The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell…
Here is Corrie Ten Boom being interviewed by Kathryn Kuhlman:
“Oh love of God how deep and great, far deeper than man’s deepest hate.”
“There is nothing too great for His power and nothing too small for His love.”
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January 28, 2012 at 3:26 am
The contrast between the two is amazing: one, theatrical; the other unassuming. One, ecstatic; the other, grounded in peace. One, over-bearing; the other, understated.
One, trying to be something; the other, content to be nothing.
Corrie Ten Boom also taught correctly [having lived a type] concerning the coming of the anti-christ and the need for saints to prepare to endure.
January 29, 2012 at 12:19 am
Yes, Corrie had endured and overcome tribulation, personally, so it’s not surprising she believed that we have to endure tribulation and be overcomers till the end.
Kathryn was over the top. Yet, David Wilkerson knew her personally and emphatically said that she was “a great woman of God”, when people condemned her, implying that people misunderstood her.
I think she was sincere, yet quite mixed up in her understanding of what it means to follow Jesus, to the point that we could say that she was not a good example – A lot of mixture.
Her life of isolation was not consistent with NT Christianity.
If she had been IN CLOSE FELLOWSHIP, in daily life, with solid Christians, and submitted to a fellowship, as an equal (not a star), then she would not have been so strange. She would still be different, having her own unique personality, no doubt, but not weird or spooky.
There are things we can learn from her, like sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, but we wouldn’t want to become like her. It’s not good when we see someone and know that we would not like to be like them.
What would lead a believer into isolation from other believers?
If it is a sense of being inordinately special, and to be set apart from the body of Christ, unto Christ, then we can say that that person has been deceived.
But how subtle that deception is. They think they have a unique relationship to Jesus, where it is just them and Jesus, and they feel that close fellowship with the body of Christ will come between them and Jesus – that “people” will get in the way?
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How sensitive are Christians today to the Holy Spirit? Do we know when we have grieved Him? Or quenched Him?
January 29, 2012 at 9:31 pm
I don’t know Kathryn.
I know Jesus.
Thinking that we can create conditions [an environment] that precipitates the moving of the Holy Spirit [how we talk, lighting, music, and so forth] is no different than paganism.
Why? The emphasis is on what WE do, rather than Who God is and what He has already done.
January 30, 2012 at 12:03 am
That’s absolutely right, brother.
It would be extremely rare to find an expression of Church, anywhere, that doesn’t have an element of what you’re saying.