Hear the Inaudible, See the Invisible

Heb 1:1-2 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son...,

God is the greatest communicator ever. He spoke in the past, he is speaking in the present and he always will speak. His interlocutors - those to whom he is speaking - are you and I, the extension of himself. Although his communicative style differs in each period, the message of God remains the same. And the effects that his words have on his hearers are determined by the listeners’ level of understanding of God’s hidden thought for them conveyed in the message. The God of life speaks living words. These words have been symbolized by such things as the trumpets, but more so by bread or manna or eating activities. This is referred to as fellowship. As such the words must produce life, which is the nature of God, in the hearer. But Jesus once said to the Hebrews: “your fathers ate bread in the desert, yet they died.” How can we partake of the living nature of God and die. By giving them manna to eat, God was saying to the Hebrew fathers that, in the centre of their parched wilderness mindset, there always is the voice of life anyway. However, this living bread - this mindset of God - did not produce life in the listeners then, because their perception of spiritual thoughts of God was very dull. They were not in the position to discern the body of Christ. They were very much sight and appearing-minded people. They could not transcend the five sensory human mind to perceive the angel that had been sent before them. This angel is the living presence of the righteousness of Christ that comes by faith. The duty of this angel was to drive out the five-fold enemy - Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – from their sight.(Ex. 33:2) These people are the allegorical representation of the human constitution, which is sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, we hear the rich man appeal to father Abraham saying, “then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' In this mystery speech Jesus was presenting a spiritual picture of the state of all humans. These five human attributes produce the sixth man called emotions or feelings - the rich man himself. This is why the book of revelations refers to the number six as the number of man. This are the enemies that have enslaved and continue to lord it over the offspring of within you. The emotional man is the abominable thing that cannot discern the spiritual God. The Hebrews did not see life because they had identified with death. They had identified with the dusty, earthly emotional man who perishes, Have you asked why God caused them to eat the manna from the ground and not from a table top? It was to tell them how low they had reduced themselves in their perceived self identity. They had identified with the mortal man of the earth and made their bed in hell. They could not go past the enemy – their human self as an appearing being - to see the invisible angel from heaven called faith. This living presence was ever there before them – within their innermost being, actually- but they were spiritually insensitive to perceive him, so they were destroyed out of the way. Today, as then, God is speaking to us. This is the last hour and the son of God, the Christ within, is the first and last means of God’s communication to us. Comparatively, we are better off than the historical Hebrews, because we are in the dispensation of grace. This simply means a time in which the spiritual ears of men have been opened in order for them to hear and understand spiritual truth and live (Psalm 40:6) Today, we too, unless we get silent enough; unless we are ready to pull down all our religious mountains and abandon the high places we have put up in the churches, as they all amount to the outer court sacrificial activities, we will likewise not enter his rest. It makes all the difference when we have the living bread that has come down from heaven speak to us. This bread has been served on the golden table of shrew bread, and all men are being invited to eat of it form that elevated position and live. Anyone who recognizes this bread, which is the Christ of God, as the true bread, and partakes of it will live forever. This bread is his flesh, which implies the awareness or consciousness that the Holy Spirit is generation within all who are wiling to be still enough. We must refrain from all the mental doctrines of the church; from the religious, moralistic and legalistic values of the systems of the this present age. They can only produce a good human-character person, but they don’t produce eternal life in anyone. Righteousness, which preserves you in the bosom of the father is not revealed in human self discipline mechanisms of the church. Let us therefore listen out for the inaudible voice of the father reaching us this hours through the invisible son and live. Faith and righteousness are activated deep within our being by our ability to comprehend the voice of truth. Blessings, Jonas Opoku-Forson