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THE FOUR CRAFTSMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE To explain the prophetic significance of Zechariah’s visions of the four horsemen and four craftsmen, showing how they reveal the nature of spiritual warfare, Israel’s restoration, and the apostolic authority that dismantles demonic strongholds. The teaching aims to connect Old Testament prophecy with the end-time events described in Revelation, encouraging believers to recognize the present spiritual battle, embrace deliverance from the works of the flesh, and prepare for Christ’s return. THE FOUR CRAFTSMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To explain the prophetic significance of Zechariah’s visions of the four horsemen and four craftsmen, showing how they reveal the nature of spiritual warfare, Israel’s restoration, and the apostolic authority that dismantles demonic strongholds. The teaching aims to connect Old Testament prophecy with the end-time events described in Revelation, encouraging believers to recognize the present spiritual battle, embrace deliverance from the works of the flesh, and prepare for Christ’s return. Synopsis: In The Four Craftsmen of the Apocalypse, Zechariah’s second vision is presented as a window into the realm of spiritual warfare. His first vision of the four colored horses symbolized heavenly watchers who monitor the affairs of men, especially regarding Jerusalem. These visions, rooted in Israel’s seventy-year exile, highlight how disobedience to God’s commands led to judgment, while restoration required repentance and returning to God. The second vision introduces four horns—powers that scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem—representing demonic strongholds established through human rebellion. In response, God reveals four craftsmen, symbolizing the apostolic anointing, who are empowered to dismantle these horns and terrify the forces of darkness. The horns themselves are likened to the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19–21), categorized into four areas: perversion, division, false religion, and malfunction, all driven by selfish ambition. The teaching connects these visions to the unfolding of Revelation’s four horsemen—the white horse of deception, the red horse of war, the black horse of economic control, and the pale horse of death—arguing that we are living in these prophetic days. Just as God restored Israel after exile, believers today are called to return to the Lord, walk in the light of truth, and experience deliverance through Christ’s finished work. The apostolic foundation of the church, rooted in Christ the Chief Cornerstone, empowers believers to overcome darkness and stand ready for the rapture at the culmination of these apocalyptic events. Inspired Teaching: Zechariah 1:20 “Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.” In the second vision that God revealed to Zechariah we are given a unique insight into the realm of spiritual warfare from an Old Testament perspective. It is my belief that all six of Zechariah’s visions are intricately connected to the prophecy in the book of Revelation about the four horseman of the Apocalypse that God had appointed to be revealed to those of us who are alive during the end of this age. Zechariah 1:8 “I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white.” In his first vision Zechariah sees horses of four different colors that the Lord sent to walk to and from throughout the earth. These different color horses are symbolic of the watchers that keep watch over the affairs of men and their relationship with God’s people here on the earth. Isaiah 62:6-7 “I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” If we understand the underpinning of Zechariah’s first vision we will be able to make better sense, not only of Zechariah’s second vision as it pertains to spiritual warfare, but about the spiritual warfare that is going on right now, for we are presently living in the days of the unveiling of the four horseman of the book of Revelation. Zechariah 1:11 “So they answered the Angel of the Lord, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have walked to and from throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is resting quietly.’” The first thing that we need to recognize in order to make sense of the visions is that they revolved around the city of Jerusalem. For seventy years the Lord had removed the Jewish people from the land of Judah and from the city of Jerusalem, to give the land the Sabbath day of rest that they owed the land. When Moses lead the Israelites out of Egypt, he instructed them that when they entered into the land that the Lord was giving them, that they were suppose to give the land a year of rest every seven years. No sowing and no reaping, they had to trust the Lord to provide for them a double harvest during the six years that would last them for the whole seventh year that they were not supposed to be tilling the land. They violated the law of the Sabbath rest for the land, for four hundred and ninety years consecutively, so that they owed the land seventy years of rest: 490 / 7 = 70 years. When the time for God’s judgment fell upon them, God used the nations of the earth to remove them from the land and to keep them out of the land for the seventy years that they owed. Zechariah 1:12 “Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry these seventy years?’” Zechariah, in his first vision is privy to an event that is taking place in the spiritual realm; he sees horses and asked what they mean. After he is told that they are the watchers that watch over the affairs of men, the Angel of the Lord speaks to God in front of Zechariah, reminding God that the seventy years are now over. God answers the Angel of the Lord with good and comforting words in verse thirteen. Then the reason is revealed as to why the Lord had given Zechariah a ringside seat, if you will, to what was going on in the spiritual realm, after he is told that he is to prophesy, within the context of all that he had witnessed, to the Jews that were in exile. Zechariah 1:14-15 “So the angel who spoke with me said to me, "proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great zeal. I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; for I was a little angry, and they helped—but with evil intent.’” The Lord reveals that He is angry with the nations that He used to remove the Jews from Jerusalem and from the land of Judah, because of their evil intent while He was using them against His own people. As always the Lord’s judgments against the nations of the earth have to do with how they treated or mistreated His own people. Remember what God told Abraham when He entered into a covenant with him? I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you. Then Zechariah proceeded to proclaim to the Jews of his day that God was restoring them back into the land from where they had been exiled for seventy years, and that God would again choose Jerusalem as its capitol. Which leads us right into the second vision that deals with how the Lord removes the demonic strongholds that Satan placed over the nation of Israel, when he took advantage of them, while they were in exile for their disobedience to the commandments that God gave them through Moses. Zechariah 1:18 “Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four horns.” Zechariah’s first vision began at night, which is symbolic of the spiritual darkness that was all around the nation of Israel at that time. In the second vision the Lord is revealing to Zechariah the source of the spiritual darkness that is all around him. Zechariah 1:19 “And I said to the angel who talked with me, ‘What are these?’ So he answered me, ‘These are the horns (powers) that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.’” When God’s hand of blessing is over a people, there is absolutely nothing that the devil can do against them, for our God is Almighty. The enemy knows that, as long as God’s protection is over His people, he is powerless against them, so he is always at work to temp those who belong to God into rebelling against God. Obedience to God always brings enlightenment, and disobedience to God always brings darkness. Zechariah 1:2-3 “The Lord has been very angry with your fathers. Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to Me,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘And I will return to you,’ says the Lord of hosts.” The Lord was very angry with the fathers because of their disobedience to the commandment of God in regards to their obligation to give the land a year of rest every seventh year. Now that their debt is paid in full, for they have been out of the land for seventy years, they can be restored back to their land if they return to the Lord first, and acknowledge that without God in their midst they are in darkness. Zechariah 1:20-21 “Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. And I said, ‘What are these coming to do?’ So he said, ‘These are the (four) horns (powers) that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.’” In warfare whoever controls the high ground has the advantage over their adversary; because of their disobedience to the Word of God Israel was put at a disadvantage where they could not lift up their heads and have a clear picture of their spiritual condition. Now that they are returning to God, the Lord sends them four craftsmen or carpenters to dismantle the demonic infrastructure that prevents them from regaining the upper hand, the lifting up of their heads. Notice the language that the angel uses that describes how these demonic hordes will be terrified by these four craftsmen before they are cast out. What are these four craftsmen symbolic of? 2 Corinthians 12:12 “Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.” The four craftsmen are symbolic of the apostolic anointing! The apostolic anointing is the force that God brings about to dismantle the four horns or powers that keep God’s children in darkness. What are the four horns symbolic of? Galatians 5:19-21 “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outburst of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God (which is light, and those who practice those things are still in darkness).” The four horns are symbolic of the works of the flesh! PERVERSION: Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness and Lewdness. DIVISION: Hatred, Contentions, Envy and Jealousies. FALSE RELIGION: Idolatry, Sorcery, Dissensions and Heresies. MALFUNCTION: Outbursts of Wrath, Murder, Drunkenness and Revelries. At the center ofcourse is Selfish Ambition the soul motivator before we became born-again. For more information on the above read my book, The Liberation of the Human Soul, chapter titled; Understanding the Demonic infrastructure within the Soul, in the books section of houseoffaithministries.org There are seventeen works of the flesh listed by Paul to the Galatians. I took the liberty of dividing them into four categories that revolve around the self motivated soul. The number seventeen is the seventh prime number. Zechariah’s first vision is recorded in chapter one, beginning in verse seven to verse seventeen. A clear double emphasis that the Holy Spirit reveals to us to show us how important to our present day Zechariah’s visions are. Also, all of us have sixteen great-great-grandparents in our family tree, and if you form a pyramid with self sitting on top of it, with two parents directly below, four grandparents below them, eight great-grandparents below them and sixteen great-great-grandparents as the foundation of the pyramid, it shows how our soul is affected by the iniquity of the fathers which is with whom the Lord was angry in Zechariah 1:2. 0 = 1 Self 0-0 = 2 Parents 0-0-0-0 = 4 Grandparents 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 8 Great-grandparents 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 16 Great-great-grandparents. Exodus 20:5-6 “You shall not bow down to them nor serve (worship) them (idols). For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me (idolatry is seen by God as hatred towards Him), but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” We are living in the age of grace, and the church has been established on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, with our Lord Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone. The time for our redemption is now, for our sin debt that we owed God has been fully paid for by our Savior on the cross. As the Lord spoke during Zechariah’s day, that if we return to Him He will return to us. We are living in the days right now when those that call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. But remember also that with our salvation comes deliverance from the forces of darkness that kept us bound. It is the apostolic anointing that terrifies the devil, for through its revelation we become empowered. Remember the words of Jesus, You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free! Yes, we are living in the days of the white horse, the antichrist, for there are many out there striving to deceive those of us who are the children of light. Yes, we are living in the days of the red horse, the days of war and terror as our Lord predicted. Yes there is a global economy being forged right now that is paving the way for a one world government, the black horse that will control all commerce and all of its financial transactions. The pale horse whose rider is death, followed closely by Hades, soon will be given power to bring war over one fourth of the earth. This is the conflict that will usher in the rapture of the church; let’s be ready for it. Zechariah 2:10/13 “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst...Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!” Previous Next Home

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 5 Equip listeners to grasp the Revelation 7–9 timeline—how the church age closes, how the first half of the Tribulation unfolds through the seven trumpets and the first two “woes,” why God’s judgments fall on “one-third” of creation, and how these events aim to drive repentance while God preserves a sealed remnant of Israel. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 5 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 31, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to grasp the Revelation 7–9 timeline—how the church age closes, how the first half of the Tribulation unfolds through the seven trumpets and the first two “woes,” why God’s judgments fall on “one-third” of creation, and how these events aim to drive repentance while God preserves a sealed remnant of Israel. Synopsis: The message opens with prayer and spiritual warfare, declaring the gathering a “no-fly zone” for the enemy. The teacher then reviews a dispensational reading of Revelation: the church age (seven churches/seals) gives way to the Rapture, after which the Holy Spirit’s church-age anointing lifts. The Laodicean-type church is portrayed as remaining to face testing. The first six seals are recapped—especially wars, deception, famine, and cosmic disturbance—framed as forces that shaped church history and culminate in a visible unveiling of Christ at the sixth seal. Matthew 24 is woven in to show parallel signs and the call for believers to “look up.” Turning to Revelation 8–9, “about half an hour” of silence in heaven is interpreted as the first 1,260 days (three and a half years) of Tribulation. Seven angels receive seven trumpets, signaling swift, concentrated judgments that mingle heaven’s fire with “the prayers of the saints” (divine recompense). The first four trumpets strike one-third of earth, sea, rivers, and heavenly lights—read as spiritual forces now driving history toward three escalating “woes.” Woe 1 (fifth trumpet): a fallen “star” (Satan) opens the abyss; demonic “locusts” torment people for five months but cannot harm those sealed by God (Israel’s remnant). This visible collision of the spiritual and physical realms is presented as severe mercy—exposing the reality of demons so that many will repent. Woe 2 (sixth trumpet): four destroying angels bound at the Euphrates are released to kill a third of humanity, accompanied by a 200-million strong, terrifying cavalry. Despite judgments, many still refuse to repent of demon-worship, violence, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft (Rev 9:20–21). The two witnesses (identified here as Enoch and Elijah) establish Temple worship and law, confront the rising Antichrist/false prophet, and are killed after 1,260 days; the world celebrates until God raises them, along with those martyred in faithful repentance. Throughout, the speaker emphasizes: God judges the Church first (escape via faithfulness to Jesus and His Word), then purifies Israel and the nations; judgments are purposeful—to reveal Christ, unmask Satan, and compel a choice. The message closes urging readiness, repentance, and reliance on the Holy Spirit to discern spiritual truth and endure faithfully. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: [Music] Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we take we take authority right now, Father God, over every principality, every power, every dominion, every spirit of wickedness, Father God, in the name of Jesus. And we bind them right now. We thank you, dear Lord Jesus, for we declare this uh service tonight a no-fly zone, Father God. uh where uh no works of the enemy can prosper, Father God. For we declare them dead tonight, Father God, we bind them so that they will not interfere with the word of God as it goes forth tonight. We thank you now that as we humble ourselves before you, Father God, come to praise and to worship you and honor your presence here tonight. Father God, we ask that you would give us ears to hear. That you would open our hearts to understand and to receive and that you would allow your word, Father God, to bring life and joy and peace into our spirit, soul, and body. Father God, to the glory of your son, Jesus, we pray. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. We um uh so far have gone through the first uh seven chapters of the uh book of Revelation. Today we're going to deal with the seventh chapter and then move on. But basically we said that God works through dispensations. And we said that the dispensation of grace which is the church age when Jesus came and said I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it up until the time when the church it is rapture that means that the anointing power of God which is the Holy Spirit who landed God himself landed upon the 120 uh disciples and it was manifested by tongues of fire upon their heads. that anointing will be removed at that time because we said 120 time 50 equals 6,000 or the end of the six day work weak. So basically when the church is removed the the Holy F is God is everywhere. He's not removed but the anointing that was upon the church is removed because there's a church that's going to be left the Leoa church that have to go through the through the testing. And that's how they earned their salvation. They're the ones that have Jesus on the outside in in Revelation 3:20 to the church of Leo. They say Jesus says, "I stand at the door and knock. If you open the door, I will come in." Meaning that that's the only church that doesn't have Jesus in it. And so that church has to go through the through the trials and tribulations that will be taking place uh uh during that time. But we know that the seven that the uh 2,000 years of church that we have right now were divided into seven. I I got water here, but thank you. I'll take it. I'm going to call I'll take it. The other one kind of water. Thank you. Anyway, so the that that was divided into seven and we saw that it was seven seals. In the physical revelation of the church age, God gave us seven churches. Jesus appeared to John and send the message to seven churches and you can go historically from the beginning. Uh a church that was very much on fire for God and you can follow it to where it comes to I think it's our to where it says you have a reputation of being alive but you're dead. you know the to the church history and then it comes up to the last two churches where one is is going to be taken away and the other one is going to be left. And then when we came to the spiritual side of that we saw that it was through seven seals and we saw by by the paper that we had that that the seven seals uh the first four seals were the horses. the white horse, the red horse, the black horse, the pale horse. And this symbolized the spirit or the force that was moving the church age. And we saw that through Hitler and through the wars and the different things that were going on, the one world power that was going, the spirit of Antichrist. As a matter of fact, as we move on, you will see that there's three spirits jump out of the Antichrist like three frogs. I believe that those three spirits is the spirits that that govern the world today. One is Freud as you know Sigman Freud introduced the um uh uh the psychology that affects so much today. The other one was Carl Marx who introduced to us socialism which is what's trying to unite the world today. And the um and the fourth was um and the third one was um uh Darwin with evolution. those three spirits uh uh Freud, Darwin and and and Marx are the three forces that are governing today. And you'll see those spirits come out like frogs in the middle of the of the tribulation. So we know that there are spiritual forces driving the thing. So that we found out then that uh uh the the fifth seal deals with bringing Israel back as a nation and and bringing the world as a as as a united uh world, the new world order, which is what they're talking today. And when the sixth seal was open, we know that that involves a war that will take place on 1/4th of the earth. And that's the Middle East. And this will be an army that comes from the north who many believe is Russia with with uh Bethtomga, that's where Turkey is today and Persia, that's where Iran is today. And he names the people that come and it will invade Israel. And God is going to use that opportunity to show himself holy. In other words, right now, everybody has a different God. When this sixth seal takes place, the physical realm that we live in is going to be tore open. It's like a scroll. The sky is going to rolled up. See, those say they didn't have books like we do. They had uh uh scrolls that were rolled and you open it to read it. But if you let it go, it it rolled up again. He says that's what the sky is going to do. The sky is going to rolled up and then all of a sudden we're going to see Jesus. We're going to see God. Everybody in the whole world is going to see it. And then that's when the wrath of God is about to begin. So there is a conjunction. Then the first three chapters one, two, and three give us the physical history of the church age. Uh verses four, chapters four, five and six give us a spiritual version of it. And then on chapter 7, we have a coming together. A coming together. Now, last week I kind of make a made a parenthesis in the fact that we had to deal with in Matthew 24 Jesus says no one knows the day nor the hour. And the thing is if we see that Russia or some power from the north is invading Israel and that Israel is about to fall, you know, then we know that Jesus is about to come. And that's what he said. Jesus told the disciples when he gave him all of the sign. He said, "When you see these things begin to happen, look out. This is not the time." What what did he say when we open the sixth seal? He says, "Men hid to the caves and into the rocks." And he said, "Hide us from the wrath of him who's coming." Jesus says the opposite for us Christian when we see those things begin to take place. He says, "Look out for your redemption is getting very, very close to the word to know." And so I told you and we got ahead a little bit of ourselves last week that when Jesus says no one knows the day nor the hour, he's talking about the middle of the wrath of God, the middle of the seven years. And we're probably going to get into that next week in great detail. But let's pick it up now. And if you have the book, we'll be on page um 35. And uh at the bottom of the page, Matthew 24, chapters 40 and 41. And this is in the middle. Jesus is giving us at the beginning of Matthew 24. The disciple asked him, when is going to be the end of the age? What is going to be the sign that you're coming? So Jesus goes through a great list of things that will take place. He said, "Be careful that no one deceive you." That's a white horse. He says because many antichrist will come and say I am he and they will deceive many. Then he says there will be wars and rumors of war. That's the second horse. And they said will be famines and and and all kinds of uh economic things. He says that's not the end yet. And then when the when the fourth comes in that's when you say when the son of man come to come the lightning that flashes from the east goes to the west. I don't know if you ever had a lot of lightning storms every every summer and when a real big lightning falls close to where you are and you see it not just far. It's almost like the light in a lightning is so bright. It's almost like a crack appear in the middle of reality and you can see through the other side. I don't know if you ever felt that when I seen lightning real close. That's what it looked like. And that's what it is. the the the spiritual realm where God is is so bright that it when that happen, it's going to be like a crack that opens. And that's what Jesus says. Before I come, it's going to be like lightning. It's going to flash from the east to the west and boom, the sky is going to roll up like a scroll and you're going to see the bright light. And the people who love darkness are going to be fleeing to the caves and going to be scared thinking the end of the world is there. But for us who believe, we're going to be rejoicing because we know that our salvation is very near. So that's why I dealt with that day known only to the Lord. That when he said there's a day that is known only to the Lord, that is in the middle of the seven years, the wrath of God, when God kind of brings all of the clocks together. We just have our first conjunction of the clock. We had the 144th generation from Adam to us. I believe the 144th generation was born when Israel was born as a nation. And they call the generation today the baby boomer generation. I mean it even had one of the few generations that was named, you know, the the the baby boomer generation. That's that's I believe that's the last generation. The Bible says that Jesus is going to come before that generation ends. If it's 1947 or 1948, that takes you to 2017 or 2018. So that means the seven years had to take place before that because the seven years happened. That means 2010 is as far as we can go. If if this is the case, that that's how close we are, guys. That's how close I believe we are, you know. Yeah, that's how close we are. I believe that we're not close because if that last generation is the generation that was born when Israel was born, those seven years have to take place because the seven years include all of the events that Jesus says is going to take place. And those he says this generation shall not pass away until all of those events pass. Those events are going to pass transpire through the seven-year period. That means that the seven year have to start no later than 2010. Now might interest some of you that the Mayan calendar uh that was there in Mexico and in Peru that they found they calculated that the end of the world will be in 2017 and they have a snake that's called or whatever the snake supposed to come on on on se no on December 24th of 2011. They figure that this snake is going to come from the sky. You know it says in Revelation chapter 13 there was a a a dragon in the sky and his tail drew a tear of the stars. These people knew this back then. You see these are spiritual things and those people were deep into the spiritual things except they were into the dark part of the spiritual things. But now let's begin. If you got the books page 35 or go to Matthew 24 verse 40 and 41. And this is the rapture. He says, "Then two men will be in the field." No, this is this is the middle of the tribulation. The two then two men will be in the field. One will be taken and the other one left. Two women will be grinding at the meal. One will be taken and the other one left. And and then uh and then it says that it will be a day that is truly a day known only to the Lord. Now what is happening there is uh during the middle of the tribulation everybody will be killed by what we're going to be beginning to study today. Everybody that's on the earth one-third of the earth is going to be killed. So if the Jews are going to inherited a physical land and are going to have physical bodies because when we're resurrected our bodies are changed. Jesus says that in the resurrection we will have bodies like the angels who neither marry nor are given in marriage. I mean when we get our new bodies we're not going to have husbands wife. Jesus is the husband. He's is our Lord and all of us belong to him. So we're not going to be able to reproduce. So basically God has to keep some Jewish people that will be able to reproduce. Now, amazingly enough, only God knows our genetic makeup. And when it says there that one will be taken and one will be left, this is the Assa. That's what the day of the Lord was about. That's what the day of atonement was about. When you brought the two goats, you cast lots. One was led into the wilderness and one was taken to the slaughter. That mean you if you're a Jew, because that's for the Jews. If you're a Jew and you're married and either you, the husband or the wife, don't have the right genes, when the day of atonement comes, one of them will be killed. The other one will be spared to go into the wilderness. And then they're the ones that are going to be taken into the the caves and they're going to reproduce after the seven years so that God will have a physical inheritance. This is why you see that at the end of the thousand years, Satan is loosened. He had to be loosened because none of those people has ever faced temptation because Satan is bound with a great chain and is throwing into into the great pit. So I just wanted to conclude that from last week which took us ahead but just to to bring it down uh to that a scripture that I failed to use last week also is Jeremiah 33 2021 which is on page 36 and the Lord says thus sayeth the Lord if you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that there will be not so that there will not be a day and a night in their in my season in their season. Then my covenant may also be broken with David, my servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne and with the Levites, the priest, my minister. Notice how in Jeremiah, God says, I have a covenant with the day and with the night. That means God has a covenant where the sun has to go up and down or, you know, we see that it's going up and down, but where the earth has to go around. God says that covenant he made with David and he told David as long as day time and night time comes you will have a king to fall an anointed person to rule over you. You know many this is where the the uh uh many people believe that Jeremiah went wound up in in England. This is why so many of them are named Jeremy. And some people say that the stone that was underneath the the the throne back then is on the underneath the throne of England. There's all kinds of things that you can follow. But I believe the church today sits on the throne of David. And as soon as the throne of David is removed, uh the church is removed because if you look in Revelation chapter three when the Philadelphia church says, "I will open uh he will have the key of David and he will open that which cannot whatever he opens nobody can close and whatever he closes nobody can open." The key of David means the anointing that was upon David or upon Israel that's the anointing that is in the church. When the church is removed, that anointing is visited upon the Jews, 144,000 of them. But they rebel. Believe it or not, Israel rebels in the middle of the tribulation. As as they rebel, what happens is they will cease to have. See, when the antichrist takes over, they will not be one single entity on the earth to represent God's businesses here on earth. Right now, the church, the true church represent God's businesses. Israel represented it before that. Israel is going to represent it for the first 1260 days that we're going to cover now. But when they rebel and they are all killed and only a remnant is taken away and they're hidden some place, they will not be an agency on the earth that has to kill David. That's when the antichrist actually rises up and takes over. This is why the Bible says that during that time and if you got the book I got all of the scriptures there you can read it that then an angel from heaven comes and proclaimed the everlasting gospel. The gospel then has to be proclaimed by an angelic agency during that time. And you know what the angel says? If you accept the mark of the beast you'll go to hell forever and you will be beheaded for not accepting it. So I'm just kind of giving you a background of where we're getting into because this is a little bit more deeper. Now, what we're going to do, we're going to go to the uh the page 37. And if you got your book, we're going to go to Revelation chapter 8, verse one. If you want to follow through the Bible, this is what happens after the rapture. We are taken away. There was a war in Israel. Uh all of the sudden, as Israel is being surrounded by armies, the armies are surrounding Jerusalem. Jesus intervene when the sixth seal is open there's a great earthquake all of the foundations of the mountains all over the world will be moved the mean here in California all of those uh uh uh base of the mountains are all going to be shaken it says every wall is going to fall and then the sky is going to recede everybody's going to know that Jesus is coming as we're taken away now begins a period of time which is 1,260 days or the first half of the seven years. And God is going to concentrate his efforts or his focus on this first half is going to be Israel because he takes Israel and anoints them and the two witnesses that come who is uh Enoch and Elijah are going to establish the law and temple worship during that time and they're going to tell the world you have to fulfill the law. You have to live by the law. And it says that during that 1,260 days, any nation who does not follow the law that they laid down, rain is not going to come upon them. There's going to be famine. There's going to be all kinds of things. So now the law is given. Now, let's look at the spiritual side of the first 1,260 days after we're gone. Revelation 8:1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of a half an hour. Now if you remember you have the four which produce the two and the seventh always is the one that connects you into the next realm. Like when you have innocent conscience, human government promise out of those four things comes Israel and the church. And when Israel and the church combine comes the kingdom age. Then on the church age we had the white horse, the red horse, the black horse, the pale horse. Then we had the souls under the altar. We had the wrath of the lamb. And then when the church is raptured, that leads us into the seven years wrath of God. Now we're going to see the same principle over here. If you have this is the first, the second, the third, and the fourth trumpets that are going to be taking place. Now notice that it says about the space of a half an hour. Now what God is going to do here, he's already judged the church. How were we judged? If you kept his word and if you believe on the deity of Jesus, you're gone. He says, "Because you have kept my word and you have not deny my name, I will keep you from the hour." Listen to what Jesus says. The scripture is there. It this in Revelation chapter 3:10. Because you have kept my command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell in the world. So the judgment of God begins with the church. You believe his word, you keep his name, he's going to keep you from the hour that's coming to test it. The church le say those believe the word, they get left. So that is the judgment of the church. One of them is gets gone. One gets left behind. Now we begin the judgment of Israel. Before you can judge Israel, you have to put him back in charge. Anointing. So 144,000 of them are are anointed. This is done through the two witnesses. to step when the cloud is open out of heaven. They send these two witnesses who have never died who were taken up to heaven and have to come to earth to die because the Bible says it is appointed of men once to die. Then comes the judgment since Elijah never died and see it cannot be Moses. Moses died and was buried. If Moses died twice, dying twice is the second death. That's them for eternity. You don't want to die a second time. You just want to die the natural death and that's it. And we're already dead in Christ. So we don't even die. The Bible says absent from the body, present with the Lord. Our body may die, but we just go straight up to heaven. So the idea here is now that God is going to deal with Israel and he's going to deal with him in this hour. Remember this hour uh I think it's in in Isaiah says, "For the day of the Lord is the year of retribution." That's 365 Sabbath. Jesus called this period of time the hour. He says that uh in in Revelation 3:10, I will keep you from the hour of trial. The fact that it says in Revelation chapter 81, there was in silence in heaven for about half an hour, meanings that we're going to be dealing with the first half of the seven-year period. So everything you see here now is going to is what's going to happen from day one when we get taken out to 1,260 days which is by the way three and a half years. Three and a half years. This is what's going to happen. Okay. And uh Revelation 8 2 through 6. And I saw seven angels who stand before God. And to them were given seven trumpets. Then another angel having a golden sensor came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all of the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saint ascended before God from the angel's hand. Then the angel took the sensor filled it with a fire from the earth the altar and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightning, and an earthquake. So the seven angels who had the seven trumpers prepared themselves to sound. Here we see if if you remember when the fifth seal was open in Revelation chapter 6, when the fifth seal was open, he says, "I saw the souls under the altar of those who have been slaughtered for the sake uh of the word." He doesn't call them Christian. I believe that these are the Jews and the many people who believe the word but they were not Christian. And he saw them dressed in white. They were given harps and they asked God, "How long before you judge the world for what they did to us? How long before you judge Hitler and before you judge Staling and before you judge all of this tyrant that's been killing us and killing us and killing us and raping our children and killing our How long? Now notice that it says there that as the seventh seal is open in heaven, we see that there's lightnings and thunders and an angel takes like a some kind of a bowl or something. He the fire that's burning out of the altar of God. He fills it with that puts incense. Incense is like prayer. You know incense is a powder. You throw it in the fire and it goes up and the incense is mixed with the prayers of the saints. This is payback time, baby. That's what that mean. This is payback time. Every soul that got in heaven, every person got resurrected in heaven that was mistreated, that was beaten, that was whoever it was that did it. This is where nations are going to be judged. Nations, you know, when the Jews were were were being slaughtered, many nations did not want them. Cuba, they they had a big ship full of Jews and they turned him back. I believe that's why we had had 50 years of Fidel Castro, the mystery we had, you know, and this is how it's been. nations are going to be judged by how they treated not only Jews but the Christians who are now in heaven are saying to God yeah that guy over there he he killed 150,000 of us this is time so when this fire is released the prayers of the saint that's saying how long before you judge it is make and is throwing down onto the earth and it comes in the form of seven trumpets now the seals the first four seals where in the form of a horse that gallops and gallops and gallop takes forever. A trumpet is this is fast. This is not going to take a long time to take place. When the trumpet blows, this thing is going to begin. And so it it it as a reference you can look at Deuteronomy 32 34 and 35 where God says, "Is this not laid up in store with me? Seal upon my treasures. Vengeance is mine and recompense. Their foot shall slip in due time. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them." So this is the beginning now of the judgment of God upon the world. Now Revelation 8:7 says the first angel that's on next page 39 says the first angel sounded and hail and fire followed mingled with blood and they were thrown to the earth and a third of the trees were burned up and all green grass was burned up. Now I want you to see the symbolism here. During the third seal he says 14th 1/4 you need to understand four is a number for the physical creation. You have east, west, north and south square. Everything is square. You saw the four angels holding back the four winds on the corners of the earth. This is speaking about a judgment that was man against man. This is why Israel was invaded. Now we're coming to spiritual judgment. That's what number three is. Number three is the number of the spirit. God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. So you see that the judgments here are based on onethird one-third of the trees. In in Revelation 8:7 it says, "And a third of the trees were burned out." Revelation 8:9, the second angel sounded like a great mountain burning with fire. A turn of the living a third of the living creatures in the sea died. Revelation 8:10 and 11. A third of the waters became warm wood and many men died from the water because he was made bitter. And the fourth trumpet and the fourth angel sounded. This is Revelation 8:12. And a third of the sun was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars. So a third of them were darkness and a third of the day did not shine likewise the night. So the night. So what we see here now is a spiritual judgment. First there was a physical judgment. The churches were judged in the physical. Whether we kept the word of God, whether we believe that Jesus is the son of God, whether we believe that the word of God is a real uh uh that the Bible is a real word of God. We deny we did not denied his name and we kept his word. And then there was a physical army, man against man. That was the first judgment or the end of the church age was the war, man versus man. People who hate the people of God. Did you know I was reading I just got my thing from the uh the Assemblies of God International. They send uh every three months they send the magazine. The most popular books that are out right now, three or four books, are all about atheists spouting their hate towards the children of God, towards the word of God. There's so much demand for the books that they're writing. They're having to do printings and printing and printing after that. This is spiritual sign that we're on the end time. Tremendous hate. Why? Because they're demonic. The stronger the demons in them, the more they hate the word of God, the more they hate the people of God. But here in this realm that we're starting right now, it is a spiritual versus the physical. One-third of the trees, one-third of the sea, one-third of the earth, one-third of the skies, the sun, the moon, and the star. What that means now, there's going to be a conflict or war between humans and spirits. And this is what we need to see. these four forces that you see. And remember, you have to keep in mind that these four things are like spirits or forces that are released. And those four things are the the power behind the 1,260 days. These three and a half years are going to be driven by spirits behind the earth, behind the rivers, behind the sea, and behind the stars. This force is going to drive everything to what is called three walls. And let's go to the next trumpet. And now you you'll see it how it makes sense. Revelation 8:13. And I look and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven. There is an angel now. This is spiritual. saying with a loud voice, "Woe, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remaining blast of the trump of the three trumpets or of the three angels that have the trumpet that are about to sound." These three wolves are the consequences of these four forces that were unleashed. They were unleashed upon the earth. Now remember for those of you that were here when we just finished our supernatural lesson in the supernatural realm, what did we dealt with? We dealt with the sea saying that's where the seed of Satan is. Then we dealt with the air. That's where the wicked spirit is where the principalities rule from. Then we dealt with the creeping things and we dealt with the cattle. Here's the same thing. This is the whole sphere uh spiritual fear where all these four different levels of demonic Christians are is going to be judged. There is a judgment that is taking place and it will happen when when the fifth when the sixth trumpets blow. Why? Because we saw that we we've been following that principle. The four horsemen were the fourth. Then when the fifth seal was open, we saw Israel being judged so that Israel could come back into the land. When the sixth seal is open, we see the church being judged. One gets left, one gets taken up. And then when we saw the seventh seal open up, that's what led us into the rapture. And that's what leds us into the beginning of the seven years of God's wrath. Now, let's go to the first wall. Revelation 9 verses 1-6. Then the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth. Now remember star represents spiritual things. In Revelation chapter one at the end of the chapter says here's the mystery of the stars and of the seven lampson. He says the stars are the pastors or the messengers or the force behind the church. The seven lampson represent the church. So here's the spirit. That's what it mean. the first spirit falls down. He says, "And when the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit, and he opened the bottomless pit." Now, how many of you know who this is? This is Satan. Jesus said, "I saw Satan fall down from heaven like lightning." This is Satan. Why? Because right now the third heaven is where Jesus and God are. This is when Jesus in the Lord's prayer says, "Our father who are in heaven, uh, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." That heaven is the third heaven where God is, his will is done perfectly there. The second heaven, however, where Satan is, his will is not being done there. That's the real of Satan. What is called now the underworld. When Jesus comes, we are not taken to heaven. If you listen carefully, he says that Jesus is going to come to the clouds and that we're going to rise up to the clouds to meet the Lord where on the air. Where is Satan? The prince of what? He is the prince of the power of the air. Satan is on this in between the third heaven and earth right now. When Jesus comes in from the rapture, guess who he kicks out? Satan. Guess where he kicks him out from? The second heaven. And guess who he kicks out with him? All of the demons that are with him right now. So actually at the end of the church age, the second heaven is restored like it was originally. See, that's where Adam lived. Even though Adam was on the earth, it says that at the cool of the evening, they went, Adam and Eve went to fellowship with God. Where? In this in between, God would come down from it's like you having a house and having a garden. God lives in the house. They lived in the in in the outside and they met in the garden with God. The garden is a meeting place. That's where we're going to go. We're never going to go to heaven. People don't understand that. We don't uh if we die now, our spirit, we go to heaven. But during the rapture, if we're alive when the rapture takes place, we're not going to heaven. We're going to the air. That's where Jesus is coming to the clouds to be of the air. And we're going to be with him there forever. The Bible says and then Jesus during the seven years is going to purify the earth. And at the end of seven years, he going to come down to where? To the earth because this is our real. We're physic Home Previous Next

< Back Each teaching listed below teaches on the topic of: Day of the Lord 2 Page 1 When Does the Day of the Lord Take Place? July 13, 2026 View Teaching The Power of the Benediction October 30, 2023 View Teaching Manual for Personal Ministry October 2, 2023 View Teaching What is the Day of the Lord July 2, 2026 View Teaching The Kingdom of the First Born October 10, 2023 View Teaching The Mechanic's of the Day of the Lord September 25, 2023 View Teaching Man's Final Destiny: Revelation Unveiled January 26, 2026 View Teaching The Shadow of Evil October 9, 2023 View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 9 June 28, 2009 View Teaching 2 Page 1

THE LIVING WORD PART 2 Equip believers at Signal Hill Christian Center to trust and apply God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4) by: understanding salvation and new life in the Spirit, practicing faith-filled speech and prayer, cultivating patience and surrender through seasons of testing, and embracing humble, servant-hearted discipleship that invites God’s light to heal hidden places. < Back THE LIVING WORD PART 2 Pastor Marcos Marrero August 12, 2007 Objective: Equip believers at Signal Hill Christian Center to trust and apply God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4) by: understanding salvation and new life in the Spirit, practicing faith-filled speech and prayer, cultivating patience and surrender through seasons of testing, and embracing humble, servant-hearted discipleship that invites God’s light to heal hidden places. Synopsis: The message opens with 2 Peter 1:3–4: through Christ, God has already provided everything for life and godliness, delivered as promises that make us “partakers of the divine nature.” The teacher explains salvation as union with Christ: at repentance we “die” to sin’s judgment and rise into new life; all of Christ’s provisions reside within our reborn spirit in seed form and must mature over time. Because growth requires knowledge and practice, Scripture and spiritual principles become essential (Hos 4:6; Prov). The enemy’s core tactic is always, “Did God really say?” so believers must answer with God’s Word. Using Israel’s wilderness as a pattern, the message shows how God trains His people to rely on His Word above circumstances. Romans 8:32 assures that if the Father gave His Son, He will “freely give us all things.” A central motif is the seed: promises germinate in a prepared heart, watered by the Word, and develop in God’s timing/season. Hebrews 4:12 is unpacked as the Word’s life-giving energy that surgically separates and heals soul and spirit—like Spirit-led “radiation” that targets spiritual disease without destroying what is healthy. John 1:1–5 adds that the Word is both life and light; believers must invite that light—by their words—into dark, wounded places (Rev 3:20; Prov 20:27), overcoming guilt and shame so healing can flow. The message models warfare through prayerful speech: David “gave himself to prayer” under accusation (Ps 109) and cried out until his soul was released from prison (Ps 142). Jesus interceded for Peter before the sifting and still intercedes for us as High Priest. We overcome “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony” (Rev 12:11). Like Caleb, a “different spirit” (faith-filled words) chooses God’s report over fear. Practical response includes three covenant prayers grounded in Scripture: Covenant of Salvation (Rom 10:9–10) — confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in His resurrection. Covenant of Surrender (2 Tim 2:19–21) — turning from wickedness so Christ is Lord over every area, becoming a vessel useful to the Master. Servant’s Covenant (John 12:26; Ps 143:10) — embracing humble service in God’s will rather than self-directed ministry. The message closes by blessing the congregation and leadership, asking for renewed strength, a fresh wind of the Spirit, and a local revival of the Word that releases healing, holiness, and fruitful ministry to the community. Inspired Teaching: problems from Jesus directly. So Lord Jesus, we ask again that uh what you have for us tonight, what you have for this house, for Sigma Hill Christian Center, what you have for the individuals, Father God, that make your church here in this area, that the Holy Spirit will go directly to you, Lord Jesus, and bring to us what we need tonight. We submit ourselves, Father God. I submit myself to you, Father God, to be now a voice, Father God, for the Holy Spirit to speak what you would want your church to hear. I just pray that you will grant us ears to hear, that you would give us a heart to understand, Father God, and the ability to apply what the Holy Spirit speaks to us tonight. In Jesus name, we agree. Father, we say, "Amen." Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. You can tell I got a little bit too excited this morning. And My voice is kind of wanting. Praise God. That's always good. Anyway, um I'm going to start with the scripture. Second Peter chapter 1:es 3 and 4 is what we finish with this morning. And then uh we read there that according or as his divine power, God through Jesus has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. Then he tells us what that knowledge brings about. es by which this knowledge have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these promises the knowledge or the understanding of these promises that through this you may be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. So basically by putting things into context we believe that God has already given to us and and I don't want to get too theological but you know uh I think it's 2 Thessalonians 5 says that your whole spirit your whole soul and your whole body may be kept blameless until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. But our spirit is what is born again. The minute that we confess that we're sinners. See, the word of God says that the soul that sinnth it shall surely die. So in June 2nd, 1976, without me knowing or understanding all of these things, when I walked up to the altar with my wife and then um I repented of my sins, basically God declared me dead right then and there. I have to die. See, you cannot go to the court of God and say that you're a sinner and live because God's word cannot be revoked. God's word said the soul that sinned to surely die. So when I confess my sin and admitted that I was s a sinner immediately the judgment of God was brought upon me. I was declared God the judgment of God said he's dead. The reason why I didn't die there is because Jesus, you see, Jesus provided my death in the cross. He satisfied the divine uh uh uh requirements of God. Jesus is my substitute. I think Paul writes in Corinthians when he says that he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In other words, when I went forward and and and my wife went forward, we died. As far as God is concerned, we die. The life that now I now live, like Paul says, I live by the power of the risen son of God. In other words, God in in my spirit gave me life. He took Jesus's all of my sins that have been placed in on Jesus on the cross. He took his death on the cross as full payment for my sins. And immediately God, that's why it says that we're baptized by one spirit into one body. Baptized means to be put under. Uh it's like taking a drop of water and dropping it on the Pacific Ocean. As soon as that drop goes into the ocean, you can't tell where it's at. It becomes part of the whole ocean. My spirit was baptized into the Holy Spirit. And when that happens immediately, your spirit is alive to God. All of the promises of God are now in me in my spirit in seed form. You see, because uh we need to understand that even though salvation is immediate and and and um uh and your names are immediately written in heaven and there's rejoicing in heaven, the minute that a sinner repents, the manifestation of that salvation in us and through us takes a while. You know, one of the odd things because when I I was saved, I was radically transformed. I I mean, I I use this analogy a lot. It was just like somehow God just took the half of my skull up and he reached in there, took my brain and turn it around and put it back in and then put my skull back. It was like, "Oh, wow. Now things, you know, I begin to understand and see things uh uh from a different perspective. That's what what salvation was to me. It was like I was turned around completely, but everything that was in there was in seed form. I went home and I look in the mirror and I look the same. How that's the same me but I don't feel like me anymore. You see there was a transformation. It it it is called born again. Means your spirit all of a sudden now becomes alive. Your spirit now becomes uh uh into the things of God. It was a hunger for anything that had to do with the word of God because it had been starved all these years separated from God. Now, we need to understand that all of that, all of these great and praiseful promises over here that we were just reading, we have to apply knowledge to it. How do you know that God just doesn't all of a sudden uh uh uh gives you all of the wisdom and all of the understanding and and all of the things? One of the things you find out when you get born again that you still make the same stupid mistakes sometimes over and over again. Except this time now you have a spiritual understanding. This time now you're aware. This time now you say, you know what, this is not working for me. You know, when you're in the world, it didn't matter. This is your life. That's what you went with. But now that you're born again, you have a different perspective, a different understanding of what sin is or what sin does of of of of decisions and stuff like that. So then knowledge becomes something that is very much needed. Like I quoted this morning in Hosea, I think it's 6:4, he says that my people perish for lack of knowledge. And I think it was Proverbs um maybe 9:11, the last part. I don't remember for sure but it says that uh it is through knowledge the last part of the verse that the righteous or the just is delivered. So we need to understand there is a requirement now for us not only to study the word but to begin to put what the Bible calls spiritual principles to work. And the reason why I I I um harp so much this morning in the principle of the power of words is because that is the foundation. You see the foundation is everything that is going to be challenging you like uh uh the very first words of Satan Quarter on the Bible. Did God really say? Every challenge that you're going to have whether is sicknesses, whether it's family problems, whether it's business or work related, whatever challenge you have in your life has one root cause and that is Satan challenging the veracity of the word of God or of the promises of God to you. You see, it's going to come to this to where you're going to be faced and having to make a decision. Did God really say? Because that's what Satan is challenging. He's not, you know, God is a God of the person. That's why I love him so much. God can be so awesome and so great. But God is into people. God never invest in big buildings or big program. God, everything that God does has an individual at the center of it. Which is the reason why so many churches fail today. They can build great things, but the individual's needs are not met. God is into people. If you can come face to face to God, you will find out that God is into people. One person to God is a lot more important than a million. There can be a thousand people here tonight and there be one person there with a great need. And God's eyes focus on that person. He said, "That's the sheep that's lost. That's the one that I need to get. That's the one that and that's what God is." But Satan is not like that. Satan is like communism. Everything is is for the the system his system of of destruction. So he will always come to you to the point of of your knee and challenge the veracity of the word of God or of the promises of God in your life. Guess what? And God for the purpose of training us in in in the ways of faith because without faith it is impossible to please God. We are going to be faced with challenges that we're not going to pass until we cross that line and we make the decision and dare to believe what God says in spite of all of the circumstances. Abraham had to do that. Moses had to do that. Every person of faith that you read about in the Bible had to do that. As a matter of fact, in Hebrews 11 talks about some of them never received the promises while they were here. The Bible said they were not the world was not good enough for them. So we need to understand that that is going to be the challenge. Uh God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, Previous Next Home

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SALVATION AND LIVING FOR CHRIST To teach the distinction between salvation, which is a gift from God through faith in Jesus Christ, and living for Christ, which is the daily choice to walk in obedience, holiness, and service through the power of the Holy Spirit. This message aims to help believers understand that while salvation secures eternal life, living for Christ brings fruitfulness, blessings, and a deeper partnership with God’s kingdom work. < Back THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SALVATION AND LIVING FOR CHRIST Minister Lisa Kane December 30, 2023 Objective: To teach the distinction between salvation, which is a gift from God through faith in Jesus Christ, and living for Christ, which is the daily choice to walk in obedience, holiness, and service through the power of the Holy Spirit. This message aims to help believers understand that while salvation secures eternal life, living for Christ brings fruitfulness, blessings, and a deeper partnership with God’s kingdom work. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane explores the biblical difference between salvation and living for Christ. Using scriptures such as Psalm 37:39, Matthew 12:31–32, Romans 10:9, and the parable of the laborers in Matthew 20, she explains that salvation is solely the work of God—a gift given through Christ’s mercy and forgiveness. The thief on the cross is highlighted as proof that salvation requires only confession and faith, not works. However, Lisa emphasizes that living for Christ is separate from salvation. While salvation assures eternal life, living for Christ means choosing to walk with the Holy Spirit, serving in ministry, bearing fruit, and fulfilling God’s calling. She shares her personal testimony of hearing the Holy Spirit’s urging and warns against rejecting His voice, which leads to spiritual consequences. Through the parable of the vineyard laborers, she illustrates how all believers—whether saved early in life or at the last moment—receive the same gift of salvation. Yet, the rewards of living for Christ differ, with those who labor faithfully reaping blessings, peace, and eternal rewards. Lisa stresses the importance of forgiveness, unity in the body of Christ, and obedience to God’s call, reminding believers that true transformation requires daily surrender. The message concludes with a call to action: unbelievers are invited to confess Jesus as Lord for salvation, and believers are encouraged to purpose in their hearts to live for Christ—studying the Word, praying, seeking His kingdom, and walking in righteousness. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on Saturday, December 30th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called the difference between salvation and living for Christ. This is a very knowledgeable word from the Lord and I'm hoping that you're, you know, I know this. You're not here by accident. So, I'm hoping that you watch this video in its entirety and be blessed by it as much as I am because God loves you and he's been trying to get your attention. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the blessing and the anointing of your word. And we thank you for the knowledge of your word that the more that we spend time with you, the more we understand your word. And I'm praying and asking that the audiences and the people who listen to this choose to walk in your salvation and that they choose to live for you for their entire lives. In the glorious name of Jesus, we bless you and honor you. Amen and amen. Amen. Amen. Let's get into it. We have two opening scriptures here today. The difference between salvation and living for Christ. First opening scripture, Psalm 37:39. But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. He is their strength in the time of trouble. He that is our God is the God of salvation. And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. Amen. Amen. So, we're going to be talking about the difference between salvation and living for Christ because they are two different things. Now, I have taught on this type of subject in different messages in different ways throughout all the years I've been teaching. Uh but I really want to show it to you in this parable because Jesus is making a very important distinction in this parable. And then one thing that I realize that I have the revelation of here in this is anytime anyone ever teaches on the the uh the topic of salvation in and of itself, we always leave out the Holy Ghost, which is what I've done in the past. Not anymore. I got this revelation and now we're going to talk about it in its rightness. Amen. Amen. And I'm excited about it and I hope that you are too. So here I want you to see this again. Salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. And then look, God is the God of salvation. First of all, let me make a very important point here. Salvation isn't something you have to do. It isn't something you handle. It isn't something that you is up to you. It's not up to you. Salvation comes from the Lord. He's going to save whom he wants to save. Amen. And if he's choosing you, you will find this out because what's happening is the Holy Spirit is speaking to you in the background. So to share a little bit of my testimony, I have shared this before, but I was coming down some stairs or going up, I think I was coming downstairs many, many years ago. This is 30 something years ago. And uh we had moved away and we were out in a new area. We hadn't found a church, hadn't been to a church. So um the Holy Spirit though, I could hear the rushing waters behind my ears. I could hear it in my head and it was like behind me and I could hear a voice in these rushing waters and it was um telling me go to church, go to church. It was getting louder and go to church. And I mean, and I um totally fighting it when it dawn, you know, I finally just got fed up because this is how he was nagging me so much. But I finally got fed up and I stomped my foot down, put my hands on my hip, turned around and said, "I don't need to go." And it dawned on me at that moment. Wait, what was I doing? And I thought, uhoh, I was talking to the Holy Spirit. And if I had continued with that statement and fought that statement, I would have been blaspheing the Holy Spirit. We're going to talk about that here in just a moment. But I want you to see in these key scriptures here, the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. He that is our God is the God of salvation. I want you to and look at what he says here. And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. And that's what we're talking about here is life after death. That's what salvation is all about. Now, remember the thief on the cross. I've already taught on that. I'm not going to teach on that. You can go back to previous script uh teachings I've done on that. But the thief on the cross, he never got down. He never worked for his salvation. He never went doortodoor. He never uh ministered to anyone. He never produced fruit. But he he still made it into the kingdom of heaven. He he Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise." So when Jesus was crucified, the thief was crucified, they ended up together in paradise. Jesus chose to save him. Will he choose to save you? Yes. Because he loves you. And you think, well, all the things that Well, we've all been born into sin. That's the thing here. We were all born or conceived in sin. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. It doesn't matter if you killed somebody or if you're a goody tush or if you were raised in Christ. It does not matter. We've all sinned and we've all fallen short of the glory of God. We've we've lied. We've cheated. These are things that we do. We do stupid things because we're humans and that we were born into sin. That's what the mercy of Jesus is. He redeemed us. He pardoned our sins so much so that he will forgive you of anything. Wait, is there scripture on that? Well, you bet you. Let's go look at it. This is awesome. Matthew 12:31 and32 verse 31. Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men. Wait a minute. All manner of sin and blasphemy. You can do what you want to do. Jesus is going to forgive you no matter what. That's what the scriptures just said. That's what they told us. But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. Let's pause there for a minute. Wait a second. So, what you're saying is that if I'm let's say on my that testimony I shared earlier, if I'm at those stairs and I turned around and I said I don't need to go to church and I just walked off and said no, no, no, no, no. That's blaspheming the Holy Spirit. That is saying no. That is rejecting him. Now, watch what it says in verse 32. And whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be gi forgiven him. meaning against Jesus or against those who live in Christ. Anyone who says a bad thing against me, guess what? You're forgiven. Why? Because I choose to forgive you. But more importantly, Jesus forgives you. The power of forgiveness is so awesome. And and I have been teaching on this for the last few months. And if you haven't caught on to that, oh, wait till I get the prayers up here for January with the new prayers that we're going to be implementing here. You guys are going to be blessed by the power of God moving by your tongue and you don't even even realize it. But the power of forgiveness moves God. And when he moves, he moves heaven and earth for you. That's see he's redeeming you. He's pardoning you. He will forgive you of anything and everything. Now let's finish. Let's finish the scripture. So verse 32. And whosoever speaketh the word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven you. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Now I want to make a distinction here. Now on that stage on that my stairs in that testimony I just shared, even if I had rejected him at that moment, guess what? I had prayed and confessed Jesus as my Lord and Savior many years before that. Now, do you think the Holy Ghost would have continued to come after me? Yes. He would have kept pestering me. And if that didn't work on the stair, the stairs, I think I would have had a dream or an embodimenting vision or something that would have snapped me out of it because God will not lose one. Jesus will not lose one. You see, he is not an Indian giver. And anyone who's racist by that statement, I am sorry. But that is what I know of what I grew up with. What we called a person who would give a gift and then take it back. Jesus is not like that. Jesus is the son of God and he will forgive and forgive and continue to forgive no matter how many times you do the same thing over and over again. This is why he told Peter you will forgive 70* seven. It is an infinite number of forgivenesses for that same incident. And then of course we have more than that one instinct. We keep sinning. We're all messed up, man. But there is a way to live for Christ and we can live in godliness and holiness and righteousness, but we still have the cover of our flesh on us. So I'm going to show you the distinction of that. Now, what I want you to understand here very very importantly here is that as long as you confess, now I know people disagree with once saved always saved because see we're talking two different things here. We're talking salvation. We're not talking about living for Christ. Think of it like this. How many people try to live for Christ, but they do not have the Holy Spirit? They did not confess Jesus as their Lord and Savior, but they're mimicking and they're technically wolves in sheep's clothing. And you could only tell by their fruit, which is dead. Nothing happens from them. They prayed for people, nothing happens. They teaches the audiences walk away oblivious. Can't even remember what you taught. That is the distinct difference between a believer in Christ living for Christ versus a unbeliever and unbeliever serving or trying to serve Christ without acknowledging Christ as their Lord and Savior. Remember Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, that's the key. There are out teachers out there trying to teach you that there is no salvation prayer. There is Romans 10:9 identifies it. Confess with your mouth. You got to say it out loud. The name of Jesus and he will be over you. That's your salvation. And that you saved him. Remember the thief in the cross? That's all he did. He acknowledged Jesus was innocent. He said, "I'm a sinner. He's innocent." And he was saved. That's all salvation is, my friend. That's it. Now, if years later you're going on and the Holy Spirit's trying to get your attention because he wants you to walk with him because he wants you in ministry. You see, Paul describes it very clearly. He knows a part. I know a part. Different pastors know different parts. Imagine if all of us got together in unity. And you can look at the power of unity in the scripture. It is awesome. I'm not going to go there. You can go search that. Go look at um um the Tower of Babel, okay? When the power of unity came together, they can almost do anything. God had to intervene to stop that. The power of unity, when we're all under the leadership of the Holy Spirit is awesome. You see, now walking in Christ, we follow his leadership. We may not know what everybody else is doing, but we will know all the parts that we've heard. and the Holy Spirit will put us in place to be in ministry with all those parts we heard. Now, there are people who aren't doing their parts. So, we're missing those parts. So, in essence, we're a a kingdom of God that's limping along because not everybody is doing their parts, which is living for Christ. Oh, this is awesome. I hope you guys get this. Now, I want to show this in a parable that Jesus said. I want to read the whole thing. I want to read it. So, we're going to be looking at Matthew chapter 20. We're going to start in verse one. We're going to go to verse 16. He says, "For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard." The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God are interchangeably used in scripture in the gospels. And you will see that throughout the New Testament, it is interchangeably used. When Jesus says, "Well, the kingdom of God is at hand." Meaning, he was there. there. The kingdom of God was there. All the kingdom of God represents is the power of God moving in that moment, healing that person, helping that blind person see, delivering that person of demons, um saving somebody, uh healing them of cancer or sicknesses and diseases. That is the kingdom of God. So this is what Jesus is saying. The kingdom of God is like or the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. So God hires us to live for Christ and he's going to pay us a penny a day. This is the parable. And I want you to catch this because we when you go to work in the ministry of Christ, you are hired by God. He's not going to put he's going to train you. He's you're going to go through this walk and transformation in your life that's going to change you so dramatically that now he's going to be putting you in places that ministers to people with the circumstances you overcame because you've been walking with God. This is how God works. Okay. Verse three. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace and said unto them, "Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right I will give you." and they went their way. Okay? So, he hires more laborers. So, if there's someone who, let's say, I'm living for Christ, I've been doing it now for a handful of years, and then let's say just before the rapture happens, someone else becomes a believer in Christ, starts living for Christ, starts ministering to people, and then the rapture happens, and our duty is done. Wait, they only had an hour's work. I got a full day's work. But they got paid the same as me. Watch this parable. This is so awesome. So good. And again, again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise. And about the 11th hour he went out and found others standing idally idol. And said unto them, why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right that ye shall ye receive. So when even was come, the Lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, call the laborers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. So now the 11th hour, he hired someone at the last minute, which is what I was just referring to a bit. So you've got all these laborers doing the exact same work, but some did it more and longer than others. Some might have done it better than others. Some might have did it harder than others. Some more me more like uh union. So, but this is the whole point of this. So, now Jesus is going to give everybody their wages. So, watch this. Uh verse 9. And when they came that were hired about the 11th hour, they received every man a penny. They got the same gift as someone who started at six o'clock in the morning. Wait a second. Wait a second. Let's look at Let's go on. Verse 10. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more. And they received and they likewise received every man of p. So everybody got the same thing. And yes, the early morning ones said, "Wait a minute. We should get more." But look what Jesus says. And when they received it, they murmured against the good men of the house, saying, "These last have wrought but one hour, and thou has made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and the heat of the day." But he answered one of them, and said, "Friend, I do thee no wrong. D not thou agree with me for a penny? Take thine take that thine is and go thy way. I will give unto the last even as unto thee. You see, he agreed to pay them a penny. They agreed to that penny. They started at six o'lock in the morning. When you become saved and you confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior and that change takes place in you and you transform and you go right into ministry, that is you going in in the morning. That is somebody who starts in the morning and then somebody on their deathbed confesses they never minister to Christ. The thief on the cross is an example. They barely get saved at the last hour, but they receive the same blessing as those that minister. That thief on the cross got the same thing Paul the apostle got. And what did what did Paul go through? Beatings. He was martyed eventually. But he he was he was hurt so much in his ministry. He was in chains and bondage and he never really got to live the freedom of his life because he chose to die for Christ. That was his choice. Well, that thief on the cross got the same blessings Paul got. And you think, is that fair? Wait a second. What's the price here? Heaven. You don't want hell. You see the difference now? You see, the confession is what's going to get you in. Living for Christ is a whole another ball game. And there are rewards that come to those that sacrifice. If you take a look at the end of Revelation, it talks about the martyrs being the first resurrected with their bodies. They are blessed with that promise. They are going to be the ones that are going to judge and rule over the thousand-y year millennium. Okay? That's their blessing. They died for cross because or for Christ because they're martyrs. Whereas some of us may never ever have that opportunity or that blessing, but we will be given other things. So there are differences, but that's not salvation. That's not getting into heaven. And I'm going to tell you right now, some people will confess. They will walk away. And they will choose to live their life the way they've been living it. Why? Well, cuz they want to. We're not here to force anybody to do anything against their will. And if they want to be saved, let them be saved. If they don't want to live for Christ, then don't let them don't try to force them. Don't try to lie to them. Don't try to cheat them. Let them know they're saved. Let them know they're loved. Because we do not teach with a spirit of fear here. We're not trying to be fear-mongerers to the people out there to say, "Well, if you don't live for Christ, just in case, you better." No, that that's wrong teaching. And that is not biblical teaching in the name of Jesus. No. We need to really show the love of God. If they don't want to live for Christ, fine. The Holy Spirit's going to work on them. Now, they will have consequences. If you're now, if you're in ministry and somebody's coming to you and they got cancer or somebody died and then another person died and they've got the spirit of death all around them, this is consequences because the Holy Spirit has been trying to get their attention to be in ministry because that's their cult. God chose them. Jesus has chosen them. He wants them in their ministry. But they keep rejecting. No, no, no. And well, they continue to do that. Then they have all these curses against them. and my testimony because I chose Christ. I've got blessings and blessings abundantly in my life. There is a difference. Okay? And I walk in the peace and the joy of God that I have in my heart because of the choice that I did. Let's continue to read the rest of this parable because this is very, very important. Uh we finished verse 14. So now we're in 15. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is I evil because I am good? You see, now he's calling out the jealousy because now we're talking about a spirit of jealousy. Do you think the church might be jealous for the people living out the world and not sacrificing because of all the sacrifices the church makes over and over again? Possibly. And it, you know, and every circumstance is its own, but we really need to humble ourselves as a body of Christ and realize that people can get saved just simply by confession. And if they transform and choose Christ, that's up to the Holy Spirit. up to Jesus working in their hearts and minds. And if he can get me on stairs in a house coming down some stairs, how much more can he get other people in dreams? You know, I have loved ones who has shared dreams with me that were so powerful. I'm like, man, God's calling you. It's time you get right with God. These are things that we, the body of Christ, should be sharing. Amen. So, the last shall be first and the first last. For many be called but few chosen. And the reason the few are chosen is because those that are called aren't accepting the choice that Jesus has given us. They're afraid. They don't want to live in in holiness because they think they got to give up their party, their their lovely lives that they think they have. And little do they know that they can have all that. But you seek first. I'm going to get you that scripture now. So, it's a choice to live for Christ or not. And you have to purpose it in your mind. And it's hard, you know, the prayers I'm about to post here up in here in January. You know, when you start to pray like this and you get in prayer, you make mistakes and I have to do it over and over again to really remember it and remember the format and remember the scriptures with it because it's not my comfort zone. It's been out of my comfort zone and I've had to fight with it. But that's because I'm fighting the spiritual enemy there. And which by the way is me. Oh, I don't want to pray. And then I come to realize how much because I don't feel I pray, but I come to realize how much people need prayer. People need people praying behind the scenes and there aren't that many of us doing it. We need more. Look at Joshua and what he said because he purposed something in his heart here. Joshua 24:15. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers serve, that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in the whose land ye dwell, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. You have to purpose in your heart whom you're going to serve. So you get saved and you you confess Jesus as your Lord. You you say, "Jesus is Lord." And by the way, people can do that accidentally. You can do that in a car. You there's a car accident about to happen. You see, you just yell, "Jesus." He knows your spirit and him connect in that moment. I think we're going to be surprised how many people are saved, truly saved. They're just not wanting to live for God. They're just they're not purposing it in their hearts. And then there's those that see, remember how many day laborers are? You had those that started at 6:00 in the morning, then he got more at 9ine, and then 11, then noon, then he went and got more at three o'clock, and they got one got more at five. Well, there's people who go to church only on Sundays or once a month or only on Christmas and Easter. Well, they're the people that got hired at the four or five o'clock hour, but that's they don't want to anymore. They don't want to do anymore. Is that wrong? You know, if you got a calling on your life and you're rejecting the Lord, the curses are going to be upon you. But if you realize and you let that Holy Spirit talk to you, now you're coming into something that is more powerful than you could ever imagine. Amen. Look at what Paul says here in Philippians 1:20 through22. according to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but with all but that with all boldness as always. So now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be my life or by death. For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall choose I ought not. You see, Paul got a taste of heaven and he knew what it was like. And he wanted to go home to be with the Lord. really bad. But he knew people needed him. He knew what he had to do. He knew he was going to die for Christ. But he knew he purposed Christ in his heart because he had an encounter with Jesus in the road to Damascus. That's a Holy Spirit encounter. By the way, guys, I had my Holy Spirit encounter on the stairs. Have you had your encounter? Have you asked God for an encounter? Are you having your encounter right now? But see, he chose to what did he do? For to me to live as Christ. You see, to him is to live for Christ. And that was and to die is gain. He knew he wanted the better choice. Yeah, it's better. And did you see what he also said? The fruit of my labor. This is the fruit of my labor. See, he's identifying the fruit of it. Now you live for Christ, you're going to have the fruit. The blessings of God is going to be upon you. You will live a long life in good health. Do you know though, he lets the unbeliever live a long life, giving him every opportunity to get saved over and over. He keeps he doesn't want to lose one. He loves us that much. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Hallelujah. So let the fruit of your labor live your life. If you want to be in the blessings of God, then you need to purpose in your heart that you want to walk with Jesus. Which means you need to read his scripture so you can get to know him. You need to not only read his scripture, you need to study it, live it, talk it, confess it. Praise and bless your days. Praise God. Bless your days. Praise him. Bless yourself. Bless your family. Bless your household. Bless bless. Bless. Oh, you guys, you just Let's go to second Timothy 1:9. Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works. Wait, wait, wait. You mean to tell me all the good things I do without God won't count? That is correct. for all those wolves and sheep's clothing where you've never confessed Jesus. You don't even know who you're praying to. You're just walking through the motions by going to church, listening, and just trying to pray for people, but you don't know who you pray for. You know who you are. There was in the news what, a handful of months ago that talked about a pastor from a few years ago who realized he didn't know who he was praying to. He went to the elders, they removed him as a pastor, and he spent the next two years seeking. He found him and realized I know who God is now. And he went back to the church, back to the elders, and he was reinstated. You see, we have to purpose in our hearts, Jesus, and choose him. We'll get to that scripture. I want to show you more. Not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. He has a calling on your life, and he has chosen you. And whatever that calling is, and it could be very simple, just smiling or baking bread for everybody or just being there listening to somebody. You don't you have no idea how powerful those little ministries are. They go a long way and they save lives. In fact, when you walk in integrity, let's say you're in a meeting with all of your co-workers and it's been a rough week or two because been busy, crazy, and you guys are there talking about it, and you just say, "Hey, well, praise God. We had sales. We needed this. We needed that." They look at you with their chins dropped knowing what hell you went through, but they see. And they see and they recognize and say, "What do you have that I don't have?" Because I want what you got. And that is true because the spirit of God moves in you and answers to them because they see it. In fact, if I, you know, even me teaching, preaching, guess what? You might not be hearing the exact words I'm saying, but the Holy Spirit is sharing words with you that is ministering to your heart because he knows exactly what you need to hear in the right moment. This is why it's not by accident you're here at this message. Now you want to know how to live for Christ so that you have everything that you can have. But seek first the kingdom of God. This is Matthew 6:33. And his righteousness. I got to be in right standing with God, his righteousness. How do I get into his righteousness? I spend time with him because I have to learn who he is. Seek first the kingdom of God. What? What is that? I mentioned in the beginning of the message, laying hands on the sick, having the blind see, healing the sick, delivering of them of demons, praying peace and joy over them, showing them how to get to Christ, whether they want to live for him or not, but showing them the power of God in your life. That is the kingdom of God. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And then look, and all these things shall be added unto you, which is your healing, your joy, your peace, your sleep. Oh my goodness. God is good. And he provides. He takes care of you. And he wants to give you blessings. He wants to be there with you because he loves you that much. Well, praise God for now, today, you can choose to purpose in your heart to live for him. And if you're just barely hearing about Jesus and you somehow made it to the end of this message, then all you got to do is confess Jesus just like this. I'll pray you can repeat after me. Dear Jesus, forgive me of my sins. I'm sorry I messed up. I confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior over my heart and over the sins of my life and I thank you for saving me in the name of Jesus. Amen. Now, if you're here, you want to purpose your life for God, then say something like this. Dear Jesus, I humble myself before you and I ask you to forgive me again, for I keep messing up, but Lord, I want to live for you. And I'm asking for your righteousness to be in my heart and mind. I'm asking for you to be my Lord and Savior. I'm asking you to help me read my script read your scriptures to pray with you, to choose to walk in you, to gain more knowledge in you, and to place myself aside and to have more of you in my life. I choose that. I choose to seek first the kingdom of God and your righteousness. And then I'm asking for all those other things to be added unto me. Thank you Lord in the name of Jesus. Amen. Alrighty. 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AT HIS FOOTSTOOL The objective is to help believers understand the spiritual meaning of “His footstool” through Scripture and personal revelation—distinguishing between being placed under Christ as an enemy versus coming willingly in humility to worship at His feet. This teaching aims to deepen faith, encourage surrender, and lead believers into true worship rooted in humility, agreement with God, and the finished work of Jesus Christ. AT HIS FOOTSTOOL Minister Lisa Kane April 16, 2026 Objective: The objective is to help believers understand the spiritual meaning of “His footstool” through Scripture and personal revelation—distinguishing between being placed under Christ as an enemy versus coming willingly in humility to worship at His feet. This teaching aims to deepen faith, encourage surrender, and lead believers into true worship rooted in humility, agreement with God, and the finished work of Jesus Christ. Synopsis: In At His Footstool, Minister Lisa Kane explores a powerful vision and the biblical truth behind the phrase “His footstool.” Drawing from Psalms and Hebrews, the teaching reveals two distinct positions at the feet of Christ: one of defeat as an enemy, and one of surrender in worship. Through personal reflection and Scripture, Lisa confirms that believers in Christ are not enemies of God, but children redeemed by faith in Jesus. Yet, she challenges the heart posture of every believer by asking: are there moments when disagreement with God places us in opposition to His will? The teaching unfolds a deeper revelation—true worship at His footstool is an act of humility, agreement, and remembrance of Christ’s sacrifice. It is not about striving for salvation, but resting in the finished work of Jesus while honoring Him as King of Glory. With a powerful insight, the message also reframes the promise that Christ’s enemies will be made His footstool—not just as judgment, but as a potential transformation. Even enemies may be brought into humility, repentance, and worship. This study calls believers to live low before Him, worship in spirit and truth, and trust that God is drawing all things—even opposition—into alignment at the feet of Jesus. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 99:5 NKJV 5 Exalt the Lord our God, And worship at His footstool— He is holy. Psalm 132:8 NKJV 7 Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool. Psalm 110:1 NKJV The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” Hebrews 10:12-14 NKJV 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being [d]sanctified. Two weeks ago I had a vision of being the footstool and Jesus’ feet upon my lap. I can see the holes and I was weeping. There are two points to take away from in this vision: 1. Either I am enemy 2. Or I worshipped at His feet Let’s start with number one. Am I an enemy of God? No. I declare out loud Jesus is the Son of God and He came in the flesh. I also know I am saved because I confessed my sins and I believe. 1 John 4:2-3 NKJV 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess [a]that Jesus [b]Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. Romans 10:9 NKJV 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. So, if I’m not an enemy, why would I be under His feet? Because I am not the Son of God and He is King of glory. Psalm 24:7-8 NKJV 7 Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Notice in our opening scriptures, “let us worship at His footstool”, which is point number two to take away from this Bible Study. As a believer in Christ, I can come to His footstool and ‘worship’ Him. In the vision I saw the holes in His feet and touched His feet. I can clearly feel His feet. I was worshipping Him in that vision. What’s the difference between being His enemy at His footstool or worshipping at His Footstool? Your belief. If you don’t believe in Him, you’re not worshipping. Instead, you are fighting everything God is trying to accomplish in your life and in the world. Now, here is something to think about. Even if you believe, are there areas that you disagree with God on? If so, then you are an enemy in that moment. I get it…we’re not God and we don’t always understand or know why things happen. Yet, if we can come to His footstool to ‘worship’, humble ourselves before the great deed Jesus did on the cross then we come in agreement with Him through humility. After all, He is the King of Glory. The idea of being under His feet is the way we should see ourselves always. It certainly will keep pride away and the moments when we think we’re doing something good ‘toward salvation’ when we’re not under the law anymore. Salvation is a gift and we need to remember His gift and worship in that gift – worship in spirit and in truth. John 4:24 NKJV 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” And here’s a beautiful golden nugget we can believe on from this Bible Study: “Til I make Your enemies Your footstool” – if worshipping at His footstool is exactly the attitude we need when worshipping, does this mean He’s bringing every enemy to this footstool for this attitude adjustment? Imagine if our enemies become saved…then they will be at the footstool too but instead of disagreeing and arguing with God, they will be humbled worshipping Him in humility. Reminder, pray for your enemies. God is working on bringing them to His footstool, and Jesus said He would not lose one. John 17:12 NKJV 12 While I was with them [e]in the world, I kept them in [f]Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is [g]lost except the son of [h]perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Previous Next Home

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DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE CLEANSED IN CHRIST? To help believers understand the power of Christ’s cleansing work, emphasizing that transformation begins with His spoken word and continues through abiding in Him. This teaching aims to show how abiding in Christ produces lasting fruit, develops love, and brings believers into a deeper relationship with Him. DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE CLEANSED IN CHRIST? Minister Lisa Kane January 12, 2025 Objective: To help believers understand the power of Christ’s cleansing work, emphasizing that transformation begins with His spoken word and continues through abiding in Him. This teaching aims to show how abiding in Christ produces lasting fruit, develops love, and brings believers into a deeper relationship with Him. Synopsis: This message explores John 15:1–17, where Jesus describes Himself as the true vine and believers as branches. The teaching highlights how salvation brings immediate cleansing through Christ’s spoken word, but also how ongoing transformation occurs as we abide in Him. Believers are reminded that cleansing is not something we accomplish by ourselves; it is the continual work of Christ purging old habits, renewing the heart, and producing fruit. Abiding in Christ means maintaining a living relationship with Him—through prayer, worship, and immersion in His word. From this abiding flow the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These fruits not only bless the believer but also serve as a testimony to others, drawing them to Christ. The teaching also emphasizes the necessity of pruning, the process by which God removes what hinders spiritual growth. Though pruning may be painful, it results in greater fruitfulness and joy. Love is central to this abiding relationship: Jesus commands believers to love one another with the same benevolent and affectionate love He has shown. Ultimately, believers are reminded that they are chosen and ordained by Christ to bear fruit that remains. Through His word, His cleansing, and His abiding presence, Christians are empowered to walk in transformation, resist sin, and live in joy as true friends of Jesus. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this teaching on January 12th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for bringing the knowledge of your salvation and what it has done to our hearts and to our minds that we may stand faithful, true, strong on your name, on the firm foundation that you have laid for us. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Welcome. I'm glad you can join us today. So, this is going to be a very interesting new teaching. very very basic, very simple, but at the same time very powerful. I love that. This is called, "Do you know you're cleansed in Christ?" Oh, let's bring some knowledge to our minds today, shall we? So, starting here in John 15:es 1-2. This is our opening scriptures. I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman or that word husbandman means land worker, farmer. Verse two, every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgth, or to cleanse, prune it that it may bring forth more fruit. So when we're talking about being cleansed in Christ, let's get some knowledge here. When you become saved, you change exponentially. sometimes slowly through time, sometimes instantaneously, but there's always a transformation that takes place at being a believer in Christ and abiding in him and you know getting to know him as much as he's getting to know you as you let him get to know you. So there's this abiding factor, dwelling factor between you and Christ and Christ in you and it cleanses you. It purges you. It it gets rid of things. And let me just simply make a statement here that I thought was very fascinating. I heard this from uh pastor at the Bendy Canyon Church. He said, "We tolerate the dislikes within us and we don't deal with them. So, we're not expuning them. We're not getting rid of them. We tolerate. We put up with. We don't want to make those efforts and changes in our lives that we need to make." But here's the interesting part is Christ is already doing that change in you every moment of every day. So here we can trust in Christ that who began a good work is going to finish a good work in us. Amen. So let's go to verse three. We're going to be here in John 15 for the most part. Um let let's break this down. So here verse three. Now you're clean or pure through the word something that said which I have spoken unto you. Let me explain how I do the scriptures in case you're new. I'm putting King James version scriptures up here. The word that's in bold is the King James version uh word that was translated from either Hebrew or Greek. In this case, Greek because this is the New Testament. And then the words in parentheses are other definitions or other words the translator could have used in lie of that first word. So, um it's kind of like an amplified Bible thing. I am adding these extra words in, but it's so I can give you the fullness of what that scripture means. And I am not using the Amplified version. I'm using the King James version because I want you to see the definition of what it was meant at the time of translation. I hope that makes sense. So, let's go here to verse three again. Now, you're clean or pure through the word something said which I have spoken unto you. If you follow any of my teachings, I have taught exponentially on speaking the word over your life. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. So, you're constantly saying Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord over cancer. Jesus is Lord over my mind. Well, here Jesus spoke a word unto us. He says you're clean because of that spoken word. He blessed us and he caused us to be clean. So he's saying, "I've already done that for you." I know that a lot of churches and a lot of preachers and a lot of pastors teach on we've got to get ourselves clean. Well, Jesus did that for us and we just need to let him do it. Let it transform us. If you're somebody who has a habit of using God's name in vain or speaking foul language or anything of that nature, what happens is the moment you become a believer, you're things start to change. You realize first I shouldn't be speaking in that. I shouldn't be saying those words. then um you you use it less and eventually you can go by and you'll look back and go, "Man, I haven't said any of those bad words in a long time." That is how transformation in Christ takes place. But it there's a there's a a start to it. Jesus spoke a word over you and he cleansed you. So when you become a believer and you think, man, I am so messed up still or the devil is doing this against me or making me do this or whatever, good news is Jesus cleansed you from the get-go. You are cleansed, pured, because he spoke a word over you. Now he does add on to that in verse four. He says, "Abide." That word abide by the way means to stay, continue, dwell, endure, be present, stand, tarry in me. Abide in me and I in you. How do you do something like this? You need to have a relationship with him. We do have and and remember how Ecclesiastes is spoken and written, there's a time for this, there's a time for that. Well, you need to set your time aside to abide in him, Jesus. And and there's multiple ways to do it. You can do it all at once or bit pieces, however, but praise and worship music, put some on and just give him the holy praise that he deserves. Amen. Um sometimes just opening up the word of God and just looking at it going, "Oh, let him talk to you." And sometimes we got so much on our chest that we just cry to get it out. And when you're crying, that is purging all of the hurt, the pain, the suffering, that's also abiding in God. Amen. Amen. So he says, "Abide in me and I in you." Because he's meeting you there. You're right there with him. Especially if you're reading the word because now it's coming inside of you. But that's a spoken word that is written down. He was the flesh of the word of God. He and it got written down by different authors and his words abiding in you. But it only abides in you if you open it and you read it. He spoke a cleansing word over you. You need to receive that cleansing word. You need to abide in that cleansing word. You need to hear it. You need to listen to it. You need to obey the Holy Spirit because in that is where you're going to see that transformation take place. So, if you've got one foot in the world, meaning nobody at your job or nobody outside of church knows you're a Christian, you have a problem. and you're wondering why things aren't happening the way you hoped there. God should be shaking your life right now and getting you awake and telling you, "I need you to abide in me." Let's have a relationship. Amen. So he says, "Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me." Very important here. What of fruit are we talking about? You have fruit of the goodness that can come out of you and then you have fruit of bringing someone to the Lord. So the the uh the fruit of the spirit is joy, love, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and kind uh self-control. You have the fruit, and you can go look it up. It's in Galatians 5:22 and 23. I should have brought it here. I did not. But I'm going to allow you to do a little bit of homework here and I want you to go look them up. These fruits should be coming out of you because you're abiding in the word. And abiding is a continuous ongoing thing that needs repetition. Once a week is not repetition. If you're going to church once a week, it's not enough. Actually, one of the reasons that we do this ministry is to supplement what you're getting at your church because your pastor can only teach you what he's teaching the entire congregation and his congregation is moving in the direction that the Lord has given him and that's what he's going to teach. But you as an individual have more. You do more. You're part of this. You're a branch of Jesus. And as a branch of the vine, you need to be bearing more fruit. This is how you can bear more fruit of love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness. This is how you build your self-control. It is the abiding in him. And what's happening is as that is manifesting, it's changing you. You are becoming a different person. So he says and and otherwise if you're not doing that, you cannot bear that fruit. You can act like you're good. You know, things happen to people all the time. And one of the questions that is asked is why did this bad thing happen to this good person? That good person was so good that they fooled you. I'm not saying they weren't uh good. They probably were, but we don't know the heart of that person. Only God does. So whatever that circumstance is between that person and God, we shouldn't even be asking. should be asking, am I being filled with the fruit of the spirit? Am I bearing the right fruit? Am I being fruitful to bring people to the Lord? Draw them in, water them, nurture them. Remember, as he's describing himself as the vine and where the branches, take a look at how Adam was created. He's dirt. He was made from dirt. Eve was an extension of that being made from the rib. Well, then a seed is planted in us soil. And that seed needs to get water. We get water baptized. We come up to germinate and keep the seed growing. We need to be in the light of the word. That's where we get our sunlight, the Jesus light, s light if you will. We also get watered and nurtured through the living word of God, the spoken word of God. And this is how we begin to grow branches. And we begin to have fruit. And by the way, the fruit that comes off of the branch, the love, the joy, the peace, all of that fruit is to be partaken from or of from others. They come take the fruit off of our branches and they partake. They like your pen. It's so neat that you show love. It's so neat that you have joy considering what you're going through. is so neat. You're setting an example and you're simply telling him, I abide in the word of God. My foundation is the name of Jesus. He is whom I am dwelling in and this is the manifestation of him. Hallelujah. That is so neat. So he says, I am, this is going on to verse five, I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth, here's that word abideth again, to stay, continue, dwell, endure, be present, stand here in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing. You see, you cannot show love without having Christ in you. And I will show that in scripture here in just a moment. You cannot uh you think um by showing love let's say to uh someone who has uh done evil. You can love them through spirit. You can't love them physically. It it is a physically impossible thing for a non-believer to like or love that person because they don't have the spirit of God in them. So they're looking at that person and that person's evil. Oh, that person needs, you know, but when you have Christ in you and abiding you, you begin to love people like that because Jesus loves them just as much as he loves me. Jesus loves you just as much as he loves me. Is that awesome? That was just so neat. But you can't have that if you're not dwelling in the vine. You got to be hooked up to the vine. And and how does a branch get fed by the vine? It's a continuous feed of the nutrients and the liquid through the veining between the vine and the branch on the inside. So you need to get your veins connected to Jesus so you're fed continuously. Oh, what a powerful analogy there. Verse six, if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered. You ever look at a person and they look like the walking dead? They're a dead person walking. They just look so dried up. They're so miserable on the inside. And in fact, it shocks you every once in a while when you see them smile and you're just like, "Where did that come from?" Well, here is the the whole analogy of this. When you are not walking with Christ, you look dead, sad. You look like it's the end of the world. We just had we're having the those fires in Los Angeles right now and seeing the people who lost their homes and the pain and the suffering they're going through. They're grieving. They're in pain. They're they but they look like they're dead. In fact, withered, dried up branches burn easily than someone who is filled with the anointing, the veining of Christ Jesus. Big difference. So it says if a uh a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them to lead together collect convene and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned. You see men are the ones who are going to throw you and cast you out. The way that men will know you is by your fruit. They will know you by your fruit. So, if you're in church playing church and there's a group and you're there part of that group and you're meeting and somebody says, "Well, maybe we should pray uh have a prayer meeting here and meet on Tuesday nights or whatever." You might be saying, "Well, uh, that sounds great, but shouldn't we do that on our own?" You see, you are the one interjecting the fruit of what's inside of you. Here a church trying to pray more as a gathering where two or three are gathered and here you're trying to isolate it by dividing and dividing comes from Satan. That is fruit and you can see it in people. It's very identifiable. You will know them by their fruit. So continuing on to verse 7, it says if you abide in me, here he is again talking about dwelling in him. You abide in me and my words abide in you. We know in Romans 10:9 that it says that if you confess Jesus is Lord. If you confess with your mouth, that's what happens. You're confessing the word of God. He's saying and my words abide in you. If they're in here, so if you see something happening, you need to pray for somebody or a situation, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. You start speaking the word of God because that word is abiding in you and it starts to manifest and bubble out. That's your fruit and people see it, recognize it, hear and know that you are truly a branch in the vine of Christ. You're veining in with Christ. Amen. So it says uh if you abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask. That word to ask means to beg, call for, crave, desire, require. Says, "Ye shall ask what ye will or what your determination is and it shall be done unto you." If you are determined about something that is of the will of God, it is of scripture. I guarantee and promise you that if you're asking him for it, he is going to give it to you. Now, that doesn't mean you're not going to ever have any sufferings in your life or you're never going to be sad or anything of that nature, but he will answer your prayers. And sometimes the answer isn't what we really were expecting because he's got something better planned for you. Amen. But this is part of abiding in him. And as you abide more and you're more pruned, because that's what's happening to fruit that is bearing or a branch that is bearing fruit, you are pruned. You have to be pruned. Meaning there are cuts. You're going to hurt it. It stings. But you learn from that. And that fruit begins to manifest. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Verse 8, herein is my father glorified or honored, magnified that ye bear much fruit. So shall ye be my disciples or your learner, the learner pupil. So all of this is to glorify the father because we glorify Jesus who is of the father and when we know Jesus we know the father and John talks about that in depth. So this is all to the point of glorifying the father. You dwelling in him. You calling on his name. You speaking his word. He goes to his glory and people know it. Recognize it and see the fruit. They recognize the cleansing that's taking place in you because you're walking in that cleansing and it's manif manifesting. That's awesome. And this is you're learning. You're a pupil. This is how you become a disciple of Christ is your learning. That's what disciples mean. Verse nine, as a father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. I want you to see something here is very very important. As the father hath loved, that word love is a different love than what we've seen in the past. It's a dative love, accusative kind of love because the father sees us. He knows what he what we're doing. But it's also a social moral obligation kind of love that Jesus always asks us to do. But when you see what Jesus did and what the word love there means says uh so I so have I loved you which is the same loved as the first one and then this third love continue ye in my love that love means affection benevolence difference. You see, when you have a baby and you bring home your baby, you are obligated to take care of that baby. And you may not have the affection and the benevolence of that for that baby yet. And you may have it right away, but sometimes it takes a little bit more for some people. But as you go throughout the years and then that baby grows up and they give you attitude or they tell you, "I hate you or anything of that nature," you're still obligated. That that's your child. You're still obligated or have that love. You still need to take care of them. You still have to take the upper road, the higher road, the moral, the sense, the obligation. You have that Jesus has done that, but he also did it out of affection and benevolence. The teaching of love through the scriptures is so powerful. It's amazing. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole, but I want you to see the difference here of what he's talking about. And then he continues on in verse 10. If you keep my commandments, that word commandment means authoritative prescription. You know, when Jesus says this, do in remembrance of me, when he's talking about holy communion, every time you take holy communion and brings you back to the cross, you repent, you you come back to Christ, you remember what he did on the cross, you take the broken bread, you drink the wine. As soon as you do that, it places you back in a right standing of good health. Because who is our healer? Jehovah uh Jehovah Rafa Jehovah Gyrus uh Jesus is our provider God our provider Jehovah Rafa God our healer he is our healer so he's saying if you keep my commandments which is authoritative prescription you are under his prescription he's written you a doctor's note and you're healed I hope you're getting that it's a fascinating little little point to make here says says, "If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love." Now, see how it says here in his love, which is affection and benevolence. Now, you have the affection and the benevolent kind of love that he has for us. It had to be developed. It had to be pruned. It had to be cut. You had to go through these things in order to get to that love. Because there's more than just having a social moral obligation. There is the affection and the benevolence. And the powerful thing is I cannot see Jesus but I know he's there. That is the affection and the benevolence I have now. I can love him because I know he's there. Amen. And even as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. So he's saying you keep my commandments, you're going to abide in this kind of love just like I did my father's commandments and I have his affection and benevolence. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you. And that is a cheerful cheerfulness, calm delight is what he's talking about with that joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full or leveled up. You see, when we face all of these situations, oh man, we can forget the love that he has and it hurts. It's painful. But he's saying, I'm here for you. I'm never going to leave you. I'm never going to forsake you. And because I'm in spirit, because now that he has died and risen from the grave, he's so much more. And he could be with us at all times. This is why he sent the comforter. Now coming to verse 12, this is my commandment. Again, authoritative prescription that you love one another as I have loved you. So now he's telling you as you grow in this, as you abide in me, I need you to love one another because this is your fruit. They're going to see and they're going to know. And when they know this, there it's going to draw them in. He says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man laid down his life for his friends." Look at what that greater love is. It's the affection and benevolence. And look at what friends are. We're dear, actively fond. He is actively fond of us. So he not only calls us a social moral obligation with love, but he calls us with benevolence and uh affection. And then he says, "I'm actively fond of you." In fact, he goes on to say, "You're my friends if you do whatsoever I command you." He says, "If you I'm charging you to love one another. You keep this up. You are my dear friend." That is so neat. That is just how he's So there's this relationship from abiding in him, which he cleansed you of the old. He's purging you of the old, of the bad habits, the things that we tend to tolerate, we put up with because we don't want to change, but yet Christ is changing us anyways little by little. We may fight it tooth and nail, kicking and screaming, but the spirit is changing us. And the more we allow him to change it versus tolerating what we want to keep the sin in our lives, we want to sin, we want this, we want that. Eventually, the spirit helps us release that and let it go. And we can walk in this simply by abiding in him. If you're sinning and you think that's going to keep you from God, you know what? Just ask him to forgive you and and come back into his word. It's a battle and you just keep coming back to that word. You keep coming back and abiding in that word. You keep reading that word even though you may have tripped, you've fallen, you messed up, you sinned again, spoke foul language, whatever it is, but you came back. That's overcoming the devil because the devil keeps telling me, "Ah, you're worthless. You can't do it. You can't do it on That's right. We couldn't do it on our own. But guess what? Jesus did it for us. And I'm going to keep calling on the name of Jesus. keep abiding in him and let him fill me up because he is greater than in me than he in the world. Oh, hallelujah. I hope you guys are getting this. Verse 15, henceforth I call you not servants. You're not a slave anymore. For the servant knoweth or is where not what his lord doeth. See, we don't as a servant, you can't know what your master's doing. But because we're friends, we are says, "But I've called you friends. For all things that I have heard of my father, I have made known to you." You see, you now know what's going on from the father direct through the son because he redeemed you, he purged you, he cleansed you. Because he has spoken his word over you. You're now his friends. Which means you have the knowledge to be healed, to walk in the healing, to be overcomers. You messed up. Yeah, but you can come back. And you always come back. You always open up the word. You always pray. You're always giving him the glory. And before you know it, that's your new routine. That's what you're keeping is his commandments, his prescription, his authoritative prescription in your life. And then you wonder why everything's going so good. That's why. Hallelujah. And yes, even if bad things are happening, you're still sitting there and standing there with a a joy in your heart. That's man, Jesus is on my side because I've done this. Wow. I'm so glad, Jesus, that you've done this in my life. Oh, I hope you guys grab on to this. I hope you do. Says, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you." which all it means is have you now bowed down and kneel ordained you that ye should go forth and bring that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain. So now that fruit in you should be drawing in people who want to partake of that fruit. Oh, and they're going to take it off of your branch that whatsoever ye shall ask, cuz he's saying now, your fruit will remain and then whatever you ask, you're begging, you're calling, you're craving, desiring, requiring of the father in my name, he may give it to you simply because you have chose you're he's chosen you and you're abiding him. He's changed you. He's cleansed you. He's worked something new in you. He's purging you and you're in the process. You're like a work in progress change. Hallelujah. And verse 17, these things I command you that you love one another. So he's re-emphasizing. It is your love toward one another. The fruit that you are growing. How they're going to recognize you one, but they're also going to want to partake and they're going to ask you and you're going to have the opportunity to say, "Hey, it's because Jesus, he's my redeemer." And you know what? Even though I keep messing up, he keeps forgiving me because he loves me that much. They want to hear that. This is you bearing fruit now, bringing in the fruit and drawing in the fruit. This is the cleansing and the purging that's taking place in 1 John 1 7-9 says, "But if we walk, that's the cleansing part. That's the purging part, the abiding." This is exactly what I just read through John 15. That is walking in the Lord. Oh, hallelujah. But if we walk be occupied with in the light because that word walk means be occupied with in the light as he is in the light. We have fellowship or partnership one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth or pur purifies us from all sin. All because you keep coming back. Keep coming back. You are more than a conqueror. Keep coming back. Verse eight. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. We go astray. Uh but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness because he spoke his word over you. So he cleansed you, purified you. You just got to keep coming back and you just got to keep reading his word, keep dwelling. If you couldn't get to it today, make it a priority for tomorrow. But come back. Keep coming back. You have already been cleansed. So now when you are asked the question, do you know if you've been cleansed? You can say, I have been because the name of Jesus is over me because he spoke his word over me. Hallelujah. 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. Let your word be planted in our hearts and minds so that we live it and abide in your word. we make your word a priority in our lives that we're reading it. We're dwelling with you. We're abiding you and you are abiding in us. Thank you for letting us have that beautiful relationship with you to continue to hear your voice in our hearts and minds and to know and to follow your commandments. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

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Say this prayer out loud: Precious Father in heaven in Jesus name I humbly come before You to beseech Your peace in these trouble times. I know that true peace does not depend on the abundance of things or the lack of them; true peace comes directly from You, the Prince of Peace. There is nothing that can remove the torment of paralyzing fear except the precious blood of Jesus sprinkled upon my conscience. Deliver me Oh Lord from the fear over which I have no control, the fear that overwhelms my heart. Visit my spirit I pray with the manifestation of Your undying love for me, touch my heart dear Lord right now during my hour of need. Reveal Your grace to my soul afresh every morning and let the breath of the Holy Spirit clear away the dark clouds that hover over my mind. Anoint my head with fresh oil that marks me for favor with both God and man. Also clear my eyes that I might see the wonders of all Your very precious thoughts and promises to me. AMEN!PRAY AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF FEAR PRAY AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF FEAR PRAY AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF FEAR Say this prayer out loud: Precious Father in heaven in Jesus name I humbly come before You to beseech Your peace in these trouble times. I know that true peace does not depend on the abundance of things or the lack of them; true peace comes directly from You, the Prince of Peace. There is nothing that can remove the torment of paralyzing fear except the precious blood of Jesus sprinkled upon my conscience. Deliver me Oh Lord from the fear over which I have no control, the fear that overwhelms my heart. Visit my spirit I pray with the manifestation of Your undying love for me, touch my heart dear Lord right now during my hour of need. Reveal Your grace to my soul afresh every morning and let the breath of the Holy Spirit clear away the dark clouds that hover over my mind. Anoint my head with fresh oil that marks me for favor with both God and man. Also clear my eyes that I might see the wonders of all Your very precious thoughts and promises to me. AMEN! Previous Next Home