the teachable/unteachable dichotomy

In some ways it is fitting for me to become unteachable and in some ways it is fitting for me to become more teachable. Some deep groanings of Truth are within me and as I learn to put them to words, I find that the concrete is setting up solid around them, and I soon won’t be able to move away from them.

You will never convince me that God depends on me instead of me depending on Him. That is pretty settled in my mind.

You’ll never convince me that I can sway God’s love either toward or away from me. That is something in which certainty is growing every day.

You will never convince me that I need more then Christ. He is the highest revelation, and if I have Him, then I will never need anything more, and I will never ever have to get by with less then His sufficiency. There is no way, loving or cruel to move me from that.

I will never be convinced that one can stand in Christ alone, and at the same time be under condemnation. I have seen that is impossible.

But, at the same time I am aware that there are some ghastly wrong things that are part of what I think is right, and that there is no way that I’ll ever be able to present the fullness of Truth to anyone else, much less sort it all out for myself. I can only speak about what I know and be open to knowing more. That is the teachable/unteachable dichotomy. It involves a lot of saying what “I know,” and a lot of admitting what “I do not know,” but less and less blindly asserting things that I don’t understand.

May we grow in the sensitivity of the difference, and speak primarily about what is burdened in our heart, while not assuming that what is on our heart would be spiritual for everyone else to have on their heart.

I love the topic of obedience (for example,) and find it crucial to the Christian life, but I can’t lay aside what is placed on my heart and speak to that subject all the time. I only have so much time, and though I would like enough time to speak to obedience in proportion to its importance, I have to share what is in my heart. I don’t think it more spiritual for anyone to speak about what is on my heart. Everyone has different emphasis’s in accordance to what they have been graced to understand. Likewise, others should not assume that obedience isn’t important to me, just because I don’t often speak about it. Just because it is the most important to me, doesn’t mean (when I don’t speak about it) that I think that it isn’t important. I just have limited things to share about.

We have a mocking bird in Texas. It is our state bird, and they are all over the place. When you listen to them, they sing about 12 or so songs, and just go over that rotation. Another mocking bird will have 12 or so songs, but maybe only one or so of them are the same as the first bird, so together they have about 20 songs in their rotation. And so, adding more mocking birds to the list, would add more songs, but at some point you could add 100 more birds and not get a single new song, because they are already sung by one of the others. To me this is like the body of Christ. We sing the song that is placed on our heart and it may overlap what has already been said, but we are not in competition, we are together joining in a chorus of music that reveals the music placed in our heart … and can only be fully experienced in the corporate expression from each of us. None of us have the whole song, but we each have a part of it, and we should not condemn others if their song is a bit different.

Now of course that analogy breaks down, because two opposite teachings are at odds with each other, but that is because one of the birds, isn’t a bird or maybe they are a bird, but they are singing someone – else’s song instead of the one that God placed there.

Anyway, I hope you are encouraged by my viewpoint on that, and encouraged to shine inasmuch as you are given the grace to shine. Just be sincere, and genuine, and never teach someone else’s gospel. Teach the gospel that is burned in your heart, and comes alive when you read it in scriptures or hear it from others.

Trent, brother..

there is something I don’t understand. Will we be here during the tribulation or are we already with God then?

Blessings,

Daan

Trent Fuller November 27 at 3:54pm

Will you remain during the Great Tribulation?

Yes, if you have chosen the world and your own way over the Lord Jesus and servitude to Him.

Yes, if you are Moses or Elijah or 144,000 servants who will be simultaneously translated and reborn in a new body on during the harvest, having spent time with the Lord although time stood still on earth. These will endure 7 years of great Tribulation as fully established and powerful soldiers for the Lord.

Yes, if you are a pastor or teacher who has mislead the Lord’s sheep or caused them to stumble or misappropriated money given to God for your own selfish gain.

No, if you are a child, baby, or fetus who is of such a young age that you remain in innocence, having not chosen against God in rebellion to Him. These will all escape God’s wrath.

No, if you are fully converted in your heart having that part of Him (His Spirit) present in your secret innermost chamber of Your heart that only God knows.

However, if you were merely talking about tribulation, not the Great Tribulation … then understand that in this world we all have tribulation … and none are getting through without a scratch, as it has always been.

Therefore, blessed are those that escape the cup of God’s indignation that has been stored up for 2000 years, for indeed it will be poured out in this generation … even the last 7 years of the age which is nearly upon us.

Does this answer your question?

Ripening,
Trent

“Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets …”

We know from the Lord’s promise above (Mt. 23:34)
that He will send prophets.

And since that is foretold by the Lord, Himself, it isn’t a matter of whether or not a midnight cry, and sent prophets will arrive, but what will that look like when they come.

Blessed are they that look in all earnest on the horizon for the fulfillment of the Lord’s promise. Blessed are they who place their hand around their ear as a cup it to pick up the faintest sound of His message of arrival … for these will hear and see what has been promised and will rejoice as they prepare the way of His return.

So, sister, beloved of the Lord. The prophets are sent out, both the true and the false and the Lord’s message rings forth whether we hear or forbear, for this is indeed the generation that will see the coming of the Lord. … and Beth, James, Jayse and Tim are not conspiring to promote anything … they are obeying and nothing more, and wanting no consideration for merely delivering what they are told to deliver.

Beth is 17, an unemployed high-school drop-out that is a baby Christian, yet God’s hand is on her in strength when He tells her to “pick up your pen and write …”

Jayse, graduated from high-school last spring and has left everything to blow the trumpet … last year was a drug dealer.

Jim has been treated extremely rough and betrayed by those who he loved the most simply because he will not say that what the Lord told him to write came from any other source. (I’ve known Jim the longest … around 16 years.)

And Tim, whose gift was first manifest in ‘04 as a new-born in the Lord. … and I have seen him grow from a sapling that you could step over to a towering tree that you must walk around. He transcribes the majority of the Letters.

And so there are around 500 letters published and a few hundred that are unpublished (God says what goes on the site and what does not) through these imperfect vessels that the Lord made meet for His purpose.

I’ve met all of these guys in person except Jayse. And they really have one and only one common denominator … the have a mad crush on Jesus. So of the thousand or so Christians that I have met … the way I would rank them all from greatest to least on the scale of their love for Jesus … would mean that I would have to set aside the top four spots to these three prophets and one prophetess.

I am blessed to know them and I thank the Lord for their gift which always points me to Jesus and to exalt Him over all things … trusting in Him fully. And I have slipped and tried to thank each of them from time to time and always got the same answer – “Why thank me? Glorify the Lord! I just dropped off what He told me to and nothing more.”

You cannot contribute, nor donate, nor buy any of the Letters.
None of the four have jobs nor income in any sense. They all four are pennyless, unknown, and commanded to stay that way … and rely fully on the Lord for even their tomorrow.

So then I don’t know where you stand on all of this but there are many that scoff and spit at them … gnashing their teeth and throwing stones by word and deed. And there are a few that see God’s hand at work and pray for His servant that they are protected and there are many many more that sit on the fence of indecision … but not for long.

So, if you have any particular reason to fast and pray and seek the Lord for understanding and revelation and not stop seeking til you have a clear answer whether this is true or whether it is false … if that particular reason is not about these Letters from God .. .I would like to know what is so important that you should put off the answer to this and seek whatever that is instead. And if there is nothing more important, then let me charge you by His inspiration to do just that … and pray and seek and fast until you know or know otherwise. It is that important and there is that little time left.