The following is an open letter to every missionary and messenger of Christ, dated September 1st, 2007. It is translated from the original Finnish version I once wrote in response to a number of fired-up born-again preachers who were targeting me over my "evil oriental beliefs" — which in no way differ from the essence they sought to preach, save and except our vocabularies and their persistent calls for exclusivity to the one and only path, truth and life. This is the same universal message in their vocabulary.
Jesus Christ is Universal: Never force his mission into the constraints of your foolish and narrow perspectives, declaring yourself as a true and exclusive messenger, trampling on others without fear or remorse in advancing your faith — very literally your faith, in that you are weak in faith and seek to enforce it through convincing others. This is no preaching — this is violence to others in the name of serving your selfish egoist needs.
I am particularly not fond of listening to sermons by preachers, who are themselves lukewarm in their deeds, lacking a correlation in their words and their acts in fulfillment of the message. "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth." (Rev 3:15-16)
While it is a message of light, love and heaven that Jesus sought to teach, his followers have turned it into a campaign of demons and eternal lakes of fire and damnation, preaching but thunder and storms of fear. Then, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Luke 6:31) Below is a video from the Healing Waters Church, a beautiful illustration of how a universal message can be conveyed with art and fluid expression, in a spirit of healing and balance, as the original intent was.
Then, this is an open letter to all who would pour fire and brimstones unto others, canvassing mankind into the service of a demanding and wrathful God, forcing our choice between Heaven and Hell in nothing but an act of ignorance and immaturity. If you are a messenger or a preacher, then walk your talk or get down from the high horse and be humbled before the sins that still riddle you.
When a humble mule carried the Son of God and the King of Heavens, we are hardly in a position to ride a blazing white horse whilst weaving our sword and throwing our spears about — especially when still far from being humble children of the light who would inherit the Kingdom of Heaven in their hearts!
Ho, brother, declaring your message of Light to the world! You, who count yourself in the flock of Christ. Be looking into your heart! Do you truly walk the path of the Christ in your deeds, or do you tread the path of flesh and perishness, the pious words but an ornament of your lips? Your words are of God, but truly your heart still dwells in the kingdom of Satan.
Hear this, and hear it well and with your full heart, for I shall speak the words of the Christ. Truly, I shall speak the words of the Christ, a message to uproot Satan's dominion of your heart to its roots; a message to lead you towards the path of truth, holiness, righteousness and light.
You profess to be among the own of Jesus Christ, his message you preach. But does your heart follow his path? Have you given your all — each thought, word and the acts of your hands — to be his own? Have you already risen above blame? For is it not said, "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Tess 1. 5:23)
"But none of us is Jesus Christ, free of sin, come from above. In sin we are born, and in sin we are living." May that be so. But your sins are to cease! Remember the words of your Master, "I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you." (Joh 13:15) Jesus would not grant even a moment to be Satan's own, wouldn't waver before the temptation. Then become like him!
Give up, then, the ways of your Satan — walk the path of brightness shown by your Lord Jesus, fulfilling his sacred will. For did he not say, "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." (Matt 7:21)
You will not be delivered by confession alone — you will be delivered when the pristinity of your heart is seen in the deeds of your hands. For there is no room in the kingdom of heaven for Satan, nor for those following his path, carrying Satan in their innermost hearts. As the master said, "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (Matt 12:50) Become his brother and his sister then — walk as holy and free of fear by his side!
Once you have professed the path of the Christ in your past, once it has touched your heart. Do you suppose your confession of the past will carry from here into the evermore? Make your heart blameless at each moment, fill it with divine light. Fill it with freedom from sin, freedom you gain in living forever in the light of Christ.
Gaze towards the sky, raise your arms and kneel. Call with your full heart for the brightness of God to descend into your heart. Call with humility, call with remorse, and call with pathos. Let the tears of remorse wash your face, let them fill your heart; for the stream of tears born of the light of God shall wash away the Satan within you. Call in the morning, call in the evening, call at night and call in the day; call in each moment for the descent of grace and brightness illuminating. Make this call your life, and in Christ you will dwell.
You preach the word of Christ while living under Satan's rule. Where is the power of your message? For it is said, "But the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful." (Mark 4:19) You pure in words but filthy in deeds, you will only reap a hypocrite's fame, distancing the humanity from the message of Christ's light with your fruitless message. Live in the Christ, be filled with his light and love. Your word will become powerful.
"There is much that is dear in the world for me too", we often hear. Know that craving to be of Satan, and know that world to be his. Know its pleasures and allurements as the path of perishment. For the Master said, "Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Joh 12:25) Your true life is within in the kingdom of God, in the temple of the Holy Christ to descend into your heart. Live in Christ alone, live forever more. Uproot each and every path of darkness, path apart from the Christ.
If you count yourself among Christ's own, then ponder in your heart these words: "Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ." (Romans 8:8-9) Being filled with the Spirit of Christ, the dominion of flesh would cease. For it is said, "Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." (Gal 5:24)
Do not bend before your longing for the world, "For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want." (Gal 5:17) Understand this, understand your predicament, and lament. Call for the Spirit of Christ in truth into your heart, and call for it evermore. Exorcise the spirit of Satan with the power of holy heaven, and in giving your all in the Spirit of Christ you'd be filled with the holy yourself.
You trade your soul in the world of the living dead, hold its affairs as your own, delight in its pleasures; in the pleasures of flesh, sin, and forgetfulness. But did Jesus not say, "You follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." (Matt 8:22) Walk in the footsteps of your Master towards the world of the living, sow within your heart the seeds of brightness. "Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life." (Gal 6:8)
Do not postpone the opportunity of grace you face, walk now without faltering on the path of brightness. For it is said, "Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light." (Joh 12:36) Yet there is an opening before you, so seize it like a drowning man would reach for the last floating straw. Who knows when you'll drown, when your days will meet their count? Truly, may this day be the last of your days in this world.
Live your life in the light of Christ, and fulfill his holy will. Follow his path in sincerity, and make his instructions your all. Be free of sin and attain infinite, everlasting life. Let the Spirit of God fill your all, and fill your world with the light, joy and selfless love of God. Be a child of the light while living! And in the Holy you are to discover your true life.
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| And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matt 18:3-4) |
I am particularly not fond of listening to sermons by preachers, who are themselves lukewarm in their deeds, lacking a correlation in their words and their acts in fulfillment of the message. "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth." (Rev 3:15-16)
While it is a message of light, love and heaven that Jesus sought to teach, his followers have turned it into a campaign of demons and eternal lakes of fire and damnation, preaching but thunder and storms of fear. Then, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Luke 6:31) Below is a video from the Healing Waters Church, a beautiful illustration of how a universal message can be conveyed with art and fluid expression, in a spirit of healing and balance, as the original intent was.
The soothing wind and water of love and harmony; from the Healing Waters Church.
In the transfiguration of Christ, the old God and prophets of Fire and Thunder
were reconciled and made gentle in the soothing Waters and Winds of Christ.
Then, this is an open letter to all who would pour fire and brimstones unto others, canvassing mankind into the service of a demanding and wrathful God, forcing our choice between Heaven and Hell in nothing but an act of ignorance and immaturity. If you are a messenger or a preacher, then walk your talk or get down from the high horse and be humbled before the sins that still riddle you.
When a humble mule carried the Son of God and the King of Heavens, we are hardly in a position to ride a blazing white horse whilst weaving our sword and throwing our spears about — especially when still far from being humble children of the light who would inherit the Kingdom of Heaven in their hearts!
—o)O(o—
Children of the Light!
Ho, brother, declaring your message of Light to the world! You, who count yourself in the flock of Christ. Be looking into your heart! Do you truly walk the path of the Christ in your deeds, or do you tread the path of flesh and perishness, the pious words but an ornament of your lips? Your words are of God, but truly your heart still dwells in the kingdom of Satan.
Hear this, and hear it well and with your full heart, for I shall speak the words of the Christ. Truly, I shall speak the words of the Christ, a message to uproot Satan's dominion of your heart to its roots; a message to lead you towards the path of truth, holiness, righteousness and light.
You profess to be among the own of Jesus Christ, his message you preach. But does your heart follow his path? Have you given your all — each thought, word and the acts of your hands — to be his own? Have you already risen above blame? For is it not said, "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Tess 1. 5:23)
"But none of us is Jesus Christ, free of sin, come from above. In sin we are born, and in sin we are living." May that be so. But your sins are to cease! Remember the words of your Master, "I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you." (Joh 13:15) Jesus would not grant even a moment to be Satan's own, wouldn't waver before the temptation. Then become like him!
Give up, then, the ways of your Satan — walk the path of brightness shown by your Lord Jesus, fulfilling his sacred will. For did he not say, "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." (Matt 7:21)
You will not be delivered by confession alone — you will be delivered when the pristinity of your heart is seen in the deeds of your hands. For there is no room in the kingdom of heaven for Satan, nor for those following his path, carrying Satan in their innermost hearts. As the master said, "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (Matt 12:50) Become his brother and his sister then — walk as holy and free of fear by his side!
Once you have professed the path of the Christ in your past, once it has touched your heart. Do you suppose your confession of the past will carry from here into the evermore? Make your heart blameless at each moment, fill it with divine light. Fill it with freedom from sin, freedom you gain in living forever in the light of Christ.
Gaze towards the sky, raise your arms and kneel. Call with your full heart for the brightness of God to descend into your heart. Call with humility, call with remorse, and call with pathos. Let the tears of remorse wash your face, let them fill your heart; for the stream of tears born of the light of God shall wash away the Satan within you. Call in the morning, call in the evening, call at night and call in the day; call in each moment for the descent of grace and brightness illuminating. Make this call your life, and in Christ you will dwell.
You preach the word of Christ while living under Satan's rule. Where is the power of your message? For it is said, "But the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful." (Mark 4:19) You pure in words but filthy in deeds, you will only reap a hypocrite's fame, distancing the humanity from the message of Christ's light with your fruitless message. Live in the Christ, be filled with his light and love. Your word will become powerful.
"There is much that is dear in the world for me too", we often hear. Know that craving to be of Satan, and know that world to be his. Know its pleasures and allurements as the path of perishment. For the Master said, "Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Joh 12:25) Your true life is within in the kingdom of God, in the temple of the Holy Christ to descend into your heart. Live in Christ alone, live forever more. Uproot each and every path of darkness, path apart from the Christ.
If you count yourself among Christ's own, then ponder in your heart these words: "Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ." (Romans 8:8-9) Being filled with the Spirit of Christ, the dominion of flesh would cease. For it is said, "Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." (Gal 5:24)
Do not bend before your longing for the world, "For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want." (Gal 5:17) Understand this, understand your predicament, and lament. Call for the Spirit of Christ in truth into your heart, and call for it evermore. Exorcise the spirit of Satan with the power of holy heaven, and in giving your all in the Spirit of Christ you'd be filled with the holy yourself.
You trade your soul in the world of the living dead, hold its affairs as your own, delight in its pleasures; in the pleasures of flesh, sin, and forgetfulness. But did Jesus not say, "You follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." (Matt 8:22) Walk in the footsteps of your Master towards the world of the living, sow within your heart the seeds of brightness. "Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life." (Gal 6:8)
Do not postpone the opportunity of grace you face, walk now without faltering on the path of brightness. For it is said, "Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light." (Joh 12:36) Yet there is an opening before you, so seize it like a drowning man would reach for the last floating straw. Who knows when you'll drown, when your days will meet their count? Truly, may this day be the last of your days in this world.
Live your life in the light of Christ, and fulfill his holy will. Follow his path in sincerity, and make his instructions your all. Be free of sin and attain infinite, everlasting life. Let the Spirit of God fill your all, and fill your world with the light, joy and selfless love of God. Be a child of the light while living! And in the Holy you are to discover your true life.
—o)O(o—
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