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

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

SIN AND REDEMPTION The objective of this message is to help believers understand the reality of sin, its consequences, and the hope of redemption through Jesus Christ. It emphasizes that while sin takes many forms—such as lying, murder, witchcraft, and homosexuality—God’s love for humanity remains steadfast. The lesson aims to show that sin is an action, not an identity, and that forgiveness, deliverance, and eternal life are available to all who repent and call on the name of the Lord. SIN AND REDEMPTION Minister Lisa Kane November 17, 2020 Objective: The objective of this message is to help believers understand the reality of sin, its consequences, and the hope of redemption through Jesus Christ. It emphasizes that while sin takes many forms—such as lying, murder, witchcraft, and homosexuality—God’s love for humanity remains steadfast. The lesson aims to show that sin is an action, not an identity, and that forgiveness, deliverance, and eternal life are available to all who repent and call on the name of the Lord. Synopsis: In this teaching, Minister Lisa Kane explains that sin, in all its forms, is disobedience to God’s Word and ultimately leads to death. From the beginning with Adam and Eve’s disobedience, sin has marked humanity with mortality and separation from God. Using biblical examples, including Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, and the Gospels, the message clarifies that sins such as lying, stealing, witchcraft, and homosexuality are not overlooked by God, yet they do not disqualify anyone from His love and redemption. The lesson underscores that God hates sin but loves the sinner, as all people are created in His image and declared good. Redemption is available to whoever calls upon the name of the Lord (Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13). Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death is presented as the ultimate act of love, greater than any human understanding of love. Believers are encouraged to see correction not as condemnation but as protection, much like a parent protecting a child from harm. The consequences of sin are death (Romans 6:23), but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ. The teaching calls all people to choose salvation by confessing Jesus as Lord and seeking self-control through the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23). Finally, the message reassures that God continually invites His children back, offering forgiveness and the strength to overcome temptation, leading them toward the fullness of His image and eternal life with Him. Inspired Teaching: There are several types of sin: lying, murder, witchcraft, homosexuality and many more. Sin is disobeying God and there are many actions God says not to do that we do every day. People lie, cheat, steal, kill, among other things like witchcraft and homosexuality. Let us take a look at homosexuality. How do I know this is a sin? Because the action of this sin goes against what God decrees in His Word to all humankind: Genesis 9:1 & 17 NKJV Vs. 1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Vs. 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.” Homosexuality is unfruitful. Two males or two females are not able to produce biological offspring and therefore is not fruitful. Homosexuality disobeys God’s word for all flesh. Does this mean that God doesn’t love you? Absolutely not. Remember, homosexuality is a verb, not a noun. Verbs are actions. The act of lying, the act of murdering, the act of homosexuality etc. are sins that God hates. Not the person, the noun. Does that mean there is something wrong with you? Absolutely not. In fact, quite the opposite. You were made in God’s image and He called us good. Genesis 1:26 NKJV Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;...” Genesis 1:31 NKJV Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. In fact, what is love? The biggest promotion from the LGBTQ community is that love is love. Here’s a friendly reminder, love is action and the only human to ever prove and show true love is Jesus, and yes, He did this for everyone, and we’ve all sinned. Joel 2:32 NKJV And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be [a]saved. Romans 10:13 NKJV For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Notice how important this statement is? God said it twice: once in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament. Jesus died for ‘whoever’ – no exclusions. That means you’re not excluded either, whether you claim to be homosexual or not. In reality, you’re just another sinner in the world…just like everyone else. Romans 3:23 NKJV for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Here’s love from God: John 3:16 NKJV For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. None of us can come close to that action of love Jesus took on the cross. When the LGBTQ community states love is love, do you love your child so much that you would let him or her burn their hand in the fire on the stove? Of course not. In fact, you love them so much that you smack their hands hoping the sting would let them know not to touch the fire. That’s what believers are doing with those wanting approval of their sin – any sin for that matter. In this particular message, it’s homosexuality. That’s what the LGBTQ community or the spirit behind them is saying…they want to sin and they want us to say it’s ok when God’s word clearly says it’s not. So every time something says the opposite of what they want, it stings, just like getting your hand smacked from your parents when reaching toward a fire; because you know deep down what God is telling you. And if you really want a more direct point blank statement in the bible of homosexuality as a sin, here it is: Leviticus 20:13 NKJV If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. Let’s talk about death here and understand the ramifications of sin in general, and not just the sin of homosexuality. Romans 6:23 NKJV For the wages of sin is death, but the [a]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The moment that Eve and Adam sinned by pulling the fruit off the tree disobeying God, they started to age. (See, sin is disobeying God.) They didn’t die right away. In fact, it took several hundred years before they finally died. Today’s life expectancy is much shorter but the point is that if you sin, you die. Sin from lying, murder, adultery, homosexuality, witchcraft, etc. leads to death. But God. The gift of God, His Son is eternal life. God is awesome. He dealt with sin by sending His son Jesus to die on the cross so that you could be saved if you want to, and this is from all sin. So you need to ask yourself, do you want to stay in sin or do you want to follow God? I know this stings but it’s your choice. I’d rather you don’t burn in the lake of fire from any sin you commit but see you saved! Romans 10:9-10 NKJV that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. To choose God, say this out loud: Dear Jesus, I’m sorry. I’ve sinned and I ask You to forgive me of my sin and come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for Your forgiveness and mercy. In Jesus’ name Amen! Now it’s up to you whether you want to continue sinning when it’s so obvious God doesn’t want you to. The first thing you need is self-control. This will overcome temptation with sin. How do you obtain self-control? Ask God. Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Say this prayer out loud: Dear Jesus, Thank You for being my Lord and Savior. Help me overcome sin by placing self-control within me. Deliver me and help me stay focused on You. In Jesus name Amen! And just like sin in general, humanity continues to lie, cheat, etc…and when we do, go back to God. Ask Him again to change you and persevere in asking. Continue to ask Him to help you be in His image. He already sees you as that perfect jewel He made in you and He will get you on the right path if you want to. He will keep you from the temptation of whatever sin is your poison if you want to. You just need to talk to God. He’s waiting…start talking. Previous Next Home

THE ANOINTED VOW The objective of this teaching is to reveal the spiritual significance of making an anointed vow before God, and how His anointing works in harmony with His promises, timing, and purposes. It aims to show that salvation, calling, and consecrated vows are not forgotten by the Lord, but are sealed by His anointing, which continues to call out to Him until His Word is fulfilled in the believer’s life. < Back THE ANOINTED VOW Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the spiritual significance of making an anointed vow before God, and how His anointing works in harmony with His promises, timing, and purposes. It aims to show that salvation, calling, and consecrated vows are not forgotten by the Lord, but are sealed by His anointing, which continues to call out to Him until His Word is fulfilled in the believer’s life. Synopsis: The Anointed Vow examines the relationship between vows, anointing, and the divine timing of God’s promises. Using Jacob’s vow at Bethel as a foundational text (Genesis 31:13), Pastor Marcos explains that God always remembers anointed prayers and vows, even when believers forget them. He illustrates this truth through personal testimony, showing how a prayer for understanding prophecy was answered years later, on the exact anniversary of his vision of the rapture. The teaching outlines a clear process of divine fulfillment: Salvation – entering into God’s grace and being qualified for His purpose. Answering the Call – responding actively to His holy calling. Making a Vow – consecrating one’s life in surrender to God’s will. Following God’s Leading – obeying His direction faithfully. Forsaking the World – walking the narrow path of tribulation and rejecting false gospels of comfort. Pastor Marcos emphasizes that vows made in faith are sealed with God’s anointing, which acts like a spiritual watchman, continuously interceding before the Lord until the promise is fulfilled. Just as Jerusalem’s destiny has been proclaimed for millennia and is still being carried forward by God’s anointing, so too are believers’ lives carried by their anointed vows. Ultimately, this lesson teaches that the process of salvation, calling, vow, and anointing requires endurance and time, but it assures believers that God never forgets. His anointing guarantees that His purposes will be fulfilled in the lives of those who remain faithful. Written teaching: Genesis 31:13 “I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.” There are many facets to God’s anointing and to the power that flows out of His anointing, in this lesson we will deal with the timing aspect of God’s anointing. Galatians 4:4 “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law.” If you have been a Christian for a while, you know that the fulfillment of God’s promises always follows a clearly prescribed path. God gives us the promise, we believe in the promise that He gives us, and at the appropriate time we see its fulfillment take place in our lives. I believe that there is an aspect of God’s anointing, be it personal or corporal, that follows the same principle. Whenever we see a revival taking place, whether it be in a church, a city, or even a nation, it is the result of an anointed vow that persons made in the past concerning the areas where the revival is taking place. Keep this in mind, God always answers anointed prayers, even long after we have forgotten that we prayed them. I had a vision of the rapture that transformed everything in my Christian way of life back in February 12, 1989. As a result of the vision I searched desperately for a way to understand prophecy. Eight years to the very date, the book of Revelation finally made sense to me. I even wrote a book about it, it is called Man’s Final Destiny, where I put end time prophecy into the proper and understandable perspective as it is portrayed in the book of Revelation. I had gathered and compiled a great deal of notes and references while I endeavor to understand prophecy, along with those many notes I had a notebook where I had chronicled past daily reading of Scripture and the notes that I took while I was reading them. As I started to put those implements away since I now had the information that had eluded me all those years, I opened the notebook of past prayers to see where to store it, when an entry dated February 12 caught my eye, since this was the anniversary of my vision of the rapture. It turns out that years earlier before I had the vision of the rapture, I had read a Scripture in the book of Revelation and could not understand what it meant. I wrote the Scripture in the notebook and next to it I wrote an entry where I asked the Lord, would He please give me the ability to understand prophecy. So here I had evidence of a sincere prayer that I had prayed years earlier that I had forgotten, and God made sure that I would know that it was an answer to that simple prayer that I had prayed earlier by making the events to take place in the same calendar day. Both the vision of the rapture that compelled me to search and the day when it all finally made sense to me, fell on the anniversary of that simple anointed prayer. Genesis 28:17-19 “And he was afraid and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!’ Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel (house of God); but the name of that city had been Luz previously.” Then Jacob proceeded to make a vow before the Lord, and it was in answer to the anointed vow that Jacob had made earlier that has our opening text where God tells him to, 'Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family'. The prayer, the vow, the anointing, in faith believing in God’s promises; it is all a process, and a process always requires the passing of time. But to be sure, no matter how long it takes, whether we remember or have forgotten, God never forgets, for it is the presence of the anointing that serves as watchmen that are always there to remind Him. Isaiah 62:6-7 “I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” We see the same principle at work in the verse above. Jerusalem’s destiny is to be the city of the Great King, for Jesus will rule the earth from there during His thousand-year reign, when He will make Jerusalem to become a praise in the earth. Now during Isaiah’s day that future reign was about twenty-seven hundred years away, we are almost there now, but all this time the anointing has not ceased to call out to God to perform it. In the same manner there is an anointing that covers each one of us who believes in His promises, that anointing is continuously calling out to God to perform that which He has promised to do for us. 1 John 2:20 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things (intuitively).” How do we sort all this out? We need to understand the process! 2 Timothy 1:9 “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” First notice how Paul makes it clear that the holy calling is not according to our own works, but according to His own purpose and grace. Grace here means His gifts for us and that before time itself ever began. Step number one: We need to get saved! We need to understand that even before the creation, we were destined, and created to fulfill a purpose, His own purpose. Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory (our destiny) of God.” But since we all have inherited a corrupt nature, we need to get saved that is we need to become born again of an incorruptible nature. Once we become saved, we are now qualified once again to fulfill His destiny for us, which when we do, it is all to the glory of God. Colossians 1:12 “Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.” Step number two: We need to answer the holy calling! Matthew 22:14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.” The only ones chosen are the ones who answer the call, not just in word but in deed as well. Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” We answer the holy calling when we consecrate ourselves to bring about God’s kingdom upon this earth and His good and perfect will in our lives. Step number three: We make a holy vow before the Lord! Deuteronomy 12:26 “Only the holy things which you have (our holy calling), and your vowed offerings (our lives), you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses (which is His destiny for us). His salvation for us qualifies us to answer His holy calling, and in order for us to perform His holy calling in our lives, we need to take an oath of office if you will, and the only thing that we can bring into this oath is our positive answer to His call and a surrender of our lives to fulfill it. As we make a vow before the Lord, the Lord seals it with His anointing oil, which then continuously calls out to God to perform in us that which He originally destined us to be, as long as we stay the course. Step number four: He leads, and we follow! I pleasantly remember those early days of our Christian youth, when both, my wife and I would fall before the altar of our church whenever the Holy Spirit was moving in our midst, and there we would cry out to God: we will go where you want us to go, over mountains, over plains, over seas, and we will do what you want us to do! Other than to teach His Word, I never got any specific assignment or thing that I was to do, I just served in whatever area there was a need. But as I look back now I can see how important those early day vows were to our Lord. For it was there that the Lord placed His anointing over our lives that still directs our paths to this very day. Step number five: Forsake the world, Get out of this land! As the Lord told Jacob. Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult (confined) is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” The allure of this world system is ease; live it up. Why should you suffer confinement instead of comfort? Keep it simple and avoid as much tribulation and persecution as you possible can. This so call gospel radiates out of many churches today, but Jesus warned us about this false gospel, not to fall for it. Matthew 7:15-16 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?” Remember how the Lord told us that in this world we would have tribulation; so that the confinement of the true Gospel is the world’s aim, so that if we are suffering tribulation for the stand that we take, we know then that we are entering in the narrow gate and following the road of difficulties for that is His good and perfect will for us. 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Say this prayer out loud: Repentance: Father in heaven I repent of all my sins and I ask for Your forgiveness in Jesus name, thank You for forgiving me. Amen. Renouncement: I renounce you Satan in the name of Jesus and I renounce all of your works in my life. I condemn every connection that I ever had with you because of my sins. I apply the blood of Jesus to cover and protect me from all the works of the devil against me and my family. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Restoration: Now Father in heaven I thank You for Your promise that if I confess my sins You not only forgive me of all my sins, but You also cleanse "restore" me from all unrighteousness. In Jesus name I pray. AMEN!THE THREE R'S PRAYER THE THREE R'S PRAYER The Three R's Prayer Say this prayer out loud: Repentance: Father in heaven I repent of all my sins and I ask for Your forgiveness in Jesus name, thank You for forgiving me. Amen. Renouncement: I renounce you Satan in the name of Jesus and I renounce all of your works in my life. I condemn every connection that I ever had with you because of my sins. I apply the blood of Jesus to cover and protect me from all the works of the devil against me and my family. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Restoration: Now Father in heaven I thank You for Your promise that if I confess my sins You not only forgive me of all my sins, but You also cleanse "restore" me from all unrighteousness. In Jesus name I pray. AMEN! Previous Next Home

WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MAN Discover who the Son of Man is, and lift Him up through faith, knowing that Jesus is the Son of God who does nothing on His own. Sent by the Father, He speaks and acts only as the Father has taught Him, always doing what pleases Him. He is never alone, and we too can follow His example to please our Heavenly Father and walk in His constant presence. WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MAN Minister Lisa Kane August 12, 2025 Objective: Discover who the Son of Man is, and lift Him up through faith, knowing that Jesus is the Son of God who does nothing on His own. Sent by the Father, He speaks and acts only as the Father has taught Him, always doing what pleases Him. He is never alone, and we too can follow His example to please our Heavenly Father and walk in His constant presence. Synopsis: John 8:28 KJV Jesus declared that when the Son of Man is lifted up, people will recognize who He is and understand that He speaks only what the Father has taught Him. Who is the Son of Man? Jesus is the Son of Man—God’s Son, the eternal Word who became flesh. John 1:1-4 KJV From the very beginning, the Word was with God and was God. Through Him, all things were created, and i Him is life—the light of humanity. John 1:14 KJV The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, revealing the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Genesis 1:1-3 KJV From creation’s first moment, God brought the universe into being, His Spirit moving over the waters, and light coming forth by His command. From the start, Jesus was present with God as Creator of all things. In time, He came into the world through a virgin named Mary, taking on human form. He lived without sin and willingly bore our sins on the cross. John 3:15-18 KJV Jesus gave His life so that all who believe in Him would not perish but have eternal life, for He came not to condemn the world, but to save it. By lifting Him up through faith, we choose to follow His example. Declaring what we learn from Him just like He does with His Father. This also means we’re never alone because Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are always with us. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: When you lift up the Son of Man (written version of above video) John 8:28 KJV 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. Who is the Son of Man? Jesus is the Son of Man. He is the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Word of God that became flesh. John 1:1-4 KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:14 KJV 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Genesis 1:1-3 KJV In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. As you can see, Jesus was there in the beginning as a spirit with God who created this world. Jesus entered this world through a virgin named Mary and was born as a man. He died on the cross for our sins as a man who never sinned. Our sin was placed on Him at the time of his death. Jesus, as the Son of Man offered Himself that the world through Him might be saved. As you can see, Jesus is the redeemer of humankind, and this is how He is known as the Son of Man because He, the Son of God was born of a virgin named Mary. Isaiah 7:14 KJV 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Luke 1:34-35 KJV 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. He was God in spirit in the beginning, who became a man, who died for our sins, and rose from the dead as first fruits with His new body as a man. John 3:15-18 KJV 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 1 Corinthians 15:20 KJV 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Now that we have confirmed through scripture that Jesus is the Son of Man, let’s go back to our opening scripture: John 8:28 KJV 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. Do you see that Jesus uses the act of faith in this scripture? He said you need to lift Him up first, then you will know…know what? Know that He is the one the scriptures talk about. James 2:17-22 KJV 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? You see, you need to lift Him up first, then you will know who Jesus is. How do you lift Him up? Call on Him. Romans 10:9 KJV 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Confessing with your mouth is calling out to Jesus. In essence, you lift Him up in your heart and acknowledge out loud that He is Lord Jesus, and you will know that He is Lord Jesus. John 8:28-29 KJV 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. Looking more into this scripture, you find out who Jesus is by realizing, because He said it, that He does nothing of Himself but speaks the things His father taught Him. Then He further states that He’s not alone and that He does the things that pleases His father. He sets an example for us to realize that we’re not alone, we have Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. And because of that, we do the things that pleases Him. This is what causes me to want to serve and love Him. To put Him first in my life. I took a leap of faith to confess Him and my life has never been better. Does this mean I don’t face issues? No. It means that when trouble comes to me, I’m at peace because I know my Father has those troubles in the palm of His hands. I know Jesus and because I know Him, I also know my father. Within the context of John 8, Jesus is speaking to the pharisees and the scribes letting them know who their faither is based on their actions. John 8:39-40 KJV 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Jesus makes a clear distinction that your actions determine who you believe. If you want to kill someone, your father is the devil. If you lift up Jesus, you know Him and His father and they become your family. Take the time today to confess and acknowledge Jesus is the Son of God. Once you do, you will know who He is and who His father is, and it will change you for the better. Home Previous Next

THE PRIESTHOOD OF THOSE WHO ARE MINISTERS The objective of this lesson is to emphasize the sacred responsibility of ministers to glorify God in all aspects of their service, to remain accountable before Him, and to maintain unity and reverence in ministry. It seeks to address the question of who keeps ministers in line when they stray and shows that ultimately it is the Lord Himself who corrects, judges, and restores His servants. THE PRIESTHOOD OF THOSE WHO ARE MINISTERS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this lesson is to emphasize the sacred responsibility of ministers to glorify God in all aspects of their service, to remain accountable before Him, and to maintain unity and reverence in ministry. It seeks to address the question of who keeps ministers in line when they stray and shows that ultimately it is the Lord Himself who corrects, judges, and restores His servants. Synopsis: Pastor Marcos Marrero uses Malachi 2 as the foundation for exploring the priesthood and accountability of ministers. He begins by raising the question: “Who ministers to the ministers?” Through personal experience and biblical teaching, he highlights the dangers of division among church leaders, particularly when disagreements escalate into public opposition rather than private prayer and encouragement. James 3 reminds ministers that those who teach God’s Word are held to a higher standard and face stricter judgment. Malachi warns that when ministers fail to give glory to God’s name, even their blessings may turn into curses. Pastor Marcos stresses that theological disagreements should not result in tearing down fellow ministers, for all knowledge of Scripture is partial, and truth should be taught in love, not in rivalry. The role of the minister, he explains, is to keep knowledge, teach truth, and turn people from sin—not from one another. When truth is proclaimed reverently and in love, blessings of peace, equity, and life flow into the ministry. Conversely, when ministers deviate from God’s ways, the Lord Himself brings correction, either through repentance, intercession by the people, or ultimately removal if the servant refuses to return. Finally, Pastor Marcos emphasizes that God’s people and leaders alike must focus on glorifying His name. When this becomes the priority, discernment is restored, unity is strengthened, and the anointing flows once more like the oil of Psalm 133—bringing life and blessing forevermore. Inspired Teaching: Malachi 2:1 “And now, O priests, this commandment is for you.” In this lesson I aim to deal with this question: Who ministers to the ministers? Or from a different perspective we could ask, who keeps the ministers in line? I’ve met and dealt with many different pastors in the many years that I have been serving the Lord, and I have dealt with situations where there was clear and present differences of opinion in regards to the way a certain outreach was handled. A national ministry had rented a large auditorium in the city and asked for the local churches to help them in their outreach to the community, and our church was one of the ones that volunteered to help: it was a two night event. As I was walking toward the auditorium that Friday night I was met by a few local pastors, and I knew one of them. They were protesting this ministry’s presence in the city, and they were handing out flyers discrediting that ministry. Almost in shock I asked him what was going on, for this was a very reputable and sincere ministry that we had helped before. The protesting pastor just told me that he disagreed with some of their theology and therefore he reserved the right to protest against those that he disagreed with. I remember thinking that independence is a great thing, but what happens when it is turned against those who by definition are supposed to be one body and of one mind and purpose? The Lord has very strong words that govern those who are called to be His ministers. James 3:1-2 “My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things…” James tells us right at front, that those who are called to teach God’s Word will be judged by a different and more stringent standard than someone who doesn’t, and then he adds that we all stumble, meaning that there is a price to pay for the privilege of serving in a ministry that proclaims the Gospel of truth. Malachi 2:2 “If you will not hear (God’s commandment for those who minister), and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings, yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.” In verse two we see that what James was talking about is taking place. A curse had fallen upon their blessings, the blessings that are in store for those who minister to the Lord. That curse had landed on them because they failed in their most basic requirement of ministry, and that is, to give glory to My name, their ministry failed to give the glory to the Lord. Does it give glory to the name of the Lord if I put my fellow minister down when he stumbles? Let’s just say that it is an honest theological disagreement that separates us, does it bring glory to the name of the Lord if I oppose him openly when he tries to minister? Here is what I see, if we all stumble in many things like James says, and we do, and it is also clear from Scripture that we know only in part, so how can I go into open opposition of my fellow minister with whom I disagree, when we are both limited in our understanding of Scripture to begin with? Malachi 2:10 “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another by profaning the covenant of the fathers? There is a difference between disagreeing and being disagreeable. If my brother believes that his ministry which is based on his understanding of Scripture, is the way that he should minister, then why should I oppose him just because his ministry is not compatible with what my understanding of Scripture is for my ministry. If the aim of my ministry is to bring glory to the name of Jesus, then I can bring more glory to the name of Jesus if I just pray for my fellow minister’s ministry in private instead of opposing his ministry in public. After all Jesus is Lord of both ministries and only in Him is all the fullness of knowledge. Malachi 2:7 “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.” There are honest theological disagreements and there are misrepresentations of the truth that are pervasive in many ministries. It is my job as a minister of the Word of God, to point the believers to the knowledge of the truth so that by their knowledge of the truth they can be made free. But I do not have to tear down another man’s ministry to teach the truth, for the truth stands by itself. And if I teach the truth in love, in the hope of helping my fellow ministers to build up their churches with knowledgeable servants whose focus is on the things that they as a body agree, and thereby encourage one another to gain knowledge for the purpose of building up the church, instead of gaining knowledge for the purpose of tearing it apart, then that is a ministry that brings all the glory to the Lord. When we do that we are just doing what we are suppose to do. Malachi 2:6 “The law of truth was in his mouth, and injustice was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and equity, and turned many away from iniquity.” Here is how we can bring glory to the name of the Lord, by turning people away from iniquity, and not from one another. And notice the blessings attached with such a ministry, the blessings of peace and equity that follow the walk of teaching God’s truth in love. Malachi 2:5 “My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, and I gave them to him that he might fear Me; so he feared Me and was reverent before My name.” To have a heart for ministry is to have the heart of God. When we minister the heart of God to His people, we are ministering His life and His peace into the hearts of His people. We do not have to fear the curse when we are walking in His truth; we do not have to fear man when we are proclaiming His truth in love. As long as we remain reverent before His name in the full knowledge that that is what our true ministry is: To lift Him up so that He can draw all men unto Himself, then we walk in peace knowing that we are in His covenant and under His blessings and favor. So, then who is the one who keeps the ministers in line when they get out of line? Malachi 2:8-9 “But you have departed from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of Hosts. Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because you have not kept My ways but have shown partiality in the law.” It is the Lord’s church, and it is in His ministry that we are all servants. He is the head of the church and when His servants deviate from the truth of their calling, not taking the commandments of the Lord for their ministry to heart, then the Lord’s curse against them goes into effect and their ministry becomes void of the anointing, and there is nothing worse than a preacher without the anointing, that is pretty much what the definition of contemptible is. If there is spiritual life left in that ministry, God will move in the hearts of the people to pray for their minister who has gone straight; if there is spiritual life left in that minister, he will repent and will be restored. If there is no spiritual life left in that ministry then they will both be gone, but if there is spiritual life left in that ministry and they pray for their minister who has gone straight and he does not repent, then the Lord will remove him and replace him with someone new. Malachi 3:7 “Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you…” But the key here is swift repentance, as soon as the anointing begins to falter, like the oil running low in an oil lamp, that is the time for prayers of intercession to be offered up immediately on behalf of that ministry and for those who are the ministers, do not wait until the lamp goes out. Malachi 3:16 “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listen and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name.” It is hard saying this, but sometimes the people get the type of ministers that they deserve. But once the fear of the Lord enters into the heart of the congregation and they realize how much is at stake, if they pray, God will hear them if they meditate in giving glory to the Lord’s name. Malachi 3:18 “Then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.” Once the focus is put in the proper place, that is to bring all the glory to the Lord’s name, whether you are a minister or a congregant, immediately the spiritual eyes of that ministry are opened and the ability to discern between the good and the bad is restored. And then that ministry or minister once again begins to flow with God’s precious anointing and they all become one in the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace. Psalm 133:1-3 “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessing—life forevermore.” Previous Next Home

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

THEREFORE FORGIVE THEM NOT The objective of this teaching is to reveal the prophetic relevance of Isaiah 2:9, showing that God draws a line of division between those who walk in the light of Christ and those who choose deception, pride, and evil. It emphasizes the urgent call for believers to walk as children of light, resist cultural and spiritual deception, and understand why God declares “forgive them not” to those who deliberately bow to falsehood and reject His truth in these end times. THEREFORE FORGIVE THEM NOT Minister Lisa Kane September 18, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the prophetic relevance of Isaiah 2:9, showing that God draws a line of division between those who walk in the light of Christ and those who choose deception, pride, and evil. It emphasizes the urgent call for believers to walk as children of light, resist cultural and spiritual deception, and understand why God declares “forgive them not” to those who deliberately bow to falsehood and reject His truth in these end times. Synopsis: In Therefore Forgive Them Not, Minister Lisa Kane explores the sobering message of Isaiah 2 and its direct application to today’s spiritual and cultural climate. Isaiah describes a world where people bow to idols, false ideologies, and pride, abandoning the truth of God. This mirrors our modern society where deception, pride, and the celebration of evil prevail. The message warns that those who choose darkness over light align themselves with destruction, echoing Paul’s admonition to “walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8) and Jesus’ warning against deception in the last days (Matthew 24:4). Through Scripture, Lisa shows that God’s command to “forgive them not” is not about personal bitterness but about divine judgment on those who willfully reject Him. This lesson urges believers to discern the times, avoid the snares of cultural falsehoods, and remain steadfast in Christ. Ultimately, it challenges Christians to live faithfully in the light of Jesus so that when the Day of the Lord arrives, they are found walking in truth and not among those marked for wrath. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Opening scripture: Isaiah 2:9 KJV 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. There is a clear line of division that exists in the world today. There are those on the left, who are simply mean. They celebrate death. They believe there ways are the best. I even heard one say that the world is better off because this person is dead. Ugh. Then there are those on the right who serve the Lord. Isaiah chapter 2 discusses this in division in chapter and even tells us when the time comes for us to ‘forgive them not’. Let’s start in verse 5. This is where Isaiah identifies who the mean people are. Isaiah 2:5 KJV 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. God starts off by calling Jacob to walk in the light of the Lord. This is important because this is what will keep us from the evils of our day just like it would keep Jacob from the evils of his day. First, to not be mean, we need to walk in the light. Who is the light? Jesus. We must walk in the ways of Jesus. Paul reiterates this in Ephesians. Ephesians 5:6-8 KJV 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: Paul clearly tells us that by not walking in the light, we could be deceived, and that is very dangerous to today’s spiritual climate. Jesus has warned us to not be deceived, and He expressly states that in End Time Prophecy. Matthew 24:4 KJV 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Paul emphasizes it more in Galatians 6: Galatians 6:7 KJV 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Let’s see what Isaiah identified as the things that deceived Jacob. Isaiah 2:6-8 KJV 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: Jacob followed after other cultures false ideologies and religions. They worshipped the created, and not the creation. It was an attraction to them because they saw how rich these cultures were. Well guess what, that’s what people are doing in today’s world. In today’s culture climate, people are caught up in wokeism, keeping the earth green, believing in aliens, and basically following after other cultures but not walking in the light, the Word of God – Jesus, Himself. There are the Abrahamic blessings and curses over Israel. So many people reject Israel by choosing Palestine. There are many people choosing to celebrate the dark, evil things in the world and not selecting to walk in the light. This is a blatant choice these people have made. As you can see, Isaiah 2 is for us today to see and be aware of this line of division. Let’s continue in Isaiah 2. Isaiah 2:9-12 KJV 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: Well, look at that. In context, Isaiah 2 is talking about an event before the Day of the Lord. This puts Isaiah 2 in today’s timeline of end time events / prophecy. And by the way, we know that the Day of the Lord hasn’t happened yet. Remember, this is what the Day of the Lord is in Revelation 6. Revelation 6:15-17 KJV 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? Now, let’s go back to our opening scripture. Isaiah 2:9 KJV 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. It amazes me that God is telling us not to forgive the mean man who boweth down to the ideas of the world. Let me describe this in more detail for you. In essence, when the Bible says you’ve bowed down to something, you have made that your priority. You will follow it to the ends of the world if need be because that is what is important to you. For example, if you choose to be mean, like celebrating the death of anyone, then you’ve put yourself as the most important person and that your ideas, beliefs are the most important and everyone should follow that. You are full of pride. Reality check, no. You are not God, and you cannot believe that there is any justification to death. You have chosen to walk in darkness on purpose. You made the decision that your ways are the best and everyone should follow you; and that the world proves you right; hence why you celebrate death or choose to be mean over choosing good. You are blatantly making the decision for evil than good. Proverbs 16:18 KJV 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. You are putting evil, your pride ahead of good and because you’ve done that, God says through Isaiah, ‘forgive them not’. This is why you end up as one of those rejecting God during the seven year time period of God’s wrath. Isaiah 2:9 is revelation to me because I’ve been forgiving people left and right now for a few years knowing that forgiveness will end when the Day of the Lord arrives…but the Day of the Lord hasn’t arrived yet. Note, we can see this clear line of division. There are those celebrating death and choosing evil, and questioning whether prayer works. Don’t fall for this deception. Choose to walk in the light so that you are not counted as one who chooses evil. Let’s remember what Paul said in Romans 9: Romans 9:21-22 KJV 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: We see this line because God made some vessels for honor, and some for dishonor. Choose the light and choose to walk in the ways of Jesus. By taking that leap of faith, you won’t be deceived. Home Previous Next

CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the true context and purpose of spiritual gifts. By examining 1 Corinthians 10–12, the message emphasizes that gifts are not isolated abilities but are rooted in fellowship with Christ and proper spiritual authority. The teaching aims to show how spiritual gifts deliver us from the influence of idols and demonic wisdom, positioning us rightly in the body of Christ so that each member functions effectively in unity under the headship of Jesus. < Back CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS Pastor Marcos Marrero April 18, 2008 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the true context and purpose of spiritual gifts. By examining 1 Corinthians 10–12, the message emphasizes that gifts are not isolated abilities but are rooted in fellowship with Christ and proper spiritual authority. The teaching aims to show how spiritual gifts deliver us from the influence of idols and demonic wisdom, positioning us rightly in the body of Christ so that each member functions effectively in unity under the headship of Jesus. Synopsis: This message begins with prayer and thanksgiving for God’s presence and guidance, then moves into Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 12:1: “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.” The teaching places this verse in the broader context of 1 Corinthians 10 and 11, which highlight two foundational truths: fellowship with Christ (communion) and proper alignment under spiritual authority. The message explains that spiritual gifts flow from this fellowship, placing believers in their unique positions within the body of Christ. Just as seating arrangements at a banquet reflected status in ancient customs, so too does our place in Christ give us authority and responsibility. Unlike worldly systems that exalt power and pride, the kingdom of God exalts humility—God resists the proud but lifts up the humble. Drawing on passages from James 3 and Psalm 115, the teaching contrasts the influence of demonic, sensual wisdom with the life-giving wisdom from above. Before salvation, believers were bound by “dumb idols” that dulled spiritual senses, leaving them unable to see, hear, or discern the things of God. Spiritual gifts, therefore, serve as God’s tools to free His people from these former influences and to equip them for service. The gifts are not given for self-exaltation but for building up the body, ensuring that each member—whether seen or unseen—functions in harmony. The message stresses that communion with Christ must not be taken lightly; failure to discern His body leads to weakness, sickness, or even death among believers. Conversely, rightly partaking of Christ’s fellowship brings healing, authority, and the power to overcome. Ultimately, the teaching shows that spiritual gifts are God’s weapons of deliverance, empowering His people to walk in their rightful position of fellowship and authority, and to minister under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the edification of the entire body of Christ. Inspired Teaching: Right. Praise God. Father in heaven in Jesus name, we thank you for your anointing, for your presence that covers, Father God, and for your hand that heals. Also for your hand of favor upon our heads, Father God, upon our ears, upon our eyes, our mouth, Father God. Touch us father in the name of Jesus that we may see what the Holy Spirit is bringing from you to reveal to us tonight father in Jesus name we thank you Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Concerning spiritual gift and it's our scriptures in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And I was reading um the other morning sitting in Riverside there in my car while waiting and I opened to this chapter and the Lord gave me a neat revelation and it says in um 1 Corinthians 12 verse1 it says now concerning spiritual gift brethren I do not want you to be ignorant and then immediately was like the Lord uh just brought the revelation to my mind that um uh spiritual gift have a purpose and the purpose has to do what he has been talking about. In other words, when he said concerning spiritual gift, I do not want you to be ignorant. And if you look back to take into context uh as the Lord showed me in um uh for example in in first Corinthians um uh chapter 11, he's talking about spiritual authority. In in verse two, he said, "But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ." And then he's talking about the man being the head of the woman, Christ being the head of the man, God being the head of Christ. So he's talking about spiritual authority. He's talking about uh the dangers of praying or ministering outside of the right proper spiritual authority. That's what he's talking about there. In other words, he's saying uh uh that when things kind of get out of line, uh we're not functioning under the proper anointing or under the proper covering. And if you go back even farther to put into context what he's talking about, he's talking about um he's talking about communion, having fellowship with God. For example, in 1 Corinthians 10 um verse 16, it says, "The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ." So there's an understanding to be had here that when he says in in in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1 when he says concerning now spiritual gift brethren I do not want you to be ignorant he's taking into context two very major points that he just made in chapters 10 and chapter 11. In chapter 10, he's making the point that we as believers because of the blood of Jesus Christ, we have fellowship. You see, and as believers, we also are placed in a position of authority. Now, let's take this back to the time of of the apostles and so that we can grasp and understand. Remember how Sebedes, the sons of Zebedee, Zebedee's wife, the mother of John and Andrew, came to Jesus and said, "Jesus, when you come into the kingdom, why don't you let uh my uh my son sit at your right hand and at your left hand in your throne to rule." And then there's another occasion when Jesus comes in and says, "Listen, when you're invited to a feast, don't seek to sit closer to the head of the table to the master because he may come in and somebody more important than you may come in and he'll pluck you out of your chair and put that other person." He says, "Sit where the most humble people sit and then the master will see you and then he will sit you up." What he's talking about, he's talking about a custom. A custom in those day is fellowship. When you're in fellowship, the position that you sit in that place of fellowship determines what your ranking is. In other words, the higher ranking you are in that fellowship, the closer to the master you sit. The lower in ranking, the farther you are. Now, I want you to take these two principles here because this is what Paul is talking about. chapter 10 and chapter 11. In chapter 10, he says, "Hey, we're seated now with Christ in the heavenly places because we have fellowship with him." In other words, Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me." When we partake of communion, we are recognizing the fact that we are part of the body of Christ. Jesus sits at the head of the table like he did during the communion and the different disciples sit next to him on their positions that are given to him. So the fact that we are now part of the body of Christ places us in a position of authority with Christ. That's what it's talking about. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 1 Corinthians 11 is talking about fellowship and authority. That's what it's talking about. So when in 1 Corinthians 12:1 he says, "Now concerning spiritual gifts, I do not want you to be ignorant." We need to place it within the context is that in fellowship with Christ, we have position and we have ranking. Okay, we need to understand this because this is the whole framework of the gift. This is how they operate. As a matter of fact, if you read farther down, where we're not going to get to tonight, in in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, uh he makes the very statement that in Christ, we're all like part of a body. In other words, we're not all an eye. We're not all an ear. But imagine if you put the eye on the knee, you would have a hard time praying, getting in your knees to pray because your eyes can't handle that. So he is talking about here that no matter what position you have in the body, whatever position has been given to you, whether you're a male or a female as he's using it in in in in 11 when he talking about that the woman not to pray with her head on cover. And when he's talking about that a man cannot pray with his head uncovered, meaning that Christ is his head. And if he's going to do spiritual warfare, he better have Christ as his covering, just like a woman needs to have her husband as a covering or her pastor, he's talking about a position in Christ, a fellowship with him. And then he's talking about not only a position of authority, h a position that brings us to a place of authority. In other words, whether you're the little toe, whether you're the nail, whether you're the eye, whether you're the ear, it does not matter. You fit into that pattern. And to men, now remember, they asked Jesus right in the context of when uh Zebed's uh wife uh wanted one of her sons sitting at his right hand and as his left hand. Jesus says the kingdom of God is not like the gentile world. In the gentile world, you lorded over people. He said, you know, the one with the most drive, the one that can bribe more people or convince more people or lead more people, he takes a head seat. He said, no, in the kingdom of God, the more humble person a person is, the more he to be exalted. In other words, you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be a servant of them all. Now, why is that? Because God governs and rules through principles, spiritual principles. Just like gravity. If gravity was taken right now, we all go floating. And if we don't have nothing to grab on to, man, we're in trouble because we're just out there in space doing nothing. God works always through laws which are called spiritual principle. And God has a very simple spiritual principle which he governs everything by. He says that God resists the proud but yet he exalts the humble. So you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be humble. And God is going to come to your little seat where you're at and going to move you to a higher position of authority because why? Because he has to obey. He governs by the rules that he made. And that's the rule that he made. The humble he lifts up. And now the one that exalts himself, what is it? That God resists the proud. So we need to understand then that in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 when we read verse one when Paul says now brethren concerning spiritual gifts I do not want you to be ignorant. We need to take that into the context that Paul is speaking about as believers. We have fellowship with Christ. And because we have fellowship with Christ within the structure of the fellowship we are given a position. we are given a position of authority. That's what he's talking about in in in chapter 11 being in the right under the proper government uh government ruling uh spiritual ruling of God. So the spiritual gift have to do with placing us in the proper place of fellowship with God and in the proper place of authority with God. So if we start with that then we're going to be able to understand what it's talking about. Now I want you to read. We're going to read verse one and verse two. 1 Corinthians 12. He says, "Now concerning spiritual gift, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant." Verse two, "You know that you were Gentiles carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led." Now Paul very purposely puts the word there d them. He's not putting down on an on idols. He is trying to bring a very very important point. And what he's saying over here is that when we were gentiles and the problem with the word gentile that's become a fancy word. Oh we're all gentiles. The word gentiles mean pagan means idoltor means an idol worshipper. That's what the word pagan means. It means that hey, when you were an idoltor, when you were a pagan, when you were in the world, before you came into the fellowship that you are now in with Christ, and before you came into the position in which God has placed you, you had an authority and you had a position because you were influenced. You were led by idols. You see, so the spiritual gift are designed to take as if it were our nature or carnality or the position that was given to us by these dumb idols by our pagan ways of walking and placing us within the proper framework and context of the purpose and plan that God has for us. That's what he's saying concerning spiritual gifts. Brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. You need to understand that now that you're a believer, you're in Christ. You have fellowship with God in the house of God. There is a seat. There is a spot that is reserved for you on that. You occupy a place of authority. And when you're part of the body and you're exercising your full authority within your context of the place of authority, you're making the body work. Hallelujah. You're making the body work. Things are happening. But when you're not within your position and within the realm of your authority, you're hindering. And that's why we need the gift. The gifts are there to place us in the proper place. That's what he's talking about. Now first of all we need to understand that as Gentiles or pagans all of our ways that means the way we think was influenced by demonic stuff. Now I don't have it there in the notes but u uh uh I need you to to see this. I was thinking today as I was meditating is in James and I think it's chapter 3. Uh James chapter 3 if I can find James. Where are you James? There you go. I'm already there. James 3. And I spoke this many times is James 3 verse 12. Let's begin there. It says, "Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grape vine bear figs? Does no spring yield both salt water and fresh?" Believe it or not, this is the context into which Paul is talking about. We're going to read a scripture later to where it says, "Are you trying to make God jealous because you're partaking of the table of demons and you're partaking of the table of God?" So the context here is that now that we are situated or positioned in Christ, we need to assume or fulfill the responsibility of that office that has been given to us. And then he says um in verse 13 James 3:13 say who is wise and understanding among you. Remember I don't want you to be ignorant brethren. That's what 121 says. I don't want you concerning spiritual gifts. I do not want you to be ignorant. who is wise and under standing among you. Let him show by the conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. Remember wisdom is a spirit. He said, "But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth because this wisdom or this spirit, this influence does not descend from above, but is earthly, is sensual, and is demonic." And I want you to to underline those two words, sensual and demonic. And then he says, "For where there's envy, self-seeking, there's confusion, and all kinds of evil are there." And then he contrasts that by the wisdom that come from above, he says, "But the wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield and and all kinds of things." So I want you to see that what Paul is trying to deal with here is our carnality versus our spiritual position in fellowship and authority with Christ. Our carnality, the influences of the flesh are going to be in contrast with the position that we are in Christ in our fellowship with him and the authority that has been vested upon us as Christian. And so that if we don't see that the spiritual gift are tools that God has made available to pull us out or remove us from under the influence of the wisdom of this world which is demonic then we cannot come into the fullness of our position and fellowship that we have with Christ. This is why so many Christians fail. Now I want to take you in a journey as to why pagan when we were pagans that's before we were saved when we were pagan how much influence that demonic structure of this world that wisdom that we just read the self-seeking and sensual how detrimental that was to us because that DNA is deeply engraed saved in our human nature and that's what the gifts are for to remove that. Let's go first to Psalm 115 and let's read verses 2-8. Psalm 115 verses 2-8. He says, "Why should the Gentiles say, so where is their God?" Now notice he begins with a question. Why do do pagans say where is their God? How many of you know that now that's what the world says to Christians? Where is your God? How come you're dying of cancer the same way everybody else has got cancer? You're getting divorced the same way everybody gets divorced. you know, you're having to do the same things that we're having to do. So, where is your God? Now, watch what he says. He says, "But our God is in heaven, and he does whatever he pleases." Now, the pagans, verse four, their idols are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. And this is what I want you to see. This is very important. The idols, the works of manham, they have mouth but they do not speak. Eyes they have but they do not see. They have ears but they do not hear. Noses they have but they do not smell. They have hands but they do not handle. Feet they have but they do not walk. Nor do they mutter through their thro. And here's the kicker. Those who make them are like them, and so is everyone who trusts in them. Now, if you didn't catch it, he was talking about the five senses. He says they have eyes, they do not see, they have ears, they do not hear, they have noses, they cannot smell, they have mouth, they cannot taste, they have hands, they have feet, they can't do anything. And it says that those who make him, which is the wisdom of this world, the selfseeking that is embedded in all of us, we were under that influence as Gentiles, as pagans becau before we came into the commonwealth of Israel, which is the promise of God of Abraham according to the spirit where he said, "Your seed shall be like the stars of the heaven." That inheritance that we have before we enter into it, that's what we were under. We were this is so are the ones who make him and the ones who worship that lifestyle they become like them. Imagine that. What does it mean to become like an idol? It means you cannot hear the spirit of God. Means you cannot see the reality of spiritual things. Means you cannot does the Bible say come and taste and see that the that the Lord is good. You cannot taste the word of God. You speak it but it's not food. There's it's like eating cardboard, dry box, something like that. Why? The reason is because of the fact that idols are designed to keep men bound so that they cannot hear the spirit of God and be set free. Remember what Jesus said, lest they hear and be healed lest they hear. Isaiah says, you know, they they they hear uh they have ears, but they cannot hear. And and then he says, and and and unless they hear and be healed. So, we're talking about coming into the inheritance of God. But it says that we inherited all of that. You see, before I was born again, I could read the Bible and I could say, "Man, no wonder the world is so messed up." All you could see when I was reading in the Bible was wars and killings and murders and everything else. You see, my spirit was shut up. Could not see, could not hear, could not taste, could not smell. It wasn't until I experienced a rebirth. Born again, born of the spirit where that dumb idol. That's why Paul calls it the no matter why dumb. Because you don't hear and you don't speak, you're called dumb. That's why he called them. They don't have the ability to speak or to hear. We were led when we were pagans by dom idols. And these do idols kept us boxed in to where we could not see the fellowship the the seed of fellowship that we have with Christ. And we cannot understand the authority that comes with a sitting that we're now seated with Christ. That means that we need to be delivered. We need to be delivered. We need to be delivered from ears that cannot hear. We need to be delivered from eyes that cannot see. Have you ever been around a person that is negative all the time and and in every situation they see the worst and and and you're not involved in it and and immediately you perceive man that person will be so negative. He could see the blessing right there. Their attitude is what keeping them. I mean the person might be dying to hire them but they're doing everything in the world to keep the guy from hiring because of the attitude. You cannot see things like that and that's what he's talking about. So then what first Corinthians chapter 12 what he's talking about he's about God has made available for us spiritual gift because he said brethren concerning spiritual gift I do not want you to be ignorant those spiritual gift has been given to us for a purpose and the purpose is to deliver us from the demonic influences. that we have inherited from our old lifestyle when we were pagans. As a matter of fact, there's another scripture that I want to bring it more at home. And it's right there in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. If you're still in in 1 Corinthians 12, just back up just a little bit so that you can see that all of these things that Paul is doing, he's he's he's they're all chapter 10, chapter 11, they're all talking about. Look at ch 1 Corinthians chapter 10 uh verses 19 and 20. Look what Paul says what I am saying then that an idol is anything or what is offered to idols is anything. He's asking the question, but look what he says. The statement that he makes in 1 Corinthians 10:20. Rather, the things with the Gentiles or the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And because of that, Paul says to us, those who are believers, no, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. because you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. So he's saying as a believer now you cannot remain in your old lifestyle. You have been given a seat of fellowship at the Lord's table which is his body, the church. That's what 1 Corinthians 12, if you read it, he says uh uh this gift are given for the profit of all and we're like a body. There's just one head. See, a lot of people say, well, uh, uh, you know, to justify their stronghold in a church or in a group or fellowship, anything with more than one head is a monster, they say. And I agree with that. Jesus is the head. That's what they don't understand. They're not. Jesus is the only head and Jesus operates through the full body. Any healthy church will have different people manifesting and and and ministry through different gifts. As a matter of fact, you read 1 Corinthians 13, it it says there are many gifts, but there's one spirit. There's the same Holy Spirit. He works. And you know, the Holy Spirit loves working through multiplicity of people. Get a group and begin to minister and you'll see that he the Holy Spirit will jump from one person to the other one to the other one to the other. Why? Because God operates in principles. And what is another principle that God tries to keep us from? Pride comes before the fall. And God knows in our human nature, we're very much prone to pride. So if the Holy Spirit does everything through you and you become the big head, pretty soon you're going to fall over. So the Holy Spirit will just use you for for a part and then he'll move to somebody else. And then you said, "Wow, I can't believe the Lord gave him that." And the other person say, "Look at you. I can't believe the Lord gave him that." But the thing is the two parts work together and bring the deliverance to the to to the thing that you need. And so what? Nobody gets full up because everybody said, "Man, if pray had not been here, that would not happen or if this had not happened." So So the Holy Spirit loves working like that. So he says in 1 Corinthians 12, if you read part of there are many gift but one spirit. But then he goes on to say there are different ministries but just one Lord. I don't care whether you're a pastor or a prophet or whether you're an evangelist or whether you're a teacher or whether you're an apostle, whoever you are, Jesus still is ahead. Why? Because he is the chief cornerstone. He's the head of the church. He is he he he he occupies every main office of the church. He occupies he's king. He's high priest. He's prophet. He's the apostle of our faith. Everything that has a title that governs and rules the body, the church is Jesus. All of us are just somewhere in there. And it's amazing that when h as 70 son's mother asked Jesus, he says those position are reserved by God as to who sits to his right hand and to his left hand. Only God has got those position. And you know what? When we get to heaven and we see those seated up there, I can guarantee you we never heard of them. We never knew them. There's some place some place to where and they suffer endure and whatever God knows the heart. He says whatever you do in secret will be rewarded in public. So then in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, what Paul is talking about when he says, "Now, brethren, concerning spiritual gift, I do not want you to be ignorant." And it's not to be ignorant of the fact that we have fellowship through our communion with Jesus Christ. And because we're in that fellowship, we have been given a position of authority, a seat. See, when you're going to uh the feast, everybody sits at a special place. We all sit at a special place. And that sit is reserved for just us. And he says, "And I want you to understand this." And I also want you to understand that when you were pagan, you were led by do idols that blocked your ability to hear, that blocked your ability to see, that blocked your ability to smell and taste and touch. And so because of that, you need deliverance in some of these areas so that you can be set free. And if you're not set free and you say, "Hey, I don't need it." Then you're going to have a problem. And the problem is in the scripture uh before us. Uh look at 1 Corinthians uh 11 verse 27-30. In 1 Corinthians 11:27-30, talking about our fellowship and and what we're commanded to do, the communion, he says, "Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord." Now, it says that there's a proper way to take it in and there's a proper way and and and and and a a profane way of doing it. Verse 18, but let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, partake of the word of God, and drink of the cup, the blood that Jesus shed for us. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. And then look what it says in verse 30. For this reason, what is he talking about? What is he talking about? For this reason, because of failure to understand the our nature that is corrupted, for this reason many of you are weak and sick among you and many have died. So meaning that in the Lord in our table of fellowship that we have with the Lord, the bread is for the healing and the blood is for forgiveness. I don't care what illness any Christian has, he has a right to come to the table of the Lord. Look at uh Psalm 23. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemy. this table, that bread of healing is the bread, the body of Christ. It says Peter quoting uh Isaiah says by the stripes of Jesus, you were healed. When we partake of the bread, it's not necessarily the communion that can happen on the communion, but when we take the word of God that says, "I am the Lord that heals you." And we're facing cancer or we're facing some kind of destructive disease and we can partake of that word. With eyes that see, hallelujah, with ears that hear, with the ability to taste and see that the Lord is good, the smell of the blood of Jesus that was shed for us, we're able to touch the hymn of his garment and immediately were healed. But he says many of you because you're failing to understand that your position of authority and fellowship in Christ cannot be handled in the natural way. You see cannot be handled in the natural rational way of thinking. This is the mistake that most Christians make. Their ministry is based on the human senses. That's what James 3 said. He says the wisdom that comes from here is is it is it it is demonic. It is sensual. It is based on the senses. It's based on what you see and what you hear. And the Bible tells us uh uh not to lean into our own understanding. That there's a way that seemed right to a man and that the end is destruction. So then what Paul is saying before you can handle your position of fellowship and authority you better understand what the spiritual gifts are there for because the spiritual gift concerning spiritual gift is what's going to set you free. Now look at verse three. This this can trouble many people for a long time. 1 Corinthians 12:3 in first he says now concerning spiritual gift verse one brethren I do not want you to be ignorant verse two you know that when you were pagans you were carried away to these dumb idols wherever you were led therefore I make known to you and you have to make sure you you pay attention here I make known to you that no one speaking by the spirit Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Now that doesn't seem to make sense, does it? It is in a place there and it's standing all by itself and you say, "Man, what is that all about?" Well, that confirmed the scripture that I read to you in James chapter 3 where it says that there's two wisdoms. There's a wisdom that comes from above, peaceful, pure, and then there's a wisdom that come from this world which is based on sensual and demonic. That means that there are only two fountains. That means that there are only two wells. That means that there are only two sources. This is what it's talking about. And when we were pagans, guess what source we were drinking and flowing out of? Idolatry. And guess what? That idolatry brought dumb. Can see, can hear, can smell, can taste, can touch. You see? And so now he's saying here that you cannot say that Jesus Christ is Lord unless the spirit of God is saying that through you. And you cannot say Jesus occurs if you're born again because you see only the pagans can say that because the spirit of God is in you will not allow you to say anything bad about Jesus because the spirit testified about Jesus. That's all he does. He's here for the purpose of Jesus. The spirit of God will never ever put in a Christian to say something bad about Jesus. Never. It can't. the spirit of God and in the same way in our own nature we can never say Jesus is Lord unless the spirit of God truth you see we we were dumb our eyes our ears everything was blocked we could not see we could not hear it took the spirit of God to connect us see when Jesus send the disciples and gave him power they came back what Lord we spoke in your name and demons went out said don't rejoice in that rejoice that you had the password to heaven Yeah. And it's your name. Your name is written in heaven. When you say in the name of Jesus, your voice registers in heaven and immediately shows that's Marcos. Whoever it is you're born again, your name is in is written in the register just like a computer. Just type in your password and guess what? If you're not connected, you're not going to get in. Okay? You got to be signed up. You got to have a password. Your name is your password. You cannot say Jesus is Lord unless the spirit of God is in you. That's why he said rejoice that your name is written in heaven. That when you pray by the power of the Holy Spirit immediately it is answered. But now remember Jesus speaking about this he says my sheep know my voice. said, "But there are thieves that tried to come in through through the fence or through the back door, but they're not allowed in." See, here on earth, you can do that. You can fool a lot of people. You know, you wear the right clothes, say the right things and everything, and man, you can build a a great following. But that doesn't fool God. You see, you you cannot say Jesus is Lord. And and since we're dealing with demons because you see super personally sick, you know, and you can talk a good talk and play a good game and you can preach a great service, you say in the name of Jesus, if the spirit of God is not ended, that demon is just sitting over there laughing at you eating popcorn or lighting up one or whatever it is they do. You have no authority. You have no power. You see, the only power that we have is the gift that God gives us. Because the gifts are the tools. are the weapons. The gift concerning spiritual gift are the weapons that God gives us to defeat or destroy the power of these things that work with us. And so what he's saying here is in the spirit realm, in the natural you can fool a lot of people, but in the spiritual realm you're either connected to one or the other source. You're either connected to the wisdom that comes from above. Your name is written in heaven. When you speak, there's authority in your voice and demons have to obey. Or you just pulling a game and you're doing, you know what the thing does? You're you're you're in for self-seeking. You know, you just heard of this this pastor that just retired and the church is building him a $10 million church, a 10,000 um uh uh square feet living and stuff like that. And yet all of the years he's been preaching about the poor, all of the poor people and and and how does that um and and and you know, but people can't see nothing wrong with that. And then you know, and you see that in how many other congregations, people that have, you know, mega mega churches and have this uh big big mansions and all that stuff. You never see Jesus do that because when he said he cared about the poor, he really cared about the poor. He says the son of man doesn't have a nest for the birds have nest for he said son of man doesn't have a house doesn't have a place he has one goal and the goal is deliver the people the the people that are bound he saw the people like sheep without a shepherd who were hassle and and being destroyed by by the enemy. So then we get to the point now to where he says that there are diversity of gifts. Now we can understand how these gifts work. If you break them down and you have them there in your note, three of the gifts are called Ottoman's gift. And it is so important because the idols that we were under were dumb. They cannot speak. Okay. Order and gift. The every time you read in the book of Acts that the Holy Spirit fell on people, the first manifestation that came out of the people is they began to speak in other tongues. Now, why why is that? Why? Why is it that all of the sudden the Holy Spirit brought a prompting within the people to prophesy and to speak because before that you couldn't. It's just that simple. See, you were connected to a dead socket. It looked like a real one and everything and you were plugged in, but there was no juice flowing from there. You could not see, you could not hear, you could not smell, you could not taste. When you were plugged into the spirit of God, guess what? The light came on. Your mouth moved. You were able to speak Previous Next Home

ENTER HIS REST The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical meaning of entering God’s rest, as taught in Hebrews 3–4 and supported by the Psalms. The message aims to show that rest is not merely physical relaxation but a spiritual act of faith and obedience. By choosing to trust God instead of striving in unbelief or frustration, Christians can experience peace, healing, stability, and victory in their daily lives. < Back ENTER HIS REST Minister Lisa Kane January 6, 2024 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the biblical meaning of entering God’s rest, as taught in Hebrews 3–4 and supported by the Psalms. The message aims to show that rest is not merely physical relaxation but a spiritual act of faith and obedience. By choosing to trust God instead of striving in unbelief or frustration, Christians can experience peace, healing, stability, and victory in their daily lives. Synopsis: In Enter His Rest, Lisa Kane explores the scriptural call for God’s people to enter into His promised rest. Drawing from Hebrews 3 and 4, she highlights the example of Israel’s disobedience in the wilderness, showing how unbelief kept them from receiving the rest God intended. In contrast, true faith and obedience open the door to peace, stability, and blessing. The message also weaves in insights from Psalms 37, 38, and 116, which connect rest with patience, forgiveness, and the quieting of the soul in God’s presence. Rest is shown to be both a command and a gift—an intentional act of ceasing from striving, trusting God’s provision, and allowing Him to heal both body and spirit. Lisa emphasizes that entering God’s rest equips believers to resist anger, frustration, and fear, while cultivating boldness, faith, and testimony before others. Just as God rested on the seventh day, Christians are called to follow His example by stepping back from self-effort and allowing His Word and Spirit to work within them. Ultimately, rest becomes a weapon of victory, crushing the enemy underfoot, and a testimony of faith that demonstrates God’s peace and power in the midst of life’s challenges. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this message on Saturday, January 6, 2023. This message is called Enter His Rest. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your presence and we thank you for your anointing and we thank you for the power of your word, the living word of God. And we thank you that it moves forward. That it strikes and divides and meets the needs of every person deep within their bones. Father God, I thank you. I thank you. And I thank you because you are all powerful. You are glorious. You are the creator. You are the healer. You are the provider. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. And amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here in Hebrews. Hebrews 3:19. And so we see that they cannot enter in because of unbelief or that word unbelief means faithlessness or another word for it is faithlessness. Well, you know I am teaching a different kind of message. So this is called enter his rest. My pastor taught on Sunday uh a message on rest and the Sabbath and I you know resonated with me. Normally I don't teach on something that another pastor's taught on but then I heard three other messages. So, I got a total of four messages this week on the topic of rest in the Sabbath. And I thought, wow, Lord, you're talking to me. So, this message is really more for me, but I'm going to share it with you while I teach myself. Amen. So, I've done some research here. We are going to be focusing in Hebrews, and we're going to be focusing on uh Hebrews 3 and 4. So, if you want, get your Bibles ready because we're going to be reading some good chunks of scripture through there. In the meantime, there are three scriptures in Psalms that I want to show you that apply to rest. And it kind of really uh brings to heart the difference between living in sin, living with Christ, because you got to know the difference between the two. I taught on this last week, what the difference between salvation and living for Christ is. So there is something visible that we can see and actually entering or not entering into that rest gives us a clue as to who you are and what kind of life you're living. Amen. So Psalm 37:7, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prosperth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. All of us look out at other people and we all see those that are doing so good, so prosperous, have all the money. I mean, look at our current leadership in the government of the United States of America and how prosperous they are. It's frustrating. But God is saying, look at this or this the author of Psalm here is saying rest. Look at the word rest. To be dumb, see, stop in the Lord. Okay, let's explain because it takes a moment to think this through and understand it. So to be dumb. Okay, so in other words, what you're doing is because you're so frustrated, you get mad and you see these situations. So what that word rest is telling you to do, just stop, pretend that's not going on, be dumb about it, and go to the Lord. Wait a second. How do I do that? Because now the emotions are flying. Look at what kind of emotions he's talking about in the Psalms. He says, "Fret not thyself." And what does that mean? Glow or grow warm. The blood pressure, you're you're getting heated. Your your face turns color when you get angry. It turns red. It just that's the way it happens. Darkens and reds and bulges. Well, he's saying, "Don't let that get to you. Rest in the Lord." What does he say? rest, which means to be dumb. Cease. Stop. Stop yourself. Oh, okay. I gotta stop myself. How do I do that? So, we're gonna be looking into that. Um, now let's look at another verse in Psalm. Psalm 38:3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Here we are again about anger. If you're angry at something or someone, look at this. I have no rest. There's no soundness, no wholesome, no I'm not complete in my flesh. My my my bones are not at safe. They they're not healthy. They're not prosperous because I'm in sin and I haven't been forgiven of my sin. So taking rest is an act of obedience or if you don't do it, you're in sin. [Music] which we all know that Jesus, he's the the Messiah. He came to redeem us and pardon us. And because he did that, we get to stop and say, "Lord, forgive us." So, he's showing us, these scriptures are showing us a little bit of self-control here. We have to take heed, make sure we don't let this get out of hand. Let's look at a third verse in Psalm. Psalm 116:7. Return unto thy rest, oh my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Look at this. Return back. You got to get your life back with God in the secret place with the Lord. You have to find that rest, quiet, settled spot home for your soul. Your soul needs to have that quiet moment. And look at because the Lord is treated bountifully with you. You are God will treat you bountifully. This is an act of obedience. He's going to do that. So, let's go to Hebrews. We're going to look at start at three. We're going to go in start at chapter 3. We're going to go into chapter 4, but let's start at verse 11. And this is the chunk of scripture we're looking at is the author is trying to tell us, okay, we're going to look at the Israelites who wandered the wilderness for 40 years and what they did. And look at what God did here. So now God, he swore an oath in his wrath. Okay? Because it's talking about God. So I swear in my wrath, and it was a justifiable, violent, passionate wrath that he's talking about that this is God talking. They shall not enter my rest. Because see, God said to the Israelite, he was so vexed and frustrated with him that he's like, I'm not going to let you enter my rest. I mean, he just got mad. And this is where he's saying, "They shall not enter my rest." Look at the word rest there. It means reposing down or dormant sleep, abode, which is like a home. And uh as you can see what I'm teaching here is the bold words are in the King James version. The words in parentheses are additional meanings of that word in bold. Okay. So as you can see here he swore in his wrath and he's a they're not going to get into a reposing down dormant sleep or abode. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil which is a hurtful influence heart or thoughts or feelings of unbelief which is faithless faithlessness in departing from the living God. You see, when you're in hardness of heart, which is what these people in the wilderness were, you are in evil. You're you have a hurtful influence on the thoughts and the feelings of those around you because you don't have faith. you're not following the living word of God. You're not living in the living word of God. And these people were doing that. So this writer, the author of Hebrews is telling us, get a hold of yourself. Now let's continue on. 13 But exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you follow the same pattern, be hardened through the deceitfulness, delusion of sin. You see, when the Israelites had wandered around and they were eating heaven, bread from heaven, mana, they got bored with it and they wanted their onions back from when they were in slavery with the Egyptians. Oh, those onions. Oh, I miss those. Oh, if I could only have another, you know, had they had just humbled themselves and took hold of themselves and say, you know, Lord, went to Moses and said, "Hey, Moses, can you go talk to God? I'm thankful we have the mana. I'm grateful for it. Can he add some flavor to it or give us a a difference? Because see, we're in the flesh. We want something different all the time. And God knows that and he will work with you. This is why he said, "Enter your rest." Because you got to deal with your flesh. Which is what Psalms was trying to tell us about our bones not being in good, safe, healthy, prosperity areas because we're not entering into that rest. This is where people get cancer and things of that nature. This is why you'll see a lot of medical offices and systems try to provide a tw tranquil atmosphere for their patients because they're trying to calm them because if they can calm down a bit, it brings the blood pressure down. Right? Verse 14. For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Basically saying we're participants of of Christ and what he did. We need to stay confident in and we have to set ourselves under his support and be stable unto the end. You see that's what entering rest is all about. Stability. How many times you do good, you do good, you do good, you do it for several months in a row and all of a sudden you crash and burn because you got to enter your rest to keep it going to the end. While it is said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation or the irritation of the Israelites to God back in the wilderness. And he's saying today, now today meant, let's say we were here yesterday. Yesterday was today. Tomorrow will be today. So he's saying now, this is the now you have to get a hold of yourself, take heed of yourself and watch out for hardening your heart. And then he says, "For someone they had heard did provoke or exasperate. How be it not all that came out of Egypt by Moses." See, some did. And what's happened is when you get a bad apple, it kind of affects all the other apples in the basket. Well, you had these moaner and groaner and complainers. And then these people who weren't moaning and complaining heard that and oh yeah, okay. and they agree and it becomes fruitful. It multiplies. Well, we have to stop that. We have to take heed of ourselves. If you hear someone complaining, you should be entering the Lord because that's where your rest is. Let's continue on because the author is going to get to that. Says verse 17, "But with whom was he grieved or vexed?" 40 years God whom was he grieved and vexed with? Was it not with him that had sinned or missed the mark? whose carcasses the limb of the body fell in the wilderness. You see, there's a consequence to not entering in his rest, to not following the obedience of God's call. The people of the Israelites in the wilderness did not make it into his rest because God swore they will not enter his rest because they were provoking him to anger. They weren't taking heat of themselves and getting some self-control to say, "Hey, so this is what he's saying." So those people, they died in the wilderness. This is why your bones get sick. This is why you get sick because you didn't take the rest that your body requires. And God used that to just basically tell them, "You're not entering my rest." And he killed them all off. I think it was 21 years and younger entered into the promised land. the rest didn't because of their act of disobedience. Verse 18, and to whom swear or an oath he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believe not. So what he's saying is they there's a promise here. And this is what the author is trying to point out. He's telling them they're the ones that were acting in disobedience and I swore that they cannot have rest. Which means there's a rest for those of us who do obey. Let's look at that. Let's look at that. This is awesome. So, we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. We know that they lacked faith. You know, they you know, it was different because Moses would go speak to them face to face and he they got scared of them. Yes. But then they went and built a golden calf and they went and did this and they went and did that. Wandering for 40 years, moaned and complained and groaned and and vexed the Lord. So now look at what he says about this. We're now in chapter 4 verse one. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of us enter into his rest. Any of you should seem to come short, deficient in fear of it. You see, he's saying if you're going to believe you, if you're not going to believe me, you're going to act in disobedience. This is what's going to happen to you. But if you choose to believe, this is a promise for you to enter into his rest today, not tomorrow. But tomorrow will be today, and you will be in that rest if you choose to have faith and believe. How do you have faith when faith is you? A lot of us don't have faith that even measures up to the size of a mustard seed as Jesus pointed out. And these people in the wilderness did not have any faith. They wanted to go back to what they knew. They couldn't see the future that God had for them. And remember, even when Joshua entered into the promised land, they had to go to war and fight the um other cultures that were around and all the other kingdoms that were there. They had to fight them. But God was with Joshua and he used different tactics to beat them all and God showed himself more and more because they had faith. This group of people believed. So the question is, are you going to be the one who's going to die out in the wilderness where your carcass dies, your bones become sin, uh corrupt, full of sin and disease, or are you going to have the belief and the faith that Jesus is the son of God and that you can enter his rest? I mean, I don't know if you're struggling with sleep right now or if you're struggling in your mind where you need to have a peace. I'm going to tell you right now, all of this action of being obedient, entering into his rest gives us the victory for the situations and the circumstances we've been dealing with and praying for and whatever we're facing. Let's go on. Let's go on. I want you to see this. Verse two. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. You see, now you're looking at two groups of people, which is what I've been talking about. Ones that don't have faith, they lack belief. They're not believing. And then you have a group that is believing. And all it takes is the moment you choose to be obedient. Okay, God, I don't understand why you're telling me to sit down or why I have to come to you and I can't deal with this situation myself. I can't go deal with our current government and current powers. I can't go deal with that myself. Okay, I'm going to put myself in this situation and I'm going to wait on you in obedience even though I don't want to. God respects that. He does. He wants you to act in that obedience because that act is your act of faith which activates God and he moves on your behalf. Now your bones are safe. You're in good health because those that try to attack, let's say a prominent position that's being ran by evil right now and you try to go take it out, what happens? You end up dying most of the time or they arrest you and you go into jail and you never come out again. That's just how that works. So, this is where now we have to take heed, self-control, and come into believe. And whether you believe or not, you say, "Okay, Lord, I'm going to have to trust you. I don't understand what's going on. I don't know why evil is so prominent right now. I don't know why these these things are taking place for I know that the the gates of hell will not prevail. So, I'm just going to take a step of faith and I'm going to enter your rest and I'm going to pray about it. Or you've got managers at work that are just picking on picking on you. You've got situations in your home where people are aggravating you and and I'm going to go enter my rest with the Lord because I need it. Lord, I come to you. I give this to you. I'm going to sit here. I'm going to put some praise worship music on. I give it to you. It's done. I'm going to leave it alone and I'm going to do something different. I'm going to read scripture. I'm going to do some crochet. I'm going to do knitting. I'm going to bake some bread. I'm going to go work on an engine in a car. But I'm giving it to the Lord first. You see how powerful the presence of rest does for us? For us, for me, the me. This is so important. Oh, and that that takes that's taking faith and belief and mingling the two together. That is our responsibility that we need to do. Now, verse three, for we which have believed do enter into his into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works toil, acts were finished from the foundation of the world. You see, God entered his rest after he did his works and all the works were done at the end of the sixth day. So if all the works were done, all the evil was already taking place and we know the victory and the outcome of the war, then this is where now we can win the battle because we choose to come into the rest knowing faith, knowing belief we got the victory. Oh hallelujah. Look at Jesus. Look at what God did on the seventh day. This is the author still Hebrews. He's still talking about God on the seventh day. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and God did rest that seventh day from all his works. Now that word wise there means it's referring to a precedent. Uh it's going to go be it's going to become the rule to follow. So God rested on the seventh day. This is why we have what's called the Sabbath. This is one act of obedience that we can take upon ourselves and have that um that satism that that peace at rest. Now it doesn't mean no work or it doesn't mean sleep or don't walk to your neighbors or things like that. Now I know the Israelites followed it that way but as a believer in Christ a little different for us. It is the act of obedience to say I'm going to settle down. I'm going to calm my soul. you know, because I've been praying in the spirit now um for the prayers I posted up on our website recently and I've been doing it for several weeks in a row and I was kind of getting burned out of it and I was like, Lord, I can't keep doing this. I'm going to treat it kind of like a job and take my weekend off and do it during the week. And then all of a sudden, here comes this message teaching me how about rest. Now you see why I want to teach this to you. Because now I'm finally beginning to understand what it is that God did when he rested on the seventh day. So now I've done my prayers. I did my obedience. And now Lord, I enter your rest. I'm going to sit down. I'm put some praise and worship music on. I'm going to knit. I'm going to crochet. Whatever I'm going to do for that that settles me, that keeps me calm and the things that I like to do. But I'm sitting there and all I'm doing is just I'm not having to do anything I don't want to do. That's the rest our bodies needs. And you know, it's a mind and body thing that your your bones are going to appreciate because you need to heal. They need to heal. This is what I I've been aching and hurting because we've been moving all this kind of stuff and getting settled. And the other day I sat down and I was I was crossstitching and and a couple hours later, you know, as I got up, walked around, I was like, even the next morning I got up and I go, man, I feel a whole lot better. I'm telling you guys, this is very powerful. Very, very powerful. Um, and and so here God rested on the seventh day. Verse five. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest, seeing therefore it remainth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not in because of unbelief. It was first preached to the Israelites, and they didn't enter. They rejected Jesus as the son of God. And as a result, and well, they rejected God and his provision out in the wilderness. What he was trying to do is work on their heart so that he can get them humbled so he can bring them into the promised land. this group of people were so stubborn and hard and necked hardhearted that he couldn't get them out of it. So he says, "Never mind. You're not going to enter the rest I have for you." But he's telling the rest of us who look at that as an example to say, "I do have a rest for you." It's a promise. I love it. I love it. Let's continue on. Verse 9. There remainth therefore a rest. And look at what that word rest means. Type of heaven, sabbaticism. It's a repose, which means a sleep, peace, tranquility, calm of Christianity to the people of God. Meaning, all hell can be breaking loose. And you've entered into God's rest. And you say, "You know what? I've already given it to the Lord. He's taken care of this. I don't have to worry about it." And you have victory just from that alone. That act, that statement, because you are now stating as a fact, which is an act of faith of belief that God already took care of it. I don't have to worry about it. A that's awesome. I hope you guys are grasping this. Verse 10. For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall under the same example of unbelief. We got to take heed, have some self-control, put ourselves in that rest. It's something we have to do. God is expecting us to do it because now it becomes an act of obedience. And did you see that he says settle down cease for he that entered into his settle down cease moment we ceased from our works. You know, all these prayers that I've been praying, actually, the moment I enter my rest, it's like the amen and the amen. Let it be done. Okay, Lord, I'm going to enter my rest. I've done my part. It's up to you to do your part. This is now to show you what I'm talking about in that because I want you to see this. Those scriptures preede this. This is now Hebrews 4. We're still in Hebrews 4. We just finished verse 11. Look at what verse 12 is. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of sunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hearts. You see, you're now in a situation. And I'm going to pause. I'm gonna let God handle this because he's going to take care of it better than I would anyways. So every time you're praying and you're giving God the glory, and then you enter into that moment of confidence, boldness, rest, I feel good. God's got it. God's got it. And every time that all hell breaks loose and it's all, you make a better decision when you're in your rest. You know how to decide where to go, what to say, what to do. you are prepped and ready as a believer in Christ. And then what does that do? That establishes your testimony to those running because they're looking at you like, why aren't you all in all up in arms about this management change or this this kind of issue or situation? Or why aren't you more concerned about our loved ones and da da da why aren't you concerned that he's not getting well? And what you're doing is you're saying, "I'm in faith by obeying God because I gave it to him and I'm not going to let it worry me." [Music] That's what this scripture means by the dividing of the soul and the spirit. You know, like I said earlier, when I had laid down and rested and finally got in my rest, I sat down and the next morning I got up and I was like, "Man, my bones feel a lot better. I'm not so achy today." That is the rest of God that he has promised us. The healing that we have the right to have. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is how the word of God penetrates our hearts and minds. It's that act of obedience where we step out and say, "God's got it. God's got it. Quick. It's powerful. It's sharper. God's got it. It discerns. Oh, God's got it. Look at verse 16. Let us therefore come boldly into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You We got to do this for God's grace and to help those in the time of need. Because how many people are out there that are not in the rest of God? They're not resting in God. Now, Paul talks about this in Romans. Look at Romans 16:20. And the God of peace, look at that word peace here. Prosperity, rest, quietness, shall bruise, crush completely, shatter Satan under your feet shortly. That's in the state of rest. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Are you catching this? The moment you enter into your obedient rest time and rest period, the grace of peace, the God of peace, your prosperity, your rest, your quietness is going to bruise the devil because every time the devil throws something at you, God's got this. I'm at peace. I've settled my soul down with the Lord. I'm good. Woo. And he says, "Satan, it'll crush completely, shatter Satan." Now, Satan is, it's another word for any evil that comes in your life that comes after you. Bad health, bad finances, and and a lot of these things you're in that situation because you made bad decisions because you didn't enter your rest that you have that God has given you to enter. Oh, and it crushes crush completely shatters Satan under your feet shortly. And that's that state of rest. How long does it take for healing to take place? Sometimes it could take days. Sometimes it could take months. Um I went uh when I was getting out of that diabetes and high cholesterol, that kind of stuff. And I've been healed of all of that. It took several weeks of me praying. I had the elders pray over me, casting the demons out. I did everything I possibly could. It took weeks, but finally when I finally said, "You know what, Lord? I'm going to trust and take this step of faith and I just got rid of all that insulin. I got rid of all that those pills." Do you know that to this day I still have no issues? None whatsoever. You know, and and there are moments that it tries to come back and it's like, "Nah, get lost. I already defeated you, devil." Talk about having some confidence and boldness. This is going to trigger that when you enter your rest. Because what you're doing is you're telling the Lord, "You got this. I'm done trying to handle it myself. And I choose to walk in the quietness, in my rest, because you promised me rest." And that means I know that you and the angels and the Holy Spirit are going forth and doing your thing. Amen. Amen. Amen. Oh, I hope you get this message. I hope you stand on Christ and I hope you apply it to yourself. Oh, let's close the word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the power and the anointing of your word. And we pray and ask that we apply it to our lives. That we do enter our rest that you promised us. That we live in that rest. that we live in that confidence and the boldness knowing that you and the angels and the Holy Spirit are taking care of whatever's going on around us, Father God. For we do it in the act of obedience. We do it in an act of faith because we believe. We believe that you are the son of God, Jesus. We believe that you redeemed us and pardon us. We believe that you are God. You are holy. We believe in faith that you are our provider, that you are our healer. And so we take the act of faith to believe and co-mingle the two together so that we can enter into the rest and say, "Here you go, Lord. All my problems belong to you because they're not mine anymore in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. Amen and amen." And God says, "I take it. Enter your rest." I hope you get this and I hope you live it. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Byebye. Previous Next Home

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