Changed lives.
Natural verses spiritual perception.
Perfect obedience.
God’s cure for worl
1.
Changed lives.
2.
Natural verses
spiritual perception.
3.
Perfect
obedience.
4.
God’s cure for
world trouble.
5.
Law verses
Spirit.
6.
Be taught of God.
7.
True prayer.
8.
Prepare for
trouble.
9.
Break the shell.
10.
Victory through
praise.
11.
Crucify the
flesh.
12.
Walk the high road.
13.
Gifts to Fruit.
14.
The mark of
Christ.
15.
Be like Christ.
16.
Be prepared.
17.
God’s guidance.
18.
God’s security.
19.
Honor from God
only.
20.
Spiritual
motivation.
21.
Admit your
weakness.
22.
Soil preparation.
23.
Take the gift.
24.
Spiritual faith.
25.
Rich or poor.
26.
Making all things
new.
27.
Power to reign.
28.
Confession and
repentance.
29.
forgiveness
30.
The high way to
holiness.
31.
Hid in the day of
the Lord’s anger.
32.
Kingdom Economy.
33.
Carnality versus
the high road.
34.
Satisfaction.
35.
The Unseen World.
36.
The Demon World.
37.
An Uneasy Peace.
38.
Wasted Years.
39.
Perfection.
40.
Hell.
41.
Conclusion.
42.
Bibliography.
The church is divided into
major camps of thought and doctrine: Eternal security versus Armenianism, Pre-millennial
versus A-millennial, “The sovereignty of God” versus Man’s choice, Conservative
versus Liberal, and many other divisions exist.
All these divisions exist because we do not operate under the Spirit of
Wisdom and Revelation Ephesians 1:17.
God has taught me over the
years that I must not develop my own doctrine.
I must spend time with Him and He will teach me the truth. He will teach me by the Spirit of Truth. All truth proceeds from the God Head; all
other teaching contains only pieces mixed with error. Because God’s people insist on coming up with
own teaching; God Himself looked down and put divisions between them. If God allowed them to become one that way it
would be a monstrous
God’s method of oneness is:
Every member of the body hearing from the Head.
We must in this last hour be taught by God Himself.
The church has allowed Satan
to convince them to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil instead
of the tree of life. The tree of the
knowledge of good and evil is going by what your mind says; going by what is
right in your own eyes. The tree of life
is, walking in the Spirit even to the death on the cross.
Preface
I wrote a book called, “God’s
Purpose for Mankind on Earth”; I am writing this book for those who read the
first book and want to know more about how to renew their minds and the
salvation of their souls. The salvation
of the soul is a vast subject; a large portion of the Bible was written on this
subject. I could not cover this subject
on soul salvation in my life time; but I briefly present many portions of this
subject in this book; I pray God raise up many who will take up the cause and
enlarge each portion.
To understand this book: Make
sure you are born again and fully consecrated to God. To be born again: Repent and ask Jesus to
come into your life; then commit everything to Him.
Frank Overholt
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When we were lost in
We crossed the red sea and
entered the wilderness, “We were born again.”
In the wilderness we were covered with the Righteousness of Jesus
Christ. We had no righteousness of our
own; so His righteousness was imputed to us.
Christians find that no matter
how long they are in the wilderness their clothes do not wear out. They eat manna they gather every morning, and
water from a rock. While they do
experience hard times; God always brings them through.
Many of the leaders in the
church have spied out the promise land.
They have found it is truly a land flowing with milk and honey. They also saw the giants in the land of:
fear, lusts, pride, unbelief, and other sins and said, “They are too big we can
not overcome them.” They saw how all the
people that tried to overcome them down through the ages and failed.
God’s people can not believe
that God meant for them to enter the Promised Land in this life; but they think
it will only happen after they die.
God’s people can not seem to understand that all the things that God is
going to do in our lives will be us yoked to Christ, a co-operation between us
and the Spirit; the Spirit will not do it without us and we can not do it
without Him.
Through their unbelief they
tried to change the Word of God to mean something else. Perfect as the Father they say is treating
everyone alike. Perfection means
maturity, full growth, or complete.
These things may be true; but in their minds they have diluted it. If you treat everyone alike, like the Father
does; you are perfect. Maturity is the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; any lower standard just simply
isn’t the Word of God.
The perfection we are talking
about in this book is the perfection that is needed to bring this age to a
close, and to give God’s people what they need to stand in the tribulation. Perfection in this life can only come to the
spirit and the soul; the body must wait for the resurrection. It should be noted that there is a much
higher level of perfection in eternity just as Jesus had achieved a much higher
level after His resurrection.
I would ask you was Jesus not
perfect when He walked this earth? Did
not Jesus achieve a much higher standard of perfection after His
resurrection? When Jesus walked this
earth He had the perfection needed fulfill His entire mission.
When we were born again our
spirits became intimately acquainted with God.
Our spirits put on God’s nature and had eternal life. Our spirits could not sin nor even be tempted
to sin. Old things had passed away all
things had become new.
Our souls however were not
born again. Our souls can and are being
tempted everyday. We often find
ourselves in sin and needing to be forgiven.
We find ourselves in a great battle against sin. The forces of the enemy
are determined to defeat us. We must be
determined to find God’s way to defeat them.
The big job ahead of us is the
salvation of the soul; for our souls to be saved will require much work. We must become intimately acquainted with
God. Most of the rest of this book will
be directed to learn God’s will and to walk in perfect obedience. These are the things that are absolutely
necessary for the salvation of the soul.
This is the conquering of the land of promise. This is the land God promised to Abraham.
Do not dilute the Word of
God. Do not put it far from yourself. Apply it directly inside yourself. Always do what God says as soon as you can
confirm that it is the Word of God. None
of the Israelites that did not believe entered the promise land. The church because it believes a diluted
gospel has died in the wilderness for two thousand years.
When will God’s people believe
all that God says? It certainly is
wonderful to have clothes that do not wear out, to be fed with bread from
heaven, and to drink water out of a rock; but God wants us to eat the corn of
the land, our own figs, and rest in our own inheritance.
We must conquer the land:
drive out the enemies in it; if we do not drive them all out they will be
thorns in our sides and pricks in our eyes.
If we dilute the gospel, fail to believe it, or fail to apply it within
us; we will die in the wilderness just like they did. God is a God of love to be sure; but He is
also a God of terror 11 Corinthians
It is no longer acceptable to
become a Christian, go to church, pay your tithes, and just live a good life
the rest of your life. We are coming to
a time of trouble such as was never on the earth before. It is of utmost importance that we prepare
for that day; those who do not prepare are very foolish indeed.
Develop a relationship with
God, listen to Him for instruction, and do what He says. Do not be sidetracked by the enemy. Fear nothing but God Himself.
When the Israelites did not
believe, God slew them Himself. Be much
more fearful of unbelief than of the enemies of the land. Do not be afraid of what you will eat, drink,
wear, drive, live in, or any other thing.
Be afraid God will slay you in the wilderness for unbelief.
If you can see what God did to
Paul says, “Covetousness is
idolatry”. The great drive for wealth in
the church today is surely idolatry.
Will God punish you or catch you away and punish the rest of the world? Do you think because you are born again that
God has special plan for you different than for the rest of the world?
Is God going to let you live
like the world; but punish you different than the world? Don’t be deceived God never changes.
In Jeremiah’s day the people
thought the temple would save them. In
Jesus’ day the people thought being a child of Abraham would save them. In our day they think if they are born again
that would save them.
Being born again will save you
from ultimate destruction; but not from the judgment for your works. Second Corinthians 5 says that even we must
stand before the judgment seat of Christ and it would be a time of terror.
Judge yourself and you will
not need to be judged. Build your house
with gold, silver, and precious stones.
Build with materials that can with stand fire. Do not let your works be burned up.
Get into the land and destroy
those enemies. Destroy anything that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
God is perfectly able to
perfect that which concerns us. We must
quit looking at ourselves or the enemy, but at God. Even if no one was successful before; God
said it and He will do it. We must
believe all that He says; but God can not do it till He has a people who will
believe.
Jesus is certainly coming back;
but He must have a people with out spot or wrinkle first. The Righteousness of Jesus Christ will not
cover you in the judgment; you must be clothed with the righteousness of
saints. Those with out a wedding garment
must be put out for judgment first.
No matter how weak you look to
yourself; your weakness will not stop God from doing what He said; only your
unbelief will stop God doing what He said.
Joshua did not conquer all the
enemies. David did not conquer all the
enemies either. We must do much better
than they did. Put on the whole armor of
God and learn how to stand. All soldiers
must do a lot of practicing; so use that armor a lot. Practice!
Practice! Practice! We must be able to stand in the evil day.
We must continuously walk in the
Spirit. The Spirit alone knows how to
deliver us from our enemies. Our enemies
are too strong for us, but not for the Spirit.
All the work of the Spirit is
forever. All the work we do on our own
will burn up and pass away. No enemy can
harm you if you are walking in the Spirit.
The protection of the Father is perfect.
No enemy can break through His protection while you are walking with
Him.
If you are walking with God,
He can not fail to meet all your needs.
Never go by what your mind says.
Always go by what God says. Your
mind goes by natural perception. God
goes by His eternal power do what He says.
God can do anything He decides to do.
God is always there for
you. His love for you is infinite. He is perfectly capable and willing to meet
all your needs. Your fear, doubt, and
unbelief are sins against that love.
Constantly keep repeating this till you believe it in your heart: God loves me.
God cares for me. God will always
take care of me.
God longs for a people who
will reach out and take what He is offering them. Most of His people are in such unbelief they
receive very little from God. God longs
to care for your every need. He is
however hindered by fear, doubts, and unbelief.
It takes faith and trust to move the hand of God.
Keep meeting with God; keep
listening to what He says till your faith is strong.
Sometimes Jesus will appear to
a person for a special reason; He is accomplishing a certain purpose. These are not times of real growth. Real growth takes place when the senses are
bypassed and He is detected by spiritual senses. Spending time with Him is what develops
spiritual perception.
Many people make the claims
that they saw Jesus with their eyes and I believe many such accounts are true;
but any real change made in them will only occur through spiritual perception. Real changes in a person require a time in
the fires of purification, and when the metal is really pure, than it can be
poured into the mold.
Spending time in the sense realm
will not produce spiritual perception.
Spending time with God in meditation and praying in the Spirit will
produce spiritual perception. Sensing
Jesus in the spiritual realm; is far superior to sensing Him with any of the
senses. The closer you get to Him the more
the things that did not make sense, will now begin to make sense.
You might think if only I had
been there when Jesus walked the streets of
Many people who saw Jesus in
the flesh in
Today if you will hear His
voice; harden not your heart. Today if
you hear Him knocking on the door of your heart; open the door and eat with
Him. Jesus has much to say to those who
will listen. He wants to sit down and
eat with you and speak with you.
Do not let your heart be hard;
respond to Him. When you respond to Him;
He makes difficult things understandable.
True understanding comes from His presence.
Time spent with Him will begin
to change everything in your life. You
will begin to come into God’s perfect order, perfect harmony, perfect supply,
perfect love, perfect honesty, perfect obedience, into God’s power, conquering
all enemies, and perfect success.
In the sense realm you have to
do it yourself, this is impossible.
Going by your senses, you will not even believe it is possible. Do not be like the ten spies whom God slew;
but like the two who were approved of by God.
The ten spies saw only natural perception; the two spies saw God with
the eyes of faith.
In the eternal realm it is God
who is doing it; this gives us great rest.
Developing that close relationship to Jesus Christ is an absolute
pre-requisite to the realm of perfection.
God does not say, I suggest to
you to be perfect. He says, “Be perfect
as the Father is perfect. Do not live in
unbelief. If you do not do it someone
will. There must be a people who do it
before the tribulation can begin. God
can not allow the tribulation to begin till He has a people who are ready for
it; but it will never happen out of human effort alone; but it will happen when
it can flow out of the nature God put in each Christian when they were born
again.
This will happen to the ones
who nurture it. Just as the fruit of a
plant comes out of its nature; so the fruit of the Spirit will come right out
of the nature God put in you. In the
tribulation you must be able to hear God perfectly or you will not be able to
stand.
Spend more and more time with
God. Start in the morning with all
distractions excluded. Keep God included
in all your activities all through the day.
Learn to distrust your own thinking.
Learn to only trust what God says.
More and more you will find your self on the high road with God.
Don’t be discouraged when God
takes you into the wilderness to test you.
Every word, every doctrine must be tested. He that endures to the end shall be saved:
(Shall see that word come to pass). I
refuse to teach you a cheap gospel. The
cost of getting saved is not that much; but the rest of your salvation will
cost you a lot.
Most of God’s people have a
cheap gospel; they will be found wanting; later God will stoke the fire an
extract the rest of the price. The thief
on the cross was saved before the foundation of the world; but because he lived
for himself he lost almost all his inheritance; wouldn’t it have been much
better to have lived for God and have gone home with a full inheritance?
A cheap gospel will not
prepare you for the dark days ahead and you also will lose your inheritance if
live for yourself. Hold on to God’s hand
in the darkness, darkness and light are the same to Him. If you choose to go in your own way; you will
find out what the terror of the Lord really is.
All of God’s people were saved
before the foundation of the World; but how many are willing to pay the price to
rule with Jesus; that Jesus told James and John would have to be paid? How many will have to be saved so as by
fire? You can not have that place just
for asking; but only if you are willing to pay the price, (drink of Jesus’ cup
of suffering).
Every good confession a person
makes is wonderful; but we have a Kingdom to establish on this earth and we
need to work with all we have to bring it forth. Take back the land from the demon spirits
that control it.
Most people look at their
weakness and say, “Nobody can be perfect.”
Do not look at your weakness; look at God’s strength. Even Ephesians 4: 13 will not convince
them. God must be asking the same
question today as He asked about
You must be obedient; but to
believe or do the will of God will take a lot of effort. Man’s effort is not wrong in itself; but it
becomes wrong when directed by man’s mind; when it is in response to God’s
command it becomes necessary. God told King
Saul to destroy the Amalekites. God told
him to leave nothing that breathed; this took a lot of effort. Had he obeyed God all would have been well,
but; he kept the king and some of the sacrificial sheep; and lost the blessing
of God on the kingdom.
God has many things for all
His children to do. If you are obedient,
all will be well. If you are disobedient
it becomes sin. Your effort is good when
done in obedience to God’s command.
To learn obedience, proceed
very slowly. Listen carefully for His
voice. Keep turning to Him for
direction. Keep turning to Him for Strength. When you miss it, try again. Keep putting your own thoughts out of your
mind. Do not trust your own
ability. When it is only your own
ability it will not give you peace and joy; nor will it be the will of God.
Learn to rest in Him. Learn to walk with Him. Do everything according to His purposes. God’s work and purposes are eternal. God’s work and purposes produce
miracles. You can do all things when you
rest in Him. Be afraid to walk or move
on your own. To walk on your own is
pride. To walk with Jesus is humility.
Trusting only in Jesus is humility.
Jesus is our creator; we need
to learn to enjoy His presence. He is in
the process of recreating our souls. For
those who are surrendered to Him, He is constantly arranging their
circumstances to renew their souls.
Share with Jesus all your
pain, sorrows, troubles, joys, and everything that comes your way. Keep Him in all you do. The more you share with Him the more He will
do in your life. The time spent with Him
is health both to your soul and your body.
My Christian friend, fall in
love with the truth. Fall in love with
Jesus Christ. Spend much time with
Him. Be prepared for the time of the
“Great Temptation” coming on the earth.
Many Christians will be groping in darkness in that day. They will not know who or what they are in
that day. Their lusts and passions will
burn out of control. Their flesh will
burn like fire James 5:3.
Jesus said, “What you do in
secret will be shouted on the house tops.
What you do when no one is looking can not be hid in that day. If you develop the flesh life do not expect
to walk in the Spirit in that day. Your
flesh will become a monster that will completely take charge of you in that day
unless you crucify it.
Many Christians engage in sin
thinking they will just ask God to forgive them; but they do not realize that
they are developing their flesh nature. Sure
God will forgive you; but you will have developed the wrong nature. That is an improper use of the grace of
God. Crucify the old man and develop the
new man; use the time of grace given to you to prepare for the time to come.
The preparation of the soul
for the dark days ahead is of utmost importance. Getting rid of our thoughts and making room
for His thoughts are of utmost importance.
We must trust nothing that comes from ourselves. We must constantly keep turning to Him for
help. All our trust must be in Him. We must constantly admit to our weakness. Humility is better than great strength or
achievement.
Bring everything in your life
under God’s authority now; this will not only prepare you for that day, but
will build God’s kingdom in you.
If you are just beginning to
develop a deep relationship with Him; set aside a little time to spend with Him
in the morning; as you grow set aside more time. Take time to listen to Him speak to you. Do not be discouraged if you hear nothing,
you just need to spend more time with Him.
Arise early in the
morning. Confess your sins and weakness
to Him. Read the Bible. Always commit yourself to all that He shows you. Keep praying for everything that comes to
your mind. Take time to commune with
Him. Take time to listen to His
voice. Through out the day, keep turning
to Him. Keep getting rid of your own
thoughts.
We must quit trying to find
our own way through these things; The Spirit alone knows the way. One who fearlessly follows the Lord; who is
not afraid of rejection; who will change his mind when he sees he is wrong; he
who only does God’s will as much as lies within him; will be ready when the
great trouble comes.
You can vary the thing you do
with God in the morning. You can read
your Bible, read books written by faithful men, meditate, pray for the concerns
on your heart, confess your sins and weaknesses, have communion, and etc. When you hear from God; do what He says
immediately. Keep praying for what ever
comes to your mind. Take time to commune
with Him. Take time to listen to His
voice. Through out the day keep turning
to Him. Keep getting rid of your own
thoughts.
Just as any Olympic athlete
will tell you; he must work out many hours a day. If we want perfect obedience we must practice
many hours a day. If they will do it to
receive a prize that is passing away; let us do it for a prize that is
eternal. Certainly we can do as well as
they can.
If you are going to succeed
you must persevere. You must keep
confessing your sins and weaknesses to the Lord. Keep practicing these things and watch your
faith grow.
The more time you spend with
Him, the more you will trust Him. The
more you trust Him, the more of His power you will be able to use. The more you will be able to help someone
else. Many of God’s people spend little
time with Him; so they are not able to believe.
When they do not believe it will limit His power. They therefore can not do much to help
others.
Do not worry about what you
will wear or where you will sleep; seek God’s kingdom; God will take care of
you. Let the things of the kingdom fill
all your desire. Let Jesus be all your
desire; your relationship with Him must be deep and intimate; head knowledge
will not produce much change in you.
As you set your affection on
Jesus, you will find that even the simplest things in life will satisfy
you. The things that the world seeks
after will have no hold on you. Everyone
who is seeking the things of this world will reject you, even Christians. Do not expect harmony between yourself and
the world; they will reject you, and then maybe even put you out of their
church; some however will change, and surrender their lives to God and join you.
In learning the will of God
you will have many failures; but this is the day of grace, God is giving you
time to learn. Through God’s Grace you
will learn through both successes and failures; do not waste away you’re day of
grace. There will come a time when God’s
grace will be taken away; at some point in time it will be too late.
Do all the things that God
tells you to do now. Always walk in
perfect obedience to what He tells you.
I have spent only a little
time in proving these things to you. I could
prove these things to you; but those who forsake sin and only follow Christ
will know instinctively the truth; they are sheep and only know the master’s
voice.
If you want to argue with
these things; there must be something in you life keeping you from seeing. Confess you’re sins and fully commit yourself
to God and you will have no trouble believing.
Anything that comes between
you and God will blind your eyes. You
can not believe the truth with sin in your life. You can not believe the truth if your eyes
are on earthly things. Only those free
from sin and fully consecrated to God will understand and believe what He says. Without full consecration to God you will not
even be able to understand what I am saying.
The words of Jesus are the
only cure for the ills of this world. To
understand the words of Jesus will go against everything your mind thinks. Your mind thinks seeking its needs will
provide for you. God says seeking the
kingdom will provide for you.
To meet all your needs spirit,
soul, and body seek God’s kingdom. Do
you need to know God’s will? Seek the
kingdom. Do you have emotional
needs? Seek the kingdom. Do you need Food? Seek the kingdom. Do you need Healing? Seek the kingdom.
All your needs are met in
Jesus Christ. Certainly you must
continue to work, and all your other daily duties, but; your trust and all your
attention must be on Jesus Christ; every effort must be made on building His Kingdom.
God’s kingdom is built only
through slow, calm, and deliberate trust.
Nothing of God can be done in a hurry.
God’s power is made perfect in weakness.
God’s power is found by resting in Jesus. When we recognize and admit our weaknesses,
God turns it into humility. The humble
have more power with God than all the greatest of men.
Even though we are very weak;
God requires of us great effort. For a
boater flowing with the tide takes little effort. Whether in the world or the church, the tide
is always flowing away from God. To do
the will of God therefore means, you must row against the tide.
Every church gets organized
and falls away from God. They always use
the wrong methods to keep the church in the right way. They organize it into laws, rules, and
standards. When restrained the people always
push against what restrains them.
The right way to build and
protect the church is for everyone to be taught to develop a deep relationship
with Jesus Christ. A people who have an
ever deepening relationship with Jesus Christ, will not even want the forbidden
things.
A revival will come when a few
come together and sincerely confess their sins, and then deliberately forsake
them. Then they begin to confess their
weaknesses. Then they begin to apply
God’s strength. They look to God for
direction. They commit themselves to
completely obey God. They put all their
effort to building the
Insertion:
When you go out to witness
remember everyone is different.
Everyone’s needs are different.
Everyone personality is different.
People’s personalities are like a foreign language. Only Jesus can understand a person’s
personality language; so when witnessing to anyone ask Him to interpret for
you. Speak out of personal
experience. Make Jesus exciting. Speak what God gives you to say.
A people are falling away when
they are more concerned about if something is alright, than what God says about
it. When a person asks if a thing is alright;
they are trying to see how far they can go in the wrong direction. A person who wants to know what God says will
want to do it. People under law always
fall away. People seeking God’s will are
the ones who grow. Seeking God’s will
always goes against the crowd, probably even in your own church. The crowd is always seeking the things of
this life; you seek the Lord.
It is no longer look at the
written commandments and do them; but it is walking in the Spirit. When you are led by a spirit, look at the
Word of God to see what kind of spirit is leading you. Try the spirits. Follow only the leading of the Spirit of God.
What is wrong with the
law? The law only puts your flesh in
prison. Your flesh will break free one
little bit at a time. When it is free it
will come back stronger than before.
The flesh must be crucified
and destroyed, Romans 6:6. To destroy
the flesh set your affection on things above.
The more you treasure the heavenly things the more you will crucify the
flesh. As your flesh dies you will
become more aware how empty the things of the world are. As the Lord becomes your delight, the things
of this world will lose their appeal.
Rules and laws can not change your life; but Jesus can and will; set
your affection on Him.
When you walk by law your
desire for earthly things actually increase.
It may appear the right way to your mind; but it has no power to change
you.
Those who walk by law always
crucify those who walk in the Spirit. Those who walk in the Spirit crucify their own
Flesh; people usually do not realize what spirit they are of; the same people
who cried Hosanna on Palm Sunday cried crucify Him a few days later.
If we are to please God we
must do what He says. Those who please
crowds will not please God.
Do not be afraid to tell the
truth; those who love the truth will hear.
Those who do not love the truth will either persecute you or leave your
presence. When you are operating in the
Spirit; wrong spirits in others will not tolerate that.
Those who want you to walk by
law only want to glory in your flesh. If
your church operates by laws and rules; you will have to put the unruly out by
your own laws; those churches that are walking in the Spirit are governed by
God.
In the book of Hebrews it says
that the law was given by angels; but in the New Testament He speaks to us by
His Son. God does not speak to us by
angels or man in this day. When you hear
men teach in this day or see an angel check to see if you hear the voice of the
Son. Reject anything that is not from
the Son; anything from the Son will harmonize with the Word.
There are many doctrines of
devils in the church today. I will give
you a few examples: Some teach that angels were only for the Jews; because we
have the Spirit and do not need them.
Jesus had the Spirit without measure; yet He needed ministry from angels
on several occasions. Cornelius a
gentile needed an angel to tell him to get in touch with Peter to teach him
what to do.
Another doctrine of demons is
that if the early church did not do a thing it is not biblical. Paul said, “As many as are led by the Spirit
of God they are the Sons of God.” Many
things today are not the same as in the early church; but whatever way He leads
us will harmonize with the way He led them.
Peter says that, “There is a salvation to be revealed in the last days.” (Further details of this subject are found in
chapter 36). More salvation revelation
is yet to be revealed.
Do not go by anything taught
by men (not by me either); God is your only teacher. Whatever you hear anyone say look for God’s
voice. If God did not teach me first; I
can not teach you.
Psalm 71: 17 says, “O God,
thou hast taught me from my youth.
Ecclesiastes 12: 11 says, “The words of the wise are as goads, and as
nails fastened by the master of assemblies, which are given from ONE
Shepherd. Isaiah 54: 13; Jeremiah 31:
34; John 6: 45; Galatians 1: 12; Ephesians 4: 21;
1 John
Jesus said, “I am the way the
truth and the life. If you know Jesus
you can not say you do not know the way.
Spend as much time with Him as you can and He will lead you out of
error.
God says to us in the New
Testament, “He speaks to us by His Son. John
says, ‘We have an anointing to teach us all things. Isaiah, Jesus, Paul and John all four said,
“We would be taught of God. If you do
not know God’s will, you will have no excuse in the judgment? God would have taught you if you would have
listened.
When God teaches you it will
agree with all Scripture. When God
teaches you there is peace, joy, harmony, understanding, and a love for the Truth
in your heart. You can always tell if
God is teaching you by the love, joy, and peace it brings to your heart.
Most fundamental Christian
churches have a set of teachings that they teach they guard very closely to
make sure that no one teaches anything else in their church because most of
their people are taught by man instead of Jesus Christ.
When people are taught by man
(facts mixed with error) they most be closely guarded lest they receive real
truth or other errors; But when people are taught by God they can not be
deceived.
When you were in the first
grade you were probably taught that two and two equals four; now if someone
would tell you that two and two equals five you could not be deceived.
Suppose you had been taught
that two and two equals five than your teacher would have to keep you from
hearing another teach and from testing the teaching lest you learn the truth.
Once you learn the principles
of math no one would ever be able to deceive you again; so if I teach you the principles
of being taught by God I will never have to protect you from false teaching. Knowing two and two equals four gives you
peace and stability; so being taught by God gives you peace and stability.
The disciples told Jesus we
saw someone casting out devils in your name and we forbad him because he walked
not with us. If that happened in one of
our churches we would tell him to come under the covering of the elders and
than we may let cast out devils; but Jesus just told His disciples to forbid
him not as whosoever is not against us is for us.
Most of God’s people are
taught by man therefore they have no stability; teaching by when left to mature
to its fullness always leads to disaster (as in Jim Jones). Some churches teach that all things must be checked
out with the pastor this only leads to cultism and will end in disaster.
Any Pastor that loves his
people should make the number one thing on his agenda to teach his people how
to be taught of God then their protection will be built right in them and no
one will ever be able to deceive them again.
The joy of being taught by God
can not be expressed. When one is taught
an error the loss of peace it brings will tell them immediately that something
is wrong. Those who are taught by God
have a peace (a name) that no one knows but them themselves. When people see a person that is taught by
God they see God’s peace and power in them and try to imitate what they do; but
it does not work for them because they are following man instead.
All Christians have a perfect
right to be taught by God. If you would
like to be taught by God; you must choose to fall in love with the Truth; if
you are in love another’s teaching you will not love the truth. You must be willing to change your mind when
you find out you are wrong. You must
believe He has a perfect word for you.
You must have confidence that He is willing to teach you.
He wants with all His heart
for you to know the truth. He loves to
teach and even to meet all the needs of His children. He wants you to be able to walk in perfect
truth. He has much to share with you if
you will only let Him.
Jesus Himself received only
what God taught Him. He only did that
which He saw His Father do. He set His
sights on the Father and whatever the Father told Him He did it with joy. The Word became flesh by the works that He
did.
If we do only those things
that please Him the Word will become flesh in our lives as well. No matter how hard the difficulty do all that
He says. Jesus is in charge of all
circumstances nothing can go wrong.
Many Christians will hold to
what they believe even if it is proven to be false; they are more interested in
being accepted by men than the truth; they do not like to be proven wrong. If you receive honor from men you can not
receive the truth.
When the demons that operate
in their lives speak to them they listen to them instead. We wrestle against principalities and
powers. We either agree with God or
demons. The word taught by men is often
the truth distorted by demons. The truth
can be taught to you by God only; and to be taught by Him you must be fully
surrendered to Him.
Do not be swayed by the
teaching of any other man. When you
listen to someone teach or preach; always listen for the voice of the master,
if it is lacking reject it.
If you are taught by man, you
are taking the most precious thing you have, and putting it in the hands of a
man. He may be more interested in his
ministry than your soul. That is a very
foolish thing to do. If you do not walk
in God’s way, and receive His truth, you may be also sadly lacking in His life.
If your beliefs are given you
by men I will tell you it is full of errors.
Everyone is a different part of the body and God alone knows what
instruction you need. Trust yourself
completely into His hand and let Him teach you.
Walk the narrow road. On the broad road you may have many so called
none essential doctrine. On the narrow
road there is room only for God’s teaching.
All that God says is essential.
On the narrow road it is only you and God; but you accept everyone. On the broad road there many people; but you
accept only those who agree with you.
Fall completely in love with
the Truth. If you fall completely in
love with the Truth; you will be rejected and persecuted by man; but fully approved
by God.
If you were going to school to
learn to be a doctor or a nurse; would you expect to make it if you gave it the
same time and sincerity as you give God?
How can you believe if you give greater priority to earthly things than
to the
The Truth He teaches you is
perfect for where you are at; but tomorrow additional Truth will be
needed. God only gives us what we need
for now. Tomorrow God will give us what
we need for that day.
Do everything by Him. Let Him be your strength, your hope, and your
life. He is with you all the time. He is longing to meet your every need. You need not be afraid. Keep listening for His voice. Keep turning everything over to Him. Do what ever He says. He is in control of every situation. He is working everything for your good.
Jesus is with you all the
time. He is perfectly capable and willing
to teach you whatever you need today.
Jesus’ presence is not ethereal but as real anybody else’s. The reason we do not see Him is there are
scales on our eyes. Spend much time with
Him; let Him become real to you. If you
want Him to be real to you; you must spend much time with Him.
Remember that wherever you
spend your time is what nature you will develop. If you want to use God’s power you must spend
much time with God. God has His power
for you to use; but you must learn how to use it. If you would say “Jesus” and mean it many
times every day you would soon manifest much greater power of God in your life.
Walk with God to the level He
has brought you to. Work together with
God to continually raise your walk to a higher level. Allow God’s Word to bring you to perfect
obedience. As you keep doing these
things the scales will start coming off and you begin to recognize His
presence. Living in God’s presence is so
wonderful I am amazed that God’s people think you can not see or feel Him.
David showed he heard the
voice of God when he refused to destroy the Lords anointed. Saul rejected the voice of God when he
refused to destroy all of Amalek; but tried to destroy David the Lord’s
anointed instead. God’s people do the
same today when they do not destroy all the flesh; but come against their
brethren instead. If God’s people walked
in the Spirit they would never come against one of their brethren.
In the past God may have
allowed contrasting doctrines; but now He requires everyone to be taught of
God. God will soon require everyone’s
doctrines to harmonize with each other; they will if taught by God. God’s Word to you is, “Today if you will hear
His voice; harden not your hearts as the Israelites did Hebrews 3. God wants to speak to you.
If you will not allow God to
teach you today you will fall in that day.
Every foundation which is not the very Word of God will fail in that
day. An adulterated word will not
protect you in that day.
Get your life in order today. Get your life on a solid foundation that can
not be destroyed. If you fail to hear
your rebellion will be judged in that day, none will escape.
When you were a little child
at a strange place, you hung on to your parents. Well you are a little child in the spirit, in
a strange land; so hang on to your Father’s hand. You can not by your own wisdom or strength,
take care of yourself; anymore than a little child can. If you insist on doing it yourself, your
pride will take you to destruction.
Cast out the old self life and
the pride that goes with it Romans 6:6; Galatians
Doubt, unbelief, unrest,
always leads to the destruction of faith.
Faith is always calm. No matter
how bad the problem, always approach it calmly; trust in the Lord. The Lord can not fail. Do not attack your problems too quickly; if
you attack it too quickly or with your own thinking, you will fail.
Sometimes God waits till the
last minute to see if you will endure to the end. Stay true and you will be saved in the
situation.
Whether for healing from
sickness or any other trouble, do not doubt.
Be happy. Be at rest. Let peace and joy flood your heart. Be full of love and laughter. Refuse entry to any negative thoughts. God has all in control. Even when the storm is in the height of its
raging, look at God’s deliverance. Each
time He delivers you, you will learn to trust Him more. You will get closer and closer to Him. You will even begin to feel His tender hands
as they bind up your wounds. You will
begin to more and more understand His ways.
When others do not understand
you do not be surprised. Your ways and
words are like a foreign language to them.
When you have physical needs, and you seek the
Prayer is not meant to be a
time to ask or beg for things from God; but to prepare ones heart for God
Himself who supplies all his needs.
When you have a need: pray for
the
Prayer says, I need help, I
don’t know the answer. Prayer means I
humble myself; except when I do it to be seen of men. Prayer is very powerful. Prayer will do great things. Prayer is irresistible. Pray without ceasing.
A man of prayer breathes in
the Holy Spirit, and God so fills him with the Spirit that he becomes a Living
Soul filled with Everlasting Life; this Life effects him spirit, soul, and body
God knows our weakness and
lack of ability to pray accurately; therefore He purifies the prayer of the
sincere just as water vapor is purified as it ascends to the clouds, and when
it returns in the form of rain it bless all who receive it.
Nice sounding public prayers
will probably do more harm than good.
Praying to receive merit from God, will probably do more harm than
good. Praying humbly to meet your needs
or someone else’s needs; God will hear those prayers. Prayers that are felt, God hears. You must reach heaven.
Do not waste your time on vain
repetition. Speak those things you feel
from your heart, knowing they will be answered.
Take everything to Him. When you
pray according to the Will of God, you can end with thanksgiving, joy, and
praise knowing they will be answered.
Just like God, call those things that are not yet as though they already
were.
Become one who even the
greatest sorrow of the night can not quench the joy of expectation for the
morning. You will know you will have
your request, because; you do those things that are pleasing in His sight. Refuse to look at the circumstances; look at
God.
God has the power to deliver
you. God has the desire to deliver
you. Only believe. Only trust.
Have faith in Him. Rejoice in the
answer; salvation is yours. As you look
to God, doubts will flee. In joy and
hope you will conquer every obstacle.
Nothing will stand before you.
As you behold the glory of the
Lord, you will be changed. Continue to
look to the Lord. Much work will be done
without you realizing it.
Much activity usually means
you are not resting in Jesus. Inactivity
may mean you are lazy or in despair, doing the very will of God will avoid those
problems. Doing the very will of God is
very productive and profitable in the
Jesus has given us a
conquering spirit. Face every trial with
the Spirit of conquest. When you trust
in Jesus you can conquer anything. Do
not be discouraged if it takes time. If
you fall keep getting up. Do not try to
save yourself; Jesus saves. Keep saying it
and mean it, “Jesus saves.” He is always
working things out for our good. When
you are in trouble, let the first thing you think of be, “Jesus saves.”
Do not beg Jesus to do it; He
has already put the power in you to do it.
Let your prayer to Him be one of trust.
Just know He will do it. If your
faith is small, just keep going to Him, Spend time with Him, till your faith
grows strong. Strong faith comes from
spending much time with Him, in meditation, and prayer.
Earthly things will rob you of
your faith television sports, games, and etc. will rob you of your faith. If you are caught up in earthly things, you
will hardly have the faith to do anything.
Keep getting rid of anything that robs you of your faith.
When the disciples had trouble
casting out a demon Jesus said, “This kind goeth not out but by prayer and
fasting.” With our natural minds we tend
to think He only meant fasting food.
Jesus meant however such things as television, movies, fancy clothes
cars, and any other thing that may distract from the very will of God.
Replace it with the things of
the kingdom. If you get rid of it and
not replace it with the heavenly things, other earthly things will replace
it. Your life can not have a vacuum; something
will be in it. Some of the things we
mentioned are certainly legitimate; but they often have a real grip on us.
He also mentioned prayer as
well as fasting. This kind of prayer is
not just a few words out your own mind; but it must be real communion with
God. You must feel the thing you are
saying strongly enough to reach heaven.
You must experience trouble; trouble causes you to reach for heaven. You must spend time with God.
As Christians we have a light
lit with the oil of the Holy Spirit; Prayer stores more oil in our vessels
preparing us for the trouble to come. Be
wise. Pray much. Store much oil in your vessels.
Pray that your flight be not
in the winter of the tribulation, or the Sabbath of a thousand years of Eternal
Rest; pray now; now is the time of preparation.
The little ant is wise to store for winter; we must store now for the
time to come.
A boat is made for water; but
the water must not come into the boat.
You need to drink water; but you must not be immersed in it.
We have a need for some of the
things of this world just as we need water; but we must be careful, if we get
immersed in it we will drown, so if we get immersed in the things of this world
it will drown out our prayer life and we will perish. Set your sights on God and He will supply
your need.
Become a man/woman of prayer
and the earthly will not hurt you; but if you prayer life fades the earthly
things will destroy you. People of
prayer feel God’s Power in a church service and are changed by it; but
prayerless people also feel God’s Power in a church service than go their way
unchanged. People of prayer alone can
worship in Spirit and Truth.
People of prayer receive the
things of God at a cost and value them much; but prayerless people receive
God’s things at little cost and value them little.
When a person is saved he is
saved from the world; but if he does not become a person of prayer he will fall
right back into his old sinful ways. Set
your sights on God Himself not the things of the world and be thankful, lest
the things of the world crowd God out and you lose your way.
The man who seeks to fulfill
his need by getting things will never be satisfied nor have enough; but the man
who has God all his needs are fulfilled for God is more than enough, the man of
prayer can never know loss. Much prayer
is to abide in Christ; is to become like Christ; is to partake of His Nature;
is to be formed into His Image.
Man may travel through the air
and even to some of the near planets; but the man of prayer travels the heavens
even to where our Lord is coming from.
Praying to the Father in the
name of Jesus means in the Nature of Jesus; do not use Jesus’ Name and not live
like He tells you. To receive from God
obey without question just as the man at the gate beautiful leaped to his feet
when Peter said, “Rise up and walk”.
Jesus will come suddenly, only
the faithful will stand; if you Christian are caught up in the things of this
world, you will be completely unprepared; faith takes time to build; so at that
time it will be too late; you need to take advantage of every opportunity now.
Jesus is your safety and
security; build your trust in Him now.
Money, insurance, or any other earthly things, can not provide you with
security for the day of the Lord.
Jesus is also the way; do not
try to find your own way, you need His guidance; any other way will lead to
abject failure. With Jesus being safety,
security, and guidance, you will conquer all; you will be prepared for the dark
days ahead.
Remember Jesus is in control
of every circumstance; He is working everything out for your good. Jesus will never let more trouble come to you
than you need; every trouble is filled with His tender loving care; He has the
Midas touch; each trouble turns to gold.
Peter says, “Troubles are more precious than fine gold.” Nothing you can desire can be compared to the
good God brings out of trouble.
We are children of trouble;
let us lay aside every sin, every weight, and every trouble at His feet; and let
Him bear it for us.
Jesus delights to be our
burden bearer, draw ever closer to Him.
When you are burdened down you can not feel Him; so lay everything at
His feet and enjoy His presence. Do not
pick your burdens up again after giving them to Jesus; He alone is able to
carry our burdens we can not.
Jesus knows all your
needs. Each person has a different set
of needs; Jesus alone knows what they are; He alone knows how to fill them.
As you draw closer to him, you
will depend less and less on the law, and walk more and more in the
Spirit. No law was ever written that
could meet man’s need. The Spirit alone knows
the way. The Spirit alone knows the
need.
Think of people’s need as
members of the same body. The eye needs
different instructions than the ear.
Each member has different needs, but; they are in perfect harmony with
each other. Jesus alone knows the
perfect combination of troubles and instruction each person needs; He only
knows the exact place we fill in the body.
When Jesus told us to ask and
we would receive, we try to do it in our flesh and do not receive; we should not
get discouraged; we just asked amiss. We
must keep meeting with Jesus early in the morning; let our faith in the Spirit
arise, and we will receive. You can not
believe by just trying with your mind; your faith will come forth naturally as
you spend time with Him.
There is no substitute for
spending time with Him. If we want to
realize the spiritual blessings, we must cease to operate in the flesh. The spiritual blessings are available only to
the new nature; if God gave His things to us in our old nature we would consume
them on our own lusts; but if you would have the things of God a change must
take place in you first.
If God would answer us in our
old nature it would cause us to fall further away from Him; but God wants to
draw us closer to Him. It is God’s love
and mercy that we have to rise in the new nature in order to receive from
Him. Do not get discouraged. Keep on asking. Keep on meeting with Him. Honest productive meeting with Him has got to
build your faith.
Use your new found faith to
build God’s kingdom. God wants and needs
people who will not let Him go till they receive what is theirs. The great men and women of the past, who
wielded so much power, received that power through much time spent with God; they
practiced and practiced the presence of God; as they followed these principles
it became easier to perform great feats.
A seed planted on a rock with
little soil will wither in the sun; so you will wither also if try to do much
work for God with little time spent with Him.
You must be deeply rooted to support a great work. A deep relationship will cause a great work
to come right out of your nature, just as a plant grows great right out of its
nature. Practicing God’s presence will
fit you for the work of the kingdom.
What did trouble come
from? Troubles came as a result of
disobedience to God’s commands. God’s
commands are intended to give us peace and happiness; but in disobedience to
God’s commands man received sin, sickness, pain, and disease.
When you were born again God
put His nature in you; however it is encased in a hard shell; this hard shell
keeps God’s nature from manifesting fully in our lives. We see the things God tells us to do in the
Bible; but try as we might we can not do them.
We need to break that shell and the fruit of the Spirit will flow forth naturally.
The hard shell is called the
flesh. The flesh is contrary to God and
can never do the will of God. The flesh
is of this world and God’s nature is from heaven. A fertilized egg is a good illustration of
the situation: The Life within must be warmed by the mother till the life
within breaks forth; so we must be warmed by the Spirit till the Life within is
manifest.
The flesh makes us to be very
self conscious. God’s nature will make
us to be very Spirit conscious. To
become Spirit conscious we must spend time with the Spirit. Spending much time with the flesh, keeps us
flesh conscious; if we do not spend the time with the Spirit we will never see
the Life Power within us manifest.
When we agree with God’s Word
in our minds and try to do it, it is like trying to go through space in a horse
and buggy. When we agree with God’s Word
with our minds and give pre-eminence to the Spirit to fulfill it then we are
space traveling with a rocket.
No eternal good can be
produced by the flesh. Eternal good can
only be produced by walking in the Spirit.
The fruit of the Spirit is already in your eternal nature; but it must
be freed from the flesh. It will
automatically produce love right out of its own nature. All the fruit of the Spirit comes forth by nature
when freed from the flesh.
In John 15 Jesus says, “I am
the vine you are the branches.” We must
abide in the vine and bear fruit lest we be cut off and be burned. It is imperative that we maintain a deep
relationship with Christ and bear the fruit of the Spirit.
For the Spirit to come forth
in our lives we must be pruned or broken.
If we do not allow Jesus to break us, He will fall on us and crush
us. Do not be afraid to be broken; Jesus
will put His whole nature of love in the breaking process.
If we do not allow ourselves
to be broken, we will never know much of His power in our lives. He has given us the cross to take up on which
to crucify the self life. Destruction of
the self life will release the new life.
The natural force that is in your new nature can not be deceived or
overcome; but it can be hindered from working by the flesh. Break off the flesh and walk in the new
nature there is no enemy that it can not conquer.
This force is the very power
of God Himself. This force flows into you
like sap from the vine to the branches.
As you allow yourself to be pruned by God this life force will come
forth more and more. If you refuse
pruning you will not bear fruit; instead you will be cut off and be
burned. These are new creation forces and
will only operate in the new creation.
This is your new self. Jesus put it in another way, “Whosoever has
to him shall be given and he shall have abundance; but he who has not even that
which he has will be taken from him.
Operate in the new man.
The old self is in Adam’s
image. The new self is in Christ’s
image. The old self is of this
world. The new self is of the new world. The old world is headed by Adam. The new world is headed by Jesus. The old man is fallen and headed for
destruction. The new man is created in righteousness
and true holiness
If we do not allow ourselves
to be broken, we will never see the power of that new nature at work. The hard shell (the old self) that covers it
will keep it from operating. It is the
very nature of God in you. It contains
the very power of God. Much work is
required though to release it.
Jesus gave us a cross to bear. We need to deny the old self, and put it on
the cross. We must do our part. We must put self on the cross. We must take up our crosses and follow Him.
Jesus provided the cross. He will search out every vestige of the self
life. He has provided the power to
destroy the self life. Jesus has already
destroyed the self life on the cross. We
must however go through the process to see the reality of it in our lives.
The old self is made in Adam’s
image. The new self is made in the image
of Christ. The old self is of this
world. The new self is of the new
creation. Put off the old man and his
deeds. Put on the new man, which is created
in righteousness and true holiness. The
new man is Christ in you the hope of glory.
We must constantly keep doing these things till Christ be formed in us.
The old man constantly tries
to take the pre-eminence. The new man
has the humility of Christ. The new man
will only come forward, if God brings it forward. The old man always defends it self. The new depends on God to defend it. The old man always fights for its
rights. The new man tries to make peace
through love.
To habitually put off the old;
and put on the new man; takes a lot of practice. You will have a lot of failures. Learn from them then forget them. Keep putting off the old man. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Take everything to Him no matter how small.
No matter what kind of problem
you have you can praise the Lord. Praise
and joy will defeat the devil every time.
If your car or truck breaks down praise the Lord. If you lose your job praise the Lord. If there is no food in the house praise the
Lord. If you do not have a house, praise
the Lord.
If you do these things; you
will defeat the devil. God will meet
your need. You have no need God can not
meet. Just obey God with joy,
thankfulness, and praise. To defeat the devil
the most powerful force is praise. Keep
practicing praise in the little troubles.
When the big problems come you will be ready for them.
As you practice, your praise
will begin to come out of your inner being.
This can not be developed in a moment.
You must practice it over a period of time. Spend much time in prayer. What ever you experience through out the day,
turn to prayer. Each little problem that
comes up, turn to prayer.
God gave the church power to
defeat the devil already two thousand years ago. When a people comes forth that believes what
God says, we will defeat him. I intend
to work to that end till he is defeated; or till I die which ever comes
first. A generation must arise and
defeat the devil.
Seek God’s way through your
problems. God’s way is always best. You will begin to do things through God’s
nature in you. You will be drawing
closer to God.
As you develop the practice of
going to praise and prayer, you will be prepared for the future problems. The solution will come right out of your new
nature. Keep plenty of oil in your
lamp. Fill a separate container besides.
Future problems will become
gigantic. Those of God’s people, who
fill their minds with the things of this world, will not know what hit
them. In that day television, computer
games, movies, and etc. will contain the very nature blasphemy. They will not be able to buy or sell without
taking the mark of the beast. God’s
people who indulge in the things of this world will have no clear vision of
what is to come.
Wake up church. Spend time with God. Walk with God. Learn obedience. Learn through suffering. Value the eternal things. Set your heart on things above. You have just enough time to prepare if you
start now. This is a very serious
situation. It takes time to be changed and
your lives are slipping away. For some
it may be already too late.
God’s people have been told,
“God will take them out before the great tribulation.” They are depending on a doctrine developed by
man. If they would listen to God instead
they could not be so deceived. Listen
only to the master’s voice. He will only
lead you into the truth. God has only
your wellbeing in mind. These have their
doctrine and ministry in mind. Do not
put your future in the hands of anyone, not even me. Only God loves you enough to lead you into
all truth.
God will make you like
Himself. Men will make you like
themselves. God will make you
perfect. Men will tell you nobody can be
perfect. If you put your future in the
hands of man you are a fool. Do the
right thing. Accept Christ. Then let Him perfect you. To become a Christian you only need to accept
Christ. To become like Christ takes a
life time of practice. Give it all you
have.
Do not live for yourself. Do not fill your mind with the things of this
world. Surrender to Christ every step of
the way. Do not think you can enjoy the
things of the world and be ready at the same time. Do not be deceived; evil communications
corrupt good manners. Do everything you
do by the Spirit. What you do out of
your own mind will only burn in the judgment.
God has held back the fires of
judgment that will consume this world, till He can prepare a people to face
it. When the restrainer is gone people’s
passions will burn like an oven.
Everywhere through out the earth people’s passions and lusts will burn
out of control. Everything they do will
be to fulfill their lusts and passions.
No laws or policemen will be
able to restrain them. The whole land
will burn as an oven. The very elements
of their nature will melt with extreme heat.
All their works will burn in the fire.
Only the manifest sons of God
will be able to stand in that day. Only
gold, silver, and precious stones will not burn. The day of the Lord is darkness and night
with fire of ungodly proportions. Do not
be unprepared in that day. Paul says in
11 Corintians 5, “Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men.” Yes, that fire will try our works as well.
When I hear preachers
preaching on the rapture of the church; I do not hear them expounding on Luke
Verse 35, “For as a snare
shall it come upon all them that dwell upon the face of the earth.”
Verse 36, “Watch ye therefore,
and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things
that shall come to pass, and stand before the Son of man.” I hear nothing about God being a consuming
fire and that He will judge His people, Hebrews 10:30;
I hear nothing about, “Knowing
the terror of the Lord we persuade men, 2 Corinthians
I do not hear them talk about
the fire that is to try everyman’s work, 1 Corinthians 3:13. I hear nothing about some men’s sins and
works going before into judgment, 1 Timothy 4: 24, 25. These things are all spoken to God’s people.
I never hear about Joseph and
his brethren and the famine in
They put together a few
scriptures that seem to support their view and ignore the rest or try to make
them fit. The fact is that the Bible
never says that judgment is according to your new birth. It is always according to your works.
If they were on top off a
mountain walking along a five thousand foot cliff; they would watch every
step. Whether you fall or not goes by
your works not by your birth. A Queen
will not be any different in the fall than a pauper. The fact is their actual position is much
more serious; it has eternal consequences.
I hope many wake up long
before they fall and take many with them.
These things I am writing to
you so you may walk into the deep things of God. Why would anyone want anything less? To walk in the deep things of God, you need
to walk hand in hand with God. Work out
your salvation every minute of the day.
Love Him. Praise Him. The more you interact with Him the more you
will become like Him.
If you spend your time with
the world, you will become like the world.
That will cause the old man to become stronger. Look upon the face of Jesus Christ. The old man will die and pass away. Galatians 5:24, “They that are Christ’s have
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.” The old man must be crucified.
You will begin to see the
shallowness of the things of this world.
The things of this world will lose their appeal. In the Book of Romans Chapter 8 It says, “Mortify
or put to death the deeds of the body.”
God has not only given you the power to crucify the flesh; but He has
commanded you to do it.
Though you will certainly have
sorrow and disappointment; yet you will have peace, joy, and contentment. You will notice more and more that the old
man will be passing away.
Love the Lord. Let your love for the Lord be revealed by
your love for others. Love other
Christians. Love the harlots and
sinners. Love is the most powerful force
of all. Love drives out sin. Love drives out Satan. Love conquers temptation. Love destroys the works of the devil. Love wins the sinner to Christ. Love conquers all. Keep on loving.
Praise conquers depression,
despair, and failure. Praise is the
acknowledging of God’s power and work.
Persistent praise and thankfulness will cause you to grow. You may not feel like praising. You may not feel very thankful. If you keep praising and thanking anyway it
will grow. It will become a spring of
praise and thankfulness coming right out of your new nature.
As you clime the mount of God,
Keep reaching for new truths. Yesterday’s
truth will not meet today needs. Do not
camp on a plateau. Do not camp around
one set of teachings. Keep on ascending
up the mountain. Learn all He will teach
you today. Be obedient to all He tells
you today.
As you go; you will grow. As you grow; you will find your nature is
being changed. You will find that you no
longer fit into the old life. Most
Christians tend to please the body. They
live for ease, comfort, fun, and etc.
They will find their Christian life is anemic at best. They hinder the work of God in their
lives. Their prayers go unanswered. They bring upon themselves unnecessary
trouble.
You and God must shape the
soul together. We must be yoked together
to accomplish the work. God will not do
it without us. We can not do it without
Him. We must live for the saving of the
soul. You must work on it all day long
to accomplish this task.
Those who walk the high road
face many obstacles, Troubles, and trials. They are necessary to shape us, and
they will re-form us into the image of Christ.
They are not the finale goal. Our
joy in the Lord; and His pleasure in us is our finale goal. We may however get a taste of the eternal
things now.
We are Disciples of
Christ. In our training we will face
failure, shortcomings, Jolts, jars, and other obstacles. After troubles have done their job, forget
them. Always run to win Christ. Set your sights on the eternal riches. Those high desires will all be granted.
Thank Him for everything. Everything is working for your own good. Consistent proper response to God’s testing
is like putting money in the bank. Put a
little in the bank day by day. One day
the big trouble will come and you will have sufficient to meet your needs.
Praise God consistently. Thank God consistently. Do all He says consistently. Doing all the little things He tells you will
store up spiritual wealth. This will
make you ready when the big trouble comes.
Unlike the natural world, the big trouble does not deplete your
resources. The big trouble only prepares
you for even bigger trouble.
When we first came to God
because we were just babies we could manifest little of the Fruit of the Spirit
so God gave us gifts instead: If we were sick God may have given us a gift of
healing? If we lacked faith God may have
given us a gift of faith and etc? God
gives gifts to those too young to bring it out of their nature.
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:
31, “There is a more excellent way.”
Paul says, “The gifts of faith and prophecy can work without love and
thus be of little value.” He goes on to
show the many attributes of love. Paul
indicates that the gifts are for babies; but love is for full grown men.
When you are young in the
Spirit it is normal to operate in the gifts of the Spirit; but full grown men
operate in love. Full grown men must put
away childish things.
When a person is a baby you
expect them to play with a baby rattle; but if you still see them playing with
it as an adult you know something is a wrong.
When a person becomes a
Christian they have an intense desire for the Truth; often you see them spending
much time in the Bible; listening to sermons; praying; and etc. They often think no one could ever take that
away from them. The fruit they manifest
is a gift from God.
They must not stay in the gift
realm too long. The long and intensive
journey is just beginning; many things in their lives have to be changed.
God does not want to bring
many babies; but many Sons into glory.
There will be many troubles and trials before a baby can be a Son. Babies also have many habits and sins that
hinder their lives that must be broken if they are to become men.
If you are a baby you must
begin by setting a little time aside to meet with God. You must fill your mind with positive
truths. You must commit yourself to
doing them even if you are not yet able to.
You must believe all that God says no matter how impossible it may seem
right now. Never go by what your mind
says; but only by what God says.
Continuously keep your life
surrendered to God. No matter how dark
and dangerous the way may seem take God’s hand and go forward. You will probably have to walk this way with
God alone, as few if any of your acquaintances will be willing to go with
you. The Highway of Holiness is a very
lonely road for those who desire human company.
Spend much time in communion
with God. Do not try to get out of
trouble; but build your faith to go through it.
As your communion, commitment, and surrender deepen God will show you
many things that others will only be able to get from you; things you only
wondered about will become sharply clear to you.
You will see the emptiness of
the life you left behind with no desire to return. You will see that when you gave your money
away it appeared so dangerous; but now you see how really dangerous it was to
hoard money, depend on insurance, and build a retirement account.
To our natural mind the Tree
of the Knowledge of good and evil seems good; but the Tree of Life seems evil;
but we have it backwards. As you grow in
the Spirit it will all straighten out.
Suffering seems to us evil; but it is the spring board that catapults to
God.
When you suffer in obedience
to God it only takes you to perfection.
Instead of the gift of faith; faith comes right out of your own
nature. Instead of the gift of prophecy
you actually see the things approaching.
As you continue more and more
bad habits will fall away and more and more you will become just like
Jesus. You will find Jesus is health to
your spirit, soul, and body; your mind will be renewed and you will laugh at
sickness. When a sickness comes on you;
you will laugh and say praise God I get to see God’s power at work in my life
again.
As you grow everything you do
will bless someone. The very fruit of
the Spirit will flow right out of your very nature. When you were young the distractions in your
life drowned out the still small voice; but now you hear the quietest whisper
of God speaking to you.
Jesus was the greatest
manifested Son of God of all; He used the cross to catapult Him to the Throne
of God; He also opened the way for every other Son of God to do the same;
tragically few of His people are even willing to go that route.
It has been pointed out many
times that the Joy set before Jesus was us; but I believe an even greater Joy
was the throne of His Father for Him and those who will pay the price. Though the cross may cause you to sweat as
were great drops of blood; yet the Joy beyond makes it the most wonderful
instrument of all.
It causes me much sorrow to
see so few of God’s people willing to pay the full price. To see in God’s people all the genetics to
become a majestic oak; but only becoming a little bonsai seems tragic to me
indeed.
The process by which we will
go to the cross is hid in the heart of God lest Satan fail to crucify us. We will know the way only one step at a
time. Mark it down Satan will use every
wile he has got to keep you from the throne.
Satan has planted easy and
escapism doctrines in the church so that few will purposely endure anything for
Jesus Christ. Satan offered Jesus an
easy way to obtain the world by bowing down to him; but Jesus did not fall for
it.
To get to heaven may not cost
you much; but the high calling of God will cost you everything. Everything you have got is really a very
cheap price for such a high prize. To
achieve the high calling of God you must not try to escape anything; but you
must obey the voice of God explicitly.
Doing the will of God from the
heart; causes you to receive the mark of Jesus Christ. Those marked for Him can see clearly and can
judge all things. You will be at perfect
peace. You will be at perfect rest. You will agree with all that Jesus says.
Test yourself. See if you carry the mark of Christ? Look at all the sayings of Jesus in the
Bible. The blesseds of the Sermon on the
Mount, do they make sense? Turn the
other Cheek, does that make sense? Be
perfect as the Father, does it make sense?
Do you have put it off to another age?
Do you have to force an interpretation of it? When you are marked by God everything will
make perfect sense.
To have your needs met, seek
the
You will find out more and
more that you will think just like Jesus.
You can correct any deficiency you see in yourself. Be obedient to all He tells you line upon
line.
When the mark of Jesus Christ
is in your forehead, you will think just like Jesus. The things Jesus says will come right out of
your own nature. If you need to change
anything Jesus says in any way; your nature still needs changing.
When you are marked with the
mark of Jesus, you will no longer fit in with those who are living for
themselves. Living only for the
Build your house on the
Rock. To build your house on the Rock,
requires instant obedience. Jesus has
spoken to us in the Sermon on the Mount.
He speaks to us through out the day, in a still small voice. What ever He says be instantly obedient. Instant obedience indicates great faith.
The disciples showed signs of
really developing this kind of belief when Jesus said, “Except you eat my flesh
and drink my blood you have no life in you.”
They had been brought up to believe the doctrine “Eat no human flesh nor
drink any blood.” These words of Jesus
seemed like false teaching to them; but they knew Jesus was of God and they
would understand His words better later.
If Jesus told something you
believed was false doctrine would believe Him or your doctrine? Can you even recognize His voice? If you heard His voice would you obey like
Abraham did? Would you sacrifice your
own son for Him? I am sure Abraham did
not believe in human sacrifice; yet he knew that he had heard from God.
If you are going to call Him
Lord, then do what He says. Receive the
love for the truth. Obey Him because you
love Him. Obey Him because you love the
truth. Every time you obey Him you put a
stone in place in your new home.
The foundation is Jesus
Christ. Build the floor. Build the walls. Build the ceiling and roof. Everything built out of obedience to Jesus
Christ. A house built by man at the
command and direction of Jesus Christ.
Every act of obedience is an
act of praise to Him. Every act of
obedience is an act of worship of Him.
Every act of obedience is an act of adoration of Him. Where there is obedience you will find Jesus
Christ.
Jesus loves to dwell with the
obedient. Jesus loves to carry out every
wish of the obedient. However those
living for themselves will know little of the blessing of God.
The miracles that Jesus did
when He walked this earth He still wants to do; but He is hindered by our
unbelief. We can not believe because we
have been walking too much in the flesh.
The flesh can never have believing faith.
Believing faith comes by
spending time with Jesus. That kind of
faith will come right out of our new nature.
Faith does not come out of
human effort to believe. It comes by
communion with Jesus Christ. To build
your faith, set aside some time early in the morning to commune with Jesus
Christ. It will build both faith and
trust. It brings forth in you the mind
of Christ.
Christ has compassion on the
sinner. He raises the dead. He heals the sick. He comforts the troubled. He makes the lame to walk. To those lost in sin He brings the good news.
When you have the mind of
Christ: you will realize that people are in bondage to sin, sickness, and
Satan. You will work to release people
from their bondages.
With all that is within you
work out your own salvation. As you
overcome your own bondages you will have what you need to deliver others from
their bondages. You will more and more
receive the mind of Christ.
Continue to expand your time
with Jesus Christ. Seek to include Him
in your entire day. You will be
satisfied when you become like Him.
Others will be satisfied when they become like Christ, when they have
received Him from you.
Constantly keep thinking of
Christ. Constantly keep talking to
Christ. Constantly keep living for
Christ. The more time you spend with
Him, the more you will be like Him.
I find there are times when I
don’t think of all these things. As I
keep spending the time with Him, I will remember more and more to seek Him.
There are times when the cares
of this life overwhelm us. Sometimes we
just need to get aside and rest, and commune with the Lord. Let thoughts of Jesus Christ crowd out the
cares that overwhelm us. Just know He
will take care of you. He is greater then
the worst of life’s situations. In His
presence is fullness of joy. Let His
love and joy flood your heart. Let His
peace return into your heart. Let His
mind be in you.
Sometimes we may not get a
clear word right away. God wants us to
continue in the last words we have received.
More clear words will come in the future. Do not be in a hurry. Wait for guidance, even
in the little things. God is interested
in guiding you in every part of your life as you prepare for the time of
instant obedience. We are preparing for the greatest battle of all time.
When God speaks we must learn
instant obedience. A prize fighter must
practice and practice. His body must be
well coordinated and respond instantly to his head. If he tells his hands to ball up into a fist
it must be instantaneous, without any delay or he will lose the fight. We must practice and practice. We must learn to hear and obey instantly.
Do not live in fear. Satan will tempt you to fear if he can. When you fear something you are worshipping
it. The only fear we are told to have is
the fear of God. All other fear is of
evil. Fear is faith in reverse: the
thing we fear is thereby established and may cause us to fall.
If you have given all to
follow God; then fear only Him. Nothing
can touch you. Everything must first
pass through God’s hands.
The one who walks the high
road has the protection of psalm 91; he may see a thousand fall at his side and
ten thousand fall at his right hand; but it will not come near him.
We need to learn to rest in
Jesus Christ at all times. Rest in Him;
He will give you understanding of God’s Word.
Rest in Him; He will meet your needs.
Rest in Him; He will solve your problems. Rest in Him; He will be there when you need
fellowship. Rest in Him; He will give
you direction. Regardless of the need
always include Him.
Our minds can not fathom the
wonders of receiving personal guidance from God. The one who created the universe takes time
to be with me. God’s promises to the overcomers
are wonderful beyond all imagination. If
you will apply yourself all will be fulfilled.
There will be problems. There
will be times when you will fall. Always
get up again. No evil can touch the one
on the high road with God.
Seek the Lord early in the
morning. Seek the Lord before the hustle
and bustle can distract you. Seek Him
before you get involved in other things.
Then seek Him for the little things throughout the day.
Many Christians seek fun,
money and all it can buy. They get in trouble. Then they seek God; but the heavens are
brass. They try desperately; but they
can not get through. The carnal mind is
God’s enemy. If you develop the carnal
mind your prayers will be greatly hindered.
The evil days are certainly coming.
You will need the mind of Christ to conquer in those days. This earth will be covered with gross
darkness.
Many Christians (virgins) will
be knocking to get in, in those days; they will be weeping and gnashing their
teeth. They will look for a word from
God; they will find it only with those in
Start walking in the Spirit
now. Keep your mind off earthly
things. Call on the Name of Jesus
Christ. The Name of Jesus is powerful. In the Name of Jesus you can defeat the
tempter. Keep His Name ever before you.
When you go where you should
not; you may not be able to get in the Spirit in time to defeat the
tempter. When your mind is on earthly
things; you’re on Satan’s territory. You
may succumb to temptation before you can get back into the Spirit. Constantly keep working on keeping your mind
in the Spirit. Be ready to call
instantly on the Name of the Lord. Keep
developing your faith. What carnal
Christians would think impossible, you will do right out of your nature. Nothing will be impossible for you.
As you continue on this
journey you will be more and more guided by God. You will be God taught. You will be God guided. You will find it extremely wonderful. You will have perfect peace, joy, and
happiness.
Those who live for themselves
can not even imagine that kind of a life.
This kind of a life is only available to the faithful. You will be walking hand and hand with the
creator of the universe. You will be
fellowshipping with the one who dwells in eternity.
Be faithful in the little
things. Be obedient in the little
things. Keep extending it to bigger
things. Your reward will be great.
The deeper you go in the Lord;
the more you will treat everyone alike.
You will not treat the loving better then the hateful. You will not love the hateful less than the
loving. You will manifest the same
nature as your Father. You must face
many things if you are going to manifest that nature consistently.
The battles we face are often
different than we realize. We look at
the obstacle as our enemy to overcome; but the real enemy is inside us. Defeat the self life and you can defeat
anything. When you pray earnestly and
still seem to lose the battle; you may still be winning over the self
life. We must learn to trust God to
finish the work that He started.
Learn quickly so you do not
need to take the lesson over and over again.
God will take us to His standard.
Be perfect as the Father. Jesus
reveals to us in Luke 11: 36, “That the light in us can be so that no part is
dark that is God’s standard.”
Jesus told John in the
Revelation that, “He that overcomes will receive a name that no one knows
except he that receives it.” As you move
in obedience to all God tells you; you will come to a place where you become so
one with the Lord you can not even explain it to one who has not received
it. Your bond with the Lord will be
greater than any other bond on earth.
When you were born again, your
spirit became one with God. As you work
out the salvation of the soul, it also is becoming one with the Father. Your spirit already has God’s nature. Your soul is receiving God’s nature. As you behold the face of the Father; your
soul receives His nature; you are receiving God’s mark in your forehead.
The tie between husband and
wife illustrates the tie between us and Christ.
The tie between us and Christ is far deeper than between husband and
wife. Our tie to Christ is not based on
law; but on having the same nature.
Because we have the same nature we will never want a divorce.
The oneness between us and
Christ is for eternity. No death can
ever separate us from Christ. It is the
same oneness found in the God head.
Constantly keep working on the
salvation of the soul. First give God
our selves, then our time, money, even everything we have and are. The price you pay is well worth the
reward. If you seek the very best that
this world has to offer, you will have them for a hundred years at the
most. When they are gone you will have
nothing. If you reach for the best God
has to offer; you will have them forever.
A close relationship with
Jesus is forever. Perfect peace, joy,
and happiness in Christ are forever.
They are so superior to anything this world has to offer, there is no
comparison. Why would you sacrifice the
best of eternity for a piece of this world?
When men try to gain wealth
and security, they get a job that pays well.
They put as much as they can in the bank. They invest in things that increase in value
or depreciate slowly. They try to buy
low and sell high. The problem with that
method is that their wealth is only as secure as they can make it. If money fails or investments collapse
everything is lost.
God says, “Look to me for your
wealth and security. Take the job that I
supply. When the money comes in use it
as much as possible to build My Kingdom.
As you use it on the kingdom He replaces it with more. God promises to supply all the needs of one
who only seeks to build His Kingdom.
When God says, “If you seek My
Kingdom, I will meet your need;” it is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away
than for His Word to fail. If you do
what He says, He can not fail to meet your needs. Your security is as sure as God Himself.
We never have to guess at what
is the proper way to walk. We have
instruction from the Bible we can read it every day. We have the Holy Spirit to interpret the Word
of God and to guide us in the way. We
can get deeply acquainted with both by waiting on God in the morning and
reading His Word. With diligence and
practice we will receive all we need to walk the high road.
We need to keep very close to
the Spirit. If we get very far away from
Him we will be attacked by Satan.
Sometimes a magazine, a news paper, a catalog, or some other program
will attract us away from the presence of God; then we will become vulnerable
to attack by Satan; as simple a thing as sorting through the mail will
sometimes do it.
We must very consistently walk
with God. It is very easy to slip
up. If you get very far from God you may
not be able to get back in time to avoid sin.
Everyone seems to have sins that easily beset them. If you have trouble with besetting sins stay
very close to the Lord. Do not leave
yourself vulnerable to Satan’s darts.
Keep examining yourself to see what is tripping you up.
If you are not at the place
where you sense the presence of God on a regular bases you must correct that
first. Start by setting a time aside to
regularly meet with God. As you grow
keep increasing the time spent with God.
Make sure it is quality time. In
any combination you feel to do it: Read the Bible, read books written by
faithful men of God, pray what is on your heart. Listen to what God tells you, and meditate on
His Word. You may also praise, worship,
and have communion. As God puts His
finger on a problem in your life do what He says.
As you continue to increase
quality time with God you will more and more sense His presence. You now are ready to start conquering your
besetting sins. You will never conquer
them through your own effort or will power.
The power to conquer besetting sins will come from God’s nature within
you. Romans chapter 7 tells us what
happens when we try to do it through the mind or will power; but Romans chapter
8 tells us to do it by walking in the Spirit.
The release of God’s nature
from within requires us to spend much time with God. Stay as close to the Lord as you can. If you find yourself at a distance from the
Lord get back immediately, this will require some practice. With time and God’s help you can master it. With practice you will begin to master your
besetting sins.
When there is a natural
disaster you see many Christians flocking to help, and so they should; but you
never hear the end of it. They prove
that they are doing it to be seen of men.
My brethren do your benevolent works in secret let God reward you at the
proper time.
Do not seek honor from men;
seek the honor that comes from God only.
If you seek the honor that comes from God only; you will be walking in
truth and can not be deceived. If you
seek man’s honor they will receive and speak highly of you; but if you choose
to follow Jesus wherever He goes you will be persecuted by your brethren. Your wayward brethren will reject you. If they called Jesus a wine bibber and a
glutton don’t expect them to treat you differently. Your life will bring conviction on them. Either they must change or attack you. Most would rather attack you.
Many of your brethren are all
bound up in sports, movies, sitcoms, magazines, news papers, fashions,
televisions, and other things. They do
not believe you can follow Christ wherever He goes. Peter says in 1 Peter 4:4, “They think it
strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot.” They do not even realize they are in
apostasy. Much of the Word of God that
they believe in has been adulterated by Demons.
If they would fall in love with the truth the demons would not be able to
deceive them so.
These things I believe have
been taught to me by God. God wants to
give us abundant life spirit, soul, and body.
People say yes, “I believe God can heal,” but; just in case He does not
I have insurance and a doctor. For the
mind they go to a psychiatrist. For the
truth they listen to a preacher teach an adulterated word. They do little to hear what God is
saying. Forty and fifty years they are
still babies. If someone teaches a true
word from God they reject it as false teaching.
Jesus said, “I came in my
Father’s name and you receive me not; if another comes in his own name him you
will receive.” Many Evangelists and
pastors come in their own nature. They teach
a word they came up with in their own studies.
They believe only in their own interpretation. They do not believe that anyone today can get
the true Word of God only. So they give
their own interpretation which has no power to change a life. Every effort they make to revive their
congregations fails. If they had no confidence
in the flesh; but only confidence in God; they would see God do what they can
not do.
A man comes speaking only the
Words of Eternal life and they reject it; yet these words have the power to
change all who will receive them. They
can not believe the truth because they receive honor from one another. Receive honor only from God and you will not
be able to be deceived. When a person
receives honor from men it causes many errors in their beliefs. Those who receive honor from men can not
believe the truth.
Do not receive honor from
men. Man’s honor is worthless. Consider honor from men an abomination; abhor
it; flee from it; treat it as a poison serpent; it will destroy everything you
worked so hard for. If you on the other
hand you seek only God’s honor it will restore everything.
Whether someone speaks well or
evil of you do not receive it. Receive
only what God says about you. While
man’s opinion is worthless; yet God’s honor is absolutely priceless and is of
great power.
False teaching is often
revealed by the need to protect it.
God’s word protects itself.
Another thing that reveals it is that it can not be absolutely
proven. God’s Word is always in harmony
with the rest of what it says and thus proves itself. Anything you need to protect is not of God;
whatever is of God, God himself will protect it.
You notice I have spent little
time proving what I say; I could prove it but I am writing to sheep who already
know God’s voice. God will teach the
sheep Himself. If I tried to prove it to
those who receive honor from men; they would not believe no matter how much
proof you used; they can not receive the truth.
They are going to believe their own doctrine even if they have no proof
at all.
Nevertheless they are still my
brethren and I will receive them error and all.
I love my brethren I just wish I knew how to free them from their
bondages. I certainly am not better than
they are. I thank God for all that He
rescued me from and He will rescue me from all the rest of my bondages.
Never consider yourself better
than your brethren. Never brush them
off. Be concerned for them. Save as many of them from the fire coming on
the earth as possible. Soon the earth
will burn with the lusts of the flesh as an oven. Already some of the people are in the
fire. If God did not hold it back, the
earth would have turned into an oven already years ago. If God’s kingdom is going to stand, then God
has to have a people who can stand first.
Only those who can not be pried away from God’s side will stand in that
day.
Jesus said, “If they have
received me they will receive you; if they have rejected me they will reject
you.” I can tell what a person does with
Jesus by what they do with me. If you
are fully surrendered to Jesus you will also know the same thing.
Jesus says, “Whatever you do
to the least of His brethren you do it to Him.”
If you exclude a brother because you disagree with him; Jesus will do
the same thing to you. James and John
forbade a man from casting out demons in Jesus’ name; Jesus said, “Forbid him
not for who ever is not against us is for us.”
This principle is violated by
churches everywhere. If one disagrees
with them they forbid him to speak. Be
careful; whatever you mete out to another will be meted back to you. Such churches have little power in the
Spirit.
The word preached there has
been developed by human minds. They
control their people by rules and regulations.
The measure they meted out to others has already in part returned to
them; the real sheep will not listen to them; the real sheep only listen to the
master’s voice.
People do not know what is
motivating them. Sometimes the easiest
way to see is to use an extreme case.
Where are you the most comfortable: around the people of God or a night
club, around the rich or the poor? The
spirits in your life are the most comfortable around their own kind. Are you more comfortable watching a
television set or in church? Holy
spirits like holy surroundings; evil spirits like evil surroundings. This way you can see where you are.
Do not let the demons turn the
Word of God into a doctrine of demons for you.
If you fall in love with the truth, they will not be able to do it. Determine to do all that He tells you. Any doctrine of demons you already have will
be exposed and you will be able to get rid of it. As you get free from your bondages you will
be able to help your brethren get rid of their bondages.
Jesus is longing for a people
who will trust Him. Trust Him to lead
you out of corruption, bondage, darkness, disorder, deception, and any other
sin. There are no sins He can not
deliver you from. The steps of a good
man are ordered of the Lord. Let Him
order your steps.
Jesus spoke many things in
principles. Example: “I came not to call
the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
If you think you are pretty good or alright; you may have already cut
yourself off from receiving much help from God.
God can only rescue the lost. He
can only forgive sinners. He can only
heal the sick.
Jesus said, “If you were blind
you should have no sin; but now you say we see therefore your sin
remains.” If you think you see even when
you are blind; you will become responsible even for unknown faults. Be humble.
When you are blind admit it. Let
Jesus open your eyes. Humility will move
the hand of God. Pride will stop Him
from doing His work in you.
If you want deliverance, be
humble. Admit your faults. If you find weaknesses in your life; make no
excuse for it. Always admit you are
weak. Always confess your sins; but in
doctrine be perfect. Whenever you see a
defect in your doctrine; as soon as you can prove it change to what God says.
In the parable of the sower,
Jesus illustrates to us four kinds of hearts: hard hearts, shallow preparation,
thorny, and well prepared. To receive
God’s Word; our hearts must be prepared.
A hard heart will make the Word ineffective and Satan will remove the
word. Many Christians live every day
this way. Unless you can succeed in
getting them under conviction you will never get a word into them.
Some have a little
preparation, but; there is a hardpan underneath. They gladly receive the Word of God, but with
little preparation. Under testing they
will fall away. Prepare your soil deep
to avoid this pitfall. Some are better
prepared but they are caught up in the things of this world; their Christian
life will be stunted at best. To be one
hundred percent fruitful, be fully prepared.
Spare no needed preparation.
Soil preparation takes time
and work. You will not succeed if you
are lazy or overly busy. All spiritual
things are done in obedience to the leading of the Spirit. You must be diligent; but don’t try it in
your own way. The best way is when God
speaks, do it.
In order to be able to do all,
that God tells us, we need much preparation of the soul and heart. To do the will of God we need the faith to
receive His supply. Unlike the natural
world, God’s supply is always with us.
It takes faith to reach out and take them. God loves to supply our need. God longs to supply our need.
Jesus said, “All power is
given unto Him in heaven and earth; lo I am with you always even unto the ends
of the earth.” With Jesus in us we have
all that we need. We have perfect
supply, perfect love, perfect strength, perfect understanding, perfect wisdom,
perfect patience, and etc. We must learn
to believe what He says. Without faith
we will see none of these things. Reach
out and take them.
God is grieved that He has so
few who will reach out and take them.
God’s people live in the midst of plenty; yet they are poverty
stricken. God’s people live after the
flesh; then have no faith to receive God’s supply.
They would receive all that
God would give them if they could consume it on their flesh. Everything they do is for comfort, lust, to
please the eye, and for the approval of man.
The flesh and the carnal mind
have no faith to receive from God. Some
of God’s people love to serve God; but they do everything according to the
dictates of their carnal mind. They have
no faith to receive the needed supplies from God. Their work is ineffective because it is out
of order. They do not even know what the
will of God is.
The spiritual man spends much
time with God. He knows what God
says. He reaches out and receives
it. He has no need because he receives
of God’s endless supply. God’s supply is
without limit to the man of faith. He
walks with God. He is obedient to His
Word. He only does God’s will. He never goes his own way. He will go with God even into death.
Spend time with God till it is
no longer you doing it. God will supply
your every need. He will give you faith
in place of doubt and fear. He will give
you love in place of hate. He will give
you light in place of darkness. He will
give you forgiveness in place of bitterness and resentment. He will give you strength in place of
weakness.
He will give you wealth in
place of poverty. He will give you
healing in place of sickness. He will
give you security where there is danger; peace in place of unrest. Whatever your need He will supply it. With Jesus there is always plenty, all you
need is faith. He told the Corintians
that “All things are yours.” In Him
there is no limit. We are His only
limit. Where is your faith?
In examining yourself use only
this standard: “Be ye perfect as the Father”.
Do not look at anyone else. Use
only the perfect standard. Wherever you
see a lack, start believing God to correct it, to meet the need. He is able and willing to supply all your
need.
God is even now beginning to
raise a whole company of people who will believe all that He says. Will you be in that company? If you think this is too much for you, you
are looking at yourself. Do not look at
yourself; you can not do it. Look at
God. He alone can do it.
Do not be like the ten spies
whom God slew. Be like the two spies who
went in and possessed the land. The ones
who endure to the end will be saved.
They will possess the land.
Spend time with God till you
know what He is saying. Hold on to what
He says till you receive. It may look
like you are in great danger; but if He said it He will do it. Do not look at the giants. Look at God; and they will be bread for you.
God gave His Son for you that
you might have eternal life; He gave you His own life. How can you just ignore it? How can you just live in poverty? God’s supply is always before you; yet almost
all Christians live in poverty; why would they do that?
The saddest thing Jesus has to
face is that His people refuse His gift.
They would rather have the garbage spewed out by
They listen to the poison of
Satan rather than the voice of Jesus Christ.
They change the words “the perfection of the Father” to maturity. They change “the fear of the Lord” to
reverence or awe. I am not sure what
they think “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ is?” With their mind on the flesh no wonder they
can not believe.
Just as one child serves his
father with joy, and another child must be forced; so in this last day God will
have to take the rebellious children through the fire in order to save
them. He loves them too much to let them
go. Some must be saved so as by
fire. Why not serve Him with joy? Why not live with the satisfaction of knowing
you please God?
Will you look at God and
believe in His power? Will you look in
your self and be filled with unbelief?
Your defects will not stop the power of God. The only thing that will stop God’s power is
your unbelief. If you will believe, God
can not fail. We will be changed from
glory to glory by looking in God’s face.
No books of fiction can change
you. The very words of Jesus Christ will
change you. When Jesus speaks not even a
period at the end of the sentence will fail; all will come to pass. You will never believe what He says with your
carnal mind. As you spend time with Him
faith will come right out of your new nature.
You must realize also that your minds fantasy is also fiction and is
powerless.
What ever you do at home or on
the job, keep your mind on heavenly things.
The carnal mind has no power to believe God. Our minds must be renewed in the image of
God. Our minds must be transformed; then
they will believe. Do not be discouraged
when it doesn’t happen right away; we must endure unto the end.
When we have a people who
believe all that God says: They will bring Jesus back and this world to a
close. This can not be done by a people
operating in their carnal mind. Faith
will come through trouble and communion with God.
Look around you. See a world in deep trouble. The world needs a savior. Even the people of God live in stark poverty;
they need to come out of the pig pen and return to the Father.
Look at your future. Communion with God and trouble will produce
riches beyond anything you can comprehend.
If you are walking the high
road, Jesus is filtering everything that comes at you; he knows just what we
need to perfect us. A light bulb may
burn out. An appliance may need
repair. You may have a flat tire. Any number of little things may go
wrong. All these things pass through His
hands, never too many, just the right amount.
Jesus allows only just the right things needed to change us into His
likeness. Respond to trouble with praise
and thanksgiving; value it very highly.
We must set our affection on
things above. We must not let the
earthly things to take precedent in our lives.
Look at the unseen things that will last forever. The earthly things are only for a short
time. The earthly things can not meet
your real need.
If we knew the value of trouble
we would jump up and down for joy for the privilege. The end result is better than the finest
gold. Do not look at the trouble look at
the joy set before you.
God knows that we need food,
clothing, transportation, housing, and etc.
Set your affection on the heavenly things and God will supply the
earthly needs also.
The smelter is less concerned
about the fire than the refined metal.
God is in charge of the fire. We
need to joy at the coming refinement. If
you new even a little of the things God has in store for you, you could not
wait for the next trial. Receive
everything He provides with thanksgiving and contentment.
Each trial is miniscule
compared to the immense value of what it produces. When we go after the material things they
crowd out spiritual things of immense value.
All the things of the world are very meager to one eternal
possession. When you begin to really
value the eternal riches, it begins to seem strange to see one go after the
earthly riches.
When you go after the earthly
things, you will never get enough.
Someone ask John Rockefeller, “How much is enough?” He said, “Just a little bit more.” No matter how much you get it is never enough. For the spiritual man what God gives is
always enough. Any man whatever his
possessions if he hangs on to them tightly is like a rich man. Hang on to them tightly and you are poor.
Jesus said of the earthly rich
it is hard for them to enter the
See God’s supply as your blood
supply. If your finger would hang on to
the blood that flowed into it; it would swell up and die. The oxygen would soon be gone. If it allows the same amount of blood to flow
out as flows in; it gets enough oxygen and nutrients to remain healthy.
So give as the Lord has
prospered you; the more you give the more room you have to receive. If you are having trouble receiving from God;
you may have too much; so give something away.
Make room for God’s supply. If
you are hoarding things up you will be poisoned by the very things meant to
give you life.
If we are to have life we must
walk in Kingdom principles. Do not do
what is right in your own eyes. Some
think charging a high price will supply their need; but giving things away will
supply their need.
An old preacher friend out of
my past Andrew Jantze used to say of his poverty stricken mother, “When there
was not enough food in the house, she would find a dollar to send to some
missionary”; now that is the kind of faith God will bless.
These are the teachings of
Jesus and they can not fail. The
teachings of Jesus always go against the thinking of the natural mind. Our minds need to be renewed to think like
Jesus.
The circumstances Jesus has
arraigned to change us are infinitely more valuable than all the earthly things
you will ever get. God send everything I
need to prepare me to sit with you on your throne. This is the very most valuable thing I can
think of. I will gladly sacrifice
everything for that privilege.
The most fearful thing I face
would be if God quit sending the things I need to change me. Rejoice exceedingly that God by His mercy and
grace gives us these perfecting troubles.
God’s love is enormous He sends us what we need.
It seems we need to learn that
all the valuable things of God go against our nature. Do not look at the trouble, but at the
result. . Trust your life completely to Him.
He who trusts the Lord has
nothing to worry about. Nothing in God’s
hands can go wrong. The one who trusts
the Lord does not fear poverty; for God supplies his need; he does not fear his
enemies; for God is his defense; he does not fear disease for God is his
health. The One who trusts God is
thankful without an air conditioner even on the hottest days; he is thankful
without a heater even on the coldest days; he has learned to be abased and how
to abound in all circumstances.
What is rich? A man with lots of money and possessions the
world calls rich. A man has deep
relationship to the Lord God calls rich.
The man that spends his time
amassing an earthly fortune is poor indeed; earthly things will have no value
in the judgment.
During “World war two” when
the Nazis invaded France many a rich man would have given his entire fortune
for just enough gas to get to ferry and into England; but their money had
suddenly become worthless and they could not escape.
God’s rich men will use their
money for God’s Kingdom while it still buys things so that when money fails it
will be converted to Eternal Riches. If
you use your money for God’s Kingdom God will supply all your need and you will
always have enough.
A man who thinks his skill and
hard work is his source of support; will have a hard time learning how to
receive God’s supply. It makes no sense
to our natural minds that giving our money away and seeking God’s kingdom is
our source of supply.
Any man going his own way will
not make it into the
Jesus said in Matthew 19 “It
is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man
to enter the kingdom.” Jesus was just
revealing that anyone depending on earthly things will have great difficulty
operating in the heavenly things.
The earthly things and the
heavenly things operate in opposition to each other. The old world and the new world are separated
by a cross. Everything in the old world
must go through the cross to get into the new world. Once a thing has gone through the cross into
the new world it will never come back.
The old creation is headed by
Adam. The new creation is headed by
Jesus Christ. Those in the new creation
can find nothing they want in the old creation.
Those in the old creation can not understand those in the new
creation. Sadly most Christians operate
almost totally in the old creation. Earthly
rich Christians seem to be more taken by the things of this world, they also
have more of it.
I have been to many churches;
I can not say that I have ever seen one elder that was poor. Yet James says, “That they are rich in
faith”. Having their finances together
is more important to most churches than having great faith. Most churches have a materialistic relation
to the Lord; they know very little about true Kingdom living; if they see God
move at all it is usually money, numbers, and large buildings.
The power to bring forth men
of great faith in most churches is sadly lacking; their leaders have been
installed by man’s wisdom and they have a committee for almost every activity
in the church.
In a spiritual church God
supplies the wisdom, the leaders, and the direction. Every action is a co-operation between God
and man. In the old creation you get
security through wealth, insurance, a strong nation, and other earthly
things. In the new creation we get our
security by giving our money to wherever God tells us and by seeking His
kingdom with all our hearts.
The new creation will never
make sense to one in the old creation.
If what I said does not make sense to you, you are operating in the old
world. Jesus said to the rich young
ruler, “Sell all you have give it to the poor and you shall have treasure in
heaven.” It is not the selling all you
have and giving it to the poor; but doing what Jesus’ says, that will give you
treasure in heaven.
Jesus is in the process of
making all things new. We need to do
what Jesus says to be made new. To enter
into the new creation, our security must be in Jesus and what He says. All earthly security will fail. Those trusting in earthly things can not
trust in Christ also. Jesus will make
all things new only in those whose trust is in Him.
When we were born again our
spirits were made new; our spirits entered the new creation where Jesus is the
head. Now the battle is for the renewing
of the mind. We need to trust the
keeping of our souls to Jesus as a faithful creator; He will recreate our souls
in His own image and when the process is complete truly His Name will be in our
foreheads.
At the present time our souls
are in the old creation. As we take up
our crosses and follow Jesus; our souls will little by little be changed into
His image. Everything in the old
creation must go through the cross to get into the new creation.
The old and new creations are
two worlds separated by a cross. Nothing
in the old creation can get into the new creation without going through the
cross. This is why we should jump up and
down at the privilege of suffering for the cause of Christ. Great is your reward in heaven.
The cross is the instrument of
judgment. The cross both cleanses and
perfects; all things must go through the cross.
Everyone must go to the cross.
Why not go to the cross now and get the reward; why wait to be taken by
force later?
There is a joy which will
survive even the heaviest cross. Develop
the joy of the Lord in the small crosses now; later even the heaviest cross
will not crush it. There are immense
problems coming in the days ahead; the problems of today will seem small indeed
compared to them.
In the book of Hebrews it
says, “Jesus learned obedience through suffering.” If the holy Christ had to suffer to learn
obedience; certainly we sinners need to suffer to learn obedience.
The things we learn through
suffering are of immense eternal value.
These things can be very valuable now also. The Holy Spirit will use these things to help
us minister to other people in need.
Learn from every experience; do not let them go to waste.
Our suffering will also help
to fill up the cup of suffering for the church.
When we suffer for Christ’s sake we can draw on that suffering to help
others. Because of the suffering Jesus
did we are saved. We may not be able
save anyone like He did; but we can draw on that suffering for other’s
needs. Our suffering will produce
strength from us to where they are weak.
We draw on the strength produced in us to help them. They also have strength to help us where we
are weak.
Be wary of a cheap
gospel. A cheap gospel will do little to
change your life. A cheap gospel will do
little to prepare you to change other lives.
Life changes require suffering in obedience to the Holy Spirit. Even if you are in the lowest hell God will
deliver you. God is willing and able to
take you to the highest heaven. God is
greatly desirous to take you to the highest heaven.
There is nothing He can not do
for you; first find out what God said; next test it to make sure God said it; next
stand on it even if it takes your life.
No matter what comes against you, stand; they can not take your life
till God delivers you into their hands.
He that endures to the end will be saved (they will see the fulfillment
of God’s word.)
If you would like to reign
with Christ you must do His will. If you
want to reign with Christ you must not do your own will. A good soldier does not do his own will. A good soldier obeys his commanding officer; he
is willing to endure hard things to win the victory. Do not expect me to soften this message. I will not teach a cheap gospel. If I cheapen the gospel I may be able to add
more people to accept my teaching; but the power of God will be gone. God’s power operates only in pure truth; the
least little contamination and His power will cease to operate.
If we are going to deliver
this world back to God; it is going to require the utmost obedience to the
leading of the Lord. Jesus has prepared
the way to conquer this world; He made it possible for us to do it. I admit it looks impossible for us to conquer
this world; but in Christ all things are possible. Jesus is only looking for a believing
obedient people. God said, “You subdue
this earth;” look to God to supply the need.
Set your face like a flint to conquer this world and put it back into
God’s hands.
Though the way may seem hard
at times; Jesus is there. All the trials
and troubles can only do the will of God in our lives. We have a great advantage over a natural
army; Jesus is always with us. We can
always call on Jesus no matter what the need.
When you have a problem you may not see Him working; but believe He is
working in the problem anyway.
Always remember: “Jesus
Saves.” “Jesus Keeps.” “Jesus Delivers.” Face every problem with full confidence; you
can not be defeated. Only if you do not
believe can you be defeated.
Do not be turned aside by any
ones unbelief. Do not be turned aside by
problems. Do not fear anyone or
anything. Do not let any earthly
affection or desire to turn you aside.
In Christ nothing can stop you.
Though it is true no one but
Jesus has made it before; yet God will definitely take some through even fully
into the kingdom in the near future. To
win this war God may have to weaken us; we may even despair of life it self. If you find yourself in that condition;
believe God knows what He is doing.
We must absolutely see that
God is doing the changing not us. God
will not let us do the changing on our own.
We will be changed in God’s way and His way alone; we must however be
yoked with Him and do our part.
Do not look inside for
strength, wisdom, or any other ability it will not be there; look to God. He has all the ability and supply we need; He
will never fall short. God can not
fail. He wants us to believe for what we
need. He wants to provide through us; He
has the power and will to do it through us; He will do it only if we believe.
God will not do our work, we
can not do His work; but if we take His yoke upon us, together we will do
it. We are responsible only to do what God
says; He is responsible to give us guidance and to supply our need. God will not fail, He can not fail. If you spend enough time with God you will
believe. If you do not spend enough time
with God you can not believe.
When I sin I must confess it
and repent quickly; my grief must be short; too much confessing and grieving
will only hold me back.
I have a job to do; too much
time on my sin will keep me from having the faith to do my job. I must allow no sin or weight to hold me
back. Anytime our attention is drawn
from Jesus Christ it will hold us back.
Be aware of Satan’s tactics; he
will do anything he can to stop or at least delay us from doing God’s
will. First he tempts us to sin; when we
sin he tries to convince us that it was only a mistake; if we recognize our sin
and repent; than he tries to keep us in remorse. He tries to convince us we are not worthy to
spread the gospel.
It is necessary for us to see
our sin, to confess, to sorrow, to repent; but not to linger there to
long. Allow no sin or weight to hold you
back. We will win this race. Run hand in hand with Jesus Christ your
friend and guide. Do not dwell on the
past. Do not let the past rob you of
your faith. You will not be able to do
what God wants you to do today if you get side tracked.
You may see what Jesus says
and try to do it and when it does not come to pass immediately you may get
discouraged. God’s promises are not to
the carnal mind; don’t get discouraged spend
time with God till you have the faith.
Someone new in the faith may
receive a gift of faith from God; but God may require you to have your own
faith. For faith to come out of your own
nature requires you to pay the price.
Never look for a cheap gospel.
You can not walk the high road with a cheap gospel.
When we go our own way instead
of walking in the Spirit; we substitute earthly things in place of the
heavenly.
To walk God’s way requires a
high price; but the value of what you receive far out weighs the price.
29.
Forgiveness
Jesus said, “When you pray,
forgive”; we look at that statement and say yes, “We must forgive”; but to
truly forgive can be a very evasive thing.
Many things are said about
forgiveness:
For God to hear our prayer;
for God to forgive us; to keep us from the tormentors (peace of mind); power
over the enemy; and there are many other things that could be added I’m sure.
As young Christians we choose
to forgive; but the problem keeps staring us in the face; so we forgive again,
only to have it stare back at us again.
As young Christians we know little about how to really forgive; so we
can only at first forgive by faith.
There are different levels of
faith according to the level of our walk with God; when God says forgive and we
try to do it, that is an elementary level of faith; if that is where you are
now God will accept you at that level for this Day of Grace; but God will
require actual forgiveness in the Day of Judgment.
Another problem with that kind
of forgiveness is that it only puts self in prison; an imprisoned self is much
more dangerous than it was before it always finds a way to escape; self has got
to be destroyed.
The Faith to actually forgive
will come forth out of the Life of God within you. How can that Life of God be activated to
produce real Forgiveness? The Life of
God within you can not work while self is on the throne; for God’s Life to work
self must be destroyed.
Jesus said, “If any man will
come after me: let him deny himself; take up his cross; and follow me.” Jesus gave us a cross on which we can crucify
the flesh (self). Crucify the flesh.
Deny yourself. Let the very Life of God
come forth and then you can really forgive.
When you have forgiven someone
and it rears its head back up; just say, that is self and it must die; but
remember that with every death blow you must replace it with God’s Life or it
will only return in another form. Destroy
self by spending time with God and than there will be no vacuum; either your
life will contain the old self (old man), or the New Self (New man).
God is Love; just as God is
Love, so God is forgiveness; therefore put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no
provision for the flesh. Remember, in
the day of shaking only what can not be shaken (Jesus) will remain.
In Isaiah 35 it says “There is
a highway of holiness. Only the redeemed
may walk there. No evil spirit may walk
there. We may walk there; but only if we
believe. Though our hearts are like
deserts; it says the desert shall rejoice and blossom as a rose.
Allegorically this passage of
scripture speaks of God’s people though in spiritual poverty; when they begin
to believe all that God says; will come to a place of blessing they know almost
nothing about today. When God’s people
begin to believe all God says; they will have strong hands to do God’s will;
and strong knees to go where He says to go.
They will attack the enemy without fear.
God will come with strong
deliverance. The blind will be healed spirit,
soul, and body. The deaf will hear. The lame will leap like a deer. The dumb will speak and even sing. And the supply of the Spirit will break forth
like a stream in the desert. There will
be no shortage for any need.
Those living an unclean life can
not walk the high road. If you are a
fool you are excluded. If you make for
yourself a home on earth you are excluded.
It is only for the wayfaring on earth.
It is for those who are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who look for a city with
foundations whose builder and maker is God.
No devil, demon, or flesh
nature will be allowed on this highway.
This highway (which this whole book is about) will be filled with people
who trust God in all circumstances.
These people will rejoice and be glad in all circumstances till God
finally removes all the adverse circumstances.
Zephaniah 2: 3; Isaiah 26:20, 21;
Psalm 31: 20; all three talk about being hid in the day of the Lord’s
anger. How are we hid in the day of the Lord’s
anger? Psalm 91 says, “In the secret
place of the most high.” “A thousand
shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it will not come
near you.”
Just like Jesus walked among
His enemies and always escaped till the time appointed of the Father; so we
also shall escape till the time appointed of the Father. How can a person have greater protection than
the Father Himself? Though the whole
world comes against you they can not defeat the Father. With the Father before you nothing can come
against you; now that is safety that can not be provided by anything of this
world.
Matthew 28: 19, 20, Jesus
said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth….. Lo I am with you
always even unto the end of the world.”
With that kind of security we can not be overcome.
As we grow in faith we draw
closer to God we realize more and more that we fall short of perfect
faith. We are humbled by how much faith
we are still lacking. We must grow more
and more in faith. As our faith grows
more and more, do not let Satan turn it into pride. He will say, “Look how great faith you have.”
Do not compare yourself with
others; it will make you proud. Pride
will cause you to fall. Compare yourself
with Jesus Christ; that should humble you.
If people praise you do not receive it.
If people condemn you do not receive it.
People’s opinions are worthless.
What does God say about you? What
God says is of utmost importance.
Pride turned the great and
mighty Lucifer into the evil Satan.
Pride is the deadly poison the fangs of Satan inject into your blood
stream; all that are bitten of that snake will die unless rescued by the Holy
Son of God.
Jesus is the only source of
humility. We can not make ourselves
humble. We can humble ourselves and look
to Him to turn it into humility. Pride
can reveal itself in very subtle ways: embarrassment, self abasement,
introversion, extroversion, and many other forms of pride.
When you admit your own
inability and look to God’s ability that is humility. When you do with what He says instead of what
you think that is humility. We must be
yoked together with the humble Saviour.
When we work in union with Him that is humility. As we grow in faith there is a danger we may
use faith to build our own kingdom instead of His Kingdom. Humility will help us to avoid that pitfall.
Satan has no body to work
with; his only means of working is by faith.
Satan only builds his own kingdom never God’s Kingdom. A case in point: When God told Satan he could
attack Job and Satan acted on it that was faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
word of God. Satan had received a word
from God, and when Satan attacked Job he did it by faith.
Many great men started out
building the
In the world if they want to
see how the economy will be in the near future they look at the
indicators. One of the economic
indicators is the consumer confidence report.
When confidence is high people buy lots of products; manufacturers make
lots of products; then the economy gets strong.
When consumer confidence is low; they buy less and the economy weakens.
This is very different from
the
Those who have their
confidence in the economy will be in bad shape.
The economy of the entire world will fail and never recover until God
rules. Then it will be God’s economy not
the worlds. If we have learned to put
our confidence in God; no matter what happens our future is secure.
God loves us immensely; but if
we live after the flesh we will die. He
loved Adam and Eve as much as anybody; but when they sinned He put them out of
the garden anyway.
People think that because they
are Christians that will protect them; John the Baptist said, “Say not we have
Abraham to our father; God is able of these stones to raise up children to
Abraham.” You may be a Christian; but that
will not keep you from the wrath to come.
If you want to escape the wrath to come you must do what God says. The Day of Judgment is to judge your works
not your new birth. If your works are
ungodly in the Day of Judgment they will burn whether you are saved or not 1
Corinthians 3.
God is going to remove the
restrainer some day soon, and those who live after the flesh will in that day
cry out in pain. God loves His wayward
people to much to lose them so if He can not get them to surrender now He will
save them so as by fire.
If you are a Christian and
live after the flesh; God has a day planned when all that flesh life will be
burned up; do not be foolish deal with the flesh life now.
If you are unsure, timid, or
unwilling to deal with the flesh; I assure you it will not be unsure, timid or
unwilling in dealing with you. The flesh
is deadly serious about destroying you.
If you do not take up your cross and destroy the flesh life you will
have no excuse in that day.
I can not tell you to get rid
of your television set, luxuries, or any other weights in your life; but I
believe you will be much better off if you do.
These are the things that are holding you back.
I do not intend to make laws
or rules for you to follow. I only
intend to show you how to win the prize.
Jesus said, “My sheep hear my
voice and another will they not follow.”
Jesus reveals that to be God’s sheep you will be taught of God. When God teaches you it will agree with all
the Word of God. When God teaches you it
will agree with what He teaches everyone else.
Jesus also says, “That many
walk the broad road to destruction; but few walk the narrow road to life. In the narrow road there is only room for
God’s teaching; but in the broad road you can have non essential doctrine. In the narrow road all doctrine is essential;
but in the broad road you have to agree only on so called essential doctrine.
You can get the perfect Word
from God Himself. Since the perfect word
of God is available to all His people you will have no excuse if you fail to
get it.
Some people will hang on to
doctrine even after it is proven to them to be error. If you are going to get to your destination
all doctrine must be perfect. You must
have your plane in perfect condition; full of fuel, the right flight plan,
follow the right beacons, go in the right direction, land at the right
airport. Landing just a thousand feet
short of the run way will lead to catastrophic disaster.
Why are people careless about
eternal things when they would never be careless about the things of this
world? People would not even get on a
plane if the flight plan was for the middle of the ocean.
The children of the Kingdom
seem to lack greatly in wisdom. They get
on a spiritual plane even though the flight plan ends in the middle of a huge
fire.
When I was a young man I
joined a church who thought they were the only true literal church. When I was in that church a short time my
mind became greatly agitated. One of the
women there asked me one day, “Did you notice how Satan comes against your mind
in this church?” I said, “Yes I noticed
that.”
God was merciful and delivered
out of that church a few months later.
When I came out I felt like I had just come off a rough ocean into a
peaceful bay. That experience taught me the value of peace of mind in all
things.
Any doctrine that masquerades
itself as though it came from God will be rejected as soon as I see it disrupts
my peace. No matter who speaks what ever
doctrine, I never worry about being deceived; I only recognize the Master’s
voice.
Many Christian teachers not only
believe false teaching; but teach it to others.
They will be judged for their wrong beliefs and also for leading others
astray.
Those who are depending on the
righteousness of Jesus Christ to protect them will discover it was only for the
day of Grace. God is going to have a
people who will have judged themselves; they will be holy and without blame
before God. Many people will have wasted
away the Day of Grace.
If you are a young Christian
you must follow someone for a time; but any man that does not point you
directly to Jesus Christ must not be followed.
He himself is on the broad road to destruction; if you follow him you
will go where he goes.
The writer of the book of
Hebrews says in chapter 6, “Follow those who through faith and patience inherit
the promises.” Do not take chances with
your soul. When you get to hear and know
the voice of God; you must be weaned off men little by little.
Never rebel against a leader;
but only to follow the greater voice of God. The rebellious also are rebelling
against God.
According Ephesians 4, leaders
are here only till the perfect comes.
Those who follow God already have the perfect leader. Only those who follow the Lord are able to
walk in perfect harmony with each other.
Those who know God’s voice
will quickly detect strange teaching and avoid it. While the word that God speaks to them may be
different than what God says to another it will always harmonize with the
other. Any works done in obedience to
God will always harmonize with the works of others done in obedience to God.
Some teachers think they have
the best word available so they set up Bible training centers to teach it; but
what they should teach most of all is how to hear from God. They usually teach what God said years ago;
an up to date Word from God is missing.
Only those who hear from God can walk the narrow road. Only those who hear from God can walk in
harmony with their brothers.
People who walk with God can
not be put under law it would only hold them back. Pastors who try to keep their people under
law or under their control do not know what spirit they are of. They will only stunt the people’s growth;
they are both walking the broad road to destruction. Such churches have little or no power. Nevertheless people seem to be satisfied with
a powerless gospel.
If you are tired of a
powerless gospel and want to know the truth; spend time with the one who is the
truth. Jesus said, “I am the way, the
truth, and the life.” That Way has no
error in it. You will not even fall one
foot short of your destination. The Word
taught by Jesus will contain no errors.
The Life God has prepared for us in Christ is perfect and eternal. Why would anyone want anything else?
These things can not be found
in any concordance, commentary, help, or book; but only in Jesus Christ. Just as each muscle in your body needs a
fresh word from the head to know how to operate; so you also need a fresh word
from your Head. Jesus has the Fresh Word
for you, just the perfect Word for the place you are in right now; if your mind
told your foot to take a step; but you took it ten minutes after you went to
bed, that would be foolish.
Yesterday’s word was good for
those back then; but today it is full of worms.
If you are going to put your hands to the plow you must not look back.
The one job of a good teacher
is to get you to learn how to hear from God.
Until you learn how to hear from God you can not do what He says. When you hear what God says do it right
away. Doing God’s will right away will
help you to hear even better. Until you
hear and do God’s will no real work for God can be done.
People live on various levels
with God; from the law and flesh levels to walking in the Spirit. Walking on the flesh level you can do outward
physical work for God; but real spiritual work can only be done by walking in
the Spirit; flesh work is never eternal.
Most of God’s people are
satisfied with fleshy things as long as they make it into heaven. Such people will have almost all their works
burned up in the judgment. They are
still God’s people; but God must save them so as by fire.
Jesus told the rich young
ruler to have eternal life you need to keep the commandments; but to be perfect
you need to sell all and follow Him.
Many of God’s people have only a law relationship with Him. At some point in time those with law
relationships will have to be born again.
Many others are already born
again; but living after the flesh. Paul
says, If you live after the flesh you will die.
The best way to obey God is to walk in the Spirit. Live in true sonship; obey the voice of the
Father.
God has given us everything we
need to prepare; but if you do not believe, it will all be to none effect. Only believers will be prepared for that
day. One thing that marks God’s sheep is
that they are all believers.
People think that being born
again and being believers is the same thing; they are the same only as far as
they believe what God says. The new
birth takes place in your spirit; it is when your spirit takes on God’s nature
and becomes one with Him. A person is a
believer to the extent he believes what God says.
The Israelites were God’s
people and when they believed and did what God said; God made them to prosper;
but when they turned to idols they were unbelievers and God punished them. If you do not like something God says in the
Bible; you may be one of God’s people; but in that place you are an unbeliever
and serving an idol. Do not expect God
to treat you differently than His Old Testament saints.
Church folks think they can
indulge in this world’s goods with impunity; they think they will be taken out
while the rest of the world is judged.
If you live like the world you will be judged like the world. Unlike the unsaved though your judgment will
be unto victory; but the world’s judgment will be unto death.
To the thief on the cross it
seemed like judgment unto death; but it was really unto victory. To the other thief it also seemed like
judgment unto death; but his perception was right.
Believe me it is worth living
the high call. Besides full salvation,
full preparation, being able to hear, there are other benefits to this high
call. Living very close to the Master
gives you Peace, love, joy, prosperity, fellowship with God, and etc; these
things will never be taken away from you.
You will also experience
trouble and trials; but the benefits will be well worth the trouble. Just knowing God in everything, gives you
great peace and satisfaction. You can
feel perfectly secure in His mighty arms.
You have absolute security.
With the kind of security God
gives you can say with Paul; “I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.” With Paul, “You know
how to be abased and how to abound.” You
look not at the hardships or ease, to wealth or poverty, acceptance or rejection;
but to the great rewards out of it all.
You know nothing can run out because God is your supply. You feel peace and contentment in all
circumstances.
People who live close to God
are the riches people in the world.
Power, peace, security, and contentment are some of the reasons people
become rich; but those are the very things that evade them. The ones close to God however are not lacking
in any good thing. I would not trade my
peace and security for all the billions of the rich.
The people that are worldly
rich are usually poor, blind, and naked; they need to open the door and let
Jesus in. Fellowship with Jesus Christ
will open their eyes to the true riches.
I write these things with
urgency. God’s people are trading an
absolutely sure thing ‘The blessings of being in God’s will;” for another sure
thing ‘The judgment of God.’
People who live very close to
God live in a secret place. People around
them see them as mysterious they do not know how to figure them out. If you want to figure out such a person just
get close to God and the mystery will dissolve right before your eyes. Just as you can not understand what I am
writing about without full surrender; neither can you understand such a person.
If you live close to God no
evil can touch you without going through God’s hands first. In the near future everything that people
depended on for security that God did not provide will be crushed; but those
standing on the very Word of God will be secure. Thousands will fall all around them but it
will not touch them.
They live in maximum
security. Nothing can stand before them. The only thing they fear is if they leave
God’s side God will just let them go.
God gives us freedom of choice and we must choose to stand with Him. If we stand with Him He has committed Himself
to stand with us.
When the High ones take the
Kingdom I intend to be with them; to overcome to that extent will require great
trust and determination. We must
completely believe what God says. We
must completely do what He says.
There are many Jonathans in
the Kingdom who are destined to rule; but will not leave Saul. Jesus said, “Unless you hate your family you
can not be His disciple. Leave that old
fleshy kingdom and come and follow Christ.
Everything in the old life
must go through the fires of the cross to enter the new Kingdom. Do not be afraid of the cross; it is the way
into the Kingdom.
Jonathan was a great man of
God; but he failed to pay the whole price.
David almost lost his part in the Kingdom when he sinned with Bathsheba;
but he repented. Walk with God to what
ever level you have come to. Keep your
flesh under lest you also become a cast away.
Satan has succeeded in
misleading a large portion of the church.
God has called me that He might use me to help bring forth a people who
will hear God’s voice.
I am not interested in anyone
following me. I want to help them to
hear God’s voice and follow Him. I do
not need anyone to come forth in my name.
I am a friend of the Bridegroom; and I lead everyone to Him; if you decide
to forsake me and cling to Jesus; that would be a delight to my soul.
He is the fairest among ten
thousand you and Him were made for each other.
He is so wonderful I want Him to get all that He desires. He has a deep and intense desire for
you. He gave all that He had to get you
for Himself; oh develop that same intense love for Him.
You can not have a greater
love, peace, or joy than you will have when you are intimate with Him. In Him is found total satisfaction. God made everything for Himself and that is
the only place of satisfaction.
God has created man to rule
this earth. He wants man to restore it
back and beyond where it was before, even too the incorruptible. God wants all the creation in His Kingdom.
He wants the animals in His
Kingdom; not harming each other. He does
not want the weather systems out of whack.
He does not want earth quakes or floods.
He does not want comets crashing into the earth; but all these things
are waiting for the manifested Sons of God to deliver them.
A people must come forth; they
must pay the price to be used by God to deliver them. God created all creation for Himself. He is going to restore everything back to
Himself; except that which voluntarily chooses to rebel; He going to do it
through a people who voluntarily commit themselves to Him.
As many as are led by the
Spirit of God they are the Sons of God.
While many of God’s people are running to and froe trying to satisfy
their cravings; God says ‘Walk in the Spirit.”
Because they are trying to fulfill their cravings in things, they can
not be satisfied. Human cravings are
infinite and only an infinite God can satisfy it.
If God’s people learned to
walk in Him their cravings would automatically be satisfied; there is no other
way to satisfy it. You have been made to
live only in the fruit of the Spirit.
Anything that is opposite to the fruit of the Spirit will make you
unhappy; it will agitate you.
That which gives you peace and
joy will also give you a bright future; it will also make your life beneficial
to others. Walking in the Spirit you
will be able to face every trial and trouble with confidence; when things go
wrong you know God has everything in control.
When your life in walking with
God is so good, it is difficult to understand why people still seek
satisfaction in things that can not satisfy.
Why would people jeopardize their future on things which can not satisfy
or deliver their souls?
Oh how the heart of God must
greave when He sees His people trying to get their security through money,
possessions, insurance, and etc. while they serve God a far off. They amuse themselves with sports, games,
movies, and other things; but do little rejoicing in Christ Jesus.
My brethren I beg you set your
heart on heavenly things. Worship God in
the Spirit. Rejoice in Christ
Jesus. Have no confidence in the flesh. Constantly keep everything before Jesus
Christ; let Him direct everything you do.
Let Jesus be your guide, your protector; yes even your closes friend.
Take up your cross daily. Crucify your flesh and its desires on your
cross. Walk with Jesus Christ. Forsake all that is of the world. Do not follow the world’s fashions, desires,
entertainments, or any other part of the world.
Do only those things that
please God. Do not say, “I can not
always be pleasing God; you can please Him to the level you are in right now. Keep raising the level at which you praise
and believe Him.
O how God’s heart must greave
when His people do not believe Him; it causes Him great suffering. Pride and unbelief in a Christian causes Him
more suffering than any other thing.
Consider all the things that
are happening in your life to be God preparing you for the time to come. Much preparation is necessary to prepare you
for the time to come. God must work on
you every day. God must work on you all
the time.
You must work together with God. Everything that comes your way, praise God
and thank Him. Take the yoke of Jesus
upon you. You have a part and Jesus has
a part.
Thankfulness in the midst of
trouble is like a healing balm.
Thankfulness is a catalyst that turns your trouble into a great
blessing. Keep your attitude right. Keep talking to God about your problems. God can not fail to deliver you. When God delivers you, you will receive
spiritual riches. Your praise and
thanksgiving give you the right to ask of God.
Very many things must be done
in our lives to prepare us for God’s work; do not waste a minute, begin
preparing yourself now. If we are
diligent to submit ourselves to every working of God in our lives we should be
ready when the time comes.
God could speak much plainer
to us if He wanted to; but God is speaking to sheep and if they are sheep they
will hear His voice. Goats go their own
way and find their own pasture. In this
day God is already starting to separate the sheep from the goats.
You do not need to understand
what God is saying to be a sheep, you only need to hear. Sometimes what God says will go against
everything you have believed or thought was God; but if you hear His voice you
will receive what He says anyway.
It must certainly have been clear
to Abraham that God did not desire human sacrifice; but Abraham was a sheep and
heard God’s voice saying sacrifice your only son. The disciples knew by the law that they were
not to eat human flesh or blood; yet because they were sheep when heard Jesus
saying eat my flesh and drink my blood they heard His voice; but the goats
walked away. God is in this day going to
again separate the sheep from the goats.
If Abraham or the disciples
had been following a rule book they would never have been able to hear God’s
voice; they certainly would have thought a demon was speaking instead.
If Jesus was following a rule
book He would not have let His disciples harvest grain on the Sabbath. If He followed a rule book He would have
sacrificed a lamb instead of Himself.
Rule books can maintain some order in your life; but they will never
cause you to walk in God’s will. You
will never see Jesus doing anything because the law said so; He only walked in
the Spirit; He only did what He saw His Father do.
Romans 8 says, “Only those who
walk in the Spirit are Sons of God. They
never do their own will or what they come up with themselves. Why do people keep going their own way today?
There is little holy fear in the church
today.
When people are brought into
the presence of God they often fall as dead; Isaiah, Daniel, the apostle John
and others all fell before the presence of a mighty God. The soldiers fell before Jesus in the Garden. Ananias and Sapphira fell dead before a
mighty God.
Many revivals took place in
the church in the past. Many of the old
songs of the church reveal the depth of some of the revivals of the past. The song, “Fully surrendered Lord Divine, I
will be true to thee. All that I am or
have is thine. I will be true to thee;”
reveals a deep commitment to God.
One of the manifestations that
took place back then was people fell before the power of God. Charles Finney said early in his ministry he
went into a factory to preach the word; many people in the factory fell as dead
under the power of God and many people got saved.
Wherever the power of God is
manifested people are awed by it. I am
told that an estimated five hundred thousand conversions took place in that
revival. Many of the people who fall
today are just imitating the past; but little of the real power of God is
present in today’s manifestations. It is
not the activity but the power of God that is important.
When we substitute activity in
place of the work of the Spirit it is idolatry.
Wherever the Spirit of God is leading, you do not find leaders following
patterns but the Spirit.
Many people are still being
saved; but we bring them into a barren church.
Many who are saved return to their vomit. Peter said, “It were better that they had they
never known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn
from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
We will not receive the
revivals and commitments of the past except by listening to God today the way
they did it. If your body was responding
to instructions sent by the head twenty years ago how confused it would
be? If your body responded to
instructions even ten seconds old you would try to find out what was wrong it.
Are you so foolish as to think
that you can follow God that way and win this war? You must at all times have a fresh Word from
God and you must respond quickly. Deep
intimacy with God is absolutely imperative; it is more important than your
daily food.
The Jews thought as long as
they were the children of Abraham and had a temple to worship in that would
protect them; but Jesus said if Abraham were your father you would do the works
of Abraham. When the Jews did not repent
God rejected them and their temple.
In Luke 3: 4-11 John said, “Do
not say we have Abraham to our father; so I say do not say we are the
church. God could call His church out of
the stones if He chose to. Bring forth
fruits worthy of repentance. Every tree
that does not bring forth good fruit will be hewn down and cast into the fire
of the great tribulation.
Jesus said the same thing in
John 15. Paul said the same in 1 Corinthians
3; and 11 Corinthians 5. The writer of
Hebrews also said the same chapter 6; He also said, “God would judge His people
in chapter ten. If you do not bear good
fruit you will be cast into the fire.
Abide in Christ and you will
bear fruit; but seek to bear much fruit.
In the mount of God there are no limits to the heights you may
climb. In the mount of God there is lots
of grief; but the rewards are great. In
climbing the mount of God I find myself rejected everywhere; but none of these
things move me.
Paul said in 11 Corinthians
When Paul said, “He looked at
the unseen world” he was looking at things only God could explain. Interpreting thing literal is not being real
and spiritualizing is not being spiritual; looking at what God says about a
thing is the only thing that is spiritual.
If we could come up with a formula Jesus would not have said, “Without
me ye can do nothing.”
If you would like to know the
root of what is going on around you; you must be taught it by God Himself.
Everything around us is
enormously affected by spirits both good and bad; there is not only a demon
behind every bush, but angels as well.
Though our lives are enormously affected by spirits; yet we are
responsible for what we do for God has given us the power to conquer them.
If you choose to obey God;
demons can only reveal what needs to be changed in you and boost you to a
higher level in God. Put on the whole
armor of God and stand against the devil.
To put on God’s armor; spend
much time with Him and read books and think thoughts that build up your
faith. To defeat the devil you must be
very diligent.
We do not seem to realize how
much influence the demon world has in our lives. I have had numerous experiences that I could
relate; I would like to talk about a few.
When I was twenty years old I
was talked into joining a church that thought they were the only true literal
church on earth. When I was in that
church it opened my mind to demonic oppression; my mind was greatly disturbed. When I came out a few months later it was
like I had come out of a terrible storm and into a calm peaceful bay.
For a period of a year later;
at times in the evening I would hear a faint buzzing in my ear which became
louder and louder; I would immediately call out to God and it would go away; I
knew Satan was trying to make me go insane; had I not called out to God I
probably would have gone insane.
I wonder how many insane
people are only demon oppressed or possessed.
Certainly the man that Jesus cast a legion out of at
I fell away from God and was
away from God for about ten years.
During that time I became an ultra liberal. I voted for Eugene McCarthy in 1972.
I came up with what I thought
was a new moral law: I believed that anyone could do what ever they wanted to
as long as they did not violate any one else’s right to do the same. Later I found out it was only secular
humanism and that it was around for thousands of years.
While my law allowed
Christians to believe in God; I could not help hating them. I could not explain why I hated Christians so
much; I did not want to hate them. It
was only after I came back to God that I realized it was not me that hated
Christians; but the evil spirits that I was entertaining in my life.
I also discovered why I was
perfectly at home in nude night club; but very uncomfortable in a church. The spirits in my life made me uncomfortable
when I was in a place that was against their nature.
Even as a Christian I used to
spend a lot of time watching television; but since I got rid of my television I
no longer desire to sit and watch that thing.
I now am horrified when I think of the television programs I used to
watch; this tells me that much of the time I consumed doing the will of demons
I now use to do the will of God instead.
Every aspect of our lives is
influenced by spirits good and evil.
Spirits are involved in everything we do: What kind of car we drive;
sports, movies, television programs, music, church, restaurants, night clubs
and etc.
Each spirit tries to get us to
do what is in its nature to do. When you
do something that is different than the nature of the spirit that is in control
of your present mood; that spirit will make you very uncomfortable. A demon of lust will try to get you to lust. A holy spirit will try to get to do right
things.
There are demons of murder,
adultery, pornography, hate, alcohol, tobacco, and other sins.
Sometimes only one of the
demons is dominant. A dominant demon
will exert very powerful influence on your personality. When there are many dominant demons: they
call it multiple personality disorder.
The movie “The Three Faces of Eve” is a good study of this problem.
When a demon is strong enough
to control a person’s whole personality we call that person demon possessed;
being demon possessed does not mean he owns the person nor does it mean that
person is going to hell; it only means the demon controls the person’s
faculties or personality. Demons can be
strong enough at times that the person will become insane.
A person may find that he
hates a person for no apparent reason; this could indicate the presence of a
powerful demon. Jesus said, “If you do
not forgive your brother the Father will turn you over to the tormentors. (I am not trying do diagnose real medical
problems.)
Some believe that because that
the Bible does not record any instances of the early church casting demons out
of a Christians that it is unbiblical. First
I would like to point out to you John says, “If all the things Jesus did were
recorded he supposed the world would not hold all the books. The fact is that all the works of either
Jesus or the apostles did, could not be recorded either.
Second The Bible says, “As
many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God.” Note it does not say, “As many as do only
what the early church did; they are the Sons of God.” You could not record in a book very much of
God’s leading. If God led you to your
wife certainly you will not find in the Bible that God wants Paul to marry Sue. While God’s leading certainly must agree with
the Bible; yet the actual leading is separate.
Third I would like to point
out to you that Peter says, “There is a salvation that will be revealed in the
last day; so God still has revelation yet to be revealed.
Forth Jesus said, “I have many
things to tell; but you can not receive them now; but the Holy Spirit will lead
into all truth later”.
Fifth if we are to follow the
early church why than do we need to be taught of God? (See chapter six).
Sixth if we are to follow the
early church we must get out our history books to see all that they did; this
is impossible.
If you can show where it says
that we must not do anything the early church did not do then I would
capitulate to you; but if not then I say you have just come up with another of
your own doctrines. God would say to you
what He said to the Jews in Jeremiah’s day, “We will see whose word will stand
yours or mine.”
Man is made up of spirit,
soul, and body. A born again believer
has God’s nature in his spirit and no demon can touch it; but his soul and body
are not saved and that is where the demons can get in. I deal with this more completely in “God’s
Purpose for Mankind on Earth”. If a
demon can get you convinced he can not be there you have no way to be
delivered; that is a very dangerous place to be.
God has put the power in every
Christian to cast such demons out. When
a demon is in such control of a person that he can not respond to God in
obedience it should be cast out. When a
person is in control of his faculties he should defeat the demons by walking in
the Spirit and by obedience to God; but never be ignorant of its presence.
Many things can be learned
about demons by studying Job, King Saul, King Ahab as well as other places in
the Bible.
Paul says in Ephesians 6 to
defeat them with the armor of God. In
11Corinthians 10 Paul says, “We have powerful spiritual weapons that can tear
down strong holds; this means that they build strong holds in your mind. God has given us every spiritual weapon and
defense we need to defeat them; we need to use them.
God also sent holy angels to
minister to us. We see them ministering
to Jesus in the desert and in the garden.
We see them ministering to Paul just before the ship wreck. We see them ministering to Cornelius the Roman
centurion telling him to call for Peter.
Many other examples are in the Bible.
God sent angels to minister to
the heirs of salvation. Jesus indicated
that every child has an angel that beholds the face of the Father. I believe the operation of angels in our
lives is very comprehensive indeed.
Jesus had the Holy Spirit
without measure; yet He needed ministry from angels. God is all powerful; yet He needs us to do
our assigned work. The knowledge and
plan of God is infinitely higher than any wisdom we can come up with.
Returning to the work of evil
spirits; let us investigate them further.
When Paul said, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood:” he showed us
that our arguments are never with people; but with the demonic world.
In checking out the unseen
things it is important to know whether they are good or evil.
When we are on the highway we
see unseen forces are at work. Some
people are zipping in and out of traffic.
Some people are just lazily going along.
Some are driving at a high rate of speed. Some people are cutting others off trying to
gain the advantage. In all those things
spirits both good and bad are involved.
Even though spirits are
involved; yet each person is responsible for what they do. We do not have time to talk about
responsibilities right now; but know that we can not blame the spirits for God
has given us the power to defeat them. If
you are in full control of your faculties and can respond to God; than I say, “Keep
God ever before you and walk it out.”
When you are doing a thing and
you feel a little check; investigate it immediately to see if it is God or an
enemy trick. God is always trying to
lead us; but the enemy will try to imitate Him.
You must try the spirits. Learn
to hear God’s voice.
Do not go recklessly on. If you do go recklessly on the time will come
when you call to God but you will not be able to hear Him. You have the time now to learn to hear His
voice. Be diligent.
Satan will try to give you a
check like God’s check; learn to know the difference. Satan will give you an uneasy peace to go
with it; but when you learn to know God’s voice you will detect the difference.
It is very necessary to deal
with the demonic world; but do not spend any more time on them than
necessary. Jesus had to deal with the
devil forty days; but He never neglected the time with His Father. When you deal with the demonic world, do not
get your eyes off of the Father.
To understand the things that
are seen you must look at the unseen world.
All things we see going on around us have their roots somewhere in the
unseen world. In the millennium there
will be many unsaved people; but none of the troubles we see in today’s world. God has to turn the devil loose at the end to
reveal who the unsaved are and to judge them.
God already knows who they are; but the world does not.
Right now God to some extent
restrains evil; but the day is coming when Satan and his demons will be turned
loose and only those who are prepared will stand. Paul says in Ephesians 6, “Put on the whole
armor of God so we can stand in the evil day.”
In that day when everything that can be shaken will be shaken only what
is of God will stand.
God has given us everything we
need; but if you do not learn how to use it you will not be able to in that
day. The time is short and the battle is
large; we must begin now so we will have time to prepare for that day. If you begin now and give it all you have;
you will be ready when the time comes.
The enemy is certainly preparing himself; he is absolutely serious about
defeating you.
Paul told Timothy to, “To
endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” Do not deny Jesus Christ in words or
works. “If we deny Him He also will deny
us.” Now is the time to prepare for the
tribulation; so we do not hear Him say He never knew us.
In
Christians are constantly
making the same mistake. Always fight to
win. Never seek man’s approval. All you will do that way is to through away
the lives of those who die fighting. In
the end you will have less approval.
Generals are trained to win; politicians always mismanage a war.
Whatever Jesus tells us we
must believe with all our hearts; then prove it with our works. The problems we are preparing for are huge and
we must not treat them lightly. We are
basically preparing to conquer the whole kingdom of evil and replace it with
God’s Kingdom. All the killing,
stealing, adulteries, lies, and every other kind of sin and vise will be
removed from the earth by the Sons of God.
What manner of persons need we
be to accomplish such a great a work? Do
not allow yourself to be entangled with the affairs of this life. There is an enormous battle in the unseen
world for the souls of men; but the church is asleep. Everyone is concerned about comfort,
opinions, money, security, and other things of this life.
Understand that everything in
your life is a contest of good against evil.
Whether God wins or Satan in your life is in your hands. I am now talking about things of enormous
importance.
We are living in a life where
even preachers have little absolute truth to be secure in. When we do not realize that we can be taught
of God and go about to work up our own doctrines or accept those taught by
others; we have lost the security that only God can provide.
Are your doctrines able to
endure the great shaking of the end time?
If your foundations are shaken what will you do? Do you have doctrines you think are not
essential; or are you on the side of absolute truth? Every other doctrine is from the enemy. Jesus only operates in absolute truth; if you
operate in anything less you are to some extent working with the enemy. Many Christians have joined the Philistines
against
If I did not tell you the
truth you would have no sin; now that you have heard the truth you will have no
cover for your sin. We are in a great
battle and you must quit halting between opinions and choose which side you are
on.
When Jesus entered into battle
with the forces of evil He recognized the enormity of the battle. You can read about the many facets of His
battle in the book “Scenes Beyond the Grave.”
You can order this book in the bibliography below. We are facing the same kind of battles
(though on a lower scale) as Jesus fought.
Put on the armor of God. Do not go to battle with a sword of clay
mixed with steel. Make sure the sword is
made of the very finest steel. Make sure
that every part of the armor is made of the very finest materials. If you have even a little bit of inferior
materials (self) in the armor Satan will find it and brake through. Every vestige of self must be removed if we
are going to win in this battle.
If a doctor or lawyer spent as
little time to learn his profession as we do spiritual things he would require
more than a life time to achieve it.
This work is of cataclysmic importance we must spend all our time on
it. Get in touch with God in the morning
than seek His input in everything you do through out the day. Treat everything you do even your sleep as
part of the battle for the soul.
Jesus said, “The children of
this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light; by now
that should really begin to make sense to you.
Remember everything you do is a battle for the soul. There are normal human desires in
everyone. You have a desire for food,
shelter, transportation, sleep, a spouse, and etc. Satan will try to get you to use the wrong
method to fulfill each one. He will try
to get you to eat food that is bad for your health. He will try to get you to buy the most
expensive house, car, clothes, and lose your sleep over frivolous fun.
He tries to get a person
connected to the wrong spouse. Satan
often gets an otherwise strong Christian to go with an unsaved friend. He tries to get married people to leave their
spouse for another one. You can damage
the rest of your life if you do not get this one right.
A man who rode with Hell’s
Angels told me some years ago that when they wanted to have fun they did not
seek out bar girls; but looked for a church that was just leaving out. They would ride their Harleys into the
parking lot and race their engines; they soon had a crowd around them. When the girls asked for a ride they would
take them to a wood and have sex with them then return them to the church; they
would laugh as they left the girls whose lives they had just ruined.
I’m sure the girls thought
that if they could get them saved that they would have what they wanted; they
did not realize they were dealing demons of darkness. I am sure the demons also laughed at their
ruined lives.
Brethren this life is
serious. Do not look at the world you
can see; but at the unseen world. This
whole world is waiting for the Sons of God to deliver it.
I really should not watch this
program; I have things to do and it keeps my mind on earthly things. My boss does not know I am not doing
everything he wants me to. I really
should be in church this morning but I am tired. I almost got eight hours in so I will just
call it eight. I am just going five
miles per hour over the speed limit. I
almost stop at the stop signs. I dart
back and forth in the traffic because I am in a hurry.
When you have many ifs and
almosts in your life your peace is very uneasy.
The absolute of the Word of God escapes you. When your life is made up of such things you
can not understand one who walks in the Spirit.
The absolute peace of one who walks in the Spirit always seems beyond
reach; and you can not believe that Jesus really means “Be ye perfect as the
Father.” It is hard to understand one
who always stops and investigates when he feels a check; when your own life is
full of unheeded checks.
When you see that God accepts
you in spite of your uncertain life; you may think your life is still O K. Know this that for all of these things God is
going to bring you into judgment.
What you need is
obedience. Do not disregard the checks
God brings into your life. If He keeps
calling you and you do not answer one day you will call and He will not answer.
I realize that obedience to
laws carries no merit of its own; but it protects God’s good Name before the
world. The even greater purpose is for
you to learn to hear God’s voice through the checks and balances. When you feel a check about what you are
doing and you stop you are learning to hear God’s voice; you are changing from
a goat to a sheep.
Satan and his demons also give
checks so it is important to see where it came from. If you make it a practice to always stop and
investigate when you feel a check, you will learn to do it better as time goes
on.
Often times Satan will try to
give you an uneasy peace. Remember when
you were born again Satan said, “It was not real;” “You did not say the right
words;” You were not sincere enough;” or “You sinned to badly this time.”
How did you overcome his
darts? You put on the helmet of
salvation. Whatever darts Satan fires at
you God has an armor to protect you.
Whatever process you went through to defeat him you can use to defeat
all his wiles.
All you had to do to defeat
Satan’s darts was to re-examine the facts of your conversion.
How can I know the difference
between Truth and untruth or contaminated truth?
1.
First you must be
fully surrendered to God. God only
reveals His Truth to surrendered people.
You may otherwise receive accurate words; but they will contain no life.
2.
Second you must
not be influenced by the thinking of any other person. Jesus said, “How can you know the Truth who
receive honor from one another?” Truth
can only be taught by God.
3.
Examine any word
that you hear by the Scripture. All
Truth will agree with the Scripture. God
never requires you to blindly receive anything; He says, “Prove all things.”
4.
Next reject all
teachings that disturb your peace of mind.
False teachings and leadings will always disturb or disrupt your peace;
some will only make you feel uneasy.
5.
Sometimes you may
feel an uneasy peace is from Satan; but if you begin to have problems getting
through to God recheck your uneasy feeling, it may be God giving you your
uneasy peace. Do not trust your own
perception without checking it out.
6.
Approach all
problems honestly and sincerely with a real desire to know the Truth. God can not fail to meet the need of one who is
honest with Him.
If you choose to follow men
rather than God; you are a sheep of those men; but not God’s sheep. God calls all the sheep of men, “Goats.” God’s sheep only hear His voice and will
follow no other.
Obedience to men or demons
will not give you real peace. Obedience
to God only gives you real peace. As you
continue to obey you soon begin to feel His manifest presence; continuously
doing His will, will make you perfect.
When God speaks there is deep
inner peace and stability just as in two and two equals four; there is no
uneasiness as there would be if you were taught that it equals five.
If you are taught by man you
need to be protected from other teaching lest you go from belief to belief; but
if you know the truth you can not be deceived; if your church is worried by
false doctrine than there must be a lack of truth in it.
Never leave an uneasy feeling
unresolved it will only get more complicated and you will lose valuable
time. God’s work gets done by people who
know what God says; they are people of real faith.
Jesus said, “The children of
this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. The children of this world will go to great
lengths to prepare for the future; while the children of light are more likely
to join the enemy.
The children of this world
will spend eight to twelve hours a day to get a good education; but the
children of light spend ten or fifteen minutes in the morning, some only Sunday
at church or nothing at all. The
children of this world will spend much time with their boy or girl friends; how
much time do you spend with Christ?
When the children of this
world go on a trip if their plans were full of ifs or almosts they would not
even expect to get there. The children
of this world will try to get the latest and very best information; while the
children of God go back to their forefathers for their instruction.
If your body would depend on
instruction from the head given twenty years ago; you would say it had
Alzheimer’s disease. If your body responded
to instructions just twenty seconds late you would go to the doctor to find out
what is wrong.
Why are God’s people content
to live in an uneasy peace for years and years?
God’s people do not even realize that there is anything wrong.
Book learning will never take
the place of an intimate relationship with the Almighty. We must consistently receive a fresh Word
from God. The Word of God is sharper
than any two edged sword, it divides between the soul and the Spirit. When God speaks it is sharp and clear there
is no flesh in it. The Word of God put a
clear distinction between what comes from the Spirit and what is only of your
mind or soul.
If the word spoken is not
sharp and clear and does not divide between soul and Spirit it is not the Word
of God. God’s Word is available to all
who are fully surrendered to Him; why would we speak anything else? If it is not the very Word of God do not
teach it. We will be judged for how we have
instructed our brethren. The sharp clear
Word of God will judge you and those you misled in the last day.
When Jesus was twelve the
Pharisees were held in honor as leaders; but when they rejected His Word just
eighteen years later they became hypocrites.
Both they and their followers were judged just thirty or forty years
later in the destruction of
When you hear the truth you
are responsible to accept it. When the
Word of God goes forth those who accept it will save their souls; but those who
reject it will be cast into the great tribulation.
I warn you do not live in an
iffy realm; save your souls. You can
have God’s absolute peace; why would you want anything less?
When I was a young married man
(about thirty five years old); I was sick so my wife was ministering to me as
she loved to do. I loved when she did
that; then God gave me a vision: He opened my heart and showed me what it was I
was doing. I looked at what He was
showing me and it was so horrible I could not stand to look at it. I said, “God take it away I can not stand it.”
Now before the vision I did
not even know that it was wrong. For the
next twenty five years I still could not figure out what was a wrong with it;
only over the last year have I begun to understand what was wrong with it.
What God told me is that I glimpsed
a portion of the root of what Satan uses to cause sickness and disease through
out the world. When a person receives
ministry in self pity, Satan is wrapping his tentacles around that person and
as he gets older it will only get worse.
This root is first received in
childhood. Mothers have a deep love for
their children and love to minister to their needs. This is not wrong in itself; but care must be
exercised that they do not develop the roots of self pity.
When I was a child I would
sometimes get up with a little sick feeling.
When that happened I would say, “O good! I can stay home from school
today.”
I would lie down and mom would
minister to me. If I was really sick I
would stay in bed all day; but if it was only superficial I would get up when
the danger of being sent to school was past.
What I did not realize back
then was that Satan was wrapping his tentacles around my soul and body to
destroy them.
What God showed me was a root
in my life so horrible that I could not even bear to look at it; I see this
root of sickness manifesting all around me.
I see people who do not really
need them trying to get handicap permits.
People try to get the closes parking places. People pray that God would give the doctor
wisdom instead of an outright healing.
These things may not be wrong in themselves; but we must not substitute
them for developing real faith.
If you have the strength pick
a farther parking place if not push your self as much as you can. Trust God to give you more strength. Trust God to help you overcome the spirit of
self pity.
We must understand our lack of
faith while we are developing our faith; this is why it is so important for us
to develop faith now so we have it when we need it. You can live a life of luxury, ease, and fun
and get to heaven; but you may not have what you need when the really big
problems arise.
If you want to have what you
need for all occasions you must endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus
Christ. If you are going to conquer the
enemy you must endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. If you do not pay the price you will not get
the goods.
If you are sick unto death and
even the doctors can not save you if you have the faith you will be delivered;
but if you did not pay the price only a miracle can save you.
Satan’s tentacles are about as
deeply entrenched in Christians as in the world. God gave us the power to conquer Satan when
we were born again; but we must break the shell of the flesh if we are ever
going to see it work. Christians will succumb
to sickness just like the world till they take up their crosses and crucify the
flesh. All the promises of God are to
the spirit and none to the flesh.
When we hear the word “God
blesses overcomers” it tastes like honey in our mouths; but when we begin to
face the suffering of sickness it feels bitter.
If you stand firm in the Word God gives you it will be sweet again when
you win. Keep putting on the armor of
God. Keep standing firm. Do all God tells you; till you can defeat
everything Satan throws at you.
The power to defeat Satan will
take a lot of preparation; so you must practice now while the tests are
small. No one passes the big tests
without mastering the small ones.
About thirty years ago someone
gave me a song. She said, “God gave it
to her in a dream the night before. The
song went like this:
Would you take my place love?
Would you suffer long?
Would you climb this mount of grief?
To sit upon my throne?
There’s no fortune and no
fame,
To come by this way.
All the things of this world
are but dung.
This song has been a guiding
principle in my life over the past thirty years. I have faced times of grief so great I
thought they could not be born. I have
seen people step in and help during those times of intense grief. They bore my burdens with me.
I thank all the people who
stepped in and helped me to bear my burdens; I know God will reward them
greatly. I especially want to thanked
God (who sent them) and also brought me through those times.
I also thank God for every
trial He sent; they provided much needed lift to His throne. I intend to destroy every tentacle that Satan
has wrapped around God’s people. I will
not quit till Satan is driven completely off this earth. God is going to have an earth that will be
completely in His Kingdom.
Whatever the price I intend to
sit next to Jesus on His throne. His
throne is large enough to seat millions if they only will pay the price; come
and join me.
It seems most in the church
not only will not rule with Christ; but they do not want Him to rule over
them. God sent me into many churches: He
said, “Do not try to be anything just bring me with you.” I came to those churches bringing Jesus; but
He had no natural beauty (Isaiah 53) so they rejected Him. If I had come agreeing with them they would
have received me.
They said by their actions
“Don’t bother me with the truth we have our own beliefs and we don’t want to
change. They are sending a message to
God, “We will not have this man to rule over us.”
God is right now separating
the sheep from the goats. The goats get
their word from others and their forefathers; but the sheep only listen to the
Shepherd. I am not the Shepherd; but I
will bring the Shepherd to you and you to the Shepherd.
While Jesus has no form or
comeliness and no natural beauty; yet I say He is the most beautiful of all
beings. Right now He speaks in a still
small voice. We must be very quiet
before Him if we would hear Him. One day
His voice will thunder in judgment.
The pictures and words in
magazines, books, catalogs, television, movies, and etc. scream out in a
deafening roar; we will not be able to hear Jesus’ still small voice and that
of the world at the same time. Shortly
it will be too late to learn to hear His voice.
Call upon Him while He is still near.
Young people are growing up
with such hopes for the future that they have no time for Jesus.
Middle age people are so busy
making their future they have no time for Jesus.
Older people have spent so
much time on themselves they no longer can hear Jesus; they waste away what is
left of their lives in fun, relaxation, and or in despondency. A whole life that was so full of promise
wasted away; If God did not provide a fire to rescue them only their spirits
could make it into heaven.
Why would anyone want to waste
away their life when Jesus has plenty of room right beside Him on His throne? Only Jesus has the things that people have
been looking for and could not find in other things. How awful that such potential is going to
waste.
People everywhere are going to
the grave having known only a little of the deep inner peace that only Jesus
can give; some having never known that deep inner peace. Jesus was just outside their door with more
than their hearts could wish for or even desire.
Can you see my tears and
sorrow to see such waste? Why do people
wait for God to do what only can be done by us and Jesus yoked together? Why do the shepherds say “Salvation= Jesus
plus nothing?” Where do they find that
in the Bible? Why do the shepherds
listen to the wrong voice and lead God’s people astray? Do they not know there is a judgment coming?
We constantly hear an easy
gospel, they recommend more diligence; but if not do not worry you will still
be whisked away while the world suffers.
While Jesus plus nothing sure
sounds good no supporting verse can be found in the Bible. Jesus and you yoked together is found in
almost every page of the New Testament.
I tell you they themselves do
not believe Jesus plus nothing. When you
read Romans 10: 9 it says “You must believe in your heart and confess with your
mouth;” you can see even your initial salvation requires both yoked together.
There are certainly many
things Jesus had to do alone; but there also many things only you can and must
do. Salvation can only be a joint
affair.
Why do God’s people go to the
enemy’s camp for fun, relaxation, entertainment, security, and etc.? Is God’s hand so short that it can not meet
their needs? What is the enemy giving
you that is worth throwing away your future for?
Is it maybe that the enemy
will just let you while away the days doing nothing? Is it that God’s will requires you to do a
lot of hard rowing? Is it that God’s
blessings require you to overcome; while the enemy will let you go to sleep and
just float down stream? What will you do
when you come to the falls?
Satan’s way always leads to
destruction. Joining the philistines may
seem easier now; but it will eventually lead to destruction.
Join God’s team and fight with
Him no matter how much smaller His army may seem to be right now; it will
absolutely win out in the end. God’s way
may seem difficult and you may be despised; but the rewards will be out of this
world.
Perfection: in my books unless
otherwise indicated refers only to the spirit and the soul; the body will be
perfected in the resurrection.
Perfection in the spirit took
place at the new birth. Perfection in
the soul is an on going process.
Perfection in spirit was when God became its Father and it took on His Nature.
Perfection in the soul is as
we live in obedience little by little taking on God’s Nature in our souls. When we have God’s Nature complete in our
souls doing only those things that please Him then we have become perfect. God’s nature in our souls= God’s Name in our
foreheads.
The word perfection is used a
lot in the book of Hebrews. In 5: 8, 9
it says that, “Jesus learned obedience through suffering and was made
perfect.” In 6: 1 it says that, “We
should leave the foundation doctrines after we have learned them and go on to perfection.” Verses 4-12 warn us what will happen if we do
not. Is the word perfect for Jesus
different than for us?
Hebrews 7: 11 says that, “The
old levitical priesthood could not take us to perfection.” Verse 19 says the law could not do it
either. Verse 28 says that, “Jesus is
perfected forevermore.” In Hebrews 11:
40 it says that, “The cloud of witnesses could not be perfect without us.”
Jesus said in Matthew 10: 25,
“It is enough for a disciple to be as his master.” Does this not tell us that the perfection
referring to Jesus is the same as the perfection referring to us? Paul sure thought it was; in Ephesians
Be not faithless but
believing. If you are one of His sheep
you will believe what He said. Jesus
does not expect you to look within yourself to see if it is possible; and say,
“I believe He meant something different.”
Why would you live in unbelief?
God says in Hebrews
My brethren these teachings
can do you no good until you accept their full force in your life today. Until these things are full force in your
life now; you can not prepare for the evil day.
This is what Jesus meant at least in part; “Except you eat my flesh and
drink my blood you have no life in you.”
Many preachers have no trouble
accepting what their professors said; but reject or change the words of Jesus;
they are bowing their knees to their professors instead of to Jesus
Christ. Before this thing is over they
will throw those idolatrous teachings to the moles and to the bats. Every knee will bow to Jesus in the judgment;
it will do no good to tell Jesus you meant well.
Jesus said in Luke 13: 24-30,
“Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many I say unto you will seek to
enter and shall not be able.” The Master
will rise and shut the door; if you are still a worker of iniquity at that time
you will not get in. If you think this
applies only to the Jews remember Paul says that “We have become one man.”
Look at it this way; there is
a stairway to heaven. Those who keep the
law are on the first step; those that are born again are on a higher step. Obedience by faith takes you on to higher
steps; but we are all one body and going up the same ladder to heaven. If you decide to stop on a lower rung God
will put a fire under you that will get you going. Do not be deceived God is not going to let
you stay where you are.
When Jesus said to the rich
young ruler; “To receive eternal life keep the commandments; but to be perfect
sell all and give to the poor” is still as true today as it was then. You must keep working out your salvation with
fear and trembling.
Some will point out Jesus
said, “It is finished.” His work may be
finished; but ours is not. All through
the New Testament it tells us how we are to work out our salvation. It also tells us in Hebrews 7: 25 that Jesus
is still working as our intercessor.
I say to you again, strive to
enter the narrow gate; strive to enter God’s rest; work out your salvation with
fear and trembling; constantly keep putting off the old man and put on the new;
put on the whole armor of God and be prepared for the evil day; do not let the
grace of God to you be in vain.
I know God has spoken to you
many times I also have pointed you right to Him if you still go your own way
you have no excuse.
When I write of perfection it
only includes the soul and spirit; the body must wait for the
resurrection. When you were born again
your spirit received God’s incorruptible nature; as you work out your salvation
you receive God’s incorruptible nature little by little in your soul; in other
words God’s mark in your forehead.
Those who have God’s mark in
their foreheads will stand in the tribulation.
I have put before you a
straight stick all crooked sticks put beside mine will be easily seen to be
crooked. I hope you will chose to carry
a straight stick. Believe and obey all
that God says and your stick will be very straight.
God
told Noah that he was perfect in his
generation and God called Job a perfect man; God has a standard of perfection
He requires of every man and every generation.
God’s perfect will for Noah was
to be (at God’s direction) a preacher of righteousness; warn of a coming flood;
to build an ark; and to save a portion of every kind of animal and eight humans
alive from the coming flood. Noah obeyed
God’s commands and overcame the world so God called him perfect.
Job was a man of deep Faith in
God and hated evil; God let the devil go first after his possessions then let
him put him in great pain yet he remained faithful; Job overcame the devil so
God called him perfect.
We do not read in the Bible
that Daniel was a perfect man; but Daniel overcame the Lions a type of the
flesh so Daniel overcame the flesh.
Each of these men Noah, Job,
and Daniel did what God called them to do and so were perfect in their
generation.
What is the standard of
perfection God requires of this generation?
In Revelation 7 we read that winds of tribulation were not to blow till
the 144,000 were sealed in their foreheads.
In Revelation 14: 1 we read that that seal is the Father’s Name. In Revelation 22: 4 we read that all God’s
servants will have the Father’s Name in their foreheads.
What is the Father’s seal the
Father’s Name in their foreheads? Romans
12 says be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of
your minds. Transformed in Romans 12 is
the Greek word metamorphoses and is used to describe the New Birth in another
place; this transformation puts the Father’s Name (Nature) in our minds
(foreheads).
Paul says in Ephesians 4: 24
“Put on the new man who after God is created in righteousness and true
holiness”. Colossians 3: 10 Paul says
that the new man is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created
him. The new man is our born again
spirit we must bring this same new birth into our souls but in the mean time
keep putting the Spirit in charge in our lives.
We know that when we speak of
God’s Name we are really speaking of God’s Nature. When we were born again God’s Nature was put
in our spirits. Every seed brings forth
after its own kind. 11 Peter 1: 4 says
we are partakers of the Divine Nature. 1
John 3: 9 John says that whosoever is born of God can not sin for God’s seed
(Nature) is in him and he can not sin; this refers only to our born again
spirits as of today for our soul and body can and still do sin.
1 Peter 1: 3 speaks of our new
birth in the past tense referring to our born again spirits; but in verse 23 he
says “Being born again” putting it in the present tense referring to our
souls. Much of 1 Peter 1 refers to the
soul.
1 Peter 1: 9 he says,
“Receiving the end of your Faith even the salvation of your souls”. 1 Peter 1: 23 he says, “Being born again, not
of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God which liveth and
abideth forever”. We see that “Being
born again” is in the on going present tense meaning our souls are being saved
little by little.
What is inferred by these few
of many, many verses is that God’s mark in our foreheads is God’s is Nature in
our minds (born again souls).
When our souls are born again we
will not think any evil thoughts nor can we be tempted to; our souls will have
the same perfection that is already in our spirits ( the new man created in
righteousness and true holiness).
What than is the perfection
required of this generation? For the
first fruit company (144,000) must have born again souls before the tribulation
can begin if God is going to have a people who can stand in the tribulation.
Jesus said as He went to the
cross, “Satan cometh and hath nothing in me”; in the tribulation there must be
a people who can say, “Satan cometh and hath nothing in me”.
Proverbs
I have partially quoted these
scriptures to show what the Bible calls hell fire. You may take your Bible and read the rest of
the verses. You can see by these verses
that hell comes right out of your own belly Ezekiel 28: 18.
One who indulges in illicit
sex, pornography, hate, drunkenness, and such like are already in hell; the
fullness of this state will be revealed after death. If a man is a Christian and lives in this way
he must be saved so as by fire.
Brethren the fires of hell are
very attractive. The fires of hell can
be likened to a maelstrom. If you get
caught in a maelstrom and get to close to its center it will take you to
destruction. If there is a flood and the
water gets higher than a culvert or sewer it goes in a circle into the hole;
this is called a maelstrom; in its grip you could be sucked into the hole and
drowned. Hell is like that maelstrom.
Hell fire comes right out of
our own belly; it is made up of the strong sinful desires that come out of our
lower nature. These strong desires are
like a maelstrom; they have a strong pull toward death and destruction. In the book “Scenes Beyond the Grave” it
calls these desires “Evil Magnetism”; you may order this book in the
bibliography at the end of this book.
The currents of our lower
nature are so strong we need the power of God to break free from them. The world has provided numerous things to
attract us: television, movies, alcohol, night clubs, and many other forms of
entertainment. All the entertainment of
the world is going to get worse and worse.
We need to seek to break free from these things while we still have
time. If you get pulled to close to the
center of the maelstrom you may not have the power to escape.
God spoke in Hosea 7, “They
are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker.” “They made ready their heart like an oven…
“In the morning it burneth as a flaming fire;” there you can see how the fire
comes right out of their belly they were walking the broad road to destruction.
Jesus wants us to walk only on
the narrow road to life (perfect obedience).
You must remember that we only need to walk to the faith He has brought
forth in our lives at this time; that faith will grow through much time with
Him.
Pray much, when a person
spends much time in prayer and communion with God he not only choosing heaven;
but also building the
This is what Jesus meant when
he told His disciples to enter the narrow gate.
Jesus was already talking to saved people. This is not talking about the new birth; but
putting off the old man and putting on the new man. If you Christian walk in the old man you are
on the broad way to destruction.
The words of Jesus are the
most pertinent in the Bible for present needs.
Most Christians accept the new birth as pertinent; but put the Sermon on
the Mount to another time; how foolish.
When you add or take away from the scripture you bring judgment on
yourself.
Isaiah 29: 13 God says, “For
as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honor me; but their heart is far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by
the precept of men, there wise men shall perish.” God wants to teach us Himself. When men teach they cause the people to perish;
when God teaches it produces life, even the life of God.
When the tribulation hits do
not look to the military, police, or any other law enforcement body as their
flesh will also be out of control. That
day will burn as an oven.
Take up your cross and crucify
your flesh with its deeds now. Get on
the narrow way. Put off the old man with
its deeds; and put on the new man.
In Matthew 7: 24-27 Jesus
says, “Anyone hearing His word and obeying it is like a wise man who built his
house on a rock; but those who disobey are like the foolish man who built his
house on the sand. That wise man’s house
will withstand the greatest time of trouble ever to hit this earth. Jesus is not talking about the new birth; but
obedience. In I Corinthians 3 Paul says,
“We can build with flammable or inflammable materials they are talking about
the same thing the day of judgment.
In Isaiah 30 it says, “God is
going to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity. It says God will put a hook in their jaws
causing them to error. Paul says in
11Thessalonians
In 1 Corinthians 9: 27 Paul
says, “He keeps his body under lest he become a castaway (reprobate).” Hebrews 6: 8 says if we bear thorns we are
rejected (reprobate) and will be burned.
Do not be deceived if you live after the flesh you will be burned; the
fire will come right out of your own belly and destroy you. Do not get too close to the center of the
maelstrom; you will not be able to escape.
I have gone on line on to
Christian search engines and to some of the web sites and find that some sell
pornography. Some Christian websites
sell books on getting the opposite sex in bed with you. I find some preachers teach nudism and
Christianity side by side. God told the Jews
not to bring the hire of a harlot into the sanctuary.
Many Christians openly support
abortion of the innocent while turning criminals loose. I tell you that even evangelical churches
have gone into deep apostasy; yet these same people believe they will escape
the judgment. The fires of judgment in
their bellies are already ignited and when the restrainer is gone they will
flare out of control. This world will
burn as an oven; all who live ungodly lives will burn.
Many churches have risen in
the past. God spoke a word to a man and
he many times overcame great hardships to bring forth a church based on what
God told him.
Martin Luther went through
great difficulty in starting the Lutheran church. He returned the people back to the fact that
we are justified by faith. Martin Luther
never seemed to go very far past that doctrine.
He still believed in infant baptism and persecuted those who believed
that a believer must be baptized on their confession of faith.
He apparently felt he had to
save their infants from hell by baptism.
He called those who baptized by faith only Anabaptists (You can read about many of these martyrdoms
in a book called “Martyr’s Mirror).
John and Charles Wesley
brought back the doctrine the new birth.
The revival at
The latter reign move brought
to forefront the gifts of the Spirit.
All these moves had a common problem; they camped out around a set of
teachings. God’s word to all of them is,
“Tell my people that they go forward.”
I have believed in the
doctrine of the perfection of saints for over thirty years. I knew Sam Fife personally one of the main
proponents of that doctrine. I used to
go to some of the churches and farms started by him. Except for an occasional visit I have had
little contact with them in the last twenty five years. Recently I have read some of their sermons on
the internet and see little growth in their doctrine since the nineteen
seventies. I am saying to them what I am
saying to all the rest it is time to go forward.
While on one of his farms in
Meadowlands,
Brother Sam asked, “Have you
anything to eat brother and I said, “Yes! That one is for you.”
Brother Sam took his piece of
bread and sat down with his back to me and began to eat it. I wanted to eat my piece; but I said to
myself, “One piece of bread is not enough to satisfy him.” I wanted to eat my piece of bread so much
that I took a bite out of it then he was done with his so I asked him if he was
still hungry and he said, “He was;” so I gave him my piece and I was surprised
that he took it; but he again sat with his back to me and ate it.
When he was through he stood
up walked over to me and put his arm around me gave me a good word and walked
off to a train station. Brother Sam died
a little over a year later. I knew God
was saying He was going to give me a different word than He gave to Brother
Sam; but if he could have heard it he would have received it.
Satan’s biggest trick to
overcomers may be to get them bogged down around past teaching. When preachers learn new ways to say what God
said in the past they think they are receiving new revelation; but they are
giving the people a pot of worms just seasoned a little different. The only thing that is really going to feed
the people is divine revelation and wisdom.
Divine revelation and wisdom
is available to all who surrender completely to God’s will. I say to those who feel that they are unfed
and dead, “Surrender completely to God’s will and God will feed you.” If you are not eating well spiritually it
will be your own fault; God will feed you if you will pay the price.
In Exodus 14: 15 it says,
“Tell my people that they go forward.”
When God spoke these words to Moses Pharaoh’s army was on one side of
them and the
I can tell you that even if
you are dying of cancer these words are for you; God is only waiting for you to
believe. Completely surrender your life
and will to God and spend a lot of time with Him; that will bring more healing
to you spirit, soul, and body than anything you can do.
The mighty general Patton was
marching his army through
In the church we need leaders
that will be bogged down in nothing; they will constantly get new revelation
from God and always move forward.
Without constantly receiving new revelation with the determination to do
it the church will fall away and die; God longs for such a people. Do not look at the giants like the Israelites
did. Look at God. God is able to do anything and He will
perfect all those who will believe.
God said, “To the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ” and that is exactly what He means. Believe all that God says and move forward. Just repeating a revelation will not bring it
to pass; you must do what He says.
Jesus said, “Take my yoke upon
you.” There is a work for you to do and
a work that Jesus will do. I have laid
out at least a portion of what God would have you do. Whatever He tells you to do, do it and you
will receive. Do not sit waiting on God
to do His part if you are not doing your part.
When I started to write these
books I did not know where it would lead.
When God told me to write; He came upon me in the Spirit of Inspiration
and Revelation. I did not write what I
came up with, with my own mind. If I
come up with my own word or interpretation: it would only be an idol that I
fashioned with my own hands; it would only be idolatry.
When the Spirit of revelation
comes upon me I receive thoughts which I must fashion into sentences. I try to keep as much of myself out of it as
possible; but I am sure sometimes a little of myself gets in. If you detect an error in any of my books God
did not reveal that. If you would be so
kind as to tell me or e-mail me a correction I would appreciate it; even if you
are wrong I assure you I will not look down on you. If you try to correct me and I know you are wrong
I will correct you only with the greatest love for your soul; isn’t it better
if we receive correction that we may receive only the truth? I would like to be corrected no matter in
what spirit you are in.
I write these things as
accurately as possible; I do not soften them or change them; however I may make
a mistake. Any corrections must be
proven by the Word of God for I can not compromise with anyone. I only want to teach the very Word of God.
Beloved this is the last time
and I choose to love only the very Truth; because it is the last time I do not
have time to fool around with error. I
count error as my enemy; I hate it with a perfect hatred. I sharpen my sword that I may destroy every
last bit of error in my life that I find; if you can show me any error than you
are doing me a great service my friend.
The Word of God must be
exceedingly sharp and it must very keenly divide between what comes from the
mind and what comes only from the Spirit.
My mind can only produce what is of this world which is darkness; but
the Spirit speaks only from the Eternal realm which is the only True Light.
The devil will till you Jesus
is the Son of God; but it produces only darkness because it is only of this
world. The Spirit will till you Jesus is
the Son of God from the Eternal realm and it will produce only Life; the world
produces death; but True Life is only found in God. The same words spoken from darkness that
produces only death will produce life when spoken by the Spirit.
I will come against and destroy
any error in the church as God gives me wisdom and direction. We will soon come to the time when we can not
tolerate even the least little bit of error.
I must be free of error before I can completely free others of
error. Forgive me if I have any error in
these books; I certainly want to correct any that can be found.
The Word we receive by
revelation will become a stone cut out of a mountain without hands; this stone
will become a mountain that will fill the earth. This stone is a shield for the righteous and
will crush the wicked; it will grow till it destroys death itself. This Word is Jesus Christ.
The Word of God must be
without error and it must not be developed by human minds if it is to crush the
kingdoms of this world. If I developed
this word with my own mind you need to not fear it, it can not harm you; but if
it is by revelation of Jesus Christ, then you had better take heed to it.
God is going to rear up a
people in this hour that will live in the Spirit of wisdom and Revelation: that
perfect people and perfect Word and they will conquer the whole earth; yes they
will destroy death itself. Conquer the
world do not let it conquer you.
Anything less than what I
presented to you is only idolatry; throw away those idols and follow Jesus wherever
He goes. Let your life reflect the
absolute truth of Jesus Christ. Jesus
very much needs a people who will believe, trust, and follow Him.
God is all powerful, all
knowing, every where present; yet He has needs to be fulfilled just like you
and I. God created mankind because He
needed someone who would overcome all odds to glorify Him. When you come into intimate contact with Him
and go wherever He goes you fulfill His needs.
Sincerely in Christ
Frank Overholt
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