Mike,<\/p>\n

Had an opportunity to witness to a Baptist minister. Was showing him in scripture that all will be saved. He could not accept it, and his reply was that their worm dieth not. Well, I could not explain what this worm was all about. So I prayed about it and asked God to show me what this scripture (Mar 9:44, 46, 48) was teaching. I feel God has now given me the answer I was seeking.
\nIn the book of Jonah, in the 4th chapter, Jonah is sitting in the shadow of a gourd that God prepared. Jonah did not want to be in the hot sun so God gave him shade. As long as Jonah was in this shadow, he was exceeding glad. But God prepared a worm, to cut off the shadow of the gourd, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah. Now in comparing spiritual with spiritual. We are all Jonah. We don’t want to saveball mankind, (the city of Nineveh). We like not having truth, (being in the shadow). But God prepares a worm and cuts off our shade, (where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched). For every one (all mankind) shall be salted with fire.
\nI am so thankful God is cutting off my shade! Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.<\/p>\n

R____<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nGood Morning R____,<\/p>\n

All I can say is that God is indeed showing you what “comparing spiritual with spiritual” means. What a wonderful revelation! I think you know that your Baptist minister friend will probably not get this, but God used that man, just as he has used ministers in my life to cause us to dig deeper into the wells of living water.<\/p>\n

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
\nRom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is through their unbelief, and the challenges which that unbelief presents to us, that we “obtain mercy.” And it will be “through our mercy”, through the patience we will show to them in the lake of fire, that they will be saved.
\nTo carry this revelation just one step farther this reveals that the book of Jonah ends with Jonah still in the lake of fire. I always thought that the book of Jonah had such a strange ending. Now I understand why. Jonah ends with Jonah having the idols of his heart being burned out of him.
\nThe title for my talk in Salisbury is How Do We Compare Spiritual With Spiritual? This will help me to make that point.
\nThank you for sharing another part of the revelation of Jesus Christ with me. I feel like the most blessed man on earth with you and others like you as my friends and brothers in Christ.<\/p>\n

Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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