SPIRIT EFFECTIVENESS THE MAIN CRITERION.
Audience response or 'feedback' as it is better known today is certainly a help to those speakers who tailor their speeches to suit the listeners. But the Word from God is of a disciplinary nature, not an 'ear-tickling' work to suit sinners. Because of a common lack of retentiveness, speeches educate listeners less, than informing them by means of letters. Spiritual letters are easier to reason upon and grasp, as they allow one's heart and mind time to meditate, reading repeatedly until the spirit retains the things that were previously hard to understand. But listeners are often mentally distracted away from the finer and important details of the subject matter, as they pay attention to the speaker's mannerisms, attire, dialect, thoughts about his past, and so on.

ONE'S PRESENCE IS ALWAYS A DISTRACTION TO THOSE RESENTFUL AND ENVIOUS.
Although anointed, Paul, The Christ's apostle to the nations, found it necessary to write about some complainers: "So you must not think of me as one who scares you by the letters he writes. 'His letters', so it is said, 'are weighty and powerful; but when he appears he has no presence, and as a speaker he is beneath contempt.' People who talk in that way should reckon with this: when I come, my actions will show the same man as my letters showed in my absence." (2 Cor 10:9-11 NEB). In other wards, they resented and envied Paul because of his power by Holy Spirit. Paul's letters to congregations were legal documents.

I will now expose the same underlying claims of those individuals today who make false claims to christian virtues because of making many, though unauthorized, speeches. There are shocks coming. Such ones should have shown true humility instead of just talking about it, and should have allowed those with Holy Spirit to teach by the leadings of Holy Spirit. Paul said of such complainers:

"What fools they are to measure themselves by themselves, to find in themselves their own standard of comparison!" (V.12). Important to note here is that the above scriptures reveal that even those anointed with Holy Spirit are not given any special speech ability to improve their effectiveness when teaching the Word from our Lord. Holy Spirit teaches knowledge and gives understanding of His Word, and when to convey it. Paul also found difficulty in combining spiritual matters with words. But effectual power comes by means of Holy Spirit to obedient servants. A distinctly different people to unsealed ones teaching their own slanted and self-preserving opinions of the true meanings of God's Word. These "stumbling blocks" are well known by our Lord.

The rebellious enjoy the flattering responses they receive from audiences, more than allowing the Word of God to be taught accurately by Spirit to the hearts and minds of the people. They know too that they cannot experience any glory from others by sending letters.

As for us, we were sent into the "wilderness" to be re-educated by those of the "heavenly woman of God" by Holy Spirit, away from further 'tramplings' (domineering dispositions) of error from members of the "disgusting thing" standing in authority without God's Holy spirit in our Holy place. From our "wilderness" many deserving ones have received some of the resulting bitter knowledge in the form of letters against their apostasy. Digesting this knowledge has been sweet to us, and very soon our enemies will receive the final and bitter effectiveness for ignoring our letters, sent them by the "two witnesses" of God.

19/7/90.