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This lesson deals with the three levels of hardness in the human will. Genesis, chapter thirty-five, gives an example of how God uses converted hardness. When Rachel travailed with hard (kaw-shaw) labour, she brought forth Benjamin. The tribe of Benjamin encamped on the west side of the Tabernacle, in the Head-realm of the Stature of Christ, under the insignia of an ox. Christ’s Ox Nature allows one to “plow” the fallow ground of one’s own heart and mind, as well as “plowing” in the minds of others, so that Living Seeds of Truth may take root and grow.

We have two choices. We can love Light and hate darkness, or we can hate Light and love darkness. The Bible says, “[W]hatsoever doth make manifest is light” (Ephesians 5:13).

There is a difference between crucifixion and mortification. But if we do not understand the difference, then we cannot obey God’s Word that tells us that our old man is to be crucified (Romans 6:6) and that we are to mortify the deeds of the body (Romans 8:13). The Cross represents crucifixion. And when Jesus Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, two thieves and two malefactors were being crucified on four crosses surrounding His Cross. So there is one kind of crucifixion for the LORD, and there is another kind for us.

When the Angel appeared to the Virgin Mary in Luke 1:29,30, he said, “[F]ear not, Mary.” Corrupt fear is true fear or reverence of God flowing backward. When fear is flowing backward, it becomes scorn. It becomes irreverence. It becomes ingratitude. We have to stop scorning in order to have a spiritual conception. But the Bible says: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear…”(I John 4:18). God is love. Love is His Name. Love is His Nature. Love is His Word. Love is His Will. Love is His goal and objective. The love of God is perfected in us by the Word of God. “But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected…”(IJohn 2:5).

(1994 Ministerial Convention) Luke 12:7 tells us that all the hairs of our head are numbered. And the message shows the difference between the Father’s hair and the Son’s hair.