When God hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold
This book is based on our LORD GOD SHRI LAHARI KRISHNA’S MESSAGES. ALL GLORY AND HONOUR TO HIM ALONE.
Babu Ram
Praise be to the name of Lord Shri Lahari Krishna.
You know,
all along, people have been preaching we are in the last days. For 2000 years,
they have been preaching that the Lord is coming soon. But now, He has come
down to this world as a MAN, fulfilling all the prophecies of all the
scriptures....Let us be true to Him. He loved us; He Humbled
Himself unto death and rose again in Aadhi Bali, thus proving His LOVE, POWER,
AND GLORY to us. He has also removed all our Sin and sins at the time of
Aadhi Bali, and finished everything for us at the time of Aadhi Bali.
Now
listen. In the Old Testament we find it is said that God has to come down and
teach the people. Whenever a question arises, it doesn’t come from the teacher,
but from the student. So now, when the author of the Vedas has come down, let
us ask Him and get the answer for all the doubts we have regarding the Vedic Verses, and
regarding Spiritual and earthly life, God, God-head…everything!
As you
and I have looked forward to go in Glory, it has been our habit to
think only of the sweet release for ourselves, [2
Corinthians 5:2, 3 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
upon with our house which is from heaven:
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.] full of joy in
AYYAH’s presence in Heaven, and the thousand blessings that we cannot even
imagine. But this is not the whole truth as God has written it for us. There is a verse that speak that “the fire shall try every
man’s work” (1 Cor.3:13). If you will read these
verses in your Bible, along with the context and parallel passages, you will
see that they have reference to the Aadhi Bali people; and our Lord Shri Lahari
Krishna has also promised that the Glorification will happen in this generation
itself without fail. You and I are
travelling rapidly onward, without being aware that The Lord will TRY US with fire. See what Job says- Job 23:10 “But he knoweth the way
that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
Note:
Dear reader,
The word “TRY” has mentioned in AYYAH’s messages in
various senses:
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Trying
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Testing
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Purging etc.,
Hence I request the readers to keep this in mind, for a
better understanding of this Booklet.
Babu Ram
CHAPTER – 1
SOME PORTIONS FROM AYYAH’S MESSAGES WHICH DEAL WITH –
“the fire shall try every man’s work” (1 Cor.3:13).
Job
23:10 But he knoweth the way that I
take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job
23:10. “But he knoweth the way that I take”.
That is
the very important thing, He knows the way we take. But we do not see
Him in the front or back or right or left. But how does we know that God is
working? The question is not that we have taken the proper way but that He
knows the way we take……if it is wrong, He slowly
comes and says this is not the way that is the way. I will
tell you a verse for that also.
Isaiah 30:21. “And thine ears shall hear a Word behind thee, saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left”.
Job
23:10. “....when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold”.
You know
when a gold smith puts the gold into the fire, he puts all the fire on the top,
and it burns, and then you find all the scum comes to the top. It burns. Gold is something
which cannot perish by just heat [if we are not
able to withstand the Test, we are not the Gold. Note—it is not said that we
are clay. We are gold!]. Then all the dirt comes
to the top. You can remove it with a small stick. Then when you look into it
with your face you see the reflection of your face. The goldsmith can see his
face there [Ayyah is the Goldsmith. If we are Gold when we are tried Ayyah can
look His face in us, because we will have His Spirit in Fullness, after being
tried]. Then that is called pure gold. So when
hardships come, all what is inside comes out. A man will not scold God when he
has plenty.
21-6-1975 (P.M.)
“When he hath tried me, I
shall come forth as gold”-(Job 23:10). What does
Peter say?
“That
the trial of your faith, being mush more precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ”-(I Pet. 1:7).
Why does God
call us ‘pure gold’? See Lam. 4:1-2-
“How
is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! The stones of the
sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion,
comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthern pitchers, the work
of the hands of the potter!”
Can you
see that? When earthen pitchers fall, they break. They can’t stand the fall.
Someone may say, “Oh my wife died, my child died. If there is a God, could this
have happened to me?’ They are mud pots. Once they are broken they are
good-for-nothing. But fine gold is valuable even if broken or crushed.
In whatever shape it is, it has its own value Gold may have been thrown in a
corner. It doesn’t lose its value. In the same
way, the sons of Zion, whether they are black or white or yellow, their value
always remains. Their value is God. What does the Prophet
say? He doesn’t say that the sons of Zion have become mud pots; they are
esteemed by the other people as mud pots. So, the sons of Zion are zealous for
their God.
17th December, 1972.
And Job
says, “When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10). Are you having
that gold? Then only you can become rich in
heavenly sight. If you take Indian money, you don’t appear rich in America. If
you take the American money, you know you are a rich man. If we go in glory,
this gold which we buy from God is a treasure there. For forty five years we
have been digging for that gold, and we have got a very rich property in
heaven.
What is
the qualification for glorification?
-- ‘When
He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.’ This gold only is necessary! What is the
meaning? Deathless glory!! Is he going to bring
all Dick, Tom and Harry and adorn them with gold? See the difficulties of Job.
Not only that, what do those who came as friends say? They talk against only.
At last what does He say? When situation was such, suddenly He shows him [Job].
He gives a shout; and there is a thunder. A lightning, thunder! Then he said:
“I know!! My Redeemer liveth!”
April 20, 1985 A.M.
But Job
was a very rich man. He was a man of the East. But when you find his life, he
got this gold. He knew the art how to get into life again. So what does the
seventh church age says? Mm, Revelation 3rd chapter, 18th verse.
18 I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and
white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness
do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
-- Where can you buy that
gold? Is it sold in the streets? Or every Dick,
Tom and Harry has that gold? Or do you mean to say that it is available in the
market from every worker? But He is telling today - what does He say?
18 I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
-- Buy from where? (The Bible reader replies: ‘ME.’) Me! It is not from anybody in this India. But He is telling - “Buy from Me”, He says. Mm:
gold
tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;
-- It’s gold which is tried
in the fire seven times, so that you will become rich.
April 20, 1985 A.M.
So there
will be TESTS for us, given by God. Because, Ayyah says in His book THRONE OF
GOD that every moral being with Free will, will be tested!
CHAPTER 2
WHY DOES GOD TEST US?
Tests are absolutely
necessary for any material thing that is made, to discover if it does exactly
what it is designed and made for. The same thing is true for free moral agents
who are capable of voluntary choices concerning moral tests.
All free-will agents must
eventually learn the following lessons:
1. That
God must be respected and obeyed.
2. That
His laws are final and just.
3. That
sin or transgression of God’s laws, does not pay and will never be excused.
4. That
God’s form of government is the only correct one.
5. That a
loving and free submission to God is the highest and most agreeable principle
of any free moral being or moral government.
6. That
justice and righteousness must prevail or else no society can be eternally
preserved in the universe.
7. That
consecration to the greatest God of all is the very nature and highest glory of
the creature.
8. That
God is merciful and forgiving to rebels who will be penitent and who learn
obedience through their experiences.
9. That
God is the only absolutely just and perfect being and the only One capable and
worthy of unquestionable authority.
10. That
all the accusations of present day rebels against God are untrue.
11. That
God does only those things that are for the common good of all creation.
12. That
He should, by fixture of His own position as Creator, Preserver, Governor and
Lord, and by His own history of justice and righteousness in all of His
dealings, be recognized by all as the Supreme Moral Governor of the Universe,
and any place or position where He sets His seal should be honoured and
respected at all costs to get His Love and favor.
Until
free moral agents of all kinds learn these lessons, they naturally are in
ignorance of certain primary facts essential for life, and need much training
in respect of those facts. ……
GOD IS SOVEREIGN AS KING, BUT HIS GENEROSITY IN ALLOWING THE MOST ABSOLUTE FREE
WILL TO MAN ENJOINS ON HIM TO MAKE THE CHOICE WITHOUT SINNING AGAINST THE
THRONE OF GOD.
THE THRONE OF GOD
When God tries a man, the
whole secret comes out whether he is on the Word or something else.
29-1-1975 (P.M.)
…One intelligence, and that intelligence is kept in the
brain. And this brain, the devil tries to capture
the brain and God tries to capture the brain. If you are idle,
it becomes the devil’s workshop. But if you are busy with God’s ways,
everything rebounds to the glory of God[1].
23-12-1975 (A.M.)
Come back
to God’s word, you people of God. Satan tries to prove that you become a
serpent’s seed by birth [by Fate], but God tries to prove that only
by your choice to reject His word, you submit yourself to Satan and thereby get
his anointing of darkness. In the former case of
Serpent seed by birth, the people will not correct themselves, but in the
latter case of free choice, they will realize the truth and can correct
themselves and come back to God and His word. When Abel was killed, the seed
seems to have been destroyed. The dragon aims at the Seed only; but, you people
of God, do not be worried; for it is God’s duty to guard the Seed and to
protect the people who will submit themselves to Him and His Throne. The
characters of both these seeds, God’s and the Serpent’s, are prominently
different. The talks and expressions of both are different. Their tastes also
vary. But we people call these characters as inborn; but, just as, for a
definition of Genius, it is said: Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90
percent perspiration, so also man has got power and will to stop or pursue any
of his actions; and the Spirit of God helps the Seed of God and the spirit of
dragon helps the disobedient. And see, God allows freedom even for Cain - (Gen.
4:15), because, reproves him for his crime and violence - (Gen. 4:11-12),
because, as already said before, violence means -- Not trusting God as the
Judge and waiting patiently for His judgement, but rejecting God and taking the
law into one’s hands.
-- THRONE OF GOD
On reading this don’t be
afraid of the Tests and Temptations that come in your life, because, God does
not tempt us with evil. James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any
man:
What does
the Bible say? Now listen, this is an important thing for you …James 1:13 -
“Let no man say, when he is tempted I am tempted of God...”
You know first of all if a
temptation comes, don’t tell, God is tempting you.
“...for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed”- Vs.14.
He is
drawn away of his own lust and is enticed.
“Then
when lust has conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death”- Vs.15.
There
is a place where it gives a way of escape. I Cor.10:13.
There is a way of escape
also. Now suppose he takes all the temptations
away, everybody will be a saint, but here he puts the temptation. And in every
temptation there is a way of escape, so you are to find out the
way of escape and run. [Paul’s ex]
Vs.10
- “Neither murmur ye, as some of ye murmured, and were destroyed of the
destroyer”. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
able...” He will not allow you to be tempted above that
ye are able.
“...but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear
it. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatory”- Vs.13-14.
So you
say, I don’t worship idols. Oh, these heathen are idol worshippers. But every day you
can be an idol worshipper or you can follow God.
That’s the temptation coming from the devil. You go there and then there will
be another place also ... remember, the devil tempts you, but God is faithful
that he keeps a way of escape for you. If you
don’t escape that way, who are you? You are an idol worshipper. If you don’t take
the way of escape given by God, you follow the devil, you are an idol
worshipper.
21-12-1975 (A.M.)
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted
of God:
--
God doesn’t tempt you. Only your desire is tempting you. Don’t say, “God is tempting me.” The lust which you have is
tempting you. Mm:
for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither
tempteth he any man:
-- God tempteth not and He cannot not tempted. He
doesn’t tempt any. Mm:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away
of his own lust, and enticed.
--
When he departs from God he is tempted.
January 31, 1988
Jonah
wasn’t an ordinary man. He knew his God. They put him out into the sea. But
Jonah didn’t care. He said, “I am on the Word now; so I don’t care.” God spoke
the Word, and the fish was created. A special whale was prepared. It had its
mouth wide open. As he went down, he said, “His mercy endureth forever.”…He
stood there. He was confident: “The number of my days will be fulfilled.” He
tested God, and he was tested. If you test God, He will test you. If you
don’t test him. He won’t test you. Jonah wanted to
find out whether God would be true. And God, in turn tested Jonah whether he
would be true on God’s Word. Jonah sees the vision of the holy temple. The fish
is carrying him; he has a free ticket. He has no money to buy a ticket; so God
gives him a free ticket. The fish knew where Nineveh was located. God came like a
fish and vomited him out. God said, “I will carry
you,” and He carried Jonah and brought him to the shores of Nineveh. God can
come like a lamb, or fish, or in any form He wants. If God can come
in such forms, can’t He come like a man? If He
could get into a donkey, He can come into everyone of you, and make a temple of
you.
21-8-1972
But the
fact is, He created you in the beginning. Therefore nothing can give you peace
in this world. If the Lord has created you in the beginning in Christ, the reason, why
He sends you into this world, is to test you! Why? Otherwise one day the world
will say that the Lord is partial. So for that,
what He does is, He sends you and says in front of all, “See how he is! He is
ready even to die as a martyr.”
August 24, 1985 P.M.
CHAPTER - 3
ALL OUR PATRIOTS WhERE TESTED, EVEN
CHRIST!
When you are tested by God, don’t tell God is tempting
you. And in every temptation there is a way of escape, so you are to find out
the way of escape and run.
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Abraham was tested by God,
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Noah was tested by God,
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Joseph was tested by God,
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Ruth was tested by God,
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Job was tested by God, …
these people – when tested by God they proved that they
are True and Faithfull to God. These tests are only to Prove to the people of
this world, that God’s selection is Perfect. Ayyah Himself underwent various
tests and temptations in His life. Why? He should overcome when he is questioned!
Even Christ is Judged!
Romans 3:4:
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar;
-- Except God, all are liars. Mm:
as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in
thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged.
-- Who? Even the Judge! Suppose He appoints a Judge
there, it seems he [man] will question: “He is also a Man like us. Why have You
have kept Him to judge us?” Because, He should be judged by the word which He
spoke. Why? What He spoke by the mouth is the Bible. That is, one fellow will
say quoting the Bible: “I walked according to all what You told, but nothing
happened. You have told only lies. You told, “If two agree and ask anything in
My Name, I will give,” but you have not given. Then, how can You judge?” In
that, another fellow will ask, a full time worker will say: “I was going on
begging everyday.” Then He’ll say: “Who called you? I answered those whom I
called. I did not call any beggar. I supply the need of all those whom I call.”
That is why, what does He say? Read it again:
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar;
-- What is God? When it is said as God what does this
fellow think? He thinks
that He is somewhere in a far off place. Mm:
as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in
thy sayings,
-- Thou must be justified in Thy sayings,
and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
-- While judging what should He do? He should overcome
when he questions.
“Overcome when Thou art judged.” Mm:
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar;
-- Then immediately what happens? “Let God be true, but
every man a liar.” Jeevaputhiran says: “God will not lie. But Bro. Lawrie has
lied.” I never told. It seems someone has told, some talebearer has told him
that I called him as Lucifer. I never called him as Lucifer. Naidu might have
told him. Immediately he: “Has he told like that? I will call him a liar.” So
then, who played the part of mynah kunji in the middle? Our man only.
August 24, 1985 A.M.
Even
Christ is judged. When He is judged, what is put there? When He is judged,..... Read
that in English.
Romans 3:4: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but
every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightiest be justified in thy
sayings,
-- In thy sayings. The sayings are judging - the
sayings.
and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
So when He is judged by the people,.... Suppose Joel says
today, “You have told in the Bible, I will meet your needs. You have never met
my needs. You have told a lie.” Then He’ll tell, “You didn’t trust me well
because you didn’t leave everything, forsake everything, you had this thing and
that thing, then how can I bless you?
01-01-1985
Isaiah 53:6: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all”.
Romans 3:4: “God forbid; yea, let God be true, but
every man a liar; as it is written that thou mightest be justified in thy
sayings and mightest overcome when thou art judged”.
We
studied earlier that as we were created outside Christ Jesus we had our ‘self’
within us. That is why the Bible says: ‘All we
like sheep have gone astray; and have turned to our own way’. So the question
may arise as to why God permitted us to wander away from Him, even after the
Supreme Sacrifice was given? Why could not God have pulled us into Him
forcibly? The answer is: Our God gave each of us a FREE WILL and CHOICE as we
were people selected from the earth and had to live on the earth. We should get
all the experiences the world has to offer before coming into Christ fully. What is actually meant by coming into Christ? All of us imagine
that there are ‘apartments’ built inside Christ Jesus for us. That is not so. Being in Christ
means being in TOTAL SUBJECTION to Christ alone.
REVELATIONS DURING CASUAL
TALKS
Abraham was tested by God.
But we must have a desire
that we must please God, and do His will. Be ye doers of the word; not
believers of the word. So God tested Abraham.
Every point He tested. He gave a son: “Whether he will make the son escape for
the sake of the property?” But he wanted to prove God: “What He said, He will
fulfil. My son Isaac cannot die before marriage. Even if he dies he can come to
life from there.” So, he wanted to do that. Then God only stops him: “Hey, you
are a terrible man; you are a person who does what is said. You are an ‘action
hero’ - ‘seyal veeran’.” What title does He give him? ‘Action hero’ are they
not calling these political party fellows every Dick, Tom and Harry as action
heroes? It is not these. These fellows destroy what is done. They are devils
who open their mouth when they see money. Who is an action hero? Abraham. What?
He
does the thing that makes God himself afraid.
“Have you not told it? Come on, take the knife.” - “No, stop it; stop it. I
simply told it, but you are going to kill the fellow. If I simply say ‘kill’,
did I tell you to kill him straight away?” - “Then what else did you tell? Did
You not tell to kill only?” - “For that, is it so quickly? Go a little slow.” -
“I wish to obey Your words.” - “Even if you obey like that, certain things you
must think and do; you shouldn’t hurry. Just look; look above. The lamb is
there and sacrifice with that.” - “How can it be sacrificed instead? You asked
only my son.” - “Look above! Look at the Aadhi Bali. You are doing only to mean
that. So I will bless you. I swear by Myself.” Then he became a father of
nations. Immediately for him what? Imputation! “You come into Me; you are My
friend.” Today, can God tell that you are a friend of God? Have you got that
steady mind with you? Can you say that, “I will devote my whole life for God?”
February 24, 1988 P.M.
But
before that God tested Abraham. “Abraham, sacrifice your only son.” (Genesis
22) So he is telling, “I will sacrifice and come back! We will sacrifice and
come again to you.” Why he had that faith? He has promised that He will bless
his seed as sands of the sea. So Isaac cannot die before he gives birth to
children. So he said, “It is alright, Lord! If You want to kill him, I will
kill him. You can raise him from the dead and give him children.” So up to
which level is he tested? God did not speak to him when he was going there. But
when the knife came down to kill him, then He said, “Stop! Stop! Stop that! Now
I know that you love God.” So you think about yourself! If God tells that you
must kill your son or daughter, you will say, “Enough is enough! Enough of this
ministry! Good bye! Is He God? He is asking me to kill my child? I don’t want
Him. I don’t want this God at all.” But see this fellow! He tests him, and
he also allows Him, saying, “You can test me by all means and see! I don’t want
anything in this world; You are enough for me. You are the life and
everything.” Then at that time God shows him the Aadhi Bali.
December 10, 1988 P. M.
You know,
many people say, “Abraham was tempted by God.” I was wondering, “Why God should
take a fellow having only one child and make him kill the son? I don’t know
what kind of God that is?” Then the Lord revealed to me. That is: Christ Jesus
had to come like a man and He had to give His Son to death. So He wanted to try
that on a man. So Abraham was tested, not for Abraham. God tested it for Himself.
Hallelujah! “If a human being could do that, I could do that.” So He tested
him.
12-01-1985 Noon
Noah was tested by God
Now see,
people say: “Go and preach, preach, preach.” This is the time of Noah. In Noah’s time,
he was preaching for hundred years - hundred and twenty years. But, at the end, when Noah built the ark, everything is coming. So
that was the gathering time, not scattering time. Not sowing time, but reaping
time. Now, this is the time of gathering, not scattering.
March 09, 1985 A.M.
Joseph was tested by God
Take away all your jealousy. Joseph’s brothers were jealous but Joseph was not jealous. Bride
has no jealously within her. Let any injustice happen, you be true to God.
Joseph was under injustice, but he was not jealous of anybody. He was not
crying. He was waiting patiently for the time for the visions to be fulfilled.
When God has revealed the truth to us, it will be fulfilled; but wait
patiently. Wait for His time to be fulfilled. If you just make it a mockery, you
will be rooted out from this camp, nobody can help you. Bro. Lawrie can’t help
you. When the Holy Ghost does something I will never stand between that, I
won’t even pray for that. I have come to fulfill the Holy Ghost’s plan. Then
Pharaoh put his ring upon Joseph’s hand, etc., and made him to ride in the
second chariot which he had: and they cried before him not before Pharaoh.....
Bow the knee: That bowing of the knee shows authority. Pharaoh gave all authority
to Joseph. Whose mistake is that? It was God’s plan. So you can’t go to Pharaoh
and say, ‘Mr. Pharaoh, this Joseph is a dirty fellow, I don’t know why you kept
him in charge, why don’t you take him away?’ Joseph was tested and found fit by
competent authority.
4-5-1974 (P.M.)
See Joseph! Twelve years in
prison; lost his testimony. But again God lifted him. So, twelve years he wasted. But he said: ‘The word of God tried
him.’ What for? The Lord tried him: ‘Is he still disciplined or is he cursing
God?’ But he didn’t do anything. He was willing to follow God to any length.
January 01, 1989
Now
Joseph was in prison–twelve years, the Lord was watching. The Word was
trying him, before he was made a ruler. So, you
are also tired. The Word was trying the martyrs. When they
were dying, the Word was watching each and everyone. They are to be killed,
they are singing, Hosannah, they are ready to die and the Word tried them. When
their heads were cut, “Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord”, noted! That
particular person has been noted! Somebody says, leave me, I will deny the
Lord, that is also noted and finished. So at the end when they become rulers,
the Word will lift them. He will fight for them. He will say they stood with me.
That
is the test God has given for each and everyone.
If your stomach is God, you are not going there. You may shout but the Word
tries. So one year, two years, three years, four years, five, six years like
that. No rapture – we will go home. Seven years, eight years, nine years, ten
years. God told Joseph that the sun and the moon and the stars will worship
him. He didn’t say, it will happen next month. He didn’t give the time. But
Joseph knew in the heart, one day, the Lord will lift him. See the time, eight
years, what did Joseph say? Praise the Lord. Someone mocks: Hey, you fellow,
you are eight years in prison. He answers: Praise the Lord, one day I will be a
ruler. Nine years, ten years, eleven years, twelve years and the Spirit moves.
Then Joseph says, I think the Lord will deliver me. All things work
together for good to them that love God, and those that are called according to
His purpose. (Romans 8:28). Joseph was called
according to God’s purpose. What does the Bible say? He sent a man before them
to save them (Israelites) from famine. But see the trial the man sent by God
had. Twelve years in prison for no fault of his and then and how many years did
it take for him to become a ruler? Not
even a week. The trial may be thirty years. But if God lifts you, ‘twinkling of
an eye’……See, Joseph was inside the prison, but see the way of God lifting him
up. Two fellows are having dreams. Joseph was a big fellow in the prison, he
was in charge over the prisoners. Gen. 40:3-11. Reads the Verses. (Vs.8) Joseph says,
interpretation belongs to God, not to man. So he knew his God. So after
remaining twelve years in prison, he got the power of interpreting dreams. When he says, interpretations belong to God, and if he could
interpret a dream, where is God? God came into this man and He is interpreting
the dream. So Joseph had a personal life with God. He knew, what he speaks is
from God. Reads Verses 12-14. Even after twelve years, we find a little bad
thing in Joseph. He doesn’t say, God will deliver; he lost hope
that God will deliver him, so he asks the butler, please go and tell Pharaoh to
take me out of the prison (Vs.14). Instead of
depending on God, he is depending on this butler. So, that fellow lost his
memory power. He completely lost knowledge about
Joseph, and because of this silly sin God could not do anything. …Otherwise, Joseph
would have been made a big man on that day itself, but it had to delay two more
years. Then God had to go to Pharaoh’s brain and
give dreams to him. God can give dreams to anyone. So after two years, Pharaoh
was sleeping and he was having dreams. (Gen. 41:8). He called for all magicians
of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof to interpret the dreams; but there was
none that could interpret. Then the chief butler got his memory back again.
(Vs.9). For two years a fellow forgets just imagine! Can a fellow forget
somebody who helped him in a crisis? Something happened to him. Because Joseph
depended on him, God made him lose his memory power. Then only Joseph would
say, Lord, even that is gone, so I will depend on you. The butler gets the memory power again……One morning Joseph lost all
his hope. There won’t be any rapture. I don’t know what will happen and how can
I go back to America? I don’t know where this fellow Lawrie has led us? He has
spoiled our lives and all hope is lost. And as he was sitting there, someone
knocks, calling Joseph. Pharaoh wants you. Me? I have not taken a shave, Hurry
up. Come on. What does the Bible say? (Vs.14)- “Then Pharaoh sent and called
Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon:” –he was in a dungeon
12 years, no light, nothing. My! My! People can’t stay for 5 months, they get
sick. So Joseph takes a clean shave after many years. Now a nice dress, as you
can’t go in front of a King with a dirty dress. You can’t go before the Lord
with a dirty sinful body, so, change this dress, God says; then He gives us a
robe of righteousness.
27-2-1974 (P.M.)
Ruth was tested by God
One daughter-in-law [Orpha] went away; she embraced Naomi.
You know, she came very near in the line of Jesus Christ, but missed it? If she
had stuck on, she would have got a hold of Boaz, before Ruth, because she had
the right. But here she was tested for the prize of the high calling. Naomi said, “I place before you two things – one, difficulties in
life, but there is life in it; two, comforts but no life.” Why do people join
the denominations today? To get a regular salary. We all believe God. But those
people don’t believe God; they believe in denomination……Ruth remained behind.
Naomi tells her, “Oh my daughter-in-law, won’t you go back?” Ruth doesn’t see
Naomi there. She sees Jesus in Naomi. The Lord opened the scene and showed here
through Naomi; she saw right in to the line of Jesus [Lord God]…… So, now we
come again to Ruth. I want you to take what she said there. I wish we all could
say that. Now see the chances came to the first daughter-in-law, but she went
away. Then comes the second daughter-in-law, Ruth. Naomi tells her, “Behold,
thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods.” (Ruth 1:15)
Hallelujah! If you go back, you go unto your gods. But you are already of God.
That’s why He doesn’t allow you to go back. He pulls you. That’s the third
pull. So, when they go back, they want to prove they did a right thing; so they
start cursing everybody. Be on God’s word. If you are on God’s word, you won’t
leave God. But if you are not on God’s word, one day or other you will fight
and go away. So be careful to be on God’s word. What
did Ruth say? “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after
thee: for whither thou goest, I will go: and where thou lodgest, I will lodge;
thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” ( Ruth 1:16) Your God will be
my God, your people shall be my people. Ruth was not a Jewess. She had Lot for
her forefather. See how Lot’s children, because of that little righteousness
come back in the line of Jesus [Lord God]. We have
the blood of Lot also so don’t worry. “Remember Lot’s wife?” Remember what? She
gave birth to Ruth through Ruth’s ancestors. You can be pillar of salt; but if
your daughter runs away, she may be a Bride. So we must remember Lot’s wife for
giving birth to that daughter. Ruth had the end time vision of the Son of
Man and therefore she is particular about her
burial place with Naomi in Palestine. She says, “Where thou diest, will I die,
and there will I be buried.” (Ruth 1:17). The other one went unto her gods. But
Ruth had seen Naomi’s God. She was talking about Naomi’s Lord. Death part thee
and me. When Naomi knew that Ruth was putting death first, she didn’t talk
anymore about her returning. If you put your hand on the plough, don’t look back……So Ruth came with Naomi. Ruth lives on Naomi’s influence and
recommendation. Naomi is a type of the Holy Ghost. When the Lord saved us, we
decided like Ruth…… But here some people have stuck on the Holy Ghost. Naomi
tells the secret to Ruth as to how to get hold of Boaz. Naomi also has the end
- time vision of the Son of Man, as she goes to find out Boaz for Ruth in the
line of David, to be heir to the throne. She was never worried about Ruth
having Lot as an ancestor. Otherwise she would not have tried Ruth for Boaz in
marriage. Ruth obeys exactly what the Holy Ghost, the Word of God says. Boaz
knew the word of God’ he is a type of Redeemer. So this lady Ruth, the Gentile
Bride, obeyed the Holy Ghost. It was never a denomination there. She said, “I’ll
obey you, mother in law.” So she just took her God. She left her father,
mother, country, everything. Don’t think, Naomi never had difficulty from her
daughter in law’s family. “I feel like going back.” - better go. I think about
my mummy, I think I’ll go and have a look at her and come. So what happens
here?
Naomi
wanted to get the best for her daughter in law. She was not a seeing and
believing woman. If she was seeing and believing she would have given her
daughter in law, a nice, young, handsome, fair, educated boy. She would never
have got her connected with an old man. Naomi’s daughter in law, Ruth also
didn’t say, “Oh I want a young man.” What revelation did Naomi have of Boaz?
She sees Jesus the Word. She doesn’t see Boaz there; she sees the blood line of
Jesus. And what does Ruth see? She doesn’t see an old man she sees the
blood line of Jesus [Lord God], of whom she is going to be a mother. What does Naomi tell Ruth? “Do what I say.” You mean to say women
never get the revelation. Boaz was never interested in marriage, you know. Boaz
was a kinsman. But this Naomi, she was in TOUCH WITH GOD. She had yielded
herself to God……Boaz sees the girl. “He asks, who are you?” “I am Ruth”. “Why
didn’t you go after young people?” “I was just obeying Naomi.” “Yes, I know
about Naomi.” Then what does she say? “Thou art a near Kinsman. Redeem thy
property.” Boaz tells Ruth there is a Kinsman nearer than he. He goes to the
man. He asks, “I am next in line to you to redeem Naomi’s property. Will you
redeem her property?” He says, “I will redeem it.” But Boaz tells him, ‘You
must also take up Ruth to raise up the name of the dead for his inheritance.’
He says, “I don’t want it.” I don’t want to ruin my inheritance.” That’s why he
has t to take off his shoe. That’s the Anti-Christ, so he may not lose his
inheritance of death and denomination. He took off his shoe and gave, why? Can
you walk without one shoe? He walks like this. (Bro. Lawrie imitates how a man
would walk with one shoe). So he says, “ I would rather walk lame than go with
you. He says I’ll buy Naomi’s property our inheritance. Boaz tells him. “If you
buy, with it comes the girl also”. We are attached to God with
the inheritance, Hallelujah! Because of our inheritance of the promise.
17-1-1972
Job was tested by God
So when Job was tested, he
was only pure gold, and he didn’t have any alloy. But
he was born in alloy. So this gold can be used for ornament. So this Job was
tested and tried. At the end, God appears and he reveals the end-time. So Job
says I heard of you, but now I see you and he just shuts his mouth.- vide Job
42:5 & 40:4-5.
14th JANUARY 1986 5.45 A.M.
Every free soul will be
tested and then only given power. Even Christ
Jesus, in the beginning, He had power only over hell and death. But when He was
tested by God and He overcame, all power was given to Him. If even Christ Jesus
was tested,.... If you are tested for one cup of coffee and you sell Him for
one dosai, vadai, better get out of this place; you are not fit for being here.
So people who are married, don’t be like people who are married. If you have
something, be as if you have nothing. But the main thing is, your heart must
stop your condemnation; then you are fit for glorification. If this
condemnation is there, that means you have not left everything.
February 13, 1988
Abraham...But every time you have some money and property, God will test you. Abraham was selected before the foundation of the world in Aadhi Bali. Under Nimrod he had lot of property - very rich man in India. He
[Abraham] left that and came to Mesopotamia. Here also God gave him plenty of
money. Then he had a son. Then God was a bit worried, “Whether this fellow will
keep anything for this son?” Then the test comes. “Kill the son.” - “Alright.”
Then He said, “Now I know.” [Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he
will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the
way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.] Otherwise won’t He know? This will be
known only on testing. The heart is so
tricky, “Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord”, but inside
something else will be there. This will be known only on testing. The Israelites, in the wilderness, forty years they were tested.
Only two people came out of that - Caleb and Joshua. They had another
spirit, they wholly followed the Lord. There is no
defect. Only thing is, you don’t follow Lord fully. If you follow the Lord
fully, years doesn’t matter, you will possess it. If you don’t follow the Lord
fully, you won’t possess it. So Caleb, Joshua
crossed the red sea. They had faith to cross the Jordan also. The children -
they did not see that red sea. They only heard it. Now they possess it. So,
like the Israelite’s children, you never saw Aadhi Bali. Now you believe God’s
word, which your parents told. [and you say] ‘I believe’ - you possess it. So
these people are glorified saints. Caleb and Joshua, is like
the dead saints and resurrected saints. In that
category only these two are there. These children, they never saw the first
thing. But they believed that that thing happened. We never saw Aadhi Bali, but
because God said it, we believe that happened - that we were there. And now we cross
the Jordan - we cross the death. That is why
today, unless you have been there before the foundation of the world, you can’t
cross it. If somebody don’t want to come, why are you worried? Somebody dilutes
the message also, don’t believe it. It is between you and that message. And
nowadays, the message is very important.
26-03-1988
If you
have taken the Aadhi Bali, you cannot be a member of any church. And you have
got a blessing because you can always claim everything through Aadhi Bali,
getting everything from God direct. But starvation
and hunger is your property. But He won’t test you above the limit. He didn’t test me so. It will come - when it is two or three days,
when I get hungry I will be scared, but it will come on the fourth day. That is
why it is told in the Bible, ‘Two days He will do that, and third day He will
be perfected.’ Yes! Luke thirteenth chapter. Two days you will be confused,
third day support will come. Luke 13:32.
32 And
he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I
do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
-- ‘Third day’. Not three
days. The ‘three days’ calculation itself is to
deceive whom? To deceive the Christians. That is why that which is
Aadhi Bali is only two days. Second day He rises up. For Christians so that they will not
prosper, three days. So they have to cry. So why God got very angry
with us? Because our prayers should be full of joy. If you always say, “Oh! Lord! You have died for us”, then it is
only house of lament. He never wanted to cry over the dead people or.... This
fellow brought this crying ‘for the dead’ only for worshipping the dead.
September 03, 1988
Forty
five years if God could lead me and my family! All these who came four or five
years and say: “Oh, we have found out” - these are all liars. Fellow won’t be
without food for one day. If there is no food for one day, he will run away. But God tested [us]
by severe trials. Are you having children? I am
also having children. If you have no food for the family and children for one
week, you will leave the faith and go. In that I have to praise my wife. If
there is no food, you know what she will say? “If God doesn’t send to us, from
where can we eat? Let us starve.” If it was another wife, she would have left
long ago. When? Even when I had gone to America, she would have left, saying:
“Why should I be with this fellow with this hunger and starvation?” Even while
starving, she did not have the character of asking anybody.
March 16, 1985 P.M.
Yesterday
a lady was telling, “Brother, please pray for my son. He should not fall. His
wife changes him towards the world. Please pray for him, brother.” This is not
making prayer. When all these problems come, at last when you say ‘I empty’, He
will help. Why God blessed Christ Jesus, not when He created Him first, when He
(unseen God) created Him (Christ Jesus) as a man. But He told Him to go as a
human being again. ‘You go and fulfill my plan’. He was agreeing to go
immediately as a man leaving all His authority. So before the foreknowledge He
knows that He will give even His throne to satisfy God. So then Christ Jesus
was given the highest power. That is why unseen God saw Him emptying. So let
that mind be in you. But you say, ‘I won’t leave my place, position’. That
means you don’t have the Spirit of Christ in you. Anything, I will go anywhere,
I will go, I will suffer for God to any extent. If there is a comfortable
place, I won’t stay there for a long time. In 1960, when I went to America,
there was no restriction. They want me to settle down there. Then I would have
become a millionaire. I would have given people plenty of money, but I would
not have given the Spirit of the Lord. But I don’t want to be like that, rich.
So that is the Spirit of Christ. So when the wrestling was over, God tested
him. Then only he became the ‘Prince of God’. What is the name? Israel. Israel
means Prince of God. Without testing, He won’t give you the degree. ‘I belong
to a Royal family, I am a Prince’. All these are nonsense. After testing and
touching his thigh, he is given degree…. He broke my leg. So he has to do it by
force. He broke my leg. Why? ‘Leave football game, leave it’, He said. I also
said, ‘I will leave, I will leave’, but continued. Then He saw, ‘He won’t come
to the track. Let us break his leg’. You know how I cried on that day. ‘Oh! My
leg has gone. I can’t be an athlete. I can’t be a sportsman. Two weeks after, I
have to go to Olympics. Anyhow I would have got medal - My name has gone, you
have done like this, Oh God!’ He broke the leg. Then only in breaking my leg, I
found God more. Suppose you don’t want your leg to be broken, respectfully like
Job, you tell that, ‘I am vile’.
31.10.1986
Some verses relavent to the Topic
1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would
not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud,
and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the
cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well
pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Why? They did not pass the test which God gave them.
Even after seeing the eleven plagues sent by
the Lord; even after seeing the Red see parting by the Power of God,
they tempted the Lord by their lusts, idolatry, fornication etc., and hence
were destroyed–
1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us tempt
Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
All Glory and Honour to our
Gurudev Shri Lahari Krishna Alone.
Shri Lahari Om! Tat! Sat!
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