God loves humility. But He hates pride. We can combine a religious experience...even spiritual experience with a now puffed up ego. When dealing with holiness, the stakes are raised MUCH higher. So that blasphemy against the living holy Spirit will never be forgiven. It's a death sentence. We see the same thing with Uzzah and the cart. Uzzah, otherwise a good man...transgressed God's holiness....and was struck down. So we need to be very careful when dealing with holy things. The Christian walk, in its full resolution, is according to holiness. So we have to learn to treat those things with the appropriate fear and respect.
A gospel of glory and holiness mixed in with humility and fear IS the true gospel. A divine balance of mercy and truth. ALL the ways of God are mercy and truth. It is the
absence of this balance that brings a false gospel.
All the paths of the LORD are
mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies Ps. 25:10
The balance is seen here..
“So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.”
– Acts 9:31
To think for one second that I'm preaching a false gospel PROVES that the gospel that accusing person is leveling at me in fact goes back on them. People can no longer discern the true gospel...which is based on power, selfless love, and an intimacy with God through translation into the eternal kingdom realm...to walk as Jesus walked.
Peter said in his letter..."grace be multiplied to you".
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all.
Here, multiplied means to increase. If we already have the fulness of grace at the outset, it would be wrong to suggest that there is MORE grace. But that is exactly the true gospel..which is
grace ON grace. An initial installment and then
the full measure leading to the very
fulness of God.
“And of
his fulness have all we received, and
grace for grace.” John 1:16
I don't take anyone seriously who denies the truth about the higher walk...as these cannot show that such a walk DOESN'T exist...quite the opposite. It's like trying to prove to an atheist that there's a God. There is SO MUCH testimony...throughout the bible...beginning with Adam...on through Enoch (pleasing God and being translated as an example of what was to come for the NT saints)...and into the New Covenant where such intimacy is spoken of by the apostles.
To me the idea of limiting God to what we have experienced is VERY foolish. One must consider the depth of walk of such men as Paul and Peter. Only a religious hubris would claim that they walk at the same level without any persecution, without humility and fear. Without any sense of eternal reality. Are people speaking from the throne room of God?...or just a religious opinion, or fuzzy feeling???
Strive to enter in through the narrow door.
I would say..on my own thread, that you should do as you suggest to me. Say your peace and move on. Getting things backward seems to be contagious around here.