Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and recording this on Thursday, February 29th, 2024, leap year. Welcome. This message is called the day of salvation. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessings and favor on us, Lord. And and we pray and ask that we we hear your word and we apply your word to our lives, Father God, because this is an awesome message. And I thank you for the revelation of this message. And I pray that we can all take a part of it and run with it and hold on to you as tight as we can. Father God, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. And amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called the day of salvation. Our opening scriptures is in 2 Corinthians 6:1. We then as workers together, together means cooperation with him, beseech or call near, invite you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain or empty. So we're going to be talking about the day of salvation here. Today is the day of salvation. We are in a time period of salvation right now which is absolutely incredible and I hope that you get this and you understand it. So we are going to be talking about the day of salvation. salvation is. And if you notice here, we work together in this salvation. So, we're going to be talking about ministry work for believers. If you are an unbeliever and you are hearing this message, now's the time to repent. I encourage you to call on Jesus. You need to. We all need to. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. So, now's the time to repent. And now's the time to get ready with the Lord. If you don't have a relationship with the Lord on top of your salvation, meaning you're spending time with the Lord and getting to know his word, you're asking questions. He's answering because you're reading and praying. Uh that's the relationship value there. If you're not doing that, you need to because now's the time to get ready. He is preparing us for his return. Now is the time to get ready. This is called the day of salvation. Amen. Let's continue on to verse two. Uh here in 2 Corinthians 6, we're going to read verses 2 and three. Verse two, notice, okay, it's got parentheses already around it. That's because that is in the Bible. Okay, the parentheses are already there. I didn't add them. So, what I did is I added brackets for the bolded word. So if you see the bolded word in brackets afterwards, those extra words are other words that the bolded word could have been translated as. It gives us a deeper look into the scripture and I like teaching that way. So that's what you're seeing on the screen in front of you. So now this particular verse two is a reference to Isaiah 49:8. Paul is partially quoting that scripture. We will look at Isaiah 49:8 here in a moment. So let's look at what Paul says. He says, "For he saith or he's laying down." And by the way, this is God talking that he is referencing. Says, "I have heard thee in a time accepted," which means approved. And in the day of salvation have I secured or helped thee. Behold now, meaning present time is the accepted, the approved time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. I'm going to stop there. The day of salvation is this time here and now that we're in right now. How do I know this? Well, the day of the Lord has not re happened yet. That's a big day of taught on it. It's a day where there's an invasion from Gog and Magog into uh Israel and they're all killed. God stops and there's a day of darkness. It is a day, a dreary day, lots of rain, hail. It's a big earthquake going to happen that day. that has not happened yet. Okay? So until that day happens and and by the way at that point the rapture happens. So the body of Christ will be removed at that time. Until that day happens we are in what's called the day of salvation. It's because what Jesus did is when he was crucified he redeemed all of us. He paid the price for our sins, yours and mine. And because he did that, we have redemption, a free gift. It is salvation. Jesus says, "I'm going to forgive you of anything and everything." All you have to do is confess. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is a very simple matter of fact. That's your salvation. Remember the thief on the cross? He never got water baptized. He never went door todo. He never was fruitful. He never multiplied. He never got a chance to live for Christ because he died on the cross and that was it. But he was saved. So s the day of salvation is now. And we're going to look a little more. And I just did a teaching on the difference between living for the Lord and just being saved and the different levels of different Christians throughout the world. That is true. It is a fact. You can go take a look. I have a different level of my belief and faith may be more higher than others and it's still lower than others. I'm not at the top and I will never proclaim to be at the top, but there are those that are and I and God bless them. So, each of us have to kind of work out our salvation and get to that. So, that's what this salvation message is about. And I want to show you how Jacob did it. But before we get there, let's read the rest of the scripture because I want to bring this all to life. Verse three, giving no offense, stumbling or occasion of sin. That's what the word offense means. Giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed. That ministry is attendance, aid, service. Okay. So, I think in today's time, and maybe I'm being a little overdramatic about it, but I think that the body of Christ has romanticized the five-fold ministry, uh, evangelism, apostilhip, prophet, teaching, um, and I can't think of the other one right now, but, uh, we've romanticized it and put these people that do these ministries up on a pedestal. But look at what the word ministry is. It says attendance, aid, service. That's all we're doing. Listen, we're all as human as you are. All we do is spend time in the word and ask the Holy Spirit for revelation of that word so we can come and teach it to you because we are called well in my case I'm called to teach and preach the word of God which is means I'm a minister. I minister the living word of God to you and I do this on a weekly basis. In fact, what I do is an online ministry which is supplemental to you joining your body of Christ or your church in your sanctuary. This is just additional to kind of get you through the week. Gives you um I hope I'm teaching a little more in the meat area a deeper understanding of the living word of God than what your pastor can teach. Your pastor teaches but he teaches as a global over uh he covers the whole church, the whole body of Christ. So he can't do individual teachings and and to the body of Christ because he has to keep his body together and bring them up together. So there's going to be in that body more that are uplifted and closer to God than others. So he has to keep a balance whereas I have the opportunity to come in here and teach a deeper meaning, a deeper level of the word of God. And I hope that you are blessed by it. Amen. So that's what this is about. So when you become saved, that salvation should not be empty vain. We saw Paul talk about that. He says it needs to be filled with something that is the spirit of God. So let's continue on and read um and now I want to quote this is the scripture that Paul quoted in in verse two of Corinthian first Corinthians 6. So this is Isaiah 498. Let's read the whole scripture. Thus sayeth the Lord, in an acceptable, which is a delight or favor time, which is now, have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee. Now, here's the rest of it. and I will preserve or guard thee, give thee for a covenant or promise of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit or occupy look at this the desolate which is the stunned deficit stupified makease heritages. Now he's talking to Israel here. Now Israel has become a nation again. It is a shock to the world. Israel is the fourth largest nation in the world to provide food for the world. And there a little teeny thing. But that's Israel because God has allowed them to occupy that desolate land that Mark Twain talked about back in 1800s when he wrote about Israel, how desolate and wilderness the place was. But look at what God has done. And it amazes people. It stupifies them and it it stuns them. So God did that with Israel. Paul is quoting that scripture. He's quoting the beginning part. He says, "This is the day of salvation and I have helped thee." meaning he's helping us here and now so we can walk in the ministry of the day of salvation. Because we today, any preacher, any minister, any pastor, any evangelist, any any teacher, any person in the five-fold ministry, our objective will always be salvation and grace because Jesus is in the business of salvation. He's here to save people. He says, "I will forgive anyone of anything at any time." That is what you ought to grab on. The only one who does not forgive all the time, anytime, and all the time is uh the Holy Spirit. And what that is, it's a voice in the back of your head. So when you get saved, you see, even before you get saved, there's something in the back of your head talking to you. He's saying, "You want this?" And you know why it was funny? My dad was talking about the day um the week before he got saved back in 1976. He remembers it. He was watching people in the church. He happened to go to church and he's watching the delight and the joy of their heart as they praised and worshiped the Lord. He says, "I want that." And the next Wednesday service that they went to, they didn't want to wait till Sunday. They went Wednesday night and they went up and got uh saved. They went and accepted the Lord in their heart. There was an altar call and they went up forward. Every pastor, every preacher, every evangelist should be talking about salvation and letting everybody know now's the day of salvation. Now is the time to get saved. It is very important that you do this. You see, I I want you to understand, I know we're all attracted to the end time events, especially uh not just the day of the Lord and the rapture, but really about the sevenyear tri uh uh seven-year time period of God's wrath. We have to be very careful about that because see our goal and objective is try to not get anybody to get there. So to even teach that you can get saved during that time is not biblical. Now there will be people who will be martyed during that time for Christ because they're not going to accept the mark of the beast and they're going to end up dying for what they believe in. But that doesn't mean they're saved during that walk. It means you have to die for it. Now, we really don't even know that to be true. I say it because that's what a lot of theologians teach. The seven thunders are going to speak and they're going to tell you how to get saved. At least that's what I believe in. But remember, God told uh or the angel told John, "Don't write what the seven thunders say." See, they don't want us to know what's going to happen in that time period because now is the day of salvation. This is the time period where we need to be saying, "Get saved now. Don't wait any longer. Now is the time to get saved. Amen. So, this is what we're talking about. Let's go to Romans real quick. Romans 11:25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant, which is not to know or lack of information of this mystery. It's a secret. Watch what he says here. This is very important. Lest ye should be wise in your own conceits. See, we're wise in our own conceits to even think that we know what the seven-year time period of God's wrath is all about. If you're a believer in Christ, you will not be attending that time frame. Our time comes when the fullness of the Gentiles is complete. I will show you scripture on that. And that's what I'm actually showing you right here. He says, uh, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits. that blindness and by the way that word blindness means stupidity or callousness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness or completion of the Gentiles which is a race a tribe foreign become in or enters in we the Gentiles the body of Christ came into existence the moment Jesus rose from the grave he taught it as the kingdom of God in in his three three-year ministry that he had when he was crucified he went to the grave for three days. He rose from the grave and before he left he walked on the earth after death for 40 days and appeared to over 500 people at one time. This is all eyewitness testimony in the Bible in the four gospels and in Acts. You can read about all of this and what they have what happened. It's your choice whether you want to believe it or not. So the day of salvation began with Israel. the law. They had to present the law and Jesus fulfilled the law. And he says, "Now I'm telling you to love your neighbor as you love yourself." And that is a commandment. So he's saying, "Now is the time to confess me as your Lord and Savior. Now is the day of salvation so that you can get saved." And I already taught about the difference between living with Christ and living not with Christ. But in your ministry, whether you are on high for God or you happen to be down here, you're going to see Paul tell us that our ministry should still be an exhibit to those around us because the salvation of the Lord is today and we ought to be sharing that no matter where we are spiritually. And Paul is teaching this and you're going to see this here in the scripture. Now, that means this fullness of Gentiles is going to come to completion on the day of the Lord because we do not teach salvation in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. This is just more scripture supporting that. And I I hope you're understanding that. And I hope you're watching these last several videos I've taught on this because I really want you to see and know we have to be teaching the now, the grace, and the salvation of today. We want to be aware of prophecy. We want to know that this time is coming to an end. But at the same time, this just means we need to be more urgent with what we're teaching. Amen. So there is coming the fullness of the Gentiles will be completed and then Israel will continue on. Now Israel needs to be saved. So Israel who has rejected Jesus, they're going to go through the seven-year time period and God is going to save them. He is their help and he's going to work walk with them during that time period and that is all biblical. They're going to be 144,000 male Jews are going to be sealed of 12,000 of each tribe. They're going to have to run. They're going to run to the hidden place that God has for them right in the middle as soon as the abomination of desolation happens. So that happens in the seven-year time period. It's right in the middle. They're going to run because they're going to see all of a sudden they've been following the Antichrist and they're going to become aware and they're going to get saved. So God has a plan for them. But the body of Christ is not in that plan at that time. So today is the day of salvation. Today is the day that we need to be saved. Amen. Now in Genesis, I want you I want you to see something. This is so powerful. when you get saved and there there won't be an emptiness there. It won't be vain. You're going to have a spirit of God talking to you and there is going to be a transformation. Now, sometimes the transformation takes place and it's instantaneously. Other times it takes a little more time. I want to show you something in the Old Testament that had me weeping so much. I don't even know why my spirit was weeping so much, but it's so powerful. I hope that you catch this and I hope that my spirit with the Holy Spirit is imparting this uh feeling and this joy to you because today is a day of salvation. You're going to see what happened to Jacob when his day of salvation took place. Amen. Okay. So, we're going to go to Genesis 32 and read verses 24- 28. Let me give you a background before I begin reading. Jacob has spent I think it's about 20 years. You can go read that part of scripture. He spent seven years in Laban trying to get his wife Rachel. Now Laban and Leah, I guess Leah is the older daughter, I think. And Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they tricked him and put Leah there. They put so much heavy veils that he didn't see her. He married her and went and consummated the marriage and realized I got the wrong wife. So he ends up working another seven years for Rachel. So he was there 14 years and I think he was there another either six or seven more years there. But in the meantime, he has two wives. And he ends up getting 12 children. Uh some through the handmaid handmaidadens because there was a jealousy going on, a rival between Leah and Rachel. So you can read all of that. This is how the 12 tribes of Israel comes into existence. Now notice his name is Jacob. Watch what happens. He He He's leaving Labon Laban. He's leaving him. He's now going to go see his brother, Esau. Now, the last time he saw Esau, they didn't part in good terms. He ran from Esau. Esau got mad. He was able to manipulate Esau to get his birthight from him. And Esau was mad, but Esau sold it for a bowl of food, a plate of food. So anyways, they left in bad terms. So now Jacob is coming back. So he sends messengers ahead and Esau responds by bringing him and 400 of his men toward Jacob. So he's marching toward Jacob. So Jacob's thinking, "Oh my goodness, he's going to fight me and my family." Jacob doesn't have an army. Jacob only has this family and his servants and his cattle and all he's doing is trying to find a better place, a bigger place to get out of Leon Leon. Layman, I don't know how to say his name. I'm going to say Layman. Layman had tricked him and manipulated him for the past 20 21 years or however many years it was, but he had uh tricked him, had changed his wages multiple times, tricked him with the different wives. So he is now finally going to leave and go back. And now he is scared because he thinks his brother's going to defeat him. So he separates his family. This has got to be the craziest thing you have got to ever hear. He's not thinking that his family is going to be defeated, per se. He's putting him in safe places, but he's doing it in such a way that he can save at least half of his family, but he doesn't know which half is going to be saved. So he is distressed. He is distraught. He is vexed. He is in a place that he doesn't want to be in and but he has no choice. So he's got his family all separated. He is by himself at a peak, a precipice that he names Penny later. Now watch this. Says here, "And Jacob," which by the way that name means heel catcher, was left alone. He's now separated from his family. And there wrestled. Oh, I want you to see what this word wrestled means. To float away as vapor, grapple, a man with him until the breaking of the day. He's wrestling with a man. And that word wrestle is to grapple, but it has a vapor quality to it. Watch. Let's read the rest of it. And I want to show you something here. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him meaning God is realizing see Jacob is wrestling with the spirit of God. He is wrestling with God and God is not winning.

Obviously God is letting Jacob win here but watch. So this is and when God saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said this is now God talking let me go for the day breakth and he said I will not let thee go except thou bless me so Jacob is like I got you and I'm not letting you go till you bless me oh watch this and he said to him this is God talking to him what is thy name and he said, "Jacob." God said, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel, he," which means he will rule as God. For as a prince hast thou power, prevailed with God and with men and hast prevailed. So he prevailed with God and with men. That is what the name Israel means. Now I want you to understand this happened in the physical in Jacob's day. Now prior to this moment the people always talked about the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac. They never talked about Jacob because he hadn't been transformed yet. later on when his brother approaches him because you know now he had his his transformation his salvation took place he's no longer empty he's realizing he named it pineal because this was a place he wrestled with God and saw the face of God and he lived through it so he had a transformation so what he did is he tells his family but they continue forward Esau approaches him and hugs him. And Jacob is seeing God for the first time move in his life.

Now, I want to ask you a question. Today is the day of salvation.

Are you wrestling with God? He's going to let you win.

That's the revelation here. Now, I want you to see the ministry part of it because there are days you're going to feel like you can do ministry work and there's going to be days you can't because we're still flesh. So, look at what Paul says about ministry and the salvation that we have within our soul, within our spirit. Watch what he says in our work that we do for Christ when we live for Christ. because that transformation takes place just like Jacob. We see God move and yet still we have down days. So Paul tells us what goes on. Watch this. He says we're back in 2 Corinthians 6 starting in verse four. But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God. Now watch this. He says in all things. So he's going to tell you in the good and the bad and in the in the evil and the good. He's going to show us this. I want you to see some key words here. Approving means set together, introduce, exhibit ourselves. Look at the word ministers. To run errands, attendance of God. So we're to do God's ministry. This is what we're called to do here in the day of salvation, which is today and now. But not all days do we feel like it. So he says you need to exhibit yourselves as ministers in everything. So he starts in look he goes in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tomalts, in labors, in swatchings, which is sleeplessness, in fastings or abstinence, in puress, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost. When you don't feel like praising and worshiping the Lord, you still need to do it because you need to be ministering and exhibiting your ministry through the Holy Spirit and through all things. He continues on and by love and look at this and he says unf by love unfeigned which means you need to whether you're loving with through benevolence by giving gifts and being there for somebody just letting them cry on your shoulder if that's what you have to do or even when you don't feel like loving them you still got to exhibit your salvation that God has transformed in you. Amen. So, he's showing us how to do it. He says, "By the word of truth." You still got to do it by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor. You've got tools of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. You see, these are things that we have even when we don't feel like it. Continuing on, look at says by honor and dishonor. There going to be days you're going to honor your parents. There going to be days you're going to be mad at them and you're going to curse them. Honor and dishonor. says, "By evil report and good report." Look at this. As deceivers and yet true because there days that we like to manipulate things because we're the flesh. We think it's easier to lie or to to deceive somebody, you know, like maybe this is better for them. You know, we keep the truth from them because then they'll might do this or do that or whatever the situation may be. You know exactly what I'm talking about. And the Holy Spirit is showing you that. Well, guess what he says? In that, you still need to exhibit your salvation. You see how important this message is? We need to be exhibiting our salvation of the Lord because today is the day of salvation. Whether you feel like it, whether you're lying, whether you're cheating, whether you're an adulterer, whether it doesn't matter. You are still having to exhibit your salvation. Look at what he says as unknown. Because now you got people who say, "Well, I know the right way. This church teaches God the right way. This church I'm of Apollos. I'm of Paul." It doesn't matter. It's the day of salvation. It is of Jesus. What he did on the cross. He died for us and then he rose from the grave. And that is what we teach on. And that is your knowledge that you should have in the day of salvation. See, it says as unknown or lack of information and yet well known as dying because even as you're dying in a hospital, you should still be exhibiting. My time might be coming short here, but you know what? I give God the glory because he has given me a great life. And you know how many people you will minister to when you say things like that is awesome and powerful. And yet, and behold, we live as chastened, educated, or trained up as a child and not killed. We can come become dead. We didn't let this world die or kill us. We didn't let the enemy take us down and keep us down. So he's saying even in that fight, you are exhibiting the day of salvation, your ministry. Hallelujah. Look at this. He says, "And even as sorrowful yet always rejoicing to be full of cheer, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things." So even if you're rich or even if you're poor, you are exhibiting your ministry. Whatever it may be, it could be baking cookies. It could be just smiling to people. It could be just telling people, "God bless you at the grocery store." It's your ministry because it is your salvation. It is what the Lord has transformed into you. And today is the day of salvation. And every one of us is a part of the body of Christ, the kingdom of God, and the church. And we should be marching in this exhibit displaying the day of salvation because it is now whether we feel like it or not. This is our ministry. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And let me show you how we know to do this even further than what Paul tells us. Look at Philippians 2:12. Where wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed or listened attentively, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and treble trembling. And look at salvation is rescue safety. You see, when you are demonstrating that you're praying for people in the hospital, that you're going there, you're texting them, you're on, you're you're letting them see other people are you're letting them cry on your shoulder. Other people are watching this and they're like, "Wow, this is neat. I want this." And what happens is when they get saved, you show them the day of salvation, how to exhibit the joy in their heart, however way they're feeling, because it is the spirit of God. Is not by might nor by power, but by his spirit. And so all things that you do needs to exhibit the day of salvation. Amen. Amen. Let's do this and let us purpose it in our hearts. You know, I pray every morning this actually Monday through Friday. I do pray Saturday and Sundays, but I do a different prayer on Saturdays and Sundays. So, I pray every morning, but it's funny because there are days I'm praying and nothing. I mean, I'm I'm speaking the words. I may speak in tongues a bit, but it's there's really no I don't feel any movement. I don't feel like it. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. Um, but there are other days. Today is a great example. Boy, the anointing was so strong. So, it amazes me. So, there's just every day is a different day, which means we have to exhibit the salvation we got in that day, no matter what that day is. I hope you get this message and I hope that it encourages you to take that day and say, "You know what, Lord? No matter what this day is, I'm giving you the glory, honor, praise, and strength because you're still my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. And I'm still going to exhibit you. Even if I've got a cold, I'm sick, sneezing, whatever, I'm going to exhibit you. Oh, I'm going to exhibit your salvation. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word, let it not return void. Thank you, Father God, for letting our hearts be filled with joy and that that joy is always present and prevalent even when we don't feel like it. And teach us and help us have the strength to exhibit your salvation for what you've done in our lives daily, Father God. No matter how we feel that day and no matter what's going on on that day. Thank you, Lord. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message.