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

EVE - RELATIONSHIP PART 1 The objective of this message is to teach biblical principles of relationships as revealed through the creation of Eve, showing how God’s original design establishes the foundation for marriage, family, and human connection. The lesson aims to help believers understand the structure of relationships according to Scripture, apply God’s word to their daily lives, and cultivate stronger, Christ-centered connections with spouses, parents, children, and others. EVE - RELATIONSHIP PART 1 Minister Lisa Kane May 16, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to teach biblical principles of relationships as revealed through the creation of Eve, showing how God’s original design establishes the foundation for marriage, family, and human connection. The lesson aims to help believers understand the structure of relationships according to Scripture, apply God’s word to their daily lives, and cultivate stronger, Christ-centered connections with spouses, parents, children, and others. Synopsis: In this continuation of the Women of the Bible series, Lisa Kane focuses on Eve, exploring her creation and its significance in the construct of human relationships. Using Genesis 1:27 and 2:21–24 as the starting point, the teaching emphasizes how God formed man and woman with complementary roles that reflect His image. The message highlights that the foundation of relationships is built when Adam leaves his parents and cleaves to Eve, establishing the pattern of unity, faith, and dependence upon God. Lisa explains that relationships are designed to mirror the order God set: man submitting to Christ, and woman partnering with and supporting man under God’s covering. Drawing from Ephesians 5, the lesson clarifies submission, self-control, and love within marriage, addressing misconceptions and stressing mutual prayer, humility, and unity in Christ as the true strength of relationships. Practical insights are given on handling conflicts, practicing forgiveness, exercising self-control through the fruit of the Spirit, and maintaining prayer as the cornerstone of relational health. Husbands are instructed to love their wives sacrificially, while wives are called to respect and support their husbands, both drawing strength from Christ as the ultimate foundation. The message closes with encouragement to allow the Holy Spirit to transform personal attitudes and actions, ensuring relationships thrive according to God’s design. A follow-up teaching is promised on how to address and restore broken relationships. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, May 16th, 2024. Welcome. I'm in a series called Women of the Bible. And today we're going to be talking again about Eve. is kind of like a part two, but in this case, we're going to be talking about Eve in relationships because the foundation or the construct of relationship is built at the time Eve is created. So, I want to show you that, teach it to you, and hopefully help you understand how to change yourself to have better relationships with your spouse, with your parents, with your children, with your co-workers, and so on and so forth. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word, and we bless your word that it does not return void. We ask that your word penetrates our heart and that the enemy does not take away the word that you plant in our hearts. That you plant it with the seed and that it manifests and grows within us. That your word stands strong in us. That we are very good at relationships and we can stand in your relationship that you have given us. Thank you, Father God, for your blessings, for your honor, for your glory, for everything that you do, have done, and will do in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. So, we're talking about women of the Bible and we're still in Eve. This is I guess you can call it a part two, but in reality, the first one was called Eve Born Again. This one's called Eve relationship. Let's go to our opening scripture. So, we're going to start again with the same scripture we did before. Genesis 1:27. So, God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. I want to reiterate this part and let me um lay a foundation here. First, there are two books of the Bible that are most attacked. Genesis is one of them. Revelation is the other. So, if you're not hearing teachers and preachers in your listening, whether at church or on your online listening of teachers and preachers, if they're not teaching on Genesis and Revelation, supplement your listening. add in teachers that are teaching in Genesis and Revelation because it is so profound to know how it began, what God plans to do, what he does in the middle, and then how he ends it all. If you understand the whole thing, it makes a lot more sense for you to believe in it. Amen. Second, I want to lay down a foundation of your faith. The enemy has attacked the book of Genesis. So much so that there are teachers and preachers trying to force evolution into scripture. Well, scripture does not talk about evolution at all. Evolution is not possible. I taught on this. I don't want to delve into it too much. You can go back and look at the teaching I did. It's under other teachings in the houseof faithministries.org website. But I can assure you that evolution is not true. He created male and female. And for all of those that are having identity crisis, this word is for you because this is going to show you what the male and the female are made and what we're made to do. This is going to help our relationships with one another and help us have that great relationship with our Christ. Amen. So here we see that God says, so God created man. By the way, that word man is self. It's like we're we're God's self, but he made us in an image, which means a phantom or a shade. So we're God's self here on the earth. Not in the full light and capacity of who he is because he's spirit. We're in the flesh, but we are made in that image. Meaning the potential is there. And he says in the image of God. Now that word God there means plural. So created he him. He him. God the father. God the son. God the son is here. This is Jesus doing all of this. And I hope you are grasping that. In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. This is John 1 verse one that I paraphrase there. You can go check it out. But this is Jesus here in the beginning who said let there be light. And there was light. Well, he is the one making God in his image with his father because he him. So they're making him or making us in his image. And then look what he says. He him male and female created in them. So you have God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. So you have that it's like one God with three functions and now you have male and female who come out of those three functions. So God, you know, I talked about being born again, and I did that in the last message. Again, I'm not going to reiterate that, but that gives you an idea of how we become born again in the spirit. So, we're born of the flesh and then we're born of the spirit. And once you become born of the spirit, you enter into the kingdom of God, which is the ministry here on the earth. Your heavenly realm begins here on the earth when you believe and accept him. Amen. But now, let's look again. I want to look again at how Adam is created and Eve is created because you're going to see the construct of relationship built right into this. So, start with Adam. Uh, Genesis 2:7, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul." So God basically just squeezed and formed the mud and the dirt and then he made Adam and he breathed into his nostrils and put life there. Awesome. This is great. This is how man is started. But you see man as himself cannot procreate the way he is created. There are self organisms out there that do self-create self-procreate. But male and female human beings do not self-procreate. You need a man and you need a woman. God says, "Adam needs a helpmate." So, here's how Eve is created. Watch this. Genesis 2:21-24. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall clean cleave or cling and here catch unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." Okay. Now this is where the relationship part comes into existence. Last week, I showed you the visual representation of the man holding his arm. He covers his wife. She's tucked in under here because she's made of the rib and the rib cage is what protects the vital organs of the man. She becomes the protector of him and all of his parts. Now, interesting enough, Adam says he has to leave his parents. He has to loose them in and he he becomes one flesh with her. He marries her and they become one flesh. Now, I want you to catch this here. When he and her, male and female, become one flesh, he lets go of his parents. doesn't say for her to let go of her parents. I want you to catch this because now we're going to develop build a construct of a relationship here of how this works. When the man leaves his parents to cleave to his wife, what belief system does he believe in? if he has to leave his parents because the parents is what instills in us the beliefs that we're going to have later in life. We are greatly influenced by our parents whether it is good or bad. Whether there's a bad parent or a good parent, you are influenced by them. You may say, "I don't ever want to be like my parents." and you may end up being just like them because you don't know how to change that which I'm going to teach here how to change that. So when Adam leaves his parents what is he doing? He has to go back to the original construct God made Adam and God breathed into his nostrils. Adam is of God. So what does the man do? He leaves the parental beliefs. He lets them. He looses them. The influence is still there. But he has to part of his belief system now changes. He becomes a believer of God. And his rock and his foundation becomes the word of God, which is Christ who establishes. This is what the man is set up to be close to God because God breathed the word of God into his nostrils and he became life. because we know that Jesus is life. So understand that life is in the man. And so the man is the one that's going to be going directly to God, not his parents. Now I want you to see how Paul explains this in detail so that we can understand what's going on here. You have man who is going to Christ. Just like Christ is the head of the church, man is going to be head of the woman. Let's go to Ephesians and look at this. Ephesians 5:21-33. So verse uh 21, submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Paul is clearly telling us that the two male and female are to submit unto God unto one another. Look, let's read that again. Yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Meaning God comes first. So you have him first. So male and female became one flesh. So remember, if God breathed into Adam's nostrils and you become one flesh with him, God has breathed it into you too, woman. You are now part direct with God under the covering of your man. This is how this works. Look at verse 22. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord who is supreme authority. So if you're giving your obedience to the word of God in fear of God as we ought to as Christians, then we're to do this woman at unto our man. See, and if you're praying for your man that, which is what I taught on last week's message, I'm going to tell you, he is going to be the man of God that he needs to be to have his covering over you. You are going to have that perfect relationship because of you and the authority that you've been given to pray over your man and his covering be upon you. But you are one before God. I hope you're seeing the outer shell now of the relationship construct that God has given us. Now look at Ephesians 5:23. For the husband is the head of the wife. So Paul is explaining it here. The husband is the head of the wife even even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior deliverer of the body. Okay. Now let me explain this because I think a lot of this has been distorted. I think um what the world is showing us that women have to do everything the man tells her. What this means it's a hierarchy. Okay. Someone has to make the final decision whether we agree or disagree. Again, here's the construct of the relationship establishing man as the final decision maker. But you woman have a lot of influence over your man. You can explain to him. You're praying to to God and you're praying your influence that you have from the word of God in you. But both of you should be seeking God and having God's scripture be upon you. And he makes the final decision. It could be whether to buy a house now, whether to go into ministry. And whether he makes a right or wrong decision, he's the final decision maker. You continue praying for him. You continue to let the Holy Spirit. And I'm going to tell you right now, many times he's going to make the right decision if your relationship is in Christ. Because what's happening is he doesn't have the whole picture. You don't have the whole picture. But because it's his responsibility to make that final decision, Christ, if you guys are in unity, you're following this, God is going to bless you. Meaning it will be the right decision made. So this is how what submitting unto your husband means. Now the word submit I it in the Hebrew uh Greek uh Strong's dictionary it's G5293. By the way the word subject and submit is the same word and it simply means to subordinate to obey be under obedience put under subdue unto subject yourself to if you're subjecting yourself to God and your man is who you're with and and and he's a believer in Christ. Now, I'm talking as being a believer in Christ. We're going to I'm going to show you how to work other areas around this for non-believers and so forth. I'll get to different types of relationships here in a moment, but in the meantime, let's just set the foundation and the construct of what the Bible tells us a relationship should be. That's what I'm focusing on. So, wives, you're submitting, you're obeying your husband, but at the same time, your husband's obeying Christ, and you're obeying Christ. So, the woman has a two-parter. She's not only obeying Christ and his word, she's obeying her husband. And I'm going to tell you right now, woman, you have the authority to go to God and tattle on your husband. You do. If he's the one that's veering off and doing something wrong. And by the way, women, we have such intuition. We know what's going on. This is why we have this gift and this talent because this is what God gave us. We're aware. So, we know what to pray for. And by the way, if you go watch that movie, the war room, you can see what power does, the power of prayer, what prayer does. It is very powerful. You can definitely pray a change in the situation. Now you can see where the relationship rock and the foundation is Christ. He should be in the word of God and she should be in the word of God, but she lets him make the final decisions. She can give him all the advice and everything. But there's something here that shows us something that is very interesting. Now, did I read verse 24? Let me make sure I read verse 24. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands. So, you see, I was just explaining that. And look at what it says in verse 23, the end part of 23. And he is the savior, deliverer of the body. So, you're the one flesh. Now, your flesh when you're not in Christ becomes sick. If you're ever wondering why you get sick from time to time, wonder what you did the weeks before that. Were you cursing yourself? Were you not obeying the word of God? As one flesh, you male and female need to be obeying the word of God. If you've been thinking fleshly thoughts, it is highly likely that the Lord is going to send correction. This is why the woman has the intu in intuition the way she does. But the same thing for a woman. If you're thinking fleshly thoughts and you're not praying for your man, you're the one causing the enemy to come in. You need to humble yourself before Christ. How do you do that? You have to obey Christ. And we're going to show you how to submit here in just a minute. I want you to see that. But see, he's the deliverer of the body. Look at that. And he is the he is the savior deliverer of the body. So, if you want you and your husband to have a healthy relationship, to be one flesh, healthy, and whole, you've got to have Christ in there, which means you're praying Christ into him. He should be praying for you. You guys should be praying to Christ for each other. You guys should be in the word of God because you're now operating as one. And he has to be the head because he has to make the final decisions. Nine out of 10en times the man typically listens to the woman. Every once in a while he'll he'll get a mood based on my experience. Uh he'll get in a mood where he's going to want to do his own thing. But uh and and stand strong and say I really want to do this. Well then great go do that. Nine out of 10 times he gives a woman typically what she wants. Just keep that in mind as you're you're doing this. But remember you are to humble yourself to Christ and to God. Now, what this is showing and and I want to also go this extra step and explain what you're doing here because this is very powerful. Let's go to Proverbs. I want you to see something in Proverbs. Proverbs 25:28. He that hath no rule or control over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls or protection. Self-ontrol plays a huge role in here. Why? Look at the construct of how he developed this relationship. You're to submit unto your husband. What if he wants to do something you don't want to do? Now, here comes self-control. And not to bury it in bitterness, but you're to have self-control and to humble yourself before the Lord and let it go. which means you got to let it go. Which, by the way, the word let it go is to forgive. So, he wanted to do something you didn't want to do. Let's say it was the dishes. You didn't want to do them, and you're like, "I just need you to do them tonight." And he says, "No." Well, guess what? You're the one who needs to humble yourself in self-control. You do not control him for that matter. He does not control you. The two of you have no control over each other. You have to work together. This is why the woman submits to her husband. So, she's going to have to do the dishes. Just do them and say, "Lord, thank you." And I give you the glory. But pray. Pray that he is more responsive to you. I'm going tell you, there's been nights where we've had stuff like that happen. And in a day or two, there's my husband doing the dishes. is I'm going to do them for you today cuz I see it's very hard on you and I I understand and I respect that. So, I'm going to come and do these for you today. And it will shock you because this is how the relationship has been established. You see, a lot of people get divorced over reasons of, well, he's not doing what I want him to do. He's not being the person I want him to do or the person I expected him to be when I married him. Well, guess what? We all change as we age. You may marry, let's say, at 25 or 30, but I'm going to tell you, that's not the same. You're not the same person when you turn 40 as you were at 30. He's not going to be the same person as as you were at 30. He's going to be different at 40. Going to be different at 50. Especially if Christ is working in him. He's going to change and turn into a man of God. And he may change faster than you. or you may change faster than him. And there could be comments that flare up between you that, oh, you're going to be that holier than that person. You're going to correct me here. They'll do that. I've experienced it. And it's like, well, Lord, I'm just going to give it to you. I humble myself before you. He belongs to you. And I'm sure that he's going to come back and say the same thing. Hey, Christ, she wants you. You know, I'm going have to let you take care of him. But we're one flesh trying to stay in unity before Christ. Now, let's look at this further in Galatians 5. This is how you get self-control. And this is so you're not controlling him or you're not and he's not controlling you because you can't control another person, but you can control yourself. So, look at how this is done. It says in Galatians 5:22-23, but the fruit of the spirit, stop right there, it is a spiritual thing. Remember, when we're born again, this is based on the last message I taught. You're born again in water and spirit. You go under the water baptism, you come up, the dove of the spirit comes upon you, allowing you to work in the ministry, which is by the spirit of God. When you lay hands on the sick, there's nothing powerful or special or magical about your hands. You lay your hands on the sick expecting the spirit to move. And the spirit says, "I got you. let's go ahead and move because that's the act of faith and God works by faith. So the hands do nothing other than being the conduit of faith for Christ to move through and the spirit of God to move through and heal that other person. So you're operating in the spirit. So when you go to operate in self-control, it has to be done by the spirit. So it says, "But the fruit of the spirit is love." That word love there means affection or benevolence. Now you got feelings here and you like my husband will do the dishes from time to time. Do the dishes from time to time. He'll say, "You know what? I got I got these. Let me do this." That's benevolence. He's given me a gift. Oh, hallelujah. He did the dishes. It's the little things in life that we have to appreciate. Amen. Uh joy. But the fruit of the spirit is love. Joy. Joy is a cheerfulness, calm, delight. in the spirit, you will always be calm. And and we need to be calm when we're talking to our spouses because it's so easy for anger to flare up. This is why we need to be asking for God to fill us with the fruit of the spirit. That's how this works. Watch this. Let's look at all of it. Peace, that's prosperity, quietness, rest, longsuffering, meaning you're forbearing, fortitude. Sometimes you have to forebear what your husband is saying and doing because it can be a pain and you're just like but you have the right to tattle on him and give him to God. Say Lord I'm going to be forbearing here. I'm going to be longsuffering because I'm going to act and walk in the fruit of the spirit that you have given me. At the same Lord, at the same time, Lord, I am asking you to work in him and to work in me so that we can become unified in the one flesh that we are to be. So you this is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Gentleness and word gentleness means useful usefulness or moral excellence in character. It's again taking the actions. He does the dishes. You pick up his shoes. You do his laundry. These are things that the household does. He takes out the treasures. It's kind of like we've established these male and female roles, but you can exchange them any time. It's it's not set in stone, but the whole point of it is to have the character of being useful in your relationship, doing what you need to build that relationship. See what he needs in that moment. Help him achieve his needs. Because you know what? When you help him achieve his needs and he helps you achieve your needs, the calmer and the more bound the two of you get closer to one another because you're working now toward each other's needs and it benefits you in the long run. So neat to see that goodness, that's your virtue. Faith, persuasion and credence, you're going to Christ in faith. Meekness, that's your humility. Temperance, self-control. Against such there is no law. So since you can't control him, he can't control you. You need to control yourself. It is a gift of the spirit. How do you do it? Romans 10:9 tells us that when that if you confess Jesus with your mouth, so you say, "Jesus, I confess self-control over me in your name." That's how you get the fruits of the spirit. You say, "Lord, fill me up with your self-control. I need it and I need you to help me with it. I need you to help me with goodness, with my faith. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus." And you're calling upon the name of Jesus with your mouth spoken out loud because you're letting all your witnesses, cloud of witnesses, know what's going on. and see a lot of relationships break up because of you're trying to control him and change him. He's trying to control you and change you because all of a sudden you don't like each other anymore. It's not about liking one another. Now it's about liking yourself and placing self-control on you. Praying for the other. Pray for yourself and pray for him. I'm promising you right now when you're praying, you are entering into the relationship with Christ, which is exactly what you need in order to have a relationship with your man or your woman. This is the construct of a relationship. So prayer is a part of that because you're talking with God. You're he said, "Come just as you are. Take reason with God as Isaiah 1 says, come let us reason together. Talk to him. say, "I'm having trouble here." But also tell him, "Help me and help him." See, when you pray for the two of you, now you're letting Christ in as the rock and the foundation of the two of you together. Hallelujah. Now, let's look at the rest of the relationship. Ephesians 5, we're back to Ephesians 5. Now, in verse 25, husbands, love your wives. That means and that's a social or moral sense obligating obligation love out of duty. You need to love her. So if you're not feeling the moment, get her some flowers. If you're not feeling the moment, do the laundry. Because see, I'm going to tell you that is your s social your moral sense and your social obligation, your duty. Even as Christ also loved the church, what did Christ do? He gave himself for it. You give yourself to the relationship. you do what you need to do to improve it and make it better. And it needs to be coming from both sides. And I promise you, if you're praying for the other, God is working in the other as he's working in you. uh verse uh 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that but that it should be holy and without blameless blemish faultless God is making the one flesh become his image look at that it's to be sanctified cleansed you guys are working as one. This is how the relationship that God established works. This is the construct of it. Look at verse 28. So ought men to love. Again, there's that social moral sense obligation. Their wives as their own bodies. We both shower every day. We both take care of ourselves. We try to eat a little healthy, walk a little more. And if we're not, that's okay. We still want to satisfy who we are. We eat the foods we like. That's just the way that is. But we eat it because we like it. That's of oursel. We're taking care of ourselves. So with that action, that's how you take care of your wives, men. And he that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth even as the Lord the church. This is so powerful. So as we're set up in the church is how we set up in the home between male and female. It's the construct. So what Jesus does to the church, look what he does for the church in verse 30. For we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they shall and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery. But I speak concerning Christ and the church. This is why when men are told to leave their parents, they cling to God. They go back to God. The breath of God, the nostrils in him. And that breath is what sustains the new flesh, male and female, in his image. Look at verse 33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Boy, I'm going to tell you right now, when you see the power of prayer work in your husband or in your wife, you're going to be like, man, God is real. And you're going to be in awe. In awe to God for what he's doing and in awe to the changes to each other in you. You're going to see that you are not the same person you were 15 years ago, 20 years ago, five minutes ago, before you even listen to this message. Let the anointing of the Holy Spirit change you and work in you simply by asking for self-control and praying for your spouse and having the relationship with Christ because he built this construct for us to be in Christ. Now, I'm trying to keep all these messages to 30 minutes. So, next week I'm going to go ahead and work on the relationships that are broken already. That's what we're going to do. We're going to go into the divorced relationships, the broken relationships, and how to restore them. Since I didn't have time to do that, we're going to do that. So, we will be talking about Eve again next week. Amen. Let's pray. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word and we honor you. We worship you and praise you for you are God and you are King, Lord, and Savior. You belong to me. You belong to us. We belong to you. And I thank you, Father God. And I pray that the enemy does not take this word from our hearts, but that we confess the name of Jesus over our lives. That we ask act on self-control with the spirit of God in our in our hearts and minds that we know to come to you and glorify you and honor you and worship you. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Byebye. Previous Next

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. Previous Next

ESTHER FREEDOM BEYOND THE LAW The objective of this message is to reveal the biblical principle of freedom in Christ by comparing the unchangeable proclamations in Esther’s time with God’s eternal law, and to show that while the law exposes sin, true liberty and victory are found in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. ESTHER FREEDOM BEYOND THE LAW Minister Lisa Kane June 20, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to reveal the biblical principle of freedom in Christ by comparing the unchangeable proclamations in Esther’s time with God’s eternal law, and to show that while the law exposes sin, true liberty and victory are found in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Synopsis: In this continuation of the Women of the Bible series, Lisa Kane teaches her second message on Esther, titled Freedom Beyond the Law. Beginning with Esther 3:13, the lesson examines Haman’s decree to destroy the Jews and Esther’s courageous intercession before the king. Though the king could not revoke the decree, he authorized a counter-proclamation empowering the Jews to defend themselves. This parallel illustrates how God’s law, while holy, cannot be undone; instead, Christ fulfilled the law and established a new covenant that sets believers free. Lisa then moves to the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, explaining how the law identifies sin and reveals human inability to remain righteous in their own strength. She highlights the generational consequences of sin, the danger of idolatry, and the tendency to place routines, possessions, or desires above God. The message emphasizes that the law brings bondage, but Christ’s sacrifice—His blood upon the mercy seat—redeems believers and breaks curses, granting freedom from condemnation. Drawing on Colossians 2, 1 Corinthians 6 and 15, and Galatians 3, Lisa underscores that believers are new creations, no longer bound by ordinances or human doctrines. Instead, they are called to walk in the Spirit, stand on God’s promises, and exercise faith for healing, provision, and victory. Through testimonies and scriptural application, she shows how living in Christ’s freedom transforms mindsets, renews strength, and empowers a life of joy and spiritual authority. The message concludes with an exhortation to embrace liberty in Christ, seek first God’s kingdom, and reject the weight of man’s traditions and the law’s condemnation. By choosing to walk in the Spirit, believers can live in the fullness of God’s promises and testify of His power. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this message on Thursday, June 20th, 2024. Welcome. Let us open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the freedom that your word has given us and what you have done on the cross to save us. Thank you, Father God. I pray that the audience listening to this message hears your Holy Spirit. Move me aside. Let the Holy Spirit speak to their ears and their heart and let them listen and act upon your word and apply that word to their lives. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. All right. I'm still in the Women of the Bible series. We're going to be here for a long time. So, this is going to be my second teaching on Esther. So, this one's going to be called Freedom Beyond the Law. Let's go to our opening scripture. This is in Esther 3:13. And the letters were sent by post into all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the 13th day of the 12th month, which is the month of Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. So, when I taught on Esther last week, I went in and I showed you where she was in the timeline of events. And at the end of the teaching, because I didn't get into the proclamations that Hmon, a demon-possessed Agatite who hated the Jews and was an the was an enemy of the Jews. Um, I didn't get into the proclamations and I I hinted at the end of it the freedom that we have from this. So, I thought let's go into that a little bit more this week. And um, it was so fascinating because when I got up Sunday morning, this is a Thursday and I got up Sunday morning and it was Saturday night as I was thinking and dwelling on this message, I had the confirmation there and it was such a beautiful time. So, praising the Lord. So what you just read, this is the proclamation that Hmon was able to trick the king with. The king gave him his signate ring and said, "Go write whatever proclamation you want against his people. He lied to these people." So I taught on that last week. You can go check that out. Uh it's not a precursor for this. You will understand this message without it. But if you want more information, it is there. So when he writes his proclamation, this is what he's telling. He says, "Everybody who isn't a Jew in all the provinces of the king, you are allowed to destroy to kill." Who destroys and kills? Satan. He is the thief, the killer, the destroyer, the liar. And Hmon took that role here and played the devils and and played being the devil. And he had this proclamation written in the king's signant. and and it looks and to cause to perish all Jews both young and old little children and women on one day even upon the 13th day of the 12th month which is the month Adar and to take the spoil of them for a prey. Now what happened is Esther being a Jew they didn't know she was a Jew she's the one who had to go to the king and beg for her people to live. Hmon was exposed for who he was. He was hung on gallows that was supposed to hang Morai, Esther's uncle. Go read the book of Esther. It is a fascinating quick read and it will give you an idea of what's going on here. So now that Hmon is dead, this proclamation exists. Esther asks the king to reverse it. But the king cannot, whatever is created as a proclamation cannot be reversed. That's fascinating. So now what happened is the king said to Mori and his counsel, "Go write a new proclamation." This is good. I hope you guys get this message. This is this is a good one. Okay. So here it is in Esther 8 11 and 12. Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city too. So this is the proclamation the Jews wrote to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey upon one day in all the provinces of King Ahasheras namely upon the 13th day of the 12th month which is the month of Adar. So now on this 13th day of this 12th month, there are two live king proclamations acting and they are against one another, if you will. So you have this um proclamation that says if you're non-Jewish, you can go kill every Jew, old, young, male, female, doesn't matter. You kill anyone and you take their spoils on this day. Well, then the Jews wrote an anti- proclamation in the sense of if you're a Jew, you can defend yourself. And when you defend yourself, what you're going to do is you can kill anyone who assaults you and you take their spoil. So now the outcome is, and I I didn't bring the scriptures in here due to time, but the outcome is that this day came and pass. And when it came in pass, um, not one Jew was killed. However, 75,000 non-Jewish people were killed in the outer provinces and it was either 300 or 500 um, uh, non-Jewish that were killed in the Shushon Palace, which is where the king reside and where Queen Esther and Morai lived. So what does that mean? So, how can the king write a province and it not be reversed? What where does this come from? Let's go take a look at the ten commandments because they're commandments and they're the law. Are they still profitable today? What does the law do for us? So, this teaching is called freedom beyond the law. And I want to show you. So I have to show you the law here and then we can take the principle that Esther and King Aasheras did and apply it to what Jesus is doing. This is why the book of Esther is in the Bible. A lot of theologians don't even know this or understand it. So let's get into this and watch how this works. So we're going to the Ten Commandments. We're going to start here in Exodus 20. We're going to go through verses 3 through 17. Verse three, thou shalt have no other gods before me. Okay. So, if you think you don't have a God before you, Christian or non-Christian, whoever you are watching this, let me just simply ask you this. When the TV isn't on, um, you're not doing it. You're just sitting there. What do you do? You pick up your cell phone and you go to Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube, and you watch what entertains you. That's a form of a God because at that moment, you didn't put God first. At that moment, you are dwelling in your own world. Now, that's not to say you have to have God in your life 24/7 as an active thing. You do have your rest period. This is why God has uh created the Sabbath day, which we're going to show that here in just a minute. But had you read your Bible that day, had you prayed that day, had you put God first when you woke up, did you put God first when you went to bed? You see, a lot of people don't do that. Or how about even just pressing in? Lord, I want to find out more about this. I'm going to go take an active approach and study it. Nine out of ten times we don't do that. Why? Because our lives are in a routine. And when you follow that routine, that becomes a godlike thing. Either way, whether you're doing that or you're not, this is just one commandment out of 10. So, it could be that you have a god before you. I had a dream years ago going down the sidetrack rabbit trail here. Um there were all these uh images carved out of a mountain and I mean they were huge and there were several of them. I I don't know the number of them but one fell. It was coming to a car and I remember we were be in this bus and I was looking out the back window. I go you need to drive faster. It's coming. It was the impact of it hitting the ground, the ground shaking and rock flying everywhere. And I had this dream and we had passed this bridge, got on the other side and we were fine. But I do believe that meant deliverance of whatever image I was dealing with at the time. This was many, many, many years ago. But even so, that's something I have to be forgiven of, right? Because I had a god before me. Now look at verse four. For thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. How many times do we have a picture of Jesus either on the cross hanging around our neck or up on the wall? H thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. And by the way, this particular commandment is very important. It's talking about not making any graving images and bowing down to them. Remember in Esther when Hmon was promoted as second in command, one of the things that he liked was everyone bowing down to him and he took it as a law, a commandment. And Morortei said, I'm not bowing down to you. And Mori didn't. So this is why Mori didn't. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. These are those graven images. Nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. So, in other words, when you sin, you especially when you're putting another God as a more important factor in your life or your job or whatever it may be. It's more important than God himself. He's going to visit the iniquities that you have to your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren. And which means you are in a position where your great grandparents sinned, your grandparents send, your parents sin is on you. So there is a generational factor behind you older than you and to your future that hasn't happened. This is where sicknesses and diseases come in from because nobody gets nobody is or many are not going forward to be forgiven of these generational curses. You need to be forgiven of that. Go to the houseof faith ministries.org. Go to the empowering prayers section. It's in the menu bar there. And you will find there's a prayer. You scroll down regarding generational curses. Say that prayer. will break you of these curses. But this is one of the commandments that we have. And it's because we put something above God in our lives. That's an iniquity. And I'm going to tell you right now, everybody does it. What? So, what is this telling me? What's this law telling me? It's telling me I'm a sinner and I cannot prevent myself from doing that. I'll try. It's like dieting. You try, you try, you fail. You have to do it with Jesus. Oh, we're going to get into that here in just a moment. Verse seven, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. How many, you know, in our youth, I'm sure we've done that. Or gee, damn it. You know, these are the things that we've spoken and we need to be forgiven of them. And what is the law showing us? We are sinners. We have sinned. Verse eight, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. How many of us work ourselves unto the ground? God rested. He set a pre principle, a precedent for us to rest on the seventh day. So, we're to work six days and rest the seventh day. And we don't do that. Or a lot of people don't do that. They become workaholics. And you're killing yourself slowly but surely. And then uh verse 9 goes into that sixth day shalt thou labor and do all thy work. Verse 10, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou or thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man's servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. So, we are to rest, you know, and to give you an example, we work several months in a row. We have our weekends, but we have to work on our weekends to do all of the chores around the house. But then we go on a vacation, take a two week vacation. That's not honoring the Sabbath day. That is not resting. Now, going to church, is that a Sabbath day? You go to church, you you receive more of the Holy Spirit, hear the word of God. The Sabbath day is above and beyond that. I hope you get that. As for another teaching on verse 12, honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord God giveth thee. There's a big one. A lot of people hate their parents and don't want to be like their parents and don't want to have anything to do with their parents or are determined not to be like their parents. And that's okay. You can be you you don't have to be like your parents, but you need to honor them. And even if you know that they're wrong, you honor them. And what happens is they will see what's going on. But it gives you it you have the freedom to a long life. Otherwise, you cut your life short if you're you're not honoring your parents. Uh verse 13, thou shalt not kill. Verse 14, thou shalt not commit adultery. Verse 15, thou shalt not steal. These are part of all of the ten commandments. Thou shalt, Verse 16, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not coveret thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's wife wife, nor his man's servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbors. Those are the ten commandments. That's what we're told. And what is the first thing we do? We break them. We may not break all of them, but we do break a good portion of them because we're conceived and born in sin. So, every time you go back to the law, you put yourself in bondage because the law tells you you are a sinner. The only one who can redeem you of sin is Christ the Messiah. Let's go to Colossians 2:es 20- 22. Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ, now the moment you become a believer, you become a new creation, which means you die to yourself. You die to all those generational curses. You die to the law. You You're dead from the law. You are separated from it. I hope you get this message. Look at this. Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, the law talks to the world. The law talks to the sinner. The law tells you you're a sinner. That is to the world. So from the rudiments of the world, why as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances. Look at this. touch not, taste not, hand, handle not, which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of many. How many times do we follow somebody who says, well, if you drink a little w or water with your lemon juice in the morning, your liver's going to love it. Or, you know, why go to the commandments of men? because they're not teaching you the freedom that Christ gave you from the law. You are not part of that anymore. You do not need to touch that. Oh, I hope you get this. Think of it like this. The law tells you you're a sinner. Thou shalt not kill. But in your mind, if you hate somebody, you're killing that person. You're committing murder. whether you know it or not. And by the way, you're not given a reprieve due to ignorance that you are held responsible for that. So now we're talking about the thoughts and the inward man who cannot keep the law. Only Jesus was the one that can do it. And it was his blood that had to fall on the mercy seat which is on the ark of the covenant which is where the ten commandments were housed. His blood was placed on that mercy seat and he redeemed us. He saved us. He acqui we were acquitted. He gave us the pardon that we needed. And now if you stay away from all those things, you get to walk spiritually. Your eternity has already begun spiritually. You are free to do whatever you want. It may not benefit the people around you, but you're free to do it. If you want to smoke a cigarette and you're a Christian, go for it. Now, if you're doing it in front of others, oh, that's a shameful thing. You have the freedom to do it. They just haven't learned yet that they have that same freedom. And by the way, that cigarette won't have any consequence to you. If you were a smoker 20 years ago and you became a Christian five years ago and you've had that cigarette smoke growing in your lungs, let me tell you the freedom you have. Your lungs are pink and brand new because you are a new creature in Christ because by his stripes you were healed. I had a tumble the other day. I face planted or it was more of a bo a belly flop on the concrete if you will. It's a it was a hard fall. Got my knee injured and my hands a little scraped up. I got up and when I got up I stood up and said, "No weapon formed against me shall prosper." Then I went on to say, "By his stripes, I was healed." Do you know I didn't have to take a single thing? I was a little tender, a little sore, but other than that, and when I first looked at my knee, especially, it was really red. The redness was gone. By the time I got to a bathroom, I fell at the school uh church parking lot. By the time I got to a restroom to clean it up and everything, it was gone. That's the power we walk in now in the spiritual realm. I hope you guys are getting this. Look at um 1 Corinthians 6:11-12. And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me. Smoking a cigarette's lawful, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Now, what happens when you smoke a cigarette? your body depends on it or alcohol it becomes dependent. So it is not beneficial in the long term of things. And let me also tell you this when you do have a serious transformation with Christ yes your insides change. You become a new creation but it changes the way you think. You have no more desires for any of that because it's built within. It's spiritual. Now, look at what he says here in 1 Corinthians 15:56. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. See, I'm free from the law. I'm I don't have to live by that law anymore. I get to say scripture, quote it over my body, and walk in freedom. I don't have to worry about any ten commandments or anything because the love of God is now within me and I'm walking with the spirit of God quoting scripture and my life is transformed as a result. 1 Corinthians 7:23-24. You're bought with a price. You see, every time you go back to the law, you negate the price Jesus prayed for you. He's on the cross. He died for you. Rose from the grave. Don't put him back on the cross. Nail the sin to the cross. Amen. Ye are bought with a price, but ye but not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God. You see, the reason I get to walk in the benefits of the Lord is because Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek first the kingdom of God." I go and I minister to people. I teach here, ministering to you, the listener. I go and I lay hands on people and pray because I'm expecting the Holy Spirit to move in and meet their need. I also seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. I choose to walk in godliness. I choose to walk in freedom, not the law. I just choose to be good and do things that are good because that is the calling that Christ has on my life. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and then all these things will be added unto me. That is scriptural. And because I walk in scripture, I'm blessed. And people get jealous and envious of it. Well, you can have this, too. You're free from the law. The moment you confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you're free from the law. And every time you face a situation, quote the name of Jesus. Jesus, you're over for my finances. Jesus, you're over this doctor's report of cancer. Guess what? You don't even have to go back to the doctors ever again. You're free from the law. You see, the doctors tell you you've got cholesterol because of this number or you have type 2 diabetes because of this number. God is the one who controls my death. I'm going to die when he wants me to die. I'm not going to listen to the doctrines of men and what they think is true. especially since they keep changing the numbers over and over again to get more and more people on the drugs and the pills that are related to it. But you get to have freedom from that. I just wouldn't listen to the doctor. I remember hearing a story years ago, years, this is 30 plus years ago of a woman who was diagnosed with cancer. Basically, the doctor told her, "Go home, set your your house in order. You're going to die." She got home and and she was very embarrassed. So, she had shut her windows, but she went before the Lord, covered, put her shades up, and said, "Lord, I I I don't know what this is. I I don't want to have this. I'm going to just choose to come to you and praise you and worship you." And he told her to dance, and the scriptures do tell you to dance. She read about David and she got up and started dancing. And every day she started dancing. And before you know it, she forgot to put the shades down because she was just praising the Lord. Didn't matter who saw her. Six weeks later, she goes in and doctor tells her, "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it because it's working." That's the freedom you have. And I hope you're grasping this. 1 Corinthians 12:13, "For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been made and have been all made to drink into one spirit." You see, it's the spirit of God now that moves in your life. He's the predominant one. He's the one that sets you free from the law. This is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost. We are filled with that same Holy Spirit. We get to walk in the freedom from the law. Yes. Get that. Get that. We have the spirit. Galatians 3:27-29. For as many of you as been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seeds seed and hes according to the promise. Oh, I just taught on Sarah and the promise with Abraham a few weeks ago. You can go check out those messages. Let me tell you, you are free from the law. Don't go back to men telling you how to live, men telling you what to do. Go be free and let Christ renew the transformation of you every single day as you grow closer to him. Stand in his word. Press into his word. Memorize those scriptures and quote them when you need to. Because I'm telling you, even though that enemy is out to steal, kill, and destroy, and he's prowling around you like a lion, guess what? Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah. And he is my Lord and my Savior. He is my friend, and he is King of glory. And I give him all the glory, praise, and honor, and strength for I walk with him. I choose to walk in the spirit. I choose to see things spiritually, not physically. I choose to walk in Christ and not the law, not the doctrines of men. I'm not going to listen to the world tell me how to live, how much water to drink, how much I should be moving or walking. No, I choose to walk in Christ. And as a result, I'm hoping that the Holy Spirit just bubbles out of me everywhere and splashes on everybody. And that is what my hope and expectation is walking with Christ. So when I quote his scripture and I pray over people, I pray in faith. I activate things in faith because God likes to work by faith. Very well. You want to work by faith. This is what your word said. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. My youth is renewed like the eagle. Psalm 103. Get in there and get that. I don't have to. Yeah, I'm going to turn 55 this year. I don't have to act like a 55year-old or be a 55year-old because my youth is renewed like the eagles. So when I do a belly flop on the concrete, guess what? I stand up because as a kid I fell on the ground then too and I healed rapidly. That's the faith we're talking about. Friends, I hope that you choose to walk in the freedom that you have with the spirit of God. Choose that, my friend. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for building up our faith and our strength in you, Father God. We thank you for your glory because you did this. And I pray that you continue to manifest and move through us. We have a revival in you that we transform inside and walk by faith. You are precious and glorious. I pray that we do not forget this message, but that we apply it to our lives. speak your word over our bodies and walk in the spirit in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next

A CHRISTIAN'S TRANSFORMATION The objective of this teaching is to reveal the biblical process of a Christian’s transformation—from redemption through Christ, to renewal in the Spirit, to active participation in God’s harvest. By examining Old Testament prophecies and their fulfillment in the New Testament, believers are encouraged to dwell in the secret place of God, be filled with the bread of life, oil of the Spirit, and new wine of renewal, so they may live transformed lives and bear fruit as the bride of Christ. A CHRISTIAN'S TRANSFORMATION Minister Lisa Kane February 4, 2023 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the biblical process of a Christian’s transformation—from redemption through Christ, to renewal in the Spirit, to active participation in God’s harvest. By examining Old Testament prophecies and their fulfillment in the New Testament, believers are encouraged to dwell in the secret place of God, be filled with the bread of life, oil of the Spirit, and new wine of renewal, so they may live transformed lives and bear fruit as the bride of Christ. Synopsis: This message explores the journey of a Christian’s transformation as foretold by the prophets Jeremiah, Hosea, and Isaiah, and confirmed in the New Testament writings. It begins with the ransom Christ paid for His bride and the promised joy, abundance, and satisfaction for God’s people. Using the imagery of grain (the bread of life), oil (the Spirit’s anointing), and new wine (renewal and revival), the teaching outlines the essential steps of growth in Christ: feeding on God’s Word, dwelling in His presence, and embracing newness of life. Believers are reminded of the necessity of the secret place with God (Psalm 91), where oil and strength are replenished, questions are answered, and intimacy with the Lord is deepened. The parable of the virgins highlights the importance of keeping spiritual oil filled, while Isaiah and Hosea reveal both the blessings of obedience and the consequences of rejecting God’s call. The transformation continues as Christians become ambassadors of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5), laborers in the harvest (John 4), and part of the Spirit-filled cluster of fruit (Isaiah 65). Practical application is emphasized—spending time in prayer, Scripture, and personal communion with God in order to live righteously, evangelize effectively, and be ready for Christ’s return. The message concludes by affirming that transformation is not just for eternity but begins now: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Living in the secret place empowers believers to walk in liberty, reflect God’s glory, and participate in the great harvest as God pours out His Spirit in these last days (Joel 2). Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Saturday, February 4th, 2023. And this message is called a Christian's transformation. Oh, let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this word. We thank you for your blessing and your anointing on it. We thank you for opening our ears to hear, our eyes to see, our hearts to receive, and that we can live and walk under wisdom, knowledge, and understanding through the Holy Spirit. so that we can apply your living word to our lives daily in every moment of every day and be ready for the harvest that is already here so that we can evangelize and reap and sew your fruit. Father God, in the name of Jesus we pray. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Oh, you're going to love this message. This message is going to take some old prophecies and it's going to show you the result of what a Christian will be. Now, we have to take measures to get to be that Christian. And you're going to see that walk in here. You're going to see the transformation take place. So, we're going to start with Old Testament pro prophecy and then we're going to move into the New Testament. But this is so powerful. It's going to change you if you choose to take these steps. So, let's go to our opening scripture here in Jeremiah. We're in Jeremiah 31 11-14. For the Lord has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he. I'm going pause here for a moment. I want you to see ransom. Jesus paid the ransom for you and I. Amen. So, this is talking about the bride of Christ. This is talking about Christianity. Now, the nation of Israel will have that opportunity and we're all going to be living together in that wonderful peace and eternity that we're going to have. uh there's that seven-year tribulation period, then you have the thousand-y year reign, and then you have the new Jerusalem. And we're going to be living in that new Jerusalem. So, here you've you've got Jeremiah, and we're going to read Hosea here in a moment. And they're talking about a celebration, a joy. What does that sound like? Our feast or a wedding uh reception that we're going to have when we come into the presence of the Lord during this time. So this is talking about the bride of Christ and those that put Jesus as the son of God. So you're going to see what this is applying to. Nation of Israel missed when they crucified Jesus, which they needed to. The Lord handled all that. He took care of it. But they're going to catch it here in the end at the midway of the seven-year tribulation. They will catch it, and they're going to be right there with us. So let's take a look. Let's continue to read on here. Verse 12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the Lord for wheat and new wine and oil for the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. They then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together. Notice the key word then. For I will turn their mourning to joy, will comfort them and make them rejoice rather than sorrow. I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord. Saturate the soul of the priests. Remember, we're are priests. I've been teaching on that. So, our souls are going to be saturated here. We're going to be and and I don't know if you've ever seen a beautiful garden that is well watered but I am telling you right now when you look at one of those it is incredible to see the effort that they put in here but it's so peaceful when you look at it and look at it says their souls shall be like a well-watered garden. So this is talking about the end result of being a Christian whether you're in the human form still alive on this planet or you're in the presence of the Lord but we're well satisfied. Now I take it as here and now because he says uh let's go back to that scripture. He says then look at this then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance and the young men and the old together for I will turn their mourning to joy. There is no mourning in heaven. So this is talking about our earthly presence here and he's talking about the bride of Christ. Now there is something key here I want you to see because this is very very very important. You know, I could teach for months on just these scriptures alone in Hosea. We'll get to that in a moment. But look, it says for wheat and new wine and oil. Okay. So, let's look at this for a minute because there are three ingredients here that goes with the Christian's walk. Okay? And yes, I'm taking it from the Old Testament. We'll see it in the New Testament. So, you got the wheat or the grain, and that is the bread of life. Jesus is the bread of life. So we grab onto him and we fill up on the bread of life. Now you are also going to have the new wine and the oil. Now let's talk about the oil for a moment. I'll get to the new wine because that's what I want to focus on with this. The oil is when you spend time in the presence of the Lord. If you take a look at Solomon's temple or you look at when Moses spent time with God on the mountain, Moses shined. He he had such a shine they had to put a veil over his face. The temple nobody could enter it. They would die because of the shikina glory that emanated from it. So when you enter the presence of the Lord now in your flesh because remember the temple uh the the veil was torn in two at the temple. We get to go to Jesus directly which means we feed off of his living word which is the bread of life. And then that's the Christian. And then you have the oil. You fill up on the oil when you're in his presence. Well, how do you get that oil when you're in his presence? And remember, the oil is the numa, the power, the spirit that moves forward for us. You see, when you dwell in the secret place, I'm going to remind you of that scripture here in just a moment. You are filling up with the oil. Remember the the parable of the 10 virgins. They 50% had enough oil, 50% didn't have enough oil, but they were all Christians. So, how do you get enough oil so that you're on the right side? You spend time in the presence of the Lord. Let's go and look at that. Let's look. Psalm 91 says, "He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty." This is where you get your oil. This is also where you're going to get your grain because it's a two-way conversation. You're reading the Bible and you're praying. And let me add a little step here. Write down your questions in a journal. Date it and just wait on the Lord. And I promise you, you'll have your answers within a few days and answers to tough questions. This is how I can come into the presence of the Lord because he's answered. He has satisfied my soul with those questions that how many people call Christians hypocrites because they have questions that we cannot answer because we are not being we're not apologetic to the word of God. We're not standing up and representing the word of God because we don't know. But when you spend time, you know. And then did you see that? He says, "And then new wine for wheat and new wine and oil." Now there's something else. We have seen the grain because those of us that are dwelling in the secret place, we're reading our word and we're being sustained by the bread of life. And those of us that are spending get the oil, too. Because now we're seeing how that numa moves that in fact when you spend time in the word of God, you have you're preparing to go to battle. When you go to church or you go to the grocery market, wherever you're going in your daily routine, you have the power of the Holy Spirit moving ahead of you. And it shows and represents that because you're when you're filling up your cup with oil, it bubble bubbles out. It boils out and it falls on people around them and they know it. They sense it. But then there's the new wine. First of all, new wine is not fermented. Hasn't fermented yet because you got to put the wine in a new wine skin so it can ferment. That means you got to take off the old and put on something new. So, we need to be doing that. And I tell you, if we were doing that, we'd already be in our revival, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We're going to be talking about that because that is the end result of all of this. Let's go to Hosea now. Let's continue and look at it from Hosea's perspective. Same type of prophecy here. This is Hosea chapter 2. We're looking at verses 2 uh 20- 23. I will betro you to me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. What? When Romans 10:9 says that if you confess Jesus Lord, you confess him with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead because you're talking to you the spirit. You cannot see it. That's an act of faith. So that moment that you speak that word, look at that. You become betrothed to God and it's through faithfulness. You have to be in faith to do it because you cannot see God when you're talking to him. So you see this is about the Christian. This is the bride of Christ. Look at how Hosea is bringing this out. God is very he's clear in identifying who this belongs to. Verse 21. It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer, says the Lord, and I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth. The earth shall answer with grain, with new wine, and with oil. shall answer Jezrael. Then I will sow her for myself in the earth, and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy. Then I will say to those who were not my people, you are my people, and they shall say, "You are my God." I'm going to tell you right now, let me in the past few years, my prayer has changed. And I say this multiple times throughout the day. I always say, "Lord, you are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you and you belong to me." Did you know I was saying that before I even knew this scripture existed? That is how the Holy Spirit works. So, I'm a walking testimony to the fulfillment of that prophecy here. Please understand that you can be doing that and you should be doing that because as you spend more time with the Lord, you're saying you are my God because look at you are taking care of me. I mean, you see him move. You see the spirit move around you. Things that shouldn't have happened happen that were good that blessed you. And you're just sitting there going, "Wow, Lord, how'd you do that?" Isn't that just absolutely incredible? This is how the Lord works. Now, look at this. I want you to see this. I will enter the heavens and they shall answer earth. Now, look at here. How our earth answering in the earth. We're going to have new grain. So, not only are we going to have the bread of life and flour and wheat and all that that we need, which we do, even in these times where our economy is just out the window right now. You see, God still provides. He has blessed our household amazingly simply because I'm spending time in the secret place with the Lord, which you saw is Psalm 91:1. You choose. That's your action. You choose to do that. See, it's secret. When you go to church, that's not secret. Everybody can see you there. You see the difference? You got to spend time with God in the secret place. One, you get your oil. And two, he knows your name. You know his name. Now look at this. So now he's again talking about the grain, the new wine, and the oil. So now you can see how this Old Testament is telling you what you and I today are going to be like. You got to realize the word of God, you know, the whole action of the word of God that took place in history because this is true history. It happened to be written for you and I today. Paul didn't have the New Testament. He wrote it. Abraham didn't have a church to go to. He had to build it. Moses didn't have the five books of the Bible. He had to write them. Do you see now what when you say, "Okay, well, Jesus is the son of God and I acknowledge him because I hear it in the word of God, but I believe in faith." Now, you have the word of God because it happened in the past and you get to live it today. They lived for you and I today to have that word and it is being fulfilled. This is very, very powerful. Now, I'm going to show you Isaiah 65 because we're still in the Old Testament. Now, Isaiah is clearly telling you, you got a choice. And this is, remember, uh, when you're evangelizing and you're going to reap and sew, we're going to get into this here in just a bit. People have a choice. You choose God or you choose not God. So, and and they don't understand that, you know, they'll say something like, "Jesus is cool. He's a prophet. He's a great guy." That's not acknowledging he's the son of God. You know, even Israelites will say he he was a good pro prophet. He he you know, he did okay. But they'll tell you straight up, we're not looking for the son of God. We're looking for a man to be our Messiah. And they tell you that. So you can see how their vision, they have a veil over their eyes. You're going to see scripture related to that. But you can see now they there's a choice. Isaiah 65 tells you the consequences to the choice. Now remember, I am showing you what it's going to be like to be that Christian. We're the transformation that we're going to go through that we're going to be walking in this new wine. Watch this. So Isaiah is giving us two choices. So we're I'm going to take snippets from Isaiah 65:8. Thus says the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster and one says, do not destroy for a blessing is in it, so will I do for my servants sake that I may not destroy them all. Now I want you to see that. See the new wine? Now he's defining the new wine because how do you take off the old wine skin and put on a new wine skin? Did you notice that? Look at he says is found in the cluster. Oh, get this. Get this. I need you to get this. When you reap, not just sew, you're going to be sewing, too. But when someone becomes a believer under you, they're with you. They confess Jesus as the son of God and become a believer under your tutelage. Your branch just produced a grape of fruit on it. So you're that branch and now you've got fruit and is your responsibility to take that person in. Oh, I want you to see this church. See this Christian who's been a Christian for 50 years. Listen, when you bring that person into the church, you get them to start reading the Gospel of John. You get them to start writing down their uh their questions for God in a journal in their own quiet time because you're starting to teach him how to be in the secret place with the Lord. You get them to start talking with God on a daily basis because that's your responsibility. When people don't take up that responsibility, you can see it today. The evidence is there. What's the main person or personal type of person that comes after the church? It's people who got saved. They confess Jesus is Lord. But what happened? They got in the church and they put Christianity on such a high pedestal that we cannot meet their standard because they think now the whole church has to be godlike standard, but we're still human beings. But there's nobody there to tell them, "No, we're still working on it." There's nobody there to tell them, "Get into the word." And look at how people need to keep repenting. These people didn't do that. Wait, get in the word and start praying for them because they need your prayer. But no, instead they walk away from the church. They criticize the church. They call the church hypocrites. Those are your biggest voices are those people. And those are the people that somebody didn't take in. They probably became a Christian at a concert or something, but nobody stepped in to pull them in. Now, the Holy Spirit will work only as much as we're willing to give. So, you can see they already had a standard set uh an expectation and that expectation failed and they blamed it on the church, on God, and like God's not working on anybody. But I promise you, it takes us a step into the presence of the Lord. Now, of course, if you're going to teach somebody how to do that, don't you think you ought to be doing it? So, for you Christian who's been a Christian for 50 years, but you're not doing that. You're only going to church. Well, that's great for sustainment, but you have to understand when you go to church, you are going to church to do battle. you're not going to church to receive at that time. A lot of people think they go to church to receive and they're acting like that and they're taking it for receiving. In fact, what they do is they walk up to the door, they take off their cloak of distress. They take off whatever pain and suffering they have and they leave it at the door. They come in, they receive because see, they in their mind they're coming into the presence of the Lord. Fine. This is good stuff. But you never dealt with the cloak. And what happens? you leave, you pick it back up and you put it on and you wear it for the whole week. But when you enter into the presence of the Lord, Psalm 91:1, in the secret place in your home, you take it off and before you know it, you leave it off. Why? Because God already dealt with it. He dealt with you in that secret place and he built you up and now you get to represent him. So now he brings you into you because you spent time in that secret place. You built up your oil. Now when you come into church, you get to do battle. And the first thing you do is you pray for your church services coming up. Lord, I bless it. You see, now you speak the spoken word of God. I just taught on this a couple of messages about speaking your blessings or speaking your curses. You have a choice and you can see what that consequence is. But now I want you to see this new wine in this vine cluster. Look at what he says here. He says is found in the cluster. Now watch this. I'm going to get more into the scripture, but watch how this works. Imagine your branch has a cluster of fruit on it. Now all of that fruit is coming from the same branch. Jesus is our branch. Now what happens is as that Christian because we're spending time in that secret place we're producing the fruit we're a piece of fruit as well we hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and now the church this cluster operates under one the Holy Spirit no man no man there's a story oh I think it's in um Ukraine or some place out there they had um they had stopped Christianity so much so that you know they got rid of scriptures and what have you that even when they pass papers of where they were going to meet uh they caught on to that the guards did they got arrested beaten up what have you well people just started showing up there was no written paper they just started showing up and guess what other people showed up because the cluster together heard the Holy Spirit tell them where to go Now imagine when you're reaping and sewing, you are talking, you are evangelizing to people in the church or out on the streets, in the grocery store, wherever you may be. Sometimes you're sewing seeds. It could be just a simple smile, but because you're spending time in that secret place, you are now operating. So all those people that you sew a seed on, others have seown a seed on them as well. And what happens is these people are looking at you like, "How did you know? How did you know what to say?" Especially when the Holy Spirit tells you, "Your grandmother's been praying for you. Why haven't you uh repented? What's going on? Can I help you?" Boy, you you can imagine the wakeup call this person has like, "How did you know? You don't know me. You don't know my grandmother." And that's exactly what you say. That's what you do. That's that's how the Holy Spirit works in this cluster. So now you're starting to see where the church where the Christian's transformation goes to. Do you see how neat that is? Oh my goodness. So and one says, "Do not destroy it for a blessing is in it." I'm going to tell you right now, when you have somebody who's bitter in the church or angry at the church or angry at a person in the church or doesn't like that worship song or whatever, they ruin it because they're not spending time in the secret place of the Lord and giving that to the Lord, saying, "I don't like that, Lord. Either help change me or change them." They haven't done that when that is their responsibility. And instead, they prevent the cluster from working. Isn't that amazing how that can happen in the church? Now, we're still in Isaiah 65. Now, let's look at the consequences when you don't choose to be that Christian in the secret place. So, he's telling you straight up, therefore, I will number you for the sword and you shall all bow down to the slaughter. You see, death comes quicker for you. This is powerful. This is so you know there are benefits to getting in the presence of the Lord. Not just the fact that oh well he's amazing. It was great to be in his presence and that he let me be alive today in and of itself. But the fact is you get to live longer because you have the blessing of life on you. But when you don't do it, you have the bless the cursing of death on you. Now look, let's continue. Because when I called you did not answer. The secret place is where he's going to call you. This is the place that you need to be spending time with him so he can prepare you to take you out into ministry wherever it may be. It may not even be in the church. It could be in the street corner or it can be in the jail cells. Wherever you will be called, he will call you but you did not answer. You're a believer but you didn't answer. Could have been this way for 50 years. But I'm telling you right now, there's going to be this cluster coming in. You're going to have to shuck your oldness, your old ways. Put on the new wine skin and get ready. Prep yourself now in the secret place of the Lord because he called you. You are called. And when I spoke, you did not hear but did evil before my eyes and chose that in which I do not delight. You know, speaking of a this is the type of person you're going to be dealing a lot with here in these end times. So, I have a little testimony here. Here I was at the grocery store waiting for the cashier ringing up all my groceries. The person bag the gal bagging my groceries is talking to the cashier and is mad at the church. She and she named the church and I knew the church and she's mad because she's um homosexual and the church kicked her out and they wouldn't even let her wait for a drive or a ride to come pick her up. They made her walk and it was on a mountain and she had to walk down the hill and she was mad and she just whatever. And then out of the blue, she looks at me and, you know, basically asking me what it is, you know, that's going on. And D and I don't know her. She don't know me. But see, she senses the spirit. And the one thing I said to her was very simple. I said, "How can you expect God to bless you when he told you homosexuality is a sin?" She responded, "Well, she says, "I know. But you know what? She gave me a hug, thanked me, and she continued on her way. She didn't change. You see, that's what people want today. Whether you're a sinner or a Christian who's got one foot in the church and one foot in the world, you want both. You want evil, you want, well, not evil, you want sin because it's feels good for a season. You want your sin and you want to live uh and have God's blessings on you. You can't have both. You have to choose and Isaiah clearly tells you. Now look at what it continues to tell you though when you choose him. So you have for uh verse 17. For behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. Remember we are also talking about what's coming up after the the millennial. You're going to have a Jerusalem, a new Jerusalem. We're going to be shucking off of the old wine skin, putting on the new one, and we're going to be part of the new heavens and the new earth. So, he's telling you straight up where this is going. Now, look at this. And he's prophesying in verse 24 and 25. And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer. Here's the most amazing part talking about us here and now. Let's say you're not feeling very well. something you just know you're down or whatever, whatever's going on. Before you even prayed and asked God cuz you've been dwelling in the sequence, he already knew and he sent you your healing. You already have it. In fact, it goes away. You get up, you decide to nope, I'm not going to be it. That's it. I'm moving on because I don't have time for that one. Or you know what? I'm not going to get sick because I know that I was already healed. I say it already healed. So now once you know that, that it goes right out the window. He answered you even before you needed to. Which that is prophetic anyways because Jesus took the healing. The beating his back was torn to pieces. He took the stripes for us. By his stripes, we were healed. By his stripes, we are healed. So, it's amazing to see how he already did all that. You're in a financial situation. He knows. So, before you even ask, he answered and already provided. It's on its way. Now imagine being part of that cluster where you're moving under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Put a check here. You do this. You do that because the Holy Spirit told you. You're doing what you need to do. This is how this is going to be working. And while they're still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together. The lion shall eat straw like the ox. And thus shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord. The lion and the lamb living together. We're going to see that. But the me best part is to see that it is now. You see, our heavenly eternity already began here and now in our flesh. You I I get to say, I'm already saved and I've already started my eternity because I've already died to this world. Because I enter into the secret place with the Lord. And when I spend my time there, I get to sin runs. It leaves. I don't have to have sin on me. I'm considered righteous. Oh, you got to grasp this. Got to grasp this. Let's look at um 2 Corinthians 5:17-21. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. And now all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. Pause here. Remember what I was talking about? If you if if a Christian becomes a Christian or believer under your moment, you shared the word of God with that person and they accepted Jesus Christ into their heart. You are given the responsibility of reconciliation. How do you reconcile? You bring them into the secret place with the Lord because you want him and God to bond. Do you see that? And he's telling us that's our responsibility. I want you to see that. Says uh given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Hallelujah. And now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us. You know, when you're in the secret place, he is getting you prepped and ready. He is preparing you. He's giving you scripture that you're it's going to click with you and you're going to have it in your mind and you're going to be able to share it with somebody and you're going to be reconciling them to the Lord. And that see you have become that new creation. Oh, so awesome. Look at this. For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. So when you are spending time getting the oil, getting the grain, getting prepped, getting rid of the old wine skin, putting on the new wine skin, getting ready to operate in that cluster. You are now righteous in the presence of God. Now you're ready to evangelize. You're ready to go forward. Look at this in John. What What do you have to do when you evangelize? John 4:35-38. Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields for they are already white for harvest. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life. That both he who sws and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, one sws and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored and you have entered into their labors. Again, these people are going to be amazed because you're going to say things others have already told them and they're going to wonder how did you know? And they're going to realize that God is real and they're going to repent hopefully in that moment. But you also got to bring them in to the reconciliation into that ministry so that they get close to God so they don't become that person who hates the church and calls the church hypocritical. You are ministering to different types of people. Realize this. Go read the parable of the sewer. When God is sewing seed, there's some that land on hard soil. Ha. Have you ever tried to germinate a seed and grow seed from scratch? Some are very temperamental and you may not even be able to grow any seed of that kind. Just you can't. It's your your where you live. It's the weather. You just can't. But someone else can. in another area. And that's exactly how it is. Now, remember, I've been talking about that this is your responsibility. Let's go back to the life of a plant for a moment. When a plant is sitting in a pot in your house, does it get watered by itself? No. You have to go pick it up and go water it. Meaning, you have to go get the water, the grain from the living word of God, the bread of life, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and then the oil. And now the new wine. You're going to be taking the action of removing your old wine skin and getting ready for the new wine skin and what God has set for you. And this is preparing you to evangelize, preparing you to do battle because you will be dealing with spiritual matter. I mean, take a look at the room you're in. You can't see it, but there are angels and demons standing around you. So, how do you get the victory? You have to be in the secret place with the Lord first. And you pray over your service. You bless the service because that means when the devil or the demon and the angel are fighting, the angel has a victory over that service and people come in and they feel a difference and it's like, "Wow, this is neat. Wow, I got I got blessed. I'm going back." You see, that is how you get prepped for warfare. You go into it and that is how you have the victory. And it's because you are transforming as that Christian because why your seed is growing. You know what God you accepted Jesus Christ in your heart. It was a seed that was planted in you. Remember Adam comes from the dust of the earth. So you got a seed and then you got baptized. And when you got baptized that put you in a ministry. Remember when Jesus was baptized he went and dealt with the devil first. So imagine a new believer, a new Christian, that first love. Remember your first love. You get baptized. you're ready to go into ministry. You and in fact a new Christian is a sink or swim moment here in that beginning. Why? Because now they get a taste of the spirit world and they they start to see and understand and they should have questions. They should be coming to you and asking you questions. You should be answering them with the Holy Spirit. And if you can't, you work with him and said, "Let's go find that answer together." Amen. Amen. That is that first love. So when you who's been a Christian for 50 years now get into that secret place, you're going to remember your first love and you're going to be getting ready because you're now going to have that grain, the bread of life. You're going to be sustained by the living word of God and you're going to have the anointing of the oil which is going to splatter on people because it's going to be flowing over your cup. And now you're going to have the new wine where you're going to be operating because you're going to hear the spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit talk to you. Do you see that transformation a Christian takes in their life, in their walk? 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Say this prayer out loud: Father in heaven I confess Jesus as my Lord and savior and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I believe that now I am born again, in accordance to your word. AMEN!SALVATION PRAYER SALVATION PRAYER SALVATION PRAYER Say this prayer out loud: Father in heaven I confess Jesus as my Lord and savior and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I believe that now I am born again, in accordance to your word. AMEN! Previous Next

STABILITY FOR OUR TIMES The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that true stability in life is not found in external circumstances, comfort, or human achievements, but in the wisdom, knowledge, and fear of the Lord. By understanding God’s sovereignty, trusting His promises, and embracing the hope of resurrection, believers are equipped to endure trials, overcome despair, and remain steadfast in faith, even in the face of death and great personal loss. STABILITY FOR OUR TIMES Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that true stability in life is not found in external circumstances, comfort, or human achievements, but in the wisdom, knowledge, and fear of the Lord. By understanding God’s sovereignty, trusting His promises, and embracing the hope of resurrection, believers are equipped to endure trials, overcome despair, and remain steadfast in faith, even in the face of death and great personal loss. Synopsis: In Stability for Our Times, Pastor Marcos Marrero expounds on Isaiah 33:6, emphasizing that wisdom and knowledge rooted in God’s Word are the foundation of stability during uncertain and difficult times. Humanity naturally longs for a utopia free of suffering, yet Jesus Himself declared that tribulations are inevitable in this world. Historically and personally, fear and instability have always stemmed from the uncertainty of life’s resources, dangers, and losses. Pastor Marcos explains that the wisdom of God sustains the human spirit and the knowledge of His sovereignty strengthens salvation. With Scriptures such as Romans 8:28, he reminds believers that all things work together for good when we trust God’s purpose. Trials and testing refine faith, revealing the treasures of God’s promises, while the fear (reverence) of the Lord becomes the true treasure of the believer. Through personal experiences as a minister officiating funerals, Pastor Marcos reflects on the profound hope found in the resurrection. The certainty of eternal life and reunion with loved ones in Christ offers peace in times of grief. Death, while painful, becomes a temporary separation rather than a final loss, for to God all live. Believers are promised glorified, eternal bodies that will showcase God’s perfect design. Ultimately, Pastor Marcos stresses that stability comes from knowing we are only sojourners on earth, destined for eternal peace and perfection. With this perspective, even in the midst of calamities, trials, or bereavement, Christians can stand firm, anchored in the faithfulness of God who promised eternal life and resurrection. Hebrews 10:23 captures the core message: “For He who promised is faithful.” Inspired Teaching: Isaiah 33:6 “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the Lord is His treasure.” Why do we have to go through trials? Why is it that we all must suffer indignations? It was Jesus who told us that: In this world you will have tribulations. We humans by nature, are creatures of comfort for the most part; we do not like it if gets too hot, and we certainly do not like when our feet get too cold. We can safely assume that the most prevalent of all human fantasies, and the only one whose realization has eluded humanity throughout all of its history, is the utopian fantasy of a society that is void of trouble. For millennia those who lived near the ocean dreamed and longed for oceans that were void of hurricanes, tsunamis, and of invading war ships. Those who lived by rivers, lived in fear of its drying up or of its seasonal flooding, also in the fear of armies that used rivers as a highway to facilitate their conquests. Old cities were usually built around the natural resources that allowed them to grow and to prosper, and the fear that they might lose those resources or that those resources might attract enemies, were the very cause for their anxiety and insecurity, and in many cases the reason for their demise as well; that is just a historical fact of life. Our opening verse of Scripture seems to imply that our knowledge of the fact that, In this world we will have tribulations, will somehow bring stability into the times in which we are living, whether it be the good times or the bad times. Proverbs 18:14 “The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, but who can bear a broken spirit?” The wisdom of God will sustain the spirit of the man, and the knowledge that in all things and that at all times God is in total and complete control of whatever situation we are facing, is the hope of the soul and the strength of the salvation that God has for all of us. Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” If we know that God is always working out the plan and destiny that He has for our lives, and the lives of those who love Him, then we have peace, and that peace is the strength of our salvation. Our spirit becomes sick or broken when we lose hope, and our lack of understanding is the reason why we lose our hope. We need to know deep within our souls that in order for our salvation to be strengthened, our faith must be tried, for without God’s testing in our lives we will never find the treasures that our Lord has for us all. The fear of the Lord, which is the reverence due to the promises given to us, the believers, by God in His Word, are His treasure! Abraham had to face the death of his son, the son of promise, before he could find the life of the Son of God that was promised to him in the covenant that followed his testing. A parent might ask from the depths of their bereavement, after the death of their innocent child: How does the death of my child that I loved be in any way constructive to me and to the plans that God has for my life? That is a question that only God is qualified to answer, since it was He who voluntarily gave us His most precious Son, not only to die, but to be vilified and tortured; not just physical torture, but He had to endure horrific demonic oppression to the depths that no other human had ever endured, and unlike us who are worthy of punishment because of all our sins, He endured all that He did for the sake of demonstrating His perfect love for us; that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Matthew 19:14 “ But Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.’” I’ve officiated over a few funerals in my ministry life, they ranged from complete strangers that I had never met, to very close dear loved ones whose departure broke my heart. The resurrection Scriptures that I’ve quoted over the strangers that I buried would not have had as much meaning and intensity to me if it were not for the fact that they were the very same resurrection Scriptures that I’ve quoted over the loved ones that I’ve buried. Though about to be buried, I proclaimed those Scriptures over them in the hope that some day I would see them alive again in the flesh. In a gravesite service for a Christian elderly woman whom I had never met, and in the presence of a few people that included some of the workers that would be burying her after I finish the service, all of the sudden I had tears rundown my face when I spoke about the surety of her resurrection from the dead someday. The people that were present did not know that as I was speaking with conviction of faith about her future resurrection from the dead, that the Lord spoke to my heart and said to me, You might not have known who she was in this life, but one day soon you will meet her in person when I raise all my children who trust My Words from the dead. It was there that it became so real to me; for right there it hit me, the reality that we have not followed cunningly devised fables, for we were eye witnesses of Christ’s resurrection, one of the apostles said. Death may loom large above us now while on this earth, but the reality of His resurrected life dissipates all gloominess and fears, for we know that someday soon He will raise us up. Isaiah 33:10 “Now I will rise, says the Lord; now I will be exalted, now I will lift Myself up.” For us Christians, death is a non-issue, or at least it should be. I am not saying that it does not hurt when we lose a loved one, for it does; or that we should not mourn properly, for it is necessary for us to do so. Who among us has not experienced the death of a loved one or will one day experience the sting of death for ourselves? For it is appointed unto men once to die. The revelation of the knowledge that I am trying to teach here revolves around the fact that to God all live. And if we are believers of the Word of God, then according to God’s Word the loved ones that we’ve lost are not dead, and must certainly they are not lost; we have been separated from them temporarily, but they are definitely neither lost nor dead to God. 2 Samuel 12:22-23 “...While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.’” The foundation of Christianity itself stands on the fact of the reality of the physical resurrection from the dead. We do not believe in a sort of a wishy-washy existence after we’re dead that somehow coexists with the elements of nature. After we die we do not live as spirits among the trees or the mountains, not even in the clouds; as believers of Jesus Christ, after we die we go to a real place called heaven, in a new body that is given to us after we die, and we are taken before our living Savior, who is sitting in a real throne with a real physical body. And not only that but the loved ones that preceded us will be there to greet us as well, along with our Savior. And we need to know these facts if we want to enjoy rock solid stability in the face of calamities. 2 Corinthians 5:1 “For we know that if our earthly house, this tent (our physical body) is destroyed (dies), we have a building from God, a house (new body) not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Our new eternal bodies will display the spiritual qualities that our earthly bodies presently hinder, for while here in our present physical appearance we are not capable of displaying our true person. So that our person will be known in heaven to all who knew us here on the earth, even though the physical appearance of our new body in heaven might differ a lot from what we looked like here on earth. Children and infants will be grown ups for example. That is because many if not all of us, have bodies here on this earth that have been deformed by the consequences of the iniquity which our bodies have inherited, the iniquities that caused the development of our present bodies to deviate from God’s original blue print for us. But our redeemed personalities will be showcased through the perfectness of our new bodies in an incredibly amazing choreography of God’s individuality for each one of us, that will be made known to all: We will know as we are known! Isaiah 33:24 “And the inhabitant will not say, ‘I am sick’; the people who dwell in it (their new bodies) will be forgiven their iniquities.” The wisdom of knowing that we are but sojourners on this earth, and that our destiny is one of gain, peace, and perfection, brings into our souls the stability that keeps us strong through whatever adversities we must travel; for in the end, His great and precious promises are the treasure that will reward our faithfulness if we don’t give up! 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THE GIFT OF LIFE The objective of this message is to reveal the divine origin and meaning of life as a gift from God, examining how sin altered the natural order of creation and introduced aging, death, and brokenness into the world. It aims to connect the Genesis account with the New Testament teaching on eternal life through Christ, encouraging believers to repent, walk with God, and embrace His gift of life both now and in eternity. THE GIFT OF LIFE Minister Lisa Kane June 26, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to reveal the divine origin and meaning of life as a gift from God, examining how sin altered the natural order of creation and introduced aging, death, and brokenness into the world. It aims to connect the Genesis account with the New Testament teaching on eternal life through Christ, encouraging believers to repent, walk with God, and embrace His gift of life both now and in eternity. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane explores the biblical truth that life itself is God’s gift, rooted in His original creation. Opening with Romans 6:23, she contrasts the wages of sin—death—with God’s gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. Drawing from Genesis, Lisa explains how the patriarchs experienced longevity before sin corrupted creation, noting that aging began only after the fall when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. She walks through the progression of sin in humanity: the disobedience of Eve, Cain’s murder of Abel, and Lamech’s violence, showing how sin accelerated corruption in the earth. Historical events such as the flood, the Tower of Babel, and the division of the continents are tied to the destructive weight of sin. Yet, amid judgment, God preserved the righteous, such as Noah, as examples of His sustaining gift of life. Lisa emphasizes that while sin shortens lifespans and accelerates aging, repentance and relationship with God bring renewal, blessing, and spiritual vitality. She draws parallels to today’s society, pointing out the moral decay that mirrors the wickedness of ancient times. The message culminates with the hope of eternal life through Christ (John 3:15–17), reminding listeners that true life is only found in Him. Ultimately, “The Gift of Life” calls believers to turn away from sin, embrace God’s righteousness, and live with the eternal perspective of salvation, knowing that Jesus has redeemed humanity from the curse of death. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this on Sunday, June 26, 2022. This message is called the gift of life. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing on it. Let us receive, apply it to our lives, believe it, walk it, live it, and share it with others. Father God, we thank you. We thank you for your word, your nourishment for us. spiritually. We thank you in the glorious name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Let's open up in our opening scripture here. We're going to be looking at Romans 6:23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Okay. So, I'm going to be talking about aging today, which is kind of an unusual topic, but I've done a lot of in-depth studies and teachings on Genesis. I did a a study on evolution. You can go look at my past messages on there showing you proof that Genesis is real. And this is a factual text, uh, a historical factual text. This is not storyland. These are not stories. These are real events that took place. So, I'm going to address the aging of the patriarchs during the Genesis time and why sin plays a role in it and why we age differently today than we did back then. So, it's going to be one of those interesting messages here that we're going to be talking about. So, as you can see here, Paul is the one that really kind of puts it together in the New Testament when he says the wages of sin is death. What is sin? Sin is dying. So, let's take a look at what happened in Genesis and what caused us to start aging. Okay? Uh because I'm going to show you when it wasn't aging and then I'm going to show you when it started aging and what happened. And I do apologize, you're going to hear my fans and air conditioner running. Uh it is currently 99 degrees here. I live in the desert here in Southern California. And uh the high I think it's supposed to be 104, but if it's 99 right now and it's 11:41, I guess it's going to be a little hotter, but no problem. So, sorry for the sound quality, but that's the way it's going to be today. So, let's go to our next scripture here in Genesis. So, in Genesis 2:19-20, we're going to see something very interesting here. Out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him. Okay? So it's a very interesting scripture. Now, keep in mind, I've already done an in-depth study on Genesis, chapters 1, 2, 3, and four. You're more than welcome to go check all that out. So chapter one is a planning phase. It's like creating the blueprints for the world. So in in essence, you can look at it as God assembling all the materials that he needs for the world that he was making. So in essence, he's in his workshop. He's got his workbench. He's got a bowl here filled with water. That's going to be the ocean. A bowl here filled with earth. That's going to be the earth. So it's a planning phase. And when you read Genesis 2:1, you'll see the application in movement like the earth is now operating and and in motion and God is putting in all the elements as it functions more very clear when you look at it from that perspective. That's what Genesis 1 and 2 is talking about. So here and in Genesis 1, you know, he talks about forming man out of earth uh and forming warm man in his image. So you hear him talk about that, but you don't see him applied yet. So here in chapter 2, he's applied, but notice Eve is not there because God talks about he needs a helper comparable to him. So let's go look at that that last part of the scripture there. But for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him. So Eve is not in the picture yet. So Adam is naming all these animals. Adam and God are bonding. They're having they're relating to one another. They're getting to know one another. God is getting to know his beloved because this is his offspring. In his image were made. And that is incredible because you know God did something. You guys have no idea. You got to really think this through. We are such a complex being that um we can't create that out of anything else we try. Look at my study on evolution. You will see that we cannot do that. So we have offspring and then the gift of life, the breath of life goes into the newborn and then becomes a person in his image. So this is it's very interesting how God created all of this. Okay. So, but there's something interesting here. There's a mystery here. So, he's naming all these animals. Now, you have to understand that every animal that God has ever created was alive at this time. There was no death because there's no sin. Remember, the wages of sin is death. Nobody's died. No animal has died. There's a interesting mystery here. So, Adam being the only human being on the planet in his little world here, God is bringing all these animals. How long did it take Adam to name all the animals when every one of them existed? Now, granted, he's only naming, let's see here, um the beast of the field and the bird of the air, all the cattle and uh so birds, cattle, beast of the field. So that's basically what he was naming. But you're talking dinosaurs, you're talking dogs, cows, horses, zebras, you know, or maybe a zebra came later because it is kind of in the horse kind, if you will. So he's naming kinds. And a kind is its own species, if you will. So he doesn't name poodles and German shepherds. He names a dog. So male and female dog, male and female elephant, male and female giraffe. These are all animals in their own kind. So, there's a lot of them, just not as many as you think. But how long do you think it took him to do that? Days, weeks, months, years, and sin hasn't happened. The sun goes up, the sun comes down. In fact, it doesn't even mention that Adam sleeps. Did he need to sleep? You got to wonder about how the world was then. So, you're looking at this and you're thinking, "Okay, uh, he named him. Don't know how long that took." So, he's not aging because there's no sin in the land. So, if you know, one way to think of it is when the morning came and if Adam did go to sleep and he woke up, he woke up the same person he was the day before. He did not age. He did not uh grow. He is the same the yesterday, that day, and the next day until sin came. Interesting concept, right? So, let's look at what happened when sin came because you're now seeing the earth wasn't aging. You're seeing animals weren't dying. You know that there is no rain on the earth because when we talk about the flood, you're going to see that there was no rain at that time up until the flood. So this is fascinating. The world then was different. God made the world perfect, whole, complete. This is the place for us to be and where we want to be today really. But we live in sin now. And sin changed everything. So let's look at what happened when sin entered the world. So, we're now in Genesis 3:es 4-5. Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." The devil lied to Eve. Okay, I'm not going to give you every scripture here. I want you to go and study it for yourself. Look at what happened here. Look at the scene between Adam and Eve and what happened when the serpent came in. So God placed Eve in the garden and then God left. He gave them time for their little honeymoon. So the serpent comes along and he's standing there by that tree of knowledge that God told him not to eat of. And he's convincing Eve, you're not going to die. you're going to be like God. And she's tempted. Now, I want you to realize something. Adam is sitting right next to her. So, she takes the fruit. She takes a bite. He hands it to him. He takes a bite, too. Now, I want you to think about this for a moment because when you really think this through, there is some powerful elements going on here. What if Adam in his conversations with God while naming the animals knew what was going to happen? I would imagine that Adam had a lot of questions. We're curious creatures. We want to know what's going on. So when Eve did that, Adam was in La La Land. He's in his honeymoon. He's as happy as a clam. He's probably not thinking thoroughly through. But when she goes to grab the fruit, either he didn't react fast enough to tell her, "No, no, no, don't do it." Or the fact that he didn't say anything, wonder, I have to wonder. Did already God tell him what was going to happen? And he let it happen. And he could have, he had a choice not to take that bite, but she's his wife. They were a whole the two together. They're not uh they're a half now because they're married. So he's half, she's half, and that's the way that works. So he took that by two. But I want you to see when you go look at those curses because they were cursed. The serpent was cursed, the e Eve was cursed, woman was cursed, and then the earth was cursed, not Adam. Adam didn't sin. You got to understand that. So this is very very interesting because now all of a sudden things look a little bit different when you look at this transaction that takes place. Now something did happen you know and if you take a look at some scientists today and ancient aliens even they are acknowledging this is that they think it's an evolution and that somewhere along the lines something came along and changed the concept of mankind from you know being cavemen to today but it this change did take place. Eve and Adam knew they were naked. They knew. So they actually had a change, a physical change in the mental sense. They became aware that they are naked beings and that they sinned and they have shame. Now this was a concept that didn't come in until that very very moment. Now the devil did lie because he said you won't die. Well hold on a second. Let's look at the physical evidence here. Remember this is factual historical evidence. Genesis 5:5. So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died. Wait a second. Okay. So he did die. Eve eventually died too. I It doesn't document her age when she died. So he lived 930 years. That's a long time. He didn't sin. He wasn't living in sin. But the moment they took that fruit and they ate of it, that was day one. and sin aging began. But prior to that moment, there was no aging on the earth. Okay. Now, I want to show you the first document. Well, the second document of sin. Eve is the first document. Here's the second document of sin in Genesis. Watch this. Genesis 4:8. Now Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Now you can go again read the story the event. It's not a story the event in total to see what was going on between Cain and Abel. Cain got pretty jealous and bitter because God rejected his offering and he accepted Cain's and so he got mad at him and he killed him and he let it bubble up. Well, that's sin number two documented in Genesis. Now, that's very interesting because what's going on here is if Adam lives 930 years and now the earth is starting to get populated, death comes in the picture quicker. We've got a murder that takes place. Now, let's continue on. Now all the patriarchs that lived during that time 10 generations they lived 800 900 plus years and these are not um uh uh these are true years 365 days a year. This is not uh an analogy. This is these are actual years. The the root word in Genesis applies this as a year. So please understand again this is factual evidence and sin changed the element of our aging. This is why evolution can't happen. This is another reason why evolution can't happen. They they're still looking at it as we've just evolved. No, no, no. There was an actual change in mankind that took place and it happened at the moment that Adam and Eve partake of the fruit that they weren't supposed to. So let's go look at the next documented sin again. Here we are at another murder. Genesis 4:23. Then Lamech said to his wives, Ada Azilla, hear my voice. Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech for I've killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for hurting me. Now he he's acknowledging he killed this guy and it sounds like he did it out of revenge for hurting him and not giving forgiveness. So you've got another documented sin here. Now the world is populating. So you've got murder taking place. So animals have got to be dying in this time frame because God had killed an animal to clothe Adam and Eve. So now they're killing animals to eat. So they're eating of the earth and they're eating of the meat. So this is now the new earth that is in play and things are happening rapidly. Eve is having children and as she's having children, her great great grandchildren are having children at the same time she's having children. So, who knows how many kids she ended up having because it does not document it. But it had to be a lot boys and girls and then they started mating as they became adults. 930 years is a long time. So, just talking from Adam's age perspective. So, up to the flood, you're talking about 1500 years. So this is very very interesting that you're seeing something here totally different of the way the world was at that time because now God says something different. Okay? So you've got the documented sin of Eve, the documented sin of Cain, and the documented sin of Lamech. But the world is populating. Look what God says next about sin. Genesis 6:5. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of his of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Oh now if you really want to know what this is implying and this is actually fascinating what he says here is uh the book of Jasher and the book of Enoch and it could be just one or the other and I'm don't remember off the top of my head but you can go look those up. They may not be part of the Bible, but they have historical records that align with the Bible. So, they're very good information to have. Uh, but they talk about the neighborhood and what it was like. And people were living in such a way that they were trying to well, people didn't sleep or did very little sleep because they were guarding their home because they knew their neighbor was after their goods or even their lives. So, it was a, you know, I got to protect myself because I know that neighbor is creepy and he's coming after me if I let my guard down. That's the idea of how that was. Uh, and of course, it was also the idea of what can I make myself feel good with? Well, if I kill you, I'll feel good. it. So that mentality was going on. And you can see that mentality creeping into society today. I mean, look at what the the women who are protesting about having a pro-choice. They're walking around with blood between their legs and baby dolls between their legs and hitting them. And it's like, you just murdered a baby. And in their mind, no, I have the right to do that. And it's like, whoa, whoa. You don't have the right to murder someone. You have the right to not get into bed with unprotected sex, but you don't have the right to murder a baby. It's got blood. The blood of life. You can't live without blood flowing through your veins. And this is why they're showing you the blood all over themselves. We want to remove that life. That's the mentality. That's the demonic activity behind all of this. So, you've got this concept that comes into the time of Noah and the flood. Now, we all know in science that they did prove the flood took place. So, let's look at what the Bible says about the flood because I really want to apply some scriptures here about it. So, I don't want you just to assume what the story is. At the same time, I do want you to go look at the scriptures and learn of them and study them for yourselves because you'll get more out of it from when you read it. versus somebody interpreting it for you. Amen. Genesis 7:10 through11. It came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood of of the flood were on the earth. In the 600th year of Noah's life, the patriarchs were living long lives. There was now Noah like Lot was living in a time where there was sin around him, but he was not sinning. He was considered a righteous man is what God called him. And notice he's already 600 years old when the flood is coming. So here in the 600 year of Noah's life in the second month, the 17th day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were open and the rain was on the earth 40 days and 40 nights. Now I want you to see something here. That is what this message is all about. every person living in sin and the righteous that were not going to make it through the flood which was Methuselah. He was the last uh patriarch and righteous man there. He died. His name actually meant that when he died this flood was coming that um all of them had their lives shortened because they lived in sin. They did not have the right to live past the 600, 700, 800, 900 year because they lived in sin. Oh, sin and aging are they go hand in hand. And so now I want you to see how long Noah actually lived. And this was even after the flood. Again, though, they're repopulating the earth. So there's not a lot of people. They are sinning. We're going to get to that in a minute. And you're going to see the dynamics change here. and shift because God had to make some big changes at this moment. But look how long Noah lived. Says here in Genesis 9:29, so all the days of Noah were 950 years and he died. He outlived Adam and he went through the flood. Oh hallelujah. So God takes righteous people and he will let you live. You have the blessing of life to live. Amen. That is the gift of life from God. God is the gift of life. And when you spend time with God, you have life. Oh, this message is awesome. And I really want you to grab it. Now, again, I'm not going to go into all the scriptures after the flood, but you can go and look at this. Genesis, the book of Jasher, the book of Jasher and Genesis are very similar books. Um, Jasher goes into a little more detail. You'll find out about Abraham as a young man where you don't see that in Genesis. So, it's very interesting how Abraham discovers who God is. It's a really fascinating story. You might want to get in there and take it out. Take a look at it. So, what happens is after the flood takes place, Noah and his family repopulate the earth. So, children are having children, they're marrying, they're having children. So, uh Noah's sons are having children and then their children children are all marrying. And anyways, so about the fourth, third to fifth generation, somewhere's right around there was a guy named Nimrod. And uh now God had told mankind, go populate the earth, be fruitful and multiply. So go out. That's what he told them to do. They stayed. And not only did they stay, they followed this guy Nimrod and decided to build a tower because Nimrod had it in his mind. I'm going to get as tall as God so I can kick his butt. I'm going tell you right now, I don't know what this man was thinking, but it he was way off the mark because God's looking going, "Yeah, really? You're gonna do that? Go for it. Let's see how far you get." So something happens here because I I want you to understand something. So God destroys the earth. He didn't end mankind. He let Noah and his family survive knowing full well what mankind was going to do again. They've already done it once. They're going to do it again. But you know what God was thinking? And I'm pretty confident of this. may not be biblical scripture, but I'm pretty confident of this. He knew that Lisa and any other righteous person living today was going to call on him and believe. He already said though scripturally that he was going to send his son to redeem us. He already had that in the plan. He knew what he was doing. He was going into that plan. So Jesus was coming. So he allowed this to happen and he allowed it to continue on because he knew about those of us still who hadn't been born yet who would believe. And he says they're going to love me and I want to give them that chance. Incredible. I just love the Lord so much. So the tower of babel takes place a great earthquake happens at this time and the tower of babel and the earthquake are documented in Genesis. You will see uh there's more information in the book of Jasher but look at this very interesting scripture and I got to show this to you because I want you to understand how the world was then and how it is now. which is why science is struggling with this. Okay, so look at this interesting scripture out of the blue. Genesis 10:25. To Eber were born two sons. The name of one was Palele. For in his days the earth was divided and his brother's name was Jckton. In his days the earth was divided. Wait, all the continents weren't all one or weren't separate pieces? That's interesting. So basically what he's saying here is that after the Tower of Babel and that earthquake takes place, this kid pale is born and by the way that's a root root word and it means shaking and rushing of water coming up. Okay. So basically when this great earthquake happened, by the way, Nimrod documents the statement at that time because he survived the earthquake and he said, "Oh, God saved me from my enemies." I hope he called on God to believe at the end, but I don't think he did. But anyways, whatever the case was, this guy survives. He documents that the earth did have a great shaking at this time and that's when the continents pulled apart. So let's understand what happened here. Sin sin caused the flood. You know God brought in the flood. Now God made the earth perfect. So all the earth was one piece of land. And you know what? Most scientists actually agree with that. They just think it was billions of years ago. But they all agree that Panga, which is all the contents put together, all existed as one in the past. And that is actually a true statement. They did exist as one. It's when Paleleg was born, when that great earthquake happened, that's when they broke. And this was after the flood. And this was after the Tower of Babel. So, and in fact, they have this also documented. This is where all the cultures came into be because when the Tower of Babel was broken, language was broken. And so you had all these people split apart. So you had Asians over here, Hispanics over here, Indians over here, uh, Europeans over here. So you had all of these different cultures. And when the land broke apart, those cultures were on their own piece of land. And now all of a sudden, you've got cultures in existence, different culture, and they all came into existence at the same time. And in fact, they all talk about the flood, every single one of them. And they all talk about eight people surviving. It's a a factual event that took place and it's because of sin. So sin when the water God broke the fountains of the deep and they became weak. So when mankind started sinning again and going building this tower following this guy and not spreading out and populating the earth being fruitful multiplying no instead God says okay this is weak. I'm going to break I'm going to cause a shaking. And he shook the ground and it was the weight of sin that broke it further. And and if you take a look, you drive through a mountain, look at the mountains and how everything it's broken. Everything is broken. I mean, it's beautiful. We live in it today. We live in this brokenness. And in fact that's when age started slowing uh excuse me increasing in speed meaning they got they died at a younger age. So this is when all of this change took place because now sin is prominent in the world. It is a major factor in the world. People are living in sin and they're born in it and they just go with it. And it took the redemption of Jesus Christ to come to change that and to give us the element of that. So now and in fact just kind of show you how God is still talking about this. This is very very important. I want you to understand you do not have the gift of life if you're living in sin. He will end your life prematurely. Look what he did here to Sodom and Gomorrah. Genesis 19:24-25. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens. And so he overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. He said, "You're going to live in sin. This is what I'm going to do to you." And sin is pleasurable. You know, people get hooked up to, but you got to break free from it and make a stand and say, "God, I choose you." And and I will tell you right now, you keep looking back at sin, you got a problem. Lot's wife here, go back, read these scriptures. She she desired it so much and was missing it that, you know, she turned into a pillar of salt. She just dried up. How many people do you look at today that are dried up, been on drugs, had a rough life really, and they could be 50 years old, but they look like they're 70. I'm telling you, sin and age go right hand in hand. And if you there is no magical bottle of illusion that you can take that's going to help you look younger or feel younger on the inside. You know, you've got to repent and you got to spend time with God because when you spend time with God, there's no sin there and that means the aging slows. We're still living in an earth surrounded by sin. Lot didn't live that long either, but you know, he was able to live past the destruction of those two cities. In fact, God refused to destroy those two cities until Lot was removed. And read the conversation that God had with Abraham. Abraham's like, "Is it 50 people, 30 people, 20 righteous people living in the city? Would you destroy it?" He said, "No, all the way to 10 people." Meaning, there was less than 10 people in the city that was righteous. And the less than 10, God says, "I'm taking you out." Which was Lot, his wife, and two daughters. And uh the wife didn't make it. So sin is what does this to you? What destroys things? Our government looks like they're trying to destroy the it's sin. They're living in sin. They're accepting sin. Those that approach choice are accepting sin. When living as a homosexual is sin because God calls it, you're not being fruitful and multiply. You cannot be fruitful man on man or woman on woman. So, you're sinning. Lying is sinning. Murder is sinning. You want to sin? Hey, go for it. I'm just telling you, your life will be cut short. That's one of the consequences. And two, not only will you be aging faster, but you're missing out on the blessings that God has for you here and now. And just because we have eternity with him, your eternity can begin now. And no matter what hell is going on out here, you're still at peace and have a joy within you. And you get to look young and free. And people people come up to me all the time and say, "I can't believe you have grandchildren." Yeah, I have grandchildren. Yes, I do. I I I'm grateful that I look as young as I am, but I know that I'm aging. I know I live in sin, but I repented because Jesus came back and did something for us. Look at this. John 3:15 through17. that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 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. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that through the world through him might be saved. He wants to save you on top of it all. He wants to save you. And you know, I I want you guys to realize that we're coming into a very serious time or well, we're in a serious time. Uh Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13 are being fulfilled right in front of us. And it does talk about this generation shall not pass away. So interesting enough how this is fulfilling. Now we are on the tail end of things. So, Genesis is the beginning. It's what started it. And all of this time, we've been living in sin because that's how things change. That's how things were moved. So, now something is getting revealed. And I want you to see what's coming because you've got to be able to repent and know that you're repenting for something that's better. Okay? And we don't have better here on this earth because this earth is sin. Okay? Understand that. Look at what Paul says here in 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12. And then the lawless lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness. That's what's happening now. People have this delusion. Talking about women with pro-choice. They have a delusion. Look at this. He says, "With all unrighteous deception among those who perish, you are dying with unrighteousness." And as long as you're doing that, you did not receive the love of the truth that you might be saved. When you reject Jesus, you reject God, you live in unrighteousness, you live in sin, your life is cut short. You do not have the gift of life which is God. God is the gift of life. Very first scripture that I read. Understand what's happening here. And if you take a look at that scripture, go back to the beginning part of it. He says, "Look what the the Lord's going to do to this uh individual here. Look at this. This lawless one. He's going to consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. This guy's destined for destruction. Don't follow him. You need to repent. You need to repent. Remember what Romans 10:9 says 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. You have to repent. And I'm telling you, if you really want to look younger, so even though we don't live the lifespans of what it was like prior to sin being a a dominant element here in the earth today, we still can look young in our age. Amen. And that means spending time with God. That means repenting. That means giving him the glory, living for him. And I'm going to tell you right now, eternity with God is what you want. You do not want to be left here during this strong after this strong delusion is gone that you know this generation is not going to pass away. God takes people. Look at all my previous messages. He did the rapture. He's he took Enoch. He took Elijah. He's going to take the righteous next. That's what's coming. So all this stuff is being fulfilled and that's what's coming. And then you don't want to be left here. being left here is I'll give you just a sample. The first five months you cannot die and there's going to be these horselike scorpion things coming to sting you and you're thinking God is a loving God. When you reject him, he's he's got feelings. He got rejected. So, he's trying to get your attention to wake you up. You're going to be stuck here going through that pain and suffering and then you're going to have to die for him. That's even worse. go in the rapture. It's just so much easier, better. But you got to be righteous. That means you got to repent and you got to live for God. Romans 10:9, confess. Go to God. And if you're angry with him, you know what? It's okay to be angry with God. You know, he's a big guy. He can't handle it. But go to him and talk to him about it. Tell him you're upset. Tell him you, you know, love should be love. Love is love. God. Let him talk to you back though. You need to open up the Bible and find out what he says and get an understanding of it so that your heart and mind lines up with God and you have the established blessings and promises that are written in the word of God. The rapture being one of them. Amen. All right, let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing on it. We thank you for the revelation Previous Next

MINGLED WITH THE UNCLEAN Call the church to reject spiritual contamination and syncretistic traditions, embrace its “twice-called-out” identity (ecclesia), realign with the biblical foundation (apostles, prophets, teachers), and enter corporate repentance to close demonic doors, intercede for the land and children, and welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance and power. MINGLED WITH THE UNCLEAN Pastor Marcos Marrero May 27, 2005 Objective: Call the church to reject spiritual contamination and syncretistic traditions, embrace its “twice-called-out” identity (ecclesia), realign with the biblical foundation (apostles, prophets, teachers), and enter corporate repentance to close demonic doors, intercede for the land and children, and welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance and power. Synopsis: The message opens with a congregational prayer inviting Jesus’ lordship and freedom, then sets the theme from Psalm 106:34–39: Israel’s failure to purge idolatry led to mingling with the unclean and generational defilement. Applying this to today, the speaker explains that although believers are called out of “Egypt,” God must also remove Egypt from within us—fear, traditions, and compromises that tilt the church’s “wall” off-plumb. Citing Hosea 4:6 and Isaiah 1, the sermon warns that ignorance and inherited ritual can make worship empty and endanger future generations. From Revelation 17–18, it frames “Babylon” as a hidden religious system that spreads confusion and blood-guilt, urging God’s people to “come out of her” by rejecting contaminated practices and idols that gain access to families and communities. The church is exhorted to return to God’s order (1 Cor. 12:28)—apostles confronting strongholds, prophets declaring God’s word, teachers grounding believers—so that miracles and healings can follow. The service culminates in a corporate repentance and renunciation prayer: washing hands in Jesus’ blood, breaking agreements with demonic influences, closing spiritual doors, and submitting anew to the Holy Spirit to walk in purity, authority, and truth. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Let us all stand up for a second. Let's just agree in prayer. Okay? Praise God. Want everybody repeat with me. Including the young guys, the young girls, everybody stand up. Repeat with me. Say, I love Jesus. I love Jesus. Because he first loved me. Because he first. Come Lord Jesus now. Come Lord Jesus. And set me free. Set me free. Amen. Amen. Sit down. Praise God. You just gave permission to the Lord to come into your heart and to uh begin the healing and the freedom that that we need. Praise the Lord. Father, we give you thanks right now for ears to hear, Father God, for a heart to understand. I take authority right now, Father God, over every spirit of confusion, over every mind blocking spirit, Father God, over every religious spirit. And father, in the name of Jesus, I declare forth a word according to Ephesians 3:10 to make known to the principalities and power the manifold wisdom of the spirit of the living God. And Father, we declare this place right now to be under the direction of the Holy Spirit as we submit ourselves, Father God, uh with ears to hear and with a heart to understand, to receive what the Holy Spirit will say unto this church tonight, Father God. And we give you glory for binding down, Father God, and arresting every spirit that would come to interfere with the work of the Holy Spirit here tonight. In Jesus name, we give you glory, Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Let's go to Psalm 106 verse 34-39. We're going to be talking about tonight about mingle with mingled with the unclean. And then we're going to be dealing with the uh condition of the church. And as you know, we are the church. We are the believers. And uh you remember that when God brought Israel out of Egypt, even though they were not under Pharaoh's control anymore because the Egyptian army was drowned on the sea, still Egypt was inside of them. When they came to the door of the promised land, they couldn't cross because they still live under fear and under bondage. And it took 40 years of cleansing before a new generation who did not have a slave mentality was able to rise up and come in into the promised land. So the church, the word for church, when you know the Bible says we're the church because we're the temple of the Holy Spirit. The word church in Greek is the word ecclesia. That's where we get the word ecclesiastic or ecclesia and the literal translation mean twice called out. It's important that we understand that the church means you're being twice called out. First you're called out of the world and then you're called into your promises. Just the fact that God calls you out of Egypt doesn't mean that you immediately go into your promises. You have to overcome fear. You have to overcome temptation. You have to overcome tradition. You have to overcome all of the things that are within you. When God gets you out of the world, he has to get the world out of you so you can inherit your promises. So that's what I want to deal with tonight. We want to deal with with what is keeping us, the church, the twice called out from entering into the promises of God. And in Psalm 106 verse 34, it says, "They," speaking about the children of Israel when they were brought into the promised land, "they did not destroy the peoples concerning whom the Lord had commanded them. But they mingled with the Gentiles and learned their works. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with blood. Thus they were defiled by their own works and played the harlot by their own deeds. Now that is a very strong uh uh indictment that God gives to the children of Israel. Now how does that apply to us today? Remember Paul said that everything that happened in the Old Testament was written as examples for us. You know we we're playing history repeats itself. It's just like a cycle. Everything keeps playing over. So when they did not destroy the peoples, some people have a problem with God killing men and women and all people and killing children and stuff like that. You have to realize that God is a very merciful and patient God. But God is also all knowing. And when it comes to time that there's no hope for something, God deals with it. And we need to understand that when Abraham came out, God says, "I'm going to send your descendants into Egypt because the sins of the Amorites have not reached their peak yet." Meaning the people that live in the land of Canaan, there was still hope for them. So God would not wipe them out of the land for 400 years so that they would have hope. Now, when the children of Israel are coming into the land, God, a merciful, loving God, gives them a command. The command is, I want you to destroy the old people, the young people, the children, the men, the woman, their cattle. I want you to destroy everything. Now, why would God do that? How can a loving God order such a commandment? Okay, let's say that all of us here are in a boat. Okay? And that brother Rick here has an infectious disease that's going to kill him, but before it kills him, it'll kill everybody else. And we're in a boat and we can't get out. Rod already mot. We love him, brother. We love you. You're we have compassion. But guess what? You know what the definition of agape love is? Herb Wel used to say this all the time. Agape love means doing what is best for everybody involved. The definition of true love is when the actions that you take will do will have the the the most blessing or power for everybody involved. So here we have a nation that is totally and completely polluted with demons. Their men, their women, their children, their animals, their cattle, everything. And God says, "I'm bringing you into a land. And when you come to the land, you have to destroy everything that's living to get rid of all of the demons so that you can't come in." So here they come into the land. Oh well, you know what kind of a God will say, "Let's get rid of the man here that is going to kill the whole." Three generations later, they were all infected with the same demons, with the same pollution because they mingle with the people. They began to learn their traditions. And before they knew it, their children, which were the ones that were to inherit the promised land, were being offered to the same demonic demons that the people of the land were doing. Now, you see what we're saying here now for us today, now that I brought a little clarification to that, what would God say to us today if he would come and speak to his church? They did not destroy the peoples. We don't have people to destroy. What do we have to destroy? Old traditions. You see, let me give you a another vision. See if we can get it. Let's say that God is building a wall. He lays out the foundation and then every generation is a brick. Every generation is a brick and 2,000 years, however many generations, you complete the wall and the wall is supposed to meet the place on top. In other words, everything is completed. Now, Satan is different than us in the sense that Satan's been around a long time. He was in the Garden of Eden. He was there tempting David. He was there tempting Jesus and is here today. So, Satan knows how things work. So, every time God lays the foundation, he knows he cannot destroy the foundation. But he knows that he can mess with man. So, all he has to do is take that first layer of bricks and just tilt it a little where the eye cannot see it, where you cannot perceive it. And guess what? Three more generations come in. Three more bricks. The wall is line. Before you know it, you have a sour line of pizza. It's way over to this side. Okay, this is the condition of the nation of Israel. When Jesus came here, they have their synagogues. Here they have their teachers, their Pharisees, the teachers of the law. And Jesus says, "You guys messed it up. You put more credence in the laws that you guys have made than in the laws of God." So what did God do? He tore the wall down and he laid a foundation. Now Jesus is coming back, my friends. And if our wall is not straight, if our wall is not plump to the to the word of God, guess what? Our wall is going to get knocked down, too. Don't think that God plays papers when God reaches a certain time and if the wall is not straight, he's going to deal with it. Now what we need to do so that we don't go down without wall is we need to find out where the traditions because that's how Satan comes in. I heard on the men's retreat uh uh uh somebody told uh it was like a joke or like a story but it gives a good parable. This family got together and they, you know, every time they had a family gathering, they cook a ham and this ham they cut the end and the end and so they would cook the whole ham and the two ends separate, you know. And so the little kid asked, "Mommy, why do we cut the ham like this?" "Oh, you know, I don't know. Why don't you ask grandma?" So they asked grandma. She says, "Well, I don't know. Great grandma always did it, you know." So they went all the way to great grandma. Why? Well, their oven was too small and so in order to cook the ham, she had to cut the ends and put it in there. But everybody came in and it became a tradition. So every time they had a family gathering, they cut the ends of the ham even though they had a big old oven. But you see, that's how it is. All that Satan has to do is introduce some kind of a tradition that is demonic because you see the mingling. God is a holy God and God does not deal with contamination, you know, and we know that we're contaminated today because if we were not contaminated, we would be doing even greater works that Jesus did because Jesus said, "The works that I do, you will do also an even greater." So if the Holy Spirit is not moving through us, it's because there's got to be contamination. There's a mingling. Okay? And this is what we need to as individuals come in into the place where we say well I don't want to mingle with the people in our case I believe is with the traditions the old traditions and then it says they did not destroy the peoples the old traditions they mingle with and they learned their works a lot of the rituals that we have today are contaminated by demonic rituals we need to understand that a lot of liturgy the way that the church is set up today and and and I'll show you as we progress is got demonic things to it. Said they serve idols which became a snare to them and they even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. Back in those days they offer their sons and daughters to demons. Today we give them access to our children by the things we bring into our homes. You see, it's the same thing. It's the same thing. Back in those days, they went down to a tree and they went to the statue of Mollik, which was a huge brass thing. He had arms like this, and they would put fire on the bottom. Then they would put oil there, and they threw their babies into the hands of this uh gruesome demonic thing, and they will burn their children. Today, we do it through the television. We put the little television up in there, and they're watching cartoons that are demonic. They're watching Scooby-Doo doing sorcery and they're watching all of this stuff. And so when our church children grow up, they want nothing to do with the Lord because they see hypocrisy. They see powerless religion and stuff like that. And so what we're doing is we are giving access to these demonic things to our children because of contamination because we're failing to see where the demonic things is coming from. So you see, we're no different. It just it it is a different setting. It says, "And they shed innocent blood, the bloods of their sons and daughters, and the land was polluted with blood." How many of our children, the childrens of Wington, have died on the street through violence? How much if we could just put spiritual goggles as if it were and drive around, how much blood has been shed on the street of our children? Many grandmothers who were praying for their children and their grandchildren, their children were there. Many of you have been touched by that. Women who have been raped on our streets, the blood that has been shed, all of the things is in the land. And so because of that, the land becomes polluted, you see. And so what pollution does is it allows the demons to roam. Uh we live right on the harbor. You can have a a shipload of those things come in and they unload in some kind of a thing and the first thing they look is is their blood, innocent blood been shed someplace, you know, like rats. They need trash like cockroaches. They need dark places to hide. They need a place that that makes them welcome. And they have plenty of places to hide over here. Why? Because our religion has been contaminated by tradition. And because of that, we have opened the door to demonic things that gives them access to our children. Then our children's blood is shed on the street and the land becomes defiled and then these demonic creatures roam around. Uh this is what Peter said. Devil roams around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. He needs an open door. He needs shed glo. He needs contamination. Otherwise, he cannot touch you. Otherwise, he cannot come. Not a lot of fun tonight. What we're talking about, is it? This in reality is what the cause and effect of spiritual adultery is all about. Breaking trust with God. Now in Hosea chapter 4 verse 6. Hosea chapter 4 verse 6. I know that you read the first part of this in the past but I want to read a little more uh the complete verse. Hosea 4:6. God says, "My people, not the other people, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Listen, there's a saying in the world that says, "What you don't know don't hurt you." That's the biggest lie of the world. What you do not know does hurt you. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priests for me. What is the the duty of a priest? A priest is by definition a person who intercedes between God and man, between the spiritual and the physical. We become born again. And Jesus says, "I give you authority and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven." In Revelation chapter 1 says, "And and we were made priests and kings unto him." We are priests. We are the mediator between God and between men. When man is committing sin, those of us who have been born again are the priests who intercede. And like Abraham said, "Father, don't destroy Sodom. Don't destroy Gomorrah. I I can I'm intercede for." And God says, "Okay, show me five righteous. Show me righteous and I will spare the land. Okay, so here God says because you have rejected knowledge because you stick your head in the sand and because you just go along building upon this wall that is tilting way out and you don't pay attention. I'm going to reject you from being my priest. And look what it says after that. And this is what I want you to connect. I will also forget your children. That's hurts, doesn't it? That hurts. You know what that means? God said, you're opening the door. You're opening the door. You're you're refusing knowledge. you know, uh, the Holy Spirit comes, you get saved, he talks to you about certain programs or certain, uh, movies or about certain rituals, uh, uh, things that we do. Well, well, Lord, you know, that's this old time stuff, you know, that's back in there when people were square, you know, uh, we're living in a modern society, you know, we're progressive. We we have an open mind. we just don't lean over too much, the brain will fall out. But we have an open mind, you know, that kind of stuff. And so God said, "Well, you're rejecting knowledge." Guess what? Number one, you're not going to intercede for the land. And if you're not interceding for the land, then you might as well forget about your children. The next generation is going to be twice as contaminated as you are. As a matter of fact, let's go to Isaiah chapter 1, vers 13. We're going to go to verse 13, but I want to see if I can Find this other one that the Lord just brought to my mind. Number five, Isaiah chapter 1 verse5. Let's look at that one again. God is through the prophet Isaiah confronting their their sin just like they're doing in Psalm. And God says, "Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick and the whole heart faints from the sole of the foot even to the head. There is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores. They have not been closed or bound up or soothed with ointment. God says, "Why should I spank you? Why should I correct you? The more that I try to correct you, the more that you revolt against me. The more that I try the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the more that I try to bring the direction of the Holy Spirit to you, the more that you revolt against me." You know what happens when you take children and you say, "Well, I'm that that's it, kids. I'm I'm I'm divorcing you. Just go do your own thing. I want nothing to do with you guys." What happens? That generation is destroyed. They become law lawless. They become a gang. And that's what God is saying there confirming the same thing that we just read in Hosea where it says, "I will forget your children." God is saying to to these people, "Why should I even bother to strike you again or or or to try to correct you again?" He says your head is sick and so because of that your heart faint. He said from the sole of your feet to the head there is no soundness on it. This is talking about the religious system. You have to realize that these people were still offering sacrifices. These people went to church every Saturday. These people went to their service and they brought the sacrifices. As a matter of fact, look at verses 13, 14, and 15. He says, "Bring no more feudal sacrifices." Incense is an abomination to me. You know what? Incense was a type of prayer. Look at Revelation. It says, "The saints were offering incense and it was a prayer that rose up to God." God is saying, "Stop coming to church. Stop coming to church. Stop coming to the synagogue." He says, "You bring your sacrifices to me and I'm tire of it. I'm fed up with them." Man, you we don't want to hear God say that to us. Bring no more feudal sacrifices. You know what feudal feudal mean? Worthless. You know that's the spirit. The spirit of bial. Spirit of bal. The name bile appears in the Bible 17 times. 17 times is the works of the find it in Galatians chapter 5. There are 17 works of the flesh. And you know what's at the center of the 17 works of the flesh? selfc centeredness or selfish ambitions or selfish desire. Uh second Timothy 3 I think he says that in the last days men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. So here we're not talking about bad things in the outside. It's talking about the heart. The heart is contaminated because we have mingled with the people. We have mingled with the custom. We have mingled with the things. And so because of that, God says, "Your incense is an abomination to me. Your prayer I don't hear. The new moon, the Sabbath, the callings of the assembly." That's verse 13. Isaiah chapter one. I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. I want you to hear this. Iniquity is inherited sin or traditional sin. God says, "I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting." When you come to church with your old tradition, I'm fed up with it. He's telling the people of that day, I'm fed up with you following the same traditions, the same sacrifice when you're contaminated and have mingled with the world. Your iniquity, which is inherited sin, has been handed down from generation to generation, and it's just an offense to me. I cannot hear your prayers anymore. And when you come to me, it's worthless. It's beautiful. And I'm fed up with it. Because you see, God looks at the heart and when he sees us and you know what? This is where the church is heading. Peter says that the judgment of God will begin at home. This is what the church before God judges the world. He'll judge us. He'll purify us. He'll turn on the fire. He'll bring cleansing. He'll set up. And that's what the apostolic anointing that's coming. And we'll close with that. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but God will raise up apostles and prophets that will point out the finger to the church and tell her where this demonic things is at and and and tell them get rid of it. And if you read the letter in in in Revelations 3 when he's talking to the church in Leodysia, he she says, "I'm not a widow. I don't need you. I got money. I got silver. I got all the things." And the Lord says, "I counsel you to buy gold from me." Which symbolizes salvation. that has been tested in the fire because that's how God is going to test us. I heard that other that other thing about this uh three terrorists showed up with machine guns to a Sunday church meeting spray out the ceiling and then they said everybody who's a Christian here we're going to kill you unless you renounce Christ right now. So bunch of people said oh we don't want nothing to do with Christ. So they all left and there was just a few left. And then the guys turned to the pastor and and said, "Okay, we'll have church right now. We'll we'll have church right now. We got rid of the hypocrites. We got the people here that are really willing to die for the faith. We'll have church." They took their terrorist thing. They put their gun down say, "Let's worship God. The Lord might do that someday." You know, oh Lord have mercy. Uh Isaiah 1:14, your new moons and your appointed feast my soul hates. You know what the soul is? That that that's what you fill with, man. That's what you love with. That's where your passion resides. And God says, "My soul hates all of these things. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them." God says, "I am tired of putting up with it." Verse 15. When you spread out your hands, oh Lord, I love you. I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Why? Why? Why? Why would the Lord do that? Why? Your hands are full of blood. Your hands are contaminated. Your hand has been mingled with demonic rituals and things. And because of that, with your hands, you're allowing the land to go to hell because you're contaminated with it instead of confronting it. It's hot up here, too, guys. Believe me, it's hot up here, too. I'm standing on on hot coals right now. The question, how could the how could the hands of the church today be so full with blood? Let's turn to Revelation 17:5. What is the root of our contamination? Where does God point the finger when it comes to us, the church, being contaminated? Well, fortunately, Revelation gives us a heads up of what God will do to this spirit of religion. Revelation 17:5, I'm sure uh it should be on, it's in my Bible, it's in bold letters. And it says, "And on her forehead a name was written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth." Now, mystery means something that is hidden, something that you do not see. Okay? Babylon the great speaks about the original rebellion against the plan of God which was during the Tower of Babel. Babylon means confusion. The reason why they would call the the Europeans called uh the people that came from the north barbarians is because they spoke with a weird language. Babel Babylon uh even the priests of Santas are called Babala meaning they're speaking confusion. So this has always had to do with confusion. So Babylon is where God uh confronted Nimrod. Nimrod led the people into building a tower or a pyramid which you will find that everywhere. As you look at your dollar, it says in God we trust and there's a pyramid. They're not talking about the God of heaven. They're talking about the God of this world, the God of self, the God of wealth, the the God of all of this the things. And then you will see it that this thing has contaminated everything. And it's called the mother of harlots, meaning that every spirit of contamination that has ever entered any believer came through there. That's what a mother means. And of the abominations of all of the earth. Let me read uh I'll I'll read six all the way through nine. I want you to see how heavy the pollution of this spirit is. Revelation 17:6. I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marvel with great amazement. Now, I want you to see that she is full of blood. And we just read in Isaiah where God says, "I do not hear your prayers because your hands are full of what?" Blood. So it's talking about spiritual contamination that has caused great death. Because when we fail to guard the door, when we fail to be priests over the land, when we fail to be priests over the domain that God has given us, what happens is we open the door to demons that come in to steal and to kill and to destroy. And this thing shed blood, the blood of our children, the blood of our brothers, the blood of our sisters. And when this blood contaminates the land, then that blood is in our hands because we have failed. And thank God that there is a remission of sins that we can in Isaiah chapter one, if you read a few verses later, he says, "And though your sins may be as red as scarlet, they will be as white as wool." So there there is deliverance, but it requires knowledge. Uh Proverbs 11:19, it is through knowledge that the just is delivered. So then verse seven, but the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the sand horn. The head that you saw was and is, and will ascend out to the bottomless pit, and go to pdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world." Then they see the beast. when they see the beast that was and is not and yet is. And here's verse nine. What I want you to see, this is where the root of the contamination of all of the churches come from. Here is the mind which has wisdom. Meaning you have to have it through revelation. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. This woman is a religious system that originates all the way back to Babylon. Babylon when Nimrod get led a rebellion against God. Nimrod is said that he was a mighty hunter before the Lord. He was a hunter of souls. Nimrod is the one that opened the door. Every demon that is in the earth today came to the door that Nimrod open. That's what the pyramid. That's what the tower was. The tower is something to where you open a spiritual door. You see, demons cannot cross from their second heaven, from the state of darkness. They cannot cross into this earth because man has authority over the earth. So man has to open the door. That is what sacrifices are. When you offer a blood sacrifice to God, you open the door for God to pour out blessings on you. Bible tells us that uh Noah was told to take two of every animal except for the clean animals that were used for sacrifices to take seven. And it says that when Noah came and he offered these clean animals to God that God smelled the sacrifice and because of that God opened the door from heaven and pour out blessing. He blessed no one. He blessed his children. God's blessing can only come when men opens the door. That's what prayer is. Prayer ascends to heaven like incense. God forgive me of all of my sins. And that prayer opens up the door. And then God sends forgiveness. God sends healing. God sends restoration. But in the same way, when you open the door to demonic things, the selfish nature, that's what Cain was. When Cain brought his sacrifice, it wasn't a sacrifice of blood. It was a sacrifice of selfishness. The ground had been cursed. And he brought a fruit of the ground. He brought an offering of something that was cursed. And God will not accept our curse offerings. The only way that we can go to heaven now is through the blood of Jesus. Okay? So then this um woman, this religious system that contaminates everybody sits on seven mountains on which a woman sits. Now I want you to take your hand out and I just um type seven hills on it and then the first page you have there you will see that Rome right now you can go there and the hills are not even distinguishable because Rome Rome is one of the longest continuously inhabited cities have been inhabited probably for the last 4,000 years 5,000 years. uh they even have names for the seals in early Rome. You can see the the seven names uh there and then of later Rome you can see the names where where they were there. So Rome was the world empire of the day when John was writing that. And he says this woman, this religious system which is called mystery of Babylon, it is residing on a city that has seven hills. And as a matter of fact, you you can read it. You can research this in the internet. Back in those days, they didn't have to say you were from Rome. They asked you where are you from the seven hills? And that automatically everybody knew where you were from. You were from Rome. I printed another I printed this one first, the second one on your page. It has the name on red there. And then I printed this one because it had a little bit more information. But there's a tons and tons of uh writings. And these are not religious writing. This is just secular writings, historical writings about Rome being the place where these uh seven hills were. Now why is that you say important to us? Well the third page that you got which should be this one. This is a copy of a page from uh Reverend Alexander Hiselop. This is a man that hund and some years ago uh wrote a book called the two Babylons. And he trace how the Catholic Church is not a religious organization that truly worships Jesus. That everything upon their worship is demonic. It is demonic. It is contaminated. And you have to remember that we the Protestant came out of her. This is what we need to learn. We came out of her. Our church came out of it. Now, what happens is, before I get into that, I don't know if I'll be able to read it. My contacts are all [ __ ] up. It's so hot up here. But what happens is God brought the church. He built it on the foundation of the apostles. As a matter of fact, let's get the scripture there and then we'll we'll deal with this. Go to um Ephesians 2:20. talks about the church having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. The church was built on the foundation of the prophets and on the foundations of the apostles. Meaning Jesus Christ selected 12 disciples. Then he turned these 12 disciples into apostles. He being the chief cornerstone means trained them for three years. And then these apostles then came in and began to build the churches. Prophets moved through them. They they they taught the word of God. Then they found the churches and they put pastors upon the churches. And then the disciples trained more disciples. And for years and years and years it went even though the church was persecuted for 300 and some years. The church could not be destroyed. It had a solid foundation of nothing but the truth of God. Okay. The devil after 325 years of trying figure he couldn't destroy the church. So he said well if we can destroy it let's join it. And you see this is if you read in the letters, if you see in the letters, one of the letters to Revelation, the uh the sin of Balac uh Balam and Bailo when Balam who was a prophet of God, Bailac wanted to buy him to curse the children of Israel and every time he went to speak a curse over them, blessings came out. And so finally, Balam said, "Hey, I'll teach you how to curse these people, how to get to these people. You just can't speak words against them because God is protecting them. You got to mingle with them. You got to contaminate them. If you read Revelation chapter 2, who taught Balam, who taught uh uh uh Bailac how to contaminate the children of Israel? So this is the process that was put in place. This constant thing guy who was a sun worshipper all the day to the day I claims to be converted as a Christian. He was a Roman emperor. So he says, "Everybody now in my kingdom, the Roman kingdom has to worship Jesus." And so all of these pagan idola Previous Next

JERUSALEM THE CITY OF TRUTH To present God’s prophetic plan for Jerusalem as revealed in Scripture, affirming His promises of restoration, truth, and holiness for the city. The teaching seeks to highlight how God’s Word has been fulfilled historically, how it is being fulfilled in present times, and how it will be completed in the end of the age, despite opposition from nations and rulers. JERUSALEM THE CITY OF TRUTH Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To present God’s prophetic plan for Jerusalem as revealed in Scripture, affirming His promises of restoration, truth, and holiness for the city. The teaching seeks to highlight how God’s Word has been fulfilled historically, how it is being fulfilled in present times, and how it will be completed in the end of the age, despite opposition from nations and rulers. Synopsis: This teaching draws from Zechariah 8:3, where God makes a threefold declaration concerning Jerusalem: He will return to Zion and dwell there, Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and it will be known as the Holy Mountain of the Lord. The message traces the prophetic timeline of Jerusalem, beginning with Jesus’ foretelling of the temple’s destruction and the scattering of the Jews, which was fulfilled within that very generation. It then points to the miraculous restoration of Israel as a nation in modern times after nearly 1,900 years, an event unparalleled in human history, proving that God’s counsel shall stand. The lesson emphasizes that current global hostility toward Israel, particularly from nations like Iran, is not merely political but spiritual rebellion against God Himself. Nations that conspire against Jerusalem are warned through Scripture that they will be struck with confusion and judgment, as God defends His chosen people. The teaching further declares that in the end times, Jerusalem will stand as the City of Truth, revealing the ultimate reality of God’s sovereignty. Though the nations rage against His Word, God has set His King, Jesus Christ, upon His holy hill of Zion, and His kingdom will prevail. The prophetic vision concludes with the assurance that many nations will one day seek the Lord in Jerusalem, acknowledging that God is with His people. Finally, believers are exhorted to remain steadfast in prayer and intercession for Israel and the nations, trusting in God’s promises and awaiting the fulfillment of His divine plan, for He is a God of truth, justice, and miracles. Inspired Teaching: Zechariah 8:3 “Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the Mountain of the Lord of hosts, the Holy Mountain.” There are things that men and nations do that are in direct violation of the Word of the Lord, but as with everything else that the Lord does, He is longsuffering toward the nations and peoples that sin against His Word. He lets their own sinful ways catch up with them so that they all eventually end up in the misery because of their disobedience and rebellion against His Word. But when the actions of the nations and of the peoples interfere with the plans that the Lord has, and there are no nations here on earth left to make a way for the plans of the Lord to come to fruition, then the Lord intervenes directly, for as it is written: Isaiah 46:10 “...My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.” In our opening text God makes a threefold declaration about what His plans are for Israel, and for Jerusalem in particular during the end of the age, for these are the days in which we are living right now. Jesus prophesied that Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed and that the Jews would be scattered and persecuted throughout the world. It happened just as Jesus prophesied, the temple that took almost forty years to build and that was expected, at the time that it was built, to last for centuries, was gone in a fraction of the time that it took to be built. Matthew 24:2 “And Jesus said to them, ‘Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down’” This specific prophecy would have been extremely difficult for any reasonable person to believe back then. The temple of Jesus’ day took forty years to build, and it cost a great amount of treasure, it took a great deal of labor to build it, and on top of that it was built with the blessings of the Roman empire, whose reign lasted for centuries. But the generation that heard that prophecy lived to see its fulfillment. It was also prophesied that the nation of Israel would be restored once again at the end of days. No other nation in the history of the world that disappeared from being a nation for nineteen hundred years ever became a nation again, but Israel did, with the same language, the same traditions, on the same land, and with the same capital that they had when they ceased to be a nation. That’s because God’s counsel will stand! Matthew 18:20 NKJV For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them. In the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter is established. It is interesting that in our opening text God makes a threefold prophecy concerning the nation of Israel and the Jerusalem of our present day. This is what Jesus says about the present-day nation of Israel and its capital, the city of Jerusalem: I will return to Zion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Do you see any ambiguity in that statement? The Word that prophesied the destruction of the nation of Israel, is the same Word that prophesied its restoration, and is the same Word that says that He is returning to Zion, and that He is going to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Let’s face it, Jerusalem is not going anywhere any time soon, and anybody or any nation that works against Israel or Jerusalem to keep them from becoming what the Word of God says it will become in these end times, is going to be broken by the Almighty God who watches over His Word to fulfill it. Zechariah 12:3 “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.” Our present-day Iran is hell bent in the destruction of the nation of Israel, and like Hitler, Iran’s final solution for the Jewish people is to eradicate them from the face of the earth. To this end, they are heavily invested in building enough nuclear weapons so that they can bring their demonic desires about, the destruction of the nation of Israel. A group of leaders representing a majority of nations, under the leadership of the president of the United States, just gave Iran a clear path to their goal of having the right to make the elements required for building the bombs that they will need to carry out their destruction. Iran knows that if they attack Israel with nuclear weapons that they themselves will be destroyed as well, but what their religion teaches them is that if they destroy the Jewish people, their messiah will come and deliver them from Israel’s wrath. Remember that these are the people that believe that suicide against the Jews is a way to attain immortality. But this is what the Word of God says is happening to the nations that are conspiring to bring about the destruction of the nation of Israel. Zechariah 12:4 “In that day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.” What was the second thing that our opening Scripture declared that God would do in these end times? Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth. Truth is reality. These nations and their leaders that are so blinded by their prejudices against the Jews and Jerusalem are soon going to find out the cold hard truth: That God is real, that Jesus, His Word, is coming soon to establish His rule here on the earth, and that God’s will shall stand no matter what the nations do. Psalm 2:1-12 “Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, ‘Let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.’ He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure: Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel. Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.” The root of the hatred against Israel is the fact that the nations of this world do not want to have to answer to the Word of God for their actions. For them rejection of Israel is an open rebuke and rejection against God that is why they say, let us break Their bonds in pieces. The Lord shall hold them in derision. Once the nations of the world cross the line, where they reject Israel for the sake of rejecting God, that God strikes them with confusion and madness. The question that we need to ask ourselves right now is, Did the nations gathered in Geneva crossed that line with the treaty that they just made? Here is a Scripture that may apply to what just happened over there: Zechariah 8:7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Behold, I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.’” Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. Notice the word yet, that means that in spite of what the nations of the east and the nations of the west did, God’s counsel, His Word will stand. And what is that Word? I will give You the nations for Your inheritance. Whether they like it or not, the earth is the Lord’s as well as everything in it, that includes the nations and all of the peoples of the earth, and this is the advice that the Lord gives to the leaders of these nations: Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. The third thing that the Lord revealed in our opening Scripture was: The Mountain of the Lord of hosts, the Holy Mountain. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of God’s throne, the kings and the judges of this world system do not rule supreme, all their despicable acts and rules with which they have corrupted the world with will have to be accounted for. Let us pray that our nation will be one of the ones that will repent before the Lord, for the sake of us all. Zechariah 8:22-23 “Yes, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’” Can you believe that! It will happen, after all our God is a God of miracles, all we need to do is to continue to pray for our nation and for the peoples of the nations, for it is only through prayer and intercession that we know our Lord will hear us and move to bless us in the midst of all this chaos. While the nations rage, let us pray! Previous Next

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

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