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Send us a textI know many today wonder whether God is truly with them and try all kinds of means and methods to get what they want or get out of problems.  It seems like people want don't want to trust God for anything but as a last resort.  God did everything necessary to save you and will be with you.  It is also a great reminder to those of us who are or have been in the path of the storm that all of these things are just things and what is important is knowing the Lord and putting our trust in Him. David was so sure of God that he spoke in Psalm 20:8 as if it had already happened.  The name of the Lord refers to God's character, reputation, and nature.David gained confidence as he reflected on his God. Who do you trust?  God can be trusted.1Jo 2:17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. (NKJV)2Sa 22:47 "The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock of my salvation!Ps 18:2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.                 Psalm 20:7-8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright.Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?             John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.               “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32           Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.              hisloveministries.podbean.com #HLMSocial hisloveministries.nethttps://www.instagram.com/hisloveministries1/?hl=en His Love Ministries on Itunes Don't go for all the gusto you can get, go for all the God (Jesus Christ) you can get. The gusto will get you, Jesus can save you. https://www.facebook.com/His-Love-Ministries-246606668725869/?tn-str=k*F            The world is trying to solve earthly problems that can only be solved with heavenly solutions

“O ladrão só vem para roubar, matar e destruir; mas eu vim para que as ovelhas tenham vida, a vida completa.”João 10:10 NTLH O que tem faltado em sua vida?O propósito de Jesus neste mundo foi um só, nos dar vida e uma vida completa e abundante . Vida está, que muitas vezes tem sido roubada por forças malignas, cujo o único objetivo é nos causar destruição.Uma casa bem protegida, ainda que o ladrão tente, não consegue roubar os bens que possuem dentro dela, a menos que o proprietário desta casa abra brechas que permitirá que este inimigo entre sem pedir licença e leve embora tudo aquilo que é precioso.Uma vida sem Cristo é uma alma sem proteção, podendo o inimigo acessar todo seu interior, uma vida com Cristo é uma casa segura e não podemos negligência-lá abrindo portas para o inimigo.“Filhinhos, sois de Deus e já os tendes vencido, porque maior é o que está em vós do que o que está no mundo.”1João 4:4 ARC Que tenhamos uma vida em Cristo com a convicção de que Ele é nosso protetor e faz morada em nós sendo a nossa voz dentro de casa nos trazendo uma vida completa e abundante.Pensamento do dia:Quem tem morado em sua casa ?Oração: Senhor tu és meu protetor, meu provedor e meu Senhor, faça morada em mim pois contigo não há nada e nem ninguém capaz de me derrotar.Em nome de Jesus, Amém!Que você tenha um dia abençoado!Por Ubiratan Paggio#devocionaisdiarios#deusfalacomigo#MaiorEOQueEstaEmNos#vidaabundante#ubiratanpaggio@ubiratan.paggio@ubiratanpaggio

New Age Alien Deceptions (audio) David Eells - 4/20/25   The camel's nose is in the tent. We are headed towards a New World Order in the midst of a Galactic Federation of “aliens” aka, demons by those of discernment. (Who of us voted for this? The Alliance leaders did. Is this Communism?) I want to share with you some updates regarding the AI, New Age and Alien Deceptions we are witnessing among the Alliance and others. I'm going to begin with some recent headlines from Operation Disclosure (4/17/25) that point to this federation: ·         Thurs. 24 April 2025: Planetary Council announced. New Global Alliance leaders step forward. Non-territorial cooperation treaty signed by 177 nations. (We are to be realigned as a one world order) ·         Sun. 27 April 2025: Interplanetary programs declassified. First public mention of secret space operations. Unity Accord with Off World Representatives acknowledged. (When did we have a say?) ·         Tues. 29 April 2025: New Earth Constitutions signed locally. Communities select Peace Councils to represent them in the Planetary Council. “Governments” replaced with Service Cells. (We are being absorbed into their Galactic terminology) ·         Wed. 30 April 2025: Final transfer to Quantum Internet complete. All devices migrate to Q-Net. Artificial Intelligence fully transparent, accountable and people-aligned. (We cannot be aligned with antichrist) ·         Fri. 2 May 2025: Healing centers begin opening across continents. Med Beds, DNA repair chambers, and neuro-harmonization technologies become publicly available. The Age of Restoration officially begins. (We must now harmonize with the rest of the pagan planet and Galaxy.) ·         Sat. 3 May 2025: The first interspecies council meeting is broadcast worldwide. Humanity is formally acknowledged as a sovereign civilization by the Galactic Alliance. Contact protocols enter public discourse. (A federation does not permit a sovereign planet.) ·         Sun. 4 May 2025: “Earth Year Zero” is initiated. (Is our history now abolished?) A new planetary calendar replaces systems rooted in empire and conflict. Time now begins from the moment of planetary liberation. (Resistance is Futile says the Borg.) ·         Mon. 5 May 2025: Starport construction begins in seven geostrategic locations. Civilian transport to orbital gateways is confirmed. Terra-farming partnerships announced for Mars and Luna sectors. ·         Wed. 7 May 2025: The Department of Human Advancement launches. Global curricula shifts toward consciousness training, ethics, quantum sciences, and planetary stewardship. ·         Thurs. 8 May 2025: Agricultural reset begins. Geo-engineered soil is restored. Food independence programs roll out. Seed vaults opened under open-source planetary stewardship mandates. ·         Fri. 9 May 2025: Language harmonization initiatives commence. (Back to Babel?) Ancient root languages are integrated into education. Telepathic development modules introduced for children under 9. (Will we know who is training our children?) ·         Sat. 10 May 2025: Planetary Defense Grid declared active. Not military—protective. Q-NET AI monitors for existential threats in space and time. Transparency dashboards are made public. ·         Sun. 11 May 2025: Official end of the Transition Phase. Humanity enters full-spectral sovereignty. No more passports. No more taxes. No more surveillance. Only stewardship, transparency, and service. A one world order.     How To Connect With The Galactic Federation https://thegalacticfederation.com/016-24 Many people believe that the Galactic Federation is a made up thing, some are so confused to even claim it's negative, but it is not. (If the people did not get to vote on this and the aliens are actually demons, this is traitorous.) The Galactic Federation is a group of highly evolved souls who have been around since the beginning of time. They are here to help you fulfill your purpose on earth. (Let the Bible be the judge.) The Galactic Federation is made of love, light, and peace. It is a collective of beings who have reached the highest level of consciousness possible. (Everybody believes that about their religion.) The Galactic Federation was created as an extension of each individual's soul to help them on their journey towards self-realization. They exist to help us live in harmony with one another, as well as with our environment and the rest of creation. Next, let me share a few revelations from brethren on our site that relate to these alien, aka demon deceptions.     Aliens Are Demons Manifested in Flesh There are many people convinced of “aliens” or “guides” that they feel are friendly to humanity, which is a strong delusion because all of the aliens are demons, as the Scripture says. Have you noticed that many of the Planet X / Nibiru researchers have fallen for what they read the ancients said of aliens showing up when Planet X did? They were deceived by demons as a type for our day. We should not be deceived; they are being released by God to deceive. Jud.5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. It is possible they will play the good alien / bad alien game to drive the multitudes into the camp of the so-called “good aliens,” but they are all demons.   G.C. - 06/15/10  (David's notes in red) In my dream, I was outside in a populated area, maybe in a park or something. It was nighttime and it seemed like any other summer night. All of a sudden, a lot of strange lights started appearing in the sky. First, it seemed like hundreds of shooting stars falling to Earth; then, as the light became more illuminated, the objects took the shape of spacecraft. The night sky was lit up like the Fourth of July! Everyone was shocked and amazed; from east to west, the sky filled with this armada of craft entering Earth's atmosphere. (What the ancients believed were aliens, who showed up during the time of Planet X, according to their writings, were in fact demons who are fallen angels and can take on the appearance of physical bodies, just like God's angels can, but for the purpose of deception. The Tribulation covenant could be made under the cover of catastrophes. Just as the Woman is going into the wilderness, there is a war in heaven and Satan and his fallen angels are cast to earth to deceive the whole world. Rev.12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. We also received a dream of a bright star falling from heaven and the confirming scripture Isaiah 14, where Satan is falling from heaven. Isa 14:12-13 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! 13 And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.) Satan deceives men into thinking he is God, and he is pleased with unregenerate, falsely called “good men,” which is the doctrine of the New Agers. 2Co.11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. The Alliance is bringing about many good moral changes but it appears they are complicit in this deception of the nations. Rev.18:23 and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived. Back to the dream, I was very skeptical, even while seeing this with my own two eyes. I confidently told everyone, “Don't be fooled; it's a hologram!” (Which is one of the theories.) I thought these sights were just a crafty trick (which is true but not as a false vision) but then the ships started to get closer to the ground and they ultimately landed. By this time, I was starting to get bewildered; I didn't know what to think. I was really caught off guard. I thought for sure it was all some sort of illusion by the evil rulers of the world. (Is the Alliance in on the plan of “strong delusion”, which is according to God's will to separate the wheat from the tares? 2Th.2:8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; 9 even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (Can fallen angels perform lying wonders? Did we get to vote on joining the Galactic Federation?) 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. It appears in this dream the fallen angels' deception is so strong that God's people will be tested to see who really believes. Mar.13:22 for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, the elect.) Once the craft landed, the door opened and some humanoid beings walked out. Everyone was amazed and startled at the same time. I couldn't believe my eyes. Still believing this was a hologram, I ran over to the ship to touch it and realized it was real. (Satan and his angels are very technological, if they have to be, and have the ability to manifest and interact with the physical realm. They gave men atomic bombs and anti-gravity flying saucers.) I swallowed hard, realizing I was wrong, and I ran back to the crowd. The humanoid beings dressed in Star Trek-type apparel were being led out by a blond-haired woman. (There is a woman who has introduced many to speaking and hearing from aliens. This is no different than a seance, which is speaking to aliens called familiar spirits.) I, being overwhelmed and slightly intimidated, ran up to her and began to rebuke her in my tongue language. (I often do this in dreams when I feel physically or mentally helpless against an enemy; it often gets me results.) I thought for sure she would shrivel up in a puddle of goop, like something out of The Wizard of Oz. But, to my astonishment, she just kind of pushed me out of the way, without even acknowledging me. I was perplexed. (The answer to this is, when God sends a delusion to deceive the evil world, we cannot cast it down, nor should we try to. 2Th.2:11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. As you can see, we only have authority to help the believers.) I watched the group of beings disperse into the crowd. It seemed like they had specific orders and didn't even stop to talk to anyone; they just went about whatever it is they were sent here for. I remember being surrounded by hundreds of people like me -- everyone just totally in awe of what they saw. After some time, I started to see the beings again, but now they did not look like humans. They had glass faces, like ice. It was like they were wearing a mask, but they weren't -- I could see through their heads and nothing was inside. (fallen spirits) They had hideous, clown-like faces with big smiles, like jack-o-lanterns. (Thinking these beings to be mere humanoids while in fact they are demon-possessed is more common than we think. But the whole world outside of Christ will be deceived and possessed.) They were now corralling people like cattle in different areas (FEMA camps). The adults were forced to separate from the children and were taken to a designated area. The children were all taken to another area and placed in long lines, all of which led into a large circus-like tent. (This alien disclosure will bring much confusion and distraction as well as cause some people to give up their faith in the One True God.) None of the children quite knew what was happening; they were all a little less concerned than the adults. I remember leaving the adult group and running over to see what was happening to the children. After seeing what was taking place, I immediately woke up.   I Met Satan :o) G.C. - 4/19/11 (David's notes in red) I would like to share a dream I had that confirms we should not fear Satan or evil. Evil is not as powerful as our minds sometimes imagine, and Satan is no different. I dreamed that I was with an unknown person in this dream who I believe was an angel. I could tell he knew a lot more of what was going on than I did. I accompanied him everywhere he went. I was like an observer. Toward the end of the dream, we entered an elevator. This elevator took us deep inside the Earth. I was told we were going to Hell to see Satan. The ride took a long time and my mind was wondering about how Satan would really appear. I was thinking, “Would he be intimidating? Would he be scary? How would I react to seeing him?” Once we arrived at the very bottom, the door opened. I looked around and we were inside a very large, dark cave. Hell was just like I'd imagined it: Big, dark and cavernous. I looked out of the area we were in and looked out into the larger opening. I saw armies and very sophisticated weapons. There was violence taking place and fire was everywhere; it was almost like a war itself. One of the weapons spotted us as we came out of the elevator and fired a missile at us, but it missed and exploded against the wall. My companion, the angel, was never frightened; it was like he knew nothing could hurt him. As he walked, I followed; he knew right where he was walking. He came to a door off in a dark corner in the cave. I realized this was Satan's office. Behind the door was the evil one himself. My heart was racing, not from fear but from the suspense. The angel I was with opened the door and there sat Satan in a chair behind a desk. But to my amazement, Satan was not a seven-foot giant with goat horns. He was a clown. Yes, a clown. And a cartoon clown at that. I was shocked and a little disappointed. I was expecting something more terrifying. Clearly the Lord is saying that Satan and his demons are putting on a false face but are not to be feared. Luk.10:17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you. The angel then revealed to me that Satan is planning something big for Earth. During our trip back up in the elevator, I saw all these green vines shooting up through the elevator shaft from Hell and they were headed straight to Earth. There were a lot of them, like something from Jack and the Beanstalk. But instead of reaching from Earth to the heavens, they were going from Hell to the earth above. Then I woke up. (According to the follow up dream that Father gave him recently, the vines represent the alien deception that satan is sending to earth from the pit of hell.) G.C. said, “Below is a continuation from the dream above from 2011 called. “I Met Satan”. It has the “green vines connection” where green vines were growing up from hell, and the angel told me, “Satan is planning something big for Earth.” Well, it seems the green vines finally made it to Earth and the plan is revealed....     Satan is Planning Something Big for Earth G.C. - 5/13/22 (David's notes in red) G.C. said, “For a little context, many years ago I worked for mortgage companies securing and repairing vacant foreclosures.” I dreamed that my dad and I had been given a work order to secure and inspect a foreclosed home in Los Angeles, California. (Los Angeles means, “The angels.”) It was a big house in a nice neighborhood. It was owned by a black husband and wife in their 50's or 60's. (UFOs and aliens were big in the 50's and 60's. The black couple owning the house could represent that this is a house of sinners submitted to darkness.) (I gathered this information by looking at their family photos still left at the property.) I thought these folks looked very successful from the photos. It didn't make sense to me how they could lose their house to foreclosure. (Foreclosure means that they can't pay their debt so the house is taken back. The debt for our house has been paid by faith in Jesus. If it's not paid because there is no faith, then it belongs to the devil.) I thought maybe one or both of them died. But I wasn't sure. I just knew something was amiss. (When one loses one's house to the devil, their soul is his too.) We proceeded through the large house, taking photos with a camera I had rented at a local camera shop. These photos were to be provided to the bank. Then we walked into the basement and to our utter amazement, we saw a small alien infant tangled up in green vines that appeared to be growing from the floor of the basement. (And according to the previous dream, they came straight out of hell. This represents the alien deception.) The vines were attached to the wall and the infant was wrapped up in them. He had a large brown head with 2 large eyes. When we saw him and approached him he became aggressive and hissed at us. (The aliens/demons hate Christians.) I remember taking the rented camera and snapping pictures of him. Even though I was astonished at this, I was not overly distracted by it. I proceeded with my work at the property. My dad and I decided not to show the photos to anyone as it would become a distraction to the public. (Could this represent the Father hiding things from the wise and prudent and revealing them unto babes?) I knew people would not be ready to see this. I downloaded the photos, removed them from the camera and told my dad to return the camera to the shop. Later, I sent my report and inspection photos to the bank. The next day, I was out and about and realized the whole world was aware of the alien we had found! They had our photos! They were in every publication and on every news station. I had no idea how this had leaked. (True Christians will recognize this as a deception while the rest of the world will swallow the lie, like the waters out of the mouth of the Dragon.) I assumed it was because we returned the camera and the camera shop found the photos on the device and released them. I knew we had discovered it, but no one would ever know our identity. I was ok with that, but I was a little disturbed by how and why they were released. The world was in a frenzy, to say the least. A few days had passed and I was sent back to the same home by the bank to remove the small area of vines growing in the basement. When I got back to the house, the alien child was gone, but the basement dining room was now absolutely full of green vines. (This will be a worldwide deception that will be ‘fed' to all the people.) The walls and ceiling were now covered. I was supposed to remove them, and it was a daunting task. Then, my dad showed up, and we were talking about the alien. The next thing I knew, I stumbled across the rented camera in the basement. I got so upset at my dad because he returned the case but not the camera. (Honestly, I was worried about the late fees. Lol) He said he forgot to look inside the case when he returned it. I realized something strange had happened. How did the world know of the alien if we never took the camera back? Who released the photos? Then I woke up. (2Th 2:8-12 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; 9 even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.)     Flesh is Born of Flesh and Not Demons Excerpt from: Sons of God, Aliens and Giants   David Eells God said in John 3:6, That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. So Demons cannot birth Children through humans. Demons can infest humans with lying spirits. (Gen.6:1) And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, (2) that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. Believers are the sons of God mentioned here and in the rest of the Scriptures (Psa.82:6; Dt.14:1,2; Hos.1:10; Isa.43:6; etc.). Notice this was “when men began to multiply” not angels. Jesus quoted Psa.82:6 to His people: (82:6) I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High. To be a son you must be born of God, not created, as the angels. Adam was called a son of God and he was born of God when He breathed into him the breath or Spirit (same Hebrew word) of life. Only his flesh was created from the earth and so was ours, which came from his. God specifically says that He never called an angel His son nor are they born of Him. (Heb.1:5) For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten (Greek: “born”) thee?.... God specifically says their spirits were created. (7) And of the angels he saith, Who maketh (created) his angels winds (Greek: “spirits”). The proponents of this false doctrine say that Satan came among the angels in Job who were said to be sons of God. It does not say that. Satan, the highest fallen angel, was not a son of God but only came among them to be their accuser as he did with Job. (Job 1:6) Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them. He immediately begins to accuse them to God. (11) But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face. Here is the same case. (Zec.3:1) And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. (2) And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. (3) Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. 4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from off him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with rich apparel. Joshua, the Hebrew word for Jesus, and Jerusalem represent the same thing here, the body of Christ, who are being accused by Satan. Paul said the heavenly Jerusalem was “the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven” (Heb.12:23). We are seated with Christ in heavenly places. We, as the sons of God present ourselves before him constantly and Satan comes among us to accuse us. We are never out of God's presence. You will notice that God separated the line of Seth and the line of Cain in Gen.4 and 5, just as he separated Israel from the Gentiles and commanded them to not cross. In the New Testament Christians are forbidden to marry unbelievers (1 Cor.7:39), although if you are married to one do not leave them for God can save them (7:12-14). Notice in all three of these cases we are talking about crossing the sons of God and the sons of the Devil, or men, which is strictly forbidden (1 Cor.7:39; Ezra 9:2; 10:10; 2 Cor.6:14-18). In all of these cases when the sons of God fell away they began to have fellowship with fallen angels which we call demons (Psa.78:49, called here “angels of evil”; 2 Cor.12:7; Greek: “angel of Satan”) Demons did not directly create giants because they cannot. The Scripture teaches that each seed brings forth after its own kind. Jesus said, “that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit”. Therefore, spirits cannot bring forth flesh. Some would argue that Jesus was born of God. Jesus' spirit was born of God but His flesh was born of David through Mary; “the seed of the woman”. Rom.1:3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Spirits can inhabit bodies of men that can procreate but they cannot have anything to do with making giants through marrying the daughters of men. (Mat.22:29) But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. (30) For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven. Fallen angels do not procreate man's flesh but his spirit and soul. Spirits sow a spiritual seed, not a physical one. Jesus is the Word, who in Matthew 13 sowed the seed of the Word in His people's heart to bring forth His fruit in them, 30, 60, and 100 fold. In Mat.13:24,27,32 the word for seed in Greek is “sperma”. Demons also sow their “sperm” in mankind's hearts to bring forth their evil fruit but this is their spiritual man and not their flesh. Seth, the son of God, is mentioned in the spiritual lineage of Jesus. (Luk.3:38) the [son] of Enos, the [son] of Seth, the [son] of Adam, the [son] of God You will notice that God mentions all of Cain's wicked descendants in Gen.4:16-24. After this we are told, (Gen. 4:25) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth. For, [said she], God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. (26) And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Lord. Notice after all that evil seed God gave one to replace Abel the righteous seed. Why didn't any of Cain's seed replace Abel as a righteous seed? Obviously, his seed were evil. (1 Jn.3:12) not as Cain was of the evil one. Only after Seth and his son were born did the scripture say “men (plural) began to call on the name of the Lord”. Obviously Cain and his tribe did not call on the Lord. They were sons and daughters of men and as such called on the devil. After Adam there was not another son of God born until Seth; skipping over all of the seed of Cain. (Gen.5:3) And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image (a son of God) ; and called his name Seth. Notice none of Cain's descendants were sons of God but were of men. How then were the giants made? Seth and Cain's lineages stayed separate for hundreds of years. They inbred within their lines, which was not against the command of God at this time. In nature, especially after the curse, this deteriorates the line. They became weaker, smaller, and less intelligent. Wherever there has been in-breeding today, the descendants are sickly in mind and body. When the sons of God began to fall away some became inhabited by demons. This also happened in Israel and Christianity because history always repeats. (Ecc.1:9) That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. When after years of inbreeding the fallen sons of God and the sons of men crossed, making what is called in nature hybrids. The “Nephilim” were bigger, stronger, and more intelligent because as hybrids they end up with the better physical characteristics of both lines. Later in the Law God forbid inbreeding, at least with close relatives. Now even cousins are a no-no because the farther from Adam we go the stronger the curse has become. The serpent obviously walked on legs in the Garden because God cursed him to crawl on his belly. That curse was gradual and increased as time went by. Even in Job's day, which was in Jacob's day, he saw dinosaurs in Job 40:15 - 41:34. You have to ignore the translator's silly notes calling them hippopotamus and crocodile. We have never seen a hippo with a tail like a cedar tree or a croc that stood so tall that a multitude of men with spears and arrows dared not even approach him. The dinosaurs were serpents with legs. Even today some serpents have vestiges of legs beneath their skin. The fire-breathing dragon in Job 41:18-21 was a tyrannosaurus. This was one type of the serpent in that time but it was cast down by the curse to crawl on its belly. Rev.12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent...The increasing curse made it more and more improbable for giants, human or beast, to be bred.     “Added Books of the Bible” Disproven by God David Eells – 4/20/25 The people are wrong who say: “There were other books of the Bible that should have been included or the apocryphal books should not have been taken out. Saying we only had 66 of them, while many were missing. The White Hats retrieved all of them from the basement of the Vatican.” Who made these people experts on the anointed words which they have never followed? There have been many books hidden at the Vatican, but Numerics is a pattern in every letter of the original Greek and Hebrew, parts of which are shown in various ancient manuscripts. Every manuscript can be proven as to where this pattern is or isn't, showing the original text. This pattern was designed by God to prove that only the 66 books are inspired by Him. No other book has been found to have this complete pattern in every letter and its position. The Catholics added their apocryphal books that were proven not to have this pattern. The original KJV had these books in it. Satan and his “aliens” want desperately to pollute the Bible. The “New Agers” throw out the book of Revelations, which has this perfect pattern disproving their 1000 years of peace. Where the original “Numeric Greek New Testament” is used Bible skip sequence codes will show up all through the text. God pronounces a curse at the end of the true Bible on all who add to or take from its Words. Rev 22:18-21 I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: 19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.     66 Books Proven by Math Science Proves the Bible Numeric English New Testament The Holy Bible, Wholly True Numerics and the KJV Numeric Materials   Now I'm going to share an excerpt from this book by Philippe Besnard on New Age. Why? Because this sect has invaded the Alliance and is totally defenseless against this demon deception along with the Unitarian types and long dead “Christian” religions of shifting sands. Only the firm foundation of the Word and infilling of the Holy Spirit will give discernment.     Spiritual Warfare- Revelation of a New-Age Deception https://www.ubm1.org/spiritualwarfare-besnard.pdf (David's Notes in Red) North America, Birthplace of the Modern New-Age Movement (When I met Philippe, he was coming out of 30 years of the New Age movement, and as such, he was an expert in describing it.) The North American continent is the birthplace of the modern New Age movement, and when I immigrated to Canada from France, I felt in awe of what I saw as the vibrant “new spirituality” of this wild land. In comparison, I thought France and old Europe were still living in the Middle Ages. France is now catching up with the New Age, but for many years, it has been very slow to emerge. As part of my new identity, adapting to a new culture and learning English, I became a true product of the New Age. I was eager to embrace the lifestyle and social and spiritual trends of my adoptive country. For thirty years I had earnestly followed New Age teaching, traveled to workshops, conferences, seminars, training sessions, and festivals, met many of its teachers, and was personally taught by some of them. I had received countless readings from channelers, psychics, astrologers, palm readers, and Tarot card readers. I received spiritual healings from healers of all faiths and denominations, and even so-called “DNA activation” from a “Spiritual Scientist”. But the Bible says in Lev.19:31 “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.” I had embraced the mystic path and the contemplative lifestyle. I practiced yoga and meditation for many years; sat in Darshan to receive the blessings of gurus, and participated in Satsang, chanting the names of Hindu deities and Buddhist mantras. I facilitated devotional evenings with my guitar, chanting Sanskrit mantras, the music of which I had composed. I traveled to India twice and other countries in the Far East seeking “truth, wisdom, enlightenment, and good karma”. I have been in the company of, and received teachings from, a number of swamis, gurus, yogis, lamas and so-called “enlightened” Western spiritual teachers. As a nature lover, I had worshipped Nature, called the earth Gaia, followed and believed in various native teachings and Shamanism. My space at home was cluttered with New-Age paraphernalia on the walls, tables, and corners. In the garden, I had crystals, posters, images and statues of Buddha and Hindu deities. The New Age is a melting pot made of practically every religious and occult philosophy found in the world. It is a strange convergence of mysticism, holism, pantheism, aboriginal animism, humanism, Luciferian Western occultism with Freemasonry, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, modern Masonic witchcraft (called Wicca), the Illuminati, apostate Christianity, Gnosticism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, Zen, Sufism and Hinduism. The New Age is a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture, with an interest in Druidism, shamanism, neo-paganism, Voodoo, exploration of human sexuality, environmentalism, modern-day occultism, worship of “Mother” Earth, psychic healing and extraterrestrial phenomena. Most of the ancient origins of the New Age are found in classical Hinduism, Buddhism, and pagan Babylonian religions. So, despite the name “New” Age, we are dealing here with a very ancient system. Paganism is a people or a community observing a polytheistic religion, which is the worship of many gods, as opposed to monotheism, the worship of One Almighty God, the Creator of All that is. A Pagan is also called an irreligious heathen, gentile, or hedonistic person... The great New-Age plan is dedicated to the unification of all races, religions and creeds. This plan is claiming to establish a “new order of things”, it is to make all things new - a new nation, a new race, a new civilization and a new non-sectarian one world religion that has already been recognized by the United Nations. This New Age globalism movement advocates a one-world government, a one-world religion, and a one-world economy; and this would mean the destruction of the sovereignty of nations and religions. New Age teachers are using standard texts of Eastern religions such as the Hindu Baghavad-Gita and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, as well as writings of Jewish mysticism called Kabbala and those gnostic scriptures often called the Apocrypha. Over the years, I became more and more confused in studying such “new revelations” as the Urantia book, the Keys of Enoch. (Academy for Future Science), A Course in Miracles, Elizabeth Clare Prophet (of The Church Universal and Triumphant). (General Flynn in Sept. 2021 offered a prayer at a large church gathering of Trump worshipping, patriotic “Christians” that originated from Elizabeth Clare Prophet invoking the 7 fold rays and the arch angels. Rick Wiles has denounced Michael Flynn, because he delivered a “New Age prayer” almost word for word by Elizabeth Claire Prophet, a New Age Theosophist and Christian Science advocate, at pastor Hank Kunneman's Christian conference last week and had everyone in the congregation repeat the invocation after him: “ Rick said, “My advice to you is to separate from Gen. Michael Flynn.” In this prayer Flynn invokes “the 7 fold rays and the arch angels”, “in your name and the name of your legions” to help guide humanity (Ascended Masters) and protect us against the enemy and further the purposes of their agenda. (Who is his god? And to whom is he praying?) The “7 fold rays and the arch angels” is based on New Age Theosophy developed by Helena Blavatsky. By the way, you can not achieve the rank of a military general without being initiated. The White Dragons who support the Alliance behind the scenes believe that the Abrahamic God is satan @ 11:53 minutes. (What's Behind General Flynn and the White Hats Alliance? Here is an informative Link: https://youtu.be/Dkx7v0JTmmw) Back to Philippe's text: I also studied... Rudolf Steiner (Anthroposophy), Edgar Cayce, Law of One, Aquarian gospel of Jesus Christ, Heindel Max (the Rosicrucian cosmo-conception-Mystic Christianity) the Gnostic gospels. There is a lack of uniformity in the doctrines of the New Age. The beliefs of New Agers vary from ‘group to group' and ‘person to person.' Thus, it is difficult to have a clear definition and a solid understanding of what the New Age really is. I believe this confusion has been created on purpose. It is very hard to pinpoint, identify and shoot the enemy when it is moving constantly, shape-shifting, or invisible. People entering these movements are generally concerned with having an experience, and not necessarily with finding the truth. Their actions are determined by feelings, not intellect. The emphasis is on “practicing and becoming god” and this is why meditation and many other techniques that teach “stillness of the mind” and a “receptive feeling mode” are promoted. We are told to “follow our bliss”, “go with the flow”, “let loose”, to “transcend the limitation of the mind,” and to “experience the pleasure and the ecstasy of the body”. Using your mind to discriminate and discern has become taboo. The principle of “spiritual vibration” is the belief that all things vibrate at some frequency. The ultimate goal of all New-Age practices is for humanity to vibrate at the same frequency so that we can all become one, spiritually and mentally. “We are all one”, this most repeated New-Age catch phrase, wants us to believe the unity of all things, heaven and earth, spirit and matter, the invisible and the visible worlds, the great melting pot of Darkness, Light, and everything in between. (WWG1WGA?) This “All is ONE”, “all is good”, “don't worry, be happy”, “don't judge” and “be in the moment” is a disastrous recipe that generates apathy and complacency. It is creating a generation of self-seeking, egotistical people who are indifferent to iniquity and the suffering of others. I have been a dedicated student of this school of thought and I have practiced being fully in my body, opening all “the inner channels” and feeling “the subtle currents”. I was proud of “feeling and being” but I was a total fool...! I had lost common sense and the ability to discern and discriminate good from evil. I didn't want to judge anything or anybody for the fear of being unloving, and spiritually not evolved. What a perfect brainwashing and a diabolical device to enslave, control people and turn them into powerless puppets! I was losing my God-given right to discriminate and I didn't realize that judging is necessary for preserving the integrity of my soul. I used to confuse judging with condemning, and I know this confusion had been fostered on purpose. Then I discovered I can judge a situation or someone without condemning and feel love and compassion toward all the parties involved. This was a very liberating and empowering realization. Of course, our human judgment is flawed and imperfect, but as we draw closer to God, we learn true Divine Justice. (And discernment)     Is Darkness Real and Is it a Sovereign Force? The beginning of the story starts with a question I have been asking myself over the years: “And what about God?” I often wonder how God is seeing me, seeing us, seeing the world. I often cry out to Him, asking, “Why, God? Why is there so much pain and suffering everywhere on this beautiful planet? Why is there so much injustice, poverty, and violence?” Do you have the feeling, as I and many others do, that something ominous is about to happen and that we are only seeing the beginning of a momentous transformation? It seems with each day, the world is spiraling down into greater chaos, deception, and destruction. I know a lot of us choose to look at the positive and ignore the increasingly rapid deterioration of our civilization, but refusing to see that anything serious is happening, denying that we, as a human race, are in deep trouble is not going to change it, resolve it, or make it go away. No, in fact, denying is not seeing, and if we don't see, we are blind and hopeless to change anything. Because of my willingness to honestly acknowledge and recognize the darkness pervading our world, I have been more readily able to recognize that this darkness is also within myself. I realized I can only change something in the world or within myself when I am fully aware of what is truly happening. I have heard many times people saying, “The dark only exists when you believe in it. If you believe in the devil, in darkness, you are giving it power, but if you focus on the light, the dark has no place to be.” I tried that belief on, wearing it for some time, but darkness was still there. This belief crippled my ability to discriminate evil from good. Is not believing in darkness preventing darkness from manifesting? Is the world such a paradise that there is no darkness to be seen anywhere? How can anyone believe this? The dark, of course, wants you to believe it is not there but even the most remote paradisiacal Pacific island has murder, theft, violence, greed, etc. In my twenties, I lived on Boraccai, a remote Philippine paradise island, for five months. I was living in a bamboo hut on the beach with no electricity, no running water or any modern amenities. Life was so gentle and simple, I felt surely, I had found the Garden of Eden. One morning, I heard that a man had been murdered the previous night. There had been some drinking and a knife fight broke out. I was deeply shaken to the core, as was most of the tiny population of the island. My innocent naivety that the world is a safe place was completely shattered. In that one moment I became aware of the pervading presence of the dark. “The light” is such a broad, impersonal concept when it is not mentioned as an attribute of God. In fact, many of us embrace the concept of “the light” standing all by itself as a sovereign, impersonal, beneficial force that is replacing the Name of God. Few people know the dark is quite capable and is a master at parading and appearing as the “light”. 2Co.11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. There is the assumption prevalent in New-Age circles that the light needs the presence of the dark to exist. We are told that within the fabric of the universe there is built in an eternal polarity that makes the light of God not being able to exist without the darkness of Lucifer. This is a clever but absurd concept invented, of course, by the dark to deceive people into accepting Lucifer as a legitimate, purposeful, and even beneficial force. The great paradox is this: that Lucifer is, indeed, purposeful, not as an independent sovereign entity but as a force that God uses for His own plan. The dark was created and is allowed to exist by God for His Sovereign purpose and actually needs God's approval and permission to continue to exist. On the other hand, God obviously exists outside of this fallen, polarized world and has no need whatsoever of anything or anybody outside of Himself. There is no darkness in the Kingdom of God, not even anything that remotely resembles darkness. 1 John 1:5 And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If there is no darkness in the Kingdom of God, then surely this planet, which has been corrupted with darkness since the beginning of time, is not the Kingdom of God. Jesus confirmed that fact by saying: My kingdom is not of this world: John 18:36 Of course, this doesn't mean God is not present or is removed from His creation, but I wondered why God allows darkness to be here. Please be patient with me as I attempt to offer my understanding based on the fruit of my life experiences and the teachings found in the Bible.     The New-Age Movement For over thirty years I had been searching for God and the Truth while being completely lost in the great deception of the New Age. I was immersed in New-Age thinking, was an intimate part of its movement, and worked to promote its philosophy and belief system. I was brainwashed to blindly accept and embrace New-Age occult knowledge, and I was convinced my life of service and my spiritual studies were the highest expression of my love for God. I was sincere, as most New-Agers are, but I was also completely deceived and clueless. My study and knowledge of esoteric and ancient mysteries gave me a sense of belonging to the highest-evolved portion of humanity. Although I have always managed to retain some humility in my being, through a natural devotion to the Lord, I still had a typical new-age persona, a spiritual vanity, that vague illusion of having achieved a higher consciousness. This was constantly reinforced by countless readings, which I had received over the years from psychics, clairvoyants, mediums and channelers. I was repeatedly told how great, spiritual, and amazing I was and how I had come here on earth from the higher angelic realms to save lost mankind. I was a walking earth angel with a mission….!!! Of course, I knew everybody else was more or less told the same story, so I took all of it with a grain of salt as I was aware of the deception of ego-flattering, but I was hoping somehow I was special in the eyes of God. Little by little over the last few years, I came to realize through the grace of God's revelation, the many distorted truths and the outright evilness of the New-Age teachings. Because of my passionate nature, I had delved into this New-Age pool deeply and had many close encounters with renowned teachers and spiritual centers across North America. This first-hand, practical knowledge and in-depth study has given me a unique perspective to share with you, the discovery of a very shocking and disturbing truth. The Dark New Age of Aquarius is here right now, and those leading the way forward in this New Age are working hand-in-glove with the great and the powerful. Some of the wealthiest and influential men and women on our planet are openly identifying themselves with the New Age. From bankers, industrialists, politicians, celebrities, and religious leaders of all faiths, it seems everyone is going “New Age,” and they are bringing huge numbers of the population along with them. Darkness is a very powerful force at work over this world. It is a corporate entity made up of many individuals, and is described in the Bible as “the beast”. It is also the embodiment of one being who has been known by various names, including Thoth or Seth in Egypt, Manu in India, Hermes in Greece and Lucifer, the Devil, or Satan in the Judeo-Christian tradition. God is executing end-time Bible prophecy right this very day and He is allowing Lucifer to create the final end-time New World Order of the beast empire. One of the instruments for all this to come to pass is the New Age Movement, also called “The Plan” and what Freemasonry calls “The Great Work Of Ages”. (The QAnon movement has always said, “Trust the Plan.” Whose ‘Plan' are they referring to? Probably not God's plan, but the New Age plan and their AI computers.) This is Lucifer's rebellion and master plan in action against God. The New Age movement has become a powerful political, philosophical, and economic force in our contemporary culture and is exerting its influence into every facet of modern life. (As I've often said, One beast is being conquered by the other and we are grateful for that at this moment. The day will come when all this camaraderie will melt away because they are looking down their snoots at us.) Its ultimate goal and plan is to introduce a One World Order and One World Religion. The UN is gradually becoming the center of this New World Religion, and the “house of peace” with its programs and policies is even more worthy of comparison to what some have called a modern-day “Tower of Babel”. All of my research and personal experiences during those years have led me to believe that Lucifer is very real and he is rising, or descending, depending on which way we look at it! He is here on earth, in this dimension, causing havoc and chaos in an attempt to seat himself on the throne of a World State, and to inaugurate a New Religion with himself as its sole deity. Dan.11:36 And he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every God, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done. (Isa.14:13 And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; There is a false belief among many today that Lucifer and Satan are the same but this is propagated by the New Ager's. “Lucifer and Satan are actually two different aspects of the same creature. Lucifer, meaning “the brilliant one, son of the morning” in Hebrew, was an angel beloved by God until his fall and after his rebellion, he became Satan. While there is a significant difference between the two, the terms today have unfortunately become synonymous with each other and with the devil.” Satan has been busily working through his false prophets and religious harlots to pollute true Christianity and also offer a fake moralizing replacement for it to the world so that no one has to repent of sin.     False Prophet and Religious Harlot Experience and the Word have taught me concerning prophecy that if the majority of God's people believe something, it must be wrong. God hides his truths in dreams or visions that are parables so that the false prophets and carnal Christians cannot understand them as in (Mat.13:10-13) but privately He explains them to His disciples. He hides truths from the wise and understanding of this apostate religious system and reveals them to babes according to Jesus in (Luk.10:21). He reveals His hidden truths to those who are faithful. Rev.2:17…To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna…. John's Revelation was given to him as a parable from Jesus. If it were literal, the false prophets would know what is going to happen and that is contrary to Jesus' own words. When the disciples were young and under the Law they did not recognize the false prophets that ruled them. As a matter of fact, they respected them! And so it is today! I want to share with those of you who have eyes and ears who the false prophet is and what his work is. ...The false prophet is a corporate body of religious leaders that to the trained eye resemble those of Jesus' day. Since Jesus' day is a type of the coming Man-child reformers in our day, we know there are going to be false prophets, plural. In all of the New Testament writings, outside of the book of Revelation, we are warned that false prophets, plural, would come. In Revelation, false prophet, singular, is used, but in an allegory or parable to hide the corporate body. Since Jesus, Peter and John said that in the end time many false prophets shall arise, then the false prophet in Revelation is a symbol of a corporate body, like the rest of the characters there like the Woman, the Harlot, the Beast, etc., are corporate bodies. It's the only way that all verses concerning false prophets can be right. Mat.7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Mat 24:11&24 And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. (24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets… so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. So you see they are plural... They come to you with moralizing like the New Age but cannot live it at all because they don't know the Gospel that saves from sin, and nothing is sin to them. They are false because Jesus said, “To him that overcometh will I give authority” meaning, overcome sin. False prophets fit the type and shadow of history, according to Jesus. Luk.6:26. Woe [unto you], when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. Peter also said there would be false prophets among us. 2Pe.2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers …. John also said that many false prophets would speak for antichrist. 1Jo.4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (3) And every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist … Notice that every spirit is the antichrist. The New Age is one of these false prophets that confesses not Jesus as the only begotten Son of God and leader of His Church. Part of the “strong delusion” (KJV) taught by the false prophets is that we are to be looking for the coming of a man called the false prophet, while the Biblical corporate false prophet is here and in the pulpits already. 2Co.11:14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. (15) It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. ...Most agree that the second beast in Revelation 13 is the false prophet. He is given authority by the first beast for the second stage of the last 3½ years of the Tribulation (Rev.13:5). He is identified as a beast because he is a corporate body, as is every other prophetic beast in the Scripture. Rev.13:11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (12) And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed. The beast that is coming into authority now is pointed to by the New Age. It is a one-world order with a covenant. Here we see that the false prophet masquerades as the lamb: “two horns like unto a lamb” but he speaks as the world and Satan: “and he spake as a dragon” (beast). This second beast in chapter 13 is also identified after the world beast in Revelation 16:13 as the false prophet. This impostor leadership for the harlot has “a form of godliness” (2Tim.3:5) but is carnal and can only teach a worldly corruption of the Word. They are actually a mouthpiece for the world beast in the apostate church. It was said of the world beast, (Rev.13:5) and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies…. These apostates speak against (Greek: blasphemeo) God with their hypnotizing, ear-tickling doctrines of all-fly-away, unconditional eternal security, worldly prosperity, greasy grace, and anything but the self-crucifying truth. And 1000 years of peace that will be interrupted by the Tribulation that they do not believe in. The false prophet is a corporate body within the corporate body of the harlot, which is female because they receive the seed of antichrist. In verse 15, we see the female body of the false prophet. “And it was given to her (Greek) to give spirit (Greek) to the image of the beast.” Bible Numerics show a perfect pattern for “her” and “spirit” in the original Greek and in the most accurate New Testament, the Numeric English New Testament by Ivan Panin. There is no pattern in “he” or “it.” In Greek, breath and spirit are the same. Numerics show beyond a shadow of a doubt which words are correct here. In the rest of the text this false prophet is identified as male by the same numeric pattern. A translator would have had to respect the Word enough to ignore his own reasoning to simply translate what was there. Most are not willing to go out on a limb and look foolish when they do not see the reason. A male, who is also seen as female, is clear proof that God is not speaking of an individual here but a corporate body of people. In parallel, we are the male body of Christ, made in His image (2Cor.3:18), but we are female in another type (Eph.5:22-25), being married and submitted to Him to receive only His seed, His Word. Let's see this corporate false prophet and his relationship to the harlot in another parable. We know Ahab represents the ten-horned beast who was being ridden by Jezebel (1Ki.18), exactly as the harlot rode the beast in Revelation 17:1-3. They ruled over the apostate ten tribes, who were also those who worshiped the image of the beast, the golden calf. As the corporate mother of the harlot sects of Christianity, she leads them into the Great Tribulation and death unless they repent. Rev.2:20 … Jezebel … teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication (with the world beast by receiving their seed)…. (21) And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication. (22) Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works. (23) And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works. Like the harlot, Jezebel was guilty of the blood of the prophets and of the saints (1Ki.18:4; 2Ki.9:7; Rev.18:24). In Revelation 17:16 when the beast is through using the harlot he devours her, and so it was with Jezebel who was devoured by the dogs (1Ki.21:23), symbolizing the unbelievers (Mk.7:27) or the beast. The true ministers of God are fed at the Church's table (1Cor.9:13-14) and the false prophets are fed from the harlot's table. (1Ki.18:19)…The prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table. The two categories of false prophets represent the two horns of the false prophet in Revelation 13:11. Find out who Baal and Asherah represent in modern times and you will know who the corporate false prophet is. These two have their roots at the tower of Babel and were originally Nimrod and his wife Semiramis (Gen.10:8-10). They created the original harlot religion that spawned all the rest. They are a type of the great corporate mother of harlots of all of history. Rev.17:5 And upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. When Nimrod died and Semiramis (later called Asherah) became pregnant, she claimed that Nimrod had become the Sun God (later called Baal) who then by virgin birth was reborn as her son, Tammuz (Son of God). These original Babylonians worshiped the false father, son, and virgin about 2,300 years before the true virgin birth. Semiramis probably knew of the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 concerning the virgin birth seed of the woman and if she didn't, the devil did. With the confusion of languages and dispersion at Babel, this legend went throughout the world and these three were given different names in different cultures, many of which are in the Bible. The golden calf in Egypt was a symbol of the Father (Baal) in the Son. Remember Pharaoh's title meant “Great Temple of the Sun God.” Sun images all over the world and in Catholic and Eastern churches symbolize the false Son. The Israelites with their golden calf thought they were worshiping “YHWH” or “Elohim,” the true God, but it was Baal, “another Jesus.” One horn, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, represent those who teach “another Jesus.” This is the apostate Protestant ministers. The other horn, the four hundred prophets of the Asherah, represent those who worship the virgin. These are the Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and many others that are into “Mariolatry.” We know that Mary became saved and is our sister, and we love her but she is not the mother of God as Mariolatry teaches. (Rom.1:3) Concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, (Jesus' “flesh” was the “seed of David” through Mary, which was the promised seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15. Mary is the mother of Jesus' flesh which is the “Son of Man.”) (4) who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; [even] Jesus Christ our Lord. Jesus' “spirit” man was the “Son of God.” Jesus agreed with this saying in John 3:6, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit”. Some would say that the two horns are the apostate leaders of the Christian religion and the leaders of false religions. To this I agree. The same verses usually address both greater and lesser types. The greater type is the most complete fulfillment and all the Babylonish religions will be gathered together in the end-time harlot. The False Prophets and Religious Harlots spread from the confusion at Babel throughout the world, and now the Unitarian New Age is seeking to bring Babel back together in a new Catholic, meaning “universal” religion that doesn't rebuke their own sins, much less others. Read also: Aliens Demons Bow to Jesus' Name Note: If you are a Spirit Filled Christian the Lord was speaking to you when He said, “I give you authority over all the power of the enemy.” And “What you bind on earth is bound in heaven.” The Lord said that we can delay this invasion now but we cannot ultimately stop it for God has sent this delusion. 2Th 2:9 even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  “Satan, the deceiver of the whole world.”

A partir de 1João + Chitaozinho e Xororó + Metáfora da tentativa vã, vamos refletir sobre como amamos as pessoas, estejam elas próximas e distantes.

Devocional do dia 10/04/2025 com o Tema: "Filhos de Deus" O apóstolo João foi muito feliz em sua percepção sobre o caráter paternal de Deus. Para os judeus – sobretudo os da época de Jesus –, chamar o Deus Eterno de Pai representava, de alguma forma, “diminuí-lo” por dar a ele uma representação terrena. Leitura bíblica: 1 João 3.1-10 Versículo Chave: Se vocês sabem que ele é justo, saibam também que todo aquele que pratica a justiça é nascido dele (1Jo 2.29).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Devocional do dia 09/04/2025 com o Tema: "Domingo" Quando eu fazia hidroterapia, fiquei amiga de uma senhora alegre, simpática e muito querida por todos. Ela gostava tanto de conversar que acabava se esquecendo de realizar os exercícios na piscina. Seu assunto predileto eram as novelas. Leitura bíblica: Hebreus 4.9-13 Versículo Chave: E esta é a promessa que [Deus] nos fez: a vida eterna (1Jo 2.25).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textJohn 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." 8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us." 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. 12 ¶ "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. Jesus is the way to God because He is the truth from God and the life from God. He is the truth because He embodies God's supreme revelation (1:18; 5:19; 8:29).John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. He is the life because He contains and gives divine life. Jesus is not merely One who has shown men the way; He is the way. It is His death, resurrection, and ascension that has made a way for men to spend eternity with God in heaven. He is not merely a way; He is the way. He is the one and only way that God has provided for men to obtain the forgiveness of their sins and the gift of eternal life. Lest anyone miss this point, Jesus says it again, in the plainest of words: “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” To know Jesus is to know the way to the Father, for He is the way. This was an exclusive claim to being the only way to heaven. John 10:9 "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.Ac 4:12 "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."1Ti 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, It is only because of Jesus Christ's work on the cross that anyone can enter heaven. Since He has come it is only through faith in the promise  of  God  that  His  cross  work  satisfied  the  Father  that  anyone experiences regeneration John 1:12; 3:16; 1Jo 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?             John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.               “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32           Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten.              hisloveministries.podbean.com

“No amor não há medo; o amor que é totalmente verdadeiro afasta o medo. Portanto, aquele que sente medo não tem no seu coração o amor totalmente verdadeiro, porque o medo mostra que existe castigo.” 1João 4:18 NTLH Como podemos nos livrar do medo?No dicionário temos o medo como um dolorosa sensação pela percepção de perigo, seja ela real ou imaginária. Assim ter medo é o receio pelo o que de pior poderá acontecer.Quando passamos a confiar e sentir o verdadeiro amor de Deus por nós, conseguimos lançar fora todo o medo, pela segurança de com Ele e com sua proteção não há o que temer.Saiba o Senhor te ama! E por amar você faz de tudo para proteger e te livrar de todo o mal. Quando sentir medo lembre-se de quem te ama e te protege, e esse amor lançará fora todo o seu medo.Pergunte a si mesmo:Você tem dimensão o quanto Deus te ama?Oração: Senhor muito obrigado por me amar e me proteger de tudo aquilo que pode me gerar medo. Eu te amo Senhor!Em nome de Jesus, amém !Que você tenha um dia abençoado!Por Ubiratan Paggio#devocionaisdiarios#deusfalacomigo #OVerdadeiroAmor#NãoTemerei#ubiratanpaggio@ubiratanpaggio@ubiratan.paggio

Pregador: Rev. Reginaldo von Zuben. Texto bíblico: 1João 4.7-16.

Devocional do dia 24/02/2025 com o Tema: "Como vencer" Como seres humanos, um dos nossos grandes anseios é ser um vencedor onde quer que nos envolvamos, e podemos estar conscientes disso ou não. É o que acontece, por exemplo, nos jogos de futebol. Leitura bíblica: 1 João 5.1-5 Versículo Chave: Quem é aquele que vence o mundo, senão o que crê que Jesus é o Filho de Deus? (1Jo 5.5)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dia 09, live 920 | culto dominical I.P. Maranata, Tempo Comum. Uma exposição em 1João 3.1-10Entrega da Boa Notícia de Jesus Cristo ao mundo de hoje. | #evangelho #jesuscristo #novotestamentoSOMOS NASCIDOS DE DEUS | 1Jo 3.1-101. Estamos em construção; 1-32. Não sejamos rebeldes; 4-63. Pratiquemos o amor; 7-10

Aprofunde sua devoção a Deus em fiel.in/devocionalO maior amorVersículo do dia: Filhinhos, eu vos escrevo, porque os vossos pecados são perdoados, por causa do seu nome. (1João 2.12)Por que devemos enfatizar que Deus ama, perdoa e salva para sua própria glória? Aqui estão duas razões (dentre muitas).1) Porque a Bíblia o enfatiza.“Eu, eu mesmo, sou o que apago as tuas transgressões por amor de mim e dos teus pecados não me lembro” (Isaías 43.25).“Por causa do teu nome, SENHOR, perdoa a minha iniquidade, que é grande” (Salmo 25.11).“Assiste-nos, ó Deus e Salvador nosso, pela glória do teu nome; livra-nos e perdoa-nos os pecados, por amor do teu nome” (Salmo 79.9).“Posto que as nossas maldades testificam contra nós, ó SENHOR, age por amor do teu nome; porque as nossas rebeldias se multiplicaram; contra ti pecamos” (Jeremias 14.7).“Conhecemos, ó SENHOR, a nossa maldade e a iniquidade de nossos pais; porque temos pecado contra ti. Não nos rejeites, por amor do teu nome; não cubras de opróbrio o trono da tua glória” (Jeremias 14.20-21).“[Cristo,] a quem Deus propôs, no seu sangue, como propiciação, mediante a fé, para manifestar a sua justiça, por ter Deus, na sua tolerância, deixado impunes os pecados anteriormente cometidos; tendo em vista a manifestação da sua justiça no tempo presente, para ele mesmo ser justo e o justificador daquele que tem fé em Jesus” (Romanos 3.25-26).“Seus pecados são perdoados por causa do seu nome” (1João 2.12).2) Porque isso evidencia que Deus nos ama com o maior amor.“Pai, a minha vontade é que onde eu estou, estejam também comigo os que me deste, para que vejam a minha glória” (João 17.24).Deus não nos ama de uma maneira que nos torna supremos, mas sim de uma maneira que faz dele mesmo supremo. O céu não será um salão de espelhos, porém uma visão crescente da grandeza infinita. Chegar ao céu e descobrir que somos supremos seria a máxima decepção.O maior amor assegura que Deus faz tudo de modo a estabelecer e magnificar sua própria supremacia, para que, quando chegarmos lá, tenhamos algo para aumentar nossa alegria para sempre: a glória de Deus. O maior amor é Deus ter entregado a si mesmo por nós para nosso gozo eterno, à custa da vida do seu Filho (Romanos 8.32).--Devocional Alegria Inabalável, por John Piper | Editora Fiel.Conteúdo oferecido em parceria entre Desiring God e Ministério Fiel.

Aprofunde sua devoção a Deus em fiel.in/devocionalO ciclo do perdãoVersículo do dia:Perdoa-nos os nossos pecados, pois também nós perdoamos a todo o que nos deve; e não nos deixes cair em tentação. (Lucas 11.4)Quem perdoa quem primeiro?“Perdoa-nos os nossos pecados, pois também nós perdoamos a todo o que nos deve” (Lucas 11.4).“Assim como o Senhor vos perdoou, assim também perdoai vós” (Colossenses 3.13).Quando Jesus nos ensina a orar para que Deus nos perdoe “pois também nós perdoamos”, ele não está dizendo que o primeiro movimento no perdão foi nosso. Pelo contrário, isso ocorre assim: Deus nos perdoou quando cremos em Cristo (Atos 10.43). Então, a partir dessa quebrantada, alegre, grata e esperançosa experiência de sermos perdoados, oferecemos perdão aos outros.Isso significa que fomos perdoados salvificamente. Ou seja, nosso perdão aos outros demonstra que temos fé, estamos unidos a Cristo e somos habitados pelo Espírito.Porém, nós ainda pecamos (1João 1.8, 10). Portanto, ainda nos voltamos para Deus por novas aplicações da obra de Cristo em nosso favor — novas aplicações do perdão. Não podemos fazer isso com qualquer confiança se estivermos abrigando um espírito incompassivo (Mateus 18.23-35).É por isso que Jesus diz que nós pedimos perdão porque estamos perdoando. Isso é como dizer: “Pai, continua a alcançar-me com as misericórdias compradas por Cristo, porque por meio dessas misericórdias eu abandono a vingança e estendo aos outros o que você tem estendido a mim”.Que você conheça o perdão de Deus hoje novamente e que a graça transborde em seu coração em perdão para com os outros.--Devocional Alegria Inabalável, por John Piper | Editora Fiel.Conteúdo oferecido em parceria entre Desiring God e Ministério Fiel.

Aprofunde sua devoção a Deus em fiel.in/devocionalVersículo do dia: Se confessarmos os nossos pecados, ele é fiel e justo para nos perdoar os pecados e nos purificar de toda injustiça. (1João1.9)Um sentimento vago e ruim de que você é uma pessoa miserável não é o mesmo que convicção de pecado. Sentir-se arruinado não é o mesmo que arrependimento.Nessa manhã, comecei a orar e me senti indigno de estar falando com o Criador do universo. Esse foi um vago senso de indignidade. Então, eu disse a ele: e agora?Nada mudou até que comecei a ser específico sobre meus pecados. Sentimentos de miséria podem ser úteis se levam à convicção de pecados. Sentimentos vagos de ser uma pessoa má não são muito úteis.O nevoeiro da indignidade precisa tomar forma de claros pilares sombrios de desobediência. Assim, você pode apontar para eles, arrepender-se, pedir perdão e buscar destruí-los.Então, comecei a lembrar dos mandamentos que frequentemente quebrei. Esses são os que me vieram à mente.Ame a Deus com todo seu coração, alma, mente e força. Não 95%, mas 100% (Mateus 22.37).Ame o seu próximo como a si mesmo. Esteja tão desejoso que as coisas ocorram bem para ele quanto é para que as coisas vão bem para você (Mateus 22.39).Faça todas as coisas sem murmurar. Nenhuma murmuração — interior ou exterior (Filipenses 2.14).Lance todas as suas ansiedades nele — de forma que você não seja mais abatido por isso (1Pedro 5.7).Diga apenas aquilo que dá graça aos outros — especialmente àqueles mais próximos de você (Efésios 4.29).Remir o tempo. Não desperdice ou seja ocioso (Efésios 5.16).Muito para qualquer pretensão de grande santidade! Estou desfeito.Mas agora é específico. Eu olho nos olhos. Eu não estou reclamando sobre me sentir mal. Peço desculpas a Cristo por não ter guardado tudo o que ele ordenou.Estou quebrantado e estou zangado com o meu pecado. Eu quero matá-lo, não a mim. Eu não sou suicida. Eu sou um odiador e assassino do pecado. (“Fazei, pois, morrer a vossa natureza terrena”, Colossenses 3.5; “Mortificardes os feitos do corpo”, Romanos 8.13).Neste conflito, ouço a promessa: “Se confessarmos os nossos pecados, ele é fiel e justo para nos perdoar os nossos pecados e nos purificar de toda injustiça” (1João 1.9). A paz surge.A oração se torna possível, correta e poderosa novamente.--Devocional Alegria Inabalável, por John Piper | Editora Fiel.Conteúdo oferecido em parceria entre Desiring God e Ministério Fiel.

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Graça e Paz! Amados, amemo-nos uns aos outros, porque o amor procede de Deus; e todo aquele que ama é nascido de Deus e conhece a Deus. 1João 4.7 Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana da Arniqueira www.1ipar.com Entre em contato conosco 1iparniqueiras@gmail.com Faça nos uma visita SHA Conjunto 3 Chácara 47A Arniqueira Brasília DF maps.app.goo.gl/iQSRtWrk9Hy6eaUT6 YouTube https://youtube.com/@primeiraigrejapresbiterian1958 Contribua Ore e ajude esta obra! Pix 40222748 000153 (CNPJ) Banco do Brasil Conta Corrente 51214-1 Agência 2901-7 Que Deus abençoe você! Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado á su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna. Juan 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 ¹⁶ Ибо так возлюбил Бог мир , что отдал Сына Своего Единородного , дабы всякий верующий в Него , не погиб , но имел жизнь вечную . João 3:16 Car Dieu a tellement aimé le monde, qu'il a donné son Fils unique; afin que tout homme qui croit en lui ne périsse point, mais qu'il ait la vie éternelle. João 3:16 ¹⁶ Want so lief het God die wêreld gehad, dat Hy sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore mag gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe kan hê. João 3:16 ¹⁶ 하나님이 세상을 이처럼 사랑하사 독생자를 주셨으니 이는 저를 믿는 자마다 멸망치 않고 영생을 얻게 하려 하심이니라 João 3:16 ¹⁷ Tanrı, Oğlunu dünyayı yargılamak için göndermedi, dünya Onun aracılığıyla kurtulsun diye gönderdi. João 3:17

Devocional do dia 04/01/2025 com o Tema: "Ir a Jesus" Jesus Cristo estava iniciando seu ministério. Já havia chamado quatro de seus discípulos – Simão Pedro, André, Tiago e João. Em Cafarnaum, o Senhor libertou um homem possuído por um espírito e, em seguida, foram para a casa de Pedro e André. Leitura bíblica: Marcos 1.29-34,40-45 Versículo Chave: Esta é a confiança que temos ao nos aproximarmos de Deus: se pedimos alguma coisa de acordo com a vontade dele, ele nos ouve (1Jo 5.14).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1João 5:14 - Esta é a confiança que temos ao nos aproximar de Deus: se pedimos alguma coisa de acordo com a vontade dele, ele nos ouve.

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Bom dia, Irmãos Graça e Paz! Filhinhos meus, estas coisas vos escrevo para que não pequeis. Se, todavia, alguém pecar, temos Advogado junto ao Pai, Jesus Cristo, o Justo; 1João 2.1 Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana da Arniqueira www.1ipar.com Entre em contato conosco 1iparniqueiras@gmail.com Faça nos uma visita SHA Conjunto 3 Chácara 47A Arniqueira Brasília DF maps.app.goo.gl/iQSRtWrk9Hy6eaUT6 YouTube https://youtube.com/@primeiraigrejapresbiterian1958 Contribua Ore e ajude esta obra! Pix 40222748 000153 (CNPJ) Banco do Brasil Conta Corrente 51214-1 Agência 2901-7 Que Deus abençoe você! Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado á su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna. Juan 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 ¹⁶ Ибо так возлюбил Бог мир , что отдал Сына Своего Единородного , дабы всякий верующий в Него , не погиб , но имел жизнь вечную . João 3:16 Car Dieu a tellement aimé le monde, qu'il a donné son Fils unique; afin que tout homme qui croit en lui ne périsse point, mais qu'il ait la vie éternelle. João 3:16 ¹⁶ Want so lief het God die wêreld gehad, dat Hy sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore mag gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe kan hê. João 3:16¹⁶ 하나님이 세상을 이처럼 사랑하사 독생자를 주셨으니 이는 저를 믿는 자마다 멸망치 않고 영생을 얻게 하려 하심이니라 João 3:16¹⁷ Tanrı, Oğlunu dünyayı yargılamak için göndermedi, dünya Onun aracılığıyla kurtulsun diye gönderdi. João 3:17

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Bom dia, Irmãos Graça e Paz! Se dissermos que mantemos comunhão com Ele e andarmos nas trevas, mentimos e não praticamos a verdade. 1João 1.6 Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana da Arniqueira www.1ipar.com Entre em contato conosco 1iparniqueiras@gmail.com Faça nos uma visita SHA Conjunto 3 Chácara 47A Arniqueira Brasília DF maps.app.goo.gl/iQSRtWrk9Hy6eaUT6 YouTube https://youtube.com/@primeiraigrejapresbiterian1958 Contribua Ore e ajude esta obra! Pix 40222748 000153 (CNPJ) Banco do Brasil Conta Corrente 51214-1 Agência 2901-7 Que Deus abençoe você! Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado á su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna. Juan 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 ¹⁶ Ибо так возлюбил Бог мир , что отдал Сына Своего Единородного , дабы всякий верующий в Него , не погиб , но имел жизнь вечную . João 3:16 Car Dieu a tellement aimé le monde, qu'il a donné son Fils unique; afin que tout homme qui croit en lui ne périsse point, mais qu'il ait la vie éternelle. João 3:16 ¹⁶ Want so lief het God die wêreld gehad, dat Hy sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore mag gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe kan hê. João 3:16¹⁷ Tanrı, Oğlunu dünyayı yargılamak için göndermedi, dünya Onun aracılığıyla kurtulsun diye gönderdi. João 3:17¹⁶ 하나님이 세상을 이처럼 사랑하사 독생자를 주셨으니 이는 저를 믿는 자마다 멸망치 않고 영생을 얻게 하려 하심이니라 João 3:16

“No amor não há medo; o amor que é totalmente verdadeiro afasta o medo. Portanto, aquele que sente medo não tem no seu coração o amor totalmente verdadeiro, porque o medo mostra que existe castigo.” 1João 4:18 NTLH Como podemos nos livrar do medo?No dicionário temos o medo como um dolorosa sensação pela percepção de perigo, seja ela real ou imaginária. Assim ter medo é o receio pelo o que de pior poderá acontecer.Quando passamos a confiar e sentir o verdadeiro amor de Deus por nós, conseguimos lançar fora todo o medo, pela segurança de com Ele e com sua proteção não há o que temer.Saiba o Senhor te ama! E por amar você faz de tudo para proteger e te livrar de todo o mal. Quando sentir medo lembre-se de quem te ama e te protege, e esse amor lançará fora todo o seu medo.Pergunte a si mesmo:Você tem dimensão o quanto Deus te ama?Oração: Senhor muito obrigado por me amar e me proteger de tudo aquilo que pode me gerar medo. Eu te amo Senhor!Em nome de Jesus, amém !Que você tenha um dia abençoado!Por Ubiratan Paggio#devocionaisdiarios#deusfalacomigo #OVerdadeiroAmor#NãoTemerei#ubiratanpaggio@ubiratanpaggio@ubiratan.paggio

Pela terceira vez Jesus lhe perguntou: Simão, filho de João, tu me amas? Pedro entristeceu-se por ele lhe ter dito, pela terceira vez: Tu me amas? E respondeu-lhe: Senhor, tu sabes todas as coisas, tu sabes que eu te amo. (Jo 21.17)O coração do cristianismo não está em fazer um curso de teologia sistemática ou em memorizar doutrinas a serem regurgitadas. O ponto focal para o cristão é uma relação com Jesus — ser conhecido e amado por ele, e amá-lo de volta.Vemos isso ilustrado em primeira mão quando, depois de compartilhar uma refeição na praia com seus discípulos, o Jesus ressurreto iniciou uma conversa particular com Pedro. Essa conversa resultou na convicção e no chamado de Pedro. Supremamente, porém, mostra o conhecimento íntimo e o cuidado de Cristo por aqueles que o amam. A maior preocupação de Cristo foi a resposta de Pedro à sua pergunta: “Tu me amas?”Nessa conversa, Jesus fez essa pergunta a Pedro repetidamente. A pergunta não pretendia provocar mero sentimentalismo; exigia uma decisão. A repetição serviu como um forte lembrete das três negações de Pedro de conhecer a Cristo (Jo 18.15-18, 25-27) e forçou Pedro a reconhecer que suas ações recentes não mostraram seu amor por Cristo. Ele não podia oferecer suas próprias obras para se justificar.Chegaremos à mesma conclusão ao considerarmos os momentos em que tropeçamos. Quando Cristo nos faz a mesma pergunta, não há nada que possamos dizer ou fazer em nossa defesa para provar nosso amor. A única coisa que Pedro poderia pleitear diante do Pai, diante de Cristo, era a própria onisciência de Deus: “Senhor […] tu sabes que eu te amo”. Da mesma forma, nosso único apelo é ao coração compreensivo de Jesus.Nossas ações podem nos desencorajar, nossas circunstâncias podem ter nos esbofeteado e espancado, e nosso amor por Deus pode ser fraco — mas podemos nos consolar na verdade de que Jesus conhece nosso coração! Ele sabe que nosso coração falhará. Ele sabe que nossa fé pode ser fraca. Mas nossas falhas são a própria razão pela qual ele veio a este mundo, morreu na cruz e ressuscitou.Se estamos precisando de restauração, mas não temos nada a dizer em nossa defesa, a maravilhosa esperança que possuímos é que podemos dizer: “Senhor, tu sabes”. E, se estamos precisando que nosso amor seja reavivado, mas não temos nada dentro de nós para acendê-lo, a maravilhosa verdade é que podemos olhar para nosso Senhor pendurado em uma cruz por amor a nós: afinal, “nós amamos porque ele nos amou primeiro” (1Jo 4.19).Reserve um momento e reflita sobre a imensidão e a intimidade da graça e do amor de Deus por você. Jesus suportou todas as suas falhas na cruz para que você pudesse morrer para o pecado e viver para ele (1Pe 2.24), e ele continua a buscar o relacionamento com você, apesar de todas as suas imperfeições. Ele conhece você por completo e, ainda assim, ama-o perfeitamente.Você o ama? Pois certamente não há ninguém mais digno.

E não nos cansemos de fazer o bem, porque a seu tempo ceifaremos, se não desfalecermos. (Gl 6.9)Se você é como eu, pode se lembrar de ter estudado assuntos na escola que lhe faziam olhar para sua lição de casa com um sentimento de desesperança. Talvez você sentisse que o professor havia determinado que você era uma causa perdida. Esse é um ambiente difícil para aprender. João Calvino certa vez observou algo semelhante, escrevendo: “Não há nada que possa nos alienar mais de prestar atenção à verdade do que ver que nos consideram estar além da esperança”.É fácil nos sentirmos sem esperança em nossa caminhada cristã — fácil “nos [cansarmos] de fazer o bem”. Talvez muitas de nossas contribuições para as necessidades do povo de Deus tenham sido abandonadas simplesmente porque ficamos desanimados com seus efeitos ou desanimados por nossa própria incapacidade contínua de lidar com a derrota do pecado e o crescimento em santidade. Temos de persistir nisso! Ao trabalharmos para obedecer ao Senhor na vida cristã, Deus opera em nós para nos mudar e nos fazer crescer (Fp 2.12-13). E João assegurou aos crentes de sua época sobre sua fé em Cristo quando disse: “Nós sabemos que já passamos da morte para a vida, porque amamos os irmãos” (1Jo 3.14, ênfase acrescentada). Quantos de nós terminariam essa frase dessa maneira? No entanto, o próprio Jesus disse: “Nisto conhecerão todos que sois meus discípulos: se tiverdes amor uns aos outros” (Jo 13.35).Não desista. Quando o apóstolo Paulo escreveu aos tessalonicenses, reconheceu sua exemplar “operosidade da […] fé, da abnegação do [seu] amor e da firmeza da [sua] esperança em nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo” (1Ts 1.3). O que era verdade para a igreja em Tessalônica poderia ser verdade para nós: nossa expressão de fé pode, como a deles, ser prática, tangível e persistente. Eles não eram um breve lampejo, seguido dum entusiasmo que rápido evapora; seus atos de bondade cristã foram constantes ao longo do tempo.Fazer o bem é cansativo, mas devemos ter cuidado para não nos cansarmos disso. Pois um dia o Rei da Glória dirá aos justos: “Sempre que o fizestes a um destes meus pequeninos irmãos, a mim o fizestes” (Mt 25.40). Até esse dia chegar, temos o privilégio de obedecer e servir a Cristo com esperança inabalável. Então, como você está mostrando expressões tangíveis de bondade cristã para com o andarilho, o estranho, o prisioneiro em aflição, a viúva, o desamparado? É hora de pedir a Deus força e propósito para cuidar de sua obra e começar, ou recomeçar, a “fazer o bem”?

Leitura bíblica do dia: Lucas 2:25-32, 36-38 Plano de leitura anual: Daniel 3-4, 1João 5 Já fez seu devocional hoje? Aproveite e marque um amigo para fazer junto com você! Confira: Era um dia agitado antes do Natal, uma idosa se aproximou lentamente do balcão dos correios já lotado. Percebendo a sua vagarosidade, o funcionário a cumprimentou: “Olá, mocinha!” As palavras foram amigáveis, mas alguns poderiam interpretá-las como se ser “mais jovem” fosse melhor. A Bíblia nos inspira a ver que a idade avançada pode motivar a nossa esperança. Quando Jesus é trazido ao templo por seus pais, para ser consagrado (Lucas 2:23; Êxodo 13:2,12), dois idosos, tementes a Deus, tomam o centro da cena. Primeiro, Simeão, que esperava há anos para ver o Messias — “tomou a criança [Jesus] nos braços e louvou a Deus, dizendo: ‘Soberano Deus, agora podes levar em paz o teu servo […] Vi a tua salvação, […] para todos os povos” (Lucas 2:28-31). Em seguida, Ana, uma profetisa “muito idosa” (v.36), apareceu exatamente enquanto Simeão conversava com Maria e José. Era viúva, fora casada por apenas sete anos, e vivia “como viúva” até os 84 anos. Nunca se ausentava do templo, “adorando a Deus dia e noite, em jejum e oração”. Ao ver Jesus, começou a louvar a Deus, explicando sobre “a criança a todos que esperavam a redenção de Jerusalém” (vv.37-38). Esses dois servos esperançosos nos ensinam a nunca pararmos de esperar em Deus, com grandes expectativas, não importando a idade. Por: Patrícia Raybon Que lições você aprendeu com cristãos idosos sobre a fidelidade de Deus? A esperança deles o inspira?

Leitura bíblica do dia: Mateus 6:6-13 Plano de leitura anual: Daniel 1-2, 1João 4 Já fez seu devocional hoje? Aproveite e marque um amigo para fazer junto com você! Confira: Num sábado, nossos filhos mais novos decidiram acordar cedo e preparar o café da manhã. Cansados da semana, minha esposa e eu estávamos tentando dormir até pelo menos 7h. De repente, ouvi um barulho alto! Pulei da cama e corri para a cozinha e encontrei uma tigela quebrada, mingau por todo o chão, e Jonas — nosso filho de 5 anos — tentando varrer (na verdade lambuzando) a bagunça do chão. Meus filhos estavam com fome, mas escolheram não pedir ajuda. Em vez de escolherem a dependência, preferiram a independência, e o resultado não foi uma delícia culinária. Em termos humanos, as crianças devem crescer e sair da dependência para a independência. Mas em nosso relacionamento com Deus, a maturidade significa passar da independência para a dependência do Pai. Praticamos a dependência por meio da oração. Quando Jesus ensinou os Seus discípulos — e todos nós — a orar: “Dá-nos hoje o pão para este dia” (Mateus 6:11), Ele estava nos ensinando uma oração de dependência. O pão é uma metáfora para sustento, libertação e orientação (vv.11-13). Nós dependemos de Deus para tudo isso e muito mais. Não há cristãos autossuficientes, e nunca nos graduaremos em Sua graça. Ao longo da vida, que possamos sempre começar o nosso dia tomando a postura de dependência ao orarmos ao nosso Pai que está no céu (v.9). Por: Glenn Packiam

Leitura bíblica do dia: Colossenses 3:23-24 Salmo 63Plano de leitura anual: Ezequiel 47-48, 1João 3 O devocional de hoje está uma bênção! Marque um amigo aqui nos comentários para ler com você! A Dra. Rebecca Lee Crumpler foi a primeira afro-americana a graduar-se em medicina. Porém, durante sua vida (1831-95), ela se sentiu “ignorada, desprezada e desvalorizada”. Contudo, ela permaneceu dedicada à saúde e ao cumprimento de seu propósito. Rebecca afirmou que, embora algumas pessoas pudessem optar por julgá-la com base em sua raça e gênero, ela sempre se sentia “pronta, renovada e encorajada para ir quando e onde o dever a chamasse”. Ela acreditava que tratar mulheres e crianças e prover cuidados médicos aos escravos libertados era uma maneira de servir a Deus. Infelizmente, ela não recebeu o reconhecimento formal por suas realizações até quase um século depois. Há momentos em que seremos negligenciados, desvalorizados ou depreciados. Entretanto, a sabedoria bíblica nos lembra de que quando Deus nos chama para uma tarefa não devemos nos concentrar em obter aprovação e reconhecimento do mundo, mas sim “trabalhar de bom ânimo, como se fosse para o Senhor” (Colossenses 3:23). Quando nos concentramos em servir a Deus, somos capazes de realizar até mesmo as tarefas mais difíceis com fervor e alegria sob o Seu poder e orientação. Podemos então ficar menos preocupados em receber o reconhecimento terreno e mais ávidos em receber a recompensa que só Ele pode conceder (v.24). Por: Kimya Loder

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Leitura bíblica do dia: Hebreus 3:7-19 Plano de leitura anual: Ezequiel 42-44, 1João 1 Vamos ler o devocional juntos? Separe um tempo especial para Deus hoje e faça sua reflexão diária: Depois de mais uma semana sendo abatida por reveses médicos, afundei no sofá. Não queria pensar em nada. Não queria falar com ninguém, nem conseguia orar. O desânimo e a dúvida pesaram sobre mim quando liguei a televisão. Era um comercial mostrando uma garotinha falando com seu irmão mais novo. “Você é um campeão”, disse ela. À medida que ela prosseguia encorajando-o, o sorriso dele aumentava, e o meu também. O povo de Deus sempre lutou contra o desânimo e a dúvida. Citando o Salmo 95, que afirma que podemos ouvir a voz de Deus por meio do Espírito Santo, o escritor de Hebreus alertou os cristãos para evitarem os erros cometidos pelos israelitas enquanto vagavam no deserto (Hebreus 3:7-11). “Portanto, irmãos, cuidem para que nenhum de vocês tenha coração perverso e incrédulo que os desvie do Deus vivo”, escreveu ele. “Advirtam uns aos outros todos os dias…” (vv.12-13). Com nossa esperança firmada em Cristo, podemos usufruir plenamente da energia que precisamos para perseverar: o encorajamento mútuo na comunhão cristã (v.13). Quando um cristão tem dúvidas, os outros podem apoiá-lo com afirmação, assertividade e compromisso mútuo de prestação de contas. À medida que Deus fortalece o Seu povo, podemos nos encorajar uns aos outros. Por: Xochitl Dixon

No princípio era o Verbo, e o Verbo estava com Deus, e o Verbo era Deus. Ele estava no princípio com Deus. (Jo 1.1-2)A maioria de nossas imagens mentais de Jesus se deve mais à criatividade artística do que à teologia bíblica. A Bíblia não nos dá nenhuma descrição física de Cristo além de que ele “crescia em estatura” (Lc 2.52). É extremamente inútil para nós, então, imaginá-lo com cabelos loiros e olhos azuis impressionantes, como muitos na cultura ocidental fizeram. Tal imagem não apenas falha em lembrar que ele era um judeu do Oriente Médio; ela também nos impede de entender e reconhecer a incrível maneira pela qual o Evangelho de João o apresenta.Desde o primeiro versículo, João nos fala da eternidade de Cristo, sua personalidade e sua divindade. Não importa quão longe consideremos o início do tempo, e não importa que modelo possamos ter em nossa mente de como o tempo começou: lá encontraremos o Filho de Deus pré-encarnado. Ele não foi criado, pois ele é o Criador. A criança na manjedoura era a mesma pessoa que colocou as estrelas no céu — incluindo a própria estrela que levou os sábios do Oriente a vir e adorá-lo.Em sua eternidade, este Verbo, Jesus, é distinto do Pai e do Espírito, não em essência, mas em pessoa. Ele “estava com Deus”, no entanto ele “era Deus”. Embora possa parecer intrigante, João não estava escrevendo abstrações. Ele estava apresentando uma pessoa que conheceu, viu, ouviu e tocou. O palco está montado para que os leitores digam com o apóstolo: “a vida se manifestou, e nós a temos visto” (1Jo 1.2), porque esse é o poder do Verbo vivo de Deus.Ao afirmar a realidade de que Cristo não estava apenas com Deus, mas era Deus, João quer que leiamos todo o seu Evangelho com a divindade de Jesus em mente. Quando viramos cada página, lemos as palavras de Jesus e observamos seus feitos, devemos ver que são as palavras e feitos do próprio Deus.Se Jesus era simplesmente um bom homem, então o que lemos no Evangelho de João é, em última análise, blasfemo. Mas ele é mais do que um homem. Ele era, é e sempre será um com o Deus de toda a Criação. Precisamos entender os versículos iniciais de João para realmente compreender quem é Jesus, a fim de podermos, nas palavras de Bruce Milne, “adorá-lo sem cessar, obedecer-lhe sem hesitação, amá-lo sem reservas e servi-lo sem interrupção”. Se você está achando difícil adorar, obedecer, amar ou servir ao Senhor hoje, aqui está a resposta: olhe para ele. Afinal, quanto melhor entendermos que o Verbo que estava na manjedoura era o Verbo que estava com Deus e era Deus desde o início, mais naturalmente veremos nossos deveres cristãos se transformando em alegrias.

Episódio com o tema " Os requisitos relativos à volta de Cristo " Apresentação: Itamir Neves. Texto Bíblico: : 1 Ts 5.1-11 Querido amigo, no texto que estudaremos hoje Paulo continua a instruir os tessalonicenses a respeito da segunda vinda de Cristo. Sobre esse tema, a Bíblia costuma falar de quatro eventos separadamente, por exemplo: 1) a Segunda Vinda de Cristo, no sentido restrito (conf. 1Jo. 3:2); 2) a ressurreição geral (conf. At. 24:15); 3) o julgamento final (conf. 2Tm. 4:1); e, 4) os destinos finais (conf. Rm.2:6-8). Em cada alusão escatológica não há necessidade de repetir todos os eventos que acontecerão naquele dia. O nosso texto é um exemplo deste fatoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

O pecado não terá domínio sobre vós; pois não estais debaixo da lei, e sim da graça. (Rm 6.14)Nesta vida, nunca estaremos isentos da tentação. Na verdade, quanto mais velhos ficamos, mais descobrimos que as mesmas velhas tentações — muitas vezes em novos disfarces — estão bem atrás de nós, mordendo nossos calcanhares e procurando nos derrubar. E, se isso não fosse ruim o suficiente, muitas vezes elas são acompanhadas por um lote inteiro de novas tentações!Sim, a tentação é uma realidade e é inevitável. Mas por que isso acontece?A primeira razão é que a mesma graça que nos reconcilia com Deus também nos opõe ao diabo, que, segundo a Escritura, nos convenceu de que ele era nosso amigo antes de confiarmos em Cristo. Quando a graça de Deus, em vez disso, nos torna amigos de Deus, ao mesmo tempo nos torna inimigos do grande inimigo de Deus. E, embora o Maligno não possa impedir Deus de salvar seu povo, ele pode reunir todos os seus esforços — a saber, a tentação — para nos atacar depois de termos sido salvos.Em segundo lugar, quando nascemos de novo, o pecado não nos domina mais, porém continua a travar uma guerra contra nossa alma — e a tentação está entre suas maiores armas. Somos tentados pelo mundo: tudo o que está lá fora nos diz: “Se você conseguir isso, será feliz e aproveitará a vida”. Também somos tentados por nossa carne. Nossa velha natureza pecaminosa — que ainda permanece em nós nesta vida presente, mesmo depois de confiarmos em Cristo — trava uma feroz batalha de retaguarda contra nosso novo eu.No entanto, por mais fortes que sejam os apelos do Maligno — e eles são fortes —, por si só não têm o poder de nos obrigar a ceder à tentação. O diabo tem o poder de trazer o mundo até nós, mas ele não tem o poder de nos fazer pecar.Portanto, não fique paralisado pelo medo nem seja complacente com as tentações que você enfrenta. Em sua guerra contra a tentação, você não precisa se perguntar se vai ganhar ou perder. Deus já declarou o xeque-mate; pois, como João escreve, “maior é aquele que está em vós do que aquele que está no mundo” (1Jo 4.4). A guerra acabou e a vitória está garantida. As batalhas ainda podem continuar, mas não podem afetar a conclusão final da guerra.Com quais tentações você está lutando, ou a quais está cedendo? Reserve um momento para nomeá-las. E então se conforte com isto hoje: por mais poderosas que sejam essas tentações, o diabo é um inimigo derrotado, e Jesus Cristo reina vitorioso! O poder deste em você é suficiente para capacitá-lo a lutar contra a tentação, e sua morte por você é suficiente para Deus lhe perdoar!

Leitura bíblica do dia: Colossenses 3:23-24 Plano de leitura anual: Ezequiel 47-48, 1João 3 O devocional de hoje está uma bênção! Marque um amigo aqui nos comentários para ler com você! A Dra. Rebecca Lee Crumpler foi a primeira afro-americana a graduar-se em medicina. Porém, durante sua vida (1831-95), ela se sentiu “ignorada, desprezada e desvalorizada”. Contudo, ela permaneceu dedicada à saúde e ao cumprimento de seu propósito. Rebecca afirmou que, embora algumas pessoas pudessem optar por julgá-la com base em sua raça e gênero, ela sempre se sentia “pronta, renovada e encorajada para ir quando e onde o dever a chamasse”. Ela acreditava que tratar mulheres e crianças e prover cuidados médicos aos escravos libertados era uma maneira de servir a Deus. Infelizmente, ela não recebeu o reconhecimento formal por suas realizações até quase um século depois. Há momentos em que seremos negligenciados, desvalorizados ou depreciados. Entretanto, a sabedoria bíblica nos lembra de que quando Deus nos chama para uma tarefa não devemos nos concentrar em obter aprovação e reconhecimento do mundo, mas sim “trabalhar de bom ânimo, como se fosse para o Senhor” (Colossenses 3:23). Quando nos concentramos em servir a Deus, somos capazes de realizar até mesmo as tarefas mais difíceis com fervor e alegria sob o Seu poder e orientação. Podemos então ficar menos preocupados em receber o reconhecimento terreno e mais ávidos em receber a recompensa que só Ele pode conceder (v.24). Por: Kimya Loder

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Bom dia, Irmãos Graça e Paz! E esta é a confiança que temos para com Ele: que, se pedirmos alguma coisa segundo a sua vontade, Ele nos ouve. 1João 5.14 Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana da Arniqueira www.1ipar.com Entre em contato conosco 1iparniqueiras@gmail.com Faça nos uma visita SHA Conjunto 3 Chácara 47A Arniqueira Brasília DF maps.app.goo.gl/iQSRtWrk9Hy6eaUT6 YouTube https://youtube.com/@primeiraigrejapresbiterian1958 Contribua Ore e ajude esta obra! Pix 40222748 000153 (CNPJ) Banco do Brasil Conta Corrente 51214-1 Agência 2901-7 Que Deus abençoe você! Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado á su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna. Juan 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 ¹⁶ Ибо так возлюбил Бог мир , что отдал Сына Своего Единородного , дабы всякий верующий в Него , не погиб , но имел жизнь вечную . João 3:16 Car Dieu a tellement aimé le monde, qu'il a donné son Fils unique; afin que tout homme qui croit en lui ne périsse point, mais qu'il ait la vie éternelle. João 3:16 ¹⁶ Want so lief het God die wêreld gehad, dat Hy sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore mag gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe kan hê. João 3:16¹⁶ 하나님이 세상을 이처럼 사랑하사 독생자를 주셨으니 이는 저를 믿는 자마다 멸망치 않고 영생을 얻게 하려 하심이니라 João 3:16¹⁷ Tanrı, Oğlunu dünyayı yargılamak için göndermedi, dünya Onun aracılığıyla kurtulsun diye gönderdi. João 3:17

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, August 25, 2024 They first gave themselves to the LORD The NOT I BUT CHRIST life leads to the NOT I BUT OTHERS life. This is also the NOT I BUT ONE ANOTHER life. Living for Christ leads to living for others. No longer for ourselves, but for Him. That's first. But then, no longer for ourselves but for OTHERS. Love means sacrificing for the benefit of the one loved. Joh 15:12-14 When we do what Jesus commands us to do, we are living as a friend to Him. 1Jo 3:16-18 The NOT I BUT OTHERS life has several key proving grounds. Congregation life Family life (daily living with those closest to us) How we use the resources the LORD has given us - - particularly financial resources. The most... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1701

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, August 25, 2024 They first gave themselves to the LORD The NOT I BUT CHRIST life leads to the NOT I BUT OTHERS life. This is also the NOT I BUT ONE ANOTHER life. Living for Christ leads to living for others. No longer for ourselves, but for Him. That's first. But then, no longer for ourselves but for OTHERS. Love means sacrificing for the benefit of the one loved. Joh 15:12-14 When we do what Jesus commands us to do, we are living as a friend to Him. 1Jo 3:16-18 The NOT I BUT OTHERS life has several key proving grounds. Congregation life Family life (daily living with those closest to us) How we use the resources the LORD has given us - - particularly financial resources. The most... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1701

Jon 4:1; 1Jo 4:20; 1Cor 13; Mat 11:19 Jam 1:19; Gal 5:19;Jo 15:9Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/what-jesus-says--4116133/support.

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, February 25, 2024 Reaping eternal life. What is eternal lfe? Joh 17:3 We believers HAVE eternal life NOW. And...eternal life is something that believers can LIVE IN NOW. Today we are going to learn how to reap eternal life. We can GROW in our capacity to live in eternal life - now, in time. This life is in Christ. This life IS Christ. "I am the resurrection" (John 11:25). 1Jo 5:11-13 And the purpose of the branches on a vine is to bear fruit. But in order to reap eternal life, we must first take hold of it. 1Ti 6:11-12 First, flee from anything that is the opposite of taking hold of eternal life. Then, pursue the things that contribute to living in eternal life. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1677

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, February 25, 2024 Reaping eternal life. What is eternal lfe? Joh 17:3 We believers HAVE eternal life NOW. And...eternal life is something that believers can LIVE IN NOW. Today we are going to learn how to reap eternal life. We can GROW in our capacity to live in eternal life - now, in time. This life is in Christ. This life IS Christ. "I am the resurrection" (John 11:25). 1Jo 5:11-13 And the purpose of the branches on a vine is to bear fruit. But in order to reap eternal life, we must first take hold of it. 1Ti 6:11-12 First, flee from anything that is the opposite of taking hold of eternal life. Then, pursue the things that contribute to living in eternal life. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1677

1Jo 2:16; Luk 16:19; Deu 30:19; Heb 4:14; 2Sa 12:1; Gen 25:29; Mat 4:3

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, February 11, 2024 "This is eternal life - ..." What is eternal lfe? Jesus Christ, God's Son, will tell us. No one else is qualified to do so. Jesus has the words of eternal life. Joh 6:66-69 Jesus is the only one qualified to define eternal life because He IS eternal life. 1Jo 5:11-12 He IS the way, the truth, and THE LIFE ( Joh 14:6 ). He IS the resurrection and the LIFE ( Joh 11:25 ). In Him WAS ( is and will always be) life. ( Joh 1:4 ) This IS eternal life - that they may come to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. God's glory is bound up in Jesus giving eternal life to those whom God gave Him. We may have our own ideas about what eternal life is. Eternal life... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1675

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, February 11, 2024 "This is eternal life - ..." What is eternal lfe? Jesus Christ, God's Son, will tell us. No one else is qualified to do so. Jesus has the words of eternal life. Joh 6:66-69 Jesus is the only one qualified to define eternal life because He IS eternal life. 1Jo 5:11-12 He IS the way, the truth, and THE LIFE ( Joh 14:6 ). He IS the resurrection and the LIFE ( Joh 11:25 ). In Him WAS ( is and will always be) life. ( Joh 1:4 ) This IS eternal life - that they may come to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. God's glory is bound up in Jesus giving eternal life to those whom God gave Him. We may have our own ideas about what eternal life is. Eternal life... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1675

1Pet 3:15; Rev 12:11; Act 1:8; 1Jo 5:10; Phi 1:27 Jam3:1; Jer 23

Christian Maturity (2)  (audio)    David Eells 1/10/24  I'm going to share with you about manifesting our Sun (Son) Glory. We're all sons of God through faith, and faith is accounted as righteousness until righteousness is manifested.  (Gal.3:26) For ye are all sons of God through faith, in Christ Jesus. (27) For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. (28) There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus.  We begin our life as children, who are sons by faith, and the Bible says that we come into the manifestation of sonship. (Pro.29:21) He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.   (Gal.4:6) And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (7) So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. Again, this is speaking that we are sons of God through faith, which “calleth the things that are not, as though they were” (Rom.4:17). God sent the Spirit of His Son into us in order to bring us to this adoption of sons.   The word “adoption” used here is not adoption of children. It is huiothesia and it means “son placing.” So, according to the term “adoption,” we don't adopt children; we adopt sons. Beloved, now are we children (teknon) of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be (1Jn.3:2). It should never be translated “son” because the word teknon is “children.” We haven't yet come to the place that God calls us “the manifest sons.” Notice that God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, in order to bring us to adoption. Now, what is the Spirit of the Son? Let me point something out to you. (Rom.8:9) But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Two Spirits are mentioned here: the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ. He even puts a “but” in there, so that we will know that he's talking about two different things.   Not everyone has the Spirit of God, but everyone who is born-again has the Spirit of Christ. Jesus told His disciples, “the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit” (Joh.6:63). These words came out of Him and were creating His Spirit in His disciples. And He told them, Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you (Joh.15:3). What did that mean? It meant they had a new spirit because Jesus spoke those words into them and His Spirit was recreated in them. The Spirit of Christ is the born-again Spirit. This is the Spirit of the Son which is to bring us to adoption, the adoption of sons.   The Spirit of Christ is the first thing that you receive. Next you need the Soul of Christ and then, ultimately, a body like unto His Body. A born-again spirit, a born-again soul and a born-again body are the three stages of this adoption. Notice the warning: (Rom.8:9) … But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (10) And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.   (11) But (here it is again; he's switching back) if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Paul is talking about receiving the Holy Spirit. When you get born-again, you don't necessarily receive the Holy Spirit. Sometimes that happens afterwards. But you do get the Spirit of Christ because you believe the Word of God and you accept that He died for you and gave you His life.   So, these are the two steps that every Christian ought to go through – receiving the Spirit of Christ and receiving the Holy Spirit. That was commanded but today most Christians don't do that. You need the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit will empower you to walk in the steps of Jesus. As Jesus was both human and divine, He had a born-again Spirit and you need a born-again human spirit. You need that for the communication and for the access to the Holy Spirit.   He comes to dwell in your Holy of Holies, which is your born-again spirit. He comes to rule in your Holy of Holies. So, you who are born-again need to invite the Holy Spirit to come with all the signs and wonders that the Bible talks about. That's part of it. (Act.1:8) But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.   (Rom.8:14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. God gives us first the Spirit of Christ and then the Holy Spirit, so we can hear His voice and follow Him “withersoever he goeth.”  (15) For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption (huiothesia, meaning “son placing”)…. We're coming to that place. God manifests His perfection in us – spirit, then soul and then, ultimately, if you have borne fruit in the soul, you will receive a new body like unto His body. (15) … Whereby we cry, Abba, Father (adoption, son placing). (16) The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.   So, even after you have the Spirit of adoption which, according to Galatians chapter four, is the Spirit of His Son, Jesus Christ, you are a son of God by faith. And since faith is accounted as righteousness, we receive the end from the beginning, we call the things that be not as though they were because “by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified” (Heb.10:14). By accepting this, we are walking from the place of being children of God to the place of being sons of God.   If you want to know what a son of God is, you have to look at Jesus. That's what a son of God is – “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” So Christ is coming to live in us – first spirit, then soul, which is your nature, your character and so forth; and then, ultimately, you will have a body like His Body! (Rom.8:16) The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God. (17) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him,] that we may be also glorified with [him]. Now, if we're joint-heirs with Christ of His glory, which we are, it's another way of talking about perfection. Glory is just another way of saying, “Christ in you.” The glory is the “shining forth from you” of the life of Christ, “that we may be also glorified with [him].”   We're joint-heirs with Christ, having received the Spirit of adoption and, although we're manifestly children, we are seeking this glory of God to come and dwell in us. But it says, “If so be that we suffer with him.” See, part of this is knowledge because you have to exercise faith and part of this is cooperation, in the giving up of our old life, in order to gain our new life. Both of these are necessary for sonship. Both of these are necessary to have the glory of God in you.   (2Co.4:16) Wherefore we faint not: but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. So as the carnal man is dying off, we manifest our death, burial and resurrection and the spiritual man is coming to life. (17) For our light affliction (notice he calls it a “light affliction”), which is for the moment (meaning this very short time that we have to go through to be perfected), worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. (18) While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen…. This means we call the things that be not as though they were. That's what God has taught us to do and that's what faith is. You claim to be a son of God and you know now that a son of God is Jesus Christ. (18) … For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.   We have to hold fast to and believe and see the things that are not, as though they were. As we're doing this, while we're walking by faith and giving up our life, this is working “for us more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.” Paul says, And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him,] that we may be also glorified with [him] (Rom.8:17). The manifestation of our sonship is being “glorified with [him]” as we suffer the death of self. God's people are glorified in this life. (18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. The suffering is not even comparable to the new life that we receive, this new glory that we receive by going through this suffering. However, we don't enter into this new life with glory. (Rom.3:23) For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; (24) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (25) whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God.   So we don't start into this with the glory of God. We accept it by faith and we're justified freely because of that faith and the life of Jesus that was given to us at the cross. We were crucified with Him and we were given His life. There was an exchange made. Our old life was put upon that cross and He gave us His life.   (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. We accept that by faith. Now God says that faith is accounted as righteousness, so we are imputed as sons of God through our faith. If you continue to walk by faith, you're always going to receive the manifestation of what you're believing. He's going to manifest His Son in you.   This is a progressive thing. You don't get anything instantaneously in the Kingdom, except by faith. By faith you accept everything as instantaneous. (Heb.10:14) For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. He perfected us at the cross. We accept the whole, free gift of sonship, of the life of God, of the purity, of the holiness, of the total redemption that He has given to us.   Let's look at these verses again: (Rom.8:18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. Now, I know some people would like to put that way off in the bye-and-bye so they can live any way they want to live down here, but if you're not manifesting fruit, Jesus said that you aren't going to get there.   What is fruit? Jesus Christ. It's also His glory manifested in you. The whole “creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God” down here, not just up in heaven. Down here is where we need the glory of God. Jesus walked in the glory of God and when He came, “the people that sat in darkness Saw a great light” (Mat.4:16). When Jesus came, He set the captives free, He opened the prison to them that were bound, He healed the sick, He cast out demons and on and on. He was the body of Christ. He left in order to come back in the corporate body of Christ, so He could touch the whole world. The glory of God is needed now and it's needed here. This is what this passage is talking about. The manifestation, the “revealing of the sons of God” has to do with manifesting sonship down here, in spirit and in soul with a physical body that is no longer under the curse.   We know that Jesus' body was the Son of Man, but the One Who dwelt in that body was the Son of God. (Rom.1:3) Concerning His Son who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, (4) who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness. So we see that Jesus was made “in all things … like unto his brethren” (Heb.2:17), and the whole of creation is waiting because the creation itself fell under the curse when man fell under the curse. Only when man comes out from under the curse is the creation delivered.   When Jesus came, He was the One Who lived out from under the curse and He set the creation free all around Him. (Rom.8:20) For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it…. God subjected us to vanity. This is how sons are created, by being subject to vanity and yet choosing the good and understanding grace, because unless you've been a sinner, you can't understand grace. Even the angels don't understand grace. They desire to look into these things (1 Peter 1:12).   We're fallen and we appreciate God very much because we've been fallen. We appreciate that He's lifting us up and setting our feet on the Rock. We appreciate it; we love Him. (Luk.7:40) And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Teacher, say on. (41) A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five hundred shillings, and the other fifty. (42) When they had not [wherewith] to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most? (43) Simon answered and said, He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.   Sinners appreciate God. They love God. So there was a reason for the creation to be subject to vanity. Some people may not believe that. But Christ was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Why would we have needed a sacrifice slain from the foundation of the world before Adam sinned? Stop and think about that.   Creation was subject to vanity for a purpose: (Rom.8:21) That the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. This is the plan: Fallen man gets saved and appreciates it so much that we love God. (22) For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. (23) And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption (that is, “son-placing”), [to wit,] the redemption of our body. We're waiting for the manifestation of our adoption.   This manifestation is not going to be complete until you are totally God's possession – spirit, soul and body? But there is a way that it's complete while you're on the earth and that is in spirit and soul. The ultimate fulfillment, of course, is the body, as he goes on to say, “[to wit,] the redemption of our body.” That's the fullness of adoption. Adoption of the body is in two stages. First for those who have manifested Jesus in spirit and soul their physical body is not under the curse and the second stage is when they receive their spiritual body when their work on earth is done. (24) For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? (25) But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.   We do not see the manifestation of sonship, but we do hope, we do wait for it and we do walk by faith for it. “Hope” is a “firm expectation.” It's not hoping for something that you think will never happen. It's hoping for something you believe is coming. Those who believe they are going to walk in the glory of God, firmly expect that God will keep His promise to us and that He will finish the good work He started in us. We will be complete; we will be perfect, as He said.  There are many people today, Christians and Jews alike, who don't understand that the Old covenant was done away in Christ. (2Co.3:14) but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ. They have a veil on. Many Christians have a veil on because they're still under the Law. They're either under the law of men or they're under the Law of the Old Covenant. They don't understand that God made a New Covenant making the first one old.   (15) But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. (16) But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. So we see that when you turn to the Lord, the blindness that the devil puts on all of mankind is broken from you. Even as a Christian, if you turn to the Lord, God will break the veil off of your spiritual eyes. No matter what kind of legalism you're under, no matter what following of your own mind you're under, God will break that off of you and you'll be able to follow the Spirit of God. (17) Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty. This is freedom – freedom from bondage, freedom from the Law – because you naturally fulfill the Law.   We're looking in the mirror and seeing Jesus by faith, so that God will take that faith, which is the substance of things hoped for, and bring it to pass. Also notice that he calls it “the glory of the Lord.” We're going to discover what this glory is and that it's in this life that you get this glory. (18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image (Where? Here.) from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.   As we accept that we no longer live, that the One Who looks in this mirror is now Jesus Christ, Who now lives in us, we're changed “from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.” What glory is he talking about? The three glories mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:41 are star, moon and sun. God offers to His saints three heavenly bodies. He calls them star, moon and sun glory.   We start out as a star glory because we have self-righteousness. The glory that comes forth from stars separates them. They're different; they're distinct from one another. That's the first stage of Christian growth. We have our own glory – self-righteousness. The second stage of Christian growth is moon glory because the moon is one. The Bible says that we become united with Him in the likeness of His death. The moon is dead; it's one and it's dead, having no light of its own, only reflecting the light of the sun.   We who have moon glory shall also be of the resurrection, which is sun glory. We're going from our own righteousness through death-to-self and resurrection life of Christ in us. These are the three stages. We grow into His glory “from glory to glory, as from the Lord the Spirit.” Notice that glory is the brilliance that shines forth from us, the light of Christ's life. It's “the glory of the Lord.” They saw a great light in the shadow of death, didn't they? Yes, and it was Jesus. They will see that again on this earth, very soon, because God's planning on lighting that light again!   (2Co.4:3) And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish. Literally, it says, “are perishing.” If you don't have the revelation of “Christ in you,” you are perishing. This revelation of Christ coming to life in you is the same Jesus Who walked on this earth 2000 years ago, not another Jesus, not a weak and worthless Jesus Who sits up on a cloud and does nothing for anybody – doesn't heal the sick anymore, doesn't cast out devils anymore, on and on. No, this is the real Jesus! This is the glory that God is resurrecting in His people in these days. (2Co.4:3) And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: (4) in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ….   Notice that this glory of Christ is a light, not in a physical world, but in the spiritual world. It's a light that shines forth. (4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them]. The devil doesn't want “Christ in you,” or sonship or the glory of the Son manifested in you. We need to obtain this glory, which is Kingdom glory. The people who walk in the Kingdom walk in this glory. Now we all may be walking into it in a certain percentage, but Jesus wants us to fully manifest that glory 30-, 60- and 100-fold. He offers us 100-fold. We need to believe Him and take Him at His Word.  He goes on to say, (2Co.4:5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. (6) Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness…. This is the light of the glory of Jesus Christ. This is a spiritual light that's in you. God opens the eyes of some people to see this light. I've known people who have seen it on me and other Christians, who walk in the light of God. They've told me so. There is a light seen in the spirit realm “Light shall shine out of darkness” is the light of the glory of God manifesting in your old life, your soul, that outer man that's decaying day-by-day, so that the inner man may be renewed.   (6) Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. You're not looking at your natural face in the mirror anymore; you're accepting that now Jesus lives in you. It's only those of you who accept that His righteousness is now yours, that you don't live any longer. That's the Gospel! That's the Good News! It's not something that you can do; it's something you can believe God to do. And He will do it.  We're told that God Himself is the Father of glory: (Eph.1:17) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory…. He's the Father of Jesus and the Father of glory because Jesus is the glory and “Christ in you” is the glory. (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. This is a good prayer! He can do it. He'll do anything that you need to give to you this gift, but first we need the revelation of what God has given unto us.   That's why we study this, to have that wisdom of knowledge. So we see He's the Father of glory, He's the Father of the Son, He's the Father of sonship and He's the Father of the spiritual man in you, which is the glory of the Son. This is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col.1:27) To whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. The glory of Jesus Christ is coming to be manifested, that is, sonship, being manifested in His people. And it's progressive, but we receive it by faith.   Back to: (2Co.4:7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels (this is the treasure of the glory of God that needs to continue to grow in us), that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. Well, we have this treasure of the Word being manifested in God's people, and the Word is also that light that shines out of darkness!  (2Pe.1:19) And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure (we know that to be the Word of God); whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. This “lamp” is the shining forth of the light. The Bible says of this “lamp shining in a dark place,” The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord (Pro.20:27).   The “dark place” is your old man that's keeping this hidden. You must be broken so that the light can come forth, “as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts.” “Day star” is an archaic term that was used for the sun. The light is shining in this dark place until the day dawns and the Son arises in your heart.   (2Pe.1:20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. (21) For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit. We have a more sure word of prophecy. It's the Word of God. All the Word of God is prophecy and it's powerful to come to pass, if we believe it. We have to hold diligently to it to believe it. We're seeing that the Father is the Father of glory and that the Word, which is also Jesus Christ, is the Son of the Father and is also that glory.   We have this treasure of the Word, of the Son, of the glory, in us, by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Spirit of adoption that brings us to the adoption of sons. The Spirit of the Son is to take us over, just as the devil seeks to take us over. The Spirit of the Son seeks to bring forth His glory in us, as Paul tells us: (2Co.4:7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. Meaning that we have a weak vessel that's not able to walk in the glory of God, but the power that's of God is that Spirit that dwells in us.   (8) [We are] pressed on every side yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; (9) pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; (10) always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus (the glory is the life of Jesus; it is the Word of God and it is born of the Father) may be manifested in our body. Manifested in this body, which will then not be under the curse. This is God's plan. You get the glory here by looking in the mirror now, with an unveiled face now.   The word “manifested” means “to cause to shine, to make visible” in our body. Phaneroo in Greek means “to cause to shine.” The very word “manifestation” is talking about the shining of the glory inside you! (11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus (there it is again, the life of that glory lives in us) may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Again, the word here is phaneroo: to cause to shine, to become visible.” Where? “In our mortal flesh”. The Son of God is being birthed in us, in this physical life. That's the manifestation of sonship in spirit and in soul. The person who has walked in the manifestation of sonship in spirit and in soul will ultimately have the manifestation of sonship in their body. That's the fullness of adoption, “that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh,” shining forth out of us.  Also in: (Col.3:3) For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. You need to remember that you don't have a problem with sin anymore. You died. The old man died, the old sinner doesn't live anymore. Christ is our life. (4) When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. The very life inside of us is Christ growing in us, just like Mary had Christ growing in her. Jesus said, For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother (Mat.12:50).   Every one of us is pregnant with Jesus Christ. (Col.3:4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested (caused to shine), then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. As Christ is manifested in us, the glory is manifested in us because He is the glory and the Father is the Father of glory, and everything that's born of the Father is glory. So the glory that's shining forth from, that's manifested, is glory of the star, moon and, ultimately, sun glory shining forth from God's people.   John calls us “children” by manifestation, because that's what we are until we manifest His sonship. (1Jn.2:28) And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested (meaning - in us), we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. What is it to “abide in him”? He tells us, “If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son” (24). What did we hear from the beginning? The truth. Not necessarily what we hear nowadays, but what we heard from the beginning; if this abides in you, you abide in the Son.   And it clearly says, he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked (6). How did He walk? He walked to His cross, for one thing. He walked in righteousness for another thing and He walked by faith for another thing. So, he says, (1Jn.2:28) And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested (phaneroo) …. The word is “if,” not “when.” Some versions say, “when he shall be manifested,” but none of the ancient manuscripts or the numerics say “when.” They say “if.” It's not talking about the physical coming of the Lord; it's talking about His coming in you.   Watch carefully: (28) And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested (caused to shine, become visible in you), we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. What's going to cause you not to be ashamed before Christ, except Him living in you? The word there is “manifested,” just like everywhere else. It is phaneroo: “cause to shine.” And the second word used here, in “at his coming,” refers to the physical coming of Christ. The first one is His coming in you. The second one is His second coming. So now it makes sense.   If the translation you see is “when he shall appear” and “coming,” then you see Him coming twice there in the same verse. It doesn't have anything to do with that. It has to do with Him coming in you and then coming for you. The parousia, the second word used here in “at his coming,” means He's coming for the ones in whom He is phaneroo'd. He has become manifest. They have manifested 30-, 60- or 100-fold of their sonship and of the glory of God. That's what it's talking about. This is awesome!   (29) If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that everyone also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him. The One in you Who's coming forth, “that doeth righteousness,” that one is born of Him. (1Jo.3:2) Beloved, now are we children (teknon, not sons) of God, and it is not yet made manifest (phaneroo; it's not yet fully shining forth from you; that glory of God is not complete) what we shall be. We know that, if (again, it's “if” and not “when”; it has nothing to do with the physical coming of Christ) he shall be manifested (become visibly shining from you), we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. If it's shining forth from you, you're going to be like Him and you're going to see Him in the mirror as He is, manifestly, this time and not by faith.   Another word, epiphania, is very close in meaning to phaneroo. It's still “a shining forth” but it's “to shine forth from, or upon.” (2Ti.4:8) Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing (epiphania-ing). It's not talking about the coming of the Lord; it's talking about His shining forth from you. He's coming for all those who have loved His epiphania, the “shining forth from.”   (Tit.2:11) For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, (12) instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world. This is the proving ground; this is where the fruit is born.   It is here that we are manifesting His glory, coming into the image of Jesus Christ, the Son, and manifesting His sonship. (Tit.2:13) Looking for the blessed hope and appearing (epiphania, the “shining forth from”) of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Are you looking for the shining forth of the glory of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ? That's our hope! Hold fast to the Word of God. Find out what it says about you and believe every Word! 

And We Know exclusive AUDIO PODCAST only Bible Study. This will be published every Saturday. https://andweknow.com/ *At SEA with LT Aug. 11-18, 2024 - https://www.inspirationtravel.com/LTA *Our AWK Website: https://www.andweknow.com/ *The Patriot Light: https://thepatriotlight.com/ *Our Podcast: https://andweknow.podbean.com/ ➜ AWK Shirts and gifts: https://shop.andweknow.com/ *BOWLING BROS: Sons Bowling channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bowling_Bros/videos ------------------------------------ Music by Ben Potter: Omnipotent yet Intimate - https://artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/omnipotent-yet-intimate/63916 Verses for today (John 6:37) "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.  [Jhn 10:27-29 NKJV] 27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 "My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of My Father's hand. [Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV] 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. [Gal 3:10 NKJV] 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." [Jam 2:10 NKJV] 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is guilty of all. [2Ti 1:12 NKJV] 12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. [Gal 2:21 NKJV] 21 "I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness [comes] through the law, then Christ died in vain." [Rom 8:38-39 NKJV] 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Jhn 1:12-13 NKJV] 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. [1Jo 5:11-13 NKJV] 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may [continue to] believe in the name of the Son of God. [Eph 1:13 NKJV] 13 In Him you also [trusted], after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, [Eph 4:30 NKJV] 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.  I John 3:20 says, “For if our heart condemn us (we think or feel unsaved), God is greater than our heart, and  knoweth all things.” God knows if you are saved even if you do not know. Titus 1:2 says “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began: [Rev 3:19 NKJV] 19 "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. [2Cr 5:17 NKJV] 17 Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. *DONATIONS SITE: https://bit.ly/2Lgdrh5 *Mail your gift to: And We Know 30650 Rancho California Rd STE D406-123 (or D406-126) Temecula, CA 92591 ➜ AWK Shirts and gifts: https://shop.andweknow.com/ ➜ And We Know Challenge Coins & Patriot Pins https://andweknow.com/ThePatriotPin/ ➜ Audio Bible https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/kjv/1John.3.16 Connect with us in the following ways:

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, October 22, 2023 There will be no Bible study on Thursday November 9th Q&A discusson this Thursday Bible study. On the gospel of John and the book of Isaiah. "Abide in Me." Joh 15:1-12 Jesus is the True Vine as opposed to the fruitless vine: faithless Israel. Jesus used facts about the natural vine and branches to illustrate spiritual principles. The vine has but one purpose: to produce grapes. They cannot bear spiritual fruit unless they abide in Him, and He abides in them. The general meaning of this word "meno" is "to stay or to remain". It commonly meant to stay in a home. Joh 4:40 It can also mean to remain with someone, or to be united with someone. 1Jo 4:15 In other... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1654

John Farley Pastor Teacher Sunday, October 22, 2023 There will be no Bible study on Thursday November 9th Q&A discusson this Thursday Bible study. On the gospel of John and the book of Isaiah. "Abide in Me." Joh 15:1-12 Jesus is the True Vine as opposed to the fruitless vine: faithless Israel. Jesus used facts about the natural vine and branches to illustrate spiritual principles. The vine has but one purpose: to produce grapes. They cannot bear spiritual fruit unless they abide in Him, and He abides in them. The general meaning of this word "meno" is "to stay or to remain". It commonly meant to stay in a home. Joh 4:40 It can also mean to remain with someone, or to be united with someone. 1Jo 4:15 In other... for full notes: http://www.lbible.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1654

Walk In Heavenly Places By Faith (7)  (audio) David Eells - 10/1/23 My Mercy Is Pouring Down  Debbie Fenske 9/26/23    “I have extended great mercy to you, my people. My mercy is pouring down like rain. Even now. For I see your heart. I see the desires of your heart to overcome in areas.   I see your weaknesses, and you're giving in when you are overcome. But I see your desire. I see your heart. I hear your cries of repentance. And I forgive.   I see deep in your heart. I know your heart; I know your thoughts. I see your hearts as one heart with the desire to press in for more and more of me, and for more and more of my power to crush those desires, thoughts, and those temptations of your flesh, and of the world that tries to rule you.  You shall overcome! I am pouring down my mercy and my grace upon you. I am getting my Bride ready. Walk in triumph and continue triumphing for the victory won in your life.   Do this by faith. For I see the deep desires of your heart. I see purity. I look beyond the weaknesses, and I see purity there. I see victory. Overcoming victory, and purity is what I see. See it in yourselves, my children. Me in you. Look to the cross.   There, the victory was won. It has been won!! You will come into your victory individually, and as one. Praise me! Victory will come as you praise me and let the chains of weakness fall.   Through praise, in faith it is done. It IS done! I see it. Be encouraged, my children. I have nothing but great love for you. My love is a love that sees farther than you see. For I do see the end. See your victory, and rejoice in it, as you rejoice in my great love, and my great mercy, and my great grace. I see your personal, and corporate battles victoriously won by my great mercy and grace. The battles have been won in Me! Remain in me with your sight on triumphant victory! There is no defeat!”  Thank You Father! All glory and power belong to you and is ours to have overcoming faith. Thank you for raining such great mercy and great grace upon us. We receive it! We can do nothing of ourselves.   Thank you for being such a loving Father, encouraging us in the faith to overcome, and see that we are victorious, even now, by your mercy and grace, we choose to walk triumphant in over the world and our flesh, and over everything the enemy throws at us. We are, and we will continue to be victorious in you. Thank you, Jesus! All glory to you!   Revelation 12:7 Amen, Blessing and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever!   Amen!      Provision  Samuel Fire 11/21/22   We went to the shops in a town a couple of hours away and we do not know anyone in this town.   We went to get a doorbell and they only had 1 left and it was greatly discounted, praise God that He always provides even when we don't expect it.   We then went into a bakery to get some lunch. We were the first customers in there but then a man came in after us and we let him go before us. We moved over to the right of him, not behind him. All these other people then came in and lined up behind him.   He paid for his lunch and then he handed the cashier lady a $100 note and told her, this is to cover the next person getting food and he looked over and pointed at us. We weren't even properly in line, praise God!   The man then quickly ran out of the store. We looked over and saw that everyone standing in line was frozen in shock and couldn't understand why he did that. The cashier lady said that we were next, and she asked us what we would like to order. I was praising God in front of everyone and giving Jesus all the Glory! Every person in there got to witness that God provides for His children!   Praise You Lord, and thank You for always taking care of us and blessing us with so much more than we want or need!   We ran out to try and find the guy to tell him about Jesus but he was already in his car driving off, but we waved, and he waved back, ALL Glory to our Heavenly Father and Jesus!       Deliverance From Rejection  Matthew Stewart 11/9/22  I would like to start out with a verse: John 8:36 “If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”   After our seven day fast, while worshipping the Lord on the eighth day meeting, I felt a great burden left off me. I knew when that happened that I had some deliverance, but I didn't know at the time, what from. But I knew I would find out later. A few weeks later, I had a birthday and, normally, for many, many years, I have dealt with a lot of rejection regarding my birthday. This time was different. For the couple weeks leading up to my birthday, I didn't feel any anxiety, rejection, or depression. This time, I felt peace and love. It felt different to me because I have never felt this way before. It is amazing how much rejection tries to steal from you, tries to hold you back, and tries to keep you from receiving the Father's love. I felt, and am still feeling, the Father's love for me.  He wanted to show me how much He loved me, so He orchestrated so many things for my birthday, things that no man could really plan. The first thing He did was took me off of a machine I was running at work, that I had been running for the last couple of weeks, because the person who normally runs it was out on medical leave. This machine was hurting my back, so the Lord orchestrated it so that the person that was gone came back on my birthday for a gift to me. The second thing He did for me was one of my co-workers, who is not generous nor gives anything to anyone, gave me two shirts for my birthday. The third thing is, on one of the shirts was a number seven, which is significant to me, because when I played baseball in high school, my jersey number was seven. The fourth thing is on the second shirt was two sevens, and, with the other shirt, that makes three sevens, which means completion. The fifth thing was that my coworkers, in times past, never regarded my birthday, but on this birthday they all sang me happy birthday. The sixth thing is that my dad texted me happy birthday, for the first time. There was a lot more that happened that day that I don't remember, but I know the Lord made it special for me.   You don't realize how much rejection you have until you are delivered from it. For me, rejection was a big part of my life. It had roots growing in every part of my life and my walk with God. Rejection was not only keeping me from receiving love from the Father, but my wife, my family, and my friends. It was building up a wall between me and everyone else. For me, rejection was blocking me from really being one with Jesus; from being one in the Spirit. Rejection was destroying my marriage, and my relationship with my kids. I didn't fully understand all of this when I had rejection. I knew a little bit of what it was doing in my life, but now, being free from rejection, I understand it more.   Now I can receive the Father's love; now I have a relationship with the Father, and my wife, and kids. Now I don't constantly see the Father as someone who's constantly trying to condemn me. Now I see Him for the love and grace He gives me, even when I don't deserve it. Rejection has a way of twisting things in your mind; rejection has a way of making everything 100-times worse than what it really is. Now I am not afraid to receive correction. Things that would normally make me cower or destroy me emotionally, don't bother me anymore. I feel so much peace now in my life; the peace is indescribable. It's like there's no fear of anything and no worry. I know in my spirit, and in my whole being, that the Father loves me. (This made a great and powerful change in Matt and greatly blessed his family.)     A Word Regarding Rejection   Anonymous 9/8/22  This question arose when we missed an important Zoom meeting and we thought we had been rejected because of the message that was shared regarding a vision that Lord Jesus is pouring out anointing on everyone. Because we were not there, we thought we missed the blessing.  The Lord - “I Am with you; I will never leave you. I know you seek Me. Receive My love. Welcome Me and enter My love and feel My presence. I Am in you. I Am preparing you and all I can give you. Rest, relax and let go. I got you. I assure you and your life, purpose and efforts. I see and know and am glad. I accept and am happy to be with you. Keep on! Do not look back! Do not listen to lies!   My Son is pleased, and you are accepted to Me. I will pour out anointing and not withhold My blessings, receive it! Manifest and proclaim the Lord – all the kingdoms and everywhere – will rejoice! The King is here! Lead. Be. Behold your Groom! Shout in heart – show your love in actions. Allow the light to reach out and all darkness to be zero! Let My reach be from in you.   TRIUMPH! All Heaven rejoice – you are blessed in with Me! Keep refusing the enemy, keep saying no to self. Consider Me in everything. I know you want Me and I know you do try – I Am and you are, we go as one – in all. Keep in Me. Peace be with you and love.   “Ache no more,   I restore,   All is for,   The One above all,   I am sure,   There is no more,   I go before,   Even with law   Or when swore,   I have borne,   Lay all on the floor,   I am at the door,   You who are poor,   I give you My all,   I make you pure,   Keep and endure,   I want you more,   Blessings forevermore.”  I have a purpose for you – just be patient. Keep seeking Me. I Am pleased. You are worth more than you have ever known. Peace be still. The enemy and ‘self' are conquered. Stand and declare! Victory! Go and redeem and plunder. Much awaits you. Keep speaking and seeking Me. I Am with you always. Have no doubt. What a wonderful (you) I made! I Am so delighted in you! More and more I can be with you and excited we will be together forever! See all that there is – we enjoy together. You give Me all and I can give you more of my power. You give all glory so I can use my power. You return all – I accept and delight to give and pour and more into you.   My love when you return all. My love when you see and talk. I want to lift you and carry you. You want to serve Me and there is nothing we can't do together.  Beside, behind, ahead, inside, above and under to hold – around and between – I AM and you are. WE (are one). Let's go and do. My blessings dear. My love and all. Thank you. And yes, I know you already want to thank Me and give Me all. Don't let go of Me. If you wander – and wonder where I AM, I have gone before and show you. Hear Me. The best is still coming. More and more and forever. Peace. Perfection. I in you, We are in One.   My Son is so happy with you. I am excited to give. And you still give all and I want to bless you more. Be assured – don't worry. I have done it all, let go of everything. I see you try, I bless you and forgive you. I know all and I know what you have done. (What you hate) is gone. I see only love and want you and I know you give to me, but rest, I love you more! That love you have for me and I have for you is a fire that cannot be put out and only burns hotter and bigger! My Son wants to rejoice to all for you are with Him forever.   Do not worry about what or how or where and who you are – I know you are all for Me - I am delighted. The purpose and use is not to consider or worry. It is how I see you give all to Me, this is what I am joyful about. Keep giving for I give more because I delight to. Don't test yourself or think harsh - but let go. You are free from this. Keep and praise as you are. I made you and now you are very dear to Me – but more so until eternity. Looking ahead, as you give to Me – I pour into you more. I receive you and My Son is so excited”       By Works Is Faith Made Perfect (1)  David Eells  (Jas.2:22) Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect. The Greek word there for “perfect” is teleioo, and it means “reaching the end-stage, i.e. working through the entire process (stages) to reach the final phase (conclusion).” The root word of that is telos, which means “mature,” but it doesn't matter how old you are in the Lord, you can still walk as “perfect” before God because you're doing what you know to do. Your ignorances are covered before the Lord. They are not accounted against you. (Jas.4:17) To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. That's something that you can't get out of. If you are not doing what you know to do, then you're not walking with the Lord, and your sins aren't covered.   You know, I was just a baby Christian when I first started receiving signs and wonders and miracles. I didn't even consider whether I was supposed to be given these gifts, I was just speaking faith and seeing God do things like moving storms out of the way. People think that they have to grow up in their faith. No, you don't; the boldest people out there are baby Christians. They step out and do things that are beyond what most Christians can do who have been with the Lord many years.   In the church that I was first associated with, there were baby Christians getting miracles because they were believing God, but I saw a lot of older people in there not receiving much from the Lord. They had settled-in and it was kind of an obligation to them to go to church. They would go to the altar over and over to get prayed for about the same things, yet I saw the baby Christians getting miracles all the time. I felt sad for those baby Christians who stayed in that church after I left. I thought, “In a few years, they're going to be just like the old people there and won't be getting anything from the Lord, either.” They weren't teaching a lot of faith in that church. Even though it was a full gospel-type church, there wasn't a full gospel there.   If we want to grow up in the Lord, we need to please the God of the Bible and not pay any attention to what those old people say, because sometimes they aren't really walking with the Lord very well. I had never heard of praying for cars and praying for things to work and so on. I didn't have anybody around me doing such things. The church I went to had never thought about it, either. I was doing it because I saw it in the Bible, and I was reading the Bible day and night, so I just stepped out and did it. It was the grace of God in me.   It was a dead Pentecostal church that I went to, because after we left the Baptist church, we went to a Pentecostal church. They weren't doing anything like that. My friends were saying, “You must have a gift of faith,” or, “You must have some gifts of miracles.” I never even thought about what it was; I wasn't thinking about what I had or what I didn't have. Jesus said, (Mat.21:21) …If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done. I haven't gotten to walk on water yet, but I'm looking forward to it.  Now, of course, if you're in a situation where you're possibly tired of the trial, or you're just plain exhausted, it can become a real temptation to accept a way out other than the one the Lord wants you to take. You can give up and accept something less than what God wants you to have. People do that all the time. Sometimes when you're believing God for something, the devil will send second-best around really quickly, so if you're believing God for something, don't necessarily accept the first thing that comes along. It might be the devil sending you second-best because he doesn't want you to see a major miracle or healing. And especially don't accept any way out that is a work of the flesh, because there's a curse in it somewhere. (Jer.17:5) Thus saith the Lord: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. You see, every kind of an effort to save yourself by your own works, rather than through faith, is just going to end up being a curse. That's what happened when Abraham listened to Sarah and had Ishmael by her handmaid Hagar (Genesis 16:1-12).   I remember when we first discovered faith and about trusting in God instead of acting in the works of the flesh. My oldest girl was a baby then. One day when she was just learning to walk, she stumbled and fell on her face into the carpet. After she got up, we saw she had a tooth that was broken-off. It was shattered all the way up into the gum, and you know how painful that can be. Well, we prayed the prayer of faith over her, but it was terrible to look at her and see that broken tooth, even though she still had a grin on her face. The whole trial was for us, and we realized that really quickly, because we were the ones who had to look at this thing. We prayed that the Lord would put a brand new tooth back in there, and over the next several weeks, we saw a piece of a tooth come out through her gums. It was forced out right through the gums, and she still had a smile on her face. It was a trial for us. So, these pieces kept coming out, and pretty soon a beautiful tooth just came right in there. It wasn't really time for her to receive a new tooth, but it came in there and forced all those pieces and the broken tooth out. The whole time, she was just easy-going and really enjoying life. We realized that it was only a trial of our faith to have to look at this thing, so we patiently endured, and God brought the end of it.   People like to think Jesus always got immediate answers, but that's not what the Scriptures say. Jesus didn't always get immediate answers. There is a “work” we have to do in the meantime, in order to bring to pass what God has given us. James says we are to (Jas.1:2) Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; (3) Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. (4) And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. You see, we are expected to go through trials of our faith, and we have many examples of that. Hebrews 11 is the trial and faith chapter of people who went through great trials of their faith, yet they endured to see answers.   We're not going to see immediate answers all the time, either. I have been doing this for over 50 years. I've seen some miracles, and I've seen other things about which I just had to be dogmatically determined to not depart from the Word of God, but to confess only the Word of God. One reason some people do not receive anything from the Lord is because they think that faith can be just in your mind, but there has to be a work that goes along with faith. I'm not talking about your works, because we know that we're saved by grace. (Eph.2:8 KJV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast. So we know that it's not man's works here; it's not the ordinary works that people do to save themselves.   (Jas.2:14) What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? The fact is, according to the rest of this chapter, the answer is “No.” That faith will not save him. If you have accepted a healing, a deliverance, a provision, or a blessing from God, such as that your children have been saved, that your spouse is saved, or whatever you're believing God for, if you do not act on that, you won't receive anything from God. What would be the normal action of a person who believed that promise? That's what you have to ask yourself. “What would I do and what would I say if I really believed what this promise says?” If you really believe the promise, you are going to be giving a good report in agreement with the Word of God. It is going to be coming out of your mouth. Ask yourself that question often, because God will correct you. “What would I say to this person if I believed that I've received what God says I've received?” Jesus did say, (Mat.21:22) And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.   (Jas.2:15) If a brother or sister (He's giving a natural example here.) be naked and in lack of daily food, (16) and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Of course, in that case, the work of the Lord will be to meet their needs. (1Jo.3:17) But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? That is not your works there, that's God's works. When you see your brother in need, you meet his needs. (Jas.2:17) Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.   If you think you have faith, but you're not acting it out with your mouth, your feet, and your actions, you've been deceived. If you think you have faith, but you're not showing it by your rest, your peace, and your patience, you've been deceived. If you're not walking in that faith, if there's no manifestation of that faith through your body, your mind, and out of your mouth, then that's not faith. You've been deceived. (18) Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith. This is the only way we can prove we have faith. It's what you say, it's how you walk, it's the peace in which you live, that proves that you believe the promise.   (Heb.4:3) For we who have believed do enter into that rest… If you really believe the promise, then you can rest, you can have peace that God has everything in His Hand, that everything is under control, and that He is going to work it out. We show our faith by our works. I'm not talking about works of the flesh, because we are not saved by the works of the flesh. We're not saved by any of our self-efforts to save ourselves. We're saved by the works of God through us. The works that naturally flow out of faith, because when a person believes a promise of God, they begin to act it out with all of their being. If they don't believe it, they act and walk contrary to it.   The Bible says, (Pro.18:21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. And (Rom.10:10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Notice that the salvation doesn't come until after the work that flows from that faith. If your actions disagree with that which you say you believe, it is not faith. First, you should believe with your heart, and then your mouth must “confess,” which is the Greek word, homologeo, that means “to speak the same as” or “to voice the same conclusion.”   If your works don't agree with your faith, forget it. You're just a double-minded person. (Jas.1:6)  But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.   (7) For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; (8) a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. It happens all the time. People go to receive prayer for some illness, but then they may continue to agree with the doctor that they're still sick. If they do that, then they've just denied the Lord. (Mat.10:33) But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven. If we deny Him before men, He will deny us before the Father. And the opposite of that is also true. (Mat.10:32) Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. “Confess” in this verse is that same Greek word, homologeo, which means “to speak the same as.” If you really believe it, say it. Why are you going to ask for a second opinion? Isn't God's opinion good enough? If you really believe God's opinion, why are you going to go ask a doctor? Isn't God's opinion right? Isn't it good? Why are you going to get the opinion of a person who walks by sight and is just going to tell you what's wrong? They do not believe in the Word of God, and so you're going to do what? Are you going to confess God before them? Or are you going to confess them before them?   Here's the whole point: If you don't “confess me before men,” if you don't “ ‘speak the same as' Me before men, I will deny you before the Father.” In another place it says, (Luk.12:9) But he that denieth me in the presence of men shall be denied in the presence of the angels of God. That doesn't sound as if you're going to get what you're asking for. You have the authority to deny yourself the benefits of God by not confessing Him before men. After you've received a healing, if someone points out to you that you're sick and you agree with him, do you really think that you're going to manifest that healing? Not likely. As the Bible says, (Jas.1:7) For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; (8) a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.   The Word of the Lord is true. If you believe that you're healed, why are you going to go and ask somebody else, anyway? The Bible doesn't say to do that. (Jas.5:14) Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: (15) and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. Are you going to get anointed by the elders but then go and ask somebody else if you got healed? Forget it, just forget it! You are to go there believing that you are going to receive your healing when you get prayed for. If you're double-minded, don't waste your time or anybody else's time. (Jas.2:19) Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder.   What makes you different from the devil if you believe God is One? The devil believes that, too, but he's not going to repent and act in faith, is he? No. (20) But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? The word “barren” here is the Greek word, argos, and it means “idle, unprofitable, useless, barren” and even “injurious.” The King James translates it as “dead.” I've had people tell me, “Well, David, I want to go prove to the doctor that I'm saved, so I go show myself to him.” That's fine, but when he tells you what he sees by sight, remember that you're still saved, because you're not saved by manifestation, you're saved by faith first. Accept only what the Bible says about you. Don't accept anything else. Confess your sins to God to make sure that there's nothing between you and Him, and do not deny the Lord, because if you get in front of men and deny the Lord, if you're ashamed of His Words and Him, He'll be ashamed of you before His Father. When men try to get you to deny the Word, even if they don't understand that's what they're doing, don't deny the Word of God. If you deny Him before men, He'll have to deny you.  (Mat.12:33) Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit. (34) Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (35) The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. (36) And I say unto you, that every idle (That's the Greek word, argon, from the same root as argos, and here we can see from the text that it means “unfruitful.” He's talking about the need to bear the good fruit of words that are in agreement with Scripture.) word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Do you know that there are many days of judgment? The Bible says, (Joh.3:18) He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.   You are walking through judgment right now if you don't believe what Jesus said. Jesus is the Word: He's all the Word, He's not just the “red letters.” You're denying the Word if you speak an “idle” word, an “unfruitful” word. You are denying the Lord before men. “They shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” What does that mean? It means that you are still walking through judgment. “He that believeth not” on the Son “hath been judged already.” If you're not walking by faith and confessing the Word, then you're living under judgment.   Judgment is the Deuteronomy 28 curse all around you and there's only one way out of that: Don't add to, or take away from, His words. (Rev.22:18) I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: (19) and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.   He tells us to (Rom.3:4) …let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. Do you want to be “justified”? Do you want God to say that you're righteous in your words when you come into judgment so that you can be delivered? That's what He's saying right here. (Mat.12:36) And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. (37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified (That means “accounted righteous.”), and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. So you see, we don't come into God's salvation without confessing it before men, and without walking it out.   Imagine, just as an exercise, “What would I act like if I really believed this promise?” Think about it. Search out those promises in the Word concerning the answer to the predicament that you're in and whatever salvation you need. Also there are the catch-all promises such as, (Mar.11:24) Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them. But there are others that are probably specific to your situation, because God covers us with promises. So, for instance, what would you say if you actually believed that by the stripes of Jesus you were healed, as the Bible says? What would you say if you actually believed that He bore your sins?  (1Pe.2:24) Who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. What would you say if you actually believed that He became cursed for you and took away your curse? (Gal.3:13) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Look Jesus bore the whole curse in which is listed sin, sickness and lack of every kind. What would you act like? How would you confess this before men? How could you complete your faith? (Jas.2:22) Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect. The Greek word there for “perfect” is teleioo, and it can be translated “complete,” so faith without works is incomplete. You are going to be justified by what you say in front of people, but it can be an idle word, a useless and unfruitful word, which will not give you the manifestation of what you seek. If you don't think that this is important to God, look at how upset Jesus became with the disciples when they didn't carry through with their faith (Matthew 8:10-12, 17:17; Mark 4:39-40; Luke 9:41).   If God counts you righteous because you believe Him for a promise or for a deliverance, if He counts you righteous because you believe His promise in the midst of your wilderness trial, then what does He say when you don't believe Him? What does He say when you stop believing Him and you turn back to the world? What does He say when you confess the bad report, like the spies who were sent into the Promised Land? (Num.13:28) Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. (29) Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.   (30) And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. (31) But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. (32) And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. (33) And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. God says He is going to disinherit them and smite them with a curse. (Num.14:11) And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? (12) I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.  He promised them the land but now he is disinheriting them for unbelief.  How can He do that after He promised them? Because it is a covenant, our part is believe and then His part is to fulfill the promise. So if you don't keep your part of the covenant YOU broke it. Why was God so angry with them? It was because they confessed the bad report that was not what He had told them. Joshua and Caleb came back confessing the good report, but the ten others came back confessing the bad report that they couldn't take that land. They had negative faith!  Those ten thought they couldn't take the promises, which the land represented. (Num.14:1) And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. (2) And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! (3) And wherefore doth the Lord bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?  What negative faith they spoke! And so God said in (Num.14:28) …As ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: (29) your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, (30) surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. (31) But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. Notice, they rejected the land because of unbelief.  (32) But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. He really held them to their own words. They brought themselves under a curse by what they said, and it's the same way with us. Our words can be idle or unfruitful, too. We need to ask God that He would (Psa.141:3) Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.   (Jas.2:21) Was not Abraham our father justified by works… There are so many people who speak against works, but it's because they're lumping all works into one bucket. We know that we are not justified by any works of man. You cannot save yourself. You cannot be good enough. You have to be justified by Christ's work at the Cross. So, if you believe that you were saved from sin, how would you act? How would you talk? Would you still be anxious and worried about your sins? Would you still be confessing that you're a sinner? Would you be confessing that you have a problem, or would you put it in the Lord's Hand by faith and watch Him do a miracle?   Many people never receive a miracle because their faith is faith without works. (Mat.15:8) This people honoreth me with their lips (They confess Him with their mouth.); But their heart is far from me. Anything for which you enter into faith with God cannot be just thoughts in your mind, it has to be manifested in your heart, your feet, your mouth, and your actions.   (Jas.2:21) Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? Abraham had so much faith that he knew if he killed his son, God would bring him back, because God had made a promise to him that his seed would be like the stars in heaven (Genesis 15:5) or the sand on the seashore (Genesis 32:12; Hosea 1:10). His faith was there and he was acting on his faith. (22) Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect (Again, that word “perfect” means “complete.” If you're not going to act on your faith, forget it, because it's not real faith and it will not be completed, or “made perfect.”); (23) and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.   (24) Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. “Works” was a part of it; works complete your faith. (25) And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? (26) For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. He's saying that if your works are not in agreement with your faith, it's just like a body that's dead, because it doesn't have a spirit to give it life.   You may be thinking, “Well, what about Jesus? Did Jesus ever have to just walk by faith?” Let me point out to you that Jesus was always living in faith because He boldly spoke by faith before He saw anything.   Christians expect that they'll just wait until they see before they believe, but remember what Jesus told Martha and Mary. (Joh.11:25) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; (26) and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. And, (Joh.11:40) Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God? God expects us to believe first, and then we'll see. That's His demand. (Heb.11:1KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It's not faith if you can see the manifestation. (Rom.8:24) For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?   If you see the manifestation, obviously you don't need faith anymore. Faith is what you have to exercise in order to see it. “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” We have to believe before we see. That's why He said in (Mar.11:24) …All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them. To believe that you have received is contrary to normal human reasoning, but then, we're not normal humans, we're sons of God. God is teaching us to be sons of God, so we have to believe we have received before we see it. If you don't believe you have received, in most instances, you're never going to see it.   Again, I point out to you that Jesus spoke before He saw. He always walked by faith. If you boldly speak your faith out of your mouth, the Bible says that God is not going to let you be put to shame (Psalm 119:46; Romans 10:11; 1 Peter 2:6; etc.) God's people are afraid to boldly speak what others can't see, but we can't be afraid to confess the Lord before men. He said that if you're ashamed of Him and His words, then He's going to be ashamed of you before His Father. (Mar.8:38) For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also shall be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. We can't be ashamed of speaking His words, even before men who will not approve of us and will think we're crazy. They will be dumbfounded when you get the miracle, and all their theology will go out the window. God wants to give them these testimonies because He's going to convert people by these testimonies.   People may say, “Well, I can't really hope to trust in God. I don't have any examples of this,” but yes, you do. Let's look at a few instances where the deliverance wasn't necessarily manifested immediately, even in Jesus' ministry. (Mat.8:5) And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. (7) And he saith unto him, I will come and heal him. (8) And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.  (9) For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. (10) And when Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. (13) And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; as thou hast believed, [so] be it done unto thee. And the servant was healed in that hour. Wow! The centurion totally confessed the Lord. He had outdone everyone in Israel, according to what Jesus said. The centurion recognized that Jesus had authority in the Kingdom of God and that He didn't even need to come to his house; all Jesus had to do was say the word, and his servant would be healed.   Notice it was the centurion's faith that healed his servant. “As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.” Jesus always has faith and He's always with us. He said, (Heb.13:5) … I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee. So Who is waiting on whom here? The whole point is that “as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.” We need to endure a trial of our faith by boldly speaking our confession, just as this centurion did. He goes on, “And the servant was healed in that hour.” Notice also that this wasn't an instantaneous healing, it was within “that hour.”   Now we know the Bible uses the word, “hour,” in more than one way (Matthew 20:12; Mark 13:32; John 7:30; etc.), but at the very least, here it is a twelfth part of a day or night. Many times they used phrases like “the sixth hour” (for example, John 4:6) or “the ninth hour” (for example, Matthew 27:45), and those are definitely talking about an hour of time, but there are other places where “hour” is not referring to an actual hour of time. Sometimes it can be more than an hour because it's speaking of an hour, spiritually.   For instance, in the book of Revelation, there's an hour that's 3 ½ years long (Revelation 12:6, 13:5, 17:12). Over in John, it says, (Joh.13:1) Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world… It took a little longer than that for Jesus to leave the world, so this is another example where an “hour” is used to mean more than an hour of time. It was longer than an hour from that point before Jesus was crucified. (Joh.13:1) Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.   So this was either a period of time, or it was a real hour, but it didn't happen immediately. Would you forgive Jesus if He didn't do everything perfectly from His beginning? The Bible says, (Luk.2:52) And Jesus advanced (The Greek word is prokopto, and it means “to make progress” or “increase.”) in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. So in other words, Jesus “grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” And the Bible also says, (Heb.2:10) For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect (This is the Greek word, teleioo, “working through the entire process to reach the final phase” or “complete.”) through sufferings. (Heb.5:8) Though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; (9) and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation. The Bible doesn't say Jesus sinned, but it appears that He could have learned things and grown in wisdom and maturity because He had taken on real flesh (John 1:14; Romans 8:3), and He was growing up in that flesh to become the spotless, blemishless Lamb of God.   Let's look at another example where the manifestation was not instantaneous. (Mar.8:23) And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, Seest thou aught? This is one time where Jesus asked somebody if they had received their manifestation, and let me point out to you that this wasn't an immediate healing. Jesus asked him if he could see anything, but I don't recommend that anybody answer, “No, I don't see,” because the Bible says that when we pray, we are to believe that we have received. (Mar.8:24) And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking. He didn't see them very clearly; they were just kind of a blur. (25) Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked stedfastly, and was restored, and saw all things clearly.   Jesus is teaching us something here: If you're asking somebody to tell you what they have felt, seen, or heard in this world, they're going to confess something that's contrary to the Word. The Word says, (Mar.11:24) … All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received (The promise is past tense in the original.) them, and ye shall have them. When you believe you have received, you are thanking God for the thing that you don't see. You have received it. You are confessing it. It is yours.   When you come to the Lord, and you ask Him to save you, and you claim your salvation, do you realize that what you're proclaiming is total perfection? It's total deliverance from the curse and from sin, and it's total healing for your body because salvation concerns the whole man and all of its circumstances. You're confessing deliverance from the curse. When you claim that you're saved, you're claiming something by faith that encompasses all of the blessings and promises of God.   Some people don't realize that they're saying something by faith there; they think that they have manifested salvation. No, the truth is, when you claim that you are saved, you're claiming everything that God promised. Everything is included in salvation, everything. It's all past tense because it's all done, and so that's what you claim. You don't say what you see, feel, and hear in the world, like those ten spies did (Numbers 13). God called it an “evil report” (Numbers 14:36).   They were being honest about what they'd seen with their eyes, but that was all the bad report because it wasn't what God promised. They weren't claiming what God promised and therefore they never received it. (Num.14:36) And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, (37) even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord. So this is an example where there wasn't an immediate healing, and notice that what the man initially spoke was contrary to the promise. Was Jesus trying to teach us something here? I believe so.   I believe we're about to come to a day when there are going to be many immediate manifestations, but what are you going to do if you don't get an immediate manifestation? Does it mean that God hasn't answered? That's what the devil tells you. That's what unbelievers around you will tell you, and that's what very religious people will tell you; they'll tell you that God hasn't answered.   Look at the story of Naaman. (2Kin.5:1) Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper. (2) And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife. (3) And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy. (9) So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.   (10) And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. (11) But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper. (12) Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.   (13) And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? (14) Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. If God, through Elisha, had asked Naaman to do some great thing, Naaman would have gone and done it because he believed in salvation by works, but God only asked him to dip seven times in the Jordan. Are You Going to act on your faith?   The point there is that He just wants us to obey the Word of God, and, of course, Naaman didn't receive his healing manifestly until he came up the seventh time. You know, sometimes the doctors may ask you to do some “great” thing, as a matter of fact. They may tell you to fast, to not eat this or that, or to take these pills. Doctors want you to save yourself. They don't have any problem with you doing some works to save yourself, but you have to act on the Word of God. That was the problem with Naaman until he finally realized that he was supposed to act upon the Word of God. It didn't matter that over in Syria they had much cleaner rivers and that if he wanted to go dunk in a river, he could go over there.  You see, rest is an action, because people who don't believe are running around trying to save themselves, and they don't have any rest. Rest is an action in our Kingdom. It is ceasing from your works to enter into His rest. That is an action. Everyone who believes enters into rest. And while they're resting, they confess that what the Word of God says is true. They confess they are healed, delivered, provided for, that their family is saved, and all these things. While they're resting, they do these works. You have to be resting in God to do the works of God. You have to be ceasing from your own works to do His works.   (Heb.4:1) Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. (2) For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard. (3) For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.   (4) For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works; (5) and in this [place] again, They shall not enter into my rest. (6) Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, (7) he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.   (8) For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. (9) There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest (Sabatismos = Continual rest) for the people of God. (10) For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. (11) Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience. The “rest” is ceasing from your own works. You can't do God's works unless you're ceasing from your works, which is seeking to save yourself. The rest doesn't mean you're not working; it means you're not doing your works. If you're resting in God, you're doing His works with confidence.   People think, “I'm believing, but...” For example, “I'm believing, but I'm going to take this pill.” The promise doesn't say that He needs our help. The promise says He's already done it. If you believe that God has already done it, then you don't have to earn it or attain it somehow by your works. What would you believe if you believed that God had already done it? What would you speak and how would you act if you believed that God had already done it? That's what the Bible says.   Here's an example, a common one: (Luk.17:12) And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off: (13) and they lifted up their voices, saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. (14) And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go and show yourselves unto the priests… Well, the lepers knew what that meant (Leviticus 13:1-46, 14:1- 32).   When a person is healed of leprosy, they are to go to the priest and he examines them. If they are healed, then the priest offers a sacrifice of two turtledoves for them and they are accepted back into the congregation of the people of Israel. That's what the Law said. Jesus told them to not worry about that, but to just go and show themselves to the priest. They knew that meant that they were healed, but when Jesus spoke that, they weren't manifestly healed. They were walking by faith. Those lepers were walking by faith and, not only that, but Jesus spoke it by faith, because He didn't see it.   (Luk.17:14) And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go and show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, with a loud voice glorifying God; (16) and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. Where were the rest of them? Everybody ought to first give thanks to God. Maybe the rest were thinking, “Oh, I need to go to my family and show them what the Lord did for me,” when it should have been more important to them to go back and give thanks to God. I imagine that they had been separated from their families for a long time and there were people they really wanted to see, really wanted to go back and hug, but God wants the thanks first, doesn't He?    Testimony: We came out of the apostate church about five years ago. We spent the first three years studying on our own, going through the Bible, learning as much as we could. About two years ago we found your website and started going through all the teachings. We joined the conference talks about the time you had started doing the series on “The Real Good News.” Listening to the testimonies of the brothers has increased our faith tremendously.   Our eyes have really been opened to what living by faith is, and how to live by faith. For example, we have a Ford with 260,000 miles on it. When we learned that we could pray for our cars, we started laying our hands on it and praying fixes for it every time it started to have a problem. Now our van is running great. All our friends think we are crazy, but we know the Lord will continue to keep our van on the road for as long as we need it.   When we started working on some videos, our brand new DVD burner stopped working completely. After we asked for prayer during the broadcast, the next day the DVD burner started working again. We learned that the Lord heals more than people.   Then our daughter, who had been helping me put background videos together, woke up one morning with her wrist hurting so much that she couldn't use her hand. We prayed for her, but her hand and arm turned purple. In the weakness of our flesh, we took her to the doctor. The doctor said that her wrist had been sprained—she would have pain for the next few weeks—and that she couldn't use her hand. Not accepting that bad report, she refused to take the medication. After we prayed for her again, anointing her hand with oil, three days later her hand was completely healed.   We were traveling together with some brethren in Christ when their son fell and broke both of his wrists, sustaining fractures in both hands. The emergency personnel took x-rays and confirmed the broken bones. They bound his hands, telling him to go to the doctor when he got home in order to put casts on them. However, his mom also refused to receive the bad report. We asked him if it was ok to pray for him (since he was just seventeen years old and a new believer). We agreed together, then his pain was gone. When he got home, he went to the doctor and discovered that, even though the fractures were still visible on the x-rays, they were healing on their own. Since he had NO pain and could use both of his hands perfectly, they couldn't justify putting casts on him. The nurse and doctors were amazed, since they had never seen anything like that. His mother replied, My Lord Jesus has healed him.   The Lord has us walking on a journey through the wilderness that is going to get even more interesting now. [The Real Good News can be read for free on the website.] has really taught us to walk in faith. It came at the perfect time to strengthen our faith. PRAISE THE LORD!   (Editors Note) In the days to come the church will be cut out of worldly help by the mark of the beast them all will know the value of walking by faith. We caution that legalism does not heal for it is not of faith. Doing things because others do them or to be accepted or admired is not faith. A person must believe they have rescived or not go down this road. As James 1 says the double minded man is not to believe he will receive anything from the Lord.