Several times the Holy
Spirit has revealed and showed me a spiritual mighty vision of The Cross
of Christ. ut from the Cross the love, the purity, the peace,the happiness,
the righteousness, the understanding, the forgiving, the humbleness, the
gratitude, the grace, the mercy a.s.o. of God was shining.
Every time when I have been looking upon this Cross I
have seen how the Word through the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ become
alive and that Jesus Christ day by day conquered the evil of the devil
and with His Cross won a complete victory of the devil on Golgotha and
I heard in the spirit Jesus saying: "It is accomplished!"
John 19:30.
The Spirit of God enlightened me especially of the
fact that, when Jesus Christ was carrying His Cross,He wanted to show us
the way to enter the Kingdom of God. I was also reminded of these Words
of Jesus: "No man is worthy of me who does not take up his cross
and walk in my footsteps." Matt.10:38.
Then the Spirit of God said to me: "Without
this cross alive and active in the Spirit of man no man will never inherit
the Kingdom of God." There is nothing in heaven or
on earth that are to be compared to the Cross of Jesus Christ because with
the Cross Jesus Christ conquered the devil and all of his wickedness forever.
EarlierI had along with many others the wrong interpretation
that the Cross is from the devil and that the Cross is a burden. Now I
was able to see that this interpretation is of antichrist. Now I could
see the Cross as a Divine help that deliver us from all our burdens and
our problems. The Spirit of God enlightened me of the fact that there is
nothing in the entire Gospel of Christ, that satan and the lukewarm christians
hate and loathe as much as they hate and loathe the Cross of Jesus Christ.
In the Spirit I was also able to see that satan does all within his power
to mislead the lukewarm christians in purpose to prevent them from taking
up their cross
Paul explains to us this trick of the devil : "For
as I have often told you, and now tell you with tears in my eyes, there
are many whose way of life makes them enemies of the cross of Christ."Phil.
3:18
When I asked the Spirit of God what it meant that
"there are many whose way of life makes them enemies of the cross of Christ"
I got the answer that the Cross has two sides. The dark side of the Cross
always creates a hostility towards God and it belongs to the lukewarm christians
and to the people in the world below, who in their spiritual blindness
look upon everything as something heavy, painfully and sad.
These people constantly complain about their misfortunes
and trials. They constantly accuse their fellowmen and misunderstand
the Word of God. They judge and condemn their fellowmen. They masquerade
themselves into children of light but are unclean and evil in their spirit.
1
Tim 4:1-2, 2 Tim 3:1-5.
The light side of the Cross of Christ is of a great
help to the rescued and the sanctified ones. In 1 Thess. 5:16-18. Paul
refers to the light side of the Cross of Christ: "Be always joyful;
pray continually; give thanks whatever happens; for this is what God in
Christ wills for you."
Many confessing christians have not understand
that the Spirit of Thanksgiving is able to move mountains, when we allow
it to be active within our spirit. We cannot experience a change in our
lives as christians until we humble ourselves and begin to thank the Lord
in everything we meet in our daily lifes. Many Bibletexts tells us that
God is not able to make us go one step forward in His Divine plan for us
until we accept whatever we meet with a true thankfulness towards God.
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances in our
lives, but He promised true peace and happiness for those who in full trust
lay their lives in the Hand of God and are aware of that God is the supervisor
of everything and He has the Power. Jesus encourage us : "Do not
be afraid; only have faith." Mark 5:36, Luke 8:50.
Jesus said to his disciples when it comes to trials
and problems we meet: "The thief comes only to steal, to kill, to
destroy; I have come that men may have life, and may have it in all its
fullness." John 10:10.
Jesus is here speaking of the devil as a thief and
it means, if we meet something of a negative kind it is from the devil
and it is his purpose that we might get depressed of sorrow, suffering
and despair. But if we in these times of despair begin to thank God according
to the Word of God, that He is with us and give us strength to overcome
the evil and in faith and in our deeds let ourselves be filled by the love,
the purity, the peace, the joy, the humbleness and the gratitude of God
within our spirit, the devil and the evil will not have any power in our
lives because the Word of God says, regarding Jesus Christ: "On that
cross He discarded the cosmic powers and authorities like a garment;"
Col 2:15.
In a true thankfulness towards God and Jesus Christ
you will experience a Divine power within your spirit. A Divine power that
crucifies the evil. It will be a deliverance that give us the full sharing
of the life of God and Jesus Christ in a full happiness and peace.
Paul is describing the power of the Cross with these words
in Rom 8:35-39: "Then what can separate us from the love of
Christ? Can affliction or hardship? Can persecution, hunger, nakedness,
peril or the sword? We are being done to death for thy sake all day
long as Scripture says; we have been treated like sheep for slaughter,
and yet, in spite of all, overwhelming victory is ours through him who
loved us. For I am convinced that there is nothing in death or life, in
the realm o spirits or superhuman powers , in the world as it is or the
world as it shall be, in the forces of the universe, in heights or depths,
nothing in all creation that can separate us from the love of God in Christ
Jesus our Lord."
When I saw this vision of the Cross of Christ,
the Spirit of God also revealed the sad fact that the devil during a couple
of hundred years intensively hawe been trying even to blind the rescued
and try making them look upon their Cross as something heavy, sad and painfully,
instead of thanking God for that Cross, which they have to take up. Now
the Spirit of God showed me a completely different side of the Cross of
Christ. Now I could see the spiritual foundation and power in the Cross
of Christ, which consisted of the mighty love, purity, righteousness, peace,
happiness, grace, mercy, humbleness and gratitude of God.
In different kinds of reference books the Cross is described
as a: "Symbol of the love of God." It is true
that the love of God is within the Cross of Christ, but the Cross of Christ
is no symbol and that description is of antichrist, because the Cross
of Christ is a divine living active power for those who believe.
Paul did not look upon the Cross of Christ as a symbol.
No, he saw, that the Cross of Christ was the only way for deliverance from
everything that the devil might bind and capture us with. In 1 Cor. 1:18
Paul writes: "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
The cross has always been and still is, according
to the Word of God, a power constantly present and active as a divine
help in the lives of the rescued and the sanctified ones.
The Spirit of God enlightened me of the fact that crowds
of lukewarm christians all over the world are longing to enter the Kingdom
of God. But since they are not willing to listen to the Word of God and
not willing to pay the price and sacrifice their old human nature, they
will be locked out of the Kingdom of God. They are not searching
for Christ within their spirit but searching for Christ within their old
human nature and within their flesh. They are keeping strictly to the law
when it comes to the religion and are living in a selfish way. They are
not acting out of love, neither towards God nor towards people, but they
are acting out of love towards themselves and with that love they want
to get advantages in heaven.
These people constantly repel the Cross and the Holy Word
of God and they always declare in spiritual blindness that no one can be
perfect before God. In support of their statement they refer to Paul when
he proclaims that before the Cross broke down his old human nature, before
he was sanctified: "The good which I want to do, I fail to do; but
what I do is the wrong which is against my will;" Rom.
7:19.
In their disobedience and refractoriness they don't
want to accept these words of Jesus: "Be ye therefore perfect, even
as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matt.
5:48.
The Spirit of God revealed to me the difference between
the lives of the unrighteousness and the lives of therighteousness and
took me to the prophecy of the book of Daniel 12:10: "Many
shall be purified, and made white, and tried but the wicked shall do wickedly;
and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."Daniel
12:10.
The wise shall understand the message of the Power
of the Cross, but the wicked are not able to understand the possibility
to receive a complete freedom through Jesus Christ and through the Power
of the Cross. They re not willing to admit that through faith in Jesus
Christ and in the Power of the Cross Paul experienced a change into a new
spiritually life and he was able to say: "The life I now live is
not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me." Gal.
2:20.
When I saw this vision of the lukewarm christians
the Spirit of God took me to the book of Revelation, to the prophetic Word
of God, which shows us how difficult it is going to be in the end of time
for people, who want to find the way to salvation and sanctification, referring
especially to these Word of God: "And in those days shall men seek
death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die and death shall flee
from them." Rev. 9:6.
The Spirit of God also revealed to me what this Bibletext
means: "Men shall seek death, and shall not find it. It is because
many of those who preach the Word of God nowadays are afraid to get into
conflict with the lukewarm christians and the preachers do not dare to
speak openly about the Holy Truths of God, which lead to sanctification.
Instead they are turning away from the Word of God which says: Aim at peace
with all men, and a holy life, for without that no one will see the Lord."Hebr.
12:14.
In their cowerdice they fear men more then they fear
and obey God. All of the time they are beside the Holy Truths of God. The
Truths that Jesus was preaching . The Truths that Peter, Stephen, Paul
and the other apostles were preaching. Because of the spiritually lukewarmness
in the preaching of today, the people are not able to find the death of
the old human nature and the resurrection in Jesus Christ that is described
in Rev. 9:6. That is, they cannot find the death and the resurrection
Paul is describing in Gal. 2:20: "The life I now live is not
my life, but the life which Christ lives in me."
The Spirit revealed to me, that many of those
who confess themselves as christians only speaks of the Cross of Christ
on Good Friday and on Easter. They do not understand that the rescued and
the sanctified ones have to take up their cross every day because the devil
attacks the believer every day. Paul was aware of the significance of the
Cross and of the cunning of the devil and says in 1 Cor. 15:31:"I
die daily."
Without the Cross Paul would not have been able
to experience death within his old human nature every day, as he proclaims,
nor would he have been able to experience the resurrection in Christ every
day.
Paul's confession in Gal. 2:20: "The life
I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me." is in
accordance with the text in 1 John 4:2-3: "This is how we may recognize
the Spirit of God; every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit which does not thus acknowledge
Jesus is not from God. This is what is meant by 'antichrist';"
Many confessing christians are today in their
preaching and in their conversation with each other speaking of a resurrection
in Christ after the physical death. But the Word of God are in several
parts in the Bible through Paul speaking of a spiritually resurrection
in Jesus Christ before the physical death.
Paul reminds the Romans of our death and resurrection
in Christ while we still are living in this world belowe : "For if
we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this that our old man
is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth
we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if
we be dead with Christ webelieve that we shall also live with him.." Rom.
6:5-8.
The Cross is creating communion in our spirit with
Jesus Christ, but not until our old man is dead. So that we might not misunderstand
the Power of the Cross and its significance, Jesus took a corn of wheat
as an example and said: "Verily, verily I say unto you, Except a
corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it
die, it bringeth forth much fruit." John 12:24-26.
Jesus wanted to convince us in this example of the
corn of wheat, about the serious thruth, if the corn of wheat would have
the possibility to reject that soil which surrounds it, the corn of wheat
would not have been able to die from its old life and it would not have
been able to develope into a new life with good fruits. It is the same
way for us human beings.
In the parable with the corn of wheat Jesus Christ show
us that the divine, spiritual life begins within the spirit of man and
He explained to His disciples : "The Kingdom of God is within you."Luke
17:21.
If we reject the Word of God and the Cross which are
the only way for salvation and sanctification, we will not be able to experience
any change into a new spiritually life. In Jesus' conversation with the
chief priests and the scribes He shows us what a tremendous power the devil
is in a possession of through his cunning to blind and mislead us human
beings. In the Bibletext you can see that Jesus unmasked the spiritual
lives of the chiefs priests and the scribes and He said openly and straigth
to them that: "Your father is the devil" and
that they choosed to carry out their father's desires. Instead of Crucifying
the unclean and the unrighteous that was active within their thoughts and
their deeds, they were Crucifying Jesus Christ. John 8:37-59.
In His unbounded grace God is warning us, that the
devil might do the same to us in these days, as he was doing to the
chief priests and the scribes, if we reject the Cross as they were doing,
because the Cross is our salvation and rescue. In Hebr. 6:4-6 it
says, that those who recieved salvation and: " Forwhen men have once
been enlightened, when they have had a taste of the heavenly gift and a
share in the Holy Spirit, when they have experienced the goodness of Gods'
Word and the spiritual energies of the age to come, and after all this
have fallen away, it is impossible to bring them again to repentance; for
with their own hands they are crucifying again the Son of God."
The Word of God show us that the Cross can be
active in two different ways. On one hand to release the good spirits within
us. On the other hand to crucify the evil spirits within us. Paul enumerates
a couple of bad characters such as : "adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings."Gal.
5:19.
Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world
of today are crucifying Jesus Christ, not understanding what they are doing.
For as long as they allow the evil to exist within ther spirit and within
their deeds, there will be no possibility for them to experience sanctification.
Nor will they have any possibility to be brought back to repentance, since
they again with the evil are crucifying Jesus Christ within their spirit.
Paul enlights The Galatians of this condition and says: "That they
which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
Gal. 5:21.
The Spirit of God especially revealed to me, that
our prayers, the sacrifice of the tiths, our preaching and our divine services
are completely worthless if we do not allow the Cross to destroy all of
the evil within our old human nature and within our spirit. I was also
recommended this Word of God: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth
to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Gal. 6:7-8.
Not until the Cross has destroyed our old human nature
we are able to say, as Paul said in Rom.8:35-39: "Who hall
separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep
for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor
things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord."
In Paul's speach to the Romans Paul bears witness
of the mighty power in the Cross of Christ for those who believe. He is
here talking of a power that conquers sorrow, suffering and death. Many
confessing christians are not able to see this power, because when the
trials are coming, they believe that God has forsaken them. But God is
faithful and He does not forsake any one who believes in Him. Listen to
Jesus and what He still today is saying to us: "And be assured
I am with you always, to the end of time." Matt. 28:20.
When it comes to suffering that we might meet Jesus
says: "I have told you all this so that in me you may find peace.
In the world you will have trouble. But courage! The victory is mine; I
have conquered the world." John 16:33.
Our weaknesses always depend on the absence of the
Cross of Christ. God wants us to make a weapon, a sword of spirit out of
every sorrow and trial and with that sword of spirit defeat the evil and
with the spirit of love, purity humbleness and gratitude hew the bonds
which the devil is binding us with. With the Cross of Christ we have the
possibility to change every misfortune, trial and defeat into heavenly
victories.
That we might be able to experience this change into a
new creature within our spirit we have to be willing to listen to Jesus
Christ when he exhorts us with his words: "Follow me."
Luk 9:59.
To follow Jesus Christ means to be willing to take
up our Cross every day and in every moment allow the Cross destroy everything
within ourselves such as lies, selfishness, refractoriness, disobedience
and all things of a negatively matter that we might meet. Only then Christ
is able to grow within our spirit and in our lives just like a cut diamond
who reproduces the true love of God throughout our spirit. That love which
is boundless and full of grace and thruth, the love which in true happiness
is able to love their enimies and pray for those, who mock, despise and
persecute us for the sake of the Word of God.
Then the Word of God is no longer a word on a peace of
paper. No, the Word has become alive within our spirit. It is a experience
with Jesus Christ, within our spirit. And the Word of God says: "If
the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free." John
8:36.
1 Cor. 13:1-13: "I may speak in tongues of men
or of angels, but if I am without love... I may have the gift of prophecy,
and know every hidden truth; I may have faith strong enough to move mountains;
but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may dole out all I possess, or even
give my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I am none the better.
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful,
nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, do not get offended, rejoiceth
not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth. There is nothing love cannot
face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope and its endurance."
We will not be able to experience the most marvellous
thing on this earth, if we don't allow the Cross of Christ to destroy everything
within our old human nature that bind us; our selfish thoughts and deeds,
all the desire of the flesh and the world, which is contrary to the Word
of God and the Holy Spirit. Not until then are we able to experience numerous
of the most valuable of gifts within our spirit and our life, a spirit
that is filled with the pure love, peace, joy,humbleness and gratitude
of God. It will be a spirit that loves their fellowmen with the pure love
of God without any bars and is able to understand and forgive those who
have wronged us. It is a spirit who are able to say along with Peter, James,
John and Paul and all of the sanctified ones: "The life I now live
is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me." This
is the eternal true love given to us from a loved God through Jesus Christ.
Gal
2:20. 1 John 4:18, 4:20.
My prayer is that all of You who are reading this
message of the Cross of Christ might be blessed by God and that You might
receive Grace, to understand the Holy message of the Cross before it is
to late. God bless You all.
Greetings Street missionary
Bror Espegren
Vretgränd 17 Uppsala Sweden
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