True prayer can be made only by one who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. There is no true prayer apart from the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit indwells only those who belong to Jesus Christ, and all who are currently called and belong to Jesus Christ KNOW they belong to Jesus Christ. There are no exceptions, including this monstrosity by a famous professor of Christ --
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"I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're members of the Body of Christ... And that's what God is doing today, He's calling people out of the world for His name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ, because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in heaven." Billy Graham, Interview With Robert Schuller |
Not only is it NOT possible for a GENUINELY born again Christian to be connected in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER with the above absurdity, but rather, EVERY person who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit can remember the MOMENT the Holy Spirit indwelt them, and can remember the EXPERIENCE of being indwelt, which is the EXPERIENCE of the RESURRECTION POWER of Jesus Christ. There are no exceptions, and EVERY ONE who is GENUINELY born again knows that, and is likewise aware of the nature of the STRONG DELUSION that God is even now sending upon the world. No exceptions WHATSOEVER. He who cannot remember the MOMENT and the EXPERIENCE of being indwelt by the Holy Spirit is deluding himself if he thinks he's born again. [2 Thessalonians 2:11]
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"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, AND AM KNOWN OF MINE... My sheep HEAR MY VOICE, and I know them, and they follow me." Jesus Christ, John 10:14, 27 "A sinner saved by grace will ALWAYS refer in his TESTIMONY to the MOMENT at which he EXPERIENCED new birth... You must be invaded by the Spirit of God by means of SUPERNATURAL recreation... BEWARE OF THE TENDENCY TO WATER DOWN THE SUPERNATURAL IN RELIGION." Oswald Chambers, Bringing Sons Unto Glory & Approved Unto God "They are not Christ's that neither know how they are called, nor can give any proof that they are called... to some God speaketh in thunder, to others in a still small voice, but to all he speaketh; therefore did you ever discern God's calling and your answering?" Thomas Manton, The Epistle Of Jude, v.1 |
Not only does Jesus Christ diametrically contradict the gross ignorance and lack of the EXPERIMENTAL knowledge of the Holy Spirit exhibited in the above monstrously absurd statement, but likewise, he who cannot remember the MOMENT and the EXPERIENCE of the RESURRECTION POWER of Jesus Christ indwelling him by the Holy Spirit is utterly deluding himself if he thinks he's born again, and unless that changes, he is going to be SHOCKED on the day of judgment, which is going to be the case with the VAST, VAST MAJORITY of those who profess to be Christians today, especially with MANY of notoriety. Indeed, the world is going to be SHOCKED at the MANY NOTABLES that are shut out of the kingdom of God, and this generation is worse than them all, including Sodom and Gomorrah, for this is the quintessential apostate generation of the world, and he who doesn't come to know that is he who has no portion in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Not in this world, not in the world to come.
And thus, the following does not apply to any but those who can honestly and legitimately testify AMEN to having EXPERIENCED the RESURRECTION POWER of Jesus Christ in the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH. All others are deluding themselves, ESPECIALLY those who PROFESS to be Christians while never having EXPERIENCED the POWER thereof, a POWER, which, as I said, is the very RESURRECTION POWER of Jesus Christ HIMSELF. If you cannot so testify, get born again, and do it fast, for your time is short. Give Jesus Christ no rest until he endues you with power from on high. Fair warning.
God can easily hear the prayers of all men, of whatever sort, for God knows every creature's innermost thoughts before they ever even occur, but TRUE prayer, which is the ONLY prayer God guarantees to hear, comes only from those who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit prompts prayer in no other name but the name of JESUS.
Any prayer that is not in the name of JESUS is an utter abomination in the eyes of God. There are no exceptions. And tacking on the word "Jesus" at the end of a prayer is not even REMOTELY what is meant by praying in the name of JESUS.
In fact, the only reason God sometimes entertains the prayers of those who do not belong to Jesus is because Jesus HIMSELF has become the surety of the world, and because that particular prayer happens to be in accord with God's eternal council, and because Jesus HIMSELF actually grants it out of his own empathetic compassion, for the Father grants no prayer not made in Jesus' name. None. They don't even enter his court.
Had Jesus not agreed to become INCARNATE, God would have immediately destroyed the entire creation upon Adam and Eve's rebellion. The ONLY reason this world still exists, the ONLY reason human beings are still allowed to breathe air, is because Jesus Christ agreed to become INCARNATE. Those rebellious souls who curse Jesus Christ do so with the very breath Jesus Christ provides them, and though they don't know it now, there will be a reckoning day, and then their rending wails and frantic apologies, which will rock the universe for passion, will be in vain. Utterly, totally, completely in vain. Too late by a lifetime. Same with those who PROFESS Jesus but who have never EXPERIENCED the RESURRECTION POWER of Jesus Christ in the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH. Wait and see.
When strangers appear at the castle walls, it may be the king will grant that a few select individuals can come inside the gates to his court that day and be heard, while the multitude is still shut out, and it may be that the King grants one or two of the petitions made of him by those select few he allows to enter his formal chambers, yet the ONLY reason the King grants those requests, when he grants them at all, is because it happens to accord with his own desires, not because of any benefit to the petitioner.
Not so with the King's children, however. The King's children have the King's ear continually. There is never a time, day or night, when the King's children may not appear instantly before the King and make their petitions known, and not only in his formal chamber, but in his very bedroom. Moreover, unless their petition will do them harm, there is no petition made by the King's children that the King will not grant. Not one. In fact, in many cases -- belay that -- in MOST cases, the King will not only grant his children's petition, but will actually add to it, exceeding abundantly above all that his children could even ask or think. And the King's children, while mostly undervaluing the grants of the King now, because the King's grants are primarily spiritual, not material, for God gives material prosperity to his enemies, not his friends, so while the King's children mostly undervalue the grants of the King now, they will, as time goes by, increasingly come to realize the incalculable worth of the King's grants, and will see that the inestimable value of the King's grants become clearer and clearer as the eons roll by, so that even the smallest petition granted here and now will wax infinitely bright as the child's understanding grows, and will endure throughout all eternity. Not a single petition granted here will be forgotten in eternity. Not one, not even the smallest.
They will ALL only be magnified into an eternal weight of glory, and they will ALL be found to have been granted SOLELY BECAUSE of Jesus Christ and his VICTORY over sin, death, the world, the flesh, and the devil, and they will ALL be found to have likewise CULMINATED in Jesus Christ, for ALL the promises of God in him are YEA, and in him AMEN. Not one will fail, not one will be lost.
And all the PROMISES in Jesus Christ are found in the Holy Spirit in tandem with his written Word. Without the Holy Spirit, the written Word is powerless and will do you not one whit of good, for not one single promise in the written Word of God belongs to you until you appropriate it. Not one.
How do you appropriate the promise? By the Holy Spirit. Until the Holy Spirit tells you -- tells you PERSONALLY -- that the promise is yours, it isn't. If you think otherwise, you are deluded through and through. Just as it is in the NEW BIRTH, so it is with the promises. If you're genuinely born again, you began in the Spirit, and so you must continue in the Spirit. Until the Holy Spirit tells you in the SUPERNATURAL MIRACLE of the NEW BIRTH that Jesus died for you, you can't claim the death of Jesus as your own. If you think otherwise, you are deluded through and through.
It's the same with the promises.
Do you want the promise? Then get on your knees and fight it out in the Holy Spirit, assuming you're genuinely born again. It's there for the taking, but it will cost you.
Can you pay the price?
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"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." Revelation 3:21 "Spiritual warfare accordingly demands an attitude of total death to feeling and an absolute trust in God. Only a person with this attitude can bear up alone and not seek companions or man's approval in fighting the enemy. Only this caliber of Christian can proceed under all sorts of anguished feelings. He cares not al all for his life nor about death but only cares for the leading of God. He indulges no personal interest, desire, or longing. He has offered himself to death already and then lives exclusively for God. He nether blames nor misunderstands Him because he considers all His ways to be loving. This is the class of person who is able to fill the breach. Though he may appear to be deserted by God and forgotten by men, yet he mans his battle station. He is a prayer warrior. He overcomes Satan." Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man, Vol II "Never leave off watching, reading, praying, striving, till you experimentally find Christ Jesus formed within you... Be frequent in self-examination morning and evening. Pray earnestly from your heart. WRESTLE WITH GOD, BEG HIM TO HASTEN THE NEW BIRTH." George Whitefield, Letters, XI |
Would you be born again? GENUINELY born again?
Then take wise counsel -- pick up a Bible based on the Traditional Text -- in English, the ONLY VALID Bible based on the Traditional Text is the King James Bible -- and then read with SOLEMNITY, beginning in the Gospels preferably, and beg Jesus Christ to reveal himself to you, and give him no rest until he does, for if you read the TRUE written Word of God, you will find the Lord of Glory, even Jesus Christ, moving upon the face of the waters in its pages, just as he moved upon the face of the waters when he walked across the Sea of Galilee, and if you follow the advice just given, and if you persist, Jesus Christ HIMSELF will verily MANIFEST HIMSELF to you (for he HIMSELF promises to do this for those who truly heed this advice), just as he MANIFESTED HIMSELF to his disciples when he moved upon the face of the waters as he walked across the stormy sea some two thousand years ago, and just as he did with ME not too many years ago, and just as he has done with a FEW others from day to day since that time, in this very generation, and just as he will do for YOU if -- IF -- you heed my advice, and if -- IF -- you persist therein, for he who promised is FAITHFUL. John 14:21, Matthew 14:25-27
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