forgiveness of sins. " After we, by the grace of God, have grasped the whole counsel of salvation through the proclamation of the prophetic Word, the Lord wants to make us capable of taking up our inheritance. First of all, it was necessary to proclaim the biblical teachings as the basis for building up the church of the Lord. Now our prayer is like Paul's, that the will of God be done, that we walk worthy of our calling and election according to the Lord and live according to His good pleasure. May we bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God, and be equipped with strength and steadfastness right now. Now it is about sharing in the inheritance of the saints in light. It is about being placed in sonship. As the people of God, we are bearers of the promise; we have been set apart as rightful heirs. Now we want to cross over the Jordan and take possession of the Promised Land. God's word is to be literally fulfilled in our midst and in our lives. The message of restitution has awakened the necessary faith and justified hope in us. The power of God must be revealed in the end in the same way as in the beginning. After we have returned doctrinally to the ground of the apostles, God will help us to find access to His throne of grace and all blessings. We are waiting for the consummation. We believe in complete redemption, in the forgiveness of our guilt and sin. We believe that the church as the body of the Lord is the manifestation place of God here on earth. God has placed various ministries and gifts in the church. Paul writes of the ministry of the Spirit, which has a far greater glory than the ministry of the letter. (2 Cor. 3) Before we as the church of the Lord can carry out the ministry of the Spirit, we must submit ourselves completely and totally to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Because the final victory is now at stake, we need the full armour to fight the spiritual battle. We have sung long enough: "Jesus is victor"; now it shall indeed be revealed. Long enough we have heard that Jesus Christ is the same, now let us see it. Living faith has been given to us through preaching and is anchored in the promises of God's Word. We believe that God will carry out the last revival thoroughly and mightily, for out of it the Bride Church will proceed and experience its completion. In every revival people have ordered their lives with God and among each other. As long as we, as members of the Body of Jesus Christ, have even the slightest thing against each other, the Spirit of God will not be able to lead to a breakthrough. With God's help, we must and will succeed in making a confession of sin that is pleasing to Him and in establishing a connection with Him and with each other. The pressure, the tensions, the opposition must come to an end. In the freedom and unity of the Spirit and in divine love, the unfolding of spiritual service should take place. In an unprecedented diversity the church will experience new blessings. I was commanded by the Spirit of God on the evening of 3 May 79 to go before the people of the Lord and read Galatians 5, where the hindrances are shown to us. In the presence of God we are to confess them, so that they may be punished by the light and removed from the way, and so that the enemy may be deprived of every possibility of attack. Especially in the letters of the apostles, the Spirit of God has expressed what believers must take to heart. God has prepared the way for His people, are we ready to walk on it? In Galatians 5 we read about the works of the flesh and the fruits of the Spirit. It is through love that we are to serve one another, not through bossiness. Before this can happen, the love of God must be poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. The whole law is fulfilled in and through us when we love God with all our hearts and our neighbour as ourselves. But the apostle warns, "But if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye be not swallowed up one of another. " God only wants to destroy the works of Satan, the devil wants to destroy us. God denounces sin, Satan the one who has sinned. Satan is accuser of the brethren, our Saviour is advocate. Thanks be to God, who shows us the way out of everything. He is able to turn even defeat into the greatest victory. Now we must not put anything before us, nor push it to the right or to the left, but place ourselves under the cross. Through the blood of the Lamb, the enemy is deprived of every right. When the victory of the cross is revealed in us, God has complete right of disposal over us. The enemy will be able to play his game with us until we have brought our sins and shortcomings to light and under the Blood. The apostle says: "But this is what I mean: Walk in the Spirit, and you will surely not fulfil the desire of the flesh. For the flesh with its desire resisteth the Spirit, and likewise the Spirit the flesh: for these two are at strife together, that ye should do the things which ye would. " Now it is no longer a question of doing what we want, but of doing the will of God. We are in the midst of the battle. The flesh, and behind it is the enemy, makes its demands on us; the Spirit, and therefore God, makes His demands on us. We have been bought dearly by the blood of the Lamb and no longer belong to ourselves, but to Him who redeemed us. We have died with Christ and are subject to the Spirit. "But if you are led by the Spirit, you are no longer under the law. But the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, immorality, dissoluteness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, contentions, jealousies, dissensions, common selfishness, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, revelries, and so on. Of these I have told you before, and repeat it now, that he who commits such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. " At the beginning we read the word from Colossians in which we are told that we are being made fit to participate in the inheritance of the saints in light. In this word from Galatians, we are presented with the obstacles that prevent us from being established as rightful heirs of the Kingdom of God. Such scripture affects each one of us. It is held up to us as a mirror of the heart. There is no one who has done right in everything, not even one. We all lack glory before God. Blessed is he who does not go away forgetting what he has looked like, but finds grace in the sight of God and recognises in his life that with which the enemy holds him. As we have read, it is not always just the gross sins, but also things that we may never have seen in the light of God as being so serious. Let us slowly go through this word of Galatians and ask the Lord what applies to us personally. When the Spirit of God convicts us of sin, we will bring it to light in a free confession. Chastened by the light, we bring them under the blood of the Lamb. With that moment, the enemy loses his attack in us. We know that our guilt and sin have been atoned for and forgiven on the cross of Calvary, yet it is necessary to recognise in what area and in what way the enemy is crippling us. I have been instructed by the Spirit of God to read Galatians 5 in the assemblies and ask all to face God and openly confess to God what the enemy is challenging them about. In this way we receive not only forgiveness but complete deliverance and salvation from the power of sin. I have set a good example and made a public confession before hundreds. Only a few will have to confess gross sins or transgressions, but the Word of God does not actually make any distinction. Jealousy, quarrelling, envy, factionalism, etc., are classified the same as fornication and immorality. Therefore, no one can point fingers or even throw stones at others. We are all guilty. Judgment on the house of God has begun. We want to face the work of the Holy Spirit and create complete cleansing with God's help, so that we also experience the sanctification worked by the Spirit, because without sanctification no one will see the Lord (Heb. 12, 14). We find confession of sins in Scripture in both the Old and New Testaments. When John began his ministry, it is recorded: "Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region of the Jordan went out to him and were baptised by him in the Jordan River, openly confessing their sins. "There is a biblical and an unbiblical confession of sins. Correctly, in the presence of God, the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, leads us to repentance, and we uncover it so that God can cover it. As the hand of the Lord weighs heavily upon us, we persevere in prayer until we have penetrated. The acquittal of a man is not enough; the certainty worked by the Spirit must come into our hearts that the Lord has forgiven. Then we realise that through the blood of the Lamb our sins have been righted and a deep joy and blessed peace fills our hearts. A confession of sin that is only made by order of a man or a congregation does not lead to divine freedom. When the Spirit leads us to repentance, the biblical result of complete deliverance and salvation will be seen. It is not just a matter of one person granting solution or deliverance to another, but of each person himself coming before his Saviour and accepting in faith complete forgiveness and deliverance. The Lord Jesus speaks of the branches that bear fruit, that they should be cleansed to bear more fruit. John writes: "He who has this hope in Him purifies himself even as He is pure. " Paul writes: ,, ... to the elect, to the holy and beloved in Jesus Christ, put off the old man ... and put on the new man who is made in God's image in true righteousness and purity. " In 2 Peter 1 we are presented with the seven qualities of the nature of Jesus Christ that must be in our lives as virtues. Immediately after this we are told, "On the other hand, he who lacks these qualities is blinded in shortsightedness and has let the cleansing from his former sins be forgotten. " May God grant us grace to experience Him in a new, unimagined way. The way up is through the depths. With anointed eyes we recognise what is for our salvation and peace. The moment the works of the flesh are exposed and brought into the light of God, the enemy loses his right, the blood of the Lamb completely atones and cleanses our guilt; then the Holy Spirit comes and creates new, divine life in us. Before the fruit of the Spirit, as also enumerated in Galatians 5, can be in our lives, the Holy Spirit must come upon us by a mighty outpouring. "The fruit of the Spirit, on the other hand, is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, constancy. Against such (fruits of the Spirit) the law can bring no charge. " It is no longer a matter of good intentions, but of presenting ourselves to God, of separating the light from the darkness, so that God can do something. The "ministry of the Spirit" can only be carried out where all works of the flesh have ceased. On 27. 4. 79 I was told by the Holy Spirit: "Wherever the Gospel is preached, the same things will happen as are written in the Gospels. "The Gospel is the good news that brings salvation to the sinner, healing to the sick, deliverance to the bound. Without Christ there would be no Gospel, but with Him we have a full Gospel. The Acts of the Apostles is a continuation of the ministry of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. In the 19th chapter we read that God caused unusual miracles to take place by the hands of Paul, so that they brought the sick who were healed and from whom the evil spirits came out. "Likewise also many of them that had become believers came and openly and unconcealed confessed their former doings; yea, not a few of them that had indulged in sorcery brought the books of sorcery together in a heap, and burned them publicly. " These things should be left standing. Let us hold fast to the fact that the Lord will once again move heaven and earth, our hearts and His church. Let everyone move everything in prayer before God and be guided by the Holy Spirit. The fear of God must be in the congregation at the end as it was at the beginning. Let us be open to one another, forgiving everything and removing every obstacle. If we, as believers, set everything right with God and with each other at the beginning of a service, then it will happen that sinners, caught by the grace of God, will also set their lives right with God and with people at the end of a service. Even hostility, partisanship, quarrels or discord can be a direct obstacle. May God give grace to all to see everything as He sees it. It is much easier to recognise the sins that are serious and eye-catching in our terms than those just listed. Each individual must enter the presence of God with all seriousness and really examine himself. Lip service alone will not bring about a change, but God will give grace and help to the sincere. The Spirit makes it clear to us that behind all the works of the flesh there is an evil spirit. Behind all the fruits of the Spirit is the power and the Spirit of God. We are dealing with two different kingdoms, the diabolical kingdom of darkness and the divine kingdom of light. "But now you also lay aside all such things: Anger, bitterness, malice, profanity, and indecent speaking of your mouths! Neither lie to one another: for ye have put off the old man with all his doings, and have put on the new man, which is renewed unto knowledge in the image of his Maker...Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience; bearing with one another, forgiving one another, if any man reproach another, as the Lord hath forgiven you. "(Col. 3) May God grant us all grace to face the work of the Holy Spirit, to forgive one another from the heart and also to accept for ourselves the unrestricted, total forgiveness of all our guilt and sin in faith. After we have brought everything under the cross, let us leave it, neither think about it nor speak about it. The work of God is perfect. "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself as a faultless sacrifice to God, purify our minds from dead works, that we may serve the living God! "(Hebr. 9, 14) "Unto him that loveth us, and hath redeemed us from our sins by his blood, and hath made us a kingdom, priests unto his God and Father: - to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 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