John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Many in today's Church believe that some of the above things "aren't for us" and/or "aren't needed to get to Heaven, so I don't need to know about them or walk in them." The Father though, thought they were necessary for our full deliverance, otherwise He wouldn't have put them on Jesus, during His earthly walk.
The Curse of the Law still functions in even the lives of born-again believers, today. We continue to walk in the very things that the world walks in, despite our being redeemed from them. Many believers don't understand what the Blessings of Abraham have provided them and believe it doesn't make a difference in their lives. The Blessing God Promised to Abraham, was the Promise of the Holy Spirit, as well as the Blessing in our earthly form. When we received the Holy Spirit as Promised, we received God Himself into our very spirit and natural body.
The indwelling Promise that's within us, lived inside Jesus, Paul, John, Peter and those before us. We have the same Spiritual Blessings at work within us, just like they had. Errant preaching and teaching has left us not understanding these Blessings in our Christian walk. Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) instructs, "The beginning of Wisdom is; get Wisdom, skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding, discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."
Many who have Wisdom, which is God's Word, have no comprehension, discernment, interpretation or understanding of what it really means for their life as a new creation in Christ Jesus. We conduct our lives, as though we're still only human, but we're not. We are born of God, filled with the Spirit of God and are children of God. God left nothing to chance, when He sent Jesus to the cross for our sake.
We've never been taught who we are in Christ and conduct our lives believing that the only benefit of being born-again comes when we leave this earth for Heaven. We've abstained from sin (as well as we're able) and have tried walking upright with the Father, but we've neglected the things of the Spirit that would make it easier to walk our earthly lives.
We've mostly neglected the Spiritual Blessing and the Holy Spirit's Presence living inside us. 1Peter 2:24 (Amplified) says, "[Jesus] Personally bore our sins in His Own Body on the tree, as an altar and offered Himself on it, that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed." Isaiah prophesies about Jesus in Isaiah 53:4-5 (Amplified) saying, "Surely, He has borne our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses, and carried our sorrows and pains of punishment, yet we ignorantly considered His stricken, smitten, and afflicted of God, as if with leprosy. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities, the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole."
When did we stop believing that the same Jesus Who bore our sins, didn't bear our disease and peace and well-being? When did we forget that the Father thought everything Jesus did, was important for us? We've stood against sin in our lives and have abstained from sin as we knew it, but somehow we've forgotten that the other things Jesus suffered on Calvary, are no longer important for us. We get sick, depressed, fear punishment from God and continue to carry our own sorrows and pain. Do we believe that these things are valid to our redemption or do we really think that Jesus did these things for nothing?
The Father thought our wellness of heart and mind were equally important or He would never have placed them and allowed Jesus to bear them. We need to learn to resist sickness and disease, just like we learn to resist temptation and sin. The Same Holy Spirit Who works by God's Word to keep us from the evil one, works in the same manner to keep us in all other things included in our Redemption.
We've come to believe that, "Everyone gets sick sometime, just like everyone sins sometimes." We don't have to sin at some time or anytime. If we sin, then it's because we choose to do so, instead of resisting and the same is true in every area of our redemption. When symptoms of sickness come upon us, then the Same Word and Holy Spirit Who keeps us from sin, will also bring to pass His part for healing. We've never been taught to resist sickness, only sin.
Many of the Spiritual Blessings found in John 1:16-17, are never brought to manifestation in our lives, because we continue to see ourselves as being "only human." These Spiritual Blessings come from the inside-out, not from the outside-in. Healing comes from the strength of the new creation spirit and is manifested in the natural man, just like our righteousness and peace with God. If the inward man isn't allowed to live through you, then you still only live through you as a natural man and by your own merits. You cannot be righteous before God, except by faith in His Grace.
Romans 4:16 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, inheriting the Promise is the outcome of faith and depends entirely on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of Grace (unmerited favor) to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants." The same faith that led you to receive and believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, is the same faith that inherits the Promise of His full redemption in our natural bodies too. It works from our born-again new creation spirit and is made manifest in our natural man.
Many of today's believers don't resist sickness, but believe that the Father puts it on us, in order to teach us something. This rejects and dishonors what Jesus accomplished for us, on the cross. Even if you succumb to sickness, then you must not allow the enemy to condemn you it in, anymore than if you commit sin after being saved. You go to God's Throne of Grace, receiving mercy and Grace in your time of need and continue to stand and trust in God's Word. You will find that you will get sick fewer and fewer times, just like when you first got saved and yielded less and less to sin.
Satan is a liar and deceiver and his plan is based upon trying our faith, so that if something doesn't work the first time, then we quit trying. This is the entire arsenal satan uses against us. If we don't quit, then we will win. Faith must be allowed to grow in our hearts and in our spirits, so we will be strong in the Lord and in the Power of His Might. God's Might and strength is in His Word and His Spirit, which abide within our spirit.
Do the things we say, have anything to do with how we believe? Definitely! We speak our faith in either good or bad. We speak what we believe. God cannot bring things that we speak which are contrary to His Promises, to pass in our lives. When we speak sickness, God cannot honor that, but He will not override our right to say those things.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Lesson 89/Part 2 GRACE AND TRUTH-GOD'S WILL
John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was give through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Paul admonishes the Church, in Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified) saying, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at, scorned, disdained, or mocked, by mere prevention's or professions, or by His precepts being set aside. He inevitable deludes himself who attempts to delude God. For whatever a man sows (Jesus told us that "Words are Seeds."), that and only that is what he will reap. For he who sows to his lower nature (flesh, sensuality), will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
You've proven that your heart is fertile soil, when you believed and allowed God's Word to come into you and you were born-again. In Proverbs 4:20-27 (Amplified) God says, "My son, attend to My Words (consent and submit to My sayings). Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the Springs of Life. Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you. Let your eyes look right on with fixed purpose and let your gaze be straight before you. Consider well the path of your feet and let all your ways be established and ordered aright. Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, remove your foot from evil."
Notice, God tells us to, "GUARD YOUR HEART ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE" and "PUT AWAY FALSE, CONTRARY, WILLFUL SPEECH." As Christians, can we speak contrary, dishonest and willful speech, giving these words place in our lives? I believe that the answer is, "Yes." I don't believe our Heavenly Father makes our wrong words come forth from our mouths, but I do believe we have an enemy who will take our faith-filled words, that come out of our unguarded heart, and use them against us. When we're born-again, you have power in your words, to use for the lower nature or the Spirit nature. Both have power, but one is for good and one is for evil.
Jesus spoke to a fig tree and killed it. He spoke to a dead man, giving him Life. Which Word was more powerful? Through Him, we now have power in our words, they are seeds to sow. Our Father gave us a mandated to "Guard your heart against seeds that are sown from another source." Both will determine what you speak (sow) into your Life and the lives of others.
When things aren't right and results aren't what they should be in the lives of God's children, then we should listen to the words we're saying, in order to determine what we've been hearing. We must guard our hearts. God gave Adam the job of tending the Garden of Eden. God sent men into Canaan to spy out the Land which He had already given to them (the Promised Land) in Numbers 13:30-31 (Amplified), which says, "Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it. But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people of Canaan for they are stronger than we are. So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the Land which they scouted out." Numbers 14:10 (Amplified) continues, "But all the congregation said to stone Joshua and Caleb with stones, But the Glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of Meeting before all the Israelites."
Notice, the words (seeds) which were spoken into the whole congregation. Only twelve men saw the Land. Two of them (Joshua and Caleb) said "Let's take the Land," while the other ten said, "We cannot take the Land." The words (seeds) of the ten, entered into the hearts of the Israelites (believed to be 2-5 million men, women and children), which produced a harvest of an evil report. This led to the people calling for the stoning of Joshua and Caleb, because these two believed God for the Promise. Words are seeds and we must be careful what we sow with our mouths.
Seeds will grow, despite who sows them. If a Christian sows poison ivy and a non-believer sows poison ivy, then both will reap what they sow. Bring out the Benadryl, because simply being a Christian will not change the seed. One can't sow poison ivy and reap tulips. The Law of Genesis says, "Everything produces after its kind." If you want the Spiritual Blessings to manifest in your life, then you must sow seeds of Blessing, instead of seeds that are contrary or willfully against them. Confess what God says about you and speak in-line with God, instead of contrary to Him. You reap what you sow.
Do a Words study for yourself about what God says about people who speak in opposition what what His Word says. Allow the Holy Spirit to teach, by His Presense. Jesus said that, "The Holy Spirit would lead us into and show us all Truth." Today, even the government, our kid's schools and social media are pushing us to speak only what they deem as politically correct. Words to matter and the Words of a Spirit-filled believer, have the power to change things. When you sow Word Seeds into the heart of a non-believer, those Seeds have the power to get them born-again into a new creation. Do you suppose the power of your words stop at your lips? Guard your heart above all that you guard and don't hear or speak the wrong seed.
Paul admonishes the Church, in Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified) saying, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at, scorned, disdained, or mocked, by mere prevention's or professions, or by His precepts being set aside. He inevitable deludes himself who attempts to delude God. For whatever a man sows (Jesus told us that "Words are Seeds."), that and only that is what he will reap. For he who sows to his lower nature (flesh, sensuality), will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
You've proven that your heart is fertile soil, when you believed and allowed God's Word to come into you and you were born-again. In Proverbs 4:20-27 (Amplified) God says, "My son, attend to My Words (consent and submit to My sayings). Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the Springs of Life. Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you. Let your eyes look right on with fixed purpose and let your gaze be straight before you. Consider well the path of your feet and let all your ways be established and ordered aright. Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, remove your foot from evil."
Notice, God tells us to, "GUARD YOUR HEART ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE" and "PUT AWAY FALSE, CONTRARY, WILLFUL SPEECH." As Christians, can we speak contrary, dishonest and willful speech, giving these words place in our lives? I believe that the answer is, "Yes." I don't believe our Heavenly Father makes our wrong words come forth from our mouths, but I do believe we have an enemy who will take our faith-filled words, that come out of our unguarded heart, and use them against us. When we're born-again, you have power in your words, to use for the lower nature or the Spirit nature. Both have power, but one is for good and one is for evil.
Jesus spoke to a fig tree and killed it. He spoke to a dead man, giving him Life. Which Word was more powerful? Through Him, we now have power in our words, they are seeds to sow. Our Father gave us a mandated to "Guard your heart against seeds that are sown from another source." Both will determine what you speak (sow) into your Life and the lives of others.
When things aren't right and results aren't what they should be in the lives of God's children, then we should listen to the words we're saying, in order to determine what we've been hearing. We must guard our hearts. God gave Adam the job of tending the Garden of Eden. God sent men into Canaan to spy out the Land which He had already given to them (the Promised Land) in Numbers 13:30-31 (Amplified), which says, "Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it. But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people of Canaan for they are stronger than we are. So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the Land which they scouted out." Numbers 14:10 (Amplified) continues, "But all the congregation said to stone Joshua and Caleb with stones, But the Glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of Meeting before all the Israelites."
Notice, the words (seeds) which were spoken into the whole congregation. Only twelve men saw the Land. Two of them (Joshua and Caleb) said "Let's take the Land," while the other ten said, "We cannot take the Land." The words (seeds) of the ten, entered into the hearts of the Israelites (believed to be 2-5 million men, women and children), which produced a harvest of an evil report. This led to the people calling for the stoning of Joshua and Caleb, because these two believed God for the Promise. Words are seeds and we must be careful what we sow with our mouths.
Seeds will grow, despite who sows them. If a Christian sows poison ivy and a non-believer sows poison ivy, then both will reap what they sow. Bring out the Benadryl, because simply being a Christian will not change the seed. One can't sow poison ivy and reap tulips. The Law of Genesis says, "Everything produces after its kind." If you want the Spiritual Blessings to manifest in your life, then you must sow seeds of Blessing, instead of seeds that are contrary or willfully against them. Confess what God says about you and speak in-line with God, instead of contrary to Him. You reap what you sow.
Do a Words study for yourself about what God says about people who speak in opposition what what His Word says. Allow the Holy Spirit to teach, by His Presense. Jesus said that, "The Holy Spirit would lead us into and show us all Truth." Today, even the government, our kid's schools and social media are pushing us to speak only what they deem as politically correct. Words to matter and the Words of a Spirit-filled believer, have the power to change things. When you sow Word Seeds into the heart of a non-believer, those Seeds have the power to get them born-again into a new creation. Do you suppose the power of your words stop at your lips? Guard your heart above all that you guard and don't hear or speak the wrong seed.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Lesson 89 GRACE AND TRUTH-GOD'S WILL
John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
The different Graces, Spiritual Blessing and Truths that came through Jesus Christ aren't something we earn or deserve. They are all free Gifts, given by Grace. Every person who receives Jesus as Lord and Savior, has been freely given these things by Grace, but they must be accepted by faith, according to Romans 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, inheriting the Promise is the outcome of faith and it depends entirely on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of Grace (unmerited favor), to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants." We've all become heirs of the Seed, Who is Jesus, and are all eligible for the Promise." Galatians 3:29 (Amplified) tells us, "If you belong to Christ (are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed), then you are Abraham's offspring and Spiritual heirs according to Promise."
God Promised Abraham that through him, the Promise of the Holy Spirit might be made manifest and by His Seed (Jesus), we could be restored back unto God by faith in this Promise. Galatians 3:14 (Amplified) says, "To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we, through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
Today's Church has fallen short of what the above scriptures are telling us. We've believed that the Promise of the Holy Spirit solely means, "Speaking in Tongues." This is one of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in our lives, but speaking in Heavenly languages also includes the manifestation of Heaven within us. The Spiritual Blessings means that the Father Himself (and all that He is), can now live in and through us, like He did in Christ Jesus.
The Promises God made to mankind throughout the Bible, are now made Truth in Jesus, by faith. Even though they're made secure in Jesus, they must be received by faith. We've struggled with the Super-natural things Promised to us in God's Word and even though the Promise is now Truth, we still struggle with it in our faith. We strive to find ways of deserving certain Promises and make excuses for the lack of manifestations of the Promises in our lives. We unsuccessfully establish laws of our own, which must be followed in order to make the Promises work. We've believed that if we dress in certain ways or worship on designated days, then we could qualify to receive these manifestations, but these things didn't work.
Of course we're to live differently as born-again believers, but this isn't what qualifies us to receive the Promise. When we were born-again, the Promise of the Holy Spirit was made manifest withing us. This is actually God Himself now living in our spirit and in our natural body. Now, the One Who made the Promise, is living in us to fulfill His Promise. Jesus said that "It wasn't Him, but the Father in Him Who did the works." This is the Promise of the Holy Spirit: a new creation, a new line of being born of the Spirit, now living in this earth. The Spiritual Blessing is God's Own Life and Being, living in us. All that Heaven is, has now become ours and is living in us and through us, by faith.
We've forgotten (or maybe never understood) what this really means in the believer's life. By Grace, we've been granted the ability to speak God's Word in power and purpose and set the captives free. Paul writes in Ephesians 5:1-2 (Amplified), "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow Him Example as well beloved children imitate their father and walk in Love, esteeming and delighting in one another as Christ Loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain Offering and a Sacrifice to God for you so that it became a Sweet Fragrance."
When God worked through Jesus by His Holy Spirit, He Loved the people and restored to order, all that was "out-of-order" in His Kingdom. He gave sight to the blind and healing to the sick. He gave wholeness to the lame and freed the captives. This is the full manifestation of what our Spiritual Blessing is truly about. Through the Holy Spirit, we're to bring the Spiritual Blessing of God to this earth, through faith in His ability, like it was through Jesus. These things are all manifested by faith in His ability through us, by Grace, for the good of all mankind. We can't give to someone else, what we don't believe ourselves.
Yesterday, I wrote about Charles Capps and the ministry of Revelation he was given for the Church, concerning the words we (as Spirit-filled believers) speak. I'm not talking about our only quoting scriptures, but that we keep our words in line with God's Word. Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower" in Mark 4:14 (Amplified), saying that, "The Sower sows the Word." The "Word" Jesus was speaking about, is God's Word. Jesus said also taught that "all words are Seeds," in this Parable. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "Faith comes by hearing." Faith in God comes by hearing the Word of God and the Sower sows the Word. Faith in other things, also comes by hearing.
Most of us have read Mark 11:23 many times, but I'd like to present it in a different way today. We've been talking about word being seeds, so let's look at words that aren't in line with God's Word (wrong seeds). Remember that, "Faith comes by hearing." Suppose you've been hearing that, "Sickness is God's way of teaching and correcting you" and you allow this seed to be sown in your heart as faith. Faith comes by hearing and when this is sown continually over some time, then it becomes rooted in your heart. You now believe this in your heart and are speaking it out of your mouth. If you're not doubting these things in your heart, then will they come to pass when you speak them from your mouth? Jesus spoke about the words coming out of your heart, in Matthew 12:37,36 (Amplified), saying, "For by your words you will be justified and acquitted and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced." He said in Verse 36, "But I tell you, on the Day of Judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, non-working) word they speak."
When born-again believers don't understand the Revelation of the power of our words, then we allow the enemy to gain control over certain things in our lives, by not speaking words that line up with the Truth of God's Word. Jesus taught that, "Words are Seeds and our hearts are the soil." Can a born-again man speak an evil response from his heart? Keeping in mind that, "Words are Seeds," let's read Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified), "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at, scorned, disdained, or mocked, by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside. He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God For whatever a man sows, that and only that is what he will reap. For he who sows to his lower nature (flesh, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
TO BE CONTINUED.....
The different Graces, Spiritual Blessing and Truths that came through Jesus Christ aren't something we earn or deserve. They are all free Gifts, given by Grace. Every person who receives Jesus as Lord and Savior, has been freely given these things by Grace, but they must be accepted by faith, according to Romans 4:16 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore, inheriting the Promise is the outcome of faith and it depends entirely on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of Grace (unmerited favor), to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants." We've all become heirs of the Seed, Who is Jesus, and are all eligible for the Promise." Galatians 3:29 (Amplified) tells us, "If you belong to Christ (are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed), then you are Abraham's offspring and Spiritual heirs according to Promise."
God Promised Abraham that through him, the Promise of the Holy Spirit might be made manifest and by His Seed (Jesus), we could be restored back unto God by faith in this Promise. Galatians 3:14 (Amplified) says, "To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we, through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
Today's Church has fallen short of what the above scriptures are telling us. We've believed that the Promise of the Holy Spirit solely means, "Speaking in Tongues." This is one of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in our lives, but speaking in Heavenly languages also includes the manifestation of Heaven within us. The Spiritual Blessings means that the Father Himself (and all that He is), can now live in and through us, like He did in Christ Jesus.
The Promises God made to mankind throughout the Bible, are now made Truth in Jesus, by faith. Even though they're made secure in Jesus, they must be received by faith. We've struggled with the Super-natural things Promised to us in God's Word and even though the Promise is now Truth, we still struggle with it in our faith. We strive to find ways of deserving certain Promises and make excuses for the lack of manifestations of the Promises in our lives. We unsuccessfully establish laws of our own, which must be followed in order to make the Promises work. We've believed that if we dress in certain ways or worship on designated days, then we could qualify to receive these manifestations, but these things didn't work.
Of course we're to live differently as born-again believers, but this isn't what qualifies us to receive the Promise. When we were born-again, the Promise of the Holy Spirit was made manifest withing us. This is actually God Himself now living in our spirit and in our natural body. Now, the One Who made the Promise, is living in us to fulfill His Promise. Jesus said that "It wasn't Him, but the Father in Him Who did the works." This is the Promise of the Holy Spirit: a new creation, a new line of being born of the Spirit, now living in this earth. The Spiritual Blessing is God's Own Life and Being, living in us. All that Heaven is, has now become ours and is living in us and through us, by faith.
We've forgotten (or maybe never understood) what this really means in the believer's life. By Grace, we've been granted the ability to speak God's Word in power and purpose and set the captives free. Paul writes in Ephesians 5:1-2 (Amplified), "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow Him Example as well beloved children imitate their father and walk in Love, esteeming and delighting in one another as Christ Loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain Offering and a Sacrifice to God for you so that it became a Sweet Fragrance."
When God worked through Jesus by His Holy Spirit, He Loved the people and restored to order, all that was "out-of-order" in His Kingdom. He gave sight to the blind and healing to the sick. He gave wholeness to the lame and freed the captives. This is the full manifestation of what our Spiritual Blessing is truly about. Through the Holy Spirit, we're to bring the Spiritual Blessing of God to this earth, through faith in His ability, like it was through Jesus. These things are all manifested by faith in His ability through us, by Grace, for the good of all mankind. We can't give to someone else, what we don't believe ourselves.
Yesterday, I wrote about Charles Capps and the ministry of Revelation he was given for the Church, concerning the words we (as Spirit-filled believers) speak. I'm not talking about our only quoting scriptures, but that we keep our words in line with God's Word. Jesus gave "The Parable of the Sower" in Mark 4:14 (Amplified), saying that, "The Sower sows the Word." The "Word" Jesus was speaking about, is God's Word. Jesus said also taught that "all words are Seeds," in this Parable. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "Faith comes by hearing." Faith in God comes by hearing the Word of God and the Sower sows the Word. Faith in other things, also comes by hearing.
Most of us have read Mark 11:23 many times, but I'd like to present it in a different way today. We've been talking about word being seeds, so let's look at words that aren't in line with God's Word (wrong seeds). Remember that, "Faith comes by hearing." Suppose you've been hearing that, "Sickness is God's way of teaching and correcting you" and you allow this seed to be sown in your heart as faith. Faith comes by hearing and when this is sown continually over some time, then it becomes rooted in your heart. You now believe this in your heart and are speaking it out of your mouth. If you're not doubting these things in your heart, then will they come to pass when you speak them from your mouth? Jesus spoke about the words coming out of your heart, in Matthew 12:37,36 (Amplified), saying, "For by your words you will be justified and acquitted and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced." He said in Verse 36, "But I tell you, on the Day of Judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, non-working) word they speak."
When born-again believers don't understand the Revelation of the power of our words, then we allow the enemy to gain control over certain things in our lives, by not speaking words that line up with the Truth of God's Word. Jesus taught that, "Words are Seeds and our hearts are the soil." Can a born-again man speak an evil response from his heart? Keeping in mind that, "Words are Seeds," let's read Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified), "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at, scorned, disdained, or mocked, by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside. He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God For whatever a man sows, that and only that is what he will reap. For he who sows to his lower nature (flesh, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
TO BE CONTINUED.....
Monday, September 24, 2018
Lesson 88 GRACE AND TRUTH-GOD'S WILL We've finished haying for this year!!! Hooray!
John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
The Church has disputed "what is really God's will for us today," for many years. Jesus taught His disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 (Amplified) saying, "Pray, therefore, like this; Our Father Who is in Heaven, Hallowed (kept Holy) be Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgiven us our debts, as we also forgive (left remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against our debtors. And lead (bring) us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
According to Jesus' instruction to pray above, it's God's will is that we live here on earth, like we will live in Heaven. If God's will was for us to pray this way, then we need to understand what His will for us is in Heaven. What do you suppose God's will for us is, when we get to Heaven? Do you suppose we'll have such things as hospitals, doctors, and soup lines in Heaven? Will there be wars to fight or funerals to attend there? Will there be prisons, police or crime in Heaven?
I hope we're not living in Heaven yet, but I also know that the things happening in our lives here on earth, aren't His will for us either. We're still living on a fallen earth and the Curse of the Law is still in affect, but that doesn't mean we're subject to it. Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) tells us, "Christ has purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse (doom) of the Law and it's condemnation, by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in the Scriptures, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified)' To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
Who is the Holy Spirit? Isn't He the Same God and Father Who was also in Christ Jesus? Would our Father lead us any differently than He led Jesus? Would His will be any different for us, than it was for Jesus? If this is true, then what Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 wouldn't be Truth and Grace. We're not to look at Jesus as though He was the Only One that Father ever intended to walk this way, but we're to see Jesus as the Example of how all God's children are to be.
I fully understand that we're not the Lord Jesus, but I also understand God writes through Paul in, Romans 8:16-17 (Amplified) saying, "For the Spirit Himself, thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
We seem to think that Jesus' earthly ministry was "simple for Him, because He was Jesus." Jesus' earthly walk was far more difficult than anyone could ever know. Satan knew exactly Who Jesus was and what Jesus was about, at the time of His earthly ministry. Jesus was the only "real enemy" satan had to deal with and stop, at that time. There weren't two and a half billion Spirit-filled heirs of God satan had to deal with then. Jesus was the Only One and satan constantly focused all of his armies of demons and his weapons of warfare on Jesus' destruction.
The Father didn't exempt Jesus from satan's attacks on earth. Jesus just kept Himself above satan's attacks, by walking in the Word. Religion dismisses many things Jesus did as our Example, believing "they're not important for us to know." This has led to the lowering of Christian's standards for walking with God and has left us open to things that aren't the Father's will for our lives, like it is in Heaven. Jesus was our Example of how to walk in this earth as children of the Most High God.
We find an example of Jesus' earthly walk in John 3:34 (Amplified), but most of us have never paid attention to this scripture. Thus, it says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message), God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit." When was the last time we've thought about what we're speaking? Do we speak God's Own Words or do we just speak?
If God increased the boundless Gift of His Holy Spirit in us causing the words we spoke to come to pass, then what would the results be today? Would we speak life to a dead man or would be speak death to a live man? Would we speak calm to a storm or would we speak what the Weather Channel speaks and cause destruction? Would we speak cleansing to the leper or would we speak about how badly he smells and stay away from him? Would we speak healing or disease?
God brought Revelation to the Church many years ago, about the words we speak, through Charles Capps. It was the Revelation of the power of our words, as born-again children of God. Many in the Church have rejected this Revelation as "foolishness." We mockingly name this Revelation, "Name it and claim it" or "Blab it and grab it." We've lost sight of Truth, in what we say. We foolishly speak contrary to God's Word and then wonder why things aren't working for us.
God's children have rejected many of God's Revelations, but His Grace continues to watch over our foolishness. Could you imagine how the world would look, if God gave us His Spirit without measure and what we said would come to pass, like it did with Jesus? Jesus only spoke God's Word and His will and God honored what Jesus said with the Power of the Holy Spirit. What would happen in our lives and the lives of those around us, if God honored our words in the same Power He did with Jesus? You might answer, "I don't think it makes a difference what we say." Romans 10:10 (Amplified) tells us, "For with the heart a person believes, adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ and is so justified, declared righteous, acceptable to God, and with the mouth he confesses, declares openly and speaks our freely his faith and confirms his salvation." Salvation doesn't mean going to Heaven when we die. According to The Strong's Concordance (#4991) the word "salvation" means, "rescue, or safety physically or morally, deliver, health, salvation, save, or saving" and (#4992) "defender, defense, salvation."
So, the above scripture means that the things we say from our hearts and out of our mouths, will either bring deliverance or not. Paul tells us to, "Speak out our faith and confirm our salvation." I know you confirmed your saving salvation and were born-again, by confessing Jesus is your Lord, but do you confess Him in your daily walk, by speaking out your faith? Or, do you speak faith-filled words from your heart which God cannot confirm, because they're not His Words?
Don't be so quick to dismiss things they "sound new," when you haven't gone to the Lord about them. God to God's Word and see what He says about idle words, that don't Bless.
The Church has disputed "what is really God's will for us today," for many years. Jesus taught His disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 (Amplified) saying, "Pray, therefore, like this; Our Father Who is in Heaven, Hallowed (kept Holy) be Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgiven us our debts, as we also forgive (left remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against our debtors. And lead (bring) us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
According to Jesus' instruction to pray above, it's God's will is that we live here on earth, like we will live in Heaven. If God's will was for us to pray this way, then we need to understand what His will for us is in Heaven. What do you suppose God's will for us is, when we get to Heaven? Do you suppose we'll have such things as hospitals, doctors, and soup lines in Heaven? Will there be wars to fight or funerals to attend there? Will there be prisons, police or crime in Heaven?
I hope we're not living in Heaven yet, but I also know that the things happening in our lives here on earth, aren't His will for us either. We're still living on a fallen earth and the Curse of the Law is still in affect, but that doesn't mean we're subject to it. Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) tells us, "Christ has purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse (doom) of the Law and it's condemnation, by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in the Scriptures, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified)' To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
Who is the Holy Spirit? Isn't He the Same God and Father Who was also in Christ Jesus? Would our Father lead us any differently than He led Jesus? Would His will be any different for us, than it was for Jesus? If this is true, then what Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 wouldn't be Truth and Grace. We're not to look at Jesus as though He was the Only One that Father ever intended to walk this way, but we're to see Jesus as the Example of how all God's children are to be.
I fully understand that we're not the Lord Jesus, but I also understand God writes through Paul in, Romans 8:16-17 (Amplified) saying, "For the Spirit Himself, thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
We seem to think that Jesus' earthly ministry was "simple for Him, because He was Jesus." Jesus' earthly walk was far more difficult than anyone could ever know. Satan knew exactly Who Jesus was and what Jesus was about, at the time of His earthly ministry. Jesus was the only "real enemy" satan had to deal with and stop, at that time. There weren't two and a half billion Spirit-filled heirs of God satan had to deal with then. Jesus was the Only One and satan constantly focused all of his armies of demons and his weapons of warfare on Jesus' destruction.
The Father didn't exempt Jesus from satan's attacks on earth. Jesus just kept Himself above satan's attacks, by walking in the Word. Religion dismisses many things Jesus did as our Example, believing "they're not important for us to know." This has led to the lowering of Christian's standards for walking with God and has left us open to things that aren't the Father's will for our lives, like it is in Heaven. Jesus was our Example of how to walk in this earth as children of the Most High God.
We find an example of Jesus' earthly walk in John 3:34 (Amplified), but most of us have never paid attention to this scripture. Thus, it says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message), God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit." When was the last time we've thought about what we're speaking? Do we speak God's Own Words or do we just speak?
If God increased the boundless Gift of His Holy Spirit in us causing the words we spoke to come to pass, then what would the results be today? Would we speak life to a dead man or would be speak death to a live man? Would we speak calm to a storm or would we speak what the Weather Channel speaks and cause destruction? Would we speak cleansing to the leper or would we speak about how badly he smells and stay away from him? Would we speak healing or disease?
God brought Revelation to the Church many years ago, about the words we speak, through Charles Capps. It was the Revelation of the power of our words, as born-again children of God. Many in the Church have rejected this Revelation as "foolishness." We mockingly name this Revelation, "Name it and claim it" or "Blab it and grab it." We've lost sight of Truth, in what we say. We foolishly speak contrary to God's Word and then wonder why things aren't working for us.
God's children have rejected many of God's Revelations, but His Grace continues to watch over our foolishness. Could you imagine how the world would look, if God gave us His Spirit without measure and what we said would come to pass, like it did with Jesus? Jesus only spoke God's Word and His will and God honored what Jesus said with the Power of the Holy Spirit. What would happen in our lives and the lives of those around us, if God honored our words in the same Power He did with Jesus? You might answer, "I don't think it makes a difference what we say." Romans 10:10 (Amplified) tells us, "For with the heart a person believes, adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ and is so justified, declared righteous, acceptable to God, and with the mouth he confesses, declares openly and speaks our freely his faith and confirms his salvation." Salvation doesn't mean going to Heaven when we die. According to The Strong's Concordance (#4991) the word "salvation" means, "rescue, or safety physically or morally, deliver, health, salvation, save, or saving" and (#4992) "defender, defense, salvation."
So, the above scripture means that the things we say from our hearts and out of our mouths, will either bring deliverance or not. Paul tells us to, "Speak out our faith and confirm our salvation." I know you confirmed your saving salvation and were born-again, by confessing Jesus is your Lord, but do you confess Him in your daily walk, by speaking out your faith? Or, do you speak faith-filled words from your heart which God cannot confirm, because they're not His Words?
Don't be so quick to dismiss things they "sound new," when you haven't gone to the Lord about them. God to God's Word and see what He says about idle words, that don't Bless.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Lesson 87 GRACE AND TRUTH-GOD'S WILL
John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Hebrews 1:1-2 (Amplified) says, "In many separate Revelations, each of which set forth a portion of the Truth, and in many different ways God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets. But in the last of these days He has spoken to us in the Person of a Son."
God's way of speaking to us and revealing Himself to us, is by and through the Person of Jesus, His Son. The only way we can come to the Truth of Who He really is, is by knowing and watching Jesus, in His earthly ministry. Under the prophets, we could only see and come to know a portion of the Truth. We've come to many different ways of our understanding of God by the prophets, but our understanding of our Heavenly Father must come by and through Jesus Christ.
God has chosen to reveal Himself to us in these Last days, in a way that the prophets under the old covenant, could only receive a small glimpse of. None would dare speak of God as their "Father" or even hint at being "His Son." The outcry and indignation of the Jews that Jesus spoke to in His earthly ministry, was a result of their not understanding the Truth (not only a portion of the Truth, but the Truth in Bodily Form).
We continue struggling today with the "Old Testament God" and the "New Testament God." Much of our doctrine has been slanted by the Law, instead of Grace. We still expect God to deal with us, like He did with the Old Testament people. The only Example we have of our Heavenly Father, comes by knowing and watching Jesus, as He went about revealing "Father," to those who only knew God and the Law.
Today, many see salvation as a means for going to Heaven and be with the Lord, after leaving the earth in death. Although this is Truth and is Glorious, we've missed the greater Truth. Jesus didn't just come, so that we could go to Heaven and be with Him when we die, but the Greater Truth is that He still operates on this earth through the Church.
Ephesians 4:12-13 (Amplified) says, "His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's Body (the Church) That it might develop until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's Own Perfection, the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him."
The Body of Christ's job is to allow Him to actually live again in this flesh and blood world, through us. Our job isn't just to go to Heaven, but we're to allow Jesus to walk on earth and continue like He did in His Own earthly Body, through us. Through the Father living in the Church, like He did through Jesus, we're to do the work of the Father. Much of our Christian walk has been "trying to be perfect," but the only thing perfect about us, is the One Who lives in us.
Jesus doesn't want to only live in us, but to strive in us and do the same work and will that the Father sent Him to do in His earthly Body. This is our greatest work. We're to allow Him to live again here on earth, in us. We are His Body and He is the Head. The Head directs the Body and we're to receive our orders from the Head and respond to His orders. It must seem to Jesus sometimes, like His Body is paralyzed and cannot or will not respond to His commands any longer.
Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers in John 14:15-16,26 (Amplified), "If you really love Me, you will keep (obey) My commandments, And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Stand-By, that He may be with you forever." Jesus continues in Verse 26, "But the Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Stand-By, the Holy Spirit Whom the Father will sent in My Name (in My Place, to represent Me and to act on My behalf), He will teach you all things; And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance of everything I have told you."
According to Mark 16:15-20 (Amplified), the early Church went forth everywhere preaching the Gospel and instructing them to lay hands on the sick and cast out devils. Verse 20 tells us, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied it, Amen, so be it."
The Body was obeying the commands of the Head, in the above scripture. It wasn't like the Body had a stroke, but it obeyed the commands of the Head, Jesus. Jesus wants to lives in this earth through His Body (the Body of Christ, the Church). The Plan and will of Jesus and the Father, have not changed. We, the Body of Christ, has stopped hearing the commands from the Head and have established our own way of doing things. Paul writes in Galatians 2:20 (Amplified), "I have been crucified with Christ, in Him I have shared His crucifixion: it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me: and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in, by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in, the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me."
We've never truly gotten hold of the Truth that Jesus wants to live in this earth, through His Body (the Body of Christ, the Church), just like He did in the earthly Body He knew before His death on the cross. We must allow ourselves to be His Body. His ministry has never changed from then until now. He only has a different Body to live in and through now. Jesus still wants to do the same things He did then, in this earth through us.
Salvation is not simply about our going to Heaven when we die, but it's about having Jesus live again on the earth, through us (His Body). His life and mission has never changed and we're supposed to be continuing them. Jesus changed us to be like Him, so He could continue His walk here on the earth. Jesus never intended us to be another religion, but to be His Body. It's His hands that we lay on the sick. It's His feet that take this Body, to where He says to go. It's His voice that speaks to devils. It's His Spirit that enables us to do His Work and it's His Life that we're supposed to be living here on earth, like He did in His former Body.
Hebrews 13:8 (Amplified) says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." The same things Jesus did in His earthly Body before Calvary, He still does in the Body we've become on this earth. We're the Body of Christ.
Hebrews 1:1-2 (Amplified) says, "In many separate Revelations, each of which set forth a portion of the Truth, and in many different ways God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets. But in the last of these days He has spoken to us in the Person of a Son."
God's way of speaking to us and revealing Himself to us, is by and through the Person of Jesus, His Son. The only way we can come to the Truth of Who He really is, is by knowing and watching Jesus, in His earthly ministry. Under the prophets, we could only see and come to know a portion of the Truth. We've come to many different ways of our understanding of God by the prophets, but our understanding of our Heavenly Father must come by and through Jesus Christ.
God has chosen to reveal Himself to us in these Last days, in a way that the prophets under the old covenant, could only receive a small glimpse of. None would dare speak of God as their "Father" or even hint at being "His Son." The outcry and indignation of the Jews that Jesus spoke to in His earthly ministry, was a result of their not understanding the Truth (not only a portion of the Truth, but the Truth in Bodily Form).
We continue struggling today with the "Old Testament God" and the "New Testament God." Much of our doctrine has been slanted by the Law, instead of Grace. We still expect God to deal with us, like He did with the Old Testament people. The only Example we have of our Heavenly Father, comes by knowing and watching Jesus, as He went about revealing "Father," to those who only knew God and the Law.
Today, many see salvation as a means for going to Heaven and be with the Lord, after leaving the earth in death. Although this is Truth and is Glorious, we've missed the greater Truth. Jesus didn't just come, so that we could go to Heaven and be with Him when we die, but the Greater Truth is that He still operates on this earth through the Church.
Ephesians 4:12-13 (Amplified) says, "His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's Body (the Church) That it might develop until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's Own Perfection, the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him."
The Body of Christ's job is to allow Him to actually live again in this flesh and blood world, through us. Our job isn't just to go to Heaven, but we're to allow Jesus to walk on earth and continue like He did in His Own earthly Body, through us. Through the Father living in the Church, like He did through Jesus, we're to do the work of the Father. Much of our Christian walk has been "trying to be perfect," but the only thing perfect about us, is the One Who lives in us.
Jesus doesn't want to only live in us, but to strive in us and do the same work and will that the Father sent Him to do in His earthly Body. This is our greatest work. We're to allow Him to live again here on earth, in us. We are His Body and He is the Head. The Head directs the Body and we're to receive our orders from the Head and respond to His orders. It must seem to Jesus sometimes, like His Body is paralyzed and cannot or will not respond to His commands any longer.
Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers in John 14:15-16,26 (Amplified), "If you really love Me, you will keep (obey) My commandments, And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Stand-By, that He may be with you forever." Jesus continues in Verse 26, "But the Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Stand-By, the Holy Spirit Whom the Father will sent in My Name (in My Place, to represent Me and to act on My behalf), He will teach you all things; And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance of everything I have told you."
According to Mark 16:15-20 (Amplified), the early Church went forth everywhere preaching the Gospel and instructing them to lay hands on the sick and cast out devils. Verse 20 tells us, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the Message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied it, Amen, so be it."
The Body was obeying the commands of the Head, in the above scripture. It wasn't like the Body had a stroke, but it obeyed the commands of the Head, Jesus. Jesus wants to lives in this earth through His Body (the Body of Christ, the Church). The Plan and will of Jesus and the Father, have not changed. We, the Body of Christ, has stopped hearing the commands from the Head and have established our own way of doing things. Paul writes in Galatians 2:20 (Amplified), "I have been crucified with Christ, in Him I have shared His crucifixion: it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me: and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in, by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in, the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me."
We've never truly gotten hold of the Truth that Jesus wants to live in this earth, through His Body (the Body of Christ, the Church), just like He did in the earthly Body He knew before His death on the cross. We must allow ourselves to be His Body. His ministry has never changed from then until now. He only has a different Body to live in and through now. Jesus still wants to do the same things He did then, in this earth through us.
Salvation is not simply about our going to Heaven when we die, but it's about having Jesus live again on the earth, through us (His Body). His life and mission has never changed and we're supposed to be continuing them. Jesus changed us to be like Him, so He could continue His walk here on the earth. Jesus never intended us to be another religion, but to be His Body. It's His hands that we lay on the sick. It's His feet that take this Body, to where He says to go. It's His voice that speaks to devils. It's His Spirit that enables us to do His Work and it's His Life that we're supposed to be living here on earth, like He did in His former Body.
Hebrews 13:8 (Amplified) says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." The same things Jesus did in His earthly Body before Calvary, He still does in the Body we've become on this earth. We're the Body of Christ.
Monday, September 3, 2018
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