Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, April 11th, 2024. Welcome. This message is called My Father, Your Father. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you that your word does not return void. We thank you that the audience listening to this message have ears to hear and eyes to see, hearts and minds to receive and believe the living word of God and to apply this living word of God to their lives. That they walk in your anointing. They walk in your wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and they understand who the father is through this message. Father God, thank you Lord and thank you Jesus for showing us your word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scriptures. This is called my father, your father. We're going to start here in John 20:17. Jesus saith unto her, this is Mary Magdalene that he's talking to, touch me not, for I am not yet ascended. Or go up to my father, and that word father is means parent, but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your father and to my God and your God. And that word god there is deity. Wow. Okay. So let's put this into perspective. You have the the day that Jesus rose from the grave. So he is crucified and he's dead for three days. So the day he's going to raise from the dead, Mary Magdalene is there before the sun rises and she sees the stone is rolled away. So she runs off to tell Peter and John. They run back. They take a look and they leave. She's still there. Well, she looks in and she sees two men in white and she says, "Where is he?" And then when she looks behind her, there's someone that she thinks is the gardener. And he says, "You know, what are you doing, Mary? Why are you here?" And she's like, "Uh, I just tell me where he is so I can take his body. I will take that." And he says, "Mary?" And she realizes he is Raboni, teacher Jesus. And uh he says, you know, touch me not because I have not ascended yet. I I you got to see this. This is so incredible. He Okay. When Jesus came out of the graves, he came out all powerful. He came back to life. You go read Matthew, you will find that all these graves opened up. And on his way to see his father, he takes a stop. I got to go see Mary. I got to let her know everything's okay. I'm alive. And he tells her. Then he tells her to go tell the brethren, his disciples, and the followers, I'm alive. I will come see you shortly. I have to go to the father first. So he made a stop before he did anything else in his miraculous rising out of the grave. He did this. Stop. And he says to Mary, "Look, I ascend into my father and your father and to my God and your God." What Jesus did is he grabbed hold of Mary's uh Mary's hand and he's saying to every believer out there, "Hold hands with me because you're going to see my father who is now your father. My God who is now your God." Oh, hallelujah. I hope that you guys are getting this because it was so important that he decided to stop his ascension just to tell a woman and to tell a woman first. By the way, he chastises his disciples later for not believing. They didn't believe a woman, you know, and Jesus, this is why he went to a woman first. Anyways, I'll leave that in your mind as you think that through. But let's go to Ephesians 4:6-10. One God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all. Let's pause. So Jesus is saying, listen, I came to do what my father told me to do. He told me to lay down my life for you and that I would pick it up again. And he did such a thing. Then he's telling Paul is to Paul is telling you straight up look at we've got one God one father of all who is above all through all and in you all. So Jesus you know it is challenging to understand the trinity that there is God the father God the son and God the holy spirit. Three functions of a deity. And here is the most fascinating part. I hope you grab this. God is the father. He never came down to the earth. He Well, he may have came down there. I back up and and recre and correct myself that he's probably come down. But he didn't come down into his creation to die for his creation. He sent his son to do it. So now Jesus when he rose from the grave, he rose from the grave as a man with a new body. The first resurrected person with a first body. And he goes up to God in heaven as a man. He doesn't return back as a spirit. He returns back as a man who has been crucified, who died and rose from the grave. Now, God the Father can look in on us at any time. 200 years ago, 500 years in the future, if the Lord carries that long, he can do this because he's still spirit. He's outside of the creation. Jesus, who is the one who said, "Let there be light." He actually entered into his creation to fulfill the requirements of God the father which was he needed someone with no sin to die for others who have sin and every single one of us have fallen short of the glory of God. We were born into sin at the time of conception actually we are we become a sinner immediately. This is how this works. Well, in order to be saved, we needed a savior. And that is what Jesus did. So now Paul is teaching us that listen, God is Jesus saying, "Listen, here's my God." Because God is God to Jesus as well because he's a man. He's saying he's your God too and he's in you. And so Paul is reiterating it here. One God and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all. But every one of us is given grace according to measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he say when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. This is the function of what Jesus did because he ascended. He had to go there. We know because he told his disciples, I go to prepare a place for you. and he's there with his father preparing a place for you. In the meanwhile, he left us his comforter, but he was around for 40 days and and showed himself off to more than 500 people. This is how God worked. This is how Jesus worked in all this time and how they functioned together. So today, you and I have this. Now Paul's going to make an interesting point here. Let's go to verse 9. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended? first into the lower parts of the earth. He that descendeth is the same also that ascendeth up far above all heavens that he might fill all things. So the question then to ask is where did Jesus go for those three days cuz he didn't ascend up right away. He descended first. You see, every person who died before Jesus went to a place called paradise because the first fruit to enter heaven would have to be the perfect man. And nobody was perfect. So they would go to paradise if they believed in God and followed the ten commandments, the law. They met the law. They they repented before God and they had a relationship with the Lord. You can just see Old Testament believers and how they believed. You can go follow David. He's a perfect example of this. So others, they went straight to hell. But Jesus went straight into paradise and took these people out. And when you go read Matthew and all these graves, so let's say Aunt Martha passed away a week ago. You just had her funeral. You're sitting there in your kitchen having a bowl of something and come knocking on the door. Is Aunt Martha, I got to tell you about this guy named Jesus. He came down, he grabbed us, and he took us up out of the grave. And you're just standing there. I could just picture knees knocking, people fainting. This had to be such an extraordinary event that it has changed time altogether. The calendar change was made on his death. This is incredible. His birth and his death. This is such an impactful event. That is good news that we find out that there was a man who was perfect enough to redeem us and save us. This is the father. He he gives the glory to the father because all he's doing is obeying the father and the father says I'm well pleased with my son. Listen to him. So now we get to partner with him and be a partaker of whatever Jesus has. He says I forgive you. Come with me. You get to partake and share in this. Oh, how powerful it is. Let's go look at Matthew 12:39 and 40 to talk about those three days where Jesus was. But he answered and said unto them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales, or a huge fish belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So Jesus went three nights, three days into the heart of the earth. That's where he was. And so when you have a generation asking for a sign, well, how do we know Jesus was real? Well, when you go look at the testimonies that came out of the moment he rose from the grave, the stone is rolled away. They tried to deceive the people. But because so many dead people came out of the graves, these uh historians recorded these things. Josephus and others, they had recorded it and said, "This is what happened." And he packed it everywhere. And Jesus is saying to Martha or excuse me, to Mary, he's telling her, "Listen, this is my God. Now your God." And this is absolutely extraordinary that we get to partake in what Jesus has given for what he did. Cuz I couldn't do it. No, but he did. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. John 8:15-16. Ye judge after the flesh. I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true. For I am not alone, but I and the father that sent me. That word judge is to distinguish, decide, and condemn. Now, I want you to see something here. Jesus is saying, "I'm not here to condemn the world. I'm not here to judge you. I'm here to forgive you if you want to be forgiven." That's the simplicity as as simple as you can get for the gospel of Jesus. It is the good news that he came born of a virgin. He went to the cross of his own free will, was crucified, spent three days in paradise, and is shot up out of the grave, and said to the world, "I'm alive, and I'm coming back a second time. Do you believe?" This is the anointing of our Messiah, Christ, that he says, "Your God, my God, my father, your father." and he partakes with us in this. This is so powerful. I hope that you are seeing this and understanding he's not here to judge, which if you're going to partner with him, which means you don't judge either. You forgive cuz Jesus is all about forgiveness. That is the generation we are in right now. This is the time frame we are in now. We forgive. And I'm going tell you right now, not many people can. They struggle with it so much so that they end up get cancer, sicknesses, diseases, die early. Your life should be long and a blessing because you believe. But do you believe enough to forgive and to let go so that your father can forgive you? Oh, I hope that you do. Let's continue on. John 8:29 and 30. And he that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone. For I do always those things that please him, agreeable to him. As he spake these words, many believed or had faith on him. I want you to understand the moment that you believe and you grasp the heavenly father into your heart, Jesus into your heart, and you're forgiven, you are in the agreeable phase to please Jesus. The word agreeable there is to please God. Excuse me. So, you're pleasing God because you're doing the things. You're on the right path. The moment you align yourself with with Jesus, you partner together. He forgives you. You two hold hands. Guess what? The anointing you you walk into this relationship. You are pleasing God. And because you're pleasing God, because it takes faith to believe in Jesus, faith without works is dead. So, you're taking that faith, you're acting on it. Jesus, God is saying, "I am well pleased with you." This is how you move in the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and it's because you have faith. It is because you believe you're glorifying him. And it is so exciting to be able to realize that there is a person who shook the entire world when his blood hit the ground, caused an earthquake, an eclipse, the sun goes dark when he dies. But three days later, he comes out of the grave. And so the sign that everybody's looking for, he says, "I'm going to give you the sign of Jonah." Because Jonah didn't do what God asked him to do. Jonah ran. And so G uh God had to catch Jonah. So he caught him with a big fish. And when that fish swallowed him, several things happened to his body. His body, the acids were breaking down his body, his skin. He turned white washed. Um and he, you know, when he came back out, he was still alive and might not have been able to see, but he looked like a ghost to the people. So when he told Nineveh, "You need to be saved." Guess what? Nineveh repented because they thought there was a ghost telling them who who to believe in. They repented. And that's exactly the sign that he's giving to unbelievers today. Listen, the only sign you're going to get is that you saw Jonah go down and get swallowed by a great fish. And because we know of a person who got swallowed by a great fish back in um late 1800s, early 1900s, he was blind the rest of his life, but he came out and he survived it. But because of what it did to his skin and how he came out of it, this is why people believed. He survived. So when you are sharing the gospel, if you are to anyone, the good news is that Jesus pardon your sins. It's free. You get to be saved. They have the sign of Jonah. Jonah ran. Jesus didn't. Jesus was obedient. But then Jonah came and he did it angry, but he still pleased God because he still ended up doing it. There's like a two-tonone message in there, if you will. Amen. I hope you're grasping. This is an awesome message. John 14:6, Jesus sayeth the name, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but by me. So here, you can't get to God. You can't please God until you come through Jesus. You cannot come through Allah. You cannot come through any other means. You can't even go like the Philippines for resurrection day. This one guy they interviewed, he had been crucified 30 times all because of what his he believes that Jesus did. But unless he believes in Jesus, all that act is for nothing. Means nothing. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through him. Now, when you become a believer, what is it that you're going to want to do? You're going to want to please him. How do you please God? How are you in agreeable with God? What is it that God has called us to do? There are several ministries that we're called to do. Let's take a look at a few of them. Ephesians 4:11-16. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ. Now we are the body of Christ. We are part of the kingdom of God. Our hands should be laying on people and they should be healed. We should be casting out devils. We should be praying for our nation. We should be marching forward, praying for the finances of the world. We should be praying for our economy. We should be praying for Hollywood. We should be praying for all of these things. These ministries is what pushes us forward. Let's let's dive into this. I want to look at this a little bit more. They're apostles. Apostles, a delegate or an ambassador. Apostles typically will ratify a city and place a new church in that city and they will bring in a pastor for that church, but they won't stay. They travel. Look at what Paul did. Paul is an apostle of God. He traveled. He didn't stay at the church, but he established it. He also did signs and wonders because he prayed and cast out demons just like Jesus did. And what do we do? We partner with Jesus because my father is your father. My God is your God. And so we partner with him. Now ne not everybody's called to be an evangelist. However, we have I mean apostles, we have prophets, foretellers. Now prophecy is an interesting topic. It's a hot topic now um across many people. Here's the first important thing we need to remember about prophecy. All prophecy in the Bible has been written and established. So, for example, if you're prophesying that the end is coming, well, that's a true prophecy because the end is coming according to the Bible. We know that the signs around the end have not been fulfilled yet. That's a prophecy that hasn't been fulfilled. But if you're prophesying something to the effect like President Trump will win the election or something like that, I find it nowhere in the Bible that says President Trump will win the election. Even if you use Cyrus as an example and you call him Cyrus or whatever, it still doesn't say he wins an election. You see, when a prophet comes out and says something that is not biblical and not found in the word of God or it fits in the word of God, then you have to question that prophet or you need to pray for them. Don't judge them. Don't condemn them. Condemn them because that's what g Jesus doesn't do that. But he prays for them and this is where we need to be praying. But prophets are still part of ministry today. They just have to realize that the word has to come out of the Bible. We can see if you pro uh like for instance Damascus, the city of Damascus is going to be wiped off the face of the earth. You can prophesy that because it's a prophecy in the Bible that just hasn't been fulfilled yet. But you can call on it. These this is coming. Uh when Jesus says, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will not." It's coming. It's a prophecy that hasn't happened yet. You can prophesy. And the end is coming. We know it is. So if you're trying to do the green earth and save this earth as a lot of the leaders of the world are trying to do, I promise you that's against the Bible. This world is going to fall apart no matter what you do to it because it was prophesied that. But there's the office of prophecy. There's the office of evangelists. Evangelists are preachers of the gospel. They're going to teach the good news. They travel and they teach the good news. They're on the street corners. They're out there doing all that kind of teaching to bring people to the good news, to the redemption of what Jesus did and telling the world, "Hey, this is free. Look, you got this. It's yours. You just got to believe. Take a leap of faith." And you got all these people with all the false doctrines and the the ideologies that are in their heads that they don't understand something. Sometimes we have to just purge that out of our brains and just simply believe Jesus rose from the grave and pulled people out of the grave with him. This is all witness testimony at that time. I believe I hope that you do. If you don't want to believe that's between you and God work it out with him. He says come let us reason together in Isaiah. Then you have um pastors. Pastors are shepherds. They are going to lead their church in the direction of the Bible of what Jesus did. So they they're going to be the shepherd. They're going to be there at the hospital with you when you're suffering. They're going to come into your home and minister to you because that's what pastors do. It is very personal of a relationship between the pastor and the congregation. He will be there if you need him. That is what a pastor does. And then you have teachers or instructors. says something I do. I'm called to teach and preach the living word of God. And this is what I do. I break down the scriptures based on what the Holy Spirit reveals to me. And I teach it. Whether you hear it or not, I'm doing my part. This is the calling of Christ. And look what it does. It's for the perfecting which is a complete furnishing of the saints for the work of the ministry attendance service for the edifying or the architecture structure confirmation of the body of Christ. This is how we lay the body of Christ and the foundation. This is how it operates in whole. This is where we need to go because he's establishing the the five-fold ministry here. He's establishing there are gifts. There are other uh things that the um the Holy Spirit grants for the church. You have the gifts of speaking in tongues, interpreting tongues, prophesying and uh you have the gifts of um healing, administrative help. These all these gifts exist. There are different gifts. Sometimes just being at the door greeting someone, how are you? I love you. Welcome to the church. These are ministries of the church. They're all to edify the architecture of the body of Christ. So that we're walking on the foundation of what? The name of Jesus in which we are partnered with. And that his father is our father. His God is our God. Hallelujah. Look at verse 13. Till we all come in the unity oneness of the faith. Till we all get together in oneness. We're not there yet. That's been prophesied. That's a prophecy that we will unify. But we're not in unity right now. In fact, you can go back all the way to the days of the early church. Barnabas and Paul argued whether to take John Mark with him uh or not. Paul said, "Don't take him." Barnabas is like, "I strongly believe we need to take him." They had a falling out. Barnabas and John Mark went one way. Silas and Paul went the other way. They separated because of that. Just little things, little arguments like that will cause this division. It started in the early church. So, we're not in unity yet. But when we will be because we will be because we're going to finally grasp that we follow the anointing of the Holy Spirit that we walk in the living word of God and the word is being revealed to us because knowledge is growing greater today. And we will be in unity as Paul is prophesying here till we all come in the unity of the faith which is that persuasion credence and of the knowledge look at this recognition or full discernment of the son of God which is what I was just saying unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. So that body of Christ is going to meet that measure. We just haven't got there yet. We need to come in unity. What did Jesus do? He forgave. What do we like to do? Well, we're going to excommunicate or bye. We don't believe in the same thing. Get out of here. The the early church, the Catholic Church back in the 1300s, I'm reading Fox's book of martyrs, they got into an argument. I guess John Whitecliffe came out and says the Eucharist doesn't turn into the flesh of Jesus. It's still bread when you take it. where the Catholic Church was saying no it turns into the body of Christ and the wine turns into the blood of Jesus and you partake and you are taking the physical body of Christ and the physical blood you are drinking it literally and John Whitecliffe says no it's symbol but they disagreed so much that the Catholic Church was crucifying people or killing people for what they believed in and not letting the word of God persevere but for people like this and people John Whitecliffe and others who took the stand finally broke had to get the church out. This is why we have so many denominations today as a matter of fact because of revelation of the word coming to someone and it gets picked up and people believe. But at that time they actually killed people just over whether the eukarist was the actual flesh or not. It's amazing how a little thing like that can be caught up when you're trying to work the Holy Spirit. This is why you see churches fall apart and and partners suddenly hate each other because there's no agreement. There's no forgiveness. There's no letting go. There's no humbling. Whether you believe in your leader or not, if he's your pastor, you need to humble yourself. But go and make sure it's for the Lord and that he stands for the Lord if it's scriptural and you need to pray about it. You don't take the action. You let the Holy Spirit do his part. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. Verse 14. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slate. It's like a dice a cube dice of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive. That's the thing. So little things like this to step in. Uh there was another Peter that stepped into the Catholic Church and caused a lot of things like that Eucharist being thought of as the physical blood. But as the revelation got more revealed to people, they stood their ground and were martyed for it. That's the history that we have behind us. And look at us today. A lot of people, especially in third world countries, don't have the freedom to speak the gospel. Here in America, I I have the freedom to do it, but the doors are closing more and more because of offense. And that's what happens here. But this is why we need to pray and forgive and let the Holy Spirit do his job. I'm not here to do the Holy Spirit's job. All I'm called to do is teach and preach the word of God. Interpret it and put value into it and share it with you. What is your calling in your life? Let's continue on now in verse 15. But speaking the truth in love. Now if you go to 1 Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. First thing it says, if you talk uh of tongues of men and of angels but have no love, you sound like a clanging symbol. So he's bringing love back into the ministry. but speaking the truth and love. See, when you're upset with someone and you guys are arguing and you're gonna separate, sometimes you just need to love them and say, "I love you and we'll walk away from this and let it go. Let's just continue on and we'll move on to other areas and we'll leave this part. Let's just pray about it. Let it go. Let the Holy Spirit deal with it." That would be effective and that would bring more unity to the church. Something we lack. I, you know, we have a lot of um good teachers out there, good preachers, good evangelists out there who are talking about our government, talking about this that I've not heard one of them say, "Well, let's forgive him and pray for him." I haven't heard that yet, but that's what Jesus would preach and do if Jesus was talking today. Uh but speaking the truth in love, affection, benevolence, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joined together and united. That's what the word compacted there means. By that which every joint supply according to the effectual or efficiently working in the me measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto what? The edifying of itself in love, the construction of the body in love. This is where we're called to do what we're called to do as the body of Christ and as a living organism, as part of the kingdom of God, as part of the church. This is what I'm praying for. I'm praying for the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, the church. One, I forgive us. I have to forgive us because we all mess up. If you go read the seven letters to the seven churches in Revelation, you will find uh six out of the seven letters, Jesus says, "But I still have this against you." We We're not perfect. We're not God. What we do is we partner with Jesus, try to be Christlike. And that takes forgiveness. That takes having grace. That takes backing off from an argument even if you're right. Oh, I hope you guys are grasping this. You see, Jesus says, "I take you to my father who is your father, to my God who is your God." And he, remember, the father gave Jesus all authority to judge the earth. And Jesus says, "Well, I don't judge. I'm going to forgive." Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Oh, I hope you guys are grabbing this and that you walk in forgiveness. That you are praying for your pastors, your leaders, the leadership around the world, for our government, the leaders of the church. We need to be praying for the body of Christ. And I hope that is something that you guys are doing. And I encourage you to do it. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the anointing of your word. I pray that this word edifies one another and gets placed in our hearts that we have mercy and grace to pray forgiveness into the church into the body of Christ into the kingdom of God. And we are marching in the kingdom of God under the guidance of your Holy Spirit, the living word of God through your revelation, Father God. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye.