Reading Room 1: Life Columns: January 2025

The whole impetus of our maturing faith is for the believer to personally grow into a beautifully intimate, truth-based friendship with God. And, indeed, this desperate hunger for heart-oneness with Him is actually the birthmark of the redeemed. And, the redemptive work of both the Dying and the Living Christ are ultimately all about this simple purpose of bringing believers to this mutually fulfilling level of the God/man friendship.

And, the divinely designed process which brings the believer to this end through Christ is breathtaking in both its effectiveness and its scope. So, the simple purpose of The Re-Awakening Series, a very unique, fiction/ nonfiction, two book set, is to keenly refresh the big picture of this authentic redemptive journey.

Why? And, why now? Because by this time in history, the redemptive road has proven to be, not only long, but also, very treacherous for mankind - entirely due to the work of the Darkness. As a result, the present Church is now increasingly living well beneath the privilege afforded to believers by the Living Christ. And, this growing shallowness is quickly becoming the accepted norm all across the American Evangelical Church.

Thus, it is my profound honor, through the books of this succinct series to freshly and compellingly expose the true, God-designed redemptive path. This is that authentic path which absolutely liberates humanity – not only from the clutches of the Darkness, but also from our own disabling brokenness.

The driving motive behind these books is a simple one. It is just the desire to see present generations more widely experience a personal redemption which brings an unbounded, Living Christ-empowered newness to both their character essence and their lifestyle realities. And, all of this is so they might experience the unfettered companionship of God – and all of the blessings which flow out of that.

But the "elephant" in the room, which we simply cannot afford to ignore any longer, is this widespread neglect, across the Church, of the believer's truly transformative completion in the Living Christ. At this closing hour in redemptive history, it is imperative that we correctly address a dark truth. This truth, that the non-pursuit of one's Christ empowered completion through a Spiritual merger with Him is not only unsatisfying for both God and man - it is also a deadly mistake for one's soul.

A joyous, intimate, and heart-matched friendship with God, consistently sustained through the believer's symbiotic enablement by the Living Christ. This has ever been the divine redemptive end game.

And, the simple, emergent truth is this. A careless approach to this ultimate divine purpose is, indeed, deadly. It just simply won't do - well, except to deceptively fluff our numbers and legitimize the widespread pretense going on across this present Church.

Devil Whispers: (Fiction 167 pgs.) The First Book

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. ~ The Apostle, Peter

The simple reality is this. Satan is as real as God. And, he is very intelligent in a thoroughly darkened way. And, he has now had eons of time to use that tortured intellect to develop many consummate tactics of deception. And, indeed, he has done so. Furthermore, he has also taught these treacherous tactics of spiritual warfare to that hideous legion of demons which follow him – also very real.

As a result, humanity has now long suffered under constant psychological assault from this “Legion of the Darkness.” For example, we have been slaughtered by the millions in the wars which Satan’s heartless demons slyly cultivate through their human dupes. And similarly, we are also regularly convinced to see evil as good and good as evil – thus wrecking our spiritual lives, our bodies, our relationships with both God and man, our life quality, and the good order of our world.

So, we ever bleed and find ourselves trapped in a mire of endless social confusion. We struggle, both within and without, with chronic chaos of every sort. And, the Darkness continues to convince many of us to push away our benevolent Creator and our Savior. And, as a result, our souls perish en masse. And, on and on it goes.

And yet, as a species, we remain far too unaware that these chronic, inter-generational devastations are happening by demonic design and through their very deliberate efforts. We just don’t seem to widely make the serious connection that they are being psychologically cultivated by the satanic economy.

And doubtless, this is largely due to this simple everyday reality. Satan's devilish ranks are able to shield their own culpability from view by hiding behind the foreground visibility of the dupish human instruments who serve them.

Nevertheless, the satanic economy is a very real part of the redemptive big picture. Thus, these enemies of our soul and their treacherous tactics should also be carefully scrutinized and exposed as the apostle indicated above. But, indeed, they are illusive.

So, it is because of this hard-to-see / hard-to-grasp nature of the demonic underworld that I chose a fiction format over a non-fiction format for Devil Whispers. Some things (and certainly this demonic thing) are just better dramatized than merely factually described.

Every evil work of the Darkness confirms its slippery, slithery nature. So, the light is just much more easily shined on these invisible demonic pot-stirrers and their treacherous work through the greater liberties afforded by a fictional approach.

But, in fact, I wish there were a book classification called “non-fiction, fiction.” If there had been, I would certainly have chosen it to classify this book. DW is essentially (and even in much of its detail) an accurate expose´ of the satanic economy. So, when finished with Devil Whispers, it is all but guaranteed that Satan’s normally very ethereal “Economy of Darkness” will have a much more concrete feel in the reader’s mind than was previously so.

Spiritual Dynamics: (Non-fiction 161 pgs.) The Second Book

The two books in this series (or set, if you prefer) can be read individually and/ or in reverse order and they will still render good benefit. But they are much more beneficial when read together in the intended order: Devil Whispers first, and then Spiritual Dynamics.

It works like this. Devil Whispers, is essentially a wide-framed, fast-moving historical documentary portraying high-points in the human experience in an all-encompassing way. Which is to say, those key events are shown in both the physical and the metaphysical dimensions as they actually do occur - i.e. simultaneously sharing a cause-and-effect inter-connection.

Spiritual Dynamics then follows as a clear and accurate commentary to factually interpret, in plain language, this bi-dimensional reality in which we all exist. But given the import of the subject matter addressed by Spiritual Dynamics, you will probably be surprised by the tone of its approach.

It is not written in a heavy theological brogue. Nor does it read like a doctoral thesis. And, it does not employ an oppressive, “thou shalt” overtone.

Rather, this book is very purposely written in a more everyday language and a fairly light inflection to facilitate a more relaxed flow of its vital and valuable explanations. And, regarding those insights, Spiritual Dynamics is truly a fresh step forward as an explanation of God’s thoroughly life-renewing redemptive process. Indeed, this book has a tremendous capacity to broaden the reader’s practical understanding of the full scope of what God is really up to in Christ.

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” It is a simple and biblical concept. And, Spiritual Dynamics shows the reader precisely how, through both the Dying and the Living Christ, to correctly and fully engage this idea. And, in so doing, it enables the reader to experience the sheer joy of an intimate, empowering, and completely fulfilling divine friendship every single day.

Obviously, wrong roads lead to wrong places. Spiritual Dynamics is like a literary GPS serving but one simple command input - this command, “Take Me Safely Home.”

The Re-Awakening Series by Larry Burnett

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