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Jesus Delivered Us (audio) David Eells – 6/22/25 Father, fill us with faith as we discover what has been accomplished for us by the sacrifice of Jesus. How that he bound the strong man and delivered us from evil. Give us understanding that we be not ignorant of satan's devices. Help us to stand on Your Word and swing our sword of the Spirit which the fallen angels cannot resist. We ask for your grace and power to open up Your Word to our hearts and minds and make us all the spiritual warriors You have called us to be. The enemy fears those who know their rights. Saints, I'm going to talk to you today about what Jesus provided for us and our deliverance from the demonic hoards. When the Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, He replied, (Luk.11:19) And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. (20) But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. (21) When the strong [man] (The word “man” is actually not in the original; it was added-in later. Jesus was calling the devil “the strong” when He was spoiling his kingdom.) fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace: (22) but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. (23) He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. So it actually reads, (Luk.11:21) When the strong fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace. These “goods” Jesus is talking about are the things that the devil, “the strong,” has been given authority over in this world, and the “court” here represents his kingdom where he, “the strong,” rules and reigns. (Luk.11:21) When the strong  fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace: (22) but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him (That was Jesus who overcame him!), he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted. Did you know that the devil has no armor? His kingdom has no armor. He and his demons have no armor if we believe it. They have no protection against the authority that God has given to us. The protection has all been taken away from them. His “whole armor” has been taken away since it is God in (Col.1:13) Who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love. And He gave us authority in (Luk.10:19) 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. This is something that has already been accomplished; it isn't something that we have to accomplish. God has given us authority to partake of everything that Jesus did for us at the Cross. (Col.1:12) Giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet (The Greek there is “made us competent or able.”) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Whatever a saint walking in light is entitled to, God made us able to partake of that, so if you think that you lack ability, you are just wrong and you need to study the Scriptures. For example it says in (Eph.6:13) Wherefore take up the whole armor of God (So we have been given God's armor and the devil has none), that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. (16) Withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil [one]. So, through faith in this Word we can cast down all of his weapons against us. We are invincible. And in (Php.4:13) I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me. Jesus made us able to be a partaker in whatever we need. He made us able to plunder the devil's kingdom, and the devil's kingdom is wherever the devil rules or his curse reigns. Wherever the devil has ability, we now have the ability to take it away from him. The devil has no power if we believe this. Do you remember when Joshua and Caleb were seeking to bring the children of Israel into the Promised Land? After spying out the land, these two said that their enemies' defense was removed from over them. We read this in (Num.14:9) Only rebel not against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not. The demons and the people they use are the ones who should fear us. All that the other ten spies could see were the giants, but Joshua and Caleb saw that the enemy had no armor. That's the way we have to see the enemies of God's Kingdom. It makes no difference whether those enemies are the lusts of the flesh, works of darkness, demons, the devil, or whatever. Their defense is removed from over them. They have no power against the Word of God. Jesus was the “Stronger” Who came and took away their whole armor (Luke 11:22). Praise be to God! So Jesus has already divided the spoils for us. Those “spoils” of the devil's kingdom are all the places where he has taken advantage of your life or taken authority over the things or circumstances that God has put in your hands. All these add up to “spoils.” When Jesus went about doing good and “healing all who were oppressed of the devil” in (Acts 10:38), He was spoiling the devil's kingdom. If you are being oppressed of the devil, Jesus destroyed this oppression. He broke this power everywhere He went. Whether it was hunger, sickness, demonic possession, or mental need, it didn't make any difference; Jesus broke the oppression and He told us to do the same thing because (Mat.12:30) He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. The devil's power over God's people rests in the fact that God's people don't know that his power has already been broken, and they don't know the authority that's been given to them. Although the Word speaks it plainly, it still has to be a revelation that you pick up and use like a sword. The Bible says of Jesus in (Col.2:15) Having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. He already made spoil of our eneies. “Triumphing” is not the victory. “Triumphing” is celebrating the victory that has already been won. Jesus triumphed over the devil and He rubbed the devil's nose in what He had accomplished on the Cross. The victory was at the Cross; what came after the Cross was the triumph, which is our responsibility. (2Co.2:14) But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place. We are to simply celebrate His victory. Hallelujah! What we need to do is repeat what the Word says about our circumstances or situation, and we do that by stating what the Word says about our authority and righteousness. All we have to do is believe that. The devil wants us to look at ourselves and our failures and the curse around us, but we just need to remember that we have authority over that curse. We've been crucified with Christ and we're not alive anymore; now it's Christ Who lives in us. (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living 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. When we remember what the Word of God says about us and about our circumstances, we can celebrate the victory. When we are praising God for what He has done, this is triumphing over the devil; it's celebrating the victory! Praising God is not necessarily singing songs, and some songs that you sing in church don't really praise God. Many songs don't even confess the Word of God. They don't celebrate the victory, and as a matter of fact, a lot of them just confess the problem. We are not under the curse anymore because (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: (14) that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (He became accursed for us so that we could have Abraham's blessings.) So, how was Abraham blessed? (Gen.24:1) … And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. (Gal.3:15) Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto. (16) Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. (17) Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect. (18) For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise. So, now we are celebrating the victory that He has already accomplished. Jesus said in (Joh.16:33) … In the world ye have tribulation: be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. And He said in (Joh.19:30) … It is finished… That's what we have to remember when we look around us and, instead, we see the very opposite. If we apply the Word to the problem, we are going to spoil the principalities, the powers, and the rulers of darkness (Ephesians 6:12). The Bible says when Jesus took away the devil's armor, He divided the spoil. (Isa.53:12) Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death… Jesus said in (Luk.11:23) He that is not with me is against me… He's talking there about those who are dividing or plundering the spoils. If you are with Jesus, then you are going to do what He did, and what He did was plunder the devil. All of His physical life, He plundered the devil, and by His victory over the devil, He made it possible for us to plunder the devil's kingdom too. We should be spoiling the devil's kingdom; we should be destroying the curse around us. We should be bringing people into victory by putting faith in their hearts. We should be delivering those who are captive by casting out demons. And we should be delivering those who are oppressed of the devil by healing the sick. We should be doing everything our Lord Jesus did. Jesus went on to say, (Luk.11:23) He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. So you are either going to be “gathering” or you are going to be “scattering.” That means you are either going to be on the attack or you are going to be on the run. You're going to be doing one or the other, and sad to say, most Christians are on the run because they don't understand what Jesus did. They don't understand what the Word of God says. They don't understand what their position and calling is in this world. As believers, we are on the attack. We are going into the Promised Land to take this land for Jesus Christ, and not a man there can stand before us. The Lord said in (Jos.1:5) There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Most Christians don't understand that the victory has already been given to us. We are not supposed to go in there and lose people; we are supposed to go in there and conquer the enemy. It's been given to us to conquer the enemy. Jesus said in (Joh.20:21) … as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you. God did not send Jesus to fail. He sent Him with the Word of God and He sends us with the Word of God too. He says in (Eph.6:17) And take the … sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. We have to take the Sword of the Spirit and we have to fight, because if we don't fight, we are going to lose. If we are not plundering, if we are not gathering the spoils, we're being scattered. The word “scattereth” there is from the Greek word skorpizo, and this is where we get the English word “scorpion.” It's from the same root as the Greek word skorpios, meaning “to penetrate and to put to flight.” When a scorpion stings with its tail, it penetrates and puts to flight because of the pain and misery it inflicts. Jesus spoke about scorpions. (Luk.10:19) 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. In the kingdom of the devil, scorpion spirits are tormentors. When a scorpion spirit stings you, just as with a real scorpion, it hardly ever kills, but it's very painful. Scorpion spirits can torment your body with sickness and pain, and they may also torment you with fear. (1Jn.4:18) …fear hath punishment… If you are not plundering, the devil is going to penetrate you with one of these spirits, causing you to flee. If you are not plundering, then your thinking is contrary to the Word of God and you are not going to stand up to the devil. (Luk.10:18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven. (19) Behold, I have given you authority… If your Bible says “power” instead of the word “authority,” then it has the wrong word because the Greek there is exousia, and it means “authority.” “Authority” is the “right to use power.” You have been given the right to use God's Power. (19) Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power (Now that word is the Greek word dunamis, meaning, “power.”) of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you. (20) Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you… This is talking about serpent and scorpion spirits. These are different kinds of spirits and they have different works. In the kingdom of the devil, the serpent spirits have authority. While the poison a scorpion inflicts is in its tail, the poison that the serpent inflicts is in its head, and as the saying goes, it's the head that wags the tail. The Bible says in (Deu.28:13) And the Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God… You are going to be above and not beneath; you are going to be the head and not the tail, just as Israel was supposed to be the head and not the tail. The tail reveals something about the head in most of God's creatures. For example, you can tell a dog's attitude when you look at its tail. If his tail is standing up in the air and wagging back and forth, you know that dog is happy and content, not fearful. But if his tail is tucked down between his legs, you can tell he's feeling guilty or fearful. You can read his mind by looking at his tail. The superior authority is always the head and not the tail. And the serpent's poison being in the head symbolizes that the serpent spirit poisons the mind. The job of the serpent spirit, mostly, is not to bring about torment, but to change your mind. Their job is to deceive, as the Bible says in (Gen.3:1) Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. He was subtle. He was crafty. He was wise in an evil way. (2Co.11:3) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness (So the “serpent” is a beguiler.) your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. Serpent spirits beguile. They are deluding spirits and deceiving spirits. They want to change your mind, just as the serpent changed Eve's mind, because he wanted to pervert her knowledge. He wanted her to partake of knowledge that was forbidden. (Gen.2:17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it… He wanted her to partake of knowledge that wasn't legal. Scripture tells us about different ways we can receive things through the spirit realm that are illegal. Let's go to (Deu.18:9) When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. (10) There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, (11) or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. (12) For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. (13) Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. (14) For these nations, that thou shalt dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. (20) But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. (21) And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? (22) when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him. You see, there is false or deceptive knowledge. Going to consult familiar spirits or deceiving spirits, even if they claim to be prophets, is illegal. Going to consult wizards or necromancers is not allowed. All these operate in forbidden knowledge. But the devil wants to give you forbidden knowledge because he wants to delude you. He can make the “tail” do whatever he wants if he can change your mind, if he can change the knowledge that God has given you. If he can do that, then he's got you. That's why these serpent spirits have been given authority in the devil's kingdom. They are higher spirits than scorpion spirits because their primary purpose is to deceive you. Some of these “serpents” are “seducing spirits” that operate by giving you false doctrine. (1Ti.4:1) But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. They seduce you by giving all kinds of flesh-pleasing reasons why it is advantageous for you to believe their doctrines. There are seducing spirits forbidding you to eat meats, or to marry (as in this context), and so on, because if you have a false doctrine, that head is going to wag that tail. The devil knows the rest of the body is going to follow. The most important thing for the devil is that you accept the spirits that work in your head; that's the way he can control the rest of your life.  Remember, we are not to receive forbidden knowledge. Instead, we're supposed to be (2Co.10:5) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. You'll win the battle if you start with the head, but if you have spirits of rejection, fear, anxiety, condemnation, or guilt, then the devil has a stronghold in you. If you have anything that he can use against you, then you've got a “spy in your camp”. And the devil has rights now, because one demonic spirit can open the door for other demonic spirits so that you won't be able to stand up against the devil, who is looking to destroy you. We read in (Mat.12:43) But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. (44) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation. The devil's seducing spirits are “double agents.” They talk in your mind as if they are your friend and as if they belong to you, but whatever is speaking in your mind that's contrary to the Word of God is a stronghold of the enemy by which he can conquer you. You have the authority to cast it out. Get rid of it! Father, continue to grant us repentance as You bring to our attention where we have read or listened to things that are not according to Your Word and accepted those things we might have once believed as true that were not. Lord, help us to search our hearts and minds for any past church doctrines or religious beliefs that are not true. We only want what is True to be what we base our faith in. Father, help us to discern and destroy the strongholds we may have and get rid of them! Amen. Thank You Lord! The Bible says in (Rev.9:1) And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth (That's speaking of Satan.): and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. (2) And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (3) And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. (4) And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads. (5) And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man. As we've learned, the tormenting spirits are scorpion spirits. In the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant in Matthew 18:23-35, the Lord says that He will turn you over to the tormentors until you should pay what is due (Matthew 18:34), and those tormentors are these scorpion spirits. Nobody is ever going to see with their physical eyes the creatures described here from the bottomless pit, because they're coming to the second heaven. It's like the angel here in (Rev.14:6) And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven (The Greek word means “middle heaven.”), having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people; (7) and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. “Middle heaven” means the angel is in the second heaven. That means you don't see him, although the angel is right here with us in the devil's kingdom and he's preaching the Gospel. We can see what's in the first heaven, but the second heaven is a different realm, a “twilight zone,” if you will. And so this scorpion spirit of Revelation 9 has been given five months to torment those people who don't have the seal of God on their foreheads, but they are not able to see this spirit that came out of the bottomless pit. Satan has authority to loose these angels that the Bible says were held for the end of time, for a time and a season when God was going to judge the earth. (Rev.9:1) And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.) (Rev.13-15) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, (14) one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates. (15) And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.) Satan was given authority to loose them when he was cast out of heaven, and that's what is happening here. The Bible says, (Rev.14:11) And the smoke of their torment goeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, they that worship the beast and his image, and whoso receiveth the mark of his name. As we read, both smoke and torment are also mentioned in Revelation 9. Out of the smoke came tormenting spirits that were like locusts and like scorpions, and we've seen that these are demons with the authority to penetrate and to put to flight. Other demons are mentioned often in the Scriptures. For instance, (Rev.16:13) And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs: (14) for they are spirits of demons… People who have a gift of discerning of spirits have seen frogs in the spirit realm, and those frogs were evil spirits, just as the scorpion spirits are evil. You know, the devil always sends his “big guns” after you when you get into a deep trial, a heavy trial that will have a really terrible outcome if you lose it. The Bible says in (1Jn.4:18KJV) … Fear hath torment… During a battle or a trial, you may have suddenly felt a spirit of fear just come down on you. That's another one of the devil's “big guns,” and if you listen to it, if you give in to it, you are going to run from the devil. Now we are commanded in Ephesians 6 what we should do! (Eph.6:11) Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (12) For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places]. (13) Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. (14) Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, (15) and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; (16) withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil [one]. (17) And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.  We should put up a shield of faith to quench those “fiery darts” of the wicked one. What does a fiery dart do? Just like the tail of the scorpion, it's made to penetrate and put to flight. It's made to conquer you, but with the shield of faith, you can quench rejection, fear, depression, anxiety, condemnation, or any other of these fiery darts, which are tormenting spirits that come against you, because they can only come against you if your mind isn't right. But if you have faith in your mind, how is it possible for fear to come into you? If you have faith in your heart, how is it possible for depression, or anxiety, or any of these other spirits that seek to take hold of you, to conquer you? Remember what the Scripture says about you. (Rom.6:11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. Don't ever think that whatever the spirit may be that's coming against you, is you. When these kinds of deceiving spirits speak into your mind, that's when you have to use the armor and put up your shield of faith. Don't accept those thoughts as yours. They're not coming from you, and they don't belong to you. There's a doctrine in the apostate church about the “holiness” of oppression, the “holiness” of sickness. They want you to believe that this martyr's syndrome is good for you, but you know if God promised you an “egg,” He's not going to give you a “serpent.” (Luk.11:11) And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent? (12) Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? The serpent and scorpion represent doctrines of death, but an egg represents life. What some churches have is actually a doctrine of death because they think that God is going to send them a “scorpion” or some other curse. And as for sickness, they think they are going to have to put up with it but Jesus and the apostles didn't. They claim that Paul's “thorn in the flesh” was sickness, but it never was, and Paul even said it wasn't sickness. (2Co.12:7) And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. I am not stating that there was a demon inside of Paul, but an angel of Satan was humbling him. The word “messenger” in the Scriptures, 181 of 183 times, is translated as “angel,” so an angel of Satan was sent to buffet him, and the word “buffet” means “to beat or strike repeatedly.” Paul was not talking here about an infirmity or sickness; only the KJV says that Paul's “thorn in the flesh” was an “infirmity.” No Bible derived from the ancient manuscripts has this translation because that's not the word “infirmity”; it is the word “weakness.” Scripture says that Christ was crucified through weakness. (2Co.13:3) Seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to youward is not weak, but is powerful in you: (4) for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. This same Greek word asthenes translated as “weakness” in 2 Corinthians 13:3 by the King James, is what the King James in 2 Corinthians 12:9 claims is “infirmity.” Paul did not have an infirmity. The Bible says, (Psa.103:2) Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits: (3) Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases. God is not going to turn around and say, “No, Paul, you keep this disease. It's good for you.” This is not our God. Those churches claim that it was sickness in order to make a person who is going through sickness and suffering feel righteous, but most of the suffering that God's people go through is because they don't believe the Word. God promises an egg while the devil wants us to settle for a scorpion, and it's sadly true that for most people, what's ruling their life is a scorpion. If you listen to rejection, anxiety, fear, or guilt, you are being ruled by the devil. If you listen to shame or unbelief, you are being ruled by the devil. (Rom.6:16) Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? You can't listen to what God says and listen to what the devil says at the same time. (1Co.10:21) Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. You can't partake of the Lord's Table and the table of demons at the same time because everything demons will feed you is contrary to the Word of God. God promised us in (Exo.23:27) I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. (28) I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. A hornet is like a scorpion, because it also penetrates and puts to flight. It's a little bitty thing, but it can move a great big man. So you see, God can make our enemies fear us, and they do fear us if we know our authority.  If we know what the Word of God says and we step out and swing that Word of God like a sword (Ephesians 6:17), they fear us. Our daughter had a dream once about five chickens that represented five evil spirits that were bothering my mother. Well, those chickens were “chicken,” because just as soon as we gave them the Word, they ran. Evil spirits do fear us, but they recognize whether or not we know the Word of God. And they know whether or not we're standing on the Word of God, but they'll try to bluff us as long as they can. The devil wants us to fear him, and he is constantly trying to make us fear the “fiery darts” of the curse that he administers. But we know the Word of God says we've been delivered from all that. (Col.1:13) Who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; (14) in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. And the Bible tells us who we are in Christ. (Rom.6:11) Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. (18) And being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. Now that's a sword. That Word is a sword for you to use against the devil's lies. The devil wants you to act on what he says, but the Lord wants you to know who you are in Christ and act on what He says about you. If you don't act on what the Lord says, you don't get anything, because (Jas.2:17) Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. The devil's kingdom operates the same way. He can come by and put a little thought in your mind, but if you don't accept or act on it, if you don't chew or meditate on it, you are not guilty. The devil can put these little thoughts in your mind but you can reject them, and if he gets a little stronger, you can get a little stronger. You can speak up and just rebuke him! You can throw the Word of God into his face as Jesus did! Our faith and understanding of what Jesus did for us make us free from being fearful of any weapon the devil has.  Remember, we read that Christ took away the devil's “whole armor” (Luke 11:22). He took away all of his power (Matthew 28:18). He delivered us out of the power of darkness (Colossians 1:13). All of this is our shield, and you need to use this knowledge. You don't fear the devil when you know who you are and that you don't have to give in to him. However, many people do give in to the devil; they give in to the spirits he sends against them, because they don't believe they have any other choice. Well, there's a reason that the Gospel is called the “Good News.” We do have another choice; we have authority over the devil. He has to move when we say, “Move!” If we step out and exercise that authority over him, he has to move. Thank you Father! As we've seen, the word skorpizo, refers to scorpion spirits, and the devil comes to scatter. Jesus said in (Joh.16:32) Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered (That's the word, skorpizo.), every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Fear scattered the disciples when the men came for Jesus in the garden (Matthew 26:50-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47- 53; John 18:1-14). They were afraid the same thing was going to happen to them, but we know that (Joh.3:27) A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven. The devil sent a spirit there to put fear in them so they would just abandon Jesus in his affliction. To be perfectly just, He had already told them that this is what He came for, so what could they do? The devil also comes to divide. There's another word used in the Scriptures, which is diaskorpizo, and it means “to scatter and separate.” A good example of that is, (Joh.11:52) And not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad. That means not only are they scattered from their land, but they are separated from each other, and the devil did it through those scorpion spirits. They divided, they separated, and scattered the Body of Christ, just as God warned us through the apostle Paul. He said in (Act.20:29) I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock; (30) and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. All of God's people are supposed to be coming out of the bondage they're in and back to this one land. Do you know what that means? It means that we are supposed to be one. Jesus said, (Joh.10:16) And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd. This is what the Tribulation is going to do. God's people are going to become one Flock with One Shepherd, but for now they are diaskorpizo, they are “scattered abroad,” separated. They wanted to hang out at Jerusalem and have Church but the persecution scattered them to spread the gospel. Scorpion spirits separate the Body, separate the Flock, and they do this with false doctrine, false understanding, and false thinking. I've heard people say about our teachings, “Well, aren't you doing the same thing?” No, and when you look around us, you see people from all different backgrounds here. We all get along very well. We want the Flock to be one, but there is only one way the Flock is going to be one, and that's to give up sectarianism, because sectarianism is a work of the flesh. Let's read that in (Gal.5:19) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (20) idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties (The three Greek words there mean “contentions,” “dissentions,” and “sects.”), (21) envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Demon spirits come in to make you believe the lie that you are something great, or that you have everything you need without the rest of the Body, but the Bible tells us in (1Co.12:13) For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. The Body needs to be one, because the Body has different parts of God's knowledge and different parts of God's gifts. When all are put together, the Body is edified, it's “built up.” (Eph.4:15) But speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ; (16) from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love. God wants His Flock to be one, and we want His Flock to be one, but the devil is warring against this unity. The devil knows that when God's Flock is one, it's going to be a powerhouse, and so we want to learn not to be separate from our brethren. We want to know what it is that has deceived our brethren to make them separate from us. Babel always seeks to be one but their motives were evil and God scattered them, most likely with scorpion spirits.. The mind-deceiving serpent spirits deceive different members of the Body in different ways to keep them from knowing the truth. Since the head wags the tail, the rest of that body, whether it's one person or a group of many people, is going to follow whichever way the head leads. That's the job of the serpent spirits, but other demon spirits do the same thing. They sow their seeds of fear, doubt, unbelief, anger, lust, and so on, and if you receive their seed, your flesh will take on their nature. Your flesh will take on the nature of these demonic “gods” of the lusts of the flesh. Now Jesus sows a Seed, too, and if we believe and act on and live on it, we take on His Nature. The Spirit of Christ is come in order to sow His Seed in our hearts so that our hearts take on His Image. What's an “image”? Well, it's an imagination. The Bible says, (Rom.1:21) Because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings… In other words, they “became vain in their imaginations.” So, what is a “vain” imagination? The Scriptural word for “vain” is mataioo, and it means “aimless, foolish, futile, without purpose.” A “vain” imagination is not doing what it's supposed to do; it's not working for God anymore. Your imagination was created to do something for you on this earth for God. If it's not fulfilling that purpose, then it's fulfilling another one, and it is vain. (Rom.1:21) Because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. If you become vain in your imagination, if you have the kind of imagination that, for instance, brought the Flood (Gen.6:5-7) And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (6) And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (7) And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.), then your senseless heart is being darkened, because those imaginations are evil; know that the gods of the lusts of the flesh are taking advantage of you through this ground that they've gained in you. We need to be (2Co.10:5) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. This is talking about re-taking the ground, these high places, that those spirits have taken from us. Anywhere you are being ruled by any lust, there's a demon around. He doesn't necessarily have to be on the inside; he might be on the outside, but he's still there. You can rebuke him, and when you rebuke him, he has to leave. If you know who you are in Christ, if you know the authority you have in Christ, and if you repent and believe it, when you rebuke the demon, he has to leave.  So whatever problem you may have or situation you may currently be dealing with, you don't have to keep it. You don't have to be ruled by it any longer. You can take the authority you have in the Name of Jesus, and it has to leave. Any stronghold in your thoughts, or evil imaginations that the devil has used against you, you bring them into the obedience of Christ and cast them all away. Amen. Now, I want to remind you that the most important thing is to submit yourselves unto God. (Jas.4:7) Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you. We do this by repenting and believing what the Word says about us. “Resist the devil, and he will flee” is a promise to us from the Word of God. If we submit to God and resist the devil, he has to flee, but the devil's not going to tell us that. He's going to try to convince us that he doesn't have to leave. He's going to try to convince you that you're in bondage to this lust. No, we're not in bondage to this lust. We've been set free from that bondage because Jesus bound the strong man and then He plundered him. Jesus crippled the devil.  In the animal kingdom, when the mothers want to teach the babies how to hunt, the predator mother cripples the prey first. It may be a bird or a rabbit, and she sends the cub after it. She's teaching that cub how to be a predator. We need to understand that's what our Lord did for us. He went and crippled the devil. And not only that, He also took away his armor. Our Lord made it possible for us “little cubs” to run out there and jump on that old, mean devil. We can see a parable from God when we look at the animal kingdom. So now the devil is crippled, he has no armor and he's defenseless before us, but we have to know it and we have to believe it. We have to speak the Word of God; we have to swing the Sword!  Now I'd like to share with you the following testimonies:   God's Word Gave Faith for Deliverance From Ten Afflictions - Anonymous Wonderful things have taken place in our lives since reading “Sovereign God, For Us and Through Us.” We have been delivered of Asperger Syndrome (autism), bipolar disorder, asthma, sinus infections, food allergies, acid reflux, esophagitis, lacking a thyroid, broken toes, and smoking, over less than a five-month period through faith in the Word. My oldest son, at eleven years old, has been healed of Asperger Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, and bipolar disorder. Since my faith was awakened, I took courage in the promises of God and took him off of all his medication, which amounted to seven pills a day. He had been taking pills for five years to control behavioral problems. We were able to finish the school year with minimal problems, he had absolutely no withdrawal symptoms. By faith I called the school to tell them we were taking him off of all his meds because we had prayed and believed that God had healed him. It was a great opportunity for his teachers to see a miracle. Since then, we have had trials of our faith. The symptoms tried to come back. But I had already been through “hell on earth” from this demonic activity that we had earlier mistaken for mental illness. There was no way I was going to accept it back, once I knew the truth! The medications that he had been taking made him a zombie! They took away his personality and stunted his growth. Now he is happy, with an animated personality. He is able to eat and has gone through a big growth spurt! My middle son, aged five years, was healed from severe asthma! He was taking two inhalers twice a day, Singular pills, and Nasonex nasal spray for chronic sinus infections. In addition, he had to have nebulizer treatments. He has not had to take any of it since we stood on faith for his healing! We have had trials of our faith for him also. Twice it tried to come back, but I rejected it and cast it out again. He runs around and jumps on the trampoline and doesn't have problems breathing or being out of breath or with chronic sinus infections anymore! My youngest son, at age three years, has been healed from food allergies and severe acid reflux. He had been allergic to milk, eggs and peanuts. Every time he would eat these foods he would have constant reflux and esophagitis so bad that he would almost lose his voice and would wake up crying all night. We stood on faith for this also. He has not had any problems with reflux or allergies to foods since. Again, when we were tested on this, we stood firm on God's promises. The symptoms left very quickly. My husband was healed from severe acid reflux disease and has not had to take Nexium for four months now! He can eat whatever he wants without any trouble. My son had also recently broken two toes on his right foot, so we prayed over them. They were completely healed within two days! He is able to fully bend them and move them now. He had injured the same foot years ago by dropping a weight on it and had not been able to bend those toes for years. But since God healed them, he has regained the motion in his toes on that foot!  God delivered me from smoking, too. The thing that seemed like such a mountain to me just six months ago is just a side thought now. I had tried to quit smoking once, but had done it with more of a white-knuckle approach. I mostly went about it through my own willpower. Satan would tempt me often to start again. I would be jealous when I saw others smoking because I still wasn't depending on God for strength. I needed my crutch back. I started smoking again. Later while reading Sovereign God, I knew I needed to forsake this idol for good. This time I prayed to God to take the desire away for smoking. If any part of my deliverance came from my flesh, it would be another struggle, and possible failure again. After I prayed to God to deliver me, I knew instantly that I was delivered. I still had some cigarettes that I finished up, but I realized that the desire to smoke had left me. When the last one was gone, I knew I would never again want another. (Note: It might have been better to throw that partial pack away, but, thank You, Lord, for my deliverance.) It has been that way ever since – like I've never smoked a cigarette in my life! Praise God!  These deliverances all happened simultaneously once I realized what Christ really did at the Cross. He still offers the same healing today that He did during His ministry on earth!  I have received a tremendous miracle. Ten years ago, I had my thyroid removed because of a cancerous tumor that had been growing in it. Since then I had taken total replacement hormone for my body systems to function. If I missed more than two or three days in a row of taking it, I would not be able to hear my alarm to wake up in the morning or to think clearly that day.  The doctors had told me that I could not live without this replacement hormone – the body cannot function without it indefinitely. All the body systems would shut down and I would eventually slip into a coma and die. About a year ago the doctors kept having to retake my thyroid blood levels and adjust my prescription dosage down. Every six weeks, when I would go in to have the blood level drawn again, it would still be too high! Because I didn't understand what was happening at the time, I was becoming frustrated at the lab and the doctor. After I read “Sovereign God,” I realized that God had been growing my thyroid back all this time in preparation for the coming wilderness time ahead! I reached up to my neck and felt around the scar. Sure enough, there was something there again!   I had wondered about this situation in a wilderness-type environment, with no access to meds or health care. Now I don't have to be concerned about it anymore because I have received a tremendous miracle. I have been off my thyroid replacement meds for three months now. I feel more energy now than while taking it. God is good! He truly will meet all our needs even before we ask or before we have come to fully know the truth! God has wonderful things for me to serve Him with in the near future. I won't leave this earth until He is finished with me. Thank You, Father, for Your gifts! Another testimony:   Set Free from Unforgiveness by A.L. I had unforgiveness in my heart toward someone. The Lord said it was time to be delivered, and He started working with me. This took about one year. It was rough at first. The enemy didn't want to leave, trying several times to keep me from forgiving. I put up a wall when this person was around. It was my way to keep from being hurt anymore. Some encounters were better than others, but the more I prayed, the better they got. Oftentimes, my memory would be flooded with all the hurtful things that I had buried inside. But I would cry out to the Lord and ask Him to forgive me for holding onto them and to please take them. He always did. There were times that I would be mad or aggravated with this person and would start ranting about what they had done. These rantings, the out-loud ones, were always to my mom. The rantings in my mind were to the Lord. He would always settle me down and take that memory so that it would be gone. My mom would very gently and lovingly look at me and tell me to let it go and remind me that I had to forgive this person. Most of the time it worked, but a few times I would fire back at her out of frustration and tell her, “I know. I'm working on it, but it doesn't go away overnight.” My mom prayed for me a lot, probably more than I realized.  During this time, the Lord had me listen to the audio of “The Curse of Unforgiveness” series. [This is also in book form and available at no charge from ubm1.org as a PDF.] I downloaded it to my iPod and would go for a walk and listen to it. I listened to it several times. The more I prayed and overcame, the more layers the Lord peeled off.  During the winter months, I like to stand or sit in front of the fire to pray. It's always quiet and peaceful. One night, the Lord put this person in my mind, so I started to pray. As I was praying, I asked the Lord to forgive me for having unforgiveness, anger, hurt, and bitterness in my heart. I asked Him, “Would You please take it?” As soon as I said those words, I felt it all come out of my chest. It was gone. I can't explain, but the feeling was great! I started praising the Lord with tears streaming down my face. I was free!  The next night I was in my same spot, praying. The Lord brought this person to my mind again, only this time, I had to ask for love. I told the Lord, “I don't love this person. Would You please forgive me and give me love for them?” As soon as I said those words, I felt the love of God go right in through my chest. This feeling is indescribable – a hundred times better than the night before. I stood with tears streaming down my face, praising the Lord for His grace to get me through to the end.  I love this person now and pray for them. I can be around them without it bothering me. There are no more buried memories. The Lord tilled up all of the roots so they could be plucked up and He could plant His Seed. Whenever I am delivered of something, I ask the Lord to fill that spot with something from Him. Thank You, Heavenly Father for Your grace to get me through to the end.  We learn that it is the Father Who turns people over to the tormentors. Scripture consistently tells us God uses demons for chastening (Matthew 18:34). When we want to take away a demon's authority, we need to make sure that the groundwork has been done first so that we have the legal right to take away his authority. We must forgive. Jesus tells a story of a master who had forgiven his servant a great debt, but this servant went out and would not forgive his fellow servant a much smaller debt. Jesus said that His Father would turn that unforgiving servant over to the tormentors until he should pay what was due.  Let's read that parable. (Mat.18:21) Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? (22) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven. (23) Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants. (24) And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents. (25) But forasmuch as he had not [wherewith] to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.  (26) The servant therefore fell down and worshiped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. (27) And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. (28) But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred shillings: and he laid hold on him, and took [him] by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest. (29) So his fellow-servant fell down and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee. (30) And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay that which was due.  (31) So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. (32) Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him, Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me: (33) shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee? (34) And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due. (35) So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts. The Lord said He will turn you over to the tormentors until you pay for what you have done because if you don't forgive, you are not forgiven. The devil knows when he has this right. He knows when you are not forgiven and he torments you, and his demons will continue to torment you, until you take that right away from him. This is necessary because you can't be saved while you are holding on to unforgiveness. If you don't forgive, you are not forgiven, which is the very foundation of salvation. If you want to take away the demons' rights over you, you need to forgive and you need to believe that Jesus delivered you from them at the Cross. That's the key. (Col.1:13) Who delivered us (it has already been done) out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love.  Like this person's testimony, if you will be sure to forgive everyone and exercise your faith toward God's promises, you will be a new person who is free to love and to associate with good people. I say that because so many of these people don't feel comfortable around good people and don't associate with good people. When they're around good people, they feel convicted. In my experience most demonic torment and much sickness is based in unforgiveness. See - The Curse of Unforgiveness

It's Witness Wednesday! Todd Friel is at Georgia Tech where attempts to understand students' level of conviction in their faith or lack thereof. The discussions touch on themes of evangelism, the problem of tolerance in religious discourse, and the Christian gospel. Segment 1: • Todd talks with a Hindu student who admits he's a "5" on belief, describes his god as an amorphous entity, and refuses to convert Todd—even when begged: “You believe what you believe.” • David the Methodist gives himself a 7.5 but says it's not his place to convince others; believes faith is comforting but offers no reason why Todd should believe it too. • Both students echo the cultural mantra: “Just be good”—and miss the gospel entirely. Segment 2: • Todd speaks with Travis who claims to be an atheist, then shifts to agnostic when challenged—saying his beliefs are based more on feelings than facts. • Admits he's lied, stolen, lusted, and deserves hell—yet says it doesn't bother him because he doesn't believe in it. • Todd walks him through the law and the gospel, but Travis feels nothing and admits: “It honestly doesn't concern me.” Segment 3: • Matt tries to share his faith with Todd but struggles to explain sin, the gospel, or assurance of salvation. • Admits he hasn't read his Bible outside church in a long time—yet claims Jesus is precious to him. • Todd lovingly warns: “No Bible, no breakfast,” urging Matt to get grounded before temptation takes root on campus. Segment 4: • Todd talks with a young man who was raised Buddhist but disengaged—says all religions are basically good and teach people to live right. • Agrees he's done wrong but says he's “half and half”—not a bad person, just not perfect. • Hears the gospel clearly and respectfully, but walks away with no urgency to consider his guilt before a holy God. – Order the new book, "Lies My Therapist Told Me", by Fortis Institute Fellow Dr. Greg Gifford now! https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/liesmytherapisttoldme – Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn't be more thankful for you if we tried!

What about those who've never heard the Gospel? What about those who've never even seen a Bible? How can they come to know God?This was Brian's question when he called in to our radio program. In this short video clip, I share a few thoughts on what is often called “general revelation” and “special revelation.”I hope this serves to bolster your confidence in the Gospel message and our Savior's promise that whoever seeks Him will find Him.We hope you enjoyed this episode. Since we're a nonprofit organization, episodes like these are only made possible by friends like you.You can help us continue sharing God's message of grace with the world here: https://andrewfarley.org/donate/Connect with Dr. Andrew Farley here:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrAndrewFarleyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drandrewfarleyTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrAndrewFarleyTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drandrewfarleyWebsite: https://www.andrewfarley.org/

HEALING AND MIRACLE PODCASTINCLUDES FULL WRITTEN TEXTwith Prince HandleyWWW.REALMIRACLES.ORG 16 YEARS OF HEALING & HEALTH SUBJECTS LISTENING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT DIRECTION AND HEALING PROPHECY24/7 Blogs and Podcasts > STREAM Prince Handley on MINDS LinkedIn ~ Geopolitics and HealthNOTE: You do NOT have to Sign In to LinkedIn. Click the "X" at top right of "Sign In" to dismiss. Subscribe FREE to Prince Handley Teaching and Newsletter Links to KEY RESOURCES at bottom. ________________________________________   DESCRIPTION OF THIS TEACHING There are several different reasons WHY you should want to listen to the Holy Spirit. However, the MAIN reason is that the LORD wants to give you a message for healing, direction, protection, or enablement. And, sometimes―if not many times―the message will be for someone else. Some people may NOT be able to listen to―or discern―the voice of the Spirit. Or, they may NOT want to listen to the voice of the Spirit due to rebellion or living in sin. Therefore, the LORD may send you a message via His Spirit to relay to the other person. In my experience the message is usually given for specific knowledge in an area where help or advice is needed: in my life or in the lives of others. The principles of God are timeless and transfer … and if we are students of God's Word and have the knowledge of Proverbs we are able to navigate the problems and challenges of life. But when situations arise that are not clearly and specifically defined―as in ministry strategy or spiritual warfare or dream interpretation―then we need a “specific” word from the LORD. Many people read the Holy Bible, but they are NOT listening to the Holy Spirit. God wants us to apply His Word to our lives. This is where listening to the Spirit brings success, victory and accurate direction. ________________________________________   LISTENING TO THE HOLY SPIRITDIRECTION AND HEALING PROPHECY INTRODUCTION “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.” – Jesus: John 16:13 One of the Holy Spirit's assignments is to glorify Christ. When you receive direction, help and enablement, Christ is glorified in your victorious life and testimony thereof: by your word and your lifestyle. The Holy Spirit guides you into ALL truth; spiritual, business, family, prophetic, physical, travel and relational truth. Many people read the Holy Bible, but they are NOT listening to the Holy Spirit. God wants us to apply His Word to our lives. This is where listening to the Spirit brings success, victory and accurate direction. As you become attuned―skilled―in listening to the Spirit, you will begin to notice that sometimes shortly after you receive a message you will experience a confirmation. For example, [I recently had this happen] if you receive a message about advice you would give a person, that person may contact you not long after and ask you for advice concerning the same (not knowing that you have already heard from God concerning them or their situation). EXAMPLES Sometimes listening to the Holy Spirit will be synonymous with the gift of prophecy. For example, one time after a large seminar I was conducting at McCormick Place in Chicago a lady came up to me and said, “I have two wombs …” I had already finished praying with people and I was really wanting to go to the place where I was to stay and go to bed. When the lady said, “I have two wombs …” my first thought was, “I must have preached past the anointing.” (I wanted to be anywhere but there.) What the lady said in full was this, “I have two wombs. If I conceive in the one womb the life will live, but if I conceive in the other (womb) the life will die. Do you have a word for me?” Instantly―without thinking about it―I said to her, “You will have a son. He will live, and his name will be Samuel.” When I was in Chicago about a year later I met little Samuel. In similar manner, listening to the Spirit may sometimes by synonymous with the Word of Knowledge. For sure―if you operate in the gifts of the Spirit like Prophecy and the Word of Knowledge―you definitely need to be listening to the Holy Spirit. Study my book, How to Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit. But there are times that God wants to give you a message for yourself and it may be just for reflection, or to meditate thereon. He may want you to think about what you would do in a certain situation that may be coming up in the future and you do NOT know about it yet―or, the complete details have not dovetailed together yet―and may not for quite some time. PURPOSE OF LISTENING You have to realize that God is for you. As in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the motive for listening to the Spirit should be to edify, improve, deliver, make whole or provide intelligence. Thank God, He did not leave us here without the tools and weapons we need to operate in power and victory … and especially as we progress into the End Times. Realize this: we are at the entrance to the End Times. If the Early Church―or Messianic Synagogue―needed the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the five fold ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher as laid out in Ephesians 4:11, how much more do we need them today? And, how much more will the followers of Messiah Jesus need them as we progress further along into the End Times. PREREQUISITES TO LISTENING We need to start our day with the Word of God. We need to be students of the Word of God. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17) So the Word of God is the channel through which the activities of the Holy Spirit operate. When we have the Word of God in us―and operate based upon the Word of God―we hear (from God … from His Spirit). And when we hear from God, faith rises and MIRACLES happen. But remember also, this is all predicated upon love. “Faith works by love.” (Galatians 5:6) The Word of God is the channel though which faith flows, and love is the activator which triggers faith. HOW WILL YOU KNOW If you are living for God, then give God the benefit of the doubt. I have seen many MIRACLES since I learned to give God the benefit of the doubt. If you're NOT sure the message is from God, then check to make sure it does NOT conflict with Scripture. If it does NOT conflict with Scripture, then ask God for a confirmation that is clear and concise. NOTE: If you are “seasoned” in listening to the Holy Spirit then you probably won't require a confirmation. We should NOT be surprised that the LORD works this way in addition to His many other modes of communication. We read of Him doing this throughout Bible in both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Brit Chadashah (New Testament). God has NOT changed. “For I am the LORD; I do not change.” (Malachi 3:6) It's people who have not changed that corrupt His program. People who have never seen healing will tell you that God does not heal. People who have never seen miracles will tell you that MIRACLES do not happen anymore. People who do NOT believe in Apostles or Prophets operating today will tell you that those offices ceased after the Early Messianic Synagogue. However, to say that would be to prove ignorance―or, folly―as that would mean that the Scripture in Ephesian 4:11 has been rescinded: “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.” No more pastors, teachers and evangelists either! GOD WANTS TO COMMUNICATE Also, realize that the LORD wants to communicate with people more than we do. And, He does NOT want his messages of direction and help to be cryptic or hard to understand. It amazes me how many people have never read the Holy Bible completely. Here's the greatest communication to mankind and they treat it like a magazine. My friend, get the Word inside you and YOU will begin to hear God. Start your day with it and end your day with it. I made a rule for my life years ago: “No Bible … no breakfast.” The day is coming when the world government and the world religious system will destroy Bibles … including YOURS if you're still here. Then YOU will need to listen to the Spirit … and it may be too late. The Holy Spirit will guide you into ALL truth as you listen to Him. Here are THREE resources to help you: “New Testament Bible Studies” … “Prophecy, Transition & Miracles … and “How To Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit.” New Testament Bible Studies Prophecy, Transition & Miracles How To Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai. Your friend, Prince Handley President / Regent University of Excellence Podcast time: 11 minutes, 37 seconds. Copyright © Prince Handley 2024 All rights reserved. ______________________________________   OPPORTUNITY Donate to Handley WORLD SERVICES Incorporated and help Prince Handley do EXPLOITS in the Spirit. 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Hey there! Hello and welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show…getting the promises of God into the hearts and minds of the people of God, which is right where they belong. So thankful you're listening to this episode of the show, and hey, today we're looking at a promise directly from the New Testament words of Jesus, and it's a good one. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you may want to just save this episode and plan to share it somewhere, or with somebody, because it's gonna get really real really fast and really bring it today. God's promises are true - let's talk about how they're true for you today.   You're listening to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, part of the Spark Network, which can be found via the Edifi app. Today's episode is sponsored by the Psalm 91 audio Bible study & prayer sessions, created by the show host (that's me), Jan L. Burt. Access the study at JanLBurt.com/psalm91   Psalm 91 is perhaps the most astounding passage of promises with the most astounding miracles linked to it of maybe the entire Old Testament, and for sure it is one of the most amazing and life-changing passages in the Bible. It's something you should know and pray over yourself and your loved ones, because it holds promises that we find only in this passage, and it is something every believer needs to apply to their life - and that's why I created the Psalm 91 audio Bible study. JanLBurt.com/psalm91 and this is episode number 194.   Alrighty, so let's jump right into this. I'll be reading from the Amplified today, looking at a few verses from the book of Matthew, chapter 11.   Matthew 11:28-30 Amplified Bible 28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation]. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.” That's from Matthew 11, verses 28-30.   We've got a call here, something we need to do, our part is to come to Jesus. Who is it He is calling to come to Him? Those who are weary, those who are heavily burdened, dealing with religious rituals that provide no peace…and hey, there are many things that fall into that category, so don't automatically assume this doesn't apply to you because it really might, and Jesus has freedom for you. Today, He has freedom for you from religious systems and programs and rituals that don't give you the kind of peace that Jesus wants you to have. And when we do as Jesus asks us to, calls us to, and come to Him, He promises (verse 28 says WILL and when He says He will do something, He will!) He will give you rest. The Lord's salvation is restful, is peaceful, for you and for me. We can have been in the Chirstian world for so long that we begin to lose our rest, our peace. That is not what Jesus wants, my friend. From day one of your salvation to day done of your salvation, when He takes you home or when He returns and you are caught up in the air to meet Him, whatever your day done might look like, Jesus wants you to have peace and a refreshed soul, rest like literal rest in every aspect of life, in every sense of the word, on every single day that you walk with Him. This isn't something we share with people when we are talking to them about Jesus, but we no longer have it as part of our daily life. It's meant to be lived, this walk of faith and lived well - lived on Jesus's terms and this verse tells us that His terms are trading our weariness and heavy burdened way of life for rest, peace, and refreshed souls. And while it might sound too good to be true, it's actually 100 percent true. God's promises are what, now? True. Always and in all ways.  He calls us to take His yoke upon ourselves and learn from Him - that literally means to just follow Him as His disciple. I say JUST, but I don't say there's never any struggle to do this. The world, our flesh, social media, old and new friends, our workplaces, even our families and sad to say often our church culture is too worldly, too focused on programs or not being a Christian weirdo, or seeker friendly or all that stuff (a subject for another day, but not biblical, not sustainable, and not discipleship…just sayin'!) All these things and more can make it tricky to keep following Jesus as His disciple. But when we stay yoked to Him and don't pull and tug and fight that yoke, just walk with Him at His pace and His leading doing life His way, well then, that's discipleship and we have His promised peace and rest, and it is just so good. Now if you've been walking with the Lord for a while, can I ask you to pause for a moment (maybe pause this podcast for a second and think on this) and just remember what it was like for you before you responded to Jesus' call when He rescued you and saved you and forgave and turned your life around in a good way. Can you remember what it was like? The stress, the fear, the anger or other emotions, the control you maybe tried to exert on situations and people, the overwhelm, the way your did all those things you didn't want to do, your hard heart, the lack of hope, the lack of joy, the lack of peace, afraid of all the things, uneasy, tossed around by life - do you remember? And if you have not yet made the decision to follow Jesus as His disciple, can I just tell you that right now is a great time to make that decision? It's super simple, there is no required prayer to pray, you can just talk to God and tell Him you're sick of your sin, sick of life like this, and you want what Jesus offers, peace and eternal life and total forgiveness for every single sin, past, present and future, and just ask Him to be Lord of your life, to forgive you of all your sins, and to take up reign on the throne of your heart. Thank Him, and believe it is done, and it is so long as you mean it. It really is that simple. Just talk to the Lord, invite Him into your life, your heart, and thank Him and say Amen, so be it, yes Lord. He doesn't make it hard, because He is a good God and He loves you too much to make it too hard to make Jesus Lord of your life.    So, remembering what it was like before you made Him Lord, your hard knock life, and that's the true reality for everyone who doesn't walk with Jesus as His disciple (not about a program for six weeks at church, about discipleship for all the rest of your days!). And now think about what it's like to have that peace, to take His yoke upon you and learn from Him, knowing He is gentle and humble in heart and that He brings you rest for your soul. Rest for your soul. This isn't just a nap. It's REST for your inner being, for your soul. Soul rests is next level. It's truly supernatural, it is not of this world. It's from the Lord. And it's life changing. You need it. Jesus has it for you. And that's just one smidgen of the promises from this passage alone! Soul rest. His yoke is easy to bear and His burden is light. You are not going to be weighed down and having a come apart when you are His disciple. That's not your life, because it's not His will based on Matthew 11, verse 28 through 30. You do need to believe that this is all true for you, because when we believe, our faith is accredited to us as righteousness, and Jesus often said that it would be done to those who asked something of Him, it would be done to them according to their faith, to their belief. So, believe the very words Jesus spoke, don't do an eye roll and refuse to believe it. Just choose to believe. And it really is a choice. Don't mind your feelings, but make your feelings mind the Word of God.   Now I'm going to sort of add some zest to this episode. It's a unique episode of the podcast, because I'm going to share some things I have never spoken about on this platform. Everything I'm sharing today is true, it actually happened, just as I'm telling it. And I know it's all true because it happened to me. I'm gonna tell ya some things, real life, nitty gritty, stuff. Here goes!   Bizarre and weirded me out experience #1: Now, first off, let me preface these next couple of snippets I'm sharing from my own life by clearly stating that I was not a follower of Jesus at all at this point in time. Not at all. Not one bit. Zero percent interested in God. I was a train wreck. No Bible in our home, didn't go to church on Easter or Christmas, just zero of that in my growing up home or in my life. This event happened when I was a teenager, and I worked as a teen, like many of us, and at this point I was around 18, working for a telemarketing company, more like a call center for customer service stuff than outbound sales calls, but basically telemarketing. I worked second shift, we called it the night shift (only two shifts there, days or nights and I was on nights). I worked in Omaha, Nebraska but lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, right across the river, actually very normal for the Omaha area, gotta add that piece of info to this true story.  So one afternoon, I went to work as usual, and there was a man at work that I didn't recognize, not that big of a deal, lots of turnover in a place like that, ya know? He sat in front of my and to my left at his cubicle desk area, and on our lunch break he came and sat at the table I sat at with my normal group of work friends, and back then, I was a smoker…actually started smoking probably around age 13, maybe even sneakily smoking at 12, but smoking with my mom's permission at 13 (meaning that at that point, when I was 13, we lived in a small town in Nebraska and she gave her permission to all the local stores that I could buy cigarettes there because she'd given me permission to smoke, and am I Gen X, the child of a Boomer? Uh, yes…) So, I sat at the outside table with the other smokers for my lunch break, and this man sat with us, but he didn't smoke. He was chatty and said something about working a different shift for this one day and wondered if anybody lived across the river in Iowa and might be able to give him a ride back to the Iowa side after work. I wasn't naive, I didn't give rides to men I did not know as an 18-year-old, and you can discern from my being a smoker at age 13 that maybe I was a bit street savvy. So, it was out of the norm for me to say yes to something like this, in fact I cannot think of another time in my life when I gave a ride to a stranger, but everybody seemed like it was okay and of course they knew I lived in Iowa, and they all seemed comfortable with him and I gave him a ride after work. Now for some reason, the whole drive to the place in Iowa where I dropped him off, I was not comfortable smoking. So, after work, a smoker lights up, that's just how it is, one of the key smokes of the entire day, honestly, is the after-work smoke. But I didn't grab my cigarettes. I left them in the side pocket storage area of my baby blue 1988 Chevy Beretta.  On the drive, he was very kind in a way that was super genuine, and he asked questions about my life, started as normal chit chat, but I answered each question and then he'd another one, and some of the questions were really interesting…like he asked about the small town I'd used to live in and what life was like there for me, and I shared things about being a heavy drinker and being in several car accidents where the car was totaled (like, the number of totaled cars I was in over the course of say four years was five, two cars that rolled, one that had a telephone pole fall onto it right where I was sitting, one launched off a dead end at nearly 100 mph, and another accident at around 130 mph that barely stopped before the car hit a large cement culvert). And I kind of chuckled / joked that maybe God was punishing me or maybe even trying to end my life because I was such a terrible person. (Now at this point I had not had a drop of alcohol in around a year and hadn't really been heavily drinking in 15-18 months, so I was not a raging drunk when I gave this man a ride home after work, but I was weirdly comfortable sharing about the mess that my life was in so many ways, including my heavy drinking and horrible car accidents, four of those totaled being my own cars). So, I made a comment to try and lighten the mood but also to acknowledge that I was a really terrible teenager, and said maybe God was punishing me or trying to even end my life due to my awfulness.  This man looked at me, like really looked at me, and told me that God was not trying to kill me, but that the devil, Satan, was, because if Satan could kill me without me knowing Jesus as Lord and Savior, I'd go to hell. Now I knew I deserved hell, and I knew that was where I was headed…I think it was common knowledge to GenX teens to know that, to understand that. So, the mention of hell didn't shock me, but the idea that Satan was trying to kill me was a totally new concept to me.  He went on to say that God had actually protected me from what Satan wanted to do, and that He was not angry at me, punishing me, but that He loved me and was watching out for me, keeping me from death when I should have been dead many times over.  He just told me that God loved me. And then, we arrived at the place he'd told me to drop him off. Of course it was dark, probably at least 11pm or so, and I parked near a long sidewalk that led to the doorway of this building, I still don't know what the place was, it kind looked like maybe an apartment building but not a layout I'd seen before, it had kind of a small town hospital feel to it more than apartments, and it looked like not a place someone would live, and the sidewalk leading to the door was pretty well lit, the doors were glass and the hall inside was super well lit, bright white lighting, think hospital lighting, white walls, white ceiling, white tile floor…and I could see all the way down that hallway. He thanked me for the ride, got out of the car, and shut the car door. I reached for my cigarettes, which were in the door panel pocket to my left, and then glanced back to the right, out the passenger side window, and the dude was gone. I mean gone gone.  This sidewalk was long, and lights were shining on it. There was a barren yard on both side, no trees, no shrubs, just super short grass, and nowhere for him to hide. There was nobody in the hallway inside the building. It startled me. I literally jumped, and looked behind my car, out the driver's side window, the guy was just gone. Once I knew he was not anywhere around, I just drove home.  Went to work the next day and had some questions about what he had said and wanted to make sure he got into his building okay, so I asked my supervisor if he could get a message to that man. My super looked at me like I was nuts. He said no day shift worker had worked the night shift, and when I said, “He worked the whole shift in that cubicle right there, ya know, dark hair, skinny dude, wore faded jeans, brown shoes…that guy, he was right there.” He said nobody had been in that seat the day before, and he had no idea who I was talking about because that didn't describe any of the day workers.  Now I was feeling really weird. So, on the lunch break, I asked my friends. “Remember that guy who sat with us yesterday, he didn't smoke, but he lives in Iowa and needed a ride home, so I gave him a ride? Remember him?” Every single person at the table looked at me like, “Huh?” Nobody remembered this guy. They all said, nobody sat with us yesterday, just us. And a couple of them said they told me bye the night before as I got into my car…they were emphatic that I got into my car alone. Nobody was with me. Okay, I was in weird town, and they were wondering if I was okay, like what was I talking about? So, I just said something like, Oh, well this is weird… and tried to change the subject. Didn't work too well, because they really were curious what was going on and I just never mentioned it again.  But I sure did think about it.  A lot. Not really just because of what he'd said to me about God, but because it was such a weird experience, and nobody remembered him but me and I'm telling you, he was a real guy at my real workplace who rode to Iowa in my real car, and we had a real conversation and then he was just gone.  This really happened to me. And it really happened just as I've told it. And it really stuck, because of the way it happened. This event in my life paved the way for me for what God was going to do in the future, which was to reveal Himself to me (Christ revealed to us, as Paul wrote in the New Testament). It was part of the rock-solid foundation the Lord was building in my life. The verses I read today from Matthew got me thinking about this and got me thinking about all the ways God is working in the lives of people all the time. Remarkable things like this happened often. Have they happened to you? Maybe they're happening to people you're praying for. Don't stop praying! Please! And maybe you can share something God did to get ahold of you, to get your attention, to make a mark on your life, that was how He was drawing you to Himself, so He could save you for time and all eternity, give you new life, freedom, hope, joy, peace, and forgiveness. I personally believe that I had an encounter with some kind of angel in disguise. He told me the truth, and it stuck. And he disappeared from sight in an instant, and that stuck. I don't know that I was entertaining an angel unawares, but I do believe it was an angel, nonetheless. God sent him to my workplace, God made me comfortable enough with him to give him a ride from Nebraska to Iowa, and God set up those circumstances with nobody else remembering this man and him poof vanishing right out of thin air so that I would not forget that moment in my life.  And when the next moment came along for me, when God was doing the miraculous to get hold of me, you'd better believe that this moment was still fresh on my mind.   I'll share Part Two of my salvation story in the next episode, and I hope you'll tune in because it's really a precious part of my life, and I'm honored to be alive to share it with you. And I mean that. Share your story with somebody as the Lord leads, and of course feel free to share this episode if it might encourage others that are in your say social media circle.  Thanks for listening, and I'll see ya back here next time. Bye bye.   

Greg talks about not interpreting Bible verses out of context as if they were originally written as discrete verses, then he answers a question about whether inclusivism is true or people need to know and trust in Jesus to be saved.   Topics: Commentary: There are no verses in the Bible. (00:00) Do Protestants still disagree with Catholics on whether or not people need to know and believe in Jesus to be saved? (36:00) Mentioned on the Show:  Be One of the 100 – Become a strategic partner One Way or Any Way – Part 1 and Part 2

What do cults and Trinitarianism have in common? A hermeneutical analysis, plus audio comic, and bi-personarianism. RESOURCES Restorationist Manifesto, Restitutio James White and Dale Tuggy debate: “Is Jesus YHWH?”  13. An Absolute Distrust of Unitarians - Kevin George (Part 1) 14. An Astounding Disappointment in Experts - Kevin George (Part 2) Jehovah's Witnesses  The Way International  Inglesia Ni Christo 80. Deconstrucing to Agnostic - Josiah Wright (Part 1) 81. Reconstructing to Relationship - Josiah Wright (Part 2) do Theology podcast 67. Why Is the Trinity Mainstream? Monte Python - Dead Parrot  The Forgotten Trinity - James White Jude 1:3 - the faith once for all delivered to the saints Mark 9:24 - the father who asks for help with his unbelief Christ Before Creeds: Rediscovering the Jesus of History audio book  Workshops submissions 82. Experiencing the Tuggy/White Debate, Street Interviews, and Post-debate Roundtable Articulate Aplogetics - YouTube Channel THE CHALLENGE, SIX FACTS No NT author ever collected the Trinitarian propositions together as a basis for any teaching. No Bible author teaches us about a being that has three persons. The contradictions that are self-evident from the Trinity are unnoticed and not addressed by any NT author. No Biblical author teaches a dual nature theory or uses it to explain these contradictions No New Testament author ever resorted to “mystery” to defend their complex and difficult explanation of God and his Christ. No New Testament author ever made belief in the Trinity a requirement for being a follower of Christ. EPISODE INDEX 00:00:38 - Not What a Trinitarian Expects? 00:04:35 - Cults 00:07:09 - The Comic Of Christian Branches 00:09:48 - A Reflection On Human Traits 00:11:45 - Fist Pumping 00:14:16 - Truth Is Formidable 00:17:20 - Our Prepensity To Certainty 00:18:14 - He Had To Be God 00:23:09 - Animal Brain 00:25:52 - But Cults Have Bibles, Right? 00:26:59 - The Magic Of The Cult 00:28:45 - New Heresy: Bi-personalism 00:34:44 - This Is The Way 00:35:30 - Trinitarian Hermeneutical Legacy 00:39:19 - The Challenge 00:40:57 - The Six Facts 00:46:05 - Peace Vs. Doubts 00:47:17 - Events 00:48:40 - Workshops 00:49:14 - Articulate Apologetics 00:50:31 - Disclaimer / Fine Print FEEDBACK Send a short recording. Say your first name and your state or country. Email recording to podcast@unitarianchristianalliance.org Click here to RECORD A MESSAGE Or call: 615-581-1158 LISTENING TIPS Pauses and pacing are hand crafted, artisan efforts. If your podcast app lets you remove silences, please don't. You will enjoy this better with the silences left in. ENGAGE The UCA Podcast email list! Large and enjoyable episode art, additional thoughts from the host, the Audio Geek Corner, and notifications when there are delays. The UCA events listing. Keep up on what's coming up. Podcast twitter @UCApodcast - Episode announcements Official UCA twitter account @UnitarianChrist  Podcast Webpage: https://podcast.unitarianchristianalliance.org  

If people consider the Bible as fiction, then what are they so upset about? *MESSAGE from JESUS CHRIST to all alleged christians - NO Bible thumping or expect a slap in the face and ask for another. What is more important than where you go when you die? Death in the original Biblical languages never denotes non-existence. Spiritual life is a conscious existence in communion with God. Spiritual death is a conscious existence separate from God in the nether parts of the earth where there is no praise or presence of God whatsoever. Companion Chapel Worldwide Ministry is a registered non-profit. These broadcasts depend on your provisions. Partner with the Companion Chapel to help us reach out to a hurting world with the message of Christ's love. Please give what you can at companionchapel.com Please email companionchapel@gmail.com with your questions about the Bible, your prayer requests or just to say hi to let me know you are out there. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/companionchapelpodcast/message

On this episode of Our American Stories, if you want to know about the history of America, it is imperative that you know the role that the Bible played in shaping our country. Our Founding Fathers—both Christian and non-Christian—were heavily influenced by the Bible. Here to share another story is Robert Morgan, author of 100 Bible Verses That Made America. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Originally published on October 8, 2023. Enjoying the podcast? To support Pastor Don Keathley, make donations at: http://www.donkeathley.com

No Bible writer contradicted what Jesus said in John 3:16.

No Bible student can be unaware of Paul’s emphasis on prayer through his epistles in the New Testament. Let us consider the prayers of Paul in the broadcast that we may learn more of the power of prayer.

The justices of this state's Supreme Court rule in favor of life for our unborn children. But how far are they willing to go in order for the preservation of life? This senior facility violates the rights of its members by stating, "No Bible study for you." Is this a violation of the law? Additionally, Dr. Harper, our mobile correspondent, is in Washington, DC. Get free alerts at http://PrayInJesusName.org © 2023, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs on NRB TV, Direct TV Ch.378, Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, GoogleTV, Smart TV, iTunes and www.PrayInJesusName.org

No Bible verses. No commentary. No instructions. No prayers. No condemnation. Just a story. Enjoy  … SteveHemphill1@me.com Join the MOVEMENT: Take the Stake Challenge Active-Faith.org #StakeTheLand https://active-faith.org/donate/ 

On this episode of Our American Stories, whatever their individual beliefs, all of America's founders studied the Bible. For many, it was their foremost guide in all things - as evidenced by George Washington's inauguration. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pastor Joel Webbon makes a concise argument for church membership.

No Bible student can be unaware of Paul’s emphasis on prayer through his epistles in the New Testament. Let us consider the prayers of Paul in the broadcast that we may learn more of the power of prayer.

Only God can wake you up. But you prevent seeing with anger, ego, and knowledge. Oprah lied to her followers! Romans 13: 11-14 — Wake up! BOND Archive Sunday Service, November 24, 2013: You cannot change yourself. Only a few ever do change. // Jesse Lee Peterson tells of counseling with a woman in her 60s who at first denied resenting her mother. But then she admitted to trying not to be like her; she failed! She was surprised by the truth that she needs to forgive a man who assaulted her. She accepted this upon hearing it, unlike many — ready to stop suffering. // Jesse tells another story of counseling with a father and son. // We are possessed by a spirit passed down from our parents. We are not ourselves. // Even adopted children yearn for their real fathers and mothers. The father represents Christ. // Don't make up what you believe your root issues are. Let God reveal it. // Men have difficulty accepting that they're faking manhood, that they act like women. // The ego runs deep and wide: Famous black woman Oprah Winfrey told a damaging lie that impressional blacks who look to "leaders" believe. Anger is encouraged among blacks, while the youth commit assaults on whites, without regard for others. // When you're born again, you overcome false identities with race or gender — you see the spirit driving people. // It's unfortunate that people learn and repeat true things from the Bible and preachers; it builds people's ego, holding them back from being born again. // Romans 13: 11-14 urges people to wake up, and stop sleeping. Get away from licentiousness. // 00:00 Sun, Nov 24, 2013 05:30 People can't change. Rarely do they. 08:00 One man's working on himself. 12:51 Story: Counseling with an older woman 18:27 No reason to be angry: Forgive the rapist 20:33 Some get it. Some haven't suffered enough? 21:21 Counseling father and son 24:02 Sin: We are possessed 24:57 You can't fix yourself. No Bible, psychologists, effort… 27:04 Adopted children want their real parents 29:06 Spiritually, we need to connect with earthly father 29:50 When to tell kids they're adopted? When they start asking. 30:46 Man can't see 31:57 Don't make up stuff 32:37 Let God reveal it. 34:14 Men can't accept they're women 34:59 The ego runs deep… 35:34 Example: Oprah's lie to black people 42:56 Worse than animals! 43:41 False identity with race 44:34 False identity with parents 45:39 When born again, you see the spirit driving people 49:42 Q: Big deal whether from mom or dad? Adam and Eve… 51:28 A: Unfortunate you've intellectually learned "the truth" 56:13 A: We've been harmed by teaching the truth. 56:46 Romans 13: 11-14 – Stop sleeping. Wake up. 57:49 Give up all you know. Stop talking. Observe. Let it be revealed. BLOG https://rebuildingtheman.com/you-cant-change-yourself-archive-11-24-13/ SUBSTACK https://rebuildingtheman.substack.com/p/you-cant-change-yourself-archive?sd=pf -- Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday 11 AM PT at BOND in Los Angeles http://rebuildingtheman.com/church SILENT PRAYER: http://silentprayer.video | AUDIO https://soundcloud.com/rebuildingtheman/silent-prayer

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In studying the words of the Bible, the preacher must be aware of how those words are being used. Sometimes, the Bible uses  “figures of speech”. These are different expressions that bring life and vitality to language. However, the Bible should always be taken literally unless the Bible itself makes it clear the passage in question is to be taken figuratively.Among the figures of speech used in the Bible are the following.Simile - A simile is an imaginative comparison. It is usually signaled using words such as like, as or so.  “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:”, Matt. 13:24.Metaphor - A metaphor is like a simile, but it is an implied likeness. In other words, the comparison is made, but words such as like, as and so are not used. “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”, Matt. 5:13-14.Paradox - A paradox is defined as a “statement which appears contradictory, or is opposed to common sense, and yet, it is still true.” Jesus used many paradoxical statements in His teachings. He made statements so shocking to His hearers the truth was driven home in a unique way.  “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”, Matt. 16:25.Hyperbole - This is the use of an exaggeration to emphasize a truth. This is seen in the words of Jesus also, when He said, “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”, Matt. 19:24.We must also be aware of grammar. How do the words of any given passage relate one to another? Learn how to study verb tenses and know the difference between a conjunction and a pronoun. The preacher must also study the context of the passage. No Bible passage is isolated from any other. When studying any passage of Scripture, the preacher must see how it fits into its immediate context as well as how it fits into the whole of the biblical revelation. When the context is ignored, false doctrine is always the result.We must never be guilty of lifting a paragraph, a verse, or even a single word out of its natural context.Every verse in the Bible must be seen in its relationship to the whole Bible. One way to learn to study the Bible in its context is by becoming very familiar with the whole Bible. To help in this endeavor, a good Bible handbook, or survey, that explains the contents of the book and its place in the Bible is indispensable. Along those same lines, the interpreter must know what kind of literature he is dealing with as well. There are five basic kinds of literature found in the Bible. They are:Prose - This is the kind of language used in everyday speech. It is the kind of language that is used to describe events and in general conversation.Poetry - One-third of the Old Testament is poetry! While Hebrew poetry does not rhyme, there is a parallelism of thought that will aid the preacher in interpreting the text.Historical Narrative - The Gospels and Acts fall into this category.Wisdom Literature - This kind of writing is reflective and philosophical in nature. Proverbs and Ecclesiastes fall into this category.Apocalyptic Literature - This kind of writing is filled with symbolic language and deals with prophetic events. The book of Revelation is apocalyptic literature.

How God speaks to us Introduction As I look back over 70 years of Christian experience, the most exciting thing I have discovered is that God has a plan for my life. Notice, I did not say God had a plan but that God has a plan, because although I am now 83 years old, God still has a plan.   And he has a plan for you too, and the most important thing you can possibly do is to find out what it is. God loves you. He wants what's best for you. He knows you better than you know yourself. So it only makes sense to ask him for guidance. Besides, if you're already a Christian and love Jesus, you'll surely want to do what God wants you to.   This series is about how God speaks and how he guides us. It will help you to recognize his voice, to know when he is speaking to you and when he is not. I'll be telling you what I have learnt from personal experience. I'll be telling you how he spoke to me through a book that I found on top of my parents' piano on the very day that I been told it was out of print. I'll be telling you how God spoke to me in the middle of the night in January 1972 and radically changed the direction of my life. And much much more.   But more importantly I'll be sharing with you from what the Bible teaches.  The Bible is God's inspired word and it's the Bible itself that is the main way God speaks to Christians today. Everything we experience must be judged by what the Bible has to say on the matter. God won't contradict himself by saying something through our experience that is not in line with what he's already said in the Bible. So when I share my experience of how God has guided and spoken to me, I'm just using it as an illustration of what the Bible teaches.   Today we'll begin with a summary of what the Bible teaches about the many different ways God speaks to us. Then in the talks that follow we'll expand on the things we've outlined today.       Talk 1   God speaks in so many different ways There are so many different ways God speaks to us. In this talk we'll give a brief outline of what the Bible has to say on this important subject. We will see that:   God speaks to all humanity through his creation He spoke to Israel by the prophets He has finally spoken through his Son, Jesus He speaks through the Bible He speaks by his Spirit He speaks through other people.   God speaks to all humanity through his creation The Bible is very clear that God speaks to all of us through his wonderful creation. Nowhere in the Bible do we find an argument for the existence of God. Bible writers simply assumed it. The world we live in and the heavens above are clear evidence that a wonderful designer has been at work.   Psalm 19:1-4 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.   Notice the words declare, proclaim, speech, voice, words. As he looks into the night sky the psalmist sees the stars and planets as speaking to all humanity, to people of every language. They declare the glory of God. They pour forth speech. They are shouting at us that they are the work of his hands. No doubt the apostle Paul had this passage in mind when he wrote in Romans 1:20   …since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.   There is no excuse for not believing in God. The creation itself provides abundant evidence that there must be a creator. And today we see more and more television programmes showing how wonderfully designed the creation is. As a Christian I find myself praising God for his skill, his genius, his creativity. I hear phrases like ‘this is designed to…', and I rejoice because I know the Designer.   But I groan inwardly when and the credit is given to ‘Mother Nature' or ‘evolution' or even the animal or plant itself rather than to God. In today's society the creation is being applauded rather than the Creator (Romans 1:25). ‘Mother Nature' has become a substitute for Father God! Evolution, a blind force, is said to have a purpose! And a plant is described as having a strategy[1], implying that it has made a conscious decision to equip itself with an ability to grow in a certain way! No wonder the Psalmist said, The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God' (Psalm 14:1).   For us who believe, on the other hand, the creation speaks eloquently not only of God's existence but of his great and glorious power, his wisdom, his faithfulness, his beauty and his love. God not only speaks to us through creation, he shouts at us!   God spoke to Israel by the prophets The Bible is very clear, then, that God continually speaks to all people, everywhere, by his wonderful creation. But that is not all. The Bible also reveals that God spoke in Old Testament times to his chosen people, Israel, by the prophets he sent to them. We often think of prophets as people who foretell the future, and it's true that the Old Testament prophets did foretell in great detail the coming of Christ. But that wasn't their primary role. Their main purpose was to tell the people of Israel how they should live and to give them direction as to what they should do[2]. They did this as they were led and guided by the Holy Spirit. The people needed the guidance of prophets because in Old Testament times (and in the New Testament before Pentecost) very few of them had a personal experience of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit was given only to specific people for specific purposes[3], but the day was coming when the gift of the Spirit would be made available to all. Through the prophet Joel God declared:   And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days (Joel 2:28-29).   This prophecy was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost when Jesus' disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4). The disciples spoke languages they had never learned and, when the crowd asked, What does this mean? Peter replied:   …this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel, "'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy (Acts 2:16-18).   The ability to receive God's Spirit, to hear what God is saying and to speak to others on his behalf was to be no longer restricted to a few. As from Pentecost all God's people have the Spirit. We're all called to speak for God. We have no need of prophets to tell us what to do! But does this mean that there are no prophets in the New Testament church? Are there no prophets today? There most certainly are. As we'll see in a later talk, prophets are one of the ways God speaks to us today. It's just that their role is not exactly the same as that of the Old Testament prophets.The need for that kind of prophet ceased with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. In fact the New Testament is clear that the role of the Old Testament prophets was over[4]. Once Jesus had come, God has finally spoken to us by his Son.   God has finally spoken by his Son, Jesus The letter to the Hebrews begins with this statement:   In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son (Hebrews 1:1-2).   What does this mean? As we've just seen, one way God speaks to us is through the Holy Spirit. But this verse says that God has spoken by his Son. At first sight this might look like a contradiction but in fact it is not. Firstly, it's because Jesus came and died for us that we have the Holy Spirit. He died for us, rose again, and 40 days later ascended into heaven. Notice what Peter says when preaching to the crowd on the day of Pentecost:   God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact. Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear (Acts 2:32-33).   It was Jesus who poured out the Spirit and it is through his Spirit that he speaks to us today.   Secondly, Hebrews 1:2 says that God has spoken by his Son. The Aorist tense the writer uses here indicates that he is referring to a specific period in history – the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The writer is saying that God's final word to the human race has been spoken in Jesus. There's a sense in which God has nothing more to say! There's nothing more to add. The message of Jesus is enough! And God is still speaking to us by it. He speaks through Jesus' teaching, his example, his character, his death and resurrection. Perhaps that's why John's Gospel describes Jesus as the Word:   John 1:1- 2,14: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.   We use words when we speak. They're our primary means of communication. And God speaks through his Word, Jesus who became flesh and lived among us. But he also speaks through his written word, the Bible.   God speaks through the Bible If God speaks to us through Jesus, it's obvious that he will speak to us through the Bible which tells us about him. The Old Testament law and prophets pointed forward to him (Luke 24:27). The New Testament Gospels record what he said and did while he was here on earth. The book of Acts records how he continued to work through his disciples by the power of his Spirit. And the letters written to the churches that were formed through the preaching of his disciples give us wonderful teaching about Jesus himself and the kind of lives we should live as his followers. The Bible is God's word first and foremost because it tells us about Jesus.   Later on in the series we'll talk in more detail about how God speaks to us through the Bible. We'll see how the word of God reveals to us the way of salvation. It's evangelistic. It also teaches us what we should believe and how we should behave. It's didactic. What's more, it reveals amazing things about the future and the second coming of Christ. It's prophetic.   But the Bible can be prophetic in another way too. There are times when a verse of scripture seems to leap out of the page. The Holy Spirit is drawing our attention to it, and through it God speaks very directly and specifically into our immediate situation. There have been several occasions when God has spoken to me in this way, and I'll be sharing some of them with you later.   God speaks by his Spirit There are several verses in the New Testament that tell us that the Holy Spirit speaks[5]. As we've just seen, one way he speaks is through the Bible. But at times he speaks independently of scripture. A good example is found in Acts 13:1-3:   In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers… While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.   You'll notice that what the Holy Spirit said was giving a specific instruction. He wasn't on this occasion speaking through a verse of scripture. No Bible verse would be that specific. He was telling the church leaders at Antioch to set apart Barnabas and Saul (or Paul) for a particular ministry they already knew he had called them to. After more fasting and praying, they did this by laying hands on them and sending them off on what was to be Paul's first missionary journey. But how exactly did the Holy Spirit speak to them? The answer is, we don't know. Did he speak with an audible voice? That's certainly a possibility. It seems to have happened that way in Acts 10 when Peter was on the roof top in Joppa. Peter falls into a trance and sees a vision of something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners with all kinds of animals in it. (This included ‘unclean' creatures that Peter as a Jew was forbidden to eat under Old Testament law). Then in verses 13-16 we're told that Peter hears a voice:   Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."  "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."  This happened three times…   Peter immediately identifies it as the voice of the Lord (v.14) and verse 19 tells us that while Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Simon, three men are looking for you…   So the Holy Spirit does speak sometimes with an audible voice and it's possible that that is how he spoke to the church leaders in Acts 13:1-3. However, it's worth bearing in mind that in Acts 10 Peter heard the voice while he was having a vision and we know that dreams and visions are one of the ways the Spirit may speak to us. It was through a vision God gave to Paul that the gospel first came to Europe (Acts 16:6-10) and Acts 2:16-17 makes it clear that dreams and visions are to be expected as a result of the coming of the Holy Spirit:   In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.   But this passage, as well as mentioning dreams and visions, also mentions prophecy. So in Acts 13 the Spirit could have spoken through a spiritual gift like prophecy. The passage mentions that there were prophets in the church at Antioch and perhaps that is the most obvious way to understand it.   So the Spirit may speak with an audible voice, through a dream or vision, or through a spiritual gift like prophecy. But these are not the only ways that God may speak to us. For example, he may speak through what is sometimes called an inner witness or prompting and we'll be saying more about this in a later talk. And finally, we need to remember that very often God speaks to us through other people.   God speaks through other people From what we have seen so far it's clear that sometimes God speaks to us directly, without anyone else being involved. This is the case when he speaks to us through creation or when he speaks as we read the Bible. The same is true when he speaks through an inner prompting or through a dream or vision. However, very often he uses other people to speak to us. When we first believed the gospel it was because someone else told us about it. This could have happened by a variety of ways – by witnessing or preaching or writing or singing for example. In fact, this is the main way that God intends the gospel to be spread[6].   And the same is true throughout our Christian lives. He often speaks through other people. If we had Christian parents, God probably first spoke to us through them, although we may well have not realised it at the time! In church we should certainly expect God to speak to us through preaching or teaching or through someone exercising a spiritual gift like prophecy. And it's not just in church! A casual conversation while travelling in a car or on a country walk can turn out to contain a very real word from the Lord.   In all these examples God is using someone else to speak to us. He speaks through them to us, and they may not even realise that he's using them that way! And, of course, he can use us to speak to them. But that's something we'll talk about in another time. In fact, throughout the series we'll be developing in greater detail many of things we've said in this talk. And there will be some new areas too. Today I have concentrated mainly on how God speaks to us. But God also guides us sometimes without speaking. As the children of God is our privilege to be led by the Spirit[7]. But that too is a subject for another day. [1] Sir David Attenborough, The Green Planet, BBC Television, Sunday 30th January 2022. [2] For more on this, see Body Builders – Gifts to make God's People Grow, Chapter 2. [3] See The Holy Spirit – an Introduction, Chapter 2. Available from www.davidpetts.org [4] In Matthew 11:13 Jesus said, All the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John (the Baptist). [5] This is most clear in John 14-16 and Acts 13:2. [6] Romans 10:13-14 [7] Romans 8:14

No Bible sheet needed, just listen as Job's first friend speaks and Job responds.  to see the video click here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTVpr2Z7-ykFMSNi-FyW6abjdoUdnT8Xg #bookofjob #immanuelshirley #EHV  

Don't you want to know the truth or just have your own innerstanding of the creation of life!! No Bible here this book Is what you need! I'll give you some insight on this good read and more on the affirmations of Maat that we know to be the 10 of commandments! Tune in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have you ever wondered what if there were no Bible? That God did not tell us all the things that would be going on in the world just before He comes back? Step by step He has told us what things would be like before His return! Thank God He didn't leave us to wonder!

As we saw in the last episode, God raised up some amazing men to produce the most influential Bible translation in Arabic. I want to continue exploring a little more about this translation and see what its legacy has been over more than a century. No Bible translation is perfect, and languages undergo significant changes over the course of a hundred years, leading to a need for updated translations that contemporary readers can understand. Cultures and religions have also shifted in the Arab world, which raises new challenges for Bible translation. So let's explore these things and more together. my books | twitter | music | Hebrew | academic articles | facebook | contact | download all episodes for offline

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Mother Miriam continues her reading of, and commentary on, a book about the Catholic faith in today's episode.To help keep this and other programs on the air, please donate: https://give.lifesitenews.com/sustainlife?utm_source=mml_020722You can tune in daily at 10 am EST/7 am PST on our Facebook Page: http://FB.com/mothermiriamliveSubscribe to Mother Miriam Live at: http://bit.ly/submml See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just know though, God uses us all.Episode guest - AndreaOur second guest of the series, Andrea, shares her walk with God. A very intimate testimony as she shares how God saved her at 13. No Bible, no religious home, just a belief that God would hear her. AMEN! We discuss how God has a plan for us all, the power of worship, and more. Reminding us there is always more to life than what we think, for God is abundant.Ephesians 2: 8-9Find Us OnlineWebsite: http://www.justknowthough.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/justknowthough About this seriesTis the season of giving, joy, gratitude and renewal. ending the year with a season of faith for all things good. This series is dedicated for those who don't believe in coincidences but rather in god winks. A reminder to have faith, open your hearts and that god is real this Christmas season while we head into 2022!

Today, Tuesday November 23 The Word That Builds and Works Jude 1:20-21 “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.” Over my almost fifty years as a pastor I did everything I could to encourage believers to take time each day to systematically read and study the Word of God! The only way to stay connected to the Foundation of Jesus Christ and to build on it, is to practice this daily discipline! When the Apostle Paul was meeting with the Ephesian Elders for the last time in Acts 20, he gave them this final word: “And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified” (Acts 20:32). Paul told the church at Thessalonica, “For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe” (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Did you notice what Paul said about the “word of his grace, which is able to build you up….”. And that it is the “word of God, which also effectively works in you…” The Word of God is certainly central in spiritual growth. I have yet to meet a strong, fruitful Christian who ignores his Bible. We must daily spend devotional time in the Word, seeking the mind of God. We must also study the Word regularly, in a disciplined way, so that we better understand what it teaches. The gifted Chinese preacher, Watchman Nee, used to read through the New Testament once a month. This becomes apparent when you read his books, for you are struck with his wonderful insights into God's Word. The members of the Chinese church used to have a saying, "No Bible—no breakfast!" If we followed that motto in America, I wonder how many Christians would go hungry. Jude said, “Build yourselves up on your most holy faith….”. Your “most holy faith” is the Word of God! It is the Word of God that “builds you up” and at the same time “works effectively in you”. Please don't neglect the Word today so that when the trials and temptations come you will stand and not stumble! God Bless!

# Introduction C. S. Lewis referred to it as the *Tao* in _The Abolition of Man_. Augustine and Aquinas called it “natural law,” and it ought to be seen as a complement to the presuppositional apologetic as taught by men such as Cornelius Van Til and Greg Bahnsen. You don't need to read any of those men, you can read these five verses to the Romans. Whatever label we give it, or how many more pages can be written about it, the point is this: *God's moral law for all men is inside every man.* No Bible is required to know what's right or to judge men for not doing what's right. Paul has really been sticking his authorial finger into the sores of unrighteousness for a while. The opening of Romans started on such a positive, even buoyant, tone exalting the power of God to salvation for Jews first and also Gentiles who believe the gospel. In the gospel God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith (Romans 1:16-17). Then Paul turned onto Judgment Juncture, Condemnation Corner, Wrath Road. It's more of a superhighway of sin, lots of lanes and packed with traffic. The apostle starts putting up huge billboards by the side of the road pointing out where men are and where they're headed. Blinking lights: “Bridge Out Ahead” Men know that God *is* and that God doesn't approve of their lusts. In what can only be appreciated as ironic, God lets them have so much of their “freedom” from Him that they're enslaved by it. Yet even then there is some individual and cultural sense of right and wrong, and this continues to reinforce that men will have to give an answer for that. In the previous paragraph (2:5-11) Paul showed that everyone will be judged by his works, endurance of work of good as well as obedience to unrighteousness, no matter one's religious background, Jew or Greek, for God shows no partiality. This paragraph (Romans 2:12-16) drills down further and reveals that every man has a built-in, factory model moral GPS system that keeps repeating to him every time he misses a turn, which is a lot of the time. How often do we hear a man try to excuse himself by saying he had “no idea,” so he shouldn't be held accountable? But everyone has listened to the little voice coming from his internal dashboard, at least enough to prove his final culpability. # God Is Impartial (verses 12-14) Verses 12-14 extend the explanation for why God's judgment is just, in three steps. Why can we trust that God is impartial? How do we know that His judgment is giving every man a fair shake? ## 1. Because everyone is judged according to what they know is right, not according to what they don't know. In particular, all men are *judged* accurately and fairly regardless of their access to God's Word. No one in Paul's audience had a New Testament. It is very unlikely that anyone in Rome had his own copy of part of the Old Testament, let alone a complete copy. Most of the Roman population wouldn't have been curious about Moses, even if they had wanted to download the Torah app onto their tablet just to check it out. The Jews—and there were some in Rome—were a people specially gifted with what we call *special* revelation. All had general, creational revelation (as described in Romans 1:19-20, similarly in Psalm 19:1-6), but to Israel God gave prophets and parchments, and two stone tablets (Psalm 19:7-9). > He declares his word to Jacob, > his statutes and rules to Israel. > He has not dealt thus with any other nation; > they do not know his rules. > Praise the LORD! > (Psalm 147:19–20) Israel had a covenant with the LORD, Yahweh, and His law provided the instructions for the covenant. Paul doesn't refer to the Mosaic Law by name, or even to its summary in the Ten Commandments. “Law” can refer to a number of things, but in verse 12 it distinguishes between the Haves and the HaveNots. > For those sinning without law will perish also without law, and those sinning in law will be judged by law. **Law** is found nine times in these verses, with no definite article modifying **law** in verses 12-13. The end of the matter is death for evil-doers (Romans 1:32); that's the law. To **perish** is eternal destruction, to receive God's wrath and fury (2:8). It is the end for those who sin regardless of having their own copy of the code. ## 2. Besides, everyone is judged by what they **do**, right or not, not by identification with a law (system). Having, hearing (or reading), even *teaching*, God's Word has never made a man in good standing with God. It is always OBEDIENCE. It's an important point for *us* as well. The Lord told Joshua to meditate on the law of the Lord *so that* he might “be *careful to do* according to all that is written in it” (Joshua 1:8). This is the point James makes (James 1:22-25). Hearing and having are not enough. > For the hearers of law are not righteous before God but the doers of law will be justified. **Hearers** and **doers** are rare Greek nouns, and **righteous** and **justified** (or “declared to be righteous”) are regular cognates, especially in this letter to the Romans. A righteous standing before God is *key*, and it must be *given*, and it's not given to possessors but rather to practicers of law. Jews weren't right by virtue of having God's Book, neither, for that matter, are we who have good quiet times and yearly reading checkboxes but are full of the works of the flesh. Disciples of Christ are taught to *obey* all that He's commanded (Matthew 28:20), because judgment has always been about what we do. ## 3. And, even the nations do (some) right, the kind of right found in the law, by nature. This is a critically important perspective that the pagans themselves won't own up to. > For the nations, the ones not having law, are a law to themselves, when they are doing—by nature—the (requirements) of the law, (even though they are) ones not having law. Let's start with the repeated part. The group we're focused on are “the ones not having law.” They are the without-law-ones in verse 12; the ἔθνη, the **Gentiles** (ESV), the “nations” (YLT), the *non*-Jews (compare to verse 17). The phrases are separated in verse 14, but the exact words are there twice: “the not having the law ones.” These men didn't get any of their ideas from a copy of God's written law. Yet sometimes, and we don't know how often or consistently let alone completely, they **do** (things) of the law. It could happen whenever. Again, they aren't doing “the law”; they don't have it. But those who do have it can see this other group and say, “Hey, that looks like this.” How is this possible? There's a one word answer in verse 14, then a two word answer we can add on. The word that's in verse 14 is **nature** (φύσει), or by birth, by natural endowment (BAGD). It is stock equipment, like grain in wood. It's *not* an acquired habit or a social construct, it is the way God made it to be. “Nature” was assumed in Romans 1:26-27 regarding male and female, the *given* order. We live in a moral cosmos, an ordered universe. The “deep magic,” so to speak, is *moral*. Believers know this is possible only by God's *common grace*. Any good they do (and evil they are restrained from doing), and any good that comes from doing good, is not deserved. It is God's gift for their blessing, at least on the temporal level. *Of course* men don't do the requirements perfectly because their nature is fallen. Of course men don't do it perfectly because their flesh lusts for self-defined pleasures, including the pleasure of self-definition. Plus, sin *lies*. So men lie about what they know and where they got their ideas about what is right. But, still, they almost can't help themselves sometimes honoring their mother and father and not murdering every neighbor. That shows (see verse 15) some God-given moral nature. Ever not stealing some smaller kids' stuff is inconsistent with evolution; secular humanism is *not* a riches of kindness. Whenever they do something right, even just one out of a thousand times, **they are a law to themselves**. Maybe we could say practice is nine-tenths of the law. This doesn't mean that everyone has his own standard; it's not the law of subjectivism and/or relativism. This means that an objective standard has been acknowledged by them, without Scripture, even if they hate it. # Case in Point (verses 15-16) Paul explains more about the without law ones. > Those show the work of the law to be written on their hearts, their consciences bearing witness, and thoughts—conflicting with one another—accusing or excusing on the day when God will judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ. There are at least four things we see in this case. ## First, moral law is in effect today and will be on that day. They are currently **showing the work of the law**, that was the point in verse 14. Sometimes they do what the law requires, they put it together without reading the instruction manual. It's also not going to be a different standard later, as if from a second set of books. ## Second, moral law is internal and external. Again, they **show the work**, but it comes because it is **written on their hearts**. Specifically it is not the law that is written on their hearts, but **the work** of the law, meaning the expectation even without the explicit words. There is *not* usually a consistency between the heart and the hands, but there is *enough* to corroborate the judgment. ## Third, Moral law is shared with humans from God. They have **thoughts** that **accuse or excuse**, that increase their guilty feelings or their confidence, and all of this is happening on board, so to speak. Their recognition software isn't dependent on a data processing center in the cloud. The work of the law is written...by whom? Their consciences (which are given by whom) are witnesses...for whom? Obviously, it's the Creator. So God writes, the conscience is God's own witness in every soul, and He Himself will be the judge on the final day. ## Fourth, Moral law is imperfect among men but omnisciently applied by God. Their thoughts conflict with one another. This is part of the cognitive dissonance. They know, they can't help but know, sometimes they do things that are consistent with what they know, sometimes it's just a twisted echo of what they know. But whatever they know, they are also committed to ignoring God, and may even be at some stage given over by God to irrational thinking (Romans 1:28). A “debased mind” is a debating mind. The conflicting, imperfect application is the part that proves their guilt. God not only assumes that unbelieving men can do some *good*, the sort we see in His law, it is the presence of any good that proves the bad. God's application of the standard is omniscient, even judging the **secrets of men**. God sees past the internal conflicts and external cover-ups. Man proclaims that he is on the right side of history when he knows in his heart he's not. Judgment is **according to gospel**, as in, the gospel is good news of substitutionary judgment on Jesus, but there *must be judgment* (Romans 3:25-26). Also, Paul calls it **my** gospel; don't be too over-spiritual about first-person pronouns. Judgment is **through Jesus Christ**. > [God] has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (Acts 17:31) # Conclusion Can the conscience steer a man wrong? Of course (Acts 24:16; Titus 1:15). Can the conscience be oversensitive? Yes (1 Corinthians 8:7). Can the conscience be too insensitive? Definitely (1 Timothy 4:2). *But* the fact that every man does not drive the car of his life off the moral cliff every time he makes a turn is God's evidence of moral law. God gets the credit for that, not man. Any good a man does, and any good a man gets from doing that good, is further evidence against that man for not honoring God and giving Him thanks. We are at the head of a week of cultural inconsistency. We can even be thankful for the inconsistency of unbelievers talking about thanksgiving, because we know that God's riches of kindness are meant to lead them to repentance. ---------- ## Charge There is no law telling you how to do Thanksgiving. There is a law, written in the Word and written on your heart, that you must be thankful. This means that there is great flexibility in the menu, the decorations, the seating arrangements, and so forth, but there is absolute necessity that in *all* those things you are filled with the Spirit. ## Benediction: > And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:18–21, ESV)

We are in week two of our Summer Series, and we explore saying yes with the patriarch Abram, as God calls him into an unknown but blessed future. It is frightening and thrilling all at the same time when God beckons us into a new way of being. And we also discuss "How to Do Nothing," a book by Jenny Odell, which asks us, among other things, to pay attention to who and what id vying for our attention, our time, our very selves. What do we say yes to, and what can we say no to? It's a wide ranging conversation this week about faith, courage, living into who and what you are called to be, and whose voice you listen to.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021. 2 Peter 2:6-8 Gen 19:24,28 1Peter 1:25 2 Peter 1:21 Psalms 119:89 Mark 13:31 Ezekiel 16:49-50 Matthew 11:23-24 2 Peter 2:7 2 Peter 2:8 2 Corinthians 3:2-3

Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

We can talk about pioneering missions ministry. Yet, an essential element that is often neglected is the priority of Bible translation. No Bible, no ministry! We need to affirm the importance of sound Bible translation by sending our best and brightest to become translators and translation consultants. It is difficult, long-term, and essential to indigenous church planting.

No Bible story has changed over the centuries more than the story of Mary and Jesus' birth. It serves as a reminder that we often focus on the wrong things when God delivers His plan to us - and in this case, we see an example of a relatively simple, straight-forward account changing dramatically due to layers and layers of theological developments that have resulted in the concept of "Mary, Mother of God," who was conceived herself without sin, taken directly to heaven without having seen death, and now living as a mediator along with Jesus as something of a "queen mother."The Biblical account itself is fairly straightforward, as Pope John Paul II acknowledged in 1995 when he wrote extensively about the theology behind Mary's story, stating that the scriptures themselves say nothing about Mary having a role in mankind's redemption, living a sinless life, or ascending directly to heaven, but that those ideas evolved over centuries of theological study.It's a reminder for us that the emphasis from the apostles in the first century was not on the idea of elaborating on revealed truth, but instead on remaining faithful to the teaching as it was originally delivered. We see repeated emphasis on trusting the revealed word, which itself explains fully the "mystery of the gospel."

Ms. Tonya takes on the role of an empress in this episode “If I ruled the world”. Inspired by the hip hop artist Nas and Lauryn Hill. Ms. Tonya takes you to a world with no organized religion. No Bible. That’s right, just the scrolls, no bible. No organization of people’s history. No declaring war in the name of God. No ruling over people claiming it came from God. My first mission is to rid the world of organized religion. They say the root of all evil is money, what if the rule of all evil is religion? Be sure to leave a message for the show and show your love and support by donating to the show! Visit www.mstonya.comMusic by:"Silenzio" by Dag Anderson"Baby It's You" by Revel day (Intro/Outro)Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mstonya)

In our conversation with Dr. Bill Giallourakis, we discuss how God saved him as an Atheist, whether or not you should consider a PhD, and starting seminary with no Bible background.Dr. Bill Giallourakis is the pastor of Columbia Road Baptist Church in North Olmstead, Ohio. Find all our episodes on the website.Send an audio message with a seminary question that may get featured on a future episode here!

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No Bible question is too big or too small, we take them all. Jimmy Akin lends his Scripture knowledge to listeners who ask questions about translations, content, and truth. Questions Covered: 04:23 – Is there any special significance to Lot’s wife being turned into a pillar of salt and not sand or some other material?  07:59 – Why was the English translation of the Bible opposed during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots?  16:00 – After Cain killed Abel, he goes east of Eden and finds a wife. Where did his wife come from if Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel were the only people on earth?  21:31 – King David prayed for horrible things to be done to his enemies. Why?  32:20 – Which Scripture verses confirm that the apostles specifically have authority and not just every follower of Christ?  37:00 – Is it true that we are begotten or is Christ the only one to be begotten?  44:50 – In Scripture, God uses plagues to help people to turn back to him. Is there any parallel between those and this coronavirus?  44:50 – In Scripture, God uses plagues to help people to turn back to him. Is there any parallel between those and this coronavirus?  51:22 – Is there anywhere I can purchase a Catholic copy of the Septuagint in Greek?  Resources Mentioned: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy The Great Divorce by Chris Check  Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach To Answering Bible Difficulties by Trent Horn The Bible Is A Catholic Book by Jimmy Akin Basics of Biblical Greek by Bill Mounce Verbum.com  …

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December 1, 2019 AM, Nehemiah 13:1-31.Just like your car needs constant maintenance, or your house, or your health, so does your spiritual life. No oil for the engine? It will seize up. No new shingles after 70 years? Leaks. No Bible, little church, very little prayer? Your life will fall into terrible disrepair. It is far better to stay on the right track with constant maintenance, than fall off and have to do a bunch of rebuilding. Nehemiah fixed the problems. He cleaned out the temple storeroom. He appointed faithful treasurers over the storehouse, stopped the buying and selling on the Sabbath, and cleansed the nation and priesthood of its compromisers. Let's make sure we are like Nehemiah. Our Scripture reading was found in 1 Kings 4:1-34.

Our topic isn’t about English Bible translations….it’s about so many people around the world that don’t have the Bible in their language. I sit down with Lloyd Haman, a Bible Translator with Worldview Ministries and we talk about the growing need for global Bible translation.

Our topic isn’t about English Bible translations….it’s about so many people around the world that don’t have the Bible in their language. I sit down with Lloyd Haman, a Bible Translator with Worldview Ministries and we talk about the growing need for global Bible translation.

Hey hey, sweet friends! Welcome to another week of TELL ME BOUT IT! If you're new to Chosen Girl, "tell me bout it" is where we dive into God's word and wisdom for guidance on everyday struggles we all face. We've covered so many real topics with truly real talks on topics like dating, fear, anxiety, waiting, and more. Do you ever say "yes" to not let others down? Are you spread too thin due to overcommitment? Does your skin crawl when you don't have a hand in every little thing around you? We got you sis. This week we are diving into an issue we all face...saying "yes" all too often and a major contributing factor, "FOMO" (fear of missing out). Yes, its time to have this conversation! When is "yes" the right thing to say? When is it wrong or unhealthy? And most importantly, what does the Word say? Face it, sister, you've spread yourself too thin on the wrong "yes'." We know because we have lived it, and are still living it... who's ready to OVERCOME?!? Its time to redirect our FOMO from other's expectations to God's plan. I don't wanna miss out on what He has for me, y'all. Disclaimer: This talk isn't a "never say yes" talk...its a "seek God in ALL" talk! YES, God has assignments for you to say "yes" to! NO, not all assignments are for you! This is a priority talk, sisters. A choice talk...and we are preaching to ourselves more than anything! Y'all can find this week's recording on our YouTube channel, or click here to stream our podcast directly from our site, or subscribe to our podcast here on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Play.   Here's some high points you DON'T want to miss or forget: Colossians 3:23If we are giving into everyone else but God, then that's when everything else becomes an idol. Are you spreading yourself too thin to please someone else?The 2 most important words in the English language are "yes" and "no."How we spend time is like currency. What is how you're spending your time worth to you? We are only given 168 hours in a week. How are we budgeting our time? Once its spent, you can't get it back!Don't justify what God is calling you to! What is more important...His way or yours?There's ALWAYS a tradeoff with how we spend our time. No prayer, no peace. No Bible, no wisdom. How are you spending your soul?"Yes" may be "less" sometimes, but trust that God is always positioning you for MORE with your "yes" for HIM. Don't mistake God saying "wait" for God saying "no." The "wait" command from God is always for your good. God will not tell you to wait unless the wait is worth it. God will not tell you to stop or say no unless He is protecting you. Trust Him. When you know who you are in CHRIST, decisions come SO much easier. The Holy Spirit is here to HELP you! Do you truly believe that God has the BEST yes and intentions for your life?

Religious or spiritual? Agnostic or dont-give-a damn? Believing in things bigger than ourselves can be energizing, grounding and comforting, but what about organized religion? Coming from vastly different backgrounds, in this episode Nic and Lala share their experiences, along with what's helped and what's harmed them by way of spiritual beliefs. Song of the week: Babe Ruthless by Angel Haze

Religious or spiritual? Agnostic or dont-give-a damn? Believing in things bigger than ourselves can be energizing, grounding and comforting, but what about organized religion? Coming from vastly different backgrounds, in this episode Nic and Lala share their experiences, along with what's helped and what's harmed them by way of spiritual beliefs. Song of the week: Babe Ruthless by Angel Haze

Religious or spiritual? Agnostic or dont-give-a damn? Believing in things bigger than ourselves can be energizing, grounding and comforting, but what about organized religion? Coming from vastly different backgrounds, in this episode Nic and Lala share their experiences, along with what's helped and what's harmed them by way of spiritual beliefs. Song of the week: Babe Ruthless by Angel Haze

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No Bible class was held on Sunday due to Messiah's Easter Sunday celebration schedule, but Pastor Otte and Phil Kasper sat down on Good Friday to talk about a meditation call "The Scapegoat". We discuss how we may discern assigning blame versus holding a person accountable, how the term hate may be used, and how, even though we all are hypocrites in one way or another, that should not keep us from witnessing to others about Jesus Christ.

When it comes to this series on the sovereignty of God, you might be expecting us to talk about how God's sovereignty relates to the salvation of souls. No Bible believer should find any confusion about this issue. Find out in this sermon what the Bible says. You can find out more about Lakeland Baptist Church through our church website at www.lakelandbaptist.ca. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lakeland-Baptist-Church-217617964922312/ Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ8TN0h_b3qJTFIflNcInXA

In this series I have laid out reason why I believe the writing is on the wall for our nation. Never before have we seem the proliferation of sin across our society on the scale we are seeing today, and mark my word, we will reap what we are sowing in the lives of the next generations.   We are engaged in a battle to the death with sin, both in our own lives and across society! Make no mistake, these battles we see are not about fairness, equality or catering for a small minority who want to express their sexuality, it’s not about inclusiveness and love is love or my body is my body, this is a battle to the death. Either we kill sin, or sin kills us!   Romans 6:23 (ESV Strong's) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.   This war is not just a physical battle, it is spiritual, and it is a life and death battle for the very survival of life as we know it.   Ephesians 6:12 (ESV Strong’s) For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.   So today we will examine how we can fight and win in this terrifying war against sin...     CHECK THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT   The first thing we must realise is that our conscience is our friend, not our enemy in the battle against sin. Our society tells us the conscience should be seared, dulled or hardened, because it makes us feel guilty for the sins we commit, and we don’t like that! Society says, “It’s not your fault,” so instead of recognising sin we ignore it, suppress it and if confronted by it, we shift the blame to our parents, our spouse, our upbringing, our situation or our recently diagnosed mental illness.   When the check engine light comes on, society urges us not to look deeper and find the cause, but to put a sticker over it and ignore it! They reason, if you ignore it long enough, maybe the light will go out. Meanwhile sin rises victorious, God’s standards are flaunted, our children are corrupted and healthy babies are murdered, and all the while we hear no evil, see no evil and say nothing!   Ezekiel 3:18 (ESV Strong's) If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.   It is time to fight and kill sin in our own life and across our society, because if we don’t kill him, he will surely stop at nothing to kill us!   THE BATTLE RAGES   The apostle Paul faced this very dilemma in Romans 7. Listen to what He says…   Romans 7:14-15 (ESV Strong's) For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.   Romans 7:19-20 (ESV Strong's) For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.   Romans 7:23-24 (ESV Strong's) but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?   Paul struggled with sin, he fought the good fight, and so must we. Church, we must never put a sticker over our conscience and think we are ok, because sin will start killing us off right there. The battle rages, and though we may not totally win until we are with the Lord, we must fight and kill off sin the best we can. We start in our own lives, and as we win this battle we earn the right to speak into the nation!   KILLING OFF SIN   Colossians 3:5 (ESV Strong's) Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.   God calls us to show mercy and love to one another, and to love our enemies, even if we don’t agree with them, even if they flaunt sin in our faces and attack us. I am not suggesting hatred to gays, transgenders, abortionists or wayward politicians. I’m suggesting love to them, kindness and respect. However, I will not show kindness respect and love to the evils they perpetrate! Love people, even the evil ones, but kill off sin!   It is time to kill off sin, to fight sin to the death and win! But let me first tell you How sin is not put to death, in our lives and in our community…   1.      SIN IS NOT KILLED BY COVERING IT UP   You can hide your sin, cover it up and no one will know… except you and God.   Proverbs 28:13 (ESV Strong's) Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.   Covering it up, putting a sticker on your check engine light, actually leaves you in a more dangerous position that facing your sin and dealing with it. Covering sin doesn’t kill it, it makes it more dangerous, and starts a progression that leads to death…   James 1:15 (ESV Strong's) Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.   2.      SIN IS NOT KILLED BY INTERNALISING IT   Forsaking the outward expression of your sin, but still harbouring it in your mind and imagination does not kill the sin. Outside you look good, and no one knows the sin that still lurks within. Jesus warned religious leaders about this.   Matthew 23:24-25 (ESV Strong's) You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.   Cleaning the outside doesn’t make the inside clean, so internalising your sin doesn’t set you free, regardless of whether you look good on the outside to your friends or family.   3.      SIN IS NOT KILLED BY EXCHANGING IT   Heroin addicts are often treated with methadone, substituting one drug for another… it is less destructive, but the addiction remains. Substituting one sin for another does not solve the problem and it does not kill sin. Replacing the sin of fornication with pornography does not cure your lust.   Proverbs 23:7 (KJV Strong's) For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:   All sin is sin, so exchanging one sin for another does not kill sin, it just morphs it!   4.      SIN IS NOT KILLED BY REPRESSING IT   People try to repress sin in many ways. They try and drown it in alcohol or drugs, suppress it by escapism in movies and TV shows, and they try and repress one destructive relationship by starting another destructive relationship.  But sin is irrepressible… drink and get high all you like, when you sober up guess what… your sin is still there, bigger than ever!   Wherever you go, however you try and escape, sin will hunt you down! But here’s the great news… God will also hunt you down, and find you in your sin.   Psalms 139:7-10 (ESV Strong's) Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.   You can change jobs, change churches, change town, change country, change marriage, but your sin still goes with you. Prinze God, that your Saviour goes with you also. So don’t repress, confess.     5.      SIN IS NOT KILLED BY UNTIL THE CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR   Sin is only killed when your conscience is clear. Remember, your conscience is the check engine light, so when the underlying problem is solved, the light goes off. Don’t stop fighting sin until your conscience is purified, because partial obedience is disobedience!   Acts 24:16 (ESV Strong's) So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.   A clear conscience is a wonderful thing as we mentioned last week. While ever sin is present, even if it is tolerated, then a clear conscience is unattainable. So don’t try and substitute a dulled, a seared or a hardened conscience for the real thing. Sin isn’t dead until the check engine light is off!   12 STEP PLAN TO VICTORY OVER SIN   Killing off sin entirely is not going to happen this side of glory, but that does not mean we stop fighting.   2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV Strong's) we all, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.   We should expect our victories over sin to be ever increasing even if the final victory will not be seen until we reach Heaven.  Indeed, the ultimate victory will be ours, and every blow you land for righteousness is a victory for God and for His holiness!   So despite the recent legislative changes, I will not stay silent, and I will not stop fighting for what is right and godly! I refuse to keep silent and fade away, and I will obey the laws of this land only up until they contradict the expressed law of God.   So if we want to keep fighting sin in our own lives, and if you want to become anything in your life for Jesus you will need to keep fighting. What are the 12 steps towards killing off sin?   1.      DECIDE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH   Victory over sin starts with a decision. If you are content to just continue with your sin, if you are content to sear or dull your conscience and let it all slide along, you will never have victory over the sin that is destroying you. You have to decide, enough is enough.   Deuteronomy 30:19 (ESV Strong's) I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,   Contentment is the enemy of improvement, so victory over sin starts with a decision, a decision that you are not content to be ruled by your sin, to not accept the status quo. A decision to change is required, that enough is enough, and I want better!   2.      CONFESS YOUR SIN   1 John 1:8-9 (ESV Strong's) If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.   Don’t ignore your sin, and don’t excuse it away. God will not zap you, fry you or embarrass you, just confess your sin and let Him forgive you. Murder, lust, greed, it doesn’t matter what it is, He promises that if you confess your sin He will forgive you, so take Him at His Word and do it!   3.      ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUSTS   I remember chasing my kids, and they would scream and run away, crying “Don’t! Stop!” When I did stop, they would walk back closer and closer to try and make me chase then again. Their “Don’t! Stop!” Became, “Don’t stop!”   1 Peter 2:11 (ESV Strong's) Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.   John MacArthur gives simple but profound advice on killing off sin… “Do you want to put to death the lusts in your heart? Then stop entertaining them. Peter does not prescribe a program of therapy. He does not suggest that such sin be treated as an addiction. He simply says abstain. Quit doing it. You have no business indulging such thoughts. Put them away at once.” [i]   My family had a cattle farm in Maryborough, and we also agisted cattle. We sent those cows off to the butcher and felt nothing, but our house cows, the ones we grew up with, and cuddled and cared for, these we could never butcher! While ever you dabble in sin, flirt with it or mollycoddled it, while ever you cuddle it, care for it or enjoy it, you will never kill it! To kill off sin, you not only need to stop it, you need to avoid not entertain it!   4.      MAKE NO PROVISION FOR THE FLESH   We may stop actually doing a sin, but we often kind of leave the door open to doing it!   Romans 13:14 (ESV Strong's) But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.   In other words refuse to accommodate in any way anything that might lead you back into that sin! If you don’t want to fall, don’t walk where it is slippery. If you have an issue with gluttony, don’t pile up your supermarket trolley with junk food. If you have an issue with lust, don’t surf porn sites. If you have an issue with gossip, walk away from people sharing secrets with you.   By doing this, you cut off sin before it gets the chance to grow and breed. It is easier to pull out a baby tree than cut down the fully grown specimen!     5.      FIX YOUR EYES ON JESUS   Whatever you look at determines what you become, because as Jesus said,   Luke 11:34 (ESV Strong's) Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.   If you look at porn you will lust. If you watch violent movies or play violent computer games you will get angrier. If you hang around pubs you will drink. If you hang around church, you will grow more Christlike.    2 Corinthians 4:18 (ESV Strong's) we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.   Hebrews 12:2 (ESV Strong's) looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith   So to kill off sin, don’t constantly look at it, don’t hang around it, don’t entertain it and don’t camp outside it’s lair. Instead, fix your eyes on Jesus, and on things eternal, for whatever you look at you become…   Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.     6.      FILL YOUR MIND WITH GOODNESS   If you decide not to look at sin or anything leading to it, where do you look. It’s like when Fiona and I are shopping and she takes me into a lingerie store… I don’t know where to look, where to stand, and anything you do, you’re going to look like a pervert!   Philippians 4:8 (ESV Strong's) Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.   Job 31:1 (ESV Strong's) “I have made a covenant with my eyes;   So look away from sin, and fill your mind with Jesus and with good and godly things… Christian or wholesome teaching, books, videos, music, TV shows, and in particular…   7.      FILL YOUR HEART WITH GOD’S WORD   Psalms 119:9-11 (ESV Strong's) How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.   Reading the Bible every day, coming to a Bible preaching church, memorising Bible passages, do whatever you can to focus on the Word of God, and fill your heart with His Word!   I read and even memorise God’s Word a lot. I a, amazed at how often God’s Word comes out of my mouth in general conversation.   The next step is…   8.      PRAY WITHOUT CEASING   You cannot live a triumphant life over sin without prayer. Many know this verse, but note context…   1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV Strong's) Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.   Being in a constant state of prayer is an awesome way to kill off sin and it’s effects in your life. Notice the preceding and following verses? Praying constantly is about rejoicing and giving thanks constantly too! A gratitude attitude, being thankful for everything you have, is a great way to kill off the effects of sin and help you focus on Jesus and eternal things.     9.      GUARD YOUR HEART   Proverbs 4:23 (NIV-WS) Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.   You can have a few victories over sin, but you will not kill it unless you remain on guard against it. The enemy will not take your desire for holiness in your life lying down!  The devil has a habit of dressing up sin and reintroducing it. So you need to guard your heart!     10.   DISCIPLINE YOURSELF   1 Corinthians 9:25-27 (ESV Strong's) Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.   No athlete, or artist, or musician or Christian becomes great without discipline. We live in a society that applauds discipline for athletes, yet excuses lack of discipline in more important aspects of life. Top athletes are excused for misdemeanours in bars or on the road. Politicians with sordid personal lives are celebrated if they make the country prosperous.   To be victorious over sin in your life, you need to become disciplined. Hebrews explains…   Hebrews 12:11 (ESV Strong's) For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.   Discipline is painful, it takes time, effort and true commitment, but the long term gains are amazing, and allow you to kill off areas of sin in your life to a large degree. It takes time, and discipline to reach everything God has destined for you to be in your life, but this leads to…   11.   RENEW YOUR MIND- CREATE NEW HABITS   Romans 12:2 (ESV Strong's) Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.   As you fill your mind with the things of God, especially the Word of God, your mind is being renewed day by day. Renewing of your mind is not simply a mental exercise, it must have a practical outworking. Renewing of your mind causes you to break old, destructive habits and establish new, righteous habits.   A habit is an series of actions you repeatedly do until they become automatic. Any addiction is really a powerful bad habit, be it drug, alcohol, porn, spending, gossiping, anger outbursts or gambling! But you can dismantle bad habits and build good habits that enhance your life rather than destroy it. Our society loves to call things addictions and enslave people forever, but my experience is that God can break bad habits, and He can also establish good ones, as your mind is renewed.   Latest research indicates that it takes around 66 days to break a bad habit or establish a new one. [ii]   When God breaks a habit off your life it can be very quick, because His Spirit can destroy the works of the enemy. One thing is for sure… if you decide in your heart to form a good habit, such as reading the Bible every morning, it can be a powerful force in your life. I personally discovered this when at University I attended a Navigator’s group and signed a pledge called, “No Bible, no breakfast.” This commitment led to me reading God’s Word first thing almost every day, and hardly ever eating breakfast!     12.   DON’T GIVE UP THE FIGHT   I know sin and the devil are mighty adversaries, and relentless foes, but my Bible says,   1 John 4:4 (ESV Strong's) he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.   Sin will fight, he will fight dirty, he will use underhanded tactics, he will be relentless, he will tempt and call and flirt and suck you in. You will have times of great victories, then some defeat will drag you back down. You will break some bad habits, and not others. But through it all, no matter what happens, stand strong, gather around people who love and support you and in the words of Winston Churchill, “Never, never, never give up.” You will get tired of fighting, it will sometimes seem that all is lost, that the sin is winning, that troubles are never ending, but that is when you have to focus on Christ, resist the enemy and decide to fight on!   James 4:7 (ESV Strong's) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.   This is the promise… resist him, and because he is a coward, he will just flee from you.   The original Rocky movie is the story of a fighter who rises up the ranks to become champion of the world, then, in all the luxury and comfort of the victories, he loses his edge, and his title. His trainer decides to take him back to the smelly alley and leaky taps, back to where he came from, and over time he puts the fight back into the fighter.   So when it comes to sin, don’t lose the fight, don’t lose the desire to win against a merciless and destructive foe! Never give up, never give an inch, resist, and see him flee! It is time to put the fight back into the fighter!   1 John 3:9 (ESV Strong's) No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.   Today I speak to those who are tired, run down and sick of struggling with sin and with life. I say to you, stand strong, fight hard, form the right habits, resist and stand firm, knowing that the Lord is in us and He is greater than any sin!   Our society may have given into sin on so many levels, but now is not the time to roll over and accept it as normal. Now is the time to stand up and declare that we will not go quietly, we will stand for what is right and godly in this world, and by God we will win!   Killing off sin is not about seeking legalistic righteousness, it’s not about judgement of others, or forcing obedience to laws, it’s about seeking  God with all your heart and seeking holiness in Him. You cannot be holy, but you can decide to yield to Him and let ahis holiness dwell in you!   Today, if you are tired of fighting, I want to pray with you and stand with you.                

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Punishing Christianity, Kachin Christians, China, UK St. Paul, No bible reading, Pakistan, War with Church, and more Prophecy news| www.warn-usa.com | WIBR WARN Radio Steel the Darkness, A Christian Mystery Thriller; this is book one in a four book series. Learn more here: Steel the Darkness paperback http://amzn.to/2z4Kcpe We cover the globe and find the war with the Church. Punishing Christianity we find China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Myanmar, and radical Islam. In addition we find in the UK bible reading on the street is illegal. Then we discuss Leah Sharibu a young woman who would not renounce Christ and is in custody still. Around the world the news of persecution of Christians not to mention others also facing the same thing. The lawlessness is sweeping the world led by nation states which despise Christianity and those who practice it. Pat Buchanan pushes the Trump thought process. Coverage of the governments Pig book. In addition shocking coverage of Globalism killing America. Is Europe becoming an Islamic state, we have the warning.

The North American Rebbe for Ani Judaism International discusses topics related to the Torah and the Messiah Yeshua from a Hasidic point of view, The North American Rebbe for Ani Judaism International discusses topics related to the Torah and the Messiah Yeshua from a Hasidic point of view,

Pastor Garry Clark continues the Christmas Season with this messages to glorify the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth! Listen as Mary sings her praise to the Lord!

Acts 17:10-15 NASB – 10 The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men. 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds. 14 Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there. 15 Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

Pastor Garry begins the new series, "The Sounds Of Christmas," to kick off the Christmas season.

By Pastor Matthew O'Shell

The Christian Worldview: What if there were no Bible?(The Voice of God /Bible and Tradition)

UNIVERSITY OF EXCELLENCEWWW.UOFE.ORG Prince HandleyPresident / Regent LISTENING TO THE SPIRITDIRECTION AND HELP~ A MIRACLE PODCAST PRODUCTION ~ You can listen to this message NOW. Click on the pod circle at top left. (Allow images to display.) Or, Listen NOW >> LISTEN HERE Email this message to a friend. Subscribe to this Ezine teaching by Email: princehandley@gmail.com (Type “Subscribe” in the “Subject” line.) 24/7 release of Prince Handley teachings, BLOGS and podcasts > STREAM Text: “follow princehandley” to 40404 (in USA) Or, Twitter: princehandley________________________________________ DESCRIPTION OF THIS TEACHING There are several different reasons WHY you should want to listen to the Holy Spirit. However, the MAIN reason is that the LORD wants to give you a message for direction, protection or enablement. And, sometimes―if not many times―the message will be for someone else. Some people may NOT be able to listen to―or discern―the voice of the Spirit. Or, they may NOT want to listen to the voice of the Spirit due to rebellion or living in sin. Therefore, the LORD may send you a message via His Spirit to relay to the other person. In my experience the message is usually given for specific knowledge in an area where help or advice is needed: in my life or in the lives of others. The principles of God are timeless and transfer … and if we are students of God’s Word and have the knowledge of Proverbs we are able to navigate the problems and challenges of life. But when situations arise that are not clearly and specifically defined―as in ministry strategy or spiritual warfare or dream interpretation―then we need a “specific” word from the LORD. Many people read the Holy Bible, but they are NOT listening to the Holy Spirit. God wants us to apply His Word to our lives. This is where listening to the Spirit brings success, victory and accurate direction. ________________________________________ LISTENING TO THE SPIRITDIRECTION AND HELP~ A MIRACLE PODCAST PRODUCTION ~ INTRODUCTION “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.” – Jesus: John 16:13 One of the Holy Spirit's assignments is to glorify Christ. When you receive direction, help and enablement, Christ is glorified in your victorious life and testimony thereof: by your word and your lifestyle. The Holy Spirit guides you into ALL truth; spiritual, business, family, prophetic, physical, travel and relational truth. Many people read the Holy Bible, but they are NOT listening to the Holy Spirit. God wants us to apply His Word to our lives. This is where listening to the Spirit brings success, victory and accurate direction. As you become attuned―skilled―in listening to the Spirit, you will begin to notice that sometimes shortly after you receive a message you will experience a confirmation. For example, [I recently had this happen] if you receive a message about advice you would give a person, that person may contact you not long after and ask you for advice concerning the same (not knowing that you have already heard from God concerning them or their situation). EXAMPLES Sometimes listening to the Holy Spirit will be synonymous with the gift of prophecy. For example, one time after a large seminar I was conducting in Chicago a lady came up to me and said, “I have two wombs …” I had already finished praying with people and I was really wanting to go to the place where I was to stay and go to bed. When the lady said, “I have two wombs …” my first thought was, “I must have preached past the anointing.” (I wanted to be anywhere but there.) What the lady said in full was this, “I have two wombs. If I conceive in the one womb the life will live, but if I conceive in the other (womb) the life will die. Do you have a word for me?” Instantly―without thinking about it―I said to her, “You will have a son. He will live, and his name will be Samuel.” When I was in Chicago about a year later I met little Samuel. In similar manner, listening to the Spirit may sometimes by synonymous with the Word of Knowledge. For sure―if you operate in the gifts of the Spirit like Prophecy and the Word of Knowledge―you definitely need to be listening to the Holy Spirit. Study my book, How to Receive God’s Power with Gifts of the Spirit. But there are times that God wants to give you a message for yourself and it may be just for reflection, or to meditate thereon. He may want you to think about what you would do in a certain situation that may be coming up in the future and you do NOT know about it yet―or, the complete details have not dovetailed together yet―and may not for quite some time. PURPOSE OF LISTENING You have to realize that God is for you. As in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the motive for listening to the Spirit should be to edify, improve, deliver, make whole or provide intelligence. Thank God, He did not leave us here without the tools and weapons we need to operate in power and victory … and especially as we progress into the End Times. Realize this: we are at the entrance to the End Times. If the Early Church―or Messianic Synagogue―needed the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the five fold ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher as laid out in Ephesians 4:11, how much more do we need them today? And, how much more will the followers of Messiah Jesus need them as we progress further along into the End Times. PREREQUISITES TO LISTENING We need to start our day with the Word of God. We need to be students of the Word of God. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17) So the Word of God is the channel through which the activities of the Holy Spirit operate. When we have the Word of God in us―and operate based upon the Word of God―we hear (from God … from His Spirit). And when we hear from God, faith rises and MIRACLES happen. But remember also, this is all predicated upon love. “Faith works by love.” (Galatians 5:6) The Word of God is the channel though which faith flows, and love is the activator which triggers faith. HOW WILL YOU KNOW If you are living for God, then give God the benefit of the doubt. I have seen many MIRACLES since I learned to give God the benefit of the doubt. If you're NOT sure the message is from God, then check to make sure it does NOT conflict with Scripture. If it does NOT conflict with Scripture, then ask God for a confirmation that is clear and concise. NOTE: If you are “seasoned” in listening to the Holy Spirit then you probably won't require a confirmation. We should NOT be surprised that the LORD works this way in addition to His many other modes of communication. We read of Him doing this throughout Bible in both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Brit Chadashah (New Testament). God has NOT changed. “For I am the LORD; I do not change.” (Malachi 3:6) It's people who have not changed that corrupt His program. People who have never seen healing will tell you that God does not heal. People who have never seen miracles will tell you that MIRACLES do not happen anymore. People who do NOT believe in Apostles or Prophets operating today will tell you that those offices ceased after the Early Messianic Synagogue. However, to say that would be to prove ignorance―or, folly―as that would mean that the Scripture in Ephesian 4:11 has been rescinded: “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.” No more pastors, teachers and evangelists either! GOD WANTS TO COMMUNICATE Also, realize that the LORD wants to communicate with people more than we do. And, He does NOT want his messages of direction and help to be cryptic or hard to understand. It amazes me how many people have never read the Holy Bible completely. Here's the greatest communication to mankind and they treat it like a magazine. My friend, get the Word inside you and YOU will begin to hear God. Start your day with it and end your day with it. I made a rule for my life years ago: “No Bible … no breakfast.” The day is coming when the world government and the world religious system will destroy Bibles … including YOURS if you're still here. Then YOU will need to listen to the Spirit … and it may be too late. The Holy Spirit will guide you into ALL truth as you listen to Him. Here are THREE resources to help you: “New Testament Bible Studies” … “Prophecy, Transition & Miracles … and “How To Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit.” New Testament Bible Studies Prophecy, Transition & Miracles How To Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai. Your friend, Prince Handley President / Regent University of Excellence Podcast time: 11 minutes, 37 seconds. Copyright © Prince Handley 2016 All rights reserved. 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Can we actually share our body of Christ in the Ascension Center as Spiritual Beings who are called ACE Metaphysicians? We are sharing our spiritual gathering of metaphysicians. We want to share that we enjoy our communication of information sharing. Would we allow ourselves to know of those who are sharing the Spiritual Goddess Energy with the "Laying on of Hands" as more than annointing the head? Various topics feel as though they are on trials. Using the word GOD with a Big G is that now a thing of  the past. Is GOD now strictly the SOURCE and CO-Creation? We are each sharing our own life stories as we write them with our own choices. How do we maintain who we are in our art, culture, traditions? We are getting into some heavy topics in 2016 including what is important as Christians? Why is believing seen as something bad? If everything is energy then we are all energy. We are all of the co-created source. We are called creationist as metaphysicians who share in culture, rituals, traditions, symbols and ceremony. However what are we now allowed to do in our churches? Is churches and the people who made this country great a thing of the past? What is going on? No Bible in a court of LAW? Why? Intereesting stuf we should know. Know your rights as a citizen/

Andrew Cowell 19.10.14 Duration: 41.45 Key Verses: Luke 10:38-42 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." — Lk 10:38-42 logos.biblia.init(); How to Read Your Bible The important thing about reading the Bible is to have a personal encounter with Jesus through: 1. Stopping - Switch off but don't Switch Out. 2. Seeking - Speak to me through Your Word. Read until you feed. Chew it Over. Today Jesus said to me … 3. Submitting - Trust and Obey. 4. Sticking with it - No Bible no Breakfast. (or no Social Media, no sleep, no …) What is the most important thing when it comes to study the Bible? Information, Transformation or an Encounter? The simple answer it to use "Biblical Information" as a spring board to enjoy a "Personal Encounter with God" that results in "Spiritual Transformation".

Bro. Keith Stensaas preaching on how Job didn't have a Bible.

Lectureship Class

APOSTLE TALK - Future News Now! WWW.REALMIRACLES.COM with Prince Handley POWER TWINS FOR SUCCESS AND VISION - PART 2 DESCRIPTION: How to receive the second pair of Power Twins for success and vision. The importance of rest for creativity, development, and new experiences. Why it is extremely important to be eccentric in the eyes of society. The remaining Power Twins will be discussed in subsequent teachings. POWER TWINS FOR SUCCESS AND VISION - PART 2 I guarantee you success and continued vision! You will not be barren or unfruitful, if you practice what I am teaching you in this series. Also, you will have an abundant entrance into Heaven. Remember, there are rewards in Heaven for your labor of love and faithfulness here on earth. Jesus wants to say to you when you enter Heaven: "Well done, you good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord." [ Matthew 25:21] You need continued vision for vitality. The Bible says, "Without a vision, the people perish." [Proverb 29:18] To be successful in this life and to prepare for life in Heaven . . . and to maintain continued vision so we will be fresh and vibrant . . . there are eight (8) TWIN STRATEGIES to help you. In the last teaching we discussed the FIRST TWO TWINS for success and continued vision: Enthusiastic Desire PLUS Faith; and, Decisive Nature PLUS Virtue. To review these first two twins, go to the Archives of previous podcasts. We will discuss the next two (2) twins in this teaching. They are as follows: Specialized Knowledge PLUS Spiritual Knowledge; and, Quest for Excellence PLUS Temperance. The remaining twins for success and continued vision will be discussed in subsequent teachings. SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE PLUS SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE If you are going to be used greatly by God, then you will have to make up your mind ahead of time that you are willing to do things . . . and exploits . . . that are out of the ordinary. Jesus did not fit into the normal mold of man, even though He was God in human flesh. He was a perfect man . . . but he was focused on doing the will of God . . . not the will of man. Likewise, if you make the decision to do the will of God during your time here on earth, then neither will you will fit into the normal mold of man: you will seem eccentric to the world. You will find yourself continuously "ahead of the curve." The definition of eccentric is as follows:        1. Unconventional and slightly strange;        2. Not placed centrally or having its axis placed centrally. But you see, this definition is from the perspective of what is “normal? and God did NOT call us to be normal by the world’s standards. Rather, the normal Christian life is abnormal to the world. The origin of the word “eccentric? is from the Greek “ekkentros?: “ek? meaning “out of? plus “kentron? meaning “center? or “out of center.? John Steward Mill gives an insightful comment of truth concerning this: “Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in society has always been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage which it contained. That so few men now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.? Specialized knowledge is highly dependent upon genius and mental vigor. The second of these two, mental vigor, can complement what may be lacking in the first of the two: genius. What is that GREAT THING you want to do for God? Do you have the SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE to attain that goal? Are you willing to sacrifice, study, and research to obtain the knowledge required to complete the task? Don’t be a lazy Christian. God did not call us to complacency, but rather to excellence. I have been on this planet for several scores of years, and I still spend much time studying and researching to find NEW, BETTER, and MORE PRODUCTIVE ways to reach the world for Christ and to help my fellow man. Don’t be afraid . . . and never get too old . . . to go back to school for more formal education. One of the best schools for Christians to learn MEDIA PRODUCTION, and one which I fully endorse, is “Full Sail Real World Education? based in Orlando, Florida, USA. They may be contacted by phone at 800.226.7625 or 407.679.6333. FAX to 407.678.0070. You may contact them on the web at WWW.FULLSAIL.COM. Some of their major fields of study are: Film; Digital Media; Recording Arts; Computer Animation; Entertainment Business; Show Production and Touring; Game Design and Development. You can tell them that Prince Handley recommended you. We are living in a day like the prophet Daniel described where “knowledge shall be increased? and we should take advantage of it to advance the kingdom of God. Daniel, in a passage of scripture dealing with the end times, tells us “ . . . but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.? [Daniel 11:32] Exploit, in the sense used here, means literally “to do successively unfolding bold, courageous works!? There are many other ways to influence society and to reach the world for Christ other than through the media. And there are many NEW ways to help yourself gain SUCCESS! Pray and ask God to reveal these to you. Then, obey Him and be diligent to study in order to prepare yourself to be used by the Master: to be a good steward. No amount of SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, however, will be of significant time value without SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE. No matter how successful we become in life, it will not be of any time value unless we know God personally. If we know God through His Son, Jesus the Christ, then we have eternal life. [John 3:16] One of the measures of a man's success in life is how many of his children make it to Heaven. If we know the Lord, we are living part of our eternal life NOW, while here on earth, and then in Heaven. It will never end! Jesus taught us, "What does it profit a man if he gains all the world, and loses his own soul? Also, what shall a man give in exchange, or to buy back, his soul?" [Mark 16:26 - Mark 8:36] We need to have TOTAL success in life: in this life on earth and in the eternal beyond; and God has provided just such means to attain that goal. God has given us everything we need for: LIFE, and GODLINESS. "According as His divine power has given unto us ALL THINGS that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue." [2 Peter 1:3] He has given us PROMISES so that we can share or partner with Him in His divine expansion - or growth of descendants - after we have escaped, by His saving grace, the ruin that is in the world through lust. In other words, after we are born again and start serving Christ, we can partner and be a companion with God in successfully bearing fruit: that is, growing other seed-descendants. These include our own children who are born again while also reaching out to the rest of the world. "Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." [2 Peter 1:4] We should BELIEVE this and EXPECT it. Our children should be our greatest disciples. If not, something is wrong, or out of place. Learn the PROMISES in Gods Word; believe them and appropriate them by faith. Take quality time daily to study and meditate in God’s Word. I usually separate my “study time? from my “devotional time.? In the morning, before I start my active day, I have my devotional time where I just want God to speak to me and minister to me through His Word, even before I have my prayer time. I made a rule years ago: “No Bible, no breakfast.? Eat the Word of God first. Jesus said, “It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.? [Matthew 4:4 and Torah - Deuteronomy 8:3] When you study the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you, and to teach you so you can teach others. The scripture instructs us, “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.? [2 Timothy 2:15] Combining SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE with SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE will provide you a powerful impetus for ongoing success and continued vision. To be really successful we need to share our success with others: our family, our brothers and sisters in Christ, our community, and the world. THE MORE YOU KNOW . . . THE MORE THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN USE! This applies not only to mental knowledge but also knowledge gained through the acquisition of physical skills or craftsmanship. Bezaleel was such a man: “And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.? [Exodus 31:1-5] When SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is combined with SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE, there is a holy anointing upon our lives: our talents, skills, and abilities. Together, they not only complement each other, but they synergize each other. You will be a candidate for MIRACLES - real miracles! But always remember: “Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.? [1 Corinthians 8:1] Temper your knowledge (both specialized and spiritual) with LOVE! Daniel was a leader, counselor, and basically Prime Minister in three different foreign kingdoms (in which he was captive) partly because of his knowledge base. The Bible tells us concerning Daniel and the three Hebrew teenagers who accompanied him into captivity: “Children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability . . .? [Daniel 1:4] QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE PLUS TEMPERANCE The Bible tells us another of the secrets of Daniel’s success: “It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; and over these three presidents: of whom Daniel was first, so that the princes might give accounts unto the presidents, and the king should have no damage.? “Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an EXCELLENT spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.? [Daniel 6:1-3] The word here used for “excellent? is “yateer? and in its root form means “preeminent, or very exceedingly excellent.? That’s because the spirit that was in Daniel was the Holy Spirit. Because of Daniel’s separation and devotion to God, he manifested a quality of excellence in whatever he attempted. The Greek word for virtue in the New Testament is “arete?: it means excellence and valor. We need to be people of EXCELLENCE. Our nature should be to make excellent decisions based upon virtue. “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.? [Colossians 3:23-24] Don’t compare yourself with someone else; just do what you know God wants you to do. Do your best, don’t be satisfied with low quality work or effort. It’s interesting that the origin of the word mediocre is from the Latin “mediocris? which means of “middle height or degree? but literally means “somewhat rugged or mountainous.? It is derived from the words “medius? for “middle? and “ocris? for “rugged mountain.? To do mediocre work is actually harder on you because you are causing your conscience to condemn you. It is like climbing a rugged mountain. The Bible says, “For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.? [1 John 3:20] The EXCELLENT choice may be more of a sacrifice temporarily, but it will be easier on you in the long term. You will never go wrong striving for excellence! Practice excellence in your CHARACTER. Be transparent and keep your word. Psalm 15 is a good start for practical living and developing excellence in character. Also, loving our neighbor as we do ourself, and doing unto him as we would have him do to us, also is the guideline our Master set before us. Practice excellence in your WORK. Be a good steward for you earthly employer and your Heavenly employer. Colossians 3:22 instructs us NOT to do sight-labor, that is: work that needs watching ... or working because someone is watching. In your quest for excellence, develop your skills to the BEST of your ability. Be a good manager of what God has given you and over which God has placed you. Keep improving and growing in your knowledge base, your acumen, and your skills. Study Part 1 of this teaching to help develop excellence in acumen; study the section on “Decisive Nature and Virtue.? Along with the quest for excellence you need to partner with temperance, or self control. Many people, on their quest for excellence, do NOT allow for rest or leisure. This is vital to SUCCESS and CONTINUED VISION. Rest, and also quietness, is necessary for wholeness. A key scripture and principle that I have tried to practice in my life for many years is found in Isaiah 30:15: “For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall you be saved; and in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.? The word leisure comes from the Latin word “licere? which means “to be permitted.? The Latin word for work is “negotium? which means “nonleisure.? Most so-called advanced societies today have turned this around and view leisure as nonwork! Tim Hansel, in his book When I Relax I Feel Guilty, points out that the Greeks stressed the centrality of lesiure, but they added another important facet. The Greek word for work was “ascholia,? which means “absence of leisure.? The word for leisure was “schole,? which leads to the English words for school and scholarship. Leisure, then, was a time for growth and development. Leisure is more than just nonwork. It is when we PERMIT ourselves time for rest, growth, and development. Leisure is BOTH the embryo and the catalyst for creativity, and for NEW experiences, people, play, and places. We have to permit ourselves the time to rest . . . to re-create . . . and to create! In the last teaching we discussed the FIRST TWO TWINS for success and continued vision: Enthusiastic Desire PLUS Faith; and, Decisive Nature PLUS Virtue. In this teaching we discussed the third and fourth twins: Specialized Knowledge PLUS Spiritual Knowledge; and, Quest for Excellence PLUS Temperance. 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