Examine biblical prophecy, the last days, the return of Jesus Christ, God's prophetic plan, and eternity through Scripture. Biblical Prophecy & Eternity Examine biblical prophecy, the last days, the return of Jesus Christ, God's prophetic plan, and eternity through Scripture. 6 Page 1 Jesus' Revelation to His Disciples View Teaching WHAT DO THE FIRST FIVE SEALS IN REVELATION REPRESENT? View Teaching How does the Bible Describe the Day of the Lord? View Teaching Who is Impacted by the Day of the Lord? View Teaching When Does the Day of the Lord Take Place? View Teaching What is the Day of the Lord View Teaching The Liberation of the Human Soul View Teaching The Shadow of Evil View Teaching The Kingdom of the First Born View Teaching The Power of the Benediction View Teaching 6 Page 1 All Related Teachings to Biblical Prophecy & Eternity Jesus' Revelation to His Disciples View Teaching WHAT DO THE FIRST FIVE SEALS IN REVELATION REPRESENT? View Teaching How does the Bible Describe the Day of the Lord? View Teaching Who is Impacted by the Day of the Lord? View Teaching When Does the Day of the Lord Take Place? View Teaching What is the Day of the Lord View Teaching The Liberation of the Human Soul View Teaching The Shadow of Evil View Teaching The Kingdom of the First Born View Teaching The Power of the Benediction View Teaching Man's Final Destiny: Revelation Unveiled View Teaching The Mechanic's of the Day of the Lord View Teaching ALTAR IN THE MIDST, PILLAR ON THE BORDER View Teaching THE SECRET THINGS JUDGMENT View Teaching I WILL GIVE PEACE View Teaching THE AWAKENING View Teaching THE FOUR WAVES View Teaching ANATOMY OF THE JEWISH FEASTS FOR 2020 to 2030 View Teaching THE END OF DAYS View Teaching 2020 to 2030: THE DECADE OF DESTINY View Teaching CHILDREN AND THE RAPTURE View Teaching AND WE ARE NOT SAVED! View Teaching BABYLON IS FALLEN View Teaching WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ETERNITY? View Teaching THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULLNESS OF THE TIMES View Teaching COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER View Teaching THE SANITATION OF CHRISTIANITY View Teaching THE END OF THE AGE View Teaching MAHER-SHAL’AL-HASH-BAZ View Teaching THE GENTILES SHALL KNOW View Teaching ARE WE THERE YET? View Teaching THE SYSTEMATIC EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY View Teaching DAWN OF THE END TIMES View Teaching DEMISE OF THE NATIONS View Teaching THE NATIONS SHALL SEE View Teaching ACQUITTED View Teaching PROPHECY BY NUMBERS View Teaching THE GREAT HARLOT View Teaching JERUSALEM THE CITY OF TRUTH View Teaching WONDERS OF HEAVEN PART II View Teaching UNDERSTANDING REVELATION: THE TWO REALMS OF PROPHECY View Teaching WONDERS IN HEAVEN ABOVE View Teaching THE SEVEN SEALS AND THE CHURCH AGE View Teaching TWENTY SIX HUNDRED EVENINGS AND MORNINGS View Teaching THE 490th View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 7 View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 5 View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 6 View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 2 View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 9 View Teaching PRE, MID, POST TRIBULATION RAPTURE: DOES IT MATTER? View Teaching UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 8 View Teaching The Purpose of the Book of Revelation View Teaching ARE YOU WATCHING END TIMES UPDATE MATTHEW 24 View Teaching THE MESSIAH AND THE KING View Teaching

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The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand that the Christian battle is not against people but against spiritual forces and internal struggles that oppose God’s will. By examining Paul’s exhortation to put on the whole armor of God, this lesson emphasizes the difference between walking in the flesh and walking in the Spirit. It aims to equip Christians with a deeper awareness of principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness, and to encourage believers to stand firm in Christ, knowing that through Him we have the authority to overcome the enemy and claim God’s promises of restoration and victory. WHAT A CHRISTIAN FIGHTS AGAINST - PART 1 Video Teaching Minister Lisa Kane September 24, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand that the Christian battle is not against people but against spiritual forces and internal struggles that oppose God’s will. By examining Paul’s exhortation to put on the whole armor of God, this lesson emphasizes the difference between walking in the flesh and walking in the Spirit. It aims to equip Christians with a deeper awareness of principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness, and to encourage believers to stand firm in Christ, knowing that through Him we have the authority to overcome the enemy and claim God’s promises of restoration and victory. Home Read the Written Teaching

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

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

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INTERCESSION SPIRITUAL WARFARE Written Teaching 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. Written and/or Transcribed Teaching from Video 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. From that time on, Satan came after him and came after him and tempted him with everything. He says Satan uh Satan te Home Watch the Video Teaching

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ETERNITY? The objective of this teaching is to help believers and seekers alike understand the biblical reality of eternity, the two eternal destinations revealed in Scripture, and the importance of making a conscious choice in this life about where one will spend forever. It aims to awaken reverence toward God, clarify misconceptions about heaven and hell, and guide listeners toward salvation in Christ as the only way to secure eternal life in God’s presence. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ETERNITY? Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers and seekers alike understand the biblical reality of eternity, the two eternal destinations revealed in Scripture, and the importance of making a conscious choice in this life about where one will spend forever. It aims to awaken reverence toward God, clarify misconceptions about heaven and hell, and guide listeners toward salvation in Christ as the only way to secure eternal life in God’s presence. Synopsis: In What Would You Do With Eternity?, the author explores the profound question of what it means for humanity to live forever. Ecclesiastes affirms that God has placed eternity in the hearts of men, stirring both curiosity and a holy fear about what lies beyond this life. Through Scripture, the teaching reveals that every soul is eternal and that two distinct destinies await: eternal comfort in God’s presence or eternal torment separated from Him. Using Luke 16, the contrast between Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom and the rich man in Hades illustrates the irreversible nature of eternal choices. Revelation 20 further confirms that all will face judgment, where names not found in the Book of Life are cast into the lake of fire, while the redeemed experience everlasting joy, provision, and God’s presence. Heaven is not an eternity of monotony but a dynamic, glorious existence filled with wonder, love, and unending fellowship with God. The teaching concludes with a gospel invitation, showing that salvation is secured by confessing Jesus Christ as Lord and believing in His resurrection. It underscores the urgency of choosing eternal life now, before death ushers every soul into their unchangeable destiny. Inspired Teaching: Ecclesiastes 3:11 “...Also He has put eternity in their hearts...” Have you ever wonder what you would do if all of the sudden you found yourself with an unlimited amount of time...forever? I mean, let’s really think about it, a never ending life proposition would immediately arouse in any rationally thinking mortal human a variety of questions that are very relevant to the notion of immortality. Like...What kind of immortal life are we talking about? Will it include suffering and pain? What about sorrows and sicknesses? Is there going to be torment or tormentors in such an eternity? In the absence of any of the aforementioned, will I ever get bored in such an eternity? I mean, after all is said and done, how much harp playing can one human stand? It is bound to get to you after a while, isn’t it? Eternity is something that its very hard for us mortal humans to comprehend since we are surrounded by a world that is full of beginnings and endings. We see people that are near and dear to us leave this world, and they never come back. In one sense, life is turbulent like the weather in a Midwest state, if you don’t like the present condition, just hang around, for it will change, and usually not for the better. Ecclesiastes 3:14 “I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him.” If there is an alarm that rings loudly in the hearts of men it is, It shall be forever, and our text makes it clear that God does this on purpose, so that Men should fear before Him. You see, according to the Bible, the human race in general, and individuals in particular, though we all had a beginning, we will never end for we are all eternal. And we have a choice as into which eternity we eventually end up in. An eternity that once we are in it, nothing can be added to it or taken away from it. So that we should not take it lightly, because sooner or later we will all enter into that eternal place. There are two eternal places to which we can go, and the choice as to which eternal place we enter is made here on the earth before we die, for that is when we enter into eternity, right after death. Luke 16:22-23 “So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.” Jesus is telling us that there are two clear and distinct destinations for all humans after they die and enter into their eternal abode. One is a place of comfort and the other is a place of torments, plural. Luke 16:25 “...But now he (Lazarus) is comforted and you are tormented.” And not only is Jesus telling us about the difference between the two destinations but He is also testifying to the fact that, once you get there, there is no way to get out, you are there forever. Luke 16:26 “And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.” Outside of faith, humans seem to think that once we die, since we are not in our physical bodies anymore, that we somehow are not really alive anymore and that the so-call torments of hell are not really real, but rather, something imagined. From every experience of the faithful into the spiritual realm, of which there are many Scriptural references, the spiritual realm is always a lot more real than our present reality could ever be, and that view is confirmed by our next verse of Scripture. Luke 16:27-28 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’” It does not sound like the man in the torments of hell was imagining things, if anything, he sounded very logical by saying that if he could not escape the torments that he was experiencing, that at least a warning should be sent to his five brothers that were still alive, to keep them from coming into the reality of this place of which he knew his brothers, like himself before them, did not believe existed, even though the law of Moses spoke clearly about it and warned against it. Luke 16:29 “Abraham said to him, ‘they have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’” Out of the mouth of Jesus Himself, He is telling us that failure in our part to act upon what the Scriptures teach about eternity, that if we abdicate our responsibility to choose into which eternal destiny we want to abide, in accordance with what the Scriptures teach, that that failure will cause us to forfeit God’s eternal comfort and peace and will cause us to end up in that dreaded place of torment. Now why would someone fail to act upon such important matter as the one that deals with our future eternity? They may say that they don’t believe that there is an eternity to be had, but yet our opening Scripture declares that God has put eternity into our hearts, so that right from the get go they are in violation of the Holy Scriptures. Let us look at a few Scriptures that deal with this very important subject. Revelation 20:12 “And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that were written in the books.” Let us begin by establishing the fact that there is, according to Scripture, a final day of judgment coming, that it will comprise the physically resurrected bodies of all who were dead, that have been brought back to life to stand before the great white throne of God’s final judgment, in order for them to give an account for the actions of their lives while here on earth in their physical bodies. Revelation 20:13 “The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.” Let us also establish that this judgment, although it comprises the multitudes that died throughout the ages, now appearing in their resurrected bodies, that it will be a personal judgment for each one of them individually. Each one of them standing or falling based on each one’s individual actions. Revelation 20:15 “And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” So that all of those who ignored the instructions given by the Holy Scriptures on how to have one’s name written on the Book of Life, are cast into an eternity of torments with their eternally resurrected physical bodies into an Abyss from which they can never get out of. Revelation 20:10 “The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” So now that we have seen what this one eternity looks like, let us also take a sober look at the other eternity and see what it entails. Revelation 7:9-10 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’” What a contrast! You can hear the jubilation in the voices of all the redeemed from all the ages, rejoicing in the God who saved them, and in the Lamb who had delivered them out of the trials and tribulations that this world had put them through. Revelation 7:16-17 “They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” In the book of Luke chapter 16, Jesus told us about the man that ended up in Hades, how he was tormented by the flames and its heat, and how his desire was for Lazarus to dip his hand in some water and to touch his tongue with it, to relieve some of the torment that he was suffering. Here we see the opposite, not even the rays nor the heat from the sun is able to touch them, and they neither hunger nor thirst, for to them have been opened fountains of living waters. And next we see that God wipes away every tear from their eyes; the scars caused by all their pain and sufferings are finally removed as they move into a state of perfect bliss. 1 Corinthians 2:9 “But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’” Do not even think of getting bored in this eternity; we need to let go of those antiquated images of what heaven is like, you know, like sitting on a cloud playing with the harp all day long. We need to wake up to the reality of how vast and how great the present creation is, and how much more formidable and perfect the new heavens and the new earth that we will live on for eternity are going to be. Our God is so vast, His love so profound, His goodness unending, that everyday single day with Him will be a brand new exciting day filled with astonishment and unending wonders, as we behold the great and awesome marvels that He performs continuously, but most of all our daily basking in the great and perfect manifestation of His love for us. Sign me up! You say, How do I get my name written in the Book of Life? Romans 10:9-11, 13 “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, ‘Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame...’ For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’” Pray this prayer: (say this outloud) Dear Jesus, I confess with my mouth that You are Lord, and I believe in my heart that God has raised You from the dead. Therefore I now confess before You that I am a sinner and I ask that You forgive me all of my sins and that You cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank You Lord Jesus for forgiving me all of my sins and for cleansing me from all my unrighteousness. I declare that You are God, that You are good, and that You are Holy. I declare that You are my God, that You have been good to me, and that by the precious blood that Your Son shed for me, to cleanse me from all my sins, that You have made me holy and have written my name in the Lambs Book of Life. Hallelujah! 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” God willing, I will see you all who prayed this prayer for the first time in heaven someday soon. Amen! Previous Next Home

GIVE AN ACCOUNT Written Teaching Minister Lisa Kane July 25, 2025 Objective The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical command to “give an account” (Romans 14:12). It emphasizes that God not only evaluates our actions but also the motives behind them. By examining Scripture, the teaching encourages Christians to use their God-given gifts, talents, and opportunities with faithfulness, love, and humility so that their lives may bear fruit that glorifies Christ and withstands God’s judgment. Synopsis In this teaching, you are invited to reflect on Romans 14:12, which reminds us that each one of us will give an account of ourselves to God. This is not only about the things we do, but also about the motives behind them. God is interested in why we act, not just what we do. You’ll see through passages like Titus 1:16, Luke 16, and 1 Peter 4 that every believer has been entrusted with gifts, talents, and the grace of God. These are not meant to be hidden or taken for granted, but to be used in service to others, in prayer, and in acts of love. As you use what God has placed in you, He continues to pour out more, multiplying His work through your life. This message encourages you to live intentionally—showing hospitality, interceding for others, speaking words that build up, and enduring trials with the peace of Christ. It’s about being faithful in small things, taking steps of action in your faith, and letting God’s Spirit flow through you daily. Ultimately, when the day comes to stand before the Lord, your desire should be to present a life that honored Him, a life where His gifts were used for His glory. The goal is not perfection, but faithfulness—so that you may hear HisHello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this teaching on Friday, July 25th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your mighty word. For your mighty word is holy and powerful. You are faithful and true. You are worthy. You are glorious. Father God, I pray for the listeners to hear your word, to receive your word. I pray that it makes an impact on their lives that they don't forget it, that it actually simmers and boils within them so that it manifests out and is shared unto others. This is your word and you are the king of glory. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's a good word today. I'm very excited about it. The anointing has been very powerful this week uh since uh Wednesday. Every time I go into prayer with the Lord, it's been been very very good. So this teaching is called give an account. Let's go to our opening scripture here in Romans 14:12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Now if you notice there, there's a bolded word. The word account is in bold and the word motive after it is in parenthesis. The word account is what the translators used when they translated the King James version. The word motive is from the Hebrew or the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. It's another word that the translators could have used. I like to add those extra words in. It kind of gives us a a better understanding of what the original text was and how it's translated to our language today. Amen. So look at this. Give an account. So then every one of us shall give an account of him of himself to God. Every one of us. Now there are two types of judgment that we are aware of. We have the judgment for the sinners at the very end. We have what's called the judgment seat of Christ where uh those of us who are believers are judged upon the works that we do. We have to give an account. And by the way that word account means motive. Why did you do something? God is interested in the motive activities not just the actual doing. If you do something with a bad attitude, that's going to be counted against you. So, here we're going to look at some scriptures. And I've got it's a neat revelation that uh I I got a part of it Wednesday night when I was at church. So, look at this. Uh let's go to Titus 1:16. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being admon abom abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate or unapproved rejected. So basically somebody who says they know God but they're rejecting, look at what it says here, they're rejecting him. They're rejecting the works to him. What I'd like to show you here is that you every one of us is given a gift, a talent. We know about the fruits of the spirit. We know about the gifts of the spirit. You can go research those and look them up. Uh, I will say this that as a believer in Christ, we're given a a very special, precious gift. A gift that can we just keep it to ourselves? No. This is a gift that we need to let the whole world know about what we have in Christ. There's a parable that was taught Wednesday night at church. I'm only going to get one scripture out of it. You can go read uh the beginning of Luke chapter 16 here and read the whole parable for yourself. But this kind of gives you an idea. It says, "And he called him and said unto him, how is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account motive of thy stewardship or administration, for thou mayest be no longer steward." So it's a rich man who hired a steward to manage his home, and the steward did not do a good job. God gives us gifts. He gives us the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit. He gives us things. So the question then comes to us is what do you do with those gifts? What do you do with those things that God has given us that are precious that may you know do you just take it for granted? Now that's not something we want to see. Do you just take your Christianity for granted? Um you are forgiven. Yes. And he will continue to forgive you because that is who Jesus is because that's what Jesus does. He forgives and he will continue to forgive. But there does come a point. He will continue to forgive. But you will be having to give an account to God for the things that were given to you. If you were given the ministry of worship, you need to be in that ministry worshiping. If you're given a ministry of going out on the streets and preaching the good news, then you need to do that. I know that the Lord gave me a gift of teaching. So, I may not be out in front of a pulpit or in front of millions of cameras. No, but I'm still doing it. So, when you're faithful in the small things, you will be faithful in the bigger things. You'll see that scripture here very shortly. This is where we need to be with Christ. Be ready to give give an account of the gifts and the fruits that he has given us. Amen. So, let's go to first Peter and let's look at this. We're going to look at the whole chapter 4 and we're going to go through this one step at a time. And I just really want you to see how Peter addresses this. He says, "For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, thoughtfulness, moral understanding." So being thoughtful of what Christ was thoughtful of as he suffered for us. Being of understanding is what Christ was as he understood us. For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath see ceased from sin. We're no longer in sin when we start being likeminded with Christ and what he did. He suffered for us. Yes, he has blessed us and we're blessed beyond measure. There are many of us that there are There are Christians who are believers that have money that are philanthropist that they give and they give and they give and they the Lord just keeps blessing because that's a promise he gave to us in his word. He says try me. That's in Malachi 3. Test me. You won't even be able to have a storage enough to fill the things because you keep giving. He keeps blessing you. So as you have your gift, you keep giving your gift. He keeps pouring more into your gift. So that by the time it comes for you to give an account to the Lord of what you have done, you will find your account is paid in full complete because you were a manager and administrator over the gift that he gave you. Now what is that price? It's nothing in the reality of the fact that you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior and it's a free gift that he gave you. So you freely give it because it mean it costs you nothing. It simply means that you are here ready to give an account to God. But here you don't do it because of the motive being ready to give it to God. You do it because you love the people that are hearing your word, hearing the teaching of the word of God. praying over them, healing them as you pray over them, as you minister to them. Because as you do that, the more the spirit pours out into you. So, you're giving, paying, just throwing it out there. your your payment is your time is your precious time that you gave up from the world because you didn't want to be a part of the world where you gave it to God where you said I want to know more of you Lord and the more you know of him the more you pour it out your cup runth over and it just keeps pouring out of you it keeps ministering to those around that is giving an account this is where we're getting into understanding what Christ did for us and that we do the same. Look at what it says here number two verse two that he no longer shall live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust longing of men but to the will or determination choice of God. God chooses you. So are you just let's talk about this for just a quick moment because I really want this idea to come across. Are you just saying, "Okay, God, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me." But you're not taking any action. You're not, you know, faith comes by hearing the word of God. So, you have to act on your faith. Remember the woman who touched the hem of his garment? She was unclean. And since she kept being unclean, she couldn't leave the tent because it was against the law to leave unclean because then you would make all the others unclean around you. But she made a choice, a determination. She heard about a man named Jesus. She heard about his healings and she said, "I'm going to go touch him unclean and all because I need my healing. I want my healing." And she went and got it. And she was healed. And the Lord said, Jesus said to her, "Your faith has made you whole." She took action. She didn't just lay there and wait and say, "Lord, magically work through me." How can he work through you if you don't even take the steps or if you don't get up out of bed or you don't even go to the pulpit or you don't even go and ask pastors, "Can you teach?" Or even if you don't even go and say, "Can I pray with you?" If you're not taking the actions, now sometimes we want to say, "Okay, Holy Spirit, I don't know if I should do this." You're going to have to open the door. And then he does, you need to take that action because it is time for you to move in that area because you will eventually give an account of your talents and gifts. And there are a lot of parables that Jesus talks about this. You can go research that. I want you to do your homework. Uh I only have 30 minutes. I'm trying to give you just a 30 minute teaching where it's not going to take your entire day, but that you do learn a good golden nugget. And I'm hoping, you know, out of this entire message, I'm not here to condemn or judge you. You do you with God, but I am here to encourage you to say, get up, use your talents that he gave you. Use them to minister. Amen. Continuing on in chapter four of First Peter, we're in verse 6. For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to the men in the flesh, but live according to the God in to God in the spirit. You see, the gospel was preached to everyone. people who won't receive, people who receive but don't live, and people who receive and choose the determination to live for Christ. But that gospel is the same to every single one of us. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and he has forgiven us. He has redeemed us. Now the question is, how much do you want to share that with others? Did he really really save you? Did it mean something to you? Did it transform the inside of you. This is something to think about because if it did, you ought to be willing to show the world how much it changed you. You know, as much as I spend time in the secret place with the Lord, I'm certain that as I go out, people notice and see things. And I always tell them, it's Jesus, King of glory. Amen. That's who we're giving the glory to is Jesus. Verse seven, but the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober or sound minded and watch abstain from why unto prayer. Now that's another thing that every one of us can do in the secret place with the Lord is pray. I've taught on this many times. You can go look at my past teachings. But I teach on intercessory prayer. And I know that God answers my prayers. I come before him. One, I I pray for myself because I really don't know how many people are praying for me. And even so, I need to forgive myself and I need to just humble myself before the Lord and start fresh and new. His mercies are new every morning. So then I come to him in likemindedness. I'm trying to be likeminded, trying to do what he does. I come and renew my humbleness and forgiveness every morning because that's how he taught me to do that. And then I go in and I ask for my family. I ask for my church. I ask for and I pray and intercede for healing, for deliverance, for belief. Uh this is the things that I do because that is what's been given to me. And every one of us have that responsibility to pray for our household, to pray for our loved ones, to pray for our church, to pray for our pastors, to pray for our elders, to pray for our neighborhoods, to pray for our community, to pray for our government, to pray for our presidents, whether we like them or not. These are our responsibilities and you will give an account to that. So what you measure after the fire burns the hay and the wood when you're there before God, all that's left is whatever survived the fire. What will survive the fire? I'm going to tell you right now, prayer will. And I've got a long I mean I've been praying for so long and for so many years that if it was a continuous book it would be very long miles upon miles long. I will be given an account. I have to give an account to that. But at least I can say I did this much. Could I have done more? Sure. But I didn't just do a little. I gave what I could the he in the here and the now because I know I'm going to have to give an account. I pray for healing. Does that mean everybody gets healed? No. I don't know why. I don't understand that. God is who he is. You see, God is God because he knows what's in the minds and in the hearts of the individual. And for whatever reason, if he chooses not to heal you, that's on you and him. That's not me. But my part is to pray for you. And if I did my part, I partnered with Jesus and I said, and he said to ask and whatever you ask, it shall be given. I ask for healing over people. So, I'm expecting it. So, whatever the other side of that is that I don't know just reminds me that I'm not God. But it does remind me that I still have to do my duty to be prepared to give an account for what's coming for me when I'm judged. And I've got to do it soberly. You know, that's another thing is um we have to be very cautious uh cautious conscience of all of the things that are going on around us because there are doctrines that are being taught that are false and we you know will God accept you in heaven whether you give a very little bit of account or no account. You everything you did wasn't for God but you called on him at one time. And it says in Romans 10:13, "Anyone who dwells upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Will you be saved? Yes. This has nothing to do with salvation. This has to do with your reward as you come into it. Now, that doesn't mean you go and do the things that you do just because you're expecting a reward. You can start that way, by the way. There's nothing wrong with that, per se. But what happens is when you start doing things for the Lord and it starts transforming you on the inside because your your spirit changes, your soul changes, your goals change, you become a more godly, righteous person because now you're putting God first. You're putting love first. You're seeing people through his eyes because he's changing you. Now there's an account that he will love to see. And that's another thing is when I think about giving an account to the Lord am I looking at it as judgment? No. I'm looking at look how much I did for you Lord. This is what I could do and I'm so well pleased for what I've done because I yeah I could have done better but I was able to do this. This is when you have to just say look Lord and he will say you did perfect. You did good. come in thy good faithful servant. We need to be prepared spiritually, physically, mentally, in our minds, and in our hearts through the word of God, through being in his presence, through prayer ready for that day because it is coming. Don't think that you won't be judged because you will be. Everybody will be judged. That's that first scripture we read. Verse eight. And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitudes. And you know, when somebody obviously shows you they're not worthy. And it really you can see that they they don't love themselves. This is when you show them how much you love them because then God is showing his love through you to them. Love will wipe out that sin. This you will be given an account just even on that. You may not even know it. In fact, when you're there that day, there can be things that you did you didn't even realize, good and bad. But the best part of it is is when you see those moments that you show love, that you show godliness and you were just like, "Here you go, Lord. You're just going to show what you do." And you don't even it's something you don't even remember. But at that moment, you're going to look back and go, "Wow, Lord, you did that. Look what you did through me. It it I hope this is motivating you and encouraging to you to realize you want more of the scriptures to come out of you, more of his love because he will move through you and you will have a good account to give. Amen. Verse nine, use hospitality one to another without grudging. I have a lot of scriptures, but I'm going to take a moment here to if you notice this generation back 20 years ago, you know, uh my mom and neighbors, they would always have something prepared, danishes, donuts, pastries, and and always have some sort of drink around that uh you know, like a tea or lemonade. And so when visitors came in, you were ready for visitors. Your house was always But then all of a sudden this generation came up where someone knocks on the door. We're hiding behind them. Nobody's home. Well, look what it says. This is scriptural. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Receive your guest in. If the house isn't clean, don't worry about it. Just say, "Hey, you know what? I'll get to it." And then go clean your house. What if God shows up at your house all of a sudden? Don't you think you ought to be prepared? Just like getting being prepared to give an account, you ought to be prepared to have a visitation from the Lord. That's another one that I wasn't expecting out this teaching free verse 10. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards, manager of the manifold grace of God. You see, you've been given the gift of grace. God has forgiven you. You are a manager of that grace. You ought to be giving that same gift to everyone around. So if you're walking in hatred towards Trump or hatred towards the way the world is working or acting, you need to forgive. Manage your grace because you'll be given an account for that. Oh hallelujah. Verse 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. You see now every spoken word ought to be words of God that are good, that are scriptural. This is why I teach. You know, when I realized I I could teach and the Lord was showing this all to me, I was like, you know, I I can't do this. But then as I began to study the scriptures in the Holy Spirit, because, you know, I didn't go to seminary school. I didn't get taught by man. I'm not taught by man. I'm taught by the Holy Spirit. So, I what the Holy Spirit reveals to my mind and my heart. And that is what I'm going to show you through scripture. And I will tell you when I'm wrong. If I'm wrong and I missed it, I will tell you. I remember misquoting uh Joel 21:13. I was quoting as Joel 2:32. I did that for like four uh teachings in a row. Caught myself through the Holy Spirit and I was able to correct. I didn't go back into uh those videos. I just went ahead and corrected myself on that next video and moved forward. But you see, this is where we have this gift that we ought to be managing. We ought to be sharing it with others and we should be teaching whether we're good at it or not. The Holy Spirit is Yeah. Here's the funny thing is you're probably not even hearing exactly what I'm saying. You're hearing what the Holy Spirit is talking to you in your mind. And it's funny because I'll hear comments of what people say I taught and I'll be like, I don't remember teaching on that. But see, that was the Holy Spirit teaching it through this message because your heart was in that place and he was working in your heart at that time. It's how the Holy Spirit works. This is what a good uh a great teacher and uh word of God minister is. I love that. I love that. Verse 11. Starting at verse 11 again, if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth, which is what I was just talking about. Whether you're a very good speaker or not, I know that some of my early teaching, they're hard to hear, but I still did it. And the more you practice, the better you get at it, the more you do it. So, if you're a person who's been put into ministry, you minister, and you do it to the ability which God has given you. And then says here at the end of verse 11, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. You see, you're doing it for God. You're not doing it for if somebody gets saved or not. You're you're saying, "Okay, I'm going to teach this word, but it's to give him the glory. The glory belongs to God. This isn't about me and how many people I can reach. I have a very small following if if even it comes and goes." So, you know what? Again, I do this because I know someday I'm going to be a given. I have to give an account for the talent that he has put in me. So, I'm using that talent to the best of my ability. Same with intercessory prayer. I've been given two talents. Hey, you may have been given 10. You ought to be showing them, ministering, manifesting them through the word of God, giving him the glory. You know, I I follow a lady who who does cooking and while she's in there cooking, she's talking about Jesus. She's demonstrating the grace of God just in her spoken words as she talks about her life and then she's teaching how to cook and she's talking about her life. That's a ministry and a very powerful one. She's got a very large following. If you want to know who that is, it's Brenda Gant and she's got cookbooks and stuff. I like her because of her belief in Christ and she's ministering. Oh, this is the time where we just need to stand with Christ and demonstrate him in everything we do because we will be giving an account. Don't be lazy about that. If you're given a house, keep it up. Have some respect. It is hard. It's harder to respect something that was given to you than it is if you worked at it. If you built your own house, believe you and me, you're going to have every nook and cranny always clean because you put sweat and blood into it. Amen. Now, with the gift of Christ, there is you're not putting anything in. It's a gift. He's given it to you for free. So, with that gift, what do you do? Well, I'm going to get self-control, gift of the Holy Spirit, and I'm going to manifest and teach his word through whatever ability I can. Amen. So here it says in verse 12, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange uh some strange thing happened unto you." But see here, I love this. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you. the time you feel heat or you're under pressure or something didn't go right, you you feel it, then all of a sudden you're calling out to God like it's a strange thing. You have God all the time. He is your gift. You need to be demonstrating him all the time. But rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. You see, you are walking testimony. Whatever trials you've been through and whatever trials I've been through, they're they're different. Some are similar, but they're different. And if we're all sharing our trials, we're sharing Christ and his grace because his grace still supersedes all of this. And eventually one day we're going to be in the presence of God past judgment, past all of that. We're just going to be basking in his presence. I don't know what else heaven is going to be like, but just for that, I look forward to being in the presence of my Lord and Savior. Amen. Verse 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God rested upon you. On their part, he is evil spoken of, but on your part, he is glorified. You're glorifying him. You're showing the world, look at I've got peace because he is king of glory. Amen. Verse 15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, as a thief, or as an evildoer or as a busy body in other men's matters. You see, we don't have to be in other men's matters. Notice this says by murderers, too. You know, we murder people through our spoken word. You need to humble yourself before the Lord. Ask him to help you control your mouth to have that selfcont control. Let that peace supersede everything else in you. And that peace comes from him, not you. Yet, if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. You see, when you're a believer in Christ and you suffer, you know what? You're showing the world, I'm a believer. You know what? He's king of glory. I don't care what I'm going through. Eventually, I'm going to be in his presence forever. So, this doesn't bother me. I have peace because of who he is. That is where believers need to be standing strong in today. Because this is where we show the world how much better it is to be a be a believer. Because I don't know how anyone can suffer somebody dying or somebody suffering without having Christ in you. We need that Christ in us. We need his peace. We need that. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And it first begin at us. What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Oh, it begins with the word of the church. So, it has to begin in us. So, we have to take make a choice, a decision and say, I'm going to give a good account. That means I'm going to give all the talents that God has given me. I'm going to utilize him to share the gospel. Whether I'm giving gas at the gas station or putting gas in my car or I'm at the grocery store, somebody asks me or I look at somebody, we make eye contact. Hey, are you a believer in Christ? He can give you peace if you need it. Let's pray together. That is putting Christ first in you. And that is getting the talents. You're going to give a good account afterwards. Verse 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore there wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in welloing as unto a faithful creator. You see you are letting him have control and letting him determine. So when you do come into your presence you can say listen Lord with what I had and what I could do here's what I did. It isn't much but it's as much as I can give you. And he's gonna say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Just because one, you believed, and two, you took it seriously. You took your belief seriously, you took the grace of God seriously. Oh, hallelujah. And in 1 Timothy 4 1-5, now the spirit speaketh this expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, or having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. for it is sanctified, made holy by the word of God and prayer. I bring these scriptures in. I know I'm going over time a little bit here, but I want you to see something here. When people are telling you, you need to be on a diet, you shouldn't eat that, don't eat these meats, this is bad for you, this causes cancer, they're walking in the flesh. They're not walking in the spirit. As a believer in Christ, your body is made whole. You are already healed. you have and if you're taking holy communion and you you take the grace of God seriously, you take his presence and have that relationship with him, you're you're in your devotionals with him, you're in the secret place with him, and you go and talk to him boldly and confidently and say, "Lord, you know what? I'm doing this for you." And as you do that, because that's what he's teaching you. He's teaching you the boldness and the confidence. As you express that in his presence, God almighty, the creator. When you go out into the world and you're getting gas or gas station or the grocery store, you're it's much smaller thing to talk to somebody else in the flesh, human, than it is to talk to God, the creator. Isn't that amazing? come to the revelation and let the realization that as you're going to give an account eventually one day you want to give a good account. You want to give an account that says listen Lord you gave me this talent and some people will do it at 100%. Some will do it at 60%. Some will do it at 30%. But do something with the talent that he has given you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Thank you for teaching us how to give a good a good account that we are ready to do that that in every moment of every day to the best of our ability because we're flesh. We're we're human and it is challenging and difficult but because we're not God. But we're going to try to be as much like you as possible and as much use the talents that you have given us. Help us use those talents. Help us take up the responsibility of the grace that you've given us to utilize it to save more souls, especially as we come closer to the end times here. Father God, thank you. Thank you for motivating us, encouraging us to share the grace and the gospel with others to let people know that we can be at peace because it is your peace that can that surpasses understanding and that is within us because you gave it to us. You are king of glory. We love you, praise you, and honor you and worship you. And in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye bye. words: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Written and/or Transcribed Teaching from Video Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this teaching on Friday, July 25th, 20125. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your mighty word. For your mighty word is holy and powerful. You are faithful and true. You are worthy. You are glorious. Father God, I pray for the listeners to hear your word, to receive your word. I pray that it makes an impact on their lives that they don't forget it, that it actually simmers and boils within them so that it manifests out and is shared unto others. This is your word and you are the king of glory. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. It's a good word today. I'm very excited about it. The anointing has been very powerful this week uh since uh Wednesday. Every time I go into prayer with the Lord, it's been been very very good. So this teaching is called give an account. Let's go to our opening scripture here in Romans 14:12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Now if you notice there, there's a bolded word. The word account is in bold and the word motive after it is in parenthesis. The word account is what the translators used when they translated the King James version. The word motive is from the Hebrew or the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. It's another word that the translators could have used. I like to add those extra words in. It kind of gives us a a better understanding of what the original text was and how it's translated to our language today. Amen. So look at this. Give an account. So then every one of us shall give an account of him of himself to God. Every one of us. Now there are two types of judgment that we are aware of. We have the judgment for the sinners at the very end. We have what's called the judgment seat of Christ where uh those of us who are believers are judged upon the works that we do. We have to give an account. And by the way that word account means motive. Why did you do something? God is interested in the motive activities not just the actual doing. If you do something with a bad attitude, that's going to be counted against you. So, here we're going to look at some scriptures. And I've got it's a neat revelation that uh I I got a part of it Wednesday night when I was at church. So, look at this. Uh let's go to Titus 1:16. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being admon abom abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate or unapproved rejected. So basically somebody who says they know God but they're rejecting, look at what it says here, they're rejecting him. They're rejecting the works to him. What I'd like to show you here is that you every one of us is given a gift, a talent. We know about the fruits of the spirit. We know about the gifts of the spirit. You can go research those and look them up. Uh, I will say this that as a believer in Christ, we're given a a very special, precious gift. A gift that can we just keep it to ourselves? No. This is a gift that we need to let the whole world know about what we have in Christ. There's a parable that was taught Wednesday night at church. I'm only going to get one scripture out of it. You can go read uh the beginning of Luke chapter 16 here and read the whole parable for yourself. But this kind of gives you an idea. It says, "And he called him and said unto him, how is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account motive of thy stewardship or administration, for thou mayest be no longer steward." So it's a rich man who hired a steward to manage his home, and the steward did not do a good job. God gives us gifts. He gives us the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit. He gives us things. So the question then comes to us is what do you do with those gifts? What do you do with those things that God has given us that are precious that may you know do you just take it for granted? Now that's not something we want to see. Do you just take your Christianity for granted? Um you are forgiven. Yes. And he will continue to forgive you because that is who Jesus is because that's what Jesus does. He forgives and he will continue to forgive. But there does come a point. He will continue to forgive. But you will be having to give an account to God for the things that were given to you. If you were given the ministry of worship, you need to be in that ministry worshiping. If you're given a ministry of going out on the streets and preaching the good news, then you need to do that. I know that the Lord gave me a gift of teaching. So, I may not be out in front of a pulpit or in front of millions of cameras. No, but I'm still doing it. So, when you're faithful in the small things, you will be faithful in the bigger things. You'll see that scripture here very shortly. This is where we need to be with Christ. Be ready to give give an account of the gifts and the fruits that he has given us. Amen. So, let's go to first Peter and let's look at this. We're going to look at the whole chapter 4 and we're going to go through this one step at a time. And I just really want you to see how Peter addresses this. He says, "For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, thoughtfulness, moral understanding." So being thoughtful of what Christ was thoughtful of as he suffered for us. Being of understanding is what Christ was as he understood us. For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath see ceased from sin. We're no longer in sin when we start being likeminded with Christ and what he did. He suffered for us. Yes, he has blessed us and we're blessed beyond measure. There are many of us that there are There are Christians who are believers that have money that are philanthropist that they give and they give and they give and they the Lord just keeps blessing because that's a promise he gave to us in his word. He says try me. That's in Malachi 3. Test me. You won't even be able to have a storage enough to fill the things because you keep giving. He keeps blessing you. So as you have your gift, you keep giving your gift. He keeps pouring more into your gift. So that by the time it comes for you to give an account to the Lord of what you have done, you will find your account is paid in full complete because you were a manager and administrator over the gift that he gave you. Now what is that price? It's nothing in the reality of the fact that you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior and it's a free gift that he gave you. So you freely give it because it mean it costs you nothing. It simply means that you are here ready to give an account to God. But here you don't do it because of the motive being ready to give it to God. You do it because you love the people that are hearing your word, hearing the teaching of the word of God. praying over them, healing them as you pray over them, as you minister to them. Because as you do that, the more the spirit pours out into you. So, you're giving, paying, just throwing it out there. your your payment is your time is your precious time that you gave up from the world because you didn't want to be a part of the world where you gave it to God where you said I want to know more of you Lord and the more you know of him the more you pour it out your cup runth over and it just keeps pouring out of you it keeps ministering to those around that is giving an account this is where we're getting into understanding what Christ did for us and that we do the same. Look at what it says here number two verse two that he no longer shall live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust longing of men but to the will or determination choice of God. God chooses you. So are you just let's talk about this for just a quick moment because I really want this idea to come across. Are you just saying, "Okay, God, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me." But you're not taking any action. You're not, you know, faith comes by hearing the word of God. So, you have to act on your faith. Remember the woman who touched the hem of his garment? She was unclean. And since she kept being unclean, she couldn't leave the tent because it was against the law to leave unclean because then you would make all the others unclean around you. But she made a choice, a determination. She heard about a man named Jesus. She heard about his healings and she said, "I'm going to go touch him unclean and all because I need my healing. I want my healing." And she went and got it. And she was healed. And the Lord said, Jesus said to her, "Your faith has made you whole." She took action. She didn't just lay there and wait and say, "Lord, magically work through me." How can he work through you if you don't even take the steps or if you don't get up out of bed or you don't even go to the pulpit or you don't even go and ask pastors, "Can you teach?" Or even if you don't even go and say, "Can I pray with you?" If you're not taking the actions, now sometimes we want to say, "Okay, Holy Spirit, I don't know if I should do this." You're going to have to open the door. And then he does, you need to take that action because it is time for you to move in that area because you will eventually give an account of your talents and gifts. And there are a lot of parables that Jesus talks about this. You can go research that. I want you to do your homework. Uh I only have 30 minutes. I'm trying to give you just a 30 minute teaching where it's not going to take your entire day, but that you do learn a good golden nugget. And I'm hoping, you know, out of this entire message, I'm not here to condemn or judge you. You do you with God, but I am here to encourage you to say, get up, use your talents that he gave you. Use them to minister. Amen. Continuing on in chapter four of First Peter, we're in verse 6. For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to the men in the flesh, but live according to the God in to God in the spirit. You see, the gospel was preached to everyone. people who won't receive, people who receive but don't live, and people who receive and choose the determination to live for Christ. But that gospel is the same to every single one of us. Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and he has forgiven us. He has redeemed us. Now the question is, how much do you want to share that with others? Did he really really save you? Did it mean something to you? Did it transform the inside of you. This is something to think about because if it did, you ought to be willing to show the world how much it changed you. You know, as much as I spend time in the secret place with the Lord, I'm certain that as I go out, people notice and see things. And I always tell them, it's Jesus, King of glory. Amen. That's who we're giving the glory to is Jesus. Verse seven, but the end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober or sound minded and watch abstain from why unto prayer. Now that's another thing that every one of us can do in the secret place with the Lord is pray. I've taught on this many times. You can go look at my past teachings. But I teach on intercessory prayer. And I know that God answers my prayers. I come before him. One, I I pray for myself because I really don't know how many people are praying for me. And even so, I need to forgive myself and I need to just humble myself before the Lord and start fresh and new. His mercies are new every morning. So then I come to him in likemindedness. I'm trying to be likeminded, trying to do what he does. I come and renew my humbleness and forgiveness every morning because that's how he taught me to do that. And then I go in and I ask for my family. I ask for my church. I ask for and I pray and intercede for healing, for deliverance, for belief. Uh this is the things that I do because that is what's been given to me. And every one of us have that responsibility to pray for our household, to pray for our loved ones, to pray for our church, to pray for our pastors, to pray for our elders, to pray for our neighborhoods, to pray for our community, to pray for our government, to pray for our presidents, whether we like them or not. These are our responsibilities and you will give an account to that. So what you measure after the fire burns the hay and the wood when you're there before God, all that's left is whatever survived the fire. What will survive the fire? I'm going to tell you right now, prayer will. And I've got a long I mean I've been praying for so long and for so many years that if it was a continuous book it would be very long miles upon miles long. I will be given an account. I have to give an account to that. But at least I can say I did this much. Could I have done more? Sure. But I didn't just do a little. I gave what I could the he in the here and the now because I know I'm going to have to give an account. I pray for healing. Does that mean everybody gets healed? No. I don't know why. I don't understand that. God is who he is. You see, God is God because he knows what's in the minds and in the hearts of the individual. And for whatever reason, if he chooses not to heal you, that's on you and him. That's not me. But my part is to pray for you. And if I did my part, I partnered with Jesus and I said, and he said to ask and whatever you ask, it shall be given. I ask for healing over people. So, I'm expecting it. So, whatever the other side of that is that I don't know just reminds me that I'm not God. But it does remind me that I still have to do my duty to be prepared to give an account for what's coming for me when I'm judged. And I've got to do it soberly. You know, that's another thing is um we have to be very cautious uh cautious conscience of all of the things that are going on around us because there are doctrines that are being taught that are false and we you know will God accept you in heaven whether you give a very little bit of account or no account. You everything you did wasn't for God but you called on him at one time. And it says in Romans 10:13, "Anyone who dwells upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Will you be saved? Yes. This has nothing to do with salvation. This has to do with your reward as you come into it. Now, that doesn't mean you go and do the things that you do just because you're expecting a reward. You can start that way, by the way. There's nothing wrong with that, per se. But what happens is when you start doing things for the Lord and it starts transforming you on the inside because your your spirit changes, your soul changes, your goals change, you become a more godly, righteous person because now you're putting God first. You're putting love first. You're seeing people through his eyes because he's changing you. Now there's an account that he will love to see. And that's another thing is when I think about giving an account to the Lord am I looking at it as judgment? No. I'm looking at look how much I did for you Lord. This is what I could do and I'm so well pleased for what I've done because I yeah I could have done better but I was able to do this. This is when you have to just say look Lord and he will say you did perfect. You did good. come in thy good faithful servant. We need to be prepared spiritually, physically, mentally, in our minds, and in our hearts through the word of God, through being in his presence, through prayer ready for that day because it is coming. Don't think that you won't be judged because you will be. Everybody will be judged. That's that first scripture we read. Verse eight. And above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitudes. And you know, when somebody obviously shows you they're not worthy. And it really you can see that they they don't love themselves. This is when you show them how much you love them because then God is showing his love through you to them. Love will wipe out that sin. This you will be given an account just even on that. You may not even know it. In fact, when you're there that day, there can be things that you did you didn't even realize, good and bad. But the best part of it is is when you see those moments that you show love, that you show godliness and you were just like, "Here you go, Lord. You're just going to show what you do." And you don't even it's something you don't even remember. But at that moment, you're going to look back and go, "Wow, Lord, you did that. Look what you did through me. It it I hope this is motivating you and encouraging to you to realize you want more of the scriptures to come out of you, more of his love because he will move through you and you will have a good account to give. Amen. Verse nine, use hospitality one to another without grudging. I have a lot of scriptures, but I'm going to take a moment here to if you notice this generation back 20 years ago, you know, uh my mom and neighbors, they would always have something prepared, danishes, donuts, pastries, and and always have some sort of drink around that uh you know, like a tea or lemonade. And so when visitors came in, you were ready for visitors. Your house was always But then all of a sudden this generation came up where someone knocks on the door. We're hiding behind them. Nobody's home. Well, look what it says. This is scriptural. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. Receive your guest in. If the house isn't clean, don't worry about it. Just say, "Hey, you know what? I'll get to it." And then go clean your house. What if God shows up at your house all of a sudden? Don't you think you ought to be prepared? Just like getting being prepared to give an account, you ought to be prepared to have a visitation from the Lord. That's another one that I wasn't expecting out this teaching free verse 10. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards, manager of the manifold grace of God. You see, you've been given the gift of grace. God has forgiven you. You are a manager of that grace. You ought to be giving that same gift to everyone around. So if you're walking in hatred towards Trump or hatred towards the way the world is working or acting, you need to forgive. Manage your grace because you'll be given an account for that. Oh hallelujah. Verse 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. You see now every spoken word ought to be words of God that are good, that are scriptural. This is why I teach. You know, when I realized I I could teach and the Lord was showing this all to me, I was like, you know, I I can't do this. But then as I began to study the scriptures in the Holy Spirit, because, you know, I didn't go to seminary school. I didn't get taught by man. I'm not taught by man. I'm taught by the Holy Spirit. So, I what the Holy Spirit reveals to my mind and my heart. And that is what I'm going to show you through scripture. And I will tell you when I'm wrong. If I'm wrong and I missed it, I will tell you. I remember misquoting uh Joel 21:13. I was quoting as Joel 2:32. I did that for like four uh teachings in a row. Caught myself through the Holy Spirit and I was able to correct. I didn't go back into uh those videos. I just went ahead and corrected myself on that next video and moved forward. But you see, this is where we have this gift that we ought to be managing. We ought to be sharing it with others and we should be teaching whether we're good at it or not. The Holy Spirit is Yeah. Here's the funny thing is you're probably not even hearing exactly what I'm saying. You're hearing what the Holy Spirit is talking to you in your mind. And it's funny because I'll hear comments of what people say I taught and I'll be like, I don't remember teaching on that. But see, that was the Holy Spirit teaching it through this message because your heart was in that place and he was working in your heart at that time. It's how the Holy Spirit works. This is what a good uh a great teacher and uh word of God minister is. I love that. I love that. Verse 11. Starting at verse 11 again, if any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth, which is what I was just talking about. Whether you're a very good speaker or not, I know that some of my early teaching, they're hard to hear, but I still did it. And the more you practice, the better you get at it, the more you do it. So, if you're a person who's been put into ministry, you minister, and you do it to the ability which God has given you. And then says here at the end of verse 11, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. You see, you're doing it for God. You're not doing it for if somebody gets saved or not. You're you're saying, "Okay, I'm going to teach this word, but it's to give him the glory. The glory belongs to God. This isn't about me and how many people I can reach. I have a very small following if if even it comes and goes." So, you know what? Again, I do this because I know someday I'm going to be a given. I have to give an account for the talent that he has put in me. So, I'm using that talent to the best of my ability. Same with intercessory prayer. I've been given two talents. Hey, you may have been given 10. You ought to be showing them, ministering, manifesting them through the word of God, giving him the glory. You know, I I follow a lady who who does cooking and while she's in there cooking, she's talking about Jesus. She's demonstrating the grace of God just in her spoken words as she talks about her life and then she's teaching how to cook and she's talking about her life. That's a ministry and a very powerful one. She's got a very large following. If you want to know who that is, it's Brenda Gant and she's got cookbooks and stuff. I like her because of her belief in Christ and she's ministering. Oh, this is the time where we just need to stand with Christ and demonstrate him in everything we do because we will be giving an account. Don't be lazy about that. If you're given a house, keep it up. Have some respect. It is hard. It's harder to respect something that was given to you than it is if you worked at it. If you built your own house, believe you and me, you're going to have every nook and cranny always clean because you put sweat and blood into it. Amen. Now, with the gift of Christ, there is you're not putting anything in. It's a gift. He's given it to you for free. So, with that gift, what do you do? Well, I'm going to get self-control, gift of the Holy Spirit, and I'm going to manifest and teach his word through whatever ability I can. Amen. So here it says in verse 12, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange uh some strange thing happened unto you." But see here, I love this. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you. the time you feel heat or you're under pressure or something didn't go right, you you feel it, then all of a sudden you're calling out to God like it's a strange thing. You have God all the time. He is your gift. You need to be demonstrating him all the time. But rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. You see, you are walking testimony. Whatever trials you've been through and whatever trials I've been through, they're they're different. Some are similar, but they're different. And if we're all sharing our trials, we're sharing Christ and his grace because his grace still supersedes all of this. And eventually one day we're going to be in the presence of God past judgment, past all of that. We're just going to be basking in his presence. I don't know what else heaven is going to be like, but just for that, I look forward to being in the presence of my Lord and Savior. Amen. Verse 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God rested upon you. On their part, he is evil spoken of, but on your part, he is glorified. You're glorifying him. You're showing the world, look at I've got peace because he is king of glory. Amen. Verse 15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, as a thief, or as an evildoer or as a busy body in other men's matters. You see, we don't have to be in other men's matters. Notice this says by murderers, too. You know, we murder people through our spoken word. You need to humble yourself before the Lord. Ask him to help you control your mouth to have that selfcont control. Let that peace supersede everything else in you. And that peace comes from him, not you. Yet, if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. You see, when you're a believer in Christ and you suffer, you know what? You're showing the world, I'm a believer. You know what? He's king of glory. I don't care what I'm going through. Eventually, I'm going to be in his presence forever. So, this doesn't bother me. I have peace because of who he is. That is where believers need to be standing strong in today. Because this is where we show the world how much better it is to be a be a believer. Because I don't know how anyone can suffer somebody dying or somebody suffering without having Christ in you. We need that Christ in us. We need his peace. We need that. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And it first begin at us. What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Oh, it begins with the word of the church. So, it has to begin in us. So, we have to take make a choice, a decision and say, I'm going to give a good account. That means I'm going to give all the talents that God has given me. I'm going to utilize him to share the gospel. Whether I'm giving gas at the gas station or putting gas in my car or I'm at the grocery store, somebody asks me or I look at somebody, we make eye contact. Hey, are you a believer in Christ? He can give you peace if you need it. Let's pray together. That is putting Christ first in you. And that is getting the talents. You're going to give a good account afterwards. Verse 18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore there wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in welloing as unto a faithful creator. You see you are letting him have control and letting him determine. So when you do come into your presence you can say listen Lord with what I had and what I could do here's what I did. It isn't much but it's as much as I can give you. And he's gonna say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Just because one, you believed, and two, you took it seriously. You took your belief seriously, you took the grace of God seriously. Oh, hallelujah. And in 1 Timothy 4 1-5, now the spirit speaketh this expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, or having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving. for it is sanctified, made holy by the word of God and prayer. I bring these scriptures in. I know I'm going over time a little bit here, but I want you to see something here. When people are telling you, you need to be on a diet, you shouldn't eat that, don't eat these meats, this is bad for you, this causes cancer, they're walking in the flesh. They're not walking in the spirit. As a believer in Christ, your body is made whole. You are already healed. you have and if you're taking holy communion and you you take the grace of God seriously, you take his presence and have that relationship with him, you're you're in your devotionals with him, you're in the secret place with him, and you go and talk to him boldly and confidently and say, "Lord, you know what? I'm doing this for you." And as you do that, because that's what he's teaching you. He's teaching you the boldness and the confidence. As you express that in his presence, God almighty, the creator. When you go out into the world and you're getting gas or gas station or the grocery store, you're it's much smaller thing to talk to somebody else in the flesh, human, than it is to talk to God, the creator. Isn't that amazing? come to the revelation and let the realization that as you're going to give an account eventually one day you want to give a good account. You want to give an account that says listen Lord you gave me this talent and some people will do it at 100%. Some will do it at 60%. Some will do it at 30%. But do something with the talent that he has given you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Thank you for teaching us how to give a good a good account that we are ready to do that that in every moment of every day to the best of our ability because we're flesh. We're we're human and it is challenging and difficult but because we're not God. But we're going to try to be as much like you as possible and as much use the talents that you have given us. Help us use those talents. Help us take up the responsibility of the grace that you've given us to utilize it to save more souls, especially as we come closer to the end times here. Father God, thank you. Thank you for motivating us, encouraging us to share the grace and the gospel with others to let people know that we can be at peace because it is your peace that can that surpasses understanding and that is within us because you gave it to us. You are king of glory. We love you, praise you, and honor you and worship you. And in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye bye. Home Watch the Video Teaching

THE END OF DAYS To help believers understand the biblical perspective of the end of days by reflecting on both personal mortality and God’s ultimate judgment on the nations. The lesson aims to awaken spiritual sensitivity to the frailty of human life, the urgency of repentance, and the necessity of seeking God’s mercy in the midst of His wrath, so that we may be prepared for our individual end and the final culmination of history. THE END OF DAYS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To help believers understand the biblical perspective of the end of days by reflecting on both personal mortality and God’s ultimate judgment on the nations. The lesson aims to awaken spiritual sensitivity to the frailty of human life, the urgency of repentance, and the necessity of seeking God’s mercy in the midst of His wrath, so that we may be prepared for our individual end and the final culmination of history. Synopsis: The teaching begins with Lamentations 4:18, drawing attention to the reality of endings, both personal and cosmic. From early life experiences of life and death cycles, the message reminds us that awareness of mortality is ingrained in human existence. Psalm 39 provides David’s prayer for God to make him aware of his end, showing that recognition of life’s brevity fosters humility, value for life, and readiness for eternity. This awareness combats the human tendency toward indifference. David confessed how silence and inaction in the face of evil only stirred sorrow within him until prayer moved him to action. His prayer was not for strength but for revelation of his own frailty, emphasizing dependence on God. The prophet Habakkuk’s lament mirrors this struggle. He cried out against injustice, perplexed at God’s silence and His use of even more wicked nations to execute judgment. Yet God revealed to Habakkuk His larger plan: both Israel and the nations would face judgment, culminating in the dreadful end of days. This revelation shifted Habakkuk’s prayer from complaint to intercession: “In wrath, remember mercy” (Hab. 3:2). The lesson concludes by urging believers today to view the chaos and lawlessness around us not only as signs of the end but as opportunities to proclaim God’s grace. Instead of fixating on judgment, we are called to embrace God’s heart—that none should perish but all come to repentance. The final exhortation is that while the end of days is certain and God’s wrath inevitable, His mercy is equally available through Christ, who bore judgment at the cross for all who believe. Inspired Teaching: Lamentations 4:18 “They tracked our steps so that we could not walk in our streets, our end was near; our days were over, for our end had come.” Throughout the history of mankind there has always been a group of people fascinated with the end of things, the end of days, and with the end of time. Maybe it is because we experience the death of things on a daily basis, we are not so much aware of it, those of us who live in modern cities that provide us with the comfort of buying things that have already been killed and packaged, but think back to earlier times. I remember when I was a kid growing up in Cuba, even though we lived over the ocean waters, for our house was built on stilts, we still raised chickens on the back deck of the house, and every time my mom was going to fix chicken for dinner one of them had to die. We kept live fish in the well tank of our boat that was tied to the front of the house, and every time that we were going to have fish for dinner, we went to the tank, got the fish out, killed it and cooked it. We did that with pigs and turkeys that we raised for special occasions as well, I even remember a goat that we raised once, it chewed through the wooden boards on the floor and fell through and ended up hanging itself on the chain that it had tied around its neck while its hind legs were dangling over the water. So that the experience of the cycles of life and death, beginning and endings, are well seated within our DNA. But how does the Bible define what we call the end of days, not just generally as of the end of the age, but our personal end as well? Psalm 39:4 “Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am.” David’s prayer gives us great insight as to why we humans are either fascinated, fearful, or willfully indifferent, to the awareness of the end of things as we know them. How many times are we reminded of our mortality? How many times do we ignore it? At the heart of David’s prayer was the cognitive reality that to ignore our personal mortality reduces our ability to prepare ourselves, and our posterity, for the end of the age that will one day come upon the final generation of humans that will live to see that day. David strongly implies that knowing about his personal mortality as well as the duration of his days while here on the earth, would make him more sensitive to the frailty of life. Now here is the implication, it is extremely hard for us humans to really value human life if we are not fully aware of the value of our own life. How do we react to news that a flood or a landslide killed hundreds of people on a far away distant land? First thought that comes to mind is, those things are always happening to those people out there. How do we react when a tragedy like that happens in our own neck of the woods? New York city is still three thousand miles from where I lived in September 11, 2001 and yet I felt, and I still feel, like I was right there when that tragedy happened. Now why is that? Because when we are personally affected by an event that causes many lives to perish, their death becomes more real to us. And that is the idea that Psalm 39 is trying to convey to us. Listen to what it was that caused David to ask God to give him the revelation of: Make me to know my end. Psalm 39:2-3 “I was mute with silence, I held my peace (became indifferent) even from good; and my sorrow was stirred up. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing (just thinking about it), the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue (took action).” Wow! What a powerful description of what moved him. First David said to himself, I am going to keep my mouth shut, I don’t care if it is good or bad, I’m just going to stay out of it. Isn’t that what so many of us do today? Society is going to hell in a hand basket all around us, so many are dying of drug overdose, so many others are shot dead on a daily basis, and well, we just feel so helpless that we tell ourselves to ignore it, for after all, there is nothing that we can really do about it, or so we feel. Then David said that his sorrow was stirred up, what was it that caused David’s sorrow to be moved? He said that while he was just sitting around thinking about the situation and doing nothing, the fire burned. There are two ways to interpret that, one is that while we sit around and muse and do nothing, the fire continuous to rage and consume all around us unopposed, inflicting a heavy toll on society. The other way to interpret that is, that while we are witnessing the heavy toll on life that our indifference is in some way aiding and abetting, it is what causes our inward fire to burn that moves us to do something. What David did was he prayed. Prayer is recognition that we ourselves are unable to change the situation by our own mortal means. It is amazing to me that David in his prayer did not ask God to give him strength to deal with the situation that he was too weak to handle, instead he asked God to reveal to him his weaknesses to the utter most, for this is what David say: That I may know how frail I am. This is so amazing, because it defies human logic. How is me knowing how weak in reality I really am is going to solve the situation? There is a Scripture parallel that applies here I believe, and it is found in the entire book of the prophet Habakkuk. Habakkuk 1:2-4 “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear? Even cry out to You, ‘Violence!’ And you will not save. Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention arises. Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.” Habakkuk was a righteous Israelite man who lived among the sinful people of the nation of Israel of that time. He is praying to God, and he is asking God why He is not answering his prayer, Habakkuk tells God that he is even pointing out the wrongdoing that he sees when he cries out publicly, Violence! Back in Bible days it was customary to cry out publicly, or to publish, when something bad was happening that could affect those around them. In the case of a leprous person having to pass near anyone else that was not infected with leprosy, the victims of leprosy were required by law to cry out loudly, Unclean! Unclean! To warn those around then not to come in close contact with them. In the same manner when a sin was being perpetrated against another in the nation of Israel, it was required of the Israelites to expose the wrong doing publicly, and that is what Habakkuk is saying to God he did, to no avail. Then Habakkuk says this to God: Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? Basically, Habakkuk is saying, Lord if You are not going to answer my prayer of action against lawlessness, why then do you allow me to witness so much evil? After all, if you do not answer my prayer, there is absolutely nothing that I can do about the wrong that is all around me. However, God is trying to teach Habakkuk what David already knew and was teaching us on Psalm 39. Habakkuk 1:5 “Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it was told you.” So, God takes the prophet Habakkuk into a vision of the near future and reveals to him what dreadful end the nation of Israel has coming because of all their sinfulness that they refused to repent from. Habakkuk is in shock when he witnesses first-hand what the utter devastation of all those around him will be. However what troubles him the most is the way in which God executes judgment on Israel. I guess Habakkuk expected some holy and righteous nation to be used by God to judge his faltering nation, but instead God uses a nation that is far worse, as far as sinfulness and cruelty is, than Israel ever was, to judge them. This is how God describes the nation that He will use to judge Israel for all their sinfulness that they have committed against Him. Habakkuk 1:7 “They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.” So that Habakkuk’s prayer changes in emphasis, instead of saying how bad the Israelites really are that lived all around him, now he is asking God how can you use a nation that is far worse than Israel could have ever been to judge us? And then this is what Habakkuk says: Habakkuk 2:1 “I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.” Then God takes Habakkuk into a vision of the future end of days, when the entire earth, along with all the nations, will be judged by God for all their ungodly acts that they have committed against Him. The experience is so traumatic that Habakkuk finally realizes that the judgments of God for the end of days are so completely dreadful, that he now understands how frail human life truly is, and instead of feelings of inadequacy and helplessness, or complaining about all the wrong that was all around him, instead he realizes that the only hope for all humans lies in God’s mercy. Habakkuk 3:2 “O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.” David’s prayer was: Make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Notice how the prayer of Habakkuk mirrors what the prayer of David was, Revive Your work in the midst of the (my) years. I believe that there are no humans that have ever experienced how dreadful the judgments of the end of days are, and who have not prayed this prayer in earnest: Dear Lord, IN THE DAY OF YOUR WRATH, REMEMBER MERCY! We are living in the midst of dire and difficult days, to say the least, for lawlessness and perversion are rampant everywhere we look. But let our prayer emphasis change from, God look at all the evil that is all around us, when are You going to judge it? To the New Testament revelation that says, the more that sins abounds, the more that the grace of God abounds. Let us see what is going on all around us as an opportunity to usher in the grace of God. And we can pray that prayer "in wrath remember mercy" sincerely, only if we have felt the heart of God in this matter. For our God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. That is why Jesus went to the cross. Previous Next Home