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who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who
has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. “I have come to
bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a
baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you
think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From
now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three
against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son
and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against
mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against
mother-in-law.’”
(Luke 12: 41-53)
This will take place because the truth matters,
and when the whole truth is exposed a spiritual fire will erupt. The side of
the issue makes a difference and members of your family will reverberate,
turning against those who test mere belief and acquire the truth.
Paul also prophesied on Jesus’ behalf, and his words are spiritually
applicable to those who know the meaning today. He said; “we do,
however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the
wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
No
,
we speak o f God ’ s s e c r e t wi sdom, a wi sdom t ha t has be en h i dden
and t ha t God de s t i ned f o r our g l o r y be f o r e t ime be gan
. None of the
rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no
ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those
who love him’
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but
God has r e v ea l ed i t t o us by h i s Sp i r i t .
The Spirit
searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men
knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the
same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
We
hav e no t r e c e i v ed t he sp i r i t o f t he wo r l d bu t t he Sp i r i t who i s f r om God ,
t ha t we may unde r s t and wha t God has f r e e l y g i v en us .
This is what we
speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the
Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the
Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they
are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are
spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things,
but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: ‘For who has known
the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?’
Bu t we hav e t he mi nd o f
Chr i s t
.”
(1 Corinthians 2: 6-16)
The mystery is veiled until the precise appointed time. At a precise time,
which is today, they are unveiled for consumption: “For the creation was
subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one