| The Two Mountains
He first dealt with us through His Appointed Son in a mountain in Kitbog, Malalag, Cogon, South Cotabato . He erased all my doubts, and gave me so many revelations there. After I descended from that mountain, I made a total surrender to the Father by accepting His calling and saying, "Father, I will follow You. I will not follow my will from now on, but Your will be done in my life. I will follow whatever it is that You wish for me to do."
Then He put me into another mountain, in Tamayong at the foothills of Mt. Apo . This was my mountain of afflictions, temptations and trials. What were tried in my Tamayong? My commitment, dedication, allegiance and obedience. In the spirit, I surrendered the serpent seed, which was the cause of the sin, which was my will.
Our human will is the serpent seed implanted within us. Without the power of God, we cannot resolve the problem of sin. Many, many people have tried but they got frustrated. They went back to their old life and sinned some more, though they promised to resolve and not to do it again.
Why? Because no one can solve that problem. It's a spiritual problem; it is to be solved spiritually. And no one can do that except He who made us.
I stayed on that mountain for five years. So if you are complaining about the hardships, persecutions, trials and temptations you are undergoing, please do not complain, because I was there before. You are not better than me.
I was isolated in a one-hectare lot. The Tamayong that you see now was not the Tamayong when I was there. It was nothing. I saw nothing. I only heard Him and nobody believed me.
I was persecuted there for five years. When you travel from Davao City to Tamayong today, the roads are nice. Just a few kilometers remain unpaved; most of the roads have already been concreted.
But when I was there, the road from Davao City to Tamayong was all bumpy. There was no highway to talk about. Just imagine how industrious the agent of the serpent seed was, because He came to visit me everyday, despite the distance.
Looking at these nice roads today, you may say that it must have been more difficult when the roads were unpaved, bumpy, and torturous. Yet the agent of the serpent seed was so industrious, going there everyday, to try me without let up for five years.
That was how the serpent seed wanted to take me back again. He tried to bargain with me and weaken my resolve. I was tried through every means-through hardships, persecutions, tribulations, danger, peril and famine.
If you are not spiritual and you are carnal, and you would only use your natural mind, you would pity yourself and you would say, "Is this what I get after serving You? After saying, Father not my will but Your will be done. I left everything yet this is what is going to happen to me?" Many times you will be tempted to think like that.
The opportunities were all there. The circumstances in the Mt. of temptation in Tamayong, were so ripe that I had all the reason to backslide. I had all the reason to quit. I had all the reason and the Father probably would not even blame me if I said, "Hands up, I quit." But I did not say that.
Spiritual Growth and Maturity
I was experiencing growing pains at the same time, because I had to grow and work for that knowledge. When I say work, I don't mean that I had to study; I had to be diligent in doing the Father's will, and could not be late in one simple instruction.
I had to be that diligent, so the Father would be pleased in my life. At the same time, I was being persecuted, left and right.
Even just a year of those five years I stayed under the furnace of affliction will take a long time to talk about.
I said to Lucifer, "My heart is fixed, my mind is made up." My resolve, my decision, and my commitment to obey the Father's will is final. There's no bargaining. "My heart is fixed, and my mind is made up".
I can eat grass as long as I know it is the will of God. So, even after the devil surrendered, I did not surrender. He was the one who surrendered, like in Job's case. He went back to God, held up his hands and said, "I have nothing more." Did Job pass the test? Yes he did. And I did too. That is when I was called His Son.
"You are My Son!"
He told me, "You are my Son." Then He sent me as His Son and I worked as a servant. And after 20 years, I came back and He said, on April 13, 2003 , "My Son, your work is done." I thought I was already going to heaven in a glorified body.
I thought I was going to be glorified so I went back hastily to the US without asking for the Father's permission. I thought I was already free, so I felt I had to have a vacation before I would be glorified.
But obviously, the Father had another plan. It was not as I thought. He led me back from that unplanned vacation. The Father talked to me in a very serious voice, "You have to go back. It's very dangerous for you to stay here for even in one day."
Following the Father's Will
That's why when you are in the Father's will do not do anything, unless it is His will. See, even though I am the Son, I am a human being like you. I can go ahead of the Father, but because He is a loving Father with His staff and with His loving pat on your head, He puts you in line again. So when I came back, I thought that was the end of it.
I did not know that the Father had more plans. On April 13, 2005 the Father said, "Now everything-the Sonship and the Kingship was entrusted to you Son, I let you understand that Lucifer took all of these from Adam and Eve. Jesus Christ waited for His Son to be appointed to pass the test, and then, be divinely transferred to His Son."
That will be the completion of the Father's works of salvation. Then man, now free from the serpent seed, can be trusted with the Sonship and the Kingship that was taken away from Adam and Eve.
Now man can become the King of the Father's creation once again. That was the Father's plan. Now what is the Kingship of the Son?
The Sonship
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