Your very good letters have arrived. When I think about your total commitment to the will of God, I feel great thankfulness in the Spirit to God our Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. From the day you made a wholehearted, personal commitment, you have found a peace that surpasses all understanding. Now you can rest calmly in the anointing and abide in Him, just as the anointing teaches you to do. You have no need to ask about anything, for the same anointing teaches you all things and is true. As you have received Christ, continue to walk in Him.

In the beginning you said “Yes” to Jesus, but now your strength has ebbed, and you are not even able to say “Yes” to Him. But your all is upon His altar, and you are awaiting His fire. He is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no other life. He was born under the law so that He might redeem those who were under the law. The heir as long as he is a child is no different from a slave, though he be lord of all; he is under schoolmasters and guardians until the time appointed by the Father. But we are no longer under a guardian, for the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Once we are in Christ, we are freed from the schoolmaster. Precious deliverance! Now we are in the law of the Spirit, which has set us free from the law of sin and death. Blessed is the man who speaks and acts as one who will be judged according to the law of liberty.

A person who has been entrusted with something is judged according to the law of liberty, whereas those who are working and slaving away are judged according to the law. If anyone sins under the law, he will be judged by the law. If anyone sins without the law, he will be judged without the law. A minor is disciplined by his guardian, whereas an adult is judged by the law of liberty. Christ is born in our hearts while we are still under the law, but He was born under the law to redeem those who are under the law. God cannot give us full liberty all at once, because we haven’t been sufficiently disciplined. That’s why each of us is under the schoolmaster for a period of time determined by the Father. The length of time varies, depending on when God sees we are ready to possess something ourselves. Some people never come to this point. There will be those who laugh in derision and say, “You fool, don’t you know that Christ was born under the law 1900 years ago?” To such people I would reply, “First the natural, then the spiritual.” Now we are sons, and God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, by which we cry “Abba, Father.” This Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

It doesn’t surprise me in the least that you’ve already encountered opposition. Christ has been given to us as a sign that shall be spoken against. As far as “this sect” is concerned, we know that it is spoken against everywhere. Christ came not to bring peace but division, for He will set three against two and two against three in one house.

Jeremiah says: “I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.” He says, “I thought to cease from speaking in God’s name, but then His words worked like a power within me, which consumed my bones.” Here it’s not a question of age, it’s a question of who has the Spirit of the Lord.

Knowing that in Christ there are exhortations, I beseech you, dear brother, to stand unshakably fast in the liberty by which Christ has made you free. I’m well aware that there are thousands of schoolmasters in Christ, but not many fathers. The fathers can also chasten, but they don’t chasten like the schoolmasters do; they do so with pain in their hearts and in the hope that comes from love. The schoolmasters, however, are only interested in pleasing themselves.

I’m unspeakably happy that God has brought you into the anointing and power of His Spirit and bestowed upon you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. He is a wall of fire around His people.

You can’t force liberty in Christ on anyone. If the time appointed by the Father hasn’t come, you can preach as much as you like, but you won’t be understood. If God were to absolve ungodly people, they would commit repulsive, abominable things in the land of the righteous. That’s why we must spend time under the law, or the schoolmaster.

It is a tremendous joy to me that you love the truth more than your own life and that you reject everything that doesn’t ring true. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Let us always remain in our first love, rejoicing with exceeding joy in the hope of the resurrection.

Don’t believe every spirit. Many people are preaching about liberty, but it is Satan’s liberty. If you mention the word “obedience” to them, they bristle with indignation, because to them liberty means freedom to commit sin. Crush and utterly destroy the preaching of such people, and you will have joy in your spirit over a job well done. You must never be subservient to them, but you should strike them and not hold back. Remember Saul! He lost his kingship because he wanted to spare something. Dear Aksel, take what I say in the right spirit. Your calling and election must be made sure—and it shall be, provided that you are obedient to God. Take the example of Balaam as a warning! He was willing to collaborate with ungodly people and to curse God’s elect—all for the sake of gain. Love for God causes us to hate the world. The kind of love that Balaam and Samson had makes things go wrong.

If you want to keep yourself pure, take heed to these exhortations. But if you want to grovel and lose your peace, then just go ahead and say yes and amen to all those who deceive themselves and others into thinking they have liberty.

All the best. Abide in Him always, and everything will go well.

Yours, kept in Him,

Greet everyone at home.