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THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THIS WORLD SO THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE IN THE FAITH, THAT IS TO SAY RICH AND GREAT IN HIM, AND TO BE CONSIDERED BY HIS FATHER. IT IS THIS GLORY AND RICHNESS THAT MAKE THE DEVIL TO SUBMIT HIMSELF IN FRONT OF THEM, BUT PEOPLE STAYED IN THE LAW WHICH CONSISTS TO SEEK FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF MAN AND THEY HAVE THROWN THEMSELVES IN THE SEEKING OF WHAT WILL MAKE THEIR SIMILAR TO CONSIDER THEM ANDTO BE SUBMITTED TO THEM
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This present century is too poor spiritually. This poverty is seen or being felt by the excess of evil and it is due to the spiritual blindness. The Lord Jesus has come with a richness, glory, greatness and power… to give to the people so that these last should be in the faith of the richness, the greatness, the glory, power… in him and be considered by his Father, and in the same way, submitting the devil to them by the possession of the kingdom of heaven. But, as the people have not recovered the view to see that what is of heaven is above what is on the earth, and that what is of the flesh is passing while what is of the spirit is eternal, they have stayed in the law which is the searching of the physical appearance, the consideration and the preference of things of the earth, seeking to be considered for rich, great, glorious, powerful... by their similar on uncertain things.
The Lord Jesus willing that the people should be considered by his Father and for the devil to be submitted to them, he has put everything in their possession in order to attain this objective, and it is through faith in him, but man in the law rather seek for the consideration of his similar instead of that of God, he want his similar to respect him and to be submitted to him instead of the devil that is why he has thus stayed in the physical greatness, richness, and glory instead of the spiritual one. The Eternal God being Spirit, he does not consider the physic or the material but instead the spirit. In the same way, the devil being spirit, he does not submit himself or bow down in front of the physic and the material, but instead in front of the spirit of God. The Lord Jesus has given us faith which makes us to be considered by his Father, and which makes the devil to submit and to bow down in front of us. But man remaining in the law, he does not seek to possess what will make him to be considered as rich, great, glorious… in front God, and what will bring the devil to consider him for a supreme in front of him. Man is instead devoted in the searching and the possession of what will bring him to be considered by people, and it is through physical things that his similar submits himself in front of him.
Being in the law, man does not know in truth that those who are fleshly can only consider fleshly things as the richness, greatness, glory…, it is what is physical that man considers, and that the law is the physical consideration and appearance by man. That is also why the Lord Jesus has come to take us out of the law which is the fleshly man to the faith in him which is the spiritual man. That is why Samuel the prophet being in the law went to Bethlehem in the order of the Eternal God to anoint one of the sons of Isaiah who was to become King of Israel. At the sight of the eldest son who was fat and tall, he was sure that he is the next king of Israel, but the Eternal God told him not to take the physic into consideration, that he the Eternal God does not consider what the fleshly man considers, that the man of the law considers what strikes the eyes, but he the Eternal God looks on the heart, that is why 1 Samuel 16/7 says: “But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart”.
The Lord Jesus has come to take us out of the law which is the consideration of what strikes the eyes, what is touched for richness, the acclamation of men’s hands for glory, the presentation on media and others for celebrity… The Lord Jesus asked if he will still find the faith on earth (in man) when he will come back? He said it because he saw these end times where people do not even know the faith, and they do not even find to know what it is to have faith in him. He knew that he will find the faith of the fleshly or the animal man and not that of the spiritual man which is the faith in him. Man willing to be respected and considered by his similar seek to possess what his similar considers, and he says to himself that if he posses it, his similar will consider and respect him, and that if he only possess what God considers and glorifies, his similar will not consider and glorify him. But since he is in the law which is the state of spiritual blindness, that is why he finds and seeks the consideration and the glory in man than in God.
It is difficult to believe in God today because everything is visible for the appreciations, the consideration and the acclamations of men’s hands. That is even why the Lord Jesus Christ says: “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” (John 5/44). God who is spiritual does not need that man should have the diplomas, the material, the titles… to consider him; and the devil who is also spiritual does not look at the diplomas, the material, the title… to be submitted to man. On the other hand, the man who is fleshly or of the law look all these things in order to consider his similar because for him, these things have value and make his similar a valuable person. Man wants to be considered righteous, rich, great, glorious, famous… in front man and not in front God and it becomes an abomination in front God. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ was saying: “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God” (Luke 16/15).
The people of the law are not seeking that the Lord Jesus should firstly consider their heart for his house which is the house of God, they are not glorifying themselves to be in the house of God, but they instead glorify themselves for the big dust which they have elevated for the building and which is valorised at the price of a high amount of money and titled for God’s house just because being in the law, their glory comes from what strikes the eyes, meanwhile it is said: “but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope” (Hebrews 3/6). They are thrown in the challenge of uncertain things. Seeing themselves to be small because they do not have a great building which is considered as church meanwhile there are other people who have great buildings, they will throw themselves in the challenge of blindness to also have a great building and to see themselves great.
The men of God who were to bring the people in the faith in Jesus Christ are themselves masters of the law. They bring the people to throw themselves in the love of money and for the challenge to possess great buildings, radio and television channels… what domination of the law! The Lord Jesus Christ as well as the apostles whose names are written in the bible had which challenge for the construction of the house of God? It is not money that was lacking to the Lord Jesus or to the apostles to construct a building to God, but it was to teach us that the house, the altar, the temple of God has passed from the building to the heart. The men of God willing to be considered by people and to be famous post their pictures on the broadcasting panels, on posts and walls. They are devoted in the ardent searching of money where the people have become their harvest farm. In their thought of the law, they say that how can a man of God walk by foot, live in a room, in a studio, in a house moulded with mud, in a house made of wood, not eat well…?
Meanwhile they were just to see how Jesus and the apostles were walking by foot, how they slept, what they ate… They want to have vehicles, houses, radio and television channels to draw the consideration, the respect and the submission of people in front of them, and it has become a bewitchment. They have dragged the people in the love of money by seducing, flattering and exiting them to go and look for money because they want to possess the material so that people should consider them for the great men of God. Meanwhile it is said: “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13/5). And it is also said: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs” (1 Timothy 6/10). When they see somebody dressed in coat and enters in the church, and who has packed a car, they give him the place of honour. But what domination of the law!
When they see a star, a diplomat, a business man… they consider him like a great, rich, glorious… man because of what strikes the eyes. When they do not have what strikes the eyes or what we can touch, they become sick, in low spirit, weak, lament, sad and all this make their spirit to become weak face to Satan because today, many sicknesses are caused by the anxieties, the lamentations, the thoughts that come from the lack of the material and that is how they always say in their heart that we need money to be considered and respected by our family, our children, our neighbourhood and our village. That is why many people listen to the word of faith but the anxieties of the lack of material make them to become weak. It is for this reason that the Lord Jesus says: “As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful” (Matthew 13/22). These things draw the respect in front man and not in front God. But, as it is the consideration of man and not that of God which is preferred by a big number of people, that is why the material which dominates the hearts and the love pushes them in the smugness, pride, contempt… bringing man to consider it (the material) more than his similar and his creator. That is even why it is said: “And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” (Mark 10/23).
According to the law, we judge man to be rich, great, glorious by the appearance meanwhile according to faith, we judge man by the greatness, the richness and glory of the justice of God. That is even why the Lord Jesus says: “Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment” (John 7/24). The things in the earth and those of man have gained the hearts of people in this century instead of the things of God or of heaven meanwhile it is said: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2/15). Many people take example of the richness of Solomon without understanding, but they should know that when the Eternal God told Solomon to ask him one thing as it is said: “At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you” (1 Kings 3/5), Solomon neither asked nor wish to have the richness of the earth, nor the longevity of the flesh on earth, but he instead asked for a heart of wisdom capable to distinguish evil from good. This request pleased God who gave him this heart of wisdom and a great richness of the dust which he never asked as it is said: “I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days” (1 Kings 3/13).
Today, the Lord Jesus is asking us to look firstly for the kingdom of God and his justice and these things will come afterward, but us today, we first look for these things, that is why we lose on both sides. If people were in the faith, evil would have been less because evil comes in the spirit, and being in the faith by Jesus Christ, we will be gods in the spirit of truth in order to dominate the spirit of evil which has despised the carnal law of Moses and where the intervention of the spiritual law was necessary in order to dominate it (the spirit of evil).
CHAMPI Apostle not behalf of man, nor by a man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. God’s power is the knowledge. To know, avoid sin and to be free from the eternal death. (John 8/32)