Good article, my compliments.Sound, thorough , solid. When I read it, I thought of a word by Paul. This word:1 Corinthians 4 v 3: " I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed I do not even judge myself".
Paul was rejected nearly constantly. But he was a man, filled with the Holy Spirit. And he knew that he was bringing a message, that was given to him by this Holy Spirit. And he lived with his human spirit already in the heavenly realms. There he was fighting the devil in a tremendous way. And one of his big discoveries : Ephesians 6 v 12:.... "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood , but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms". ......is only now newly discovered, since Augustinus pushed it aside with his ' original sin'., circa 400 after Christ.
And that other great discovery in Ephesians 3 v 10:.... "God's intrest was "that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms", which clearly says, that the church of the deciding age we have now, has to be filled with the Holy Spirit and has to fight the devil and his demons in his own strongholds in the heavenly realms and that only in this way, becoming spiritual in the good sense, victory is ours ....that discovery he made first and we are making it only now renewed. is also a fruit of his being active in the heavenly realms
And this Paul with this wide field of observation, was placed IN these heavenly realms. And from there all fuss and all rejection here on earth are no more than mole-heaps.
And every Christian, striving for the baptizm in the Holy Spirit is on his way, to become unassailable for rejection.
This of course is not valid for people, who think that they are reborn and filled with the Holy Spirit, but who are in fact not like that or only just for a short time en route. But when you go further and further , just like Paul, you will grow and grow in your being rejection-proof.
