~ The Mystery Of The Faith
~ Separate, More and More
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AS READ BY KENNETH B VISSCHER
This is a
true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A
bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of
good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no
striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all
gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take
care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he
fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of
them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine,
not greedy of filthy lucre; Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure
conscience. And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of
a deacon, being found blameless. Even so must their wives be grave, not
slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons be the husbands of
one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For they that have
used the office of a deacon well purchase to them-selves a good degree, and
great boldness in the faith which is in
Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the
elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear. Hebrews 11:1-3 (Underline
mine)
But without faith
it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come
near to God must [necessarily] believe
that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and
diligently seek Him [out]. Hebrews 11:6 AMPLIFIED
My beloved put in
his hand by the hole of the door, and
my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands
dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of
the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I
sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. The
watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the
keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. I charge you, O daughters
of
And he went into
the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, persuading and arguing and
pleading about the
Hold fast the form
of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee,
O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it
seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no
man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the
Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me,
all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye
shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.
“Then there was brought understanding, and wisdom
and counsel from the Lord and there in the spirit saw I a singular member of
that company gifted to men whom the Word declares as the ministry to The Body
of Christ. These are often referred to as “The Five Fold Ministry”, of who are
called Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, Evangelists and Pastors given to bring the
Body of Christ into the full measure of faith and into perfect unity. I saw but
one member of this company, no person in particular, but one member represented
to me by the spirit of the Lord. As this was presented to me the awareness came
of the extreme jealousy that the Lord has over His heritage that He longs for
and works towards bringing each soul He has redeemed by His precious blood into
full union with Himself. The emphasis of the spirit however was that the Lord
is CLEANING UP those who would minister His word to His Body. Those of this
same fivefold ministry company. The one that I saw, representative of this
company of ministers in this hour, had the pure word of God in their hearts
like a burning lamp of fire, bright, non extinguishable and not contaminated by
their own flesh. But along side of them upon the ground was a sack, full of
doctrines, theories, experiences, misplaced judgments, personal ambitions and
pride. The sack was held in the left hand of this one who represented the
company of ministers and was being dragged along the ground with them. Instead
of ministering JUST from the light that was in them, they also ministered from
the sack, their own doctrines and words which were not part of the true light
that was in their inner parts. As they ministered to the Body of Christ in the
world of men, the Body would become damaged in areas and divided and brought to
a “vain” humility, not a “true” humility in brokenness. The Lord above this
beheld this sack and the iniquity in His ministers and He judged them so that
the ministers who had the sacks lost the sacks and the ministers who were over
the people became one with the people so that the divisions would cease and the
work of ministry would not be hindered by pride. Such was the Lord’s judgments
at this time. He is currently judging those who have been given to the Body of
Christ to correct, cleanse and make them one with the true light that does
shine within them so that they sin not in pride against the Lord or against His
purposes for this very hour.”
(End Vision)
“Thus says the Lord Jesus Christ unto mine own,
even those who have come to know me and to those who know my voice when it does
speak unto you. I stand holding forth the candlestick of the
(End Prophecy)
Continuing on now in the second part of The Mystery
Of the Faith. We find ourselves still being brought to areas of seclusion and
separation, leaving the judgment of other people up to the Lord alone and not
allowing our lives to become judgmental towards those who we have parted
company with. This is a necessary step in our overcoming, to not judge those
who are parted from us. Even if those who have parted from us are deceived, we
learn to judge them not but to commit them and the circumstances they brought
into our personal lives unto the Lord. The entire place of trial and testing
for the Overcomer has one common identity and that is that we have all endured
much stripping and scourging and cleansing being processed away from any
ambition as to personal will or our own strength. To get this purging process
done in us the Lord would often allow us to fall away into something outside of
His perfect will for us, this would expose the giants in our land and things
which were hidden from view so that we could repent further and be cleansed
further. As the purging, stripping and cleansings continued we in naked faith
would come to face the Lord again trusting in His word that His grace was
greater than any sin our flesh man may have committed. No matter how horrible
the deceptions or the discord, greater was the grace to deliver us out of it. We
are a people who were set apart unto the Lord, but we continually seemed to get
in trouble, at least in the earlier parts of our daily walks, until we learned
again and again to walk perfect with no variableness or shadow of turning in
our faith. Even then as mature ones we would feel the burden of being set into almost
insurmountable testings, but through each thing the Lord did deliver us and
cleanse us of all the taints that were found in our lives effecting that which
was born of His spirit. Through time and tribulation we learned that there was
nothing in this world that appealed to us or kept us secure or held us as false
wealth or glory. We learned not to associate earthly wealth or lack thereof as
being a sign of the Lord’s approval or disapproval. Our faith alone became the
sanctity of our walk in this world, not what we had in our natural lives but
what we had in faith that was the key thing that the Lord was looking for, that
part of us which honoured him in pure naked faith and not in any outward
circumstance. In these things we matured.
I would draw your attention to the verse written
above from The Song of Solomon because it is right on time for this hour. The verse
set in motion is one any Overcomer can identify with because their very lives
seem to be offered up upon the altar of sacrifice all to this hope we have that
the Lord will appear in us in glory and give us the fullness of our
inheritance. It seems that rather than finding great realms of peace and
comfort in the hope laid before us, we end up often questioning where the Lord
is in our faith, where is His location? Where does He dwell? Why is it that I
have been faithful to wait for the Lord yet the Lord seems almost to not be
present to me or that I am even aware that His presence is in me? Instead I am
often overcome with the cares of this world and my life is not a joy to me, but
a burden, that which I wanted out of life I did not attain, those things I
desired I did not have. More so, the communion I felt I deserved because I was
faithful to the Lord I do not have, the Lord seems distant from me. Heaven is
as brass, there is nothing above me in the air that even resembles His spirit,
where is the Lord whom I love and my beloved who I long for? This is the
present condition of the Overcomer AND IT IS RIGHT ON WITH HIS TIMING.
So breaking down Song of Solomon chapter 5: 4-8 let
us see where we are in this present hour in the Lord. “My beloved put in his hand by
the hole of the door,
and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved;” The Lord was the one we waited for, we
were in our chambers waiting His presence, His love to take us, His promise to
come and make us one with Himself. We thought He was coming, we thought He was
near, we yearned for Him, made haste to meet Him and to be ready for Him, we
did all we knew to do to be correct and right for Him. “And my hands dropped with myrrh, and my
fingers with sweet
smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.” There we are, filled with the graces of the Messiah, and His love
permeates us and keeps us, our hands are full of His mercy, grace, truth and we
long for all the fullness of the Lord to come and to take us and to fill us and
to measure in us His person with nothing to mar or detract from who He is IN
US. “I
opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul
failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but
he gave me no answer.” Instead of finding the Lord coming to us and
being there ready to take us HE IS ABSENT. We open the door, BUT HE IS NOT
THERE. We seek Him, BUT HIS COMING IS NO SOONER MEASURED TO US, We cannot find
Him even though we try, the coming of the Lord to take us fully unto Himself
has not yet been. We call upon Him but all we have is bare faith, no word, no
voice, no answer. Such is the present condition of the Overcomer in this very hour.
Something repeated many times unto us.
Then we come to the most difficult thing to
understand. Our desire is towards the Lord, our thoughts are only upon Him, He
is the object of our affection and desire and the one whom we worship and
adore. Our faith is upon Him completely and only upon Him. He in sovereignty gives
us the fivefold ministry to minister unto our needs while we wait for Him, but
then a most disparaging thing comes instead and a hurtful thing rises and we
find ourselves in great tribulation because of it. NO ONE is exempted from
feeling this sort of betrayal. We enter the fellowship of
This writing may be a bit hard to be understood so
let me simplify it. The Lord is going to teach you to trust NO one or NOTHING except
To be continued………………..
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