Sermon 1432 - City of Pride in Our Unconscious Will - 8th Message…..(Fri pm 4/19/96)

Sermon 1432 - City of Pride in Our Unconscious Will - 8th Message…..(Fri pm 4/19/96)

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.

Chapters thirty-seven through forty-five of Genesis reveal how the LORD’s Hard Hand was manifested through the converted hardness in Joseph. Joseph personally had forgiven his brothers for all they had done to him. Nevertheless, when the brothers went down into Egypt in the time of famine to buy grain, Joseph spoke roughly to them through an interpreter because he was trying to get them to repent. Because Joseph was a zaw-kane or spiritually mature person, he was able to wait until God’s appointed time to see his brothers and his father.