Fear God, Give Glory to Him, and Worship Him in Spirit and Truth.

Since I last saw you, there have been many deep and serious thoughts on my heart concerning you; and a sense of your state as before the Lord, and breathings of heart for you. I am sensible, that the Spirit of the Lord is striving with you, and in some measure opening your heart towards him and his Truth; and I am sensible withal, that there is much striving against him; and many strong holds of wisdom and reasonings in you, which must be broken down, before Truth can spring up in your heart, and exercise ill power in you, and have full command in you. Now, this morning, when I awoke, there were three things sprang up in me, which my heart did singly and earnestly desire for you. One was, that you might be led by God's Holy Spirit into the new and living covenant, where Christ is revealed, and the soul united to him as the Lord and King, in a bond of indissoluble union. Another was, that you might daily be taught of God, and learn of him, in this holy, new, pure, and everlasting covenant. The third was, that you might be true and faithful to God, to obey and follow him, ia whatever he teaches and requires of you.

If you were but in this state, you would find sweetness and rest, peace and power, the righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, and life eternal, revealed in your own heart; and with joy draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Now, if you come to witness Christ's appearance in spirit, and will become a disciple unto him, there are three things you must apply your heart to learn of him; which indeed are the sum of the gospel, or of what is taught in and by the gospel. The first is, to fear God. This is the beginning of true heavenly wisdom, and this is the perfection and the end of wisdom also; for, true wisdom not only brings into the fear, but it builds up in the fear, yes, and perfects in the fear also; according as the apostle said, " Perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord." Now, this is not such a fear, as man can attain by all he can do; but is the fear of the new covenant, which God puts into the hearts of his children, as he quickens them and brings them' up in the new covenant. This is such a fear, as that those in whom it is placed, cannot depart from the Lord; nor, abiding in it, err from the way of life and holiness; for all sin and transgression, all rebellion against the Lord, and grieving and quenching his Spirit, is out of this fear. Oh that you might receive this fear from the Lord, and grow up unto him daily in it.

The second, which depends upon and flows from the former, is, to give glory to God, in discerning his life and power, and the virtue of his Spirit and his grace, working all in you; and so, still ascribing the glory to him, of all you are, do, or can do. For, in the day of the gospel, no flesh can glory in the presence of our God; but, the Lord alone is exalted in the spirits of his children, in that day. And indeed, as every one comes into the fear of the new covenant, the presence of the Lord is there, dwelling in the midst of the heart; and he "is found working all in it, and bringing forth the seed of life, and working down sin, and death, and corruption. And they that are here, feel their own poverty and nothingness, as in themselves; and that their way to become strong in Christ, is first to become weak in themselves: and so, when they are strong in him, he who is their strength is glorified and admired, and self is of no reputation or value forever and ever; for, that is cleaved to, which brought down self, and that power and spirit being cleaved to, still keeps it down.

The third is, that you learn to worship God in spirit and truth. Oh this worship is precious indeed! and this is the only sort of worship which God notices and regards, among the many various kinds of worshippers which appear at this day. This worship was declared by Christ, and taught his disciples; but it has been in great measure departed from; and though many have sought after it, yet none ever could find it, but as they have learned of the Father to return to the anointing; and so, to be gathered into his Spirit, where Christ's name is known, and where they that meet together, worship in his name; and, of a truth, none know or can worship in Christ's name besides these. There have been great mistakes about worship and gatherings; they having not been in the name and power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but only in a profession thereof, and an imitation of things, without the true life and power; and what is that worship and religion in the sight of the Lord?

Now, so that you may come into this state, and learn all these lessons of the Lord in the new covenant, there is one thing indispensably necessary for you; which is, to know the hour of God's judgment in your own heart, and to lie under the judgment of the Lord, bearing it until he finished it, and brings it forth unto victory. For, this is the way by which he purges and redeems the soul; namely, by the spirit of judgment and burning. You must therefore wait for, and come to feel, the Spirit of the Lord near you, discovering sin to you, and revealing judgment against it, and executing his righteous judgment upon the evil nature in you; that he may raise up that good and tender plant of righteousness, out of the dry and barren ground, to which his mercy is.

If you come to know God's Spirit, and to receive it, and feel it work in you, and its pure light shine from the fountain and spring of life, you will have a quicker sense and discerning from it, than can arise either from words written, or from thought; that is, the Lord will show you the way whereof you doubt ; quicker than a thought can arise in you; and the Lord will show you evil, in a pure sense of the new nature, quicker than you can think or consider of anything. And indeed, this is needful; for sin lodges in the evil nature inwardly, and works, not so much by a known law set up in the mind, as by a secret nature; and, if it is not resisted and withstood by another nature, it can never be overcome. Now, by this judgment set up in the heart, does God overcome and keep down sin forever; for the judgment of God is stronger than sin and will bring it down, where his judgment is received and abode in; and what bought it down, being kept to, will keep it down; and, it being kept down, life and righteousness, even the righteous life, Spirit, and power of the Lord Jesus inwardly revealed, will be uppermost, and reign over it.

Perhaps these words, at present may be hard to you; but, if you come to wait on God's Holy Spirit, and to the feeling of his appearance in your heart, and learn of him to know what is good and what is evil in your words, ways, worship, yes, and in your very heart and thoughts, and also to choose the good and refuse the evil, they will grow easier and easier, and plainer and plainer, daily, as you come into the sense and experience of the things they mention. As you will find Christ, inwardly revealed in spirit, to be very properly called the Word of God, even the engrafted word which is able to save the soul; for he is quick and powerful; and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to cut down all that shall appear or rise up in the heart, to resist or oppose his work.

The Lord so guide you, manifest himself to you, help you, and lead you by his Holy Spirit and power, as that you may come undeniably to experience, and to be satisfied by him about these things. And mind not so much to know, as to be obedient and subjected to the Lord, both in your heart and in your conversation also, in the least thing that he makes manifest. The Lord lead you as he sees good, and give you faithfully to follow; for else, if the Lord should lead in anything, and you not follow in that thing, his Spirit would be grieved and vexed thereby, and your heart in danger of being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. The Lord give you the sense and savor of these things; that you may thereby be kindled to wait on the Lord, to be led into the light of the living; that you may live and walk with him in it, who is, and dwells, and walks with his, in the light. Oh house of Jacob! Come you, let us walk in the light of the Lord, and let us come up to Zion, the holy hill of God, and to the gospel Jerusalem, that there he may teach us of his ways, and we may there learn of him to walk in his paths; for there, is the place of wisdom and true understanding, which none know but those that are taught of God.

This is in true friendship and tender love to your soul, from its Friend in truth and sincerity,

Whom Do You Want To Serve?

He had No servants, yet they called him MASTER!

He had No Degrees, yet they called him a TEACHER!

He had No Medicine, yet they called him HEALER!

He had No Army, yet the Kings feared Him!

He won No Military Battles, yet He conquered the World!

He committed No Crime, yet they crucified Him!

He was buried in a tomb, yet He Lives today.

Do you want to prove if He lives? OK, Christmas is the biggest and brief example of His Liveliness!

On Christmas, we cerebrate his BIRTHDAY just the same as our birthdays in our homes. In our homes, we only cerebrate the birthdays of those who lives. We don't cerebrate the birthdays of dead relatives. Jesus, being the Lord, I tell you the truth, Christmas shows that Jesus Christ Lives. On His birthday many people, even those who doesn't know Him, cerebrates together with every christian. Watch out! There is another revelation there. If everyone or majority of the people on earth cerebrates His birthday, I tell you the truth that those words which says "Every knee shall bow down before our LORD " will come to reality. Praise the Almighty God for His Love endures forever.

If you believe Jesus Christ or Not, still more know that your knee shall bow down and with your mouth shall confess that Jesus Christ, the son of the Living God is God!

For those of you who belong to Jesus Christ as I do I say: 'Do you not feel honoured to serve such a Man?'

JESUS IS THE GREATEST EVER!

May God Bless You For Taking Your Time Reading this!

Richard.

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