But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7:14
When it comes to revival, and revival meetings, in one sense, revival is easy… Once the flow starts, the miracles happen, the atmospheres change, the going is good… On another side, we sometimes don’t see a great degree of change in the people that are attending revivals in the short term.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face, that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
Colossians 2:1-3
It is by faith alone that we understand the mystery of God, namely, Christ. It is by faith alone that we come to see who He really is. Who He is, in all of His depth, width, breadth, and length, is the mystery, the great secret of God.
Through all of the Mosaic law, through all of the tabernacle, through all of the feasts, it is Jesus that there, right there. He is the heavenly tabernacle, He is the rock in the wilderness. He is the scarlet thread hanging in Rahab’s window. He is the branch cast upon the waters to make the ax-head float.
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
1 Corinthians 3:10-15
A man set out one day to build something in following after God. He did only what He sees the Father do, He spoke only His Father gave Him. He wrote no books, built no organization, established no hierarchy, and built no buildings. His work stands today, outside of time, outside of everything.
Today, we establish works. We build buildings. We write manuals and church government manuals. We learn, study, and write leadership guides.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2:42
After the day of Pentecost, after the outpouring of the Spirit, and after the 3000 who were saved in an afternoon through Peter’s stand and preaching, this short verse describes what they considered important.
This verse has several similar to it in the New Testament, as a word study on such words as “devoted” demonstrates, but it is the first, listing four parts that were what they “devoted themselves to”. Whether it was an exhaustive list is not the point, but simply that these four were important enough to be mentioned.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
Hebrews 11:3
The whole of the Christian walk is in the unseen, which manifests into the seen.
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
In waves of revival, manifestations come and go. Many opinions are formed, shared, and contested with. But, one thing remains, and that is the Eternal Kingdom of God, the mystery of the Holy Spirit, Christ within, “God With Us”, Emmanuel.
That which we see is not always what it is, and that which we cannot see often goes unnoticed, undiscerned, and hence, under addressed.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
John 14:23-24
What are the teachings of Jesus? What are the lessons that He gave us?
Have you ever stopped to consider the parables? Do you know what they mean?
Christianity today has done a good job with the main parts. Jesus is the Way, there is no other. No one comes to the Father, but by Him… But, what of the rest?
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
Mark 16:15-18
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7:13-14
Each of these scriptures is a part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Each one of these passages was spoke by Jesus, given to the Apostles written for the disciples, and is absolutely relevant to us today. If it was not, there would be no reason for the book. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he used to say, “Come, and let us go to the seer”; for he who is called a prophet now was formerly called a seer.)
1 Samuel 9:9
A seer is a prophet. A seer is one who sees; a “see”-er. Particularly, they see into the realm of the Spirit. While some people in the Kingdom of Heaven may never see angels, demons, and the other things of the Kingdom, a seer sees these things, depending on their level of ability, as subject to the will of God.
Blind Pharisee!
Matthew 23:26 (first two words)
It is one of the saddest thing not to be able to see. In the natural, it means you cannot see the natural creation. Blindness in the spirit, of course, means you cannot see the spiritual creation, the heavens.
There is something about seeing in the spirit. John was there, when he wrote his apocalypse. Ezekiel was there when he saw his visions by the river Chebar.
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