Entering Northfield

By: David Bergsland

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Lord develops a work in Northfield

The growth into Northfield, Minnesota comes with major surprises

This new series is a sharp departure from the earlier works in this epic tale. This time the Lord is planning to change things religiously, educationally, and even politically. He’s making waves on behalf of the descendants of some of his children who were treated badly a century ago or more.

It starts with a new gallery. But this gallery is much smaller because Northfield was built around two world-class colleges, not business. It is very prosperous, but controlled by academic needs. Downtown Northfield is a small worldly delight of beautiful old buildings in a nicely developed area next to the Cannon River. But it’s missing something essential at its core.

St. Olaf College was where Red Wing Seminary was finally put to rest by the larger world of Norwegian American Lutherans. This happened after Luther Seminary digested it theologically up in St. Paul. But that was all done by the religious systems of the world.

The Lord plans to do something about what He sees as a serious problem. But no one knows that. There’s just a general recognition by the new gallery that their walk in the Lord is an outgrowth of what Hans Nielsen Hauge began within the Norwegian State Lutheran Church in 1796. The way it comes about is yet another revelation of the creativity and love of our Lord and King. The way, the truth, and the life cannot be contained. It’s a delight.

The Lord assembles a new family to develop a new work in Northfield

The growth into Northfield, Minnesota comes with major surprises

After all, that’s become the norm. As usual, these books are about family. Especially the family whose blood relations are only tied with the blood of Jesus. That’s where it’s been in my life for nearly fifty years. The family members are almost entirely married couples—for marriage is indeed the core of the way Yeshua designed society in the Kingdom.

The Church mostly has no idea how powerful marriages are. In this time of the Laodicean church, worldly ideas now rule most of the visible church. They teach that the church has the same divorce problem as the world. We’re just like them. But that’s not even close to reality, except among the nominal, maybe believers. Divorces among spirit-filled, reborn believers are rare.

But the key to that is the decision to not get married until the Lord shows you whom He has chosen for you. If the Lord truly picked out the man and woman He wants to see married, your marriage will last. Unless, you have such a shallow faith that unrepentant sin is constantly dragging you down.

For the true believer, the expectation is that the Lord will show you all your sin—so you can rid of it. As John told us in chapter three, verse nine, of First John, “No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.”

Under these conditions, it is expected to get amazing in Northfield, Minnesota pretty quick. That’s the way it works.