Bible Truths for KingdomScribes

Paul warns Believers to never give up the Freedom that Jesus secured for us by dying on the Cross. But most of Christendom is built on making people feel obligated to support religious institutions, organizations and traditions. But we must remain faithful to living as the Spirit of Christ leads us. But fostering even a tiny amount of legalism in our lives will eventually strip from us all Freedom in Christ and leave us hopelessly struggling in our own flesh, even as we did before hearing the Good News of the Kingdom of God. Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries.

Jesus warns that the level of expectation with which you hear His Living Word, determines the benefit which you will derive from it. "With the measure you measure, it will be measured to you again". Deliberately increasing your sense of expectation when reading the Word or hearing it preached or taught will set that Word inside your spirit like a seed planted into the ground -- and in its due season, it will bring rich, spiritual harvests.

In the Bible, Jesus said to a prostitute by the well of Jacob that Father God no longer wanted "worshippers" in any traditional sense -- He wants worshippers who will worship Him "in Spirit and in Truth". This union of the Word and the Spirit is ESSENTIAL in the new Church Jesus is raising up in our world today! Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries.

The Bible speaks of both Moses and us bearing the reproach of Christ. In this KingdomScribes' teaching, we see that the "reproach" we are to bear today in fact is the rejection and even persecution that comes from people defending old religious systems from God's New Move. Like old wineskins and New Wine, old and new spiritual moves of God cannot mix -- you either love the old and reject the new, or turn from the old and embrace the new. Emil Swift teaches.

Blessed are we when Jesus does what Jesus wants to do, and still we're not offended! People often tell God what they want Him to do, but the followers of Christ trust Him to lead in unexpected or even unwelcome places. Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. [30 min]

Two stories from Elisha's day powerfully illustrate how we can lose God's intended blessings through an irrational fear that God is willing to "tease" us -- to make promises that He will never fulfill. Through this teaching, you can step into a place of greater confidence and faith to receive more from God than ever before! Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. (KingdomScribes.net)

It's crucial for KingdomScribes to understand Jesus' Parable of the Wineskins. When God sets out to do a new thing ("New Wine"), He does NOT want to try and incorporate it into existing religious traditions. Doing so not only will break apart the traditional religious forms of men, but will "spill the New Wine" as well. What a terrible waste! Emil Swift teaches.

The enemy can steal away the blessings of God from us if we don't learn to recognize & grasp the Favor that God pours daily into our lives...the Favor of God is the F.O.G. in which we live!

Human culture has terribly distorted the divinely ordained role of fathers. With typically bad "earthly father" models, many people have misconceptions about their Heavenly Father which interfere with Knowing Him. In this teaching, Emil Swift shows us from the Bible how to know the Father's Heart. By this, we will come into a deeper revelation of the Father's Love in our own lives. The Prodigal Son (and not the Older Brother!) found his own deliverance in knowing his father's heart -- and so may we today, as well.

There are transitions taking place in the Church today. The Kingdom of God is for today, not after Jesus comes again. But if the Kingdom is NOW, it challenges and changes the lifestyle of the follower of Christ, because it is a Kingdom that comes in power. Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. [40 min]

God's main purpose in salvation is not to deliver you (eventually) from Hell. That's an important part, but Jesus came so that you could live TODAY a better life than what you in the past under the tyranny of Satan! And this great, new Life is one led by the King and not led by ourselves. Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. [36 min]

The Church doesn't NEED a "revolution" -- it's in the middle of a Revolution right now! We don't need to "promote" it but "adapt" to it. Part of leaving behind traditional religious forms involves a revolution from "old wineskins" to the New Wine of Jesus! Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries.

When you receive a personal Word from the Lord, there will be three attempts to steal it away from you: once by Satan, once by a "brother" and once by God Himself! Here are three, Biblical stories that show each of these Tests and how to successfully get past them in order to press into the fulfillment of your Word! Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries.

People foolishly depend on regular "spiritual" disciplines (such as fasting, Scripture reading schedule, memorizing the Mystics, times of prayer, etc.) to automatically strengthen their spirits. But many are deceived. There is a true Spiritual Discipline, and this teaching makes the difference clear between what is True and what is false "spiritual discipline". Know the difference... or else! Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries.

God intends for His people to spiritually move into new places -- and He'll expect this until we've become the perfect and mature "stature of Christ" in this earth. But when people have had a wonderful experience with God at some point, the inclination is to "camp" there until they die! God's people tend to "freeze in place"! But He will pass us by if we don't continue on into the Journey down which He leads us. Occasionally, in order to help us, God will "rock" our lives to their very foundations -- but only because of His profound Love for us and the seriousness of His plan to bring us into our destiny. Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. (KingdomScribes.net) [50 min]

Jesus taught that His people were going to be a "city set on a hill". God did not design us so that He could do some nice adjustments inside of us and then let us hide from the world at large. It could seem egotistical, but when YOU grasp God's purposes in your life, you'll accept that He has put us on very public display! We're not going to do His work while we're hidden inside four church walls! We are awakened to spiritual things in order to display them to the world around us. Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. (KingdomScribes.net) [40 min]

Are you alive simply so you can continue to survive? Do you live just so you can have fun? Rev 4.11 will tell you explicitly the reason God created you and keeps giving you breath. What's more, His reason for you to live is the most satisfying reason there ever could be. So just why is it that you're alive? Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. (KingdomScribes.net) [30 min]

Referring to when He returns again, Jesus asked His disciples if (when He comes back) He will "find faith in the earth". The question is really intended for His followers today. And unfortunately, most believers today do NOT have the "faith" to which Jesus referred. If He returned today, He would return to a largely "faith-less" Church. How is this possible? What is the "faith" Jesus is looking for? And what kind of change in your life is needed to remedy this spiritual glitch? Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. (KingdomScribes.net) [40 min]

Adam's Choice affects us all -- but only because we all continue to make the same Choice. The Choice is between "self-directed independence" or a "love relationship" -- living according to the dictates of our carnal nature or the leading of God's Spirit. It's important to recognize that when Adam made his Choice in the Garden, there wasn't only a Tree there, but a Wind as well -- the Wind of God's sweet Presence. And so it is today as well for each one of us! Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries.

Many people wrongly assume God wants them to "assemble together" every Sunday -- but the "assembly" of Believers commanded in Heb. 10 is NOT for ritual or rational purposes, but for Relationship with God and one another. And in that regular assembly we are NOT to "hold back" from our Spirit-empowered service to one another but serve each other in Love.

Celebrating the birth of Christ is more politically incorrect than ever before! Christmas has been banned in the past (mostly by "christians") but despite its detractors, is still going strong. Recognizing the drawbacks of shameless materialism, "Santa" worship, theology re-written by Hollywood and many other difficulties, still God's people should be able to use this season to great advantage. How exactly should His saints handle, "Christmas in the Kingdom"? Teaching by Emil Swift of Em&M Ministries. (KingdomScribes.net) [52 min]

Kingdom ministry today can only be accomplished when a person and Jesus do it together. Though many church-goers give lip service to their "partnership" with the Lord, the truth is that much of the activity "in Jesus Name" does not spring forth from Him but is built instead on "church" traditions and programs. This teaching re-examines the nature of true, spiritual ministry as in fact coming OUT of the Person of Jesus Christ which requires continuing, personal intimacy of Relationship with Him.