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ATONEMENT The purpose of this teaching is to explain the biblical meaning and power of atonement, revealing how Christ’s sacrifice as High Priest covered sin and established a model for believers to follow. It aims to show that Christians are called to fulfill their own priestly responsibilities—interceding, making spiritual sacrifices, and covering others through compassion and prayer—so that we may walk in authority, love, and reconciliation until Christ returns as King. < Back ATONEMENT Minister Lisa Kane September 4, 2022 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to explain the biblical meaning and power of atonement, revealing how Christ’s sacrifice as High Priest covered sin and established a model for believers to follow. It aims to show that Christians are called to fulfill their own priestly responsibilities—interceding, making spiritual sacrifices, and covering others through compassion and prayer—so that we may walk in authority, love, and reconciliation until Christ returns as King. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane explores the deep spiritual truth of atonement through the lens of Proverbs 16:6, Hebrews, Exodus, and other key scriptures. She explains that atonement means “to cover” and traces its Hebrew roots, connecting it to the imagery of oil and pitch—both protective coverings and sources of empowerment. Christ, in His first coming, fulfilled His role as High Priest by atoning for humanity’s sins, and believers are called to imitate Him in priestly duties before entering their royal inheritance with Him at His second coming. Lisa emphasizes that being a priest means interceding for those who are ignorant of sin, offering compassion rather than condemnation, and making spiritual sacrifices such as laying down hatred, gossip, and unforgiveness. She draws parallels to Aaron’s priesthood, the anointing oil, and the process of refinement, showing how God equips believers with both power (fuel) and protection (covering). The message challenges listeners to take responsibility for their households, workplaces, and communities by making atonement through prayer, love, and intercession. By doing so, Christians build eternal rewards on the foundation of Christ and prepare with confidence for His return as King. The teaching closes with a call to embrace our priestly role daily, walking in humility, authority, and the covering of Christ’s sacrifice. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Saturday, September 4th, 2022. And this message is called Atonement. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message. We thank you for your blessing on it. Let it nourish our spirits and our minds. Let it feed us. Let us receive, believe, apply, and walk in your word, Father God. and let us hear and live this revelation, Father God, in the glorious, wonderful name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture. Here we are going to be looking at Proverbs. Proverbs 16:6. Now, I want you to see that I have the same scripture here written twice. One from the New King James Version and one from the King James version. So, the New King James Version says it like this. In mercy and truth, atonement is provided for iniquity, and by the fear of the Lord, one departs from evil. And then the King James version says, by mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil. All right. So, let's get a basic understanding of atonement here because when you think of that word, it's like, do you really understand what it means? So atonement is is paying for the sins. It it is a covering against the sins. Let's look at the definition of it here in the Strongs dictionary in the Hebrew. It it's number H3722. It's kafar is how you say it or close to that. Don't take my word for that saying. But it's a primitive root and it means to cover. And look at this specifically with bitamin. And we're going to get to bitamin in just a minute. And then of course figuratively to expedate or condone, to plate or cancel, appease, make atonement, cleanse, disinol, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon. Look at this word to pitch. We're going to get to that in a moment. And purge, which is what we saw in the King James version, away, put off, and make reconciliation. So now you're kind of getting an understanding here. So, you know, when you look at what Jesus did and he redeemed us, he made atonement for us because he covered us for those who choose to believe in him. And that is how this goes. But now I want you to see and understand something here. Jesus, his first coming came to fulfill the word as a priest. Didn't come as a king, which kind of offput the the Israelites. They did not like that. They were expecting a king. Well, he's going to come back as a king in his second coming, but his first coming was as a priest. He needed to deal with sin and that's exactly what he did. So now, if Jesus Christ did that and yet you read everything in the New Testament kind of tells you to be Christlike, does this mean we have to be a priest before we can be a king or a queen? Well, yeah. And if we're going to rule after the thousand-year millennium or in that time period that Revelation talks about, again, you can go check out those scriptures yourself, then that means we have to fulfill our priestly duties just like Christ did. This is where the the power of atonement comes in. And and you guys are going to get this. This is an awesome revelation. I want you to see this. So let's take a look at the foundation of the scriptures of why we need to be priestly here. 1 Peter 2:5, you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Okay. So let's define your spiritual house. What is your responsibility? So if you're the one male, female, doesn't matter. There were priestesses and priests, okay? and they were in the Israelites. So this is this is not just designated for male or female. But if you're the one spending time with God and which we all should be doing, but not all does, but if you are doing that, you have a responsibility to those around you, your area. You see, Jesus came back as a priest for the entire world. We don't have to do it for the entire world. We just need to do it for what we're responsible for, which is in my case, it's my household. It is my workplace. Oh, we're gonna get into some very sensitive stuff here because how many of us are not crazy about our bosses. Anyways, so you kind of get this idea of what your responsibility is as a priest now, which means we've got to change something on the inside. So, there's atonement that's going to take place here, and you're going to see how this works and applies. Very powerful. I love this message. This a good message. Hebrews 5, we're going to read verses 1-4. For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Again, this all has to do with sin. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. We have all sinned. And that includes us who need to be priestly, which included Aaron who became priests, who was called by God. And by the way, we're called by God. anyone who's coming into this, God is calling us to be that priestly individual to take up our responsibility for our area. So, let's continue on here. Verse two, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray. That's the priest. You see, if you're seeing someone living in sin, co-orker, family member, whomever, you have the responsibility to what? have compassion on them because they're ignorant. They don't know they haven't come into the glory of God like we have. So that is a responsibility. Look at this. Since he himself is also subject to weakness, we are subject even priestly. So Aaron had to do it too. Look at let's continue on with the scriptures. Because of this he is required as uh as for the people. so also for himself to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes his honor to himself, but he was called by God just as Aaron was. So it's an exact replica of what Aaron was like taking on that priestly responsibility. Now, this is going to get very interesting. So let's continue on. Let's look at some more scripture here. Exodus 29:1A. And again, we're dealing with Aaron and what he's called to do. pieces and this is what you shall do to them to hollow them for ministering to me as priests. Now, I am not going to go into every detail of a priest and what a priest does. We're just going to be talking about atonement today. You are more than welcome to go read those scriptures and learn more of what the priestly duties are. So, I stopped here the first half of verse one there. Now, let's continue on with the next set of scriptures because now we're going to continue where the atonement is in verse 7. Look at this. Hebrew or excuse me, Exodus 29:7. and you shall take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him. Okay, now that I've laid some foundational scriptures, I want you to see something. So, what a priest does is he makes atonement for those who are ignorant. But he also declares another priest. Now, let's talk about the anointing oil and what this does because remember what the definition is. And you know what? It's worth going back and looking at that screenshot that that screen of the definition because I think once you see this you it's going to blow your mind away. So a primitive roof to cover specifically with bitamin. Okay. Oil crude oil you know and there is a huge attack on the industry right now about climate change and using dirty oil. By the way if oil works and oil is powerful it works. There are dirty jobs out there. So you know it works. um why, you know, they're against oil is just beyond me. And and of course they think, well, you know, there's not going to be enough fossil fuels to last for a century. Well, and that is in regards to Yeah, but if you read the scriptures, the scriptures tell us that this world's coming to an end. We don't need it to last forever. And so, you have to understand that. Okay. But anyways, crude oil has a process to it. So, you have oil in itself, but it really I mean, it's there. It's crude. That's oil. But if you refine oil, you get two parts. Now there's that number two. Two always means choice or direction. Spiritual meaning you can go the spiritual direction or you can go the physical direction. If you have any dreams that have to deal with the number two or two paths, two bridges to anything. It is always a choice that you have to make and it can be spiritual or physical. That's what the number two means. So oil splits into two parts. Now you have the part where it becomes gasoline. And the more you refine it, by the way, the more powerful gasoline becomes. And what is gasoline? It's fuel for your car. Well, in the spiritual, it's fuel for your power and authority. It goes poof. It is the air. It is the numa. It is your power and authority that goes forth because the anointing oil got poured on you. And what happens when you get refined by God? You go through that pressure. You go through the stress. You sweat it out. You're having a hard time. It's refining and it's doing two things. It's giving you the power and the authority because you're learning mentally, spiritually what the power of God is. But then it makes a second part called the bitamin. The bitamin is the part that is the viscous, the pitch. Kind of like Noah's arc. You had to put the pitch in there. You had to put the pitch in anything. What does pitch do? It's a covering and it makes it waterproof. Oh, this is getting really good. I want you to see now when the enemy tries to attack you, the rain, the the the thunderstorms, the the season of torment, it comes to attack, but it washes right off of you because you got the covering of the anointing oil on you with your power and authority that you can move forward and whatever the enemy does, it just slicks right off of you because you got the viscus over you, the pitch, the tar, whatever it may be. You can't see it in the spirit, but you know it's there because the enemy can't stick his arrows in you. They can't stick. Oh, do you see this? Do you see what the power and the authority you have? And this is as a priest. Oh, this this is very, very, very powerful stuff. I want you to see this. I really want you guys to get this. So, now let's take a look at what this priest does. Leviticus 16:32. And the priest who is anointed and consecrated to minister as priest in his father's place shall make atonement. Put on the linen clothes, the holy garments. Again, you can go read the rest of the scriptures of how, you know, to get here to even preach this message. You know, as a priest, priestess, I come in, I cleanse myself, I take my shower, wash my face, do up my hair, I cling my my table here. I get everything prepared and ready because I need to be clean when I come into the presence of the Lord to teach the word of God to make atonement. I am trying to teach you how to repent and come out of your sins by sharing the word of God. Now look at this in the spiritual sense. Okay? So, if you're responsible for your household and you're responsible for your co-workers and anyone around in your area, whatever you have taken on that responsibility for, if you go out preaching on the street corners, you've got that street corner, that is your responsibility. These are your areas. What you do is you need to make atonement. Well, how do you do that? Okay, so atonement is where you intercede. Now, when a priest would go into, this is prior to Christ's coming, he would go into the Holy of Holies, he would have a string tied around his foot because if he didn't come in right, the Lord took his life instantly and they'd pull his body out. This is how serious this is. So, be very serious. So, you got to have the right heart. So, first you need to humble yourself. So, uh, if you read 1 Corinthians 13 talks about doing everything with love. If you've got a hatred toward anybody that you're responsible for, you need to take care of that. And and you know what? Just simply start saying the words and say, "Lord, I need help. I hate this person, but I want to love them." And then start saying, "I love you. I love you. I love you." And what happens is you get that humility going into your heart and your mind and you start to change on the inside because you're allowing the Holy Spirit to change you. So now when you're facing a situation in work where you question people and their motives and what they're doing, they may have equal uh evil, wicked plots against you. Remember, we don't fight against flesh and blood, but we fight against principalities, powers of the air, and evil evil, wicked plots, okay? We get to fight against that. We don't know it sometimes, but we see things. They're telltale signs. But instead of bringing those telltale signs to service by talking about it, gossiping about it, or what is so and so up to? He's just an idiot. You see, when you start saying things that you're cursing the situation and you're making it worse for yourself. Instead, come into the presence of the Lord in your secret place and make atonement for their ignorance and the sin that they're committing that they don't even know. Because hell is not for everybody. Hell is for the devil. But even if you hate that person and you wish them hell sometimes, you've got to realize that's not for them and it is your responsibility to atone for them. So, but he did you go into the presence of the Lord and you said, "Lord, I'm coming in as my priestly duty and I'm asking you to forgive them of their sins and I forgive them of their sins as well. I know I have the anointing oil on me. I know that I have the power and the authority to say that because I'm called by you and I have my priestly responsibilities to do this. And not only am I called, I know I'm covered by the vitamin process that is there, the viscous. And that means there those enemies that are doing that cannot stick doing what they're doing. And I know Lord and I speak and I ask for divine intervention and I ask that you come in and help them come out of their ignorance. Now do you see the difference here now? Instead of cursing them, you're blessing the situation. And what does that do to you? That comes back to you, me, and it changes the situation. I had done this. I can't remember it was last Monday night or last Tuesday night when I got this revelation and the next day was just an unbelievable day. You know, I can't go into the details because I don't want to name names and all the circumstances and situation, but I can say that I saw God move and I was like, "Wow, Lord." So, this this works. This is a powerful thing. So, let's continue on here. Hebrews uh 9:11. But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is not of this creation. Again, it comes down to what would Jesus do? Jesus did it first. He went to the cross and died on the cross for our sins. Even for those who didn't know him and were continuing to hate and curse him. Even those that are standing there, you know, sounding like dogs going off if you read Psalm. And you you'll see that Christ did it anyways. You see that humility? And this is what a priest does. It It's challenging, but this is something that you need to do. Let's continue on to verse 26 here in Hebrews 29 or Hebrews 9. He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world, but now once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. It's a sacrifice. You're sacrificing your hatred. And notice what Paul is talking about here. He's talking about how many times Jesus had to go to the cross once. He didn't have to go multiple times. Whereas Levitic Aaron and the old days every year had to have the day of atonement. They had to do this for the nation of Israel. Once a year you had to bring in a bull and sacrifice the bull. Well, here now Jesus did it once. He did it and it tore the veil. So now there's no holy of holies where a priest goes into anymore. So now as a spiritual matter and as a Christlike person who spends time with God taking up your priestly responsibilities what do you do you sacrifice your hatred your curses your gossip and you say Lord I'm blessing this and I'm speaking atonement speaking on behalf of them because they're ignorant and they're walking in sin and they don't even know and I'm asking you for divine intervention and I'm telling you the Lord moves and it takes faith. It takes faith but that sacrifice is what gets things started. Now let's look at the verse 27 and 28 of uh Hebrews 9. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly wait for him. He will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. Now notice he's coming a second time apart from sin. He's coming a second time to be king. So you see the difference here. So right now in this moment because he has not come back a second time. We need to take up our priestly duties and make our sacrifice. Now they did it once a year. The Israelites I say do it every day if you can. You know it we're doing dealing with spiritual matters and the enemy is getting more and more vicious right now. Especially as we're in this end times. Christ is coming back and he's going to be the king which means we will move into our royal duties with him in the heavenly but here for now we have our priestly duties and our priestly responsibilities to those to those ignorant in sin. So what does that mean? Look at first John 2:28. And now little children abide in him that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. You take up your responsibility. You've got the confidence to say, "I know my Christ, my king is coming. I know that because I'm dealing with spiritual matter in the priestly things right now." Amen. Amen. Look at this. 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. And keep in mind, all of this is founded on what Jesus has done. This is what Jesus did to deal with the fall of man. Remember, first Adam sinned. Man fell. Now Jesus came and redeemed. If Adam didn't exist, none of this would mean anything. But I'm promising you this. Adam and Eve were real. Read the book of Genesis. You You know what? That will tell you why things happen. why they they got said, you know, the devil was sitting there in the garden of Eden and it tells you about that in Ezekiel and he's watching God and Adam bond and God is interacting with Adam and he's in love with Adam. Th this tells you how much he loves us because it also shows what he did. He sent his son for us because of his love for us. And uh there there they are just bonding and the Lucifer is getting angrier and angrier and more bitter because he's like I'm the one who's made of perfection. You should be spending time with me, not that weak looking creature. And in fact, in his mind's like, you know what, God, you left. I'm going to go deceive these people. And he did. He was successful at that. And so man fell. But God didn't give up on us. And he didn't give us give up on us when the flood happened. and he still let eight survivors uh get through so that we could be here today. I know that you see a an evil world. It is full of darkness and you want to hate. I'm right there with you. But God says, "Listen, take up your priestly duties. Sacrifice your hatred. Sacrifice your gossip. Sacrifice it and let me deal with it spiritually." Oh, let's continue on with 1 Corinthians 53 here, verses 11-15. Verse 12. Now, if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw. Each one's work will become clear, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test each one's work of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved yet. So is through fire. We are building up our royalty in the afterlife. This is why once you die and you've not accepted Christ into your heart, it's too late. You've lost your opportunity. But the moment you ask Jesus Christ into your heart, and it only takes one time when you call upon the Lord, you shall be saved. He that and it says that in Joel and it says that in Romans. You call upon the name of the Lord, you shall be saved. Saved from the circumstance and saved for eternity. Now, some are going to make it and some are just going to barely make it is basically what Paul was saying. But those of us that take up our royal priesthood and we start building our foundation with that gold and the silver, you know, and when that fire, the burning comes through and we we're under that refinement, that burn. What survives the fire, what's left there won't be straw. It won't be hay, but it will be the gold and the silver, the metals, the metals that we're grabbing in the spiritual. Amen. And that is what our eternity will be. And so I beg you, take up your priesthood responsibility. Imagine if everyone had done that. I would imagine that our world would not be in the evil situation it is today. Of course, God is in control and we know that he is returning and that his prophecies have to be fulfilled. So, but here we are now learning this that revelation. But it is awesome because I can still affect my area and until he comes, I'm going to continue to grab his word, take it from the Holy Spirit and apply it to my life and to the responsible areas that I have. And I encourage you to do the same thing. take up your priestly your priestly duties and make your sacrifices unto the Lord and make atonement for those that you're responsible for whether you love them or not. But ask the Lord to show you the love because he loves them. And sometimes we wonder why do you love them, Lord? But he does. But he loves you, too. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing on it. We thank you for teaching us about atonement and our priestly responsibilities and duties, Father God. And I pray that we can have the strength to ask you and your Holy Spirit for help in overcoming the hatred and gossip and and to be the better blesser and the one that can make the atonement for those ignorant and walking in sin and they don't even realize it. We thank you for your revelation. We thank you for giving us that strength. And in the name of Jesus, we bless this message and we bless you. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I just couple quick announcements. Obviously, we were on vacation, so I skipped a twoe period in teaching. Now, last week, we were supposed to put up a message from the youth message, and my fault. I didn't charge the battery before going, and um I don't know how much of the message I got. So, we're not going to put that message up, but uh I will be teaching again in two weeks. And then at the end of September, we'll have another youth message and we will get that posted up because I promise you, I will charge those batteries and have it ready to go. God bless you and have a wonderful time and spend time with the Lord. Amen. Previous Next Home

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

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THE GENTILES SHALL KNOW To show from Ezekiel’s prophecy that God’s dealings with Israel and the nations are purposeful, revealing His holiness, justice, and covenant faithfulness. The teaching emphasizes that end-time events—including Israel’s restoration, the judgment of invading armies, and the unveiling of God’s glory—will make both Israel and the Gentile nations know that the Lord is the one true God. THE GENTILES SHALL KNOW Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To show from Ezekiel’s prophecy that God’s dealings with Israel and the nations are purposeful, revealing His holiness, justice, and covenant faithfulness. The teaching emphasizes that end-time events—including Israel’s restoration, the judgment of invading armies, and the unveiling of God’s glory—will make both Israel and the Gentile nations know that the Lord is the one true God. Synopsis: “The Gentiles Shall Know” explores Ezekiel 38–39, where God foretells an end-time invasion against Israel. This invasion, prompted by God, is designed to reveal His holiness to the nations before the seven-year Day of the Lord’s Wrath begins. Scripture declares that God will supernaturally destroy the invading armies, leaving no doubt about His power and sovereignty. The message underscores that both Israel and the Church share in God’s covenant promises—Israel with a physical inheritance and the Church with a spiritual one. Despite replacement theology teachings, God reaffirms Israel’s central role in end-time prophecy, restoring them to their land and pouring out His Spirit upon them after the Church’s removal. Prophecies also identify the nations aligned against Israel, including those from the “uttermost north” (Gog, Rosh) along with Persia (Iran), Ethiopia, and others—alignments visible in current geopolitical realities. The destruction of Damascus (Isaiah 17:1) may act as a trigger for these events. Ultimately, God calls the nations to His “sacrificial feast” on the mountains of Israel, demonstrating His glory before all. The study concludes by affirming God’s faithfulness: just as He revealed these details to Ezekiel 2,500 years ago, His promises of redemption and Christ’s soon return can be trusted. Both Israel and the Gentiles will know that the Lord alone is God when He establishes His sanctuary among His people forever. Inspired Teaching: Ezekiel 39:23 “The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they fell by the sword.” Ezekiel 38 and 39 speaks of an end time invasion against the nation of Israel, this invasion is initiated by God’s prompting for a purpose. Ezekiel 38:16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.” Prophecy tells us that in the latter days God will bring His final judgments upon the earth, His judgments will last for seven years, and it is called the Day of the Lord’s Wrath, that judgment will culminate in the final battle of Armageddon, where all the armies of the nations of the world will meet their final judgment. Revelation 19:19, 21 “And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army...And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse…” Before that final judgment takes place, God in His mercy, will reveal Himself to the nations of the world, so that those who are foolish enough to take a stand against Him will do so in full knowledge of who the real God is. In order for God to show Himself holy to the nations before His seven years final judgment begins, He has to do something that only an all Mighty God can do, wipe out an entire army in an instant, for that will leave no doubt in the mind of the world as to who the real God is. About twenty five hundred years ago God revealed to Ezekiel the name and the location of the nation that would lead a confederacy against the nation of Israel, the nations that would be part of that confederacy and that Israel would cease to be a nation for a season, for He told them through Ezekiel that He would give them over into the hand of their enemies because of their unfaithfulness. Think of it from our present day perspective, were we to have a world wide vote right now to let the people of the world decide who they believe the real God is, the God of the nation of Israel would not fair very well, for the nation of Israel, and the Jews in particular, are the most hated people by the Gentile world of today. Even in some Christian teachings we find that they do not believe that the present day nation of Israel has any heritage left in biblical prophecy, they call it replacement theology, for they teach that Israel forfeited all of their rights of inheritance when they rejected Jesus as their Messiah, and that the church is now the beneficiary of all the promises that the nation of Israel had coming their way for the latter days. When God entered into His covenant with Abraham, the covenant was two-fold, as the sand of the seas meant a physical inheritance, and as the stars of the sky meant a spiritual inheritance. The law came through the ministry of Moses but grace came through our Lord Jesus Christ, Israel and the church are both part of the covenant. So that clearly both Israel and the church play a vital role in end time prophecy, even if one does not accept the heritage of the other, as it is the case in many instances today, so that God has to set the record straight. Before Ezekiel is told that in the latter days the Gentiles will know that God has a place and purpose for the nation of Israel, He lets Israel know that they have a vital role to play along with the church. Ezekiel 39:22 “So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.” From which day forward? From the day that He reveals Himself holy to the nations of the world by destroying their invading army, and removing the church to her spiritual inheritance, and restoring the nation of Israel to their physical inheritance, which is the Holy Land. Ezekiel 39:28-29 “Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer. And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord God.” The house or nation of Israel can only be sealed after the church is removed, for that is on whom the Spirit of God is resting right now. Ezekiel 37:11, 14 “Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, “Our bones are dry (without the Spirit), our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!”...I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land (most of the world today see Israel as occupiers, they won't after God intervenes on their behalf). Then you shall know (along with the rest of the world) that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,’ says the Lord.” In verses twelve and thirteen there is a reference to the resurrection from the dead, and we know that when the resurrection from the dead takes place that is when the faithful Philadelphia church will be removed. Ezekiel 37:13 “Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.” Since the first stage of the first resurrection from the dead includes all the saints of old, and since it is Jesus who will bring them all back to life, the Jewish nation will know then that Jesus Christ is the Lord, God’s Anointed One, as Moses had clearly told them a long time ago. The nation that leads the army that attacks the nation of Israel is identified as coming from the uttermost north, and it is called Gog, the prince of Rosh, which means head. Part of their confederacy will be the nations of Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, and Togarmah. These are their ancestral tribal names, Persia is today's Iran and they have made it clear that they want the nation of Israel to be wiped off the map. And that brings us to our present day alignment of nations; Russia and Iran have a vested interest in the government of Syria remaining in power, for they are allies, and as of this writing, the US is contemplating the use of military force against the Syrian nation for using chemicals weapons in their war against the insurgents that want to overthrow the present Syrian government that is in bed with Iran and Russia. This conflict of it self, as it stands right now, does not in my opinion constitute enough reason for the northern confederacy to be activated against the nation of Israel, but it is ripe for the last major prophetic event that has to happen before the invasion takes place, to maybe come to pass before all of this is over. Isaiah 17:1 “The burden against Damascus (the capital of Syria). ‘Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.’” Damascus is one of the oldest city in the world and has been continuously inhabited for most of its history, which means that Isaiah’s prophecy has never been fulfilled, and it awaits its fulfillment today. It does not take much to imagine that if in our present situation a weapon of mass destruction was to be leveled against the city of Damascus, for that is what it would take to wipe out an entire city, and if it was blamed on Israel, that would be reason enough for the allies of Syria to come to her rescue and avenge those whom they blame for such a catastrophe. Could it be that God Himself brings judgment against that city in order to draw Russia and their compatriots into the slaughter end time feast that He has prepared on the mountains of Israel? Ezekiel 39:17-21 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: assemble yourselves and come; gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial meal which I am sacrificing for you. You shall be filled at My table with horses and riders, with mighty men and with all the men of war,’ says the Lord God. I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.” Five times the Lord uses the words sacrificial and sacrificing, the point is clear, before the Lord ushers anything new He always requires a blood sacrifice, six million Jews were sacrificed in Nazi camps before the nation of Israel could be established once again, now the world is going to provide the meat for the sacrifice that is going to let all the world know who the real God is once and for all. This is how close we might be to the end of our journey here on earth. If God is able to tell Ezekiel twenty five centuries ago the geopolitical alignments of today, and every detail of the events that are about to happen, then we can be sure that we can trust Him when He tells us that He is coming back soon to redeem us to Himself. Ezekiel 37:27-28 “My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people. The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” Previous Next Home

CURSES To help believers understand the reality of curses, their causes, and their consequences, while also providing biblical teaching on how Christ’s redemption breaks the curse of the law and how believers can appropriate their deliverance through faith, obedience, and walking in the Spirit. < Back CURSES Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To help believers understand the reality of curses, their causes, and their consequences, while also providing biblical teaching on how Christ’s redemption breaks the curse of the law and how believers can appropriate their deliverance through faith, obedience, and walking in the Spirit. Synopsis: In CURSES, Pastor Marcos explores the biblical reality of curses, emphasizing that they are not just symbolic but spiritual forces with real negative effects on people’s lives. Drawing from Galatians 3:13, he highlights how Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, yet stresses the importance of appropriating that redemption in daily living. The lesson reviews the Old Testament foundation of blessings and curses, particularly in Deuteronomy 28–30, where God set before Israel the choice of life or death, blessing or curse. From a New Testament perspective, Pastor Marcos explains that those outside of Christ remain under the curse of the law, while those in Christ are legally redeemed. However, practically, some consequences of curses persist until believers apply biblical remedies such as repentance, faith, obedience, sacraments, and prayer. Referencing James 5 and Galatians 6, Pastor Marcos shows that healing and deliverance from curses often require confession, prayer, and living by the Spirit. He draws on Frank and Ida Mae Hammond’s teaching in The Breaking of Curses, outlining eight key principles: curses have causes, sin opens the door, curses are spiritual in nature, curses remain where sin remains, their power is demonic, the law offers no remedy, Christ redeemed us, and redemption must be appropriated. The lesson concludes that while curses still affect the world and even some believers, freedom is available through Christ. By walking in the Spirit, bearing spiritual fruit, and crucifying the works of the flesh, believers can live beyond the reach of curses, stepping fully into God’s blessing and protection. Written teaching: Galatians 3:13 “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’).” Glory to God for His redemptive power! In this lesson we will share with you a few points that all believers should know about curses and how they operate. Let us begin with the fact that curses are real, and that they have a real negative impact on those upon whom they land. Deuteronomy 28:20 “The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.” The verse above is the summation of what Paul calls the curse of the law in his letter to the Galatians. Moses told the Israelites in Deuteronomy 28-30, that God was giving them a choice between blessings and cursing, and that by their decision to uphold or reject the promises that God was giving to them—either by their actions or by their neglect—that they would place themselves to receive the blessings or cursing as a result of what they chose to believe. Deuteronomy 30:19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.” There is no in between when one belongs to God, and as it is written: The earth is the Lord...and all who dwell in it. Psalm 24:1 Matthew 12:30 “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.” Let us ask this question from the New Testament perspective, Is the curse of the law active today against the human race? 1 Corinthians 16:22 “If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed (anathema). O Lord come!” Jesus Christ is the only One who has the power to redeem us from the curse of the law, so that all who are outside of Christ are still under the curse of the law. That is why Paul adds the phrase, O Lord come into those who do not yet know You so that they can be delivered from the curse of the law (interpretation mine). Paul knew that without Christ, who bore our curse on the cross—cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree—there can be no hope of redemption from all the curses stated in the law. From the New Testament perspective again we ask this question, Are all who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord automatically delivered from all the curses stated in the law? Legally, yes! Practically, no! How do we know? Galatians 6:7-8 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” In practicality the nature of how the curses operate does not change, what changes is the legal rights of those who are still under the consequences of the curse of the law, but who have now been redeemed by Christ Jesus. Deliverance from the consequences of many of the curses has to be appropriated; we know some of the consequences are removed automatically when we get saved, while others are removed as we properly practice and partake of the sacraments, like water baptism and holy communion. Deuteronomy 28:60 “Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.” Sickness and diseases come as the result of the curse of the law, when we get saved, we do not automatically get healed, although legally, we are already healed as soon as Christ comes into our hearts. 1 Peter 2:24 “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose striped you were healed.” In Christ—legally speaking—God does not consider us to be under the curse of the law any longer, but since God is not mocked, as long as we not having died to sins continue to live for unrighteousness, then the sickness and the diseases of the curse of the law shall cling continuously unless and until they are dealt with according to the Scriptures. James 5:14-16 “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save (deliver from the consequences of the curse) the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” Once in Christ, a way of escape from the consequences of the curse of the law is made available to the believer who wants to turn his/her life around so that they might live for righteousness sake. According to a book written by Frank and Ida Mae Hammond, who were considered to be pioneers in the deliverance ministry in the last century, there are eight basic laws that govern curses. For the benefit of those who are in Christ but still struggle with the consequences of the curse of the law, I will now list the eight principles that they believed and taught, govern all curses. 1) THERE IS A CAUSE FOR EVERY CURSE. Proverbs 26:2 “Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause shall not alight.” 2) SIN IS THE GATEWAY FOR THE CURSE. Genesis 3:14 “Because you have done this, you are cursed…” 3) A CURSE IS A SPIRITUAL PROBLEM THAT CANNOT BE REMEDIED BY NATURAL MEANS. Galatians 6:7-8 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows (seeks for a solution from the Holy Spirit) to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” 4) WHERE SIN REMAINS THE CURSE REMAINS. 2 Chronicles 7:14 “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn form their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 5) THE POWER OF A CURSE IS DEMONIC. Genesis 4:7 “If you do well (do the right thing), will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin (demons are the power behind the sinful act) lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” 6) THE LAW PROVIDED NO REMEDY FOR THE CURSE. Galatians 3:10 “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.’” 7) CHRIST REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW. Galatians 3:10 “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’).” 8) THE REDEMPTION MUST BE APPROPRIATED. Genesis 22:16-18 “...By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice (and were willing to forfeit the most precious thing that you had in order to obtain the promise).” The eight points are quoted directly from the author, as well as many of the Scriptures he quoted to make his point, but the explanations in brackets which are not part of Scripture are mine. The name of the book is The Breaking of Curses, by Frank and Ida Mae Hammond. Published by Impact Christian Books. Inc. We conclude then that curses are still part of everyday life for all who do not love Jesus Christ, and that for many who believe in Him, curses are still a part that affects them negatively. What then, shall a believer do, who wants to be freed from the consequences of the curses that he/she brought upon themselves by their lawless deeds, or about the iniquity that they have inherited by the lawless deeds of their ancestors, which still affects them today? Galatians 5:16 “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” How do we walk in the Spirit? Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no (curse of the) law.” To walk in the Spirit, one must walk in obedience to the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Works of the flesh are the mark of selfish ambitions, to which all of the curses are attached. All spiritual fruit leads to self-control which bear the mark of the flesh that has been crucified with all its passions and desires. Galatians 5:24 “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Spiritual fruit cannot be cursed because it is blessed by God. Previous Home Next

HEALING YOUR SOUL AND BODY The objective of this message is to teach believers how forgiveness, the power of their words, and a relationship with the Lord directly affect the healing of both soul and body. It aims to reveal the biblical principles that show how harboring unforgiveness and speaking curses can manifest in sickness, while releasing forgiveness, speaking blessings, and walking in the Spirit bring healing, restoration, and long life. < Back HEALING YOUR SOUL AND BODY Minister Lisa Kane October 6, 2023 Objective: The objective of this message is to teach believers how forgiveness, the power of their words, and a relationship with the Lord directly affect the healing of both soul and body. It aims to reveal the biblical principles that show how harboring unforgiveness and speaking curses can manifest in sickness, while releasing forgiveness, speaking blessings, and walking in the Spirit bring healing, restoration, and long life. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane opens with Matthew 6:14–15 to establish the connection between forgiveness and healing. Forgiveness is not about securing eternal salvation—that comes by calling on the name of Jesus—but rather about releasing bitterness and letting go of offenses so the soul can be healed, which then manifests as health in the body. Holding onto unforgiveness leads to hardened hearts and even physical sickness, while forgiveness opens the door to freedom, peace, and healing. Lisa stresses that healing requires a choice: to let go of offenses, to bless instead of curse, and to replace negative words with the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, humility, and self-control. Scriptures such as Psalm 91, Proverbs 18:14, and Isaiah 53 show that God promises long life, deliverance, and wholeness to those who walk in His presence. The message also highlights the importance of self-control over one’s words, for the spirit of a person can sustain or prolong infirmity by speaking curses. By walking in the Spirit, believers can overcome the lusts of the flesh, stop sending mixed messages to the spiritual realm, and live in alignment with God’s promises. The teaching closes with a powerful prayer of repentance, forgiveness, and declaration of healing, encouraging listeners to receive God’s benefits, walk in the fruit of the Spirit, and manifest divine health in their souls and bodies. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Friday, October 6, 2023. Welcome. This message is called Healing Your Soul and Body. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We ask that you open up our ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see your word, to receive your word, to believe your word, and to trust your word, Father God, that we may live by your word, so that our souls are healed and that our bodies manifest that healing. Thank you, Father God, for the glory of your presence, your anointing, Holy Spirit. Thank you that you speak eloquently through these lips and uh move me out of the way if you need to, Lord, in the glorious name of Jesus. Thank you, Father God. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's open up in our opening scripture here. Let's go to our opening scripture. Healing your soul and body. We're going to start here in Matthew 6:14-15. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. This scripture tends to be taken into context that you would lose your salvation or that you can't get saved because you won't forgive someone. And the reality of this is that you have a choice to forgive or not to forgive with this scripture. Meaning, if you choose to forgive, you can heal your soul and you can heal your body. If you choose not to forgive, your your soul and your body is going to be in a lot of pain and you end up going to your death very painful and very early. Uh there's principles and scriptures that uh show this and this is what I'm going to be teaching on today so that your soul and your body could be healed. Uh because it is a choice and it's up to you of whether you want to forgive or not. But this is you don't have to forgive someone for your eternity. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. You'll see the scripture as we come into it later on in this teaching. So that has nothing to do with this. This has to do with you, the individual, and whether you're going to forgive others for your healing. Now, there's two parts to this, and it's very, very powerful, and I'm going to try to touch on both parts. I want you to see that you can do this for yourself, but you can also do this for those around you. I've taught before and it's it's probably been a year and a half, maybe a couple years now, uh where I taught that you're the priest or the priestess over your home, over your um family, co-workers, and such. This is another way to change the individuals around you by interceding for them and allowing the Holy Spirit to do his job. So, I'm going to uh take a moment here and I'm going to ask you a series of questions because this is where it changes you. And if you want it, this is for you. If you don't want it, click off this video and move on. Hit the pause or hit the X and get out because seriously, this is so powerful. It's going to change you. And and I'm going to show you how it works. So the question I have is, do you want to live a long life? Do you want to be healed? Do you know that there are some people who don't want to be healed? It's a conversation piece. It's a great conversation topic. They don't, you know, it's it's something to go talk to somebody about. Well, let me let you in on a little secret. There are other topics to talk about. So, do you want to be healed? For that matter, do you believe you can be healed? You see, we live in a generation where we were taught that we can call the doctor's office, go get a prescription, get a pill, and the symptom is taking place. And if you go long enough with it, all they do is double the pill, make it stronger. They're only dealing with the symptom. They're not dealing with the root. So, do you want to be healed? Do you believe you can be healed? Do you believe the word of God? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God? This is going to play a very important role here. I want you to understand that. So, let's go back to our opening scripture here. I want you to see something here. As you know, what I'm doing now is I'm teaching through the King James version. So, anything in parentheses and italicize is something I added, which is the definition of the word that's bolded. So, that's how I'm going to teach this. For if ye forgive. So that word forgive there means to send forth, let go, release. So if for if ye forgive men their trespasses, that word trespass means a side slip or something of a fault. A fault. Look at this. It's unintentional or willful. So for if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you, release you. But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. Notice the key word here. This is how I know it's different. Trespasses, a fault or a slip. So when you confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you're forgiven. Your eternity is set. It says anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I will show you that in three different scriptures that I have found thus far. And you will see how powerful that is. Because anyone, a murderer, a liar, a thief, anyone, you committed adultery, anyone can call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. That's your eternity. Now, if you want your healing, you've got to forgive the faults of those who faulted you. Whether you're right or wrong, just because you're justified and you're right doesn't mean you don't forgive. You got to let it go. You see the meaning here? Let go. That's what forgiveness is. You got to let it go. What happens, and this is scientifically proven, is when you're harboring hate, bitterness, envy, because you're not forgiving, you're not letting go. What happens is you're holding on to it, and you it hardens your physical cells in your body. And those cells that tighten up and hold like that, and you continue to hold it like that for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, guess what happens? Those hardened cells turn into cancer. They manifest into that. So this is why we have to let go. And the word for let go is to forgive. So it doesn't matter whether someone's there or not. You just need to do it vocally. Let's continue on and and see how the scriptures show us this. We're in Psalm 91:15-16. This is the psalm where you dwell in the secret place with the Lord. So relationship is key here. says, "He shall this is all the benefits of of living in his shadow, if you will, because you're you're in a relationship with the Lord." He says, "He," talking about you, "shall call upon me, him, God, and I will answer him." By the way, the King James version does not put, God, uh, he, him in capital letters. It's the only downfall about using the King James version, but I do like getting to the root meaning that is closer to the intent of the original written context. He you shall call upon me God and I God will answer you him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver. Look at that word deliver means pull off or draw out him and honor him. We'll get to that in a minute. With long life will I satisfy have enough him and show him my salvation. You who have a relationship with the Lord should not ever be sick. You were given long life. Look at you can become an elder. You can become like King David. He was old, so old that he had to have a they brought in like a concubine, a virgin to lay with him at night to keep him warm. Her body heat kept him warm. But he was blessed living out a very old life. That is a promise. Meaning he didn't get sick. He didn't get cancer. He didn't get heart disease. He didn't get high cholesterol or diabetes. He lived a long life because he had a relationship with the Lord and because he let go. So, and you know, he went through a lot of troubles. You can read a lot of his psalms. You can read a lot of his life in um uh the the Kings and the Chronicles in Samuel. you can find out who this man is. And he lived to be a long life. That is the kind of life we should be living. So if you're living that life, here's the most amazing part. You never have to get sick. And I've been teaching on this. So I want to show you how to do this. Now, let's delve into this a little bit better, deeper. So you call upon him. He will answer you. He will help you in trouble. He will be with you in trouble. Look at this. He's going to deliver. He's going to draw you out. Honored. Look at that. Be rich. David was rich. Abraham was rich. Lot was rich. I'm telling you, God will prepare your heart and mind it to be rich. If that's the calling he has in your life, if he wants you to have money so that you're ministering and giving it in the right key places, he will make you rich. But I promise you, it's not rich for you to uh gorge on, if you will. He He's not going to make you rich to the point where you're hottie. He won't do that to you. He prepares your heart for it. But he honors you. And he rich that word honor there means be rich. Let's read it without the the extra meanings here. He shall call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. Then he says, "With long life will I satisfy." That word satisfy. Satisfaction is having enough. So even if you're given all of that richness, all of God's money, he prepares your heart where you know you're satisfied and it doesn't matter in your mind, I'm going to give you a million dollars. I'm going to give you $10,000. He it doesn't matter. This is how he prepares your heart for his richness. satisfy him and show him my salvation saved deliverance. You see that is what God wants to do for us. That is the blessing we have. You go to that first verse in that Psalm 91 says and uh who you seek him and dwell in the secret place with the Lord. So this also continues on a relationship with the Lord. I've been teaching this for years now. So get into the presence of the Lord and find out who he is and receive those blessings. Meaning you should not be sick. You should not be suffering in the name of Jesus the son of God. Proverbs 18:14. Look at what we do to ourselves. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear. Oh my word. This is so applicable. Remember I asked in the beginning, do you want to be healed? And some people it's a conversation piece and a topic. You want to be healed and what's happening is you want to be healed. You you have an okay relationship with God. You go to church. You actually went to the elders and got prayed over but nothing happened. Why? Because your spirit, your breath, your spoken words of a man, of you sustain, keep him in his infirmity. Every time you talk about it, you you come back to it, you go back into the infirmity. Oh, I got to go back to the doctor. I'm feeling it again. Oh, it's coming back. Oh, I ran out of my pills. I Oh, you keep yourself in your infirmity. You went to the elders to get prayed expecting a miracle, but because of your words, you're sending a double message to the heavenly realm and it freezes them. They cannot heal your soul. You do not get your healing because you're sending mixed messages because you're sustaining your infirmity with your spirit, your breath, with your words. And look at this. It says but a wounded spirit who can bear. You see the soul becomes wounded and you become weak. You can't even carry you barely pray but you continue to curse yourself and then you cannot carry which when you're that weak and you cannot carry who do you give it to? You got to release it so he carries it and bears it for you. Look at this in first Peter 1:9. receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. This is what Jesus did on the cross. He saved our souls. So, how does this work? Look at this. Receiving, you have to take care of your end goal, your faith. You have to take care of it. You saw in the previous scripture, it is your spirit that is keeping you in the infirmity. So, you have to tend to your faith. You have to take the action into your faith. to your end goal to have your faith that moral conviction for the salvation which is the rescue and the safety of your souls. So you see what's happening here. You have to set up the end goal. What do you want? Do you really want to be healed? Because you're sending mixed messages because I'm and the church is doing this too. You see what's happening is you're not seeing the power of God moving in the church. And there's actually teachers, preachers that taught that, well, that was done 2,000 years ago. It doesn't happen anymore. I call hogwash on that. Seriously, we still have healings. And I am a walking testimony of healing. I'm telling you, I used to have heart palpitations. I don't have that anymore. I put down insulin. I don't take that anymore. I don't have heart disease or anything of that nature because I started blessing my body. I went to the Lord. I asked and I'm asking him to reveal because I'm also now interceding for others. So for me to become a very good intercessor under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I have to let go. And then I have to do it on behalf of those around me, which is the second half of this. If you're wondering why your whole family has drama, guess what? You're the lynch pin of your entire family. That drama should be gone by you. Tend to your end goal, to your faith. You need to be doing this. You have to get that self-control, a gift of the Holy Spirit. We're going to be talking about that. Let's continue to see what Jesus says about this in Matthew 10:1. And when he had called unto him his 12 disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. To heal he had to cast out demons, which means you are influenced by demonic activity, which is what is caus you're saying these words and you're being influenced by the demonic activity sending the mixed message. You're going to the elders. You're getting prayed, but nothing is happening. You prayed, nothing is happening because mixed messages. But look at what Jesus did. And by the way, we're all disciples of Jesus Christ. Says he gave them power. Look what that word power is. Privilege. You have the privilege to heal your soul, which manifests to the healing of your body. Because once you deal with the unclean spirits, the demonic activity, it goes away and you start speaking blessings, your body manifests the healing because it now softens. You're in peace and you are under his covering in his safety. You are saved and that means sickness melts away. Oh, so powerful. So awesome. You have the privilege against look at this demonic spirits. Unclean spirits is um it's a it's like a swamp. It's dirty. It is diseasefested and you're letting it in with your words and you're sending mixed messages which is why you're not getting healed. You should be living to be 115 or 120 years old easily, but your words are what's aging you and killing you quickly. And look at this. He says, you have the privilege to cast them out. Look at what that word cast them out is. Eject, bring forth, pluck, pull, take out. Guess what? You can pluck it and pull it out of all of the drama in your family. You can pluck and pull it out of your own body. I'm no way am I going to say these words anymore. Repent. Renounce. Oh, now you're seeing the key to healing your soul, which then manifests into the healing of your body. And look, cuz see when you cast them out, it heals. What? Look. Oh, look at this word healing. Heal. Wait upon adore God. Reveal. I adore you, God. See, when you put God first and you're saying, God, I adore you, you're saying, heal my soul. And he does says all manner of sickness. Look at this word sickness. That means malady, infirmity. It also means disease. And then at the end of the scripture, and all manner of disease, this word disease means incapacity, weakness. Once you start saying the words we're going to say here very shortly, we're going to do a prayer together. I want you to see and know and understand that you will no longer be incapacitated and you will no longer be weak. Hallelujah. And you will be healed completely. So now we got to look at the fruits of the spirit because this is where things get very interesting because what we have to do now is replace those words with the words of the fruit of the spirit or with the spirit himself manifesting his gifts in us which is his fruit. Galatians 5, we're going to read verses 16- 23. I'll be breaking this up here in groups. This I say then, walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Pause. The walk. The word walk there is to live. Meaning every time you're in your home, you've got a few minutes. Lord, I love you. I praise you. I thank you. And I'm giving you the glory. And you also set aside tend to your end goal. You set aside a time where you say, I'm interceding on my behalf, Father God. I am praying over me. And we're going to get to the script uh the words we're going to pray. And you do this every time you go to the grocery store. Lord, I can't find something. I need your help. You see, you you're building a relationship with him. He's with you everywhere. You go to him first. Matthew 6:33. Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you. You see, you have to establish the relationship, the the foundation, your tending to your goal in the in your life. And that's why he says you got to walk. You live in the spirit. And ye shall not fulfill complete the lust. What is that word lo l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l lust. It's a longing of the flesh. You long to be like a king and queen. You fantasize about it. You long to have all that money in the world. You long to have dominion and power over people. You long to bully them. you see you long. That's the flesh. So, we're clearly identifying the flesh. And he's saying if you walk, remember the the end tend to your end goal, have that relationship. You walk in the spirit, you live in the spirit, you can control that longing and you will not not have that. Let's go to verse 17. For the flesh lusted, look at it. to set the heart upon. What's more important to you? Your eternity, your healing. Do you really want to be healed? This is why I was asking the questions. You have to set your heart upon this. Do you really want to be healed? Then you've got to set your heart upon it. But your flesh is setting its heart upon against the spirit. It It's like you forget to set aside, tend to your end goal. You forget to spend time with the Lord. You got busy. you, everyone called you in your family. It was like you set this date. You go to do it and all hell breaks loose. All the disturbances come against you. That's when you have to say, "Satan, get below my feet in the name of Jesus because I'm tending to my end goal and I am moving forward and living by the spirit and I'm setting this time aside for him." You see, you have to take authority over that. You got to speak the words. So the flesh lust, it sets upon against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. These are contrary. They're opposite the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that you would. What was I saying earlier? You're sending mixed messages. You're letting your flesh I'm going to go to the elders and get prayed for. But if you keep bringing it up and keep talking about it, yeah, I have C. When you say these words, you're cursing your body further and further instead of saying something to the effect of, "I bless my body. I don't have cancer anymore." And you keep saying that and I promise you there will be a breakthrough in this because it is your words because you have to send the right message to the heavenly realm to have that broken through for the power and the anointing to move forward in your life, in those around you, in your church. because we got to bring back the the power of the Holy Spirit. Verse 18, but if you be led of the spirit, you're not under the law. The law, the ten commandments, no longer applies to us. Because see, that had to do with the flesh. Now we're dealing with the spirit. This is why it's very important that you go live in the spirit. Meaning, you need to set time aside. Just just because you don't kill anyone. If you said it in your mind, I'm man, I wish that guy was dead. Be so much easier. You already killed somebody. May not have done it physically, but you spoke the curse against him. That comes to haunt you because God holds you responsible for that. That's what you have to forgive. That's what you have to let go. It is those sayings that are cursing your body and manifesting into cancer, blood disease, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol. All of that stuff is coming in because of words you said. Thought or you may not even say you may have just thought God holds you responsible because we're not dealing with the law. We're dealing with the spirit. Now, this is to the healing of your soul and body. Do you want to be healed? then you're going to need some self-control. We're going to be showing that here in just a moment. Look at this. Now, the works of the flesh are manifest. The word manifest means shining or apparent. By the way, if I see you suffering with cancer, I now know that you are dealing with some sort of unforgiveness, some sort of curse that is against you, some sort of anger, envy, jealousy, anything like that is against you because you're dealing with that. You haven't let it go. So, it's apparent. It's shiny. I can see it. And and of course others can see it too, but some may not recognize what it is. But I recognize it only because I spend time with the Lord and I live in the Lord. You will do that too when you tend to your end goal and put God as your priority in your life and set apart time to live with him. Uh now the works of the flesh are manifest. Which are these? Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, that word variance means to quarrel, emulations, there's your jealousy, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envys, drunkenness, rebelling, that's causing riots, and such like of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is healing of the soul. You cannot be healed if you continue to walk in adultery, fornication, uncleanness. You see, you pleasure the self before you set a tithe and tend to your end goal with the spirit and live for God. Your priorities are mixed and that's why you're not getting healed. You're sending those mixed signals. Galatians five. Now we're in verse 22. But the fruit plucked. I love that. Of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, that's moral excellence, goodness, faith, meekness, humility, temperance, self-control. Against such there is no law. This is now the spirit. This is the things you should manifest in your spirit. one, you should be manifesting good health. You should be healthy all the way through. So, what you do is you're going to pluck out the fruit. You're going to pluck the fruit from the Holy Spirit. I'm going to get some love and I'm going to take a bite. I'm going to partake of the Holy Spirit's love, joy, peace. These are the words you say instead of, "Oh, have you heard about my cancer problem lately?" You see what I'm saying? You don't have cancer. You say, "Have you noticed how much the Lord has given me to love? He is building my love. He is building my joy. I'm not grieving anymore. I'm letting it go." And when you share the testimonies with others, you're speaking the words. You're telling the spirit realm, you're telling the spirit, you're telling God, you're telling angels, you're telling demons. You are manifesting the fruit of the spirit which is the healing to your soul and your body cuz there it's not the law. It's not part of the law. It's part of the spirit and it begins with the relationship with the Lord and living for him. Look it now Psalm 103 2 through3. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities? whose who health all who health all thy diseases. We'll read this here with the definitions in just a moment. But do you see the first word here? Bless that is kneel and adore. It starts with humbling yourself before the Lord and repent. Renounce you're putting the Lord first. You're making you're tending to your end goal. Your end goal is to be healed. You want to be healed. Your end goal is to have this body walk in good health. Well, it has to mean you have to take care of your soul and then it will manifest into the flesh. It starts with humbling. Kneel, adore. That's blessing God. Bless the Lord. Kneel before the Lord. Oh my soul. Your soul is your vitality, your consciousness. You see, even in your weakest moment, oh Lord, I bless you. You can even whisper. He hears you. He hears every word you say. And forget not all his benefits. Benefits are treatments. Do you see this? The word treatments is benefits. That's to the healing of your body. You get treatment from cancer. You can call it uh what do they call that? Radiation treatment. How about God treatment? I went and got some God treatment today. And boy, I adore him even more because he healed me. Do you see the manifestation of this? This is awesome. Who forgiveth, he pardons all thine iniquities. You see, your iniquities must be pardoned. Must be forgiven in order for the manifestation of your soul to be healed and your body to be walking in good health. Look at this. All thine iniquities in is perversity. You're sending mixed messages to God. You're living in the world and you're living in God. You're trying to do both. No, you have to set him first as a priority. Who? Health. I love that because the the King James version uses the word health here and it is to mend or by stitching. It's a cure. It's a physician like a doctor who the doctor god doctor all thine diseases which are malady grievous it's sorrow look at that he is sending the physician him to deal with your grief your sorrow any sicknesses any diseases that is the treatment that did you see that that's the benefits forget not all that's his benefit that's his treatment for you you get to have that when you humble yourself and you get into that forgiveness. Now, when you don't, watch this. Psalm 32:es 3-5. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Stop. Oh, watch this. This is how this is what you're doing right now. You're not healed right now. You're going to be, but you're not. I want you to see this. You're going to be says, "When I kept silence, look at this. To be deaf, dumb." What is it that we die? Most of lack of knowledge. Hosea, you can go read this. I think it's 46 or 64. But you die from lack of knowledge because you're dumb. You're deaf. You're you're not hearing the word of God because you're not opening up the Bible to see the word. You're not putting aside. You're not living in him. You're not making him a priority. You're sending mixed messages. And I'm talking to the believer, the unbeliever. We just got to start with forgiveness and then we'll move on from there. But you got to live and put God first in your life. That's very important. But look what happens when you keep silent because you're you're being deaf. You're being dumb. Says, "My bones wax old. They get frail and they decay. They're aging, but they're aging faster." And this is why people die in their 30s, 40s, 50s, especially believers in Christ, because they're not letting go. And he says, "Through my roaring, your words grumbling." Oh man, I got to go back to that darn doctor. these bones. They just I hate these bones. I wish I had other B. You see what happens when you're speaking that against your body. You just cursed yourself and you've been doing it all this time. Well, I'm telling you, you can stop because forget not all his benefits, his treatments. You live with him first. You humble yourself. We're going to say some a prayer here all the day long because you do this all the time. all the day long. Verse four, for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Look at the hand here. Hand is your power and direction. So God's power and direction was burdensome upon him because he couldn't do what God was asking him to do because he kept cursing himself, kept saying the words. And in fact, it was so it was manifesting so much that the moisture in his body dried up. That's um uh insulin, diabetes. That's diabetes. What happens to your skin? It gets real dry when you're not absorbing the insulin from your body from whatever the foods your cells are are not getting it through. By the way, take some Celtic salt. Seriously, just take a pinch of it three times a day and drink a lot of water with it. Your insulin and your um the magnesium in there goes into the cells. It opens it up and allows your cells to draw all that in and it just stabilizes. God gives us all the herbs of the earth, salt of the earth, everything he gives us to heal our bodies. Can you believe that? So, we can be healed and living already through the herbs. So here he's saying though moisture is turned into drought. It's because God is he's sending mixed messages and God is being heavy on him. He's telling him I can lift this off of you but you got to let it go. Oh that is absolutely powerful. Verse uh five now I acknowledge my sin. So here now he said I was dried I dried up had diabetes whatever it is because of what he was saying. He wasn't letting go. Now he's saying, "You were heavy on me, Lord. Listen. I'm going to acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord. Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sins. Say li." Oh, this man, he's saying, "In my testimony, I gave it to God. I confess it." Look at how he says it. He knew by seeing. He saw the iniquity. He saw what his flesh was doing. He says, "Uhoh, I acknowledge. I see what's happening." So that's my sin. It's an offense. It's a habit I've had. And look what he says unto thee. I sinned against you, heavenly father. And I was habitually doing it. And mine iniquity, the perversity of what I had in me is what was called. I was sending mixed messages. I partially live for God or I wasn't living for God at all, but I was living in perversity, iniquity, and that was causing me to get sick. And he says, "But now I have not hid it." And look, I will confess. Look what that word confess means. This is Old Testament. Hold out revere or worship with extended hands. Oh heavenly father, I worship you. I confess my sins. Open hands. This is very powerful. Well, you guys got to get this. My transgressions, I'm rebelling against you, Father God. And I'm opening my hand saying, "I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm not hiding it from you. I'm letting go of the mixed messages. I'm letting go of the curses that I've been speaking uh my transgressions unto the Lord. I'm letting go, giving it to you, the Lord. and you forgave. You lifted you ease the iniquity of my sin. He's still aging, but he's no longer dry. He's in good health because see, the Bible says everyone's appointed to die once. That's Hebrews 9:27. Well, then we're going to die, but we don't have to die that early. We get to live a ripe old age because of his benefits, because we repent. Look at Romans 10:13, Acts 2:21, and Joel 2:32. This is what I was saying at the beginning of the message. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That word whosoever, anyone declining, that's anyone. You killed someone, you can call on the name of the Lord. You lied, you're cursing yourself, you can call upon the name of the Lord. Whatever sin, it doesn't matter. You live in sin. Everybody lives in sin. Everyone has fallen short of the glory of God. Well, here it says, "Anyone declining shall call upon." You're entitled to invoke. What? Are you entitled to invoke the name of the Lord? You're a sinner and you get to say, "I call on the name of Jesus, the son of God, and I will be saved. I'm safe and delivered." This is so powerful. It is said three times in the scripture. Acts 2:21, "And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Those words mean the exact same words in verse 13 of Romans 10. And look at Joel 2:32. This is the Old Testament. 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YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON To empower believers with the understanding that they are God’s chosen instruments of spiritual warfare, prepared vessels equipped by the Word and Spirit to break strongholds, overcome battles, and walk in righteousness and victory through Christ. < Back YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON Minister Lisa Kane November 25, 2023 Objective: To empower believers with the understanding that they are God’s chosen instruments of spiritual warfare, prepared vessels equipped by the Word and Spirit to break strongholds, overcome battles, and walk in righteousness and victory through Christ. Synopsis: In this powerful message, Minister Lisa Kane teaches from Jeremiah 51:20 that God calls His people His “battle axe and weapons of war.” Believers are not passive bystanders but chosen vessels, prepared and empowered to confront spiritual opposition. Just as Israel was called to be God’s weapon, Christians today—grafted into the family of God through Christ—are equipped to demolish strongholds, resist the enemy, and reclaim what has been stolen. Drawing parallels to a lioness training her cubs, Lisa explains how God carefully prepares His children for battle, teaching them step by step to overcome sickness, fear, financial struggles, and spiritual bondage. Through prayer, the Word, and obedience, Christians become sharpened weapons in God’s hands. Referencing Romans 9 and 2 Corinthians 10, she emphasizes that God shapes His vessels for honor, preparing them in advance for spiritual campaigns. Victory is not through fleshly might but by the Spirit, through the spoken Word, prayer, and steadfast obedience. Believers are called to cast down imaginations, break demonic strongholds, and stand as defenders of truth, bringing deliverance and healing to others. The message closes with an urgent call for believers to take their rightful place as God’s weapons of warfare—dwelling in the secret place, hearing His voice, praying persistently, and advancing His Kingdom with boldness and authority in the name of Jesus. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Saturday, November 25th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called You Are God's Choice of Weapon. I'm excited about this message, folks. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for the anointing of your word. We thank you for the presence of your spirit upon our ears and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living word of God. We thank you for your word and we ask that we apply it to our lives. Live it the way you're asking us to live it, Father God. That we are walking in godliness and righteousness with you in a deep, passionate relationship. Thank you, Father God, for you are awesome. You are God. You are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you. You belong to me. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called, "You are God's choice of weapon." We're opening up with Jeremiah 51:20. Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war. For with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms. You guys, this is an awesome powerful scripture in the living word of God. Now, let's put some context behind it here so that you can understand what God is doing here. So, we the nation of Israel is at a point in in its life where it's going to go into captivity and it has done so here. Uh we are at the end of Jeremiah. This is Jeremiah 51. So, at the end of Jeremiah here, they are in captivity and they will be in captivity for 70 years. Now, um you can go in and read the whole thing about Israel and what they've done to get into captivity. You've got good kings, evil kings, goes up and down and and here we are at this point where they're now in captivity and basically they're being destroyed. Um they're being killed. But God is prophesying through Jeremiah here that you're going to be a weapon of war. Now, I want you to understand something here. The scripture just doesn't apply to Israel back then. Keep in mind that when we become a believer in Christ, we are brought into the nation of Israel. We are grafted in. We are adopted in because Jesus is Israel. He's um an heir through the line of the king of David. So because that he's Israeli, he's a Hebrew, we are adopted into that and that is what we are. So this applies to us and this is very spiritual scripture because I want you to see something. It says, "Thou art my battle axe." Now that word axe there means war club and weapons. Look at this. Something prepared, a vessel that is prepared. We're going to look into scripture here talking about different vessels and what the Lord does with these vessels. But a prepared vessel is the choice of God to use as a weapon against other nations, against strongholds, against captivities. You know, I have been teaching in deliverance here this entire time about prayer and using your words to break through things. You're going to see that happen here with this. And you're going to see the Lord move in this. He says, "For with thee." So in other words, God in Israel, God in me, will I break in pieces or dash or scatter the nations and with thee, God in me, will I destroy, decay, put into ruin, batter, cast off, perish kingdoms, which is dominion, or the country. So these kingdoms and dominions that we have all around of us, we're going to battle those with God because God chooses us as his weapon. This is absolutely incredible. So I want you to understand the concept of what I'm going to be teaching here as I get into the next set of scriptures. But I want to give you uh uh something to look at uh that will help you understand this because we see it in nature surprisingly. So this this is already here. This is a principle that God has placed out here in the world for you and I to walk in and know and live by. Amen. So here, take a look at it. Think of a lioness and her cubs. What does a lionist do with her cubs? She teaches them how to find their food, how to take care of themselves, and they have to fight some big giant animals to get whatever it is that they're going to get. And you know, it's interesting how she does it. She starts them off young. Now, she'll bring them their food. you know, as they get a little older, she brings it or she'll start to maim an animal, say a deer, partially ma it, and then teach her cubs how to fully destroy it and kill it. And then they're satisfied with food. And then as they get older, then she will stand off a little further away, watch her cubs go into action, and take the ash. This is God doing this with us, his believer, the people he has prepared in advance. You and I are walking in righteousness. And if you've been watching my videos, we're walking in righteousness and godliness because we choose to put God first because we dwell in the secret place with the Lord. So, he's taking us from here because we purposed in our mind to have that relationship with God. But he's taking us from here and he's going to bring us up here now because he's trying to show us how to go to war and how to be victorious in every battle. We've already won the war, but now we're dealing with battles that we face every day. There are battles of cancer or some sort of sickness and disease. There are battles of financial uh issues where you have no money. There's battles where you're in bondage with a spirit of fear or anxiety or anything of that nature. Well, God has purposed in his heart to teach you how to deal with that. So, he's going to choose you how to deal with it. He's going to walk you through that. And you're going to be able to walk through it. And it's going to be absolutely incredible because you are going to have a release, a victorious release in the name of Jesus. and you're going to take back what the devil's taking. You know, if you go to the end of Revelation, I can look up the scripture. I didn't bring it here, but I'm just recalling off the top of my mind. But when we're there in the kingdom and the judgment's taking place, a lower ranking angel brings over chains to put on the devil to bind them up for a thousand years. Well, that John actually records in Revelation the reaction of the people, you and me. Our reaction is that little puny thing gave me all this hardship. Let me also bring to mind uh something that's going to help you understand this. So, as a lioness is teaching her cubs how to fight, what is it? She's right there with them. She's nudging them, pushing them along, showing them how to take down the animal, how to be victorious in the kill. Well, God is right here with us. He's nudging us. He's showing us how to pray. He's telling you, "Nothing's going to hurt you. I got you. You're protected. I just want you to go and take down the enemy." You see, you're his chosen weapon. Well, in order to become that chosen weapon, you need to be walking in a right standing with God because one, you need to be able to hear him. You need to be able to know it's his voice. You need to be able to know the word of God in order to do this because you need to know what scriptures to apply. So, what does that mean? You dwell in the secret place. You open the word of the God, the word of the living God, and you begin to know it, know him. And every time you're praying, you're sharing the scriptures there and taking down strongholds. So let's go to Romans. I want you to see this now in action. Romans 9 19-26. You see Paul realized what was going on, how God was doing this. And and you know, just to add one more element to this. So here's God up here. Satan has no chance against God. If you go again, read the end of that revelation, you will find when Jesus comes down on his white horse and we're following him, there's actually no battle. It's just all of a sudden, like in the next scripture, you see them all bound up. The beast and the prophet are bound up. They don't have a chance at all. So that, you know, it isn't a God versus Satan kind of scenario here. And I taught on this a few years ago. You can go look it up on the website, houseof faithministries.org, but you know, it's now Satan versus us. It's just the two of us battling. So, the question I have for you is, do you want to let Satan rule your life or do you want to live in victory in the flesh while we're here waiting for our eternity? I hope you make the right choice. Okay? I hope you make the right choice. Let's go to Romans nine. We're going to start in verses 19. We're going to read verses 19 through 26. Let's start in verse 19. Thou wilt say thee then unto me, why do he yet find fault? For who hath resisted or stand against his will? Nay, but oh man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Why hast thou made me thus? to be a weapon to bring down strongholds and to be serving God in righteousness and godliness, which we can do. We don't have to live by the flesh. You're going to see that here more. But I want you to see some key words here. Resisted. You're you're standing against the will of God. When you're not doing the things he asks you to do, when you're not spending time with him in the secret place, you are another word for it is rebel. You're rejecting God. You're finding fault with his principles with what he does because it's why why does he do this? Why do uh bad things happen? Hey, you know, you need to get into the word of God. One, you will find your answer. Two, you will also know that God is in control. And because he's in control, you have to line yourself up with him so that he can nudge you, push you gently in the right direction of what to pray for, what to bring down, and be the effective weapon he called you to be. Amen. Verse 21. hath not the potter uh power privilege over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor value and another unto dishonor, disgrace, infamy. You know what Paul is saying here is God has made vessels for good and he has made vessels for evil. And I believe that every vessel has the opportunity to choose to be good and have the opportunity to repent and call on the name of Jesus. Now, if he didn't make it fully for um evil and they continued to reject, God hardened Pharaoh's heart and kept hardening his heart all the way through. He says, "I gave up Egypt for you, Israel." This is what he says. Things, see, God has a purpose and a plan that is to the benefit of Israel, that is to the benefit of his righteous people. You see, he will give up things for you because he loves you. So much so that he gave up his only begotten son for you. Jesus redeemed us and then Jesus rose from the grave and now he is more victorious than ever. And so we have him to follow as an example which what did he do when he walked out? He healed the sick. He delivered people. He cast out demons. He brought down strongholds. He resisted the devil in the wilderness for 40 days. I'm telling you, the things that Jesus did, and I just taught it in last week's message, we will do and do greater. We're taking down strongholds. We're delivering people from bondage and captivity. And we are setting free those captives. And we are healing the sick, which means we need to be in right standing with God, hearing the word so we know what to do, when to say, how to say it. Amen. Amen. Verse 22. What if God willing to show his wrath and to make his power known declare himself powerful or capable endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? So let's read this uh without the parentheses and the extra words. What if God willing to show his wrath to make his power known endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? See what Paul is saying is he made these things for destruction. so his power can be known. He did it. He's in control of all this. That's the answer to the big giant. Why? He decided he goes, "I want to make my power known. I want to declare myself powerful and capable that I'm able to protect you, keep you safe, but I want to use you as it." You see, God has his way. We should not ever limit God in how he wants to do something or how he wants to accomplish a goal. It's amazing. You know, you I I remember using it as a personal testimony. I was dealing with diabetes back in the day, and I remember saying, "Why, God, are you not making my meter match what the doctor's numbers were?" Because that's what I was limiting my prayer to with God. And he he said, "Who's your doctor? Me or that doctor?" And I it was a big eye opener. And I'm healed and delivered of all that today because I'm not under what these doctors are telling me because I don't believe half of what they say. And I really truly believe that, you know, if if I'm a Rolls-Royce that God has created, then I should go back to my creator and not go to Jify Lube for maintenance. Okay? I'm sorry, but these doctors, you know, I know they mean well, but they are under an influencer of the spirit of evil and they don't even realize that they're under witchcraft. What? What? Every time you take a drug, it only deals with the symptom. It doesn't deal with the root. So, you just keep it's perpetual. You just spending your money. all your money's coming out of your pockets into all of these drugs just for relief of a symptom when all you got to do is go to God and say, "You know what, Lord? I'm giving this to you and I cast it to you. I'm going to be free." I'm telling you, he will give you the the right tools, the right scriptures to say that's going to deliver you from those sicknesses and diseases that you face. So, look at verse 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had of prepared. Notice that. I want you to see this. He had a for prepared. And that word prepared there, by the way, is to fit up in advance. When you go dwell in the secret place with the Lord and you start spending time in the scripture, you're reading it, you're speaking it, you start praying it, and the Holy Spirit starts to teach you how to pray. He is preparing you in advance. You are the vessel being prepared for his tool, his weapon. Amen. This is him preparing. You need to be prepared. Every soldier that goes into war goes into war prepared physically, spiritually. A lot of them tend to pray to whatever god that they're going to pray, but they tend to prepare for that. They get all their weapons, all of the um bullets they need, the swords they need, whatever it is that they need out there, they prepare. They even put in their their uh backpacks and what have you. All the the little foods and snacks and stuff that they need to sustain themselves in a war, the food and they've got to have their weapons. And this is why militaries provide all this for their people. This is why they need their convoys coming in behind the scenes preparing. But this is what God does to the body of Christ. He's preparing us, getting us ready, getting all of our weapons ready, which is the spoken word of God. is one of the weapons and to know it is to get in it and re receive it, believe it. Say it in your prayers. Amen. Amen. Verse 24, even as whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. You see, he's also saying, listen, I'm the one who's teaching to the Gentiles. You can read that in other scriptures because that's the calling that God placed on his heart. So he's saying it's not the Jews, just the Israelites as Jeremiah was referring to, but he's saying it's for the Gentiles, too. You have the right to pray this way and live this way. You have the the you're the vessel that you could be evil or you could be good, but you have the choice to repent. Everybody has a choice to repent. It says anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And that word any man, anyone means anyone. If you are a vessel of evil, that God has made you as a vessel of evil, you can repent too. This is powerful. Look at verse 25. As he saith also in O, which is Hosea, I will call them my beloved people, which were not my people, and her beloved, which was not my beloved. Again, that's talking about you and I today. We were not the chosen ones. Israel was. We're the ones being grafted in because we choose God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which is the God over Israel. So, we choose the difference between Israel and us is that we become the body of Christ because we believe that Jesus, the Messiah, is the first. He He's the only Messiah, but he's the one. He's already came one time. He's coming back. Israel rejects that. That's a difference between the two of us. But we believe that Jesus is the son of the living God. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God." This is you and I. This is what we're called to do. Let's go look at what Paul is referencing here. Hosea 2:23. And I will seow her unto me in the earth. This is God talking. And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy. And I will say to them which were not my people, thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God. If you take a look at my opening prayer, you are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you. You belong to me. I was saying that in prayer because I was directed by the Holy Spirit to do that before I even knew this verse existed. Amen. But look at what he says here. will sew as plant, bear, conceive seed. We're going to manifest the fruits and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We're going to know exactly what to say, when to say, how to say it, and where to say it in the name of Jesus. He's also referring uh Paul is to Hosea 1:10 where he says, "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not my people." There it shall be said unto them, "Ye are the sons of the living God." And look what that word sons mean. As a builder of the family name, I want you guys to catch this. This is incredible. See, there's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You got David, Solomon. You got Noah, Moses. You have all of the prophets. You have all of the apostles, disciples. You have Paul. These are men and women of God in the living word of God that were written in history because the the Bible is historic. These are real people who lived. And you and I are part of that lineage. And we get to walk in the powers that they walked in in the name of Jesus. Amen. This is the anointing and the call that we have. This is how we go and pray because he's teaching us how to bring down those strongholds. God is so good. God is so good. And yes, I do speak in tongues. So anyways, tonesues are for men and of angels. When you're speaking in tonesues, you are also speaking to the angels around you. Okay, that's for another teaching of another time. Let's go back to Romans 9. Let's look at verse 27. Isaias, which is Isaiah, also crith concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved, for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. Because a short work with the will the Lord make upon the earth. That word righteousness is equity, justification. But he's going to finish the work and cut it in short. Cut it short in righteousness. So in order for us to be the effective tool that God has called us to be in the secret place is in righteousness, which means you need a purpose in your heart what you're going to do, what how you're going to do it. You know, um, think of it as the medical industry. You got a purpose in your heart. I'm not going to take those pills because I do not want witchcraft in my life. Or I purpose in my heart that I'm going to pray for my loved ones because I want them saved. I'm going to purpose in my heart I'm going to pray for Israel. And you do it. By the way, you do these things. You take these actions. And what does this mean? It means that you're separating time aside of your life for God to be that weapon because you need to be that weapon. We're taking back. You see, we're part of the body of Christ, and we get to take back what was stolen from us. I want you to hear this, and I want you to understand something. The devil has stolen too much already. He has stolen loved ones who have died prematurely from some wicked disease that they got because we didn't know how to go in the back room in our secret place and pray and ask God to forgive them and ask God to heal them. That we weren't doing that. That's on us. Do you really want that to continue on? God has directed us to pray for Israel and Jerusalem for peace. Are we doing that? Some are, some aren't. Some are walking in that biblical righteousness, but some are not. We need more people in the secret place with the Lord doing battle against the strongholds. How do you bring down a stronghold? You make a new stronghold that's stronger than the other one. And a stronghold is defense perimeter around like a castle or a moat, a moat around the castle, walls that are thick. You place the name of Jesus around something. You place it over that person. You name the name of Jesus over cancer, over your finances. You are placing a hedge of protection around those items. That is how God works. that keeps the enemy at bay. You have the right to bind and loose things. You were given the keys of the kingdom of heaven. You have already been given that. I've already taught on that. I'm not going to go back into details for that, but I want you to understand you've been given it. So, the choice is, are you going to continue walking in your flesh distracted and busy with the stuff of the world, or you going to walk in the world? Let's go read first Corinth or excuse me 2 Corinthians 10 3-6. For though we walk to live in the flesh, we do not war. Look at this word war. To serve in the military campaign after the flesh. We are not to be in the military campaign of our flesh and blood. No. Why? Because this is going to fail. This is going to die. Every man is appointed to die once. Hebrews 9:27, well then if my flesh is going to die and go away, then I better be investing in my spirit. So Paul is telling us clearly. Then he goes to verse four here. For the weapons of our warfare, look at the warfare apostolic career. Do you think that's what I've been talking about with casting out demons and laying hands on the sick and and having people healed? Calling out the name of the Jesus name of Jesus, the son of God in the secret place. Because see, when you're doing it in secret, God will manifest it out in the open in the name of Jesus. This is how he works. So, he's doing it behind the scenes. You need to be behind the scenes, praying it, saying it, speaking out so that the strong angels move and do what they're supposed to do because you're speaking to them because you're a tool from God. And the Holy Spirit's going to give you the right words to say on the right thing he has you praying for. For the weapons of our warfare are not not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down or the demolition of strongholds. You see, the demons have set up their own strongholds and they've put their claws in deep into people. They put curses there. They put these walls up. You've got to be able to break those walls. And you've got several ways to do it. You can march around the wall as the Israelites did uh to bring down the walls of Jericho. You can march around the walls and then do a shout. And you can do it right here in the secret place. One day in a circle, do it for six days. And on the seventh day, march around it seven day. And you can put something in the middle of your circle that represents what it is that you're trying to bring down. And you get to say to that thing, be down and do that powerful shout on day seven after you go around it seven times. You have the right to do that. You see, we were shown already warfare and how the Israelites did it. Now we get to do it in principle through our spoken word in the secret place under the anointing of the Holy Spirit because this our to serve our military campaign. We serve our military campaign in spirit. Remember Jesus said it's not or God said it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord. And that is what we get to walk in. Oh hallelujah. So we are to pull down these strongholds in the name of Jesus and casting down imaginations. This is how we do it for ourselves and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. You see, when you purpose in your heart the secret place of the Lord and you choose to learn his word and you choose to go into battle because you want a loved one saved and and you just You just start and you don't even know what to say. You just simply start it. Lord, I want so- and so saved. I'm calling him back in the name of Jesus. And you just start speaking it over and over and over again. And you are persistent. You keep doing it every single day. I promise you that loved one will get saved. Imagine if the whole body of Christ did that. Oh my goodness. The devil would have a very difficult time succeeding in anything. Anything. He will not prevail because we're purposing in our hearts the name of Jesus through the spoken word of God in this secret place over whatever situation we're facing and dealing with. So, and it takes you know in our minds we have to take self-control here. This is a gift of the Holy Spirit casting down imaginations. You know, there are things that we see. We see someone taking action and we'll think in our mind or roll the eyes or whatever it is. Oh man, he missed that. And then we'll run it through our minds what's going to happen. Well, Paul is saying, you need to cast that down because with God, it can change. You see, we have grace. We're in the period of grace right now. It doesn't matter what bad thing you did. If you killed someone, you can be forgiven. The only time you cannot be forgiven is if you kept blaspheming the Holy Spirit, resisting him, resisting, and then you died. That's it. You got to make your choice here in the living. And look at this. You have to know the science of God. This is, you see, and it takes faith and a belief to know the living word of God. I mean, how much corruption of evolution and our scientific community has put in our hearts to knock down our belief and faith in the living word of God. And let me tell you, I'm praying for the scientific community to be saved. You want to know how I'm doing it? I simply go to the Lord and I say, "Lord, I lift up the scientific community to your throne room and I forgive them of their sins and I forgive them of the iniquities found with them within them. I ask you, heavenly father, to forgive them as well in the name of Jesus, the son of God, because he says in Matthew 6:14, if you forgive them of their trespasses, I will forgive them of their trespasses." And because we're now in unity, in agreement, hey demons, you let go of the scientific community in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. I bind you with feathers of iron to the iron below my feet, preventing you from interfering in the scientific community anymore. Father God, I bless the scientific community with restoration that what was taken from them and the deceits that they've been spewing for the last several hundred years. Well, Lord, we're going to take back and reverse those results and pray for the fruit and the gift of the Holy Spirit of truth and fact to manifest out of the scientific community. I thank you, heavenly father, for letting the spirit of God move forward, letting your strong angels go forward, that the truth and the facts are spoken through the scientific community in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. Amen and amen. That is an example prayer right there that you can pray for the education system, you can pray over the presidency, all of his cabinet, you can pray for Israel, you can pray for Hamas that way. I was praying for Hamas and I didn't want to. And I prayed in obedience. And yet 200 men, over 200 Hamas men saw or had the same dream of a man that they had to go find a missionary for interpretation of. And come to find out they were seeing Jesus. All of them saw Jesus and they all repented and became believers in Christ. This is how this works. You're obedient. You don't want to pray for you're tired. You You've been busy. You don't want to get it. You have to cast down the imaginations. You have to purpose in your heart to get into that presence. And you got to say it because that's your battle that you have to get to God because the devil is trying to resist you from doing that. But once you get past that and you get into it and you purpose it, you will see victory. I promise you this. God promises you this because victory is what God is asking us to do. He's the lioness over us, the lion. And he's teaching us how to take back what is ours. And we need to be bullies about it in the name of Jesus. We need to kick down those strongholds. Those walls are going to be broken in the name of Jesus because we choose to walk in the spirit of God and not in the flesh. And this is how we do the battles. Amen. Verse six. And having in a readiness to revenge. Look at that word readiness. Adjust prepared. You see, how are you going to be prepared to do this? You've got to purpose in your heart and start getting into the word of God. It starts now. If you're not doing it, get in there now. Get in there now. You need to be spending time with God so he will make you into a an effective warp piece, an effective weapon to go and defeat the enemy in the name of Jesus because that's his choice for you. It's what he wants to do. Look at this. to revenge. We get to vindicate, retaliate, punish all disobedience. And what's that word disobedience? Inattention. You know what? Most people are dying from lack of knowledge, which is being dumb and uh uh silent. Well, now what's happening is because people aren't sharing the word of God and it is not getting out there. There's like this barriers over the people's eyes and ears. We need to go and pray against that as to break down that wall so they can open up their because Jesus says if they saw and heard the living word of God they would believe. Do you see these are the scriptures you use when you're praying and you get to so they're doing disobedience and probably uh they're doing it in a way that you know they're not even aware they're doing it but they're still going to suffer because they're not paying attention. We have to pray for them to pay attention to get into the word of God. Uh let's read that again. and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. Your obedience is fulfilled. Did you hear that? You have to obey. I didn't want to obey paying for terrorists because, you know, I saw or, you know, I heard and watch a little bit of the snippets of videos. I didn't want to watch the whole thing of the atrocities that they did. And I kind of felt like Jonah. They didn't deserve it, Lord. But then he reminded me how much he loves them because he loves me as much as he loves them. Okay, Lord. Then and and it started off with like, "Okay, Lord, I don't want to do it, but I'm going to pray for it anyways." And then it got better because it was like, "Okay, Lord, I'm do." And as my heart change, come to find out, I love them, too. And I want to see those strongholds come down. And I'm going to tell you right now, I can't be the only one hearing the Holy Spirit tell us right now to go into warfare with our prayers. I'm sure absolutely positive that each of us are being called right now to go into warfare in the secret place and to take back what belongs to us. We need to take back our churches. We need to take back our pastor's teachings. We need to take back the Bible studies that we attend. Is it see if if it becomes wrote, it's just a repetitive action. We just go to church every week or we go to Bible study every week. Is it just a repeat thing or do we learn and get ministered to and walk away going, "Wow, I learned something new today or the Holy Spirit really ministered into my heart." That's where we need to be at that point where we're going, not because it's wrote, but we're going because I'm going to get something new today. And I purpose in my heart to get something new. I p Previous Next Home

INTERCESSION SPIRITUAL WARFARE Taught by Pastor Marcos early 2006 (unknown recording date) AUDIO ONLY - uploaded to HoFM website on 7.15.24. Note, the ending is cut-off with no closing prayer, but the substance of the message is there, and this is a good teaching on spiritual warfare. Objective: Equip believers to practice intercession as true spiritual warfare: knowing the real Jesus, standing in their God-given authority, and speaking God’s Word to confront principalities and powers, break curses, and apply the blood of Jesus over their lives, families, and communities. < Back INTERCESSION SPIRITUAL WARFARE Pastor Marcos Marrero January 1, 2006 Objective: Taught by Pastor Marcos early 2006 (unknown recording date) AUDIO ONLY - uploaded to HoFM website on 7.15.24. Note, the ending is cut-off with no closing prayer, but the substance of the message is there, and this is a good teaching on spiritual warfare. Objective: Equip believers to practice intercession as true spiritual warfare: knowing the real Jesus, standing in their God-given authority, and speaking God’s Word to confront principalities and powers, break curses, and apply the blood of Jesus over their lives, families, and communities. Synopsis: After welcoming the Holy Spirit, the message frames intercession as active spiritual warfare. Using Psalm 18, David’s experience illustrates demonic assault—fear, death, and floods of ungodliness—met by crying out to God, who “shakes the earth” and delivers. Words are shown to carry jurisdiction: attacks often ride on hateful or cursing words, which must be condemned (Isaiah 54:17). A key contrast appears between David and Saul: not sinlessness, but allegiance. Spiritual warfare begins with knowing the real Jesus and refusing syncretism (mediums, rituals, horoscopes, cultural paganism). From Ephesians 3:10, the church—God’s living temple—is tasked to make known God’s wisdom to principalities (jurisdictions) and powers (delegated enforcers). Jesus grants superior authority (Luke 10:19) to trample serpents and scorpions and to nullify the enemy’s manifested “dunamis.” The message unveils the manifold (sevenfold) Spirit on Jesus (Isaiah 11:2) and explains how wisdom, understanding, and knowledge build and establish God’s plan (Proverbs 24:3–4). Reverent fear of the Lord gives “quick understanding,” guarding against self-use of spiritual gifts. Believers are called to strike the earth with the rod of their mouth (Isaiah 11:4): declare Scripture, apply the blood of Jesus to silence bloodguilt in the land, and break family and regional curses. Practical targets include religion-bound strongholds (“bulls,” Psalm 22) and secular governmental/ cultural pressures (“lions”). Intercession starts at home—speaking over family, health, finances, schools, workplaces—while trusting God to dispatch angelic help as His Word is declared. The call to action: stand in Christ’s righteousness, speak God’s Word boldly, and contend for God’s kingdom to manifest on earth—for protection, deliverance, and revival. Inspired Teaching: We welcome you, Holy Spirit, right now. We thank you that during the time of praise and worship, you you brought us into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and grace in the time of need. And even now, as we have prayed for the people that were anointed and commissioned, you were there, dear Lord Jesus, to touch and to fill and and to fulfill your promises in the lives of those that we were prayed for. And now we ask you that you will anoint your word that as h I offer my lips, Father God, as a sacrifice of praise to you that the Holy Spirit may use, Father God, let your anointing, Father God, touch the hearts of each of every one of us here tonight. For we need you, Lord Jesus. These are desperately wicked times. We need you now more than ever before. We need your presence. We need your power. You need We need your anointing. So Lord Jesus have your will with us tonight. Amen. Amen. Praise God. You may be seated. Thank you Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise you father. I want to talk about the uh intercession. Uh I first of all I want to apologize for not making it last week. As you know, we moved to Lake Elsenor and my wife and I first time in the two and a half months we've been there. We ordered pizza on Thursday night and uh oh my god, I puke all night long Thursday night. I mean, and then she started on on uh on Friday morning. We This is incredible. We got in bed at 10 or 11 in the morning and slept like six hours straight. Then we got in bed Friday night at 6 o'clock and we slept until the next day and you know getting up and and getting sick and and all that stuff. But there's no way we could have drove out here. Believe me, uh we were dying. We thought we were poison. We thought they they put poison or something in there. So, but we're here tonight. Um let me show you. If you go to Psalm 18, let me show you what intercession is all about. Intercession is about spiritual warfare. Okay? And and I want you to see um what from from David's uh point of view uh what uh spiritual warfare is all about. The Psalm 8 thing it is all is also in 2 Samuels I believe and is about uh doing spiritual warfare. If you look at verse four Psalm 18 verse4 this is what David says. Now remember David is a mighty man of God. David is anointed of the Holy Spirit and he says the pains of death surrounded me and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The sorrows of shield that's hell surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me. That is talking about spiritual attack. David came under a demonic spiritual attack. He says the the spirit of death just came and in around me the floods of ungodliness. That's when all every wicked thing that you can ever think of begin to flow through you through your mind. and all of a sudden you you feel like killing somebody or doing those vile things and you step back and said, "Where in the world was that coming from?" So, he's talking about not only the spirit of death coming after him, but the the this filthy uh uh things that that that surrounded him that made him afraid. He says, "The sorrows of hell shield surrounded me and the snares of that confronted me." He says, "In my distress, I called upon the Lord and I cried out to my God." And then if you go on to read on, he says that God heard his his cry from the temple. And look at verse seven says, "The earth shook and tremble." And it's important that you understand this because the earth is very much connected to spiritual warfare. The spiritual warfare takes place here on the earth. The battle may may have its origins up in there. That's where shield is at. That's where these things are at. But I want you to see that it was down here on the earth where God answer and moved. What does it say there? It says God shook the earth. I don't think this was a regular. It might have been that this was a regular u uh earthquake. But what this is saying is whatever this demonic thing that was rising out of the earth coming against David, God began to shake him. Then he says the foundations of the hills also quake and were shaken because he was angry. And then he talks about like God getting h smoke coming out of his mouth. And this is very important because it symbolizes the word of God. When God speak his word is like a fire. Isaiah says, "Isn't my word like a fire that sets stuff on fire?" Uh, you know, uh, stuff that that needs to be burned out. And he said, "My word like a hammer that breaks rocks into pieces." He says, "He bent down the heavens and came down." And then he says that, um, all of the things uh, verse 12, verse 13, the Lord thunder from heaven, the most high utter his voice, hailstones and calls of fire. And then he goes all the way uh to verse uh 15. The channels of the sea were seen. The foundations of the world were on cover at your rebuke Lord at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. So he's saying that he came under a demonic attack. A demonic attack that originated in hell itself. This is what David is saying. All of the things were coming up against me was like a flood of iniquity. Think of every vile thing you can ever think of. Have it all flowing through you at the same time. Plus at the same time having this fear like a a a spirit that is trying to snuff your life out and you're feeling all like choked to death by this thing. Did you know that more people wake up in the middle of the night frightened or panicked because things like that happen to them? There are people that cannot sleep on their beds. I know many people sit on their sofa with the TV on all night long because they cannot get into that deep area of sleep because that demonic attack is able to come in against them like that. So what we're going to talk about tonight, this is not part of the message, but I want you to see why it is so important to understand spiritual warfare because spiritual warfare does not prevent the enemy from attacking you. But it does enable God when we pray the prayer, when we call upon him to do what he needs to do to get us through and get us over the demonic attack. He says in verse 16, "He sent from above and he took me." Oh, I love that. He says, "God all of a sudden saw that David was in trouble and God just sent from above and took it. He drew me out of the many waters and he delivered me from my strong enemy." And look who the enemy was from those who hated me for they were too strong for me. Those who hated me. Did you know that Satan hates us with a passion? And did you know that Satan the people that he possesses or the people that he works through that hate can be vented out through them? Did you know that people will, especially family members or close friends, can hurt you a lot more than anybody else could ever will? And that's because when Satan is able to come into their their way of thinking, he can vent this hate. And that hate manifests itself through cursing words. I hate you. When that word is spoken like that with the passion that is spoken like that there's a torrent of death that is poured out through that and we need to understand that in the the real spiritual warfare those words have to be confronted in Isaiah 54:17 no weapon formed against me shall prosper meaning that and then it says every word that rises against you meaning that when a word is spoken that word is like a seed that wants to grow into a free, wants to prosper, wants to grow. And that's what Satan does. He speaks the light. And the more that that that light works in us and and and is reinforced by other people, the more hate and the more fear that it builds up on us. And those words have to be condemned. He says, "But every word that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn." Spiritual warfare is taking the words the Satan speaks against us and making them null and void saying that word is not going to take a stand against me. Now then David goes in it says verse 18 Psalm 18:18 they confronted me in the day of my calamity. You know what the day of your calamity is? Is when you're down. I believe I don't know I didn't research it but I believe that this psalm was written at the lowest part of David's uh sin. I believe like Psalm 51 he was confronted with his sin. That was the day of his calamity. Now David had many days to where he faced calamity. But when you're down, when you're the worst at the worst point in your life, when you're at your lowest point in your life, that is when Satan comes in and he will attack you. He will attack you. He will send that coil to to wrap around your neck and he he will bring those bitter words, those hateful words. He will bring everything he can to destroy you. And this is why we need to know how to call upon the Lord because David says that in the day of his calamity when he was confronted by the enemy, the Lord was his support. In verse 19, he also brought me out into a broad place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. The Lord delighted in David. And yet he was a sinful man. He was a man that failed. Now, here's the key. This is why I'm reading this before I teach the lesson. Here's the key that I want you to understand. It wasn't that David was perfect. It wasn't his calamity. It was brought upon probably by by sins that he did by something where he disobeyed God or some some act that he did because Satan is the accuser of the brethren. And every time we step out of line, he takes advantage of that and he comes like a flood trying to destroy us. But then look at verse 20 because this is the key that I want you to see. David is able to say this. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands. He has recompensed me. Now, the very first thing that went through everybody's mind over here is, "Oh, man. I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble according to my righteousness." But no, this is why I prefaced that where David wasn't a perfect man. David sinned and that's why God allowed to sin. What was it that David was talking about the righteousness of my hand? Did you know that the difference between David and Saul, King Saul, the difference between the two is that Saul was never sure who the real God was. There was no doubt on David's heart who the real God was. He knew that God was Yahweh and he worshiped Yahweh. He prayed Yahweh. He was a a a a man like of flesh like we are. And he had a propensity toward sin. But never ever ever in his heart did he allow another god to take his place. How do I know that? Because when Saul felt abandoned, who did he go to? To the witch of Endor. Whatever you do, my friend, don't ever ever and if you have done it, repent and say, "Lord, I will never do that again." Never seek God through a medium. Never seek God through a fortune teller. never sink out through a saint or through a religious uh h ritual or item. We have to this is at the heart of spiritual warfare. We have to know who the real god is. The real god is a holy god and it's a jealous god. And when you get to to somebody else that imitates god, he doesn't like it. And when that time the of the uh demonic attack comes against you, you better know who the real god is. This is why I come so strong against Christmas and against Easter and all of these pagan rituals that have been uh instituted through the church through the centuries so that the church has no power. Why would the Lord when you say in the name of Jesus and and be healed and and why would the Lord heal it when we're worshiping a Jesus that is not the Jesus of the Bible? You know, if somebody comes and say, "Oh, happy birthday." Well, it's not my birthday today. you know, why would I accept that? And you see that that the church through traditions and through things has been polluted and to where people don't know who God is. You know, it is so easy for a Christian to go from uh uh from reading the Bible and getting the council of God to reading a fortune cookie and getting a revelation from the fortune cookie or reading their horoscope on the newspaper and say, "Oh, well, the Lord spoke to me through that." There's just no difference. We we don't realize it that God is a God that's pure and holy and that is the only thing that's going to keep our hands clean when we know who the real God is and when we pray to the real God. Amen. And the same way and and and it was the same way with u uh with Jonah. Jonah was a man that was in rebellion. And you can read in Jonah chapter 2. He was a man that was in rebellion. The same thing happened to him. the coil, the waters uh surrounded him. The the snares or the coils of hail shield went around him. And when God delivered him, he cried from the uh uh the belly of the fish with he had been dead for three days. He wasn't alive and he was dead. He went down to hell and he cried to the Lord from down in there and God answered him. And then he says, "God rewarded me according to the cleanliness of my hands." And you say, "Well, what do you mean cleanliness of my hand? you were in rebellion to God. God said, "Oh, go over there and you went this way." Well, because he believed that if he went where God went, that God would heal the people. And he didn't want those people to be healed. He believed God. He had faith. He knew who the real God was. And even though he was in rebellion to God, when he called to the real God, the real God answered. So, at the heart of uh spiritual warfare, at the heart of intercession is first of all the foundation. You better know who the real Jesus is. You better know who the real Jesus is. Not everybody that says Jesus or says Lord, Lord is talking about the Jesus you're talking about. Not everybody that's quoting the scripture is talking about the same Jesus of the Bible. And not everybody that is singing son to Lord Lord is singing to our Lord. You know that's that's what one of the Beatles tried to prove. Who was it? Uh uh what was his name? The no the other guy. Yeah, the one that died. George Harrison. Harrison. George George Harrison tried to prove Yeah. Thank you. But George Harrison tried to prove that anybody could sing to anything. So he wrote a song to Ham Maharaji in India. One of those new age guys or whatever. He My sweet lord. You guys probably remember that song. My sweet lord. My sweet lord. And people think thinking that he was singing it to the Lord Jesus Christ. No, he was singing it to some Maharachi over there in in India or Tibet some place. And he wanted to prove that all you have to do is put word the word Lord to it and everybody will go with it. And ever since that time we have all kinds of son says my sweet Lord my sweet Lord and they say Jesus and they say this and they say that and they're not of God. And if you're going to know about a spiritual warfare and intercession, you better know the real God because it's only in the name. That's the name that God responds to when hell comes after you. You better know you better know Jesus real number. You know, you don't want to get a wrong number. You don't want you don't want to dial Jesus and and and wind up, you know, with a with with with a house of ill repute, which that that is what the demonic thing is. Go to Ephesians Ephesians chapter 3 and we're going to deal with spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 10. And the reason why I I put that emphasis on that is because we need to know Jesus, the real Jesus. And you know there is a cost to knowing Jesus. In John uh chapter 6, as a matter of fact, 666 666, he says, "And many of the disciples turn away from Jesus." John 666. That's a sign of of And then uh uh the 12 disciples went to Jesus and and then Jesus said, "Aren't you going to leave me too?" He said, "Where, Lord? We left everything for you." And you know, you want to be with the real Jesus, give everything to the real Jesus. You got nowhere else to go when you run out of things. So, praise God. Ephesians chapter 3, 10. Now, how many of you know that you're the church, not the building? I mean, thank God for the building and thank God that we're out of the rain and out of the cold, but this is not the building that God dwells in. Back in the old days, they build the tabernacle and then later a temple and the glory of the Lord dwells in the tabernacle in the temple in the holy place in the holy of holies. The shikina glory of God would hover over there. But God says he was looking for a temple that is not made with human hands. Okay? And the temple is you and I. We are the church. When you confess Jesus Christ as your savior, God placed the Holy Spirit within within you as a deposit or as a guaranteed. In other words, there's a stamp in your spirit, the spirit man, the real spirit man. Your spirit man has ears. Not these ears are probably up in here. You know when you see Batman with a little ears up in there, this is your soul has ears. Uh your spirit has ears. Your spirit man is stamped. It says holy to the Lord is reserved. This is what happened when you were born again. Immediately your spirit was stamped with with a holy to the Lord in there meaning it belongs to God. That spirit is the one that that God now wants to that makes God dwell in us where we're the church. In other words, through his spirit, he he says in in John 16, he said, "Father, I will live in them and you will live in them." God and Jesus are both living in us through his spirit. It's just like taking a drop of water and dropping in a huge pool. We are the drop of water, the huge pool or the huge ocean is God. His spirit is in us. We belong to him. That makes us the church. That means that now we're the church. Now, why am I saying that? To the intent. Now, this is Ephesians 3:10. To the intent, now that the manifold wisdom is God, manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church. God has an intention for you. God intended something that he wanted to do through you and through me. When he saved us, he made us a church. The church is the body of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a head. If you use the body as an example, he is the head. The head, he's sitting at the right hand of the father in heaven. We are his body here on the earth. Okay? And he has a purpose. That's what the word intent means to the intent that that means we have something that God intended for us to do here on earth. Okay? And we're talking about spiritual warfare. We're talking about bringing the kingdom of God here to the earth. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done where? On the earth. Remember, he shook the earth. God shook the earth. When David was in spiritual warfare, God shook the earth. We are to bring the kingdom of God where to the earth. The kingdom of God is to be brought down to the earth. That's the intention for God for you and me. We are to bring the kingdom of God to the earth. That's God's intent for us. Okay? Okay. And so we read to the intent now that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to principalities and powers in the where heavenly places. Okay, we're here on the earth. The earth is filling the consequences of the sin that is taking place where this principalities in power. And God says,"I want you to do something to this principality disempowered so I can bring my kingdom here to the earth." Spiritual warfare is about that. Spiritual warfare is about that. If we do not understand anything else, we need to understand that this has to uh be made known. Look, look at look at that again. to the intent now that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known. Might be made known. Meaning something has to be revealed. Something have to be brought out. Something have to be exposed. As a matter of fact, if you look right there, uh I'll just show you one of uh uh six uh where the word mystery appears. Uh Ephesians 6:19, Paul says, Ephesians 6:19, "And for me that utterance may be given to me." He's asking the Ephesians to pray for him. He says, "And for me that utterance might be given to me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel." The church is to make something known. Okay. The word mystery appears in the Bible 22 times. If you look at in the King James version, the original King James version, which sticks to the most original uh as they translated it, you do not find the word mystery nowhere is in the Old Testament. Look it up. All the mysteries of God were hidden in the Old Testament. They could not be revealed because they're spiritual. They were hidden. It took Jesus to come in and to make the revelation known. And when Jesus came and made the revelation known, now in the New Testament, the word mystery appears 22 times. Why? Because the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. See, God created everything with 22 letters. That is a celestial uh uh alphabet. No vowels, no nothing. 22 letters. Everything that God ever spoke, he used those 22 letters. Okay? And so the 22 letters represents the completion of the creation of God. And it was hidden in the New Testament in the Old Testament and it is now revealed in the New Testament. Now 22 times appears in the 27 books of the New Testament. And on Ephesians alone, the word mystery appears six times. Six times appears. Why? Because Ephesians is a book about spiritual warfare and bringing revelation into how to do the revelation. This why Paul says uh pray for me that I may be bold and speak the mystery the hidden thing that which been hidden in the gospel. So, we have God intended for us to have as we go back to Ephesians 3:10, God intended for us to make known the manifold wisdom of God. We're to make it known. Now, we're going to break this down. So, first of all, we're going to we know that has to be spoken. We know that it's something that's hidden that has to be revealed. We know that the essence of spiritual warfare is speaking to these principalities and powers. So the first thing we want to deal with is principalities. Verse three, Ephesians 3:10 that to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be may be known by us the church to the principalities and powers. The word principality is a word that means arc. A ray is is a word in in Greek. A ray. And using those huge arches that that they would build in order to enter into a building. Okay, that's where the word arch comes from. Arch. Arch comes from ar meaning a principality or a covering or a ruling. One of the um dictionaries translated as a um a magistrate with jurisdiction over a specific area. A magistrate a magistrate is somebody like a judge that gets appointed and he has jurisdiction over a specific area over an area. Now the word jurisdiction meaning he has authority to speak. iction means words. He has whatever he speaks. See, you go to a court and if you did your your crime over here in in in women, you where you wind up at San Pedro there or or this there's there's a station over here. If you go to Quantum, there's somebody who has a jurisdiction there. If you go to Long Beach, there's a jurisdiction there. If you go to Ingldwood, and you see this judge in in in in Long Beach has no authority over Englewood. You see, his word has no power over there. But if you're in this land over here, he has authority over you. He has power to speak words. That's what jurisdiction means over the area where he's at. So Paul is saying God intended for you and for me to get a hold of the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ and to speak to that jurisdiction and tell him, I got something to say to you that is more powerful than whatever you've been saying over here. See, that's what spiritual warfare is. Spiritual warfare is taking the words that God has given us. Hallelujah. And speak to the arch. Now, why? Why? Because this arch or this principality, this arcade, they have authority to speak things against you, against your family, against your children, against your finances, against your health. They do. This is what Satan, he's the accuser of the brethren. He is continuously accusing. you don't deserve to have good health because you smoked for so many years or you did this for so many years and so he speaks like a judge would speak to say I'm putting out a warrant against Marcos and then the powers because you see he said to speak to the principalities and to the powers the powers now go on to enforce the word see they cannot come into your house when there's a Paul, they cannot come into your house without a warrant. Who gives a warrant? The jurisdiction, the principality, the person that has the power, the Joshua magistrate has power to speak and say, "Yes, go search his house." But you got your attorney, Jesus, who has a greater power, greater word. So then this magistrate, and the reason why I'm here tonight is because I'm speaking about the magistrate that's over women. There's a magistrate over this city and the dude ain't too happy with us because we're messing up his work. Okay? We're messing up his work. But God intended for us to mess up with him. God intended for us to break up this little party that he has going on over here. God intended for us to speak to those principalities and those powers that gang violence and rape and drive by shooting and drugs and alcohol and prostitution are coming down because that's what God intended for us to do. God intended for us to speak to those things. Now the word powers is the word exosa and it means delegated authority of superhuman strength or supernatural power meaning a delegated authority meaning just like Satan gets over there he's got his magistrate over this area and he's watching over and he looks at your family and man I'm I haven't messed with him for a while I'm going to mess with him some more and so he sends some some words against you and then all of a sudden this exosa powers, meaning uh delegated authority. They now have delegated authority from this magistrate to come in and to mess with you. They're going to begin to mess with your marriage. They're going to begin to mess with your family, with your health, with your finances, and they're going to do this thing. Why? Because that's what they have been ordered to do. Okay? But then hold your place here. We're coming back over here. This is such a mother load here. But go with me to Luke 10:19. And then let me show you how Jesus deals with this situation. Luke 10:19. Jesus says, "Behold, I give you the authority." Guess what that word is? Exosa. that delegated authority of superhuman nature or supernatural power. I give you exos. Now that is what the principalities give to the power. The principality speaks and those powers with supernatural powers of the superhuman power come in and begin to mess with you. Well, Jesus says, "I give you exosa to trample on serpents and scorpions." Those are demons in case you're wondering about how they crawl upon the ground upon the earth. I give you authority to trample on serpents and corp and over all the power of the enemy. And I love how it ends and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now the word power there is dunamis. Dunamos. This is dynamite. That is the power that is manifested. Because you see, exose is delegated authority, but it's not manifested until, in other words, it's not manifested until you become sick. If Satan speaks exosa against you, he authorizes some creature of darkness to come against you. That thing is not manifested until it becomes real, until you become sick or until you get fire, until you fall from grace and and do all kinds of weird things that we don't want to do. Okay? That is how it manifests. That's dunamis. That's power that it forces us is a supernatural strength that causes us to do things we don't want to do. Paul says in in Romans 7:20, "If I do the things that I don't want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it's sin living in me." He says, "I find this power or this law at work within me that the good that I want to do, I cannot do. And the bad that I don't want to do, I can't keep from doing. What am I going to do?" Well, we're going to have to speak to that exosa or to that power with the authority that Jesus said, "I give you authority." Did you know that Jesus has been raised up? And you read that in Ephesians, far above all principalities, far above all powers. He is the head honcho. He is a head honcho over every head honcho there is anywhere. And he has given us authority to speak. He has given us authority to speak. He has given us jurisdiction. He has given us jurisdiction. He has given us authority to speak to the principalities in power. Now a lot of us know that. But what we don't know is we don't know what to say. Why? Because it's a mystery. It's been hidden for all of these years and now all of a sudden it is revealed. It's called the manifold wisdom of God. We God intended for us, we the church to make something known to these principalities and power. And this something that we're to make known to them is a manifold wisdom of God. You say, well, what in the world is that? What is the manifold wisdom of God? Manifold wisdom of God is like a manora. This represents the Holy Spirit. The nine uh uh you have the nine uh fruits of the spirit. love, joy, peace, longs, suffering, gentleness, meekness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control, and then you have the uh uh the nine uh gift of the spirit uh word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discernment of spirit, speaking in tongue, interpreting tongues, prophesying, miracles, divine healing, and and divine power. All of the things are represented uh Matthew 5 3- 11, nine spiritual blessings. Well, here God, this manifold wisdom that God is speaking about, although they all fold flow through the Holy Spirit, comes in a seven in a minority. That's what manifold means. A a sevenfold something God has given us. He's being hidden all through the Old Testament and it is now revealed by the Holy Spirit. Let's go to Isaiah. And I believe we'll come back over here. So, you may want to mark it, but let's go to Isaiah 11. And then we'll see how this operated in Jesus because Isaiah is prophesying about Jesus in in Isaiah 11:1 and 2. Now here in in Isaiah chapter 11, Isaiah begins to prophesy about Jesus when he would come. He said, "There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse. A branch shall grow out of his roots." Verse two. And this is this is what the manifold wisdom of God is. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Now remember, before Jesus went into the ministry, he went to John the Baptist. John the Baptist says, "Behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." John the Baptist wanted to be baptized by Jesus. Jesus says, "No, it has to be done this way." As Jesus is baptized, meaning he's reckoning himself as one of us. He is coming. He's bringing himself down as a priest, a minister. He's coming down to our level. When Jesus took his robe, see, Jesus was born a king. He was worshiped as a king. When he was born, he was brought the gift of a king. And for those 12 years uh uh for those 33 years from from from that age up until when he was 30 years old, Jesus could not be touched by Satan. He could not be touched because he was a king. He is a mighty king. Any any demons that would come anywhere, Jesus will be splattered instantly in in the middle. He is a king. But when Jesus said Jesus said, "I I have come to do your will, oh father, because you were tired of of uh uh goats and bulls and the sacrifices. So you prepare a body for me." When he brought that body and he said to John the Baptist, "We have to do it this way." When Jesus took that robe in the spirit, that meant that he took his kingship. He identified himself with you and me. Because the only people that were going to John to be baptized were the sinners, were the prostitutes, were the beggars, were the the the rich of the world. They were all they John was saying, "Repent. The kingdom of God is coming." They didn't want to miss it. Said, "We live in misery and in pain and sorrow. I don't want to miss." So they were repenting. So Jesus comes and he identifies with him. And when Jesus goes onto the water and he comes up, God speaks. He says, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." From that day forward, Jesus walked as a priest, not as a king. He will come back as a king. And we got a glimpse of his kingship when he went up into in in into h into into the mount of transfiguration and he shone in radiance. But no, Satan, he he he was open season for Satan. 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The Kingdom of the First Born The objective of The Kingdom of the Firstborn is to provide believers with a deeper understanding of Jesus Christ as the eternal Firstborn over all creation and Firstborn from the dead. Pastor Marcos aims to reveal the mysteries of creation, light and darkness, and the nature of time through the lens of Scripture, guiding readers to comprehend their identity as children of God. The book seeks to strengthen faith, equip Christians to walk in the Kingdom of Light, and inspire them to embrace their eternal inheritance in Christ, who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light. The Kingdom of the First Born Pastor Marcos Marrero October 10, 2023 The Kingdom of the First Born Objective: The objective of The Kingdom of the Firstborn is to provide believers with a deeper understanding of Jesus Christ as the eternal Firstborn over all creation and Firstborn from the dead. Pastor Marcos aims to reveal the mysteries of creation, light and darkness, and the nature of time through the lens of Scripture, guiding readers to comprehend their identity as children of God. The book seeks to strengthen faith, equip Christians to walk in the Kingdom of Light, and inspire them to embrace their eternal inheritance in Christ, who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light. Synopsis: The Kingdom of the Firstborn by Pastor Marcos Marrero is a theological exploration of the mystery of creation, time, and divine purpose as revealed through Scripture. The book examines what it means for Jesus to be the Firstborn over all creation (Colossians 1:15) and the Firstborn from the dead, presenting Him as the eternal Word of God who entered time and space to establish a new order. Pastor Marcos contrasts Infinity Time (God’s eternal, unchanging realm) with Eternity Time (the created universe, bound by beginnings and endings). Through this lens, he unpacks the mystery of light and darkness, the process of creation, and humanity’s role as beings made in God’s image. He explores how God’s light, divided into measurable and infinite forms, not only brought creation into existence but also serves as a spectrum of spiritual meaning—blood, fire, gifts, life, spirit, covering, and humility. The narrative emphasizes that believers are not of this world but have been called into the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of the Firstborn. This kingdom is populated by those who are reborn through the Spirit, purified through trials, and destined to share eternity with Christ. Pastor Marcos presents human history and the cosmos as a temporary stage in God’s eternal plan, culminating in a new heaven and new earth where righteousness dwells. Ultimately, The Kingdom of the Firstborn portrays God’s radical act of love—bringing something entirely new into His unchanging eternity—so that redeemed humanity might share in His light, life, and eternal fellowship. Sample first pages of the Book/Manual: INTRODUCTION Colossians 1:15-18 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.” (Bold added by me for emphasis and applies to the rest of this book unless otherwise noted.) The concept of “the firstborn” when applied to Jesus can be kind of troublesome in the minds of some believers, especially as we consider the fact that Jesus is God Eternal who has always been, for He is without beginning and without end, and shall forever be! Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not.” KJV “The firstborn over all creation” Just what do the Scriptures mean when they refer to Jesus as being the firstborn over all creation? We can make the argument as I do in my book “Man’s Final Destiny” that “The Word of God” is the second person of the Godhead: 1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: The Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.” And that through Him: “The Word of God” all things were created, since God Spoke everything into existence by saying “Let there be…! John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:3 “All things were made through Him (the Word), and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (Anything in parenthesis and italicized is added by me unless otherwise noted.) The Eternal Word of God did not become flesh until He entered into the body that was prepared for Him some two thousand years ago, namely the body Jesus; who was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. The Word entered the physical body of Jesus and at that precise moment The Word of God became flesh. John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Paul continues and tells us that Jesus, the Word of God is He is before all things. However, Paul appears to be making this statement directly about Jesus, the Word incarnate. For in verse 13 of the same chapter he writes: Conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” And in other Scriptures as well, some quoted in the letter to the Hebrews; it seems to be making the same point of a beginning or a starting point for the Son at a very specific point in time. Hebrews 1:5-6 “For to which of the angels did He ever say: ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You’? And again: ‘I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son’? But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: ‘Let all the angels of God worship Him.’” “The beginning, the firstborn from the dead” Meanwhile this phrase seems to imply that its beginning should be applied only to the time immediately after the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Obviously, there is more to these Scriptures than meets the eye. Was there a transformative event that took place with the works of creation that God somehow used to represent Himself into a form or manner into the likes of which He had never revealed Himself? In other words, did the God that does not change, transform Himself into something new, something that had never existed before? In this writing I intend to shed light on the mysteries hidden within the history of creation as presented in the Bible. Hopefully to expound on the premises on which God has founded His works: like… Did the God that never change really transform Himself into something new? Did He create us into His new image and why? What is the mystery of light and darkness? What about the time before time began? What is the future of the physical elements that forms everything that is tangible? And are we able to comprehend the vastness and complexities espoused to the creation? Matthew 13:11 “…Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven…” It will be folly for me, or for anyone else for that matter, to think that we would be able to understand all mysteries concerning such complex matters as to the why, where, when and the how’s of God’s creative works, but clearly we have been given an agent that is just as much God as the Father is and as the Son is, He is the Holy Spirit, and His ministry is to teach us all truth as it concerns the kingdom of the Son of His love: The Firstborn of the Father.   IN THE BEGINNING GOD STARTS A NEW TIMELINE Genesis 1:2 “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.” As God begins the work of creation the first question that we need to ask is this: What does the Scripture mean by “the earth”? The Hebrew word “Strong’s concordance # {776} År,a, — 'erets” means “to be firm”, which seems to imply in the text that says that it had no form or substance that the earth was not earth (physical) yet, for as yet light had not entered into it. Which brings us into the very simple yet powerful concept of the time before time began. If we can grasp this concept it will be so much easier for us to understand the Bible, because it is a foundational concept upon which so much Scripture is invested. Our present time did not begin until light—energy—was introduced, even science confirms that our present time started with a flash of light, what they commonly refer to as the big bang, which set in motion (according to them) our present time and space traveling outwards from a fixed starting point. What that means is that before our present time began, all physical, and by physical, I mean tangible matter did not exist, for it did not have form, and was void of substance. If it existed, it did so in some kind of invisible substance called “nothing” and if it existed it did so within a different time frame called: The Deep. Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” Why is the understanding of time before the creation and time after the creation so important? 2 Corinthians 4:18 “While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” We cannot fully understand the mysteries of the creation until we understand the principle of the time before time began. Let me give you an example, everything in our present day “time and space” has a beginning and has an ending, everything within it is decaying and dying. Hebrews 1:10-12 “…You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment; like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail.” Here we see clearly that time exists in two very different planes: our physical creation which includes its interactions with the heavens and they are deteriorating and passing away; but God remains the same, years (time) have no effect upon Him for He is not a product or part of the creation, nor is He bound by the entropic laws that govern our present day “time and space”. If God is not bound by our present time and space, then what time does He live in and what space does He occupy? Psalm 147:5 “Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.” Let me introduce these two words: Infinity and Eternity. I will use these words to separate time as we know it now, from the time that existed before our present time began. I will define my biblical understanding of infinity as time without beginning or ending, as time that cannot be measure, for it has neither substance nor variations of any shape or form. It has always existed and will always continue to exist for infinity. Liken it to a never ending flowing river of flooding lights that emanates from an inexhaustible deep. James 1:17-18 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.” Infinity Time as I call it is the dwelling place of the Eternal Godhead. God is infinite so He dwells in infinity. Within Him there are no variations or shadow of turning. He lives in a time frame that has neither variations nor turnings. Nothing within that realm can ever be measured, as a matter of fact, most humans can’t even get a handle on the premise of something that has no beginning or ending, or of a place where past, present and future coexist in perfect harmony. Revelation 22:13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” The best way for me to get a hold of the Biblical concept of Infinity Time is by contrasting it to the creation which is our present time. Let’s compare our present creation to the alphabet. If you take the alphabet from A to Z, just think how many things have been written just by combining the few letters contained within the alphabet, its potential is so vast that it can never be exhausted. Yet, the alphabet itself can be contained within one single sheet of paper that keeps deteriorating the longer time passes. So it is with creation that there are an endless world of possibilities and potentials, but nevertheless contained within a fixed order of time and space that is destined to decay and to destruction. All creation is headed for a magnanimously unavoidable end that will transform it into something totally new. Here's where you can purchase this book of this book is published: Amazon Barnes & Noble Xulon Press Book Found Here Previous Next Home

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