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EVE - RELATIONSHIP PART 1 The objective of this message is to teach biblical principles of relationships as revealed through the creation of Eve, showing how God’s original design establishes the foundation for marriage, family, and human connection. The lesson aims to help believers understand the structure of relationships according to Scripture, apply God’s word to their daily lives, and cultivate stronger, Christ-centered connections with spouses, parents, children, and others. EVE - RELATIONSHIP PART 1 Minister Lisa Kane May 16, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to teach biblical principles of relationships as revealed through the creation of Eve, showing how God’s original design establishes the foundation for marriage, family, and human connection. The lesson aims to help believers understand the structure of relationships according to Scripture, apply God’s word to their daily lives, and cultivate stronger, Christ-centered connections with spouses, parents, children, and others. Synopsis: In this continuation of the Women of the Bible series, Lisa Kane focuses on Eve, exploring her creation and its significance in the construct of human relationships. Using Genesis 1:27 and 2:21–24 as the starting point, the teaching emphasizes how God formed man and woman with complementary roles that reflect His image. The message highlights that the foundation of relationships is built when Adam leaves his parents and cleaves to Eve, establishing the pattern of unity, faith, and dependence upon God. Lisa explains that relationships are designed to mirror the order God set: man submitting to Christ, and woman partnering with and supporting man under God’s covering. Drawing from Ephesians 5, the lesson clarifies submission, self-control, and love within marriage, addressing misconceptions and stressing mutual prayer, humility, and unity in Christ as the true strength of relationships. Practical insights are given on handling conflicts, practicing forgiveness, exercising self-control through the fruit of the Spirit, and maintaining prayer as the cornerstone of relational health. Husbands are instructed to love their wives sacrificially, while wives are called to respect and support their husbands, both drawing strength from Christ as the ultimate foundation. The message closes with encouragement to allow the Holy Spirit to transform personal attitudes and actions, ensuring relationships thrive according to God’s design. A follow-up teaching is promised on how to address and restore broken relationships. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, May 16th, 2024. Welcome. I'm in a series called Women of the Bible. And today we're going to be talking again about Eve. is kind of like a part two, but in this case, we're going to be talking about Eve in relationships because the foundation or the construct of relationship is built at the time Eve is created. So, I want to show you that, teach it to you, and hopefully help you understand how to change yourself to have better relationships with your spouse, with your parents, with your children, with your co-workers, and so on and so forth. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word, and we bless your word that it does not return void. We ask that your word penetrates our heart and that the enemy does not take away the word that you plant in our hearts. That you plant it with the seed and that it manifests and grows within us. That your word stands strong in us. That we are very good at relationships and we can stand in your relationship that you have given us. Thank you, Father God, for your blessings, for your honor, for your glory, for everything that you do, have done, and will do in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. So, we're talking about women of the Bible and we're still in Eve. This is I guess you can call it a part two, but in reality, the first one was called Eve Born Again. This one's called Eve relationship. Let's go to our opening scripture. So, we're going to start again with the same scripture we did before. Genesis 1:27. So, God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. I want to reiterate this part and let me um lay a foundation here. First, there are two books of the Bible that are most attacked. Genesis is one of them. Revelation is the other. So, if you're not hearing teachers and preachers in your listening, whether at church or on your online listening of teachers and preachers, if they're not teaching on Genesis and Revelation, supplement your listening. add in teachers that are teaching in Genesis and Revelation because it is so profound to know how it began, what God plans to do, what he does in the middle, and then how he ends it all. If you understand the whole thing, it makes a lot more sense for you to believe in it. Amen. Second, I want to lay down a foundation of your faith. The enemy has attacked the book of Genesis. So much so that there are teachers and preachers trying to force evolution into scripture. Well, scripture does not talk about evolution at all. Evolution is not possible. I taught on this. I don't want to delve into it too much. You can go back and look at the teaching I did. It's under other teachings in the houseof faithministries.org website. But I can assure you that evolution is not true. He created male and female. And for all of those that are having identity crisis, this word is for you because this is going to show you what the male and the female are made and what we're made to do. This is going to help our relationships with one another and help us have that great relationship with our Christ. Amen. So here we see that God says, so God created man. By the way, that word man is self. It's like we're we're God's self, but he made us in an image, which means a phantom or a shade. So we're God's self here on the earth. Not in the full light and capacity of who he is because he's spirit. We're in the flesh, but we are made in that image. Meaning the potential is there. And he says in the image of God. Now that word God there means plural. So created he him. He him. God the father. God the son. God the son is here. This is Jesus doing all of this. And I hope you are grasping that. In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. This is John 1 verse one that I paraphrase there. You can go check it out. But this is Jesus here in the beginning who said let there be light. And there was light. Well, he is the one making God in his image with his father because he him. So they're making him or making us in his image. And then look what he says. He him male and female created in them. So you have God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. So you have that it's like one God with three functions and now you have male and female who come out of those three functions. So God, you know, I talked about being born again, and I did that in the last message. Again, I'm not going to reiterate that, but that gives you an idea of how we become born again in the spirit. So, we're born of the flesh and then we're born of the spirit. And once you become born of the spirit, you enter into the kingdom of God, which is the ministry here on the earth. Your heavenly realm begins here on the earth when you believe and accept him. Amen. But now, let's look again. I want to look again at how Adam is created and Eve is created because you're going to see the construct of relationship built right into this. So, start with Adam. Uh, Genesis 2:7, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul." So God basically just squeezed and formed the mud and the dirt and then he made Adam and he breathed into his nostrils and put life there. Awesome. This is great. This is how man is started. But you see man as himself cannot procreate the way he is created. There are self organisms out there that do self-create self-procreate. But male and female human beings do not self-procreate. You need a man and you need a woman. God says, "Adam needs a helpmate." So, here's how Eve is created. Watch this. Genesis 2:21-24. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall clean cleave or cling and here catch unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." Okay. Now this is where the relationship part comes into existence. Last week, I showed you the visual representation of the man holding his arm. He covers his wife. She's tucked in under here because she's made of the rib and the rib cage is what protects the vital organs of the man. She becomes the protector of him and all of his parts. Now, interesting enough, Adam says he has to leave his parents. He has to loose them in and he he becomes one flesh with her. He marries her and they become one flesh. Now, I want you to catch this here. When he and her, male and female, become one flesh, he lets go of his parents. doesn't say for her to let go of her parents. I want you to catch this because now we're going to develop build a construct of a relationship here of how this works. When the man leaves his parents to cleave to his wife, what belief system does he believe in? if he has to leave his parents because the parents is what instills in us the beliefs that we're going to have later in life. We are greatly influenced by our parents whether it is good or bad. Whether there's a bad parent or a good parent, you are influenced by them. You may say, "I don't ever want to be like my parents." and you may end up being just like them because you don't know how to change that which I'm going to teach here how to change that. So when Adam leaves his parents what is he doing? He has to go back to the original construct God made Adam and God breathed into his nostrils. Adam is of God. So what does the man do? He leaves the parental beliefs. He lets them. He looses them. The influence is still there. But he has to part of his belief system now changes. He becomes a believer of God. And his rock and his foundation becomes the word of God, which is Christ who establishes. This is what the man is set up to be close to God because God breathed the word of God into his nostrils and he became life. because we know that Jesus is life. So understand that life is in the man. And so the man is the one that's going to be going directly to God, not his parents. Now I want you to see how Paul explains this in detail so that we can understand what's going on here. You have man who is going to Christ. Just like Christ is the head of the church, man is going to be head of the woman. Let's go to Ephesians and look at this. Ephesians 5:21-33. So verse uh 21, submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Paul is clearly telling us that the two male and female are to submit unto God unto one another. Look, let's read that again. Yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Meaning God comes first. So you have him first. So male and female became one flesh. So remember, if God breathed into Adam's nostrils and you become one flesh with him, God has breathed it into you too, woman. You are now part direct with God under the covering of your man. This is how this works. Look at verse 22. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord who is supreme authority. So if you're giving your obedience to the word of God in fear of God as we ought to as Christians, then we're to do this woman at unto our man. See, and if you're praying for your man that, which is what I taught on last week's message, I'm going to tell you, he is going to be the man of God that he needs to be to have his covering over you. You are going to have that perfect relationship because of you and the authority that you've been given to pray over your man and his covering be upon you. But you are one before God. I hope you're seeing the outer shell now of the relationship construct that God has given us. Now look at Ephesians 5:23. For the husband is the head of the wife. So Paul is explaining it here. The husband is the head of the wife even even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior deliverer of the body. Okay. Now let me explain this because I think a lot of this has been distorted. I think um what the world is showing us that women have to do everything the man tells her. What this means it's a hierarchy. Okay. Someone has to make the final decision whether we agree or disagree. Again, here's the construct of the relationship establishing man as the final decision maker. But you woman have a lot of influence over your man. You can explain to him. You're praying to to God and you're praying your influence that you have from the word of God in you. But both of you should be seeking God and having God's scripture be upon you. And he makes the final decision. It could be whether to buy a house now, whether to go into ministry. And whether he makes a right or wrong decision, he's the final decision maker. You continue praying for him. You continue to let the Holy Spirit. And I'm going to tell you right now, many times he's going to make the right decision if your relationship is in Christ. Because what's happening is he doesn't have the whole picture. You don't have the whole picture. But because it's his responsibility to make that final decision, Christ, if you guys are in unity, you're following this, God is going to bless you. Meaning it will be the right decision made. So this is how what submitting unto your husband means. Now the word submit I it in the Hebrew uh Greek uh Strong's dictionary it's G5293. By the way the word subject and submit is the same word and it simply means to subordinate to obey be under obedience put under subdue unto subject yourself to if you're subjecting yourself to God and your man is who you're with and and and he's a believer in Christ. Now, I'm talking as being a believer in Christ. We're going to I'm going to show you how to work other areas around this for non-believers and so forth. I'll get to different types of relationships here in a moment, but in the meantime, let's just set the foundation and the construct of what the Bible tells us a relationship should be. That's what I'm focusing on. So, wives, you're submitting, you're obeying your husband, but at the same time, your husband's obeying Christ, and you're obeying Christ. So, the woman has a two-parter. She's not only obeying Christ and his word, she's obeying her husband. And I'm going to tell you right now, woman, you have the authority to go to God and tattle on your husband. You do. If he's the one that's veering off and doing something wrong. And by the way, women, we have such intuition. We know what's going on. This is why we have this gift and this talent because this is what God gave us. We're aware. So, we know what to pray for. And by the way, if you go watch that movie, the war room, you can see what power does, the power of prayer, what prayer does. It is very powerful. You can definitely pray a change in the situation. Now you can see where the relationship rock and the foundation is Christ. He should be in the word of God and she should be in the word of God, but she lets him make the final decisions. She can give him all the advice and everything. But there's something here that shows us something that is very interesting. Now, did I read verse 24? Let me make sure I read verse 24. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands. So, you see, I was just explaining that. And look at what it says in verse 23, the end part of 23. And he is the savior, deliverer of the body. So, you're the one flesh. Now, your flesh when you're not in Christ becomes sick. If you're ever wondering why you get sick from time to time, wonder what you did the weeks before that. Were you cursing yourself? Were you not obeying the word of God? As one flesh, you male and female need to be obeying the word of God. If you've been thinking fleshly thoughts, it is highly likely that the Lord is going to send correction. This is why the woman has the intu in intuition the way she does. But the same thing for a woman. If you're thinking fleshly thoughts and you're not praying for your man, you're the one causing the enemy to come in. You need to humble yourself before Christ. How do you do that? You have to obey Christ. And we're going to show you how to submit here in just a minute. I want you to see that. But see, he's the deliverer of the body. Look at that. And he is the he is the savior deliverer of the body. So, if you want you and your husband to have a healthy relationship, to be one flesh, healthy, and whole, you've got to have Christ in there, which means you're praying Christ into him. He should be praying for you. You guys should be praying to Christ for each other. You guys should be in the word of God because you're now operating as one. And he has to be the head because he has to make the final decisions. Nine out of 10en times the man typically listens to the woman. Every once in a while he'll he'll get a mood based on my experience. Uh he'll get in a mood where he's going to want to do his own thing. But uh and and stand strong and say I really want to do this. Well then great go do that. Nine out of 10 times he gives a woman typically what she wants. Just keep that in mind as you're you're doing this. But remember you are to humble yourself to Christ and to God. Now, what this is showing and and I want to also go this extra step and explain what you're doing here because this is very powerful. Let's go to Proverbs. I want you to see something in Proverbs. Proverbs 25:28. He that hath no rule or control over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls or protection. Self-ontrol plays a huge role in here. Why? Look at the construct of how he developed this relationship. You're to submit unto your husband. What if he wants to do something you don't want to do? Now, here comes self-control. And not to bury it in bitterness, but you're to have self-control and to humble yourself before the Lord and let it go. which means you got to let it go. Which, by the way, the word let it go is to forgive. So, he wanted to do something you didn't want to do. Let's say it was the dishes. You didn't want to do them, and you're like, "I just need you to do them tonight." And he says, "No." Well, guess what? You're the one who needs to humble yourself in self-control. You do not control him for that matter. He does not control you. The two of you have no control over each other. You have to work together. This is why the woman submits to her husband. So, she's going to have to do the dishes. Just do them and say, "Lord, thank you." And I give you the glory. But pray. Pray that he is more responsive to you. I'm going tell you, there's been nights where we've had stuff like that happen. And in a day or two, there's my husband doing the dishes. is I'm going to do them for you today cuz I see it's very hard on you and I I understand and I respect that. So, I'm going to come and do these for you today. And it will shock you because this is how the relationship has been established. You see, a lot of people get divorced over reasons of, well, he's not doing what I want him to do. He's not being the person I want him to do or the person I expected him to be when I married him. Well, guess what? We all change as we age. You may marry, let's say, at 25 or 30, but I'm going to tell you, that's not the same. You're not the same person when you turn 40 as you were at 30. He's not going to be the same person as as you were at 30. He's going to be different at 40. Going to be different at 50. Especially if Christ is working in him. He's going to change and turn into a man of God. And he may change faster than you. or you may change faster than him. And there could be comments that flare up between you that, oh, you're going to be that holier than that person. You're going to correct me here. They'll do that. I've experienced it. And it's like, well, Lord, I'm just going to give it to you. I humble myself before you. He belongs to you. And I'm sure that he's going to come back and say the same thing. Hey, Christ, she wants you. You know, I'm going have to let you take care of him. But we're one flesh trying to stay in unity before Christ. Now, let's look at this further in Galatians 5. This is how you get self-control. And this is so you're not controlling him or you're not and he's not controlling you because you can't control another person, but you can control yourself. So, look at how this is done. It says in Galatians 5:22-23, but the fruit of the spirit, stop right there, it is a spiritual thing. Remember, when we're born again, this is based on the last message I taught. You're born again in water and spirit. You go under the water baptism, you come up, the dove of the spirit comes upon you, allowing you to work in the ministry, which is by the spirit of God. When you lay hands on the sick, there's nothing powerful or special or magical about your hands. You lay your hands on the sick expecting the spirit to move. And the spirit says, "I got you. let's go ahead and move because that's the act of faith and God works by faith. So the hands do nothing other than being the conduit of faith for Christ to move through and the spirit of God to move through and heal that other person. So you're operating in the spirit. So when you go to operate in self-control, it has to be done by the spirit. So it says, "But the fruit of the spirit is love." That word love there means affection or benevolence. Now you got feelings here and you like my husband will do the dishes from time to time. Do the dishes from time to time. He'll say, "You know what? I got I got these. Let me do this." That's benevolence. He's given me a gift. Oh, hallelujah. He did the dishes. It's the little things in life that we have to appreciate. Amen. Uh joy. But the fruit of the spirit is love. Joy. Joy is a cheerfulness, calm, delight. in the spirit, you will always be calm. And and we need to be calm when we're talking to our spouses because it's so easy for anger to flare up. This is why we need to be asking for God to fill us with the fruit of the spirit. That's how this works. Watch this. Let's look at all of it. Peace, that's prosperity, quietness, rest, longsuffering, meaning you're forbearing, fortitude. Sometimes you have to forebear what your husband is saying and doing because it can be a pain and you're just like but you have the right to tattle on him and give him to God. Say Lord I'm going to be forbearing here. I'm going to be longsuffering because I'm going to act and walk in the fruit of the spirit that you have given me. At the same Lord, at the same time, Lord, I am asking you to work in him and to work in me so that we can become unified in the one flesh that we are to be. So you this is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Gentleness and word gentleness means useful usefulness or moral excellence in character. It's again taking the actions. He does the dishes. You pick up his shoes. You do his laundry. These are things that the household does. He takes out the treasures. It's kind of like we've established these male and female roles, but you can exchange them any time. It's it's not set in stone, but the whole point of it is to have the character of being useful in your relationship, doing what you need to build that relationship. See what he needs in that moment. Help him achieve his needs. Because you know what? When you help him achieve his needs and he helps you achieve your needs, the calmer and the more bound the two of you get closer to one another because you're working now toward each other's needs and it benefits you in the long run. So neat to see that goodness, that's your virtue. Faith, persuasion and credence, you're going to Christ in faith. Meekness, that's your humility. Temperance, self-control. Against such there is no law. So since you can't control him, he can't control you. You need to control yourself. It is a gift of the spirit. How do you do it? Romans 10:9 tells us that when that if you confess Jesus with your mouth, so you say, "Jesus, I confess self-control over me in your name." That's how you get the fruits of the spirit. You say, "Lord, fill me up with your self-control. I need it and I need you to help me with it. I need you to help me with goodness, with my faith. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus." And you're calling upon the name of Jesus with your mouth spoken out loud because you're letting all your witnesses, cloud of witnesses, know what's going on. and see a lot of relationships break up because of you're trying to control him and change him. He's trying to control you and change you because all of a sudden you don't like each other anymore. It's not about liking one another. Now it's about liking yourself and placing self-control on you. Praying for the other. Pray for yourself and pray for him. I'm promising you right now when you're praying, you are entering into the relationship with Christ, which is exactly what you need in order to have a relationship with your man or your woman. This is the construct of a relationship. So prayer is a part of that because you're talking with God. You're he said, "Come just as you are. Take reason with God as Isaiah 1 says, come let us reason together. Talk to him. say, "I'm having trouble here." But also tell him, "Help me and help him." See, when you pray for the two of you, now you're letting Christ in as the rock and the foundation of the two of you together. Hallelujah. Now, let's look at the rest of the relationship. Ephesians 5, we're back to Ephesians 5. Now, in verse 25, husbands, love your wives. That means and that's a social or moral sense obligating obligation love out of duty. You need to love her. So if you're not feeling the moment, get her some flowers. If you're not feeling the moment, do the laundry. Because see, I'm going to tell you that is your s social your moral sense and your social obligation, your duty. Even as Christ also loved the church, what did Christ do? He gave himself for it. You give yourself to the relationship. you do what you need to do to improve it and make it better. And it needs to be coming from both sides. And I promise you, if you're praying for the other, God is working in the other as he's working in you. uh verse uh 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that but that it should be holy and without blameless blemish faultless God is making the one flesh become his image look at that it's to be sanctified cleansed you guys are working as one. This is how the relationship that God established works. This is the construct of it. Look at verse 28. So ought men to love. Again, there's that social moral sense obligation. Their wives as their own bodies. We both shower every day. We both take care of ourselves. We try to eat a little healthy, walk a little more. And if we're not, that's okay. We still want to satisfy who we are. We eat the foods we like. That's just the way that is. But we eat it because we like it. That's of oursel. We're taking care of ourselves. So with that action, that's how you take care of your wives, men. And he that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth even as the Lord the church. This is so powerful. So as we're set up in the church is how we set up in the home between male and female. It's the construct. So what Jesus does to the church, look what he does for the church in verse 30. For we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they shall and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery. But I speak concerning Christ and the church. This is why when men are told to leave their parents, they cling to God. They go back to God. The breath of God, the nostrils in him. And that breath is what sustains the new flesh, male and female, in his image. Look at verse 33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Boy, I'm going to tell you right now, when you see the power of prayer work in your husband or in your wife, you're going to be like, man, God is real. And you're going to be in awe. In awe to God for what he's doing and in awe to the changes to each other in you. You're going to see that you are not the same person you were 15 years ago, 20 years ago, five minutes ago, before you even listen to this message. Let the anointing of the Holy Spirit change you and work in you simply by asking for self-control and praying for your spouse and having the relationship with Christ because he built this construct for us to be in Christ. Now, I'm trying to keep all these messages to 30 minutes. So, next week I'm going to go ahead and work on the relationships that are broken already. That's what we're going to do. We're going to go into the divorced relationships, the broken relationships, and how to restore them. Since I didn't have time to do that, we're going to do that. So, we will be talking about Eve again next week. Amen. Let's pray. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word and we honor you. We worship you and praise you for you are God and you are King, Lord, and Savior. You belong to me. You belong to us. We belong to you. And I thank you, Father God. And I pray that the enemy does not take this word from our hearts, but that we confess the name of Jesus over our lives. That we ask act on self-control with the spirit of God in our in our hearts and minds that we know to come to you and glorify you and honor you and worship you. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Byebye. Home Previous Next

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A LISTENER OF THE WORD OF GOD The objective of this teaching, Your Responsibility as a Listener of the Word of God, is to equip believers with the ability to discern, evaluate, and respond rightly to the Word of God as it is preached, taught, prayed, or prophesied. It emphasizes the responsibility of each listener to test teachings against Scripture, make godly choices, and walk in love, forgiveness, and truth, ensuring they are not deceived by false or non-biblical words. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A LISTENER OF THE WORD OF GOD Minister Lisa Kane April 26, 2024 Objective: The objective of this teaching, Your Responsibility as a Listener of the Word of God, is to equip believers with the ability to discern, evaluate, and respond rightly to the Word of God as it is preached, taught, prayed, or prophesied. It emphasizes the responsibility of each listener to test teachings against Scripture, make godly choices, and walk in love, forgiveness, and truth, ensuring they are not deceived by false or non-biblical words. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane highlights the believer’s responsibility when receiving the Word of God. Using 1 Corinthians 13:9 as a foundation, she explains that since we only “know in part,” we must be careful to measure every teaching and prophecy by the truth of Scripture. Listeners are urged to accept what aligns with the Bible and to reject anything false or misleading. Lisa shows from passages like Joshua 24:15 and Deuteronomy 30:19 that God has always given His people the power of choice—life or death, blessing or cursing. Likewise, when prayers or teachings contradict God’s Word, believers have the authority to reject them. Discernment, rooted in knowledge of the Word (Hebrews 4:12; 5:14), is key to avoiding deception. The message stresses that discernment must be exercised in the spirit of love, as described in 1 Corinthians 13, and never in condemnation. Since Jesus came not to condemn but to save (John 3:17), believers are called to walk in forgiveness and mercy, avoiding the role of the accuser which belongs to Satan (Revelation 12:10). Instead, they are to handle error with humility, prayer, and grace, leaving judgment in God’s hands. Finally, Lisa reminds listeners to continually seek God’s Spirit in the “secret place,” rely on His Word, and let their actions of love and forgiveness confirm their faith. True discernment flows from knowing Scripture, walking in love, and yielding to the Holy Spirit. The message closes with a call for believers to take responsibility for guarding their hearts and minds, choosing to serve the Lord faithfully, and allowing the Spirit of God to lead them in truth. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I am Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on Friday, April 26, 2024. Welcome. This message is entitled Your Responsibility as a Listener of the Word of God. Yes, you have a responsibility. So, let's dive into that. Let's open up in our word of prayer first. Father God, we thank you for your word that your word does not return void. But we pray that your Holy Spirit is involved in this word and that it manifests within us, Father God, so that we live by your word, hear your word, learn your word appropriately, and know how to discern going forward from here, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. All right. So, let's go to our opening scripture here. So, this is entitled, Your Responsibility as a Listener of the Word of God. That's kind of a long title, but that's what it is. 1 Corinthians 13:9, for we know in part and we prophesy in part. So, the goal of this teaching is to help you understand how to discern a very good teaching of the word of God. Maybe parts of it is good, but parts of it is non-biblical. You need to know whether you need to accept that word that is either taught or prayed over you or prophesied over you or you need to reject th those uh words because it could be non-biblical words and it could go against what you've been working with the Lord on. This impacts you big time in your life. And because of that, I want to teach you how to manage that here and in your heart so that the spirit of God moves through your life and you stand firm in the word and you are not set apart or um distracted or deceived from a false teaching. Think of it like this. If you're in a um an event somewhere, it's a biblical uh Bible event or you're in the church service, everyone's shouting amen and clapping their hands, but you're sitting there going there's red flags in your mind, their alarm bells are going off like, did I hear him correctly or her correctly? That's what you need to be able to do. You need to judge that person's teaching. And remember, I used to, if you go back to all of my early teachings, first thing I told you is don't take my word for it. Go dive into the word of God and do your homework. And I still talk about you having homework. But I haven't done this in a while. And then I thought, well, let's do a full teaching on this, okay? Because this is very, very important. Right here in our opening scripture in 1 Corinthians 13:9, Paul is saying, "For we know, we absolutely know in part a division or a share and then we prophesy in part." This is the chapter of love. 1 Corinthians 13 is the love chapter. So, he's going into some detail here. We're going to get into uh love here in just a moment because that's one of the factors that's going to help you discern uh a good teaching or biblical teaching versus a non-biblical teaching. kind of help you discern um what you need to do or what your actions are after the fact. Okay, so that's what we're going to do. So he says you know in part. Why do we only know in part? Because we're not God. If you are standing on something so strong, vehemently strong that so and so is wrong, you are in the wrong as well. Why? Because if you are Christlike and you are walking with Jesus, you're in the business of forgiveness. So whether your brother or sister is wrong, what you do is you go through Jesus and you follow his process. So we're going to get into that here in just a bit. I want you to see and understand that you have the right to accept a word or teaching and you have the right to reject a word or teaching. Because see, the Bible's all about choices. There's many scriptures that talk about choice. So, you have to choose whether you want to believe the words that were placed over you or not. That's very important. Let's say somebody prays something, but that prayer doesn't line up with the word of God. It feels good. It sounds good. You know, when I was growing up, I grew up in the church. And when I knew I had a calling of teaching on my life, I remember taking some of the things we used to quote and run around saying all the time. I went to go put it into one of my teachings and I could not find scripture on it. I couldn't even find conceptual uh scriptures to go with it. Context scriptures. I was like, "Wow, made me think twice." And I, by the way, I can't even remember any of those now. I've been doing this for so long. But what I do now is all of my teaching come from the word of God. I am not going to um I'm not going to vary off of that. I if I bring in outside sources, yes, but it is to reaffirm the word of God. That is what I do. I'm called to teach the word of God, not Lisa's teachings. I'm not God. In fact, everybody you hear is not a God. It's not God himself. Yes, the Holy Spirit moves through us, but the Holy Spirit, Jesus has already spoken all the words through the Bible. We need to stand firm by the Bible. So you have the right to choose. Now let's get a few scriptures of choice that you can choose to live by because these are choice scriptures. So I want you to understand the choice you have ahead of you. So go look at Joshua 24:15. And if it seem evil, this is Joshua speaking to the congregation of Israel when um right either right before they go uh past the Jordan and go into the promised land or right after. He's right there and he says, "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose." The word choose means to try, select, acceptable. Choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwelt. But as for me in my house, we will serve the Lord. And if you follow that, Joshua is their leader. Israel ends up following them. They go and fight Jericho right after that. And as they marched around doing something that seems so weird. They end up having victory, but they all chose to follow God. Now, when you choose to follow God, you're going to find that God is going to have you do weird things. He's going to have he he wants to teach you how not to limit him. So he wants to solve things that you're praying for, asking for in ways that um you probably will never ever think of. So he wants that freedom to be able to move with you. So this is the choice. But you have to make a choice to get there first. Me and my house shall serve the Lord or me and my family shall serve the Lord. So Joshua starts with that. Let's go to Deuteronomy because God also gave the nation of Israel choice. He says,"I call on," and this is Deuteronomy 30:19, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live." Now, what's so fascinating about this is that you see if somebody prays over you a prayer that's going to end up in death, that's not what you want. You want choice. So, if you're hearing somebody praying over you, prophesying over you, you can stop them immediately. Say, "I don't accept that. That's not biblical. That's not scriptural. That's not what God has for me. He has life for me." You see the difference? There's something here. Now, look at what this means. Life is being alive, fresh. Uh that word fresh also means like freshly plants and watered plants. It's really alive and fresh. Death means to be in ruined. How many people are living in ruin? Because somebody spoke a curse over them and they believed it. I hope you're getting this. You don't have to believe that. You do not have to accept something that somebody says over you. I remember years ago getting my ears pierced. The lady spoke about my loaves. Oh, you're one of those. You're going to have a heart attack and you're I said, "No, I'm not. I reject that." Yeah. See, you have to protect yourself against these words that people speak that they don't even realize that they're speaking. We're going to talk about that more here in a moment. Blessing means to have the benediction or prosper prosperity. you can be blessed financially. There's a lot of teaching right now that they said the church just went too far. They're just only calling on blessings and prosperity. We know that the disciples and the apostles were uh martyed. We know that they went to their deaths that they did not have uh over an abundance of blessings. They had every need met. Yes, that is scriptural. But God wants to bless you. Look at Abraham. Abraham had so much. It was incredible. Lot and Abraham had to separate because of the blessings of God that was placed upon him. King David, King Solomon, the volume. God wants to bless you. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Now, if you're going to take your life to be like an apostle or a disciple, then you're going to want your daily bread ma ma met, as the Lord's prayer says, and you're going to want to realize that the sacrifices you're making for the word of God is going to follow the path of a disciple or an apostle. But you might not be called to be an apostle. Maybe a disciple, but not an apostle. There are different callings, different teachings. That is for another teaching. But understand the Lord wants you prosperous. He truly does. And then of course cursing which is the vilification. You can curse somebody. We see it on the news all the time especially when you come to like um courtroom for Trump and whatever. All these people saying he deserve what that's a curse. You just cursed him. Aren't you a believer in Christ? And aren't you supposed to be forgiving one another? That's what Christ does. He didn't come to judge this world. We're going to get into that here in just a moment. I want you to see Proverbs 28:4 and5. This is the choices and the consequences of the choices you make. They that forsake, they chose, they let go, relinquish, loosened the law. Now remember, the law is what was first. Jesus fulfilled the law. Now we walk in forgiveness. So uh the author here is teaching us when you forsake God's law and you praise the wicked or the morally wrong but such as keep a hedge but he's telling you but instead keep hedge about protect your mind the law within your heart contend with him let's read this without the extra words remember when I teach here the bolded word is the original word in the King James version the words in parenthesis are other words that the word could be translated into. Okay. So, they that forook forsake the law praise the wicked. But such as keep the law, those that keep the law contend with them that are wicked. And that word contend means anger metal. In other words, if I choose to keep the law, I'm making them angry. Good. Maybe it'll shake them up, but you will have an enemy who will be angry with you and upset with you because you choose God first. They don't like that because it exposes them for the darkness that they're in. It exposes them for the choice that they made that they're happy and content with the choice that they made. Again, we're starting here with a choice. You have a choice. Do you want to choose to be morally wrong, evil, or would you like to choose to walk with God in goodness? Most people want to say, why choose goodness? They don't choose God. They'll choose goodness. But remember, God encompasses everything about that is good. Let's continue on. Verse five, evil men understand not judgment or the verdict. You see, when you choose evil, there is a consequence, a judgment, a verdict against you already. You are already condemned when you do not choose Jesus. As simple as that. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through Jesus. The moment you do not choose Jesus and you reject him, you are already judged and verdictked. The verdict is in. You are not saved. You have to go to Jesus to get saved. That this is scriptural. This is a foundation. Says, "But they that seek or search out strive after the Lord understand all things." And that word understand means to separate mentally. You're cunning. You discern. You see, your mind has to be able to discern discern what's going on. The little little things that take place, that little line that can easily be crossed. You should have red flags, bells going off when you hear something that don't sound right to you because you made the choice to walk with God. You made a choice to walk in his law or in the name of Jesus, which is the time frame we're in right now. You choose to walk that way. And because of such, you have the ability to discern, understand what someone is teaching you. Now, you're better off understanding it once you know the word of God and you're in it. You have to do your homework here. If a preacher's preaching something, he's just reading scriptures here and there. You have to pause, think about it, take it home, read those scriptures, see if it's within context, see if it meets the measure of what the Lord is trying to teach you and then accept or reject. And sometimes we just get caught up in the feeling and the emotions behind a very good teaching pastor who builds us up. Oh, it sounds good. They all applaud. Yeah, he misspoke something. That's how the devil does it. He sneaks in like the little sneaky thing. Now, look what Jesus does there. So, this is uh something I want you to see that we can walk with that helps us. John 3:17, for God sent not his son into the world to condemn, distinguish, desise, judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved, delivered, protected. First, that is the rock and the foundation we stand upon. We stand upon the name of Jesus. And the name of Jesus came not to condemn. We already have an accuser who condemns. I'm going to show you that here in just a moment. Jesus didn't come to condemn. He didn't judge anyone. He doesn't judge anyone. He came that the world would be delivered, protected, saved. Look at what John 8:15 says. Ye judge after the flesh. I judge no man. The word judge is to distinguish, decide, condemn. Jesus says, "I judge no man." So a preacher gets up to you gets up there on the preaching stand, he preaches, she preaches, you're judging that preacher. So if you're Christlike and you're going to be like Christ and you're going to walk with Jesus, you judge no one. Okay? So what I want to show you is that as you judge it, because we've been given a gift to judge, we know how to measure something. The the whole point of that gift is not to condemn, but that they might be saved. So there's a tactful way to handle someone who makes a mistake. You made a mistake. All of us have fallen short of the glory of God. We have all made mistakes. None of us is perfect. None of us is God. Which means we need to be walking in forgiveness. Going to show this here a little bit more. But I want to show you about the word of God. Remember John 1:1. In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. Okay. Now let's go to Hebrews 4:12. For the word of God is quick life and powerful. It's active. It's operative. It's sharper than any two edges or piercing. It reaches through even to the dividing of sunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner, decisive, discriminative of the thoughts and intents of the heart. So now, if you're going to judge, you got to judge through the word of God because that is what's going to help you discern. Look what it says here, the thoughts and intents of the heart, your heart, and whoever you're listening to their heart. You need to be able to discern. Now, let's go to Hebrews. I want you to see something here. Hebrews 5:14. But strong meat belongth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised in discern, judicial estimation, disputation, both good, which is beautiful, valuable, virtuous, and evil, worthless, depraved, injurious. You see, we have been given the ability to discern and we need to use our discernment appropriately to accept or to reject what we're listening to. Not just listening to a preacher or a teacher or an evangelist or even if we're reading the Bible, we're listening to God. Sometimes what happens is we take it one way and God did not mean it that way. And we have to be able to discern because there's a way we have to say, "Hey Lord, I don't get this. How do I understand this? Show me the way." And you wait on the Lord and he will show you the way. This is how we understand things. This is how we discern things. Now, so we have basis number one. Know your word. Okay? Many of us don't know our word. Uh we die through the lack of knowledge. We're actually destroyed. That word destroyed uh means that we are made dumb and stupid. And that's true because we don't know the word of God. We don't know the blessings and the strengths that the Lord has placed upon us. We don't understand it because we're not doing it ourselves. And for those that do do it for ourselves, the problem we have is we get a little hottier and hotter and the Lord has to remind us to become humbled before him because we only know in part. We don't know the whole thing. We're not God. We're where we are weak. He is strong. So he brings out our weaknesses to expose his strength. This is how God operates. Now, so you need to know your word. That's the foundation number one. Foundation number two is you have to know the emotion behind the teaching you're receiving. Whether it's through a teacher or what you're learning about the word of God or anything else around you, look at the motivation, the emotional motivation, it needs to be done in love. 1 Corinthians 13:1, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, men and of angels, meaning if you can speak in tongues and you have that gift, you speak to angels. Well, even if you can do that, almighty one, look at this. and have not charity or love. The word there is affection or benevolence. I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. I don't make sense anymore because I'm not doing it out of love. Now, why do I teach a message like this of this magnitude? One, I'm doing it because I love you and I want you to find the word of God and walk with the word of God in truth and not be deceived by this world. So, I'm coming through with love, gentleness, kindness. These are the things that I'm speaking the word of God through. You don't do that, it's you you're not you're clinging. You're you're not making sense. You're going to set off red flags and alarms in the people who are following the love of God. Look at verse uh 13 now in the same chapter. And now abide in faith which is your persuasion, your credence, hope, anticipate, expectation, charity, affection, benevolence. These three, but the greatest of these is charity. Your affection and benevolence needs to speak for yourself. You see, your actions are going to speak more than whatever words you speak. That means your body language needs to be showing the love of God. You need to be walking in the love of God. That means helping people. You've got to be there for them. Let me pray for you. Let me help you. Let me walk you through this. Let me show you where this is in scripture. You have to be able to want to do that. That is part of discerning. Okay? That is how we discern. So, we have to know our word. And when we don't, here's the thing. The Holy Spirit will show you. He will and and you will know it in your heart. But he's going to show you through a scripture. He wants you to understand it through him directly. For the record, God doesn't need any preachers or pastors or teachers. I mean, he's established his church, but the Holy Spirit could have fulfilled all those roles. Instead, he calls you and I to be in these positions so that we can teach through him for people who need to see and can only see the physical. They don't see the spiritual atmosphere. They can't understand it. It's beyond them. So, we have to be there for them. But we have to also remember we're not God and we fall and fail. Which means we don't want to lose our loved ones. These ones that we're trying to save and keep in the line of God. Amen. Look here in 1 Corinthians chapter 2 10-14. But God hath prevailed. He took off the cover them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit teacheth all things. Yeah. The deep things of God. The spirit's going to teach you. He's going to You're going to open up your Bible and you start reading, you're going to be like, "Wow, that's the answer for what I was facing and needed to hear." Lord, thank you. That's how it works through his spirit. For what man knoweth or is aware the things of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him? Even so, the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God. The spirit of God is what's going to do everything and move through everything. Not by us, not by strength, not by power, not by I call it down in the name of Jesus. It doesn't work like that. It's by the spirit of God. Amen. It's by the spirit of God. He is moving. Verse 12. Now we have received or we take we get hold of it. Not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. You see, you want to hear that word of God. It's being given to you freely. I freely preach here, by the way. And what I do is I give this to you freely because this is what the Holy Spirit has shown me. I'm not perfect. I'm just going to have to just set aside and let that go in the name of Jesus. I have to ask the Lord's Holy Spirit to come and speak through me because it is done by spirit. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things or divine things with divi uh with spiritual. This is how we discern. So now verse 14, but the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness. Remember what I talked about Jericho? The Lord had him march around the city six times, once each day for six days, and then seven times on the seventh day. And they shouted, and the walls came tumbling down. That's not usually how battle is done, but God chose to do it that way. Amen. for for they are foolishness or silliness, absurdity unto him. Neither can he know. Absolutely no. Or allow them because they are spiritually divinely discerned. You have to be able to discern, scrutinize, investigate, examine, judge. That's what discernment is all about. And to have that discernment, we're going to have to judge. But Jesus taught us that he does not judge or he does not condemn. So what does Jesus do? Let's go to Matthew 6:14-15. For if ye forgive, you send forth, you leave men their trespasses, a slid slip, offense, or sin, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. That's not talking about eternity as walking in your daily life with God. You see, if you're going to judge, you've got to judge in forgiveness. Now what you do after that is you take it to the Lord and you say Lord what you do is you say Lord either I'm misunderstanding this and always always always take yourself to the Lord first you know it could be that you're misunderstanding something you don't know everything yet you only know in part so somebody teach you something that seems so radical way out here in left field you're going to be wondering well Lord what is this So he says, "I will show you." So you go to him and you say, "Lord, I judge this, but I see it and I don't think I have enough information to understand it. So I'm here pausing. What is it that I'm missing? What did I misunderstand?" Or, "Lord, are they false teaching? Is this a false teaching that's taking place?" Because I need to know if this is, then I don't want to accept it. And the Lord will reveal it to you through his word and through his spirit. Hallelujah. And remember, we are in the times of the Gentiles. This is the time of fullness of Gentiles, which means we walk in forgiveness. I'm going to show you something here. Look at Luke 21:24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trotten down of the Gentiles until the times, that's an occasion or set or proper time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. This is the time we're in. as prophesied. By the way, the Gentiles are not filled yet. We're not done. We keep preaching Jesus and we need to continue to preach Jesus, which is forgiveness, salvation, the good news. He came and redeemed each and every one of us. So in Matthew 18, if you read the whole thing, it talks about do not de deceive or lead astray the little children. And then he said, Peter says towards the end of the chapter, well, how many times am I supposed to forgive seven times? Jesus says, I'll take it further. 70* 7. You can take that scripture one of two ways. You can take it as meaning well forever. You have to forgive them forever. That is true because we're not God. If you take it literal and you do 490 times, you would have to write down that one sin and see if that person committed it 490 times, are you going to be over that person's life that many times for that one sin? And now, by the way, that's just one sin. That's not counting all the sins we commit. You'd have to keep a book in record. The only one who can do that is God himself. This is why you and I who are not God have to humble ourselves and forgive our brothers. Forgive our sisters. Forgive. Walk in the mercy and the grace of what Jesus stands for because we are Christlike Christians in the name of Jesus. Walking in Christianity with Jesus through salvation. Oh hallelujah. And remember everything is done by the mouth. Romans 10:9 says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. You have to confess your forgiveness. You have to say it out loud because you have a cloud of witnesses watching around you. The devil is watching you. Angels are watching you. God is watching you. Use your mouth, which is the foundation of using the word of God. Speak forgiveness. Speak love. This is what we're supposed to call on. I'm not calling on a million dollars. I'm calling on the name of Jesus who is over my finances because he's above money and better than money. Hallelujah. Now, if we choose to accuse the person that we think did wrong, we have a couple of issues we have to be very careful of. One, they these people have an anointing on their lives. Now, David, King David, who murdered a man, God didn't remove him from his kingdom. God forgave him, but took his son that he had with Basheba that God took the son but David remained king. He was wrong. Should have been removed but he wasn't. So now what do you do? You do not take up the the accusers's position. We're not accusers. The devil is. Go to Revelation 12:9 and 10. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ. For the accuser against one in the assembly of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." The devil's accusing everybody all the time before God day and night. Don't do his job for him because you identified an error or mistake or a sin. No. Matthew 18 tells you what to do. But first, first first take it to God. Pray about it. Let the Lord lead you. You know, I'm I have no right to judge or condemn you. I'm not God. I messed up myself. And because of that, we have to humble ourselves before the Lord and realize we're not the accusers. We have to walk in mercy and grace. Look at Galatians 3:26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. That's who you are. So what your job and your responsibility is is you have to know your word. So get into it and start studying if you're not already doing start memorizing it. Let it penetrate your soul. You have to walk in love in the charity that God has given us the benevolence and your actions of love. Your actions need to speak louder than your words. Let your actions speak for themselves. Get groceries for your neighbor. Help them get to church. Pray for people. Lay your hands on them so they stop being sick because that is what we're called to do. Forgive one another is another one. We need to humble ourselves and forgive. And another part of discernment. Zechariah 4:6. Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, "This is not the word of the or excuse me, this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts." It is the spirit of God that is going to move and do everything. You have no right to accuse, so don't do it. You're not the accuser. You have the gift to judge. Judge with love and give it to the Lord. Let the Lord, let the spirit of God move and handle the whole situation. Walk in mercy. Walk in forgiveness. Walk in that love because that is what we're called to do. And again, get to know the word of God and let it penetrate so you recognize immediately what's going on so you can go right into prayer at that very moment. And you should be praying in advance in your secret place with the Lord at all times. You know, I couldn't do a teaching without talking about the secret place of the Lord. Amen. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void. We bless your word that the enemy does not take it from us, but that we retain it, remember it, apply it to our lives, and live it. In the holy name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. God bless each and every one of you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

THE GOOD SEED The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the meaning and significance of Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew 13. The message aims to show why God allows good and evil to coexist in the world, how the final separation of righteousness and wickedness will occur, and how individuals must choose to walk as children of the kingdom—the “good seed.” The teaching also emphasizes the urgency of repentance, the responsibility of believers to share God’s Word, and the assurance of peace and salvation for those who remain in Christ. THE GOOD SEED Minister Lisa Kane July 10, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the meaning and significance of Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew 13. The message aims to show why God allows good and evil to coexist in the world, how the final separation of righteousness and wickedness will occur, and how individuals must choose to walk as children of the kingdom—the “good seed.” The teaching also emphasizes the urgency of repentance, the responsibility of believers to share God’s Word, and the assurance of peace and salvation for those who remain in Christ. Synopsis: Lisa Kane, in her message “The Good Seed,” begins with prayer and frames the teaching around Matthew 13:24–30, where Jesus shares the parable of a man sowing good seed in his field, only for the enemy to sow tares among the wheat. She explains the distinction between historical events like Noah’s flood and symbolic parables meant to convey deeper truths. Breaking down Jesus’ interpretation of the parable (Matthew 13:37–43), she identifies the Son of Man (Jesus) as the sower of the good seed, which represents the children of the kingdom, while the tares represent the children of the wicked one, sown by the devil. The field is the world, and the harvest at the end of the age will bring separation by God’s angels: the wicked will be gathered and cast into the fire, while the righteous will shine in the kingdom of their Father. The teaching highlights God’s decision-making process throughout history, particularly His choice to preserve humanity after the flood and ultimately redeem mankind through Jesus Christ. It stresses that each person must decide whether to follow righteousness or remain in sin, with eternal consequences. Lisa calls on believers to urgently warn and intercede for unbelievers, as deception and confusion from the enemy run rampant. She underscores that choosing Christ makes one a child of the good seed, shining with God’s light and destined for eternal life. The message concludes by urging believers to seek first the kingdom of God, walk in righteousness, and continue sowing the Word to bring others into salvation. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this teaching on Thursday, July 10th, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. I pray, Father God, that we're ready to hear your word and that you set aside all the distractions and that you have us thirst and hunger for your word. That you do bring answers to questions that we have. uh the decision-making process, for example, of letting this world continue on in the condition that it's in after even after Noah's flood. I thank you for showing us your decision-making process. I thank you for showing us uh the answers that we have questions to. Thank you, Father God. And I pray that we do not forget your word. That your word is implanted in our word, in our bodies, in our minds, and that your word manifests that we can just share your word to others around that also have questions and that are thirsty and hungry. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's going to be a neat teaching. I I I like this word because it does answer some questions, you know, like why, Lord, why did you decide to not end this? I mean because we've got a lot of evil and evil is very rampant in this world right now today. But it's it it is a question that we have in the back of our minds sometimes. Why do you do this? So anyways, I'm calling this teaching the good seed. And let's start here. We're going to be in Matthew uh 13. And uh before we begin, if you're new, welcome. I appreciate you taking the time. I just teach supplemental teachings to the church. Uh we are just an online ministry. That's all we are. and I just teach what the Bible says and I'm just making certain that the word of God is getting out there because that is heavy on my heart and I want to make sure that the world hears the word of God. Obviously, not everyone is going to listen to me or anything of that nature, but I'm doing my part and I hope that you're doing your part with whatever Christ calls you to do. I'm called to be a teacher and an intercessor, prayer warrior. So, that's what my calling is and I just share that with you all online. Also, if you're new, you're going to see that I present the scriptures in the King James version. It's the closest version to the original text. Also, when you see on the screen uh the black bolded word there, like in this case, parable, that is the original word in the King James version that the translators chose to use when translating that scripture. The words after in parentheses are additional words from the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. In other words, there more words that we could have used in lie of the bolded word if we wanted to. I bring those extra words in because it really brings a depth to the understanding of what the original text was. I rather teach from that perspective than let's say implied uh perspective. I don't want to just give you an an implied uh idea. I want to give you substance from the word of God. Amen. All right. So, we're in Matthew 13. Uh, another parable. Now, the word parable there means similitude, fictitious narrative. So, let's make sure that we understand what a parable is because this is very, very important. You see, Noah's flood is not a parable. That's an actual event that takes place. I know a lot of pastors, a lot of teachers will say, "Let's go to the story of Noah's flood, or let's go to the story of Daniel in the lion's den, uh, or Jonah and the whale." All of those are not stories. They're actual historical events that took place. Well, what Jesus is about to teach us though is a parable. It is something of a like. It's not a true story. It's not an event, but he's telling you something in this parable, and then he's giving the interpretation so that you have an understanding of what it means. So, we're going to go to this parable in verse 24. It says, "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, now Jesus is talking. He says, the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good, beautiful seed in his field." So, good seed is a beautiful seed. And that's what this message is about. We're talking about the good seed. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tears or false grain among the wheat and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tears also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, "Sir, not thou sew good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tears?" You know, he's saying, "I saw I thought I saw you putting good seed. What happened here? where where this this bad false grain coming from? And so um he said unto them, "An enemy hath done this." The servant said unto him, "Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?" But he said, "Nay, lest while ye gather up the tears, ye root up also the wheat with them." And then verse 30, "Let them let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, gather ye together first the tears, and bind them in bundles to burn them. but gather the wheat into my barn. So, this is a parable. Now, I didn't bring all the scriptures in here about all of this. But one of the thing you can do is go and read chapter 13 and get all of the in between stuff because it's going to kind of help you understand this a whole lot better. So, what you want to do is you want to look at uh what he's talking about. And he he goes into actually a few different parables that he's all all these parables are talking about the same thing the the same thing he's liking it to. He's saying this is what this is like and he's going to show you. So now I'm going to go start reading the scriptures where he's translating the parable to the disciples because the you know the disciples had asked him why are you speaking to them in parables and Jesus answers I give you the answer because to you is given the mystery the revelation of the word. Anytime that you and I are believers in the scripture we have the blessing of understanding what Jesus was trying to explain. Uh, I'll tell you this much. Theologians want to know. They can't know unless they got a relationship with Jesus. They won't understand this. It It's like there's a blinder in front of them and they can't understand it. But we're given the permission to understand. I have a relationship with the Lord. And in First John 4, it tells us to test the spirit. I declare that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that he came in the flesh and died on the cross for our sins and rose again three days later. That means I am of God. I walk with God. I work with God. I teach with God. So now that that is established, let us go and look at what Jesus was trying to explain here. Amen. So now the explanation comes because the disciples asked him to explain this parable. So now we're down in uh we're still in Matthew 13, but we're in verse 37. He answered and said to them, "He that sweth the good seed is the son of man." Now, I want you I'm going to break this down as we go scripture by scripture. Son of man. Who is the son of man? Jesus. Jesus is the son of God who entered into his creation and became a man. Now he is also the son of man. So Jesus has a body. He now died on the cross. He has a body. Before he became the son of man, he was the son of God and he was in spirit. He's the one who said, "Let there be light." And there was like back in Genesis, you can go read Genesis 1 1-4 and and John chapter 1:es 1 through 2 and it will tell you who Jesus was in the beginning and that he did become the son of man. So here he's saying that he's the one who's sewing the good seed. You see, he's the gospel. He is the embodiment of the word of God. Jesus is the word and he became the son of man, the light of the world. He brought us salvation. He's the one that chooses to forgive us because again, you know, when they when uh God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit got together and talked about the flood and deciding to use the flood, they found righteous man, one righteous man, Noah, and then his family was covered under that righteousness. God made a decision to continue and let the world continue to live on in spite of how bad sin got just before the flood because there was only one righteous man left when the flood happened and God called Noah righteous. So with that, he decided to keep going. That's amazing because in all reality there was so much sin. It was awful. It was bad. And he was down to one righteous man. Could he have converted anyone else? It sounds like no. So God had to make a decision here. You're going to see that decision made in this parable. I think this is fascinating because it's it's like, well, why did he decide to do that? Let's continue on. The field is the world. The good seed are the children of the kingdom. So the field is the world. That's every this whole wide world. Okay. And then the good seed are those of us who choose to believe in Jesus. We're the sons of the good seed. We are children of the kingdom. We are part of the kingdom of God. We're the one who walk with Christ in his authority by declaring the name of Jesus over whatever it is or declaring that Jesus is Lord over whatever the circumstance circumstances is are. I have done a lot of teaching on that. So he's identifying in this parable, you who are the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And then he says, but the tears are the children of the wicked one. There's a wicked one. And that means these are children who work wickedness, evil. They're just doing everything bad. They don't choose good, they choose bad. They're walking in unrighteousness. They are walking in sin. and to some deliberately walking that way. And he says the enemy that sowed them is the devil. So now you know that those that walk in wickedness are those who are children of the devil. They Jesus clearly is identifying who these people are. They are the children of the devil. Those of us that walk in truth, righteousness, and walk in with Christ, we're children of God. And big distinct difference between truth. You got two groups of people that are here. Says the harvest is the end of the world. So at the end of the world, we're going to be harvested. Righteous are going to be taken and separated. Evil is going to be taken and separated. And he goes into more detail about that. Look at this. The harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels. So we know that the angels are going to come and they're going to reap. They're going to separate the tears, the evil from the good. Let's continue on. Verse 40. As therefore the tears are gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be in the end of this world. Look at that. As therefore the tears are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world. Tears the evil ones. So once the the wheat grows, you can see a distinct difference between good wheat and bad wheat. Tears and wheat. The tears look different. They're going to be it it's an an uglier color. They're going to look older. They're weak. But Jesus had decided to let them both grow together. And they're here. So, the angels are going to come and separate them. Now, he didn't want to separate them right away. Watch. Let's let's continue reading because I want to get this all in here. The son of man shall send forth his angels. They shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do iniquity. So, they're going to come through and they're going to grab all the tears first. Uh they're going to grab all the the evil and they're going to separate. There is a separation that takes place here. You're going to have those that offend. Those are walking in sin. Sin is an offense. Also, sin is a separation from God. So, when you walk that way, you will be separated and you will be burned. You're going to see that here in just a moment. And the others are going to be separated and they're going to be light. Let's continue on. Says, "And shall cast them." And this is talking about the tears. The ones who have offended shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and nashing of teeth. So let's pause here. So and remember this is a parable of a like of what God is saying is going to happen. Now he's saying there is a furnace that's going to burn up all of these evil people that are walking in offense. They did not turn their lives around. They did not repent. They did not choose good. They chose evil. If you're one of those that are watching this, it's now time to repent. And you need to do that and and turn your life around. You're going in the wrong direction. You're heading to a furnace. And it's very clear that this furnace exists. Hell is real. That is not a parable. It is a an actual location. And those who continue to sin will end up burning in hell lake of fire. It's not meant for you to go there. But you will go there because you're not choosing God. Because the only other choice you have is God. And if you're mad about that, too bad. He created you. He's your creator. And you need to humble yourself before him. Choose him because he is good. And if you choose goodness, you choose righteousness. you repent and say, "I rather walk with Jesus and acknowledge that he did come down on the cross and died for us, that he pardoned us, that he redeemed us, that he put his blood and paid for our sins." The moment you believe in that, your life changes and now you're on the good seed side. You are of good seed. So, you still have a chance to repent and become part of the good seed. I will tell you the end of the age is coming and it is coming very very quickly and there is a high probability and in fact I want to say 99.9% chance that this is going to happen in our lifetime. This is where we're headed. Uh as you can take a look at things that are going on in the world. You can take a look at what unbelievers and you can look at their the the way that they look at things. They're very um under a strong delusion and they choose to believe the lie over the truth. They're so confused. Satan does that. He's the author of confusion. So, he brings in all this confusion so that you wouldn't believe that God is God and that Jesus is the son of God. He does that to manipulate and lie to you. Well, Jesus is telling us this is what's going on. And he says, "There's an end that's coming and we're going to harvest and you're going to have to pull out the bad and you're going have to pull out the good and you're going to have to separate." The angels are going to do the separation. We're going to be separated. So the angels are going to have that's part of their job. Now might be not angels that come out and do messaging type of the word angel means messenger. Uh it's probably a heavenly creature that's very similar to what an angel is. uh we call them angels because that's the term we've used for them all these years because they are messengers from other worldly area the heavenly realm. Well, okay, now we're just we get to see that they have another job. Not just telling us a message, they're going to separate us. That's what Jesus is showing us in this parable. Let's continue on. Uh so there's going to be wailing and nashing of teeth. And look at verse 33. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the son in the kingdom of their father. Who hath ears to hear? Let him hear. Notice the sun. S U N. So this is a bright shining light. Then shall the righteous shine forth. So we're going to shine forth when we're separated. See the tears are darkness. They are a they darken everything around it. They mute everything. They dim everything around it. And right now, uh, where wheats and tears were muted, were dimmed. But the moment those tears are removed and separated from us, they're going to be burned in the fire, our light lights up even more. We become very bright, shining. This is those that are of the good seed. Now, this is a parable, but he's also explaining what's going to happen at the end of the age. Let's continue on and look at uh 1 John 3:7-10. Little children, let no man deceive or seduce you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous, innocent, holy. You see, we have a decision to make. Do you want to be an evil tear or do you want to be a good seed of righteousness believing in the son of man, the son of God, Jesus, our holy savior? You have a choice. which way do you want to go? And for those of you who have been following for quite a while and you're a believer in Christ, we need to be urgent to let our loved ones, family members, friends who do not believe, we need to tell them what's coming. And if they continue to fight, that's between them. They're being deceived. They're being confused by the author of confusion, the devil, which I've already mentioned. He is confusing them. So they're deceived. So we the light need to keep exposing the lies. Continue to show them. Continue to pray for them and say, "Lord, save these people. Help them. Pray for them in the secret place." And what happens in the secret place? It gets shined or shown out in manifestation in the open. And that and and they know it. Your family will know when you're praying for them. They will know. I've seen it. I in my own family they know. So this is a time to humble yourself and get right with God. Spend some time with him. He is returning and he will be throwing those weed the excuse me the tears into the burning fire where there will be wailing and nashing of teeth. They're going to be so angry and in pain and they're going to think no we should not be. If you do not want to believe that Jesus Christ is our creator and son of God that came to die for us and pardon us, why should you be allowed into a place that you don't want to go to? See, your inside tells you you want to go there, but you don't want to follow the rules. It's like illegal immigration. You rather jump the wall and come into the goodness of everything. have the goodness but not pay the dues for the goodness. Did you know that heaven has walls? Yeah. So the nashing of teeth and wailing and the fire is outside of those walls. They can see in but they cannot touch. They cannot come in to get to heaven. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through me." You have to believe Jesus. Your name needs to be written in the the lamb's book of life. You have to have that. That's you paying your dues to say, "I rather enter into heaven and be there. I do not want to go to the lake of fire. I do not want to burn in the furnace. I'm not I don't want to be a wheat. I would ch I rather choose to be a child of righteousness." You know, Queen Victoria, she chose to be good. And she had a beautiful kingdom that lasted her a long time because she chose to do good. So when you choose to do good and you choose that you will have a beautiful life that the Lord will grant you. Yes, we know that the disciples and the apostles were all executed except for John um the beloved at the end. They were all beheaded or killed on the cross or you know they were martyed. But the here's the truth of the matter though. We have God's peace. You know, I've seen people walking uh through the news, just walking to go be martyed, singing hymns, praising the Lord. They're such a peace that is absolutely incredible. You see, it doesn't matter what happens in this world when you become a believer, when you choose to walk in righteousness, when you choose and finally understand the love of Jesus and what he did on the cross when he saved us. When you finally get that, it's nothing else matters. What matters is my eyes are fixed on my future where I'm going to be glorified in his presence at peace because I choose righteousness and I'm hoping to get as many tears converted to wheat as possible. This is why I do what I do. This is why I teach what I teach. Verse eight, he that committh sin offense is of the devil. For the devil sinnth from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. You see, here's another point of what Jesus decided to do. You see, at the time of the flood, he could have stopped everything and said, "I'm done with man." But he loved us so much that he says, "You know what? I'm going to go be their redeemer and I'm going to get a human body male. And that's exactly what he did. He was born of a virgin and he came and he chose to do that to save. That was his choice. He decided to let us grow together and let every person have the choice like he did to decide which side do we want. Do we want to follow the devil or do we want to follow Jesus? That's what he decided. That was his decision at the time of destroy the world and just get rid of it and start over or do whatever else or shall he try to save it? He chose to save it. And I'm so grateful for that. Think of it. I wasn't born back then. I would not even be alive had he not made the decision to even wait 2,000 years after uh his crucifixion. I'm here because of him. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. And it says here, "Whosoever is born," that word born there means procreate, regenerate of God, does not commit sin. For his seed remainth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. You see the parable Jesus said, "The good seed is we're sons of the kingdom. We're children of his kingdom and we choose God." And that's the seed that remains in us. And we cannot sin because we are born of God now. We have changed. We are born of God. We're no longer a part of sin. Oh, hallelujah. Verse 10. In this, the children of God are manifest. We're shining. And notice, you know, here we are shining. We shine brighter than the tears that are around us. We're still muted. We're still dim, but we are shining brightly. And this is another thing is as soon as you start telling people about Jesus, they know the truth and they recognize it. Oh, hallelujah. In this, the children of God are manifest shining. And the children of the devil, whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. You see, the fruit is going to tell us right away who you are. You don't love your brother. You want to hurt him. You're backstabbing him in whatever situation you can take. That tells us you don't believe in God. You're not a child of God at that point. As a child of God, we walk in good right standing. We do not want to hurt anyone. We want to save as many as we can. Oh, hallelujah. Let's go back to Matthew 13. Look at verses 51 and 52. Jesus saith unto them, "Have you understood all these things? Have you put it together? Have you comprehended?" They said unto him, "Yeah, Lord." This is very important to understand. Do you understand that there is an end of the age that is coming and there is going to be a separation of good and evil and that the evil is going to be put into a burning furnace and they're going to burn. There will be nashing and wailing of teeth and that the good is going to shine brightly because they've chosen Jesus as their son of God, as their believer, as their savior. That is very important that we understand. And if you understand it as a believer, you need to help others understand so that they're not deceived, uh, seduced by the devil, manipulated by the devil, not be, uh, under that strong delusion. We need to continue to one, pray in the spirit for them, and two, we need to be there for them to answer their questions because the Lord is working on them. They're thinking about it. Just we got to hope that they think about it quickly. Amen. And then look what he says here in verse 52. Then said he unto them, therefore every scribe which is instructed, that's a a pupil disciple unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. Let me explain. That is like me taking up my calling to get as many saved as possible. I hope this word goes out there. I hope people listen to it, but I understand if they don't. I just pray and continue to pray and hope for these people to get saved. And I do my part of it. I try to teach it so that you understand. I try to explain it so that you know. And if you take a look at my life as an example and you go through the history of all the teaching, I got a lot of teachings in here from goes back from uh well I did uh written teaching back in 2013, but I started uh vlogging in 2017. So I've been doing this for a long time now. You can see the change the change that's happened within myself, the changes in my life. The Lord has blessed us richly. I choose God and I choose to walk with him and I hope that you do the same. I choose to put first God. You know, Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek first the kingdom of God." So, I'm seeking first by teaching. I want to make sure that uh you all hear the kingdom of God's message. You hear the word of God. You hear the pardon, the redemption because it's such treasure. Having Jesus is a beautiful treasure that I hold in my hands, but I don't want to keep it secret. I want to show you now. People are going to get jealous and angry because I'm holding on to this beautiful gem of redemption and it is blessing me because I am blessed richly because of it. Not just financial blessing, but at peace. I've got such a peace. I have such a solid rock of foundation on the name of Jesus and his salvation that I stand here and I can declare the name of Jesus and know that he is there with me in everything. I hold hands with him. I talk with him. He talks to me through his word. I hear it. This is a blessing. So seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. I choose be right standing. I choose to walk in the goodness. I don't want to walk in evil. I don't want to be a wheat that or a tear that's pulled out and burned in a furnace. No, I choose God. I choose his righteousness. And then says Matthew 6:33 to finish the scripture. All these things will be added unto you. The whole scripture reads, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added into you. This is why I can walk in peace. This is why I can stand here and know that I'm healed. know that I'm delivered and know that I have no enemies coming after me that will prevail because when they try to attack, I quote the scripture. No, the gates of hell will not prevail against the church and I'm part of the church. That's how I know where I stand. And I pray over myself every day. I pray over every person I am praying. I'm in constant prayer because I choose good righteousness. I am of the good seed and I hope that you are of the good seed as well and that you procreate. Let your seed, Jesus seed, continue to fall around you. Let that word manifest and let's grow and bring more fruit and bring more harvest in so that they're not going to the furnace. Amen. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Lord Jesus, I just pray that people hear this word. Even read it. Just read it. They don't have to listen to my message. I just pray that they read it, understand it, and see and know that you are the son of God. That you have redeemed us. And I ch I pray that they choose to walk with you and that they choose to become part of the good seed that you have offered us. Lord, thank you. Thank you for your word. Let it not uh let us not forget it. Let us hold and cling on to it and let us have the urgency to share that word with others. Thank you Lord. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. 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SPIRITUAL WARFARE The objective of this teaching is to equip believers with biblical understanding and practical guidance for engaging in spiritual warfare. By exploring the unseen spiritual realm, identifying entities and influences described in Scripture, and applying the authority of Christ through prayer, confession, and faith, the message encourages Christians to take back what the enemy has stolen, walk in victory, and labor for the harvest. < Back SPIRITUAL WARFARE Minister Lisa Kane February 12, 2023 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to equip believers with biblical understanding and practical guidance for engaging in spiritual warfare. By exploring the unseen spiritual realm, identifying entities and influences described in Scripture, and applying the authority of Christ through prayer, confession, and faith, the message encourages Christians to take back what the enemy has stolen, walk in victory, and labor for the harvest. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane of House of Faith Ministries teaches on the reality of spiritual warfare as described in Ephesians 6:12. Believers are reminded that the battle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual hosts of wickedness. The lesson stresses the importance of dwelling in the “secret place of the Most High” (Psalm 91:1), where personal communion with God empowers Christians to fight and overcome. Lisa outlines the different entities found in Scripture—including angels, demons, cherubim, seraphim, watchers, princes over nations, and spirits such as wisdom, knowledge, and fear—showing how they influence the natural and spiritual world. She emphasizes the authority believers carry in Christ, teaching that words of confession and prayer can bind the strong man, silence curses, and release blessings. The message highlights principles of binding and loosing, the power of spoken words, and the responsibility of the church to cover regions in prayer and intercession. Practical examples and personal testimonies illustrate how spiritual warfare affects daily life, from battling depression to praying for rain in drought-stricken California. Ultimately, the teaching calls believers to wage the good fight of faith, to reclaim what has been stolen—joy, health, peace, finances, and freedom—and to labor together as the body of Christ to bring in the harvest. Through persistent prayer, faith-filled confession, and reliance on the Holy Spirit, Christians are equipped to walk in victory and advance God’s kingdom despite the battles waged in unseen realms. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Saturday, February 11th, 2023. And this message is called Spiritual Warfare. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this word and we ask for our ears to be open, our eyes to be open so we can hear and see the spiritual dynamics of your word, the living word of God that we may walk it, apply it to our lives. Let it be a part of our spirit and our soul and our body. Thank you, Father God, for your living word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture. Here we are looking at of course Ephesians 6:12. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Now, as you can see, I am recording this a week early. We're traveling next week, so I want to get this message up. So, we'll be open uh posting it with Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow. Um we're going tonight to the uh mission church uh Rosa deseron in downtown LA and so we're going to have a youth message up and running for you as well tomorrow. So that is all the announcements here at House of Faith Ministries. But we are glad you can join us today. I hope that you truly apply this word and if I could just simply remind you of this because this is very important. You need this in order to deal with spiritual warfare. Okay. Psalm 91:1, "He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty." This is very important if you want to be in spiritual warfare and take back what is rightfully yours because a thief has stolen it from you. You know, he's stolen your joy, your happiness, your freedom, your finances, your health. You want all that back, you got to go get it and you got to fight for it. So, I'm going to show you how to do all that today in this message. And I want to remind you though that you need to be in the secret place with the Lord. And the secret place is not church. Everyone in church can see you. So that's not secret. So you want to get into the secret place with the Lord in your home or in your car, wherever it is where it's just you and God. And a reminder, you're going to be dealing with entities. I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to identify them all or most of them. And you're going to be dealing with that as you try to go in there. You know, uh, Pastor David just spoke, uh, Thursday night at Bundy Canyon Church here in, um, Wdemar and we were watching online. First thing he says is, "Wow, look at I don't get text messages all day. And the moment I'm going to preach here, I get text message." The moment you press into the Lord, you're going to have all those interruptions. So, just remember that. You've got to shut everything down. You've got to make it a priority. You have to fight for it. So, get into the presence of the Lord, the secret place of the Lord. Okay? that is between you and God. So he can talk to you and you can talk to him. And a little tip if I may give you a bit of advice that I learned many years ago because this is very very helpful. When I would read a scripture and there was something I didn't understand, I wrote the question down that I had in a book, a journal, and I dated it. And then as a few days would go by, because it always took about three days, I always got my answer. That is a relationship with the Lord and you need that. You're going to need that to deal with spiritual warfare. Okay? If you're not a believer in Christ and you're watching this message, you may not understand it. You may even mock it and call it hypocritical. Well, you know, that's your opinion. I suggest you don't watch and I suggest you do repent and then watch and watch how your mind opens up about this. Amen. All right. So, let's go back to that beginning scripture because that's very important here. Therefore, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, uh against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. So, we're going to describe some of the heavenly realm here. I want to show you this because I really truly believe you are going to be in for a world of surprise here. And there's a lot of revelation here as well. You know, as we get closer to the end times, knowledge is growing. And that is because of the Holy Spirit. And that is and he's teaching those that are dwelling in that secret place this revelatory knowledge. Okay. Now, you know, I've heard little comments just to also lay more foundation here about, well, why doesn't God just deal with the devil? and and there and I want to also deal with the concept that a lot of people believe that the devil has a lot of power and a lot of authority. So, I want to address that real quick here. There's a scripture in Isaiah 45 and I'm going to show it to you here in just a moment if you want to open your Bibles to it. Isaiah 45 is talking God is talking to a guy named King Cyrus through the prophet Isaiah. King Cyrus didn't exist for 400 years. So this prophecy is written 400 years in advance. But God is saying something very very important here. And I want you to see this in Isaiah 45:7. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I the Lord do all these things. Now you know this should change your concept of God. Let's say God versus Satan. There is no God versus Satan. Satan's a tool of God. So Satan's going to have to do what God told him to do. So, think of it like this. When you're dealing with spiritual matters or you're dealing with, let's say, depression or you're feeling convicted about something, you haven't done anything. Let's let's go there and do an example. Let's talk about homosexuality. You have no you can't understand why God says it's a sin. And you're a believer in Christ, but you're struggling with this. So, you know, when God says it's a sin, you you need to be acknowledging that, but you're like, "No, no, these people, they need love. Love is love." And you're feeling convicted, but at the same time, you're rejecting it. So, God will send chastisement to you. Your blessing goes away. You're cur you're under now a curse because it is against the word of God and you're just struggling with this. But you are standing firm and you're holding strong to your conviction because you're saying, "No, no, no. I'm right. You're wrong." You might not be saying it verbally or really kind of thinking it, but that's what your spirit is doing because you're fighting God. Well, eventually God's going to send the devil after you. Why? Because he's trying to get your attention. He's trying to get you to understand. Now, if you're a believer in Christ and all hell breaks loose, that's the devil coming after you. You one have the authority to tell the devil to get below your feet. So, make sure that you do that because the devil runs. The moment you say that he has to run, he's actually lower than the animals. You can go read scripture in gener Genesis about that. So, when you do that, then you go to God and you say, you know what, Lord, I am sorry. Help me understand this. And he says in Isaiah chapter 1, come let us reason together. So he will show you why it's a sin. And if you want to know right now, he says to the whole earth, be fruitful and multiply. And homosexuality cannot do that. Imagine if everyone turned gay, this world would die in a generation or two. That's just the reality of it. So he says it's a sin. And whether you knew a reason or not, you should be honoring the fact that he said it's a sin. You see? So this is how the Lord works. Now, I want to show you some spiritual aspects, entities that exist that we know of from scripture. We don't know all of them, believe you and me. In fact, um, we probably don't even know an eighth of the creatures that God has made in the heavenly realm. Okay? So, I want you to understand this. So, what we know of right now, we know there are angels and demons. I'm not going to show you scriptures on demons. Enough scripture on that you can go read about that. But here uh here's an example of a scripture talking about angels. Luke 1:13. But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zachcharias, for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bury you a son, and you shall call his name John." Angels have been communicating with people for centuries. The term angel simply means messenger. And so it really doesn't describe anything other than the fact that he's from another dimension, the heavenly realm. Uh, I bring that on because I, you know, I just want you to understand there are angels, there are demons, okay? That that that's the basic entities. There's people that don't believe it. And that's fine if you don't believe it. You're going to see how much you actually do believe when you get to the end of this message. Watch this. So, let's look at other entities that exist. I I need to lay this foundation for you because I need you to understand. So, once you see all the players here, and I may not even grab all the players. I'm just grabbing some of them. You're going to see how they all work together or against you. You're going to see this waring. And this is why we're talking about spiritual warfare. You have to know this. Okay. Look at here. There are cherubim. So in Ezekiel 10:5, "And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court like the voice of Almighty God when he speaks." Now, I'm not describing what these creatures are and I'm not telling you exactly what they do or anything like that. I'm just telling you they exist. Okay? So that's cherubim that exists. We know that from scripture. Ezekiel. Now look at this. We know seraraphim exists. Isaiah 6:2. Above it stood saraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. And with two he flew. Uh see no evil here. I'm just kidding. But you can see saraphim exists. Again I don't know what that is but they exist. Then there's also an entity called watcher. And this is scriptural. There's uh Daniel 4:3-1 17 says, "I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and there was a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven." Then jump down to verse 17. This decision is by the decree of the watchers and the sentence of the word of the holy ones in order that the living may know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever he will, and sets it over the lowest of men. Now, again, I don't know the role of watcher, but you can kind of get an idea that they kind of set up some of the rules and stuff here. You can also go look at um Genesis on watchers. There were 200 fallen watchers. They um mated with women and created giants in the earth. Uh the Nephilim, if you will. So, you can go check that if you're check that out if you're interested just to know more. Then there are entities called princes. This one's interesting. Look at this. Daniel 9:25. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the prince there shall be 7 weeks and 62 weeks the street shall be built again and the wall even in troublesome times. Messiah the prince. We need to remember that because we're going to be talking about that. Let's continue in Daniel to see more about princes because you're going to see how this applies here. Daniel 10:13, "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withtood me 21 days, and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia." So chief, one of the chief princes, there's a lot of princes. So, uh, let's continue on. Let's look at more scripture about this. Daniel 10, this is verse 20 to 21. Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia. And when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. But I will tell you what is noted in the scripture of truth. No one upholds me against these except Michael, your prince." That's an interesting scripture. You can really get a lot out of that. Uh so you can understand their princes. Uh prince of America, if you will. You saw prince of Greece, uh, prince of Persia, prince of Rome, prince of Babylon, prince of Ukraine, prince of Russia, prince of Japan. So there's always a prince exist over a country and over that entity, a large one anyways, and now they move as a group. Prince of Israel. Um, so you can see how that works. But there's more. There are also what I like to call influencers, but there are other spirits here. Watch how these guys work. Isaiah 11:2, "The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." So now there are spirits like wisdom, knowledge, understanding, counsel. So these I like to call them influencers because they're going to influence you. which means there's spirit of anger, spirit of hate, spirit of depression. You're starting to get an idea now of what this heavenly realm is about. And I wanted you to see that so that you understand what you're dealing with. So, let's let's break it down a little bit here. So, you're take a look at the room you're in. Now, you're you're human. You're you're flesh and blood like I am. And you can look and you see your walls or your window. Um, you see your ceiling, your floor, uh, but you know, maybe you're in a room with other people, you see other people, but you don't know what else is in there with you and see the Holy Spirit, you can't see him, but you know that he exists because you can feel the anointing when he exists. Hallelujah. Because it makes a change in you, believe you me. And when you spend time in the secret place of the Lord that I talked about, you'll hear his voice and he will talk to you. you will know what he's saying, where to go, how he draws you in. It's absolutely incredible. You're going to love that. Then you have um you know the prince of a country that's over that area. Think of a church. That church has a prince over it. Okay, so let me explain how this works. Messiah, the prince. So Jesus Christ is the flesh and blood, the the man who came to the earth. He he was born a male child. He grew up. He took the prince of Messiah and he he so Jesus the flesh and the man in the heaven in the earthly realm became the Messiah prince in the heavenly realm. And the two are symbiotic and they work together. You're going to see scripture on this in just a minute. So now the question comes into play because when you start seeing these entities that are around you, who's the strong man influencing that? So we have what's called the prince of America who is our president right now. Whatever his beliefs are is what our prince of America represents in the heavenly. Did you catch that? Now he We saw when Trump became president, a lot of people stating that he's not my president. And um it that punches holes in the spirit realm, by the way. And it takes your covering and breaks it off as soon as you don't as soon as you say that. So, you know, they said that about Trump. You've got other people now saying this about Biden. You have to be very careful with that because we need to keep our covering over America intact. Just because we disagree with what he represents, which we know that some of it is abortion and this is all against biblical. We the Bible, we understand that. But what our duty is is to one, let's not tear the covering down of America. Meaning, let's not speak words like he's not my president because it's going to tear the covering apart from the inside. By the way, what you have to do is now go into the spirit in your secret place and you need to be praying for America's covering and America's leadership and you need to be going to war. This is what you do now. Now, you you're going to find that other people are doing the same thing. Uh see uh Satan worshippers do it. witchcraft people, uh, uh, warlocks and stuff, they're doing this stuff and they do it actively because they're seeing results, which they shouldn't be seeing results if Christians are doing what they're supposed to be doing. You need to hear that, okay? You need to hear that. Now, I want to show you how all this works, how you deal with this, because it comes down to the words of your mouth. You're going to find that your words have been impacting America, impacting your church, impacting your work, your home life. Let's go to my absolute favorite scripture, the Bible that I think I put in at least 98% of my messages here. Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth pause the moment you speak with your mouth things happen and this is not only for salvation the scripture but look at this says confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved saved means deliverance so taken out of a situation or that also deals with let's say you're you're angry about something and it's been getting you more and more angry you're just building up. You can actually come against that and say, "You know what, Lord? I don't want to be angry anymore. I need to let this go and I need your help." And you see, the moment you speak that, deliverance takes place. And and things in the heavenly start to move that shake that and that entity has to let you go. Then you need to fulfill that place that void in your heart with fruits of the Holy Spirit, gifts of the Holy Spirit. You can ask for joy, love, peace because now you want your spirit to your cup to fill up and that just pours out of you, that love instead of that anger and that hate. So you can see I'm talking about deliverance here as well. So this so I'm going to teach you how to go back and take what was stolen from you. You know your your joy was stolen from you. Your finances, your health, your peace of mind, your sleep, just even your sleep at night was stolen from you. These are things that you can take back and and you know you could pray for things over like over your neighborhood. You know it's as soon as you start I just taught on this about the the confession of the mouth. I did two messages on this. This is how important it is. But you can go and start praying blessings over your neighbors because I'm gonna tell you right now, when they're prosperous, they don't want to steal from you. You see how it blesses you in the long run. What revelation, just simple revelation for that. You know, it's absolutely incredible. But in order for you to take back, you have to deal with the strong man. And Jesus did that. Now, let's go look at scripture on this because I want you to understand what we're dealing with. Now, what the scripture I'm going to show you is dealing with the the church in context. So, what's more important right now is pulling in the harvest. So, if you want to take back your city, let's say uh you live in Las Vegas, what's the spirit that the prince of Las Vegas, what is he influenced by? Money and gambling. So, now you know what that prince is. Well, now you can go in the spirit realm and deal with that because you have to bind the strong man because you can't go into his house if he's awake and alert. He's going to stop you from doing whatever it is you're trying to take back. Let's say you lost $100,000 in gambling and you want to get it back. It was a poor decision. You need to spend more time with wisdom and but you can see you can take it back. It is rightfully yours. But you have to disable the strong man first. Let's go to scriptures. Look at that. We're going to look at Matthew 12:29 first. Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder his house? Mark 3:27 says the same thing. No one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds a strong man and then he will plunder his house. And then look at what Luke 11:21-22 says. When a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoils. Now, who's the strongest man of them all? Wow, that's a very interesting question, Lisa. Would that be Jesus? You know, when Jesus was baptized, the very first thing he did is he went into the wilderness for 40 days and he fasted and he dealt with the strong man of the land, which was Satan. He dealt with them. He bound him up so tight that it when he would walk into a town, he would walk into a city, their eyes and ears were uncovered because he dealt with their sight and their hearing. that because now they can see and they can hear. People were getting saved, people were getting delivered, casting out demons, people were being healed. Uh people could see their their blindness would go away. The woman with the issue of of blood for 12 years. I mean, here now she had already spent all of her money on doctors. She had been looking for her healing. And here she finally hears of a man who's healing people. And so she thinks of it in her heart like if I could just touch his garment, you know, but because Jesus had dealt with the strong man first, she can now hear and her own understanding because she's a thinker. She's been looking. She had been seeking. But there were blinders where she couldn't find the truth until Jesus came. But because he bound the strong man, she can see the truth now. And that gave her the chance to go get her healing. And she got it. All she did was go and touch his garment and she was healed. And he acknowledged that it was her faith that did it. This is the power of dealing with your strong man. Now, there are scriptures that also deal with this and how you can say these words. Look at this in in Isaiah 40 54:17. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. Look at this. And every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. And their righteousness is from me, says the Lord. Look at that. So no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Cannot It won't be fruitful. Let's say you you're a rape victim. You have the right to take back your sanity, your peace, your comfort, your joy, your trust because that entity, that evil thing that attacked you cannot be fruitful. And then look at this. Any words that come against you, every tongue which rises against you, you shall condemn. Do you see this theme here? Do you notice in the beginning of this message I said you need to get into the secret place with the Lord. You are going to be entering in and dealing with these spiritual entities because this is what Jesus has been training you to do. So this is how you're going to get back what the enemy has stolen from you. And then you can see what you can stop. So like if the enemy is coming against you, you're at your workplace and all of a sudden I mean accusations are coming all over and you're innocent, you know it. And you're just sitting there going, "All right, Lord." And you say you say to all the entities that are around you, you simply say, "You will not be fruitful. You will not prosper. I bind you in the name of Jesus." Because now you're stopping the strong man because you're the stronger man because you're spending time in the secret place with the Lord. So what did Jesus say? When you see Jesus, you know his father. Well, when you see Lisa, you know Jesus. Do you see how this is? So when you get into the secret place and you are imitating Christ, you are learning of Christ. You are learning how Christ ministered, now you can go get the harvest. And now you can keep the enemy from prospering against you. You get to do this. This is your responsibility. You should be doing it. You got to understand that this is you dealing with the spiritual entities that are waring around you. So yes, you have this prince over America that he's influenced because now by the laws and the rules and the principalities that exist, the door is open for evil to rule there in America because of what our leadership believes. He has the right to believe that by the way. Now that doesn't mean you have to take that on and support it. No. In fact, it is your responsibility to say no. And that when you don't support it and you come into the secret place, you're not sending out accusations. You're not speaking words against America. You're not defiling America. You're not cursing America. You bless your land and your area because you say, "Lord, here's your scripture. You say that that that's a sin. I agree with you. I and I'm not supporting abortion. I am not supporting homosexuality. I'm standing in your word. And when you do that, your area is covered. So now, like in my area, I live in California, Southern California. What was one of the things that we dealt with was drought. Drought, by the way, is spiritually represented in the scripture as you're not spending time with God. And California has gone there. And you can see some of the woke thoughts that are coming out of this region. However, I said, Lord, I don't have to live in this drought. I could have got up and move and I'm still contemplating it. Still looking. We're traveling next week to go look at things. But I'm going to tell you here and right now that I said, "No, I don't have to live in drought. I'm gonna pray for rain." And so now during this process, so I start praying for it. It's like a year and a half now, two years ago. I start praying for rain. I'm like, "Okay, Lord, let's bring the rain. I thank you for the rain." And I'm just asking for more rain, asking and asking, asking. We we had a pretty good fall this past fall in autumn. We had a lot more rain than normal. But I'm watching these news articles of these naysayers coming in saying, "Oh, we're still in a drought." And I went to God and I and God appreciates this. I went to him and I said, "Shut their mouths, Lord, because what I'm trying to bless, they're trying to curse and I don't want to be waring with them anymore." So, I went to God and I said, "Shut their mouth." And then what happened? We end up with what, eight atmospheric rivers that hit California, Northern California. We have rain for days and the drought level is nearly gone. We, you know, there's still a little bit. I'm still praying for rain. We We got to fill up all of our lakes that were gone. But see, I have the right to do that because I know where I stand in the scripture because I spend time in the secret place with the Lord. This is your right, too. You have the right to do all this. Look and and see, you got to deal with that strong man. You got to bind him. Look at the scripture on this. Watch again. This has to deal with you're seeing in context with the church and the the representation of the church, the entity of the church. Whatever church that you're at has that entity. So Jesus beca, he was the man, but he took on Messiah Prince and he was a prince. That's he's a prince. So he operated both in the physical and the spiritual and he teaches that us. I'm going to show you that scripture here. So now you may not be as strong as Jesus, but you have Jesus on your side. You and Jesus now under his covering, his friendship. You get to come up under it with him. And the two of you get to operate in that. And you can. So when I went to the Lord and I said, "Shut their mouths." Look at the scripture. Watch this. This is exactly what I did. This is Matthew 16:17-19. Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjon John, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church." You see, this is the responsibility of the church to be doing this. Are you listening, church pastors? Listen very carefully. Watch this. And the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Verse 19. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. You ever feel a tickle in your throat and you say, "Oh, I think I'm coming down with something." Guess what? You open the door. Come on in, sickness. That's what you did. Watch your tongue. Watch what you say. Let's look at it from um by the way these scriptures are only found in Matthew about binding things and look at this in Matthew 18 because now we're dealing with it from I now the perspective of a person coming uh that's hurting the church that's hurting like I went to the father about these naysayers I I don't know these people who are writing these articles about droughts but that's what they believe in. There's nothing I can do. I can't go fly up there. I probably could have and and try to convince them that you're wrong. We can do this together, but because they're not believers in Christ, there's nothing I can do about it until the Lord brings them in. So watch how now you can deal cuz see when the church is trying to get together to go take a city and start evangelizing and to take back the harvest they are going to be dealing with the individuals in the church that are going to curse it or no that's not my thing that's not my calling but see that's the covering you're under if you're attending that church listen to this very carefully now in Matthew 18 we're going to read verses 15 through 20 moreover if your brother sins against you that's somebody coming against what the pastor, the leadership is calling for that prince in the heavenly realm to be the strong man of that region. You see, the church is here. He's got a a prince. Now, that prince can be strong if that headship of the church, which is the pastor and the elders, they need to be in the secret place with the Lord. They need to get together as well and they need to say, "I'm taking back my city." which means I'm coming against drugs, alcohol, vandalism, robberies, uh theft. Yeah, you name it. You got crimeridden areas in your city. Well, the church can take that back and bring in the people. What you have to do is you have to get in there and say the words, open their eyes to see, open their ears to see, hear, watch. I'm going to show you this in scripture, but let's I was kind of jumping ahead here. says, "So if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you've gained a brother. But if you not hear you, now you take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established." Notice how he says that. Every word may be established. Again, we're dealing with spoken words, blessings, cursings. Got to be careful with what you say. Verse 17. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. Assurely I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. You see how the principle works. Remember the very first scripture, Ephesians 6:12. We don't fight against flesh and blood, but we fight against principalities, principles, rules, regulations, laws. You see, somebody is coming against you and saying no, we can't do this. Look at the the story of the 12 spies. 10 spies said no. Two said yes. And those two had to wait 40 years. So, it impacted them big time. But they got back, didn't they? They got to go in the promised land. They got back what they were what was stolen from them. You got to hear this. You got to understand. And you got to fight for this. You have to to take the effort to go fight for it. Look at this. 1 Timothy 6:12. Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of an eternal life to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. So now this is why the elders and the pastor have to get together behind the strong man. You need to tell them sin, you are not welcome here. We're shutting you off. And we're also speaking to the spirit of each person because each person now has a spirit that represents themselves in the spirit realm. Say, I open your eyes to see. I open your heart to receive. I open your ears to hear you. This is the responsibility of the church to take back. Now, imagine if every region did this. I think uh the Lord would be really definitely having a Holy Spirit revival being poured Previous Next Home

Say this prayer out loud: John 12:26 “Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” Prayer: Father in heaven I surrender all positions in life to you, in order to become Jesus’ faithful servant and to follow Him. This body is not my own, but it has been purchased with the blood of Jesus. I want to be in your perfect will Lord Jesus, let everything that I do bring glory and honor to you dear Lord. Teach me to be humble, train me to be your faithful servant. AMEN!THE HUMBLE SERVANT'S COVENANT PRAYER THE HUMBLE SERVANT'S COVENANT PRAYER THE HUMBLE SERVANT'S COVENANT PRAYER Say this prayer out loud: John 12:26 “Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” Prayer: Father in heaven I surrender all positions in life to you, in order to become Jesus’ faithful servant and to follow Him. This body is not my own, but it has been purchased with the blood of Jesus. I want to be in your perfect will Lord Jesus, let everything that I do bring glory and honor to you dear Lord. Teach me to be humble, train me to be your faithful servant. AMEN! Previous Next Home

IMITATORS OF CHRIST To explain the spiritual meaning of imitating Christ as presented in 1 Corinthians 11, emphasizing God’s divine order of authority, the flow of spiritual life through creation, and the significance of Christ’s redemptive blood. This teaching aims to help believers understand how aligning themselves with God’s ordained order allows them to receive His blessings, walk in discernment, and partake worthily of the body and blood of Jesus. IMITATORS OF CHRIST Pastor Marcos Marrero January 18, 2021 Objective: To explain the spiritual meaning of imitating Christ as presented in 1 Corinthians 11, emphasizing God’s divine order of authority, the flow of spiritual life through creation, and the significance of Christ’s redemptive blood. This teaching aims to help believers understand how aligning themselves with God’s ordained order allows them to receive His blessings, walk in discernment, and partake worthily of the body and blood of Jesus. Synopsis: Imitators of Christ explores Paul’s exhortation in 1 Corinthians 11:1 to follow his example as he follows Christ. The lesson compares God’s spiritual order to the flow of energy in an electrical system: God the Father is the source, flowing through Christ, then man, woman, and children, before returning back to God. This divine circuit must remain intact for blessings to flow, as disrupted order leads to judgment instead of blessing. The study highlights that the flow of life began when God breathed His Spirit into Adam, producing blood that gave him life. Eve was then created from Adam’s side, signifying the continuation of this divine flow. However, the serpent’s deception of Eve disrupted the spiritual order, requiring redemption through the promised virgin-born Son—Jesus Christ, the “last Adam.” Through Mary’s miraculous conception, divine blood entered the human race again, untainted by sin. Jesus bore the full consequence of Adam’s failure, suffering on the cross, shedding His blood, and offering Himself through the Spirit to cleanse humanity. Just as Eve came from Adam’s side, the church is being birthed from the pierced side of Christ. Believers are called to discern this spiritual order, especially when partaking in communion, to proclaim the Lord’s death with understanding and to walk in His healing and blessing. Ultimately, the teaching reminds us to keep looking up in expectation of Christ’s return, living as true imitators of Him by remaining aligned with God’s order and redeemed by His blood. Inspired Teaching: 1 Corinthians 11:1 “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” What is the spiritual meaning of imitating Christ? You will see within the context of this chapter that in order to imitate Jesus we need to fall in line with the spiritual order that God has ordained. Imagine how an electrical system allows energy to flow: the energy originates at the power plant, then flows through the power grid and then into the outlet in the house, where we connect an electrical appliance and accomplish the task that we set out to do. 1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” In the third verse we are given the schematic of how the power from God flows: From God the Father through His Son and our Savior Jesus Christ, and then through man, then through the woman; and although not mention here, through the children and then back to God. Psalm 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” The return of the children to God completes the flow or the circuit of the heavenly blessings. Malachi 4:6 “And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” We can see that when the order is not kept in its proper sequence, the results are a curse instead of the blessings. In Holy Communion we have this progression clearly established. 1 Corinthians 11:26-27 “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you PROCLAIM the Lord’s death till He comes. Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.” We know that one of the many benefits of our salvation is divine healing, but we are told that if we do not stay within the flow of this spiritual energy, we are not going to receive the benefits. 1 Corinthians 11:28-29 “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not DISCERNING the Lord’s body.” The key here is to attain spiritual discernment of the things that we are supposed to proclaim. Since faith comes by hearing or having an understanding of how spiritual things work, let us take a step-by-step approach as to what this powerful chapter is trying to teach us! 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 “For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.” In the beginning God created Adam first and then the woman out of the man. 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 “Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, IN THE LORD. For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; BUT ALL THINGS ARE FROM GOD.” Because of the marital relationship between a man and a woman this can get a little confusing. In a marital relationship this applies: “The head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God” This does not mean that one is better than the other, for the two are considered one flesh before the eyes of God. It just follows the pattern of the original order in which they were created. Whether a woman is single, married or widow, Jesus is the Man who covers her head with the authority that protects her from the angelic order through which the blessing of God flows. 1 Corinthians 11:10 “For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.” But it is crucial for us to understand the original order in which spiritual energy from God flows. Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” It was the breath or Spirit of God who gave life to a well fashioned lump of clay. According to the Law of Moses the life is in the blood. What that means is that when the breath of God entered into Adam it became blood as it flowed through him. Adam means red as in red face, his face became red not by the color of the clay, but for the color of the blood that flowed through him. Genesis 2:21-23 “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.” If we want to understand the spiritual order, we have to follow the blood. The body of Adam was made of the dust of the ground as a fully grown adult, but it was the power of life that was in the blood that turned his body into flesh and bones. The woman was taken out of the side of Adam that bled when it was cut open, and out of Adam’s flesh and rib bone, the woman was created. The spirit that flowed out of God’s breath became blood in the man first and then in Eve. 1 Corinthians 11:8-9 “For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.” So that if we follow the blood, we begin with the breath of God becoming blood inside the man, transforming his clay body into flesh and bones. Then Adam bleeds as one of his ribs is taken out and God makes the woman flesh and bones out of the rib that He took from Adam. Neither one of them experienced any pain for there was no sin involved. 1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.” Spiritual authority flowed from God the Father who spoke the words: let us make man in our image, and the Holy Spirit provided the breath that became blood in Adam and then in Eve. The serpent deceived Eve by taking her away from the position given to her in the spiritual order, which was: the Father, the Word, the Holy Spirit, then man and then woman. Eve should not have dealt with the serpent anymore than Adam should. The serpent was questioning God’s motives; Eve should have let him talk to God about that. Eve was deceived, not Adam. Adam who is a type of Christ took of the serpent’s poison willingly, in hope that somehow he might redeem Eve from the consequences of her sin, which are pain, sorrow and death. Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the VIRGIN shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Through the deception of the serpent, the woman was moved out of her position of authority; therefore, God’s judgment against the serpent would come through a Son born out of the virgin woman. This Son would not only redeem the woman from the curse, but also the man, the first Adam who failed to protect her. Why did the woman have to be a virgin? Follow the blood! 1 John 5:8 “And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.” In the natural order of reproduction, a virgin cannot conceive in her womb unless the seal of her virginity is broken. Luke 1:31-34 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end. Then Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I do not know a man?’” Mary did not doubt; she knew about the birds and the bees, and that it required a man to be involved for the conception to take place. So the angel Gabriel told her that her conception would come through a miraculous and unique way. Luke 1:35 “And the angel answered and said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.’” After Mary consented: “Let it be to me according to your WORD” she conceived the Word of God in her womb by means of the Holy Spirit. The last Adam and our Redeemer Jesus, was infused in Mary’s womb with the divine blood destined to redeem the corrupted seed of the first Adam and Eve. Meanwhile Mary remained a virgin until after her water broke, and the Holy Seed broke the seal of her virginity on His way out of her womb, in accordance with the divine testimony of God’s order of authority. “The Spirit, the water and the blood.” 1 John 5:6 “This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.” Thirty-three years later, this same Jesus who came by water and by divine blood is hanging naked on Calvary’s cross. He is bleeding from His head as He is wearing a crown of thorns; He had to become king over the curse in order to dismantle it, making a spectacle of the curse. His hands and feet are bleeding, pierced by iron spikes. Thirty nine stripes let out blood out of His wounded back rubbing against that rugged cross. The first Adam did not suffer any pain when God fashioned Eve out of his side. However the last Adam had to fully bear the consequences of the failure of the first Adam. Jesus did not have to suffer like He did, but it was His love for the woman, His bride to be, the church, that drove Him to the cross. “It is finished” He said, and gave His Spirit back to God who sent Him to die for us. Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offer Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?’ As the dead body of Jesus hung on the cross, they had to take the bodies down before sunset, since the other two who were crucified alongside of Jesus were still breathing, they broke their legs making it impossible for them to push up and breathe. They had to make sure that Jesus was dead even though He was not breathing, so they drove a spear through His side. John 19:33-34 “But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.” God took Eve out of the side of Adam, and she became his wife. God is taking the church out of the side of Jesus and when His church is completed, He is coming back to take her as His wife. Right before this event takes place—the resurrection and the rapture—the water must be broken. Habakkuk 2:14 “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will fill the whole earth. This probably means that signs will appear in the sky that will usher in this great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. To testify of the water and of the blood here on earth. Luke 21:25-28 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” When you see Jesus coming in a cloud, how would you see Him? Will you see Him as your Savior coming to recue you, or as a Judge coming to judge you? If you love Him now and are eagerly awaiting His redemption, you have nothing to worry about. Isaiah 46:4 “Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, AND WILL DELIVER YOU.” It is your choice. If you make Jesus your Savior today, He will deliver you and He will recue you before the great and dreadful Day of the Lord begins. Romans 10:9-10 “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” KEEP LOOKING UP! Previous Next Home

DOMINION THROUGH ENLIGHTENMENT Equip “Vision for Women” to understand and reclaim God-given dominion by walking in true spiritual light—illumination that comes through God’s Word and the blood of Jesus—so the church can operate in unity, freedom from sin’s power, and confident authority in Christ. < Back DOMINION THROUGH ENLIGHTENMENT Pastor Marcos Marrero March 2, 2007 Objective: Equip “Vision for Women” to understand and reclaim God-given dominion by walking in true spiritual light—illumination that comes through God’s Word and the blood of Jesus—so the church can operate in unity, freedom from sin’s power, and confident authority in Christ. Synopsis: This fourth message in the dominion series teaches that dominion means exercising the authority God originally gave humanity, restored through Jesus. True dominion is recovered “through enlightenment”—the light of God’s Word versus the counterfeit “light” of the world. Using vivid contrasts (pitch-black tunnels vs. illumination), the teaching shows that Scripture reveals reality as it truly is and exposes Satan’s false, glittering narratives that enslave. Anchored in 1 John 1:5–9, the message explains: God is light; walking in that light produces fellowship/unity and continual cleansing by Jesus’ blood. Confession restores communion and clears the conscience so faith can operate without doubt. The tabernacle pattern illustrates how blood (life) fuels light (glory), pointing to Christ’s once-for-all offering that releases revelation and power. The church often loses dominion through idolatry, ignorance, and walking in darkness (practicing religion without revelation). Dominion returns as believers: Know and practice the Word (“It is written”), refusing divided hearts and human reasoning that replace truth with “instead-of-Christ” substitutes. Stay cleansed and confident—apply 1 John 1:9 immediately, believing God’s mercy (Lam. 3:22–23) and refusing shame that neutralizes faith. Walk in unity so the Body can wield corporate authority (John 17; Matthew 18). Exercise authority in Jesus’ name over personal “mountains” and even creation when led by the Spirit (Mark 11:23; examples from Jesus calming storms and Elijah praying for rain). Humble themselves to receive grace (James 4:6), trusting God’s goodness amid trials (Romans 8:28). Practical illustrations (traffic school, military rifle training, Adam’s test in Eden) underscore that dominion operates by believing God’s verdict over Satan’s accusations. The call is to live as light-bearers—daily in Scripture, quick to confess, steadfast in unity, and bold to say “It is written”—so the ministry and its leaders carry God’s will with power in a darkened world. Inspired Teaching: Let's open our word prayer. Father in heaven in Jesus name, we thank you and we praise you for this opportunity that we have, Father God, to to partake of your word, dear Lord Jesus. We ask for direction, Father. Uh all things that pertain to life and godliness come from you, Father God. And we want to make sure that everything that we do is in accordance to your good and perfect will, Father God. We don't want to settle for less. So I pray, dear Lord Jesus, that um this ministry here, Vision for Women, Father God, that that you will bring the anointing uh that reveals, Father God, your good will and perfect will for this house, Father God. And we pray that uh you will enable and empower those whom you have entrusted here, Father God, to carry out your will and purpose for this house, Father God. In Jesus name, we thank you for your anointing tonight. open our ears that we may hear. Give us a heart to understand and to receive. Father God, in Jesus name we thank you Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. This is our fourth week and I share on the u dominion on the last um three weeks and dominion meaning to exercise authority. Last Sunday I spent eight hours on uh comfor or whatever traffic school and the very first thing the guy said it says you violated the law. There was 14 of us there said you violated the law therefore you did the crime now you got to do the time so you got to spend eight hours over here. I don't want to hear anybody complain. Hi Marshall. So um uh dominion means not to rule. You know once I violated the law I committed myself and I have to go there otherwise I can just pay the ticket like I did and pay high insurance for the next three years. So you know that was a thing I had to pay them $40 and give them eight eight hours of my life you know. Uh but dominion means somebody has rule over you because of you know something that you violated or you having dominion over somebody because of the dominion that has been given to you. And in the first two weeks we deal with the u the dominion that has been given uh to us individually. And then last uh Friday night I dealt with how the church itself has lost his dominion. The dominion that was given due to the abominations and the idolatry and those different things that get uh talked about. So tonight we're going to speak about the dominion that we can regain through enlightenment. Uh as you know I'm some of you may know I'm pretty much into numbers. Numbers is the only perfect thing that we have. You know, I speak two languages. I speak full Spanish. I spoke only Spanish for 18 and a half years. And English is my second language that I learned. And one thing that I learned even with two languages that you cannot always express your sentiments and your feelings with words. They're just not adequate adequate words to express oneself. Sometimes we're we're inadequate. You cannot translate things perfectly. They're always uh messed up like that. So, uh, but there's one thing that's perfect. Whether you're saying 2 + 2 or do quatro, you're always going to come up with the same in numbers. I don't care whether you do in Russian or Chinese, you multiply 2 * 2, the answer is going to be the same no matter what language. That's the the beauty about mathematics. So, mathematics is perfect. The word of God is composed of 22 Hebrew letters. There's 22 word letters in the Hebrew alphabet. And um and the word uh uh the word of God if you look at it when it ends the revelation has 22 chapters. The number 22 means light. It is a number of light. As a matter of fact you take um this guy had a a tremendous book I was reading. You take uh uh the word light the distance from the the light travels all those things you can break it down and breaks down perfectly uh to what the word of God light means revelation. We need to think whenever you think of light you have to think of light in the difference between light and darkness. one time when I was a teenager and uh didn't speak hardly any English and I was hanging around with some guys. They invited me to go someplace and I didn't know what it was but I said I'll go with you guys and it was to the LA River over there by Florence and Firestone and it was to go through the uh drainage system to go walk up in there. Those are huge. Some of them you can walk straight anyway. So we started walking. We walked probably six miles inland, believe me. And we got so deep in some of those places. It was so dark. They have some flashlights and things like that. But anyway, would turn the lights out and you cannot see absolutely nothing. I mean, it's just pitch pitch pitch dark. Total and complete darkness. And of course, we had the police waiting for us when we came out because we were speaking through the manholes and we're doing all kinds of bad things that we're doing back then. But the contrast of light and darkness means that light allows you to see your environment. You see, if you turn the lights out completely dark and you can walk in the dark, if you're used like I like to get up at night and walk around because I know where everything is at. But let anything just be moved out of place and you're gonna hear w you know hitting something. So we need to understand that light is in the word of God is illumination, enlightenment, revelation, the ability to see clearly. This is what the word of God does. The word of God allows us to see reality, to see things how they really are. many of us and and I know I'm I'm taking a little bit too long setting this up, but I want you to do understand that the reality that this world portrays is not the real thing. We need to understand that this world is is is manipulated by Satan. Satan is called the god of this world. Satan manipulates the money system. Sa Satan manipulates the social system. Satan manipulates the learning system. Satan manipulates and he has built himself a false reality in which most of us dwell in that false reality and the things that seem real to us are not you know it takes that Anna Nicole she was talking she was watching that that on TV today all of that money and fame and whatever what a miserable life I mean her son which was 20 dead she's dead buried next You know that's not life. Yet in the world people clamor and long for those things. Why? Because the world is is is turn upside down. There's a false reality. A lot of people I uh I work in in houses. I see people that that that that have mansions and huge houses and all of these things and they get to the end of their life, none of their children are around. Their grandchildren don't come around. You know, it is sad to get to a point in your life to where you get old and realize, man, I worked last 50, 60 years of my life and what did I really achieve? I mean, I miss what life is really about. So, what I'm trying to say here is that the word of God is able to enlighten or bring revelation that allows us to see things for what they are, the reality of what things really are. And when we're able to see that, then we will see that we have dominion, that God made us rulers. Imagine this. If you own Manhattan, that island over there in New York where all of those huge buildings and property so expensive, and having somebody coming in and trying to give you some beads for the island, that's how they bought it from the Indians, by the way. They they just brought him some shiny stuff. They gave it to them and they got Well, that's what Satan has done with all of us. Yeah. Yeah. Get him some uh fire water, how they used to call it or something like that. That that is that is what Satan has done. He has offer us something that shines, something that glitters, something that looks like is, "Oh man, I never seen this." But yet we in reality are the ones who own the real thing. See, because the dominion was given to man, not to Satan. The dominion was given to us. So the word of God, when we get the proper perspective, when we get the proper enlightenment, when we get the proper illumination or revelation, the word of God is able to set us straight to where we can see who really dominates. See, the reality is that most Christians today live in fear of Satan or are dominated by Satan or are controlled by Satan or are living under the influence of of demonic influence of Satan when in reality should be the other way around. We rule. We rule. We The dominion was given to Adam. We're Adam. We're the humans. And and Adam lost it. And Jesus came out and regain it. He said Jesus came that he might destroy the works of the devil. And he did. He destroyed the works of the devil and then he left and he left us in charge. We are in charge. That's why I said what Jesus said you never prayed on my name but from now on from a certain day when the day he told us that but from now on you will pray on my name and whatever you ask the father in my name he will give it to you. Why? Because I'm taking charge. I'm taking authority. I came. You see, God made a law and the law was he created the physical universe and the law was in order for you to operate on the physical universe, you need a physical body. That's the law. Spirits cannot operate on this uni. This is why Satan cannot kill. Don't you think if Satan could grab that that kitchen knife that you got in your kitchen and and slit your throat while you're sleeping that he wouldn't do it? He wouldn't even hesitate. He wouldn't even hesitate. But guess what? He ain't got no hands. He can't get a hold of that stuff. So what does he have to do? He had to get somebody else out there crazy enough to come after you or he has to get you crazy enough to where you got the knife and you cut yourself. You see this is how he operate. So in order for us to operate in this physical realm, you got to have a physical body. And God excluded himself from that. When he gave dominion to Adam, Adam was to rule. And God could not rule because God would not come. God is spirit. They that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. So God did not have a body. So when Satan came in and swindled this dominion from Adam, God had to become a man. And that is in one of the Psalms and in Hebrews says, "A body you prepared for me." The word of God, which is the light, the word of God is light, came in and dwelt in a physical body. In the physical body, he bore the transgression of all humans. Every single human. That includes Hitler. That includes Fidel Castro. That includes all of these bad people out there. He bore the transgression of everybody. He died on the cross. And then since he was sinless, death could not hold him anymore. He came back to life and all the dominion was given to him. And then he says, "I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." And then he gave his church the authority. Why? Because his church has a physical body. He's ahead. He's in heaven. But we are the church. We're the physical body. So in order for us to exercise dominion, we need to understand, we need to be enlightened. We need to understand the difference between this false reality that Satan has built around us and the real reality that we have been given dominion. Amen. Now, with that in mind, let us go to first John. And if you got your notes, you have all of the scripture there in your note. And first John 1:9 says, "But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin." Now, notice the statement that John made. Now, it's amazing that John is writing first and second and third John after he was taken up to heaven and he wrote the book of Revelation. He went from all of those years. He was about 90 years old living in the in with a physical mentality even though he was trained by Jesus, even though he was an apostle, even though he preached. Then one day he gets taken up to heaven and he gets to see this physical realm from the other side. He got to see it. This is why the uh you read Matthew, Mark, and Luke, they're all make sense. They're called the synoptic gospels because they're all concordant. You read John is weird. John is a spiritual is the spiritual revelation of the word of God. It's totally different. You read the book of revelation. Do they say people are scratching their heads? They don't know what it mean. Why? Because the spiritual revelation has to be understood through spirit through the spirit which is the word of God. And the same way with first and second and third John in in in first and second John is the only place where you find the word antichrist or instead of Christ. Paul speaks about him in in Thessalonian but he calls him the man of sin, the man of pition. But anti doesn't mean against means instead of. In other words, there's a false Christ. So there's a false light that rules and prevails like oh this is the real Christ and it's not. And then he says that if we walk in the light as he is in the light, that means if we walk with spiritual enlightenment, if we walk in a way that we can see the spiritual reality that is around us and look at the purposes and we have fellowship with one another. Now, why is that so important? Because the power comes through unity. See, if we're a body, then we have to walk as a body. Imagine if my hand wanted to go that way and my leg wanted to go this way and my head wanted to turn around and my ear wanted to go this way. I would be immobilized. I would be paralyzed. I couldn't move. So everything has to walk. So the spirit of God is here on the earth and he's moving through his body. That means different individuals to walk by the revelation of the light to walk in unison or to walk together. And then he goes and he says that the blood of Jesus you there's three parts here. If we walk in the light as he's in the light, we have fellowship with one another. And the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Now last week I finished with the part that in the holy place uh there was a curtain and and and uh in the first part what is called the uh the holy place you have the manora for light because this was a tent that had four thick covers over it. They had big huge double curtain. So when you enter in there there was total and complete darkness. So because of that there was this uh luminora in this side of the room and it was supposed to be kept lit all the time. So when the priest came through the curtain and came into the holy place to put the table of uh the bread on the table that uh that had to be replaced every week or to offer the incense on the altar of incense or to light up or put more oil. That's the light that he worked by. But there was a thick thick curtain, a big thick curtain here. And the ark of the covenant was behind that curtain. And there was no light in there. There was absolutely no light. So when the priest went in there, it was total darkness. The only light that was there was the presence of God which rested in the ark. Here's a picture of the ark right here. The presence of God would sit. And that presence was so strong in the days of Moses. The light shone from there. The light went all through the tabernacle and the light form a cloud that covered them by day and gave him light by night so that they wouldn't have to walk in darkness. This is the it's called shakina. It's the manifested light or visible glory of God. This is what was in there. Well, this light when when the tabernacle was there will be on the mercy seat. And as the priest came once a year into that darkened place, the only light that it would be would be resting right on the mercy seat. And as he brought the blood of the sacrifice and the blood was accepted and he dipped the blood on the mercy seat, the blood which symbolizes the life because the Bible says the life is in the blood. As the life was poured, the light would come alive. It's like the light was fed, the glory, the anointing was fed. Why? Because without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. And the the nation was a sinful nation. So the nation had to do what Moses told them. They had to bring an animal. The animal had to be killed. the sins of the nation. The high priest will lay his hands on the head of the goat and the sins of the nation for that one year would be transferred upon the goat. Then the goat would be killed and when the blood was brought up in there that satisfied the requirements of a righteous God and the blood would cause the light to come. The Bible tells us that Jesus, our high priest, went and when he offered himself on the cross, his blood, the life that was in his blood was collected by the eternal spirit, which is the Holy Spirit and was brought to the temple of God in heaven. There's a real thing. Those were just pictures. And up in there was when the blood, the life of Jesus was poured. And when that life was poured, revelation immediately came. Enlightenment came. They came vision, the revelation, the ability to see. So here John is giving us a description of what he saw in heaven. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we're one. We have quania. We're one. Quania means like grapes. We're all individuals, but they're all connected. We're we're one. And then he says, and then the blood of Jesus, he says, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. Why? Because the blood of Jesus is the light. See, the word of God is the light. In John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God." In John 1:14 says, "And the word became flesh and that flesh died." The life that was in the flesh was in the blood was offered. Why? For an enlightenment or for revelation. So we see that the blood of Jesus and the word of God are very much interconnected when you apply. See all of us have an inner san like that by the way you're have a physical body which is the outer temple then you have an inner core which is your soul and then you have the holy place where your spirit reside. If you're born again, Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, they're all in your inter sanctum in your spirit. Your spirit is made alive. Every time you go into that place and you apply the blood, there's a tremendous revelation. There's a tremendous anointing. There's a tremendous release of energy and power. Like we talked last week uh in Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is living alive and active. That means energy. There's energy in the word of God. So every time Satan say, "You're nothing but a loser." And I said, "By the blood of Jesus, by the stripes of Jesus, I being healed. I'm taking the word of God. I'm taking the life of blood of the blood. I'm putting it into my soul." And the anointing immediately comes up. The light comes up, the revelation comes up, and Satan has to flee. Every time he accuses you and you proclaim the word of God, he has to flee. And that's what he very plainly says there. So the abominations which have come against us and against the body of Christ which all have to do with uh with uh idolatry and harlotry. It is only the blood of Jesus when he's released that anointing, the revelation, that enlightenment that is able to restore us to fellowship with God. You see, sin separates us from God. Okay? Every single one of us walk today and we sin. You either said a lie or you thought about something you shouldn't think of or you hated somebody without a cause. Whatever sins we committed during the day, as soon as you confess your sin, which is two verses down, 1 John 1:9, if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just not only to forgive us our sins, but to cleanse us. Okay? So, every single time we confess our sins, we apply the the word of God to us. John 3:16, God so loved the world, God loves me. Um, Lamentations 3:22-23. His mercy are new every morning. I don't care how bad I messed up yesterday. I can get up this morning and pray. There's a whole brand new batch of mercy and grace for me. There's a brand new and I can apply that and as I apply that, there's revelation. The revelation means I am forgiven. I am accepted. But then also there's a responsibility because with the word of God comes revelation. Why is it that I always have to lie? Why is it that I always have to do this? Or why is it that I always have to do that? Then as I begin to meditate, the revelation of God begins to enlighten me to the strongholds and the things that I need to deal with. Because you see, we sin. We're not sinners because we sin. We sin because we're sinners. We were born sinners. When you were born a child and you were uncomfortable, the very first thing you went in, if you don't get your way, you cry. Why? Because that's a selfish nature. That's how we're born. So God doesn't say you lousy sinner. God says, "No, you have no choice but to sin because that's in your blood. But I have a remedy for sin. And it is up to you to apply that remedy, to put it to work so that you can be set free. I put a switch in your darkened room. Turn it on. Turn that switch on. Let the light come on. Let the revelation appear. Let the blood release that anointing so that I can set you free. and not only you personally but so that I can bring you corporate corporately into a place of power and exercise in dominion. Now look at I'm going to be going one verse up. The next verses 1 John 1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and we do not practice the truth. What is he talking about? He said, "You can be a Christian. You can go to church every Sunday and you can say, "Hey, man. I go to church every Sunday and I Hallelujah. Praise the Lord." And I said, "Oh, that listen, you can proclaim and and and and be part of a denomination and worship the Lord every day. If you're walking in darkness, you don't have the light." That is simply what he's saying. How do you work in darkness? Well, if you don't know what uh uh you know what's causing you to sin, or if you don't know what's causing you to mess up, if you don't know what's causing you to be the way you are, that's because you don't have revelation. And if you don't have revelation, you're walking in darkness. Unfortunately, many churches today, you you you go in and you come out the exact same way that you went in because there's no revelation. Revelation is the anointing. There's no conviction of sin. And when there's conviction of sin, there's no remedy for us to stop going sinning. You can have a great anointed service, go forward and repent, but then after 150 more times committing the same sin, your heart gets hardened. You go to church, you hear the same message again, and man, I've been there, done that 150 times. That's not what I need. What I need is revelation. What I need is an anointing. What I need is power, dominion over this thing that's got a hold of me. Because if I can break that hold of that thing, man, I need change in my life. You see, that revelation comes in, that's where the power comes in. So he says, if we say we're Christian and then we're having a good old time and everything else, but it it if if we're not practicing the truth, then we're walking in darkness. Notice that it uses the word practice. That's the same word that uh by the way that uh they use for doctors. Don't you hate that? Going to a doctor and he's practicing on you. They practice medicine. That's because they really don't know. They're just going along with it. They're practicing. They have a lot of knowledge. But but that's what he's saying there. We're practicing quote unquote Christianity. But if it's in darkness, it's not revelation, then we're not really practicing the truth, are we? Why? Because Jesus said, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." So Jesus said this, they said, "Hey, we're not slave to nobody." The Pharisees said to him, "We're heirs of Abraham." He says, "Anybody who slave uh uh anybody who commits sin is a slave to sin." Only truth. Truth is light, enlightenment, revelation. See, once you realize that your head is itching because you got a bunch of little lies in there that driving you nuts, then you don't have to scratch that itch anymore. You go out and get that medicine and you put it on and you get that real fine come and you get those little critters on their legs out and you solve the problem. When we realize that the reason why we sin is because we got this things on us that is driving us to do it and to do it and to do it and to do it and as long as you don't know, you don't know. You can live in a jungle some place because you can't see them. Most of them are too small to see them anyway. So it requires enlightenment. It requires revelation. It requires truth. Once we realize that then we can address the problem. The problem with us is sin, deepseated sin that has taken away our dominion. We don't have dominion because we walk in sin. Jesus said, "Speak to the mountain. Tell it to go out, get out of your way, and jump into the sea. The only condition is if you do not doubt in your heart that what you're saying is going to come to pass, it will be done for you. The only condition is if you do not allow. So I have a mountain in my life. It can be a mountain of bills, can be a mountain of debt, can be a mountain of uh torment, fear, uh persecution, whatever it is is coming against you. You have authority to speak to the mountain. The only condition is what you really believe in your heart. So you see this is where the heart is the holy place where the blood of Jesus every time we doubt that God will bless us because we have sinned even though we have confessed that sin we are actually putting to shame the blood of Jesus. We're saying in a sense the blood of Jesus was not good enough for that sin. I got to do some penitence first. You see I that sin was bigger. Uh, it was okay to repent of that little light, but sniffing that whole thing of cocaine, that was a lot stronger. I'm I'm I'm gonna have to at least be banished for about six months before because the blood of Jesus, you see, this is the mentality of it. Doubt in the heart, the heart is where the blood of Jesus is applied. If I can understand that the blood of Jesus is able to take away my sin and that the only beef that God has with me because he calls sin in the New Testament missing the mark and the only beef that he has with me is that if I'm walking in darkness and not seeing what the root of the problem is so that he can give me that remedy and I can take that root out like Jesus said every plant that my heavenly father has not planted will be uprooted. Everything that is in our heart that is not from God, he wants to uproot it. But he needs our permission. He needs our working with him. And the only way that that happens is through revelation. Now look at verse 5. We start at 1 John 17, 1 John 1:6, and 1 John 15 because I want to tie it all together. He says, "This is the message which we have heard from him and declared to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness." Now you see the message. God is light. Light can be used as good provider. He's faithful. Everything that ever has anything to do with good, that's what God is. God is good. He is light. And in him, there is absolutely no darkness at all. So if I am dealing with any part at all that has any darkness to it, then I'm not walking in the light. Right? There's a couple of notes over there if you can pass into. Oh, there you go. You got anyway. So he says that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. Now let me put this into context. There was uh we were listening to the radio coming down and the news. I was trying to get the traffic made sure that everything was fine and there was uh was it a a tornado I think that hit a high school and eight kids on the high school were killed and they were speaking to one of the teachers. They said they did everything. They had a a system in case of an emergency were to get all the kids together. They were saying that everything that could have been done that were done and that they say kids were killed because it was an act of God. That what they call it. The insurance forms they call it like that. An act of God. God came in and he killed those eight helpless little kids that were just going to school there. It's an act of God. Yeah, it was an act of God. But not the God we're talking about, not the God we're serving. Jesus, John 10:10 says, "Satan comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy." So if people were killed, that was the God of this world. That wasn't the God we serve. Okay? If there were people that were injured, were in the hospital, their health was taken away from them. That is not Jesus said, "I came to that you may have life and have it more abundantly." Did you know that we as believers have been given authority, dominion even over the weather? If we, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, was operating in the power and the dominion that Jesus gave us, we could speak to that tornado and tell them to shut up because Jesus did it. Jesus saw the storm coming up and and the disciples were all freaking out. Why is that on the Bible? Was Jesus showing off? No, he was just showing them what what what man was has been given by God. Man has been given authority. So they woke Jesus up. They're uh a fisherman. They know how to handle. They know they're in a mess. They tell Jesus, "Wake him up. Don't you care that we perish?" He gets up. I can I can maybe He was a little tired and he wanted some rest and he was just kind of getting a little fed up with the little faith that his disciples had. So he tells the thing to shut up and then he tells you a little faith. You know I shown you the power and the authority that God has given us. When Jesus says from this time you never pray in my name but from now on whatever you pray in my name whatever you ask the father in my name it will be given to you. What was Jesus saying? He's saying, "I am depositing upon you, my people, my church, the authority, the dominion to rule over this realm." We have authority to rule over this realm. You can speak to the mountain. You can speak to the drought. Elijah was a man just like us. He could tell, "Do not rain until I tell you." So, for three and a half years, it did not rain. He could tell the rain. Okay, it's time to start. There may not be a cloud in the whole sky. He got down on his knees and he began to pray. He said, "Lord, you gave me authority. You spoke to me. You gave me your word. You said, "Whatever you speak, I'm going to bring it to pass." His servant went over the hill and look up. They're not a cloud in the sky, master. He got back down on his knees. He say, "Hey, uh, over there the weather channel, whoever is in charge of the weather up there is calling." Hey guy, I'm calling over here. Could you hear me? I want some rain and I don't want it tomorrow. I want it right now. You understand? He's praying. So he tell his servant, "Go back up there again." So his servant goes back up here. Well, there's a little cloud there, but it's no bigger than my fist. So he gets back down again and say, "Listen, I don't want a fist full of rain, okay? I want the whole shebang. I want you to send me superers size it. You know, send the whole storm. And in less than an hour, boom, there it came. Now, what was God? Was God showing off? No. God is just simply showing us the reality that we as the the body of Christ, the the authority that has been given us in the name of Jesus, we have been given dominion. That dominion is to rule over this earth over the realm of the earth. We have been given that power. Now it hasn't been given to an individual has been given to a body. That's why he says if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another means we're in unity. We're together in this. We understand one another. Then the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. The blood of Jesus gets applied to our sins. We get cleansed from our sins and now we can walk in the authority and the dominion, the revelation because the anointing is enlightenment. See, when I was in the Marines for the first 90 days, I think that I was there, they give you a rifle that doesn't have a firing pen and doesn't have no bullets. Some people would could find the bullet someplace. That's why they take the firing pen out of your rifle. And for three months they treat you as if that rifle is loaded. And every time you misplace that rifle and in any little way, boy, they jump all over you. They'll even steal your rifle to punish you because you're supposed to have it in your possession at all times. Even when you go take a shower, you got to make sure it's on a place w Previous Next Home

PROACTIVE PRAYING The objective is to teach believers how to move from reactive praying to proactive praying by using the Lord’s Prayer as a spiritual guideline for confession, forgiveness, and faith-filled declaration. This lesson equips believers to pray ahead of future challenges—temptation, loss, sickness, danger, and grief—by confessing Christ, forgiving others, and prophesying God’s Word over their lives, establishing spiritual protection, healing, and peace. < Back PROACTIVE PRAYING Minister Lisa Kane January 2, 2026 Objective: The objective is to teach believers how to move from reactive praying to proactive praying by using the Lord’s Prayer as a spiritual guideline for confession, forgiveness, and faith-filled declaration. This lesson equips believers to pray ahead of future challenges—temptation, loss, sickness, danger, and grief—by confessing Christ, forgiving others, and prophesying God’s Word over their lives, establishing spiritual protection, healing, and peace. Synopsis: In Proactive Praying, Minister Lisa Kane reveals that the Lord’s Prayer is more than a familiar recitation—it is a divine pattern for preparing our hearts and our futures. Drawing from Matthew 6:9–15, this teaching emphasizes that praying “deliver us from the evil one” is an act of praying ahead, asking God to guard us before temptation, hardship, or danger arises. Rather than praying only after something goes wrong, believers are encouraged to pray proactively over their health, relationships, travel, grief, and life seasons yet to come. This lesson highlights confession and forgiveness as the foundation of prayer, supported by Romans 10 and James 2, showing that faith must be spoken and acted upon. Through personal testimony and Scripture, Minister Lisa demonstrates how spoken prayer and forgiveness release healing, protection, and freedom. By praying God’s Word preventatively, believers prophesy peace, establish spiritual authority, and walk confidently into the future with Jesus leading the way. Inspired Teaching: Matthew 6:9-15 NKJV 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. [d]For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. This is called the Lord’s prayer but in reality, it’s more of a guideline to help you pray with a good and healthy spiritual attitude, and it’s even more than that. Did you notice ‘do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one’. That is praying for your future. In essence, you’re praying in advance not to be tempted into sin. We need to learn to pray for our future as a preventative measure. I noticed in today’s society that we pray ‘reactively’. We pray when something goes wrong but in reality, we can also pray preventively. If you take a look around your life, you will see elderly people having serious issues. People who are sick. People who have serious issues. People dealing with serious grief and loss of life, etc. If they’re going through it, there’s a good chance you will too. But you have Jesus. In all honesty, I don’t know how people go through these serious issues without Jesus. It’s mind boggling to me. So, what if I told you that you can pray for your future self? Eventually, you know that your grandparents and parents will die. You can start praying now to ask God to help you deal with that. That simply means you will be better prepared…it will still hurt and be a shock, but you know Jesus is helping you through it. The same goes for your health. We see so many people reach their 50’s, 60’s and older have medical issues. You can start praying now asking the Lord to help you stay healthy longer. I learned long ago that if I pray before driving on the road, car accidents are prevented because I gave it to God. Prayer is the center of our walk with God, and it starts with forgiveness. Matthew 6:14-15 NKJV 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Romans 10:5-10 NKJV 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.” 6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Confession and forgiveness are the foundation of prayer. It establishes our relationship with the Lord. Both Matthew and Romans tells us this. Another way to say this is that when we forgive and confess we are prophesying a new future over ourselves. We’re speaking the Word of God over our situation. Earlier, I stated that I pray before going driving. I had to because over 30 years ago, I had a really bad day. I day I know that I was under attack. My 3-year-old daughter fell out of a second story window, and on the way to the ER, we were rear ended by a drunk driver. While we were exchanging information with the other driver, I stood in that parking lot and said “No weapon formed against me will prosper. Devil get lost. This ends here and now.” After that day, I pray this before driving: Dear Jesus, let this be a safe and quick drive to ‘wherever’ with no tickets and no accidents. In Jesus’ Name Amen’. We haven’t been in an accident since. In essence, I’m prophesying over that drive…and I do this whether it’s a short trip to the grocery store, or a long road trip. I apply this prayer always whenever I’m getting in a car, and whether I’m driving or not. I know this works because there have been some close calls. You see, confession puts God first. You confess to become saved and you confess stating outright what you believe. Then the scriptures tells us to forgive. In essence, you’re taking it another step forward. You’re saying to God, ‘listen Lord, I need You. I need You as Lord over my life, soul, body, etc, and I will forgive those around me too letting You know I mean business.’ This is you acting on your faith. Remember, James 2:20 NKJV 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [a]dead? James 2:26 NKJV 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. You see, it takes a confession of faith to talk with Jesus when you can’t see Him. That’s faith working on your behalf toward salvation. When you verbally, speak out loud to God that you choose to forgive someone, that’s another act of faith. Your saying, “here you go God. This is Your problem now. I’d rather let it go and be free.” When you forgive, you heal yourself. It’s no longer bottled up hardening your cells. This is another form of healing. You’re being healed on the inside of your soul and body. So confession leads toward salvation, deliverance, and healing. Forgiveness follows the footsteps of our savior, Jesus Christ. He forgives all who want forgiveness by what He did on the cross. When you pray preventatively, you’re following in the footsteps of Jesus. Here are scriptures that you can always pray over yourself and your future: Matthew 6:14-15 NKJV 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Isaiah 54:17 NKJV 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord. 1 Peter 2:24 NKJV 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [a]stripes you were healed. Dear Jesus, I forgive myself of my sins, iniquities, and transgressions asking You to forgive as well. Thank You. This also means that no weapon formed against me will prosper. The curses, sicknesses, and diseases against my body stop now. By Your stripes Jesus, I was healed. I accept my healing and pray now for today and all my days going forward that I am healed. In Jesus’ Name Amen! John 16:20 NKJV 20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. Psalm 30:10-12 NKJV 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!” 11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off [e]my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, 12 To the end that my [f]glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever. Lamentations 3:32 NKJV 32 Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies. If you are suffering with grief, say the above prayer using the above 3 scriptures. You can find scriptures for whatever you are facing and pray those words over your life. Pray preventively with confession and forgiveness today and prophesy the Word of God over yourself and you will see a peaceful future in your life. Previous Next Home

FULLY PERSUADED IN YOUR MIND The objective of this teaching is to encourage believers to develop a strong, unwavering faith rooted in God’s Word and to be fully persuaded in their minds concerning the truth of Scripture. It aims to show that while Christians may differ in personal convictions and levels of faith, we are called not to judge one another but to walk in love, humility, and prayer. By anchoring our thoughts and beliefs in God’s Word, we can overcome fear, grow spiritually, and live confidently in alignment with His will. FULLY PERSUADED IN YOUR MIND Minister Lisa Kane March 1, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to encourage believers to develop a strong, unwavering faith rooted in God’s Word and to be fully persuaded in their minds concerning the truth of Scripture. It aims to show that while Christians may differ in personal convictions and levels of faith, we are called not to judge one another but to walk in love, humility, and prayer. By anchoring our thoughts and beliefs in God’s Word, we can overcome fear, grow spiritually, and live confidently in alignment with His will. Synopsis: This teaching, based on Romans 14, explores what it means to be fully persuaded in your mind. It emphasizes that faith is both a heart and a mind issue, requiring believers to be confident and assured in what they believe, while also showing grace to others whose faith may be stronger or weaker in different areas. Examples from Scripture and real life—such as differing convictions about food, holy days, or health—illustrate how personal persuasion shapes behavior and outcomes. The message warns against judging others for their level of faith or their practices, reminding listeners that each believer ultimately belongs to the Lord and will give an account to Him. At its core, the teaching calls Christians to maturity: to hold firmly to their own convictions while respecting the journey of others, to pray rather than condemn, and to allow God to unify and strengthen His people. By being fully persuaded in our minds, we align our thoughts with God’s truth, experience greater peace, and live out our faith with confidence and love. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on March 1st, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word that it does not return void. Thank you, Father God, for teaching us how to have faith and to te trust in your word and to know it in our mind to be fully persuaded by your word in the name of Jesus. To be confident in your strength and in what you can do, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Welcome. So glad you can join us now. Thank you for all of the kind words and support, prayer uh for as we grieve uh for the loss of my mom. Thank you guys for being with us. Uh the the flowers, the plants, and especially the prayers. Thank you. We really needed it. So, we are going to resume and I'm going to move forward with this new teaching. It is called Fully Persuaded in Your Mind. So let's go to our opening scripture. Romans 14:5. Uh, one man esteemth or decide one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded, completely assured in his own mind or intellect understanding. So when you look and see when I teach, you see the word in bold there. That word is the original word in the King James version that the the translators used when they translated from the original language into King James. When I put the word in parenthesis after it after it, it is another word that could have been used as a translation or I could add a lot more words just kind of give you full flavor of what we're looking at. So here, let's read that again. One man esteemth one day above another, another esteemth every day alike, and let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. So being fully persuaded in our own mind is what we're going to be talking about. We will be focusing here in Romans 14. And uh I want to my goal here is to teach you your faith that you can have in your mind as to what you stand for without judging others. Meaning, if you see them a little weaker than what you are, then let's not judge them. And if you think somebody is stronger than you are, then maybe that's the Holy Spirit speaking to you on what you can do with your faith. So, let's start here in Romans 14. We're going to start in verse one. Him that is weak. That word weak there uh could also mean feeble, disease, sick in the faith. Pause. weak in the faith. How many people, you know, I I consider myself a very strong person in faith. Uh but I see that there are others that are not. They're just not that strong. Um and I'll see pastors, preachers, you know, when COVID came about, I was like, "That thing ain't touching me." By the way, it did touch me. But after three rough days, the Lord, I mean, it was almost like it was instantly cleared. So, we're something it is it when you're dealing with uh sicknesses, it is a spiritual battle you're dealing with. But anyways, so I've seen preachers who are afraid of a sickness or disease. Not remembering Psalm 91 that a thousand would die to your left, 10,000 to your right. It won't touch you. But see, we walk in this fear and so we get weak in our mind. And this is what this chapter is talking about where it it's measuring all of us out comparatively to one another. It's interesting. Let's look at this. Says him that is weak in the faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputation. And so for example, uh it was a preacher I heard one time talking about being fearful of sicknesses and diseases and is a strong uh man of God in my personal opinion. And to find him at this level thinking that I I thought this was odd. Where's his faith? Because I know he has it and yet he didn't in that area. So now we have another component here. So, some of us could be very strong in some areas and some of us weaker in other areas. So, we're going to be talking about our mind in comparison and how to receive this person. So, when I saw that pastor weak in that area, what was my first reaction? One, I prayed for him. And two, I I I continue to listen to him. Why? because he's a good teacher of the word of God. You know, just because he's weak in that area doesn't mean I just need to shuck him out the window and be done. No. See, this is where we need to get a mindset that's a little different for um right now, Gathered 2025 is going on while I'm recording this here on March 1st. It started last night for those of you who have been watching and it's been um a round the world event of Christians. So, I watched a bit of it at my church last night and a gentleman came out, um, Mark Comr or something like that. But as he he starts speaking and and I'm looking at him and he's young, he's from Southern California. And so all of my judgment comes up and I said, "No, because here he is a man trying to teach the word of God." So again, I prayed for him. Does that mean I reject him? No. Now, if he was teaching something against what the Bible says, that's a different matter. But to we judge and that's what we do. We judge ourselves and measure us against all of these others. So, how do we deal with that? So, here he's saying, for one, verse two, for one believeth or have faith that he may eat all things, another who is weak eateth herbs. Oh my goodness, this is very interesting. So there's a culture back in the day of Paul and what it was is that the meat market would cut up the meat but they would take it to the temple and sacrifice it to the temple there. And so there are a lot of people are like you can't eat that meat. It was sacrificed to all these false gods. So Paul had to come in and talk about that and say, you know what, um he he tried he he wanted us all to know that we can be equal. And if there's a weak person in that area who is not believing to be able to eat that food, then you know he's saying you don't eat the food with him. You bring your measure to his level. This way you guys are on equal playing field. This way that person doesn't feel lost, rejected or maybe in a hypocritical type of situation. So here now what he's saying is okay I don't want you to receive these people to doubtful disputations. See there are different levels of faith. So some believe absolutely in vegetarianism. They only want to eat the herbs of the earth. They don't want to have any meats. But we see all kinds of fads and phenomenons that go on about food and diet and diet restrictions. Uh some people are like, "I just can't eat that. That will upset my stomach." Because in their mind they believe that to be true. What if that true that you believe the truth you believe can be overcome and changed? That's a very interesting question. Paul talks about it more detail. Let's let him continue and get it from the word of God. We're in verse three. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not. And let not him which eateth not judge, distinguish, or decide him that eateth. for God hath received him. He's taking that. He's taking both of you to himself. So, he's telling you, the reader, let's say you're the side that is strong on the meat side versus the vegetarian side. He's telling you, "Hey, don't judge him and reject him for what he's doing because I'm going to receive him to myself just like I receive you to myself." And you're sitting here like, "Wait a second here." Um wait what that that's so in other words uh Paul is saying there's an equality here in the end when we come into the presence of the Lord the Lord is going to bring us all to himself. We're going to see that here very shortly. Verse four. Who art thou that judges another man's servant? I want to pause there too. Servant. That person who's eating vegetarian is a servant of God. Well, you know, they may not be a believer today, let's say, and maybe they're rejecting God today. However, God has his eyes on him. He says, "I'm going to bring them to myself one day." So, yes, God has his vessels made, and that is not for us to to judge or condemn. He's telling us, you're to receive him as if he's work as servant for God, who he's going to receive for himself. This is where we start to mature up in our Christian walk because we're beginning to realize it doesn't matter because it all has to do with where we are in the mind. Now, I've done a teaching on the mind and I've done um and it's called the mind and you can go search for it and it deals with overcoming and working through the mind. Now this is just showing you what you believe in and how not to judge with others. So but being fully persuaded in your mind. See you might be fully persuaded I got to have meat if I don't have meat. Well let's use another analogy here I think is very applicable. Look at how many denominations there are in the Christian faith. Now you have Catholicism which takes they claim leadership as the Christian faith. So they take that. So then you have all of these subdivisions which is a denomination which is Assemblies of God, Calvary Chapel, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and so on. There are a lot. Which ones are right and which ones are wrong? You see, a Methodist will be fully persuaded in his mind, these are the commandments I need to follow. These came from scripture. This is what I stand on. The Baptist will be saying the same thing. And here's what the world is hearing though, and I really want you to catch this because I've talked about this in other teachings. The world hears, well, which one is right or wrong? And if you're standing there saying, hey, I got the best ones. you. I will make sure you get to heaven through through our denomination. Now, is that correct? Do we have the right to judge or condemn that? No. Because God is going to bring them to himself anyways. Which means the Holy Spirit is working in their lives. Let's continue on. And I said, "So who so and he's asking us, who are thou to judge another man's service? Who are you?" I mean, let let's come down to what do we believe in in our mind? And is it fully correct and right? This should be a great example for us to look at ourselves here because we may believe it to be true, but that doesn't mean it was true or accurate. Imagine being taught all these years, raised in a church, raised in a school, and they gave you all this information, and then you come back and you find out later about somebody or something that wasn't the way you were taught, which way is right. This is when you have to go to the Holy Spirit. This is when you have to say, "Okay, I need help, Lord, because I don't know who to believe in anymore. I don't know. I I had my trust in this. This was my truth. This was my foundation. This is what I believe in. He believes something different. Is it right? Is it wrong? What this ought to do to each and every one of us is convince us to go into the word and look at it more thoroughly and to ask the Holy Spirit, ask God, help us to understand this because yeah, who are we? We're definitely not the creator. And if you're somebody who thinks you've written so uh a study Bible even or you've done deep teachings, you don't know everything. And that's okay. Hey, none of us know everything. This is why who are we to judge? We shouldn't be judging. We should be accepting and just try to maintain the peace, which is what a Christian ought to be doing. So to his own master he standeth or falleth. You see, when we stand before God in our walk, some of us are going to fall, some of us are going to fail, but we get back up and we stand before Christ. Then there's some of us who it may take a lot longer to fall, but either way, we all have fallen short of the glory of God. We all have messed up, not just to people in our lives around in the world, but to our father in heaven. And that is when we have to come to realize, yeah, who am I? Should I be judging? No, I'm just a human little being with God living in my heart. Amen. And I should just be trusting in him. Which then comes back to what I've been standing on for years now. Pray for them and pray for yourself. Amen. Hallelujah. So he says to his own master he standeth their folly. Yeah. He shall be whole enough for God is able to make him stand. Did you see that? God is able to take care of them. So when you partner with God, because that's what Christianity is all about. You having a relationship with God, you start reading these scriptures and you start working in and diving in and you start finding out how can I deal with this, Lord? How can I fix this? What can be done? And he says start with you and pray for him or her. And this way God heals the differences between us. That's what this whole chapter is about is bringing a healing in. But realize who the healing is coming from. God. So it mean it means we have to humble ourselves to God. I I mean seriously uh I don't have all the answers. You know, our teaching here is a supplemental teaching for you to get from what you already get from your pastor in your own church and who you follow and listen to. We're hoping that by teaching you the word of God in depth uh from the perspective that the Lord has revealed to us that it would just open your eyes a little bit more. You see, you know a part, I know a part. And when we put our two parts together, we know a bigger part. We still don't know the full picture, though. So back to our opening scripture in verse five, one man decides one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. What that simply means is let's say today's my birthday. It's not, but I make today a good day because it's my birthday. Whereas another person, it doesn't care what holidays, what birthdays come up every day is the same for him or her. So he's saying whatever day he says let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. So if somebody doesn't want to celebrate birthdays, let them. If somebody doesn't want to celebrate holidays, let them. That's between them and God and they're fully persuaded. Another way to look at this, another analogy that I think is is very applicable is what do you believe in in the the sense, you know, like uh let's use the Hispanic culture, the Mexican culture to be more specific. They strong they strongly believe that when you go from a cold atmosphere to a hot atmosphere, you're going to get sick. And they do every time because they believe it. You know, there was a man who uh this was years ago in the news, and I don't have all the details, maybe you can Google it, but he he uh purposely went into the Arctic Ocean and swam there for 30 minutes. He did a mind over matter where his core temperature would not drop and it didn't and he was perfectly fine when he got out of it. There's a lot of people who teach on uh cold water immersion theories or whatever, but yet the Hispanic culture, excuse me, the Mexican culture, they're the ones who are absolutely saying, "No, no, you're going to get sick because that's what they believe in." But then you look at both and both are true. You'll see that happen with the Mexicans. They get sick. I used to work with several and when it got hot to cold back to hot, they always got sick because that's what they believed in. And yet you can have a mind over matter in a s because our mind is made this way. Think of it like this another analogy. There's a car accident and somebody's pinned and you know, hey, if I can just lift this vehicle up, they can get out of from being pinned. And so you just go and do it and you just can't figure out how you couldn't do it because you were in the heat of the moment. The adrenaline was flying or flowing through your body and you just knew that if you can lift that car and you did it like the woman with the issue of blood. She just knew that she can touch the hem of Jesus garment she would be healed. And he said your faith made you whole. This is being fully persuaded in your mind. Your mind is what's going to make a reality of your physical body. If you believe in veganism, you believe in eating all meat, you you believe, you will fall under the construct of that belief, whatever it may be. But if you're one of those who I'm not going to get sick, you won't get sick. Now, there are other things that go around on all of this, but where your mind is, you need to be fully persuaded in your mind. Read that again. Verse five. Oh, I already moved on. I'll go back. I think it's worth it. Let's go back. Says, "One man esteemth one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." So when you take the scriptures and you want to believe in them, have the faith to believe them in them and ask God to help you with your unbelief. The centurion asked God one time to help him with his unbelief. That's how God works. And he's going to get you fully persuaded in your mind. You know, when I stepped away from all of the diabetic drugs and all that stuff before we moved here to Missouri, I taught on this. uh shared it before in other teachings. There were videos I was watching of all the stuff the Lord was bringing across my my social media feed um books with titles and I would read and I would be like wait a second is this true what the doctors are saying or not. So talking about cholesterol used to be that number 300 was good. I range about 236 but they wanted me under 200. Then they wanted me under 190, but then there's that side effect of dementia or Alzheimer's and then you find out your brain needs a coding of cholesterol. Anyways, as you go through the process of realizing the truth, you become fully persuaded in your mind. And that's exactly what happened to me. I'm being fully persuaded that no, those drugs are not for me. That's how God works in us. So to get out of it, you've got to go through your process so that you can walk in your faith and be fully persuaded. Verse six, he that regardeth which is exercising the mind or you're having an opinion which is my opinion is I don't agree with the cholesterol drugs because I've seen the other side and I know what it was doing to my own body and I would get dizzy from it and it was like no I and then they would tell me well you just can't stop taking and I'd be like well I did and I'm fine in fact I feel better now than I ever did because I became fully persuaded in my mind and there was nothing they can do to convince me otherwise. And by the way, I'm still feeling the best I've ever felt. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, for my healing. So, exercise my have an opinion the day. So, he that regarded that day regarded it unto the Lord. And he that regardeth not the day to the Lord, he didn't regard it to the Lord. He that eateth eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. And he that eateth not to the Lord, he eateth not and giveth God thanks. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. So see when let's say blessing your food. I am a big big person on blessing food. I believe you got to bless the food. And to do it, by the way, to get myself into that new habit, it took some effort. There were days, I mean, I wrote notes, big notes, put it on my plate of food or right in front of it, mind me, bless the food because I had to learn a new habit because I did not grow up blessing the food. And I wanted to bless all my food because I believe that if I ate it and it was blessed, it's going to go through my stomach like it's supposed to. That's I'm fully persuaded by that. But look, there are many who don't bless their food and nothing happens to them because it hasn't come across that and and you haven't you know you're fine. Who am I to judge that person or who are you to judge me in blessing the food? And I'm telling you there were days I spit the food out because I realized I didn't pray. Had I seen this scripture, my my whole eating would be totally different. But you see, we live and we die to what we believe in. If you believe the doctors, you were given a bad um you know, my mom was given a cancer uh that she had cancer and here she just passed away. I have to wonder, had she just believed, see, who am I? Who am I? But I know that God is in control and that God took care of my mom and I know that he met her needs and that she was comforted. And you know what? She's home with him now. She's not suffering. Praise the Lord. Amen. Verse eight. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord. And whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lords. One of the things that really got me more onto this side was when Hamas had attacked Israel and the church I'm attending right now, they had a meeting, uh, a prayer meeting. We all met to pray. And there I am, very excited. Pray for Israel. Woohoo. and they wanted to pray for the terrorists, the Hamas terrorists. And I was like, and I've already taught on that before, but I remember coming home being convicted by the Holy Spirit. And it the thing that got me, God clearly telling me, I love them just as much as I love you. So, we are the Lord's, even the evil ones. Verse nine, for to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. How many of us are walking dead on this earth? Because we don't believe. And how many of us are walking alive in this world? Because we do believe. We all belong to the Lord. Verse 10. But why thou judge thy brother? Why thou said and not thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment or the bema tribunal seat of Christ. For it is written, as I live, sayeth the Lord, every knee shall bow or bend to me, and every tongue shall confess, agree fully to God. That is where it all comes out. That is the conclusion of the matter. It comes down to we belong to the Lord. We're all going to bow down to the Lord. We have to go through Christ. He says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through me. But if you decide not to do that, you're still going to bow because everybody bows before the Lord. Everybody is going to convince uh confess Jesus as Lord because that's the scriptures been prophesied. Verse 12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. I do not want anyone to trip or fail because of anything I say or believe. And I am hoping that you understand that when I teach something, I am teaching from faith that the Lord has revealed to me and I stand in that and I am blessed by that because I am fully persuaded by that in my mind. I do encourage you to get into the presence of the Lord and find out more about him and become fully persuaded as well because that is who our God is. He wants us to believe and believe to the full maturation of his word to that uh word to magnify and come out of us absolutely and totally so that in 1 John 5:20 and we know we're aware that the son of God has come and hath given us an understanding deep thought that we may know absolutely know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. And this is what I'm encourage encouraging everybody to do. Get right with God. Stand with him. And his teaching is let's not judge the others, but let's pray for them. And imagine taking your prayer life to a whole new level with Christ because he's calling you to do that so that you love them just as much as he loves them and you love yourself just as much as he loves you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word, that your word does not return void. And I pray that in our hearts and minds that we decide to put that judgment aside and that we decide to pray for others, that we decide to pray for ourselves, that we decide to open the door for you to come in and change the way we think and do things. That you come in and that you make us help us understand that your word is true. make us help us understand. You know what I'm trying to say, Father God. And I thank you for what you're doing in our hearts and in our minds, helping us to stand strong in your faith and not uh hurt anyone or put a stumbling block in anyone, but that we are there fully persuaded that you are our God and whatever we do, we do in your name. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you and I will see you in the next message. Home Previous Next

EVIDENCE SUPPORTING CREATION The objective of this message is to provide biblical and scientific evidence that supports creation as revealed in the Word of God, while exposing the deceptions of evolution and showing how history and prophecy are deeply connected. The message seeks to strengthen believers’ faith by demonstrating that Scripture aligns with true science and prepares them to discern current and future events in light of God’s Word. < Back EVIDENCE SUPPORTING CREATION Minister Lisa Kane February 6, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to provide biblical and scientific evidence that supports creation as revealed in the Word of God, while exposing the deceptions of evolution and showing how history and prophecy are deeply connected. The message seeks to strengthen believers’ faith by demonstrating that Scripture aligns with true science and prepares them to discern current and future events in light of God’s Word. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane presents a compelling case for creation, using both Scripture and scientific studies to refute evolution. Beginning with Matthew 24:37, she highlights Jesus’ reference to the “days of Noah,” showing that to understand future prophecy, we must look to the past. She explains that man was uniquely created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–28), distinct from animals and angels, endowed with creativity, dominion, and purpose. Drawing on Psalm 139, Lisa emphasizes that each life is fearfully and wonderfully made, with days ordained by God from conception. She contrasts this truth with scientific attempts to validate evolution—such as fruit fly and bacterial experiments—that consistently fail to produce new species, proving that macroevolution is impossible. She further shows that manipulation of DNA and failed experiments reflect biblical accounts of the corruption of creation during Noah’s time, including the existence of giants. Lisa connects archaeological discoveries, outside writings such as the book of Enoch, and biblical passages to reveal how demonic deception has sought to distort creation throughout history. She explains that the global flood is both biblically and scientifically supported, narrowing humanity’s lineage to Noah’s family, aligning with DNA evidence. The message culminates in a prophetic outlook, reminding believers that just as in Noah’s day, deception will abound in the last days. She urges listeners to see how false scientific claims prepare the world for end-time deception, while the truth of Scripture remains firm. Finally, Lisa calls listeners to faith in Jesus Christ, offering a prayer of salvation, and encourages them to trust God’s Word over the shifting theories of man. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Sunday, February 6, 2022. This message is called Evidence Supporting Creation. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift up this word to you and just ask for your anointing and favor on it. Ask that we receive and believe and walk with it and give you the glory, the honor, and praise and strength. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. Uh you're going to find this uh a very interesting and different type of message here. Matthew 24:37. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the son will the coming of the son of man be. This message is going to be a little bit different. It's going to be more of a teaching than anything. Uh but I want you to understand this. I had alluded to making a comment in my last teaching that um I was going to talk a little bit more about evolution. I never got to it. It's a lot. So, we're gonna show you the support here in creation and we're going to uh help you understand that the science out there actually supports what the Bible says and not what man is saying. Okay. So, Matthew 24. So, uh if you take a look at that scripture in the context of chapter 24, chapter 24 is prophetic. Everything about it is talking about the future. And in fact, if you're out there and observant, you will see that it's talking about us today. And I mean, it's spot on. So, we are in the time that Matthew spoke of in Matthew 24. But here is something very interesting. Look at this scripture. This is right in the middle of this prophetic chapter. He says, "It'll be like the days of Noah, but as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be." That's fascinating because now he's saying, "Okay, you've got something to compare this to in the past." In other words, if you want to understand the future prophecy, you need to go and understand the past. So there's a lot of stuff that went on with the past that we have a demonic activity trying its hardest to deceive us. So I'm going to show you some evidence that I hope will help you and convince you to have a little faith in the creation that well Jesus did because he's the word. He's the spoken word. And I want to show you that evidence so that um you can see what the deception is all about. Right. Okay, so let's take a look at this next set of scriptures here. This is in Genesis 1:es 26-28. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God. He created him. Male and female he created them. Then God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Okay, there's a lot of information there. We are the only creature in the universe. Yes, I can boldly say that statement based on scripture. We're the only creature in the universe made in the image of God. One, it's because we can create things. We're very creative individuals. We're creative as a country nation. We're creative. And as such, we also give birth to new souls, new creative people. The angels cannot do that. Um, animals when they're born or they give birth to their offspring. If you take a look at an animal, watch a cat playing and let's say they see the cell phone. They acknowledge a cell phone, they touch it, but there is no cognitiveness there that will help them understand what that cell phone is. They don't have that ability unlike a child being b uh birth born from a parent. Then uh then you can see that the child starts to learn and starts to think outside the box and get very creative and we've got some very interesting creative people in this world but we're made in the image of God. Now we also were ranked in that statement and and if you recall my last teaching chapter one was all about the planning phase. So this wasn't the implementation of getting the world started. This was the planning phase and God planned us in rank already before he even had Adam in the garden. Okay, you can continue and read chapter 2. You can go to my last message and elaborate further on there. And that ranking is very important. I want you to see this next scripture here in Psalm 85. Uh God is talking about man. Says, "For you have made him a little lower than the angels and you have crowned him with glory and honor a little lower than the angels." So God made the heavens and the earth. This is uh Genesis 1:1. He made the heavens and the earth and everything he made in heaven. We don't know everything that he made in heaven. He didn't discuss it all in his scriptures. We know some things and some things are very interesting. We know angels exist. We've had visitations from angel angels and the word angel means messenger. So that's where that terminology comes from. But it doesn't mean it applies to everything there. It just means that there are other creatures there. And if you read Ezekiel, there's some very interesting uh creatures in heaven. So when God made man, he made him in his image. So I'm going to show you what he did. Now look at this scripture here further in in Psalms. This is very interesting. This is Psalm 139. We're going to read verses 13- 16. For you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works. And that my soul knows very well. And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully rotten the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they all were written the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them. You know you're seeing here very carefully that God interjected right here. Your soul knows the truth. Okay. So he is saying that when the sperm met the egg, a soul was born. That soul that life came into being and that life is what God already had numbered in days. He already knew who you were. He knew your name. He knew it even before then. And even so, he gave us a will if you go into New Testament that it can adjust and adapt. read um Hezekiah. King Hezekiah had a an interesting thing where God extended his life for 15 years. My guess is he already knew that at this time. So, you can see that we're made interesting and that we already know what's going on. So, what I want to do now is I want to show you some evidence in the scientific community that shows us why creation is fact versus evolution. Now, the reason I'm I'm going after evolution is because evolution is being forced down our education system. Uh, in normal media, Big Bang Theory is an example. Um, Sheldon says it's a fact. it. It's not a fact. It hasn't been proven at all. In fact, they can't prove it. I'm going to read you some interesting stuff here. We're going to talk about bacteria and we're going to talk about fruit flies and you're going to see how scientists can't prove it, but they've been trying and they're not telling you. This is fascinating stuff. Watch this. So, I'm going to put these links down when I upload the video on the website so you can go see these on your own. But this is a section of this article and uh uh you can see theory and reality in involved with evolution and debunking debunking it. But here it is. It's talking about bacteria. It says there are many mutations. In fact, evolution say that smaller organisms have a faster mutation rate than larger ones. But they never turn into anything new. They always remain bacteria. Fruit flies are much more complex than an a complex single cell bacteria. Scientists like to study them because a generation from egg to adult takes only nine days. So in a lab, fruit flies are studied under every conceivable condition. There's much variation in fruit flies. There are many mutations, but they never turn into anything new. They always remain fruit flies. Many years of study, countless generations of bacteria and fruit flies all over the world shows that evolution is not happening today. Okay. So, let me define evolution here because I think that's absolutely an imperative fact that you need to know in order to understand what they're trying to to say and do here. You have what's called micro evolution. Micro has to do with breeding two different cats together and coming up with a third breed. That is possible. We see different cats every day. We see different dogs, different horses. That is possible. That is micro evolution is what it's termed as. Then there's macroeolution. Macro evolution has to do with taking, let's say, a dog and turning them into a horse. That will never happen. You're changing the DNA of that dog into another species. It doesn't happen. It cannot happen. An ape can never turn into a human being. So what they decided to do to try to test the theory is they tried to use bacteria and because and that's a single cell organism but they thought they could try to get it to turn into something completely different and they couldn't do it. Same with fruit flies. Fruit flies have an interesting only nine days. So they were able to manipulate the fruit flies and yet they still couldn't get it to work. Now, they can manipulate things such as like a cow's milk and things of this. So, I I want you to see something more interesting here. So, they did a 35 year experime experime experiment by evolution show how things really work. Instead of waiting for the natural selection, they the researchers force selection on hundreds of generations of fruit flies. So, I'm going to elaborate further here because I really want you to see this. They use variation to breed fruit flies that develop from egg to adult 20% faster than normal. But as usual, when breeding plants and animals, there was a downside. In this case, the fruit flies weighed less, live shorter lives, and were less resistant to starvation. There were many mutations, but none caught on, and the experiment ran into limits of variations. They wrote that forward experimental evolution can often be completely reversed with these populations. Despite the decades of sustained selection in relatively small sexually reproducing laboratory populations, selection did not lead to the fixation of newly arising unconditionally advantageous alles. The probability of fixation in wild population should be even lower than its likelihood in these experiments. You can see Molly Burke and and her group of people came up to that conclusion. And look at this. What evolutionists do not want you to know is that there are strict limitations to variation that are never crossed. something every breeder of animals or plants is aware of. Whenever variation is pushed to extremes by selective breeding, like to get the most milk from cows, the most sugar from beets, bristles on fruit flies or any other characteristics, the line becomes sterile and dies out. They cannot keep it sustained. And that is fascinating because I want you to see something. The line becomes sterile and dies out. Oh, this goes biblical. There is actually biblical stuff that supports exactly what they're doing and why it won't work. This you got to see. Let's go to Genesis. I think this is the most fascinating stuff. You guys got to see this. Genesis chapter 6. I'm going to read verses 1-4. Now it came to pass when men began to multiply in the face of the earth and daughters were born to them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves all of whom they chose. And the Lord said, "My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh. Yet his day shall be 120 years. There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men of who? Of old men of renown." Okay. the Bible in Genesis, uh, when Moses wrote that, he kept it short and concise. God didn't really want us to elaborate on this, but as you can see, Jesus says it'll be like the days of Noah. So, you've got the DNA manipulation and things like that. And you see that happening today with our scientists. Look at what they were trying to do to prove evolution with the fruit flies and uh getting more milk, more beads, but they couldn't keep the line going. Well, the giants, do you see any giants today? Now, they call them they call it a a a gigantism where the growth hormone just keeps on going. Um, Andre the giant, they called him that. Uh, he was over seven feet tall. I don't think he was eight, nine. Anyway, he was tall. Sorry, I don't remember exactly what, but you can look that up for yourself. But, um, what happened? Okay. So, at Noah's flood, God decided to end mankind. They were corrupt. And he he let eight people survive. If you go into every culture, every beginning of every culture, which started right after the flood, they all say something about a flood and something about eight people surviving. And they even get the name of Noah in there in most cases. Fascinating. That's in written history. So, the Bible says it, written history says it. Okay. So, the flood and they've got tests now that are showing that there was a huge water event that did take place on the earth. So, they're showing this. say even if you go to the Ark Encounter and you watch the scientists there give their um uh insight of their area of expertise you especially the DNA it they go back in history with the DNA and it bottlenecks down to eight people the flood scientifically happened it was proven so now the flood occurred I I don't know the exact number of years but probably about 1800 years or so after creation. So there's something that happened though in that time frame when the earth began to populate and you can see there were giants in the land at this time. Where did the giants come from? Because God made us perfect. What happened here? So it doesn't elaborate in the Bible, but you can go and look at actually several outside sources. Now remember the Bible is for your spiritual growth. But don't let it limit yourself in the knowledge that you need to understand what happened to the world. Because as you can see, evolution is not happening. And I understand some preachers and teachers are telling you that, well, we can squeeze evolution into creation and figure out a way to make it work. No, no, no. That's not how it work. God made us in his image. Read how Adam was made. He formed him from the uh the dust of the earth. So that is not evolution. So we start with a full grown man, full adult, full grown female. She's taken from the rib of Adam. So the universe was fully mature at the time Adam was made. This was all made at one time over six days. And of course that was the planning phase and then God implemented it. Understand how that works? So now if evolution isn't your it it doesn't support what history was you have to go look at these outside sources. So the book of Enoch, the book of Jasher, uh some parts of the book of giants I think still exist. These are areas you should go take a look at. Look at Greek mythology. Look at the Egyptian hieroglyphs and you've got a man's head on an animal's body. An animal's head on a man's body. Where do you think they came up with this? Do you think they made that up and it was satirical? Nah. No. This stuff had a root to it and there's some truth to it. It is difficult to believe. I understand that. But I want you to understand that when Enoch talks about um these watchers that come down to the earth, there's 200 of them. He comes, they come down and they take wives for themselves and have offspring. Enoch elaborates on what happens to them. It's a fascinating story to read. Uh that so you've got this watch and remember what I said, God made the heavenly realm. We don't know all the beings that were made. We do know that angels can come down and they can shapeshift. They adapt and look like man. You don't even know that you have an angel around you or that you're talking to an angel. You don't know that. So what happens is you've got these elements in the heavenly realm that we don't know anything about. So here's what happens. So these angels or watchers because that's what Enoch called them. Uh I know a lot of theologians try to call them angels. I don't know that they're actually angels. The word angel means messengers. So what are they? Don't know. But they took human wives and they decided to mix the human line up with their DNA. And that's what I'm trying to show you. They're the first ones to do what they tried to do that the scientists are trying to do today. Did Jesus say it' be like the days of Noah? There you go. Okay. So, what they did decide to do. So, they had offspring. They were able to bear children, but they were huge. Enoch describes the 200 watchers as being 3,000 L's tall. um using the ancient 18 in cubit or whatever. They estimate that to be like a 40 foot um um 40story building so 400t tall. I don't know how true that is. I do know that when the spies were sent out because the Bible talks about giants throughout history. The spies were sent out they came back saying we were like grasshoppers to them. So there is biblical evidence that is showing that giants existed. Okay. So what happened though in the book of Enoch is that it God cursed that line. I want you to understand this. So that first generation they were not allowed to live past 500 years. There was a manipulation with the DNA there that they did that God said we have to put a stop to this. Now that line died. Now they had children too. They survived the flood. The the DNA survived the flood. So you hear about David and Goliath. You hear about King Gog. You've got all of these things that took place that there were still giants in the land and they were real. This is the Bible telling you that they were real. Now, I know that a lot of you are saying, "Well, that's the Bible and it's just trying to support itself." You know, I'm going to show you something very interesting here that's going to surprise you. Again, this is demonic activity behind the scenes for multiple generations, not wanting this evidence to come out. But look at this. There's a website out there list the top 10 giant discoveries in North America. Now, this is just North America, but look at those purple little dots here. That's a map of giants report giant reports that they found buried in in one way one area or another burial mounds is what they were finding them and this gentleman here or female I don't know who this is Se Hall made this map so that's a lot of giants bones that they found over the last 200 250 years here in North America alone counting uh on the other side of the pond So, do you think giants existed? So, what I'm trying to say is at the time before the flood, we know the flood happened scientifically. We know that the giant line was cursed. We know that we don't see hardly any giants today. And what we do see of them would be about seven feet tall. Uh maybe I I think the uh Chinese guy was the basketball player. I don't have that information from in front of me. I was just remembering I think he was eight feet tall but it's rare to see. Okay, that is a rare thing. The line was cursed. Now that's not to say he was cursed. You know, he could believe in God and call on his name because I truly believe and I have been saying this in multiple messages. The moment you become a believer in Christ, your DNA changes. I absolutely believe that and I would love to see a scientist be able to prove that. Amen. So, I'm just trying to tell you that this information happened in the past and that it's true, which means what does that actually mean? Let's define that for just a moment here. So, if evolution isn't true, evolution, if you had that as a belief and it was a belief, that meant you weren't responsible for your sin. Unfortunately, because that can't be proven and they're never going to prove it. And you saw how many years they've been trying. Uh that was just one article talking about 35 year experiment. There have been hund there's there's been scientists that have been trying this since Darwin's day. So we're looking at a good 110 years that they've been trying to prove evolution works. They're finding that they cannot prove it. It isn't. In fact, they've proven that it can't happen is really what is happened here. So that means you have to go back to creation. You have to go to my last message and look and see what happened to the fall of man. man became cursed that we're still living under those curses today. Three of them. Eve was cursed. Satan was cursed. And the earth was cursed. Satan was cursed to a creeping crawling thing. And remember at the beginning of this message, I so told you man was ranked. We're above Satan now. He gets below our feet. We have the authority over him. He can't do anything beyond whatever we tell him to do. If you're having problems with the devil, you might want to check out what you've been speaking. Check out your mouth. see what you're saying. So I am trying to tell you that the past is real. So it'll be like the days of Noah. Okay? You saw what happened. Only eight people survived. So that means look at Revelation now and you're going to sit down and read the book of Revelation. It's fascinating. There's still a seven-year period that God needs to deal with Israel. Now, the seven-year period has nothing to do with the believers, the church, the gentile believers, but it does have to do with the Israelites. They need to go through that last 7-year period. Now, that means the church is going to be taken out before that there is a rapture that is going to happen. This is prophetic. All of this is future. So, again, in order to understand the future, you had to understand the past. So now you know how man was made. Now you know that he was cursed. And you now know that there's scientific evidence to support those stories. So they're now history. It's not a story. It's historical fact. Now you can go look at Revelation and see what's going to happen. And now I'm going to show you something that is going to throw science right out the window. You got to understand God works. And God can do anything. God is omnipotent. When he can say, "Let there be light and there's light." He can do anything. Watch what he does here in Revelation. This is fascinating. Revelation 6:14-17. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. and the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every man free and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come. And who is able to stand?" Okay, go back to that. Watch this. Uh then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up. Let's throw physics right out the window. You know, today when we stand out here and we look at the sky, I'm looking out my window here off to my left and you see the blue sky during the day or cloudy sky or whatever, but you see that there is kind of um a covering, a firmament that covers and keeps us protected. So apparently God's going to scroll that up, put it back in his storage bin in his garage or his work shop, wherever that may be, and he's going to look down at man, and man is still going to be standing there, still going to be breathing, not going to fall off the earth, and they're going to look up, and they're going to see God. And everyone's going to see God all at one time. And these are the people that are left here during this time. They're going to see that and they're going to run into the caves and try to hide and tell the caves to fall on them. Now, I'm a believer in Christ. I trust in my God. Yeah, if I was here for something like that, I'd be scared. In fact, I'd probably faint. And I don't think you can die during that time. It depends on the timing. There's a fivemon period you can't die. And I don't have all that scripture in front of me. Read it. Get in there and read it. you you you will get more information out of you reading it with the Holy Spirit than any teacher can teach it to you. Okay? But anyways, this what I'm trying to prove here and show you is that science goes right out the window when you're standing there looking up to an omnipotent being left here on the earth. Now, as a believer in Christ, I believe I'm going to already be up in the rapture because I believe in Christ and he's going to have me next to him. So, I won't have to go through that fear. But those that don't believe are going to be looking at that going, "Oh, and and how many rich people have been trying to create underground caves, homes in their caves so that they can be safe in case of a major apocalyptic event." Boy, talking today is fun. So, that is what I'm trying to say is that these people are going to be doing that. So now you have to ask yourself what is going on because you're being deceived with the media and the scientific communities are telling you these things so that you can be deceived so that when you see some type of event like that, you may think it's like an alien attacking you. It's called a great deception and it's coming. It's been prophesied right after that. But I do believe the horses come out that have scorpion tails and they sting. It's going to look like one of those aliens from Aliens and the predators and they're going to be running around stinging people on the So what do you think people are going to think? Aliens from another planet because this has been a deception that they the the demonic activity behind things has been pushing now for multiple generations. So you have to ask yourself, well, what is true? What is fact? So what I just presented to you in a scientific nature tells you there's scientific proof that supports the Bible which means you need to go back to the Bible. You need to look at the ancient past and then you got to look at the future prophecy. Amen. So now the question is why? Why is this going on? I let's let's look what Jesus did. I clicked the wrong button. It's talking wrong button. Here we go again. So John 3:17, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. So here, when the fall of man happened, God says, "I'm not losing one. I'm going after them." And he, oh, go watch my last message. It was awesome to see how God redeemed us. Oh, that is so incredible that we've been redeemed for those who want to believe and those who want to be saved. And it takes a simple prayer of confession. Look, Romans, I did not change the scriptures. My humble apologies. Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. All it takes is that prayer and saying, "Okay, I'm I'm understanding there's something major going on because Matthew 24 is talking about some specific things of great earthquakes and pestilences and we're see wars, rumors of wars. Look at the Ukraine Russia thing going on. It's a rumor and you got military things moving around. This stuff is happening and we're the generation watching it." And then he does say that this generation shall not pass away. That's you and me, friend. So, and then in the midst of all that, he says, you got to go understand the past so you can understand the future. So, you can see the elements all connected here and why the gospel of John is so important because he tells you who Jesus is, who he was in the beginning, what he did at the time he walked on the earth, and how we're redeemed today by the simple confession of his word. Hallelujah. Oh, this makes me so excited. Okay, let us say a simple prayer of confession because also this is going to help open your mind to see these things because it takes a step of faith. I get that. You can't see Jesus. It's hard to believe and especially when you know there's been so many hoaxes in relation to giants and whatnot. You know, pull that aside for just a moment. Look at what they can't prove with evolution. Look at what they did prove in the scientific fact that the flood occurred and how many cultures spoke about the flood. Do some research. Go figure it out. But let's say this prayer first because I think it's going to help open up your mind so that you have a better understanding because it does take a leap of faith. And when you do your leap of faith, God will be with you and he will move with you. Amen. So repeat this after me. Dear Jesus, I ask you to forgive me of my sins. come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior and open up my mind and help me believe your word in Jesus' name. Amen. And that scripture confess and be saved is not just saved for salvation, but it's saved from everything. Soon as you say, Jesus, you're Lord of cancer, you're Lord of COVID, you're Lord of my mind being attacked by this world. Soon as you make him lord over that, that stuff gets subdued. And now you have Jesus working in your mind, providing you the comfort and the peace. Because think of it this way there there's a parable. I wish I had this in front of me. I don't. Again, do your research. Uh the wheats and the tears. So in other words, a believer in Christ still deals with the same thing a non-believer in Christ deals with. We all deal with tornadoes, earthquakes, cold, hot. The difference between a believer and a non-believer is that the believer says, "God's in control. I trust in him and I give him the glory." Amen. Amen. Oh, I hope you have uh received something new from this. And I do hope that you're seeing the connection of the beginning of the scriptures to the end of the scriptures and how they come together. I wish I can give you more information. I really truly do. But I'm already at 33 minutes. So, I want to bless you and tell you that I wish you the best. Get with the Holy Spirit. Start praying. Get into the scriptures. Read it and do your homework. And I do recommend not using Google to do your homework with. Um, you might want to try Duck Duck. Go or something of that nature. We The enemy has been attacking us for generations and it's going to continue and it's only going to get worse, you know. But you're a believer. And as a believer in Christ, God comes first. And you will get your message because the Holy Spirit will teach it to you. Amen. God bless you and I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LIVING The objective of this message is to help believers understand the significance of the Book of the Living (Book of Life) as revealed throughout Scripture. It emphasizes Jesus Christ as the Living Word and Light of the world, showing how God has always communicated through the spoken and written word, recording covenants, genealogies, laws, and individual lives. The teaching calls listeners to examine their salvation, repent, and ensure their names are written in the Book of Life through faith in Jesus Christ. < Back IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LIVING Minister Lisa Kane October 2, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to help believers understand the significance of the Book of the Living (Book of Life) as revealed throughout Scripture. It emphasizes Jesus Christ as the Living Word and Light of the world, showing how God has always communicated through the spoken and written word, recording covenants, genealogies, laws, and individual lives. The teaching calls listeners to examine their salvation, repent, and ensure their names are written in the Book of Life through faith in Jesus Christ. Synopsis: Lisa Kane begins with John 1:1–5, showing Jesus as the Word and the Light that overcomes darkness, and ties this to Genesis 1:1–5, where God spoke light into existence. She highlights Jesus as the physical embodiment of the Word—spoken, written, and living—through whom creation, redemption, and revelation flow. The message then journeys through biblical references to many “books” mentioned in Scripture: the Book of Generations, Book of the Covenant, Book of the Law, Book of Jasher, Book of the Acts of Solomon, Chronicles of the Kings, and others. These writings reveal how God ensured His covenants and commands would be preserved for future generations, combining the power of both the spoken and written word. Building on this, Lisa explains that God also keeps personal records: a book written about each person (Psalm 56:8; Psalm 139:16). Every life, every choice, and every moment is documented by God. Most importantly, she stresses the eternal significance of the Book of the Living (Book of Life) (Psalm 69:28; Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 20:15). Those whose names are written remain in fellowship with Christ, while those not found are condemned. The message challenges listeners to repentance and faith in Jesus, reminding them that God records not only their sins but also their salvation when they confess Christ as Lord (Romans 10:9). Through Christ’s blood, believers’ names are permanently secured in the Book of Life, and they are called to walk as His representatives—lights in a dark world. The teaching concludes with an urgent call: Is your name found in the Book of the Living? Through repentance, obedience, and faith in Jesus Christ, every believer can be confident of their salvation and live as a testimony of God’s light and truth. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022. And this message is called Is Your Name Found in the Book of the Living? Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing and anointing on it. We thank you for teaching us who your son is, our foundation, our strength, the living word of God. And we thank you, Father God, for all that you're doing and all the things that you're teaching us. We receive, we believe, we apply, and we're walking in your word. Thank you, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. John 1, we're going to read verses 1-5. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. And the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. King James version says did not overtake it. So um in other words the light is stronger than the dark. The light penetrates and the darkness cannot defeat it in any way, shape or form. Amen. So notice it talked about going back to the beginning. Let's go look at those scriptures in the beginning because I think there's a correlation here. Let's see what we're talking about here. Genesis 1 1-5. Oh, look at that. We just read John 1 1-5. Now we're going to read Genesis 1 1-5. Look at the similarities here. This is incredible. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Okay. So now you see kind of a a similarity and a reversal because in the beginning there was darkness and God created light. And then you can see in John he's saying the word was with God. The moment that God said let there be light that was a spoken word. Now who claims to be the light? Because now once we see and understand this we're going to enter uh find something very interesting here. We're going to see the son of God become real. Watch this. Jesus in John 8:12 says, "And Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." Okay. So, we know that the light was spoken. So Jesus is out of God and he is the son of God. God calls him his only begotten son and he is the word, the word, the spoken word, the numa, the power, the authority. Hallelujah. He is the light. Now, what's so interesting about this is that throughout history, because the physical embodiment of the word of God did not take place till Jesus was born, books were written. Lots of books were written. Some were lost. Some were found again. And those books pointed to Jesus. and not only pointed to him as the light but as the son of God, our redeemer. Because you see in Genesis in the beginning, God already knew that the fall of man was going to happen and that was going to be well could have been it. But he sent his son and in fact he sent his son before he created us. Hallelujah. Because he said, "Let there be light." Let the sun come. Not the sun, su n, but the s o n. Let there be light. Let there be Jesus. Let's go back to that. I want you to see something here. Going back to John 1-5. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. So God put himself into a word. Now there's something very interesting here. I want you to catch this. He put himself into the word. So when Jesus was born and Jesus started walking on the face of this earth, Jesus was the embodiment of his spoken word. It's the flesh incarnate but as God. He walked the word. He was the word walking which which is why he healed so many people because he's the numa the power the word that said let there be light. He is that portion. So, what I want to do is I want to take you onto a journey here and and show you how the written word works. How the spoken word works. Okay? Because Jesus became the embodiment of it. He was the physical living word walking the earth. So, but before he became that physical word, he was a spoken word and God used speak and he used written which is all part of the language to communicate to us. So the reason I'm addressing the idea of being in a book format or let's say a video 3D video or let's say a written format or and again the spoken word these are things that God measures us by and Jesus is the first example to set that in motion as the numa because because he is the light everything he touched and did it was power and we're to be like him. God made us in his image and as his image, we're his representative. Are you seeing something that we're going to be going through? Okay. But anyways, I want to show you how powerful the written word is when it is touched by God, covered by God, and known by God. So, we're going to talk about some books. Yes. some written books. I'm going to take you through the journey of the Bible that talks about all the different books. It's well worth this going through this list. So, this is definitely a different kind of teaching, but I want you to see how true the embodiment of Jesus as the living word of God, the the Bible, the written word. He is the living. He became the the persona of that. So let's start with our first um word that was brought to our attention. So in uh in Genesis 5:1 there is a thing that's called the book of the generations of Adam. This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man he made him in the likeness of God. Now remember Moses wrote Genesis. He started writing a book about the gen genealogies under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit or of God the light. Amen. Look at this. Now there is called the book of the covenant. Then he took the book of the covenant read it in the hearing of the people and they said all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. E Exodus 247. So, as you can see what God did here with Moses, who wrote the first five books of the Bible, he wrote a genealogy and and I'm sure they were all separate scrolls. They were put together later on. Okay? So, I want you to see how this is dealt with and they're written at different times. Now, in this case, Moses wrote those first five books. He wrote the covenant down. There is a covenant between the nation of Israel and God. And you can see the people agreed to do it all. So it was written down by Moses, but it was spoken to the people and they acknowledged. So now you see how the written portion worked and the spoken portion worked and how the two came together. Now why did it have to be written? Because there going to be generations of people coming and they were not there at the assembly when it was spoken. So they got to read it to be a part of that covenant and grasp onto it and then acknowledge it. Okay? So it's a continuation on because we don't live forever. Everybody has to die at least once. So let's continue on with more books. Look at how this goes on even further. There is a thing called the book of the wars of the Lord. Interesting. This is in Numbers 21:14, the first part of the verse, verse uh A. Therefore, it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord. Now, if you're curious about what that book entails, go read the story associated with those scriptures. I have a lot of content here. I can't go off into the rabbit trails and and go into all the stories there, but I want you to realize there's a whole lot of books here. So, wars of the Lord. Interesting, isn't it? Look at this. Now, we have what's called the book of the law. If you obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul. Deuteronomy 30:10. Now the book of the law is encompassed with the book of the covenant. And again, Moses wrote all of that. This is Deuteronomy and they're talking about the blessings and the cursings there. And remember what I talked about in our last message that I taught that we are the image of God. We represent him and as such you have the authority to make peace or calamity because you are a representation of God and that is what God does as he said in Isaiah 45:7 to King Cyrus 400 years in advance. Isn't that awesome? So let's continue on and look at all these other books that the Bible is referring to. But keep in mind what these are doing. God made a covenant with the nation of Israel. He made a law. Okay, so I'm going to pause here for a moment and tell you why he did what he did. Remember, we're in his image and we represent God. And as that representation, the nation of Israel represented to the world the law. And the law said, "You're a sinner." And so all the people of the world who looked at the nation of Israel in those days saw that they were sinners and as a result they knew they were in the wrong and they had to go to God to find how to get saved. The nation of Israel was the ones pointing this out. Okay. So now as you know nation of Israel had many kings, many generations that followed and as a result the book of the law, the book of the covenant that all encompassed together with the nation of Israel was a written statement of something spoken to the first generation in relation to all of that. What Moses had to do was take the people out of Egypt. that first generation and on were the ones who received this covenant and they said they agreed that let's do this. So now the following generations had to do it. So you had to have this written word. So this is what's taking place here as we look at these books. Now let's continue on. There's another book here called the book of Jasher. So the sun stood still and the moon stopped till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. Joshua 10:13. Again, I encourage you to get in there and read what that event was about because that is a powerful event that took place. Joshua is now the leader of the nation of Israel and he is uh taking the nation of Israel into the promised land. Okay. So, this is what he had to do. And he's having to attack all the people, the inhabitants of the lands at that time and kick them out because that land was promised to the nation of Israel by God to Abraham as a covenant. Remember, we've got covenants that took place. So, here's where things get very interesting. The book of Jasher, that book exists today. and it is not part of the canon that the the whole encompass of what the Bible is today. So, you know, I don't know what went into that committee that put the canon together. You can look that up and research that. What I'm going to say is that the Bible of itself is for your spiritual growth. any extra books that the Bible points to because the Bible is pointing to the book of Jasher has additional information that you can use for historical purposes. One of the things that I find interesting about the book of the of Jasher is Abraham, his youth, how he finds God and how he acknowledges that's not written in in uh gener Genesis. So, you might want to go back and look at the book of Jasher and check it out because he does talk about that those kind of things. And of course, there's a whole lot more in the book of Jasher. So, by all means, get in there and check it out. And so, let's continue on uh with some more books because what you know, I want you to see the power of the written word from a spoken word. I want you to see the history of how this is happening. So, and there are more books. By the way, I'm not going to go through all of them. There are so many I can't cover them all. Please do your homework. Get in there and check it out. It's awesome. Okay, we have the book of the acts of Solomon. Now, the rest of the Acts of Solomon, all that he did and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? And this is in first kings 11:41. Now, what we have in the Bible is the Song of Solomon. That is not the acts of Solomon. So, this book is different. It is separated. So it and it could be referring to the proverbs. So they call it proverbs but it could be the acts of I don't know but the bible is referring to it. This book exists. And look at this one. The book of the chronicles. Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam. How he made war and how he reigned. Indeed they're written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. First kings 14:19. Kings and Chronicles tell the same thing, but from two different perspectives. You've got the Kings, which tells you from the human physical world what physically happened. It's a documentary of what the Kings did. Chronicles takes it one step further and God shows you the behind the scenes and says, "This is what was going on spiritually." So, you might want to get in there and read the two and compare them side by side because I think you're going to find there was so much more going on. And again, with that spiritual stuff going on, that written word, the com covenant and the law and all how all the kings were dealing with it plays a huge role in their witness and testimony to the world that God held them responsible for. Let's continue on because there's so much more here. Watch this. There is the book of the kings of Israel and Judah which I just referred to a bit ago. So all Israel was recorded by genealogies and indeed they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel but Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness. 1 Chronicles 9:1. Okay. So you saw kings referring to Chronicles. Now Chronicles is referring to Kings. So the two go hand in hand but one is written of the the uh perspective of man and the other is written by the perspective of God. Amen. Now we have what's called the book of Samuel the seer. Now the acts of King David first and last indeed they are written in the book of Samuel the seer and the book of Nathan the prophet and in the book of Gad the seer 1st Chronicles 29:29. You see how many books were written? Those books are not in the Bible. Samuel is, but Gad, let's see, it was Nathan and Gad. They're not in there. Where are those books? But it talks about King David and all his acts. And Samuel already covered it. So, I suppose I just did not need to be there. So, but you see how it was documented, written, and everything. Now, look, we're going to see here in the book of Nathan the prophet. Uh now the re this is now going into Solomon's reign. It says now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet. Look at this. In the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Edo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nibbat. 2 Chronicles 9:29. Look at these other books. They're not in the Bible, but they exist or they have existed and they were written and they could be with all of wherever uh the temple uh stuff is if it survived the length of time. And then we have the book of Shemiah the prophet, the acts of Rayoboam, first and last. Are they not written in the book of Shmiah the prophet and of Edo the Seir concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rayoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 2 Chronicles 12:15. So now you're starting to see a little bit more of what's going on. They they've been documenting history. You see that they're fighting internally now. Uh you had King David, you had Solomon, and now the split of Raoboam and Jeroboam. And the nation of Israel splits. And you've got the nation of Israel and you have Judah. So this is and it's going to be like this. Remember though, they are supposed to be in the image of God and they're supposed to be following the covenant of their predecessors. Watch what happens. This is fascinating, you guys. This is really fascinating. There's the book of Joo, son of Hanani. Now, the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, f first and last. Indeed, they are written in the book of Jahu, the son of Hanani, which is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel. 2 Chronicles 20:34. Look at this. There's what's called the book of Moses. And they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the divisions of the father's house of the lay people to offer to the Lord as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the cattle. 2 Chronicles 35:12. The book of Moses might be a different book altogether than any part of the first five books of the Bible. It could be reporting uh uh pointing to a section that was consolidated in the first five books of the Bible. It is very difficult to tell as to what that is cuz so many generations have passed now and people call books differently different names and refer to them differently in their generation than what was pre previously there. So hard to tell but you see that there's another book. It has to be written so the next generation can get it. But they got to read it. Watch. Let's go on. Let's continue on. Here we have the book of the records of your fathers. Remember what I just said. Talk about a new name. But this is a new name. But this is referring to the five first five books of the Bible and the Kings and Chronicles. Look at this. says that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers and you will find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city harmful to kings and provinces and that they have incited edition within the city and former times for which cause this city was destroyed. Ezra 4:15 you I want you to see something here. Look at what it says. Catch this. And you will find in the book of records and know that the city is a rebellious city. They had to go look to see what happened in history. Do you see how they did not know? Anyways, let's continue on because I got two powerful things here next that is just it is going to change you on the inside, especially if you love God with all your heart. Look at this. There's a thing called your book and we're going to look at Psalm 56:8. You number my wanderings, put tears into your bottle. Are they not in your book? And then there's this other verse in Psalm 139:16. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. God has a book about you. He is writing down everything about you and what you do. Now, he when you were born, he writes down the moment actually before you were born and you were fertilized or conceived, God knew your name, knew what you were going to look like, and he wrote it down. He has this book and he wrote it down. And in that book that he wrote it down, he has been writing down things about you and what you did. And I bet you he even wrote down what he foraw or foresees of your future. And but he wrote down what you ended up having done instead of what he had planned for you. Everything is written in there. So, I'm hoping that if you are listening to this or catch on that you repent and then God says, "Okay, he repented. Here we go. We're going to continue on. Watch the change in his life." Amen. Hallelujah. So, God has this book and it has your name on it. He has a book of Lisa. Oh my word. I It's not a book I want to read. But anyways, God is so mindful of us. He loves us that much. Hey, I bet he because he tells you how he says he knows how much hair you have on your body at any given moment. He might write that down. I don't have a copy of the book in front of me, but God does. And he's sitting there writing it. I can see him even writing that. Oh, hey, Lisa's teaching me teaching the people about the books. Let that touch you. Let that minister to you. Amen. Continuing on, we've got what's called the book of the living or the book of life. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, not be written with the righteous. That's in Psalm 69:28. And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life. Philippians 4:3. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Revelation 3:5. Let's continue on because there's more references to the book of the living. All who dwell on the earth will worship him whose names have not been written in the book of the of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books. Revelation 10:12. And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire? Revelation 20:15. The title of this message is, "Is your name found in the written in the living, the book of the living?" Well, I hope it is. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Joel 21:13, Romans 10:13, make sure that you call on the name of the Lord and get saved. Amen. So, and you notice that referred to a whole lot of other different books. Now, let's continue on here. We've got the book of the generations of Jesus Christ. And here in Matthew 1:1, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, and it lists all the genealogies. Again, how did Matthew know? He also went back and looked at the previous books. So now I want you to see something because you should have a particular reaction to this, especially to the book of the living part and to the fact that God has a book written about you that's going to be opened up on the day of judgment. I want you to see what happened when some of these books were lost and how a particular king reacted to it. This is so powerful. Look at this. Second Kings 22, we're going to read verse 8 and 11. Then Hilkaya the high priest said to Chaffon the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkaya gave the book to Chiffon and he read it. And then in verse 11, and again, you know, you go and read the stuff in between. Find out what it says. Go find out how it got to the king now because we're talking the priest's duty. The the handler found this book and he's reading it and he's like, "Hey, you got to go read this thing. This is interesting stuff." Now, he's going to read it to the king. Watch what happens when he he gives it to the king. He says, "Now, this is verse 11. Now it happened when the king heard the words of the book of the law that he tore his clothes. He rent his heart. He repented. Hallelujah. So the book of the covenant, the book of the law that told us what we were sinners fallen. This is why we had to know about the book of Genesis. This is why we had to know about the fall of man. It told us what happened, why we're born into a spiritual war. why we're here today having to deal with why do bad things happen. You know, this is why all these books had to be written because we're a new generation. And when we come into the picture, we have to pick it up and read what happened in the past and either accept it or deny it, reject it. I encourage you to accept it because the the power of the word of God, Jesus being the embodiment of the the spoken word of let there be light and he is the light and as that power Numa and that he walked around. I mean even when he came out of the grave uh it was written uh from the um historian of the time and I can't think of his name for the life of me at the moment but they wrote about how many other people came out of the graves. It's also the end I think at the end of book of Matthew and all these other graves open and imagine that's how powerful this word is. light came into existence as soon as God said it. He's got to be careful with what he says, right? He has to make sure that he says proper things. Otherwise, he could end things and just like that. But he spoke that he said that he came out of the grave. That power just brought all these people up out of the grave at the same time Jesus came out. So when Jesus was revealing himself, Aunt Martha came over and and walked up to the household there and said, "Hey guys, I'm back. I gotta tell you about Jesus and where I was." And there goes that spoken word again. And then it got documented. And because it got documented, we can read it today and go and receive like the king did and repented. remember and and because of these old books. We're made in his image. We would never understand that or know that because you God is spirit. We can't see him. I must resemble him. I must look something like him. You resemble him. You look like him. But we're representations of him. We represent him. And as we would never known had we not heard that word now. So, we know that the nation of Israel had a responsibility to the world and that covenant took place. It was written and then it was spoken. Look at what it says because you need to know it because now we're you got to see the conclusion of what happened with the nation of Israel. You see, what happened is Israel rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah and the Messiah was cut off. That's scripture. He went on, but he's coming back as king. So he he completed his priestly duties. He needed to do his priestly part. He did that. He completed. He got cut off. So God says, "You rejected me. I'm going to go to the Gentiles and I'm going to create a bride of Christ." And that is us today still relying on the covenant and the promises made to the nation of Israel who represented God during that time and wrote it down so that we can speak it again because it was already spoken and apply it to our lives today because we are in his image. We represent him. If he can create peace and he can create calamity, we have the responsibility to create peace and to create calamities. Amen. So watch this. Look at what Deuteronomy says here. Uh Deuteronomy 28 1-3. Now it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments which I command you today that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country. And there are many more blessings there. Get into the word. Find out what it means. find out because it is your responsibility to look at the old word and see how it was spoken, how it was agreed to, and then it was written so that you can read it, speak it, and apply it and live it today. Hallelujah. But there's another part to that. Look at the other part. Says Deuteronomy 28:15-16. But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today, that all these curses will be upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. Why do bad things happen right there? You're cursed. And it's because you're just not following the commandments of God. You're not repenting. Jesus is the light, the embodiment of the word of God. And that covenant went into place and we get to live that covenant if we choose to do so. It's your responsibility to choose. So is your name written in the book of the living or is it blotted out? You know, once again, Jesus write or God writes about you. He's got your name written there. But as long as you don't repent and you do not follow his commandments, it gets blotted out. But once you repent, you're saved. And it's written in blood. Because Jesus gave his blood as the light. He gave his blood to say, I know you are going to be there for me. I know you're going to call on my name. I'm going to save you and you're going to be saved. In fact, Jesus is there fighting for you, praying for you, lifting you up before God. And God is writing in his book going, "I know Lisa's got it. I know so and so's got it. He knows, talk to him. Put the covenant into practice. Speak it. Say, "Yeah, Lord, I'm going to do this. I'm going to follow your commandments. I'm going to love you. I'm going to lift you up. Why? Not just because I can get the blessing, but because you're God. You're my maker. I'm the make. I was made. I'm the created, but I'm in your image. And I thank you for adopting me and bringing me into who you are. Because let's remember what's going to happen here. He still has to finish dealing with the nation of Israel. That's what the whole sevenyear tribulation is about. If you read the book of Revelation, Daniel. So, he still has to deal with him, which means we have to as Gentiles be our representative to the world right now because that is our calling. And that means we also have to stand up as Christ represent to the world and get ready because Harpato is going to happen here once he seals 144,000 because the 144,000 will become the new representation to the world for God, their image. They're made in his image and we will be taken out in the nick of time. Amen. So let's continue and look at here what it says here. John, I want to say it again. This I can't stress this. Then Jesus spoke to them again saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life." John 8:12. In other words, because you accept Jesus, you make that covenant with him. You repent. It gets spoken. It gets written in God's book. You become a light. The light comes on and now you represent the world. And every emotion, everything that you deal with, everything that goes on in your life becomes a a written testimony to the world in God's book. And in fact, you're probably going to be judging people. The millennial reign when that happens, you know, the martyrs and those harpazzo, they're going to be judging. That is, you know, you're in preparation today for that coming up. So you need to be ready because and God is writing it down. So if he's writing it down, he knows maybe you might want to be a little clean. Might want to fix yourself up a bit. Oh, God's looking at me. Oh, God's thinking. Oh, he's writing down. It just it's a great motivator. It helps you stand, but at the same time, you can say, "Thank you, God. Thank you for saving me. Thank you for being there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for making me the light and being a part of Jesus and being a part of the bride because remember he chose the nation of Israel. I'm not Israeli but I am now because I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I'm adopted into the family. So can you. And let's continue on here. John 3:21. But he who does the truth comes to the light that his deeds may be clearly seen and that they have but been done in God. So as you do your good deeds in the light, God sees, he records and documents in his book of you. And as you go on further walking with the Lord, those things get documented. He's And you know what it why do you write a book? Does he go back and read? Does he see the changes in you? Does he acknowledge that? Yeah, that's God. Oh my word. He's absolutely incredible and amazing. And you know what, guys? You need to repent. This is remember now we've been talking about the whole word spoken, written. Now look, look, look, look what it says. Romans 10:9, that if you confess with your mouth, how could Paul say it any other way? It was perfectly said that with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Hallelujah. And your name will not be blotted out of the book of the living. You were already known by God at the moment of conception or the moment of fertilization. He knew you and he started writing his book about you. You are made in his image. You are a representative of him. You can choose to walk in righteousness and be blessed or to choose to walk in darkness and be cursed. If your life is full of drama and calamities, you might want to reconsider because I'm gonn Previous Next Home

THE BEWITCHING HOUR The objective of The Bewitching Hour is to expose the dangers of spiritual deception, or “bewitchment,” and to remind believers that the only safeguard against falling into error is the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Marcos seeks to encourage Christians to remain grounded in the truth of the Gospel of grace through faith in Jesus Christ rather than drifting into legalism or works-based righteousness. THE BEWITCHING HOUR Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of The Bewitching Hour is to expose the dangers of spiritual deception, or “bewitchment,” and to remind believers that the only safeguard against falling into error is the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Marcos seeks to encourage Christians to remain grounded in the truth of the Gospel of grace through faith in Jesus Christ rather than drifting into legalism or works-based righteousness. Synopsis: In The Bewitching Hour, Pastor Marcos draws from Paul’s warning to the Galatians—“Who has bewitched you?”—to highlight how easily a Spirit-filled church can fall into deception without even realizing it. He explains that deception, like hypnosis, blinds believers to their own folly and causes them to squander the spiritual anointing given by God for discernment. Pastor Marcos shows how the Galatians, once alive in the Spirit through faith in Christ, were led astray by false teachers who insisted on legalism and adherence to the Law of Moses. This shift from grace to works caused them to lose the anointing that empowered them. He makes clear that the law, while perfect, was never designed to save—it only exposes sin. True righteousness can never be attained by human effort, but only by faith in Jesus Christ’s finished work on the cross. The message warns that the door to a bewitching spirit opens whenever believers or congregations compromise the truth of God’s Word. Pastor Marcos emphasizes that although obedience to God’s commands is important, salvation is never earned by keeping the law but is received as the free gift of grace through faith. Ultimately, the antidote to deception is the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit and the anointing He supplies, which reveals truth and keeps believers free from the curse of legalism. The message closes with the reminder from Ephesians 2:8-9 that salvation is by grace alone, through faith, and not of works, lest anyone should boast. Inspired Teaching: Galatians 3:1 “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified.” Deception has to be the worse pit of all to fall in for those of us who are alive. Think of it, if we are being deceived we wouldn’t know it, for if we did, it would not be called deception. Here Paul uses the word bewitched to inform the Galatians that they have been deceived and that they do not know it. Another way to think about it is by looking at people who are hypnotized and make fools of themselves in front of others, and after they are brought out of their hypnotic trance they are not even aware of the foolishness that they committed while under the hypnotic spell. Proverbs 21:20 “There is desirable treasure, and oil (anointing) in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man squanders it.” The worst part is that once a believer falls under bewitchment, he/she squanders the anointing that God has given them for true discernment. How did the Galatians church turn from being a Spirit filled church into a deceived and bewitched fellowship? Galatians 3:2 “This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” Paul does not mess around, he goes right after the heart of the issue, and asks them the question of how they received their spiritual anointing originally, for after all that was what they had squandered away. How do we know whether we are being deceived or not? The anointing tells us! If the anointing is present within us, we have nothing to fear, for it is the anointing that always reveals God’s truth which is the antidote for deception. But if the anointing is lacking, then we should know that there is a problem that needs to be dealt with. By definition bewitching means that there is a problem that is present, and for some unexplained reason, nobody can or seems to be able to do anything about it, they just keep putting up with it. The door for a bewitching spirit is opened when an individual or a congregation compromises the Truth of the Word of God! Matthew 7:26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish (one who squanders the anointing) man who built his house on the sand.” In the case of the Galatians church, they started with a great anointing that was brought about by Paul’s preaching to them about God’s grace, as he clearly portrayed to them Jesus Christ crucified for their sins. Then some Jews who wanted all the Gentile believers to be converted to Judaism and follow the law of Moses, preached to the Galatians a different gospel than what Paul had preached to them, a gospel of legalism to which they were now trying to conform. Galatians 3:3 “Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (the works of the law)” This does not mean that we do not try to live up to the righteous standards of the perfect Law of God, for this is what Scripture says about that: 1 Peter 1:16 “Because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy.’” What was at issue here was how does one attain to the righteousness of God, is it through the works of fulfilling the requirements of the Law or by simple faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead? Galatians 3:5 “Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you (for the anointing that works miracles) and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” It should have been obvious to all the Jewish believers that the law of Moses never made anyone perfect, on the contrary the law convicted them of sin, so that when Jesus preached to them that salvation is a gift from God that cannot be earned or merited, the true Gospel was revealed to them as it had been prophesied in the Old Testament to them: Galatians 3:11 “But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for the just shall live by faith.” Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud (legalist), his soul in not upright with him; but the just shall live by his faith.” So that the legalism of the day was become a Jewish convert, and we will not persecute you, and that was what got the Galatians into trouble with the apostle Paul, and the reason why the anointing had left them. Galatians 5:11 “And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.” The offense of the cross to the legalists was that now righteousness before God could be attained by simple faith in the work of salvation that Jesus accomplished for us in the cross. I know that this can be a little confusing to some people, so let me try to explain it in another way. What does it profit a Christian to try to live up to the commandments of God? Let us look at the commandment that says do not steal. If you are a Christian all your sins are forgiven you, but if you steal while a Christian, will the law of the land forgive you also for being a believer? No, you get caught stealing and you ask the Lord to forgive you, He will forgive you according to 1 John 1:9, but you are still going to have to do the time for breaking the laws of man. So that as a Christian if you steal, you will not only lose your freedom, but you will lose your testimony as well. The same can be said about committing adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lying, dishonoring your parents, or whatever other commandments there may be, there are always consequences for breaking God’s Law. Being honest, faithful, trustworthy, responsible and law abiding can get you far in this world with the law and with others, but not with God as far as your salvation is concern. People who abide by the basic principles of the law will fair much better in this world than those who are the law breakers. But if you want God to save you on the merits of your legal standing within God’s Law, you are in deep trouble. Galatians 3:10 “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.’” What does that mean? Psalm 19:7 “The law of the Lord is perfect…” The Law of the Lord is perfect, and we are not! So that if we wanted to be made perfect before God on the merits of keeping His Law for the purpose of salvation, we would have to keep all of them, all the time. And that is very much impossible since we are all born sinners before we even get old enough to have a chance to do good or bad. That is why the conception of Jesus was not the work of man, but He was conceived by the Spirit of the Living God in the womb of the virgin. Galatians 4:4-5 “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law (to fulfill the Law in order that He may), to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Galatians 3:22 “But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.” 1 Peter 1:23 “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.” Now here is a final truth that will keep you from becoming bewitched. Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Previous Next Home