The schoolhouse (The world ) was created for two main purposes.
1) Bringing the sinner to Christ.
2) Training sons/daughters to live in the Father's house.
You may be 25 or younger and starting your journey in Christ or 75 years old or younger and in Christ, the schoolhouse never ceases to exist for the believer, Gal. 4:1-2,
Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
The times of loneliness, or times when you have no feeling for what your Father is doing for example, are times that are set apart for aloneness to develop in a Christian.
Aloneness develops solitude, nothing greater when you are set apart and standing for Christ.
When solitude is developed in a believer, they need nothing but Christ to exist.
How many times have you heard, "oh I'm looking for my soul mate."
No you are looking for trouble, soul mates do not exist, that is nothing more than some kind of a romantic fantasy that must be removed from the believers mind set.
The Scriptures call it, "the imaginations of the mind."
You may find someone that you have things in common with and will be able to spend the rest of your life with, but the soulmate business is for Hollywood only.
As long as you are alive in this world there is never a time you are not living in the schoolhouse, Heb. 12:11,
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
For a mature believer the school house has done its work and the C and S gang (circumstances and situations) do not have the same affect on that believer as they do on the young believer, Gal. 4:1-2
4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
"Until the time appointed" should be noted.
The mature believer does not allow circumstances and situations to affect their life, they see through everything to Christ.
It's as the apostle Paul said "if I live it's Christ if I die it's gain."
"Mature believers are not controlled by the outer life of the schoolhouse. The schoolhouse still exists in their life but it does no control them.
I'll use healing for example: we know Christ is our healer, whether he chooses to heal us by the Miracle we "pray for, the right doctor, the right pill, he will always heal you every time, except the last time, He is our healer, and the proof is your still here.
Regardless the schoolhouse never ceases to exist and it's purpose is to develop an understanding of who that believer is in Christ.
Christ life knowledge will allow the believer to go through anything in this life no matter how good or how bad it may be, they live a life that is content in Christ.
The training that comes in the schoolhouse can be severe at times for an individual but the fruit of the training shall be glorious.
We all know that heaven is going to be glorious, but we need a life now in this world that is livable and sustainable to Christ-life living, that is a Christ-life person, Christian.
Established by the Father to go about establishing others in this schoolhouse, Rom. 16:25,
25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
1) Bringing the sinner to Christ.
2) Training sons/daughters to live in the Father's house.
You may be 25 or younger and starting your journey in Christ or 75 years old or younger and in Christ, the schoolhouse never ceases to exist for the believer, Gal. 4:1-2,
Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
The times of loneliness, or times when you have no feeling for what your Father is doing for example, are times that are set apart for aloneness to develop in a Christian.
Aloneness develops solitude, nothing greater when you are set apart and standing for Christ.
When solitude is developed in a believer, they need nothing but Christ to exist.
How many times have you heard, "oh I'm looking for my soul mate."
No you are looking for trouble, soul mates do not exist, that is nothing more than some kind of a romantic fantasy that must be removed from the believers mind set.
The Scriptures call it, "the imaginations of the mind."
You may find someone that you have things in common with and will be able to spend the rest of your life with, but the soulmate business is for Hollywood only.
As long as you are alive in this world there is never a time you are not living in the schoolhouse, Heb. 12:11,
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
For a mature believer the school house has done its work and the C and S gang (circumstances and situations) do not have the same affect on that believer as they do on the young believer, Gal. 4:1-2
4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
"Until the time appointed" should be noted.
The mature believer does not allow circumstances and situations to affect their life, they see through everything to Christ.
It's as the apostle Paul said "if I live it's Christ if I die it's gain."
"Mature believers are not controlled by the outer life of the schoolhouse. The schoolhouse still exists in their life but it does no control them.
I'll use healing for example: we know Christ is our healer, whether he chooses to heal us by the Miracle we "pray for, the right doctor, the right pill, he will always heal you every time, except the last time, He is our healer, and the proof is your still here.
Regardless the schoolhouse never ceases to exist and it's purpose is to develop an understanding of who that believer is in Christ.
Christ life knowledge will allow the believer to go through anything in this life no matter how good or how bad it may be, they live a life that is content in Christ.
The training that comes in the schoolhouse can be severe at times for an individual but the fruit of the training shall be glorious.
We all know that heaven is going to be glorious, but we need a life now in this world that is livable and sustainable to Christ-life living, that is a Christ-life person, Christian.
Established by the Father to go about establishing others in this schoolhouse, Rom. 16:25,
25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
