Falling in One’s Spirit

Here we also find one of the many excuses for avoiding self-acknowledgment. Yes, such means are all they have to resort to, as they themselves have excluded themselves from soundness of faith and teaching and understanding. They say that after one has received the baptism of the Spirit, one can fall in one’s Spirit, but then one can just seek a new fullness. Fall in one’s Spirit? What is that? Where do you find this in the Scriptures? Can you also rise in your Spirit? Like a barometer? Then Christianity becomes up and down, like it is with the many “who slave and strive and never become any different,” only with some more modern names. Self-acknowledgment would say, “I’ve become slack.” But deceit says, “I’ve only fallen in the Spirit.” Or as one of them comforted himself with the fact that all the virgins slept, so this was quite natural and biblical. But how far can one then fall in one’s spirit?

This is, in truth, so-called knowledge that is false; because when people sail into a false spiritual harbour, they become completely blind; even the simplest childhood logic disappears in this arena for confused notions. Yes, in truth, the darkness makes people blind!