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A SPIRIT OF DEEP SLEEP HOVERS OVER AMERICA To awaken believers to the reality that America is under a spirit of deep sleep, leading to blindness, division, and moral decay, and to call the nation to repentance so that God’s intended destiny for America can be restored. A SPIRIT OF DEEP SLEEP HOVERS OVER AMERICA Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To awaken believers to the reality that America is under a spirit of deep sleep, leading to blindness, division, and moral decay, and to call the nation to repentance so that God’s intended destiny for America can be restored. Synopsis: In A Spirit of Deep Sleep Hovers Over America, Pastor Marcos draws from Isaiah 29:10 to expose the spiritual state of America. Just as Israel was blinded by disobedience, America too has fallen into slumber, having lost her moral compass and forsaken the founding principles rooted in God’s will. The silence of prophets and seers, coupled with leaders who honor God with their lips but deny Him in their hearts, has left the nation vulnerable to deception. Pastor Marcos identifies how modern culture—driven by politics, entertainment, and punditry—teaches morality based on the commandments of men rather than the Word of God. This has produced blindness, corruption, and a false sense of security. Yet Isaiah’s warning also carries hope: if the nation repents and returns to God, understanding and true doctrine will be restored. Ultimately, the message is a prophetic call for America to awaken, repent, and reclaim her divine destiny. Without repentance, judgment is inevitable, but with repentance, God promises renewal and the lifting of the spirit of deep sleep. Inspired Teaching: Isaiah 29:10 “For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.” These are indeed difficult times for the faithful here in America, it does not take a political or economic expert to realize that our nation is in great trouble. Morally speaking it’s even worst, we are bitterly divided, and have lost our sense of direction, and it does not look as if it’s going to get better anytime soon. In our Scripture it declares that a spirit is the culprit, a spirit of deep sleep. Now within the context, Isaiah is speaking to Jerusalem, the city of David. But within the greater context, Isaiah’s prophecy can be applied to any great nation that has lost its moral compass. Is there any doubt about America’s greatness? Surely not. Is there any doubt that America has lost her sense of direction? Not from where I’m standing. In this chapter Isaiah is lamenting about the blindness that is caused by disobedience. When persons as well as nations betray the founding principles upon which they were called and/or built, they become blinded to their mission, and become bitterly divided within themselves. The question that I asked when I first read our Scripture, was basically this, what came first? The spirit of deep sleep that closed the eyes and covered the heads of the seers. Or was it the silence of the prophets and seers that allowed the spirit of deep sleep to enter? Some may say, it does not matter at this point. But for me it is important to know, because it is through understanding that wisdom materializes, and it is wisdom that affords us a way of escape, if there is one to be found. Isaiah 29:9 “Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind…” Let us pause and wonder here for a moment. How does a nation blinds itself? By refusing to follow its destiny! Here is where I, as a Christian, disagree with many secular conservative pundits. America is a great nation not because of the many great men and women of her illustrious history, who had great forth sight into the founding and direction that this nation was to follow, and we did have them, thank God. But that is not why America is a great nation, America was destined to become a great nation by God, and I maintain, that the founding fathers knew that, and that is what made them great, they understood the will of God for the nation that they were founding. Isaiah 29:13 “Therefore the Lord said: ‘Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men.’” Have you notice how politicians here in America, after giving some great speech to their constituencies always seem to end with the phrase; God bless America. They honor God with their lips, but they really do not desire God’s will for America in their own hearts. If they did, they wouldn't be doing the things that they do behind our backs. Isaiah 29:15 “Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord, and their works are in the dark; they say, ‘Who sees us?’ and, ‘Who knows us?’” If there is a price for a Bible verse that most reveals how our political process works now days in America, I think I have the winning entry. What was it that the former speaker of the house once said? You have to pass the bill if you want to find out what’s in it. We are finding out alright, and it's not good, so, is par for the course. But here is where we really get into trouble; Fear toward Me (this is what God says) is taught by the commandment of men. Today, morality in America is taught by those whose hearts are far from God. The entertainment industry, whose primary goal is to please their audiences and to make money, are the main drivers of our present-day culture. Pundits who are more worried about ratings than what God says, are telling us, Bible thumping does not work, basically they are saying, keep your God out of it, after all we have made our own moral codes and they are based on the commandments of man, passed by legislators and judges who do their best works in secret, out of the people’s eyes. So, if in spite of all these facts, the citizens of America decide to follow their counsel, then, blind yourselves and be blind! Isaiah 29:14 “Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.” This is how we can confirm that our nation is under a spirit of deep sleep; there is no one left on the scene that is wise or prudent enough to get us out of the mess we are in. The more they try, the deeper in the hole we get, is almost like quicksand. Every time we try to make our situation better by some legislative maneuver, it seems to work against us, and it just makes it worst, we just keep getting deeper in debt. Isaiah 29:8 “It shall be even as when a hungry man dreams, and look—he eats; but he awakes, and his soul still empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and look—he drinks; but he awakes, and indeed he is faint, and his soul still craves: so the multitude of all the nations shall be, who fight against Mount Zion.” Boy it cannot get any more real than what the Lord says; its like living in a dream, isn’t that what happens when you are under the influence of a spirit of deep sleep? We kid ourselves that everything is going to be alright in spite of the mess we are in, we believe it, and reassure ourselves of what we believe, but then we wake up and look at the facts, and man, it keeps getting worse, how is that for reality? One of two things will happen to us, either we as a nation wake up and repent, and ask the Lord to forgive us for deviating from the destiny for which He created America, or the Lord returns and takes the faithful away while He judges the ungodly for their ungodly acts that they have committed. Which one will it be? Well, if we repent this is what will happen: Isaiah 29:24 “These also who erred in spirit (of deep sleep) will come to understanding, and those who complained will learn doctrine.” What a beautiful promise, but here is the key; we have to come to an understanding of the truth before we can learn doctrine. Is America a special nation that God ordained to shine His light during trouble times? Yes, that is the truth! Is America currently living up to the founding principles for which God created her? No she is not, and that’s the truth! What if we do not repent as a nation? Isaiah 29:6 “ You will be punish by the Lord of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire.” The choice is clear, and no matter which pundits approve or disapprove, or what politicians or other groups are offended by our stance, our foundation is in the Bible and the confidence that we have on the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures. Let not our speech be timid, for we have the truth on our side, so let us proclaim it boldly, for we do love this nation, and when we ask God for His blessings upon America is not a slogan that we say to incur favor with people; it flows out of a deeply thankful heart that realizes that without God’s favor upon them, the nations languish in spiritual darkness until they perish from the face of the earth to be no more. Previous Next Home

I AM SOLDIER Equip listeners—especially those who’ve carried labels like “black sheep,” worthless, or dumb—to anchor their identity in Christ. Through Pastor Marcos Marrero’s teaching, which weaves Lisa’s healing testimony, prophetic confirmation, and Scripture on spiritual authority, the message aims to: (1) minister inner healing, (2) call the weary to re-enlist as soldiers in God’s army, and (3) impart how the Word, the blood of Jesus, and the anointing empower believers to resist the enemy and enter God’s rest. < Back I AM SOLDIER Pastor Marcos Marrero February 16, 2007 Objective: Equip listeners—especially those who’ve carried labels like “black sheep,” worthless, or dumb—to anchor their identity in Christ. Through Pastor Marcos Marrero’s teaching, which weaves Lisa’s healing testimony, prophetic confirmation, and Scripture on spiritual authority, the message aims to: (1) minister inner healing, (2) call the weary to re-enlist as soldiers in God’s army, and (3) impart how the Word, the blood of Jesus, and the anointing empower believers to resist the enemy and enter God’s rest. Synopsis: Pastor Marcos Marrero opens audience attendee testimonies—seeing her late father, feeling his embrace, and hearing the liberating words, “You are not worthless and you are not dumb.” The Holy Spirit marks this as a deeply personal deliverance timed with a message on rejection. A confirming prophetic word (“I am reenlisting My army again… Go up again.”) underscores God’s call for those who’ve felt like the family “black sheep” to rise and advance despite past defeats. Teaching from there, Pastor Marcos explains: We don’t fight in our own strength; Jesus gives authority (exousia) over the enemy’s power (dunamis) (Luke 10:19). God’s Word is life-giving energy that exposes lies and heals the inner life (Hebrews 4:12). We enter God’s rest by rejecting a “grasshopper” identity and confronting giants in the truth of who we are in Christ. The blood of Jesus brings us under God’s unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:15–16), a protective radiance the enemy cannot penetrate—fueling bold, loving deliverance ministry. Pastor Marcos closes by inviting listeners to receive the Father’s affirmation, renounce old accusations, and re-enlist. By grace, we are soldiers in God’s army—empowered to expose darkness, set captives free, and move with the fresh wind of the Spirit. Inspired Teaching: This is uh the Lord did something really special. Um my dad passed away uh two years ago, a little over two years ago. And um you know um I just love him so much. And um you know it's like every night I would tell the Lord even though he passed away. I would tell God in my prayers, you know, God tell my dad I love him and and tell him that I'm doing good and you know and uh although I'm the black sheep of the family, I'm going to be the one that makes it. I'm going to see you again, you know. and uh you know and and and then uh the Lord would just you know the Holy Spirit would just you know it was like the Lord just like yeah you know he knows you know I'm I'm going to bless that and I'm going to you know I knew that he knew uh that the Lord told him or he heard me and uh so anyways uh this was Monday at 3:00 a.m. I looked in my journal today and um it was the night that Rod was sharing or or the day that Rod was going to share uh the sermon on rejection and different uh spirits, you know, things like that. And um all my life I have always felt I felt that I wasn't worthy and that I was dumb and I didn't belong. And uh I always just felt, you know, like the the odd man out. And um so um anyways, just to let you know that. Um, so, um, Monday at 3:00 a.m., uh, I had a dream and I had a dream that it was, uh, my family, we were standing in the backyard and it was funny because it was super sunny out and it was like, it was like the 70s, 80s, how I remembered the backyard because of the crab grass we used to have. And it was super sunny out. I mean, extremely, it was really interesting how bright it was. It was almost, you know, you couldn't really. And there was a gentleman standing there. We were standing around him and he was talking about Falling Springs, Big Bear, saying that he just put some money down on some property and that he got a cabin there. And it's interesting because my dad, we used to go to Falling Springs and there was this particular cabin our family used to uh stay at and he just loved Big Bear. And um so we're standing around in the group and um I was on the outside and um on the side of the house here comes walking my dad and I I kind of look I what that's my dad you know and I was really excited you know to see my dad and uh he he was walking like the look on his face was like he was just really really deep in thought. He was like, "Wow." You know, he had that look and he walked around and he came over and he bypassed the family and he sat on the in about the middle of the backyard on the grass Indian style with his arms like this and he just sat there and I left the group and I went over. I was so thrilled to see my dad and I sat down the same way and um my my head was perfect right where his neck was right here and I was oh dad you know was doing that you know and when I reached leaned in to do that I went like that and my skin felt his skin and I felt his warmth and I felt his whiskers and I even smelled his dial soap and my dad's from the south so he was dial soap on his hair. He didn't believe in shampoo. So he always had this dial soap smell and um and you know he was just so in other words I I had it was like all of a sudden I had my five senses. I could smell him. I could feel him. And he was really really there. I was sitting with my dad and he put his arm around me like this. He he never looked at me. He just looked straight ahead and he put his arm around me like this and he just kind of, you know, held me close and and I kind of straightened my neck up and all of a sudden I I I felt uh his his mouth right here and he said to me, I heard his voice and he said to me, he said, "You are not Thank you. You were not worthless and you were not dumb. And I mean he was just said it with such meaning to me and and then he said something really interesting. He said just staring and I looked at him. I saw the side of his face and I looked at him. I was I was really surprised. And he was just like, I'm a dumb dumb dumb daddy. And you know, I guess because of the way my dad was raised with verbal abuse, he was always a macho type man, you know, and he was pretty um verbally, I guess, abusive before the Lord got a hold of him. And it took many years, but I saw God change my dad from a really verbally abusive person to a from a wild man to a really really really loving man. And um and so um I guess maybe that's where I got some of that, but I think most of it too was my drug and alcohol use. I was just the the black sheep in the family. I was a lot like my dad. I was very wild like he was when he was younger. But anyways, um um to make a long story short, I guess um won't take too much time. Um I woke up and I just I sat straight up in bed cuz I was in shock. I needed to hear that so desperately and I had no idea. And you know, but it's true. I did think that I was, you know, unworthy and and I was worthless and I was dumb. And I mean, I would hear that tape play dumb especially all the time. if I couldn't get something, you're dumb. You're not like everybody else. You're stupid, you know. And it was constant. And um so my dad told me that I really needed to hear that. And I was just sobbing and sobbing and sobbing. And it's funny because the night uh the night before that that day, my son had got back from snowboarding. My mother and my brother had the kids uh all weekend. They were really tired. And uh and my brother was passed out. Everybody was passed out. So, I had gotten up going to the bathroom and I had to put a towel, folded towel over my face because I was sobbing so heavy. And um and then I left the bathroom and I'm standing in the middle of the hallway and I'm like, I want to turn on all the lights. I want to get everybody up and I want to tell them I saw my dad and my this is what my dad said to me, you know. And then I I was standing there and the Holy Spirit said to me, "This is for you and you alone." And and then he told me something else. When I saw my dad walk come from the backyard, you know, from the side of the house into the backyard, I was in such surprise to see him. Was totally unexpected that. But I do remember hearing a voice saying something. And the Holy Spirit reminded me and said, "He came a long long long way to tell you this." And I just and I back in the bathroom, you know. See? Anyways, then I finally contained myself somewhat. I went back to bed and I thought, "Oh, I'll probably never see him again." So, I tried real hard to go back to sleep and I couldn't. So, then I looked over at the clock. It was 3:00 a.m. And the Lord told me three means the Trinity and Father, Son, Holy Spirit. And uh and and you know, and then all of a sudden, I just felt this release. I felt like uh I was just uh something happened and you know I don't I don't feel I don't feel worthless and I know I'm not dumb and I needed to hear that and I just wanted to share how good the Lord is. Yeah. And oh, and I just want to say one more thing really quick. And then and then Monday night, I came to the service and there was a lot of stuff that Rod was saying, preaching that I was going, "Oh," and I was checking this off and I was checking that off and I was checking this off and it was just like other stuff that that I need to work on. You know, those other two were out of the way. Yeah, it was great. Praise God. like my first mentor in deliverance and stuff, you know, just just breaking me into that type of of of arena, you know, and he's a power he was a powerful man of God. But Ro's going to come up and share something concerning a prophecy. I believe it was black sheep of the family. I can't relate to that at all. Not not at all. Um, you know, when when uh when I was uh Friday night before I I was the Holy Spirit told me to make sure that to make sure that you were here. I He told me she needs this. She needs to hear it. you know, and and it is amazing how much God loves us, that he will go out of his way to prove to us, to show us how much he loves us. We're not rejected. He'll never reject us, you know, and and and it's it's it's really funny because, you know, the same thing happened to me with uh the the gentleman that I'm I'm I'm going to read his prophecy that that he wrote to uh uh the church of uh the body of Christ. Um he came over. I mean, this this guy, Chuck Pierce, is a is a he he prophesies to nations and and he is right on. He nails it right on the head, you know, and uh I I'll we could go late. Um, and when when we were in that when when we were at that conference in San Jose, the the the night before he prophesied over me and then um the next morning we, you know, it was it was the last it was the last uh day of the thing and it was only half day. I saw him come in the the the sanctuary and he belineed straight towards me. He just walked straight towards me and he shook he shook Fred's hand. He's looking at me, shaking Fred's hand, shaking Marcos's hand, and he hugged me, you know, he he's kind of a big guy. He just hugged me like, you know, I just I just melted and he said he said, "God, when I went to bed last night, God put you on my heart and he just wanted to show tell you how much he loves you." And I'm thinking, "Oh, that's really neat," you know, and all a sudden, you know, we're walking out and Freddy, did you hear that? Did you hear what he said? Do you understand that? I said, 'What do you mean? This guy's a he prophesies to nations and he God put you on his heart, you know, and and and when he hugged me, when he hugged me, it was so amazing because, you know, I was born and raised in church, you know, and and and my grandfather, he started, you know, 85 years ago, you know, and and and he was he was uh Marcos's mentor, you know, and and when he hugged me, that was the first time in my entire life that I truly felt the love of God. It was amazing. It was unbelievable. But yeah, I mean, we we need that every once again, you know, especially us black sheep, you know. Um, this is a this is a a prophecy that was uh uh we're on the his uh uh Gloria Zion's uh u email list and and he sent this uh yesterday and uh you know I I read about the first part of what he says and then I get here Linda you read the rest you know but when I started reading this this is what we are going through this was just confirmation after confirmation. This applies to a vision for Wilmington. It applies to Fred Marcos. It applies to everyone in here. And I mean, I start reading it and Linda is standing there. She I'm sitting there go, you know, dripping on the computer, you know, that I I won't do that. I promise. No, I shouldn't do that. I probably will. Um, the title is I am reinlisting my army again. I am breaking the power of passivity from my people. Go up. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. Oh man, the thing is cut off. Okay, I'll I'll add live. It says uh go up against again. The enemy has stopped you and numbed your spirit in the past season. I am anointing you to go up again. I am lifting man. It's cut off. I am lifting I'm lifting something under the piles of of defeats that have caused you to be quiet and passive. Though you have been buried with work and everyday life and and circumstances, I am removing the layers of sod and decay that have held you captive. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. The wind is blowing in the trees. I am sending a sound in the tree treetops. Go up again, child. Come from behind. Catch up and go up again. I have brought you from behind and you shall hear the the the wind in the trees. The breeze will be your sign to go up again. Go up again. Get hold of your of your emotions and go up again. Even your enemy has mounted up again. I am sending a new wind. Catch the wind and go up again. This new wind will become your mantle. I am redefining your enemies. You will go up again. You will shout. This is my assignment now. This is what I am called to do. Though the enemy has advanced and made headway with his adverse wind, I am bringing you I am bringing you up to a new place to equip you. When you go up again, you will face your enemy with with my new wind. And the enemy will not win again. Even if you have fallen because the relationships have blocked of relationships or blocked supply or have been confused over your your purpose and vision. I say you will go up again. Catch the wind and go again. Reach down. Reach down to my power that is within. Catch the wind and go again. Reach down. Reach down. Reach down for new strength. I placed within. reach down, rise up, and go again. Though my people have been anointed before, the next the the next anointing, I am bringing my people in an anointing that will be known as your fear will laugh. This anointing will cause you to proceed to a new place of breakthrough. This anointing will cause your enemy to become alert against you, to rise up, become alert. I am allowing your enemy to surround you because I have a a strategy for you to go up again against the enemy. Hear the wind. Find your path in the midst of the fray and go up again. Victory is sure. Do not fear the quaking for it is a sign that I am getting ready to reach in. Pull up and reach down again. Even though the enemy and and legalism has risen in the land, I am causing a people to reach up, grab my hand, and stand up again. This is a nation that will quake. In the middle of the quaking, I am again breaking a open a seal of heaven that will cause earth to change drastically. Do not fear when the Lord shakes the foundation. Do not fear when it quakes. Do not fear when the Lord shakes the foundation. Do not fear when it quakes. For you were standing on unsure ground with an unstable future. But the shifting of the plates of the earth and the gifts of the earth for this age in this season will create a major shift in administr in administrative systems. The quaking will cause a different sound to arise in the peoples. A revolutionary sound is rising in the land. That sound will be heard and my and call many into place. Different peoples will align. The ethnos groups are aligning in the house of prayer. A new sound is arising in the church and there will be one man worshiping. Heaven is beginning to resound to earth's cry. This cry will get louder and louder until the enemy's voice is silenced for the season in the earth. There are unccurrens undercurrens flowing and there is confusion and workings in the midst of my plan. I say the enemy is working at work to attempt to stop that which I am sending forth in this hour. But I say that in the midst of an undercurrent, I'm creating a people who will stand above the swirl of the enemy's camp. I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will ride on the wings of the wind. Above the swirl of the enemy's camp, I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will execute true justice. I will release mercy and compassion. Brother will rise up again with brother, sister with sister, and we will move out and possess this land. We will ride and possess this land. We will move and possess this land. We will move and possess this land. Generation with generation, old and the young will move as one. Old and the young will move as one. A new alignment is happening in cities. Do not accue Do not allow the accuser to accuse you over the past. Do not allow the accuser to stop you from moving forward. Do not allow the accuser to say, "In the past, you tried that and it didn't work. For I am bringing a new anointing that will create a new method and a new way for you to go. I am seeding the court of heaven and the court of earth will reflect that which is in heaven." This is a new measure of rule coming to my people. I am breaking the generational fear structure that robbed the a generation of boldness. I am removing a fear base. Fear has been passed from generation to generation, but three generations will rise again and catch this new wind to go up again. You will feel as if you have had surgery. For I will remove a root of fear so that that you can go up again. You will begin to say again the word of the Lord has come to me. Decree that the word of the Lord will come. Again the word will come. Not the word that heard that you've heard in the past but a word again. The word will come and you will say that I am hearing a God in heaven who is refreshing and giving me boldness again. The word will come again. The I am birthing the next dimension of revelation. You have endured and pressed through. So I will now come again. I am ready to bring my word. I am becoming zealous again. My zeal has arisen again. My fervor is rising in you again. My seed will prosper again. I am reinlisting my army again. From your past faith demonstrations, you have gained the right to be my in my army. Because of the cares of the world, you have left your post. I am calling you again to reinlist. Old men and old women will dance in the streets and isles of my places of gathering. A new call is coming and my people will prosper again. I'm calling forth again those that have gone forth in the past. I am putting them in my ranks again. I'm calling them in again. I'm fanning their flame again. For this is a day of reinlistment for the wind is blowing again because the wind is blowing again. I am reinlisting my people. I'm putting the staff in my in my people's hand again. The old men and the old women are now receiving the staff again. The old men and the old women will begin to dance in the streets with the young men and women and girls and boys. This will create a new rule of Zion. This will create a new rule and Zion will be established in the earth in a new way. Those who have gone before, stretch out your hands again. For I am putting a new staff in your hands and will cause you to hear my voice in a new way. I am redefining your call. The generation that's risen can dance in the streets and exhibit new faith. Just like Caleb, who was 80 years old when he really started to rule, reach out your hands and take up the staff again. I am redefining your gift and sending you out again. The old and new will become dance partners. The old and young will rejoice together. I am reinlisting my troops and I will give my reinlistment bonuses in the earth for the wind is blowing. I am calling my people again. Rise up and follow me into victory. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Though unity was thwarted in the in the last season and the enemy came in like a flood, I am reinlisting my troops and I will bring forth that I had planned. That which I have spoken will not return void to me. I will stir up my people with a new anointing and a new strength will blend together and my army will rule the streets of their nations. Grab hold of the new staff I am extending. Let your hands be strong. Let your hands be strong. For the words the prophets have spoken, though they've lain dormant and have not blossomed, I say, let your hands be strong. For I will be activating words and accelerating my purposes. This season, my word is coming forth. Don't be don't get left behind. My word is coming again. Rise up again. A righteous man falls seven times and gets up. So shake off your words and rise again. I will build my house again. The old and the young will shout together. It will be a sound that has not been heard in this season. This is a day of rebuilding and completing what has been what had what was begun in one generation. Though the foundation has been shaky and the people have been divided and the world has drawn many away, now I will build my house again. For I am repairing the foundation, and I am lifting up that which is sagged. I am leveling out that which was crooked. And today I start the process. For the wind is blowing again. And even though you have met each other and met me before, now you will meet me in a new way and see each other in a new way in in the way that I see you. Let go. Let go the things of the past. Let go. Let go the things of the past and catch the new wind blowing forth. I am reinlisting. Hear my call and receive your bonus as you come forth. It's all you. All right. Praise God. Uh, I need you to email me that, Rod, please. I'm gonna tell you, first of all, the lesson tonight. Remember, uh, when I was here last week, for those of you who were not here, uh, it was an unfinished lesson, which is, by the way, first page that you have in your notes. It ended, it had about that much left. And, uh, I told Fred, I didn't make no copies because the lesson was never finished. The Lord just didn't give me the end of it. So, as soon as I preached last Friday night, next morning I got the lesson, the second part of the lesson. And guess what? We ended last week with what am I? Paul says, I am what I am. And then I asked a question, what am I? Or what am I? And guess what the Lord showed me? You're a soldier. That's what we're going to be talking about tonight. And he just had that talking about our identity. I mean that prophecy. Let me tell you how how far back that prophecy and I know that uh that time you know uh but let I got to share this with you because it goes with what you were saying. Um um I don't know if it was before her dad passed away or but we went to visit her mom and dad. I heard that might might have been dead already. I don't know if it was 2001 when he passed away was 2002, but her mom lived in a remote part of uh Arkansas in Conway. They retired by a lake and there's a lot of wood. So, we went out there on vacation. We drove and uh we were going to leave that morning about 11. And so, that gave her time to spend, you know, time with her mom and stuff like that. So, I got up early and decided to go to prayer. So, I went and I walked They they have a lot of lakes over there. And so I walk a couple of miles. Then I found a real wooded area all while over there in Arkansas. So I saw a trail. So I get into the trail and I'm walking for a quiet place to pray and I come to a crossroads of trail and I'm standing in the middle and you know everything is are pretty high. I can see that the trail makes a perfect cross where I'm standing at. I looked at the trail that goes that way and then it curves so you can't see no more. So you can see here and then as I look that way the trail goes farther and then it curves and then you can see no more. And then you can see this other trail where they curve and I can see that it makes a perfect cross. This is in the middle of the wood like about 7 8 o'lock in the morning in Arkansas. So I get down on my knees and you know you're in the uh dirt and all of that stuff so I can't really lay down or anything. So I just get down on my knees and I began to pray and I began to pray uh asking the Lord for direction and guidance and all things and all of a sudden you're talking about the rustling of the trees. Here comes and this was weird because you can tell it's not natural when you feel it right. So this wind comes in and and and it blowing right on the top of the trees and and I know man the Holy Spirit is answering me right right now. I got both of my hands up and the wind blows and it blows just on one hand. It's weird. You could feel the breeze blowing but it hitting just one hand. I don't know what my left hand went numb or my head went numb. The only I could only feel the wind on this hand while I was praying. It was a a very strange uh uh experience that I had. So then we got on the road and we left around 11 11:30. I told her what had happened and I'm driving straight through. I was a lot younger back then. I I can't do it now, but I'm driving straight through. So 3:00 in the morning, we left Arkansas maybe 9 or 10 or 11, whatever. But 3:00 in the morning, we're somewhere in Arizona. And I am driving. It's a beautiful night out. I'm I'm and looking at at the stars and everything. As you know, the jets fly from east to west and they leave that vapor trail. And so there's just I'm seeing just as I'm driving and looking out at the night all of these trails going and one jet came across this way and it formed there was just one trail this way and one it forms a perfect cross right in the middle but the the winds up in the atmosphere was so heavy that everything was blowing real fast. So this cross is just sitting there and it's not moving. All the jets go by their trail disappears and I cross the land. I said, "Boy, I've been driving too long. But I need a break. Something is going on in and mine. So I um I finally about after five or 10 minutes of this amen I wake her up because she was just laying there asleep. I said look at honey this thing won't won't go away. And remember I have been praying that morning in what is it for a cross just like what happened on the earth God is just replicating it up in heaven. And and it's weird now. So 25 30 minutes go by. She's already been out 50 minutes. We see all their jets pay for trail. The wind blows it away and this cross is just formed right there perfectly from and it was at an angle like that cross as it was in the sky like that and it was at an angle. So anyway, just as we're wondering you know what what this is or whatever then all of a sudden the cross begins to dissipate begins to break like 25 30 minutes after I seen it. And yes, as we're coming there, we're in the middle of the desert nowhere. We come into this little mountain and the sign says cross mountain road. Cross Mountain Road. In other words, there's a a and and so later uh in 2003, I believe it was, we're going back and I said, "We got to go to that place, Cross Mountain Road." The Lord took us to Las Vegas. We formed a cross in Las Vegas to where we were a La Plaza Hotel. we anointed. That's when I had the experience of the Lord took me. And in that experience where the Lord took me, I to make it up the hill, the Lord put a staff in my hand. That's why all of the things that the prophecy is talking about there, I experience. So, I need you to to email me that. Okay. But, uh, but the thing is, you know, like you were saying in your testimony, God knows us and God is real. And when God will allow us to to, you know, doggy paddle for a while, but when it comes to time, he chose himself up. And and and that's one thing about God that he chose himself up. And there is something I mean, I can tell you from from the 21 years now that I've been serving the Lord that there's something going on now different than it's ever gone before. Something is happening in the spiritual realm. God is getting ready to do something so totally different that we need to open our minds to believe for for things that we could never even think of. Amen. And when the Lord gave me this revelation to to share this this uh four weeks, I want you to know that this is what what has been in my heart. What my heart is that that which is soul and he kept saying that in the prophecy, God is doing away with it. God is changing the way he does business. This is an end time. You know what happened when when you're doing something and it gets contaminated, you throw it away and you get something new. You know, Fred was painting this week. He said, "You take that spackle and you start putting it on the cracks and then all of a sudden your spackle gets all full of debris and stuff like that and then you're making more of a mess and then do anything. You got to get rid of that old contaminated thing. Throw it away and then you come with something brand new, something that has been that has not been used, something that is not contaminated." And that's what God is doing. And guess what? The number one qualification to be part of that army, you got to be a black sheep. Because you see what God is doing, God is dealing with the rejected. If if you look at it, that's who God is going after. God is going after. Did you know that uh you were talking about uh worthlessness? That's a spirit is a spirit of blay. It appears in the King James version of the Bible 17 times by name. And Hannah who was uh uh the mother of Samuel uh was married to Arcana and she was worthless. He had two wife. One was very productive, gave him a lot of kids. Hannah couldn't have no children. You see that represents the old way of doing thing and the new way of doing thing. Every time he came to Jerusalem like they were required, he would give his wife Hannah that was bearing a double portion of everything. But yet she wasn't satisfied. She felt rejected. The other wife tormented her all the time. Said, "You're worthless. You're good for nothing. You can't even give your husband children." And this torment went on. One time she went into the temple and threw herself at the door. Wouldn't eat, wouldn't do nothing. She cried and cried and cried and cried. She was sobbing so much that Eli the high priest said, "Woman, if you're going to get drunk, go get drunk someplace else. Don't come to do it in the house of the Lord." Okay. Jesus, I am not drunk. He said, I am here because my spirit is see that Eli priest who was corrupted. He well at least his uh his songs were corrupted and and he died when when the glory left departed the temple. But that man had to speak something into her life. And when he heard her cry, he says, "Be it unto you according to your faith." It was when she says, "I am not a daughter of Bile." When Samuel Eli the priest came in and said, "You a a woman, worthless woman, what are you doing here crying at the door of the temple?" And she says, "No, I am not a daughter of a lion." When she was saying, "I am not worthless. I may not be reproductive right now. I may be tormented. I may be going through all of the things, but I am not worthless." And the minute she spoke that says I am not worthless. Eli the high priest had to speak because he was in the office. I said next year by this time you going to have a son. And that son was Samuel who was able to introduce Israel to the new that God was doing. He was the man who anointed kings. He was a man the change from the judges to the kingdom of God. And that's what's going on right now. A lot of us may feel like uh Hannah. But when we come to that place where we can cry, I am not worthless. I may have been rejected by religion and I may be rejected by tradition and I may be rejected by all of the norms of men, but I am here to tell you that I am not worthless because I know that God has a plan and purpose for my life. And when we cried out, that cry out, then that's what that voice in your ear makes. That's the Holy Spirit, by the way. The reason why it wouldn't look you, it was just taking the form of your doubt so that you could see it. It was the Holy Spirit speaking to you. And when the Holy Spirit speaks into your ear and he was just putting something in your spirit that you're not worthless. And when that gets placed into your spirit, that is when you conceive. It says that she went home and instantly she conceived. And nine months later, she had a a a young man named Samuel. And that's what's going on right now. By the way, the Holy Spirit is speaking to a lot of people who have been rejected. Anyway, let me go over real quick to what we um we talked about last week. We're talking about dominion. How there were three things that would cause us to turn the dominion over to Satan. The first one was in Psalm 193 where he says, "Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me." So presumptuous sense, that's when we presume that we're called of God or that God has told us to do this or that. That's operating on the uh senses, the realm of the senses. That can cause us to turn dominion over to the enemy. Psalm 119:13 said, "Direct my step by your word, and let no iniquity have no have dominion over me." Iniquity, as I taught two weeks ago, is harlotry is at the root of all iniquity. Harlotry meaning worshiping something other than God. Okay? And and and and the way the Israelites did it is they put Baal. Baal means Lord. As a matter of fact, the Bible calls God because that was their their word at the time, Baal twice. It means Lord. So they were actually mixing their religion to where they were worshiping Nimrod, but yet they call him Jehovah or they called him Lord. And that is what iniquity, the root of all iniquity is worshiping God, thinking you're worshiping God, but in reality you're not worshiping God. You're worshiping something that is demonic. And then the third one that always turns the dominion over. Why? Because if you're giving, worship comes from an old English word. That means worth giving. giving value. When you worship something, you're given a value above yourself. Previous Next Home

< Back KINGS AND PRIESTS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical foundation of spiritual and physical authority, the divine separation of powers instituted by God for humanity’s protection, and how in Christ, both kingship and priesthood are united. The lesson aims to show that through Jesus’ victory on the cross, believers are restored to operate in both realms—spiritual and physical—empowered to fulfill God’s purpose as kings and priests unto Him. Synopsis: In Kings and Priests, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores Revelation 1:6, highlighting God’s intent for His people to walk in dual authority—both physical (kingship) and spiritual (priesthood). From the beginning of creation, man was entrusted with these two realms of power, yet due to human pride and corruption, God separated them for humanity’s protection. In the Old Testament, kings ruled with physical authority while priests carried spiritual authority, symbolized by the Urim and Thummim, which provided divine guidance. The teaching traces key biblical moments where this division was tested: Saul’s downfall for usurping the priesthood, the rebellion at Babel, and Abraham’s choice in the King’s Valley between physical riches and spiritual covenant. Each example illustrates the danger of combining authority without God’s sanction, as unchecked power often led to oppression and destruction. Ultimately, Pastor Marcos explains that in Jesus Christ—who declared, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth”—both realms of power have been perfectly united. Unlike fallen man, Christ cannot be corrupted by absolute power. Through His cross and resurrection, He abolished the separation, granting believers access to both spiritual and physical authority under His lordship. This restored identity calls Christians to live as kings and priests, exercising authority with humility, advancing God’s kingdom, and discipling nations as commanded in Matthew 28:19-20. The message concludes with a call to embrace this divine commission: to walk in the fullness of Christ’s authority, balancing the spiritual and the natural, and to use this united power to bring light, truth, and deliverance to a world increasingly corrupted by humanistic and godless systems. Written teaching: Revelation 1:6 “And has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” From the beginning of time God made it clear to His creation that there are two distinct levels of authority given to man; physical authority and spiritual authority. From the beginning of time fallen man made it clear to the creation that he cannot handle both powers without falling prey to the spirit of pride, the pride that rises up when this combined authority is given to a fallen human man. You might have heard this human saying: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The present history of the nations reveal the scars caused by madmen who were given too much power and fell into pride, and before their fall, they took along with them millions of lives and caused untold sufferings. As we study the Old Testament we see this power divided, not only in the way the kings of Israel and Judah ruled, but also in the way secular rulers governed their kingdoms; all kings availed themselves of the counsel of spiritual advisers called priests or seers. The reason why kings needed spiritual counsel was because God deprived them of spiritual revelation as long as they ruled as kings, thereby separating their physical power from the spiritual power. In other words, they had to depend on the judgment of somebody else in order to avail themselves of spiritual revelation. Exodus 28:30 “And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim (Lights and the Perfections), and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord. So Aaron shall bear the judgment (decision making tools) of the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually.” When God brought the nation of Israel out of Egypt to give them their own land, He made provisions for them as to how their leaders were to handle both of these powers after they became a nation. The Urim and the Thummim were placed on the breastplate that the priest was to wear before he went into the Lord’s Presence, along with the twelve stones that represented each one of the tribes of Israel. The function of these two stones was to ask the Lord for guidance and direction in both physical and spiritual matters. That way, they could be certain that when the Lord answered them, that they had received perfect light or complete enlightenment as how to precede in any given matter. 1 Samuel 28:6 “And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets.” It was not long after Israel became a nation, that they wanted to be ruled by a king like the other nations. They did not like the way that God had set up their government, for at that time they were ruled by priests, judges, and prophets. God had divided the power of their leaders to keep them from becoming dictators who imposed their own will over God’s people. Saul, who was their first king, violated this separation of powers that God had set up to protect Israel from oppression, and thereby, Saul lost his ability to receive direction from God. This lesson is about the interactions between spiritual and physical authority, the restrictions that God placed between them and why, and how God has restored back to the Man Jesus, all spiritual and physical authority, and how this dual authority has been made available to all of us who are believers of the resurrected Christ. Matthew 28:18 “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth (physical and spiritual).’” Before the flood of Noah’s day, interactions between the spiritual realm and physical realm were common, which led to the corruption of the entire human race, except for Noah and his children. After the destruction of the entire human race—except for the eight souls that God spared— God separated man’s ability to rule in both, the physical and spiritual realms through one man. After Nimrod lead a rebellion and built a tower to reach to the heavens, God extended the separation to include the common language of men so as to frustrate man’s ability to operate in both realms singularly. Is not that God does not want man to have rule over both realms, but rather to protect mankind from the dangers that the abuse of such great power ushers into society, when fallen men are empowered by them. Genesis 14:17-18 “And the king of Sodom went out to meet him (Abraham) at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley), after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him. Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.” Abraham went to war in order to rescue his nephew Lot, who had been taken captive by an invading army. In his victory, Abraham also gained all the peoples that had been taken captive along with Lot. As Abraham returns with the spoils, he is met by the king of Sodom and the king of Salem in a place called the King’s Valley. What happened next determined the future of Abraham and the covenant that God made with him afterwards. As we look at it from the spiritual perspective, we notice that Abraham became a king—one who wields physical authority—by defeating other kings and taking the spoil away from them. As Abraham arrives to the Valley of the Kings, he is acknowledged by two other kings. The king of Sodom who was himself defeated by the kings that Abraham had just defeated, tells Abraham to keep all the spoils, and just return his people to him that had been taken captive by the invading army. He simply recognized the fact that Abraham was a greater king than he was. The other king is Melchizedek who offers Abraham bread and wine, which are the implements of a covenant. God gave Abraham a choice that day, when he ascended into the King’s Valley—between spiritual authority and physical authority—Abraham had to choose between becoming a king or a priest. Notice that Melchizedek was not only king of Salem, but he was also priest of the Most High God. Genesis 14:22-23 “But Abram said to the king of Sodom, ‘I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth (the Possessor of all physical and spiritual authority), that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, “I have made Abram rich”.’” Two great things happened that day; first, Abram who was a spiritual man, recognized the division that God had set between physical and spiritual authority, and the fact that he could not have both. Secondly, he was quick to recognize that God was giving him a choice between the physical gains that he had earned in battle—gains which passes away—and a spiritual covenant of grace that endures forever. Romans 4:1-3 “What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’” The reason king Saul did not receive an answer from God when he inquired of the Lord, was because he took it upon himself to offer sacrifices to God, which is the ministry of the priesthood, thereby violating the separation of powers that God had ordained between spiritual and physical authority. Looking at the big picture, when God ordained spiritual authority that He established for the nations are usurped by those who rule over the physical realm, the blessings of God upon that nation dries up. As the Judeo-Christian principles upon which many of the western nations were established are replaced by the godless doctrines of secular humanism, the decline of western civilization increases to the point to where the rule of law becomes a choice that lawless leaders make. In the United States, the secular humanist have fought long and hard to remove any vestige of the Judeo-Christian principles upon which our founding fathers anchored the moral values and virtues that should govern our nation. We can measure the decline of our nation’s power and influence by the quantity of the moral values and virtues that it has rejected. We know that the secular humanist movement against the principles established by our founding fathers have succeeded by the fact that instead of receiving honorable decisions from our leaders that benefit the people, we get nothing but lies and deception from them. Looking at it from the individual point of view, we can see that for those of us who are in Christ, it has been granted to us to operate in the power of both, the physical and the spiritual realms. Ephesians 2:14-16 “For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation (between spiritual and physical power), having abolished in His flesh (Jesus is the only perfect human who cannot be corrupted by absolute power) the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.” What is the difference between us and those in the Old Testament? The cross! One cannot become a follower of Jesus unless we first, with Him, bear our very own cross. Death to self is the key that opens the door that allows us access to the united spiritual and physical power. Ephesians 2:18 “For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.” Those of us who have taken our infirmities and mortality to the cross of Jesus, we have the spiritual and the physical power that binds us together as a nation out of the many nations, for the deliverance of the nations. In the natural, the godless and their godlessness seems to be advancing, but in reality, by the decline that their godless deeds produce, the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is made clearer and clearer to those who were fooled before into believing their dead humanistic doctrines. This is what Jesus said after He told us that all power in heaven and on earth had been given to Him, and this is what we should do in the face of all this godlessness that is going on, here is the antidote to all their lies: Matthew 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Previous Home Next

I HAVE CHOSEN The objective of this teaching is to reveal the power and responsibility of choice as given by God, showing that every believer has been granted the freedom to choose the way of truth or the way of deception. By examining Scripture, it emphasizes how our decisions open doors that affect our spiritual condition, eternal destiny, and daily walk with Christ. The lesson seeks to guide believers toward consistently choosing God’s truth, walking in His statutes, and clinging to the covering of Jesus Christ for strength, holiness, and victory. I HAVE CHOSEN Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the power and responsibility of choice as given by God, showing that every believer has been granted the freedom to choose the way of truth or the way of deception. By examining Scripture, it emphasizes how our decisions open doors that affect our spiritual condition, eternal destiny, and daily walk with Christ. The lesson seeks to guide believers toward consistently choosing God’s truth, walking in His statutes, and clinging to the covering of Jesus Christ for strength, holiness, and victory. Synopsis: In I Have Chosen, Pastor Marcos Marrero teaches from Psalm 119:30, highlighting the radical gift of choice that God has given to humanity since the beginning of creation. While history and nations often seek to strip people of their freedom, God created man in His image with the ability to choose, first demonstrated in Adam’s choice in the Garden. Though Adam failed, God’s plan of redemption through Christ offers believers the covering of His righteousness and the continual opportunity to walk in truth. The message underscores that being born again does not remove the daily need to choose. As long as we live in mortal bodies, we face temptations and consequences from wrong decisions. Yet God, who has already chosen to love us and provide salvation through Christ’s blood, calls us to walk in the light and open the right doors of obedience and fellowship. Using Psalm 119:25–32, Pastor Marrero draws parallels between choices and doors, teaching that opening our hearts to Christ leads to life, strength, and freedom, while wrong choices open doors to destruction. The psalmist’s prayers—seeking revival, understanding, truth, and strength—become a model for believers to cling to God’s testimonies and run in the path of His commandments. The lesson concludes with a call to embrace God’s way of truth wholeheartedly, knowing that He enlarges our hearts to receive His wisdom and grace. Ultimately, the believer’s life is shaped not by the world’s restrictions, but by the eternal liberty of choosing Christ daily. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 119:30 “I have chosen the way of truth; Your judgments I have laid before me.” Choice is one of the most, if not the most radical concept that has ever been introduced to mankind. I know that many of us here in the west take this concept of choice for granted sometimes. But if we take a sober look at the history of mankind, we will come to the conclusion that the majority of humanity never had much of a choice as far as to how they wanted to conduct their lives. Even today, there are many that are born in nations that refuse to give them a choice, be it freedom of movement, freedom of religion, or even, economic freedom. If you are born today into a religion that proclaims that to depart from such religion is a crime that is punishable by death, you clearly do not have much of a religious choice, that is, if you want to go on living. You would be surprise to know how many nations today forbid the right of their citizens to choose which God they want to worship. And if you are a Christian in certain parts of Iraq today, you will be forced to renounce Christ and convert to Islam, and if not, you will die, even if your family had lived in those areas as Christians for hundreds of years. That is the history of humanity in a nut shell, seems like there is always somebody who thinks that he knows what is better for everybody else, and for some reason they are the ones that end up with the power to lord it over everybody else. From a biblical perspective let us take a look as to where does the right to choose originate from. Genesis 2:16-17 “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’” Even before Eve was created, the first man, who was created in the image of God, was given a choice; everything was made available to him except one, for he was forbidden to partake of the tree of dead. God is sovereign, that means that He does whatever He chooses to do. Adam was created in the image of God, so he was made a sovereign creature. The difference between Adam and God, is that God is Good, so that God can never choose to do wrong, however, even though Adam was made sovereign, he was also naked, that means that he had not yet been clothed with God’s eternal goodness and immortality, since he had not yet partaken of the tree of life, therefore he is forbidden to partake of that which can kill him. But if Adam partakes of the tree of life first, he makes the tree of death obsolete. For the tree of life offers to cover Adam with God’s goodness and immortality. Which by the way is what Jesus covers us with. Romans 13:12, 14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on (clothe ourselves with) the armor of light...But put on (cover ourselves with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” This is why when we are born again, that is Jesus becomes the covering for our nakedness, God considers us good and without sin. 1 John 3:9 “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed (Jesus our covering) remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” That is because as far as God is concerned, when we came before His throne and confessed our sins before Him, He killed us, for the soul that sins shall surely die. But since we came before His throne in the name of Jesus, the death of Jesus on the cross is imputed to us, and our sins are forgiven, and Jesus covers us with His goodness and His eternal life. But even after we become born again, we still have to make choices, for as long as we remain in our mortal bodies that we inherited from Adam, we will always be plagued by our propensity to sin. 1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” So that from the spiritual perspective God only sees the atoning blood of Jesus when He looks at us, for His seed, God’s Son, remains in us, therefore we cannot sin. But from the physical perspective we still have to make choices, and wrong choices bring bad consequences. 1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light (here is our choice) as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” So that as born-again believers, the choices that we make will determine what our condition will be in any given circumstance. God already made His choice; He chose to love us, for He is love. He provided for us the cleansing agent, which is the blood of Jesus. Now it is up to us to either walk in the light, which is the revelation of His salvation to us, or we can choose to follow after the desires of our flesh, and fall into the other choice that God has made for those who reject His free offer of grace and salvation. Jeremiah 34:17 “Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,’ says the Lord— ‘to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.’” Isn’t it amazing that while the world is seeking to enslave men, and to deprive them of choice, and to keep them captive, God is in the business of freedom of choice. Even when enlightened men, those who should know better, for they have tasted of the freedom that comes from knowing God—turn their backs on God’s grace and love—it is their choice that God gives them the freedom to fall into, no matter how bad their choices are for them. In our opening text, the eight verses of Psalm 119, verses 25–32, correspond with the Hebrew letter Daleth, which means door. A door is a place of entrance, no one can be born again unless he first opens the door of his heart to let the Lord in. Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.” So that the choices that we make open doors through which we will have to transverse, whether we like it or not, so that it becomes very important that we understand where the doors lead that we open by the choices that we make. Psalm 119:25 “My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.” We open the door to our Lord’s salvation when we come to the realization that we cannot save ourselves. My soul clings to the dust, so we seek the salvation that is prescribed in God’s Word. How does God Word say that we are to be saved? Psalm 119:26 “I have declare my ways (confessed my sins), and You answered me (You saved me); teach me Your statutes.” Why do we need to learn His statutes? Because our choices open doors, and now that we are saved we do not want to open doors that are not in our best interest. We want to make choices that align with the plans that He has for our lives. Revelation 3:7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens.’” We want the doors that the Lord opens to remain open, and we want the doors that the Lord closes to remain close. In order for that to happen we need to learn His statutes and make the choices that they prescribe. Psalm 119:27 “Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.” Understanding is what we are trying to gain from this lesson. If we can be made vividly aware of the ill consequences of unwise choices, we would think twice before we make them. Do we really want liberty to fall to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine? I say that is not a liberty that I want. O Lord, please close that door and keep me as far away from it as possible! We can only pray that prayer with real faith if we are made aware, that is, we understand the perils that those wrong choices can bring into our lives. Psalm 119:28 “My soul melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to You word.” Imagine that! It seems like the psalmist knew a thing or two about wrong choices, his words seem to cry out, not my will O Lord, not my will, but according to Your Word! Psalm 119:29 “Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me Your law graciously.” A lie is always the perversion of truth. Since we desire the truth of His Word, we need to stay focus on His law, or Word of grace. It is not by works that we have done, but by His grace that we are saved! Psalm 119:31 “I cling to Your testimonies; O Lord, do not put me to shame!” Once the right choice was made in verse 30: I have chosen the way of truth, now we cling to His promised salvation, and as we do, we will not be put to shame. Psalm 119:32 “I will run the course of Your commandments, for You shall enlarge my heart.” What a beautiful promise we conclude with, a heart that is big enough to receive tremendous enlightenment, and yet, a heart that is able to remain humble and accessible to God at all times. I want to be like that! Don’t you? Previous Next Home

AND WE ARE NOT SAVED! To reveal the dangers of rejecting God’s truth while trusting in false assurances, using Jeremiah’s warning to Israel as both a historical lesson and a prophetic parallel for the last days. The teaching aims to awaken believers and nations to the reality of God’s coming judgment, emphasize the responsibility of testing all doctrines against Scripture, and urge a steadfast commitment to Christ in order to be preserved from the final hour of trial. AND WE ARE NOT SAVED! Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To reveal the dangers of rejecting God’s truth while trusting in false assurances, using Jeremiah’s warning to Israel as both a historical lesson and a prophetic parallel for the last days. The teaching aims to awaken believers and nations to the reality of God’s coming judgment, emphasize the responsibility of testing all doctrines against Scripture, and urge a steadfast commitment to Christ in order to be preserved from the final hour of trial. Synopsis: Jeremiah, known as the “weeping prophet,” was tasked with proclaiming the impending destruction of Judah—a nation that had once been exalted by God but now deceived itself through lies and false prophets. Though they knew their history of deliverance from Egypt, victory under Joshua, and glory under David and Solomon, Judah foolishly believed that the mere presence of the temple would protect them, even as they continued in idolatry and sin. Jeremiah exposed this false confidence, declaring that trusting in lying words and compromising with sin would only bring God’s wrath. Just as Israel and Judah faced exile and destruction for their rebellion, so too will modern nations and churches that abandon God’s Word and embrace worldly philosophies face judgment. The warning is especially relevant for today, where secular humanism and moral relativism replace biblical truth, and many churches have grown lukewarm, deceived into believing that compromise and tradition ensure safety. Parallels are drawn between Jeremiah’s time and the end of the age: false prophets promising peace, people presuming safety because of their religious identity, and the corruption of truth through idolatrous traditions. Yet the faithful remnant—those like the “Philadelphia church” in Revelation—who keep God’s Word and uphold the name of Christ, will be preserved from the coming global tribulation. Ultimately, the message calls believers to vigilance: to test every teaching by Scripture, to refuse compromise, to cast off false traditions, and to listen to the Holy Spirit. Only then can the church avoid the tragic lament of Jeremiah’s day—“the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved”—and instead stand ready for the Lord’s return. Inspired Teaching: Jeremiah 8:20 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved!” Jeremiah had the hardest job of any of the old prophets; it fell upon him to tell the nation of Israel the bad news—their nation would soon be destroyed! Imagine telling the people today, what Jeremiah was commanded by God to tell the nation of Israel of his day. Jeremiah 8:17 “‘For behold, I will send serpents among you, vipers which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,’ says the Lord.” The glorious history of the nation of Israel was coming to a close. There was no other people in the entire history of the world upon which the Lord had bestowed so much honor and blessings. Everybody knew how God humbled mighty Pharaoh and forced him to let the children of Israel go, and after he changed his mind and pursued them, how God drowned his mighty army in the depths of the sea. The world of old also knew how the God of Israel brought the walls of Jericho down, and how He led His chosen children into the land that He had promised them for their inheritance. It was in the annals of the history of their world, how David and Solomon, under the mighty power of their God, had established a powerful nation from the seed of one man of faith—Abraham. And now it was all coming to an end, what happen to them? Jeremiah 7:3-4 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Do not trust in these lying words, saying, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.”’” They were deceived by lying words! The Babylonians, who plundered the land of Judah, had a mighty army indeed, and many secular historians may say that Israel would have never had a change against them anyway. But according to God, had the children of Israel chosen to amend their ways, God would have caused them to stay in the land and dwell in it safely. But the false prophets of their day were telling lies to the people, We have the temple of the Lord in our midst, God will deliver us from our enemies like He always has. So that when Jeremiah came and told them the truth that their destruction was near, they totally rejected his message. Jeremiah 7:8-10 “Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know, and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by Me name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?” There is a parallel here that applies to all the nations that have had to face their doom because of their sinfulness; due to pride, they refuse to believe that their mighty empire will be brought down because of sins that they have been getting away with—they think—for a long time. After the nation of Israel became divided, the northern kingdom retained the name Israel, while the southern half was called Judah. God judged the northern kingdom, allowed their nation to be destroyed and their people to be scattered to the nations, because of idolatry. You think that Judah, the remnant of the children of Israel that was left, would have learned and turned away from their wickedness after God warned them through His prophets—after seeing what happened to their brethren in the northern kingdom—but no, they had the temple and felt that they could get away with their disobedience and expected God to protect the house that was called by His name. Such was their foolishness, so they fell for the lies of their false prophets. Jeremiah 7:14-15 “Therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh (God allowed the Israelites to be defeated and the ark was captured). And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren—the whole posterity of Ephraim.” Is amazing how they knew the history of how God had dealt with their forefathers; in their earlier and latter history God had made it clear to them that He would not allow them to continually provoke Him to anger without having to face eviction from their land. Jeremiah 7:19 “‘Do they provoke Me to anger?’ says the Lord. ‘Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces.’” We are living under the same conditions today, but God will not be dealing with just one nation and one area of land at this time, He is coming back to deal with the entire earth and the nations that inhabit it. Revelation 3:10 “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.” There are many Scriptures that tell about the final days of the earth, before God’s judges the world and all the peoples for their idolatries. Psalm 97:3-5 “A fire goes before Him, and burns up His enemies round about. His lightnings light the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.” It is abundantly clear that a majority of the nations of the earth have decided to scrap the Judeo-Christian principles upon which they were founded—not to mention the nations that never embraced it—and have accepted the new morality of everything goes except what the Bible has to say. We see this taking place at every level of society today, where the old foundations of morality are being done away with, in an open display of revolt and contempt against the Word of God. Psalm 2:1-3 “Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, ‘Let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.’” The fact that the nations of the world are doing exactly what God told us in His Word thousands of years ago, that they would do at the end of days, proves that we are the last generation before God’s Kingdom is established on the earth for the one thousand years reign of Christ. If we look at the parallels from the history that we have been studying, three things become prominent; first, false prophets and false teachers who distort and pervert the Word of God, will lead people into believing that God is not going to bring any distress against those who embrace the new world order of morality founded on secular humanism. Psalm 2:5 “Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress (bring tribulation to) them in His deep displeasure.” Secondly, the misconception that those who are part of the church, any church, will not have to endure the wrath of His displeasure. Revelation 3:15-16 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.” Just like the children of Israel that thought that they were safe since they were the guardians of the temple—and could live any manner of life that they chose—so will the members of the Laodiceans church at the end of the age, feel safe and secure in their compromising of the Word of God and Christ’s divinity, without fear of the coming judgments, that in their hearts they do not even believe are coming. The Philadelphia church keeps the Word and does not deny the name of Jesus or His divinity, so therefore, they are taken out of the earth before the hour of trial begins, not so for the Laodiceans, they are left behind. The third thing to look out for, has to do with the paralysis that un-dealt with idolatry brings upon the churches and the peoples that, are sincere with God, but in many cases are not even aware of the contamination that occurs when they participate in traditions that have been handed down to them, which are not based on biblical principles. Jeremiah 8:22 “Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of my people?” False demonic doctrines and traditions within a church, will always cause the lack of spiritual growth, as well as becoming a hindrance to the physical health of those who knowingly or unknowingly practice it. Revelation 2:20, 22 “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things (participate in demonic doctrines) sacrificed to idols...Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their sins.” We, as believers, have the responsibility of studying the Scriptures, and it is up to us to make sure that what we are being taught through the church, evangelists, or through different ministries, is founded on sound biblical principles that bring life into our souls. If it is truth from the Word of God what we are hearing, the Spirit of God within us will recognize His own anointing upon what its being taught and will use it for our benefit and for our enrichment. If we see the church compromising the Word of God, we do not have to be part of their compromise. We decide by our actions which church God sees us as being part of. If we keep God’s Word and do not deny the deity of Jesus, Jesus will keep us from the hour of testing, no matter what denomination or church affiliation we are part of in the natural. It is also our responsibility to study the traditions that have been handed down to us, through the prism of the Word of God. If we find that they have a foundation in God’s Word, we should learn how to do them properly and in accordance with what the Scriptures teach us, so that we do not miss out on their benefits. However, if they have no biblical foundation, even though they may be well established within church tradition, chances are that they are not from God and will end up doing us more harm than good. Revelation 3:13 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” It is by listening to the Holy Spirit that we can make sure that we are saved and that we will not be left behind. Previous Next Home

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

< Back FRAGMENTED SOULS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of Fragmented Souls is to teach believers about the reality of a fragmented soul, how it impacts spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being, and to reveal God’s provision for healing and restoration through His Word and Spirit. The lesson aims to lead Christians into wholeness of soul and spirit by rejecting lies, embracing the truth of God’s Word, and attaining singleness of heart to walk in righteousness before the Lord. Synopsis: In Fragmented Souls, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores the depth of what it means for the human soul to be broken and divided, and how God restores it to wholeness. Beginning with Psalm 23:3—“He restores my soul”—the teaching examines how both the soul and the spirit dwell within the spiritual heart, the unseen core of human existence that influences attitudes, emotions, and will. Unlike the physical body, which may lose parts and still survive, the soul does not lose parts but rather becomes fragmented, separated from within, leading to spiritual weakness and oppression. Drawing from passages like Luke 4:18, Pastor Marcos explains that Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted and restore fragmented souls to their original, God-designed state. A fragmented soul occurs when it has been moved or motivated by lies rather than truth. Lies fragment the soul, but the truth of God’s Word heals, restores, and liberates. Thus, restoration begins with being born again by the Spirit of truth, which energizes the soul to let go of deception and embrace the freedom offered in Christ (John 8:32). The lesson also distinguishes between soul and spirit: the soul functions like an engine that awaits a spiritual current (inspiration or influence), while the spirit acts as the energy flow that drives it. When the spirit is energized by God’s Word, the soul is empowered to overcome fragmentation. However, when deceived by worldly lies, the soul remains weakened and oppressed. Pastor Marcos warns that the world system, rooted in deception, continually seeks to indoctrinate through false teachings such as evolution or man-made traditions, which keep souls divided. Healing requires discerning lies from truth, forgiving those who unintentionally passed down deceptions, and rejecting practices that perpetuate fragmentation. Scripture assures that those with a pure, undivided heart will receive blessing and righteousness from God (Psalm 24:3-5). Ultimately, restoration of the soul is achieved by fully relying on God’s promises and living in the truth of His Word. Fragmented Souls concludes with a call for believers to stand apart from deceit, idolatry, and worldly influences, so that their souls may be whole, strong, and fully aligned with God’s will, walking in the righteousness of salvation. Written teaching: Psalm 23:3 “He restores my soul…” What is the soul and where does it reside within me? Does my soul need restoration? What is a fragmented soul? Psalm 86:11 “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite (give me an undivided heart, singleness of heart) my heart to fear Your name." Within the Biblical context, the heart is the symbolic dwelling place for the spirit within us. And since our souls and our spirits are both spirits, they both dwell within us in a place called the heart, not our physical hearts. The physical human heart is strategically placed within our chest cavity, the torso, and from there it disseminates the oxygen rich life-giving substance that is in our blood. Our spiritual hearts are also located in a cavity somewhere within our torsos; however, it is an invisible place that is strategically located within us and from it flows the spiritual life and well being that comprises our persona, with its attitudes, intents, wills, and emotions. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Just like our human bodies can live and function without limbs, it appears, by the usage of the word whole by Paul, that our spirits and souls can exist and function as well while fragmented and weakened. Just like a human body can only achieve its full potential when all of its parts are present and functioning properly, it appears that it is the same way for our spirits and souls. They can only achieve their full potential when they are whole. However, unlike our human bodies that may be missing a limb or a physical part that they have to do without, it seems like our souls do not lose a part, but rather, their parts become separated or fragmented from one another. Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted (fragmented hearts, to heal means to restore to its original settings), to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” A brokenhearted condition, fragmented soul, causes those who are afflicted by it to be hindered in their walk. They become captives to their condition, blinded and unable to see clearly where their malady originates from, and therefore become oppressed by their circumstances. The good news of the Gospel is that fragmented souls can be healed! 1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation (deliverance, healing, restoration) of your souls.” Not only can our fragmented souls be healed, but our goal should also be in life to attain singleness of heart. So that we can fully comprehend what is the fear or respect for our Lord’s name, which is the beginning of wisdom. How do we do it? Let me first deal with the difference between our soul and our spirit, although our emphasis in this lesson is the fragmented soul, it is important for us to know how the two interact. Unlike a fragmented soul, where its integrity is breached and its parts become segregated, I believe that the spirit operates more in the sense of an energy flow. A spirit with a very low flow of energy cannot energize the human soul to the point of being able to restore it. A spirit that has a very strong energy flow makes it a lot easier for a fragmented soul to be restored. The word for spirit, as in your whole spirit is the Greek word Pneuma from where we get the term pneumatic tool from. Pneuma means spirit, a blast or a current of air that drives something. The word for soul, as in your whole spirit, soul is the Greek word translated as Psychic, from where we get the word, psychology, the study of the human personality or mind. It means spirit as well, air/spirit that is static and waiting to be moved by a current or inflow. A rudimental way of saying it, our souls are like an invisible motor that runs on blasts or currents of air/spirit. When a person is influenced or inspired by something, that person is receiving an inflow that is moving the soul, an invisible inspiration or spiritual infusion. A soul becomes fragmented when it realizes that it has been motivated by a lie. A lie is a spiritual force that drives people away from the truth. John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Jesus told us that the words that He speaks to us are spirit and that they are life, and that by believing them, His words, our souls can be made free from the power of the lies that fragmented the soul to begin with. John 6:63 “It is the Spirit (Pneuma) who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” In order to heal the fragmented soul our spirits have to be born again. Born of the Spirit of truth, for it is the truth of the Word of God that is able to infuse into our spirits the level of energy required to then motivate the soul to let go of the lies that divide it. Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living (Zoe in Greek, and it means life giving and life sustaining, like spiritual blood) and powerful (Energea in Greek, and it means energy), and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” So that it is the truth of the Word of God that energizes the born-again spirit, which in turn motivates the soul to seek deliverance from oppression and bondage. It happens as soon as the soul’s spiritual eyes are opened to the truth that it has been fragmented by the lies it was told. Everything in this world system is based on a lie. Romans 1:24-25 “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts (fragmented their souls), to dishonor their bodies (caused their bodies to malfunction) among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Our bodies malfunction as the result of our souls becoming fragmented, and our souls become fragmented when we reject the truth of the Word of God and end up falling for the lie. The fragmented soul can only be healed and restored as the result of an individual rejecting the lie that it believed, and embracing the truth of the Word of God, which is what spiritual discernment is all about, seeing our true condition in the mirror of His revealed Word to us. Our children as well as the rest of us face constant indoctrination attempts from the purveyors of the lie. In schools as well as through television programs we are constantly bombarded with the notion of evolution. You hear them say frequently that millions of years ago this happened and that took place, like they were there you know. These are the same people that can not even get the recent historical events right. I can disprove the theory of evolution very easy, if as they often say that we humans are the parasites that have infested this world, then why are they still here if they really believe that? In their pious pomp would they not have castrated themselves and saved the world for the sake of the animals that they worship? They don’t really believe that. They just want us to believe it so that they can feel superior. Galatians 5:12 “As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!” NIV Once our spiritual eyes are opened to their mischievousness, for they do not really want to liberate people with knowledge of the truth, but rather their aim is to imprison people with their lies; then we are free to receive the liberating truth of God’s Word that make us wise. On a personal level, we have to deal with the lies that have been perpetrated against us by the people that we knew and who were responsible for our upbringing. With the grace of God to aid us, we need to realize that many of the lies that we were subjected to as we were growing up, were non-intentional on the part of those who taught us to follow the ways of this world. For the most part they did not know what they were doing to us. They were just teaching us what they had been taught in many instances. We need to forgive in order to receive the knowledge that leads to our deliverance from the institutionalized lies of this world system. Why is it necessary to rid ourselves of man-made traditions that seem harmless even to some of us today? Anything that aided the fragmenting of the soul will keep the person whose soul was fragmented from receiving the goal of their faith, the deliverance of their souls. Psalm 24:3-5 “Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure (undivided) heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” The word sworn literally means to affirm oneself. Within the context, sworn deceitfully, it simply means to continue practicing and believing something that is not truth. Those who continue to practice the lies that this world system espouses will not receive blessings from the Lord. The spiritual blessings that empower us to walk in the righteousness of the salvation that He has granted to us by His mercy and grace. To make our souls whole again we must rely totally on the promises offered to us by God Himself within His Word. When our souls can truly and confidently declare what our last verses of Scripture for this lesson say, then you will know that your soul has been healed to the max. Psalm 26:4-5 “I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, nor will I go in with hypocrites. I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.” Previous Home Next

CATCH THE ANOINTING The objective of Catch the Anointing is to teach believers what the anointing of God is, how it abides in them, and how to position themselves in faith and obedience to experience it fully. It emphasizes the importance of abiding in Christ, waiting in God’s presence, and living in praise and worship so that the anointing can be activated in their lives—especially as signs of the last days unfold. CATCH THE ANOINTING Minister Lisa Kane June 13, 2021 Objective: The objective of Catch the Anointing is to teach believers what the anointing of God is, how it abides in them, and how to position themselves in faith and obedience to experience it fully. It emphasizes the importance of abiding in Christ, waiting in God’s presence, and living in praise and worship so that the anointing can be activated in their lives—especially as signs of the last days unfold. Synopsis: In Catch the Anointing, Minister Lisa Kane teaches on the meaning and significance of the anointing as described in 1 John 2:27, presenting it as a divine empowerment that comes directly from God to instruct and strengthen believers beyond human wisdom. The message begins by defining the anointing and demonstrating its manifestations through biblical accounts (Acts 2, the Day of Pentecost) and historical revivals (Azusa Street Revival of 1906), both marked by the Holy Spirit’s outpouring, tongues of fire, healings, and mass conversions. Minister Lisa then addresses the present day, questioning why such demonstrations are rarely seen and reminding believers of God’s prophetic promise in Acts 2:17–20 and Joel 2:28–32—that His Spirit will again be poured out in the last days. With prophetic signs already visible—wars, pestilence, natural disasters, and Israel’s restoration—she urges Christians to prepare by dwelling in God’s presence. Drawing from passages in Jeremiah and Psalms, Minister Lisa emphasizes that the anointing begins in the “dwelling place,” where mercy and forgiveness are received. Believers must abide in Him through repentance, thanksgiving, praise, and worship, declaring, “God, I belong to You and You belong to me.” Just as the early disciples and those at Azusa Street waited for the Spirit, so too must today’s believers wait with expectation. Ultimately, Catch the Anointing is a call to readiness. Minister Lisa encourages Christians to abide in Christ, worship, and wait in faith, knowing the Church will once again experience the supernatural outpouring of the Spirit, equipping God’s people to walk in power and endure the end times as His faithful remnant. Inspired Teaching: If you’re not a believer, this message won’t make sense to you. To understand, become a believer by saying this prayer out loud: Dear Jesus, I ask You to forgive me of my sins and come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. In Jesus’ name amen! 1 John 2:27 NKJV 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you [a]will abide in Him. What is the anointing? It’s something that God gives you, the believer, that abides in you. It allows you to be taught the Word of God by this ‘anointing’ and not man. It is truthful and not misleading nor is it contaminated by man’s way of thinking or beliefs. First, we need to ask ourselves what is the anointing because once we recognize what that is, we can move to the next step, abiding in Him, to activate this anointing. Acts 2:2-3 NKJV 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them [a]divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. On April 9, 1906, we saw this same thing happen on Azusa street, downtown Los Angeles. Here’s an except of the event on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival On the night of April 9, 1906, Seymour and seven men were waiting on God on Bonnie Brae Street, "when suddenly, as though hit by a bolt of lightning, they were knocked from their chairs to the floor," and the other seven men began to speak in tongues and shout out loud praising God. The news quickly spread; the city was stirred; crowds gathered; and a few days later Seymour himself received the Holy Spirit; services were moved outside to accommodate the crowds who came from all around; people fell down under the power of God as they approached; people were baptized in the Holy Spirit and the sick were healed and sinners received salvation.[2] This is the same thing that happened when the 120 individuals were in the upper room waiting after Jesus ascended into heaven in Acts chapter 2. The anointing has physical attributes. It’s a mighty rushing wind that comes. It feels like being hit by a bolt of lightening. It physically feels like you’re knocked down and folks start speaking in tongues that people will recognize as their own language. Acts even describes those tongues as fire on top of each of those persons. You may want to take a moment to read Acts chapter 2. It also draws a lot of attention. In both Acts and Azusa street revivals, people were drawn, saved, healed, and delivered. Is this anointing dead? I ask this question because I don’t see this happening today, June 13, 2021. Why don’t we see it anymore? If it happened in Acts and on Azusa street, it can happen today and we know it will happen just before the return of the Lord on that great and dreadful day of the Lord: Acts 2:17-20 NKJV 17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. So, if this should happen in the end times, we need to take a closer look at this and be ready for it because we’re already seeing people have dreams and visions. We saw Israel became a name in 1947. We saw Jerusalem become the capital in 1967. We saw the pestilence of covid, we’re seeing large earthquakes, we’re seeing wars and rumor of wars – Matthew 24, Luke 21, Jeremiah 30:3, etc. One very important factor to notice about Acts and the Azusa street revival is at the beginning of both events. People were waiting in a dwelling place. Let’s read 1 John 2:27 again… 1 John 2:27 NKJV 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you [a]will abide in Him. Notice the last statement: ‘will abide in Him’. What does it mean to ‘abide in Him’ and why is that important? Jeremiah 30:18a NKJV “Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob’s tents, And have mercy on his dwelling places; Jeremiah 30:21b-22 NKJV Then I will cause him to draw near, And he shall approach Me; For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?’ says the Lord. 22 ‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ ” First, Jeremiah tells us that the Lord will bring back the captivity of Jacob’s tents – dwelling place. Where you are, is your dwelling place. Jeremiah tells us that God will have mercy on that dwelling place. Mercy means forgiveness. Where you are, ask God to forgive you. As Job did it all the time for himself, and his family, we should do so always also. I suggest reading the book of Job at your earliest convenience. Second, once you have that mercy, how should you respond? How do you show your thankfulness. Read Jeremiah 30:22 again. 22 ‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ ” In your dwelling place, say this: “God, I belong to You and You belong to me”. That’s one way to say thank you. Or another words, praise and worship Him. Say things that acknowledges God is great. Here are a couple of scriptures that praises God: Matthew 21:42 NKJV 42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes’? You can call Him the chief cornerstone knowing that He is marvelous. Psalm 8:1 NKJV 8 O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! You can tell Him how great is His name and how His glory is above the heavens. I’ll let you take the adventure from here to explore other ways from the Word of God on what to say during praise and worship. Now that you’re in the dwelling place, declaring that God belongs to you and you belong to God, now you wait. The 120 waited – Acts 2…William Seymour and those seven men waited. You wait knowing that: Joel 2:28-32 NKJV (This is what Peter quoted in Acts 2 beginning in verse 17 (read earlier) 28 “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. 29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. 30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. 32 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be [a]saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be [b]deliverance, As the Lord has said, Among the remnant whom the Lord calls. It’s time to be in that waiting place, dwelling in the secret place with God, being a part of that remnant the Lord calls, because His end is coming and we need to be ready to CATCH THE ANOINTING! Previous Next Home

< Back DOCTRINES OF MEN Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to expose the danger of man-made doctrines and religious traditions that bind believers to legalism, idolatry, and false humility, rather than leading them into the true freedom found in Christ. Pastor Marcos emphasizes the importance of discerning between the traditions of men and the Word of God so that believers may walk in the liberty of the Spirit, be delivered from bondage, and pursue the spiritual things above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Synopsis: In Doctrines of Men, Pastor Marcos Marrero teaches from Colossians 2:21–23, showing how religious rules such as “do not touch, do not taste, do not handle” appear wise but ultimately enslave the soul and are powerless against sin. He explains that salvation, also understood as deliverance, is intended to free believers from anything that hinders their spiritual walk. Yet, one of the enemy’s greatest tools has been the traditions of men—rules and regulations that masquerade as godliness but lead to bondage. Through scriptural examples, Pastor Marcos demonstrates how such traditions deceive believers into thinking they please God, when in reality they are kept from enjoying the liberty of Christ. He warns that these doctrines are not neutral but are the “doctrines of demons,” designed to foster idolatry, blind spiritual understanding, and replace dependence on God with dependence on religious systems. The historical decline of the Laodicean church is presented as a sobering example of how man-made doctrines result in lukewarm faith, spiritual blindness, and self-deception. Ultimately, Pastor Marcos calls believers to test themselves in the faith, remain sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and anchor their lives solely in the Word of God. By seeking the things above and living under the guidance of Christ, believers can resist deception, overcome idolatry, and walk in the fullness of God’s wisdom, knowledge, and glory. Written teaching: Colossians 2:21-23 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh” The goal of faith in us believers, is to rid our souls of those things that keep us from walking in the freedom of the Spirit of God that dwells in us who are saved, now remember that the word for salvation can also be translated deliverance in the New Testament. 1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation of (deliverance = to get rid of the things that hinder) your souls.” One of the most powerful tools that the enemy uses to keep humans in bondage is religious traditions that emanate from men made doctrines. 2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” So that many believers wrongly think that by abiding in religious traditions that stifle the soul and kept it from walking in God’s freedom, that they are doing the will of God, because that is what they have been taught by the doctrines of men. But this is what our Lord says: Galatians 5:1 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” NIV Think back to when we first got saved and how many times our actions were governed by rules that in many cases had nothing to do with biblical principles, but that we somehow thought that by following those rules, that we were doing the right thing in God’s eyes, only to find out later that many of those rules were not even based on the Bible, while others were a clear misrepresentation of true Christian doctrine. As our opening text revealed to us they all had to do with, Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle. In our struggle with doing the right thing, we must honestly ask ourselves this question: What is the right thing that we are to do? May I be bold enough and tell you what the right thing to do is: If we want to be right, we should always do the spiritual thing! Colossians 3:1 “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.” If you look at the Scriptures that deals with the freedom that we enjoy in the grace of God, you will find warnings attached to many of them, compelling us not to abuse our freedom in Christ for selfish desires. 1 Peter 2:16 “As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice (wickedness), but as bondservants of God.” If we do the spiritual thing, defined as seeking those things which are above, then our own self-interests will not be involved, for then our actions will be governed by the desires of Christ who sits at the right hand of God, and the motives behind our actions will always be pure. And we need to keep in mind that doing the spiritual thing will always be in conflict with men made doctrines. Why is that? 1 Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.” Men made doctrines are the doctrines of demons, for they all cater to men’s own selfish desires, and not the desires of Christ for men. Christ’s desire for men is that we walk in the liberty of His Spirit, free from guilt, shame, and condemnation. Demonic doctrines have as their goal to keep men under the bondage of sin, bound by the chains of fear, and under the heavy load of guilt, shame, and condemnation. How do these men made doctrines affect the churches of today of which we are a part of? Colossians 2:1 “For I want you to know what a great conflict (struggle) I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.” Why did Paul struggle so much with the faith of the Colossian and Laodicea churches? I believe that he feared that their men made traditions would keep them from realizing their full potential in Christ Jesus. Colossians 2:2 “That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.” What kind of men made doctrines were there among them that caused the apostle Paul so much consternation? Revelation 3:14-16 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: I know your works, that your are neither cold not hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.’” Many years after Paul died we see his fears confirmed in the Lord’s rebuke against the Laodicea church of John’s day, which tragically is the same condition that afflicts many of the churches of today, many of these churches will be left behind when the rapture takes place. Why did the Lord vomit them out? Revelation 3:17 “Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.” The goal of men made doctrines is to remove men’s need of God and to replace it with the religious traditions that satisfies men’s selfish needs. The Laodicea church was so deceived that they came to the point where they believed that they had no need of God, for they believed that they had their own religious traditions to prop them up. It cannot get any more demonic than that, for it was Lucifer himself who said in his heart that he would exalt his throne above the stars of God, and that he would be like the Most High, and then he was promptly cast down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the pit. Isaiah 14:12-15 But the greatest damage that men made doctrines perpetrate against the churches, besides blinding them to their true spiritual condition, is that it keeps them from receiving the revelation of God’s many hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge. That is why so many believers today have problems understanding the Word of God when they read it. Colossians 2:3 “(Both of the Father and of Christ) In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Since the doctrines of men are the doctrines of demons, and since the desire of demons is to be worshiped through the idols that they represent, then, those who follow men made doctrines practice idolatry, that is they become one with the idols that they worship, or pay homage to at their appointed feasts. Psalm 135:15-18 “The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear; nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trust in them.” How can Christians do the spiritual thing if their spiritual eyes cannot see and their spiritual ears cannot hear? In His rebuke to the Laodicea church, Jesus told them that they were blind and then counseled them to buy from Him gold refined in the fire. It is clear that the sin of the Laodicea church is the sin of idolatry, and it is what causes them to become poor, blind and naked like the very idols that they worshiped. Since the Laodicea church is prophesied to be present at the end of the church age along with the faithful Philadelphia church, and since we know that we are living in the last days of the church age, then it begs the question: Which church are we a part of? Is it possible for a believer to be a part of the Laodicea church and not know it? Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest anyone cheat (plunder you or take you captive) you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.” When Paul speaks about, according to the tradition of men, he is not referring to the traditions of unbelievers outside of the church, but to the traditions that have been introduced into the church, in many instances by so called believers masquerading as teachers of the truth, when in reality they were introducing the very basic principles of the world’s paganism into the church of Jesus Christ, unbeknown to many. And by doing so corrupting many within the church with the idolatry that brings about the spiritual blindness that is so prevalent among the churches of today. And that is what Paul was so fervently fighting against when he wrote to the Colossian church this epistle. 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified (do not stand the test).” The greatest protection that we have against deception is that the Spirit of the Living God dwells within us, and it is the Holy Spirit who testifies about Jesus in us, the real Jesus, so let us not resist the Holy Spirit’s prompting when He warns us about so called Christian traditions that have no foundation whatsoever in the Word of God. For if you resolve in your heart that you are going to stay true to His Word, no matter how much resistance comes your way from the worldly bunch that seeks harmony with this world. Then the Lord will begin to open your spiritual eyes, and make your ears attentive to His Word, so that the treasures of His great wisdom and knowledge, which He has made available for you, will become more real to you than anything that you have ever known. Colossians 1:27 “To them (you) God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Previous Home Next

THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD IS TRUTH The objective of this teaching is to affirm the believer’s confidence in the absolute, unchanging truth of God’s Word. It emphasizes that truth is not relative nor subject to human circumstances, but is embodied in Christ Himself and confirmed in every one of God’s righteous judgments, which endure forever. By understanding the immutability of God’s Word and covenant, Christians are encouraged to remain steadfast in their faith, resist the enemy’s attempts to sow doubt, and live in the peace and security that comes from loving and trusting the entirety of Scripture. THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD IS TRUTH Pastor Marcos Marrero March 17, 2019 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to affirm the believer’s confidence in the absolute, unchanging truth of God’s Word. It emphasizes that truth is not relative nor subject to human circumstances, but is embodied in Christ Himself and confirmed in every one of God’s righteous judgments, which endure forever. By understanding the immutability of God’s Word and covenant, Christians are encouraged to remain steadfast in their faith, resist the enemy’s attempts to sow doubt, and live in the peace and security that comes from loving and trusting the entirety of Scripture. Synopsis: In The Entirety of Your Word is Truth, Pastor Marcos explores Psalm 119:160 and John 18–19 to reveal the eternal nature of God’s Word and its embodiment in Christ. The message begins with Pilate’s question to Jesus, “What is truth?”, showing the tragic irony of looking Truth in the face yet failing to accept Him. Pilate recognized Jesus’ innocence but still surrendered to lies and political pressure, a vivid illustration of humanity’s tendency to suppress absolute truth. Pastor Marcos explains that God’s Word is not fragmented or situational; it is whole and unchanging. The challenge for believers lies in resisting the natural human inclination to treat truth as variable, shaped by circumstances or feelings. This tendency originates from Adam and Eve, who chose to believe the lie instead of God’s eternal Word. Likewise, Christians today face constant assaults on the truth of Scripture, where even doubting a single righteous judgment weakens their stance in faith. The message highlights God’s covenant oath through Jesus Christ, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, sealed by two immutable realities: God cannot lie, and He will not change His mind. This unshakable foundation assures believers of His steadfast love and the eternal validity of His promises. Loving God’s law—inseparable from loving Christ—produces peace and prevents stumbling. Finally, Pastor Marcos exhorts believers to respond to attacks on God’s truth not with doubt, but with holy disgust toward lies and slander. By holding firmly to His testimonies, loving His law, and becoming doers of the Word, Christians can stand secure in God’s unchanging covenant love. Jesus, the very embodiment of God’s Word, guarantees that His truth endures forever—demanding our eternal trust and devotion. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 119:160 “The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.” If there is a kink in the armor of the faithful it has to be in their failure to comprehend the entirety of truth presented to us in God’s Word. It was Pilate who beholding into the face of Truth, stupidly asked what has to be the dumbest question ever asked: What is truth? John 18:38 “Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’...I find no fault in Him at all.” I do not fault people for not knowing what truth is if they have not met Truth, but Pilate met Truth in person and recognized Him to be Truth, for he also said that he found no fault in Him; if there is no fault in Him then He is the real thing, the entirety of truth. Is there something going on here that can help us to understand what the entirety of God’s Truth is? Let’s take a look at what Jesus said to Pilate first, who by the way, was not a stupid man, for Pilate’s position required him to be astute in both, politics and governance, which requires great insight into matters of understanding people’s behavior in regards to the application of laws. John 18:37 “Pilate therefore said to Him, ‘Are you a king then?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.’” Pilate knew that the charges that they were brought against Jesus were politically motivated, for the ministry of Jesus was a threat to the Jewish leadership of that time. Pilate saw this as a struggle for power between the Jews, and he saw himself as the kingmaker. So that in essence what Pilate asked Jesus was this, Tell me, why should I make You a king, what’s in it for me? To which Jesus responded, You know that I am a King for you have seen My authority (I’m paraphrasing). Then Jesus reveals to Pilate what His ministry, or kingship, was really all about, For this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. It was at that point that Pilate crossed the line, in what is a normal human response when confronted with undeniable truth, he turned and mocked Truth! After that Pilate tried unsuccessfully to extricate himself from the matter. He tried to release Jesus indirectly, by putting Him side by side with the worse criminal, but they chose the criminal over Jesus. He had Jesus tortured and punished by having Him scourged, mocked, and ridiculed, then he brought Jesus before His accusers and said: John 19:5 “Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, ‘Behold the Man!’” But it was not enough to satisfy the lie, for the lie can never exist while in the presence of Truth, no matter how much the truth is ridiculed. John 19:6 “Therefore, when the chief priest and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, ‘Crucify Him, crucify Him!’ Pilate said to them, ‘You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.’” The reality is that once a person is confronted with Truth there is no going back, they can try to suppress the truth all they want, but like in the case of Pilate’s actions, to no avail. What is the message here for us who believe that Jesus is the Truth? Is He the entirety of Truth, or like Pilate, are we struggling to come to terms with the reality of it? Let me explain what I mean. Here is what the second part of our opening text reveals to us. Every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. Our normal human response to truth is to recognize it at first, but we are also influenced to believe that truth can change in response to the changing circumstances. In other words, we inheritably take issue with absolute truth that endures forever. We inherited that predisposition from Adam and Eve who believed the lie of the devil at the cost of partaking of the tree of life, which is: Every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. So that as Christians we are confronted with a constant assault against the truth of the Word of God in which we first believed. All the devil has to do is to get us to doubt just one of His righteous judgments, and just like that, we will find ourselves outside of the absolute truth that endures forever. And like Pilate we try hard to make up for our deficiencies and we just end up making it worse. Here is the key that keeps us from falling away from the Word of Truth: Psalm 119:157 “Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.” I do not turn from Your testimonies, plural, that means I keep every one of them, and I know that His testimonies, or covenant, endure forever. In order to keep all His testimonies, all the time, we need to understand the covenant that God has secured to His testimonies. For we cannot keep any of His testimonies outside of the covenant of salvation. Hebrews 6:17-18 “Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel (His testimonies), confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.” The context is the priesthood of Jesus as the mediator of the new covenant, and it is within this context that God takes an oath which is based on two immutable, or unchangeable things: First is the fact that it is impossible for God to lie. The second is that God swore to the priest from Melchizedek’s line that He would not change His mind. Hebrews 7:21 “...The Lord has sworn and will not relent (change His mind), ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’” Can you see how God deals with the tendency of our fallen human nature to see truth from the context of changing? He removes any grounds to doubt that we may entertain, by basing the New Covenant on two unchangeable facts: The God who cannot lie, swore that He would not change His mind! In the natural we see some things that are very dear to us today, fall out of our favor tomorrow. Persons that we love and have sworn to love in the past, can give us reason today that causes us to change our minds and our feelings towards them. And that is how we tend to see ourselves in the sight of God. When we are trusting in His testimonies we feel good and secured. When we struggle to comprehend the truth of His promises to us, we wonder if we’ve done something that caused Him to change His mind about us. Without love there is no way to resolve this. Psalm 119:165 “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.” I love His law because I love Jesus; God’s law, God’s Word, God’s promises, God’s statutes, are one and the same with Jesus! The law of the Lord is perfect because Jesus is perfect! The law of the Lord is perfected in us when we put our trust in the entirety of God’s Word! Jesus is perfect in every way, therefore we love and trust Jesus in every way, there is no reason then why we should not put our trust in the entirety of God’s Word at all times, all the time, for ever and forever. Jesus loves us and has saved us; He swore on an oath, and He cannot lie, that He would not change His mind about His love for us. He loves us eternally and unconditionally, is there any reason why we should not love Him and His Word eternally and unconditionally as well? I see none! How do we handle then, the daily barrage that continuously confronts our trust and confidence in the Word and promises of God to us? Psalm 119:158 “I see the treacherous, and am disgusted, because they do not keep Your word.” Here is something new, instead of distrust, when doubts are raised about the veracity of God’s Word, it is disgust toward the slanderers that raises up from within us. Is it not so that when something treasured that is beautiful and lovely is slandered, that contempt towards the slanderers is what rises? Why should we doubt the immutable and unchangeable Word of God that promises us God’s unending, fervent, and perfect love? Is not Jesus the manifestation of God’s perfect love towards us? John 3:17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” What part of Jesus do we not love or agree with? If we love and agree with all that Jesus is and did for us, then we also must believe that the entirety of God’s Word is truth. Since it is God’s Word who testifies of Him and of His love and of His covenant that He made on our behalf. We cannot and should not have one outside of the other! Psalm 119:166 “Lord, I hope for Your salvation, and I do Your commandments.” James 1:22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” Previous Next Home

INTO THE LIGHT Equip believers to recognize and choose the wisdom and light that come from God over the counterfeit “light” of human reasoning, so they can fully receive the inheritance they’ve been qualified for in Christ (Col. 1:12), tear down inner strongholds, and walk in freedom, holiness, and blessing. < Back INTO THE LIGHT Pastor Marcos Marrero June 8, 2007 Objective: Equip believers to recognize and choose the wisdom and light that come from God over the counterfeit “light” of human reasoning, so they can fully receive the inheritance they’ve been qualified for in Christ (Col. 1:12), tear down inner strongholds, and walk in freedom, holiness, and blessing. Synopsis: This message—In the Light—lays out a biblical principle: all of life runs on principles, and spiritually there are only two sources of “light” (guidance): from above (God’s wisdom) and from below (earth-bound, sense-driven, demonic wisdom). Drawing from Colossians 1:12–13 and James 1:17; 3:15–17, the teaching explains that salvation qualifies us for God’s gifts, but we possess them by walking in God’s light—His revealed wisdom—not by natural understanding. 1 John 1:5–7 clarifies that God is light; fellowship with Him requires walking in that light, where the cleansing power of Jesus’ blood is applied and faith flourishes. Jesus models this life (Isa. 11:2–3; Matt. 3:16): anointed by the Spirit, He doesn’t judge by sight or hearing, but by the Lord’s counsel and knowledge. Jesus’ warnings about the eye as the lamp (Matt. 6:23; Luke 11:35–36) press the danger of mistaking darkness for light—living by feelings, appearances, and cultural “common sense.” Proverbs 14:12 underlines that what seems right to us ends in death. A case study in spiritual warfare (2 Kings 3) shows how partial obedience and hidden allegiances to false “light” sabotage victory. Israel, Judah, and Edom receive a prophetic strategy (dig ditches; God supplies water; pursue and utterly ruin the enemy’s strength). They comply—except they refuse to tear down the sun-baked stones of Kir-Hareseth (“wall/city of the sun”), a symbol of entrenched idolatry. When the Moabite king sacrifices his son on that wall, terror rises and God’s people retreat. The lesson: leaving any stronghold (a protected area of natural reasoning, superstition, unforgiveness, pride, or religious tradition) gives the enemy leverage and perpetuates curse-cycles and loss. Practically, the message calls believers to let the Spirit shine on the root, not just the symptoms, of recurring sins or bondages—then, in faith, pull down the wall completely: forgive, repent, renounce, reconcile, obey the specific word of the Lord. As we walk in the light, the anointing breaks the yoke, and the qualified inheritance (cleansing, healing, provision, peace, joy) is experienced. The service closes with prayer for revelation, courage to dismantle strongholds, and ministry in the anointing that brings healing, deliverance, and restoration. Inspired Teaching: Hallelujah. Gloria Elbe Jesus B. Amen. Precious Father in heaven, as we come before you tonight, we worship your precious and holy name. We thank you, Father God, for the privilege to come together as brothers and sisters in in the Lord and come as one, Father God, in the unity of the spirit to worship the one God, the one true savior, even Jesus Christ, our savior and lord. We ask, Father God, that you open that fountain, dear Lord Jesus, that you pour on us the bread that came down from heaven, which is Jesus, who became flesh for us. We uh need your word, Father God. We need that fountain of life in our midst, Father God. For we live in a dried and thirsty land, dear Lord Jesus. And we desire tonight to be filled with the bread that comes down from heaven to be washed and to drink of the water of the springs of life, Father God. And we thank you for your anointing here tonight and your favor, dear Lord Jesus. I ask that you bless each and every person that is here uh tonight and that you make us all a house of faith. Father God, we are your house, Jesus. You're the head and we're your body. We're your temple. And we pray, Father God, that life will come in into each and every one of us here tonight, Father God, that we may glorify your house, Father God, in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. Everybody's got the notes there that would help you. I have a lot a lot of scriptures and we don't want to be here all night. So, but I want to make sure the the first page is going to deal with me uh revealing from the point of view of the Bible a principle. Uh we have to understand that everything operates through principles. uh there are physical laws or principle and there are spiritual principles understanding especially spiritual principles are vital uh uh for us to to be able to walk to receive the blessings. Now the message as you can see I title is in the light and that comes from the scripture Colossians chapter 1 verse 12. All of the scriptures that we're going to go through I have them there. Uh I think they're all uh from the New King James Version. Um, and only one we're going to go that um that you don't have down there. So, if you want to save time, you can check them later. But in Colossians 1:12, Paul writes, "Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." Now, we all know what qualifying means. Uh, I used to ball in in in in tournaments and uh, the only one that I ever won was here in the Cobalt here in Wington a long time ago. Uh, some of you probably remember where the Cobalt used to be. But the way it was is hundreds of people will sign up for the tournament and all of the bowling lanes will be there and then you bowl all day long. That would happen on on uh on Saturday and out of the and you could enter as many time as you wanted to. If you didn't do good the first time, you would pay another $18 and and go again. And then what they would do at the end of the night after the last uh thing, they will pick up 32 people, the 32 highest scores qualified to go for the grand prize. Then next day, which was a Sunday, the 32 people bowl against each other. And then the top five, they qualified to go for the grand prize, which at the time was $500. And then those five bowlers used to do like they do in TV. The guy that finished fifth would bowl the fourth. The winner will bowl the third. I was top seated. That's I mean I bowl a lot and that was a freak of nature I guess. But qualification doesn't guarantee that you get the prize. It means that you are in the running for the prize. That's in other words, if I did not qualify on Saturday, I could go there Sunday. I couldn't bowl no matter how much money I brought. The only people that would bowl on the next day is the people that qualify. And then when those 32 people bowl, only the top five qualify to go for the grand prize. So notice that it says here and and I gave you that illustration so we get the meaning of it. Giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints. We have been qualified but that doesn't mean we received that yet. This is what we need to understand. There was an effort. I even though I was topseated. I already had the second prize in my pocket which was $225. Meaning I could lose and I would come in second. I had the$ 225. But if I wanted to take the grand prize, the trophy and and my picture on the paper and all of that stuff, uh, you have to win that last game. Now, notice that it says here that he has qualified us. And what got my attention is that it says in the light. I mean, what does it mean? What does it mean to be qualified in the light? And so, that's the principle that I wanted before we get to the message. The message is on the second page. So I had to explain the principle that's all on the first page. Now look at James 1:17. It says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights." That's where our qualification is in the light. In the light there's good and there are perfect gift. When we're in the light, we receive the gift. The gift is the grand prize, the first place. You're already qualified. We're already qualified. You show up and guess what? Your name is in the roster. You're already qualified to get the gift, but you got to get in the light in order to get the gift. That what he says there. You haven't been qualified to receive the inheritance of the saints in the light. And then he says that every good and every perfect gift is from above and comes on from the father of light. Now if you look to the next couple of chapters in James 3 1516 and 17 we get a little revelation as to what the light is. He says, "This wisdom does not descend from above, but it is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above," now notice that he says, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the heavenly lights." He said, "But the wisdom that is prone above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." So we see that light is being equated with wisdom. Light is being equated with wisdom. And it says that there are two different types of wisdom or two different types of lights. There's a light that come from above from the father of the heavenly light. That means there's an understanding that comes from above from the father of heavenly light. And in that understanding there are gift. We already been qualified just the fact that we have accepted Jesus. We're already qualified to receive him. But we need the revelation. We need the understanding. We need the wisdom on how to receive this gift. And there is another wisdom. And he says that this wisdom is not from God or another revelation or another light. He says this wisdom does not descend from above but is earthly. That means it's physical not spiritual. Is sensual. That means that it's governed by the senses. Is what you can touch, what you can hear, what you can see, what you can smell, what you can taste. It's part of the physical realm. That's where the senses operate from. And then it says and is demonic, meaning Satan is in it. So that means that there are two ways to do things. one is going by our own wisdom by by what makes sense or you know what God told me I'm going to get that job and so I'm going to go by natural means to get this gift that I need. He says that when you go that route through the senses that Satan is in it. Demonic means that there's contaminated verses is other wisdom or revelation that comes from above. So basically what the principle is is that there are two kinds of wisdom. The one comes from God and one from from the world. There's two ways of doing thing. One is by the revelation of God and one is by the revelation of man. Okay. And in the light, whichever light we're in, will determine what gift we're going to inherit. Because if the light that we follow is the light of this world, Satan is in it. And if Satan is in it, Satan does not come except to what? To steal and to kill and to destroy. But it is the wisdom of God or the life that comes from above. Then there's life and there's abundant life. Now, let's look at some more scriptures that that prove this point. Going back to Colossians where we read in in 1:12 where it says, "Giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saint and the light." In verse 13, he says, "He God has delivered us from the power of darkness and convey us into the kingdom of the son of his love." Now notice what this other wisdom is referred to power of darkness. It says that we were in under the influence of the power of darkness before we were qualified before we were brought into the kingdom of the son of his love. We were under the power of this darkness. Now what is that darkness? doing things in the way that seems right to your eyes. Let's look at that. Look at the uh the only scripture that is not there is in First John. Uh when I was praying this morning, the Lord just brought it to me, so I didn't get a chance to put it. I had already made everything. go to first John and look at uh chapter 1 and then we're going to read verse 5, 6, and 7. 1 John 1:es 5, 6, and 7. He says, "This is the message which we have heard from him, from God, and declared to you." John was just taken up to heaven. He wrote the book of revelation by the being taken up to heaven was told to write everything he saw. Many believe that first, second, and third John these three letters he wrote after he went to heaven and that the gospel of John he wrote after he came from heaven because he was taken up to heaven and he saw things from a different perspective. That's why Matthew, Mark, and Luke all make sense. They're called synoptic because those three gospels are all interrelated. John's does not have nothing to do with them. It's separate. He was taken up into this heavenly realm and he saw that this letter was written and look what he says. Now remember, we just read in James where it says that um uh uh uh every good and perfect gift comes down from above from the father of lights. Right? Now look what John who was up there where the light is says. He says this is the message that we have heard from him and declared to you. What is that message? God is light. God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. Now look at verse six. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and we do not practice the truth. Verse seven, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his sons cleanses us from all sin. Now, God cannot walk in darkness because there's no darkness in God. But we can walk in darkness because we were part of the kingdom of darkness before we came into the kingdom of the son of his love, the kingdom of light. So we do have a choice. Even though we're born again believers, even though we have been qualified to receive all of these gifts in the light, when we walk in darkness, we do not receive the gift. If I went over there and I bowled 10 gders in a row, I would never have gotten the prize. I was bowling against a guy that was a lot better than me. The guy had like a 220, 220 average. I got like a 160 average. But in the tournament, they use your handicap. So with my handicap, I started like with 25 points ahead of him. But man, I threw three uh six strikes in a row and that just blew him out of the water. Man, I cannot catch up with a six rackon plus a 30 some panhandah handicap. So I still had to troll even though I was qualified. I still had to do something to do it. And he's saying here you got to walk in the light. You were part of the kingdom of darkness, but now you're into the kingdom of the son of his love and you have been qualified to receive all of these gifts. What is the greatest gift? Look at verse seven. What is the greatest gift? And the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin. Did you know that sin is what keeps us from the blessings? Sin is what brings sicknesses. Sin is what brings poverty. Sin is what brings uh h uh you know lack of joy, lack of peace. Sin is is something that always condemning, something that always brings us down, right? Well, that is the greatest gift. We're walking in the light. Revelation from above. We recognize that our sin has all been forgiven, has been dealt with. And now we open ourselves to the joy of man, God loves me, and he wants to bless me. He wants to prosper me. He wants to heal me. He wants to set me free. And hallelujah, I begin to walk in that light. And as I walk in that light, in the wisdom and the revelation of God, the doors begin to open for me. Because without faith it's impossible to please God. And they that come to God must believe that he is. And we cannot come to God unless our sins are washed away. So this is the message we heard from the start. God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. So we need to walk in the light. Now this light it is talking about spiritual revelation. But God uses a natural setting for us to understand. If you're in a place and all of the lights go out and it's the middle of the night, all of the sudden all your senses betray you. Because if he just gets turned around a little bit, you won't know which way the wall is, which way the door is. Have you ever been I went into the uh the drainage down in there by by the LA River and we walk in there. That's a long time ago. And you get to a place where it gets so dark you cannot see your hand in your face. We have some flashlights and we turn them off completely. And I mean you can get totally and completely dis disoriented immediately. So the idea is that in the darkness we cannot see. We cannot find our way around. We will stumble. We will fall. So we need light to be able to see. So that's the same way in the spirit. If we're going to walk this walk with the Lord, we have to walk in the light, meaning in the revelation of the Holy Spirit. Now, look at look at the next scripture in Matthew 6:23. And this is in your uh in your note. Jesus speaking and he's using this natural principle and he says, "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness." And then he says, "If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?" Jesus is saying, just like in the natural, you need your eyes to be able to receive what the light reveals. In the same way, if you are guided by the wrong light, because he calls light darkness. There's a light. See, we're talking about wisdom. We're talking about revelation. We're talking about understanding. Spiritual understanding that means the revelation that the Holy Spirit gives us is light that comes from above and brings the blessings. But the light of the natural senses the way that we perceive this world is darkness because is demonic. Satan is in it and Satan is a liar. Satan is a cheater. Satan is false. Everything that he does is a trap. So if we walk under the light of the natural understanding, we fall into a trap. We fall into a trap because that is Satan's domain, the human understanding. That's why Jesus says, "How great is that darkness?" Now in Proverbs 14:12 and it appears also in Proverbs chapter 16 says there is a way that seems right to a man but his end is the way of death. So, so what he's talking about here, and I put it there on the notes, under the spiritual or the heavenly light, under the revelation of God, there are good and perfect gifts and gift graces that empower us that lead us to abundant life. In other words, if I have spiritual understanding, if I have spiritual revelation, if I understand the spiritual principles that are in the word in the word in the word of God and I follow them since I've been qualified by the fact that I am saved, then all of these gifts that God has prepared for me, I will find them because they are revealed to me. This blessing is now revealed to me. It's just like somebody turns the light on and then all of a sudden I see I am thirsty but it's dark and I don't know where the water is at. I don't know if the bottle that I found if it's totally dark, whether it's polluted or I don't know what it is. But when the light switch is turned on, the understanding the spiritual revelation of God I see was good. I see was bad. You see when I'm walking by the revelation but this revelation doesn't come by the human senses. See the human senses are contaminated by the devil because this physical world has been contaminated by the world. So in Proverbs two different chapters he tells us there is a way that seems right to a man. How do you see it? With your eyes. Oh, you know what? if I do this, if I do this, and there's so many people that are fooled all the time, the natural principles of this world, you follow them. If you want to be prosperous, you follow them. And you know, we're living in a nation to where we have the one of the highest wealth. And I'm not talking about just the rich people, but the middle class. Tremendous wealth. I mean, you can see just go by the marina, you'll see boats and boats. Go by the mountains, you see houses upon house. There's so much wealth in this nation. But yet, billions and billions of dollars are spent every year on drugs. I think by 20 years, every American will be on in in in in in prescription drugs. That's why they're putting a a drug house in I mean a drug store in every corner. This is the fastest growing industry there is. Everybody is getting ready. But why? Because that is where the natural understanding leads you. See the real things that have value in life are joy, peace, security, uh you know having a mind that it is sound. God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love and of power and of a sound mind. And that comes through spiritual understanding not natural understanding. And so we have to understand the spiritual principle that we're dealing with today has to do with light which means revelation, wisdom, understanding, knowledge. And that there are two types of it. There's a natural one, the one that we can make our own sense out of it with our own natural understanding or with the world's understanding. Or there is the the light or revelation that come from God that most of the time does not make sense. God's way do not make sense to the natural mind. I mean, one day I was a sinner and on my way to hell. I stumbled into this church. I accepted the Lord. I came out and now I'm in heaven for eternity. I mean, I'm I'm all my sins are washed away. I'm set free. I couldn't understand. For 29 years, I tried. I was a Catholic and I tried I had prayed every night. I tried to deal with the burden of sin and nothing could take it out. Then one night without me understanding anything about it. I just said yes when the preacher asked for for hands for salvation and I was changed. I was changed. I walked out of that place. I could have walked on water. It doesn't make sense to the natural mind. I look in the mirrors and I look the same but it feels so different. You see, and now he could not take my salvation away. So now he's trying to take my ability to walk in the light. For he can turn me back into the ways of the natural men, then I disqualify myself even though I've been qualified already. Because the only way we can receive the graces or the gift of God are when we walk in the light. If we don't walk in the revelation that comes from above, we forfeit everything. Now under the natural or the physical light or understanding all roads lead to destruction. Now how did Jesus handle it when he was here on earth in Isaiah 11:es 2 and three. It tells us Isaiah is probably writing 800 years before Jesus came. And it says talking about the root of Jesse who would come in the Messiah. It says, "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." Speaking about Jesus prophetically almost a thousand years before Jesus died on the cross. His delight, Jesus's delight is in the fear of the Lord. And look what it says about Jesus. And he shall not judge by the side of his eye, nor decide by the hearing of his ears. You see, when Jesus was baptized, the spirit of the Lord God came down from heaven in the form of a dove and lighted upon him. And they use that word, we're going to go to it. United means he lit him up, open his understanding to the spiritual realm and therefore he did not judge according to what his eyes saw or to what his ear heard. You know what Jesus's eyes saw? He saw Judah Judah as a thief and as a traitor. He knew it. He was sitting there on the table after he washed their feet and he says, "Okay, Judas, you got to do what you're supposed to do now." Jesus knew it. The disciples later found out that Judas used to help himself to the money on the treasury. Jesus knew it. But you see, he wasn't looking with the natural eyes. When he looked at Judas, he didn't see a traitor. When he saw Peter, he didn't see somebody who will betray him either. when he sees you, he doesn't see somebody that's going to fail him a million times. You see, he doesn't make judgment by what he sees with his natural eyes or by what he hears with his natural ears. He makes judgment according to the wisdom and understanding. As a matter of fact, that there makes a perfect manora. The spirit of the Lord, it says wisdom and understanding, the fear of the Lord, the power, the knowledge, all of the things make a perfect manora. What is a manora? A candle light. This is the only article that is inside of the holy place that gives light that gives revelation. Jesus became a walking manora. The spirit of the lord came upon him. The understanding of the lord it says there that the uh the spirit of the lord came in. That's a center lamb. Wisdom is one branch. Understanding is the other one. Uh counsel is one uh branch. Might is the other one. Knowledge is one. the fear of the Lord of the elephant. He became enlightened by the spirit that came upon him and now he is able to look at the woman who committed adultery when everybody's judging her and he can say to her, "Where are those that condemn you?" Oh, I don't know. They all took off. Well, neither do I condemn you. Go away. Sin no more. You see, the only way that we can receive this revelation from God is when we don't look by what the eyes see. Did you know that you can tell people something, but your feelings can betray you? How many married people we have here? Oh, honey, I didn't mean that. Your eyes betray you. Yes, you did. You see, our body speaks. Our action speaks louder than words and are known. But you see, the only way that you can walk in that light, the revelation is when the spirit of God is upon you. That is the revelation. That is the light. That is a wisdom that come from above. Now look at how this light came upon Jesus. Matthew 3:16. When he Jesus had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water. And behold, the heavens were open to him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and a lighting upon him. Now, why do I say that? Because you and I when we were born again, the Holy Spirit came down and descended upon us and a light on us. Did you know that that's what qualifies us? It is that that qualifies. Now I did get baptized. We got baptized at the YMCA in San Pedro and I had a beautiful experience coming out of the water because reinforced but that's not when the spirit came. When I came out of the water, that's when I made a public confession. But the spirit came deny that I was born again. When I confessed my sins and accepted Jesus Christ as my savior and lord, there was an alike, an understanding that came upon me that I wasn't going to hell anymore. Oh man, it felt good. All my sins were forgiven. I am cleansed. And I could I felt like I could walk on water. That revelation cannot come through manmade works. You can repent all you want to. You can do all kinds of natural things. They do not bring peace. They do not bring understanding. They're of the earth. They're of the natural. They go by what you see. Oh, I'm doing good. I read my Bible three days in a row and I haven't said a bad word and I haven't lit up. And so you feel in the natural doing okay. And then all it takes is one little trip. Okay. And now you go again. Now your emotions go all the way. See, that is a natural understanding. That is a natural light. But when we walk in the light, the light is that Jesus loves me. The light is that Jesus died for me. The light is that Jesus saved me. And the light is that Jesus is going to bring me there no matter what takes him between here and there. He said, "I will never leave you. I will never forsake you." His blood will never ever lose his power. And as long as I walk in that understanding and that light, neither my peace nor my joy will ever be removed. There is nothing that Satan can do to take away that assurance of salvation, that peace, that knowledge of his love. That is what it's talking about. Now look at the next scripture. Luke 11:35 and 36. Therefore, this is Jesus speaking and it's related to the uh instance I think that um after being baptized he said therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. He says make sure this is a command take heed that the lie which is in you is not darkness. In other words, make sure that the lie that is in you is not human reasoning that comes out of a human understanding. Then he says, if then your whole body is full of light, this is a light that come from heaven above having no part dark. That means that there are some parts of us that could be in darkness. The whole body will be full of light as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light. Talking about the minora when you lit up a huge candle. He says that's what it's going to be like. So then the spiritual principle that I spend this whole page before I bring the message which is going to start right now has to deal with the principle of light and darkness or spiritual revelation or natural revelation. And why is this so important is because our whole world system is founded in the false light. This is why you send your kids to college and when they come out their faith has been destroyed because all of those professor have one aim and one aim in mind and that is to destroy the word of God to destroy the faith of all of those who have placed their trust in the living God. So then uh now what I want to do is I want to bring it to the ancient the people of let's say uh the time of King David about 3,000 years ago. Why was it that the ancient people worshiped the sun? Because the sun is the natural replacement to what God is in the spirit. You see, the sun gives natural light. We saw Jesus using that light and darkness. Be sure that the light that is in you is not darkness. The sun also provided what they ate. You see, they planted their seeds. See, there was no sun. they wouldn't grow. The sun also baked their bricks that they build the houses with. They would take the clay, the mud, they would lay it out to dry it and boy, in one of those hot summer time, they could make a whole bunch of brick and build them a house. So, the natural light or the sun became the source of their life. And so what would happen is they would follow the sun. They would follow the moons. They were fascinated with that. So they found out as they would follow this that the sun after the summer solstice will begin to die. In other words, the the sun the time of the sun will be shorter. And you see that as summer ends, winter begins, the night get longer. Okay? And the sun gets shorter. So when it came down to about the end of December, at that time way back on December 24th, December 25th, the longest night came and the shortest day for the sun. There was snow, there was cold, the sun was so far down there that their crops wouldn't grow. They have to save the seed until springtime. So the very next day when the sun began to be longer again, that was a great time of festival that has been celebrated for you can go all the way back to uh Nimrod back to after Noah and his three son came out of the ark. So there's always been you you can look at it there there were gifts exchanged because they feared that if the sun kept getting shorter and shorter and shorter they will all die because their sustenance depended upon the sun. You need to understand this. This is very this is at the root of everything is that the false light and the real light. Now all of our system today we're refined. We don't say that to the sun and we don't say that but it's the same thing. All of our economy is based on that. If our economy fails then we all lose our jobs or we this happened. So everything works like this. Now I want to go to go to the next page and I'm going to show you how this affected the people of Israel. And this is going to be in the context of spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare is something that all of us are engaged into whether we like it or not. God, if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior and lord, the Bible says that everything that pertains to your life and to your godliness has already been made available for you. Colossians 1 where we read first scripture. You have already been qualified to receive all of this blessing. They are yours. You have been qualified to receive. God has provided them for you. Guess what? Satan does not want you to be blessed to have joy or to receive this blessing. So, Satan, who is the false light, his is a kingdom of darkness, will do everything possible to keep you from receiving the blessing that you have been qualified to. Now, guess who is it left up to to make the decision? Guess what? It's you and me. We either walk by the light of a natural understanding which is called darkness which leads to death or we walk by the light of the revelation of the spirit of God. That is what spiritual warfare is. Satan says you cannot have it. You do not disturb it. You did too much uh uh uh uh damage. You hurt too many people. You betrayed too many people. You're a loser. You'll never amount to anything. This is all in the natural understanding. Okay? in the spiritual understanding says your sins have been forgiven. God has put them as far as the east is from the west and I qualify you to receive every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus. And there's nothing Satan can do about it as long as I walk in that light. And I'll have to make the fight because my natural senses are going to fight me every step of the way. They are going to fight me. Why? Because the demons are in it. It says the the wisdom of the earth is demonic. It's sensual and that thing will fight me. Now, what's happening over here on this chapter is a a battle, spiritual warfare that they fought way back then. It begins in 2 Kings 3:27. And of course, we're not going to have time to go through everything there. So, I'll just give you some highlights of what's going on. And and if you want to put in the time, you can go ahead and uh and and read it. But look at 2 Kings 3:27. It says, "Then he took his eldest son, who would have reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel, so that they departed from him and returned to their own land." Now something happened in the spiritual realm when this man offer up his son as a sacrifice that caused a great deal of wrath. The word in the nation means wrath to arise against Israel and it kept them from fulfilling the word of the Lord that was spoken to them by the prophet. Now the setting in this sentence is Israel and Judah which are both Jews have become divided. When Solomon died his son that took his place abused the tribes of the north by putting too much taxes on them. So they rebelled against him and Israel became two kingdoms. The north were 10 tribes. They were called Israel. And to the south it was Judah and uh and Benjamin I think it was and they became Judah. So when you see here you will see that they are divided. Now the setting here is that when Ahab who was king of Israel died his son took his place. There was a nation which in this time it represents Satan. It was the nation of the world. Moab who pay them tribute. A 100,000 lambs and 100,000 skins of different animals they ha Previous Next Home

PSALM 90 The objective of this lesson is to reveal the hidden prophetic depth within Psalm 90, showing how Moses encoded an overview of human history, time, and eternity. The study emphasizes the brevity of life, the inevitability of trials, and the hope of eternal glory for those who walk in faith. It aims to teach believers how to view time from God’s perspective, to number their days with wisdom, and to live passionately for God while leaving behind a legacy of faith and righteousness. PSALM 90 Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this lesson is to reveal the hidden prophetic depth within Psalm 90, showing how Moses encoded an overview of human history, time, and eternity. The study emphasizes the brevity of life, the inevitability of trials, and the hope of eternal glory for those who walk in faith. It aims to teach believers how to view time from God’s perspective, to number their days with wisdom, and to live passionately for God while leaving behind a legacy of faith and righteousness. Synopsis: In Psalm 90, Moses offers a sweeping vision of God’s eternal nature contrasted with man’s fleeting existence. The psalm begins by affirming the Lord as humanity’s dwelling place throughout all generations, pointing to a timeline of 144 generations culminating in the last days. Moses reveals that life is a cycle of turning and returning, where death precedes new life, and mortality is transformed into immortality through Christ. Verses 2–4 expand on the vastness of God’s eternity—time flowing from “everlasting to everlasting.” Human existence, by contrast, is fragile, like grass that flourishes in the morning but withers by evening. Yet within this frailty lies the promise of transcendence, where trials and afflictions are not meaningless but part of God’s refining work. The psalm underscores life’s brevity—seventy or eighty years—and the reality that without faith, it is filled only with labor and sorrow. But for the believer, life points to a glorious destiny: the rapture, resurrection, and eternal dwelling with Christ. Passion for God, rooted in reverence and dependence on His mercy, becomes the key to wisdom. The prayer of the psalmist becomes ours: to live joyfully under God’s mercy, to endure affliction knowing it brings greater glory, and to pass on faith to the next generation. The psalm closes with a plea for God to establish the work of our hands. True legacy is not found in earthly achievements but in works anchored in God, which He alone sustains into eternity. Thus, Psalm 90 teaches us to measure time not by fleeting days, but by eternal impact, living with heaven as our final home. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 90:1 "Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations." Moses wrote twelve psalms, songs that the children of Israel were to memorize and recall, in pretty much the same manner that we remember the lyrics of songs today that we learned in days past. Except that in the songs that Moses wrote he encoded messages that would reveal to those living in the end times the events that would befall them. Psalm 90 to 100 record eleven songs and Deuteronomy chapter thirty two records the other one. This is what Moses said about the songs that he wrote: Deuteronomy 32:46-47 "...Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. For it is not a futile thing for you, (memorizing the words) because it is (the story of) your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess." Notice that Psalm 90 begins with the words our dwelling place in all generations, meaning that within this Psalm we should find encoded an abbreviated history of the human race from our first generation to the last one. Generations: A revolution of time, an age. From a root word that means; to gyrate (move in a circle). Strong's # 1755 & 1752 I believe that there are 144 generations from Adam and Eve to the last generation, out of which some will be rapture out of this world before that last generation comes to an end, and the rest, those who are left behind, will go through God's refining fire before their time for entering into God's Day of Rest comes to pass for all those who are qualified to enter it after going through His Day of Wrath. Psalm 90:2 "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God." Everlasting to everlasting speaks of the time that existed before our present time began which I call Infinity Time, which is also the time place that we will be going to after our present time which I call Eternity Time ends. So that our present existence came out from infinity and it will return back to infinity, after the completion of a gyration of time which is measured as 144 generations. Everlasting: Concealed, the vanishing point, time out of mind (past or future). From a root word that means; terminus, (by implication) duration, in the sense of advance or perpetuity. Strong's # 5769 & 5703 So that once our present time and space which I call Eternity Time reaches the vanishing point, all the present creation will be done away with by fervent heat, and a new heaven and a new earth will be created and advanced into Infinity Time for perpetuity, with all those humans who passed the test elevated into a new existence as jewels for the crown of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ, the son of man, the firstborn over all creation. Those human jewels being formed out of the trials of faith from of all seven dispensations. Psalm 90:3 "You turn man to destruction, and say, 'Return, O children of men.'" Verse three deals with the process of turning and returning. Before something can be constructed it first has to be destructed. Before man can be clothed in infinity he first has to experience the nakedness of death; one cannot ascend unless one first descends, that's the principle of creation. A seed cannot germinate unless it dies to self first, then and only then it can transcend. That is the duality of all the creation. So that within the first three verses of Psalm 90 we see the hidden mystery of time before and time after, the revolutions of time and the product of time. One hundred and forty four generations in seven dispensations of time turning and returning: 144 + 7 + 2 = 153. John 21:11 "Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not broken." The number one hundred and fifty-three symbolizes the final tally of all the souls that transcend from their mortality into life everlasting: out of every generation and out of every dispensation they were marked for destruction, the destruction of their mortality, into the immortality of their deliverer, the One who conquered death, hell and the grave. The One who has been given a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord to the glory of God our Father. Psalm 90:4 "For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night." In verse four we see the propagation of time from the spiritual vantage point. To us time is set because we are confined to the present, we live from day to day, one day at the time. Not so for the spiritual dwellers, one day for them can mean a thousand years or a fourth of one night. The idea here is for us to keep life within the proper perspective; life is a process of ebb and flow, starting and ending, waxing and waning. We have a tendency to succumb to the finality of things, when in reality nothing is final until we are finally in His glorious presence. For there the pain ends, the suffering is no more, the tears no longer flow, and in the knowledge of Him we transcend time itself. That is the lesson that we can learn from this Psalm, that we can live in His presence right now by faith and make that our final answer. Psalm 90:5-9 "You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a sigh." Verses five through nine describe the process of our turning and returning. Like a flood and like a dream and like the grass that grows up, here one moment and gone the next. Oh the futility that life is without faith that transcends a life of mortality. Though mortals in the human sense, though bound to the present tense, consumed and terrified as we see our days passing away, still we dare to raise our faith above the mundane. You see, when our spirit dares to believe that there is more to life than what we see with our mortal eyes; when we look at our afflictions through the spiritual perspective of time, infinite time, then life is a joyous journey. For the joy that was set before Him Christ endured the horrors of the cross. If we stay focus on the price we can overcome the pain and make our present life a spiritual Eden. Romans 8:18 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Don't you wish sometimes, when we find ourselves in the middle of a very difficult and unpleasant situation, that we could just fly away somewhere? There is such a place for the child of faith, a place that can only be reached through the wings of prayer and praise. It is called the place of sweet surrender; it is the place where we lay down our struggles, our fears and doubts, our lack of understanding and all our sorrows. There we just simply resign ourselves to His good and perfect will for us. Psalm 90:10 "The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." For the joy that is set before us, if we can have but a taste of it, can make us do what no other non human creature could ever achieve: Belief. We could call it faith, or trust , or rapture, or complete abandonment to a cause, but real faith is rooted in the knowledge that we are loved, that we are accepted, that we transcend time and space, that we are very valuable to someone who is very special. Our destiny could never be fulfilled by the things of this world, for we are not made of things that go to waste; we are eternal! Every joint, every marrow, every bone and every sinew, every cell and every atom that our bodies are comprise of will someday be made eternal in the fashion of the resurrected body of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who flew away, but according to His promises is soon coming back for us. John 14:1-3 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." So that after the overall journey for all mankind is marked out in verses five through nine, the individual's journey is set as a brief one, marked with labor and sorrow but with the steadfast promise of soon being cut off and then we fly away. Psalm 90:11 "Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath." Here is the essence of the lesson that life teaches us: Passion is the human virtue that must be channeled in the right or godly direction. Our God is a passionate God, our Savior is a passionate Savior, our love and convictions for Him must as well be full of passion. A passion for life is a passion for God. The passionate does not quit just because the going gets a little hard. The fear of the righteous is the thought that they may fail to fulfill God's destiny for their lives. Psalm 90:12 "So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Passion teaches patience, the patient learns the wisdom that says: the attainment of the goal is all that really matters. Is not how we get to heaven that's important, getting there that's the thing! Is not what we take to heaven that matters but who we take to heaven! The desire of the passionate is this: Psalm 90:13 "Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants." The worst thing that a believer could ever do is to fall in love with the world. Earthly desires must never trump our heavenly calling. The best way to stay focus is to be dependent and remain dependent of His Grace and Mercy at all times. Psalm 90:14 "Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!" Misguided passion tends to lead us into worthless religion. The sooner we learn that within us nothing good dwells, the better we are. Because true passion will lead us to the cross road of total and complete dependence on Him. True brokenness can make us to be glad all of our days, because in true brokenness there is no fear, because perfect love casts out all fear! Psalm 90:15 "Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, the years in which we have seen evil." In verse fifteen we see the law of cause and effect at work; this law not only applies to the physical universe, but is one of those laws that transcends and has a spiritual application as well. Is the law of sowing and reaping, and it has to do with the fact that the more affliction a person endures, the greater the rewards. The more that we die (to self) the greater that our life experience will be. In the natural, the greater the pain, the greater the gain. In the spiritual, true life can best be experienced from our death bed. Where the emphasis is not placed in what we have lived, but rather, in what we have failed to live. In the spiritual realm perspective is everything. Psalm 90:16 "Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children." If our lives do not leave a legacy of glory, glory to the One who is faithful and by us being faithful and passing on our faithfulness to our children, then what that means is that we did not fully appreciate the work that was assigned to us in this life, for after all we are but one in one hundred and forty-four generations. Look at nature itself and it will tell you that existence without propagation is extinction of the species. Psalm 90:17 "And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands." Only God can sustain and maintain the work of a person after they fly away, and it is only when we labor in His work that our labor will never be in vain! As it is written: Isaiah 61:3 "...To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." 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